NPP activists led by party chairman Harshdev Singh Monday held a massive protest outside Police Station, Ramnagar alleging complete collapse of law and order machinery in Ramnagar constituency and unabated crime rate with atrocities on SCs and STs having crossed all limits during the past four years. The enraged activists protested against the failure of Police authorities to trace any of the four murders that took place in remote villages of Ramnagar during the last one month with not a single culprit having been apprehended till date. The protestors further held demonstration outside SDM Ramnagar and Tehsildar Ramnagar and sought immediate apprehension of the culprits cautioning the authorities of a full scale agitation in case the murderers were not put behind bars at the earliest. Harshdev while addressing the mammoth gathering said that more than 20 murders in Ramnagar constituency during the past four years had gone untraced and un-investigated. He alleged a Criminal-Police-Politician nexus in allowing the criminals an open field which had led to utter deterioration of law and order in the said constituency. He said that political shelter given to the criminals, vandals and marauders was largely responsible for increasing crime rate with murders, physical assaults and attacks on poor, deprived and marginalized people having become the order of the day. Most distressing aspect was the atrocities committed on scheduled caste people with 90% of the untraced murders being of such under privileged classes. Handing over a list of untraced murders during the past four years, Singh through a memorandum addressed to Governor, sought a commission of enquiry into these murders and mysterious deaths. Giving instances he referred to the unsolved murder case of one Dharam Singh, son of Munshi Ram resident of Keya Village on June 5, 2019; Pawan Singh son of Hem Raj of Keya on May 28, 2019; Chuni Lal son of Sant from Chattrairi Village in Basantgarh Tehsil on May 25, 2019 and so on. He expressed the hope that Governor would take due cognizance of the matter in the interests of justice and security of people of Ramnagar tehsil of J&K State.
