MOHAMMAD QASIM Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PRESENT petition which has been docketed as Criminal Writ Petition (PIL) has been filed for various reliefs. The reliefs prayed for are enumerated below.

(2.) FROM a glance through the averments made in the writ petition, it would transpire that the petitioner who claims himself to be a public spirited person, is seemingly rattled by the sudden spurt in criminal incidents in Allahabad district and other places in the State of U.P and in most of the sensational criminal incidents, the police is still groping in darkness. The incident cited as an instance is sensational loot with murder at a jewelery showroom in the civil Lines Allahabad on 13th Jan 2011.

(3.) THE news report in Dainik Jagran carries in bold letters the news of simmering anger of the traders and public at large who blocked the road attended with a news of a sit-in Dharna having been started by the people. In the second page, the headlines carries "Dhadki Akrosh Ki Jwala". THE headlines further read " Katra Me Bypariyon Ne Kiya Chakkajaam, Jamkar Narebazi, Band Rahe Bazar". In further headlines, the newspapers sums up the recent incidents (1) 12th Jan, 2011 Diamond Trader Dhruv Agarwal murdered with robbery to the tune of Rs 5 crores, (2) 13th Sept 2010, Robbery to the tune of Rs one and half crore in the showroom of Prashant Agarwal, a Sarafa Trader in Kotwali Area, (3) Chetna Samla's murder case of the year 2010, (4) Clerk of a trader robbed of lakhs of ruppees in Phaphamau in the year 2009, Robbery in Sisodia Jewelleres situated in Katra 2001, Robbery to the tune of crores of rupees in the showroom of Rana Jewellers. THE report further mentions that this cultural city has been enveloped by sheets of terror where people are terrified on account of increased crime. THE report further reads that the city is shaken by more than half dozen murders over a period of one week alone and the fear stricken people are compelled to take to streets.