The Investigation - 2

In the meantime techniques were being used to find out laptop details and finally they were able to find the laptop number and the address from where it was purchased. The address from Bangalore itself; police went to the shop and gave the laptop details. It was a small one room shop and the owner would be somewhere in his 50s; he found out the date of purchase of the laptop. Police asked the shop owner that whether he had a CCTV camera installed to which the owner said there was a CCTV and it was working. Police asked the owner to give the footage of the day when the laptop was purchased. The footage was taken and analyzed; with the help of date and time mentioned on the bill the person who had purchased the laptop was identified. Police could see a young man’s face and started developing the face and published it in all the leading daily newspapers. Also the same face was circulated on the social networking sites and shared across by people. Police was not sure that whether this man was alive or not but he was the only hope for them to reach to the culprits.

Almost one month was over after diwali and everyone in India had got busy with the New Year which was few days away. A photoshop enthusiastic guy took the photo of the face which was being circulated on the social networking site. He started playing with the photo by putting a beard with different styles and then he came across a face which he had seen somewhere. He started adding other features and he was shocked to see the exactly same face of a guy is working at his office. He was not sure about what he should do and with both the photographs (one circulated on internet and another which he had created) he took them to his HR and discussed with her. Immediately they informed police and when the police reached the office they gave them details of the employee whose photo was developed using photoshop. However just on the basis on this photograph the guy could not be arrested police needed some more evidence.

The cyber cell of the office was involved and they started tracking the system on which the guy used to work. The guy did just one mistake that once he opened his personal mail from the office system. The personal mail was hacked and police found out all the planning and plotting which was done for the Bangalore blast. Finally the guy was arrested on the basis of these mails and he admitted to be involved in the crime.

The mails revealed details about how the entire blast was planned. Before the blast certain people started working as the hospitality and ground staff at Bangalore airport and started scanning each and every detail. The time taken for the bag to travel for the bag on the conveyor belt to the luggage scanning machine was calculated. A proper training was given to the lady for the blast. These people had already figured out that the luggage which is carried by the person is not scanned at the entry on the airport. They considered this to their advantage and this is how the entire terror attack was planned.

Bangalore was always on the hit list of terrorists and they were looking for an opportunity where maximum threat could be created among people. Finally the other culprits involved in the case were also caught and the Indian police along with the help of certain good citizens of India was able to solve the case.

-- The End

In places like Ranchi or Varanasi check-in luggage is scanned before collecting the boarding pass. However in places like Delhi or Bangalore I believe the check-in luggage is scanned after the passenger collects the boarding pass. The difference in the check-in luggage scanning process for domestic flights in different cities could be best known to the airport authorities. This story is purely based on imagination and with this story I don’t wish to give any suggestive ideas for deadly crime.

Also I would like to add that on September 2001 when there were twin attacks on WTC and one attack on Pentagon (US Defence Headquarters) the security at airports became a big concern. After 2001 also there have been several incidents of terror attacks in flights and plane hijacking. On 26 November 2011 again when there was a terror attack on Mumbai's Taj Hotel everyone across the country was shocked. Terrorism and terrorists who are ready to kill themselves and take away lives of innocent people are the biggest threat for humanity. A human bomb will never come knocking at our door and seeking permission for an attack.

P.S. If you feel the imagination in the story is good please share it across with your friends. There could be certain loopholes but I have tried my level best to ensure the flow of story doesn’t bore the readers. Well sharing is free and I hope as a reader you will acknowledge this story by sharing it with family and friends.

P.P.S. With this story I complete my 50 blogs; some good and some not so good.

Thanks for taking out time and reading the story.

The Investigation

Police started developing the face which they saw on CCTV. While watching the CCTV footage they figured out that the lady had got down at the airport from a bus. From every stoppage where the bus stopped the CCTV footage was collected. In the meantime a sketch of the lady shown on the CCTV was developed and published in all the leading daily newspapers with the hope that someone will identify.

In the CCTV scanning police found out that the lady had taken a taxi to reach to the bus stop. The taxi number was noted and the driver was contacted; the driver gave the location from where he had picked up the lady. Further investigation showed that the lady had changed 4 taxis and all taxis were booked from different numbers with different names and they had been activated just one week back. However the police was still not able to find the residence where this lady lived; there was no idea that whether this lady lived in Bangalore or she had come from some other city to Bangalore just to execute the terror mission.

As the police was busy in their investigation; the people of India got busy with a candle march procession and started demanding for a safer India. People from all walks of lives had joined this procession and there was serious concern raised over the safety of people travelling in buses, trains, and flights. The identification process of those who died in the blast was completed and families were informed of the darkness which would be there during this diwali. Both the center and state government announced compensation for those who died in the blast; the money which these families would be receiving could never fill the emptiness which was left in their lives. However other than crying and missing their loved ones there was nothing more which these families could do.

Diwali was over and almost after 15 days of blast police was still not able to find any clue about the lady. And then one fine day an old lady visited the police station with a photo; the photo was of the same lady who had blasted herself; the old lady said she had seen her photo in the newspaper and she wanted to give some information. The old lady said that she had gone to a wedding and when she returned back and was looking at the newspaper she found this photo. She gave the residence address where the young lady lived and immediately the police rushed to the location. The door was locked; police broke down the house; they started finding the evidence which could be useful for them. There was a laptop but it was completely destroyed; there was nothing in the laptop which could help the police in getting closer to others who were involved in the terror attack. However police took the laptop in their possession and started interrogating the people living in the neighborhood.

During the interrogation they got to know that the house belonged to someone who was living in US and gave the house to the blast lady on rent. The person who had given the house was contacted and details were asked as to how was the house given on rent. The person said that the house was given on rent with the help of a broker and broker details were given. The broker who had given the house was contacted; he checked his file and found out the booking details. He gave the identification proof which was given by the lady. Police began tracking of the address which was mentioned in the id proof but no such address existed. Police started feeling that they will never be able to solve this case.

Link to the third part: http://richaritwika.blogspot.in/2014/05/the-investigation-2.html

A Terror Story

Bangalore – the silicon valley of India which has attracted people from different parts of India for jobs and has an important role to play in the economic growth of India. A city which has been overcrowded with the youth population and Bangalore has been warm enough to welcome everyone. This is a story based on this city of Bangalore.

It was the time of Diwali; the festival of lights which is celebrated on a grand scale in North India. Diwali celebrations start with Dhanteras when people buy new things for their house and it is a good day for people who are in the gold business. The second day is choti diwali when people lit 5 Yam ka diyas infront of their houses all night. The third day is the main festival when the entire city is lighted with diyas; everyone wears new dresses; young children burst crackers; neighbors gather together to celebrate the festival. The fourth day is padwa which is an important day for married couples. The fifth and the last day of diwali celebration is bhai duj which celebrates the spirit of love which is shared between brothers and sisters.

People working in Bangalore were going to their homes during the festival of diwali so that they could celebrate this festival with their families. There was huge rush on the Bangalore and Yeshwantpur railway stations; airports also saw huge crowds and almost every airline was completely booked. There were long queues at the check-in counter where people were collecting their boarding pass; some people were sitting at the Café Coffee Day center; some were busy over the phone; some had proceeded for security check after collecting their boarding pass.

The entire airport could see people busy in something or the other and suddenly there was a loud noise. There was a blast at the area where check-in luggage is scanned and as everyone started rushing towards that area there was another blast at one of the queues in the check-in counter. The airport police rushed towards the blast site immediately; there was an environment of shock among the people who were present at the airport; people were speechless and they were not aware about how to react. The area of blast was immediately sealed by the airport police and the police started collecting any possible evidence which they could get from the site.

High alert was raised in every airport in India and a thorough scanning of people started. The casualties and victims of the blast were immediately shifted to hospitals; the job of identifying the identities of people began. It was a sad day for Bangalore as almost 50 people lost their lives in the blast and around 20 people were injured. Blood, burnt bodies, destroyed faces was what could be seen at the blast site. However the police officials had to keep their emotions aside and work together to find out any small evidence which could lead to the culprit. After every individual and their luggage was scanned thoroughly the flight departure and boarding process resumed back again.

The CCTV scanning began and police started finding out the source for the twin blasts which took place at the airport. The luggage which had blasted near the scanner was identified; there were few officials and workers working at the scanner who lost their lives. Now with the luggage police started identifying the person who had checked in the luggage. The face which they saw on the CCTV was of a young lady who had blasted herself and in the process killed 50 people. The investigation and search for the person responsible for blast began.

Link to the second part: http://richaritwika.blogspot.in/2014/05/the-investigation.html

Recreational Adventurous Proactive Entertainment

Before you start reading this blog I would say that it is not intended to hurt anyone's sentiment.

Scene 1:

Roshini is alone at home. She is feeling hungry and she is not in a mood to cook so she decides to order the food from outside. She calls at the restaurant to order food.

Roshini - "I wanted to order food but before I order I wanted to know who would come to deliver food at my house?"
Salesman - "Mam our delivery boy will deliver the food at your place"
Roshini - "You dont have any delivery woman? You know the country is not safe for women; what if your delivery boy does something wrong with me?"
Salesman - "Mam trust us we do a complete check before we hire someone"
Roshini - "Trusting a man is next to impossible. All men are the same"
Salesman - "Mam do you want to order food or should I cut the call"
Roshini - "Yeah yeah take my order"

After 30 minutes her door bell rings and she quickly goes and opens the door. Delivery boy is standing on the door.

Delivery boy – “Madam your order.”

Roshini – “How much is the bill?”

Delivery boy – “Madam 200 rupees”

Roshini – “Wait here I will go inside and bring the money.”

Roshini goes inside in her bedroom. The house is completely empty there is no one else except her; she is all alone and her house is in such a location that if anything happens inside the house no one will get to know. Roshini comes out and pays Rs. 200 and the delivery boy leaves. Roshini calls at the restaurant from where she ordered the food.

Roshini – “I had ordered food at your restaurant.”

The person checks the number and finds out the details. He replies back – “Madam your order has already been sent. It would be reaching your place in sometime.”

Roshini – “I have got my order but I wanted to complain about your delivery boy.”

Salesman – “We are sorry mam if he did something wrong. We would fire him immediately.”

Roshini – “I wanted to complain that he did not do anything wrong. I was all alone at the house but he did not even make an attempt to force himself on me. What kind of delivery boys you have at your place. These day every where men are raping women but your delivery boy is simply useless.”

Salesman was confused he had no idea what he should reply back.

Scene 2:

Roshini is at office. Today she will have to work late night and so she has asked for a drop service to her place. A list is mailed across with the car details and people who would be travelling with her. Roshini checks the list and there are 4 other co-passengers with her; 3 are women and one is a man. She would be dropped second according to the list. After seeing the list Roshini goes to her manager.

Roshini – “Sir I have a complaint.”

Manager – “Yes Roshini tell me. What is the issue?”

Roshini – “I wont work late night tonight.”

Manager – “Roshini you know this delivery is urgent and we need to deliver it tonight. And what is your issue; you are being provided the drop service then why are you worried?”

Roshini – “Sir the problem is with the drop service only. First there are 3 women and next my stop is second one. I don’t get an opportunity to be all alone with the driver and the other male passenger. This is not fair.”

Manager – “Roshini are you out of your mind?”

Roshini – “Sir where men force themselves on women at late nights then how can I be out of my mind?”

Her manager did not have any reply to her question.

Scene 3:

A guy along with his family has come to see Roshini for marriage. The family lets them sit alone and they are left to talk to each other.

Bahadur – “You have anything to ask then go ahead ask me I wont mind it.”

Roshini – “Have you ever raped any woman and murdered her after that?”

Bahadur – “No”

Roshini – “Acha atleast you would have raped the women even if not murdered her”

Bahadur – “No”

Roshini – “Then you would have definitely molested a girl”

Bahadur – “Not at all”

Roshini – “Then you must have passed lewd comments on girls”

By now Bahadur has lost control. He replies back – “Listen madam if you are not interested in marrying me then simply say it. I am not a criminal that you are asking me all these questions.”

Roshini – “Let me tell you one thing that these day dowry is not based on the family background or educational qualification but the severity of crime committed by the man. For instance if a guy rapes and murders a girl then he would get 10 lakh as dowry; when he just rapes a girl he would get 8 lakh dowry; when he molests a girl he would get 5 lakh as dowry; for passing lewd comments or stalking a girl he would get 1 lakh of dowry.”

The way these days news related to rape and safety of women is being shown in media it seem that in future all men would turn into rapists. The candle march protests which are done with the slogan 'teach your son not to rape a girl' or 'do not tell your daughter not to go out tell your son to behave properly' or 'do not touch me my dress is not a yes' what kind of messages do these slogans want to create? Already girls do not go out alone at nights and with such incidents only more fear will be created for female gender in India. Things might be worse but concrete solutions should be found out such as women employment as delivery women; autos run by lady drivers especially at night; and many more such steps can be taken.

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Reservation in India

What is reservation? Reservation is when a person books a place in restaurant, flight, train, bus etc. The pre-booking of place at restaurant does not ensure that the quality of food which would be served by the restaurant would be good or the seats of the flight, bus or train would be comfortable. Reservation just ensures that a place has been secured in advance. When reservation does not ensure quality food in a restaurant the person might fall sick because of bad food.

Now let me talk about reservation in education in India which would be given to those who are considered people from backward class. These people definitely get an ensured seat in a good college because of reservation but then who will ensure the quality of engineers, doctors, lawyers and other professional students which would come out from the college. The government which has given reservation to backward people in the name of upliftment will they ensure quality?

Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar who is popularly known as Babasaheb came from a dalit family but he became the first law minister of India. When he became the law minister there was no reservation for position in the Indian parliament which led him to become law minister; it was his merits, skills, dedication and hard work which made him law minister of India.

Reservation in education for backward class should be strict NO rather government should ensure that good primary education is provided in every part of the country and these people are encouraged to attend schools and become competitive enough to clear the competition exams on merit and occupy the seat along with upper caste candidate on the basis of merit and not reservation.

The question which the government should ask themselves is that whether primary education is reaching out to the poor people staying in villages; are there enough government schools and teachers who are willing to provide free education to the poor people.

But again providing a good primary education is not just a responsibility of government we as citizen of India also have some moral responsibility towards this. In the movie Swades it has been beautifully shown a NRI comes back to India and spreads the message of education. Something similar has been shown in the movie Arakashan. But real life is not a movie and the modern Indians who are voicing their opinion regarding reservation they should ask themselves are they ready to go to a place where there is no electricity or no water connection and teach the children in such places. Are we ready to treat everyone equal in our classrooms irrespective of which caste, creed, culture, color, place, religion or gender one belongs to.

By providing reservation what government is doing is definitely not right but we should ask question to ourselves that is our attitude to those people who belong to backward class right. The backward class should ask the question to themselves that is reservation what they really need to prove to the world their worth. Only when every Indian will get ready to spread primary education among children irrespective of their caste, creed, culture, color, place, religion or gender would be time when we would really see a change; a change that would be positive; a change which would be for the betterment of every Indian.

I am also against the concept of donation which the rich people avail so that they can ensure better education for their child but right now my concern is over the caste based reservation. A positive change is very much needed and upliftment of those who are financially weak is required but providing reservation in the name of caste is not an answer for the change. Let both rich and poor people prove their worth through merit rather than paying money or getting admission in reserved quota. Let there be a fair competition between all the categories so that there is a feeling of a just society.

Solar Energy and India

19 states, 3 power grids and one problem – blackout and half India became dark for hours. Reasons of the blackout as mentioned by the official people is that few states were overdrawing the power allocated to them and so the power tripped. But no proper maintenance of the equipment could also be the problem which affected north, east and north-east regions of India together.

The problem happened and every news channel covered it. People spoke about the problem over social networking sites such as facebook, twitter. But now with this problem it is time to realize coal will not be there forever after all it is a non-renewable resource of energy. So we need to switch to renewable sources of energy such as solar, wind and frankly India has ample solar and wind resources which should be tapped for power generation.

Many countries in the world are already using solar energy for electricity generation. Germany which has topped the list of countries for the usage of solar energy for providing electricity and the country has been doing great job in providing electricity to the people. In India also we can see that the electricity problems in Gujarat have gone down with the use of solar energy. So tapping solar power for electricity generation definitely looks a positive solution for the electricity problems in India.

With the usage of solar energy such blackout problems will definitely be avoided in future. This would also ensure that even rural parts of India are lighted up and people in villages have electricity. It is not just the government who should setup solar power plants but the people of India also need should take some responsibility of using solar energy for future benefits. Every individual houses, apartments, schools, hospitals, colleges and offices should be advised to install solar based geyser for having hot water. The initial setup cost of installing solar geysers would be high but then people would save electricity bills. There are other benefits also of using solar energy well this source of energy does not create pollution which is created by using thermal energy. There are no radioactive wastes which are there by using nuclear energy.

Well the future will only tell whether people have realized the benefits of using a clean, green and eco-friendly source of energy. But if in future we don’t want breaking news related to half of India having a blackout then solar energy is definitely the answer which the government should focus upon. 

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Bomb Blast in India in 2008

· Dec 06, 2008: A bomb blast at Assam injured 9 people.
· Dec 02, 2008: A bomb blast in Assam train killed 2 people and 30 injured.
· Nov 26, 2008: A series of ten coordinated terrorist attacks across Mumbai, India's financial capital atleast 173 people killed and 308 people injured.
· Nov 08, 2008: A bomb blast rocked Meerut’s Zakir Nagar killed 6 people.
· Oct 30, 2008: 18 serial bomb blast rocks Guwahati, Assamm killed 32 and injured 130.
· Oct 14, 2008: 1 bomb blast at Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh injured 7.
· Oct 08, 2008: A bomb blast near Durga puja pandal in Guwahati 5 injured.
· Oct 01, 2008: 5 serial bomb blast rocks Agartala, Tripua 2 killed and 35 injured.
· Sep 30, 2008: A bomb blast Malegaon killed 7 and injured 70.
· Sep 27, 2008: Blast in Delhi's Mehrauli flower market killed 1 and injured 23.
· Sep 13, 2008: Serial blasts in Delhi killed at least 24 people and injured more than 100.
· Aug 22, 2008: A bomb blast in Madhya Pradesh injured 1 person.
· Aug 08, 2008: 1 bomb blast at Siliguri injured 3 chidren.
· Aug 03, 2008: 1 bomb blast at Kolkata killed 4 and injured 5.
· Jul 26, 2008: Serial blasts in Ahmedabad killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 100.
· Jul 25, 2008: Nine explosions in Bangalore create terror killing two people and injuring twelve.
· Jun 20, 2008:
· Jun 11, 2008: A bomb blast at Meghalaya temple injured 4.
· Jun 05, 2008: 1 bomb blast near Lalu Prasad’s house in Gopalganj 1 killed and 1 critically injured.
· May 13, 2008: Eight serial blasts rock Jaipur in a span of 12 minutes leaving 65 dead and over 150 injured.
· Apr 24, 2008: A bomb blast near Manipur’s CM residence injured 3 people.
· Mar 30, 2008: A bomb blast exploded at Muradabad killed 4 children.
· Mar 25, 2008: A bomb blast at a railway station in South Assam’s North Cachar Hills district killed 4 and several injured.
· Mar 19, 2008: Bomb blast Flyover in Srinagar killed 1 and injured 8.
· Mar 15, 2008: A minor blast in local train in Mumbai injured 3 people.
· Mar 16, 2008: 1 bomb blast at Assam’s Dhemaji district killed 1 person and 20 injured.
· Mar 13, 2008: 3 serial blasts rocks Udalguri district of Assam 1 killed and 19 injured.
· Feb 20, 2008: A bomb blast in cinema hall at Mumbai injured 4 people.
· Jan 10, 2008: A bomb blast near the Srirampur check-gate in the Assam-West Bengal border in Kokrajhar district injured 2 people.
· Jan 10, 2008: Terrorist attack on CRPF camp in Rampur kills 8.