Suicides in city goes up by 32 per cent

Whereas, all the four metropolitan cities recorded a fall in the number of people killing themselves

A 19-year-old girl hanged herselfat her Chandkheda residence on Sunday after the man she was in re lationshiprefused to marry her.» A 21-year-old medicine aspirant, committed suicide whenher name did not appear in the admis sion merit list on July 3. Her body wasdiscovered by her parents from her house.

Gujarat has much to worry about on people valuing their lives as Ahmedabad recorded 32.6 per cent rise in the number of suicides in 2014 over the figures for the previous year.

Incidentally, all metropolitan cities -Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata -recorded a fall whereas the number of people killing themselves in the city increased from 671 in 2013 to 890 in 2014. The data was published in `Accident deaths and suicides in India -2014', by the National Crime Records Bureau on Saturday.

HOW JUVENILE

The state registered a 51 per cent increase incrimes against children in just a year, reveals NCRB data. But does anybodycare?

* The district Child Working Committees (CWC), the final authority to dispose of cases related to protection and rehabilitation of children, are short of members.

* Existing CWC members do not meet regularly

* Even the selection panel that chooses members of CWC has not been formed yet

No place for the old

Harassed at home by their own kids, vulnerable and easy targets against crimes, Ahmedabad accounts for the highest number of cases against senior citizens in the state

— On June 13, a 29-year-old painter asked his mother to accompany him to a nearby field in Vatva. He gagged and raped her before abandoning her. When no one heard her cries, the shocked woman mustered courage to reach her daughter’s house in the same locality.

— Hemant Mehta, a 77-year-old retired government officer lives alone at a flat in Praladnagar. Recently when his eldest daughter Kinjal Mehta came to meet him, she found that Rs 50,000 was missing from the house. Police investigation revealed that one of the two nurses employed to look after him had stolen the money and escaped.

Farmer suicide in Gujarat is nil

At a time when apex court has sought response fromGujarat on farmer suicide due to agrarian reasons, an RTI shows state providedincorrect data on the same to the Centre

The Supreme Court on last Friday had issued notice to Gujarat government on a plea by an NGO seeking com pensation to families of over 600 debt-ridden farmers who had allegedly committed suicide in the state from 2003 to 2012.

However, information sought under the Right To Information Act by Mirror regarding the same from the Union Ministry of Agriculture revealed that between 2009 and 2013, no farmer had committed sui cide in Gujarat due to crop failure.

CRANTI, the NGO, in its petition had stated that since 2003 -when suicides by farmers started in Gujarat -till August 20, 2012 as many as 619 farmers committed suicide in the state. The figures, according to the petition, were based on the response of the Gujarat govern ment to two RTI applications.

MISSING, EVEN THEIR PHOTOS

Cops do not have photos of nearly 40%of the kids gone missing in the city; children cell does not have sketch artistand tracing them is difficult without this vital clue
Thirteen-year-old Devi went missing when she went to beg at Subhash Bridge. After seven days her father Manojbhai Somajibhai from Nut commu nity lodged an FIR at Sabarmati police station, but as he did not have any picture of his daughter, he could provide only the physical description.