Nagpur
Today: Nagpur: Wednesday, 07 October 2015.
The lifestyle
has changed, drastically. The environment has changed, visibly. With these
disturbing changes, a disturbing trend has come to light. A scan of information
points out a spurt in suicides by womenfolk with married ones forming the
majority. Marriage mess being topping the list of reasons for extreme steps.
Another
disturbing trend that is grabbing the headlines pertains to abduction of young
as well as minor girls who fall prey to bogus marriage promises doled out by
nasty-minded elements. At the same time, many a complaint of kidnapping of
young girls are found to be bogus ones.
One more
bewildering picture has emerged wherein it was found that the role of women dealing
in illicit liquor has gone higher in dimensions.
The matter of
facts got revealed through information sought by RTI activist Abhay Kolarkar
under Right to Information Act.
The RTI query
has also revealed that maximum raids were conducted in regard to sex rackets
this year. Till July end, 65 cases of flesh trade were registered. Earlier, in
2014, 11 cases of sex racket were registered while in 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010
the number of cases in this crime stand at 20, 13, 13 and 14 respectively.