LAW KUMAR MISHRA
PATNA. Family members of a migrant labourer who died in Bastar have praised the role of Chhattisgarh police in arranging a decent funeral to the labourer who died of malaria and dengue there.He was cremated with full Hindu rituals by the officers of Bastar police yesterday at Jagdalpur,district headquarters of Bastar.
According to Naresh Kumar of Rupspur village under Harnaut police station in Nalanda district,,they were informed by Bastar police about the death of his son,Ranbir Kumar at MPM hospital of Jagdalpur on Friday.He was admitted there on April 21 for treatment of malaria and denue.For two days,he was admitted at Dimrapal government hospital in Sukma district.
Harnaut,50 KMS from Patna is parental village of Bihar chief minister, Nitish Kumar.He had contested the first assembly elections from Harnaut.
The 43 years old,Ranbir worked as supervisor in a private organisation entrusted with the task of construction of shelter schools (Pota Cabins) for the tribal students in the Naxalite affected areas of Sukma ..
These structures are being constructed to facilitate education of children in the villages where school buildings were burnt down by the Maoists.It may be recalled the then district magistrate of Sukma,Alex Menon was kidnapped by the Maoists a couple of years back.
According to Vivek Shukla,city SP,on the instructions of the SP of Bastar,funeral was arranged by the police in consultation of his relatives who expressed their unwillingness due to lock down to come to Jagdalpur.With the assistance of the Junior chamber of commerce of Bastar,materials were arranged and cremation arranged at Jagdalpur crematorium.In presence of police officers,the local CSP,Hemsagar Sedar,lit the funeral pyre,generally done by the son of the deceased according to Hindu traditions.Entire cremation proceedings were shown live to the family of Ranbir,according to his family members in Nalanda ,60 kms from here.
Police inspectors,Rajesh Marai and Dhananjy Sinha participated as pall bearers alongwith other policemen.