Da Ugly Devil's Heaven

It was on Sunday, and I was just resting when my dear Smreeti sends me sms that she is coming to visit me today. I couldn’t answer as I was in a deep sleep. Anyways, she comes and visits me and she keeps on describing how hard it was to get to my place as there were no vehicles running that day. It has been a normal incident that whenever something happens the first thing will be attacking the vehicles, destroying them, and closing all the roads. This time she said that some kid was killed at Patan area but she doesn’t know the details about it. I thought I would watch the evening news for details.

Soon after I turned the television, I heard this dreadful news that an eight-year-old child Dhiraj Adhikari has been abducted and killed last Thursday night. As I watched the news in details, they said that he was abducted from his school at 2:30 Thursday, October 04, 2007, when some people offered him some juice and then took him hostage and ran away in a taxi. The father of the child then gets the call of kidnapping situation and then the other side of the phone asks the ransom money and tells him that he is from India and he is a big gangster asking for that ransom. They were unable to find the kidnapper till Saturday night when the father tells the police about his neighbor who has been having some issues with their lands. The police soon finds out that the neighbors are the actual kidnappers and that they have killed the child and then thrown him into the Bagmati River at Balkumari Bridge. So the next morning, the people who are too much furious of this act began to demonstrate, and they burnt the house of the kidnapper and murderer. The furious people also surrounded the district police office and asked the criminal to bring outside and let them punish for their cruel act. The mother of the child was still in shocked and unconscious. The father described how the child was beaten and choked to death. Hearing the story, even I got furious and thought this was really a stupid and cruel act. Three of the suspect had been captured and one had run away. I hope the police will be able to give the family proper justice of this matter. I want to send my condolence to the child’s family and pray that child’s soul rest in peace.