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Wednesday, Mar 02, 2005

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Gaur `admits' rise in dacoities

By Our Staff Correspondent

BHOPAL, MARCH 1. The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Babulal Gaur, today conceded in the Assembly that the party MLA from Shivpuri, Yashodhararaje Scindia, was rightly concerned about the rising graph of dacoities, kidnapping and theft in her constituency. It was through a calling attention notice that Ms. Scindia drew the attention of the House and sought the Government's reply on the dacoity problem and the kidnapping menace in Shivpuri district. Initiating the discussion on the sensitive issue, she said that in the last one year there had been several incidents of dacoity, theft and kidnapping in her district. She particularly cited the case of Mahesh Dhakad, Bhura Dhakad and Ramgopal Rawat, who were kidnapped from Patkheda village on January 28. A few days later, on February 5, Mahendra Goyal, a well-known contractor of Shivpuri, was also kidnapped at gun-point from his car.

Ms. Scindia emphasised the importance of continuity at the top police level and said that this was most vital to register any success when it comes to tackling the dacoity problem.

The State Minister for Home, Jagdeesh Dewda, admitted that three persons had been kidnapped from Patkheda village by the Prakash Gadaria gang, which is the offshoot of the Rambabu Gadaria gang of dacoits.

Significantly in his reply to budgetary demands of the General Administration, Home, Power and other departments, the Chief Minister had said yesterday that "barring the Dayaram-Rambabu Gadaria gang, no major bandit force was active within the State."

Mr. Dewda further informed the House today that a mining contractor, along with one of his supervisors

and a driver, had been kidnapped by the Rambabu Dayaram Gadaria gang on March 5. When the Minister

began recounting the steps being taken by the Police to combat the dacoity menace in the Gwalior region,

the Congress MLA, Govind Singh, raised a point of order and asked whether or not the Minister could be allowed to deviate from the issue raised through the calling attention notice. The Speaker upheld the objection and asked the Minister to restrict himself only to the issue raised by Ms. Scindia.

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