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Living in ‘dream’ homes

When hundreds of lower class families in capital city have no roof to stay, there is small group of privileged “poor men” who enjoy bungalows in posh areas of the city.

At least a dozen of palatial buildings in Sahid Nagar are managed by people, whose monthly income would be around Rs. 2,000.

Reason, owners of these multi-storeyed buildings are staying in foreign countries, but they cannot afford to leave those houses vacant.

To guard their houses and valuables, owners want trusted men.

For years they don’t pay visit to house built in 1980s. The low-paid faithful men, who otherwise cannot afford rent house in slum, lead life in these dream homes.

Caretakers of these houses live lowly when owners come to India and in rest times, they appear to be real owners.

Policemen are now a worried lot.

The police constables say they find it hard to locate criminals.

Any one they nab has an ‘identity’ which according to them makes them immune to arrests.

Most of them have started to claim themselves to be students, lawyers or journalists.

It has become easy to gather these identities, allege the policemen.

With these identities they forget the fear of police with the claim that they have mass to protest if they get arrested.

To procure a legal degree has become quite easy.

There are several nondescript media units which have started distributing ‘press cards’ to persons who may be having little links with the noble profession.

To continue admission in any educational institute is also thought to be an immunity against police. Usually the police deals with students, lawyers and journalists with caution.

The miscreants have started to take advantage of it.

Some criminals also graduate from these to claim themselves as social workers.

“The way criminals have started to use these professions as their aliases, in near future there would be no criminals left to be arrested,” quipped a police constable.

(Satyasundar Barik and Sib Kumar Das)

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