Fear Grows for students after recent kidnapping of youth

in photo: Shekhar Panchal (circled) with his friends

Udaipur Police have yet not gathered any substantial clues on the abductors of Shekhar Panchal, the 23-year-old student of Pacific College, even after 10 days have passed since he was kidnapped on 31st December.

Meanwhile, the agitated youth population of the city has filed a petition to the Udaipur Police requesting them to rapidly trace the culprits behind this abduction.

Paramveer Singh Chundawat, President MLSU, along with several others have made this request taking into cognizance the negative effect that this event is having on the psyche of several other students who have come to Udaipur for their studies, from different parts of the country.

While talking to a few students, UdaipurTimes.com came across plenty of worried students most of them being outsiders. As told by Vivek Sharma from Dungarpur, “it is anyways really difficult to stay away from home; now when something like this has taken place, I feel that I am not secure here”.

Another student, Deepak Kumar from Bihar said, “Now one cannot make friends in the city. There is a fear in our hearts as to whom we shall we rely on”. Where the boys are so taken aback, the girls have started calling up their homes to take them back or to come and meet their college Authorities and inquire about their safety.

As stated by Shalu, belonging to Jaipur, “I just don’t know what is happening? Udaipur being such a calm place is no safer for students as well; I am in shock since the day I have heard the news of Shekhar.

Just a few weeks ago, a girl was kidnapped from Pratap Nagar Station, and now Shekhar. This city is no safer, it seems”, Ayushi Dhabai, Student Vice President, UCCMS, herself being an out-station student is feeling insecure and questions the City Police. “Why even after 10 days, Udaipur Police have not been able to solve this case? There is a lot of distress in the minds of several of my friends”.

Paramveer Singh, on behalf of the student community of Udaipur intends to notify the Udaipur Police that, if in the next 36 hours, the police could not catch hold of the kidnappers, the students will take out a peaceful protest march on Wednesday, 11^th January 2012. All the schools and colleges will be forced to shut down.

The entire student community, in fact the entire Udaipur community is in a state of shock and is awaiting news on the capture of the abductors of Shekhar.

Let’s hope that the upholders of Law and Order, the Police can solve this matter and make efforts to bring the city back to its earlier state of peace and law and order.