Dial '100' for Ghost-busters!

VIJAY UPADHYAY
INDIA (ETAH), 15 Dec. The UP Police seem to have discovered a new calling! They are trying their hand at ghost-busting, butting into the domain of Tantriks. In an interesting incident, a retired Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) has commissioned the Etah police to help exorcise the "Ghosts" haunting his house.

Talking to The Pioneer, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Etah, Anand Swaroop said that Retd. Subedar Major Ram Swaroop, a resident of Ambedkar Nagar in Etah has filed a written complaint with him claiming that his house is "haunted" by several ghosts who have been sent by a "Tantrik" at the bidding of a jealous neighbour. In his complaint, Ram Swaroop has alleged that said Tantrik Ramdas, who lives in the Chaprai village nearby, is blackmailing his family for money to free his house from these ghosts.

The JCO claims that the Tantrik had blocked all his attempts in the past eight years to get his eldest daughter, Sushma, married. Only after he paid Rs 5,000 him, the tantrik lifted the shadow of these "ghosts", but only temporarily. As soon as Sushma was married off a year ago, the "ghosts" returned, this time attaching themselves to his younger daughter Kiran. This time however, the tantrik is not willing to remove them at any cost, forcing him to knock on the doors of the police. According to Etah SSP Anand Swaroop, he had deputed the Local Intelligence Unit (LIU) of the UP Police to investigate the case.
Apparently the preliminary reports indicate that there indeed was something "wrong" with this family.

There had been some "unexplained" incidents in the JCO's house and the mental state of the entire family did not appear normal. Kiran Kumari, the youngest daughter of Ram Swaroop and an aspiring teacher, claims that "ghosts" pester her every night and she is unable to sleep as nightmares grip her in sleep, indicating that she needed immediate psychiatric attention.

To alleviate the fears of this family, the SSP had even sent a team of "Special Operations Group" to the tantrik to exorcise the ghosts, but the tantrik refused to perform the ritual, claiming that the ghosts had grown stronger now and their removal required a complex ritual that could only be performed at a shrine in Agra at the cost of another Rs 5,000.

According to the SSP, Ram Swaroop and his family are under great mental stress from the supposed haunting of their house and they may take any extreme step due to this "fear of the unknown". The police have agreed to take the tantrik to the shrine at Agra to perform the ritual in order to satisfy the complainant that the "ghosts" have been removed from his house and the family is safe from the prolonged supernatural visitation.
(UNITED NEWS NETWORK)


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