Agra youth ends life to save family from mafia ire
Vijay Upadhyay
Agra. It is easy to join a mafia but hard to leave outside a coffin". This old Sicilian proverb may date back to the days when mafias ruled the land but it still holds water as was proved in Agra last week, when a youth tried to escape the clutches of the local examination mafia and committed suicide when he found himself cornered.
Asti Shanker Sharma, a computer graphics designer from Meerut, who worked at a graphics concern in the Sanjay Place commercial complex of the town, had been found by the police, hanging from the ceiling of a room of a local budget hotel on Saturday.
In the course of investigations, the police found a shocking piece of evidence that pointed the links of this deceased youth with the examination mafia of Agra that used his services for churning out fake marksheets by the dozens.
In a suicide note left by him, Asti Shanker claimed that he had been employed at Arshi Graphics, a local graphics designing shop owned by Avinash Yadav at a monthly salary of Rs 6,000.
Cash-strapped and having recently fathered the third child, Asti was going through a bad time and asked Avinash to give him a raise but instead Avinash asked him to prepare a few fake marksheets of Dr BR Ambedkar University, Agra and offered him good money. He reluctantly prepared the marksheets, pocketing the money.
After this incident, Avinash Yadav began to pressurise him to prepare more marksheets and slowly he was stuck in the net which he tried to leave but could not as Avinash threatened to throw him in front of the police for his involvement in preparing the fake marksheets.
Once when he tried to escape from his clutches he was beaten up badly by Avinash's goons. Following that he went underground and started living in a local hotel.
But Avinash continued to threaten his family to know his location and consequently he found it prudent to end his life to protect his family from further problems.
On the basis of his suicide note, the police have now arrested Avinash Yadav for forcing Asti Shanker to commit suicide and is in the looking out for others involved in the fake marksheets racket.
In police custody, Avinash Yadav denied his involvement in preparing any fake marksheets and claimed that Asti Shanker owed him a lot of money that he had borrowed from him as advance and unable to pay back the money, he had suddenly disappeared, forcing him to resort to adapting some extreme measures to recover his money not realising that Asti would commit suicide and implicate him in a false case.
Agra. It is easy to join a mafia but hard to leave outside a coffin". This old Sicilian proverb may date back to the days when mafias ruled the land but it still holds water as was proved in Agra last week, when a youth tried to escape the clutches of the local examination mafia and committed suicide when he found himself cornered.
Asti Shanker Sharma, a computer graphics designer from Meerut, who worked at a graphics concern in the Sanjay Place commercial complex of the town, had been found by the police, hanging from the ceiling of a room of a local budget hotel on Saturday.
In the course of investigations, the police found a shocking piece of evidence that pointed the links of this deceased youth with the examination mafia of Agra that used his services for churning out fake marksheets by the dozens.
In a suicide note left by him, Asti Shanker claimed that he had been employed at Arshi Graphics, a local graphics designing shop owned by Avinash Yadav at a monthly salary of Rs 6,000.
Cash-strapped and having recently fathered the third child, Asti was going through a bad time and asked Avinash to give him a raise but instead Avinash asked him to prepare a few fake marksheets of Dr BR Ambedkar University, Agra and offered him good money. He reluctantly prepared the marksheets, pocketing the money.
After this incident, Avinash Yadav began to pressurise him to prepare more marksheets and slowly he was stuck in the net which he tried to leave but could not as Avinash threatened to throw him in front of the police for his involvement in preparing the fake marksheets.
Once when he tried to escape from his clutches he was beaten up badly by Avinash's goons. Following that he went underground and started living in a local hotel.
But Avinash continued to threaten his family to know his location and consequently he found it prudent to end his life to protect his family from further problems.
On the basis of his suicide note, the police have now arrested Avinash Yadav for forcing Asti Shanker to commit suicide and is in the looking out for others involved in the fake marksheets racket.
In police custody, Avinash Yadav denied his involvement in preparing any fake marksheets and claimed that Asti Shanker owed him a lot of money that he had borrowed from him as advance and unable to pay back the money, he had suddenly disappeared, forcing him to resort to adapting some extreme measures to recover his money not realising that Asti would commit suicide and implicate him in a false case.
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