Hyderabad has recorded the highest number of crimes in recent years. The crime rate in Telangana increased by 4.4% from the year 2021, according to Director General of Police Mahender Reddy, who spoke at a news conference on December 29, 2022. This increase in crimes was triggered by the higher number of cybercrimes, which have shot up by 57% since last year.
The higher-level state police official statements came when he was addressing the media before his retirement was supposed to end two days later. He said that the crimes in white-collar offenses had also moved the overall graph upward by a 35% increase. The crime rate against women has gone up by 3.8% in 2022 compared to 2021. He said the rise of 8% in dowry harassment cases and 40% in bigamy cases have overall contributed to the increase in crime against women. 2,126 rapes were among the 17,908 documented offenses against women.
To me, the crime rate is what matters a lot when I am moving out of the country for personal, professional, and spiritual growth. I looked at the number of crimes that any Indian state has and made comparisons. As a citizen of India and a dweller of Hyderabad, I saw this city’s growth in real estate, IT, healthcare, infrastructure, food supply chains, and others over the past decade.
When digitization was happening on a massive scale in 2011, perhaps this was the period when Hyderabad was quickly moving towards the rapid development of Indian soil. The city has seen explosive development in a short period, with the construction of metro projects, the introduction of smartphones and the corresponding businesses, the growth of the food, clothing, and medicine industries, foreign institutions investments, real estate booms, and the staggering growth of the IT sector. The state government also introduced several beneficial programs to ensure the prosperity of Telangana’s citizens and farmers.
To protect women from harassment and exploitation, the KCR government launched an initiative called the SHE team. After cops were provided with smart devices, luxury cars, and motorcycles to fight crime, the city’s police IT cell infrastructure and departments’ ways of handling cases significantly improved.
Many of the police officials’ salaries were doubled, and some of them who were working hard got paid well by getting promotions when KCR came into power as CM and he is the succeeding CM for the second term.
The ‘Chabutra Operation’ launched back in 2015 by the Hyderabad police, is the most appreciative initiative by the educated society that the police authorities, with a mandate from the state government, have taken so far. Till now, the Hyderabad police have been successfully taking forward the mission agenda of making “Chabutra free of Kabutars,” particularly in the old city areas.
However, that’s not enough to prove that the police authorities have been doing much to protect the youths from destroying their lives by grabbing them, putting in their vehicles, counseling them, and giving advice to them to avoid staying awake late at night with friends or family.
Around 2:30 a.m. yesterday, I was watching the local news in Hyderabad on TV. I saw a police officer on his two-wheeler (Activa) frantically chasing after adults and teenagers who were enjoying themselves with their friends in chabutars outside of their homes. It was quite an amusing scene as if I were watching a Hindi film.
This level of aggression and fearless chasing I saw in a Singham movie, where Ajay Devgan runs after goons in broad daylight. Frustrated with the corruption of the Goa system, he removes his belt and rains hard biting on the gang of 10 to 12 people.
The police of Hyderabad are so weak that their power can only work on common people. Big criminals and prisoners are released as if they had not committed any crimes. This is an era of injustice in the world; those criminals get released when they have the full support of their political leaders or are under the influence of powerful businessmen with political backgrounds.
If our police force had so much power, then why does it always arrive late at the scene of a murder? Why KCR (Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao) and his government are doing ‘dhandali’ only in the name of technology and development?
Despite the formation of the SHE team, have rape cases and harassment against girls and women ever been stopped? It has been observed from the data that in the majority of rape cases, the rapists are family members, friends, and colleagues.
There are such settlements where even now people hardly eat bread for two meals in Hyderabad. The new city has become very developed, yet there has been no transformation in the old city. Why is there no metro rail in the Old City? I believe that the metro rails are only in those areas where there are educational institutions, medical hospitals, big corporations, and industries.
In these years, we are being cheated only on development and big promises. KCR’s dream came true: Telangana got separated from Andhra Pradesh and became a part of Hyderabad. But neither seems to me like he was the right choice for the people who elected him as the Chief Minister in the 2014 assembly elections. He came into power with the help of the Congress party. Otherwise, you and I didn’t even know this person before Telangana was formed.
Now that the name of his daughter, K. Kavita, has surfaced in the Delhi liquor scam, why is he silent? He not only speaks about the general public’s problems, such as how to improve employment but also provides justice to people whose properties his Alliance parties, like MIM party leaders and workers, have illegally encroached on or who have been brutally murdered in the name of inter-caste marriages, family property disputes, etc. A good leader gives the right resolution at the right time and takes his party and people on the right path.
Every state has a very strong BJP presence, and Hyderabad is no different. If the citizens of this southern metropolis continue to support the BJP and elect its leaders on the merits of actual development, genuine leadership, opposition to favouring nepotism, giving jobs to deserving individuals, and providing justice to the oppressive people, then there will unquestionably be a historic movement in Nizam’s state.
I’m hoping that this “ache din” comes true soon with a democratically elected leader that wants to strengthen the country and better the lives of its citizens.