On Sunday 280 youngsters at a rave party organized at Sinhagad were arrested by the Pune police for when caught taking drugs. The drugs seized (as reported in TOI, 5th March) from the spot were phenylfine hydrochloride, marijuana and charas. Those arrested include students, IT professionals and air hostesses. Some of them claim that they had gone to the party because of their love for trance music which was to be played there. These are also the people who are pleading innocence on the pretext that they didn't know who was organizing the party. Why should they have gone there then?
It is shocking to find parents not believing their children having done anything wrong inspite of all the evidence proving otherwise. TOI states that friends and family were found sending to those held inside the court. The seriousness of the incident hasn't even dawned on some of the captives who started singing, clapping and dancing once the judge left. What is still worse is seeing the young populace of Pune defending the offenders. On NDTV the reporters went around asking people what they thought of the incident. One boy who looked like he was still in college said that everyone does drugs at this age and so it is alright!! Then while a girl acknowledged that such parties are held in Pune, another one openly confessed to have consumed drugs!!
Everyday I get this impression that people are no longer bothered by the repercussions of their actions. When driving a car some are always in a hurry to overtake. When crossing the road they do exactly the opposite and literally walk in slow motion without looking to their left or right. Instead of wearing a helmet for protection they'd rather protest against it. Instead of enjoying holi the way it should with colours they prefer to go and get drunk and drugged.
This incident reminded me of a scene from the film Page 3 where a group of cops and journalists bust a similar party amidst a huge cry of complaints from kids who intoxicated are merrily revelling. It was such a different world from what I see every day. The Pune arrests have only confirmed its existence.
In a country where so many die of hunger it is sad to find those blessed with wealth wasting money on something which is only going to harm them. I pray that a few of these guys and girls if not all have a conscience pricking them to learn from this experience... to help keep drugs away from them forever.
2 comments:
The drug business and the concept behind it which is just to make the young generattion busy and keep them away of thinking is well designed and to be frank it isn't in our hands.
people are sucked into it all around the world! and that makes lots of money.so no one,in large scale,is ready to solve the problem!!!!!!!!!
I do not think that the police should do anything to these persons - that would be a repression.
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