The death of Paul Muthoot, Executive Director of Muthoot Group of Companies and son of George Muthoot, its Chairman, did prompt me to post this blog.
The whole week was agog with the news of Paul Muthoot’s death. Various theories were postulated by media before the police started coming out with its version of the investigation. As usual, the police and the media are at variants with each other. The media always is one up there and it went about the inaction of the police on the criminal gangs, the political patronage that these gangs receive, the life style of the gang members etc and pointed fingers at the criminal-police-politician nexus that is quiet prevalent in Kerala. Police on the other hand, look stifled. It seems they cannot tell the complete truth and whatever they swallow is kept for nullifying the politician effect that could happen to their career sooner or later.
Some thoughts are very disturbing.
Paul Muthoot, the Director of a leading Finance company of the state and the country with a turn over of more than INR 4000 crores and with pan India presence, was traveling with gangster Kings! In fact he was driving the gangster’s car just before he was stopped and stabbed to death. The personalities in question are well known in criminal circles, having gone through trials and punishment. It looks like they were proclaimed offenders by the Trivandrum District collector but were not apprehended due to their closeness to powers that be. What has the businessman to do with gangsters? In all probability, he should be using them. Knowing the businesses that the group is in, it might have needed the services of the gangsters, from time to time.
Why do businessmen use gangsters? One is due to the fact that certain things can only be solved by muscle power. It is also due to the fact that Indian judiciary is so slow on defaulters and the chances of getting the justice delivered at the right time never come, so the businessmen take the recourse through the gangsters. However, is it right to set aside judiciary and get things done through muscle power and criminal gangs? It is a mute question. I am sure every one will have an opinion to make.
The freedom with which these gangsters roam around the state and conduct the affairs brings shudder to any law abiding citizen. There had been plenty of instances of them killing the victims, killing wrong victims, bringing terrible harm to the innocent bystanders, engaging in inter gang fights and the associated killings etc that goes unabated. Even if there is investigation and actions by the law enforcement agencies, it gets quashed by the patrons of the gangs with their political and police connections. For example, the two gangsters who traveled with Paul Muthoot are yet to be apprehended though they are very much around. It is a clean evidence of the protection from the bigwigs that they get.
A very young life ended thus, much before it began to bloom, just because of the wrong connections that he had. He could very well have avoided the connections and lived peacefully, contributing to wealth creation and distribution.
Look, living a clean decent life has its merits. That is something which eluded Paul Muthoot.
The connections really matters!
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Sir,one point i would like to note. The silence of Muthoot family in this case. This is not what we expect from a murder victim's family members. The police and the media intentionally take care not to cover the sayings of family members in this case. I think investigation should be there as to if any family interests are involved in this case.
Sir,one point i would like to note. The silence of Muthoot family in this case. This is not what we expect from a murder victim's family members. The police and the media intentionally take care not to cover the sayings of family members in this case. I think investigation should be there as to if any family interests are involved in this case.
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