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An innocent victim at poll altar
PAKAULI (RAGHOPUR): Some 12 years ago, Santosh Singh passed out of Jai Gobind High School here with flying colours. On Wednesday, he was gunned down on the same campus.
Santosh, 28, went by many names. Some called him Pappu Singh, others Hari Bol and Bam Bol. A deeply religious man, a BSF sentry on the edge pulled the trigger on him. Despite the day's poll hype, it was just another day for Pappu. He had set out in the morning for his regulation Ganga snaan and puja. A man obsessed with his rituals and puja, Santosh had no interest. Some in his village called him slightly off-centre, others insisted he was a simpleton.
Youngest son of a poor farmer, he was a bachelor. Moments after news of his killing spread in the village, his septuagenarian father Surender Singh rushed to the spot. Back home, women broke into wails. His sister, Usha Devi, banged her head against a pillar. She's a widow. As for the others, they sat around cursing their fate. By Rajesh Kumar, Section Elections in Bihar Posted on Wed Oct 26, 2005 at 08:55:44 PM EST
Pappu's elder brother is the family's only breadearner and does odd jobs in Delhi. Not that Pappu himself sat at home doing nothing. He ran a tutorial class and in the afternoons, neighbourhood children came to him for classes.
"The family is really very poor and deserve a compensation," said Anil Singh, an RJD supporter in the village. "Ganga snaan was Pappu's daily routine. He was a simple man," an old man who had once taught him at school recalled. "He was a bright student, but lost all interest in studies after this religion bug bit him. He had no interest left in anything else." But in one corner, a relative of the victim wept inconsolably. Baying for blood, he cried: "Khoon ka badla khoon se lenge." The policeman who gunned him down ought to be shot, he insisted. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1276538,curpg-2.cms
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