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Sharp rise in student crimes
There has been a marked increase in the number of students, who were involved in unlawful activities like, chain snatching, thefts, and vehicle lifting. More so the involvement of minors in these activities is raising serious concerns. Police say that the students are resorting to unlawful activities to sustain their addiction – cricket betting.
Kakinada: There has been a marked increase in the number of students, who were involved in unlawful activities like, chain snatching, thefts and vehicle lifting. More so the involvement of minors in these activities is raising serious concerns. Police say that the students are resorting to unlawful activities to sustain their addiction – cricket betting.
- Police say students are resorting to unlawful activities to sustain their addiction to cricket betting
- Psychologist Dr Damera Vijayalakshmi says rich-poor parity is driving students to commit crimes
Meanwhile, a prominent psychologist is of the opinion that the differences in lifestyle between rich and poor students provoke the later to involve in unlawful activities to earn quick money. A quick glance into some of the crimes that students were involved will help understand the gravity of the situation.
A team of eight; three B Tech students, two BSC students and three others involved in a burglary at Karanamgari Centre in the city on July 14, 2014. They targeted a retired staff nurse, who has been staying alone. They not only robbed cash and jewellery, they even murdered her.
Later, it was revealed that they conducted recce, for more than a week to check the movements of the aged woman before committing the crime. In another incident on March 10 this year, 5 students were caught for stealing jewellery worth of Rs 4 lakh. It was revealed that lavish spending on star hotel accommodation, cricket betting and other vices forced them to commit the act.
In the latest incident on May 7, a BSC computers graduate was caught for a lifting of two wheelers. The accused used knowledge of computers and sold all the 15 stolen vehicles by tampering the records and producing fake registration documents. Recently, a 15-year-old girl was caught for stealing jewellery by removing the door latches and opening locked doors with duplicate keys.
DSP crimes Pitta Somasekhar said that there is a sharp rise in the students’ involvement in unlawful activities. In this connection, the DSP advised the two-wheeler manufacturers to adopt secret locking system. Speaking to The Hans India, Dr Damera Vijayalakshmi noted psychologist observed that in the unlawful acuities are generally committed as a group activity to extract maximum benefit as the one who gets the idea lures others into activity.
