“Unfortunately a collective response against the murder of a mother by his own drug addict son is yet to come from the law enforcers and the civil society groups.”
The murder of a woman by her own son in Rafiabad area of Baramulla district went viral on social media sites last week and very genuinely some civil society groups voiced their serious concerns over the incident. Though some civil society groups appealed religious preachers to play their role in curbing the deadly social crimes like murderous assaults of drug addict youth on their parents but unfortunately a collective response against the murder of a mother by his own drug addict son is yet to come from the law enforcers and the civil society groups. Amid a heated debate over the murder of a woman by her own son in Rafiabad area of Baramulla district the concerns over a collective response from the law enforcers and civil groups deserve immediate attention of both the police and as well as the leaders of the civil society groups. While the fact remains that law enforces alone can’t overcome the criminal tendencies developing among drug addict youth, it is also an irrefutable fact that civil society groups also can’t lonely fight the fast spreading menace of drug addiction and the criminal tendencies developing among drug addict youth in Jammu & Kashmir. Such criminal tendencies developing among drug addicts convey a message that life of the families living with drug addicts is under threat and such a bad trend demands a collective response from both the people and as well as civil society groups.
“By all standards of understandabilities drug addicts developing tendencies of carrying out murderous assaults on their parents is a new challenge not only for the Police but also for the civil society groups and religious preachers. While teachers and administrators are equally concerned about the introduction of moral and value-based education in the educational curriculum in schools and colleges, the parents themselves are also morally duty bound to create a family bond which they are not able to do. Never forget that children when allowed to live in the virtual world from the very childhood by their parents loose the spirit of family bonds and respect for the elders particularly the parents.”
While this is not the first but third such incident reported in Kashmir since October last year, the occurrence and re-occurrence of such gruesome incidents are shaking society at its very roots. In this whole process people find the institution of family in transition as trend of nuclear families is spreading fast in valley for last more than a decade. Worth mentioning is the fact that earlier in joint families there was a mechanism where youth won’t dare to speak even a word of anger before their elders not to even think about carrying out a deadly physical assault on even distant relations not to talk of their own parents . By all standards of understandabilities drug addicts developing tendencies of carrying out murderous assaults on their parents is a new challenge not only for the Police but also for the civil society groups and religious preachers. While teachers and administrators are equally concerned about the introduction of moral and value-based education in the educational curriculum in schools and colleges, the parents themselves are also morally duty bound to create a family bond which they are not able to do. Never forget that children when allowed to live in the virtual world from the very childhood by their parents loose the spirit of family bonds and respect for the elders particularly the parents.
