The Nashik case involving Dr Manisha Jejurkar’s death deserves careful...
🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane*
The Nashik case involving Dr Manisha Jejurkar’s death deserves careful investigation rather than a social-media trial. Police are reportedly examining mobile phones and other digital evidence, while the accused have been sent to judicial custody. At this stage, allegations remain allegations and guilt can only be determined through investigation and the judicial process. Digital evidence can be extremely important in reconstructing communication, timelines and circumstances surrounding a death, but fragments of chats or messages should not be selectively leaked and treated as a verdict. Such cases often generate intense public emotion, which makes investigative discipline even more important. Police should preserve the complete digital chain of evidence, establish context and place the material before the court. Justice is not strengthened by declaring someone guilty before trial; nor is it served by dismissing serious allegations without investigation. Evidence, not public pressure, must determine the outcome.
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🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane*
The case involving self-styled predictions of “divine powers” and alleged financial wrongdoing is a reminder that superstition becomes particularly dangerous when it is combined with money and influence. Courts will determine the criminal liability of the individuals concerned, and bail or judicial custody should not be confused with a finding of guilt. But the broader social question deserves attention. People are free to practise faith, consult spiritual figures or hold personal beliefs; the problem begins when extraordinary supernatural claims are allegedly used to obtain money, promise impossible outcomes or manipulate vulnerable people. Maharashtra has a long tradition of rationalist movements precisely because faith and fraud cannot be treated as the same thing. Law-enforcement agencies should investigate financial transactions rigorously, while avoiding unnecessary interference in legitimate religious practice. The correct dividing line is not belief versus disbelief; it is personal faith versus demonstrable deception and exploitation.
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🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane*
Maharashtra’s third round of NEET-UG counselling highlights a recurring contradiction in medical education: thousands of students desperately seek medical seats, yet some seats can remain vacant through successive counselling rounds. The explanation is rarely a simple lack of demand. Fees, college preference, course choice, location, category rules and counselling strategy can all affect whether a seat is actually accepted. This is why merely announcing an increase in the number of medical seats cannot be the sole measure of success. A seat that is technically available but financially beyond a family’s reach does little to solve the shortage of affordable medical education. The state should closely analyse why seats remain unfilled, especially across private colleges and different courses, and publish that data transparently. Medical education policy must eventually answer two questions together: how many seats exist, and how many capable students can realistically afford to occupy them?
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🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane*
A reported ₹1 lakh deposit linked to loudspeaker compliance during Ganesh festivities raises an interesting policy question: can financial liability achieve what repeated appeals have failed to achieve? Noise limits already exist; the persistent problem has been enforcement. A meaningful refundable deposit, forfeited for a properly documented violation, could create an immediate incentive for organisers to monitor sound levels themselves. But such a system will be credible only if measurement is scientific and uniform. Calibrated meters, recorded readings, clear responsibility and an appeal mechanism are essential. Otherwise, a good idea can quickly become another source of arbitrary action. The objective should not be to obstruct festivals but to make celebration compatible with the rights of residents, patients, senior citizens and children. Maharashtra does not need another rule that exists only on paper; it needs a transparent mechanism that makes compliance easier and violations genuinely costly.
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🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane*
When political confrontation begins to stall civic works, ordinary citizens end up paying for battles they did not start. Reports of development work being affected amid political and administrative conflict in Vasai-Virar therefore deserve attention beyond party politics. Corruption allegations must certainly be investigated, and no development project should become an excuse to overlook wrongdoing. But investigation and governance have to function simultaneously. Roads cannot remain broken, drainage cannot stop and essential civic projects cannot be indefinitely frozen merely because competing political groups are fighting for control or accusing each other. Local government exists to provide services regardless of which party controls it. Maharashtra’s rapidly urbanising regions especially need institutional continuity: projects should be approved, audited and executed through transparent systems that survive political change. Political accountability is necessary, but citizens should never become collateral damage in a prolonged struggle for local power.
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