Organized Crime: A Very Strange Incidents:

In a separate blog, I have written about the brahamin community of the town. These are my childhood recollections from when my perception was limited to understand and analyse the people and their circumstances etc. But this is a strange and exclusive story of a single brahamin family of the town. Ram Swarup Soti was our neighbour, lived with a family consisting of his three sons ( Keshav, Hari and Sooraj) and his wife. Keshav was almost of my age. His house and campus of the house was big, though main living area and boundary walls of the house were made of mud, no bricks. In the courtyard he had some trees and a small flower and vegetable garden. I very frequently visited his house and his family. I was especially attracted  to his nice flower garden. The family liked me very much and always treated me very well.
I never saw any body in the family working for income. Of course the boys were young and school going. So I wonder as what was the source of their income and how the family was managing day to day living expenses?
The family was socially isolated; though the family was a brahamin family but I never observed them performing any religious ritual. At what stage, under what circumstances, the family developed a kind of enmity with some families in the town and Soti ji became very revengeful and criminal to go to any extent to take the revenge. Lala Bhajju Mal's family (Bhajuu mal was also known as Chowkrayat: a person to guide the community for social activities) was one of the victims of his crimes. Bhajju Mal was a small business owner as grain merchant though he was doing well in his business. On one occasion, Soti ji opened the roof of his shop and burnt it; the shop was completely destroyed with its contents. It was a complete  and great loss of the property and his business; other time he mixed the poison in the floor at the grinding mill itself. Most family members were very timely saved, yet still lost their youngest son. This was a great tragedy and unbearable shock for the family. Later, the family left the town to avoid further victimization. Another family was of Dr. Dwarka Prasad. His young son was killed brutally by Soti's family just in the next house. Soti already declared that not only will he kill the boy, he will also drink blood from his heart. He did so by cutting the  chest of the boy and taking out the heart from the body. Later, he proudly declared that he did it what he said. Terrible incident, I never heard of such an inhuman act before or later in life. A devilish (rakshash act) act from a brahamin to a brahamin. I could notice the anger on his face, in his voice and his eyes. In fact, he was born criminal and his family suffered with him with his criminal acts.
Every one in the town was scared of him and would never dare to come to him or talk to him. But I was never scared though I knew all of his acts; I wonder why I was not afraid of him and his family ? The worst part was his training to his youngest son: He used to tie him with a tree and rope and used to beat him with stick for a long time. When I asked him as to what and why he has been doing to his son, he said that he is making him strong enough to tolerate any kind of pain, even the hardest beating by the police. He was preparing him to be a hard core criminal and later of course, he became one of the most famous robber and criminal of the area. He committed all kinds of crime including murders. It is very strange as how a father and mother watched their own son, turn into a criminal before their very eyes??
The family committed several crimes and in the acts of murders and counter murders among the rivals,the family vanished in these acts of crime except that one of the boy escaped, left the town and got employed in some job somewhere .
No wonder such people meet this kind of end.