پردہ پھٹے گا

ٹائمس آف انڈیا (2 جولائی 1985ء) میں دہلی کا ایک واقعہ شائع ہواہے جس کا عنوان ہے: اس سے زیادہ کہ ہضم ہو سکے۔ واقعہ کو ہم اخبار کے اصل الفاظ میں نقل کرتے ہیں:

  IT'S TOO MUCH TO STOMACH: Narain Das, 20, an alleged chain snatcher, swallowed his loot when he was given the chase in Greater Kailash yesterday. Narain Das removed a gold chain from around the neck of Ms Renu Saxena, a schoolteacher. According to the police, the incident occurred soon after Ms Saxena got off a bus while returning from Andrews Ganj. The suspect followed her a short distance. Two passer-by, Mr Gian Prakash, and Mr Sanjay Dutt Gupta, responding to Ms Saxena's cries, chased and overpowered the suspect. They were amazed when they were unable to find the chain. The mystery was solved when the police took the suspect to the AIIMS where an X-ray revealed the chain in his stomach.

رینو سکسینہ ایک اسکول میں لیڈی ٹیچر ہیں۔ وہ اینڈریوز گنج سے واپس آتے ہوئے بس سے اتریں۔ ان کے گلے میں سونے کی زنجیر تھی۔ بیس سالہ نرائن داس جو ایک بدنام شخص ہے اس نے  رینو سکسینہ کا پیچھا کیا اور ان کی زنجیر کھینچ کر بھاگا۔ رینو سکسینہ نے شور کیا۔ ان کے شور کو سن کردو شخص مسٹرگیان پرکاش اور مسٹر سنجے دت گپتا نے ملزم کودوڑایا اور کچھ دور جا کر اس کو پکڑ لیا۔ مگر انہیں یہ دیکھ کر تعجب ہوا کہ سونے کی زنجیر اس کے پاس موجود نہیں ہے۔ یہ راز اس وقت کھلا جب پولیس نے ملزم کو اپنے قبضہ میں لیا۔ وہ اس کو آل انڈیا میڈیکل انسٹی ٹیوٹ لے گئی۔ وہاں اس کواکسرے مشین کے سامنے کھڑا کیا گیا۔ اکسرے نے بتایا کہ سونے کی زنجیر اس کے پیٹ میں موجود ہے۔ ملزم نے زنجیر کو چرانے کے بعد اس کو نگل لیا تھا۔

یہ صورت حال جو دنیا میں نظر آتی ہے یہی زیادہ بڑے پیمانہ پر آخرت میں پیش آئے گی۔ موجودہ دنیا میں لوگوں کے جرائم پر ظاہری پردے پڑے ہوئے  ہیں۔ مگر آخرت ان پردوں کو کھول دے گی۔ اس کے بعد وہ سب کچھ صاف دکھائی دینے لگے گا جو دنیا میں لوگوں نے طرح طرح کے پردوں میں چھپا رکھا تھا۔

Magnetic Wire that Trips up Thieves

Shoplifting is big business: petty thieves around the world filch billions of dollars of goods each year. But a new disposable antitheft ''tag'' that is virtually impossible to detect may cause some pilferers to think about switching pastimes. The tag, made by Kongo Corp. of Hicksville, N.Y., consists of a hair thin magnetic wire that can be attached to anything from a jar of caviar to a pack of cigarettes.

Unlike the bulky plastic antitheft tags frequently used to protect clothing, Kongo’s minuscule Electro Thread tags are nearly invisible. The metal thread can be attached to a price tag, incorporated into a mock bar-code label, or glued to the seam of a can or the side of a carton during manufacture. When a customer makes a purchase, a clerk deactivates the tag by passing the item over a desensitizing device. (Unlike plastic antitheft tags, the Electro Thread tag does not have to be removed; it is simply deactivated.) Shoplifters making off with an item containing a ''live'' Electro Thread wire will be tripped up at the door, where a detector sounds an alarm.

Supermarkets and pharmacies may find Kongo’s invisible threads attractive because they offer broad antitheft protection at a relatively low price. Electro Thread tags cost less than cent apiece if purchased in volume. Because the tags are hard to see, they don't have to be attached to every item in a store to deter thieves. Retailers can tag only expensive or easily stolen items and leave shoplifters guessing whether the rest are bugged. Kongo encourages clerks to run every purchase through the deactivator to ''give the impression to shoppers that all items are protected,'' says company engineer Michael Cooper.

The system is not flawless. Clerks must bring each tag into physical contact with the deactivator to ensure that the Electro Thread is desensitized; this means shop employees must be trained to recognize which items are tagged and where tags are located. Since about one-third of the thefts in many stores are attributed to what retailers call ''internal shrinkage''—pilfering’s by employees —training the shop clerks to recognize selectively tagged items may only cause added problems. Still, Kongo’s system may convince some light-fingered individuals to keep their hands off the goods. The electro Thread system is being marketed in the United State, Europe, Japan, and Australia. Kongo plans to bring out a similar antitheft system for libraries next year.

JULITH JEDAMUS WITH CYNTHIA CATTERSON

(NEWSWEEK, NOV 4, 1985)

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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