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Spreading the light of humanity & freedom
Editor: Nagaraja.M.R.. Vol.08..Issue.12........23/03/2012
Editorial : Shame
SHAME JUDGES &
POLICE of Double Standards
– charge sanjay dutt with TADA
- An appeal to honourable supreme
court of india
hereby,
HRW appeals to the honourable supreme court of India to review the
sentence given to cine actor mr.sanjay dutt. He is charged under illegal
possession of arms , the stand of prosecution is biased . the culprit cine
actor kept the arms knowing fully well for what purpose it is being kept , he
had had regular contacts with anti-national underworld elements. Still he is not
charged under either TADA or MOCA WHY ? WHERE AS ORDINARY people
who are WHO are alleged to HAVE DONE LESSER QUANTUM OF CRIME THAN HIM
ARE CHARGED WITH TADA & PUNISHED SEVERALLY. WHY THIS DOUBLE STANDARDS BY
THE JUDICIARY ? HEREBY , hrw also appeals to honourable supreme court of india
to make public the transcript of underworld don abu salem's polygraph test ,
did sanjay dutt had any links with abu salem or other anti national elements ?
how many film stars , sportspersons & politicians have regular contacts
with underworld elements more specifically dawood ibrahim & chota rajan and
how many of them have attended parties hosted by them in gulf countries ?
In
cases involving rich & mighty ,
celebrities , some of the judges & police
take favourable positions , file B – Reports to close the prosecution
cases is it for any personal gains to
themselves ? The answer lies in luxurious life styles , promotions
, post retirement postings of these
judges , police and sudden
riches coming to their family members.
Inspite of all these nexus it is due to
few honest judges & police these cases are coming to light &
becoming public. Sadly , these honest people
are overpowered by corrupt within the system and Indians
are made to suffer
injustices. SHAME SHAME
to such Judges
& Police of
Double Standards.
Jai Hind. Vande
Mataram.
Your’s
Nagaraja.M.R.
Why pardon just
Sanjay Dutt: Daughter of another convict
Mumbai:
As film stars and politicians join the chorus for actor Sanjay Dutt's pardon,
daughter of Zaibunisa Kazi, who is facing similar charges as the actor, questions
why her mother should not also get the same support?
Daughter
of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict, Zaibunisa said, "I wish I was a celebrity
or my mother was a celebrity or a sister of an MP. Even my mother would have
got the kind of support Sanjay Dutt is getting. If it is on humanitarian
grounds then why only Sanjay Dutt, why not Zaibunisa. Isn't she a human? Isn't
she a citizen of this country?
The
daughter of 70-year-old reacting to the clamour over pardon for Dutt after the
debate was ignited by a comment by retired Justice Markandey Katju and which
was followed by the political class seconding his opinion.
Zaibunisa's
40 year-old daughter, who didn't marry so that she can fight her mother's
battle, is hopeful that a review potion will reduce the sentence.
Both
Dutt and Zaibunisa Kazi were charged for possessing illegal arms and ammunition
and also under the stringent TADA Act. While Zaibunisa got convicted under
TADA, Sanjay Dutt not only got an acquital under TADA but despite substantial
evidence the CBI did not challenge his acquittal in the Supreme Court.
Zaibunisa's
lawyer Sushil Kumar said, "She was not found in possession of any weapons,
no recovery was made from her, she did not give any confession. It was only on
the basis of a confession of a co-accused that she was convicted, it is
unfortunate."
Zaibunisa
daughter added, "It is not easy living with five daughters, being a single
woman and going through this. It is not easy and 20 years is a very long
time." While for the judicial system, 1993 Mumbai Blasts case is a closed
chapter, for many the ordeal isn't over yet.
Not
Sanjay Dutt, real issue is to probe Bollywood-dons links
While
the TRP-hungry media and elitist audience are busy shedding tears for Sanjay
Dutt after the Supreme Court sent him to jail for illegally possessing deadly
weapons, but is anybody feeling concerned about how the links with the
underworld has seriously affected our favourite Bollywood? Instead of focusing
on the humanitarian-non-humanitarian debate, isn't it more prudent if we raise
a voice to back the Indian legal system in cleaning up the tinsel town from the
grey shadow of the evil underworld which threatens the national security today?
Bollywood
is not only a dream which attracts young talents but also an opportunity for
the mafia to make make money by alluring unsuspecting filmmakers into a
whirlpool from where there is no easy escape. Those who dare to defy the mafia
pays for it dearly. The link between the two world rocked the popular
imagination after the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts when the names of Dutt and film
producers lika Samir Hingora and Hanif Kadawala came to the fore, it was in the
1970s and 1980s when the nexus had surfaced although not as alarmingly. The
kidnapping of the producer of a hit Amitabh Bachchan-starrer of the early 1980s
was a big blow to the film industry in those times. Bollywood-underworld
connection was symbiotic in the initial years... In the initial years, the link
between the two world was more symbiotic. The underworld dons were easy sources
of finance while the film industry lent the glamour factor to add spark to
occasions organised by the dons and their aides. The latter also dictated film
plots and promoted the actors of their choice but the change in financial
fortunes as a result of the slump in the market started bringing the dons
closer to the film industry with desperate interests. Investing in good films
became a priority for the cash-strapped underworld men and once they made an
entry into the industry, non-monetary interests also gained prominence. As a
result, successful filmmakers and actors started to fall prey to the
underworld's evil designs. The intimacy of Mandakini or Heena Kausar with underworld
dons or presence of filmstars and dons in cricket stadium were once matters of
gossip and attraction for the common Indian but soon the consequence of the
nexus spilled over into the real life when 267 people were killed in
devastating serial blasts in Mumbai in 1993. ...but it turned violent gradually
The nexus turned more and more blood-stained with the gruesome killing of
popular filmmaker Gulshan Kumar in broad daylight in August 1997 for defying
Abu Salem's monetary demands. Producer Mukesh Duggal was also killed that year.
Attacks were also attempted on producer Rajiv Rai and senior filmmaker Subhash
Ghai over overseas rights of films, a few days before Kumar's murder. Three
years later, actor-turned-director Rakesh Roshan had a close shave after he was
shot at in Mumbai after he turned down demands to share profits accrued from
the overseas sale of Hindi blockbuster Kaho Na... Pyaar Hain. These, among many
other similar incidents, rewrote a new chapter in the underworld-Bollywood link
story and this fresh chapter said that the Bollywood wasn't relieved anymore.
The individual enmity between dons and filmmakers is a concern but the much
bigger concern is when the underworld is being used to threaten the country's
national security. Today, people like Dawood Ibrahim are not just dons looking
to make money but also instruments in the hand of Pakistan to carry out massive
destruction in our country. Are there more links between Bollywood and
underworld? We need to find out By adding elements of drama to Sanjay Dutt's
punishment, we are actually trivialising the bigger threat that the underworld
can pose to India's integrity through the soft target called Bollywood. Just
ensuring protection to one or two actor or debating whether Dutt should be exonerated
are not the needs of the hour. The actual task is to look for more links
between the glamour world and the underworld which have the potential to harm
our cause. The film and TV business have undergone a sea change in the last 20
years and the underworld hasn't surely not sat back all these days. The
professionals attached to the film and TV industries are more vulnerable to be
manipulated today because of factors like globalisation and liberalisation and
it makes it equally challenging for the Indian state to tighten the national
security. Are we upto the mark to stop the emergence of more Sanjay Dutts? Film
professionals need to be more alert Delinking the Bollywood and the underworld
might not be completely possible for this matter involves human relations. But
while the protectors of the nation need to continuously monitor these
relations, it is also a big responsibility for the film professionals to ensure
that they do not let themselves and the country down by falling into the trap
laid by the underworld. Sanjay Dutt might have been an immature youth who made
a mistake by taking possession of an arm but the youngsters of this age should
learn from Dutt's mistake by heart. Filmstars are the nation's role models and
they can not afford to indulge in any kind of activity, even unsuspectingly,
that might lead to a major harm to their followers. It is thus not a time to
cry for Sanjay Dutt's punishment. If he has perished because of his own error,
let him but by displaying a soft corner for his stardom and seek his pardon, we
will send across dangerous signals. An entire nation can not be put in peril
just for one individual.
Fresh charges pressed against Salman Khan
Bollywood actor Salman Khan will appear before a Sessions Court
on March 25, Monday, in the 2002 hit-and-run case.
The case came up before the Sessions Court after a magistrate
transferred the matter to that court by charging the actor with a more serious
charge of 'culpable homicide not amounting to murder'.
One person was killed and four injured when a Land Cruiser,
allegedly driven by Salman, ran over people sleeping on pavement in Bandra in
the wee hours of September 28, 2002.
Meanwhile, a Jodhpur court read out fresh charges against
Salman, Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Neelam and Sonali Bendre for hunting blackbucks, a
protected species, in Rajasthan 14 years ago. Salman was charged under the
Wildlife Protection Act. Charges against him under the Arms Act have been
dropped. If convicted, the actors face up to six years in jail.
Black Buck
Murder & Hit Run Case of Salman Khan
Bollywood
films are known to promote the theory of good prevailing over evil. Now, it is
the turn of "real" to imitate the "reel". After actor
Sanjay Dutt, it the turn of Salman Khan to prepare himself to face the law for
"crimes" committed by him. The Supreme Court on Thursday, March 21
upheld actor Dutt's conviction under the Arms Act, but reduced his sentence
from six to five years in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.
On
Saturday, March 23 a Jodhpur court framed fresh charges against four of the
accused and Salman's film industry colleagues in the 14-year-old-long Blackbuck
poaching case. The court of chief judicial magistrate, Jodhpur, Saturday read
out charges against four Bollywood stars -- Tabu, Sonali Bendre, Neelam and
Saif Ali Khan. However, the court stopped itself from reading the charges
against Salman, the main accused of the case, as he was not present in the
court. Earlier, Salman got exemption from appearing in the court on the ground
that he had to be out of the country for medical treatment. "Salman Khan
was not present in the court today (Saturday) as he in not in the country and
has gone overseas for treatment," Hastimal Saraswat, Salman Khan's
counsel, said. The next court hearing on charges against Salman will be held on
April 27. The charges against the accused have been framed under the Wildlife
Protection Act 1972 relating to hunting and inciting to poach blackbucks, an
endangered species. The actors are likely to face imprisonment of up to six
years if they are sentenced guilty by the court. Moreoevr, Salman will appear
in person before a Sessions Court in Mumbai in the 2002 hit-and-run case on
March 25. The 47-year-old actor will return from the USA on Saturday (March 23)
night to appear before the Court on Monday (March 25). On the fateful night of
September 28, 2002, the actor allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol
had run over his Toyota Land Cruiser on homeless people who were sleeping on
the pavement. In the accident one person was killed and four were injured.
Hit
& Run
Falgun Shroff, the owner of a Mercedes car involved
in a hit-and-run case in Versova, surrendered before the police on Tuesday.
The police arrested him and produced him before the
Bandra holiday magistrate court, which later released him on bail.
The speeding car had mowed down five pedestrians and
two of them were critically injured early on Monday.
The Versova police had registered case of rash and
negligent driving against an unidentified person. When the police traced
Shroff's residence on Monday, they found that he was not there and his phone
was switched off. After a few hours, Shroff's driver surrendered before the
police along with the car and claimed responsiblity for the accident. But the
police were not convinced with his version and did not arrest him. They
verified CCTV footage in the area and inquired with witnesses, after which
Shroff admitted to his crime.
Shroff told the police that he was returning after
meeting friends when he lost control of his vehicle. The police stated that
they doubted Shroff's driver's claims as there were many loopholes in his
narration of the sequence of events.
The driver claimed that he tried to avoid a member
of a group of five who suddenly came in his way, but ended up losing control of
the vehicle and hitting all. The five, who included students and script-
writers, share a flat in Versova and had gone for a walk after dinner around
1.30 am.
Shroff fled from the spot after the accident and
passersby and the police took the injured to hospital. The injured, however,
provided the car licence plate number to the police.
The police approached a showroom inquiring about the
car and were led to Shroff, who lives at Lokhandwala, and has a furniture
business in Juhu.
Crimes of
Sanjiv Nanda
Sanjeev Nanda (born 1978) is a businessman and the son of Suresh Nanda, an Indian arms dealer, head of
the firm Crown Corporation and an ex-naval officer, implicated in a Tehelka expose.
He is also the grandson of an ex-Chief
of Naval Staff-turned businessman, S. M. Nanda from New Delhi. Sanjeev has been convicted for
running over and killing six people, including three policemen.[1] The
case attracted enormous media attention, and was viewed by many as "a test
of the judicial system's ability to take on the powerful".[1] Nanda
is also one of the principals in the weapon trading firm Crown Corporation
started by his father, Lt. Commander Suresh Nanda (ex-Indian Navy). He also owns several hotels.
Sanjeev Nanda, a management graduate from INSEAD and Wharton, was allegedly in a drunken state when
he drove his BMW car at high speed through a police
checkpoint at 4:50 AM early morning of January 10, 1999. After running through
the policemen, he allegedly stopped the car to check the damage, saw people
under the car, and according to the prosecution, at this point co-passenger
Manik Kapoor said: ‘‘Let’s go,’’ and they quickly drove away.[2] The
car was later cleaned up by servants at a friend's house.
In the initial court case, Sanjeev and five others
were acquitted after many years because the court did not find any of the
witnesses reliable and the defense was able to make the case that it was
perhaps a truck and not the BMW that had caused the deaths. All the accused
were released, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the legal
system, since it was widely believed that the witnesses had been bought off.[3] Following
the media hue and cry, another court in September 2008 sentenced him to five
years in jail.
Also, in March 2008, Sanjeev Nanda and his father were
also arrested in Mumbai in connection with the Barak Missile Scandal,
in which Crown Corporation allegedly paid large bribes to politicians and
defence officials. He is also a British national.
BMW hit-and-run case
The BMW incident appears to have unfolded as follows:
The incident occurred at 4:50 AM early morning of
January 10, 1999. Sanjeev Nanda was returning from a late night party in
Gurgaon with friends Manik Kapoor & Siddharth Gupta. Both were in their
early twenties and came from influential business families - Manik's father
Sudhir Kapoor runs a thriving export business was one of the closest to the
Nanda Family. Sanjeev had apparently been instructed by his parents not to
drive that night, but was at the wheel anyway. There was a police checkpoint on
Lodhi Road and it appears that the constable may have challenged the car,
though it is also possible that the car was going so fast that it was out of
control. In any event, it is alleged that Sanjeev's BMW crashed through all the
people at the police checkpoint, immediately killing two constables - Rajan
Kumar (25) (of 86th Battalion of the CRPF),
Ram Raj (38) of Delhi Home Guard, and two others - Abdul
Nasir (30) and Gulab (32), who were apparently being interrogated. Another
policeman, Peru Lal (40) of the Delhi Home Guard, along with Mehendi Hassan,
died later in hospital. The seventh victim, Manoj (32), survived, but is
untraceable today.[4]
After running through the policemen, he allegedly
stopped the car to check the damage, saw people under the car, and according to
the prosecution, at this point co-passenger Manik Kapoor said: ‘‘Let’s go,’’
and they quickly drove away.[2] The
car was then driven to Siddharth Gupta's house in Golf Links,
where Siddharth's father Rajiv Gupta, who heads the finance firm Motor General
Finance, instructed watchman Bhola Nath and driver Shyam Singh Rana to clean
the bumpers and bonnet of the car of the blood and vestiges of the victims.
Subsequently the police charged these three with destroying evidence. A few
days later, a witness Sunil Kulkarni, came forward to describe the scene. At
the time of the crash, he was on his way to the railway station. He deposed as
follows on Jan 16, 1999:
"They
were driving very fast. The car went to the side, crushing two people. A few
others were thrown away. The driver got out and looked at the damage done to
the car. Then the other person in the car came out and looked behind the car.
Then they quickly drove off. I came to the police on the 15th because of my
guilty conscience."[3]
[edit]NDTV
sting operation
The prominent criminal
lawyers involved in the case were R.K. Anand and I.U. Khan. NDTV carried out a
sting operation in which they were caught on camera offering money to Sunil
Kulkarni. Later the Delhi High Court barred the advocates from practising for
four months.[5]
[edit]Investigation
The vehicle's broken
registration plate was found on the scene the next morning. A 100-yard stretch
near the police checkpoint was strewn with body parts and severed limbs amid
pools of blood. Preliminary investigations revealed that the car would have
been going at 140 km/h when it hit the victims.[6]
Within a few hours of
the incident, Inspector Jagdish Pandey of the Police Control Room of Delhi
Police was able to trace the BMW by trailing the oil leak from the
accident-spot to Rajiv Gupta's garage.[7] They
found the one-month old car, purchased in his sister Sonali Nanda's name, with
foreign number plates, which had not been registered in India. Attempts to
clean it were still in progress. Sanjeev and his friends were arrested, but his
clothes, and those of the others who helped clean the car, were never found.
When Sanjeev and his friends were first charged withCulpable homicide in court, a gaggle of Delhi's elite
descended on Patiala House courts, including ex-Admiral Nanda himself.[4]
[edit]Witnesses
·
Manoj Malik
·
Harishankar[8]
·
Sunil Kulkarni :
initially volunteered to have witnessed the accident, later vacillated.
[edit]Trial
During the initial
trial, the only survivor, Manoj, said that it might have been a truck that hit
them. Since the other six witnesses were dead, Manoj was the only voice. It is
widely believed that he had been paid off, and has mysteriously disappeared
thereafter. Another witness, Sunil Kulkarni had volunteered to have seen the
incident, but the elite defence team was able to discredit him and he was
portrayed as having been "put up" by the Delhi Police.
In Sanjeev Nanda's
testimony (in 92 questions over 14 pages), he told Judge S.L. Bayana that he was
not driving the car and was not the car's owner. He said it was his sister's
car and he had nothing to do with the accident.
Sanjeev Nanda spent a
few months in jail but was released on bail in May 1999. He was set a surety of
a Rs 45 crore (USD 9 million), subsequently reduced to Rs. 15 crore (USD 3
million).
[edit]Re-trial
The case went up for
re-trial. Under intense media pressure, the case was tried on a fast-track
basis, and on 2 September 2008, Sanjeev Nanda was convicted by a Delhi court
for mowing down six persons in the nine-year-old BMW hit-and-run case and can
face a ten-year prison term. Nanda, convicted in the BMW hit-and-run case, on 3
August 2012 got a reprieve as the Supreme Court refused to enhance the quantum
of punishment of two years already undergone by him and directed him to do
community service for two years. [9]
[edit]Timeline
1999
·
10 January, A speeding BMW drives through a police check-point in
Delhi and kills 6 people.
2007
·
18 May, key witness Sunil
Kulkarni says Sanjeev Nanda was 1 of the 3 people in the BMW[10]
·
1 June, Sanjeev Nanda says
in court that he was not in the BMW[citation needed]
2008
·
March, Sanjeev and his
father Suresh Nanda was arrested from a Mumbai hotel for allegedly bribing an
income tax official. Suresh nanda was also once accused by CBI for purchasing
barak missiles from Israel 8 years ago.[11] Both
were bailed out in that case.
·
2 September, Sanjeev Nanda
was convicted by a Delhi court for mowing down six persons in the nine-year-old
BMW hit-and-run case and can face a ten-year prison term.
·
5 September, Sanjeev Nanda
gets five year jail term for mowing down six persons in the nine-year-old BMW
hit-and-run case[12]
2009
·
The Delhi High Court on
January 9 rejected a plea of BMW-hit-and-run case convict Sanjeev Nanda to
extend in his interim bail which expires on Saturday. Justice Kailash Gambhir
dismissed the petition of Nanda which means he had to surrender himself 10
January. Nanda, undergoing five years jail term in the BMW hit-and-run case,
was earlier on December 19 granted three-week interim bail to meet his ailing
grandfather and former Naval Chief S M Nanda.[14]
·
22 August, Sanjeev Nanda
was freed from jail three months before his two-year jail term ended due to his
good conduct. Nanda walked free from Tihar Jail No 4, where he was lodged.
According to rules, a convict can earn three months of remission every year if
he conducts himself in a positive manner.[15]
2010
·
8 March, Sanjeev Nanda
weds his girlfriend Medha Bhatnagar amidst extravagant floral décor by designer
Tarun Tahiliani, lavish multi-cuisine spread from Hotel Claridges and a guest
list that boasted the rich and famous of India.[16]
[edit]Barak Missile scam
Sanjeev Nanda is also
involved in the Barak missile scam,
a case in which his company, the weapon trading firm Crown Corporation, was
implicated for massive bribes to Indian politicians and defence officials. A Tehelka investigation
in 2001 revealed possible influence Lt-Cmdr Suresh Nanda and
Admiral SM Nanda may
have had with the Indian Ministry of
Defence in swinging
deals. In these tapes, the reporter is posing as a representative of the
fictional large arms supplier West
End. At one point, the Samata Party national
treasurer RK Jain is trying to convince Tehelka about his prowess in swinging
deals. He mentions how in the first defence deal that he was involved in as the
party treasurer, Suresh Nanda of Crown Corporation had paid Samata Party Rs 1
crore to swing the Rs 250-crore (USD 60 million) order for Armoured Recovery
Vehicles (ARV) in favour of a Slovakian company.
·
Samata Party treasurer
R.K. Jain: "Nanda approached me.
Czechoslovakia's price was the lowest, second Slovakian, third was the
Poland."
·
Tehelka: "Haan, Haan."
·
R.K. Jain: "He said, 'I will give you one crore rupees in
advance'."
·
Tehelka: "Okay."
·
R.K. Jain: "You get disapproved the last one. Czechoslovakia because
they are so lower that we cannot match their price."
·
Tehelka: "Okay."
·
R.K. Jain: "If you can push him out. Delegation is going on to the...
delegation has been ordered to go to Czechoslovakia. Stop this delegation, and
technically reject this company. Here are the documents."
·
Tehelka: "Hmm."
·
R.K.Jain: "By which it's proved that this company is closed for the
last two years. They will start only after getting this order."
·
Tehelka: "Yeah, yeah."
·
R.K. Jain: "I will give one crore rupees. And I will give you... if
they are technically disapproved, then you are my agent."
·
Tehelka: "Yeah."
·
R.K. Jain: "For this particular... perks... and I will give you so
much of commission."
·
Tehelka: "Okay."
·
R.K. Jain: "I said, 'Fine.' He gave me the correspondence. I took the
correspondence to George."
(the
then Defence minister George Fernandes was from Samata Party)
·
Tehelka: "Hmm."
·
R.K. Jain: "And he said, 'All right, I'll reject it.' He is a very
intelligent man."...
·
Tehelka: Okay, it is manipulated.
·
R.K. Jain: He wrote straight away on the file himself. He never goes and
orders to a Joint Secretary. He wrote it himself, and sent the file back. Nanda
gave me one crore rupees. He called me, "Yes, Mr. Jain, the file has come
down. Like you know George…"
Jain also said that he
had received another Rs 1 crore for the Samata Party from Suresh Nanda to help
swing the contract for an air-to-air and surface-to-surface missile system for
the Indian Navy. Nanda was an agent for the Israeli Barak 1 system.[18]
These tapes were the
result of a clandestine sting operation and are not admissible as evidence in
court. However, the intense media pressure led to a separate investigation by
the Central
Bureau of Investigation and
five years later, R.K. Jain was arrested in February 2006.[19] In
October 2006, the Central
Bureau of Investigation filed
charges against George Fernandes, former Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sushil Kumar, and others in the Barak missile
case, claiming that there was reasonable basis to suspect corruption and
criminal conspiracy.[20]
Finally, seven years
after the expose, in March 2008, the Nandas were arrested.[21]
[edit]See also
·
Jessica Lall, a Delhi based model shot in a bar in front of
dozens of witnesses by then-politician's son Manu Sharma. Initially, the accused was
acquitted after witnesses turned hostile in a low level court, but was
subsequently incarcerated for life in the Delhi High Court, following
testimony of a key witness Bina
Ramani, who did not turn hostile. Hostile witnesses such as Shayan Munshi are being tried for perjury for
turning hostile in court.
·
Priyadarshini Mattoo Law student raped and killed by a
classmate stalker who is the son of a high ranking police officer. Detectives
were influenced by the policeman to go easy on the killer, and thus the case
was transferred to the CBI.
Murderer found guilty after dogged pursuit of justice by the media and the
victim's family, and sentenced to death, which was later converted to life
imprisonment by the Supreme Court of India.[22]
·
Satyendra Dubey was a project director at the National
Highways Authority of India (NHAI). He was murdered in Gaya, Bihar after
fighting corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral highway construction project.
·
Shanmughan Manjunath:
Indian Institute of Management Lucknow graduate and Indian Oil Corporation
employee Manjunath was brutally murdered by the oil mafia in 2005 when he tried
to check petrol adulteration in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh.
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3.
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4.
^ a b "A day's custody for three in BMW case".
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7.
^ "Police team rewarded for nabbing mishap
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8.
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14.
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confinement of her daughter in 2000. Video footage from the Kapurthala jail
captured the astonishing sight of officials rushing to touch the convict's feet
when she arrived at the prison complex ostensibly to serve out her term.
Although Ms Kaur “resigned” as Minister immediately after her conviction, she
appears to have lost none of the privileges that come with office. Twice
president of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, the powerful body
responsible for the administration of gurudwaras, Ms Kaur wields considerable
clout within the current government headed by Parkash Singh Badal. Opposition
members have already demanded that she be shifted to a jail outside Punjab so
she gets a taste of prison life as it is lived by countless other convicts.
Of course, Ms Kaur is not the first person to receive comforts
and favours inside a prison cell. Industrialists and politicians convicted for
fraud and violent crime have always found ways to carry over their material
advantages in the vast, outside world into the confines of a prison. In many
cases, they abuse the legal provisions governing incarceration to evade the
full rigour of the law. It has, for example, become the done thing for
celebrity undertrials and convicts to feign chest pain and seek refuge in high-end
hospitals which curiously seem able to delay diagnosing the illness for as long
as the patient wants. Stories of well-heeled undertrials being lavished
attention in prisons — the 2G accused being a case in point — are a legion. The
other trick in the book is parole; the reason for the excursion can be
anything, a parent's illness, the death of a relative, or simply the need to
reconnect with the city's social circuit. Manu Sharma, convicted in the Jessica
Lal murder case, famously spent the parole period granted him (originally 30
days but extended by a month) partying, helped in no small measure by his
benefactors in the Delhi government. India's criminal justice system is lax,
and many literally get away with murder. For a select few convicted by a court
of law, the journey from home to prison brings no ordeal that they cannot bear.
When the prison cell door clanks shut behind them, the VIP inmates manage to
force open a window to freedom. That's the sad truth.
Keywords: Jagir Kaur, Kapurthala jail, Jessica Lal murder convict, India's criminal justice
system, Indian jails
Misuse of
Parole
Facing
fire over his wayward ways while out on parole, Manu Sharma - convicted for
model Jessica Lall's murder - on Tuesday returned to Tihar Jail.
Manu's parole was to expire on November 22. Manu left a letter for his mother before voluntarily going to the jail and turning himself in.
Manu's decision came after there was a huge uproar when he was actually found pub hopping. His parole was apparently granted to enable him to tend to his sick mother who was actually found addressing a press conference in Chandigarh last week.
The last straw came when Manu and a friend Sahil Dhingra got into an altercation at Delhi's F Bar.
The Delhi government faced some embarrassing questions after Headlines Today and sister publication Mail Todayhighlighted the virtual misuse of the parole.
Fingers were pointed at Manu's father Vinod Sharma who is an influential Congress MLA in Haryana. Manu even accompanied his father to a campaign trail in Ambala.
Sheila Dikshit government, after initially defending the parole, had to order a probe by the Delhi and Chandigarh police.
Manu's parole was to expire on November 22. Manu left a letter for his mother before voluntarily going to the jail and turning himself in.
Manu's decision came after there was a huge uproar when he was actually found pub hopping. His parole was apparently granted to enable him to tend to his sick mother who was actually found addressing a press conference in Chandigarh last week.
The last straw came when Manu and a friend Sahil Dhingra got into an altercation at Delhi's F Bar.
The Delhi government faced some embarrassing questions after Headlines Today and sister publication Mail Todayhighlighted the virtual misuse of the parole.
Fingers were pointed at Manu's father Vinod Sharma who is an influential Congress MLA in Haryana. Manu even accompanied his father to a campaign trail in Ambala.
Sheila Dikshit government, after initially defending the parole, had to order a probe by the Delhi and Chandigarh police.
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