"NUCLEAR DISASTER IN MYSORE ?"

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DOUBLE STANDARDS OF INDIAN POLICE & JUDGES
S.O.S - e - Clarion Of Dalit - Weekly Newspaper On Web
Working For The Rights & Survival Of The Oppressed

Editor: NAGARAJ.M.R VOL.3 issue. 35 02 / 09 / 2009

Editorial : DOUBLE STANDARDS OF INDIAN JUDICIARY & POLICE

In india , Law is one & same for all , however in it's implementation
&
enforcement , the public servants are practicing double standards.
Poor
Innocents are harassed , tortured all in the name of law , rules ,
technicalities .

Whereas , Rich Criminals are manipulating the evidences , records &
are going
scot free. The Public Servants treat Rich Criminals Favourably with
kid gloves
ofcourse for a price.

Now , take for instance , public servants of the rank of supreme court
chief
justice & President of india are hiding information relating to
crime ,
covering-up crimes , violating commoner's human rights , fundamental
rights ,
obstructing citizen from performing their Constitutionally prescribed
Fundamental Duties as Citizens of India , no action by police , they
are not
even registering the complaint.

Whereas , if a commoner cover-ups a crime or evidence , he also
becomes a
criminal , if a commoner violates the fundamental / human right of a
rich person
, if a commoner obstructs a public servant from performing his public
duties ,
all those become crimes & he is legally booked for each counts.
Karanataka Police are not even registering my complaint , thereby by
they are aiding criminals in hushing up old crimes , as well as giving
them a free hand to committ more crimes which they are already
committing. Do visit our websites to read the police complaint in
detail & to know which are the “QUESTIONS OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS ARE
AFRAID TO ANSWER” ,

http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/police-complaint-1 ,
http://questionsafraaidtoanswer.blogspot.com/ ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/questions-public-servants-afraid-to-answer
,

http://evoiceofhumanrightswatch.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/police-complaint/
,
http://evoice.blog.co.uk/2009/04/09/police-complaint-against-chief-justice-of-india-prez-of-india-5916723/
,
http://groups.google.co.in/group/hrwepaper/browse_thread/thread/6f266b54a0bb899e#
,
http://groups.google.co.in/group/hrwepaper/browse_thread/thread/1641a77828e2c8af#
,
http://evoiceofhumanrightswatch.wordpress.com/ ,
http://e-voiceofhumanrightswatch.blogspot.com/2009/02/corrupt-judges-police-deadlier-than.html
,
http://naagaraj.indiademocracy.org/blog/389/police-not-registering-complaint
,


Why not police registering complaint against the above stated public
servants
for above crimes. IS IT NOT DOUBLE STANDARD. Jai Hind , Vande Mataram.

Your's sincerely,
Nagaraj.M.R.

NUCLEAR DISASTER IN MYSORE ?

Last week in Mysore , a massive , booming sound with tremors were
felt in mysore , mandya , chamarajanagar districts of karnataka
state . M/S RARE EARTH MATERIALS PLANT which processes uranium ore is
located near mysore , on the banks of kaveri river behind KRS DAM. Has
anything gone wrong in the nuclear site , which affects the public ?


Even in developed countries like USA & UK mal - handling of radio
active materials takes place now & then, which in itself constitute
nuclear disasters on small scale. Refer the Deccan Herald ( 12/10/03
to 18/10/03) for details.

Few years back, there were media reports about certain containers
with radio active materials dumped in the open in Mysore city Railway
Station. In Kaiga nuclear power project a doom collapsed. In India how
many cases of mal-handling of radio active materials have taken
place ? No public knowledge . In the back drop of corrupt ,negligent
hush-hush, buck passing work culture in most of the government
service, I do want to know from the union Health Minister & the
Karnataka State Health Minister,
1. how safe are we from the processing & storage of radio active
materials at M/s REMP, Mysore M/s REMP Kerala, & M/s UCIL Jadaguda
Jharkhand ?
2. How the spent fuel is disposed off in nuclear power plants in
India ? few months back there were media reports about ill effects of
radiation on the employees & peoples of adjacent villages near the
operations site of M/s Uranium Corporation of India Ltd. Jadaguda
Jharkhand & Near the Operations site of M/s REMP in Kerala.
3. In tsunami waves onslaught of december 2004 , the vital
facilities of kundakulam nuclear reserch station in tamilnadu were
damaged . Few years ago , tremors of earth quake were felt in kaiga
nuclear power plant in kaiga , karnataka . if anything untoward
happens as a result of natural calamities or human failure , etc ,
what sort of contigency plans the government has got ready for the
safety of public ?

Even some of the insurance companies like M/s Met Life India Insurance
Co. don't cover the risk of physical / mental disabilities or death
caused due to nuclear hazards . In such an event who will bear the
cost of compensation ? How the quantum of compensation is calculated ?
will you take into consideration the insurance policies brought by
individuals ? Give the public information about the safety measures
taken by M/s REMP, M/s UCIL & other related agencies at all it's
operation sites / nuclear sites.


Children crippled by India's uranium waste
The Guardian - Asia Pacific - 23Aug

An Observer investigation has discovered a link between Indian
electricity stations and physical and mental abnormalities

Hundreds of children in the Punjab have been contaminated with uranium
in a pollution scandal with implications that could extend far beyond
the borders of India.

Scientists and health workers have sounded the alarm after being
confronted with a dramatic rise in birth defects, physical and mental
abnormalities, and cancers in the Indian state. A subsequent Observer
investigation has uncovered evidence linking the contamination to ash
from the region's coal-fired power stations. Tests on children born in
areas around the power stations have revealed that many have high
levels of uranium in their bodies.

The metal is concentrated in the fly ash produced when coal is burned.
Tests on ground water around the plants show levels of uranium up to
15 times the World Health Organisation's maximum safe limits.

The revelations coincide with the publication of a report by the
Russian Academy of Sciences' Thermal Engineering journal that warns of
an increased radiation hazard to people living near coal-fired thermal
power stations.

Staff at two clinics around the Punjabi city of Bathinda â€" where
there are two coal-fired thermal plants â€" have reported alarming
numbers of admissions of severely handicapped children. Children were
born with enlarged or small heads, short arms and legs, cerebral
palsy, Down's syndrome and other complications. A German laboratory
that tested samples taken from the children found massive levels of
uranium in their bodies â€" in one case more than 60 times the maximum
safe limit.

Studies of ground water suggest that while the uranium contamination
is heaviest around the power plants, it extends across large parts of
the state, which is home to 24 million people. The Indian government
is committed to an expansion of thermal plants in Punjab and other
states. Around the world, many other countries are planning to build
new coal-fired power plants, including China, Russia, India, Germany
and the United States. In the UK, there are plans for a coal-fired
station at the Kingsnorth facility in Kent.

The children are being treated at the Baba Farid centres for special
children in Bathinda and nearby Faridkot. Dr Pritpal Singh, who is in
charge of the Faridkot clinic, said the number of children affected
had risen dramatically in the past six or seven years and claimed the
authorities were determined to bury the scandal. "They can't just
detoxify these kids, they have to detoxify the whole Punjab. That is
the reason for their reluctance," he said.

"They threatened us and said if we didn't stop commenting on what's
happening they would close our clinic. But I decided that if I kept
silent it would go on for years and no one would do anything about it.
If I keep silent then the next day it will be my child. The children
are dying in front of me."

Dr Carin Smit, a South African clinical metal toxicologist who
arranged for the tests to be carried out, said the situation could not
be ignored. "There is evidence of harm for these children in my care
and … it is an imperative that their bodies be cleaned up and their
metabolism be supported to deal with such a devastating presence of
radioactive material," she said.

"If the contamination is as widespread as it would appear to be â€" as
far west as Muktsar on Pakistan's border, and as far east as spreading
into the foothills of Himachal Pradesh â€" then millions are at high
risk and every new baby born to a contaminated mother is at risk."

A team of scientists from India's Department of Atomic Energy visited
the area and reported that while the concentration of uranium in
drinking water was "slightly high", there was "nothing to worry
about", although some of their tests recorded levels of uranium as
high as 224micrograms per litre (mcg/l) â€" 15 times higher than the
safe level of 15mcg/l recommended by the World Health Organisation.
The US Environmental Protection Agency sets a maximum safe level of
20mcg/l. Scientists in Punjab who have studied the presence of uranium
in the state have dismissed the government's denials as a whitewash.

Dr Chander Parkash and Dr Surinder Singh, both from Amritsar's Guru
Nanak Dev University, said it was clear that uranium was present in
large quantities in the ground water and should be investigated
further.

In the Faridkot centre last week, 15-year-old Harmanbir Kaur's test
results came back and showed she had 10 times the safe limit in her
body. Her brother, Naunihal Singh, six, had double the safe levels.

Harmanbir was born in Muktsar, 40km from Faridkot. Her mother, Kulbir
Kaur, 37, has watched her child slowly degenerate from a healthy baby
into the very ill girl she is today â€" dribbling constantly, unable
to feed herself and lost in a world of her own.

"God knows what sin I have committed. When we go to our village people
say there is a curse of God on you, but I don't believe so," she said.
"Every part of this area is affected. We never imagined that there
would be uranium in our kids."

A few miles down the road in Bathinda, Sukhminder Singh, a 48-year-old
farmer, watched his son Kulwinder, 13, staring into space while
curling his hands under his chin. The tests showed that Kulwinder had
19 times the maximum safe level of uranium in his body. He has
cerebral palsy and has already had seven operations to unbend his arms
and legs. He is furious that the government has ignored the evidence
of a serious health risk to children in the Punjab.

"The government should investigate it because if our child is affected
it will also affect future generations," he said. "What are they
waiting for? How many children do they want to be affected? Another
generation?"

Doni Choudhary, aged 15 months, is waiting to be tested, although
staff say he shows similar symptoms to children whose results have
revealed dangerous levels of uranium, and he is already being treated
for suspected uranium poisoning. His mother, Neelum, 22, from the
state capital, Chandigarh, says he was born with hydrocephaly â€"
water on the brain. His legs are useless.

"He is dependent on others. After me, who can care for him?" Neelum
says. "He tries to speak but he can't express himself and my heart
cries. When will he understand that his legs don't work? What will he
feel?"

Some scientists have also proposed that ground water may have been
contaminated by contact with granite lying deep below the thick
alluvial deposits that form the Punjab plains, although the parents of
most of the children affected say they take their water from the mains
supply, which comes from other sources.

Meanwhile, smoke continues to pour from Faridkot's power station
chimneys and lorries shuttle backwards and forwards, taking away the
fly ash to be mixed into cement at the Ambuja factory next to the
Bathinda power plant.

Inside the plant last week, there was ash everywhere, forming drifts,
clinging to the skin, getting into the throat. In the main hall, the
LED display showed the four generators are churning out 107 megawatts
of electricity.

Ravindra Singh, the plant's security officer, said that most of the
ash went to the cement works, while the rest was dumped in ash ponds.
The first coal-fired power station in Punjab was commissioned in
Bathinda in 1974. It was followed by another in nearby Lehra Mohabbat
in 1998. There is a third to the east, at Ropar.

Tests on ground water in villages in Bathinda district found the
highest average concentration of uranium â€" 57mcg/l, three times the
EPA's safe limit â€" in the town of Bhucho Mandi, a short distance
from the Lehra Mohabbat ash pond. This level of uranium means the
lifetime cancer risk in the village is more than 150 times that of the
normal population


India Adds Insult To Endosulfan Injury By B F Firos
12 August, 2009 Earthwitness.net

The Anti-Endosulfan Committee in Kerala's Kasargod district is all set
to take on the Indian government over its stand at the Stockholm
Convention and Rotterdam Convention, which seek to regulate the use of
hazardous chemicals and pesticides.

The committee is planning national-level agitations in addition to
moving the Supreme Court in protest against what they call is an
'affront' to hundreds of victims who are languishing as a result of 20
years of aerial spraying of endosulfan on cashew nut plantations in
Kasargod.

The spraying caused unusually high incidence of central nervous system
disorders like cerebral palsy, congenital neurological disorders,
cancers, body deformations, reproductive disorders and miscarriages in
seven villages in Kasargod district.

Years of protests and sufferings of the people in Kasargod hogged
international attention about this deadly pesticide and prompted the
state government to ban endosulfan in Kerala in 2002. But it is
another matter that even after the ban, it continues to be smuggled
from neighbouring state Tamil Nadu to be used in Palakkad and Idukki
districts.

Now the Anti-Endosulfan Committee has been taken aback by India's
efforts to prevent inclusion of endosulfan to the Rotterdam Convention
despite the gripping example of Kasargod.

"Even an MNC like Bayer has decided to stop producing endosulfan by
2010; but the Indian government continues to manufacture this, in
utter disregard for the victims of this pesticide. Worse, the
government tried to block the international conventions in Rome that
sought to ban endosulfan. It was also highly unbecoming of the Indian
delegate, Dr Pandey, at the Rotterdam Convention to declare that no
one has suffered from endosulfan in India," said B C Kumaran, a
committee member.

It should be noted here that Bayer's decision follows an innovative
action in 16 countries, led by a coalition of partners including
Pesticide Action Network and Fairtrade Alliance Kerala.

"Our effort will be to senstise New Delhi into seeing the ground
realities. We are planning agitations at the national level seeking
more compensations and humanly treatment of the victims," said M A
Rahman, an anti-endosulfan activist who has taken a film on the
adverse effects of this pesticide.

India's stand
In March this year, India tried to block progress at the Stockholm
Convention's POPS Review Committee with a very shameful exhibition
that caused the Chair of the POPS Review Committee to threaten to
report the delegate to the Indian government. However a vote was taken
and India's efforts were in vain.

According to Dr Meriel Watts, co-ordinator, Pesticide Action Network
Aotearoa New Zealand, voting is permitted at the Committee stages but
not at the `Conference of the Parties' stage where consensus must be
achieved. So endosulfan is still going through the Stockholm
Convention assessment process, now at stage two, with the next meeting
of the POPS Review Committee scheduled for October this year in
Geneva.

Watts told Earthwitness that the international community is continuing
to work with the Conventions using good science and trying to persuade
India to see reason to halt the production of this pesticide in the
larger interest of humanity, the environment and other nations who get
affected by India's use, and the integrity of international
conventions.

"We can only hope that by then the Indian government will have come to
realise the enormous embarrassment to it, that is being caused by its
delegate, and by its conflict of Interest: the Indian government owns
Hindustan Industries, one of the manufacturers of endosulfan. This
type of conflict of interest is unheard of in international
conventions, and India's behaviour is threatening to wreck both the
conventions," said Watts.

Earlier efforts
In 2008 too, India blocked the Rotterdam Convention `Conference of the
Parties', but endosulfan has been nominated again by nine West African
countries, victims of this poisonous pesticide.
"India is again trying to block this at the committee stages, but I
think other delegates are not prepared to let India wreck it again,"
said Watts.

The deadly pesticide
Endosulfan belongs to the group of highly toxic chemicals called
persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and has already been banned in 55
countries including in Sri Lanka. Various agencies have documented its
deadly effects. In 2008 November, 43 students of a state-run school in
Jharkhand were hospitalised after drinking milk that had Endosulfan
residues. Five of them died.
Male school children exposed to the pesticide endosulfan showed
delayed sexual maturity, according to a study published in
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP).
India is by far the largest manufacturer of endosulfan, with the state-
owned Hindustan Insecticides Ltd (HIL) and two private companies
producting the pesticide. China manufactures small amounts, and Israel
also manufacturers an unknown amount. In fact an Israeli company,
Makhteshim Agan, has just started manufacturing pesticides in Andra
Pradesh; it is not yet known whether they produce endosulfan or not.
Though China supported India at the last POPs Review Committee
meeting, its support may not last as the communist country has a
better record of banning highly toxic pesticides. The US is not a
signatory to either Convention and Endosulfan's use is restricted in
there.
Aren't there any other alternatives for endosulfan or is the love for
this pesticide driven by profits? The fact is that there are plenty of
effective alternatives, it is simply that the companies are making
very nice profits and they care more about that than anything else.

Indian Police: Broken System
By S.R Darapuri
18 August, 2009
Countercurrents.org

"This week, I was told to do an encounter," a police officer told
Human Rights Watch (HRW). He was referring to the practice of taking
into custody and extra judicially executing an individual, then
claiming that the victim died after initiating a shoot- out with
police. "I am looking for my target," he said. "I will eliminate
him . .. I fear being put in jail, but if I don't do it, I'll lose my
position." This is the confession of an Officer from Uttar Pradesh but
it is applicable to any officer in any state of India . This is how
Human Rights Watch report titled "Broken System: Dysfunctional, Abuse
and Impunity in the Indian Police" starts its narrative. This report
was released by HRW in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) on 7 th August, 2009 .
The Repot was earlier released at Banglore on 4 th August, 2009 .
(Full report available at www. hrw.com)

This 118-page report documents a range of human rights violations
committed by police, including arbitrary arrest and detention, torture
and extrajudicial killings. The report is based on interviews with
more than 80 police officers of varying ranks, 60 victims of police
abuses, and numerous discussions with experts and civil society
activists. It documents the failings of state police forces that
operate outside the law, lack sufficient ethical and professional
standards, are overstretched and outmatched by criminal elements, and
unable to cope with increasing demands and public expectations. Field
research was conducted in 19 police stations in Uttar Pradesh,
Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, and the capital, Delhi .

" India is modernizing rapidly, but the police continue to use their
old methods: abuse and threats," said Naureen Shah of Asia Division of
HRW. "It's time for the government to stop talking about reform and
fix the system."

The repot describes the story of a fruit vendor in Varanasi who
narrates how police tortured him to extract confessions to multiple,
unrelated false charges:

"[M]y hands and legs were tied; a wooden stick was passed through my
legs. They started beating me badly on the legs with lathis (batons)
and kicking me. They were saying, `you must name all the members of
the 13-person gang.' They beat me until I was crying and shouting for
help. When I was almost fainting, they stopped the beating. A
constable said, `With this kind of a beating, a ghost would run away.
Why don't you tell me what I want to know?' Then they turned me upside
down... They poured water from a plastic jug into my mouth and nose,
and I fainted."

Almost every police officer interviewed by HRW was aware of the
boundaries of the law, but many believed that unlawful methods,
including illegal detention and torture, were necessary tactics of
crime investigation and law enforcement.

Human Rights Watch also said that while not excusing abuses, abysmal
conditions for police officers contribute to violations. Low-ranking
officers often work in difficult conditions. They are required to be
on-call 24 hours a day, every day. Instead of shifts, many work long
hours, sometimes living in tents or filthy barracks at the police
station. Many are separated from their families for long stretches of
time. They often lack necessary equipment, including vehicles, mobile
phones, investigative tools and even paper on which to record
complaints and make notes.

Police officers told HRW that they used "short-cuts" to cope with
overwhelming workloads and insufficient resources. For instance, they
described how they or others cut caseloads by refusing to register
crime complaints. Many officers described facing unrealistic pressure
from their superiors to solve cases quickly. Receiving little or no
encouragement to collect forensic evidence and witness statements,
tactics considered time-consuming, they instead held suspects
illegally and coerced them to confess, frequently using torture and
ill-treatment.

"Conditions and incentives for police officers need to change," said
Meenakshi Ganguly, Senior Researcher,HRW. "Officers should not be put
into a position where they think they have to turn to abuse to meet
superiors' demands, or obey orders to abuse. Instead they should be
given the resources, training, equipment, and encouragement to act
professionally and ethically."

"Broken System" also documents the particular vulnerability to police
abuse of traditionally marginalized groups in India . They include the
poor, women, Dalits (so-called "untouchables"), and religious and
sexual minorities. Police often fail to investigate crimes against
them because of discrimination, the victims' inability to pay bribes,
or their lack of social status or political connections. Members of
these groups are also more vulnerable to arbitrary arrest and torture,
especially meted out by police as punishment for alleged crimes.

Colonial-era police laws enable state and local politicians to
interfere routinely in police operations, sometimes directing police
officers to drop investigations against people with political
connections, including known criminals, and to harass or file false
charges against political opponents. These practices corrode public
confidence.

In 2006, a landmark Supreme Court judgment mandated reform of police
laws. But the central government and most state governments have
either significantly or completely failed to implement the court's
order, suggesting that officials have yet to accept the urgency of
comprehensive police reform, including the need to hold police
accountable for human rights violations.

" India 's status as the world's largest democracy is undermined by a
police force that thinks it is above the law," Naureen said. "It's a
vicious cycle. Indians avoid contact with the police out of fear. So
crimes go unreported and unpunished, and the police can't get the
cooperation they need from the public to prevent and solve crimes."
"Broken System" sets out detailed recommendations for police reform
drawn from studies by government commissions, former Indian police,
and Indian groups. Among the major recommendations are:
• Require the police to read suspects their rights upon arrest or any
detention, which will increase institutional acceptance of these
safeguards;
• Exclude from court any evidence police obtain by using torture or
cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment in suspect interrogations;
• Bolster independent investigations into complaints of police abuse
and misconduct through national and state human rights commissions and
police complaints authorities; and
• Improve training and equipment, including strengthening the crime-
investigation curriculum at police academies, training low-ranking
officers to assist in crime investigations, and providing basic
forensic equipment to every police office

The report also gives selected accounts of persons who wee tortured
and kept in police custody. Some of the narratives are the following:
"She was kept in the police station all night. In the morning, when we
went to meet her, they said she had killed herself. They showed us her
body, where she was hanging from a tree inside the police station. The
branch was so low, it is impossible that she hanged herself from it.
Her feet were clean, although there was wet mud all around and she
would have walked through it to reach the tree. It is obvious that the
police killed her and then pretended she had committed suicide." –
- Brother-in-law of Gita Pasi, describing her death in police custody
in Uttar Pradesh in August 2006.
The police officers have their own tale of woes as narrated below:
"We have no time to think, no time to sleep. I tell my men that a
victim will only come to the police station because we can give him
justice, so we should not beat him with a stick. But often the men are
tired and irritable and mistakes take place."
- Gangaram Azad, a sub-inspector who heads a rural police station in
Uttar Pradesh state
"They say, `investigate within 24 hours,' but they never care about
how I will do [that]; what are the resources. ... There is use of
force in sensational cases because we are not equipped with scientific
methods. What remains with us? A sense of panic surrounds our mind
that if we don't come to a conclusion we will be suspended or face
punishment. We are bound to fulfill the case; we must cover the facts
in any way."
- Sub inspector working near Varanasi , Uttar Pradesh
"Often, it is our superiors who ask us to do wrong things. It is hard
for us to resist. I remember, one time, my officer had asked me to
beat up someone. I said that the man would be refused bail and would
rot in jail and that was enough punishment. But that made my officer
angry."
- Constable in Uttar Pradesh
"With all the mental stress, the 24-hour law-and-order duty, the
political pressure, a person may turn to violence. How much can a
person take? ... We have to keep watch on an accused person, their
human rights, but what about us? We live like this for 24 hours. We
are not claiming that our power makes us born to work all the times.
Sometimes we beat or detain illegally, because our working conditions,
our facilities are bad. So we are contributing to creating criminals
and militants."
• Inspector in charge of a police station in Kangra, Himachal
Pradesh
On the above occasion giving the details of fake encounter cases, SR
Darapuri, a retired IPS Officer and Vice President Of U.P. PUCL who
contested the general election-2009 from Lucknow said, "Only countable
genuine encounters like that of Ghanshyam Kewat which took place on
June 17, 2009 made U.P. Police cops to taste a real encounter, rest 99
percent are fake." Darapuri said, "I had been a police officer for 32
years and I know how encounters are planned." "A common man does not
feel safe in the state," said Darapuri.
Lenin Raghuvanshi, Director People's Vigilance Committee for Human
Rights, while presenting the report said, "We studied 125 cases. In
majority of cases justice was either delayed or denied to poor people
for they had no approach to get the FIR lodged or to pursue the case
fro proper investigation. There have been instances when cops violated
even the basic policing norms. They a voided post mortem and even
effused to hand over the body of victims of fake encounter to their
families."
It is the high time that the Indian government should take major steps
to overhaul a policing system that facilitates and even encourages
human rights violations, said the report. For decades, successive
governments have failed to deliver on promises to hold the police
accountable for abuses and to build professional, rights-respecting
police forces. If the states refuse to undertake the police reforms,
the civil society, human rights organizations and all right thinking
persons should bring pressure on the states and political parties to
force them to do it. We should not forget that democratic nations need
democratic police.
S.R.Darapuri I.P.S. (Retd)
Email: srdarapuri@...

Should Indian Leaders Who Spend Billions On Submarines While Others
Starve Go Unpunished? By Jay Janson 12 August, 2009
Countercurrents.org


Indian Prime Minister Mammohan Singh launched a 3 billion dollar
nuclear submarine. A sub that can carry Russian built missiles
equipped to deliver India's Atomic bombs.
A submarine made at the cost of taking bread from the mouths and life
from the chests of Prime Minister Singh's fellow citizens.
Both the cost of building nuclear submarines, and the purchasing of
others, are paid for with funds drawn on the treasury of a `democracy'
that does not feed its children.
Singh's India is a gigantic torture chamber for the 47% of its
children under five who suffer malnutrition. [47% is a World Bank
estimate]
Malnutrition makes children prone to illness and stunts their physical
and intellectual growth for a lifetime, with dire consequences for
mobility and mortality.
Its also torture for the parents who watch in agony as 2.1 million of
their kids die before their fifth birthday from malnutrition and
preventable illnesses. [UN estimate from Malnutrition in India,
Wikipedia]

As Indian Growth Soars, Child Hunger Persists
By Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 3/12/2009
"NEW DELHI Small, sick, listless children have long been India's
scourge "a national shame," in the words of its prime minister,
Manmohan Singh. after a decade of galloping economic growth, child
malnutrition rates are worse ..."
Seems by the Prime Minister's own admission, his wife breaking the
bottle of champagne on the bow of this incredible investment last week
becomes a hideous spectacle of death over life."
Akshay Mangla in Delhi complains that the pathetic state of child
health and education in India should be seen as no less than a total
failure of its democracy, public institutions and civil society.

Malnutrition getting worse in India
By Damian Grammaticas, BBC News, Madhya Pradesh
"About 60% children in Madhya Pradesh state are malnourished
Lying on a bed is a tiny malnourished child. Her limbs wasted, her
stomach bloated, her hair thinning and falling out. She stares, wide-
eyed, blankly at the ceiling. Roshni is six months old. She should
weigh 4.5kg. But when she is placed on a set of scales they settle at
just 2.9kg.
Roshni is suffering from severe acute malnutrition, defined by the
World Health Organization as weighing less than 60% of the ideal
median weight for her height.
There are 40 beds in this center. On every one is a similar child. All
are acutely malnourished. Wailing, painful, plaintive cries fill the
air. This is the Nutrition Rehabilitation Center in the town of
Shivpuri. ... This is the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh -
modern India, a land of booming growth. "The situation in our village
is very bad," says Roshni's mother, `Sometimes we get work, sometimes
we don't. Together with our children we are dying from hunger. What
can we poor people do? Nothing.'

... Another mother is cradling her daughter, Kahal, trying to feed
her. The girl is two-and-a-half years old and so weak she can hardly
eat.

Her mother tries to spoon some milk into her mouth. It dribbles down
her chin. Kajal barely even opens her eyes. Kajal's skin is pale. Her
breath comes sharp, shallow and fast. She too is suffering from severe
acute malnutrition. Her weight is 6.7kg.

Children wait for a meal outside an Anganwadi centre in Chitori Khurda
The nutrition centre here was set up by the United Nations Children's
Fund (UNICEF).

Doctor Vandana Agarwal, UNICEF's nutrition specialist for Madhya
Pradesh state, points to Kajal's swollen little feet. 'There is edema
on both the feet, scaly skin on her legs, even her respiration rate is
high,' Dr Agarwal says.

'The child is in a lethargic condition, her hairis thin, sparse,
lustreless, easily-pluckable. These are the typical symptoms of
protein energy malnutrition.' India has some of the highest rates of
child malnutrition and mortality in under-fives in the world and
Madhya Pradesh state has the highest levels in India. There are around
10 million children in the state. A decade ago 55% were malnourished.
Two years ago the government's own National Family Health Survey put
the figure for Madhya Pradesh at around 60%."
By the way, your author notes that the work of the United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEFf) enables leaders of India's capitalist system
to to save money on feeding its children, and focus more on building
and buying submarines.

India launches nuclear submarine. BBC News, 7/26/09
"... a second one is due to be constructed shortly.
Mr. Singh said 'we do not seek to threaten anyone'
...The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi says until now India has been
able to launch ballistic missiles only from the air and from land.
Nuclear submarines will add a third dimension to its defense
capability."
On July 31, another BBC article told us that India is emerging as the
world center of hunger and malnutrition according to a report by
Indian campaign group, the Navdanya Trust.
That the trust says that there are more than 200 million people - or
one-in-four Indians - going without enough to eat, and that there were
now more hungry people in India than in sub-Saharan Africa."
And the news gets worse. MORE submarines:
India launches first nuclear submarine
26 July 2009, World Press

"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the launch of the 6,000-tonne
INS Arihant (Destroyer of Enemies) a `historic milestone in the
country's defense preparedness.'
India plans to build four more Arihant submarines, which will be armed
with torpedoes and ballistic missiles...
`We don't have any aggressive designs nor do we seek to threaten
anyone,' the Press Trust of India quoted Singh as saying.
'We seek an external environment in our region and beyond that is
conducive to our peaceful development and protection of our value
systems,' he added."
Can Singh mean submarine missiles will protect the dying hungry
children that are part of India's value system?

India places two-billion-dollar order for Russian missiles, Pravda,
Russia
20.08.2008
"The missiles will be made for submarines of the Indian Navy. The
nearest order is seven submarines."
India launches nuclear submarine
By Manasi Kakatkar, ForeignPolicyBlogs.com
July 29, 2009
"Apart from the Arihant, India will also modernize its naval
capabilities by getting two Akula class nuclear powered attack
submarines from Russia, and six Scorpene submarines from France. The
first delivery of the Scorpene submarines scheduled for 2012 has been
delayed due to problems in "absorption of technology." The deal with
France was signed in 2005 and will cost India $3 billion. The Russian
submarines are expected to be delivered by the end of this year.
According to GlobalSecurity.org "the cost to India of acquiring two
Akula submarines and their support infrastructure along with training
of the crews had been estimated at $2 billion."
Build four more nuclear submarines, buy seven submarines from France
and two Russian attack submarines and $2 billion worth of Russian
missiles.

If this is really going to happen, how many dead and malnourished
children does that equal if two million children under five continue
to die each year? - each year of submarine building, buying and
arming.
If there was a danger for those arranging this bizarre, frightening
and criminally inhumane misuse of India's resources being brought to
court, tried and perhaps hung for mega mass-manslaughter and
infanticide, would these war plans be altered in favor of keeping
precious children of India's poor well fed and healthy?
Write, call, e-mail, fax Prime Minister Mammohan Singh via India's
Permanent Mission to the United Nations, 235 East 43rd Street, New
York, NY, 10017, telephone: 212-490-9660, fax: 212-940-9665, e-mail:
india@... & indiaun@...t. Ask that India feed its children, that they
may live, and not die for submarines. (And we are not even mentioning
education and quality of life, for these suffering children and their
parents.)

Adivasis' Atruggle Against Displacement In Jharkhand By Gladson
Dungdung
04 August, 2009 Countercurrents.org

Jharkhand is known as the abode of Adivasis (the indigenous people,
constitutionally they are called as scheduled tribe), the land of
struggle and mineral rich state in India. "Jharkhand" literally means
`the land of forests' came into existence as 28th state of the Indian
union on 15th of November, 2000 after a long mass struggle, which took
place in the 20th century for the realization of a beautiful dream of
the Adivasi heroes – Tilka Manjhi, Sidhu-Kanhu and Birsa Munda. The
dream was to form exploitation free, humane and just Jharkhand, where
the Adivasis can practice their ownership rights over the natural
resources, enjoy autonomy and rule themselves as earlier they used to.
The outsiders perceive Jharkhand as the abode of uncivilized,
uneducated and the most backward people i.e. Adivasis therefore the
region was mostly neglected in terms of the development but its
natural resources were highly exploited. The Adivasis were alienated
from their resources, exploited and injustices were done to them in
the name of development, civilization and nationalism.
Jharkhand is an important state from the viewpoint of Adivasi
population. As per the Census 2001, their total population in the
state is 70,87,068 including 35,65,960 male and 35,21,108 female,
which consists 26.3% of the total population (26,945,829) of the state
though they were more than 50 percent before the independence of
India. The growth of the Adivasi population is steadily declining. It
was 17.3 per cent in 2001, which is lower by 6 per cent if compared
with the growth (23.3 per cent) in 1991. The state has a total of
thirty two (32) sub-communities of the Adivasis. Among them Santal,
Oraon, Munda, Ho and Kharia are the major Adivasi groups in the state.
The major Adivasi populations (91.7 percent) reside in villages and
merely 8.3 percent have shifted to the urban areas. The rapid
industrialization is one of the major reasons for population
declination of the Adivasis.
Jharkhand is witness of unending struggle for mineral resources as the
state contains 40 percent of India's precious minerals like Uranium,
Mica, Bauxite, Granite, Gold, Silver, Graphite, Magnetite, Dolomite,
Fireclay, Quartz, Fieldspar, Coal, Iron and Copper. Forests and
woodlands occupy more than 29% of the state which is amongst the
highest in India. But unfortunately, the exploitation and injustice
are prevalent in the state. Irony is the political leaders of Adivasis
do not realize it even today. They have signed 102 MoUs (memorandum of
understanding) for establishing steel factories, power plants and
mining industries with the estimated investment of Rs 4,67,240 crore,
which require approximately 200,000 acres of land, which directly
means the displacement of approximately 1 million people.
The government, the Industrialists and the Media are putting hard
efforts to convince the people by propagating the messages that the
industrialization is only way to develop the young Jharkhand therefore
the villagers must surrender their land for the development projects,
which would provide them jobs, infrastructure and boost the economy of
the state. But the Adivasis are not convinced with the ideas as 91.7
percent of them still rely on agriculture, forest produces and
livestock for their survival. They are resisting against displacement,
attacking the company's officials and not allowing them to enter into
the villages. Consequently, the government is unable to execute the
MoUs at the grassroots.
There has been turmoil against displacement in the state. On 1st of
October 2008, the villagers attacked on the Kohinoor steel plant near
Jamshedpur, seized 70 trucks and stopped the work. They alleged that
after acquiring their agricultural land, the company neither
compensated nor gave them jobs as promised and the company is also
causing huge environmental affect in agriculture, water sources and
public health therefore they would not allow the company to destroy
their livelihoods. In another case, the villagers attacked 3 surveyors
of Bhushan steel Yusuf Ahmad, Sheetal Kumar and Sahdev Singh when they
were conducting land survey near Sarmanda River at Potka of East
Singbhum district. The villagers caught them, painted on their faces
with cow dung, asked them to eat straw and cow dung, garlanded with
shoes and paraded in the villagers on 11 September 08. Somari Hembrom
of Roladih village (Potka) justified it by saying, "We had already
declared for not giving our precious land to the Bhushan Company but
despite of this, these people were measuring our land without
informing us therefore they were taught a lesson".
Similarly, the villagers attacked Jupiter Cement factory, beaten the
workers and stopped the factory on 11 September 2008 at Kharsawan
alleging for violating the land related laws. The Indian CEO, Project
head and other officials of the steel giant Arcelor Mittal Company
were not allowed to enter into the villages in Torpa- Kamdara region
near Ranchi several times. The people of Tontopasi in Saraikela-
Kharsawan district are not allowing the Tata Steel to acquire land for
its Greenfield Project. In another case, the Adivasis of Dumka
district have imposed "Janta Curfew" (public curfew) in Kathikund and
Sikaripada blocks with the slogan "We shall give up our lives but not
land." against the proposed power plant of CESC Limited, where police
firing took place on 6 of December, 2008 caused the killing of two
activists – Lakhiram Tuddu and Saigat Marandi and another 7 activists
were severely injured. The people resistances have forced the Tata
Steel, Arcellor Mittal Company, Jindal Steel, Esser Steel and CESE
Limited to leave the proposed areas.
Interestingly, the corporate houses have not given up their hopes and
attempting to enter into the region through the back doors. They are
playing many tricks and also luring people with the huge monetary
packages for acquiring land. The global steel giant Arcelor Mittal
Company is a crucial example to understand how the companies attempt
to trick the Adivasis. The Arcelor Mittal Company signed a MoU with
the Jharkhand government on October 8, 2005 for setting up a steel
plant with the capacity of 12 million tones per annum at an estimated
investment of Rs 40,000 crore. The company requires 25,000 acre of
land and 20,000 unit water per hour for the steel plant and a township
in Torpa-Kamdara region of Khunti and Gumla district. Since, the
company needs huge water, a mega Dam will be constructed at Koel-Karo
River for ensuring the water supply to the steel plant. According to
the plan, the steel plant will be set up by the end of 2009 and the
production will begin from 2012. Consequently, there will be a mass
displacement of Adivasis as 256 villages would be affected completely
by the project.
The people of Jharkhand especially the Adivasis have been undergoing
through the adverse affect of the unjust modern development processes
for more than a century therefore another mass movement against the
Arcelor Mittal Company began in 2005 in the region under the banner of
"Adivasi-Moolvasi Astitava Raksha Manch". The people are resisting
against industrialization in the region and not ready to give even one
inch of their remaining lands. They have declared that "they need
grains not iron for feeding their stomach". Consequently, the Mittal
Company was unable to enter into the region. Therefore it began
playing tricks with the people. Eight months after the MoU was signed,
Laxmi Mittal the owner of the company visited India in July 2006 to
explore more investment prospects, but he was quite upset with the
progress of the project in Jharkhand and warned the state government
that mega project could be shifted to the neighbouring Orissa if the
project continued at a snail's pace. But by then, Arjun Munda then the
Chief Minister of Jharkhand had already made history signing MoUs with
43 companies. He could very well afford to tell Mittal he was free to
choose between the two states.
This is when the idea of flaunting Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR) struck Mittal. Soon, Arcellor-Mittal Foundation was launched in
2007 with the objective of investing in social programmes, and
promoting Arcelor-Mittal's commitment to society and sustainable
development, focusing in particular on the communities where it
operates. It is also said that the Foundation will seek to develop
partnerships with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to drive the
programme forward. But the hidden agenda of the foundation seems to be
to use the local NGOs to find a foothold in the project areas. It was
obvious from the start the foundation was going to pour large funds to
enhance its public relations.
Arcelor-Mittal's activities gathered momentum with the appointment of
Sanak Mishra as the CEO of the Indian project. The announcement of CSR
programmes started, which was in the form of election campaigns. The
first move was to launch an ITI (Industrial Training Institute) in
Khunti, slated to open from 2009. 50 percent of the total candidates
were selected by the state government and the rest by the company.
Half of the seats were reserved for Adivasi students and 50
scholarships were to be awarded on merit to deserving local students
of the region. The ITI was projected as a catalyst of change for the
Adivasi community. Meanwhile, the Mittal was told about the Adivasis'
love for hockey. Soon, the company was sponsoring hockey tournament
for girls and boys of Khunti and Gumla districts. The training for
boys and girls started with the support of the district and the state
hockey federations. The next step was to lure NGOs with huge funds.
Finally, the company declared $300 million CSR programme, which would
be spent for Rehabilitation & Resettlement package for the state. But
it also didn't work.
The company made a new holy business strategy to join hands with the
church based social services institutions as the region is highly
dominated by the Christians Adivasis. Earlier, the vice president of
the Arcelor Mittal Company, Remi Boyer, who has more faith in the holy
business for overcoming on the mass movement, had said that the church
is ready to co-operate the company in land acquisition. Consequently,
the Arcelor Mittal Company and Don Bosco Society made a secret
agreement for holy business, under which the company would bear the
cost of ITI training for Adivasi youth of the proposed project area
and the Don Bosco Society would provide training in its ITI centre
based at Kokar, Ranchi. But when it came into the notice of a forum of
Adivasi called "Jharkhand Indigenous People's Forum", it intervened on
the matter immediately.
The forum wrote letters to the Superior of the Don Bosco Society and
the Cardinal Telesphore P. Toppo asking them to make their stance
clear on the issue of supporting Arcelor Mittal Company. The forum
members also asked the Church leaders whether they are committed to
the cause of Adivasis or they have joined hands with corporate for
economic gain through the holy business. They also threatened for mass
resistance including rally, protest and locking up the ITI Centre of
Don Bosco. The forum released its plan and strategy of mass resistance
through the media, which created an upheaval in the church arenas.
Consequently, the Church leaders and the Superior of Don Bosco were in
a huge pressure. Finally, the Don Bosco Society made it clear that it
operates in Jharkhand only for the upliftment of Adivasis, Dalits and
poor therefore it will not tie up with any corporate house, which
takes away the rights of the Adivasis. The tricks of the Arcelor
Mittal Company failed.
The Adivasis' struggle against displacement has spread across the
state. "Loha Nahi Anaj Chahiye" (We want grains not iron), "Jal,
Jungle aur Jamin Hamara Hai" (Land, forest and water belong to us) and
"Jan denge, Jamin Nahi Denge" (We will surrender our lives but not
land) are a few overwhelming slogans being raised from villages to the
state capital. A series of mass meetings, Road blocks and Rallies are
being organized in these areas, where thousands of Adivasis and local
people participate, shout slogans and echo their voices. The message
they want to convey to the government, the industrialists and the
middle class is that `they won't give up agriculture land for the
development projects.
There are some prominent organizations of the Adivasis like Bisthapan
Virodhi Ekta Manch, Adivasi Moolvasi Astitva Raksha Manch, Jharkhand
Ulgulan Manch, Creaj Jan Mukti Andolan, Jharkhand Mines Area
Coordination Committee and Jharkhand Indigenous People's Forum, who
play crucial role in the displacement movement in Jharkhand, have
cautioned the state government against increasing intrusions of
representatives from several industries in villages, registering false
cases against anti-displacement activists and threatening the
villagers. "Our message is loud and clear that we do not want to give
our land for industries", says K.C. Mardi the convener of Bisthapan
Virodhi Ekta Manch. "Such attempts should be stopped immediately
because the conspiracy to snatch our land would cause social unrest in
the villages" he adds.
Dayamani Barla the convener of Adivasi Moolvasi Astitva Raksha Manch,
the organization fighting against the Arcelor Mittal at Torpa-Kamdara
says, "We will not allow the Arcelor Mittal Company to enter into the
villages because one can not be rehabilitated if once displaced. The
lands, which we cultivate belong to our ancestors therefore we will
not leave it". According to the General Secretary of Crej Jan Mukti
Andolan, Jerom Jerold Kujur, the development of agriculture is a need
of the hour. He says, "It is more important to boost up agriculture
than setting up industries in Jharkhand, as agriculture production in
Jharkhand is marginal". "If the government provides irrigation and
other facilities to the local farmers, they could reap three crops in
a year" he adds.
The corporate houses are in anxiety, worried and uncertain about their
future in Jharkhand therefore they are putting pressure on the
government for taking action against the displacement activists. As a
result, 3 criminal cases were registered against 1025 anti-
displacement activists under the sections 307, 147, 148, 149, 323,
341, 342, 427, 506 of IPC and 9 of them were arrested but some of them
were released after a huge people's protest. But the leader of
Jharkhand Ulgulan Manch, Munni Hansada was kept in Jail for six
months.
The fundamental question is why Adivasis do not want to give their
land for the development projects, which can provide them jobs? The
instant answer can be found in the history of pains and sufferings of
the displaced people, which suggests that after the independence,
17,10,787 people were displaced while acquiring 24,15,698 acres of
their lands for setting up the Power Plants, Irrigation Projects,
Mining Companies, Steel Industries and other development projects in
Jharkhand. In every project approximately 80 to 90 percent Adivasis
and local people were displaced but merely 25 percent of them were
halfway rehabilitated and no one has any idea about the rest 75
percent displaced people. The benefits of these development projects
were highly enjoyed by the Landlords, Project Officers, Engineers,
Contractors, Bureaucrats, Politicians and outsiders, and those who
sacrificed everything for the sake of the "development" are struggling
for their survival.
Secondly, the people were betrayed in the name of rehabilitation,
compensation and jobs. The promises were not fulfilled and the jobs
were given to the outsiders. In the present era, the technologies are
mostly used in the companies therefore job opportunities and job
security have declined the corporate. For example, when the Tata steel
was producing 1 Mt steel, the work force was 70,000 in 1995. The
growth of the Tata steel went up to 7 Mt in 2008 but the workforce
declined to 20,000. Similarly, in the Heavy Engineering Corporation,
Ranchi there were 23,000 employees at the beginning but it declined to
3000 in 2009.
The Job insecurity can be learnt from the Mittal company, which is
said to provide 1 lakh, jobs to the people. Presently, the company
operates in 60 countries and it has plants in 20 countries but the
company has been suffering from the economic crisis since 2008. The
demand of company's steel went down to10 percent. Consequently, the
company cut the production in Canada by 45 percent and axed 9,000
employees. It also cut the job of 1000 employees in lowest cost plant
in Poland and shut one out of its two blast furnaces in west Belgium.
The company had total workforces of 3,26,000 which was cut down to
3,15,867 as a result 10,133 people lost their jobs. The present status
shows that the company is totally failure in protection of its
employees' rights therefore 2000 employees had attacked the company's
headquarter at Lubzumburge. In these circumstances, how can people
believe on the propaganda of providing job to the affected people?
Thirdly, In fact the Adivasis had the ownership rights to the natural
resources and they judiciously used these resources for their
survival. But soon after the East India Company entered into the
territory, the Britishers realized the enormous commercial potential
of India's natural resources and systematically went about acquiring
control over it. In 1793 the "Permanent Settlement Act" was passed,
which affected the socio-economic and cultural life of the Adivasis,
and their lands slipped into the hands of the Zamindars (landlords).
In 1855, the government declared the forests as the government
property and the individuals have not right and claim over it. In 1865
the first Forest Act came into force, an avalanche of regulations
followed this act. Wherever a loophole was detected in the existing
laws a new law would be passed. After the independence, when Indians
took over the driving sit they also followed the Britishers' foot
steps. The rights over natural resources of the Adivasi were snatched
away through the various legislations. The government of India accepts
through the Forest Rights Act 2006 that the historical injustice was
done on the Adivasi community.
Fourthly, there are numerous laws made for protection of the Adivasis'
rights but these laws were never enacted honestly. The Chota Nagpur
Tenancy Act 1908 and Santhal Pargana Tenancy Act 1949 prohibit the
sale and transfer of Adivasi land to non-Adivasi but the land were
illegally snatched away from them. In 1969, the Bihar Scheduled Areas
Regulation Act was enforced for prevention and legalization of illegal
land transfer and of Adivasis. A special Area Regulation Court was
established and the Deputy Commissioner was given special right
regarding the sell and transfer of Adivasis land. When the special
court started function, a huge number of cases were registered.
According to the government's report, 60,464 cases regarding 85,777.22
acres of illegal transfer of land were registered till 2001-2002. Out
of these 34,608 cases of 46,797.36 acres of land were considered for
hearing and rest 25,856 cases related to 38,979.86 acres of land were
dismissed.
But after the hearing merely 21,445 cases regarding 29,829.7 acres of
lands were given possession to the original holders and rest remains
with the non-Adivasis. Further more 2608 cases of illegal land
transfer were registered in 2003-2004, 2657 cases in 2004-2005, 3230
cases in 2005-2006, 3789 cases in 2006-2007 and 5382 cases in
2007-2008, which clearly indicates that the cases of illegal land
alienation is increasing rapidly. According to the Annual Report
2004-2005 of the Ministry of Rural Development of the Government of
India, Jharkhand topped the list of Adivasi land alienation in India
with 86,291 cases involving 10,48,93 acres of land. Similarly, the
constitutional rights, provisions for the sixth scheduled Areas and
the Extension of Panchayat Act 1996 were never been implemented with
the true spirit in the state. The ruling elites always misused these
laws for their benefits.
Fifthly, the government of India was unable to bring a law for the
rehabilitation of the affected people even after the 62 years of
independence but legislation for the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) was
passed immediately. Similarly, when the Jharkhand state was created
the first chief minister, Babula Marandi brought the Industrial Policy
but at the same time, the same government was unable to make a
rehabilitation policy. This is why the intention of the state was
always questioned and the people are resisting against displacement
everywhere. The people were displaced from one place to another in the
name of development but they were not rehabilitated. Hence they feel
that they were betrayed in the welfare state in the name of
"development" and "national interest". Therefore now Adivasis believe
that they can protect their land only through the mass struggle.
Finally, one should understand that the displacement is not just
shifting people from one place to another but it is destruction of
their livelihood resources, culture and identity which they develop by
nourishing for the ages. The life cycle of the Adivasis is based on
the natural resources therefore their co-existence with the nature can
not be questioned. Hence, it is need of the hour to rethink on the
present development model. The unjust development process can not be
carried on as the Adivasis also have similar rights to life with
dignity, freedom and equality guaranteed by the constitution of India.
The Adivasis have lost their faith in the state machinery,
constitutional authorities and judiciary therefore they have firmly
decided not to allow laying down the foundation of corporate
development model over their graves.
Gladson Dungdung is a Human Rights Activist and Writer based at
Ranchi, Jharkhand. He can be reached at gladsonhractivist@... or
gladson@...


Chief Justice of US Supreme Court John Marshall had once said:

"Power of Judiciary lies not in deciding cases, nor in Imposing
sentences nor in punishing for contempt, but in the trust, faith and
confidence of the common man".
SC concedes rot in judiciary

Stresses On Need To Evaluate Efficacy Of Mechanism To Check
Corruption

New Delhi: The much respected judiciary is caught on the backfoot.
Suddenly, charges and accusations of corruption against judges, always
talked in hushed tones in court corridors, are flying thick and fast—
all in the open.
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Graft cases knock on SC door

UP Police Name 34 Judges In PF Scam, Ask SC For CBI Probe

New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh police has identified 34 sitting judges,
including one in the Supreme Court, as among those allegedly involved
in the embezzlement of provident fund money of class IV employees of
the Ghaziabad court. The development extends the crisis of credibility
facing government institutions to the judiciary as well and could
perhaps jolt it into reconsidering whether to persist with the
immunity that the judges enjoy.
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Example ... How the Judges protect the corrupt
The Judge said ( on 11th September 08) he can punish me, if I do not
sit down. Told him "You can send me to Jail, do it".
Now the Rogue Judge, will try to scuttle everything with the help of
his chosen lawyer. These people deserve to be whipped in public.

So the Rs 3 crore BRIBE PER MONTH for the Mumbai Police will be
protected by the High Court Judges.
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Justice Bilal Nazki is aiding potential killers ...
By stopping me from arguing the case further ... has ensured Rs 3 cr
kickbacks every month continue for mumbai Police ... and by fixing the
next the date as 11th March 2009, has offered the police and their
corrupt friends 6 months, to kill me and end the problem once and for
all, with his blessings...
Earlier in January 2008, I have delined police protection, after
Justice J N Patel warned the police "Should any harm befall the
petitioner, this court will hold the Police Commissioner directly
responsible"... They have my refusal in writing.
And I have no intention of asking for protection from the Rogue
police.
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PF scam: SC to look into judges' immunity

New Delhi: The SSP of Ghaziabad has blown the lid off Rs 23 crore PF
embezzlement by naming 34 sitting judges as among the alleged
`beneficiaries' of the scam.
The SSP's report went on to say, "It has also emerged during
investigation of this case that all the costly items (split ACs,
refrigerators and mobile phones) which are mentioned in the aforesaid
bills were recovered by Ashutosh Asthana and given to then district
judges, additional district judges etc, who have been elevated
presently as judges in the Supreme Court and various HCs.''
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Cash-in-bag: CBI can grill 2 HC judges

Chandigarh: Is it judgment time for judges everywhere? Chief Justice
of India K G Balakrishnan, after recommending the impeachment of
Calcutta high court judge Soumitra Sen, dropped another bombshell on
Tuesday by allowing the CBI to question two judges of the Punjab and
Haryana high court who have been linked to what has now come to be
known as the "cash-in-the-bag'' scandal.
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