Re: OTN: Re: Analysing Priyabrata Patnaik's case

[ASHOK RATH]

Please read between the lines. Mr Priyabrata,and others connected in this case are trying to prove their inocence.  hope truth will come out.Police seems moving in the right direction.

Ashok Rath

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Subject: OTN: Re: Analysing Priyabrata Patnaik's case


I agree with most of what Manoj  says:

My current thoughts:

This seems like a case of "No good deed goes unpunished."

This is what I have gathered from reading the papers.

1. Raja Acharya is a gangster, and like many gangsters, the police had
not been able to keep him in jail.

2. Leslie Tripathy is an actress and  daughter of a BJB College
lecturer. I.e., she is from a middle class family.

3. Raja Acharya harasses Leslie and is after her to marry him.

4. Leslie complains to police. Police summons Raja Acharya, but
releases him.

5. Leslie's father, seeing that police did not do much, and with
harassment continuing, is desperate to find some way to stop his
daughter being harassed by a gangster. He somehow knows Priyabrata
Patnaik and asks for help. (Readers: Please put yourself in Leslie's
father's shoes. Think what you will do to protect your daughter from
the clutches of a gangster obsessed with her.)

6. Priyabrata Patnaik, an IAS officer, is the president of Judo
association and knows Biranchi well.

7. Priyabrata Patnaik asks Biranchi to set up a meeting with Raja
Acharya. In that meeting Priyabrata Patnaik and Biranchi ask Raja to
stop harassing Leslie.

8. Biranchi is shot dead. Raja is alleged to have shot Biranchi.

9. Priyabrata Patnaik is a tough IAS officer and a doer and in the
past probably has ruffled many feathers.

The above is the story.

It is really unfortunate that Priyabrata Patnaik, who it seems was
only trying to help a desperate family from the clutches of a gangster
is being removed from his position.

All critics of Priyabrata Patnaik, should put them in the shoes of
Leslie Tripathy's father and think what they would have done if a
gangster was after their daughter to marry him and police could not do
much.

Whose help would they have sought after they complained to the police
and the police did not do much?

Who would have helped them?

What would they think of the person who came forward to help them
despite the general public's fear of gangsters, and the gangster's
success which allowed him to roam free and avoid from being convicted
and put in jail.

Disclaimer: This is based on what I have read. Perhaps there is
something that I do not know.

(The only question that I have is what kind of relationship  existed
between gangster Raja and Biranchi. Priyabrata Patnaik's relationship
was with Biranchi, and if Biranchi had some relationship with Raja,
does that somehow taint Priyabrata Patnaik?  Note that there has not
been any news of Biranchi himself having any history of being involved
in any illegal activities. )

Chitta



On Apr 29, 11:38 pm, "Manoj Padhi" <manojpa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Quote
> Why was an IAS officer so concerned about an album actress?
> Unquote
>
> First of all, the kind I could understand the kind of punishment given to
> Shri Patnaik. There can be two options:
> Guilty & not-Guilty
>
> If he is in doubt case & told the truth to police that he met  RAJA Acharya
> once in judo club - what is wrong in this ?
>
> The media / CM's decision all are presenting news as if Mr. Patnaik has done
> a heinous crime. Either something is not disclosed to media or it is a
> humiliation for Shri Patnaik.
> In my opinion, if  the matter is only what Shri Patnaik reported to police
> and is true - they can run a lie detector test and find out and he should
> have been allowed to continue in his post till investigation is over. Anyway
> he is not from home department and highly unlikely to influence police.
>
> Had he  influence over police, then he would probably asked the sleeping
> police DCP/CP , (who let off RAJA in bail because RAJA was their friend) to
> act & take the law to course.
> Unfortunately Indian law is like a Bus, which is driven by CM/Ministers and
> corrupt/inefficient Police. Leislie's father might have requested Shri
> Priyabrata Pattanaik to try his diplomatic influence because the police is
> not doing any thing - he acted.
>
> Crime Master RAJA has been active & police was sleeping all along. The
> Sudden demise of Biranchi , which the Commissioner has rightly and honestly
> confessed was an avoidable event if he had right set of non-ugly inspectors.
>
> If the same question would have been asked to me by COP/DCP.
>
> Why was an IAS officer so concerned about an album actress?
>
> My answer would be :
>
> Go to Hell Mr. DCP. Use your common sense. Show me what you or your
> officers did to contain RAJA for last 10 years. If you still don't get the
> answer, quit your job. You don't deserve to be a police officer because you
> don't have a human heart.
>
> Also watch some Bollywood movie. When POLICE FAIL (let loose a criminal in
> bail ), people look for compromises with criminal.
>
> However, this analysis is based on the facts available in media. I had to
> write this because I read all the news portal - where all of them are
> portraying Shri Patnayak as a criminal with the available information.
>
> I tried to provide a common citizens perspective, where it is not uncommon
> to seek assistance from a person in power when police fails to act on time.
>
> Also Ms. Leisle Tripathy is an glamorous album actress & deserve her own
> private life in a democracy. She should have been given 24 hour police
> protection when RAJA ACHARYA was released on bail.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Thanks
> Manoj Padhi
>
> http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080430/jsp/frontpage/story_9205571.jsp
> Former cop seeks CBI probe
>  OUR CORRESPONDENT
>
> *Cuttack, April 29: *Former inspector-general of police (IG) Anadi Sahu
> today demanded a CBI probe into the Biranchi Das murder alleging that the
> Orissa police were "delaying" action and were being "shackled" by the
> presence of top bureaucrats in the case.
>
> "The manner in which IAS officer Priyabrata Patnaik was let off by the
> police commissionerate points an accusing finger at the agency," said Sahu,
> a former Lok Sabha MP from Cuttack and an NCP leader.
>
> In his media statement today, the former IG also demanded that the workings
> of the Buddhia Singh Trust and Bhubaneswar Club be brought under the CBI
> probe purview.
>
> For now, an investigating team of Orissa police, headed by
> additional-commissioner of police Y.B. Khurania, is probing into the murder.
>
> Yesterday, senior IAS officer Priyabrata Patnaik was interrogated for two
> hours at the police commissionerate.
>
> "Previously, he (Priyabrata Patnaik) had denied meeting Raja Acharya. But,
> in his police statements yesterday, as indicated in the media, he has
> conceded that he had met Raja through Biranchi for the Leslie Tripathy
> affair," said the former IG.
>
> The government today divested the official responsibilities of Patnaik in
> the wake of allegations that he was involved in the Biranchi murder.
>
> The officer had conceded that he met the gangster "on one or two occasions"
> at Bhubaneswar Club and admitted that he had "intervened" in the Leslie
> Tripathy affair. "Why was an IAS officer so concerned about an album
> actress? This is for the police to investigate," he added.
>
> Previously, while Raja Acharya, in a television interview, had alleged that
> Patnaik had "threatened" him, his close aide, Chagala, had named the IAS
> officer as a "conspirator".
>
> Patnaik, who is the president of the judo association set up by Biranchi
> Das, is also a part of the trust meant for wunderkid Buddhia Singh.
>
> Biranchi Das, as secretary of the association, was the managing trustee. In
> December 2007, Buddhia's mother, Sukanti Singh, had filed an FIR against
> Biranchi Das at Bargarh police station (Bhubaneswar) accusing him of
> misappropriation of trust Funds.
>
> She had alleged that Biranchi had embezzled funds meant for Buddhia. The
> trust fund reportedly runs into crores of rupees.
>
> --
>
> Manoj Padhi

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[chitta]

Following is an interesting article from
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1162508&pageid=2

It talks about how a newspaper edited by an MP is
using this opportunity to perhaps settle personal scores.

About babu-criminal nexus and Patnaik’s water retort
Subhashish Mohanty
Saturday, May 03, 2008 03:14 IST


The sensational murder of child marathon runner Budhia Singh’s coach
Biranchi Das continued to consume most of the space in the local media
as the key accused, gangster Raja Acharya remained at large. Most news
items were focused on the alleged officers-criminal nexus which helped
the gangster to evade arrest.

The local media in Orissa is continuously hammering the Orissa
government for its failure to nab the prime accused. Worried over its
public image on this issue, chief minister Naveen Patniak gave the
green signal to the police to interrogate IAS officer Priyabrata
Patnaik, who is currently head of the Orissa Judo Association.

Besides being grilled for his alleged links to Raja, the senior
bureaucrat was stripped of all official responsibilities, including
his post as the nodal officer of the Posco project.
All newspapers published photos of Priyabrata while he was going to
the police commissioner’s office for the interrogation. While
vernacular paper Samaja, published by Lok Seveka Mandal, and another
newsdaily Pragativadi presented the story as it is, two other leading
papers in Orissa, Dharitri and Sambad published the stories coloured
with their own motives. Sambad, owned by son-in-law of former chief
minister JB Patnaik, took up this issue to attack the government.

But the way regional paper Dhartiri, owned by ruling party MP Tathagat
Satpathy, published the news items has astonished readers. The inner
circle of the press is aware why this newspaper has taken tough stand
on Priyabrata Patnaik.

Priyabrata, who heads the most famous club of Orissa, Bhubaneswar
Club, had earlier barred Dharitri staff from entering the club after
it published a story on him. Patnaik had also hung a sign board
outside the club premises announcing “Dhartiri’s staff and Dogs are
not allowed”. Now it’s Dharitri turn to make the most of the
opportunity. It published the government’s decision to divest
Priyabrata of all responsibilities prominently with a caption:
“Service is intact, but power striped off”.

All newspapers also carried stories on how the police raided the house
of senior leader of BJP and deputy chairman of the State Planning
Board, Ved Prakash Agarwal in order to nab the prime accused Raja
Acharya.

Almost all regional dailies, except Sambad, prominently carried
stories of CM Naveen Patnaik laying the foundation stone on the
interstate river Mahendratanya as a befitting reply to the Andhra
Pradesh government.

Though Sambad too reported the event, it also published JB Patnaik’s
reaction that the barrage would not serve any purpose. Children being
recruited by Maoist organisations was also lead news.

cheers
Chitta

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