Re: Sex and CD Scandal: Sid Harth
bademiyansubhanallah
23 Dec 2009, 0254 hrs IST, ET Bureau
Three incidents this month have exposed the socio-political and
juridical grey areas that allow crimes against women to be either
condoned or denied requisite justice. First, the Supreme Court (SC)
commuted the death sentence of two brothers in an inter-caste marriage
‘honour killing’ to 25 years imprisonment.
Then, a Rajya Sabha MP from Goa did nothing short of shifting the
blame for rape onto the victim by suggesting that rape charges against
women who ‘move around’ with men after midnight should be ‘treated
differently’. And on Monday, an incredible 19 years after molesting a
minor, former DGP of Haryana S P S Rathore was handed a sentence of a
mere six months.
Read together, that is enough to ridicule all the tall claims made on
behalf of our polity. It is clear that despite the presence of
pertinent laws, crimes against women are rife in the country, and
precisely because much of these are rooted in patriarchal social
conceptions, there is even greater need for the full force of a
remedial legal process to be brought to bear against the perpetrators
of such crimes.
In that context, it is perhaps the SC’s commuting of the sentence that
is most disturbing. Indeed, the SC actually accepted the warped logic
of caste considerations as a ‘relevant social issue’ while dealing
with a case which, in essence, involves planned murder. And by doing
so, it ended up reinforcing the same regressive social practices which
go against every law in the land.
It is those same conceptions, or rather lack thereof, of gender
equality, female freedom and ‘morality’ that allowed the Goa minister
to suggest what he did. Changing such mores may be a long-term social
process, but that can only be aided by a comprehensive, even zealous,
application of the law when such patriarchal ‘moral principles’
translate, inevitably, into forms of violence against women.
Virtually condoning an honour killing is one aspect of the failure on
that front, and allowing a molester in a position of authority, like
the former DGP, to abuse his position to delay even this half-baked
justice is another. A society can often be better encapsulated by its
failings.
...and I am Sid Harth
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Agencies
Posted: Dec 23, 2009 at 1605 hrs IST
BJP idea: Formalise Advani, Sonia statusMunde named deputy leader of
BJP in LSBJP should explain why it fielded Chavan...
Allahabad Slamming the BJP government in Gujarat for the recent action
against Asaram Bapu, the VHP said on Wednesday that it was an insult
to Hindu sentiments and asked the party leadership to intervene and
ensure the release of all the arrested followers of the Godman and
withdrawal of cases against them.
"The deplorable action against Asaram Bapu has caused grave insult to
the sentiments of millions of Hindus across the country. This is yet
another instance of the conspiratorial proselytisation drive by the
Church, which has been facing difficulties due to Bapu’s work among
tribals", VHP President Ashok Singhal told reporters at his residence
in Allahabad.
Singhal said as Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi "appears to be
bogged down by the weight of false litigations relating to Godhra
riots and its aftermath and it becomes the duty of the BJP high
command to help him rein in the state DGP Shabbir Husain who appears
to be working as per the diktats of the Church."
The comments from the Sangh Parivar leader assumes significance given
the pro-active involvement of the RSS in BJP’s affairs of late which
is perceived to have led to the latest change of guard in the party.
A criminal case under Section 307 IPC and 25 of the Arms Act was
registered against Asaram Bapu and two others earlier this month for
allegedly attempting to murder Raju Chandak, who had testified against
the religious guru before the D K Trivedi Commission probing the
mysterious death of two boys at his ashram.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/VHP-attacks-BJP-govt-in-Gujarat-on-Asaram-Bapu-issue/558284/
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Manveer Saini, TNN 24 December 2009, 12:30am IST
CHANDIGARH: It wasn't just Ruchika Girhotra and her family who were
hounded by former DGP SPS Rathore and his henchmen in Haryana police.
Even Rathore's immediate superior -- DGP R R Singh -- was not spared
as he probed the molestation charges against the then IG.
Speaking to TOI, Singh minced no words recalling the sequence of
events related to "threats and pressure mounted by Rathore" on him.
Singh was the first officer to probe the charges against Rathore, and
he retired in 1992 after submitting his report to the Haryana
government, saying Rathore had "planned the molestation".
"While I conducted the probe, he (SPS Rathore) garnered the support of
all residents of Rajiv Colony (a slum) in Panchkula and people of his
community in Naraingarh, Ambala district. They staged dharnas outside
my office and home. I mentioned everything in my report to the Haryana
government as well as to the Union ministry of home affairs," said ex-
DGP Singh. Singh said he was among those who perceived a threat from
Rathore and chose to retain his security cover even after retirement.
"Truth has prevailed and Rathore is now a convict. It was a case of
pre-planned molestation. He deliberately sent Aradhana out of his
office and molested Ruchika," Singh said. "This is what I said in my
report to the ministry, to the CBI, and in the CBI court."
Singh, however, regretted that the charge of abetment to suicide was
dropped. "It's unfortunate that Rathore was not booked or tried for
abetting Ruchika's suicide. What's much more outrageous is the twisted
grin on his face even after being convicted by a court. Even being
sentenced to one day's imprisonment tells on the face of a person," he
said.
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Supriya Bhardwaj, TNN 23 December 2009, 12:34am IST
CHANDIGARH: Although 19 years have gone by, the traumatic memory of
her best friend, Ruchika Girhotra, being molested by then Haryana IG
SPS Rathore, rushes back every time Aradhana holds a tennis racquet in
her hand. The 32-year-old has never had the nerve to play the game she
loved after Ruchika killed herself, harassed by the police and
frustrated by judicial delay.
"Ruchika wanted to be a tennis player. Even at that tender age, her
ground strokes were brilliant. Today, I am sure her soul will find
some satisfaction in her tormentor, SPS Rathore, being convicted,"
said Aradhana, who flew in from Australia to hear the final verdict of
the long battle she has waged along with her parents. "I don't want
any other girl to go through the same sorrow. The fight isn't over yet
and we'll pursue the case until Rathore gets harsher punishment," she
added.
After the molestation, which took place in the office of the Haryana
Lawn Tennis Association in August 1990, Rathore, later promoted to
DGP, pulled rank and made life a nightmare for Ruchika and her family,
said Aradhana. A traumatized Ruchika, who was thrown out of school,
killed herself after false cases, including car theft, were framed
against her 16-year-old brother. "The Girhotras were persecuted for
standing up to the top cop," Aradhana said.
Their persecution began after the Girhotras, along with Ruchika and
her parents, Anand and Madhu Prakash, went to then Haryana home
secretary with a memorandum. This was the first official complaint for
an inquiry into the molestation. The same day, Ruchika went to the
tennis court around 5pm to find a notice declaring her suspension
(with effect from August 13, 1990) on the notice board.
That was just the beginning. "Her father (who worked in a bank) could
no longer work, her brother was implicated on trumped up charges and
beaten up. And the schools refused to admit her. For a girl who dreamt
of representing the country at international tennis events, the trauma
was too much to live with," said Aradhana.
What drove Ruchika to suicide, said Aradhana, was the police landing
at their doorstep in 1993 and parading her brother outside the house.
"Ruchika was told that her father would meet with the same fate if she
did not take her complaint back," she said. "She always blamed herself
for their depleting financial condition and for landing her father and
brother in trouble. The atmosphere at her house was always tense. And
she was always weeping."
Aradhana did not meet Ruchika for a few days in December 1993 as she
was appearing for exams. That was when she heard Ruchika had consumed
poison. "What she got was not what she deserved. Her life was cut
short for no fault of hers," said Aradhana, her eyes welling up with
tears.
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press meet in Chandigarh. PTI Photo Photograph (1)
Ex-CM accused of backing Rathore in Ruchika molestation case
STAFF WRITER 13:36 HRS IST
Chandigarh, Dec 24 (PTI) Father of Ruchika Girihotra, who was molested
by former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore in 1990 and later committed
suicide, today accused former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala of
providing wholehearted support to the convict during his tenure.
"We have been moving here and there for the last 19 years. He
(Rathore) has been following us and harassing us. He was the DGP. Whom
to complain? The chief minister was backing him wholeheartedly. (Om
Prakash) Chautala was the chief minister," S C Girihotra told
reporters.
He also accused former chief minister Bhajan Lal of not doing much in
the case to bring the perpetrator to book.
"When Bhajan Lal was the chief minister, he did not do much," he
claimed.
Rathore, who molested 14-year-old budding tennis player Ruchika in
1990, was sentenced to six-month imprisonment, 19 years after the
incident.
http://www.ptinews.com/news/438674_Ex-CM-accused-of-backing-Rathore-in-Ruchika-molestation-case
Sid Harth
16 December 2009, 12:00am IST
The Vagina Monologues started as a play and went on to become a
colossal V-Day movement that campaigns for better rights for women
across the world. Eve Ensler , its playwright and original lead
performer, was in India recently and spoke to S Shobhana :
How has The Vagina Monologues brought changes in your life and
transformed you over the years?
I think when I started doing Vagina Monologues, the violence that had
happened in my own life was like a shadow determining my own
existence. But then, as I started performing and then leading a global
movement, that shadow began to lift. I don't feel like a victim
anymore...
How has The Vagina Monologues itself evolved over the years?
The play itself hasn't really changed, except that every culture
adapts it to make it relevant to itself, whether by changing names or
changing what the vagina is called, and this is different in different
places, whether India or the Philippines.
What are the different forms that violence can take and how does V-Day
address them?
V-Day is a movement to end violence against women and girls in all
forms, ranging from acid burning to female genital mutilation to rape
to domestic battery to incest to sex trafficking. One out of every
three women will be beaten or raped in her lifetime and that's true of
every single country. It is the hugest epidemic on the planet. You
can't end violence against women and girls without looking at poverty,
without looking at racism, without looking at the environment. All of
this and everything else is connected. V-Day has grown very rapidly in
the last 11 years and we are now in 130 countries. It's because of the
urgency of the situation and because so many women are violated
everywhere.
What is Insecure At Last, your most recent book, about?
It is about insecurity everywhere. I feel this even about being in
India right now. We have been searched and our bags have been searched
everywhere. I believe the whole world is like that now. Insecure At
Last was an attempt to look at, first of all, the fact that total
security is ridiculous, it's impossible. The book was my way of saying
'Come on into the world of insecurity'. That's where we all really
live. What if we drive not so much towards security and, instead, turn
our attention towards love, compassion, towards feeding everybody, and
towards care?
Every year a new monologue is added. What was the most recent one?
Last year, we added a monologue called Baptised about Congo. The worst
situation in the world for women today is in Congo. Between two and
five hundred thousand women have been raped in the last 12 years in an
economic war. Six million people have died in Congo in the last 12
years and no one seems to know about it. It's really shocking.
Women's Feature Service.
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Sukhbir Siwach, TNN 25 December 2009, 03:27am IST
CHANDIGARH: Despite brave efforts of a few to get justice for Ruchika,
many in Haryana government appear to have tried their best to save S P
S Rathore, now convicted in the molestation case. Despite
recommendations for filing an FIR against Rathore, it took nine years
for the cop to be booked.
Then DGP R R Singh, who conducted an inquiry on September 3, 1990, had
suggested that a case be registered against Rathore under appropriate
IPC sections on the basis of Ruchika's statement. He had conducted the
probe on the orders of CM Hukum Singh and handed over the report to
the government and home secretary J K Duggal.
But apparently, the accused was so influential that despite Singh's
recommendations, no action was taken to register a case, alleged
sources close to the victim. The CBI investigation report revealed
that Panchkula residents, mostly parents of tennis players, had
gathered at the residence of Anand Prakash, father of Ruchika's friend
Aradhana, and decided that some strong action be taken by way of
taking up the matter with the higher authorities.
They could neither contact CM Hukum Singh nor home minister Sampat
Singh, but met then home secretary J K Duggal, who, on August 17,
1990, discussed the matter with Sampat Singh and asked DGP RR Singh to
investigate it. Instead of an FIR, the government preferred
departmental action, issuing a chargesheet against the accused on May
28, 1991.
Interestingly, then legal remembrancer (who gives opinion to the
government on legal issues) R K Nehru in his opinion in 1992 suggested
that state government was not competent to issue the chargesheet,
adding it would be quite legal and proper to get the FIR registered.
Then, the CM's office had referred the case to chief secretary for
advice. But nothing happened finally, said sources.
Said Sampat Singh, the then home minister: "We did not try to save
anybody and as a home minister, I tried my best to perform my duties
honestly. Moreover, action against a class-1 officer is taken by the
chief minister." Trying to wash his hands of the case, former CM Om
Prakash Chautala said: "It was the Bhajan Lal-led government that
promoted Rathore." But Haryana Janhit Congress leader and Bhajan Lal's
son, Kuldeep Bishnoi shifted the blame back to Chautala. "If the
government led by Bhajan Lal had promoted Rathore, then why did
Chautala not take action against the DGP," he said.
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Shimona Kanwar, TNN 25 December 2009, 03:23am IST
CHANDIGARH: Ruchika Girhotra's alma mater — Sacred Heart — appears to
have plotted her expulsion from the school. It now transpires that the
school didn't accept Ruchika's fee and later expelled her on the
flimsy grounds that that she didn't pay it.
A senior Sacred Heart teacher said it was rare for the school to expel
on the grounds cited in Ruchika's case. "It's uncommon that our school
had expelled students on the basis of non-payment of the fees. Either,
a month's notice is given or fine is imposed. In extreme situations,
the students aren't allowed to take the exams," said the teacher.
A family friend Adhunika Seedhar echoes the teacher, saying Ruchika
was expelled contrary to the school's norms. "The school didn't even
issue a notice to Ruchika and straightaway acted against her," said
Seedhar.
Sacred Heart's admission brochure buttresses the teacher's point. It
says, at the most, a student wouldn't be allowed to take exams as a
penalty for the non-payment of the fee. Thought the 1990 brochure
contents are unknown, her expulsion certainly flouts the norms of the
school's present policy.
Chandigarh home secretary Ram Niwas said the authorities would
investigate the circumstances that led to Ruchika's expulsion. "We
would act against the school if Ruchika's relatives complain," he
said. "It must have been tormenting for a child who was up against
influential people," he added.
Students at Ruchika's alma mater have begun rallying around the
campaign for her justice. They have started blogging to support the
cause. "Blogging is the best and quickest way of gathering support,"
said a Sacred Heart student. "I'm keen to trace Ruchika's batchmates
and hear her story."
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Press Trust Of India
New Delhi, December 25, 2009
First Published: 15:00 IST(25/12/2009)
Last Updated: 15:06 IST(25/12/2009)
With the Ruchika molestation case causing an uproar, Union Law
Minister M Veerappa Moily today said the Government has decided to
"fast track" cases relating to women, including those involving rape,
molestation and dowry.
"At the National Consultation on Judicial Reforms held recently, the
Government and the Judiciary have decided to prioritise and classify
cases related to women, children and the disabled...classification is
an important component of the programme," Moily said.
He said classification and prioritisation would ensure that such cases
are "fast tracked" in courts.
He said a "blueprint" on legal reforms approved by the Union Cabinet
has mentioned classification of cases for early disposal.
"Otherwise also, cases pending for 15 years or more will be reduced to
3 years and that will be achievable from here within 3 years. All
cases pending in courts after January 1, 2010 will be treated as
arrears," the Minister said adding, a policy could be announced in a
fortnight.
To a question on the delay in delivery of justice in the Ruchika
molestation case, Moily termed it as "atrocious"
"Ruchika's case is atrocious and delay is unpardonable," he said.
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Indo-Asian News Service
Chandigarh, December 24, 2009
First Published: 20:04 IST(24/12/2009)
Last Updated: 20:07 IST(24/12/2009)
Riot police in battle gear surrounded the house of former Haryana
director general of police S.P.S. Rathore at Chandigarh Thursday
evening as people holding candles and placards reached the gate of his
house to demand harsher punishment to the official for molesting a
teenager in 1990.
The marchers gathered outside his residence gate in Panchkula, a town
in Haryana about 10 km from here, shouting slogans like "Justice for
Ruchika", eyewitnesses said.
Rathore has been sentenced to six months in jail and a fine of Rs.
1,000 for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra. She committed
suicide three years later, allegedly due to the harassment of her and
her family by the official after she filed a complaint about the
molestation.
Rathore was immediately granted bail by the court on Monday.
Led by the family members of Anand Prakash, the complainant and family
friend of Ruchika, a few hundred people of various age groups gathered
under a single umbrella to raise their voice against Rathore.
"This is our way to express support for Ruchika's family. We want
justice in this case to set an example for others. We do not want
other innocent girls to fall prey before unscrupulous officials like
Rathore," said 19-year-old Akanksha Sethi, an engineering student at
the candlelight march.
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ABUSE OF POWER :What Ruchika said about her molester
NDTV Correspondent, Wednesday December 23, 2009, New Delhi
A top cop molesting a 14-year-old girl, the trauma driving her to
commit suicide and the cop getting away with just 6 months in prison,
and on top of that getting bail immediately, this verdict has shamed
the nation. (Read and Watch: Senior cop molested teen who killed
herself)Ruchika Girhotra's story has led to public outcry. NDTV now
has a copy of the affidavit signed by Ruchika, in which she clearly
says she was shocked and nervous with the behaviour of Mr Rathore, the
former DGP of Haryana. (Watch: Ruchika's story on The Buck Stops Here)
She was traumatised, confused and clueless about what to do after the
incident and how she and her friend Aradhana were afraid of Mr Rathore
because of his position. (Watch: Justice for Ruchika: Friends seek
public support Read: Her best friend's crusade for justice I Watch:
NDTV speaks to Aradhana)The CBI says Rathore could not be charged for
abetment to suicide, as it would have been extremely difficult to
prove in court. (Watch: How did such a police officer get promoted:
Ambika Soni)In that statement to R R Singh, the then director General
of Police Haryana, Ruchika writes: "When we reached the office, Mr
Rathore was alone, standing outside. On seeing us he came into the
office and also asked us to come inside. I requested him that he may
listen outside the office but he kept on insisting and perforce we had
to go inside.""As soon as Reemu (Aradhana) left the place, Rathore
caught hold of my hand. I tried to get rid of Mr. Rathore by pushing
him away. I was shocked and became nervous with the behaviour of Mr.
Rathore." (Read: Age and lengthy trial helped Rathore) 'I tried to
narrate the incidence as to how Mr. Rathore tried to molest me, but I
broke down." (Watch: Verdict is a national shame: Arun Jaitley) "She
(Aradhana) had also seen when Mr. Rathore was misbehaving with me. I
was so nervous and afraid that I asked Reemu (Aradhana) as to what we
should do now? Shall I inform my father about this incidence?
Ultimately we decided Mr Rathore is IG Police and we were afraid of
him as he may involve or harass us or our parents. Therefore we
decided not to inform our parents or anybody else about this
incidence".(Forum: Is six months enough for such a crime? Read surfer
comments)
Posted by Naxal Watch at 8:33 PM
http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2009/12/abuse-of-power-what-ruchika-said-about.html
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Press Trust Of India
Panaji, December 25, 2009
First Published: 17:42 IST(25/12/2009)
Last Updated: 17:43 IST(25/12/2009)
Two young Russian women have alleged that a taxi driver attempted to
rape them at Anjuna beach here while they were returning from a
Christmas party.
Both girls in their complaint lodged at Anjuna police station said
they had to jump out of the taxi to escape from
his clutches and hide in the woods for almost five hours waiting for
the dawn.
Olga Tyurina (29) and Irina Babayan (25) were returning from a
discotheque at Saligao in North Goa after attending
Christmas party.
Both the girls, who know little English, have told police that an
unidentified taxi driver, whom they had hired to drop them back to
their hotel at Baga, took them to Anjuna beach.
The taxi driver who initially had agreed for Rs 300 took them by
another road pretending to avoid police picketing at
2:20 am. He stopped at Anjuna beach and demanded Rs 1,000 instead,
they said.
When we protested, he tried to grab us. We were horrified and jumped
out of the taxi and took shelter in the woods
nearby, they said.
The girls said they were in the jungle for almost five hours and left
from there only in the morning. The police
complaint was lodged this morning at 7.
bala srinivasan6:36 am
in fairness to the taxi driver hopefully the police will make sure
that these clever russian girls didn't trick him from paying the
premium he might have demanded to take these girls at that odd hour
back to their place after their "PARTY".the fact that the he initially
charged the fair market fare speaks for his defence.
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STAFF WRITER 20:23 HRS IST
New Delhi, Dec 25 (PTI) Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh today said
the verdict in the Ruchika molestation case has come out as a "mockery
of justice" as after 19 years the guilty had been given an "ordinary
sentence".
"In this case, even death sentence is mild. An example should be set
through this case by giving the strictest sentence....After waiting
for 19 years, an ordinary sentence and ordinary fine has been imposed
on the culprit. It is a mockery of justice," Singh told reporters
here.
People in high places should get a message that they cannot get away
by committing such crimes, he said.
Former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore was on Monday sentenced to six months
of rigorous imprisonment for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika, a budding
tennis player, in 1990 when he was an IGP. The girl committed suicide
three years later.
http://www.ptinews.com/news/440709_Ruchika-case-a-mockery-of-justice--says-Amar
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STAFF WRITER 20:4 HRS IST
New Delhi, Dec 25 (PTI) Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was
moved to tears when he heard the tragic tale of Ruchika Girihotra's
molestation while he was still in office, ex Union minister Shanta
Kumar said today.
Kumar, who was the Food Minister in the NDA government at the Centre,
said Vajpayee came to know about Ruchika's sad story in 2000 when he
read a letter written by him to the then Haryana Chief Minister Om
Prakash Chautala asking him to take stern action against former DGP S
P S Rathore in the case.
"After hearing the episode from me tears rolled down Vajpayee's face",
the veteran BJP leader from Himachal Pradesh said.
Vajpayee also strongly approved of Kumar's letter to Chautala
recommending stringent action against former Haryana police chief in
the case.
http://www.ptinews.com/news/440692_Atal-brought-to-tears-to-hear-Ruchika-s-tale---Shanta
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STAFF WRITER 19:6 HRS IST
Hyderabad, Dec 25 (PTI) Andhra Pradesh Governor N D Tiwari landed in a
fresh controversy today after a local TV channel telecast explicit
clippings purportedly of the veteran Congress leader with some women,
a footage rejected by Raj Bhavan as fabricated and a "tissue of lies."
The development amid the crisis in the state over the Telangana
statehood issue triggered demands that the 86-year-old Governor resign
or be dismissed and also protests by women activists outside the Raj
Bhavan where security was beefed up after the private Telugu channel
aired the footage.
In a quick damage control, the Raj Bhavan approached the AP High
Court, filed a PIL against the channel--"ABN Andhra Jyothy"--and got
an order to restrain it from further airing the footage which was
allegedly taken inside Raj Bhavan during the night.
http://www.ptinews.com/news/440614_Tiwari-lands-in-a-controversy-over-TV-footage
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Molestation case was never brought to my notice, says Chautala
Aarti Dhar/J. Venkatesan
The Hindu Indian National Lok Dal chief Om Prakash Chautala addressing
a press conference in New Delhi on Friday
The former Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala, on Friday
denied that he shielded the former Director-General of Police, S.P.S.
Rathore, who was sentenced to six-month rigorous imprisonment for
molesting a 14-year-old girl in 1990. She committed suicide in 1993.
Mr. Chautala sought to put the blame on his Congress successors,
Bhajan Lal and Bansi Lal, accusing them of promoting Mr. Rathore as
DGP and dropping the charges against him. Mr Bhajan Lal now heads the
Haryana Vikas Party.
Addressing journalists here, Mr. Chautala said that when he came to
power in 1993, Mr. Rathore was placed under suspension soon after the
CBI filed a charge sheet against him. He denied that he had received
any complaint from the victim’s family.
The victim’s father accused Mr. Chautala of shielding Mr. Rathore and
delaying registration of the case against him. The then DGP, R.R.
Singh, and the former Home Secretary, J.K. Duggal, have also spoken
about “political pressure” being brought on them to bury the case.
Mr. Chautala said that when the molestation took place on August 12,
1990, Master Hukam Singh of the erstwhile Lok Dal was Chief Minister,
and he asked Mr. R.R. Singh, to investigate the matter. An entry (DD)
was made against Mr. Rathore on August 18. On March 13 next, Master
Hukam Singh gave his consent for a departmental enquiry and the filing
of a charge sheet against Mr. Rathore.
Mr. Chautala said he was Chief Minister between March 22, 1991 and
April 6, 1991, but the matter was never brought to his notice. After
the Governor’s rule ended in Haryana, the Congress, led by Mr. Bhajan
Lal, formed the government on July 23, 1991, and he was at the helm
till May 9, 1996. During this period, atrocities were committed on the
victim’s family: 11 false cases were slapped on the girl’s brother,
and he was kept in illegal detention for two months. The charges
framed against Mr. Rathore were quietly dropped in April 1994, and he
was promoted Additional DGP. In May 1996, Mr Bansi Lal became Chief
Minister and he promoted Mr. Rathore DGP, though he had been placed
under suspension in connection with the grant of parole to an accused.
But he was reinstated in March 1999.
But the Congress accused Mr. Chautala of trying to politicise the
case. Terming his statement “most unfortunate,” party spokesman Manish
Tewari said he reacted to the national outrage in the most
“insensitive and callous manner.”
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article70654.ece
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G Arun Kumar, TNN 25 December 2009, 06:13pm IST
HYDERABAD: A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh high court issued an
injunction on Friday, prohibiting a private TV channel from showing
explicit One of the images shown on Andhra Jyothi's ABN channel
clippings purportedly of the 86-year-old state governor, N D Tiwari,
in bed with three young women. ( Watch Video )
Tiwari denied media reports alleging his involvement in a sex scandal
and termed them "malicious".
The court order came in response to a PIL, which was filed even as the
images hit the TV screens on Christmas morning, leaving the citizens
shell-shocked. By the time the court order reached the Telugu channel,
the images had been on air for about an hour.
The images showed an old man, purportedly Tiwari, wearing no trousers
and a shirt pulled up to the neck. All three women are naked, one at
his legs and the others on his upper half. One of the women is said to
be seven months pregnant, another just 18 years old.
Tiwari is a veteran Congress politician, who has been a Union minister
under several Prime Ministers and the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh
and Uttarakhand. He figured in a scandal in 2008, when Rohit, the
grandson of a former Union minister from Haryana, moved the Delhi high
court, alleging that Tiwari was his father. In his reply to the court
notice, Tiwari described Rohit’s mother, Ujjwala Sharma, as an
“unchaste woman” and accused Rohit of acting at her behest.
"She as an unchaste woman had defendant 1 (Tiwari) as her paramour
even during the subsistence of her marriage..." Tiwari’s reply had
said.
Raj Bhavan, however, issued a denial of the reports. The counsel for
the Raj Bhavan Ravishanker Jandhyala said, "There is absolutely no
truth in the alleged news story which is nothing but sensation
mongering."
"The alleged news story is nothing but a 'tissue of lies' and is
denied," he said, adding there is no question of his resignation. "We
will definitely file a defamation case. Already I have issued a notice
in the afternoon (to the channel)," he added.
While the images, allegedly of Tiwari with three women in bed, shown
on the Telugu channel, appear to tell all, the allegations of Radhika,
a woman from Uttarakhand, are even more damning. Radhika claims to
have sent these young women to the Raj Bhavan on Tiwari's request
through a Raj Bhavan official. She says the octogeneranian's appetite
for women is insatiable: he would ask for women in the middle of the
night and also seek after-lunch sessions.
Women's rights activists, lawyers and politicians have reacted
strongly to the sordid episode. Calling the governor a sexual deviant
and a man who has brought shame to the office, women activists said
the first citizen of Andhra Pradesh should be brought to heel
immediately.
Radhika's role in the events remains hazy as she claims that Tiwari
had said he would provide jobs to these young women, but used them for
sexual favours instead. Radhika says that Tiwari, through an official,
had promised her a mining licence in Kadapa. When he did not, she
chose to expose him by leaking the video clips and photos.
Early on Friday morning, the governor's officer on special duty wrote
a letter to the high court Chief Justice Ramesh Dave, drawing his
attention in to a report in Friday's edition of the Telugu daily
Andhra Jyothi. The report was a teaser to Tiwari's "sexcapades" to be
shown on the newspaper's TV channel, ABN. Treating the letter as a
public interest litigation (writ petition SR No. 149805/2009), a
division bench comprising the chief justice and Justice Nagarjuna
Reddy was urgently constituted to hear the matter.
Counsel for the governor, Jandhyala Ravishankar, pleaded with the
bench to restrain the channel from showing the "highly objectionable"
images. Responding to the plea, the bench passed an injunction around
11am to the ABN management to stop showing the visuals, which were
"denigrating the gubernatorial office and causing immense damage to
the highest office". Once the Jubilee Hills police handed over the
court order to the channel, the airing of the visuals was immediately
stopped.
With the news spreading like wildfire, there were spontaneous protests
from women's activists who laid siege to the Raj Bhavan. Several
members of women's organizations staged demonstrations. An effigy of
Tiwari was burned in front of the Raj Bhavan. Later, police bundled
the protesting women into a van and took them away.
V Sandhya, leader of the Progressive Organization of Women, said
Tiwari should be dismissed immediately. "We have a woman President and
another managing the biggest party in the country and we will petition
them to take stern action against the man."
"These indecent acts inside the portals of the Raj Bhavan should be an
eye-opener for all politicians," she said. She urged women activists
to condemn the "sleazy acts" of the first citizen of the state and
undertake protests in towns and mandals of the state.
AIDWA leader Jyothi said the system was so flawed that if police
officers or government officials were found guilty of some charges,
they are suspended first and an inquiry was is ordered. "Why can't the
same rule be applied in the case of a constitutional head like the
governor who has besmirched the highest office with his cheap act?"
she said.
Reacting sharply, PRP leader Shobharani said it was shameful for a man
holding such a high position. "Even to react to the incident is
shocking for all of us as the girls shown in the visuals could be
younger than Tiwari's granddaughters," she said.
Meanwhile, women activists took to the streets in Chittoor, Nellore,
Khammam, Adilabad and other towns protesting against the governor's
"rasa leelas" inside the Raj Bhavan. An official of the newspaper
group said they would run the entire story in their Saturday's edition
without publishing the sleazy photographs. "We are requesting the
court to vacate the stay," he added.
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TNN 26 December 2009, 01:05am IST
NEW DELHI: The raging controversy that has engulfed Andhra Pradesh
governor N D Tiwari may lead to his being removed from the
constitutional post.
The octogenarian former Uttarakhand CM hit the news in an unexpected
manner when a local channel aired candid camera shots, purportedly of
him enjoying a romp in the Raj Bhavan. The 'expose' came even as the
state remains embroiled in agitations over the demand for a separate
state of Telangana.
There was shock and dismay in Congress circles in Delhi. Congress
leader from Andhra Pradesh and CWC member Keshava Rao expressed
disgust at the scandal and sought Tiwari's resignation as governor.
There could be more demands for Tiwari's ouster as other partymen take
a cue from the senior AICC functionary.
Taking care to preface his comments with "if the pictures are true",
Rao said, "I am shocked at these unseeable pictures of our respectable
governor. I myself feel ashamed at such shameful incidents. I hope
they are not genuine. But if they are, then any responsible person in
such a post would quit before he is asked to."
While serious enough, the scandal complicates the situation for
Congress owing to its timing. The allegation that Tiwari was having
sex romps in Raj Bhawan comes even as life in the state has come to a
standstill owing to paralysis in governance over the Telangana
agitation. Political circles here have been abuzz that the Hyderabad
Raj Bhawan could do with a person more engaged with governance issues
than Tiwari has been.
It is not clear whether Tiwari has offered any explanations, but he
has been no stranger to controversy. The gubernatorial stint was
supposed to be a retirement benefit, but the headlines seem to follow
NDT wherever he goes.
The veteran leader, who has the unique distinction of having been CM
of two states -- UP and its breakaway Uttarakhand -- has held senior
positions at the Centre and in Congress organisation. He set off an
avalanche of rumours in the mid-90s by disappearing for two days when
he was supposed to be leading a rebellion within Congress against then
prime minister P V Narasimha Rao. He is also embroiled in a legal duel
with a young man, Rohit Shekhar, who claims to be the governor's son
and has moved judiciary to force NDT to undergo a paternity test.
The news set tongues wagging and Congress was cautious in its comments
on the latest controversy. AICC spokesman Manish Tiwari said, "The
matter is sub-judice and it is not appropriate to comment on it. More
so, till the veracity of the material in question is established, it
would be wrong for anyone to pass a judgment one way or other."
But sources said Tiwari's continuation in Raj Bhawan has become
untenable in the wake of the scandal. There have been talks of moving
Tiwari out of Hyderabad for other reasons, though. Since YS
Rajasekhara Reddy died in an air crash and when Congress was thrown
into uncertainty by Jagan Mohan Reddy's campaign for the top job, it
was felt the state needed an active governor to deal with any
uncertainty. The situation had barely stabilised before the Telangana
stir heated up things again.
There is a clear concern that Raj Bhawan needs a younger occupant. It
is felt if the Telangana situation worsens, the Centre would have to
explore the option of central rule. It would bring the reins of power
in the hands of the governor. The veteran politician is not seen as
the man for the administrator's job, though he may not be ready to
lead a retiring life.
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TNN 26 December 2009, 02:44am IST
HYDERABAD: T-trouble took a back seat in Andhra Pradesh with another
form of T-trouble grabbing centre stage. Telangana mania was drowned
out on One of the images shown on Andhra Jyothi's ABN channel.
Christmas Day as a full-fledged sex scandal involving Raj Bhavan was
aired by the ABN Andhra Jyothi, a Telugu TV channel.
It played visuals of an old man purported to be the former Union
finance minister and current Andhra Pradesh governor, N D Tiwari, in
bed with two young women. While the man was without his pajamas, the
two women were without a shred of clothing.
Although the telecast was stopped after some time with officials of
the governor's office obtaining a restraint order from a division
bench of the High Court, the damage had already been done.
Women's groups swung into action and protested outside the Raj Bhavan,
even as leading lights of the city demanded the immediate sacking of
the 86-year-old Narain Datt Tiwari.
The Governor's office issued a statement that the tapes displayed were
"fabricated and untruthful", but the public outcry did not die down
with an effigy of Tiwari being burnt outside the Raj Bhavan.
Tiwari was in the news recently after a 29-year-old boy Rohit Shekhar
-- grandson of a former union minister Sher Singh -- petitioned the
Delhi High Court that he was the "natural son" of Tiwari and sought a
paternity test to prove his claim. The High Court, however, did not
agree to the test and said the suit was not "maintainable".
Tiwari's lawyers had argued that the case had been time barred because
the petitioner should have moved court when he turned 18.
"We have a woman President and and another managing the biggest party
in the country. We will petition them to take stern action against
this man," said V Sandhya of the Progressive Organisation of Women.
Tiwari has been holding high public offices since the mid-'70s as
chief minister of UP, Union minister of commerce and finance and chief
minister of Uttaranchal.
An angry office bearer of the All India Democratic Women's Association
Jyothi said that if a government officer is involved in such scandals
he is suspended. "But such action is not taken against a person who
holds such a high constitutionalposition and has bismirched the
highest office with this cheap act," she added.
TDP's Chandrababu Naidu -- on the backfoot for the last few days
because of the Telangana agitation -- was quick to seize the
opportunity to demand Tiwari's ouster but the state government, thrown
into a tizzy, preferred to keep quiet. " I cannot comment on the
matter until it is clear that the TV grab is not doctored," said AP's
information minister Geetha Reddy. "The government has not discussed
the issue. As home minister, I cannot comment on it as the governor is
our constitutional head," said home minister Sabita Indra Reddy.
But managing director of ABN Andhra Jyothi Vemuri Radhakrishna when
told about allegations that the tapes were doctored, told TOI: "
Neither the news story nor the tapes are fabricated. Neither is it for
sensation mongering." He added: "Offices like that of the Governor are
exemplary and it's sickening to see a person holding such a high
office behave in such a manner... I am prepared to face any
conseqences. We are trying to get the court stay vacated."
Late in the evening Tiwari's office gave out another statement
asserting that he would continue to discharge his constitutional
duties "without fear or favour". Pointing out that he "was in the
evening of life," the statement said that today being Christmas, the
Governor wished "amity, foregiveness and true brotherhood" to prevail
amongst people.
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IANS 25 December 2009, 08:01pm IST
HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu on
Friday demanded the resignation of Andhra Pradesh Governor N.D. Tiwari
over an alleged sex scandal involving him. ( Watch Video )
Naidu said Tiwari should resign or the central government should sack
him for bringing shame to the "sacred office of the governor". The
former chief minister also demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) inquiry into the scandal as some MPs were also allegedly
involved.
Naidu's demand at a news conference came after a private Telugu news
channel showed explicit footage purportedly of 86-year-old Tiwari in
bed with three young women.
"Everybody is feeling ashamed after seeing this on television. This is
a big sex scandal and it shows the falling values and ethics in public
life," said Naidu, the leader of opposition in the state assembly.
"Offices like Raj Bhavan are the temples of democracy and it is very
unfortunate that such things are happening there," Naidu said.
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TNN 26 December 2009, 12:33am IST
NEW DELHI: The CBI is "sifting and collating" evidence and information
on the Ruchika Girhotra case to see whether the charge of abetment to
suicide against former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore can be re-examined in
case the agency is asked for an opinion.
The possibility of CBI being asked for its views arises if the courts
are moved. In any case, CBI is going to seek enhancement of the six-
month term handed out to Rathore when the former cop, as anticipated,
appeals his sentence. "CBI will see what can be done in the case,"
said well-placed sources.
Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Hooda told TOI that the state
government would offer its full cooperation. "My sympathies are with
the Girhotra family," he said. The Haryana government would be
prepared to assist in any probe that was ordered by the Centre or the
courts.
The disgraced former cop, who has been convicted for molesting 14-year-
old Ruchika Girhotra, will also be stripped of his Police Medal for
bringing "the force (police) into disrepute". The home ministry will
initiate the process next week by serving a show-cause notice to him
asking why his police medal should not be forfeited and pension
benefits reduced after his conviction.
Rathore, a 1965-batch IPS officer who retired in 2002, was awarded the
Police Medal for Meritorious Service on August 15, 1985. "It is a fit
case of stripping him of his police medal as he, after being convicted
in the case, violated the medal rules and acceptance agreement which
the recipient has to sign before receiving the award," said an
official. He said the rules were applicable to both serving and
retired officers.
The rule clearly states that the Police Medal for Meritorious Service
and President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service are "liable to
be forfeited when the holder is guilty of disloyalty, cowardice in
action or such conduct as in the opinion of the President brings the
force into disrepute".
The official said that the home ministry would first look into the
details of the judgment and other relevant papers submitted to it by
CBI. It would also write to the Haryana government for details of the
recommendation papers concerning Rathore's case for medal. A formal
note would then be sent to the President for a final decision, he
added.
Rathore was promoted as the DGP by the Om Prakash Chautala government
in 2000. The same government had earlier in 1999 recommended his name
to the home ministry for a President's Police Medal For Distinguished
Service. The recommendation in 1999 was made despite the Ruchika
molestation case pending against him.
The state's recommendation was, however, rejected by the Centre when
the Intelligence Bureau informed the home ministry that Rathore was an
accused in the molestation case.
Sources in the home ministry said that it would also be probed how
Rathore's recommendation was initially cleared and who were behind the
attempted cover-up. A detailed report from the Haryana government
would also be sought for this, they added.
Asked about the possibility of the molestation case being re-opened,
Union law minister M Veerappa Moily said: "I don't know whether there
is a possibility." A news agency quoted him as saying that he had
discussed the case with the CBI and the solicitor-general. "All
serious steps possible will be done," he was quoted as saying.
Taking a cue from the delay in the Ruchika case which remained pending
for 19 years, Moily said the government had decided to "fast track"
cases relating to women, including those involving rape, molestation
and dowry harassment.
"At the National Consultation on Judicial Reforms held recently, the
government and the judiciary decided to prioritize and classify cases
related to women, children and the disabled...classification is an
important component of the programme," Moily told the news agency.
To a question on the delay in delivery of justice in the Ruchika case,
Moily termed it as "atrocious". "Ruchika's case is atrocious and delay
is unpardonable," Moily was quoted as saying.
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Ajay Sura, TNN 26 December 2009, 03:44am IST
CHANDIGARH: Convicted former top cop S P S Rathore used to personally
supervise interrogation of Ashu, brother of Ruchika, during his
detention under false cases. It was Ashu's statement before the
division bench of Punjab and Haryana high court in December 2001 that
the matter came up through a suo motu notice. The instances of
harassment and humiliation faced by Ruchika's family, which led her to
commit suicide, were narrated by Ashu before the HC.
Ashu alleged in the court that Rathore had gone to the extent of
doctoring the report mentioning the cause of Ruchika's death. Using
his strong influence in the police, he projected that the cause of her
death was consumption of slimming pills. However, the doctors' report
clearly said she had died after consuming a chloro-compound, used for
insecticides.
Even in the inquest and postmortem report, the name of Ruchika was
changed to Ruby and the name of her father from S C Girhotra to
Subhash Chander Khatri, Ashu alleged.Alleging preparation of false
documents by Rathore after the death of Ruchika, Ashu informed the
court that Rathore pressured his father to abide by whatever he said,
else his son (Ashu) as well as his entire family would also meet the
same fate.
Ashu's case had reached before the HC following suo motu cognizance
taken by justice Mehtab Singh Gill on December 12, 2000. The then
chief justice had referred the matter before a division bench
comprising justice N K Sodhi and justice N K Sood.
While deposing before the division bench, Ashu had stated that he had
to undergo inhuman treatment at the instance of Rathore because he
wanted to use him as a tool so that criminal cases against the cop
could be withdrawn.
It was the first statement of Ashu since the family was forced to
leave Panchkula by Rathore following the molestation charges. At the
time of making the statement, Ashu was living with his family in
Sector-2, New Shimla.
Spelling out the reason for leaving their Panchkula residence, Ashu
informed HC that the family was so scared because of Rathore that none
of them wanted to live where Rathore could even reach them.
The HC then referred the inquiry to sessions judge Patiala. However
the order was immediately challenged before the Supreme Court by
Rathore, where he got a stay.
Victimisation
From September 6, 1992 to August 30, 1993, the state police registered
six FIRs against Ashu. Most cases related to car theft along with
other co-accused. However he was discharged by the trial court in all
the cases.
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Bharat Yagnik, TNN 26 December 2009, 12:09am IST
AHMEDABAD: The man who tried to defame a professor of zoology in
Gujarat University by accusing him of rape, has been traced. Gujarat
University (GU) V-C Parimal Trivedi said that the culprit has been
identified as 29-year-old Nimit Joshi. "He is married and settled in
Canada as a pharmacologist. The girl is likely to send us a picture
which we will forward to police for investigation," Trivedi told TOI.
On Saturday, ACP (crime branch) Usha Rada met Trivedi for further
investigation. City crime branch got hot on Joshi's trail after he
sent some 50 emails to various people in the name of a PhD student
saying her guide had raped her. It now emerges that the man had been
chasing this girl since college and sent these e-mails to create
roadblocks in her studies and personal life.
Joshi reportedly had sent these emails from Canada. Immediately after
reports emerged, the girl is learnt to have called authorities and
complained that they are false and handiwork of the boy.
Sources said the PhD student and the man became good friends at an
institute running course on International English Language Testing
System (IELTS) training. The two even contemplated marriage but things
soured between them when the girl came to know that Joshi was married.
The boy did not take being spurned by the girl kindly and continued
stalking her.
He used to hang around her college and hostel and was even thrown out
of the hostel by the rector. The accused was reported to have also
written mails earlier to heads of science departments to urge the girl
to marry him saying his life would be destroyed if she did not accept
his marriage proposal. The authorities believe that they will be able
to catch up with Joshi soon once his identity is established more
clearly after getting his pictures from the US.
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Jug Suraiya Friday December 25, 2009, 01:23 PM
If you were to drink and drive on New Year’s eve – or on any other
day, for that matter – (not that you’re silly enough to drink and
drive, of course) and were stopped by a cop, you’d likely face a stiff
fine up to Rs 5,000 and a possible night in jail. Compare this with
the case of Haryana DGP, SPS Rathore, who in 1990 sexually molested a
14-year-old girl, Ruchika, who three years after the incident
committed suicide as a direct result of the psychological trauma she
had suffered. Her family was persecuted by members of the Haryana
police; her brother had 11 false cases made against him, and the
family eventually had to leave the state. Almost 20 years later, the
perpetrator of this crime gets a jail sentence of six months and a
1,000 rupee fine. He leaves the court smiling, saying he will appeal.
The reason given for this gross travesty of justice is that the 150-
year-old law relating to sexual molestation, short of rape, of a minor
prescribes a maximum sentence of only two years, as against 10 years
for rape. This antiquated law – which takes no account of that most
repugnant of crimes, that of child molestation – is in the process of
being reviewed.
In the meantime, will Rathore walk virtually free?
A number of other questions arise. Why did it take almost 20 years for
the sentence to be awarded? Why did the Haryana high court strike down
that part of the charge against Rathore which made him culpable for
his victim’s suicide, and which would have invited a far stiffer
sentence for him? Why did the judge impose a sentence of only six
months, when even the flawed law as it stands allows for a maximum
sentence of two years?
Has there been—or will there be – any inquiry into allegations made by
the victim’s family of prolonged police harassment, amounting to
criminal misconduct?
An uproar has been created in the media and in Parliament by the
Ruchika case. But like so many other cause celebres will this too
prove to be a nine-day-horror, soon wiped out from public memory by a
more topical scandal, a more recent and more gory crime?
Once again, Ruchika’s tragic case exposes the glaring anomalies and
shortcomings of our outdated, overburdened and severely flawed legal
system. Even when the perpetrator is belatedly brought to book – as
Rathore has been, almost two decades after he committed his criminal
act – the punishment rarely fits the crime. The rich or the powerful –
like Rathore with his top cop connections – get off lightly; common
citizens bear the full brunt of a legal system seemingly skewed
against their favour.
There has been much talk of a judicial review, of making our judiciary
more accessible to public scrutiny. The Ruchika case is a challenge. A
challenge for all those concerned about the deep-seated malaise in our
system of jurisprudence, which not only allows but promotes repeated
miscarriages of justice, to seek not only a more fitting punishment
for Rathore but also to raise fundamental questions regarding the many
weaknesses and perversities in the laws of our land. And, indeed, in
many members of our judiciary, which presides over and interprets
those laws. Judges have been asked to declare their assets. And the
definition of the assets they declare might be expanded to include
their IQs. Otherwise, the public at large – shocked by cases like that
of Ruchika – might perforce deem the law to be not only an ass but a
criminally culpable one at that.
In the meanwhile, don’t drink and drive on New Year’s eve, or any
other time (not that you would; you’re far too sensible and law-
abiding for that) or you may face the full force and fury of the law.
Unlike DGP Rathore, who seems to be above, or beyond, it.
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26 Dec 2009, 0626 hrs IST, ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: As the Ruchika Girhotra issue kicks up a political storm,
law minister Veerappa Moily on Friday said the case has been
“mistreated” and needs to be “revisited”.
His comments come even as former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash
Chautala, who was accused by Ruchika’s father of shielding Rathore,
passed the blame on to the erstwhile Congress government in the state.
Congress, on its part, said Mr Chautala was converting the issue into
a political football.
The government, which had so far refrained from commenting on the case
which has opened a pandora’s box on the justice system stirring a
public outrage, finally broke its silence. “The case of this nature
has been mistreated and whoever is responsible needs to be
appropriately dealt with. And a case of this nature needs to be
revisited,” Mr Moily told reporters.
The law minister said he had consulted the Solicitor General on the
matter. “I have discussed it with the solicitor general of India and
have asked him what could be done after this sentence. I told him to
discuss the case with the CBI director also,” Mr Moily said.
Describing the delay of 19 years by the judiciary as “atrocious and
unpardonable”, he said laws in terms of punishment also should be
revisited. Cases relating to atrocities against women, senior citizens
and disabled citizens will be fast-tracked, the law minister said. Mr
Moily’s ambitious project for judicial reforms includes reducing the
average span of litigation to three years. He said the new policy may
be announced in a fortnight.
Meanwhile, defending himself, Mr Chautala said his government took
immediate action against Rathore when a complaint was lodged against
him 19 years ago. “He was made DGP during Bhajan Lal’s term. He was
never promoted during my tenure. He was not given any special
provisions. The moment the CBI report came before us, we suspended
him. And this was the maximum we could do as the matter was subjudice.
If I had acted further, it would have been considered contempt of
court. The high court and the Supreme Court had also granted him
relief, so why should I have interfered in the court’s judgments,” Mr
Chautala said, a day after Ruchika’s father blamed the former chief
minister and the entire state establishment for the harassment that
drove his daughter to kill herself.
Mr Chautala said he did not recommend Rathore’s name for the
President’s medal and that it was done as part of a “routine work” by
the officers. Congress spokesman Manish Tewari said Chautala “is
trying to convert the case into a political football. He should be
ashamed of himself.” Describing his statement as “most unfortunate”,
Mr Tewari said he was being “insensitive and callous” about the
case.
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Pratik Kanjilal
December 25, 2009
First Published: 22:07 IST(25/12/2009)
Last Updated: 22:11 IST(25/12/2009)
In 2009, India went into a core upgrade. It looked the same but was
fundamentally changed. The year brought good cheer for people who are
convinced of India’s manifest destiny. In the climate talks in
Copenhagen, we quickly jettisoned the G77 and aligned with the
interests of the big powers. It was crassly done, like marrying above
your station and then pretending that your natal family does not
exist. But, on the other hand, there’s no stopping progress. One of
the two nations of India has actually become First World. When your
weekly grocery bill is bigger than your monthly internet bill, that’s
progress. When poky flats cost what bungalows used to, that’s very
First World. Enjoy, as the microwave said when it was done.
But hang on. The picture of two Indias divided by the poverty line has
served us well, but it looks distorted now. Middle India used to rise
in revolt and topple governments on the issue of inflation. It’s
eerily quiet now, though the price of potatoes has risen by 150 per
cent. But even the poor are silent about food prices, though they are
hit hardest because food is about all they buy. The election in
Jharkhand, where the poor predominate, was expected to be a referendum
on inflation, but it turned out to be an irrelevant issue.
So what’s going on? Has the urban middle class prospered so much that
it can absorb a sharp blow to the pocket? It seems unlikely. Has the
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme improved rural fortunes so
much that a 17 per cent inflation rate is small change? Maybe in some
areas, but I hear of places in the Chhotanagpur region where people
don’t get to eat dal for weeks at a time. So, is this reluctance to
take to the streets a symptom of Orientalist fatalism? Have we lost
our voice?
Not at all. Some of us have become quite voluble on other issues like
impunity, which we once accepted with fatalistic Oriental grace. When
S.P.S. Rathore walked triumphantly out of court this week with the
minimum sentence for multiple serious offences — and instant bail to
boot — the smirk on his face set off an explosion like a bomb in a
pressure cooker. Within hours, ‘Justice for Jessica’ had been adapted
to ‘Justice for Ruchika’. The candle-light march, once disparaged as a
namby-pamby hobby, was back on the street and powerful people who had
helped Rathore were on the run.
In the Jessica Lall case, civil society had demonstrated the power of
public opinion without political backing, and it is now a serious
force in the polity. In recent months, it has forced the home ministry
to stop asking for gunship support for Operation Green Hunt and start
pretending that the operation was never conceived. Earlier, the Sri
Ram Sene’s assault on women who drink was similarly checkmated by the
pink chaddi campaign.
Insistence on justice and respect for the individual — these are First
World traits too. It’s a small beginning restricted to the middle
class. To some extent, it offsets the collateral damage our grocers
are inflicting on us. But I’m still wondering why no one is protesting
about prices. Maybe we’ll find out why in 2010. Meanwhile, have a
great New Year.
Pratik Kanjilal is publisher of The Little Magazine.
The views expressed by the author are personal.
Dipankar SenguptaDec 25
A Salute from a 59 years old father of a 24 years old daughter. I can
feel the pain of Subhash and I can see your fighting spirit once
again.
Yes, it is not just a molestation case. It is much much bigger than
that and probably it is as big as any crime against whole human race
with magnitude similar to recent incidents of Bosnia, Rwanda, Somali
to old incidents of Stalin and Himler. All these cases one thing was
in common i.e. a powerful uniformed man with gun and gang can remain
above law.
Here apart from molestation one can see in bolds, a) abetting death,
b) Misusing Govt machinaries to create more nacked crimes to hide the
intial and lastly c) NO HUMAN COMPASSION under the uniform.
But the most painful situation is that how such thing can happen in
modern INDIA again and again? And we call India as a biggest
democratic country!!!
Wake-up intelligent and honest people like Manmohan Sing, PC
Chidambaram, Pranab Mukherjee, Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi against such
demons.
chhotemianinshallah
Barkha Dutt
December 25, 2009
First Published: 22:00 IST(25/12/2009)
Last Updated: 22:04 IST(25/12/2009)
You probably wouldn’t notice Subhash Chander Girhotra in a crowded
room. Not until you look at his face. His deep-set eyes have become a
place where tragedy and outrage met to become fellow travellers on a
19-year journey of courage. Loneliness, fear and hope have ravaged the
part of his face that once knew how to smile. When he talks, his voice
alternates between a soft-spoken helplessness and a sudden aggression,
as if he is reminding himself that no matter what, he has to keep
going, has to keep fighting.
Subhash is Ruchika’s father. When I met him this week, he kept
returning to a single thought. “That man’s smile; it has to go,” he
said, “Why is he smiling?” And then, he said, his voice dropping,
“When I saw that smile, I wept, and wept.”
We should all be weeping. If a police officer can molest a 14-year-old
child, rise up the ranks to become Director-General of Police (DGP),
harass her family with criminal intimidation, drive her to suicide,
and then walk out of court with a creepy swagger and a creepier smile
plastered across his smug face, we should all weep. S.P.S. Rathore has
no business being out on bail. And the fact that he smiles, while
Ruchika’s father collapses in tears of helplessness, is our collective
failure as a country.
Ruchika and her friend Aradhana were tennis buffs. The teenage girls
had just seen a Steffi Graf-Monica Seles face-off on TV and were
itching to ape the serves and volleys. Rathore, then an Inspector-
General of police (IG), and also the head of the Haryana Lawn Tennis
Federation, summoned Ruchika into his office, and then began groping
and pawing her. Aradhana walked into the room just in time for Ruchika
to disentangle herself.
Ruchika, 14 at the time, turned to Aradhana’s mother for support — her
own mother was no longer alive. Aradhana’s family helped Ruchika and
her father take on the might of the IG. An internal police inquiry
found Rathore guilty within two weeks of the incident. But no FIR was
ever registered against Rathore. Haryana’s former Home secretary J.K.
Duggal now says that though the inquiry was specific in its conclusion
of guilt, “political pressure” prevented an FIR from being lodged. In
other words, he never got the permission from the then Chief Minister
Om Prakash Chautala to proceed against Rathore.
In a pathetic game of political finger-pointing, Chautala now says it
was Bhajan Lal’s government that promoted Rathore to the post of DGP.
But he doesn’t explain why the FIR was not allowed to be filed. Nor
does he give a cogent explanation for how a child-molester was
recommended for a President’s Medal by his government.
Ruchika’s father has a bone-chilling question. If the FIR had been
registered on time, would Ruchika still have been alive today? Instead
a child — we forget, don’t we, that she was just a child — watched her
world crumble. Rathore’s daughter was in the same school as her; so
soon she was thrown out of swish Sacred Heart Convent. Her brother
Ashu was slapped with half a dozen fabricated cases of car thefts.
Goons were deployed to trail Ruchika and Aradhana’s families. Men
would stand outside their homes and pelt stones at them.
All this while, Rathore kept rising up the ranks of the police force.
Finally, when her brother was arrested, Ruchika could not take it any
longer. She drank poison and killed herself. Her father explains that
she thought she had placed her family in all this trouble. In other
words, the victim embraced the guilt the perpetrator should have.
The verdict — that has come 19 years too late — is a joke. The judge
talks about factoring in the “length of the trial and the age of the
convict” while explaining his six-month sentence. Did he forget
Ruchika’s age? It’s bewildering why the judge did not even deliver the
two-year sentence that is the maximum punishment for molestation.
But the fact is that Rathore’s crime goes way beyond molestation. He
drove a child to death and harassed a family with criminal
intimidation. Why were these charges not part of the case built
against him? What stops the present Congress government in Haryana
from filing an appeal against the case? If they can’t do that, let
them start with stripping Rathore of his pensions and medals and
government benefits. Why can’t the high court make a suo-moto
intervention and hand over the case to an amicus curae? And while the
probe is on, they need to go beyond Rathore and must include everyone
— bureaucrats and politicians — who facilitated the horrendous cover-
up. Rathore smiles today because they made it possible.
Otherwise in this country — where women getting pawed and mauled — is
almost treated as a rites of passage, our bizarre level of tolerance
for sexual abuse will continue as is. Bottom-pinchers get to be great
cops, without anyone blinking an eye. Instead, I would argue, when
custodians of the law subvert the legal system, they should get double
the punishment.
When I saw Rathore strutting out of court smiling last week, I felt
sick in my stomach. More so, when I saw his wife by his side, wearing
the same expression of smugness. Their daughter must be Ruchika’s age.
Would they be smiling, if she had been molested by a sick, old,
powerful man?
Subhash Girhotra is right. That smile has to go. And we have to make
it happen.
Barkha Dutt is Group Editor, English News, NDTV
The views expressed by the author are personal.
KAMAl2:05 am
Rathore has a daughter.Can she relate herself to hapless Ruchika and
teach a lesson to his father.OR she is also helpless in front of a
DGP.Only she can teach her arrogant and inhuman father a lesson or two
in humanity.
AVCD1:36 am
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1. Isn't there any provision in law to give death sentence to Rathore
and confiscate all his property.
2. Someone should issue fatwa against Rathore.
Bc Dhir12:49 am
THE DEVILS SMILE MUST VANISH
Sunil D12:35 am
lets come forward and raise a strong voice in every forum to eliminate
such crimes..it can only be possible by taking fast and stern action
against all of those from rathore to government officials... judge..
every people who was involved in terrorising girhotras..
Though we can not bring ruchika back but we can stop these type of
events occuring further may be to sm1 among us... LETS UNITE...
Dr.Radhika.KDec 25
sick man.........tht smile of his has said it all...tht even aft 19
long yrs of killing d innocent girl n torturing d family he hasnt had
enough n he doesnt even hav d slightest remorse......god save d world
esp women frm such perverts...........
Arun NairDec 25
The creepy smile on his face sums up the state of justice in our
country. If he can get away with his heinous crimes and also get
elevated in the process, it sets the precedent for more such
incidents. There is only one thing that can set it right - the
collective consciousness of our country and the collective force of
its people; No political power can escape this wrath.
subhash guptaDec 25
I am proud of you Barkha. People like you will make it happen
feroz khanDec 25
above words are equal to the anger not an indian or an activist has
its the view of humanbeings,the political barbarians and the idiotic
judgements wil further more shield such bastarda am sure.please don
tel any more the court is supreme and india is so democratic. i can
assure u tere r much number rtuchitas living witus becoz tey never had
any likes of aradhans. long line indian judiciary.
NikhilDec 25
Hated that smile on Rathore's face..felt like he is enjoying it
all...sick ! its known to one and all that it is hand in glove thing
when it comes to Police/politician nexus and the worst is that we
allow these people to effect our life on a daily basis....lost all
hope in the system where it takes 19 years for justice and where the
guilty smiles as if he has won a lottery...sickkk
dr saurabhDec 25
this judgement sums up wat every indian knows the gr88 cop-neta nexus
prevalent in the country.but one thing to ponder ,media was strong in
early nineties and even in 99 when after 9yrs the case was lodged and
acc. to somer reports question was asked in the haryana assembly so
why didnt the media pick up the case then ?? media must scrutinise
this point also .it is only when rathore has RETIRED and may be lost
his value to netas this issue has come up after the judgement has been
given.it must been quite a big issue in 99 also .where was media
then ??where are so called investigative reporters covering
haryana ..call them and ask questions??were they also part of his
nexus then??
Ravindar BajajDec 25
I appreciate the media crusade to get justice for Ruchika. But the
broader question is what about the 19 years delayed justice. I really
feel proud about her friend who made it a point to get justice.
I wish there is an organization of civil society who take up these
cases immediately as they happen and where the powerful people are
involved.The only HOPE in the present era is media who highlights
these cases and has guts to take on these people head on
santheepDec 25
it was because of effort of people like barkha nanda went to jail what
happened in the end he walked away due to his so called good conduct
and grandfather ill health ,would a poor person can do that,same think
will happen in rathore case people like barkha will fight and thsis
person will walk away like nanda
Anurag DhawanDec 25
I feel ashamed to be an Indian. A teenage girl aspires to be a
sportsman is sexually abused by father of her classmate, when she
complains she is victimized, her family tortured, the sports body as
well her school expels her, her character is assassinated. And the man
who does all this is a powerful cop who sits in the lap of third grade
politicians of the state in which khap panchayats are so powerful that
they don't allow marriages and affairs within same gotra. Our
judiciary is influenced by lawyers like Mrs. Rathore, Jethmalanis and
all. We have got free press and great journalists like Barkha Dutt,
Rajdeep Sardesai, Pronoy Roy and all, but not a single article in the
last 15 years. Do we deserve the system?
BasantDec 25
I really hope that our free and activist media stands up to the
challenge and channels the public outrage to make sure that the
perverted creep gets punished. Carry on, Barkha.
Alex MathewDec 25
The smile has to go. To think of it, he doesn't have the guilt.Is he a
human? What is happening to India? It is time the govt changed the law
system. Instead of leaving it to the judge, the law should be in hands
of the public. Then all these crooked men will think twice to even
touch a gal. A time will come when the public will say enough is
enough and stand up against these crooked politicians. Just wait and
see
Mahak SDec 25
We need to be more angry! Being from Haryana, I know what Chautala has
been upto! The pathetic part is, even in these elections they won
decent no. of seats! Why do we do this.. Soren, chautala, Koda..!!
Please don't let this concern Die! Fight till "WE" get justice!
Anish AwasthiDec 25
almost everyone can see that a wrong has been committed, but the
supreme court could not see, it went to the extent of reversing an
order by the punjab and haryana" high court directing the district
judge to conduct an enquiry to ascertain the truth of averments made
by ashu girhotra, respondent no. 5 in his affidavit dated 3rd
december, 2001"
see the full verdict at
https://secure.filesanywhere.com/fs/v.aspx?v=896f658d5f6675bcaaa3
Rommel SharmaDec 25
Barkha, its a shock and shame that a sick person like Rathore is let
free by the court after such a heinous crime he committed against a
monir.
The nation is with Ruchika to call for justice. The punishment to
Rathore should be so severe that no one would ever dare to do such an
act again!
The common man wants to help get justice - just direct us on how do we
unite on this!
ishwar patiDec 25
It would be interesting to know what Rathore's wife and daughter have
to say in defending him. Apart from all the agencies and people you
have quoted who connived in bloating the monster that is Rathore, his
wife should be the principal accomplice in his crime. How could a
woman and a mother herself 'encourage' him to molest minor girls like
her own daughter, if not actively then in gloating over his 'deed'?
What a shameful reflection of her womanhood and motherhood!
Anish AwasthiDec 25
the smile wont go by itself, we will have to wipe it off his face,
unfortunately with a supreme court judgement favouring him, it wont be
possible under the ambit of the law
RajbeerDec 25
The first thing Govt must do is to prevent him from leaving the
country.
RavinderDec 25
My question is what kind of bribe and in what form this Individual
might have been giving to his political masters who rewarded him not
only immunity but also promotion and recommendation for president's
medal ? I am outraged.This beast would have been chained 19 years back
and would have been left to rotten. Enough is enough . This Judge's
reasoning is also questionable
h c bhatiaDec 25
the incident and the subsequent developments are shame and demands a
critical and urgent review of the process and the extent. Rathore is
of a worst kind of a black sheep.
Gargi HotaDec 25
all ppl involved. the cbi personals who handled the case.the
politicians who protected them the school wich expled her .the court
ppl who delayed the jugment for 19 years.each of them is resposible
for abbetment.each of them has played a part in driving ruchika to
death.and each of them should face the nations wrath.
AmitDec 25
Barkha, there are people like Ram Juth-batanii who are responsible for
such callous attitude in our society. I saw him speaking on your show
only and he says nobody has a right to utter a single word once court
has given its verdict. Thats contempt of "honourable" court. I dont
see any reason why people should not stop trusting our legal system.
Atleast till now there was Judiciary on which a layman could depend on
for justice, but not anymore. Media will have to do little bit more to
stop producing more Jesicas, Priyadarshinis, Ruchika, Kataras and dont
know how many much more unreported cases.
parijat shuklaDec 25
things should change, and sooner should they change.
Anil GoswamiDec 25
JINHEIN NAAZ HAI HIND PER WO KAHAAN HAI..... WE R A GUTLESS
RACE ..lets weep bkoz nothing is going 2
change...jasika,pridarshni,nitishkatara...TV TRP's ..we will forget as
always happened in the past.
WitanDec 25
Dear Madam Barkha , Whatever opinion you want to express about the
shocking affair has been obscured by the dust-bunnies of your stilted
verbosity. for instance, the first paragraph of your essay could be
removed and you could have come straight to the point. It would have
been appropriate if you had done some genuine investigative reporting,
and had thrown light, for example, on how "Rathore kept rising up the
ranks of the police force". He did not climb up on his own, but was
"elevated". Actually, similar things are happening in almost all
organizations of the State, including research institutions. The fact
of the matter is that anyone in India who has the support of dirty
politicians can get away with murder -- and worse. No doubt Rathore's
is an extreme case, but it DIRECTLY affected only a few individuals,
not the entire nation. Fraud committed by persons holding high public
offices harms the entire nation, and there are instances where such
persons have been receiving "promotions" and even life-long sinecures
even after having been thoroughly exposed. And, in a parallel with
Rathore, they have all tormented the persons (including
whistleblowers) that have dared to protest.
Smita MishraDec 25
Its high time that people like us keep our eyes closed towards thing
happening around us, and believe that some one will take charge of
it.....lets wake up and understand our responsibility else tomorrow it
might be our daughter's turn
OnlookerDec 25
Barkha you are spot on. Just a comment: Is there any person there to
remove Rathore smile? Answer is big NO. So what we are taking about?.
Ruchica is no more, herfamily suffered and Rathore lived 20 years of
happiness. Would there be justice ever, guess what it may take another
20 years. By then Rothore might have lived his life full of grins. Why
JUDGES ARE IGNORANT? WHY WE WAKE UP AFTER 20 YEARS? WHY PEOPLE LIKE
RATHORE HAVE GRIN On? WHY COMMON MAN IS ROBED of HIS RIGHTS? WHAT
DEMOCRACY or HYPOCARCY WE STAND fOR?
It is sad but truth is justice is always denied to common man.
Modern India may have advanced tech and rich enough but is crippled by
same diseases it had before.
Need a changeDec 25
Very true Barkha. I was expecting a colunm from your side on this , I
alsow expressed my views on another news in Hindustan times that you
should be the one to take over this story and bring justice to a girl
who lost her innocence and then her life , just because a power
paedophile wanted to have his nasty adventures on her. Well his father
has been going through hell for last 20 years. In my view he should
have shot Rather and would have got 14 years in jail and that would
have been better. In our judicial system , the law is blind and so one
should take law in their own hands now.
PankajDec 25
This SMILE has to go away otherwise a billion people of India must
weep.
Dipankar SenguptaDec 25
Barkha, a Salute from a 59 years old father of a 24 years old
daughter. I can feel the pain of Subhash and I can see your fighting
spirit once again.
Yes, it is not just a molestation case. It is much much bigger than
that and probably it is as big as any crime against whole human race
with magnitude similar to recent incidents of Bosnia, Rwanda, Somali
to old incidents of Stalin and Himler. All these cases one thing was
in common i.e. a powerful uniformed man with gun and gang can remain
above law.
But the most painful situation is that how such thing can happen in
modern INDIA again and again? And we call India as a biggest
democratic country?
Once again thank you Barkha for your courage.
Hats off to you.
shabnamDec 25
I think the media should be more aggressive,when his family sees him
on TV everyday,maybe they'll be ashamed enough to drive him to
suicide!! was he a citizen if islamic country,he would have is head
chopped off! pretty barbaric,but so was his crime.
AALAM SINGHDec 25
yes I MUST BE SNATCHED WITH SAME RUTHLESSNESS.
ramakrishnaDec 25
To all Punjab/HAryana residents :
MIGRATE to a CIVILIZED country as soon as you can
That this can happen is the last straw
Migrate even to PAKISTAN, at least there, the taliban will cut the
bastards balls
ramakrishnaDec 25
where was the Press the last 19 years ?
At least now Keep this issue in the front burner till the bastards is
wiped out, not just his smile
Interview his wife, his kids, give them coverage:
Let them know that whild they had it easy, Ruchikas family was going
thru hell and she DIED
from his harssament
Keep THIS ISSUE ALIVE!!
sanjay duhanDec 25
i think its time for the heads to roll now. it should give message to
people that law can catch up with them even after 19 years. Those
people who helped rathore in his tirade against the family should be
brought to book now, That SI who slapped 6 cases should be brought to
book, the principal of the school who threw ruchika out of school
should be asked questions.chautala should be asked why rathore was
recommended for president medal when a case was going on against
rathore.hats off to the politicians of my india mahaan--look what n d
tiwari is doing in rajbhawan with 3 young girls.
uma kantDec 25
Rathore is just tip of iceberg.He alone could not have caused the
damage to the child.He had a system (politicians,beurocrats,policemen)
to intimidate andfrustrate the victim and her family.
Politicians, beurocrats policemen and journalists CAN investigate and
FIND out who were helping Rathore and how and whydid they help
him .These efforts will stop many more RATHORS from harming the
society
The system has nabbed one RATHORE ,the system should use energy to
find remaining RATHORS.Entire energy be not used in removing smile
from ONE RATHORE
When the defectivearea is large hammering on one place will not
suffice.The blow should be on a larger area.
SakthiDec 25
The smile should definitely go... Make a movement out of this and Get
the new law enacted in Parliament that 1) protects young minor girls/
boys of sexual molestation 2) Special courts to be set up 3) Cases
completed in a time bound manner 4)Double the punishment in case it is
committed by Police, Bureaucrats etc. And finally make this law named
after Ruchika and her friend (she is a Bharat Ratna).
Now,Do the nominated Prime Minister, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi,
Sushma Swaraj, Advani et al. have anything to do on this? Are they
joining this people's movement to make a new law?
Dr S GuptaDec 25
HE should be stoned to death and Chuatala should go to Jail
viraat harshDec 25
rathore is smiling on the judicial system of our country... mocking us
all in the face.. THE SMILE SHOULD GO...
kuldeepDec 25
Go for it Barkha. Make it happen. This gizzard should be locked up for
life.
RajeshDec 25
Politicians are corrupt, bureaucrats are corrupt, police are corrupt,
judiciary is a joke and we call India a Democracy. That in itself is a
joke. Democracy is supposed to promote dignity and pride but all it
has done is allowed Rathores to flourish. There are countless of these
animals roaming around shielded by the very people who are supposed to
protect. The time has come when people of India have to rise and take
matters in their own hands. Don't wait for
the so called custodians of the people and law to come to your aid.
What a SHAME.
And by the way when will New Delhi make a comment on this. Maybe it
doesn't affect them as Ruchika was not their child.
SwarnabhDec 25
This is exactly the kind of journalism we need. The current situation
in our society calls for something very drastic, the hopelessness of
our law and order system makes one wish for spontaneous vigilantism.
Jayant K Yadav,SwedenDec 25
That smile will only go if he himself is raped by other prisoners
while serving.
Gurpreet SinghDec 25
Barkha, you are doing an excellent job with highlighting the issue.
"That smile has to go" and the only thing that can make it possible is
the people power backed with the media. Lets show the "power" of our
democracy that can bring guilty under the rightful hammer of the law.
Hoping that justice prevails in this case!!! (Though, I do know its
somewhat difficult in India. A pen is rarely mightier than the sword.)
Abhishek Dec 25
In this sorry state of affairs shall we balme the government or our
justice system which has become mockery in it self....i wonder why is
it that it fails all the time with the rich and powerful....is
'equality before the law' just an illusion, a mockery of every citizen
of this country??? when will justice reach the common man??? As for
Rathore or any other molestor and rapists alike any sentence set by he
law is too meager...he should be hanged to death to serve as an
example for other of their breed. Only then will the SMILE go.
Subeer VermaDec 25
Very sensitive and incisive.
The problem is that the politician/bureaucrat/police nexus is so
deeply entrenched in our system of governance that it requires a top-
down cleansing which is going to be arduous.
Subhash Girhotra's courage and perseverance is exemplary - he will get
justice.
Together we can ...
Rajen KaushalDec 25
Firstly, compliments to Media for raking up such issues and we hope
court will take sue moto like in Jessica Lal case to punish the Ravans
in present society. All the Chief Ministers who did not give
permission to prosecute the blurred DGP and even promoted him should
be brought to the law and given some punishment. After all any
Chautala or Bhajan Lal should not be above the law. Also suggest Media
set up some money collection fund for such cases and support the
families in fighting the legal battle.
All the sympathy to Mr. Girhotra for the loss he has suffered and
thanks to Prakash family for standing and supporting the battle
against the mighty and proved no one is above law.
Mr. Rathore being a senior Govt. Servant should confess him misdeeds
and repent by taking adequate punishment. CBI should also be
questioned for not labelling abettment to suicide charge in the case.
Wajda TabassumDec 25
Barkha u are right how in india we are fine with these horrific
event...it is not new we know that..it has to stop...
Raman JudgeDec 25
Yes that smile has to go from both faces. In fact Mrs Rathore is more
at fault. She not only supported a criminal, lived with herbut also
fought her case. She is a disgrace on womenhood.
vipin tyagiDec 25
If common man in India keeps on getting justice the same way as
Ruchika did, then I am afraid to say that Maoist ideology (revenge
with bullet) currently restricted to 4 states in India will spread all
across India in no time. My blood is boiling with anger so much that I
myself feel like gunning down Rathore and all the bastards who helped
him. Also I have a stern warning for Hooda govt in Haryana that If you
do not implement POLICE REFORMS urgently to prevent these cases from
happening again, then you will also rot in hell.
vipin tyagiDec 25
If common man in India keeps on getting justice the same way as
Ruchika did, then I am afraid to say that Maoist ideology (revenge
with bullet) currently restricted to 4 states in India will spread all
across India in no time. My blood is boiling with anger so much that I
myself feel like gunning down Rathore and all the bastards who helped
him. Also I have a stern warning for Hooda govt in Haryana that If you
do not implement POLICE REFORMS urgently to prevent these cases from
happening again, then you will also rot in hell.
Shafique Ahmad, KuwaitDec 25
I agreed With writter. That smile has to go. We all Indian have to
make sure that he should get appropriate and exemplary punishmesnt and
others who try to save him. Pls i have humble request media must keep
the matter alive till it's rightfull conclusion.
Sanjay UvachDec 25
Former DGP Rathore convicted of molesting a teenager, was smiling ear
to ear, on coming out of the court. We need to wipe the smile off his
face. Register your dis-satisfaction with the verdict by commenting at
http://bit.ly/7xWJ05
Fateh BajwaDec 25
Please don't let this matter die down.........the media must use all
it's resources and continue to keep the matter alive till the case
reaches it's rightful conclusion..........appropriate and exemplary
punishment for Rathore........just seeing this criminal on TV gives me
the creeps.
Fateh BajwaDec 25
Please don't this matter die down.........the media must use all it's
resources and continue to keep the matter alive till the case reaches
it's rightful conclusion..........appropriate and exemplary punishment
for Rathore........just seeing this criminal on TV gives me the
creeps.
alok singhDec 25
Don"t let any of those go free,it is media who has to take lead when
government, judiciary and executive fails.
ArjunDec 25
I think in Ruchika Case we need to act also on those who helped the
culprit manipulate the system:
1) The Tennis Association that dismissed her
2) The School that expelled her
3) The Police Officers who filed false cases against Ruchika's Brother
of Car Theft & illegally detained him for 2 Months
4) The concerned officers who harrased Aradhan's father by Transfering
him
5) The Politicians who helped him( the Culprit) move up inspite of his
crime
6) AND all those who raised questions about the character of a 14 year
old child (SHAME ON THEM
jaiDec 25
I hope one day we indian realise that how coward we have become that
we can't satnd up for justice,
R HDec 25
Forget about fighting against terrorism! We need to fight against such
criminals because for a girl child or even for a woman this this
nothing but "TERROR" ! How can one escape so easily !
VishunjDec 25
Will it ever happen? I used to wonder if our movies exaggerate these
things but, for several years now I have believed that they actually
understate the reality. Coz reality is even more horrid and horrifying
than shown in the movies as there is no justice in the end in
reality!!
chhotemianinshallah
Press Trust Of India
New Delhi, December 26, 2009
First Published: 15:01 IST(26/12/2009)
Last Updated: 15:10 IST(26/12/2009)
The Centre has sought a detailed report from Andhra Pradesh Government
in the wake of a sting operation purportedly showing state Governor ND
Tiwari in a compromising position with three women.
Home Ministry sources said that Sate Chief Secretary Ramakant Reddy
had been asked to send a detailed report about the allegations made
against the Governor.
The sources said the Ministry would be taking a view only after the
report was submitted.
After the sting operation was telecast yesterday by the ABN Andhra
Jyothi channel, the Raj Bhavan approached the Andhra Pradesh High
Court and got a restraint order on the channel from airing the
footage. The Raj Bhavan termed the clipping as fabricated and a
"tissue of lies."
chhotemianinshallah
KV Ramana / DNA
Saturday, December 26, 2009 2:01 IST
Hyderabad: A Telugu news channel on Friday aired the video footage of
an elderly man in a sexual encounter with three women, throwing Andhra
Pradesh into a tizzy. The channel, which had advertised extensively
about the video earlier, claimed that the person in the CD was
governor ND Tiwari, 86.
Soon after the video was aired, women's groups protested in front of
the governor's residence on Friday. While the People's Organisation
for Women (POW) demanded his ouster, Telugu Desam chief N Chandrababu
Naidu sought an immediate inquiry into the event and also demanded the
governor's recall.
The footage aired by the channel ABN Andhra Jyoti showed an elderly
man, in bed with three middle-aged women, all without clothes. The man
in the visuals, however, had a cloth covering the upper half of the
body up to the neck.
A pre-show publicity ad of the channel, which is part of a media house
that also owns a newspaper, said that it would be disclosing "lustful
activities in Raj Bhavan". It went on to describe the person as "a
freedom fighter..., a senior Congress man, a person wearing a shining
Gandhi cap..., and whose speeches present the age-old value system"
before declaring him to be none other than the governor.
After reading this, the viewers were glued to the channel. The
governor's office approached the courts to restrain the channel from
showing the visuals.
By the time the court intervened and issued injunction orders, the
visuals had been aired for nearly one hour. Shell-shocked with the
narration and the visuals, viewers were disappointed when the channel
pulled out the visuals.
The channel management, too, was trying to approach the court for a
vacation of the injunction orders. With the courts remaining closed
due to Christmas, the channel staff apparently tried to approach the
chief justice at his residence. Till late on Friday, the channel was
waiting for a vacation of the orders.
According to sources, a woman named Radhika approached the channel
with the CDs.
While Radhika alleged that she had been providing women to Raj Bhavan
for the last one month, she said it was done only after they were
provided jobs and she a mining lease.
"She approached us through a common contact. We decided to air the
visuals after talking to Radhika," a senior functionary of the channel
told DNA.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_86-yr-old-andhra-governor-targeted-in-sleaze-cds_1327605
chhotemianinshallah
PTI Friday, December 25, 2009 22:30 IST
New Delhi: Congress today downplayed the alleged sex scandal involving
Andhra Pradesh governor ND Tiwari, saying since the matter is sub
judice, and it would be inappropriate for the party to comment on the
issue.
"Since the matter is sub judice, it would be inappropriate to comment.
The veracity of the material should be independently verified,"
Congress spokesman Manish Tewari told PTI.
On whether the Governor's post should be above such controversies,
Tewari said, the material could even be morphed.
A video footage allegedly showing ND Tiwari with some women was
telecast today in a local TV channel in the state. The governor has
himself rubbished the tapes and a case has been filed in the high
court.
chhotemianinshallah
PTI Friday, December 25, 2009 22:11 IST
Chandigarh: With former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore getting off with a
lighter sentence in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, the clamour
to charge him with abetment of suicide charge has grown louder.
In fact, an attempt was made in this regard and an application for
addition of offence under Section 306 of Indian Penal Code (IPC)
(abetment to suicide) along with offence under Section 354
(molestation) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the
modesty of woman) of IPC was moved by the applicant Madhu Prakash on
October 8, 2001.
Madhu Parkash's daughter Anuradha was an eyewitness to the incident.
This application was allowed by the court on October 23, 2001, and the
court started the proceedings, but a criminal revision petition was
filed by Rathore in the Punjab and Haryana high court which accepted
the revision in 2002.
Thereafter, accused was served the notice of accusation under Section
354 (molestation) of IPC on March 17, 2003 to which he pleaded not
guilty and claimed regular trial which commenced about 13 years after
the molestation of Ruchika, who committed suicide in 1993.
Before that Madhu Parkash had to move various courts to get an FIR
registered with the Haryana police which also came about nine years
after the incident.
The FIR was registered after over nine years on the basis of a
memorandum dated August 16, 1990 submitted by SC Girhotra, father of
Ruchika and others, addressed to the financial commissioner and
secretary, home in which the incident of molestation of the tennis
player was detailed.
Later, a complaint was submitted to the then home secretary of Haryana
JK Duggal.
Duggal after discussing the matter with the then state home minister
on August 20, 1990 asked the DGP RR Singh to probe the matter.
Local special district magistrate SK Joshi at the direction of Duggal
also visited the spot "to hear the grievances of the parents and the
member players" on August 16, 1990.
After conducting the enquiry into the incident DGP RR Singh concluded
that whatever Ruchika "had stated about her molestation by Rathore was
based on true facts and that he was of the considered opinion that a
cognisable offence was made out".
Singh, therefore, had recommended registration of case under
appropriate sections of Indian Penal Code and had forwarded his
enquiry report dated September 3, 1990 to the home secretary.
Ruchika committed suicide by consuming poison on December 28, 1993 and
died the following day.
Later, since the family had expressed lack of faith in the
investigation of the Haryana police, the case was handed over to the
CBI which established that Rathore, IPS as president of Haryana Lawn
Tennis Association, molested Ruchika on August 12, 1990 knowing that
his act was likely to outrage the modesty of Ruchika.
Rathore thus committed the offence punishable under Section 354 IPC
(molestation), therefore, he be summoned and tried according to law,
the CBI said. The regular trial first commenced at Ambala, then it
moved to Patiala in Punjab and finally to Chandigarh where it
concluded this week.
chhotemianinshallah
DNA Correspondent
Saturday, December 26, 2009 2:15 IST
Mumbai: Two gruesome murders took place in Thane city on Thursday
night. In one case, a seven-year-old girl was raped and brutally
murdered at Lokmanya Nagar pada number 4, while in another incident, a
25-year-old youth was killed with a sharp weapon at Kasarvadavli along
Ghodbunder road.
Ritika Yadav (name changed), a resident of pada number 4 and a student
of Std II, was playing with her friends on Thursday evening near the
foothills at Lokmanya Nagar.
"Chandrashekhar Gupta, who live in the same locality, lured Yadav with
chocolates to a secluded part of the hill and raped her," said Ashok
Deshbhratar, deputy commissioner of police (Zone 1), Thane.
Gupta, who panicked after seeing Yadav bleed profusely, decided to
kill her to prevent her from reporting the incident to her parents. He
stoned her to death and abandoned the body at the site. Yadav's
parents filed a missing complaint on Thursday evening. At around 8 am
on Friday morning, the residents came across the girl's body.
The police learnt from the locals that Gupta was the last to meet
Yadav. While interrogating him, the police found bloodstains on his
shirt. He was arrested immediately thereafter, and further
investigations are on. Gupta had married last year, but was staying
alone since his wife was at her maternal home to deliver a child.
In the other incident, a 25-year-old man, Ashrul Shaikh, was found
brutally murdered with a knife near a construction site at
Kasarvadavli along Ghodbunder road on Friday morning. "The body had
deep cuts along the neck. The knife used to kill the youth was found
near the body," informed Deshbhratar.
The accused had wrapped the knife in a Bengali newspaper dated
December 22. The newspaper is published only in Kolkata. It is now
suspected that the accused must have left Kolkata on December 22,
reached Mumbai on December 23 or 24, after which he must have killed
the youth. The police have found no sign of robbery, and hence suspect
the murder must have taken place due to an internal dispute.
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_7-year-old-raped-and-murdered-in-thane_1327582
chhotemianinshallah
PTI Friday, December 25, 2009 23:06 IST
Raigarh: A man has been arrested for allegedly sacrificing a 7-year-
old girl for want of a child here, police said today.
The accused Tejram Manjhi, 30, allegedly kidnapped the victim Santoshi
from the Adivasi-dominated Chirramuda village during a local festival
here yesterday, and strangulated her in a nearby forest,
superintendent of police, Raigarh, Rahul Sharma said.
He later offered the body of the girl to the local deity. Learning of
the incident, the villagers handed him to the police, he said.
Later, Tejram told police that he was advised by a villager, who
practised black magic, that he would be blessed with a child if he
sacrificed a girl.
Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh expressed regret over the
incident, and said the guilty should be severely punished.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_man-sacrifices-girl-for-a-child-in-chhattisgarh_1327576
chhotemianinshallah
Saturday, December 26, 2009 3:58 IST
For the most part, people have faith in the Indian judiciary for being
fair, even if the process is interminably slow. But cases like this
one which grips national attention and severely shake that faith. Many
will have forgotten the original incident which took place in 1990 --
a 14-year-old girl, Ruchika Girhotra, a rising tennis player accuses a
senior Haryana police officer of molesting her in his office. The girl
and her family are harassed to the point that she kills herself in
1993. The officer, Shambhu Pratap Singh Rathore, rises to become a
director general of police. Now, 19 years later, Rathore is sentenced
to six months by a CBI court.
The case has every element to disgust civil society -- a young girl, a
hapless family, a powerful policeman backed by powerful politicians
and a corrupt system. The rage which we see now is similar to that
which grew around the Jessica Lal case -- why is justice so difficult
for the common man when the perpetrator is close to power centres?
What happened to equality before the law and justice for all? Do we
lose faith in the system completely or is there an answer?
In Ruchika's case, the matter reached as far as it did because the
girl's best friend never gave up. All the threats of the police force,
the attempts to scuttle and hush up the case, the fears felt by the
family were channelled into getting a result. The six-month sentence
is a slap in the face for all that effort, but a movement is now on to
re-open the case.
The extent of the corruption of the system ought not to be a shock any
more -- but in some sense it is heartening that we are still outraged.
We know that people are innocent until proven guilty, but when a
person accused of a crime attempts to harass his accusers and subvert
the system then he commits greater sins that what he was originally
accused of. It is obviously naïve to expect a police officer to uphold
the law but the manner in which the law was ignored in this case shows
the Haryana police and government in extremely poor light.
Like the Jessica Lal case, Ruchika's untimely death and her family's
trauma have become one more lodestone by which the average Indian
citizen -- the aam aadmi -- can judge the system. The onus is now on
the police force, the government and the judiciary to prove that
justice can and will be done in India, that the victim is not always
punished twice and that the powerful cannot get away with murder by
using their connections. The picture of Rathore laughing as he left
the courtroom has cut deep into the public consciousness. The powerful
have to accept that this is no laughing matter.
http://www.dnaindia.com/opinion/editorial_fight-for-justice_1327629
Sid Harth
Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi, December 26, 2009
First Published: 19:52 IST(26/12/2009)
Last Updated: 19:53 IST(26/12/2009)
Sex scandals are not new to Indian politics. Veteran Congress
politician Narayan Dutt Tiwari, who resigned on Saturday as the Andhra
Pradesh governor after a sex tape purportedly showed him with three
women, is a new entry in a list of such sleaze that has littered the
political landscape.
Barely a week back, a general secretary of the Congress party in
Kerala, Rajmohan Unnithan, 57, was granted bail after he was held on
charges of immoral trafficking for being found in the company of a
woman under suspicious circumstances.
Sleaze raised its ugly head during the April-May Lok Sabha elections,
when film star-turned-politician Jaya Prada alleged that rival leader
Azam Khan was distributing nude pictures of her, to ensure her defeat
in the polls.
She alleged Khan "distributed, doctored and morphed" pictures and
posters of her that appeared as though she had posed in the nude.
The Kashmir Valley was rocked in May 2006 after police unearthed a
scam allegedly involving high profile politicians and bureaucrats. The
case drags on in a court. The bitter memories of the scam returned
this summer afresh after allegations that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
figured in the list of the accused, forcing him to resign.
However, he withdrew his resignation after the Central Bureau of
Investigation said his name had not cropped up.
Scams have also hit the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In
December 2005, a sting operation forced the party's general secretary
and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) insider Sanjay Joshi to quit his
party after a video CD allegedly showed him romping with an
unidentified woman.
Amarmani Tripathi, a politician and erstwhile cabinet minister in
Uttar Pradesh, was arrested in September 2003 in connection with the
murder of poetess Madhumita Shukla, with whom he allegedly had an
affair, and who was brutally murdered.
After investigations revealed that she was carrying a foetus that
matched the DNA of Tripathi, the Supreme Court rejected his bail plea,
and he is currently in jail.
Former Utarakhand revenue minister Harak Singh Rawat had to resign in
2003 amid allegations of his links with an unwed mother. Opposition
members had raised the issue of his alleged affair with the Assamese
woman who later gave birth to a child.
In 2001, news portal Tehelka in its "Operation West End", sought to
expose corruption underlying India's defence contracts. Transcript of
video footage showed a treasurer of the Samata Party offering to
arrange call girls to undercover journalists.
Even some army officers came under the scanner when they were filmed
demanding sex with prostitutes from Tehelka journalists in return for
defence contracts.
In October 1997, one of the prominent leaders in Kerala, P.K.
Kunjalikutty was accused of being a kingpin of what came to be
notoriously known as the "ice-cream parlour scandal".
An ice-cream parlour in Kozhikode was allegedly used as a front for a
sex trade and lured girls into it. The sexual exploitation of minors
also came up. Kunjalikutty was the state's former minister from the
Muslim League. Some comrades of the Communist Party of India-Marxist
were also named.
In 1978, then defence minister Jagjivan Ram's son Suresh was shown
with a woman in a photograph that was published in monthly magazine
Surya. Now BJP MP Maneka Gandhi, daughter-in-law of Indira Gandhi, was
then the editor of the magazine.
The scandal involving the minister's son rocked the nation and put an
end to Jagjivan Ram's political career, who before that had been a
strong contender for the prime minister's post.
Sid Harth
Press Trust Of India
New Delhi, December 26, 2009
First Published: 16:54 IST(26/12/2009)
Last Updated: 20:23 IST(26/12/2009)
ND Tiwari on Saturday resigned as Andhra Pradesh Governor in the wake
of a raging controversy after a sting operation purportedly showed him
in a compromising position with three women.
86-year-old Tiwari, a former chief minister of undivided Uttar Pradesh
and Uttarakhand, sent his resignation to President Pratibha Patil on
"health grounds", said a press communique from the Raj Bhavan.
The resignation came a day after Telugu television channel 'ABN Andhra
Jyothi' aired a footage captured in a sting operation of an elderly
man with three women in Raj Bhavan in a compromising position, which
the channel said was of Tiwari.
The Raj Bhavan denied it and promptly approached the High Court on
Friday and got a restraint order on the channel from telecasting the
footage.
The sting operation evoked a string of demands from political parties,
like TDP, CPM, CPI and BJP, that he be sacked. Women's organisations
also staged demonstrations deploring the Governor's behaviour and
demanded that he step down immediately.
The Congress welcomed the resignation saying Tiwari has taken the
appropriate decision. Party sources said the Governor of some
neighbouring state could be given additional charge of Andhra Pradesh
for some time.
chhotemianinshallah
TNN 23 December 2009, 11:19pm IST
HUBLI: Two girls, rescued by the police from a human trafficking ring
recently, have disappeared from a rescue home near here on
Wednesday.
According to the police, the girls from West Bengal and two local
girls were missing from the rescue home of NGO Mahila Sanrakshana
Kendra in Gabbur in the outskirts of the city. In their complaint,
Kendra authorities said that when the attendants entered the rooms in
the morning, they found the door was ajar and the girls missing.
Hubli police had recently rescued the girls and arrested two persons
in connection with the case. The police had no idea whether the girls
had run away or whether they were kidnapped. A special team has been
formed to trace them, the police added.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hubli/Rescued-girls-escape/articleshow/5371065.cms
chhotemianinshallah
IANS 26 December 2009, 04:02pm IST
PANAJI: The taxi driver who attempted to rape two Russian women in Goa
on Christmas night had also hit one of the women with a baseball bat
to prevent their escape, according to their written complaint to the
police.
The Anjuna police have registered a case of outraging modesty not
amounting to molestation, rather than a case of attempted rape.
In their written complaint to the police which IANS has access to, the
two women also said that they went about pounding the doors of nearby
homes in Anjuna for help in the early hours Christmas day, but no one
came to help them.
"When the driver threatened us, we immediately got down from the car
and started running. He removed a baseball bat from the car and hit me
on my right leg but we still managed to run and escape them," one of
the women has said in her complaint, adding that they tried to seek
refuge from nearby homes in Anjuna, to no avail.
"Nobody came out from their house and we heard some sounds from inside
asking us to go away. We then started running through the field to the
other houses for help. We lay down under the tree and therefore the
driver could not find us. But they continued the search, so we waited
for sunrise," the victim said, adding that the driver Pramod Shirodkar
was later joined by two other accomplices who were helping him track
them down.
Shirodkar was arrested early Saturday morning, but has been charged
with outraging the modesty of a woman, rather than attempt to rape as
the women complained of.
Legal representative of the Russian consulate Vikram Varma has said
that the statements of the victims would be sent to the Russian
consulate officials.
Shirodkar had allegedly tried to rape the two Russian women who
attended a Christmas party at a popular night club in Goa in the early
hours of Friday. After agreeing to drop them to their hotel for Rs.300
at about 2.30 a.m, he instead took them to Anjuna beach, where he and
an accomplice tried to rape them, the police said.
This is not the first instance when Goa police officials have tried to
play down complaints affecting women tourists.
It comes less than a month after officials watered down a rape
complaint filed by another Russian woman against a local politician of
'attempted rape'. The case was transferred to the crime branch after
it triggered a media frenzy.
chhotemianinshallah
OUR BUREAU
Security personnel deployed at the Raj Bhavan in Hyderabad on
Saturday. (PTI)
Hyderabad/New Delhi, Dec. 26: Andhra Pradesh governor Narain Datt
Tiwari resigned today on health grounds, a day after a Telugu news
channel aired a report alleging a sex scandal at the Raj Bhavan.
This is the first time anyone holding such high office has resigned in
this country over an alleged sex scandal.
The Congress, which he had joined in 1963, said in Delhi: “Keeping in
view the high standards in public life, he has resigned. We welcome
his decision.”
Although the governor’s office cited health reasons for the decision,
it was clear the party was not buying it. Raj Bhavan sources too said
Tiwari, 86, could not have continued in his post given the serious
nature of the allegations.
The scandal erupted after Telugu television channel ABN Andhra Jyothi
yesterday aired what it claimed were photographs taken in a sting
operation.
It also telecast a purported phone conversation with a woman who said
she had helped send women from Delhi and other places to work at
Hyderabad’s Raj Bhavan.
The governor’s office had acted swiftly to get a high court gag on the
report titled Raj Bhawanlo Rasa Leela.
A source in the state home minister’s office said: “We have got the
photos examined in the forensic laboratory to test whether they were
doctored or morphed.”
After receiving the findings of the lab examination, chief secretary
Ramakanth Reddy sent a report to Delhi on the request of the Union
home ministry, sources said.
The channel had shown a few still photographs, the contents of which
The Telegraph is not disclosing because the matter is in court.
Congress spokesperson Janardhan Dwivedi said in Delhi: “I think he
(Tiwari) does not want to hold an office till it is proved whether it
(the report) is true or false.”
State Congress leaders whispered that they found the episode too
embarrassing to speak on. Congress Working Committee member K. Keshava
Rao led the demand for Tiwari’s scalp.
Not known to take quick decisions, the Congress high command acted
swiftly to extract his resignation.
Despite insisting that the party had no role in deciding the fate of a
governor and that it was for the government to respond, Dwivedi
suggested before the resignation that it was coming.
“Have patience. There is a process to be followed. Those who are
authorised by the Constitution to deal with such matters are doing
their job.”
Dwivedi went to the extent of disowning Tiwari completely. “Anybody
who holds a constitutional post ceases to be a member of a political
party. Tiwariji hence was not a Congress member.”
Sources said the top leadership was rattled by the images, shown for
about half an hour till the gag order took hold, at a time a massive
propaganda about the party’s rich legacy was being planned. The party
is to unveil a nationwide campaign on December 28, its foundation day,
as it enters its 125th year.
A senior leader admitted that a sex scandal was the worst possible
embarrassment for the party on the eve of the foundation day
programme.
The court’s gag order could not squelch public outrage. Women’s forums
staged demonstrations in front of the Raj Bhavan for the second day
today.
Holding placards and raising slogans against the governor, activists
of various groups tried to march towards the Raj Bhavan but were
prevented. Protesters were arrested as they squatted on the busy
Khairatabad crossroads. Although Tiwari was already engulfed in a
scandal over claims that he had sired a son from an illegitimate
affair, he is no ordinary Congressman.
He thrice held the post of the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, became
the first chief minister of Uttarakhand and occupied senior positions
in Delhi.
When the Congress broke during the P.V. Narasimha Rao regime in 1995,
purportedly with the blessings of Sonia Gandhi, the splinter party
(Tiwari Congress) was named after him.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091227/jsp/frontpage/story_11913237.jsp
chhotemianinshallah
OUR BUREAU
SPS Rathore
Dec. 26: The Indian National Lok Dal is correct when it says its
leader Om Prakash Chautala never promoted molester cop S.P.S. Rathore
to director-general of police.
What it has left unsaid is that Chautala had promoted Rathore from DGP-
OSD (police reforms) to state DGP or police chief on October 10, 1999,
three months after becoming chief minister for the third time.
Haryana police has several DGPs, and Rathore had been promoted to the
rank from that of inspector-general in 1994 — when Chautala was out of
power, as emphasised by his party recently.
Yet police sources and an archival search have confirmed that
Rathore’s promotion to police chief, from the relatively insignificant
post in charge of reforms, did come during Chautala’s tenure.
Chautala’s party also claims that Rathore was removed from his post
after the CBI charge-sheeted him on November 16, 2000, over the August
1990 molestation of 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra who later committed
suicide.
But government sources said the administration had neither removed nor
suspended Rathore but merely sent him on leave on December 5 —after
all of 19 days had passed since the chargesheet was filed.
It could not be confirmed whether or when Rathore, who is now 68,
resumed office as police chief before retiring from the service in
2002.
No police officer is willing to go on record on Rathore, and the
force’s official website doesn’t carry his profile although it has the
bio-data of all past DGPs barring two others. No one was willing to
explain why, or to reveal whether the bio-data were removed after
Rathore’s recent conviction and six-month sentence.
That Rathore — accused of harassing the Girhotra family following the
molestation complaint — was in charge of police reforms is ironical.
No one could say what sort of reforms he had proposed and whether the
force had adopted any of them.
Everyone in Rathore’s immediate family is a lawyer. His wife Abha is a
senior advocate in Punjab and Haryana High Court and both their
children are advocates — the son in Mumbai and the daughter in Delhi.
Rathore’s daughter and Ruchika studied in the same class --- section A
of Class X — in Chandigarh’s Sacred Heart School.
Ruchika’s friend Aradhana Prakash, the sole eyewitness to the
molestation, has demanded punishment for the school for expelling
Ruchika — ostensibly for unpaid fees — at a time the Girhotras were
being harassed by the police.
Media reports, however, have quoted state education secretary Ram
Nivas as saying the Girhotras must lodge a complaint first. The family
could not be contacted.
Hooda assurance
CPM Rajya Sabha MP Brinda Karat today met Haryana chief minister
Bhupinder Singh Hooda in Delhi and extracted a promise to re- open the
case.
“The CM has promised to reopen the case and include Indian Penal Code
sections that relate to abetment of suicide,” she said.
But Karat, who was accompanied by Aradhana’s parents and rights
activists, said Hooda had been non-committal on two of her demands.
One, a probe to unmask the politicians and officials who had shielded
Rathore during the tenures of various Haryana governments. Two,
dismissal of the police and government officials who had harassed
Ruchika’s family.
Hooda later told the media: “I think the case should be revisited. My
sympathies are with Ruchika’s family. I have asked my DGP to provide
security to her family. The Union law minister has said the case will
be re-examined.”
Notice to Rathore
The Union home ministry has slapped a show-cause notice on Rathore
asking why his police medal should not be taken away and pension
reduced for bringing the service into disrepute.
Rathore was awarded the medal for meritorious service on August 15,
1985, but was never considered for the President’s Police Medal.
“The matter will be placed before an awards committee on January 4.
(Its) recommendation will go to the President,” Union home secretary
G.K. Pillai said in New Delhi, according to PTI.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091227/jsp/nation/story_11913019.jsp
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Panaji, Dec. 26 (PTI): Two Russian girls who escaped an alleged rape
attempt by a taxi driver on Anjuna beach have said they knocked on
doors seeking help from local residents as the accused chased them,
but were turned away.
Olga Tyurina, 29, and Irina Babayan, 25, said in their complaint that
the taxi driver tried to rape them at an isolated spot on Anjuna, the
beach where British teenager Scarlett Keeling was found dead last year
after suspected rape.
The Russian girls said they ran towards a cluster of houses. “When the
driver threatened us, we immediately got down from the car and started
running. He took out a baseball bat from the car and hit my right leg,
but we still managed to run,” Olga said in her statement to Anjuna
police.
“We ran towards some houses and knocked on the door of one of them and
requested the occupants to call the police. However, nobody came out
from the house and we heard someone from inside asking us to go away.
We then started running through a field to the other houses for help,”
Olga said.
The complaint said Pramod Shirodkar, the driver who was arrested
today, was following them and he was joined by two motorcycle-borne
persons, possibly his accomplices.
“We lay under a tree and therefore the driver could not find us. They
went on searching as we waited for sunrise,” the complaint said. The
incident happened early on December 25.
Goa police have arrested Shirodkar on the charge of eve-teasing and
threatening the Russians.
The police caught Shirodkar after tracking down his address from the
taxi number provided by the girls.
The driver has been booked under sections 509, 323 and 506 of the IPC
for eve-teasing, causing hurt and threatening, the police said,
without giving details about the two motorcycle-borne persons.
“We are still investigating,” said a police officer. “How can we
divulge everything?”
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091227/jsp/nation/story_11913150.jsp
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PTI Saturday, December 26, 2009 20:49 IST
Jalna: A brother-in-law today set afire his minor sister-in-law as she
refused to satisfy his sexual desire, police sources said.
The incident occurred at Nutan Vashat area here today. According to
the police sources, the accused, Asim Shaikh Fakir, a resident of
Goregaon in Mumbai, came to his father-in law's house.
After living for a few days, he developed lust towards the 13-year-old
sister-in-law. When members of the family went out of the home, the
accused made sexual advance towards the minor girl. When she refused,
he allegedly poured kerosene on her body and set afire.
She sustained 50% burns and is admitted in the district civil
hospital. Police have arrested Shaikh.
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_man-sets-afire-minor-girl-for-refusing-sex-in-jalna_1327823
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PTI Saturday, December 26, 2009 20:42 IST
Amritsar: A police sub-inspector, formerly deployed in Punjab chief
minister's security, has been booked for allegedly raping a woman on
gun point, forcefully aborting her pregnancy and marrying her,
projecting himself as a bachelor.
The police official was booked at the intervention of the state DGP
after he was approached by the victim with a request that criminal
proceedings be initiated against him.
The woman alleged in her FIR that sub-inspector Mangal Singh, who was
part of the CM's security at the time of committing the crime, raped
her time and again on gun point, making her pregnant.
The accused aborted her pregnancy assuring her that he would marry her
and described himself as a bachelor.
When the marriage was solemnised, his previous marriage came to
light.
The sub-inspector, who was removed from CM's security about two months
back when the victim first drew the DGP's attention to her case, will
soon be arrested as a police party has been dispatched to nab him, SHO
police station D-division Puneet Singh said.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_cop-booked-for-raping-woman-in-amritsar_1327817
chhotemianinshallah
TNN 27 December 2009, 12:54am IST
NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD: A day after his pictures in a sex romp were
flashed in the media, the Centre got veteran Congressman N D Tiwari to
step down as Andhra Pradesh governor, disregarding his claim that he
was a victim of a frame-up.
An embarrassed UPA government decided to ask Tiwari to vacate Raj
Bhavan after a high-level meeting held that pictures purportedly
showing Tiwari in, to put it mildly, the "intimate" company of three
women had rendered his continuation as governor untenable.
The Centre did not even wait for the report that it has sought from
the Andhra Pradesh chief secretary Ramakanth Reddy. The decision was
conveyed to the governor. For his part, Tiwari tried to argue that he
had done no wrong and spoke of a conspiracy -- in line with the
version put out by Raj Bhavan on Friday -- to malign him. He, however,
gave in after realising that the leadership was in no mood to relent.
Curiously, in his resignation to the President, the stalwart cited
"health grounds" as the reason for putting in his papers.
The quick action by the central leadership was designed to put a lid
on the controversy which landed streams of women protesters at the
gates of Raj Bhavan while triggering an avalanche of demands for his
resignation from across the political spectrum.
Coming at a time when passions are running high in Andhra over the
Telangana issue, the unsavoury controversy over the purported
peccadilloes of the governor would have undermined the firefighting
the Centre has been engaged in.
The additional charge of Andhra Raj Bhavan is likely to be given to
the Chhattisgarh governor. The final name may be decided as part of a
larger exercise involving the vacancies in Maharashtra, West Bengal
and Punjab next month.
The media in Hyderabad had flashed purported pictures of the governor
in a compromising position with three women, which created a furore.
While Raj Bhavan denied it and secured a high court injunction against
public airing of footage, it had stirred a controversy which Congress
could not ignore.
A relieved Congress welcomed the resignation. AICC general secretary
Janardan Dwivedi told reporters, "I think he has taken an appropriate
decision keeping in view the high standards of public life. We welcome
it."
While Tiwari has stepped down, the report of the chief secretary will
determine whether there is need for any inquiry into the incident.
Tiwari's exit from the Raj Bhavan is being seen as an unsavoury end to
a glittering career, which has seen him become the chief minister of
Uttar Pradesh thrice and the first elected chief minister of
Uttarakhand besides holding key positions in AICC and at the Centre.
His positioning as a "loyalist" became his calling card over the
years. The gubernatorial assignment was a post-retirement arrangement
for him after Congress lost elections in Uttarakhand.
Tiwari, hailing from Uttarakhand, is expected to proceed to his native
Nainital soon. "The chances of him being rehabilitated elsewhere by
Congress president Sonia Gandhi are very slim right now," said
Congress sources. The party chief was said to be very embarrassed over
the alleged episode and wanted to take immediate damage-control steps,
the sources added. Tiwari had been rehabilitated in Hyderabad's Raj
Bhavan to keep him away from Uttarakhand where he was working against
the local Congress leadership.
His two-year stint as AP governor was largely quiet and non-
controversial. "Tiwari confined himself to functions mostly at Raj
Bhavan and would venture out only when absolutely necessary. He used
to operate through his officer on special duty Aryandra Sharma whom he
had brought along from Uttarakhand. Every file to Tiwari had to be
routed through Sharma and this led to a lot of friction in the
governer's secretariat," sources said.
Tiwari's successor is going to have his hands full because of the
political uncertainty that has prevailed in the state since the death
of chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, with the Telangana agitation
only aggravating the situation.
While Central rule in AP is ruled out at the moment, sources said the
option would have to be explored if Telangana activists refuse to
withdraw their stir and the administration remains paralysed. In such
an event, the UPA has to look for a "political person" who can steer
the administration in a tough situation.
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Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan Saturday December 26, 2009, 04:15 PM
Ok, if you clicked here hoping to see some sleaze then you're going to
be disappointed. If you're that desperate and your tastes are
that ... err ... weird, then I'm sure you've already found and seen
the offending ND Tiwari clip by now. This video by Narendra Singh Negi
however (embedded from YouTube) is a masterpiece of political satire
that was widely available on bootlegged CDs in Uttarakhand many years
ago. Even if you don't understand Garhwali, the video, starring a look-
alike of the AP Governor, is hilarious and the tune is pretty catchy
as well. The references to ND Tiwari as Uttarakhand "murari" (aka
murali, the seductive flute of Lord Krishna) prove that his reputation
was well cemented in his home state.
Note: The person who uploaded the video obviously wants to cash in on
the surge in traffic and has changed the title to "ND Tiwari Sex
Video ...". You can be quite sure that there is nothing graphic in the
contents and it's absolutely safe for work. The audio is badly out of
sync with the video but the fun starts at about 2:30 in the clip.
Enjoy!
Watch Video
Comments:
Subhendu says:
December 26,2009 at 07:08 PM IST
Hi,
I must be honest to say that I was not at all awed , when read the
news, and did nt find it important to go in details.But I was
surprised at the next news that, Mr. Tiwari was forced to resign on
moral ground, and that to on the direction of the president.
I dont know, why the up roar over this matter in the public. The
mayhem should be at his family.
Tell me, what is morality ? In what way , an event
in a personal life proves that? On the ground of sex and fidelity, a
person is answerable to his/her partner, not to a nation.
I understand, forceful sex is mmoral,molestation, rape is immoral.
Corruption is immoral and taking advantage of a position ,
bribing,directly or indirectly and any act against the interest of
nation is highly immoral. But we prefer to blindfold ourselves over
the important issues and find pleasure in pooping into some one's
personal life.
From time immoral,the man kind is involved in incest, extra marital
affair.
Every human in its inner core(except very few), have a desire to be a
play boy.Being sexually moral in many sense is not a dignity, but it
signifies one failing to avail the opportunity.
People find it a easy way to earn cheap popularity by doing such nasty
things. Better they should deploy the effort in some thing productive.
Has a governer , while taking oath , promises to curtail his
polygamous sexual desire? Why so much hue and cry over such an issue?
I feel ashamed on my society's view on morality. Even not in Indian
society, even in west,such double standard prevails.
Mr Tiwari is least known to me,and not at all my ideal. I am speaking
not about him, but our approach and unnecessary reactions.
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(Reply to Subhendu)- liar says:
December 26,2009 at 10:32 PM IST
Offering mining licenses in return for sexual favors is crime and
punishable by law. He had to resign. Also, even in US there was
impeachment bought in the congress against Bill Clinton due to his
improper personal life even though it failed. If you do read, NY
governor resigned last year because of his sexual life. I do not know
which society are you coming from. Public Servants are not just
another random guy, they represent society, state and country and
better is expected from them which includes clean personal life.
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(Reply to liar)- j s says:
December 26,2009 at 11:29 PM IST
Obviously you dont know much about the CLinton-Lewinsky affair and so
you should not be commenting on it. Clinton was not impeached because
of his improper personal life as you say, he was impeached because he
lied while on oath.
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(Reply to liar)- rakesh says:
December 27,2009 at 07:58 AM IST
Bullshit. He did not give any mining licenses. He gave money for sex,
no crime. Also what consenting couple does in their bed room is not
state business. Govt has many things to look for !!!
(Reply to Subhendu)- dutt says:
December 26,2009 at 09:33 PM IST
Its not about his personal life but how can u xcept some one to rule
you who is sleeping with 3 ladies at this age it does not fit in?? We
xpect very decent behavior by people of that age, they have to be
wise, correct, spritual,teachers,guides and care taking not sex-
motivated guys sleeping with 1or 2or 3 ladies, its does not set the
correct xample for the society.Xcepting this act will give a
"Nothings wrong in it" signal to us and guys will end up
sleeping with 30 ladies.
Its true that many want to be like playboys but there is a difference
in wanting and beeing, u may want many things but its not necessary
that all u want is correct. Just because many want to sleep around
does not mean adultry,prostitution,incest,rape is a "ok"
thing to do.
Its about how u control ur self and behave in the right manner rather
than just going out of control and doingt thing which u are not
suppose to do just because u "feel" like doing it.
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(Reply to Subhendu)- pk says:
December 26,2009 at 09:43 PM IST
By the way this man was having threesome in rajbhavan n how do we know
that there was no power play or coercion involved. I don't want to see
this man giving medals to the widows of an armed personnal or giving
scholarships to students. I understand if he enjoys cheeky stuff
that's fine with me then he should not be at such an esteemed
position..I am concerned about his past and don't know what sort of
stuff this pervert have had done all his life while playing a saint..
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(Reply to Subhendu)- dawood sait says:
December 26,2009 at 10:23 PM IST
Just one more hypocrite,thats what is wrong with our sick political
system;just too many corrupt and sick old idiots running the
country.Get rid of theses hypocrites and we will not have all these
problems of fighting over power and many.Just dirty politicians and
same old dirty politics divivding the country in the name of religion
and morality.
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(Reply to Subhendu)- ayyappa says:
December 26,2009 at 10:47 PM IST
Good sting.The public should have not asked for his resignation rather
the tapes should have continued in the TV channels.This would have led
to his heart attack ultimately & have died.Also seeing this
incident every public person would have a fear when trying such
things.
I think such operations should go on and on on both sides.Then only
the society will try to improve.
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(Reply to Subhendu)- srikanth says:
December 26,2009 at 11:23 PM IST
Subhedu, You ideas are true but the lives of the political people are
on the radar of everyone. It is ridiculous for you to say that their
life partner/spouse should be more concerned. When a person takes an
oath of office of the governement, hi is supposed to be like a honest
person respecting the sentiments of people. this moron/rogue has
brought down the values of the governorship. Number one is that this
is a useless position to the democracy of India. Number two, people,
who are dumb, cannot put put more than two steps are sittign in this
position misuing and making it a Senior Citizens home at the cost of
the people. On top of it this rogue has his "other
activities" inside and all out so called uniformed service people
are serving. what a SHAME INDIA. don't we need to put these people's
head(all in the Raj Bhavan) under the train?
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(Reply to srikanth)- Ramesh says:
December 27,2009 at 12:04 AM IST
@ Srikanth - How is being honest ever connected to his/hers personal
sex life? and about the sentiments of people - what about it? there
are 1 billion people in India who have 1 billion sentiments- so which
one would you cater to? There are liberals, conservatives and those
who don't really care regarding this personal controversy. Where do
you draw the line?
Every politician has/have there own personal life and as long as it
doesn't affect his professional functioning - we should care less. Am
sure the rest of the political fraternity are no saints. There are few
things we should learn to let go and more things we should be
concerned about- This falls in the former category.
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(Reply to Subhendu)- VAsu says:
December 27,2009 at 04:54 AM IST
I completely agree with you. The women organisations should fight on
the vulgarity thats been shown in daily life like in the newspapers,
television which are damaging the society. Tiwari, is not damaging the
society. He is just been unfaithful to his wife. Also is it not the
wrong of the three girls who have done it for some favour. Just
because they didnt get what they want they exposed it.
(Reply to Subhendu)- G Sathy says:
December 27,2009 at 07:55 AM IST
Reply to Sudhendu....Please donot push your personal opinions here .A
public servent is open to public scrutiny for all his/her values and
way of living will really effect the service they render. In India
what NDT did is punishable offence legally if it is proven.
Psychologically or physically to having extra marital affires is a
crime against partners and kids in particular. Do not hide perversions
and psychological problems like sex mania under liberal values.
Dev says:
December 26,2009 at 07:27 PM IST
Hilarious. BTW, Narendra Negi is quite a popular Garhwali singer. Its
fun to watch him sing this quite a "to the point" satire.
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deepak says:
December 26,2009 at 07:42 PM IST
good
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Roshan says:
December 26,2009 at 08:21 PM IST
TOI is spreading explicit content!
The Hindu is much better!
So I warn you TOI people, your life is at stake!
So stop making the people sick!
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Mohit Kapoor says:
December 26,2009 at 09:09 PM IST
I think Tiwarijee is framed in wrong case by people in opposition. Now
technology is so advanced any body can manipulate things. Without
investigating how can media propagate and do hulla. I think media
should not interfere in private life of people and respond sensibly.
Maybe people will not talk about Telengana for some time! Is that the
motive behind whole drama!
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Sharda Bhargav - The Confiscated Soul says:
December 26,2009 at 09:10 PM IST
Hilllarious
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desi says:
December 26,2009 at 09:28 PM IST
Kya tiwari :-). bay kya---abhey -- booda gooda lal lagam....
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Does it matter says:
December 26,2009 at 09:54 PM IST
You also wanted to cash in on this news item. That's why you blogged
on it and gave links to your own video instead of other relevant news
items
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(Reply to Does it matter)- Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan says:
December 26,2009 at 10:39 PM IST
Well, actually I just wanted to share what I thought was great
political satire with readers and the news gave me a topical reason to
do it.
In any case I haven't said that the Youtube uploader is doing anything
wrong. I said he's "obviously cashing in" and therefore
putting a slightly misleading title while I would argue that the title
of my post isn't misleading.
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ismail says:
December 26,2009 at 10:11 PM IST
It is nothing but vigilante action by media. Media can defame any body
with impunity and give its verdict on any thing on earth without due
process of the law.They can plant stories and make or brake anybodys
career.
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Raj Khanna says:
December 26,2009 at 11:06 PM IST
Excellent Video. I want to congratulate the producer on taking time,
putting in effort and investing money and engry in producing the
video. The citizens of India have a right to demand the highest moral
standards from politicians and holders of public offices.
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rameshgaumti says:
December 26,2009 at 11:16 PM IST
Dear Sir,
Whatever may be the truth? It is sad indeed, at this age! Let us
understand that six things in life are not under our command profit
and loss, fame and shame, birth and death. Mr. ND Tiwari is a learned
man and will take this shame as gift of Providence
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Indian Citizen says:
December 26,2009 at 11:39 PM IST
Why should we spend crores of rupees for election, that too to elect
monkeys like these? No need to spend money on elections. We will
divide whole country into several provinces to be governed by IAS
Officers and will have presidential government system. Just one
President (to get elected directly by people) is enough to rule and
let him select people based on their merits. Let lokayukta get
absolute power to sack corrupts. No need to spend money on these
political parties. Ban all political parties and sieze their money and
property.
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Fun_Tas_Tic says:
December 26,2009 at 11:45 PM IST
Funtastic! :-)
Uttarakhand Ka murari is really going great at even 86!
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Bill Clinton says:
December 27,2009 at 02:04 AM IST
God bless Tiwari. At age 86 what else is there to look forward to?
Constipation? Arthritis? Death? Probably the daily thought of the
coming "treats" kept him going. Poor man is going to kick
the bucket soon without this!
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Arun Pandey says:
December 27,2009 at 02:14 AM IST
Murari is just screwing 3 indians, other politicians are screwing more
than 100 crores. So murari is a lesser evil.
Keep it up murari, BTW murari can have a grand grandson and a son in
the same year. isnt that a privilege.
Keep it up murari
jagdish kalkunte says:
December 27,2009 at 02:33 AM IST
This statement "Dear Sir,
Whatever may be the truth? It is sad indeed, at this age! Let us
understand that six things in life are not under our command profit
and loss, fame and shame, birth and death. Mr. ND Tiwari is a learned
man and will take this shame as gift of Providence"
Only DEATH is inevitable and not under our absolute control.All senses
are satiated on individual basis. It is just sad that we live in a
make believe world. The media promotes it. End of life is not under
our control.Human traits can be modofied- young or old
Dr. Majmudar says:
December 27,2009 at 03:06 AM IST
I fully agree with Subendhu. A person;s private life is his own and he/
she has right to privacy so long as it does not compromise national
security or other party taking unfair advantage.
My query to all those who disagree with him is following
How a person who is having perverted sex with 3-4 or even more
partners damaging the national interest more than many who loot
national exchequers, who indulge in bribery and corruption?
Those who sell national secrets to foreign enemies?
his fatal obsession with sexual purity is 19th century heritage. India
grow up, you are on the way to becoming giant, show maturity
Once you have priorities right anyone will
Appan says:
December 27,2009 at 05:05 AM IST
I can't believe it.
NIRAJ PANDE says:
December 27,2009 at 05:19 AM IST
Really a fantastic work done to humiliate and and warn the corrupt
politicians.Such a video also necessary to unveil the secrecy of Assam
Governor Mr Janaki Pattanaik who sold orissa for his crooked political
gains.
Jay says:
December 27,2009 at 05:23 AM IST
Yo Man...this is cool...The video strangely sounds like Gujarati
Raas ;-)
ProudIndian says:
December 27,2009 at 05:37 AM IST
86 years old and still going strong, Respect.
NIRAJ PANDE says:
December 27,2009 at 05:52 AM IST
India is the country of sages,incarnations and spiritualism.If India
is regarded in the world,it is only for its rich spiritual culture,the
concept of eka patni brata(single wife ).In India a person is said to
be characterless if he has an Indisciplined sex life and having many
sex partrners.If a Bramhin Governor is involved in such type of
bestial activities then what the fellow people and future generation
will learn ?These types of politicians should be extremely humiliated
and punished.An ordinary man may be answerable to his partner ,but the
grate leaders are answerable to the entire country and deserve
rigorous punishment for misleading the future generation and defaming
the country BHARAT MATA.
yasmin says:
December 27,2009 at 06:27 AM IST
It is not uncommon amongst Biharis and the UPwallahs to misuse their
positions. It is the language.
Rama Sharma says:
December 27,2009 at 07:02 AM IST
The clipping of an old man with fully clothed and not getting aroused
by the any of the naked vampires and fully at peace with the sleep
looks either the man has been drugged or sedated before vedeo graph.
One can not identify N D Tiwari. I am no NDT's cousin. But the proff
is not enough to castigate him. Coming back to 86 yrs old and all that
it is only a crap. You can still foddle with all the young and warm
flesh. It is only the perversion of mind. It is just not Tiwari, the
demon is within all of us. Let the one who has not sinned cast the
first stone
Bose says:
December 27,2009 at 08:54 AM IST
HE DIDNT RAPE THOSE GIRLS HE HAS A POWER OF MAKING LOVE TO THREE MEN
AT THE AGE OF 86 WOW. JUST BECAUSE HE IS A GOVERNER THAT DOESNT MEAN
THAT HE IS NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE SEX AND YES IT S OBSCENE TO WATCH SUCH
THINGS ON TV WELL ITS A CONSPIRACY TO TARNISH HIS IMAGE AND EVEN IF HE
DID WE MUST RULE OUT TO BE HIS PERSONNEL LIFE NO LAW RIGHT TO
INTERFERE AND THIS HAS BEEN DONE PLANNED TO INCREASE TRP OF THE TV
CHANNEL.
EVEN IF HE HAS DONE IT WAS WRONG TO SHOW ON TV CHANNEL WELL IT DOESNT
MATTER JUST FOR SEX TO SHOW HIM NAKED ON TV WELL ITS A BIOLOGICAL
PROBLEM FOR A MAN AND SHOULDNT MAKE
A BIG FUSS ABOUT IT UNTILL HE DID SOME CRIME OF RAPE , WE TALK ABOUT
GREAT PEOPLE FROM THE PAST ABOUT KINGS AND MAHARAJAS APSARAS DASIS ETC
DID THOSE KINGS WERE INNOCENT AND NEVER HAD SEX WE STILL TALK ABOUT
THEM IN OUR SCHOOL BOOKS.OFCOURSE NOONE WANTS TO DO THIS LOVE MAKING
SCENE IN PUBLIC UNTILL BUT THINK WHAT IF SOMEONE TAKES YOUR PICTURE
WHEN YOU ARE IN BED EVEN WITH YOUR WIFE OR GIRLFRIEND OR A PROSTITUTE
AND THEN ITS ON TV CHANNELS AND MAKE YOUR LIFE MISERABLE AND TARNISH
YOUR IMAGE IN SOCIETY? THINK WILL YOU BE PROUD SEEING YOURSELF SEEING
ON TV HAVING SEX ? WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?WE SHOULDNT DO THIS WITH
ANYONES IMAGE IN NEGATIVE PERSPECTIVE AND OUR HISTORY SPEAKS ABOUT
MAKING LOVE AND ITS A BIOLOGICAL NEED FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING.
I FEEL SYMPATHY FOR HIM THAT FOR SEX HE LOST ALL HIS FACE OVER SUCH A
LONG PERIOD OF HIS CAREER FOR OUR COUNTRY AND NOW NOONE IS GOING TO
SEE HIS GOOD WORK AND THINGS AND ALL OF US WILL ONLY CRITICISE HIM
ANYWAY I STRONGLY OBJECT THAT THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SHOWN IN TV.
Ananth says:
December 27,2009 at 09:31 AM IST
At the age of 86, he probably has to pop in a bottle-full of viagra
each time...
Karthik says:
December 27,2009 at 10:10 AM IST
We have now many morphing softwares which create a true images and
people can be deceived. This is a clear case of an irresponsible media
who want to cash on the situation without properly verifying the tape.
Will andhra jyoti close office if it is found that the tape has been
tampered. It happens to be a case of blackmail.Infringement into
personal lives in the guise of sting operation is not acceptable and
this is plan to divert the attention from more important topics like
succession in andhra pradesh and formation of telegana district. In
politics, I am sure the parties will not hesitate to slaughter their
own loyal people to gain time for far more important tissues. This
tape is not true and is a ploy to distract public attention. I think
bonafides of Andhra Jyoti as a un biased newspaper needs to be
investigated.
Arijit Dasgupta says:
December 27,2009 at 10:24 AM IST
Sex Guru Tiwari, weren't you Clintons professor? Sad Clinton could
only manage one show at a time, you can do three. What did you use, it
obviously ain't Viagara, can you pls. tell us your secret of staying
so healthy, we can become billionares selling it even now after so
much halagula ? In case you wanna join the Porcupinnia Sex Valley in
California, let me know.. You deserve the Playboy throne.
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech-now/entry/nd-tiwari-was-already-a
chhotemianinshallah
Manoj Mitta, TNN 27 December 2009, 05:16am IST
NEW DELHI: Former Haryana police chief S P S Rathore could not be
tried for the more serious offence of abetting the suicide of Ruchika
Girhotra because CBI had actually opposed the addition of this charge
before a Chandigarh trial court.
In 2001, when Madhu Prakash, mother of Ruchika's friend Anuradha,
filed an application for charging Rathore under Section 306 IPC --
abetment of suicide-- which could have put the ex-DGP behind bars for
up to 10 years, the CBI opposed it.
The trial court was not convinced by the CBI's opposition and accepted
Madhu Prakash's application. On Rathore's revision petition, the
Punjab and Haryana high court gave a reprieve to Rathore on February
12, 2002, citing CBI's written opposition dated October 20, 2001.
While quashing the abetment of suicide charge, Justice R C Kathuria of
the high court noted that CBI had opposed the framing of that charge
before the trial court after it had "thoroughly examined" the
statements of witnesses that Rathore had created "hell-like
conditions" for Ruchika.
It is because of this order of Justice Kathuria passed on Rathore's
petition that the trial court was forced to confine itself to the
lesser offence of outraging modesty under Section 354 IPC, as proposed
originally by CBI in its chargesheet in November 2000.
Thus, CBI proved to be soft on Rathore although another bench of the
high court had, while ordering the registration of an FIR in 1999,
again at Prakash's instance, entrusted the investigation to CBI on the
assumption that it was likely to be more independent than the local
police in probing the crimes inflicted on Ruchika.
Interestingly, in the wake of the public outrage over the light
sentence of six months that Rathore got, the same CBI has now been
asked by the government to try and enhance the penalty before the
appellate court, in this instance, the high court.
Coming back to the February 2002 high court order, the grounds on
which CBI opposed Prakash's 2001 application for charging Rathore
under Section 306 were:
* Ruchika was expelled from her school merely because of non-payment
of fees and not because of any extraneous pressure.
* Ruchika's grandfather, Daya Ram, and two of her maternal uncles,
both named N S Chauhan, certified that the cause of her death was the
medicines she was taking for reducing her weight and that they had not
suspected the involvement of anyone in her death
* Though he claimed to have been falsely implicated by Rathore in
theft cases, Ruchika's brother Ashu did not make himself available for
CBI's examination.
* A chemical examination report showed that Ruchika died because of
poisoning by chloro compound group of insecticides.
Though CBI did not openly back Rathore's petition before the high
court, Justice Kathuria relied heavily on the agency's stand before
the trial court to conclude that no case of abetment of suicide was on
the face of it made out against the police officer.
chhotemianinshallah
Ajay Sura & Shiv Sharma, TNN 27 December 2009, 05:13am IST
CHANDIGARH/AMBALA: Ruchika's suicide case is an eye-opener on how the
family became a victim of a corrupt system where basic facts like the
cause of her death and identity of her mother were tampered with to
weaken the case in the first stage itself. The inquest report made by
the police mentions that Ruchika was depressed over her obesity and
was taking anti-obesity pills, an overdose of which probably killed
her.
The inquest report by Panchkula police, prepared on December 30, 1993
in PGI Chandigarh, quotes Ruchika's father Subhash Chander and mother
'Veena' as saying that Ruchika was on some ayurvedic and allopathic
medicines to reduce her weight.
Veena, who was recorded by the police as Ruchika's mother, was in
reality just her governess. She gave wrong statements to the police,
presumably under pressure. Veena's statement, as recorded by the
police, said: "On December 27, 1993, my daughter had her dinner and
slept in her room. She was feeling overweight and had started taking
some desi (local) and allopathic medicines to reduce the same. About
8am, on December 28, my husband, Subhash, told me that Ruchi was lying
unconscious on her bed. We took our daughter in car and rushed to PGI,
Chandigarh for treatment. She died on December 29 in PGI...due to
consuming some medicine."
This is a glaring lapse since Ruchika's biological mother died in
1986. It was four years later that Ruchika was molested by high-
profile cop SPS Rathore. Three years later Ruchika ended her life.
TOI possesses the copy of inquest proceedings, recorded by Panchkula
police on December 30, 1993, where the police introduced, now
seemingly deliberate, a patent lie that one Veena 'wife' of Subhash
Chander Girhotra had deposed under her signature saying, "No one is
responsible for Ruchika's death."
Significantly, the family of Anand Parkash said Veena was Ruchika's
governess, not her mother and that Girhotra never remarried. Anand
Parkash further alleged that Veena was planted in Ruchika's house by
SPS Rathore and she tried her best to weaken the case. Interestingly,
Veena disappeared when the matter reached CBI and HC. She left the
country when the matter blew up and is now settled abroad, he
claimed.
Ruchika's friend, Aradhana, who was a regular visitor to Girhotra's
house in Sector-6 also confirmed to TOI that Veena was an acquaintance
of Girhotra family and was assigned to look after Ruchika as she had
lost her mother.
The direction that investigations took in Ruchika's suicide case can
be summed up from police records of the case: "Veena, wife of Subhash
Chand Girhotra, resident of 363/6 Panchkula, deposed under her
signatures saying 'Ismen kisi ka kasoor nahin hai' (no one is
responsible for this)." The statements were recorded a day after
Ruchika's death under the seal of Panchkula police station.
chhotemianinshallah
PTI 26 December 2009, 06:58pm IST
NEW DELHI: The Centre has started the process to withdraw the police
medal given to convicted former Haryana Director General of Police S P
S Rathore, Union Home Secretary G K Pillai said today. ( Watch
Video )
"The Home Ministry is taking steps to withdraw the police medal given
to Rathore in 1985. The matter will be placed before an award
committee on January 4. Thereafter the recommendation will go to the
President," Pillai told reporters here.
Rathore has been sentenced by a CBI court to six months in jail for
molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra 19 years ago.
"As far as other issues are concerned - reduction of pension and (his)
conduct unbecoming of a police officer - show-cause notice has been
initiated," Pillai said.
The Ministry has sent the notice to Rathore asking why his police
medal should not be taken away and pension reduced as his conduct was
unbecoming of a police officer.
The 1965-batch IPS officer, who retired in 2002, was awarded the
Police Medal for Meritorious service on August 15, 1985.
Ruchika, a budding tennis player, was molested in 1990 by Rathore, the
then Inspector General of Police. She committed suicide three years
later by consuming poison. Her family alleges that she was forced to
take the extreme step as authorities harassed her family for pursuing
the case against the police officer.
chhotemianinshallah
Ajay Sura, TNN 25 December 2009, 12:40am IST
CHANDIGARH: "My daughter committed suicide, my son's life was made
hell, our entire family was uprooted and we were forced to live in
exile. What else does the court need, that proves S P S Rathore was
responsible for Ruchika's death," asked the teenager's father, S C
Girhotra. He demanded a case of abetment to suicide against the
convicted cop. ( Watch Video )
Then, breaking his 10-year silence, Girhotra attacked the leader of
Haryana opposition and former CM Om Prakash Chautala, alleging that it
was Chautala who shielded Rathore. He also said he received an
anonymous call immediately after the six-month jail term to Rathore
was handed out. The caller said, "Ab tuney kya kar liya (what have you
achieved)?"
Laughing at the quantum of punishment (six months and Rs 1,000 fine),
the caller taunted him before disconnecting: "Kuchh mil gaya kya? (did
you get anything?)"
"Had the FIR against Rathore been registered immediately, my daughter
would be alive today," said Girhotra. "The day Ruchika drank poison, I
kept assuring her we'll take the case to its logical end. But she was
depressed and crying endlessly."
He said Ruchika stopped going out of the house because Rathore's goons
followed her everywhere she went. "I felt frustrated because he was
very powerful. Then home secretary too expressed helplessness whenever
we approached him," Girhotra said.
Girhotra said that since the molestation was proved, Rathore should be
booked for abetment to suicide and given the harshest punishment.
"What happened with my daughter must never happen with anybody again,"
he said. Apprehending further threats from Rathore, Girhotra said he
will approach higher authorities if there were any more anonymous
phone calls.
chhotemianinshallah
TNN 27 December 2009, 02:40am IST
New Delhi: A 30-year-old woman alleged that she was raped by a man
inside his car after she took a lift from outside a pub in
Chanakyapuri on Thursday morning.
She was later dumped near Sector 9 Metro Station in Dwarka, police
said.
According to police, the victim hails from Siliguri and had met the
man, who was about 40 years, outside a pub early on Thursday morning.
He offered to give her a lift in his car to Safdarjung Enclave where
she was staying.
"The woman in her statement said that on the way, the man allegedly
raped her inside the car and then started driving towards Gurgaon,"
said a senior police officer.
When the victim tried to raise an alarm, the accused drove towards
Dwarka where he again allegedly raped her and then dumped near Dwarka
Sector 9 Metro station, police said. The woman with the help of
passers-by informed the police.
Medical examination of the victim confirmed rape and a case has been
registered at Dwarka police station. "We have some leads and will soon
arrest the culprit," added a police officer.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/30-year-old-alleges-rape/articleshow/5383030.cms
chhotemianinshallah
Agencies
Posted: Saturday , Dec 26, 2009 at 1534 hrs
Chandigarh:
Ruchika's family didn’t earlier raise doubts over the post-mortem
report as they were under pressure to save Ruchika's brother.
The lawyer of Ruchika Girhotra's family rejected the post-mortem
report of the teenager which blamed her death to excessive use of
slimming pills.
"The report very clearly mentions slimming pills as the reason behind
the death. But slimming pills, even if somebody takes more than two,
cannot kill," Pankaj Bharadwaj, the Girhotras' lawyer, said in
Chandigarh.
Former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore was on Monday convicted of molesting
14-year-old Ruchika, a budding tennis player, in 1990 when he was an
IGP. The family of the girl, who committed suicide three years later,
says that they were harassed by authorities for pursuing the case
against Rathore and Ruchika's brother was arrested in a string of
false cases.
Bharadwaj indicated that Ruchika's father Subhash Chander Girhotra did
not earlier raise doubts over the post-mortem report as he was under
pressure to save his son.
He said Ruchika's father had informed him that accepting the report
was the "only way to get his son back."
Bharadwaj claimed that whatever Girhotra was asked to do, he did in an
effort to bargain for his son's freedom. Rathore has been convicted by
a CBI court in the molestation case and handed down a six-month jail
sentence.
Bharadwaj also demanded "monetary help" for the family from the
Haryana Government. "There cannot be any amount of monetary
compensation that matters," he said adding that instead of
"compensation" he would prefer the term "monetary help".
He said if the state government fails to provide monetary help, he
would move the court for the same.
When asked whether the money would change the focus of the case, he
said as Girhotra is under suspension, the money would help the
household.
Comments
The silence of PM/HM on Rathore
By: Gopal | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 19:31:47 PM
Even after two days of the verdict indicting Rathore, which is now
public, not a word has been uttered by the Prime Minister, who advised
the CBI officials, not long ago, that however big the fish may be,
should not be let out. Is he convinced that the punishment handed out
Rathore is adequate considering the gravity of the crime and the
position held by Rathore ? What has PC got to say on this ? This is
not a law and order problem of state, so no excuses.This Govt is not
run by people with conscience. The silence of the PM is highly
disturbing.
Ruchika's lawyer
By: S.N.Hebbar | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 19:28:52 PM
What was Ruchika's lawyer doing all these years(16). What is the use
of questioning post mortem report after 16years of death? Why the
lawyer or the relatives of Ruchika kept quiet all these years? If
Chautala was the culprit, he had lost power 6 years ago and at least 6
years ago when the most respected and media-supported Congress party
came to power the lawyer or Ruchika supporters and of course human
rights and women activists could have taken the cudgels to pounce upon
Chautala. Why I am telling this is that the media and some others are
painting Chaula as the criminal and forgetting Rathore and other CMs.
Perhaps after some days BJP may also be clubbed as culprit by media
and 'friends' of hapless Ruchika as Vajapayee was PM for sometime and
the party was in coalition with INLD for some years!
Media > politician = power to a common man
By: Gary | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 18:05:45 PM
Media must start playing a very large and a consistent role in
exposing the nonsense activities of politicians and powerful people in
India or else these politicians who are all corrupt will keep
supressing the common people in India . Manu sharma , vikas yadav ,
Rathore and who knows thousands more who are unreported daily are all
linked to politicians and are protected by the politicians , media
must expose the school who expelled ruchika , must expose the current
judge who gave the 6 months to rathore , must expose the policeman who
harrased ashu , must expose the 3 chief ministers who shielded rathore
for 19 years, and must ask Sonia Gandhi and pratibha patil - why these
two women should be in the highest office in that country if they can
not protect women of India and why they should not resign today taking
moral responsibility for what is happening here.
How unfortunate
By: vivek | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 18:05:21 PM
It is a very sad story that a 14 yr kid was not only molested. But
also threatened by police and Rathore's goons. Her brother was
subjected to torture in prison. She was evicted from school. My god
she was just a kid, how much could she take. This Rathore paedophile
must be hanged in public. Shameless creep.
Perhaps
By: Prasad | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 17:40:12 PM
After reading this episode, I started thinking that perhaps what Kasab
is telling is the truth!
Unknown Horror tales against Tribals.
By: Babubhai Vaghela Ahmedabad | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 20:13:13 PM
Horror tales on crimes against Tribals taking place in jungles do not
reach to the world. What we are seeing is in Ruchika is one urban
case. There may be thousands of such untold cases in the Tribal belt
where PC is now using Police and Army to BUTCHER.
political system responsible
By: Khaleel | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 17:22:28 PM
Political power should not be a lifetime possession. Term of high
positions should not be given for life long, like in the US,it should
be restricted to 2 consecutive terms for positions of PM, CM or
Governor. Like wise in all institutions. The old monks in politics
should be thrown out and let in the fresh blood come in to take with
new visions and energy.
Have a heart!
By: M.L.Gupta | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 17:21:05 PM
Disturbing details are surfacing in instalments. who has kept Girotra
under suspension for so long in complete violation of rules regarding
timebound conclusion of inquiries? The competent authority must take
action before 1700 hours on 27/12/2009 if it has a human heart in its
chest!! The PM has a seperate fund to help indigent persons in such
circumstances. He must release adequate amount of money to the family.
It will also set the entire machinery in motion
to do justice expeditiously.
Manifestation Of Judicious Precidents
By: MADAN MENON THOTTASSERI | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 17:15:05 PM
The nation needs Judges not only for good judgments but also for
manifestation of judicious precedents. Thanks to the media which
brought out the details of the case and helped people to know on the
gravity of molestation case. The Home Ministry has sent notices to
S.P.S Rathore and the State Chief Minister had agreed to see options
to revisit the case. Let the truth prevail.
power of politics
By: rosy satpathy | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 17:11:43 PM
ruchika still not got the justice and her father still crying for the
justice ,this is all because of the power if we have money and power
we will get the justice easily mr rathore he had the full support from
the politician and because of this power he was still enjoying i just
ti convey my message to all the politican that why the innocent people
had to face lot of trouble alawys deprived from the juctice .is the
justice is only for rich people
System protects the rich and powerful
By: Village Boy | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 20:15:15 PM
Judiciary and police are to protect the rich and powerful from poor
and oppressed. Unfortunately it is more true in India than most places
on this planet. And the weak and spineless fools don't deserve any
better and they won't get any better.
Setting example
By: Peter Fernandes | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 17:11:01 PM
Better be late than never. Media should continue the fight till
Rathore is striped. His pension should be withdrawn. This will set
example to others not to misuse power. In this Andha Kanoon democracy,
politicians are taking advantage and misuse power. It's good that now
media is playing a major role to give justice to common man.
The silence of PM/HM on Rathore
By: Gopal | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 19:31:47 PM
Even after two days of the verdict indicting Rathore, which is now
public, not a word has been uttered by the Prime Minister, who advised
the CBI officials, not long ago, that however big the fish may be,
should not be let out. Is he convinced that the punishment handed out
Rathore is adequate considering the gravity of the crime and the
position held by Rathore ? What has PC got to say on this ? This is
not a law and order problem of state, so no excuses.This Govt is not
run by people with conscience. The silence of the PM is highly
disturbing.
Ruchika's lawyer
By: S.N.Hebbar | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 19:28:52 PM
What was Ruchika's lawyer doing all these years(16). What is the use
of questioning post mortem report after 16years of death? Why the
lawyer or the relatives of Ruchika kept quiet all these years? If
Chautala was the culprit, he had lost power 6 years ago and at least 6
years ago when the most respected and media-supported Congress party
came to power the lawyer or Ruchika supporters and of course human
rights and women activists could have taken the cudgels to pounce upon
Chautala. Why I am telling this is that the media and some others are
painting Chaula as the criminal and forgetting Rathore and other CMs.
Perhaps after some days BJP may also be clubbed as culprit by media
and 'friends' of hapless Ruchika as Vajapayee was PM for sometime and
the party was in coalition with INLD for some years!
Media > politician = power to a common man
By: Gary | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 18:05:45 PM
Media must start playing a very large and a consistent role in
exposing the nonsense activities of politicians and powerful people in
India or else these politicians who are all corrupt will keep
supressing the common people in India . Manu sharma , vikas yadav ,
Rathore and who knows thousands more who are unreported daily are all
linked to politicians and are protected by the politicians , media
must expose the school who expelled ruchika , must expose the current
judge who gave the 6 months to rathore , must expose the policeman who
harrased ashu , must expose the 3 chief ministers who shielded rathore
for 19 years, and must ask Sonia Gandhi and pratibha patil - why these
two women should be in the highest office in that country if they can
not protect women of India and why they should not resign today taking
moral responsibility for what is happening here.
How unfortunate
By: vivek | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 18:05:21 PM
It is a very sad story that a 14 yr kid was not only molested. But
also threatened by police and Rathore's goons. Her brother was
subjected to torture in prison. She was evicted from school. My god
she was just a kid, how much could she take. This Rathore paedophile
must be hanged in public. Shameless creep.
Perhaps
By: Prasad | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 17:40:12 PM
After reading this episode, I started thinking that perhaps what Kasab
is telling is the truth!
Unknown Horror tales against Tribals.
By: Babubhai Vaghela Ahmedabad | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 20:13:13 PM
Horror tales on crimes against Tribals taking place in jungles do not
reach to the world. What we are seeing is in Ruchika is one urban
case. There may be thousands of such untold cases in the Tribal belt
where PC is now using Police and Army to BUTCHER.
political system responsible
By: Khaleel | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 17:22:28 PM
Political power should not be a lifetime possession. Term of high
positions should not be given for life long, like in the US,it should
be restricted to 2 consecutive terms for positions of PM, CM or
Governor. Like wise in all institutions. The old monks in politics
should be thrown out and let in the fresh blood come in to take with
new visions and energy.
Have a heart!
By: M.L.Gupta | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 17:21:05 PM
Disturbing details are surfacing in instalments. who has kept Girotra
under suspension for so long in complete violation of rules regarding
timebound conclusion of inquiries? The competent authority must take
action before 1700 hours on 27/12/2009 if it has a human heart in its
chest!! The PM has a seperate fund to help indigent persons in such
circumstances. He must release adequate amount of money to the family.
It will also set the entire machinery in motion to do justice
expeditiously.
Manifestation Of Judicious Precidents
By: MADAN MENON THOTTASSERI | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 17:15:05 PM
The nation needs Judges not only for good judgments but also for
manifestation of judicious precedents. Thanks to the media which
brought out the details of the case and helped people to know on the
gravity of molestation case. The Home Ministry has sent notices to
S.P.S Rathore and the State Chief Minister had agreed to see options
to revisit the case. Let the truth prevail.
power of politics
By: rosy satpathy | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 17:11:43 PM
ruchika still not got the justice and her father still crying for the
justice ,this is all because of the power if we have money and power
we will get the justice easily mr rathore he had the full support from
the politician and because of this power he was still enjoying i just
ti convey my message to all the politican that why the innocent people
had to face lot of trouble alawys deprived from the juctice .is the
justice is only for rich people
System protects the rich and powerful
By: Village Boy | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 20:15:15 PM
Judiciary and police are to protect the rich and powerful from poor
and oppressed. Unfortunately it is more true in India than most places
on this planet. And the weak and spineless fools don't deserve any
better and they won't get any better.
Setting example
By: Peter Fernandes | Saturday , 26 Dec '09 17:11:01 PM
Better be late than never. Media should continue the fight till
Rathore is striped. His pension should be withdrawn. This will set
example to others not to misuse power. In this Andha Kanoon democracy,
politicians are taking advantage and misuse power. It's good that now
media is playing a major role to give justice to common man.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/ruchikas-family-lawyer-questions-postmortem-report/559456/0
chhotemianinshallah
Agencies
Posted: Sunday , Dec 27, 2009 at 1405 hrs
New Delhi:
N D Tiwari's resignation from the post of Andhra governor has been
accepted by the President.
President Pratibha Patil on Sunday accepted the resignation of
Governor of Andhra Pradesh N D Tiwari and asked the Chattisgarh
Governor to discharge the duties till further arrangements are made.
"The President of India has accepted the resignation of Narayan Datt
Tiwari as Governor of Andhra Pradesh and has appointed E S L
Narasimhan, Governor of Chhattisgarh to discharge the functions of the
Governor of Andhra Pradesh in addition to his own duties, until
regular arrangements for the office of the Governor of Andhra Pradesh
are made," a communique from Rashtrapati Bhavan said.
86-year old Tiwari had tendered his resignation to the President
yesterday in the wake of a raging controversy after a sting operation
purportedly showed him in a compromising position with three women.
Tiwari, a former chief minister of undivided Uttar Pradesh and
Uttarakhand, sent his resignation to President Pratibha Patil on
"health grounds". The resignation came a day after Telugu television
channel 'ABN Andhra Jyothi' aired a footage captured in a sting
operation of an elderly man with three women in Raj Bhavan in a
compromising position, which the channel said was of Tiwari.
The Raj Bhavan had denied it and promptly approached the High Court to
get a restraint order on the channel from telecasting the footage.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/president-accepts-tiwaris-resignation/559741/
chhotemianinshallah
Agencies
Posted: Dec 26, 2009 at 1452 hrs IST
New Delhi N D Tiwari resigned on Saturday as Andhra Pradesh Governor
in the wake of a raging controversy after a sting operation
purportedly showed him in a compromising position with three women.
86-year-old Tiwari, a former chief minister of undivided Uttar Pradesh
and Uttarakhand, sent his resignation to President Pratibha Patil on
"health grounds", said a press communique from the Raj Bhavan.
The resignation came a day after Telugu television channel 'ABN Andhra
Jyothi' aired a footage captured in a sting operation of an elderly
man with three women in Raj Bhavan in a compromising position, which
the channel said was of Tiwari.
The Raj Bhavan denied it and promptly approached the High Court on
Friday and got a restraint order on the channel from telecasting the
footage.
The sting operation evoked a string of demands from political parties,
like TDP, CPM, CPI and BJP, that he be sacked. Women's organisations
also staged demonstrations deploring the Governor's behaviour and
demanded that he step down immediately.
The Congress welcomed the resignation saying Tiwari has taken the
appropriate decision. Party sources said the Governor of some
neighbouring state could be given additional charge of Andhra Pradesh
for some time.
Indications that Tiwari cannot continue in the post emerged when the
Centre sought a report from the state Chief Secretary on the issue
today and highly-placed Congress sources said that he would have to go
in view of the acute embarrassment he had brought to the
organisation.
"I think he has taken an appropriate decision keeping in view the high
standards of public life. We welcome it," AICC media department chief
Janardan Dwivedi told reporters in Delhi.
Congress spokesman Shakeel Ahmed had earlier said that the High Court
is looking into the matter. "Since the matter is sub-judice, no one
should comment upon it".
The Telugu channel's Editor-in-Chief Vemuri Radhakrishna said they
have evidence to back what they have shown. "Let them serve defamation
notice. We are even ready to deal with the issue".
This is not the first time that Tiwari, also a former Union Minister,
has figured in controversies involving women. Sometime ago, a lawyer
Rohit Shekhar had filed a paternity suit in Delhi High Court against
Tiwari claiming that he was born out of intimate relationship between
the Congress leader and his mother Ujwala Sharma. The charge was,
however, denied by the Governor.
The Delhi High Court had rejected the petition on the ground that
Shekhar filed it a long time after becoming a major and was time-
barred.
Comments - 30
Charge him with abetting prostitution
by cb on 26 Dec 2009
He should be charged with abetting prostitution. His staff who
arranged the girls should be charged with immoral trafficking.
Opprotunity
by Prasad on 26 Dec 2009
ND Tiwari should, of course, be punished if he did any thing wrong.
This occasion is an opportunity to bring in a younger more competent
governor. Especially because of the circumastences and the weak state
government.
Jai Ho
by Sanjeev Chawla on 26 Dec 2009
It is really a shameful event. Whatelse can we expect from congress
party. Jai Ho-Congress!
Resignation is NOT a punishment
by Jatin on 26 Dec 2009
Resignation is NOT a punishment. The case need to be investigated and
if found guilty, ND Tiwari, along with his acccomplishes must be
punished (to abeting prostitution and other relevant clauses of IPC).
Officer at Raj Bhavan who arranged girls for N D Tiwari be suspended
forthwith
by Babubhai Vaghela Ahmedabad on 26 Dec 2009
The Officer at Raj Bhavan who arranged the girls for N D Tiwari be
suspended forthwith and moved out Hyderabad fast.
Tiwari
by sunit on 26 Dec 2009
The media should be complimented for their sting operations, but for
which responsible officials and politicians in power would have gone
unchecked. However, they tend to water it down after sometime, and the
same persons do not care to go on the right path.
National shame !
by Gopalarathnam R. on 26 Dec 2009
Mr Tiwari's resignation should be accepted and a case should be filed
against him for bringing the high office to disrepute. The matter is
not sub judice as claimed by Shakeel Ahmed. A person damaging the
office of Governor is not above criticism as he is paid out of public
money. Look at his age; he is in the evenings of his life. The
practise of parking politically failed persons in Raj Bhavan should be
stopped forthwith. The Cong should publicly apoligise for appointing
such persons to hold high offices.
Tiwari
by Murthy on 26 Dec 2009
This is a plot to oust him done by the same CongI train burning gang.
Considering the timing of the publicity of the scandal
by Babubhai Vaghela Ahmedabad on 26 Dec 2009
Considering the timing of the publicity of the scandal, there could be
a political game to replace N D Tiwari with some other person as
Governor that could be handy in case of President's rule in burning
Andhra Pradesh. Constitution of India does not debar any citizen from
using his freedom of expression even in a sub-judice matter. So,
refusing to comment on the ground of being sub-judice does not hold
water.
after all he is a true follower of gandhian celibacy
by chandra on 26 Dec 2009
there is nothing new in it, he is practising gandhian celibacy, why
should we blame him, he would have been at practice.
Politicians and the Public
by MSS on 26 Dec 2009
In situations like this no resignations should be accepted. The
political party bosses still call it a high moral ground on which the
Governer of a state has resigned. 'Jai Ho' India is indeed shining
under such leading politicians of the country. The public should be
more alert in selecting parties to power whose political masters bring
shame to the country. Such people should be publicly disgraced and not
allowed to get away from such situations on 'high moral grounds'.
negi
by budhi on 26 Dec 2009
It is not possible.unbelievable,a man like nearing ninty years of age
will not do so.Biologically he is handicapped.There is something fishy
due to abrupt Telengana epesode to malign the veteran old polotician.
Government Contracts
by Ravi Embar on 26 Dec 2009
The Indian defense contracts totalling billions of dollars with the
Israeli regime need to be reviewed for allegations of kickbacks and
any connection to secret Swiss Bank accounts.
n.d.tiwari
by vijailugani on 26 Dec 2009
it is good that he has resigned voluantrily to avoid harrasment to the
central govt and congress party.he was also dragged in such type of
cases previously.kisi ne sach kaha hai jhan dhunha niklta hai wanha
aag hoti hai.
Shameless Congress
by brbajaj on 26 Dec 2009
It's a national shame that a person aged 86 holding high public office
has been caught in camera with three women in compromising position.
It would have been a national pride if Mr Tiwari would have been
acting in a Blue Film rather than holding such an office.But the story
does not end there. The Congress is still maintaining that Mr Tiwari
has resigned maintaining high standard of public life. What High
standard are they talking about? May be their standards are different
and change as per their convenience.The congress should realise that
its arrogance has reduced it to a party of 150-200 memebres in
Parliament and can not think of forming of a government of its own and
if it continues to behave in a similar position, the people of this
country shall respond appropriately. The congress may be able to
manage media behaviour, but would find it difficult to do so with the
mass.
Re:
by Manju on 26 Dec 2009
They have EVM's!!
Our mistake !!!
by Radhakrishnan on 26 Dec 2009
It is nothing but voters failure to elect a leader who is morally
good. What we witness is unfortunately the tip of the iceberg. Ex
ploticians should never be given the Governor post an option to
console them. Hope truth comes out soon and the culprits get
punished.
INDIVIDUAL
by Sarat on 26 Dec 2009
Such a person should not have been given the honour of quitting
office. He should have been sacked and given a hard kick on his
teeth.He underlines the falsity of the myth of high constitutional
offices in our country.
Thank you for publishing this story, the public awaits for more such
stories in future
by Devji kumar on 26 Dec 2009
There should be more of these name and shame stories in the news
because the public have a legal right to know how their hard earned
money is being spent by these 'elected, non-elected, family and
friends' of public officials, who make a mockery of public trust,
respect and common inteligence. Public office has become a career for
some opputunists and private limited company for others who benefit
from 'all paid for expences' for living and traveling and '5% to 10%
commission received' from lucrative public projects awarded to
international multinationals.Do investigate and publish the sources of
income, assets, private accounts and property held by 'jai ho' public
officials in and outside india. Thank you for publishing this story,
the public awaits for more such stories in future regardless of the
imaginary colour of party symbolic politics. The big question is what
are the professional responsibilities of CBI ? Have the quango
delegated their job to the public and new media ?
Government Contracts
by Ravi Embar on 26 Dec 2009
It is time to investigate the billions of dollars of defense contracts
that were signed in a hurry recently with the Israeli government for
kickbacks. Billion dollar AWACS are not the need of the hour and do
not serve to alleviate the poverty, illiteracy and all other ills
plaguing hundreds of millions of poor citizens of India. The secret
Swiss bank accounts may hold the answers.
Governors and President, Vice-President, Rajya Sabha
by Ravi Embar on 26 Dec 2009
There are many government jobs in India that are largely ceremonial
and it may be time to combine the responsibility for these ceremonial
posts with other active managerial posts and eliminate the vestigial
posts. The post of the Presidency is one of the main posts that is now
used to reward political appointees and adds to the drain on the
country's resources with all the perks and SPG security that it
entails. Similarly it is time for the Rajya Sabha to fade into history
- the Lok Sabha should be enough to express the will of the people.
AIDS test on Tiwary.
by C J Thomas on 26 Dec 2009
Legalize prostitution so that our ladies can walk freely in the day
and night and control STD.Give awards and pension to prostitutes. ND
Tiwary should undergo AIDS test. The Govt. should ban the sale of
Viagra in any form.
Thousands of centuries back.
by George P. Joseph on 26 Dec 2009
The video tape which may not be doctored as far as possible as it will
go for checking of impeccability wherein the personality concerned is
a prominent figure in the Indian Politics, aristocrat and elite as Mr.
N.D.Tiwari, is not at all an exceptional case. Politicians have been
practicing such fairsex intimacy, and will, on account of the monetary
benefit that have been offered by cash or kind are the resorts for the
needy irrespective of Rich of Poor. This is the tradition of
imperialistic / feudalistic ideology evolved by humans since the
inception of such conception, thousands of centuries back. Once it did
expose, who knows how many are left as intact. The life of the
ultramodern rulers, aristocracy, elite and custodians of people of
developed countries of the world has a considerable influence in this
particular life of pleasure.
Andhra sex scandal
by A V Prasanna on 26 Dec 2009
What is wrong with Andhra? Daily the state is in news for all wrong
reasons. Seperate state for Telangana, protest for Telangana, Bandhs,&
now when center is contemplating President's rule, another skeleton
out of the cupboard with the Governor himself hitting headlines for
his sexescapade. Man where will it end???
Prasanna, The reason is YSR's strong arm tactics.
by Shiva Konduri on 26 Dec 2009
Prasanna, Good comment. YSR ruled by strong arming people weaker than
him and bribing people above him. Same principle we see used by middle
management in many corporate offices in India. He also encouraged
people to convert their Black money into White, which led to over
heating of Hyderabad economy and the less fortunate want a piece of
that action(read KCR and others). Inorder to stay in power YSR
introduced populist schemes, though some helped poor people to a
cetain extent but also bankrupted the Andhra economy. Now that YSR,
the factionist Cuddaph Don is no dead , the flood gates are open and
all small time leaders are not afraid to rebel and ear mark their own
territory like dogs. End of the story.
N.D. Tiwari
by subramanya on 26 Dec 2009
Behind smoke there is fire. Tiwari's denial cannot convince public. It
makes us to doubt governors' credibility in the entire nation.
K.Chandrasekhar Rao is responsible for Violence
by YRM Rao on 26 Dec 2009
Mr. K Chandrasekhara Rao, TRS President started a separate Telangana
agitation all of a sudden few days back that too after the death of
former Chief minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy. Only after TRS
initiated this issue, many other political parties joined. Looking at
the number of Parliament & Assembly seats secured by the TRS party in
the recent elections indicated that the People of Telangana voted
against this issue. Many people lost their lives (either for or
against this issue) and property (public & Private). It takes a long
time for recovery. Further, the students are loosing their study days.
Certainly this will effect the economic growth of the state. Many
industries like BHEL, HAL, Electronics, Pharmaceutical, mechanical and
many IT parks are located in & around Hyderabad. If the central
government agrees for the formation of a separate Telangana state, Mr.
K Chandrasekhara Rao will certainly take the credit. Similarly, for
Where are we going?
by srikanth on 26 Dec 2009
Poor guy only behind the walls.KCR,Koda,sibbu,etc are ...... the
country in broadlight.What about them?Atlast we are ashammed of our so
called leaders.
Congress Man
by Chirag on 26 Dec 2009
Yet another first by Congress in Political reforms......Let's see what
other Congress Governors are doing...
a degenerate society
by Rahul on 26 Dec 2009
" A Sex Orgy in the Raj Bhavan by the Governor" "DGP molests a 14 year
old girl". These are the shameful headlines of todays times. this
shows that we are literally living in a degenerate age, a kalayuga.
All right thinking citizens of India should hold a people's parliament
to openly debate on how to save society and its hapless and helpless
members from such rogue public functonaries. Mr Shekhar Gupta, Editor
of the Indian Express, for whom I have great regard can maybe initiate
something.
Like Telangana this issue will be diluted by Congress / famil of Nehru
by tiwari on 26 Dec 2009
Since 1969 no action on Telangana though hundreds of lives are lost.
Similarly Tiwari's case will be diluted, Congress will say APPROPRIATE
DECISION WOULD BE TAKE AT APPROPRIATE TIME in Tiwari's case. Such
statements would be issued by Verappa Moily, Digvijay singh, Pranab
Mukherjee etc. Sub committee will be constituted for Tiwaris case
which would be headed by Rosaiah or Pranab.
SO WHAT????
by Vinod on 26 Dec 2009
SUCH ACTS ARE A PREROGATIVES OF THE CONGRESS PARTY...(NEHRU
EDWINA)....CONGRESSMEN ALWAYS HAD A MOTTO.."FOLLOW THE LEADER"...SO
TIWARI FOLLOWED HIS LEADER NEHRU..HE WENT ONE STEP FURTHER..NEHRU HAD
ONLY ONE WOMAN..TIWARI HAS 3 ...A PROMOTION OR RATHER IMPROVEMENT...HA
HA HA
Why?
by Anurag on 26 Dec 2009
Did he break any law? Why should he go?
Govinda Govinda!
by Pattabi on 26 Dec 2009
AP you have no common sense, that video looks like fake and no
governor is brave enough to do such thing in Rajbhavan, because it
would leak out immediately. AP you are insulting your Raj-Guru and I
believe Guru (Pragaspathy) is not all seeing the AP now. Govinda
Govinda!
Tiwari
by Anjana on 26 Dec 2009
May have to go? By now he should have gone.
chhotemianinshallah
Express news service
Posted: Dec 26, 2009 at 0453 hrs IST
Hyderabad/New Delhi Already buffeted by the Telangana firestorm, the
Congress was preparing the ground tonight for the dishonourable exit
of Narayan Dutt Tiwari, its 84-year-old veteran leader and Andhra
Pradesh Governor since 2007, after the broadcast of a tape purportedly
showing him having sex in the company of three women.
These women, according to Andhra Jyothi news channel which broadcast
the tape and admitted to the “sting” operation, were brought from
Uttarakhand — Tiwari was sworn in as its first Chief Minister in 2002
— to Hyderabad by a “woman broker” who was allegedly promised a mining
lease by Tiwari if she “supplied women to him.”
The news of the broadcast was teased in Andhra Jyothi’s newspaper this
morning — the TV channel was launched on October 15, 2009 — prompting
Officer on Special Duty to the Governor Aryendra Sharma to move the
Andhra Pradesh High Court at the Chief Justice’s residence.
The court asked the channel to refrain from broadcasting the tape
saying it was likely to “demean and denigrate” the gubernatorial
office.
Andhra Jyothi’s managing editor V Radhakrishna — who pulled the tape
off the air after the order — told The Indian Express that the sting
took two months to plan.
“About six months ago, we published a story about an alleged
relationship between Tiwari and former Congress activist Ujjwala
Sharma. After this, a woman, calling herself Radhika, approached us
with a startling claim that she arranged for women for the Governor
and that she could provide more evidence. We began to verify her
claims.
“Then Radhika told us that Tiwari promised her a mining lease if she
supplied women to him for sex. She said that Tiwari did not keep his
promise and that’s why she had decided to expose him through a sting
operation. We worked with her for two months before we got the visuals
of the Governor with the women. All three hail from poor families,”
Radhakrishna said.
Asked if the women purportedly having sex on tape knew they were being
recorded, Radhakrishna said: “The women were aware of the sting
operation and agreed to participate. We did not pay any money to them.
We have not revealed the names of the women involved. Their location
has been kept a secret and in case they require security, we will
arrange for it.”
Although the Governor’s office called it “fabricated,” pressure is
mounting on Tiwari to quit. CPM MP Brinda Karat is said to have
decided to seek an appointment with President Pratibha Patil to press
for the Governor’s recall.
TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu demanded that the Centre should sack
Tiwari for “bringing shame to the office of the Governor.”
“This is a shame. The Raj Bhavan is a symbol of democracy and it is
very unfortunate that its sanctity has been desecrated. Tiwari
represents declining values and ethics in public life. There should be
a CBI inquiry into this scandal as I feel there are more people
involved in it.”
Praja Rajyam Party president Chiranjeevi said it was “unfortunate”
that individuals in high public office “indulged in such acts.”
While there was no official word from the Congress High Command,
Permanent Invitee to the Congress Working Committee (CWC) and senior
leader from Andhra Pradesh K Keshava Rao demanded Tiwari’s
resignation.
“I am shocked to see such photos of our respectable Governor. I feel
ashamed to comment on such a shameful act. I only hope they (photos)
are not genuine. But if they are, any responsible person on such a
post would quit before he is asked to do so,” Rao said in New Delhi.
AICC spokesman Manish Tiwari said that “since the matter is sub-
judice, it would be inappropriate to comment.” He added that unless
the “veracity of the material is independently verified, it would be
imprudent for anybody to be judgmental either way.”
AICC in-charge of Andhra Pradesh M Veerappa Moily refused to comment
saying he was not aware of the scandal.
N D Tiwari had survived a controversy recently when Ujjwala Sharma’s
son Rohit Shekhar had gone to court seeking a declaration that he was
Tiwari’s biological son. The Delhi High Court, however, dismissed the
plea.
Comments - 25
THOSE WHO ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN JAIL ARE IN PARLIAMENT
by B S GANESH BANGALORE on 26 Dec 2009
What former CEC used to emphasise in all hids public lectures that "
THOSE WHO ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN JAILS ARE IN PARLIAMENT AND ASSEMBLIES
" is very correct. This is applicable to almost all parties. It is a
shame on our democracy. See in Karnataka Renukacharya having number of
criminal cases is made a minister. It is foolish to say verdict is not
delivered and till such time honest. If they are realy honest must
resign and force people to prove the allegation. B S GANESH BANGALORE
need a moral upright guv
by suresh on 26 Dec 2009
There was a movie in which the hero asks the policemen that only
someone who has never taken a bribe can arrest him, none came forward.
So let us ask Madam Sonia to send on politician who is free from
corruption,secks,criminal taint....we will not find anyone..so we will
have prez rule ..but even pratba pati is also tainted in getting her
son a seat...and so there will be no law or rule in AP for time to
come.....am happy that NDT found three doughnuts to squirt his jam
(read this line in reediff blog) and NDT has shown that age has
nothing to do with the bouncing and excitement that happens between
the head and the legs..by the way if ndt was clean he should have
stayed back ....so am sure his jam has been spread over more than one
bread...
Govinda Govinda!
by Pattabi on 26 Dec 2009
AP you have no common sense, that video looks like fake and no
governor is brave enough to do such thing in Rajbhavan, because it
would leak out immediately. AP you are insulting your Raj-Guru and I
believe Guru (Pragaspathy) is not all seeing the AP now. Govinda
Govinda!
A Prime Ministerial Candidate
by Chandrakant Marathe on 26 Dec 2009
Narain Dutt Tiwari was once in running for the congress party's Prime
Ministers post. He has been a senior and strong congress leader but
was marginalised by Gandhi family's taking over of congress.
tivari
by walker on 26 Dec 2009
Tiwari the real man,his third leg is active even at 86.No wonder many
claim to be his chilldren.If tivari can be like this what about
dynasties who are enjoying free hospitality for decades
Take it wasy
by Vishal on 26 Dec 2009
Pls don't get swept away by news headlines. 1st of all, truth has to
come in light. This not the 1st unfortunate incident in India, if that
is TRUE 1st. We should see all crime with the same eye. We all are
human beings, being a governer is someone does such crimes, to me its
no different than a normal person. Even BillClinton has it with his
secretory who is far better educated, of great profile, role,
importance and position than NDTiwari. To me scams, murders and
scandals are same. So I would request, don't panic. This might be a
media act or political party act to take the focus away in AP. So,
calm down, but keep the issue burning. Don't take tension and keep
your BP normal. Don't see him as the No1 culprit. There are 1000s of
other serious crimes done in India daily with confidence under effect
of power of money. This one only got exposed and caught.
He should be prosecuted !!
by sa on 26 Dec 2009
What ??He is a corrupt.He is supposed to have a good character.Bill
clinton?wasnt he impeached because of his relations with lewinsky.How
come u people defend corrupt politicians.
BILL CLINTON
by NIRANJAN on 26 Dec 2009
CLINTON WAS NEVER IMPEACHED. HE WAS ACCUSED OF USING HIS POSITION TO
GIVE FAVOURS TO MONICA. INFIDELITY IS NOT A CRIME, ESPECIALLY IN USA.
ONLY, IT CAN BE USED FOR GETTING A DIVORCE.
Excellent Governor
by k madhukar on 26 Dec 2009
After seeing the types of people occupying Gubernatorial offices in
India these days, one wonders whether that office has any dignity or
honour left, for courts to protect.Even more amusing is, this type of
Governors are being addressed as" Your Excellency".Just
think.Governors are also Chancellors of Universities and preside over
convocations, make speeches to the future generations on morality and
other values.They should end such speeches in future by saying" do as
I say ,but don't do what I do"
indian
by omar on 26 Dec 2009
All praise be to god.What all news are we supposed to hear.Sex scandal
by 86 years old governor of a state.Ruchika harrassed and killed by a
DGP.4000 cr money scandal by a ex CM koda.cut and segregate
india,telengana.what else.we are living in a diastrous world now a
days, why because they take the law so lightly thinking that somehow
they can escape.If the law of the land becomes more strict then the
crime rate will obviously reduce.From independence till date no
politician is punished by the law.why.One idea to reduce crime,change
the law of the country to be strict and make the punishment public so
that everybody will be afraid of doing crime again.India will never
change unless we change the law.God help India and its people.
Is there no Tiwaris in TN
by ramkesav on 26 Dec 2009
It is unfortunate to read that a Governor and that too at such an
advanced age is caught in such a situation.But I doubt this is an
attempt to divert peoples attention from Telungana issue. Is it a sin
to have sex with willing partners. If the question is about dignity of
the post of governor, is there any dignity left? If the question is
about fall in cultural values, is there any concern about our culture
after so much support for homosex by the Govt and the media. By the
by, why these things are not being discovered from tamilnadu.When cine
actress Bhuvaneswari was arrested few months back, police found many
photos of politicians with call girls in her house. The tamilnadu
police obeyed their political masters and did not publicise these
photos. Otherwise a similar scam would have erupted in TN last month
itself. Also no newspaper in in TN is free and fair unlike
Andhrajothi. Even Kalanithimaran cant do anything against DMK in
Dinakaran murder case- shameless creatures
CAN NOT BELIEVE
by Abdul Rawoof Ashfaq on 26 Dec 2009
It is impossible to believe this story. Though Mr. Tiwari is 86 years
old and alleged to be involeved in this type of activity, it may not
be a true story. But one should wait for the report from bonafied
source. In our country judiciary and rule of the land never allow
anybody to slip from his guilt. Whoever commits this type of activity
will be punished one day or the other.
nd tiwari
by Barbara Nowak on 26 Dec 2009
N.D. Tiwari has always been involved in sex scandals. He used to
create lots of problems for Indian Embassy staff in Thailand when he
ued to visit that country.He saved a corrupt Indian ambassador a few
times though that felow's wife is living with a Pakistani in Canada.
After ambassador's retirement he got him a diplomatic passpost though
he was not entitled to. The External Affairs Ministry should re-
examine the case how Tiwari had persuaded Minister Krishna to do wrong
thing. Tiwari has always been supporting wrong people for his extra-
martial affairs.He has a long history and he should be sacked
immediately.
People won't belive their common sense
by Pattabi on 26 Dec 2009
People with common sense can believe it as a fake and punishable video
preparation. But our people can believe whatever they hear and
whatever they see. For example Chandra sawamy's Ganesh drinking milk,
a rath in the night sky etc.
Super Man
by Iquebal Ahmed on 26 Dec 2009
I am amazed! At this age of 86 years with two nubile women!! You have
put all the youngsters like me to shame!!!
tivari
by Rajan on 26 Dec 2009
He was just following M.K gandhis life style!
Devil
by Iquebal Ahmed on 26 Dec 2009
Hey Rajan, this is not good. You are trying to compare a devil to an
angel!
life style
by Abhishek prakash on 26 Dec 2009
what he did,is beyond ur imagination man!!!!!!!!!!!
Sting Operation
by Vox Indica on 26 Dec 2009
All that one could see in the clipping, which was repeatedly aired was
a prone Tiwari looking asleep and some women swarming over him. Was
the Governor a soft target in a larger business game?
infringement of personal Fun!
by ;-) on 26 Dec 2009
In my opinion, it is matter of personal choice to be active or not
like tiwariji. After all we never seek any morality from our (w)
Hor'ble leaders who we choose as champions of Socialism and
Secularism. May be tiwariji was misunderstood while doing his bit to
promote his ethos for these cherished political thoughts, by this kind
of sharing of time/money. Raj bhawan has said this is an attempt to
turnish image of 86 years old political Man. Being sexually active at
86 in after all no crime. Many many men would be interested in sharing
his secrets....May God usher a new career for him.... as race is
already on to know his little secret of eternal happiness. ;-)
not an excuse
by prabhakar Palla on 26 Dec 2009
Of course he is free to lead his life as he wished. Unfortunately this
old man is the first man of andra pradesh ie represents us. He is
paid ,looked afetr housed etc by us ,the citizens of Andrapradesh. He
has no right whatsoever to mis use his office & position.Once out of
office he is free to indulge in all the pleasures under the sun . He
should step down immediatly .
Indian Democracy needs a reform
by Dr B Sundara on 26 Dec 2009
My first wish is that the story should be false because I feel sad to
read that a man of 84 and occupying such an important position is
involved in the scandal. But if it is true then I feel disgusted about
the level of some of our politicians.They are so shameless
creatures.There are scandals running into thousands of of crores of
rupees, there cases of murders, and this kind of sex scandals.How this
country is tolerating all these attrocities in the name of democracy.
There is something fundamentally wrong with our democracy or the way
we practice it. A government servant is retired at 60 years while a
politician goes into his 80s and enjoys all the luxury and over and
above,he goes to the extent of sex scandals. It is time our democracy
is reformed and proper code of conduct is adhered to. There was news
of allowing relatives of ministers free air travel. Why to stop there?
Perhaps government can think of providing everything free to
ministers, governers, and the like.God save India
Tiwari follower of Nehru Dynasty
by Sekar on 26 Dec 2009
This Tiwari is the bossom friend of Nehru dynasty and congress
follower occupied all sorts of high posts. Old people will recollect
and young generation should know. Long long ago in DD in a quiz
program the Anchor asked the question " Who is the Palyboy of Congress
". Ofcourse next minute he was dismissed. Fortunately no TV channels
and sting operations earlier , otherwise we have seen Sexcellency of
many Stalwarts whom the present media describe great saviours of India
and thyagamoorthyees.
His Sexcellency
by A V Prasanna on 26 Dec 2009
It is disgusting to note & read the sexescapade of a Governor, who is
84 years old. Even if the sting were to be fabricated, there cannot be
a fire without a smoke. What the governor does within four walls is
his private affair, but if these ladies have easy entrance to the Raj
Bhavan then it is a breach of security. Raj Bhavans are supposed to be
fortress. Sonia madam it is time you kicked out all these old hogs who
have created a cancer in Indian Political world. Bring in young
blood.
India Shining
by Shaym Kishore on 26 Dec 2009
Another high profile congeress leader Rajmohan Unnnitan was caught red
hand in Kerala with a Sevadal woman leader . unfortunate for Tiwari
and Rajmohan . Its just the tip of an Iceberg . All politicians are
engaged in immoral activities . It wll not be surprising to see
goverment bring some laws to immune then against these charges . India
Shining
NDT
by Peter on 26 Dec 2009
Tiwari is a real CongI man. Other Buddas(there are many) in UPA Govt
should follow this true Gandhian
N D Tiwari an ideal case for even impeachment by the Parliament.
by Babubhai Vaghela ahmedabad on 26 Dec 2009
N D Tiwari having done %u201Cdemean and denigrate%u201D to the
gubernatorial office, must resign forthwith failing which he be
sacked. In the interest Andhra High Court also, after initial
intervention,the High Court may order enquiry by CBI. N D Tiwari an
ideal case for even impeachment by the Parliament.
oh la la
by Sumant on 26 Dec 2009
Was the old chap using shilajit or viagara
demean and denigrate
by S.Sistla on 26 Dec 2009
The CJ seems to have used his discretion in the matter. A valid news
content or the scandalous behavior of a person need not necessarily
cause hurt to a constitutional function. He should now consult with
his colleague judges on the subject and may review. Such judicial
interventions can damage the core principles of equality before law.
Moreover judiciary is not obliged to protecting the dignity of
constitutional position.
NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE
by ANOOPAM MODAK on 26 Dec 2009
The footage aired by the T.V. Channel regarding Andhra Pradesh
Governor N D Tiwari must have some substance in it, or else the
electronic media would not have dares to go for its telecast. Every
accused says that he or she is innocent. There is no doubt that these
days there are instances of both the print and electronic medias
resorting to blackmailing, but there are some which are engaged in
facts. The issue needs to be thoroughly investigated.
Enough is Enough
by Purist on 26 Dec 2009
Narayan Dutt, get out now. You are a shamelessly amoral self-indulgent
animal. Man, you are 84 years old. You should have been involved in
some religious activity to improve your days after your current life.
But, you are totally out of control and Rajbhavan has been turned into
a place of 5th degree decadance.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/His-Sexcellency/559401/
chhotemianinshallah
TNN 28 December 2009, 12:33am IST
NEW DELHI: Former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore, convicted for molesting
Ruchika Girhotra, not only tried to threaten her family into silence
but also attempted to influence the CBI's investigation into the
case.
Former CBI joint director R M Singh told Times Now on Sunday that
Rathore pressured him and even offered favours. When this did not
work, the then DGP got him removed from the case. "Rathore tried to
influence me many times by offering to get favours done and I believe
that he tried to influence my investigation officer also during the
course of the investigation," Singh said.
Significantly, Singh said before being taken off the case, he had
mentioned in his comments that Rathore be chargesheeted for abetment
to suicide. "I had included abetment to suicide along with other
charges (in my comments)," he said.
"That was my recommendation. Thereafter, as the file did not come to
me, I did not know what chargesheet was filed. Later, I came to know
that the chargesheet has been filed without abetment to suicide
(charges)," Singh added.
He said Rathore started calling up CBI when the case file came to him.
"He started calling on the phone and tried to influence me but I
didn't care for his calls. I took his calls because he was a serving
DGP and I extended all courtesies as a junior officer," he told the
news channel.
Singh said on several occasions he found Rathore waiting at his
chamber when he reached office. "He used to call me up at my residence
too and at one stage he offered help in the construction of my house
in Gurgaon," he said. "I politely told Rathore that these things
weren't going to do anything. Moreover (I asked) him not come to my
office."
When persuasion and bribery didn't work, Singh alleged that Rathore
complained to the CBI director. "(He complained) that I wanted to take
money from him so that I could favour him. He even told the director
that there were tape-recorded conversations between him and me to
prove this," he said.
As a result, Singh said he was taken off the case. "One of my seniors
informed me (about Rathore's complaint). I was a little astonished. I
asked him to call Rathore and hear all the tapes.... Thereafter, they
did not do anything except that I was taken off the case. The file did
not come to me. The director had told me that Rathore had made certain
allegations so keep away from the case," he said.
Asked why CBI had argued in court against inclusion of abetment to
suicide charges against Rathore, Singh said, "The (CBI) director
normally takes the opinion of the legal advisor of the CBI. The
advisor happens to be an officer from the law ministry on deputation.
I think he must have taken his opinion also. I did not see the file,
may be the legal advisor might have recommended not to include it or
the director might have taken his own independent decision."
chhotemianinshallah
TNN 28 December 2009, 12:16am IST
MUMBAI: A 40-year-old scrap dealer was arrested by the Mankhurd police
early on Sunday for raping a seven-year-old girl. Mustaqeen Chaudhary,
the accused, resides in Mandala at Mankhurd and has a rented shop
dealing in scrap in the same area.
The vicitm, a resident of the same area, was acquainted with
Chaudhary. According to the police, Chaudhary's shop had been
relocated to Mankhurd from Kurla a few years ago and since then, he
was operating at Mandala.
Chaudhary had lured the girl to his shop on Saturday night, where she
was allegedly raped. He also threatened her with dire consequences if
she disclosed the incident to her family. However, the victim broke
down on reaching home and told her parents about the incident.
Around 11.45 pm, the girl's parents approached the Mankhurd police
station and registered a complaint against Chaudhary. After his arrest
early on Sunday, Chaudhary was sent to the Nagpada police hospital for
a medical examination. The girl was admitted to Shatabdi Hospital at
Govandi.
"We are awaiting test reports from Nagpada police hospital. Chaudhary
has been booked under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code on charges
of rape," a police official said. The accused was not drunk at the
time of the incident, the police added.
chhotemianinshallah
PTI 28 December 2009, 01:48am IST
NEW DELHI: The government will look into the concerns raised by sex
workers of the red-light area regarding the health problems resulting
from "poor quality" of free condoms supplied to them.
Sex workers in the national capital's infamous Garstin Bastion (GB)
Road have alleged that free condoms provided to them by different NGOs
supplied by the Government are causing itching and other similar
problems.
These male contraceptives are distributed free of cost through non-
government organisations and NACO to prevent sex-workers from being
infected by sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS.
The sex workers have said that they are planning to take the matter to
the Government and will hold demonstration if the issue was not
resolved to their satisfaction.
"Condoms given to us are really of very bad quality. We do not feel
like using them. Irritation and other infections are some of common
side effects," said Sunita, a sex worker.
When contacted, Joint Secretary at National AIDS Control Organisation
Aradhana Johri said the department has not received any complaint
regarding the health problems resulting from the use of condom.
"But as you have brought the issue to our notice, we will direct the
concerned officials to immediately look into the matter and submit
their report," Johri said. Johri also said that all the free condoms
distributed meet the standards.
Kanta, another worker and owner of a brothel in the area said,
"Condoms even get ruptured and make us susceptible to various sexually
transmitted diseases like AIDS." Radhika, a worker at a brothel said,
"It is really irritating to use these condoms. There is always a
danger of the condoms getting burst. We prefer to use a good quality
product and bear the expenditure on our own."
There are about 116 brothels at the GB road in which about 5,000 women
from across the country and some from neighbouring countries work.
Sid Harth
RASHEED KIDWAI
Dec. 27: Narain Datt Tiwari, the 86-year-old governor of Andhra
Pradesh who resigned today, is the latest in a long list of Indian
politicians who have come under the shadow of sleaze in a country
which remains squeamish about the private lives of public people.
Politicians cutting across party lines are known to indulge in
“socially unacceptable behaviour” and “inappropriate relationships”.
However, in most cases, the sleaze escapes the public glare because of
an unwritten “public is public, private is private” consensus among
the political class, intelligentsia, civil society, media and
judiciary.
“Philandering” is not a recent phenomenon in India’s political system.
Apart from the “intense friendship” of Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina
Mountbatten, there have been numerous cases of politicians straying
from the straight and the narrow.
Nehru’s critic Ram Manohar Lohia had a rather open live-in
relationship with a lady lecturer of Delhi University but it never
affected his public image.
Old-timers feel parliamentary democracy may have been at a nascent
stage then, but the personal lives of Nehru, Lohia and others were
respected because they were devoid of sleaze or abuse of power.
Former Union minister and Congress leader Vasant Sathe had once
defended Lohia, pointing out that the socialist leader was honest and
never lied. “It was an alternative morality, Lohia style,” Sathe had
observed, making a distinction between unconventional relations and
Tiger Woods-style promiscuity.
Whispers of sleaze were first heard when a governor of Madhya Pradesh
who had served in Nehru’s cabinet was said to have violated the
seventh commandment and got entangled with his personal assistant in a
Clinton-type situation decades before the American President earned
notoriety.
Next came photographs of Jagjivan Ram’s son Suresh Ram’s sexual
encounter with Sushma Chaudhury, a Delhi University student, which
were published in Surya magazine, then edited by Indira Gandhi’s
daughter-in-law Maneka Gandhi. Her daring publication of the photos
ran the risk of violating obscenity laws.
The revealing pictures were published apparently to discredit Jagjivan
Ram, who had defected from Mrs Gandhi’s government and helped bring
the Janata Party to power in 1977.
Whispers abounded about the proximity of a powerful information and
broadcasting minister of the Congress to an actress who shared his
name. The actress had once accused him of suggestive remarks when they
were on a trip abroad.
A former Congress stalwart who held the posts of Andhra Pradesh chief
minister and Union cabinet minister among other positions was accused
of inappropriate behaviour. Congress gossip has it that Mrs Gandhi was
outraged when this leader reached his wife’s funeral with his
girlfriend.
A minister in former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao’s cabinet had
reportedly been found returning from abroad with accessories — dolls,
ropes, Spanish Fly and sex toys.
There were also whispers of a senior politician being “rescued” by the
Indian embassy in Bangkok when the visiting dignitary reportedly ran
out of bahts, the Thai currency, at a massage parlour. The politician
was on his way back after attending the funeral of an international
leader.
Away from public glare, there have been stories of another governor
ordering exceptionally large quantities of honey in the Raj Bhavan
every day.
Old-timers recall that Indira Gandhi used to get regular mails
narrating stories of moral turpitude of some of her party colleagues.
The then Prime Minister had scant regard for anonymous complaints but
used to summon the erring party leader if the objection came from a
family member.
Her son Rajiv Gandhi had a reputation of laughing it off while Sonia
Gandhi is known to follow the “public is public, private is private”
dictum.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091228/jsp/nation/story_11915490.jsp
chhotemianinshallah
AGENCIES 28 December 2009, 12:01pm IST
CHANDIGARH: A public interest litigation (PIL) was on Monday filed
against the Chandigarh based Sacred Heart School, where Ruchika
Girhotra studied. ( Watch Video )
The school had claimed that Ruchika Girhotra, who was molested by
former Harayana top cop S P S Rathore and later committed suicide, was
removed on grounds of not paying the school fees in time, but her
family was not convinced.
Ruchika's father Subhash Girhotra on Sunday lashed out at the ex-
police official and said he used his power to get Ruchika expelled
from her school.
Girhotra said: "Rathore used his influence. One day the Principal
called me and told that we are removing her from the school. Don't
send her to school any more."
"The school authorities did not give us any substantial reason behind
her sudden expulsion from the school. They cited some late fees
related issue as a reason behind this, which was totally baseless," he
added.
Senior advocate Ranjan Lakhanpal had earlier claimed that a case will
be filed against everybody involved in the Ruchika molestation case,
including the school for expelling her.
"We will be seeking action against the school also as to why she was
expelled, what were the reasons, and under whose pressure it was
done," Lakhanpal had said.
Ruchika Girhotra was a student of Class 10, when former Haryana DGP
Rathore allegedly molested her in 1990.
Rathore was then Inspector General of Police and the head of the
Haryana Lawn Tennis Federation.
Teenager Ruchika, a promising young tennis star had killed herself
three years after the incident by drinking poison.
Geetanjali Giyatri, Ruchika's classmate and a former student of Sacred
Heart said, "We had heard that she was going abroad and we thought she
had gone abroad after the incident, that's why she was not showing up.
We had also heard that she had left school, that's it."
The school is tight lipped on the whole issue and is least interested
in talking about reasons for expelling Ruchika.
chhotemianinshallah
Agencies
Posted: Monday , Dec 28, 2009 at 1748 hrs
New Delhi:
In the wake of former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore being found guilty in
a molestation case, the Government will soon formulate a policy for
automatic revoking of police and gallantry medals awarded to officers
if they are convicted by a court.
Top Government sources said the rules are likely to be formalised when
a high-powered award committee, headed by Union Home Secretary G K
Pillai, meets here on January 4.
"In our opinion, any IPS officer convicted by a court should be
stripped of his medal. The award committee will look into all relevant
issues and take a decision," a source said.
The Home Ministry has already taken steps to withdraw the police medal
given to Rathore in 1985.
Rathore was recently sentenced to six months in prison for molesting
14-year old Ruchika Girhotra in 1990. Three years later, she committed
suicide. Her family has leveled allegations of abetment to suicide
against Rathore.
Haryana IPS officer R K Sharma, sentenced to life in prison in
journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, still has a President's
police medal.
Sid Harth
Posted On Monday, December 28, 2009
Agencies
Hyderabad, Dec 28:
Breaking his silence, former Andhra Pradesh Governor N D Tiwari, who
resigned in the wake of alleged sex scandal, today rubbished reports
against him as "fabricated and false" and said he will continue to be
in public life.
On return to his home state, Uttarakhand, 86-year old Tiwari told
reporters at the Jollygrant Airport near here that some people in
Andhra Pradesh had hatched a conspiracy against him and levelled
"false" allegations.
Declining to name anyone, he said some people associated with
Telangana statehood agitation wanted to meet President Pratibha Patil
during her proposed visit to Hyderabad, but he had refused to
entertain their request. These people got angry with him and hatched a
conspiracy against him, he claimed.
Mr. Tiwari had resigned on Saturday on "health grounds" in the wake of
a raging controversy after a sting operation by an Andhra TV channel
purportedly showed him in a compromising position with three women in
Raj Bhavan.
The Raj Bhavan had dismissed the allegations as a "tissue of lies".
The Congress leader said he has no grudge against anybody and would
continue to serve the country as well as the society.
"I am not going to retire from politics," he said.
Narasimhan takes charge as AP Guv
Hyderabad: E S Lakshmi Narasimhan was on Monday sworn in as the
Governor of Andhra Pradesh following N D Tiwari's resignation in the
wake of a controversy over a sting operation purportedly showing him
in a compromising position with three women.
He was administered the oath of office by AP High Court Chief Justice
A Ramesh Dave at a brief function in the Raj Bhavan at 9.30 am.
President Pratibha Patil had yesterday asked Narasimhan, currently the
Chattisgarh Governor, to discharge the duties in the Raj Bhavan here
till further arrangements were made.
Chief Minister K Rosaiah, his Cabinet colleagues, leaders of
opposition parties, former Chief Minister Nadendla Bhaskara Rao and
others attended the function.
State Chief Secretary P Ramakanth Reddy read out the warrant of
appointment of Narasimhan following which the High Court Chief Justice
administered the oath.
A former Indian Police Service officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre,
Narasimhan has also served as chief of the Intelligence Bureau.
Narasimhan arrived here late last night and was received at the
Begumpet airport by Rosaiah. Tiwari, who submitted his resignation on
Saturday, left for New Delhi around 5.30 am today.
http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=22978
Sid Harth
Editorial
Posted On Monday, December 28, 2009
Caught in the midst of a sex-on-tape controversy, Narayan Dutt Tiwari
exited the post of Governor of Andhra Pradesh which he had occupied
since August 2007. It was a dishonourable end for the 84-year-old
Congressman who has during the course of a long political career
served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
In the first election in Uttar Pradesh after the independence for the
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly held in 1952, he was elected from
Nanital constituency and became an MLA for the first time on Praja
Samajwadi Party ticket. In 1957, he was elected from the Nainital
legislative constituency, and became the leader of Opposition in the
Assembly. Tiwari was born in Nainital on October 18, 1925. He was
married to Dr Sushila Sanwal in the year 1954.
In 1963, he joined the Indian National Congress, and was elected MLA
from the Kashipur, Uttarakhand constituency in 1965. In the same year
he was appointed a minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh. After
that he also remained Minister for Finance and Parliamentary Affairs
in the Chaudhary Charan Singh Government (1979-1980). In 1968, he
established Jawaharlal Nehru National Youth Centre (JNNYC) is a
voluntary Organisation. He remained the first President of Indian
Youth Congress from 1969 to 1971.
Just as the case of ND Tiwari, ex-Orissa CM JB Patnaik was also
alleged similarly with charges of homosexuality. A reputed weekly
magazine had carried out a story maligning Patnaik who slammed a
defamation case to the tune of crores of rupees against it. however,
the magazine, in an out-of -court settlement, ended up the case with
Patnaik.
On the other hand Tiwari has submitted his resignation on the grounds
of health and age. While the hidden soures suggest that the Centre
had sought a detailed inquiry from the Chief Secretary of Andhra
Pradesh in this regard. It was supposed that this is his personal
affair and the responsibility to come clean lies on him.
Now, he cannot escape the controversies. If he does not clarify the
matter, then the news channel would do the final exposure.
http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=22900
Sid Harth
PTI 28 December 2009, 08:43pm IST
CHANDIGARH: Senior lawyer and human rights activist Ranjan Lakhanpal
said he will file a public suit Tuesday seeking a fresh case against
former Haryana director general of police (DGP) S P S Rathore for the
molestation of teenager Ruchika Girhotra 19 years ago.
In his Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Punjab and Haryana High
Court, Lakhanpal will also seek strict action against the management
of the leading girls’ school, Sacred Heart School in Sector 26 here,
for expelling Ruchika on "illogical grounds".
"I was supposed to file the PIL today (Monday) but I could not do it
as it was a holiday in the high court. But I will certainly file it
tomorrow (Tuesday) morning," Lakhanpal told IANS on Monday evening.
Meanwhile, the Anand Prakash family, which has been fighting her case,
said it will launch a 'Dharm Yudh' (fight for justice) against child
abuse and crime against women.
"Tomorrow, on the occasion of her death anniversary, we will launch a
Dharm Yudh against child abuse and crime against women," Ruchika's
friend Aradhana told reporters.
People hold candle light vigil
People from Haryana today held a candle light vigil here on the eve of
the 16th death anniversary of Ruchika Girhotra, who committed suicide
on December 29, 1993, three years after she was molested by former
Haryana DGP S P S Rathore.
The citizens from Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali with
representatives of a few local NGOs among them and people drawn from
various walks of life including teachers, students, doctors and
advocates participated in the march and formed a human chain.
People participating in the candle light vigil including Ruchika's
friend Aradhana and her mother and AIATF President M S Bitta carried
placards which read "Restore people's faith in justice-delivery", "Too
little, too late" and "Let us make this place safe for girls".
A representative of one of the participating NGOs said they would also
submit a memorandum to Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia regarding
"inordinate delay in the case and meagre sentence awarded to the
accused".
Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, a 1965-batch IPS officer, who retired
in 2002, molested Ruchika, a budding tennis player, in 1990 when he
was IGP.
He got away with a lighter punishment in the case as a court here
sentenced him to six months in jail on Monday last.
chhotemianinshallah
New Delhi, Dec 25 (PTI):
Refuting the charge that he had shielded former DGP S P S Rathore in
the Ruchika molestation case, former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash
Chautala on Friday said while he had taken action against the officer,
he was promoted by other governments.
"We took strong action against him. During my government (in 1990), we
instituted a departmental inquiry against him. In my tenure later, we
suspended him from the post of DGP as he was facing charge sheet in
the case. He (Rathore) was promoted to the post of ADGP and DGP during
the governments of Bhajan Lal and Bansi Lal. They should be blamed for
the promotion," he told reporters here.
S C Girhotra, Ruchika's father, on Thursday accused Chautala of
shielding Rathore in the case. Rathore, who molested 14-year-old
budding tennis player in 1990, was sentenced to six-month
imprisonment, 19 years after the incident.
Chautala said he, as chief minister, did not recommend Rathore for
President's medal and that his name was forwarded for the award as
part of a routine bureaucratic process.
"I did not recommended him for the medal. That was done as part of a
routine work by officers. The issue (recommendation) did not come to
my notice," he said.
Chautala said his government had taken strong action by initiating
departmental inquiry against Rathore.
Ruchika was molested by Rathore, the then IG of Police. She committed
suicide three years later by consuming poison.
Girhotra has demanded that the former DGP should be punished for
abetment to suicide instead of being let off with a lighter six month
sentence.
Chautala said the case dates back to August 12, 1990 when an FIR was
lodged.
"I was not satisfied with the FIR only. We started departmental
inquiry which suggested that charge sheet should be filed in the case.
Later the charge sheet was filed," he said.
"I am surprised how I am being blamed in this case. He (Rathore) was
not promoted during my tenure," Chautala said.
He alleged that there were efforts to dismiss the case during the
government headed by Bhajan Lal.
Ruchika's father had yesterday alleged that she committed suicide in
1993 after facing constant harassment from Rathore.
Chautala declined to comment on the demand made by Ruchika's father
for framing charges of abetment to suicide against Rathore saying he
was not a law student.
"I am not a student of law. I respect the court's decision. It is not
the question whether I am satisfied or not," he said.
He also refuted the allegation that he had any relation with Rathore.
Asked why he did not dismiss Rathore when he was the chief minister,
Chautala said such action is taken after a thorough procedure. If the
victim's family is not happy with the judgement, they should move
higher court on the issue, he said.
User Comments
By: deepak
On: 25 Dec 2009 02:50 pm
that shameless guy Rathod and politicians who supported him should be
smacked on their backsides by the public. When guardians of law abuse
their power, the public should take the law in their hand. Poor little
girl had to take her life because of these morons, what a shame on
Indian system.
By: vks
On: 25 Dec 2009 12:32 pm
if such act is happening in chautala govt and ravan like rathore is
enjoying and getting promoted then whoi is responsible?? Is it not
chautala........chautala shud also hv been punsihed....
By: Ramu
On: 25 Dec 2009 11:55 am
Our country Politicians now a days are so sincere,honest, dedicated
towards consituency,never get into criminal interference,open
hearted,clean out of corruption. If these Guys were to be scaled in
this lines our country would have not have taken so much time for
development.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/43190/my-govt-did-not-defend.html
chhotemianinshallah
Panchkula (Haryana), Dec 28 (PTI)
A day after Ruchika Girhotra's family hit out at the CBI for making a
'compromise', chairman of the All India Anti Terrorist Front M S Bitta
lashed out at the Intelligence Bureau for its alleged failure in
providing inputs to the higher authorities regarding 'true facts' of
the teenager's molestation case.
"We only talk about the CBI's lapse. But this case also raises
questions on the working of the intelligence agencies of the state and
centre. These officials are supposed to keep track of such cases,
especially when the accused is a senior IPS official, but it appears
they did not provide any report regarding true facts of the case and
failed to give inputs to the higher authorities which could have
changed the fate of the case," Bitta told reporters here.
"We all know there is a intelligence official present even during
important press conferences. These officials regularly prepare reports
and send them to the higher authorities...but it is not just the
failure of the CBI or the intelligence agencies," he said.
Ruchika's family plans to file a fresh complaint over the CBI's
"compromise" for its exclusion of abetment to suicide charge against
former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/43663/ruchika-molestation-case-bitta-lashes.html
chhotemianinshallah
Panaji, Dec 29, dhns:
John Fernandes, the businessman wanted for the alleged rape of a
Russian tour representative in Goa, has managed to evade arrest for a
fortnight.
With his passport in police custody, the accused has little option but
to surrender eventually, officials say.
Fernandes’ bail was cancelled by the High Court on December 15 and a
warrant of arrest issued against him by the Margao judicial
magistrate.
Meanwhile, police officials investigating a complaint by two Russian
tourists against a taxi driver, said the case seemed more like a
dispute over the cab fare.
Pramod Shirodkar was arrested on Saturday after the two women lodged a
complaint with the police alleging he tried to molest and attack them
after a Christmas night party.
The women said they jumped out of the car and hid in the bushes near
Anjuna for five hours till daylight.
Shirodkar who was moonlighting as a taxi driver was dropping the women
to their hotel from a night spot. He denies the charges and said he
got into an altercation with the tourists over the fare for the
ride.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/43758/few-options-accused-russian-rape.html
chhotemianinshallah
Surat, Dec 25 (PTI) :
A minor girl who attempted suicide by setting herself ablaze last
week, after being allegedly gangraped by two men, succumbed to burn
injuries at the civil hospital here, police said.
The 15-year-old victim was admitted to the civil hospital after she
set herself ablaze last Friday at her house in Dindoli area of the
city and suffered serious burn injuries in upper part of the body.
According to police, the victim died due to burns this morning in the
burns ward of the civil hospital.
As per the police complaint filed by the girl's parents last week, two
men Ranjit Choudhary (26) and Ravi (20) had allegedly kidnapped the
girl from school and took her to an secluded place outside the city,
and raped her repeatedly for a couple of days and then left her on
railway track near Dindoli.
However, Police said the medical examination of the girl showed that
she was not raped or sexually assaulted.
They said that with the death of the girl today, facts of the incident
need to be verified for which investigation was on. The two men are in
police custody after being arrested and are being interrogated, police
added.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/43200/minor-gangrape-victim-dies-attempting.html
chhotemianinshallah
Tirunelveli (TN), Dec 21 (PTI)
A 28-year-old-man has been arrested for allegedly trying to rape the
wife of a Russian official when she was swimming in the sea off
Chettikulam near Koodankulam in the district.
Police said Bevilya Khovisti (29), a language expert working at the
Koodankulam power plant, and his wife were swimming in the sea near
their housing quarters last evening when the man, Pauldinm tried to
rape the Russian woman. However, he fled when the couple raised an
alarm.
The man was arrested following a complaint from Bevilya, police said,
adding, he was remanded to judicial custody.
On August 7 last, seven persons including some college students
attempted to rape the daughter of Alexander Cherno, a senior Russian
engineer working in the under construction Koodankulam nuclear power
plant, when she was swimming in the sea along with her father. The
gang snatched their camera also.
In view of the incident, the Koodankulam power plant officials have
demanded better security for those staying in the housing quarters at
Chettikulam.
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India is setting up the power plant
at Koodankulam with Russian collaboration.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/42428/man-held-trying-rape-russian.html
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Anil Anand / DNA
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 0:39 IST
New Delhi: Taking note of the public outcry against former Haryana
police chief SPS Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika Girhotra
molestation case, the centre has decided to act tough on deviant
Indian Police Service (IPS) officers and look into laxities in the
registering of FIRs in women-related cases.
Henceforth, convicted police officers would automatically lose their
medals. The Union home ministry has convened a meeting of its medals
committee on January 4 to discuss the issue, which came to the fore
following growing public demand for divesting Rathore of the police
medal granted to him in 1985 (however, in subsequent years, he was
declined a president's medal, following adverse intelligence reports).
The committee has a two-point agenda: withdrawing Rathore's medal and
formulating a general view on how to deal with such cases in the
future. Confirming the meeting, a senior ministry official said
guidelines would be formulated on the basis of the committee's
recommendations and would be immediately applicable to all cases where
IPS officers have been convicted. The guidelines would be conveyed to
Rashtrapati Bhavan and the state governments.
On FIRs, the ministry will soon issue formal instructions to the
states, directing the police to immediately register cases in all
women-related cases. The ministry will do this, overruling the police
view that the majority of such cases are either fake or untrue.
The ministry has decided to ignore the police's view in the light of
growing public criticism following reports that Ruchika's friends and
family members faced great difficulty in getting the case of her
suicide registered.
Union home secretary GK Pillai is of the opinion that it does not
matter if some of the cases turn out to be false; clear instructions
will be given to the states to strictly follow the ministry's norms in
cases involving crimes against women. The police must first
investigate all such cases and only then reject those that it found to
have been fabricated.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_ruchika-case-centre-reads-the-riot-act-to-police_1328566
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Ajay Bhardwaj / DNA
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 2:08 IST
Chandigarh: Mystery woman Veena, who disappeared after deposing in the
Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, continues to baffle investigators.
Veena signed the inquest report on 14-year-old Ruchika's alleged
suicide posing as her mother and wife of Subhash Girhotra. She told
police that the teen did not commit suicide, contrary to the post-
mortem report, but died of an overdose of slimming pills she had been
taking for long.
Her statement helped absolve the molester, former Haryana DGP SPS
Rathore, of the charge of abetment to suicide.
Subhash Girhotra, however, said Veena was not his wife but a
governess. He said he lost his wife way back in 1986.
"She [Veena] disappeared after I sold my house in Panchkula to escape
the torture and harassment inflicted by Rathore," Subhash said.
But Rathore's lawyer insisted Veena was Ruchika's stepmother and that
Subhash had stated on oath before the Patiala district and sessions
judge that she was his wife. He said even Ashu, Ruchika's brother, had
admitted during cross-examination that Veena was his stepmother.
Meanwhile, Pankaj Bhardwaj, counsel for Anand and Madhu Prakash, who
have been fighting for justice to Ruchika, has demanded a fresh
investigation into the role of Veena.
Bhardwaj claimed the inquest proceedings were doctored. He said
police, acting at the instance of Rathore, were so desperate to doctor
the inquest report that they did not even bother to register accurate
names of the deceased and her father.
While Ruchika was shown as Ruby, the name of her father was mentioned
as SC Khatri, Bhardwaj said.
"We will move the Supreme Court [SC] and press for addition of section
306 IPC (abetment to suicide) to the charges against Rathore. The
chemical examination report following the post-mortemclearly states
that Ruchika died of consuming an insecticide.
The report was provided to the CBI but it chose to ignore it," he
said.
Claiming that the CBI worked under pressure and compromised
investigation, Bhardwaj said the agency did not even bother to record
Ashu's statement.
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PTI Tuesday, December 29, 2009 14:46 IST
Panchkula: Sixteen years after molestation victim Ruchika Girhotra
died after consuming poison, her friends and family members today took
out a march here and lit a lamp outside the house where the teenager
once lived.
14-year-old Ruchika, who was molested by former DGP of Haryana SPS
Rathore in 1990, consumed poison on December 28, 1993 and died the
following day.
With a 'puja thali' in her hand, Ruchika's friend Aradhana accompanied
by 35 well-wishers of the family took out a march from her house No
210 in Sector 6 to house No363 in the same sector where Ruchika lived
with her family then.
Accompanied by her husband Aman, who works in Australia, and her
mother Madhu, Aradhana lit an earthen lamp outside the house which has
changed hands a couple of times and is presently being re-built.
The marchers observed a minute's silence outside the house in which no
family is residing presently.
Aradhana told reporters waiting outside the house that, "The signature
campaign launched by me today has evoked a good response from people
in our struggle for justice for Ruchika and her family."
"We are also getting a large number of e-mails from residents within
the country and abroad offering support to the campaign," Aradhana
said.
"After 19 years of Ruchika's molestation and suicide three years
later, the incidents have become a people's fight for justice.
Ruchika's soul would have got some satisfaction. She must have
smiled."
Aradhana said that since Ruchika's father SC Girhotra was forced to
sell his house here, the society should take steps for the family to
get back the house.
A number of students and teachers from Punjab Engineering College in
Chandigarh also visited the family offering support.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_ruchika-remembered-on-her-16th-death-anniversary_1328728
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PTI Tuesday, December 29, 2009 12:59 IST
Chandigarh: The Chandigarh administration has ordered a probe against
the school which had expelled Ruchika Girhotra after her molestation
by former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore.
The probe, ordered by education secretary Ram Niwas, has been
initiated to ascertain the causes which led to the expulsion of then
14-year-old Ruchika, official sources said here today.
"We have instituted an inquiry. Sub divisional magistrate Prerna Puri
has been made the inquiry officer. It will be a time-bound probe, and
we have asked her to complete the task within a week's time," Niwas
said.
He said though it was a very old case and most of the principals and
members of the management have changed, "But still we have been able
to dig out some circumstantial evidence. We will be able to place
whatever material is available on record before the public".
Madhu Parkash, mother of Aradhana, a friend of Ruchika, who has been
pursuing the case, had filed a complaint with the Chandigarh
administration against the local convent institution Sacred Heart
School alleging harassment to the girl as Rathore's daughter was also
a student of the same class.
Though the school did not offer any comment, sources said the
expulsion was ordered about 19 years ago by the then management, which
has changed many times over the years, and the present school
authorities have no clue to the reasons which resulted in the
expulsion of Ruchika.
Rathore, a 1995 batch IPS officer of Haryana, who retired in 2002, was
awarded a six-month jail term by a CBI court here last week for
molesting Ruchika, a budding tennis player in 1990, when he was an
IGP.
Ruchika died on this day in 1993 after consuming poison.
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dharna
PTI Tuesday, December 29, 2009 16:41 IST
Jaipur: A woman from Rajasthan's Dausa district, who was allegedly
abducted and raped by an IPS officer, today sat on a dharna here along
with her family members and Independent MP Kirori Lal Meena, after she
was not allowed to meet chief minister Ashok Gehlot at his residence.
Around 50 persons led by MP Meena are on the dharna at civil line
railway crossing demanding justice for the victim.
"Gehlot had given us appointment for the morning, but the police
officer on duty at CM residence denied us entry," the victim's husband
Khyali Ram Meena told reporters here.
The woman was allegedly abducted and taken to Noida in UP in January
1997 where she was allegedly raped by former DIG Madhukar Tandon,
currently absconding, then posted in PHQ.
Khyali, who was a police constable, registered a case against the IPS
officer with Noida police station in Ghaziabad and subsequently with
Bandikui police station in Dausa.
"After that, I was continuously harassed by senior police officers and
pressurised to withdraw the case. That time I was posted in police
line Jaipur. They harassed me to such a limit that I was forced to
leave the job in 2002," Khyali said.
"Since then I have been seeking justice and have written to home
minister, chief minister and prime minister," he said.
Police said they had submitted the charge sheet in the case against
Tandon, but by then he had absconded and was later declared fugitive.
MP Meena said that the Dharna would continue till Gehlot meets the
woman.
Sid Harth
The rot beyond Rathore
If the appalling facts surrounding the case of sexual molestation of a
14-year-old girl by a senior Haryana police officer, S.P.S. Rathore,
have transfixed the nation, this is because of the blatant manner in
which the accused was able to use his position to subvert the course
of justice. Even in a country inured to the rich, powerful, and
shameless getting away, the full spectrum dominance unleashed on the
helpless girl’s family by Rathore set a new low. And yet, the instant
case is not just a morality play about the criminality of one man. It
is a cautionary tale about the multiple layers of protection that well-
connected offenders enjoy in the Indian criminal justice system by
design and default. Subversion begins right after the offence is
committed, when the victim finds it impossible to get the local police
to register a first information report. Despite numerous court rulings
and official guidelines on this matter, police stations around the
country routinely refuse to file FIRs against police officers,
politicians, and other influential notables. And even if a case is
filed, the police often join hands with the accused person’s lawyers
to ensure the matter gets delayed for years on end. The foisting of
false cases on the family of Rathore’s victim was another old trick
the police officer resorted to.
Rathore and men like him are able to get away with such abuses of
authority because they are ever ready to commit similar illegalities
for their political masters. Unless meaningful police reforms are
introduced, this problem will not go away. The Indian system is also
surprisingly lenient towards law enforcement officers who try and
frame innocent citizens. In the Shopian case involving the suspicious
death of two Kashmiri women, the Central Bureau of Investigation,
which investigated the circumstances of their death, went a step
further and filed criminal charges against a number of individuals who
had allegedly sought to incriminate the security forces in the
incident. But the same CBI, which took up the Rathore case and came
across indisputable evidence of police vendetta against his victim’s
brother, did not see fit to file charges against Rathore and all the
subordinate policemen involved in the malicious prosecution of the
young man on bogus accusations of auto theft. Even at this late stage,
it is essential that the CBI be tasked with unearthing the identity of
the dozens of bureaucrats, policemen, and politicians who conspired
with Rathore to pervert the course of justice. Haryana’s former DGP
must get his legal comeuppance; but those who helped him all these
years must also get their due.
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TNN 30 December 2009, 12:42am IST
CHANDIGARH: The law is catching up with the molester DGP, S P S
Rathore. He is likely to be arrested soon, possibly as early as
Wednesday, by the Panchkula police on the basis of two complaints
filed against him by Ruchika's father, Subhash Girhotra, and her
brother, Ashu, on Tuesday, which were promptly converted into FIRs by
the police.
There is poetic justice in Rathore's imminent arrest. Tuesday was the
16th anniversary of Ruchika's death. Nineteen years after he molested
Ruchika, then just 14, and then intimidated and harrassed the Girhotra
family leading to Ruchika's suicide three years later, the family
finally mustered the courage on this grim anniversary to strike back
and file complaints against the retired top cop.
The charges in the FIRs are serious non-bailable offences -- attempt
to murder, assault, illegal confinement and forging documents. "We
have registered two FIRs and informed Ruchika's family members.
Investigation is on and we are checking the complaints made against
Rathore before proceeding to arrest him," said Panchkula
superintendent of police Maneesh Chaudhary.
As many as seven non-bailable sections were slapped against Rathore,
indicating the police intent of arresting him. These include sections
307 (attempt to murder), 195A (threatening or inducing any person to
give false evidence), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery
for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document),
506 (criminal intimidation) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) filed by
Ashu.
Meanwhile, the CBI indicated on Tuesday that new cases could be made
out against Rathore on the basis of disclosures made by former joint
director R M Singh who initially handled the case. Singh has said that
Rathore tried to influence him and expressed his willingness to
testify.
The news of imminent action against Rathore sparked off impromptu
celebrations at the Panchkula residence of Anand Prakash, a family
friend of the Girhotras, who stood by them through the years. As
Subhash Girhotra reached Prakash's house, people poured in to
congratulate him and Anand Prakash, his wife Madhu and daughter
Aradhana, the key players in the protracted and bitter battle against
Rathore.
Rathore's house, also in Panchkula, wore a deserted look with
neighbours saying that Rathore is likely to be holed up inside.
Till now, it was only Ruchika, who had taken any step against Rathore
by filing the complaint for molestation, on which the case dragged on
for 19 years. Finally, Rathore was convicted but awarded a sentence of
six months, sparking outrage across the country.
Sid Harth
TNN 30 December 2009, 12:44am IST
JAIPUR: As the justice-for-Ruchika cry got shriller, a senior IPS
officer from Rajasthan also seemed headed for trouble with a tribal
woman, emboldened by the outcry against Ruchika's molester, claiming
she should get justice for being raped by the cop 13 years ago.
While Ruchika was a minor who was molested by then Haryana DGP S P S
Rathore in 1990, the victim in this case is a tribal woman who claims
she was raped by the then Rajasthan DIG Madhukar Tandon at his Noida
residence on January 21, 1997. Tandon has been absconding since then.
On Tuesday, the victim, a resident of Bandikui village in Dausa
district, staged a dharna near chief minister Ashok Gehlot's residence
along with her family members and Dausa MP Kirori Lal Meena.
"While the whole country is discussing the Ruchika case, there are
several other cases which are going unnoticed. I too want justice,"
the victim told reporters.
She was accompanied in the protest sit-in by her husband, the former
DIG's orderly who claimed he was forced to quit. "I was being
pressured by seniors in the police department to withdraw the case in
exchange for money and when I refused I was even beaten up a few
times," said Khayaliram Meena.
After the January 21 'rape', an FIR was lodged at a Noida police
station. But Tandon, a Rajasthan-cadre IPS officer reportedly well-
connected in political and bureaucratic circles, vanished after that.
However, he reportedly visited Jaipur later and even sold his
property. This included a 1,500 square feet plot in Hanuman Nagar, a
10 bigha farmhouse on Ajmer Road and a plot in Vaishali Nagar. Sources
claim that while the land transactions were being finalized, Tandon
stayed at an IPS officer's bungalow.
Tandon was suspended in 2002, five years after the FIR was lodged
against him. A Dausa magisterial court had ordered all his property,
including his house in Noida, seized, but no action has been taken by
Noida police. When reporters visited Tandon's Noida plot, the
residents said they bought the house in 2005.
In 1998, the Ashok Gehlot government had promised in the Congress
party's manifesto that the property belonging to Tandon would be
forfeited but despite coming to power a second time (in 2008), it
failed to make headway in the case.
State home minister Shanti Dhariwal, however, promised to look into
the case, which he said was only now brought to his notice. "I had no
knowledge of the case because this department has never been under me.
Now that I know of this case, I will certainly take it up and find out
why the culprit hasn't been arrested so far," he said.
Sid Harth
ANI29 December 2009, 12:49pm IST
India may have introduced the world to Kama Sutra but it looks like
the country is not open to the delicate subject of sex on the
Internet. No Internet sex for India (Gettu Imges) Several Internet
companies have secretly introduced filters to prevent Indian users
from accessing sexual content, reports the Guardian .
Earlier this month, the Yahoo search engine and Flickr photo-sharing
site (owned by Yahoo ) altered their sites to prevent users in India
from switching off the safe-search facility.
The block also applies to users in Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea.
Microsoft has also banned Indian users of its Bing search engine from
searching for sexual content.
Users who do try to search for sexual material receive a notice
informing them that "your country or region requires a strict Bing
SafeSearch setting, which filters out results that might return adult
content".
The crack down is said to be in response to recent changes to India’s
Information Technology Act of 2000, which bans the publication of
pornographic material.
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Sreenivas Janyala
Posted: Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 at 0443 hrs
Hyderabad:
Tiwari: back in Dehradun from Hyderabad
In a startling revelation, Chief Security Officer of the Andhra
Pradesh Raj Bhavan Mohammed Shokat Ali has said that N D Tiwari’s
Officer on Special Duty “exclusively handled” the visits of the women
allegedly on the sex tape featuring the former Governor. And that he
over-ruled security protocol and norms to ensure that there was no
official record of their presence.
Ali told The Indian Express today: “A record of each visitor’s name
and address, entry and exit is kept, but in the case of these women,
this was only on paper. Their visits were exclusively handled by OSD
Aryendra Sharma. Overriding security protocol and security officers,
Sharma would inform the checkpost at the gates and security that such
and such car belonging to the Raj Bhavan’s Motor Transport Department
carrying ‘guests’ of the Governor should be allowed inside without
security or identification checks.”
Asked why no questions were raised, Ali said: “The OSD himself gave
the orders, we had no say. Sometimes, security checkposts were
informed that ‘family members’ were coming in, at other times it was
‘guests’. No one dared to check or verify. These cars went out or came
in sometimes late in the night.”
Despite several attempts, Sharma was unavailable for comment. Tiwari
has claimed that the tape is fabricated.
Ali said security during Tiwari’s term was reduced to providing pilot
and escort to the Governor when he ventured out. “What happened inside
Raj Bhavan was all handled by the OSD.” This is in sharp contrast to
procedure, say Raj Bhavan officials.
“Getting an appointment with the Governor is a long process. Usually
requests are forwarded to the Intelligence Bureau. Only after
Intelligence clears them, is an appointment given. Appointments are
not given to everyone who wants to meet the Governor, especially
persons with no particular purpose. The Officer on Special Duty makes
arrangements usually for guests visiting Raj Bhavan,” said Press
Secretary to Governor S P S Raja.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/tiwaris-osd-got-women-in-raj-bhavan-security-chief/561328/0
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justice for Ruchika in New Delhi. PTI Photo Photograph (1)
Ruchika case: DGP Rathore seeks anticipatory bail
STAFF WRITER 12:28 HRS IST
Panchkula, Dec 30 (PTI) Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, who faces
imminent arrest in the Ruchika case following filing of fresh FIRs
against him, today moved for anticipatory bail before a sessions court
which adjourned proceedings after hearing arguments.
Abha, the lawyer wife of 67-year-old Rathore, submitted before
District and Sessions Judge S P Singh that that "fabricated and
forged" facts were being presented by the family of Ruchika Girhotra
in the case, in which the former IPS officer had got six months
imprisonment.
She alleged that her husband was facing a "nothing but a trial by the
media" and that she had been informed about the filing of fresh FIRs
against him through the press.
To a question by the judge on whether she was in possession of the
copies of the FIRs, Abha replied in the negative.
After hearing the arguments, the court adjourned the proceeedings.
http://www.ptinews.com/news/445695_Ruchika-case--DGP-Rathore-seeks-anticipatory-bail
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STAFF WRITER 12:50 HRS IST
New Delhi, Dec 30 (PTI) After fresh FIRs against former Haryana DGP
SPS Rathore in the Ruchika molestation case, the National Commission
for Women today suggested inclusion of charges like abetment to
suicide, criminal conspiracy and fabrication of false evidence.
"Two FIRs have been filed yesterday. But certain other sections should
also be included. They are section 306 (abetment of suicide), 120-B
(criminal conspiracy), 166 (public servant disobeying law), 167
(Public servant farming an incorrect document with intent to cause
injury)...," NCW Chairperson Girija Vyas said.
A few other sections of Indian Penal Code like 191 (Giving false
evidence), 192 (Fabricating false evidence), 195 (Giving or
fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of
offence punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonment), 196
(Using evidence known to be false), 201 (Causing disappearance of
evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender),
are also applcable in this case, she said.
http://www.ptinews.com/news/445741_NCW-for-inclusion-of-more-charges-against-Rathore
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2009-12-30 19:13:21
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday discussed with
family members of Ruchika Girhotra and their lawyer the possibility to
reopen the molestation case by adding abetment to suicide charges and
sought more documents relating to the matter.
Advocate Pankaj Bharadwaj accompanied by Ruchika's father Subhash and
her friend Aradhana's father Anand Prakash met the Home Minister and
apprised him of developments in the case since 1990.
After about an hour-long meeting with the Home Minister, Bharadwaj
told reporters, "There are so many ways to reopen the matter under
section 306 (abetment to suicide). We are still thinking as to which
is the best line to reopen the case".
Bharadwaj said the Home Minister sought more documents regarding the
case, which he would be providing to him by Thursday.
"What essentially he (Chidambaram) wanted to know was few
documents...and the best remedy that could be there,” he said.
Sid Harth
Rajasthan launches search for former DIG charged with rape
2009-12-30 18:18:19
Jaipur: The Rajasthan government has asked the Special Operations
Group (SOG) to find former deputy inspector general (DIG) Madhukar
Tandon who has been absconding for the last 13 years after he was
chargesheeted for raping a tribal woman.
"We have handed over the case to the SOG of the Rajasthan Police. It's
a serious matter that Tandon not been arrested since 1997. We want to
arrest him and find out why he's not been arrested so far," state Home
Minister Shanti Dhariwal told reporters here.
A Rajasthan Police party arrived in Noida in Uttar Pradesh Wednesday
to investigate the matter and visited the property that earlier
belonged to Tandon.
Dhariwal has also sought all the files relating to the case.
"I have asked the police to bring all the files relating to Tandon to
me... I want to know the details," he said.
Malli Devi, a resident of Bandikui in Dausa district has alleged that
on Jan 21, 1997 she was abducted and taken to Noida where she was
allegedly raped by former DIG Tandon, then posted in the police
headquarters and who is now reported to be absconding.
Probe begins into Ruchika's expulsion from school
Khayali Ram, the husband of the victim who was a constable attached to
the DIG said: "It has been 13 years that he ruined me and my family."
"Tandon had summoned my wife to Jaipur from the village on the pretext
that an accident has happened in my family. When she arrived in Jaipur
she was forcefully taken to Noida, to the DIG's residence, where she
was victimised," said Ram.
"I was forced out of the service when I refused to withdraw the case
against Tandon in 2000," he added.
Tandon was suspended in 2002, five years after first FIR was lodged
against him and a magisterial court in Dausa had ordered all his
property including his house in Noida to be attached.
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Dhananjay Mahapatra & Akshaya Mukul, TNN 31 December 2009, 12:46am IST
NEW DELHI: The long arm of the law seemed to be catching up with
former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore with the Centre indicating its
preference for slapping Section 305 (abetment of suicide of a minor)
against him. The charge stipulates a minimum punishment of a 10-year
jail term and a maximum punishment of death.
The Centre's stance was spelt out on Wednesday by Union law minister
Veerappa Moily. He said the possibility of using this severe law
against Rathore was being explored by his ministry. He told TOI: "The
state should ideally give the investigations into the fresh FIRs to
the CBI as it had probed the case earlier and suicide should be the
central theme of the investigation now, which was not done earlier,"
the minister said. "The focus of the earlier probe should have been
the abetment of suicide of Ruchika who was only 14 years when she was
molested," he added.
It's, however, not known whether Section 305 can be invoked in this
case. This is because Ruchika had turned a major on February 6, 1993,
while she killed herself on December 29, 1993. Some legal experts feel
that the section can still be invoked because during the bulk of the
three-year period during which Rathore tormented the family, leading
to Ruchika's suicide, the girl was still a minor.
It's pointed out that as a minor Ruchika suffered the trauma of being
expelled from her school, of helplesly watching a dozen false cases
being slapped against her brother, of his torture in custody and her
father's utter helplessness in the face of the state's might being
brought against the family. These deep scars, say the experts, played
a critical role in forcing her to take her own life.
In case the technicality of Ruchika having become a major at the time
of her suicide were to determine the application of the law, Section
306 (abetment of suicide of a major) would be invoked which carries a
maximum punishment of 10 years imprisonment.
Moily's statement of government intent came on the day when Ruchika's
father, Subhash Gihrotra, met Union home minister P Chidambaram in
Delhi. An outraged law minister said the Ruchika case has wounded the
national psyche and it should serve as an example to make the laws
tougher so that no one is allowed to get away with a heinous crime.
He said Rathore by adopting such tactics, which allowed him to get
away with a light sentence of 6 months imprisonment and Rs 1,000 fine,
has "subverted the rule of law, which is a far more serious offence".
He added, "Had the investigating agency focused on probing Rathore for
the offence under Section 305, the crime would have been viewed by the
courts in a different light."
Moily said Ruchika's sad story would not be allowed to be repeated as
the government is in the final stages of drafting Sexual Offences
(Special Courts) Bill, 2010 which provides for all sexual offences,
molestation and rape, to be tried within a time-bound period of 6
months by sepcially desginated courts where the accused would be
barred to question the character of the victim.
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TNN 31 December 2009, 12:41am IST
CHANDIGARH: The sessions court at Panchkula denied anticipatory bail
to former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore on Wednesday, even as the Haryana
government set up a seven-member special investigation team headed by
IGP Shatrujit Kapoor to probe the fresh charges against him. An SIT
member told TOI that the police was considering asking Rathore to hand
over his passport while the investigations are going on.
Rathore had sought bail after two fresh FIRs were filed against him on
Tuesday by Ruchika's father and brother, which included seven non-
bailable sections.
The infamous grin had vanished from Rathore's face as he reached the
court on Wednesday morning, accompanied by his wife and counsel Abha
Rathore. A grim-looking Rathore, dressed in a grey suit, walked out of
the court room at 12.45pm and drove straight to his house.
The court deferred the hearing till January 1 and told Rathore and his
counsels to put up documents pertaining to the case before it.
"In the absence of the exact nature of FIRs and nature of the
offences, it would not be proper to pass an order for interim bail.
The alleged FIRs were registered against petitioner yesterday. Since
petitioner is present in person before me so I do not visualize his
immediate arrest under those FIRs. I hereby defer this bail
application for January 1 so that case could be heard appropriately
and decided," said district and sessions judge Justice S P Singh.
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PTI 30 December 2009, 09:24pm IST
NEW DELHI: The law ministry is contemplating asking the National
Commission for Women to move the Supreme Court seeking its
intervention for stiffer punishment for a former Haryana top cop who
has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for molesting a
teenaged girl.
Law minister M Veerappa Moily said "NCW could approach the Supreme
Court seeking its intervention for an enhanced punishment for former
Haryana DGP S P S Rathore under the present case (under section 354
relating to molestation of the IPC)". Rathore has been convicted for
molesting Ruchika Girhotra in 1993 and she committed suicide three
years later.
Sources in Law Ministry said that by seeking the apex court's
intervention through NCW, government hopes to get directions on how to
go about the case.
As of now, the Law Ministry is working on two ideas: to seek enhanced
punishment for Rathore for molesting Ruchika and to charge him with
abetment of suicide.
Moily said that after going through the case, he felt the case against
Rathore was based only on charges of molestation and not abetment of
suicide.
He has said Ruchika was forced out of the school in Chandigarh and her
brother Ashu handcuffed and kept in police custody for two months.
"These are the circumstances which led to the suicide (of Ruchika).
There are lots of people involved," he said.
Asked whether others, including police officers and school
authorities, could also be charged with abetting Ruchika's suicide,
Moily said "yes".
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Acceptable if in public interest
31 December 2009, 12:00am IST
The shaming of former Andhra Pradesh governor N D Tiwari has once
again raised questions regarding the use of sting operations as a tool
of investigative journalism. Its opponents argue that sting violates
the right to privacy of the individual and is prone to misuse. There
is some truth in this. But the potential for misuse is no
justification to criticise and even demand a ban on sting operations.
A sting operation is acceptable if it has been carried out in the
public interest. No doubt, the right to privacy is sacrosanct in a
free society. We aspire to be one and must be on guard against the
dilution of the right to privacy. However, this right must in no way
become a pretext to abuse public office or resources. Tiwari's case,
if the allegations are true, is an example of abuse of public office.
Of course, the seasoned politician has claimed the tape that allegedly
shows him in the company of prostitutes is fabricated. Now, that's for
the courts to decide.
Many countries have given qualified sanction to the use of stings in
journalism. If the sting is in public interest to prevent criminal
acts or corruption media as well as law enforcement agencies are
allowed to use it as a tool of investigation. The Indian Supreme Court
too has ruled in favour of stings when they sought to serve a public
cause. Most of the high-profile sting operations carried out by Indian
media have targeted corruption and subversion of political
institutions. No mala fide intent has been proven against these
operations.
Sure, the accused in these investigations have sought to blame
journalists of entrapment. But we do expect people holding high public
office to resist bribes and other forms of entrapment. Also, charges
of entrapment must be tested against the context in which the offer is
made as part of a sting. Those trapped are most often people who are
rumoured to be on the take or have escaped scrutiny due to lack of
evidence for their indiscretions. In short, the targets are not random
picks. The way forward is not to blame the media but for public
figures to behave responsibly.
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End doesn't justify means
Rupa Sengupta 31 December 2009, 12:00am IST
A change of guard at the Andhra Raj Bhavan is attributed to a sting-
related controversy. Note that the sting conducted by a TV channel was
essentially prompted by the reported desire of one private individual
to hit back at the exiting governor. Why? The latter is accused of not
delivering on a mining lease promised in return for certain favours.
It isn't clear if this allegation was fully verified before the sleaze-
seeking hidden cameras came on. This itself shows how hazardous stings
can be. If public servants get favours in exchange for dispensing
favours in clear, authenticated cases of abuse of power, they need to
be named and shamed. But what's to ensure exposes are spurred by
public interest, not personal bile? Stings can originate in many a
dubious motive: revenge, attempted slander or blackmail, or the wish
to gain from sensation. Ergo, they can end up doing the right thing,
for the wrong reason.
There's also a thin line between a genuine sting and entrapment. Some
past stings raised hackles by their crude modus operandi: for
instance, getting their targets inebriated and/or promising
inducements to get them to 'sing'. While a ban isn't recommended,
stings should constitute last-resort investigative journalism,
conducted for iron-clad reasons. Blowing the lid off misdemeanours
doesn't excuse cavalier methods of digging for dirt. A sting requires
huge exercise of judgement. Claiming to be driven by 'public interest'
isn't enough if a sting operator isn't also technically above board.
No, the ends do not justify the means.
The public figure-private individual distinction is quite treacherous
for being amorphous. A public figure doesn't barter away privacy in
all senses. Use of official premises for personal matters is a strict
no-no, as is giving the go-by to security norms. The problem is that
stings, be it in India or America, often expose private conduct and
even milk society's scarcely-admitted voyeuristic tendencies. The
question is, should norms of acceptable public behaviour extend all
the way to someone's personal space? Let's judge public personalities
by how they fulfil their official brief, not by what they do off-duty.
Let their private morals be their private affair.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5396282.cms
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Ambar Mukherjee
First Published : 31 Dec 2009 03:31:00 AM IST
HYDERABAD: Crime against women continues to be on the rise and so is
the case with economic offences while the Naxal activity was lowest
when compared the to last one decade. The number of road accidents too
have gone down, slightly.
This in nutshell was the crime, law and order scenario in 2009.
Lauding the anti-extremist work done by the Special Intelligence
Bureau (SIB) and Greyhounds, Director General of Police RR Girish
Kumar said that though the Naxal activity was the lowest in the last
decade, they continue to keep utmost vigil.
“Taking into consideration the extremist violence in the neighbouring
states (Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra among others) we are keeping utmost
vigil,’’ Girish Kumar told a press conference today.
Giving the details about the annual crime scenario in the State, the
DGP said that crime against women had increased.
As per the statistics, a total of 20,088 cases of crime against women
were reported in 2009 when compared to 19,909 in 2008 and 17,646 in
2007.
There were 1,059 incidents of rape reported this year as compared to
1,026 last year, 4,171 cases of outraging of modesty as against 3,775
last year, 1,080 cases of abetment to suicide was reported this year
as against 1,018 last year.
“There is an increase of 19.23 per cent in crime against women amd
that is due to free registration of crime,’’ the DGP said.
With regard to economic offences, 7,913 cases were reported (up to
November 2009) as against 7,567 cases last year recording an increase
of 4.57 per cent.
The DGP said that the State police achieved success in anti-Maoist
operations.
Several top cadres including Patel Sudhakar Reddy, Central Committee
member and Central Military Commission member was among those killed
in exchange of fire.
In a joint-operation, the State police and Jharkhand police arrested
Narla Ravi Sharma -- incharge of military affairs of Bihar and
Jharkhand Special Area Committee -- along with his wife Narla
Anuradha.
The number of extremists killed this year was 16 while no policeman
was killed. The number of incidents stood at 56 when compared to 96
last year.
The total number of extremists arrested is 326. Girish Kumar said that
19 persons lost their lives this year in political and faction
violence at various places.
With regard to ISI activities, the DGP said that there was only one
incident wherein two unknown persons opened fire on a police constable
and a home guard at Falaknuma on May 18, the second anniversary of
Mecca Masjid bomb blasts.
“The anti-terrorist force, Octopus, is being re-organised as a
commando unit on the lines of National Security Guards and about 200
commandos have been trained this year.
We will be acquiring land for setting up a centre for Octopus and
NSG,’’ Girish Kumar added.
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Vikram Sharma
First Published : 31 Dec 2009 03:18:00 AM IST
Last Updated : 31 Dec 2009 09:39:25 AM IST
HYDERABAD: Disgraced Narayan Dutt Tiwari’s ‘‘sleazy night outs’’ in
the city date back to the 80s, a good quarter of a century before he
landed in the Raj Bhavan.
Following his ignominous exit as Governor, official circles have
started discussing his escapades in general and a certain tape in
particular –– different from the one aired by a vernacular channel a
few days ago. It is a recording of a hot night that Tiwari had spent
in Ameerpet and is now said to be in the ‘‘safe custody’’ of a retired
IPS officer. The Intelligence wing is also believed to have a copy.
The two-and-half hour video was shot more than 25 years ago through
the window of a house in Ameerpet where Tiwari reportedly spent one
whole night with a woman. The shooting was directed by a senior IPS
officer, who was in the Intelligence wing at the time. The late NT
Rama Rao was the chief minister then.
Informed sources recall that Tiwari, on landing at the airport, drove
in an official car to the place of his stay. Later, he left in a
private vehicle to the house in Ameerpet.
Just, one of his close confidants was aware of his whereabouts that
night.
Asked about the need to videograph Tiwari’s nocturnal excursion, one
official explained that it was part of the Intelligence wing’s
‘‘routine work’’ then and even now.
‘‘The only difference is that we did not have the kind of gadgets
which are available today. We were asked to collect material
(referring to the cassette) and be ready,’’ he said, adding that even
the conversation between Tiwari and the woman was recorded.
Meanwhile, the State Police still seems undecided on proceeding
against Tiwari.
Asked if the Government will probe the latest expose in a TV channel,
DGP RR Girish Kumar said they were looking into the legal aspects.
However, a senior police official said they could proceed with the
investigation only if any victim lodged a complaint against Tiwari.
’’Under Article 361, no case can be registered against a serving
Governor.
But now that Tiwari is out, we need a complaint from a victim, not
from a third party (an advocate has approached the police against
Tiwari),’’ he poined out.
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Anand Raj Singh
First Published : 27 Dec 2009 02:24:00 AM IST
Last Updated : 27 Dec 2009 09:09:47 AM IST
LUCKNOW: Following allegations against former Andhra Pradesh Governor
Narain Dutt Tiwari, former party members and politicians in Uttar
Pradesh, where he was Chief Minister, have reacted to the incident.
Most agree that long before the veteran leader lost his wife in the
early '90s, rumours about his private life were routine in the state.
Dr Sushila Tiwari, a gynaecologist, used to be considered more as a
social appendage. Senior Congress leaders recall that the relationship
between husband and wife was for social purposes only and sources
close to the family said she knew about his dalliances.
Veterans in the party are ready to name many women (by their surname),
like Duggal or Mohini or Mishra, who were a force to reckon in the
state administration during Tiwari’s stints as chief minister.
Some said that there were many complaints sent to Indira Gandhi and
later to Rajiv Gandhi about Tiwari’s extramarital relationships.
In the current case, Radhika of Uttarakhand has alleged that she sent
young women to the Raj Bhavan on Tiwari’s request through his aide.
She has reportedly said that she was exposing him as he had failed to
provide her an iron ore mining licence in Andhra Pradesh.
A senior Congress leader said, “It is only now that a woman has come
to seek the help of a news channel to move against Tiwari and in the
fitness of things it should be probed.” Meanwhile, a relieved Congress
said Tiwari had taken the ‘appropriate decision’ of quitting and
acting on ‘moral principles’, a contention ridiculed by the BJP as a
bid to make a ‘virtue’ out of it, news agencies add from New Delhi.
“I think he (Tiwari) has taken the appropriate decision keeping in
view the high standards of public life. We welcome it,” Congress media
department chief Janardhan Dwivedi said.
The BJP slammed the Congress on the issue. “We had demanded Tiwari’s
resignation because earlier also there were allegations against him in
a paternity suit. In case of the high office of Governor, the veracity
or otherwise of an allegation is not the only consideration.
What is important is dignity, integrity and prestige of the high
constitutional office of Governor which was shamed,” BJP spokesperson
Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
Comments
ND Tiwari is not guilty. If any one has doubts, let CBI conduct the
enquiry. That is the right approach adopted by Mother Soniyaji. CBI
will clear NDTiwai India need Tiwari, jus as Qattarochi & AA RAASA!
Tiwari has been earmarked a our next beloved President! Jai Ho to
Mother Sonia!!
By Jayammal
12/31/2009 9:12:00 AM
Dear NDT, Please give us the formula of sex with 3 @86. I will take
the patent of either Tiwagra or NDT-86
By dev
12/30/2009 2:20:00 AM
What is the use of worship a god you cannot understand. I wish Lord
Krishna comes to us in the form of an illusion and rid our nation of
rampart and endemic corruption at all level of the society. "Krishna
kare to rasleela, D. N. Tiwari kare to character dhila"
By Jasad Dusty
12/28/2009 3:59:00 PM
Saints who saw Rama's beauty, strength and valour prayed to serve Him
in different relationships and that is how Nanda Maharaj, Devaki,
yasoda, Krishna's friends and Gopis were born. Lord Krishna creates an
illusion where these saints enjoy the relationship they want as
father, mother, brother, friend etc. Lord Krishna clearly says in
Bhagawat Gita I am alone and nobody can understand me. Spiritual life
is differnet from material life. Fellows who like jasudas who are born
to worms cannot understand what is spiritualism.
By Rafi Ahmed
12/28/2009 3:13:00 PM
Nero fiddles while Rome burns. Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Nero's
reputation is such that the people believe the worst of him, even when
the evidence is inconclusive. And that story runs parallel with that
of Andhra Governor N D Tiwari. When Andhra fumed on Telengana issue
Tiwari fiddled on not one but three women in the nude. Is this old
goose so sex parched? Yes, the veterans in the Congress party did not
rule out it. If any doubt ask Mr K Karunakaran. Possibly Karunakaran,
as he claims, preferred Narasimha Rao as Prime Minister because he was
aware of the act sex monger Tiwari, who was also a contestant then.
The self-esteem of the high constitutional office of Governor was
disgraced by the act of Tiwari. It is not the first time there were
allegations against Tiwari in sex cases. He once remained missing for
two days while was on his way from New Delhi to Uttarakand and he gave
some strange stories for his disappearance. Even then people suspected
that he had disappeared
By K A Solaman
12/28/2009 1:48:00 PM
Nero fiddles while Rome burns. Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Nero's
reputation is such that the people believe the worst of him, even when
the evidence is inconclusive. And that story runs parallel with that
of Andhra Governor N D Tiwari. When Andhra fumed on Telengana issue
Tiwari fiddled on not one but three women in the nude. Is this old
goose so sex parched? Yes, the veterans in the Congress party did not
rule out it. If any doubt ask Mr K Karunakaran. Possibly Karunakaran,
as he claims, preferred Narasimha Rao as Prime Minister because he was
aware of the act sex monger Tiwari, who was also a contestant then.
The self-esteem of the high constitutional office of Governor was
disgraced by the act of Tiwari. It is not the first time there were
allegations against Tiwari in sex cases. He once remained missing for
two days while was on his way from New Delhi to Uttarakand and he gave
some strange stories for his disappearance. Even then people suspected
that he had disappeared
By K A Solaman
12/28/2009 1:48:00 PM
I found so many asking introgation aganist SATHYA SAI BABA, why you
people cant do the introgation yourself?? IF you do the correct
introgation to identify who is SAI BABA then you can find the answer.
Dont follow any reports and reporters, there are so many reports
created for some selfish purposes, Its better dont ask anybody to
enquire, enquire yourself, if you found any guilty bring that infront
of Law if not birng the truth you found out. Dont do the enquire for
your fame , do with out a predetermind mind. Do the enquire with free
mind with one aim to find out WHO IS SATHYA SAI BABA?? . Any person
can say any one thats not a bing thing, if you are saying anything
please find relevent evidance. If the politicians, scientis etc are
beliving in SAI BABA, there should be some thing...try to find out the
truth before you say some thing..
By Jithesh Viswanadh
12/28/2009 9:30:00 AM
FROM THIS INCIDENT PEOPLE KNOW WHICH NORTH INDIA MEDIA CHANNELS ARE
PROCONGRESS AND FINANCED BY D COMPANY AS THIS TIWARI A SEX MANIAC IS
NOTHING NEW IN CONGRESS FROM JNU TO RAHUL ALL ARE SAID TO BE OF SAME
ILK,EVEN THE CENTURY OF PROPAGANDA TO SHOW GANDHI AS HOLIER THAN THOU
CANNOT ABSOLVE HIM OF HIS IMMORAL EXPERIMENT WITH TRUTH,THIS IS
COUNTRY OF SLAVES WHICH WAS CORRUPTED BY SLAVERY OF FOREIGN RULERS WHO
WERE HELPED AND ARE STILL BEING HELPED BY TRAITOR BRAHMINS AND
VYAPARIS ,NOTHING CAN BE DONE ABOUT THIS COUNTRY ANY MORE JUST WAIT
FOR TIME TO COME WHEN CHINA TAKES OVER THIS COUNTRY FOR GOOD.
By kamal
12/28/2009 8:43:00 AM
take it easy, sab chalta hai yaar
By sparsh
12/28/2009 8:07:00 AM
what about the real sob Jesus? he was a transgender, huh? And was
"used by Paul the self appointed saint of homosexuality
By MK Gandhi
12/28/2009 7:45:00 AM
M.K. Gandhi, you should have included Lord Krishna, who, even as a kid
was a horny son ofa bitch, screwing all the milk maids. Go to any
Hindu Temple ( esp. the oe in Gajraho) to see how sex is diplayed in a
supposed place of worship. In a nutshell, all Indians arel iibidinous
bums with their testosterone (cum) dripping in their pants at thevery
sight of a two legged bitch. Tilwari is an asshole who got caught with
his pants down.
By Vatsayana
12/28/2009 7:23:00 AM
High-profile conference on finance at Sri Satya Sai University Staff
Reporter Four major themes to be deliberated upon with RBI Governor
giving the keynote address PUTTAPARTHI: Sri Satya Sai University in
Prashanthi Nilayam here is organising a two-day, high-profile
conference on ‘Ethics and the World of Finance’ commencing on
Friday.Sri Sathya Sai Babawill inaugurate the conference in the
university auditorium on Vidyagiri hillock. According to a press
release by the university,Governor of Reserve Bank of India Duvvuri
Subba Rao,former governor Y. Venugopal Reddy, chairpersons and chief
executive officers of around 25 commercial banks, insurance companies
and regulatory bodies will participate. Four major themes that will be
deliberated upon at the conference are the quintessence of human
values relevant to the world of finance, functioning of the financial
institutions and the new complexities which have arisen in today’s
world of globalisation, role of the government
By T S Jaykumar
12/27/2009 10:03:00 PM
A Official Report of Shri Ratan Tata's visit to Puttparthi on 3rd and
4th December 2009 The man whose business forays with a firm footing on
ethics and righteous values made him a legendary figure of
international fame, Ratan Tata, made a special entry in Prasanthi
Nilayam, the Abode of Peace, on 3rd Dec seeking Bhagawans blessings.
This is the second visit of Mr. Ratan Tata to Bhagawan, in less than
two months. Earlier, during Bhagawans recent Mumbai visit, Mr. Tata
paid a visit to Bhagawan at Dharmakshetra and was blessed with an
interview for forty-five minutes.Tatas Credentials Mr. Ratan N Tata,
who inherited the Tata legacy from legendary JRD Tata, has been
chairman of Tata Sons, the Tata promoter company, since 1991, when JRD
stepped down after fifty years at the helm. He is also chairman of
other Tata companies, including Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata
Consultancy Services, Tata Power, Tata Tea, Tata Chemicals, Indian
Hotels andTata Teleservices.The Government of India hono
By T S Jaykumar
12/27/2009 9:59:00 PM
Several chief ministers, ministers, politicians, bureaucrats, Vice-
chancellors, many professors , celebrites in the cinema field- if you
consider the field is very wide- have extra marital relationship. Only
a tip of the ice berg is exposed.It is better to accept the truth and
allow prostitution legally in the country in the same way we permitted
alcoholic drinks.Let us create cities like Las Vegas. The advantage is
that we will get income and the so called illegal decisions by the
politicians and bureaucrats could be overcome. Let us accept the truth-
SATYAMEVA JAYATE
By G.Siva Reddy
12/27/2009 9:37:00 PM
What kind of congress-man is he ? Sexual congress, of course ! He
cited "Health Reasons" for his resignation! Why? Because he could NOT
perform ! Maybe three young women turned out to be too challenging to
him! One wonders if this congress-man had his Gandhian cap, during
sexual congress ... And one wonders.. being the true patriotic
congress-man that he is in his attire, if he use Khadi condoms in his
dalliances ... I really hope that his paternity case goes through the
legal process and justice is done to his son and the scoundrel
N.D.Tiwari is exposed further for what he is !
By mischievous
12/27/2009 4:57:00 PM
Why only NDT, what about MK Gandhi? Nehru bastard, Indira Mehumunisa's
liason from Atulya hosh, , Dinesh Singh, Gundu Rao the stud bull etc
etc (the list was indeed very long), Pratap Singh Kairon, SK Patil,
Brahmanda reddy, Kamaraj, Karunanidhi, MGR, NTR, Pawar, Krishna
menon,, the CPI and CPM ladies who were are said to be honey traps,
Ambika Soni, Rukshana Sultana and of course the Italian whore's
family? Of course I will not name Muslim politicians becos Quran
allows them such relationship including incest.
By MK Gandhi
12/27/2009 4:53:00 PM
Power, money and sex go hand in hand. Tiwari was caught; others get
away with it.
By Bhas
12/27/2009 4:50:00 PM
Hello - why so much fuss about Tiwari? Such things happen throught the
world. Appreciate him for his valour at 86!!! Hope some Med.
Manufacturers have already patented TIWARI 86 superseding Viagra!!!
Jai HO Congress! Jai Ho India!
By Somu
12/27/2009 4:22:00 PM
I am a bit offended by the language used by guys,on this comment
page, who are so educated.He or she may be immoral or dirty but should
we become dirty? That also in a case when its subjudice
By b na
12/27/2009 4:11:00 PM
He was only doing Rass Leela all his life. Must be a great fan and
devote of Lord Krishna. This is OK nothing wrong. He brought women in
Raj Bhavan, If I was in his place I would even bring some guy man. Are
we not asking for all these things to be legalized..why this hypocricy
and double standards.
By jasdus
12/27/2009 4:02:00 PM
Why no TV channel like CNN-IBN,Times Now, NDTV,Star news,Aaaj tak, etc
have NOT telecast or shown these juicy clips?SIMPLE,SONIA \Maino
ordered them to keep QUIET on the matter If instead of this congress
guy Tiwari,if it was a BJP or Shiv Sena or hindu man,these
bribed&biased channels would have shown these clips for many weeks
together to blacken the image of BJP,Shiv Sena and hindus in
general.This Tiwari incident confrims that the above channels and
congress-funded or congress backed anti-hindu,anti-BJP channels and it
is time for all hindus to boycot such bribed and shallow channels and
newspapers too
By True Hindustani
12/27/2009 3:11:00 PM
What stinks most is the bad odour from the biased and bribed and
immoral indian media.This dirty matter must not be allowed to go away
unnoticed although congress funded and bribed channels like CNN-
IBN,Times Now,NDTV,Star News,Aaak tak, etc and news papers like indian
express and hindu newspaper are trying to do the cover-upoperation
tosave crooked congress and sonia maino and her agents.Crooked
congreess has been in this business since many dccades.This has been
Congress culture since time of the the greate womaniser Nehru.The
whole world knows about the secual explouits of Nehru and his
involvement with Edwina,Mountabben's wife.Why no TV channel like CNN-
IBN,Times Now, NDTV,Star news,Aaaj tak, etc telecasted or showed these
masala clips??SIMPLE,SONIA \Maino ordered them to keep QUIET on the
matter &the slaves JUST Obeyed the Master.Shame,Media,Shame
By True Hindustani
12/27/2009 3:10:00 PM
Sting operation for whatevr reason has done a good job in exposing
lusty politician like Tiwari. Lets not forget our leaders,people have
this fondness since ages.Our own maharajas used to have harems. In
1996, Anna Hazare exposed Gopinath Munde over his relationshion with
dancer.Another big name in BJP who was mudered by his brother was
known for his ability to have multiple affairs the same time. Take the
example of Karnataka. RK Hegde fathers two chidren from one well known
Bharat Natyam dancer.JH Patel used to take women models to foreign
trips with pride. Farooq Abdullah's stories in Geneva,UN Assembly are
well known.(WHile listening to speech , he used to enquire about
women). So these are our leaders. Tiwari has not done something
unusual. You are 84, you have palatial mansion, and nothing to work.So
what to do? entertainment.
By Pradeep Bhat
12/27/2009 3:06:00 PM
Dear Puskar Timsina Your comments only confirm your extra marital
affairs or Pre Marital Sex. While your observations are definitely
partly true, it will will do great injustice to all those who have
desisted from such acts. Dont forget ma is a SOCIAL ANIMAL. The
significance lies in controliing the feelings. The greater
resposibility means greater and strict controls too.
By pawan
12/27/2009 2:57:00 PM N.D.
Tiwari used to visit Amsterdam and Stockholm to enjoy the pleasures in
the red light areas. He was and is obviously a youthful person. It may
be a worthwhile thing to study his endocrine system. He is definitely
a freak. I am 85 but have neither the capacity not the desire to seek
sexual gratification. Even if I push myself through modern chemical
pills my mind will be unable to generate lust or thought or sensation.
He is phenomenon like Sai Baba who continues to sexually molest young
boys.
By Sivaramakrishna Iyer
12/27/2009 2:26:00 PM
I think the concept of monogamy should be removed and public must
accept polygamy society. If you trace all the public figures, they are
involved. Gandhi had ladies around him, Nehru did it, and so on. They
are public figures so are scammed. Normal people also do not neglect
if any opportunity arises. I wont believe if somebody says I was
virgin till I got married or I am loyal to my wife over all the years.
It is all rubbish!!!! It's men's world!!!! They have foot, they may
wish to change shoes, aint it? Sometimes BATA, sometimes TIMBERLAND,
or other times CATERPILLAR.
By Puskar Timsina
12/27/2009 2:18:00 PM
N D Tiwari should be given the post of Minister for External
Affairs..
By Rakesh
12/27/2009 2:11:00 PM
Suchitra Das Gupta has affair with ND Tiwari
By Muthu
12/27/2009 1:37:00 PM
Anand Raj Singh, Is there anybody with the guts to take on Sai Baba.
He is protected by Justice Bhagwathi, our PM, our
Vajpayeee...........
By Suchitra Dasgupta
12/27/2009 1:08:00 PM
Now Tiwari is a dead snake , it is no courage to beat dying dog. If
you guts expose SAI BABA
By Suchitra Dasgupta
12/27/2009 1:06:00 PM
Tiwari KE JAWANI KA RAAZ DABER CHAMN PARASH
By KHAN
12/27/2009 12:46:00 PM
Now Triwari Vagra @ 85 Also Man Will Be Active Good
By KHAN
12/27/2009 12:43:00 PM
IS there a single JOURNALIST, a Media firm with the GUTS to take on
the most corrupt, the most unholy evil incarnation THe SAI BABA OF
PUTTAPARTHI?
By Kulwant Singh
12/27/2009 12:37:00 PM
Congress got another Thyagi in their kitty-ND Tiwari the Governor of
AP- by resigning in view of the high morale of the post he held. Sonia
was the greatest thyagi of Congress for rejecting the post of PM.
Comparatively less prominent thyagi was caught by people in Kerala. He
was a leader of congress-Rajmohan Unnithan-who was caught red handed
along with a woman in Malabar. Congress is lucky to have so many
thyagis. Great Party!!
By R.C.Mohan
12/27/2009 12:24:00 PM
A Tiger Woods Joke: What is the Hindi word for "Tiger"? Tiwari..:-)
The media is unnecessarily hounding this decent man. He just ask for a
threesome with poverty struck women..for a mining contract..not that
he asked for money in cash and all. Isnt that commendable.. Oh No
wait..it was foursome..with impoverished trafficked women..like
anybody care..about them.. At fag end of his life..its good to know
his dick is fine and well.. Splendid..
By Kannan
12/27/2009 12:17:00 PM
Tiwari , like Rathore was protected by the system or establishment BUT
THE BIGGEST CRIMINAL WHO IS DOING MUCH MORE HARM IS SATYA SAI
BABA!!!!! He is protected by the Judiciary, ruling party, the
opposition....... and ignorant devotees. HE IS GETTING AWAY WITH
MURDERS AND SEXUALLY ABUSING MANY MORE PEOPLE.
By Devayani Ramadurai
12/27/2009 11:35:00 AM
Once when N.D.Tiwari was the CM of Uttarakand, while he was on his way
from New Delhi to uttarakand, he went missing for 48 hours and
remained untraceable by both police officials and media. He surfaced
after 48 hours and gave some cock and bull story for his
disappearance. Even then I suspected that he must have disappeared to
romp with a slut. Now my suspicions are confirmed.
By Indian
12/27/2009 11:14:00 AM
Hey Guys! Did you see the video?? Tiwari seems sleeping or in
unconscious state with both his hands on his chest. I'm wondering what
these gals were doing??
By Muntazir Abbas
12/27/2009 10:46:00 AM
I think all is for the good and this sorry episode was not swept under
the carpet...like the Congress's culture....The old man had it
coming....
By somnath karunakaran
12/27/2009 10:46:00 AM
PEOPLE HOLDING HIGH OFFICES SHOULD BEHAVE PROPERLY. EITHER YOU HAVE
THIS HIGH OFFICE OR HAVE YOUR PRIVACY. THIS IS VERY SHOCKING THAT A
GOVERNOR INDULGED IN SUCH ACTIVITIES
By Ravi Kant
12/27/2009 9:50:00 AM
This is the common culture of Delhi politics.Congress leaders since
Independence were involved with sex scandle.Nehru,Indira Gandhi all
were involved with different sex stories.Many bureaucrats and
politicins of different parties have involved with sex scandle.It is
nothing new or special in the political senario of India. It is
considered as a great Indian tradition .
By Chanchal Dutta
12/27/2009 9:33:00 AM
It was high time that the old man has been relieved of his job. He
should have been eased out of his job long before 1990. These old
gridy leaders of Congress have diminished and destroyed the name of
the party in public. There are many more still in the Party and in
power to be kicked out.
By Soumyaranjan Pattnaik
12/27/2009 9:15:00 AM
Sid Harth
PTI Thursday, December 31, 2009 18:44 IST
Panchkula: The constitution of a special investigation team to probe
the two fresh cases registered on complaints of molestation victim
Ruchika's father and brother is a "meaningless exercise", her friend's
family, which has been pursuing the matter for 19 years, said today.
"I think it (constitution of the SIT) is meaningless. It will only
delay the matter," Anand Parkash, whose wife Madhu is the complainant
in the molestation case, told reporters.
"It will take years for the result of the investigation of the SIT to
come out. When the result comes, probably we would
have lived our life and (SPS) Rathore would move around like a tiger.
He should be sent to jail," Parkash said and sought the support of
media and police for getting justice for Ruchika.
Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore has been sentenced to six months in
prison by a CBI court recently for the 1990 molestation of budding
tennis player Ruchika Girhotra. She committed suicide three years
later and her family alleges that the harassment of her family led her
to take the step.
Haryana DGP RS Dalal yesterday set up the seven-member SIT headed by
SS Kapoor, IGP, Security, to probe two fresh cases lodged in this
regard against Rathore and others. The cases relate to alleged
doctoring of Ruchika's post-mortem report and slapping of false cases
and torture of her brother Ashu.
Parkash said Union home minister P Chidambaram, whom he met in New
Delhi yesterday along with family lawyer Pankaj Bhardwaj and Ruchika's
father SC Girhotra, has assured them that action will be taken very
soon in this matter.
During the meeting, some legal issues were discussed and the home
minister also sought some documents regarding the case which the
family lawyer will be providing through e-mail.
On discussions at the meeting with Chidambaram on invoking Section 306
of the IPC (abetment to suicide) in the case, Parkash said, "There are
some issues which are confidential. The lawyer would consider all the
issues".
On Rathore's wife's plea in the court yesterday that Madhu and her
family had fabricated the case which was nothing but a media trial, he
said, "I say it is not a media trial.
"If Abha proves even a single fact has been distorted or twisted then
I should be hanged otherwise the license of Abha and Abhay Jain
(Rathore's other lawyer) should be cancelled," Parkash said. He said
Rathore should be "hanged for his misdeeds" and before that he should
be put behind bars.
On reports that one Veena Girhotra's name figured in the inquest
report conducted following the suicide of Ruchika in 1993, Parkash
said, "I have never met this woman."
The woman may have worked as a domestic help in Girhotra household, he
said but expressed ignorance about her whereabouts saying a large
number of helps are employed and one does not keep their track record
once they leave.
Aradhana, the sole eyewitness to molestation of Ruchika, alleged
before the media that it was Rathore who tried to gag the media
earlier by filing defamation cases. Her fight will continue till
justice is done, she added.
Sid Harth
PTI Thursday, December 31, 2009 19:06 IST
Chandigarh: The family of Ruchika Girhotra, who committed suicide in
1993, three years after being molested by former Haryana DGP SPS
Rathore, today decided to file a fresh FIR - the third this week -
seeking invocation of section 306 of the IPC (abetment to suicide)
against the top cop.
Ruchika's brother Ashoo will be the main complainant in this fresh
FIR, the family's lawyer Pankaj Bhardwaj told reporters here this
evening.
He will be going to the office of the Superintendent of Police (SP),
Panchkula to submit the complaint later this evening, Bhardwaj said.
The decision to file a fresh complaint was taken in the wake of the
family's meeting with Union home minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi
yesterday, he said.
Sid Harth
PTI Thursday, December 31, 2009 18:52 IST
Patna: Amid allegations that CBI had not probed the role of former
Haryana DGP SPS Rathore in Ruchika's suicide in 1993, a senior officer
who went into the molestation case then said today the investigation
had been "sincere and unbiased".
"As far as I remember, the case has been probed sincerely with no bias
and entire evidence available on records have been examined by a top
criminal lawyer of the country," IGP (HQ), Bihar Rajesh Ranjan, who
was then DIG CBI said when asked for his comments on the allegations
levelled by Ruchika's family.
Ranjan said the case was probed "sincerely, without any bias and
chargesheet submitted after thorough vetting of records" and after the
examination of evidence, it was once again "legally vetted thoroughly"
before submitting the final chargesheet in the molestation case.
Rubbishing the charge of the Girhotra family that appeared in a
section of the press here today that Ranjan had refused to record the
statement of Ruchika's brother, Ashu, despite the latter's assertion
that his sister committed suicide after the family was harassed at the
behest of Rathore, who was an IGP in Haryana, he said "it is
absolutely wrong".
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"In fact none from the family turned up before us and we went to their
place on our own for recording statement and investigation," Ranjan
said.
The IG (Headquarters) said it would be inappropriate for him to
comment more on the matter as CBI should be approached for the details
as the entire records related to the case are with the agency.
"It is very difficult to recall the whole matter after almost 16
years," he added.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_ruchika-case-probed-sincerely-former-cbi-dig-ranjan_1329491
Sid Harth
PTI Thursday, December 31, 2009 19:04 IST
New Delhi: Amid growing public pressure on Ruchika molestation case,
CBI today decided to file an appeal for enhancement of jail term of
convicted former Haryana Police chief SPS Rathore and said it was
examining the possibility of charging the accused with abetment of
suicide.
"It is felt that six months imprisonment and fine of Rs 1,000 is far
inadequate specially when the chief judicial magistrate, Chandigarh,
in his judgement concluded that the offence has been proved upto
hilt," CBI spokesman Harsh Bahal said here.
He said the CBI had consultations with Home and Law Ministries after
which it was decided to file an appeal in the competent court for
enhancement of sentence to Rathore under 354 IPC (molestation). The
maximum sentence provided in law is
two years of imprisonment and a fine.
As far as the applicability of Section 306 of IPC relating to abetment
of suicide in the Ruchika case is concerned, the legal experts of the
CBI are examining the issue to suggest further course of action. "The
advice of the Solicitor General of India will also be taken before
finalising the view of CBI on this issue," the spokesman said.
The six-month punishment for Rathore saw widespread protests from the
civil society and the media following which the CBI as well as both
the Centre and state governments started re-visiting the case.
The Haryana police has already registered two fresh cases against
Rathore. He attempted to get an anticipatory bail but failed to get an
immediate relief.
CBI also issued the relevant paragraphs of the judgement which said
"...the CBI argued that the guilt of the convict is proved upto hilt.
The CBI counsel stated that the object of the sentence should be to
see that the crime does not go
un-punished.
"The guilt of the convict has already been proved upto hilt. The
allegations against the convict were that he assaulted and used
criminal force against victim Ruchika with intention to outrage her
modesty and during this process, he caught hold of her hand and with
his other hand caught hold of her waist, dragged her towards him and
embraced her against her will and thereby outraged her modesty."
"The allegations against the convict are proved in the present case,"
the judgement said. The allegations are of moral turpitude, it said
noting that such allegations are serious in nature, particularly in
the circumstances when the victim was minor.
"In such circumstances, liberal view can not be taken against the
convict. However, the prolonged trial and the age of the convict can
be considered while passing the order on quantum of sentence. The
arguments that the prosecutrix was not the complainant in the present
case is not helpful to the convict because it has already been dealt
with in the judgement and it makes no affect on the quantum of
sentence," the judgement said.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_cbi-to-file-appeal-for-enhancing-rathore-s-punishment_1329492
Sid Harth
PTI Thursday, December 31, 2009 18:29 IST
Panchkula: Copies of the fresh FIRs lodged by the Haryana Police
against former DGP SPS Rathore in the Ruchika molestation case were
today submitted in court by his lawyer-wife Abha.
She submitted the copies of the two FIRs (Nos. 573 and 574) registered
by Panchkula Police against Rathore on Tuesday night following fresh
complaints by Ruchika's father Subhash Chander Girhotra and brother
Ashu, accusing the former IPS officer of attempt to murder, torture
and doctoring of the girl's post-mortem report.
Submitting the copies, Abha, who appeared for her husband in court
yesterday to argue his anticipatory bail plea, told District Judge SP
Singh that on the charge of harassment, the Haryana Government had
earlier given a clean chit to the former DGP.
"Rathore had been cleared by the Supreme Court in 2005 of the charge
of harassment of Ashu. The allegations, including his false
implication in various cases, arrest and torture, levelled by Ashu,
were the same as those made in the fresh complaint filed by him on
Tuesday," she said.
Abha was asked by the judge to submit a copy of the apex court order
tomorrow when the case will come up for further hearing.
Apprehending Rathore's arrest, Abha pleaded for interim bail, but the
judge said the matter would be taken up tomorrow as it is already
listed and she could submit other documents in support of her
arguments.
Abha submitted in the court that Girhotra and his friend Anand Parkash
were speaking "out of turn and misleading the court. They should be
slapped with the offence of contempt of court as they are talking
about cases which have been settled earlier".
She said the demand for invoking section 305 of the IPC (abetment to
suicide of a minor) was not made out because Ruchika was not a minor
when she died in 1993.
Ruchika was molested by Rathore in 1990 for which he has been
sentenced to six months imprisonment.
67-year-old "Rathore is being presented in such a way as if he is God
who controls everything, including the police, the CBI and the entire
system," she said.
Abha said the probe by the seven-member SIT or any other agency is
welcome.
She also told the court that Rathore had no role in the expulsion of
Ruchika from the Sacred Heart School in Chandigarh.
The issue of invoking 306 IPC (abetment to suicide) has already been
settled in the Supreme Court which said that no case of abetment to
suicide is made out against Rathore, Abha added.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_rathore-s-wife-submits-fresh-firs-in-panchkula-court_1329485
Sid Harth
engagement ceremony
PTI Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:16 IST
The Delhi High Court today allowed the plea of Vishal Yadav, serving
life imprisonment in the Nitish Katara murder case, to attend his
sister's engagement ceremony on January 3.
Earlier, the engagement ceremony was to be held on December 26 but got
postponed as Vishal's grandfather was ill.
A vacation bench comprising Justices Valmiki Mehta and VK Jain allowed
the plea of Vishal, who was earlier granted five-hour custody parole
to attend the function.
The bench said Vishal will attend the function on the same terms and
conditions imposed by the court in its previous order.
Vishal was granted five hours parole (5pm to 10 pm) to attend the
function in the presence of UP and Delhi policemen who will be in
plain clothes.
Vishal and Vikas Yadav, nephew and son of controversial Uttar Pradesh
Politician D P Yadav, were convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment by a trial court in May last year for killing Katara, son
of a former IAS officer, in February 2002 as they were against
Katara's intimacy with their sister Bharati Yadav.
chhotemianinshallah
Supriya Bhardwaj, TNN 1 January 2010, 12:40am IST
CHANDIGARH: As kids, they would walk hand in hand down the road in
Panchkula to the tennis court, humming, "Yeh dosti, hum nahi todenge,
todenge dam Friends forever: Aradhana is still fighting for Ruchika.
magar tera saath na chhodenge"... They haven't.
Sixteen years after Ruchika Girhotra, then just 18, killed herself,
the bond remains unshaken. For Aradhana Gupta, now 32, and a mother of
two, Ruchika lives -- in her heart. She had seen Ruchika being
molested by SPS Rathore, watched her get thrown out by their school,
face threats and harassment. Aradhana protested, spent sleepless
nights thinking about her friend and her family and even delayed
marriage to take the crusade forward.
In a day and age when few stop to tend helpless accident victims or
care to find out who their neighbour is, Aradhana's abiding loyalty
for her friend and her crusade for justice for Ruchika is a rare story
of courage. Even when the odds were frighteningly loaded against this
loyalty, Aradhana held out -- not just in the wake of the tragedy but
for years, even when she had married and gone off to Australia.
She came back to testify against ex-DGP Rathore and on the basis of
her eye-witness account, the molester was convicted -- for just six
months, triggering country-wide outrage at this obvious travesty of
justice. Now that the wheels of justice appears to be finally moving,
and the entire police apparatus seems crowded with cowards who buckled
under Rathore's might, Aradhana's heroism stands out as a ray of hope.
It's a beacon that we can carry into the New Year.
The friendship was forged over two decades ago at a kiosk near their
house by exchanging bars of chocolate. Hours of chatting, movies,
eating out and their passion for tennis only made the bond grow
stronger. It transcended death, inspiring Aradhana even after Ruchika
was no more. "We would often sing 'Yeh dosti...' together. Never
thought it would ring so sadly true," she says.
Aradhana is not ready to take the credit, though. "This is the least I
could do for her. I could not save her but I can fight till she gets
justice," she says. She recalls her days with Ruchika: "We would
practise together and remained glued to television whenever there was
a match, trying to improve our strokes." Tennis was a passion but then
it suddenly became a cruel reminder...Aradhana has never played tennis
since the day Ruchika died.
"Whenever our parents went away, we would make sandwiches together,
our favourite being the tomato-onion sandwich. At a party, she made me
comb my hair the way she did so that we could look like sisters. It
wasn't necessary. We were like sisters," says Aradhana.
All was fine in their little paradise. Till, Rathore happened and
their lives changed forever. "We were left with fear, sorrow and
tears. Rathore would harass her and her family. Some new problem would
crop up every day in their lives. It affected me deeply. She was
crumbling. I could not see her die every day," she recalls.
The girls had stopped humming their songs of innocence. "Our
classmates discussed boy friends and crushes. We spoke of court
cases," says Aradhana. And, it took her five years to say yes to her
marriage. "My husband, Aman, had a tough time convincing me to tie the
knot," she says.
Aman recalls the first few years after the marriage and Aradhana's
crusade: "I was apprehensive initially. I was scared as she was up
against a very powerful person. But, it was my daughter's birth in
2005 that changed my outlook. When I held her in my arms, I realized
what Ruchika's father had gone through. I realized the depth of the
bond between Ruchika and Aradhana." And he too joined the battle.
The couple moved to Australia. But, they flew to Panchkula every time
there was a court hearing, spending on their own and fighting for
leave.
Aradhana ran to Ruchika's photograph as soon as Rathore was convicted
on December 21. "I told her, we have done it. But, the war is still
on," she says. "She still looks sad. I hope I can make her smile
soon."
chhotemianinshallah
STAFF WRITER 20:8 HRS IST
New Delhi, Dec 31 (PTI) BJP today said "casual comments" on the
Ruchika harassment case should stop and both Centre and the Haryana
government should jointly petition the Supreme Court in the matter as
ex-DGP S P S Rathore had "abused" the entire system to escape
conviction.
"The casual comments should stop and effective action should be taken.
Both the Government of India and the Haryana government should jointly
move the Supreme Court for reopening of the Rathore case with a fresh
chargesheet on abetment to suicide against the accused," BJP
spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
He described the molestation of 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra by then
IGP Rathore in 1990 as "a painful example of abuse of the entire
system by one police officer". Three years after the incident, she had
committed suicide and her family alleges that it was due to their
harassment by Rathore.
http://www.ptinews.com/news/448183_BJP-demands-reopening-of-Ruchika-case