Serial Blasts & Corrupt Police

Serial Blasts & Corrupt Police



Serial bombs are most deplorable assault on civilization. Two serial bomb blasts rocked two Industrial Cities yet again and as usual L.K. Advani demanded introduction that was withdrawn due its abuse. TV channels had adequately covered the incidents. Callousness of police is illustrated by the car bomb explosion at Civil Hospital where most of the victims were brought- even this area was not protected.



Here are clippings of how Gujarat police functions. The dalit girl who was serially raped by male teachers and administrators of the teachers training college came to ligh only after the mob attacked the rapists gang. It was only after the press and TV media exposed the criminals on global channels complaints were registered and arrests made.



Now the victim is being harassed and FORCED by magistrate to appear in court every day. In spite all the trauma she scored well in exams. Since victim had recorded her statement and identified the accused why she is made to appear in court on every hearing than let her over come trauma and pursue her studies & carrier.



But most dramatic is the case of Ms. Jaimini Vyas fighting several cases just because she is not getting justice due Corrupt Lawyers their Nexus with criminals. Even her complaints are disregarded.



Asaram case too was being hushed up and only after the persistent agitation by the entire community for a fortnight, state government woke up only when media was attacked by Asaram and it became too hot to contain.



Two other important cases of Corruption & Abuse were reported in press of police conniving in framing a businessman in drug case and custodial death of the father of a boy who eloped with his girl. No forensic experts was called to investigate death in lock up.



Not just in Gujarat, Delhi has 50 policemen per square kilometer but none is seen on the road except at VIP bungalows and invariably arrive 30 minutes after the incident or accidents when the criminals are out of Delhi city limits.



Gujarat police couldn’t first prevent terrorist plant bombs on cycles and even after bombs started exploding none was detected by police and it was public alertness that defused one or two bombs.



Transparency International has labeled police as most corrupt, is also incompetent, fabricate false cases with corrupt lawyers and judiciary contribute to lawless society and terrorist escape every time.



Ravinder Singh

July27, 2008



Accused in fake drugs case finally arrested

TIMES NEWS NETWORK July26, 2008 P-8


Vadodara: A local builder, Krishna Somani, who was accused of planting drugs in the house of a local businessman Prakash Pillai two years ago, was finally arrested on Friday. Somani had allegedly planted drugs in Pillai’s house with the help of a few cops.


Somani was already in judicial custody in connection with a double-murder case since last year. The CID had obtained an arrest warrant of Somani in March this year but the then investigating officials stated that they were collecting evidence against him.


“We have taken his remand to know who all are involved in the case other than Somani. We also want to know how they hatched the conspiracy and from where did they source the drugs,” said deputy superintendent of police Bhagirathsinh Jadeja.


Apart from Somani, two cops, R M Rathod and K V Vahoniya, have also been accused in the same case. Both Rathod and Vahoniya, then police inspectors of Wadi and Gorwa police stations, respectively, had allegedly planted drugs in Pillai’s house in April 2006. Pillai, who wasn’t around when the police raided his residence, had immediately filed a complaint.


According to Pillai, the cops had sent bags of wheat and rice at his residence in Gorwa and planted drugs with it. The Wadi police raided his house soon after and filed an FIR against him under NDPS Act.


Pillai said Somani was to pay few crores of rupees to a steel company and he was playing the role of a mediator. When Pillai pressurized Somani to pay up the money, Somani decided to frame him in a false narcotics case with the help of Rathod and Vahoniya.


Rathod’s complicity with Somani came to light after the latter’s mobile calls were traced when he was re-arrested in 2007. Somani had even jumped parole in 2004.



Bailable warrant issued against Patan rape victim

TIMES NEWS NETWORK July25, 2008 P-3


Ahmedabad: The Patan fast track court that is hearing DIET-PTC multiple gangrape case on Thursday issued a bailable warrant against the victim girl on her remaining absent in the court during the scheduled hearing.


Judge SC Srivastav issued warrant because the victim was supposed to remain present during hearing, and she didn’t turn up without any reason. The court was reluctant to accept the argument from the girl’s advocate that a proceeding is going on in Gujarat High Court with regard to the revision application by some of the accused teachers. But the court observed that there was no excuse on part of the victim girl, who had to appear before the court as a witness for examination-inchief, because apparently there was no stay order by the High Court on the lower court’s proceedings. The court has kept further hearing in the case on Monday, when the girl is asked to remain present for recording of her statement.


Earlier, the victim remained absent on a couple of occasions on the ground that she was not keeping well. Then also, the court had sought the medical certificate from hospital authorities about the victim’s health condition. During a proceeding, the girl even collapsed in the courtroom only, and it resulted in adjournment in hearing.



Bar Council to catch nagging clients on tape

Council Will Videotape Proceedings Of Clients Who File Repeated Complaints

Saeed Khan | TNN July25, 2008 P-4


Ahmedabad: If you are aggrieved by something, you can go to court. Lawyers will help you out. If you are annoyed with your lawyer for messing up your case, you can approach the Bar Council to lodge a complaint against the advocate. But what if the Bar is frustrated after repeated complaints against itself from a client? Well, it cannot do much. Hence, the Gujarat Bar Council decided to videotape proceedings of clients who filed repeated complaints.


The Bar Council has been conducting proceedings before its disciplinary committee in camera in the case of one Jaimini Vyas. The woman is fighting a legal battle in the metropolitan court for quite some time along with many other petitions she has filed in many courts (from metropolitan to the High Court). In one of these petitions, she found her lawyer not working hard enough on her case and filed a complaint against him in the Bar Council, alleging him of professional misconduct.


The Bar Council then set up a three lawyer panel to initiate disciplinary action against Vyas’s advocate. However, the woman was not content with the way the proceedings were on and complained before Bar Council of India. She even filed an application in Gujarat High Court and has been arguing the case for herself. The court directed the Bar Council to expedite proceedings.


The Bar Council was so wearied with complaints pouring in from Vyas that it changed the panel of advocates dealing with her complaints. But fearing that Vyas may file more complaints, Bar Council president Rajendra Trivedi ordered that her proceedings should take place in camera to “control” the complainant from making repeated allegations. “When you have video recording as an evidence, it can control the behaviour of the client. And the proceedings, too, go smoothly when people know that their movement is video recorded,” Trivedi said.


Chairman of the enrolment committee Anil Kella said the Bar Council decided to record the case of Vyas after she made allegations against the office-bearers of being prejudiced in her case. “We changed the panel on her complaint, but then realized that she did not stop. Like in this case, we have decided to place cameras during proceedings of disgruntled clients,” he explained.



Cops Claim Rajput Killed Self Using Kerchief; Rubbish, Says Kin

Prashant Dayal | TNN July24, P-3


Ahmedabad: Can a man commit suicide with his handkerchief ? Mahesh Singh Rajput, 53, a BSNL employee, actually did. That too inside the Sarkhej police station’s lock-up! At least, that is what the police wants us to believe.


While the Sarkhej police are at pains to convince everyone that this is a case of suicide, Mahesh’s family members are crying murder. They assert that this is a case of custodial death caused by police brutality. Mahesh was picked up by a team of Sarkhej police station officials on July 14 from his workplace, a plastic factory. Two days later, police called up his native place—Trikamgad in Madhya Pradesh—to intimate his kin about the death.


This, despite the fact that Mahesh’s wife and son stay in Gota. Mahesh’s kin now feel the police may have killed him. “How can a handkerchief be used in suicide?” asked the deceased’s nephew Dhirendra Singh Rajput. He has written a letter to the DGP, Gujarat, alleging that police killed his uncle. He has demanded a second postmortem and complaint of murder against the police. Till this happens, he said, “We will not take custody of my uncle’s body.”


Sarkhej police inspector J D Trivedi, however, said, “Mahesh was an accused in a kidnapping case and so we arrested him. He committed suicide with the help of a handkerchief in the lock-up. The reason for this is unknown. We are still to arrest his wife and younger son in the case.”


Rajput was employed as a workman in BSNL, Vasna unit, for the past 30 years. Mahesh, his wife and two sons were staying at Gota Housing Colony. A year-and-a-half back, Mahesh’s elder son Jitendra, a driver, eloped with a minor girl. The two are still traceable.


The girl’s father lodged a complaint at Sarkhej police station against Jitendra and his family, accusing them of kidnap. Sarkhej police had then nabbed Mahesh and his younger son, but released them later. In the meantime, Mahesh’s mother died at his native place, so he rushed home. A property dispute arose and Mahesh’s elder brother was killed. Mahesh was jailed along with many others for 10 months.


Mahesh returned to city in February to resume work at BSNL but had to wait due to his absence. He then joined a factory in Gota from where he was picked up.


HOLES IN COPS’ SUICIDE THEORY


Cops say Rajput tied one end of handkerchief to his neck and the other to the lock-up’s metal grill. He then strangled himself by pushing himself away from the door. This storyline seems suspicious and the technique employed bizarre too.
Secondly, any person trying to strangulate himself would lose consciousness, and that would have defeated the purpose.


If this was suicide, why were forensic experts not called to check for circumstantial proof and position of Rajput’s body?


Any person, before being kept in police lock-up, is thoroughly searched. Articles that can be used to harm self are always taken away.


To commit suicide, a big handkerchief would have been needed. How did it come inside lock-up? Lock-up was empty, so why was no police guard keeping watch?