Hegemony Festival Spiced Secular
Palash Biswas
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Facing public ire due to its shabby handling of the high-profile Rizwan murder case, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday announced the transfer of Kolkata Police Commissioner Prasun Mukherjee along with two of his deputy’s Gyanwant Singh and Ajay Kumar. Buddhadeb’s decision comes a day after the Calcutta High Court ordered the transfer of the case to CBI causing acute embarrassment to the Left Front government. Two more police officers a ASP and a Sub-Inspector have also been transferred. While announcing the government’s decision the CM also made it amply clear that these are punishment transfers. Earlier on Tuesday, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday had directed the CBI to investigate the death of Rizwan Rehman which has caused a public outcry.Reacting to the news, Rizwan’s lawyer said that he welcomes the move but more needs to be done. Justice Soumitra Pal, in an interim order, had directed the CBI to complete the investigation and submit its report to the court within two months.
A frail mother's voice pleading for justice from a rundown house in Kolkata's Muslim
ghetto Park Circus is singeing West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and has plunged the ruling communists into a crisis. He has braved the protests of Singur and weathered the uprising and police atrocities in Nandigram, but Bhattacharya is finding it hard to cope with the controversy and public fury generated in the Rizwanur Rehman case.West Bengal government will not appeal against the Calcutta High Court directive for a CBI probe into the death of computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rehman and will take appropriate action against senior police officials, the Left Front Chairman has said.
It is Hegemony Festival spiced as Secular. Despite the secular mobilisation of general public against Police does seems to win the battle with High court verdict in favour of CBI investigation and followed by top Kolkata Police Officials, the Metro Secular Intellegentsia sing the Hegemony song as everything remains the same which is best expressed in Ration riots touching Kolkata. Last week I was fortunate to have an ariel view of Kolkata and around before landing in Dumdum Airport. I was returning from Tumkur Peace event. The entire area of bongaon subdivision seemed to be submerged in flood water till this date. but intellegenstia Kolkata and media are engaged in Durga Puja carnival which further strenghthens the Hegemony culture enslaving and marginalising majority people. Today morning, our friend and editor Samayantar eminent novelist Pankaj Bisht ringed me from New Delhi. I explained him how the Hegemony festival is spiced secular and the social monopoly equals remain intact. Rizwan case as well as Ration Riots do express the crisis faced by the regemented Marxist Gestapo at grassroot level as losing the Rizwan case, ruling left is sieged by Second Food movement which is now full circle. Police and Administration have become the tools of ruling hegemony and the Left Front and the government did try to defend its hands , but miserably failed. Nevertheless, we know the result of CBI investigation in Nandigram Genocide and Tagore Nobel Theft cases. Singur and nandigarm insurrection was betrayed by Kolkata Intelligentsia. It also subverts the ration riots.The West Bengal government has denied an allegation reportedly made by Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar that foodgrains meant for the public distribution system in the State were being diverted to Bangladesh.No such case has been brought to our notice and if such diversions were being made, we would have been intimated by the Border Security Force, which is a Central force,” Food and Supply Minister Paresh Adhikari told The Hindu on Tuesday.
The Centre, he claimed, “is on the other hand largely responsible for the shortages in the public distribution system because of the abrupt reduction in supplies, particularly of rice and wheat.”
“It has suddenly drastically cut down food supplies to the above poverty line sections and the per capita allotment of both rice and wheat has come down drastically,” Mr. Adhikari added.
The central committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) at its recent meeting here condemned the Centre’s reported decision to further cut food supplies to APL sections at a time when “the public distribution system is in a state of virtual collapse due to the targeting system which has excluded large sections of the poor.”
The recent incidents in which ration dealers in certain districts were attacked and their houses set on fire were the result of a conspiracy hatched by those bent on destabilising the PDS in the State, Biman Bose, chairman of the Left Front Committee, has said.
Several ration shops were ransacked, foodgrains looted and paramilitary personnel deployed at Deganga in North 24 Parganas district as protests against irregular supply of PDS items continued in the state.
A mob set ablaze the house of ration dealer at Deganga on Monday accusing him of selling ration items in the open market instead of distributing it to ration card holders. When a police contingent arrived in the area, agitated locals hurled stones at policemen, injuring five of them. The injured were rushed to Barasat hospital where they were discharged after first-aid, additional SP Sugoto Sen said.
Later, RAF personnel were called in the area to prevent any untoward incident, the ASP said. In a separate incident at Haroa in the same district, a BDO's office was attacked when he was attending a meeting with ration dealers on Monday, in which the sub divisional police officer was injured. In South 24 Parganas, residents of Jaynalerkhet village near Kultali ransacked the house of a ration dealer on Monday. Angry locals looted 17 sacks of rice from a ration dealer's house at Bapujinagar in Kakdwip area late on Monday night. Four persons were arrested in this connection. With this, at least 400 sacks of rice were taken away from five ration shops in the district in the last three days, police said.
Meanwhile, two ration dealers at Dayapur and Rangabelia villages in Gosaba area of South 24 Parganas district signed an undertaking promising to pay Rs 1,000 to each ration card holder and give them rice free of cost for the next six months.
Goddess Durga comes down from her heavenly abode to our dear earth. Perhaps our city Kolkata displays more frenzy at her approach.Artisans are working on a war footing to give shape to the most enduring impression of the spirit of Bengali festivity. Kumartuli or the habitat of artisans has been in existence for over a century. What about them? The month of October holds special significance for Bengalis as Durga Puja is celebrated with a blend of tradition and modernity. Durga Puja, five days of the largest festivities of Hindus in this divided geopolitics, begins today.Puja mandaps have already been built and preparations for all rituals made. Devotees will assemble at the mandaps and make offerings of treats to Goddess Durga. The offerings will later be distributed among all.The goddess descends on earth today -- the Mahashashthi, accompanied by her children Ganesh, Kartik, Lakshmi and Saraswati, at the invocation and supplication of the devotees and stays for the next four days. The days are Mahasaptami on Thursday, Mahashtami on Friday, Mahanabami on Saturday and Bijaya Dashami on Sunday. Durga, the slayer of Mahishashur, is lion-borne, wielding an array of arms including kripan, chakra, gada, and bow and arrow in her ten hands. The mantra for organizers is to be different. So you have blue pottery from Rajasthan and one is even made from clay to recreate a Santhal village.One of the pandals attempts to go back to nature to the Khowai region of Santiniketan. Red clay is used and the Goddess is in a new avatar.Organisers have come up with the most creative designs to bag the prestigious Sharad Samman Award for the best pandal.The weather department has predicted a welcome change in the weather. The rain gods will hopefully take a backseat and allow just playful white cottony clouds float around. Though sunny, it’s certainly not as sticky or uncomfortable as in April-May-June. The lush fields of the villages beckon those who have left for “greener” pastures. Kashphool sway in the light breeze, and a distinct smell of happiness permeates through the polluted air.Calcutta High Court today directed the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and 44 municipalities on the banks of the Ganga to take steps to clean up the river immediately after the immersion of the idols during the festive season from Durga Puja to Jagaddhatri Puja.
Leaders of Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad, Bangladesh Puja Udjapon Parishad, Mahanagar Sarbojoneen Puja Committee, Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Parishad and Bangladesh Christian Association yesterday alleged that idols of the Goddess Durga had been desecrated at various places in the country including Faridpur, Khulna and Satkhira.
They urged all to keep vigilance to maintain communal harmony during the five-day-long festivities. They also urged the government to step up security measures and ensure peaceful observation of the occasion.
Dear Sir,
Jai Bheem,
I'm very thankful to you for sending such a thoughtful write up. May I ask few questions? Why did you not attack directly on Brahmins Marxist who have been befooling our people and exploiting them on the name of class struggle? For how long Dalit-Bahujans will be serving these Manuwadi Marxists? Orisa and West Bengal have considerabel population of Dalit-Bahujan, what are main hurdels on the way of BSP? Do you think that only political empowerment will liberate dalit-bahujans?
With Kind Regards,
Sanjay
As Kolkata goes into a cheerful frenzy during Durga Puja, FM radio stations in the city are busy replicating the Puja fervour on air. FM radio players have lined up a series of programmes and promotions to celebrate the festival with their listeners. Most radio stations are making trips to housing complexes, either to judge the puja pandals there or to get the vibe of the festive spirit. Das Kapital is coming to Kolkata at a Puja-stall near you. Amid the scores of kiosks selling a variety of goods from Made-in-China torches to water purifiers, jostled by hoardings announcing "heavy discounts", peeping out insistently from the glittering spectrum of colours, you will notice a 'red corner' ? the CPI(M)'s bookstore at the Puja pandals. For the last few months, this part of the globe could not have ignored the CPI(M)'s vehement opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal even if it tried. But if you want to go beyond that, to learn more about the shrinking world of communism, its history, who's who and why the comrades welcome American microchips, but hate their potato chips then Durga Puja is the best time. For the Left, it's the season to be jolly.
Jubilation over justice signal
Candles of conscience
The candles outside St Xavier’s College glowed their brightest in 19 nights under the afternoon sun on Tuesday.
As word of the Calcutta High Court order of a CBI probe into the death of Rizwanur Rahman spread, the Park Street pavement — The Shrine, for volunteers and visitors at the vigil — drew crowds jubilant at the first sign of justice.
Strangers hugged and distributed sweets, cars slowed down and honked their support, banners saying “keep the faith — thank you, Calcutta High Court” came up like magic, and the 35,000-plus signatures of support penned since September 28 gleamed by the candlelight.
“It is the victory of every Calcuttan with a conscience,” smiled Durjoy Guha, a businessman who spends all his days at the vigil. “All those fighting for truth and justice have won the first round,” added Anwar Ali, another tireless volunteer.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071017/asp/calcutta/story_8444098.asp
Bowing to intense public pressure, West Bengal chief minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee today removed five police officers, including the Kolkata Police Commissioner, a day after the Calcutta High Court ordered a CBI investigation into the mysterious death of Rizwanur Rahman ...Buddhadeb’s strong action comes in wake of the “go-ahead” given by the constituents of the Left on initiation of action against the police officers.
In a swift action, West Bengal government on Wednesday appointed senior police officer Gautam Mohan Chakraborty as new Kolkata police commissioner in place of Prasun Mukherjee who was transferred with immediate effect in connection with the death of Rizwanur Rehman.
West Bengal Home Secretary P R Roy told reporters here that Chakraborty, Additional Director General of Police (Telecome) would take over his new assignment soon.
New deputy commissioners for Headquarters and the Detective Department were also named by the Home Secretary to replace Gyanwant Singh and Ajay Kumar.
Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee earlier in the day announced the transfer of Mukherjee, two deputy commissioners, an assistant commissioner and a sub-Inspector for alleged involvement in the unnatural death of computer graphic teacher Rizwanur Rehman who married the daughter of a Hindu industrialist.
"IPS officers are no angels and the state government will follow the required procedure for taking appropriate action against officers against whom there were allegations," Left Front chairman Biman Bose told reporters after emerging from a Front committee meeting.
Asked whether senior police officers against whom there are allegations would be removed from their positions, he said appropriate action would be taken by the state government. "The Left Front can only recommend and cannot take a decision."
Rarely has the courtroom heard anything like this before: “Darun, darun (excellent, excellent)”.For a government deaf to the people’s voice, the words will ring in its ears long after the dust settles down.Reports The Telegraph.The unparalleled expression of public approval broke through the courtroom code of silence today when Calcutta High Court ordered a CBI probe into Rizwanur Rahman’s death.Justice Soumitra Pal termed the just-concluded CID investigation “faulty”, “not just and proper” and “not in accordance with law”.The judge said the state government had informed the court that the CID was conducting an inquiry under Section 175 of the CrPC and since it was only an inquiry, and not an investigation, it had not registered a case.
ASHIS CHAKRABARTI wrote well:
A non-political event — the death of a young man under controversial circumstances — followed by an essentially non-political campaign has forced Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to face avoidable questions about his government’s credibility.
Comparisons will be made with the government’s predicament over Nandigram, especially because that, too, led to Calcutta High Court ordering a CBI inquiry.
But the Rizwanur case has showed the government in a poorer light than even the death of 14 people in police firing at Nandigram.
Coming after the political storm over the Tata group’s small car project at Singur, the battle at Nandigram saw public opinion divided. At stake was the big issue of Bengal’s industrialisation. Those opposing it had their sympathisers, more so after the police firing. But the chief minister had large sections of the people on his side and they saw the protests and even the police action as inevitable consequences of a major policy drive.
Even if the Nandigram tragedy sparked widespread condemnation, there was no getting away from the fact that there were political players in it and, more important, that it was not one-sided aggression on the government’s part.
For all the political and administrative miscalculations that the CPM and the chief minister were accused of, there was no denying that policemen, too, had been attacked by some armed people.
Contrast all this with the known facts of the Rizwanur case. It had nothing to do with politics. The only way one could see him was as a victim. The only rational reaction to the reports of the role of the police had to be one of horror and revolt.
No inquiry report was needed into the exact cause of his death.
City of hope
The storm of protest over Rizwanur Rahman suggests that Calcutta is a caring city. But the findings of a Telegraph-GfK-MODE poll are shocking. Shuma Raha looks for the real Calcutta
The storm of protest over Rizwanur Rahman suggests that Calcutta is a caring city. But the findings of a Telegraph-GfK-MODE poll are shocking. Shuma Raha looks for the real Calcutta
On September 28 a few people held a candle-light vigil in memory of Rizwanur Rahman on the pavement in front of Calcutta’s St Xavier’s College. Today, 16 days later, the candles are burning still — their aureole of light a shining epicentre of an astonishing outpouring of mass outrage. The vinyl posters strung out on the college railings are crammed with thousands of signatures; the condolence books burst with countless messages of support. Ask the volunteers who are keeping vigil at what has become a shrine to the dead man, and they’ll tell you how hundreds of people — from 80-year-olds to little boys and girls — come here every day to light a candle or scrawl their names. They all want justice for Rizwanur. They are all raising their voice against the way the rich and the powerful sought to cut him down.
Rarely have Calcuttans felt so strongly or turned out in such large numbers to protest a wrong — in this case the collusion of the police with Rizwanur’s father-in-law in trying to break up his marriage to the rich man’s daughter. His subsequent death under suspicious circumstances has made the whole affair even murkier. And the citizenry is in no mood to forgive or forget. With Rizwanur, Calcutta seems to have finally rediscovered its heart.
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“However, under this section, an investigation has to be launched, not an inquiry, and it is mandatory to register a case, which the CID had not done,” Justice Pal said. “So the entire process of inquiry that the CID has launched is not in accordance with law. Summoning people for questioning is investigation, not inquiry. This is why I am handing over the case to the CBI.”
He also added that under the circumstances, the CID probe would simply amount to “killing time”. The court asked the CBI to submit a “preliminary report in a sealed cover” within two months.
The central agency is not expected to perform miracles — the state home secretary later said he found “little difference” between inquiries by the CBI and the CID.
But the way the 500-strong spectators — against the usual 50 — responded showed how little faith they have in the state apparatus. As soon as the judge pronounced the order, the crowd broke into applause, unable to contain the loud exclamations of approval.
Justice Pal turned red in the face and lawyers braced for a rebuke as silence is mandatory when the judge speaks. But the judge waited for five minutes for the voices to subside.
He then referred to Prasun Mukherjee and said: “The court prima facie holds that the police commissioner should not make such comments (that Rizwanur committed suicide) before carrying out a detailed investigation.”
In his interim order, the judge said Article 21 gave people the right to move court seeking “justice” and “impartial investigation”. “In this case, the petitioners (Rizwanur’s mother and elder brother) felt that the CID inquiry would not be impartial. Therefore, their petition is maintainable.”
The judge asked the respondents, including five police officers and Rizwanur’s father-in-law Ashok Todi, to file affidavits by November 30 and asked the petitioners’ lawyer, Kalyan Banerjee, to file his reply by December 10.
After the court’s order, state advocate-general Balai Ray said: “We are not going to appeal. But we may appeal against labelling the CID inquiry illegal.”
At Writers’ Buildings, home secretary Prasad Ranjan Ray said: “The government has two options. One is to appeal against the order to keep the CID inquiry operationalised. The other is to hand over the case, along with the relevant papers, to the CBI,” he said. “The decision to appeal has to be political. But we are seeking legal advice.”
He conceded that if the government didn’t go in appeal, “it will have to hand over all CID papers to the CBI. Once the CBI takes over, the CID cannot carry out a parallel probe”. The judicial inquiry will continue.
Ray said the CBI probe would not stop the government from taking action against the police officers. “Action hobei (will be taken), but I cannot say if it will happen before or after the Pujas. A process is on for taking action.”
Asked whether police chief Mukherjee should be removed, the home secretary said: “His removal is not directly related to the case.”
Shortly after the removal of five top police officers including Kolkata Police Commissioner Prasun Mukherjee by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee demanded his resignation as the Home (police) minister. After Prasun Mukherjee was shifted from the Kolkata Police Commissioner's post, the Jagmohan Dalmiya lobby on Wednesday demanded his resignation from the post of Cricket Association of Bengal (CA
President.
"Mukherjee has been removed after intense public protests. He should have put in his papers earlier. But now, after the government has taken action against him, he should demit office immediately," said Dalmiya loyalist and former CAB Assistant Secretary Biswarup Dey.
"CAB is a prestigious organisation. The CAB president's post is an office of high repute. If Mukherjee has any sense of morality, he should quit. Already, the CAB's image has been tarnished due to the developments of the last few weeks," Dey said.
Dey said the entire society had risen in protest after the death of Rizwanur Rahman, a young Muslim computer graphics teacher who married Priyanka Todi against the wishes of her industrialist father Ashok.
Rizwanur's body was found on the railway tracks in Dum Dum on September 21 and triggered a public outcry after it emerged that four police officers including two deputy commissioners had allegedly threatened him to part with his Hindu wife.
Mukherjee's name entered the controversy after CAB assistant secretary and Sourav Ganguly's brother Snehasish admitted that on Todi's request, he had accompanied the industrialist's brother Pradip to the police commissioner for lodging a complaint relating to Priyanka's marriage.
"He is the Home (police) Minister. Has he quit his office? Under whose direction has the police worked?" Banerjee asked.
She said that the chief minister was forced to transfer the five officers due to Wednesday's court order for a CBI investigation into the "unnatural" death of Rizwanur Rehman who was allegedly pressurised by police officers after he married a Hindu girl.
"He (Bhattacharjee) has been forced to take action against the police officers. If he had the will, he would have taken the action much before. Why did he take such a long time. Even now the CM has merely transferred the officers?" she said.
The TC supremo said that the state government had opposed the petition moved by Rizwanur Rehman's mother Kishwar Jahan seeking CBI probe.
Women's panel faces protest near Rizwanur's house
A West Bengal Women's Commission team on Monday met the mother of Rizwanur Rehman, whose mysterious death has led to a public outcry, and faced protests by local people who accused the Commission of helping those responsible for his death. The placard-holding protestors shouted slogans against the Commission alleging it had 'helped' those responsible for the death of the computer graphics teacher who married a Hindu woman, including his father in-law industrialist Ashok Todi.
''We won't allow the Women's Commission to see Rizwanur's mother Kishwar Jahan,'' the protestors said and demanded that they go back.
Commission members had met Rizwanur's wife Priyanka at her father's Salt Lake residence last week. The police then stepped in and escorted the team to meet Rizwanur's mother. Later, Commission President Yasodhara Bagchi told reporters that Kishwar Jahan regretted that those who put pressure on Rizwanur to part with Priyanka remain unpunished and the government had "let them go scot free".
Bagchi said, "we have told her that the Commission is not a judicial body that can take any punitive action against anyone but we assured her that we will convey her sentiments to the state government.''
The modest residence of the Rehmans at Tiljala in east Kolkata was visited on Saturday by Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee, followed by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday, besides state Congress leaders.
Prasun Mukherjee, sixth Kolkata police chief to go
Prasun Mukherjee is the sixth Police Commissioner of Kolkata who has received marching orders from the West Bengal government.
Mukherjee, along with other four officers were ordered transferred by Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee on Wednesday for their alleged involvement in the mysterious death of computer graphic artist Rizwanur Rehman.
S M Ghosh was the first city police chief to be transferred in 1964 on the charge of sending policemen into a religious place after a communal riot in Kolkata.
In 1972, police commissioner R N Chatterjee had to go for justifying police firing on Chhatra Parishad activists, in which one person was killed.
Police chief S Basu was transferred in 1978 as he was held responsisble for breach of security after Congress workers, led by A B A Ghani Khan Chaudhury, broke barricades to reach Writers' Buildings, the state secretariat.
Nirupam Som was forced to quit the top police post and was transferred for his reported failure to prevent riots in the city after Indira Gandhi's assassination in 1984.
In 1992, B K Saha was removed after a criminal Swapan claimed familiarity with him at Satyajit Ray's funeral at the Keoratala burning ghat.
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One man’s triumph is another man’s exit route. The family of the late Rizwanur Rahman must be relieved that the Calcutta high court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to inquire into Rahman’s death. This has been the demand of Rahman’s family ever since the tragedy took place. This actually provides an exit route for the chief minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who has procrastinated on the matter for far too long. It is significant that the high court has raised doubts about the legality of the only action the West Bengal government has taken on the issue — the inquiry by the Criminal Investigation Department. The judge, Soumitra Pal, observed that the CID was conducting the inquiry without registering a case and this was improper and unjust. The West Bengal government thus stands in a somewhat lurid light because of its perceived failure to act on the unfortunate incident with speed and propriety. The CBI investigation offers it a reprieve and an opportunity to retrieve a situation that appears to have spun out of its control.
The West Bengal government has dragged its feet in instituting proper administrative steps to defuse the popular anger that has mounted after the mysterious death of Rahman. The time has come now to act politically. Mr Bhattacharjee must show the political resolution to act and punish the guilty. He should allow the CBI investigation to continue despite some of the valid constitutional reservations that might exist regarding a Central agency investigating into what is clearly a state subject. Simultaneously, he should not stay his hand with regard to punishing the police officers who have clearly abused their authority and may even be guilty of dereliction of duty. He should proceed against them swiftly, irrespective of whether the now invalid CID report lands on his table or not. Mr Bhattacharjee has done himself immeasurable harm by refusing to act. It probably took time for the gravity of the situation to sink in. His visit to Rahman’s family was the first sign that realization has dawned. He should follow this up by acting fast and thereby establish control over the situation, which demands the exact opposite of masterly inactivity. There should be no need to remind him of the old injunction that justice must not only be done, but it also must be seen to be done. West Bengal expects the chief minister to do his duty.
Dither over nature of probe sank case
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071017/asp/calcutta/story_8441812.asp
What was the nature of the CID probe into Rizwanur Rahman’s mysterious death? Was it an inquiry or an investigation?
The contradictory nature of the probe — as revealed by the submissions of state counsel and the Rahmans’ lawyer — prompted Justice Soumitra Pal of the high court to term the CID proceedings “illegal”, “not in accordance with the law” and “faulty”.
Criminal lawyers pointed out that an inquiry constitutes a primary fact-finding by the police, following a complaint. If the sleuths are convinced after an inquiry that the complaint is not baseless, they register a case and start an investigation.
“Witnesses could be summoned and their statements recorded only if an investigation is under way,” said a criminal lawyer.
“Advocate-general Balai Ray had repeatedly claimed in court that the CID was conducting an inquiry into Rizwanur’s death. He argued that for an inquiry, there was no need to register a murder case. But documents produced in court proved that the CID had summoned and interrogated 56 people, which it could do only during an investigation following registration of a case,” the expert added.
Lawyer Gitanath Ganguli said: “Inquiry and investigation cannot be conducted simultaneously. The government must first decide what it wants the CID to do. The CID has followed the rules of neither inquiry nor investigation. The error has prompted the judge to order a CBI probe.”
Advocate Pradip Roy said: “The government and other respondents had argued that the petition seeking a CBI probe should not be allowed as the allegations it contained were baseless. They did not clarify whether the police had called Rizwanur and his wife Priyanka Todi to Lalbazar or not.”
As the judge observed that the petition was maintainable, Roy added, he took the opportunity to hand over the probe to the CBI.
Junior standing counsel Subrata Mukhopaddhyaya, however, said: “It’s strange that the judge ruled for a CBI probe in the interim order. Such a decision should have been announced in the final verdict. It seems the judge had formed his opinion in the interim-order stage itself.”
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MAHARASHTRA GOVT. OFFICIALLY CLAIMS 1720 FARMERS SUICIDES AFTER RELIEF PACKAGE AND 916 FARM SUICIDE IN 2007 AND PACKAGE IS SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTED
Nagpur-15th ootober,2007
Maharashtra Govt. even though ordered by Mumbai high court ,Nagpur bench that present relief package has failed to stop farm suicides in vidarbha and asked administration to make urgent changes in methodologies so that relief aid is directly given to the distress farmers in order to slow down farm suicides but in stead of taking high court order in positive spirit and true sense of humanity and principles of civil governance surprising in a recent officially publication of Maharashtra govt. "lokrajya" once again special issue says that relief packages are 100% successful and properly implemented but office of relief commissioner in amaravati has very gloomy picture and figure of farm suicides as total farm suicides after relief package is announced in six districts of west vidarbha as per official record is 1720 moreover in 2007 official figure of farm suicides in six district of vidarbha is reaching 1000 mark that's 923 ,here is official vidarbha farm suicides table
Months-2006
Farm suicides
Months-2007
Farm suicides
july
109
January
99
