Fake Killings: People as Trophies

Vanzara now cud even face death penalty under IPC 302.

The moral of Vanzara story is that he`s used as a condom by the BJP govt, Modi & Amit Shah. Vanzara & Co got to face the consequences now.

THIS IS THE LESSON 4 ALL THOSE IAS & IPS OFFICERS WHO SHOW ALLEGIANCE TO THEIR POLITICAL MASTERS BUT NOT TO THE RULE BOOK.

nila, it`s unlikely that Tehelka is bought out. It is just pure dumb.

Every culture has a specific set of weaknesses. The central weakness of our culture is that it produces, tolerates, and even celebrates the largest number of the deliberately dumb.

Re: # 126

Umm Kaal , Nila said she believed that Tehelka could be bought out. Not that it had been.

Nila Rajan`s father died but the Congress have never admitted to anything other than terming that incident ``unfortunate``. Of course the Kerala high court did cause Karunakaran to step down.

Ref swarrier #123

[Nila
I suppose you are referring to the Rajan case.]

Hey, that was during the Emergency when Indira Gandhi had to become Durga/Kali Mata to rid the country of Internal Enemies and The Foreign Hand.

Rajan was just another skull in Kali Mata`s hand.

www.tehelka.com


BREAKING NEWS :

MODIS HAND IN FAKE KILLING

The story is shocking but it is true. It is sordid, but then it is the grisly truth. In Gujarat — in Narendra Modi’s Gujarat, to be precise — it can get worse than Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Kausar Bi. A swift, two-week Tehelka investigation conclusively proves that the cold-blooded killing of Sohrabuddin and his wife was no aberration and that, in fact, there are more Sohrabuddins. The investigation also proves that the infamous encounter cop DG Vanzara was no loose cannon — in the business of fake kills for the lure of money — but had a powerful lobby of backers. Backers who Tehelka discovered went right up to the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO).

On October 1, 2002, incidentally observed as anti-terrorist day by the BJP, the Crime Branch of the Ahmedabad Police announced that they had arrested a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist called Sameer Khan. Khan was a small-time criminal wanted for the alleged murder of a police constable and had been absconding since 1996. Vanzara, who was then DCP Crime, said that they had arrested Khan from outside ST bus stand on the afternoon of September 27. For the next four days, however, the police kept him in unlawful custody, violating the legal provision of producing an accused in court within 24 hours of arrest. On the night of September 30, the Crime Branch finally showed Khan as arrested under a newly-registered FIR. What is shocking is that the police chose not to arrest him under the already existing FIR, filed for the constable’s murder, but waited four days before they registered a new FIR spun around a conspiracy alleged to have been hatched by the ISI and Jaish-e-Mohammed to assassinate Modi, Togadia and Advani.

The police also claimed to have recovered some e-mails received by Sameer from Pakistan, instructing him to assassinate BJP leaders. They claimed that there were seven more old cases against Sameer but never gave the details as to what these cases were. The fact is that the police could reveal details of just one case of a constable’s murder, and in that too Sameer could never be tried. After spending 14 days in police remand, Sameer was sent to judicial custody on October 14. On October 21, the Crime Branch moved an application for a transfer warrant in court. The police said they wanted to interrogate Sameer in the constable murder case. Sahrista Khan, Sameer’s cousin who was also made a co-accused in the Modi conspiracy, told Tehelka that Sameer had told him during judicial custody that Crime Branch officers were threatening to kill him.

Yes, in Modi’s official chamber, fake encounters are called desh bhakti. In the CMO, confidential, official letters marked ‘Top Secret’ — issued from the desk of the officiating Commissioner of Police, Ahmedabad — are manipulated. Original letters are replaced and pressure is brought to bear on top cops. The subversion is masterminded not by some low-level clerk but at the level of the CM’s principal secretary. Simply put, it means this: fake encounters have official sanction.

Re: # 120

Nila,
<< However the answer to the above is DEFINITELY NOT a swift two week investigation by Tehelka. Please. >>

Agreed one hundred percent. It does nt need a tehelka really to establish that corruption really exists in India. We all know it. And yet, we need journalists like tehelka to establish what we all know.

Corruption in the police for supari killings were not unknown to Gujaratis. Gujaratis dint need a tehelka investigation to know that people went missing after being taken from their homes by the state police. And yet, the mainstream media would nt talk about it, until Vanzara.

Tehelkas reports in the past two weeks are shocking the conscience of the nation.


http://tehelka.com/

Re: # 120

Police killings, destroying evidence and manipulation by Chief ministers have happened before also....unfortunately it keeps happening even today and worryingly there`s no guarantee that it will not happen again.

An engineering student who was thought to have Naxalite links was taken by police from his hostel and he went `missing`, ever after.

His father fought a lone battle to establish the truth behind his murder, which involved the police of course, and the then congress chief minister`s `role` was alos established in court.

My whole point is that we need to evolve our system in such a way that unholy nexus between politicians and police will not provide opportunities for `annihilating` individuals on whatever pretext.

Secondly, the system has to be strenghthened in such a way that we have means of reaching the truth through constituitional, state controlled agencies itself, as in the case I have quoted above.

Thirdly, handing out of justice has to be expedited.

However the answer to the above is DEFINITELY NOT a swift two week investigation by Tehelka. Please.

Re: # 120

I don`t think it is Tehelka so much as the constant bombarding of news that today`s people are subjected too. Other people have done the same thing but have never been able to broadcast to such a wide audience in the way it is done today. When all you had was AIR and a DD (or nothing before that ) foir news you were limited to what you could read from the few dissenting magazines. Now news is a business.

You haven`t provided any statistics by the way as to the number of people attending the Administrative Services interviews etc. Let`s have some numbers please.

I don`t think there is any state that has not used extra judicial killings selectively. It is reprehensible but it has been used all the time.


Nila
I suppose you are referring to the Rajan case.

Re: # 123

Of course, it was the Rajan case, just one of the many `disappearances`.

And I believe it was the fight of an individual against the system. No communal flavours, inspite of the less than `ideal` world that it has always been.

If a frail man could acheive so much, albeit after long years of agony, it shows that there is still hope of acheiving justice through mainstream investigative agencies.

And through our courts.

As a commoner I believe that a Tehelka can be bought out, while never the Indian executive and judiciary, entirely.

Re: # 125

Thanks for bringing up the Rajan case once more.

Rajans murder by the police was as horrendous, abhorent and revolting as Soharabuddins or Kausar Bis. The similarities however, end there.

The Gujarat police, were carrying out a `supari` killing, with the full intention to give the murder communal overtones. Political capital was thus sought to be derived from the `encounter` itself. Also, there has been fairly elaborate build-up to Sohrabuddins murder, while in Rajans case, like in Kausar Bis, the muder was in haste and fairly hurried through, with the customary cover-up.

Through Sohrabuddins `encounter`, political mileage was demanded by the states Chief Minister. Words fail me to describe both the killings.

#114 by nila
Re: # 98

Extra judicial killings provide the extreme example where outsiders trample with the law and order machinery.

It is the extension of the common man`s ignorance of law, just as that of the politician`s, coupled with the arrogance and criminal mentality of those weilding poer and position.

The ultimate culprits are of course the investigative agencies who cannot prove a crime beyond doubt, and the judiciary which delays handing out justice to the point of it being denied.

Even ordinay law abiding citizens are forced to take law into their hands, made all the more fashionable by the filmy heroes.

For starters I think we need to develop a situation where no politician can put forth his theory as to how something happened till it is finalised in court. Where the press is asked to speak to concerned officials and not politicians as to the why and how of things.

Some how we have to increase the credibilty of investigative ``Banerjees``, who have come out with fantastic theories of Tornados overturning whole trains into rivers on a relatively quiet July afternoon. >>




I agree fully. Its unfortunate that the world we live in, is not ideal.

Modi`s Son,

Corruption is very common in Gujarat, though it`s prevalent in all parts of India, it`s percolated to all levels in the govt (in Gujarat). Btw, corruption need not be monetary but corruption of practices is a common variant of non-monetary corruption in India.

Tehelka proved it with a video that CMO of Modi manipulated the process and papers relating the `murder` of a petty criminal by khaki POLICE who are bigger CRIMINALS in India.

How many corpses wud Modi want to eat? Someday God wud eat his, Vanzara`s and all of us. Living as human beings is amritatva, not eating human beings as these ba$tards are doing in Gujarat.

My take on shorabuddin, his wife and Tulsi Prajapati`s killing is that it was a hired murdered. Shorabuddin was a known gangster and extortinist. The police has the habit of making moneys with illegal means. No one will doubt that the corruption runs high in Police. If you stand at an octroi naka you will see how much the truck drivers pay the police there. Similarly someone hired Vanzara and his gang to get rid of Shorabuddin. As a collateral damage his wife and his friend got killed. I dont think Modi or Amit Shah or CMO are involved.
Someone invoking Ishrat Jehan`s case here, then they should know that Jaish-e-Mohd. website declaring her as a martyr.
Killing of Lateef a very well known associate of Dawood in Ahmedabad, can be blamed on politician. It was done very filmi style. He was being taken to court and the police stopped the van midway saying he request to go to bathroom. He tried to flee and was killed at that time. I think at that time Congress was ruling Gujarat.

Nila,

I dont think these religious schools had special privileges a la the normal edu institutions. Even by logic these religious shu not be given any.

I was speaking in the context of Gujarat and UP, where the madrasas spung up in hundreds. These schools are very very big/kinda oversized colleges.

On the contrary the Muslim elders in Hyderabd are doing a very good service to their community. They run educational institutions that impart general, profesional education. That`s why we have Muslim middle class in Hyderabad.

Re: # 115

Actually I was not referring to religious instituitions at all.

I was referring to private Medical/dental/engineering colleges run by minorities, which admit students charging hefty capitation fees.

Minorities have certain privileges conferred by the constituition as per Article 31(a). However I have to admit that I do not know exactly what these are.

The irony, that even the present Kerala Govt has woken upto is that, minority main stream educational instituitions do not cater to needs of the community, which as you have pointed out, would be to provide educational facilities within the community enabling them to make use of opportunities available.

On the other hand, what is happening in Kerala is that influential people among minorities have made higher education a lucrative business, catering only to the rich irrespective of community.

What is worse, the educationally and economically deprived are cleverly diverted to other `educational instituitions`, eventually maintaining them poor, ignorant and hence easily manipulated.

Killing Muslims was fair game in Gujarat, says ex-cop

By IANS
Sunday May 6, 11:23 AM
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) A former Gujarat Police officer says the Narendra Modi government had virtually institutionalized the killings of Muslims in staged shootouts and that he too was asked to kill some but he refused to.


According to R.B. Sreekumar, a former additional director general in charge of the intelligence wing in Gujarat Police, the cold-blooded murders were `an attempt to create a sympathy wave in favour of the chief minister whenever his leadership was questioned`.


Sreekumar, who earned Modi`s wrath for his statements against him during the trial of the accused in the 2002 communal violence, told IANS over telephone from Ahmedabad where he still lives that the state police was under pressure `politically` to conduct engineered shootouts.


Sreekumar`s comments came in the wake of the arrests of two senior Gujarat Police officers and one from Rajasthan following the killing of a Muslim man, Sohrabuddin Sheikh, in November 2005 after branding him a terrorist out to assassinate Modi. His wife too was summarily killed and her body burnt.


The dead man`s brother waged a spirited judicial battle for truth, leading the Supreme Court to order an inquiry that uncovered the grim truth.


Sreekumar said he had received `clear instructions` while in service to target the Muslim community in staged shootouts. He said he put his foot down.


`I have been also asked to conduct fake encounters, which I opposed,` he said. He added that former Punjab police chief K.P.S. Gill, who was then security advisor to the Gujarat chief minister, agreed with him and opposed any illegal killings.


According to Sreekumar, who retired in February this year, the Gujarat government`s admission before the apex court over the killings attributed to the arrested officer was only a `damage control` exercise.


`They have put the entire blame on the police officers who simply acted at the political leadership`s behest. The leadership is trying to wash its hands off,` he said.


Sreekumar pointed out that Sheikh`s murder took place ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party`s (BJP) national executive in Mumbai in December 2005.


There had been speculation then that the BJP would consider a leadership change in Gujarat in the wake of mounting dissidence in the party unit against Modi.


Once it was made out in the media that terrorists were after Modi, the latter gained fresh stature.


Pointing out that people in Gujarat were deeply divided on religions lines, Sreekumar said: `The fake encounters have earned `a respectable status` as a device to prevent crime in the state. People have started accepting the staged killings as a necessity against crime.`


The retired officer also said while he was in service, he had many times received instructions to frame senior Muslim officials in government service.


Sreekumar alleged that he was once asked to prepare a report against an Indian Army officer related to a Bollywood actor.


Again, he refused saying the state police did not have anything to do with the military.


Sreekumar, who filed four affidavits against the Modi government before the Nanavati Commission that probed into the 2002 Gujarat riots, is now busy writing about his experiences in the state.


`In Gujarat you will be given all kinds of rewards if you do what the administration asks,` he said. `If you do not fall in line for them, you will be harassed.`




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