Holy than Thou FAKE WHISTLE BLOWERS.

Repeatedly in this blog and else where people have shown Prof Rajeev Kumar, the self styled whistle blower, trying to grab the lime light through false information. This post is going to summarise them all point-wise and show how in the garb of being Whistle Blower many dupe public while acting holy than thou!

CASE - 1

Prof Rajeev Kumar lied to media, CVC that his IPR was grabbed. 

What he never told anyone is that this was an act that was done by him. Check this LINK and see proofs posted by us showing how he played fraud and grabbed credit unethically.

http://eklavyajee006.blogspot.in/2013/04/prof-rajeev-kumar-whistle-blower.html\

CASE - 2 

To play the role of whistle blower he used media to pass false information about laptop buying in IIT Kharagpur. 

This was also made as a complaint to CVC. Check this LINK and see all the proofs that shows how he has been lying. Infact he was buying a laptop for his son which was caught by the administrations and he decided to make a story out of the same to show how he was victimised. All these documents are available online and was also circulated among many.

http://eklavyajee006.blogspot.in/2013/04/pricy-laptop-pushing-by-iit-kharagpur.html

More detailed info can be read here.

http://storiesandinsidestories.blogspot.in/2011/03/eklavya-jee-inside-story.html

CASE - 3

He lies again about Rampant Cheating at IIT Kharagpur for which during inquiry and investigation, he had no answer as defense. Click here LINK

http://eklavyajee006.blogspot.in/2013/04/rampant-cheating-at-iit-kharagpur-true.html

You can get a much more detailed explanation on this subject here:

http://storiesandinsidestories.blogspot.in/2011/03/story-of-rampant-copying.html

CASE - 4 

Prof Rajeev Kumar himself indulge in Threats! And when he gets caught and inquired upon, he goes on to lie to the investigating officer. Proofs for the same presented here LINK.

http://eklavyajee006.blogspot.in/2013/04/threats-followed-by-lies-by-rajeev.html

CASE - 5

Prof Rajeev Kumar has a habit of slandering others in the most demeaning manner. 

He does it on his blog and also through emails. Check this article (LINK) to see what level of slandering this professor can do on his own blog.

But what makes things look worse is the fact that he does the same using emails. Here is one example where he slanders two senior professor while trying to influence selection process of IIT Rooki Director. Here's the proof.

http://eklavyajee006.blogspot.in/2013/04/rajeev-kumar-and-his-habit-of.html

He again tried doing the same during the selection process of IIT Kharagpur Director. 

When final push for PPC for Director movement was given with faculty even going ahead for hunger strike, he silently sends a mail to MHRD giving them some "Unsolicited" advises. Any intelligent person can see through his mail to guess what exactly he is trying to tell. Here's the email for all to see.

 From: Rajeev Kumar <*******@gmail.com>
To: "****************" <*******@yahoo.co.***>
Sent: Friday,19 July 2013, 9:09
Subject: with regards

Unsolicited advice for your kind consideration ....

1. The current protest "Prof. P.P. Chakrabarti for Director" is by Mr. Arjun Malhotra, HCL Co-founder, who has been running the Inst. with active support of Prof. Chakrabarti for the past decade for benefiting HCL.

All those, who are vouching for "PPC for Director" are those, who have been involved and/or hugely benefited in various Conflicts of Interest / Irregularities. There are around 100 faculty members associated with the protest, who were on leave on 17/07/13.

2. I understand Prof. I. Manna was also in the panel for Director, IIT Kharagpur. Prof. Manna is not in any of the controversy. It would be in the best interest, if Prof. Manna is appointed the Director, IIT KGP. There may be new selection-proc for Director, IIT Kanpur.

Thanks and Regards

--Rajeev

CASE - 6

And here's one more lie told by Rajeev Kumar for all to see. We have more documents against him and with time we'll be publishing them all, solid proofs showing how Real Whislte Blower this professor is. The whole explanation is posted on this site (LINK) but let us do so again here for all.

He claims to media and CVC how he was provided Tampered Data by IIT Kharagpur JEE cell when he tried to investigate JEE anomaly. But fact being, IIT Kharagpur JEE cell provided him not just the data but also provided him facility to cross check the same. Which he did do so and even signed before leaving saying all data provided to him was fine. Here is the document signed by him which puts holes into all his claims.

So now everything is front of the public. These are not all, we have more proofs showing how he lied repeatedly while trying to project himself as a whistle blower. Seems he did try starting the journey on a good note but on his way he lost ethics and in his effort of being in the media lime light, he started acting as a whistle blower out of non existent issues. 

Indian public while reading media reports need to be more prudent. The news could always be from a "Fake Whistle Blower" who is trying hard just to be in the lime light. This man did the same and still carrying on doing so, with full support from none other than Aam Aadmi party member Prashant Bhushan. Read this post (LINK) on media and you'll get to know how Prof Rajeev Kumar used media to in his false claims especially through few of his close friends in media.

Can CVC or any other such investigating agency take action on such blatant false information being publicised by such false whistle blowers?? But then how can they, our next post shows how even they are themselves hand in glove with such unethical & corrupt people like Rajeev Kumar. (LINK HERE)

Cheers all!!!

Holy Than Thou Media & its other dark side!!!

Justice Katju had once commented upon the need for media to stop sensationalizing news and stick to the truth. He wanted media to be made accountable, and when we go through that happened last few years in media against IIT Kharagpur, even we feel that he is too correct. Today media has reached a point where they believe more in ‘trial by media & pronounced guilty’. They don’t believe in letting public to perceive and report only the facts. As for reporting false news, there’s nothing you can do except for filing defamation suits and keeping in view our great legal system, even god would have no answer to when the ‘victim of media’ would get the justice.

Let us show you how a systemic campaign to malign the reputation of IIT Kharagpur and few people from this institute, was carried on by media. There were few elements from this very institute who worked in tandem with the media, we’ll show all that and leave it upon you to come to your conclusion. We’ll gather & explain all information collected to show the nexus between few media personals and a sole person from IIT Kharagpur out on a vendetta.

Case 1:

Pricy laptop case reporting by media

Here is the links to the articles & their counter replies by us.

http://eklavyajee060.blogspot.in/2013/04/pricy-laptop-pushing-by-iit-kharagpur.html

http://eklavyajee060.blogspot.in/2013/04/pricy-laptop-iit-kharagpur-proof-by-ht.html

1^st article we showed all documents of transaction between Rajeev Kumar & the IIT administration. 2^ndarticle shows documents provided by HT were not complete. They tried to put out partial information suppressing portions that are inconvenient to their own news. And in the second article we showed and proved this whole set of documents were provided by none other than Prof Kumar himself.

Case 2:

Rampant Cheating Case

The article links and counters to the same have been posted here.

http://eklavyajee060.blogspot.in/2013/04/rampant-cheating-at-iit-kharagpur-true.html

http://storiesandinsidestories.blogspot.in/2011/03/story-of-rampant-copying.html

Again we find reporters going ahead with posting news which they got from a source without even trying to do any research. They get inputs from someone and decide to go on a trail and declare the institute guilty. Completely false information like claiming that IIT Kharagpur allows student to choose any seat during examination is put out. Question arises who gave them all these information? The whole charge seems to be coming from Proof Rajeev Kumar so logical deduction is he being the informer. Yes he denied the same but then the next logical question that comes is ‘why didn’t he then do anything to stop these reporters’.

Case 3:

IIT Kharagpur and so called “Tech theft” by our media.

Again a campaign to malign the names of few individual from IIT Kharagpur and the institute itself was taken up by media. Check these links and then let me show how cleverly the game was played by them.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-06-28/india/29711978_1_iit-kgp-t-k-ghosal-iit-kharagpur

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/software-services/IIT-Kharagpur-in-US-tech-theft-mess/articleshow/9027560.cms

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/education/iit-kharagpur-in-trouble-over-us-tech-transfer-case/articleshow/9021814.cms

Detailed rebuttal on these articles can be check here.

http://purabspeaks.blogspot.in/2011/07/iit-kharagpur-in-trouble-over-us-tech.html

But let me show you something interesting that’ll give even a layman some idea of foul play being done.

Check the 1^st two articles. Both are by THE same portal. The author changes the Title of the article, removes his name in the 2^ndand goes along with just TNN and POSTS SAME ARTICLE TWICE, ON THE SAME DAY WITH A LITTLE GAP IN TIMINGS. Why was this done? What was the need for the same portal to post same article twice? Economics time is also of the same group but we give them the benefit of doubt as it’s a different wing altogether.

What general public had no knowledge about was the fact that these articles were pushed so hard by the reporters just at a time when the final hearing of the same case was coming up at Calcutta High Court. Were there any malicious intentions behind this act by the reporter?

And what the reporter next makes sure not to write about is the judgment of the case. Check the link below.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-06/kolkata/29742904_1_iit-kgp-iit-team-farhang

The court clearly bars the software company use of the software. Akshaya Mukul, who takes lot of pain to report a lot about IIT Kharagpur (search through his profile at times site) does not even bother to report this news do bring questions as to his intentions. Questions arises more when you see the list of his articles, they all have been ALWAYS anti IIT Kharagpur.

Though we can never connect this story getting published by Akshaya Mukul and Prof Kumar’s role but what do bring questions in our mind is the fact that Prof Kumar is going on maligning the institute and people connected to this case repeatedly.

Case 4:

Freedom of speech curb on all who posted in favour of IIT Kharagpur, by the media.

Isn’t it the media who is always shouting for freedom of speech? When Justice Katju mentioned about the need for laws to see that media don’t indulge in wrong doing, it was the media now up in arms against the man. Similarly when govt started deliberating on taking action against anti govt articles/spoofs/similar, it was again the media who lambasted the govt for the same.

Let us now show you all how they themselves behaved with many readers, it was nothing but a direct attack on freedom of speech of general public. The three links below would show how two specific news portal posted articles against IIT Kharagpur, and many readers made comments refuting all the charges made by the reporter. The portal after sometime deleted ALL comments. We have here proof of their act.

http://freedomofspeechcurbbyht.blogspot.in/2011/03/hindustan-times-curbs-freedom-of-speech.html

http://freedomofspeechcurbbyht.blogspot.in/2012/08/toi-deletes-all-comments-from-iit.html

http://purabspeaks.blogspot.in/2012/08/who-is-talking.html

Why was this done? With what motive? Readers can go through all the comments posted here which got deleted and decide themselves – Do they deserved to be deleted, or is it that because the comments were painting the true story which were inconvenient to their own article motive that they decided to remove those?

Case 5:

Rajeev Kumar & Media

You just need to visit the blog eklavya06 and check all articles that have been archived there related to Prof Kumar issue. You’ll get to see an interesting trend. Just as shown in case #3 above, the same material has been posted repeatedly in the media at different intervals. Too many times it has been the same few selected journalists posting the articles. Early articles were simply read through but later it was found there was an interesting trend that is being followed for the same. Whenever there was a hearing of his case (he has too many in too many courts), or hearing of the judicial inquiry at IIT Kharagpur or BOG meeting to decide his future, these selected journalists would put up an article repeating the same things, glorifying the prof while making sure to hide the facts that could be inconvenient for his case. Not that we are claiming this to be happening, we are just making our point as to what we saw happening, which caught our attention!

Case 6:

The coalnet issue

This has become the new issue for few selected journalists currently and just for all readers’ information – Most of these journalists are the same who advocate Rajeev Kumar issue repestedly whenever any hearing of his comes up. Disclaimer: Not that we are saying both the issues are interlinked. We are simply informing our readers of this “Innocent” fact.

Too many articles on the issue are flying around but first we’ll take up just one, which is telling a blatant lie. A detailed analysis of all such articles has already been given here in this blog. (http://purabspeaks.blogspot.in/2013/03/the-pioneer-connection.html)

http://archive.dailypioneer.com/home/online-channel/360-todays-newspaper/130914-cvc-asks-hrd-ministry-to-fire-3-iit-professors.html

The article starts with this line – “In a first of its kind, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has asked the HRD Ministry to dismiss three IIT professors — including IIT-Patna Director and the Dean of the prestigious IIT-Kharagpur — from service.”

All other articles on this issue wrote that CVC recommended “minor penalty” against this Prof, the director elect. (As for CVC and its role here, we’ll take it up in our next post & show our readers how clean and unbiased they themselves are. Indian public need to know in details about such constitutional bodies and the murky games they play.) And this reporter comes up with a sensualizing title to attract the attention of readers. How far ethical journalism is he following???? Mr Deepak Kumar Jha is the recent journalist added to the previous couple who have now started maligning IIT Kharagpur. Incidentally, this journalist is also a great friend of Prof Rajiv Kumar. Isn’t that a sweet co-incidence!!!

Case 7:

Check this.

http://www.ebela.in/details/6195-31326734.html

It’s related to news that came in the regional newspaper “Ebela”. They came out with complete false news that West Bengal education dept is considering removal of current director elect of IIT Kharagpur from both, the Higher Education Panel of WB & the Deans selection Panel at Jadavpur Univ. True fact being, Govt of WB is planning no such steps. Infact the said prof has already completed his duty as panel member at Jadavpur Univ and submitted the report to the VC there. Bengali news daily “Ananda Bazaar Patrika” themselves came out with the same news.

Did we tell you, Ebela is run by the same AMP group!!! How can two dailies of the same newspaper give out such contradictory articles!!!

Conclusions and questions to ponder upon:

1. Journalists to us seem unbiased. Journalism need to be ethical. Yet we find few who indulge into “Yellow Journalism” targeting some organization or few individual.
   
   
2. To do proper research before putting out an article, especially of taking views of other side and put out balanced news is the last thing few journalists believe in doing.
   
   
3. Question arise in our mind, why do they give a blind support to some particular individual while targeting others even after being shown true facts!! Disclaimer: We don’t want to speculate and say these journalists come up with this news as they got some special benefit from that particular individual.
   
   
4. Why did they indulge in putting out articles showing just few facts while hiding some other truths especially those which could have been very inconvenient for Prof Kumar?
   
   
5. Till date why didn’t any journalist put out an article telling about the reprimand court gave to Prof Kumar?
   
   
6. A foreign company tells them few lies and without even getting the facts how can they out a story lambasting an Institute of their own country?
   
   
7. Final question and the most alarming thought for us – Is it so simple as “Yellow Journalism” against IIT Kharagpur and its few honest people or is there a much bigger story behind all this mud-slinging going on?

Cheers and have a good day till we come back with our next "Holy Than Thou" organisation - The constitutional body CVC!!

Rampant cheating at IIT Kharagpur - The true facts.

This article is to deal on mass copying charge made by again Prof Rajeev Kumar and flashed across all national daily.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Crowded-IIT-helps-cheats/Article1-633257.aspx

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-12-29/india/28223312_1_t-k-ghosal-copying-examination


A detailed rebuttal and fact on the same has been posted here. (LINK) But let us also give few facts, without getting into too much details to show why this news is intended to malign the institute and not true.

Quote from news #2:


"What makes copying easier is the fact that IIT-Kharagpur does not have any provision of allotting a seat to a student during an examination. A student is free to choose any seat allotted for the subject."

A blatant lie that is put here by the reporter. Did he even try to do any research before putting up this fact. Before examination each and every student is allocated seats and none allowed to sit on their own whim.


Till date Prof Kumar could not give any proof or explanation on this so called "rampant" copying. The true fact being if anyone goes through the senate meeting minutes, would get to see how every copying case is dealt with strictly. The reporters never tried to even cross check this fact.

Reporters had to just ask Mr Kumar about the number of cheating cases reported till date by HIM and they would have got some interesting information. Mr Kumar has been invigilating for years at IIT Kharagpur. And till date NOT A SINGLE CASE OF CHEATING HAS BEEN REPORTED BY RAJEEV KUMAR AT IIT KHARAGPUR. Yet he claims there's RAMPANT cheating in the institute!!!

When you read through the other LINK, you get to know more in details what his replies had been during interrogation by the IIT Administration. 

BTW this is for the reporters. You all got the feed from Mr Kumar and decided to go ahead with the article. Let me show you what his reaction would be if tomorrow you get confronted with the same. Let us post a section from a mail sent by Mr Kumar to investigating administers below and you'll see how he is going to wash his hands off. You'll be left with no source to claim for this news item. Whole email chain has already been produced at different investigation and hence now available to many.

From your covering letter, it appears that the news item, in Page-4, refers to the opinion of me. As during the Senate meeting on 27/12/10, I denied ever talking to the reporter, I hereby again categorically deny that I ever talked to the reporter.

In the last para of the same email, he again lies of being threatened. We have the whole chain of emails that happened in this discussion. Not once did any administrator threatened him. Infact they all have been talking to him in the most polite language simply asking queries. Maybe asking queries fall under "Threat" for Mr Kumar!! Let us show the last part now and disect the same.

I wish to state and re-iterate I have been threatened, many times in the past, by some of the top institute administrators who felt exposed due to my work, as a whistleblower. This may be one other attempt by those people who feel threatened of being exposed due to the issues of conflicts of interests, recently raised by me. Needless to say, I have been tenaciously working for strengthening and reforming systems, in particular IIT Kharagpur, by transparency and accountability.

Coming to the underlined red part of this mail, Mr Kumar states that he is working to reform all systems. Just one query that comes to our mind Mr Kumar. 

How come you never worked to find the Rampant Copying or any such anomalies at your Son's institute, Jadavpur Univ?? I am sure he must have told you about that institute and how clean the same was during that era. If you were so concerned about cleaning the system, why be so selective and target ONLY IIT Kharagpur that too with false claims. 

Signing off for today and leaving all you to ponder on few questions.

1. Cheating during examination is there in each and every examination across the world. But at IIT Kharagpur whenever they were caught, strict actions have been taken. Senate meeting minutes would show all this fact. Why didn't reporters try getting hold of the same to come to this conclusion??

2. Mr Rajeev Kumar claimed of rampant copying but how come he himself NEVER caught any single cheating cases though he has been invigilating for years now. Infact he even has been chief invigilator once yet no case was caught by him. 

Cheers all, have a good day!!!

Prashant Bhushan & Shanti Bhushan under scanner

All of us are aware of Anna Hazare and his fight against corruption. The whole movement frizzled out after Aravind Kejriwal decided to go for politics. Lot of questions got raised against Aravind Kejriwal and his & his team, especially Bhushan's political aspirations. But all those were speculations.

Here in this first post let us show bit about the Bhushans. They are fighting a battle against corruption and corrupt practices. People of India saw them standing beside Anna and took it for granted of their honesty. But later it was revealed they themselves were not as clean as they projected.


Case 1: 

The CD controversy case of Shanti Bhushan. There are many news article for the same but to refresh your memory, here's one of the links.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/controversial-cd-on-team-anna-member-shanti-bhushan-genuine-delhi-police/839210/0

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-08-31/india/29948614_1_shanti-bhushan-cd-cfsl-delhi-prashant-bhushan

Prashant Bhushan did get his own testing lab check the CD and declared they reported the CD to be doctored. That is the explanation they gave to Indian public. So do we take it that if tomorrow any of us get indicted, we can get our own investigation done and then declare ourselves clean. What makes the whole explanation more bizarre sounding is the fact that Amar Singh himself confirmed about the conversation.


Case 2:

Noida farm 'gifted' by Mayawati lands Shanti Bhushan in fresh row.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-20/india/29450227_1_noida-land-allotment-lokpal-bill-mayawati-government

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/shanti-bhushan-now-in-noida-land-row/1/135779.html

http://news.worldsnap.com/politics/shanti-bhushan-defends-land-controversy-102855.html

Quotes from articles that do raise eyebrows :-

"A fresh controversy brews around a huge farmland owned by a son of former Union minister Shanti Bhushan. Apparently, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati had gifted the 10,000 square metre plot of land in Noida."

"In his declaration of assets last week, Shanti Bhushan mentioned a 10,000 square metre farmland plot in Noida. He however did not mention how the Mayawati government allotted the plot to his lawyer son Jayant Bhushan in a discretionary manner earlier this year."

"This 10,000 sq.m. of farmland allegedly received at less than a quarter of its market price, raises a conflict of interest question as Bhushan had appeared against the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in the Noida statue park case, media reports said.

The matter was dug out as part of a petition filed in the Allahabad High Court by disgruntled former Additional Solicitor General Vikas Singh, who complained of being allotted “one of the worst pieces of land”". "

Case 3:

Evading tax duty.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/team-anna-s-shanti-bhushan-found-guilty-of-evading-1-3-crores-of-property-taxes-164319

Quote from article :-

"The Assistant of Stamp Duty in Allahabad, Dr K P Pandey, said  Mr Bhushan has been found guilty of evading stamp duty. The property and related taxes had been grossly under-valued, he said."


Case 4:

Prashant Bhushan flouted land laws to buy land in Himachal.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/324701/priyanka-vadra-prashant-bhushan-flouted.html

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/what-about-prashant-bhushan-s-land-in-himachal-asks-congress-277613

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/HimachalPradesh/Probe-Prashant-Bhushan-land-purchase-in-HP/Article1-941963.aspx

Quotes from the articles :-

1. "Under Himachal Pradesh's land laws, only the state's permanent residents can buy land in the state. Others who want to purchase land for non-agricultural purposes have to seek relaxation under Section 118."

2. "Congress president Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Vadra and lawyer Prashant Bhushan are among 881 outsiders who were allowed to buy land in the past three years in Himachal Pradesh, Revenue Minister Kaul Singh said here Monday."

3. "According to the state's laws, land-use of a tea garden could not be changed as these are exempted under the ceiling act."

4. "Revenue Minister Gulab Singh, in reply to a question, told the state assembly in the last winter session "from Jan 1, 2008, to Nov 30, 2011, land use change" had been allowed under Section 118 of the Land Reforms and Tenancy Act to allow Kumud Bhushan Educational Society of Kandbari (in Kangra district) for purchasing tea gardens. He said the society was run by Prashant Bhushan."

5. "According to a judicial commission report, which probed 'benami' (illegal) land transactions in the state from 2003 to 2011, it came to notice that land use of tea estates has been permitted by the state government without invoking the provision of the land ceiling act.

Justice D.P. Sood, former judge of the Himachal Pradesh High Court, headed the commission and submitted his 147-page report to the government last April."

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We leave the Indian public to now arrive at conclusion about this duo, who are part of "Aam Admi party", supposedly a party meant to fight corruption.



Regards
Crusader