True face of "Holy Than Thou CVC & CBI".

In this article we are now going to show some true facts as to how "Holy" the govt bodies CBI & CVC are. Indian public always knew about CBI, infact even the apex court has now passed judgment on their role. Here we'll take one particular issue to show all how unethically they work, with solid proofs obtained through RTIs and contacts in Coal India.

Last one year IIT Kharagpur was without any proper head, even though Director got selected. Prof P P Chakrabarti got selected but his appointment got embroiled in "Self-Created" controversy by CVC. Check these links to get more details on the issue which even lead to the launch of "PPC for Director" Movement by IIT Kharagpur alumni, faculty & students.

https://www.facebook.com/PPC.For.Director

http://purabspeaks.blogspot.in/

http://freedomofspeechcurbbyht.blogspot.in/2013/06/open-letter-and-questions-again-for-few.html

http://freedomofspeechcurbbyht.blogspot.in/2013/03/open-letter-to-cvc.html

http://storiesandinsidestories.blogspot.in/2013/07/ppc-for-director.html

Now let us show you the TRUE facts behind the whole controversy. Many a time’s people told us about CVC being corrupt. But we decided not to believe them. But now we feel differently and feel Indian public need to see "How an Innocent Prof gets Harassed by CVC". (Clicking the images would give enlarged view)

Coal Net project was collaboration between IIT Kharagpur and Coal India (CIL) to develop software for CIL. For this IIT Kharagpur took manpower help from another company TCG. Presumably, on a complaint from Coal India, CBI investigated and asked for major penalty against two professors while minor penalty against Prof P P Chakrabarti (PPC). Charges against PPC being - "Misrepresenting" IITs stand to Coal India. Let us show you the entire letter which was construed as "PPC misrepresenting" to CIL. You all can decide yourself the truth behind the charge made against him.

Doc -1 - PPCs letter to Coal India.

Going through the letter only one question comes to the mind, “What exactly is he MISREPRESENTING”? He seems to be giving all the facts truthfully, clearly and transparently that man-power help was taken from TCG. How come CBI call this misrepresentation and later same is charged by even CVC???

Is telling the truth supposed to be Fault as per CBI & CVC!!!

Now let us go through few more documents, they'll put few more holes into this whole so called "Investigation against Corruption".

Doc -2 : Prof Acharya et all application to Dean SRIC Prof Bhowmick

The application above shows Prof Acharya asking then Dean SRIC to approve man-power help from TCG. Point to be noted here: They clearly talk about "Man Power" approval and not total outsourcing of the project as being claimed by CBI, Coal India, CVC and also our dear media.

But question that arises:

1. How come Prof Acharya never got named in the CBI report???

2. How come CVC gave clearances to Prof Acharya for different administrative posts???

Now for the third document (Posted below, Doc 3) which next shows that it was NOT Prof Bhowmick who gave the approval for TCG man-power. He in turn got it from the then Director.

And crux of the matter being there's nothing wrong in getting man-power help from outside source. There has been much precedence in different IITs where manpower help was taken from other private companies. CVC conveniently finds no fault in the same!!! Now check the document below.

Doc - 3 : Prof Bhowmick's letter to the Director asking for approval.

Now coming to the MOST interesting part of this whole issue. IIT Kharagpur actually is NOT at fault for anything. See the document below!

Doc - 4 : Document relating to a meeting between IIT Kharagpur and Coal India

This document shows a meeting being arranged between Coal India and IIT Kharagpur by Prof R N Bannerjee. Do look through the names who were CCed in the letter. The named marked by a tick, #6, Mr S K De, he is from TCG. 

The letter is dated 25th June 2001, clearly proved one fact - Coal India was very much AWARE OF TCG BEING PART OF THIS PROJECT!!!

In that case how come Coal India complains about the issue???

But more importantly, How come CBI & CVC suddenly find all fault with IIT Kharagpur and not CIL?? Isn't making false charges a penalty in itself? 

So what kind of investigation was this??? The main people involved here, like Prof Acharya, never got implicated but the one person, who had NOTHING to do with the project, gets implicated and face the harshest of all punishment. Was this done in error or deliberately??

And now coming to the covering letter of the CBI report.

Doc - 5 : CBI report covering letter.

Check #3 point made by them. They clearly say THIS REPORT WON'T BE CITED AND RELIED UPON DOCUMENT IN ANY Departmental inquiries!!! Wow!! And CVC made sure to make one of the biggest "false issues" against an innocent man relying upon such an investigating document. That's how Vigilance Department works in Our Dear Country India!!!

Here's more info that happened these past few months, which raises lot of questions if the issue was created deliberately. We'll put them all point-wise and leave you all to come to your conclusions.

Each event with regards to CVC is being presented chronologically below:

1. July 2012 PPC got selected as Director IIT Kharagpur. CVC refuses to give clearance and asks for investigation. IIT Kharagpur and many top officials from MHRD tried hard to tell CVC that this is an urgent matter and need to be resolved soon. Instead of working on Director Clearance issue, the investigating Vigilance officer sent in all SIX letters to IIT Kharagpur. None of them discussed anything about the Director Clearance issue. Each of them was related to Prof Rajeev Kumar and what does IIT plan to do about his case of suspension. (Click here to know more about Rajeev Kumar). We have them all with us now as proof.
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2. Govt rule says within three months period, investigating officer if don't sent in any report, the clearance is to be taken automatically. CVC made sure to send a small inquiry just before this three month tenure ended. But at the end of the next three months’ nothing was done. One top officer from MHRD was on way to see how this can be resolved. This happened on 25th Feb, 2013. On 27th Feb, 2013 suddenly media reports that CVC has informed IIT Kharagpur its inability to give PPC clearance and that he deserves to be penalised. Interestingly, when media asked IIT Kharagpur, they had no knowledge as they never received any such letter from CVC!!! First week of March around 2-3 March this letter reached IIT Kharagpur which was Dated 19th Feb, 2013. We leave it upon readers to come to conclusion if this letter was back dated or in fact actually written on 19th. And if latter being the case, question then arises how come it took so many days to reach its destination when all other letters from Vigilance seem to be reaching IIT Kharagpur within a span of 2-3 days?? Also, how come selective media person got to know about this letter so early??
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3. Prof Chakraborty was asked to reply to questions prepared by the investigating officer after the March letter and he submitted his defense by March end. Though readers must know that he had already replied to the same questions earlier four years back and the same defense was again presented. BOG after going through his replies cleared him and the resolution with PPC’s defense was sent to Vigilance & MHRD. Vigilance sat upon it for days. 30th April, 2013 IIT Kharagpur decides to revoke Prof Rajeev Kumar's suspension order subjected to disciplinary action after next BOG meeting. And very next day Vigilance officer investigating the issue gives a clearance to Prof Chakraborty. Is that a sweet co-incidence or was there some sort of deal made, we leave it upon readers to decide!!
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4. But Prof Chakraborty's ordeal does not end here. The next senior Vigilance officer sat upon the file for more than three months. CVC by doing this broke their service rule. It was only after alumni, faculty and students started a nationwide protest, added to it was an ultimatum from MHRD, and they decided to give him the clearance. Can any CVC officer explain what action was taken against this particular Vigilance officer who broke the rule? CVC seem to be on toe when it comes to taking action against others, how about cleaning your own home!! And what is important for all to know here is the fact that “This particular Vigilance Officer (even the earlier one investigating the case) has close contacts with Prof Rajeev Kumar, and even with few office bearers of Aam Aadmi Party who are friends of Rajeev Kumar.”
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Now that events are explained, we have few questions for CVC with regards to Harassment of an innocent academician. 

1. The first question being, queries were made four years back to Prof Chakrabarti by BOG to which he gave defense and was cleared.  He gave the same defense again to CVC for the same queries. CVC had with them previous inquiry documents. How come for the same answers they first refuse clearance and later for the same explanations, CVC feels he is innocent and clears him of all charges??? Isn't that IRONICAL & ATROCIOUS!!!

2. CVC seems to depend upon a report by CBI which they themselves have asked NOT TO BE RELIED UPON!!! (Doc - 5) Isn't that height of ridiculous action on part of CVC??? Or was it a deliberate vindictive action?

3. How come CVC don’t find anything wrong in giving clearance to IIT Kanpur Dy Registrar Mr C P Singh when criminal case is still pending in Supreme Court against him? (Case No 2828/2011)

4. How come Vigilance keeps quiet about appointments at IIT Madras, especially K Panchalan as registrar even though they did not meet the eligibility criteria?? When it came to Dr Ghoshal of IIT Kharagpur, CVC feels he does not have the required 55% in his PG so he should be removed from the position. But same was with K Panchalan and his appointment was fine with CVC when the then IIT Director of Madras explained - "He does not have the required 55% in PG but had done PhD so the requirement do not count anymore once you get a higher degree".

5. How does CVC explain giving clearance to IIT Patna Director who was named for major penalty in the same CIL case and in case of Prof Chakraborty who had minor penalty (though all documents showed he was clean), his clearance was kept under wrap for full one year.

6. When they did such an in-depth investigation, how come they never saw Prof Damodar Acharya to be part of the main team working in the project, who even received financial benefits? They conveniently gave him clearance for becoming the member of RBI governor, HOW?? By the way, there's also a CBI case pending against Prof Acharya with regards to running a fake institute inside IIT Campus, CVC doesn’t find that to be of any importance to investigate. Prof Rajeev Kumar has said openly in many forums’ of carrying a personal grudge against Prof PPC, does that have any bearing over the entire ordeal that Prof PPC faced with CVC, more as the officers who handled the file, both are Prof Rajeev Kumar’s friend? We leave it upon our readers to decide!!!

CONCLUSIONS:

It is evident clearly that CVC has different parameters for penalty with regards to investigating cases. In a same case one with major penalty can get clearance easily, one who is involved throughout the issue NEVER gets named/charged yet THE one person who is innocent, face the wrath and ordeal. Prof PPC faced the most unfair ordeal. And why, cause he told the truth, that's the biggest irony of the whole case. Prof Acharya who was working full time with the project, even got financial benefits, never got charged. He enjoyed every administrative position, let alone faces any penalty.

And when we go through few other issues with regards to CVC against IIT Kharagpur (they all are complaints made by Rajeev Kumar to CVC), we find similar cases happening at other IITs and Govt institutions but CVC found it comfortable to ignore those. Best example being the case of IIT Kharagpur Registrar case. Why is CVC targeting IIT Kharagpur in particular?

Moreover, CVC is the worse ones when it comes to replying to RTIs. Either they never reply or if occasionally they do so, they come up with some reason why they are unable to give us the document. RTIs made by us asking for data on few particular clearance issues given in the past by them were replied with a message that they don’t keep record for the same. If this is not an Atrocious reply what would be no idea!!!

BTW each and every alumnus who got such replies or false info can now complain against CVC to CIC asking for action.

Matter of worry is the manner in which a constitutional body is running. Being independent and without any control, they can cause lot of harm if they want to as was done in the case of Prof PPC. We feel Prof PPC/IIT admins should slap a case/PIL against CVC for causing immense harassment, for being unfair and cause damage to his reputation and even of IIT Kharagpur.

People like Kejriwal and his party members are always singing serenades of how great constitutional bodies can be. CVC and this particular case is a blatant example of how even such bodies can be run with malicious intentions. (Interesting to note, we found that too many Aam Aadmi Party members are hand in glove with these vigilance officers and Rajeev Kumar). Mr Kejriwal, do catch up with Ashok Khemka and get more details about Prof Chakrabarti, you'll get to know the truth behind this particular case, about THE Man everyone refer to as PPC and also Rajeev Kumar. Stop talking big about fight against corruption when your own party office bearers indulge into such corrupt practice and be part of harassing an innocent man.

Today we get to see likes of Durga Shakti and Ashok Khemka in bureaucracy facing flak for being honest. Any intelligent person would know its people in bureaucracy itself who are also behind what they face; politicians cannot do anything on their own unless babus agree to follow. Not that our bureaucracy do not have honest officers. But when you see ones in depts like CVC behaving thus, it’s worrying! It is a clear indication that number of honest officers is decreasing and the day dishonest ones grow more in number than the honest ones, whole system would collapse!!! Even Lok Pal cannot help in such a scenario; can it be ensured that even that body would have all the honest ones??? Where to find them, already honest ones seem to be a rare species.

Signing off, hoping, that this immoral system of our country changes for the better soon. Else many more honest men would face unfair treatment just as Prof P P Chakrabarti faced.

Cheers!!!!

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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.



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Crusader