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!!

Pricy Laptop IIT Kharagpur proof by HT sounds too hollow!

Hello readers,

Last post here (LINK) we showed you about how Hindustan Times published a false news about IIT Kharagpur while making lot of false charges against few individuals of the institute. Today we show you how Hindustan Times was manipulated by Rajeev Kumar, though onus still lies with HT for not getting in touch with IIT administration to get the true picture.

Check this article on HT where the reporter of the earlier article Mr Charusudan posted all the documents that he had with him to come to the conclusion.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Clarification-on-IIT-Kharagpur-pushing-pricey-laptops/Article1-670478.aspx

We downloaded the documents and checked. We found lot of documents being interpreted in a wrong manner while some even absent from the lot. We ask readers to download the pdf and keep it open for reference.

1. The whole set of document does NOT carry the most important document in this whole case, the Hyderabad quote document which implicates him with the fact that he wanted the laptop to be delivered to his son at Hyderabad. Also that document shows he submitted a quote to IIT Kharagpur which was valid for just ONE Day. We posted the same in our previous article (Document 4). Here's the link to the scan document. (IMAGE LINK). If this supposed to "All Document" as being said by HT, where is the above document? That do brings a question to our mind, how can we believe the above documents are complete, maybe more still might be there which could be against the professor's interest so HT is keeping it away from public eye.

2. The document set downloaded has a list - Annexure - II (Page 3). This is being shown as the "Rate Chart" by HT reporter to the public. But read the subject of the Annexure. It clearly say - EMPANELMENT OF LAPTOPS. Is the reporter aware of difference between an "Empanelment" list and "Rate Chart" list? This list with that title clearly shows is a bidding list for empanelment who gave the lowest quote. To produce it was the Rate Chart, how correct is that on the reporters part?

3. No single document shows IIT administration is asking or "Forcing" the professor to buy at higher price.

4. The professor through the reporter claims the laptop was being taken under CPDA Empanelment order. Why did he then send the purchase order to SRIC. Every IIT has SRIC structured unit and they are no way involved with CPDA purchase, they deal with only Project Purchases. If he needed laptop in that scheme, why didn't he send a CPDA requisition?

5. A purchase requisition for projects are sent to SRIC. Check the letter from SRIC to the professor in the previous article and even in this lot. (Image LINK). The Dean seem to be telling the professor clearly in no short terms that the CPDA empanelment order was NOT applicable for purchase of laptop for projects. And from his letter another message we can gather - The professor seem to be Insisting SRIC to follow the same CPDA purchase rules while buying laptop for projects.

6. As yet the reporter has not shown any proof that the professor followed the basic purchase procedure which is followed in every govt purchase. There is no document showing he made more than 2 quotes, which is the normal procedure, and he could have been easily sanctioned the lowest quote laptop. Why did he go on insisting his single quote be sanctioned even after repeated request from all concerned parties in the administration? 

7. And the most funny part of this whole document set supposed to be a proof against IIT Kharagpur administration. In his conclusion part he substantiates his finding while comparing two laptops, both of different models - Dell M4500 and Dell XPS. The first thing any journalist would have done here was to cross check with dell about the two models to know the facts about their rates. All are aware of the fact that Dell M4500 is a much superior model than Dell XPS. To let the readers know about a fact - Dell was contacted by IIT Kharagpur and they clarified about the same while defending the different rates of the two model.

When you go through all these pointers, its now upon you get your take on this whole episode. Was the reporter doing this deliberately? What gain does the reporter has to malign IIT Kharagpur reputation? Or is he trying to do so at the behest of the professor (for reasons unknown)? Or is it that he really had less knowledge about the technical facts and got duped by the professor? 

After going through all the above facts we come to a simple conclusion - the Pricy Laptop Issue to malign IIT Kharagpur, as projected by the journalist and Professor Rajeev Kumar, is a false bogus issue.

Now to come to the most interesting part of this whole maligning campaign. After downloading the document from the HT site, we did a checking on its properties. Viola! Do see who the Author of the said document is in the scan image below (Click on the image to see enlarged).

We leave it now upon readers to decide on a simple question - Don't you feel that Prof Rajeev Kumar is in fact deeply involved in acts of maligning the reputation of this institute!!! 

Signing off for today with the screen shot with the hope - Truth would surely prevail. Cheers!!

Pricy laptop pushing by IIT Kharagpur true story!

We now come to another anomaly reported by the media against IIT Kharagpur and few of its administrators. This generated lot of ruckus in IIT kharagpur circle.

The news article - http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/IIT-Kharagpur-pushing-pricey-laptops/Article1-659087.aspx

Let me now show the other side of the same with documented proofs. (Each documents provided can be clicked to get more clear enlarged view)

The article states "The correspondence shows the IIT administration had asked senior computer science professor Rajeev Kumar to either purchase the laptop under the institute rates, or not purchase it at all. “We are only insisting that institute-determined rates are followed in the purchase. The institute rates are official, those obtained by individual faculty members are not,” an  administrator said."

Let me show the document from the administration and show what EXACTLY administration told Prof Rajeev Kumar.

Document -1 :This is the first communication with Rajeev Kumar  on his request for the laptop.

Now to come with the next communication with Rajeev Kumar on 22 Dec 2010

Document -2

In the scan document above read the line underlined red. Isn't the administration telling the PI (Rajeev Kumar in this case) clearly that there is NO "Rate Contract".

Now lets read through the blue underlined part. Aren't we all aware of this basic rule in govt procurement that single quotations are not valid. You need to give more than one quotation, the numbers depend upon as per that particular organisation rules, and the lowest one is sanctioned. IIT administration seems to have clearly pointed out this discrepancy to the PI and asked him to submit documents as per IIT norms, which incidentally is followed by any govt organisation.

Now for the final document which was sent to the PI cancelling his laptop order.

Document - 3

Again when we see the document, its clear that the PI is told about "No available rate Contract" for purchase of laptop (Red underlined part). Infact the administrator asked him to follow all purchase rules as per IIT Kharagpur. The rules states that he need to submit more than one quotation and not single. If he felt his requisition carried the lowest quotation for the specific laptop, what stopped him from providing other quotations? Rule states any purchase requisition made should need to be recommended by the Purchase Committee Chairman. Check document -2 (Green Underlined part) and you'll get the PI was requested to get this passed by the Purchase Committee Chairman. Yet he ignores the request. The most conclusive deduction that can be formed from this, the PI himself wants IIT Kharagpur to flout purchase rules in his particular case.

Few more documents released by IIT Kharagpur in a complaint to the HT Editor and also its own faculty show more discrepancies with this order. Below is the Del Quotation that Rajeev Kumar obtained and submitted to IIT Kharagpur while submitting his requisition for the laptop.

Document - 4 :The DELL Quotation for the laptop as submitted by Rajeev Kumar to IIT Kharagpur

The two portion that brought attention to IIT Kharagpur administration have been marked by red and blue circles.

Check the red circled part. Which govt office allows purchase of things at the organisation while shipping made at another destination, in another town, completely out of the organisation administrative area. You place an order at Kharagpur IIT and ask IIT to deliver the product at Hyderabad, is that according to rules of any govt purchase norms?

Now coming to the blue circle. Order valid for - 1 days. Have you ever seen a purchase quotation being submitted where the validity period of the quotations given is for just 1 day? No purchase committee would pass such a requisition for the very fact that even if all paper work gets completed in one day and order placed next, the rates may vary.

It is now upon the readers to come to conclusion as to what really is happening. 

1. Is it that the PI here is forcing IIT Kharagpur to NOT follow rules in his case? If yes then why, cause he is a whistleblower and should be given this exclusive treatment? 
2. Or is it a meticulously planned issue where the PI is making sure to get the order cancelled so as to take up the issue in the media and tarnish the Institutes image? 
3. Or maybe it is a murky plan where some/one specific individual from the IIT administration is targeted to tarnish his/her image and reputation? 

I leave the conclusion for the readers to come out with.

By the way, IIT Kharagpur administration did stumble upon a very interesting point during the process of investigation. The requisition made by Rajeev Kumar with DELL quotations (Document - 4) had a phone number where this laptop is to be delivered. The number 8008299686, official inquiries were made as to who this belongs to. The phone number belongs to Mr Sanchit Bansal, Microsoft India Pvt Ltd. We are given to understand that Prof Rajeev Kumar's son's name is Mr Sanchit Bansal. And during the period when this requisition was made, Mr Sanchit Bansal, son of Prof Rajeev Kumar was employed at Microsoft India Pvt Ltd and placed at Microsoft Campus, Hyderabad.

Phone Bill copy of the phone number 8008299686

Interesting must say!!!

Cheers and have a good day.