Dr Singh reporting from AIIMS;

Dear friends,

 It its very unfortunate to start with the incident happened at AIIMS
regarding the suicide of my junior Balmukund bharti a 2004 batch
student of MBBS at AIIMS on 3rd March 2010 but I see this as a very
alarming situation because every time such incident happens same line
of remarks come from Administration whether it is AIIMS , CSMMU
Lucknow or any other medical college;

1.The said student was not able to cope with the amount of pressure at
the institute , he was consistently failing in particular field , he
was depressed but in all their explanation for the cause of death
they   miserably fail on explaining WHY???? this all is happening or
they are too smart to very conveniently escape the real issue, “What
instigated him to take such an extreme step?”

2.To talk about caste prejudices being one of the important cause of
such incident is not welcomed at any point and the irony is that if
you dare to speak about this angle first and foremost duty is to
explain your own colleague mostly from your own community and convince
them that this is a harsh truth though they all are aware of the fact
that how “THE CASTE” plays a crucial role in all these incident and
surprisingly majority of suicide in such big Institutions echelons of
knowledge the 80%-90%victims are from reserved category but yet to
speak about this thing is like sailing against the tide and all of
sudden the main issue of suicide is secondary and you find yourself in
the middle explaining each and everyone about your stand because,” in
this era of 21st century on papers caste discrimination is a thing of
past which was abolished long time back by the sincere efforts of the
Government of India” so all of sudden you are tagged a traitor who is
against the harmony and integrity of Nation and hellbent to defame the
institute you are studying in.

Friends this is not just an alarming but this is a helpless
situation,because one person is not responsible it is the System which
is to be blamed because whosoever become the part of the System forget
his moral responsibility and to save this system becomes his priority
and it seems like saving a boat having a hole in the bottom though the
hole is small but it takes all the time of the sailor and not allow
him to concentrate and to decide which route he has to take to reach
the destination.

Friends regarding the suicide committed by Balmukund bharti I have
following points to raise;

1. First and foremost it was not the first time as he tried a week ago
to end his life and was taken to casuality for the treatment Why was
he not admitted  and kept under observation as suicidal tendency is in
itself indication for admission and observation. Why he was not seen
by the Psychiatric Consultant in Emergency ward these point if taken
care of in time would have stopped this untoward incident.

2. Again the point of he being failed in the said examination what
steps were taken to help him in this context and this is the similar
case that had happened to Sushil Chaudhary of CSMMU Lucknow. The Dean
of AIIMS should take moral responsibility and should be answerable.

3. Balmukund when came to AIIMS he was beaten up and abused by the
wingmates and finally he has to change his room.

4. One unique thing happened in this case Balmukund always wanted to
change his caste and for this he even abandoned his parents and
assumed a so called higher caste couple as his parents. In last two
years he changed his name twice rest of the details are not available
but eventually will come out but the point is that why he wanted to be
in a so called higher caste the reason is that may be the root cause
of the depression and other failure were attributed to his caste.

5. Balmukund is not just not one case but it is an epitome of caste
prejudice costing his life he tried his best to get rid of the
shackles of caste but miserably failed.

6. The whole incident clearly shows the, “Callous attitude” of inept
AIIMS administration by the very fact that they have not implemented
the ,”Thorat Committee Recommendations” in letter and spirit which was
commissioned by the present Prime Minister in 2006 and that was for
safeguarding the interest of underprivileged students, Residents at
AIIMS

Dear friends to me it is just the tip of the iceberg We are not just
loosing our talents but also those who could have become the pillars
to fight this haunting environment and to build  strength for our
Community, then Society and then our Nation. I don’t know how many
Balmukund, Sushil chaudhary  have to sacrifice and die in anonymity
but one thing is very clear that though I am disturbed but I am not
broken this is the need of hour ,”We need a committed struggle and
everyone should extend his helping hand in order to put an end to such
unfortunate events”

AIIMS,
New Delhi

One Response to “Caste murder at AIIMS”

 1 UTTAMKUMAR SUKHADEVE on March 5, 2010 said:

Dear Singh, what is the use to publishised of the incident happened
with your friend. Everyday there are so many family/persons who belong
to the deprived classes facing the same problum/discriminiation.These
all happened due to our non-active politician/officers who occupied
the key post. They are not bothered about atrocity upon the scheduled
caste/tribe soiciety. I am one of the live example. I have filed a
case in Jan 08 in National Commission for scheduled caste, New Delhi
110 003 against my employer for unlawful compulsory retirement
punishment was imposed on me. Prof.NM Kamble Vice-Chairman of NCSC
delivered his decision in my favour on 30.9.08. But the commission
employee who is belong to upper caste Shri YK Bansal kept my file in a
cold storage and not took any effective action to implement the
decision of the Vice Chairman.During the period of eight monthsOct 08
to May 09 they have not taken any justifible action against my
employer. When i develop presssure by using RTI right, then Shri YK
Bansal ignored the deceision of Vice Chairman dated 30.9.08 even he
avoid to put up the file to the vice chairman and choose to putup the
case directly to the chairman Shri Buta Singh with a recomandation to
close the case without any reason and he succeded to obtained the
signature of the Chairman of the commission. Because his wrongful
action, they deprived my fandamental right which is guranteed by the
india constitution. Prof. NM Kamble and Shri Buta singh both are
belong to the scheduled caste, and they killed the future and right of
a scheduled caste officer and his family. I wrote many letters to them
but they didnot take any pain to reply. Now you tell me, what you will
geting to published the incident of your friend, you will not get any
justice from this ugly society. I do not have any faith in the indian
system of Justice. I am strugling till today for want of Justice since
last six years, whould you like to Join Me for fight. If yes then
please use your right and obtained the xerox copies of my case file
under RTI Act from the National Commission scheduled caste, New Delhi
and go throught it and please Judge and come to the conclusion. If you
find my mistake, I shall be gratefull if you intimate me. If you need
any information I can provide you. This is might be boring work for
you. if yes then please keep your friends memories in the shadow of
time dont publish it….

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Caste Cupola: Madha More Pictures
18Feb10

A team of Activists visited the spot Modha where 6 children and 2
Mothers were burnt alive, in order to consolidate the facts and rear
ahead the speed of justice. This has also given a helping hand and
moral support to the suffering Pawar  family. Watch the Entire day-
long visit as below:

Pic 01: FIR-1 (Falsified*)
Pic 02: FIR-2 (Falsified*)
Pic 03: FIR-3(Falsified*)

Pic 04: FIR-4 (Falsified*)
Pic 05: FIR-5 (Falsified*)
Pic 06: Campaign for Human Rights (CHR) President visited place of
incidence along with Manisha Tokle, Sameer Taware, Motiram Bade, B.P
Survanshi, Bajrang Tate and Ramrao Gavali

Pic 07 Suresh Chatan Pawar who lost his family
Pic08: Ashok Chatan Pawar Who lost his 8 years old son
Pic 09: Sanjay Suresh Pawar who lost almost every one of his family

Pic 10: Pawar family who lost their six children and two women
Pic 11: This place where eight dead bodies were cremated
Pic 12: Died four children’s and one women in the Pawar Family

Pic 13: CHR fact finding team understand legal aspects of the case.
Team Members are Adv. Shidharth Shinde, Santosh Jadhav, Kailas Veer
and Rajsthan Kale
Pic 14: Victim family requesting to Adv. Eknath Awad ( CHR President )
to get justice

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Caste Cupola: 8 burnt alive, Solapur Pardhi Commune turned into ashes
15Feb10

In an incident that could potentialy put India ablaze, is clearly
under grips of Caste Mindset and it would avail no time for us  to
blast  the moral order of not only Caste India but also world…

At least eight people, including six children and two woman were
killed when their huts were allegedly set afire by unidentified people
at Nimgaon village in Madha taluka of the district early today.The
identity of the deceased is yet to be ascertained, police said.

Talking to UNI, Assistant Police Sub-Inspector of Madha police station
Harishchand More said the incident took place in the early hours but
it came to light only at around 0700 hrs. The fire was doused with the
help of the people. As per the preliminary investigation, the reason
behind the fire is reportedly stated to be an internal rivarly between
two families of a scheduled tribe.

He said police have detained three people including a woman, following
a complaint filed by one Suresh Pawar against them.”We are
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Scandals

Sixty Years On, More Sinned Against...

The great political scams of the last 60 years reflect their times,
but also fit a timeless definition of corruption: abuse of public
power for private gain. A trip down murky memory lane.
Smita Gupta

Special Issue: India At 60

The great political scams of the last 60 years reflect their times,
but also fit a timeless definition of corruption: abuse of public
power for private gain. They rolled out decade after decade—the
Mundhra scandal, the Kairon embarrassment, the mysterious Nagarwala
case; in the 1980s, big defence scams kept pace with India's growing
defence needs. In the 1990s, as the economy liberalised, stockmarket
and hawala scams erupted. Ironically, while political reputations were
ruined and a government was brought down—in 1989, on the Bofors issue—
very few allegations have ever been proved. The recent scandals, like
the Taj Corridor case involving Mayawati, and the Telgi fake stamp
paper scam, are still fresh in the public mind. Here, we take you on a
trip down murky memory lane.
***

The Mundhra Scandal

The timing was disastrous. Less than a year after the government
nationalised life insurance in 1956—on the grounds that it was not
being managed well—the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) produced
independent India's first scam. Pressured by the Union finance
ministry, LIC bypassed its investment committee and purchased shares
worth Rs 124 lakh in six—mainly dud—companies belonging to Calcutta
industrialist Haridas Mundhra. Feroze Gandhi, Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru's son-in-law, dramatically disclosed the deal in
1958, leading to a nationwide furore, and an investigation. The guilty
were punished, and Union finance minister T.T. Krishnamachari had to
resign.

Kairon and Sons

For independent India, this was a first-of-a-kind scandal. Later, of
course, it was to become almost a cliche in political life: a chief
minister accused of aggrandising himself and his family at public
expense. The S.R. Das Commission, tasked to investigate these charges
against Punjab chief minister Pratap Singh Kairon, exonerated him in
1964, saying a father could not be held legally responsible for the
actions of his grown-up children. But a caveat—that a chief minister
could not escape moral responsibility for his children's' actions—was
indictment enough. Kairon quit.

"Man from Bangladesh"

The case, straight out of a political thriller, captured public
imagination and continues to raise unanswered questions. On May 24,
1971, former intelligence agent R.S. Nagarwala, posing as a "man from
Bangladesh", withdrew Rs 60 lakh from the Parliament Street branch of
New Delhi's State Bank of India, following a purported call from then
prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi, to the chief cashier.
Nagarwala had apparently "mimicked" Indira Gandhi's voice. In the
course of the probe that followed, investigating officer D.K. Kashyap
was killed in a mysterious car accident and Nagarwala died in prison.
The Janata Party, alleging that the money belonged to Indira Gandhi,
set up the Jaganmohan Reddy commission in 1977, but found insufficient
evidence to indict her.

"Rajiv Gandhi chor hai"

"Gali gali mein shor hai, Rajiv Gandhi chor hai!" As the scandal over
the Bofors gun deal became a symbol of corruption in high office, this
slogan was heard across the country. The alleged kickback involved was
Rs 60 crore, small change as such scandals go, but it helped V.P.
Singh's National Front trounce Rajiv's Congress in 1989. Since then,
the Delhi High Court has acquitted Rajiv Gandhi and the Hinduja
brothers. 'Middleman' Ottavio Quattrocchi's name has not yet been
cleared, but investigators have not come up with anything conclusive
either. Yet, 18 years later, the ghost of Bofors continues to haunt a
forever tainted Congress—and Rajiv Gandhi's widow, Sonia.

St Kitts Forgery Scandal

Chandraswami, a godman with greasy locks and mighty political
connections, was the central figure in the 1989 tit-for-tat "scam"
intended to tarnish V. P. Singh. He, along with then external affairs
minister, P.V. Narasimha Rao, and another minister, K.K. Tewary,
reportedly organised forged documents to show that VP's son Ajeya
Singh had deposited $21 million in the First Trust Corporation Bank in
the Caribbean island of St Kitts, with his father as beneficiary.
After Rao's term as PM ended in 1996, the CBI formally charged him for
the crime. But later, the court acquitted Rao for lack of evidence.
All the other accused were also eventually let off. However, the scam
punctured Chandraswami's colourful career. Politicians kept clear of
him from then on.

Sukh Ram Telecom Scam

He came to be known by the epithet, minister of tele-'phony'. In 2002,
a CBI special court sentenced former Union communications minister
Sukh Ram to three years RI, and fined him Rs 1 lakh for purchasing
poor quality radio system equipment from a company in 1991, causing
the public exchequer to suffer losses totalling Rs 1.68 crore. The
buzz was that Sukh Ram, under whose bed dhobi bundles of cash were
found, was involved in several other deals, but nothing was proved. A
senior telecom official, Runu Ghosh, and Hyderabad-based businessman
Pataru Rama Rao, were also sentenced to two and three years
imprisonment respectively. A tortuous legal battle continues.

Stockmarket Scam, 1992

He was toasted and celebrated by investors and the media alike. But
like the stockmarket, he too crashed, leading to one of the biggest
financial scandals in independent India. 'Big Bull' Harshad Mehta,
held to be largely responsible for the stockmarket crash of '92, was
arrested by the CBI in November that year for "misappropriating" more
than 27 lakh shares—worth Rs 250 crore—of about 90 companies,
including Sensex heavyweights like ACC and Hindalco, through forged
share transfer forms. Blacklisted in the stockmarket, he reportedly
caused a loss of more than Rs 4,000 crore to various entities and
eventually died in custody in December 2001, before all the legal
issues were sorted out. The stock scam reverberated through the
country, with several people committing suicide after losing their
life savings and going bankrupt overnight.

PV in a Pickle

Close on the heels of the stock scam came Harshad Mehta's sensational
allegation that he had paid Rs 1 crore in cash to the personal
secretary of then prime minister Narasimha Rao. He even displayed a
suitcase, offering a symbol for venality, but the allegation was never
proved. Rao was also embarrassed by the Lakhubhai Pathak cheating
scandal. Pickle king Pathak, a UK-based Indian businessman, alleged
that he had paid Chandraswami and his associate K.N. Aggarwal alias
Mamaji (who were close to Rao) $100,000 in return for a paper pulp
supply contract in India, a "promise" that was not kept. Rao and
Chandraswami were acquitted of the charges in 2003 due to lack of
evidence. Despite this, the case remained a blot on Rao.

Jain Hawala Scam

Some of the country's leading politicians were implicated in the Rs 64-
crore hawala scandal, involving payments allegedly received by
politicians through the Jain brothers, who were hawala brokers. The
media went into overdrive over a diary, which apparently contained the
names of top politicians. These included the BJP's L.K. Advani and
Congressmen Balram Jakhar, Madhavrao Scindia and Arjun Singh. However,
they were all cleared. Advani was let off in 1997, while Jakhar and
the Jain brothers were also let off in 1999 for want of credible
evidence. The CBI was severely criticised for its inefficient
investigation of the scandal.

Fodder Scam

In 1996, Bihar CM Laloo Prasad Yadav became the focus of the Rs 950-
crore fodder scam in the state's animal husbandry department,
notorious for financial irregularities involving powerful politicians
(across parties) and officials. In April 2000, Laloo was chargesheeted
in the case, with wife Rabri Devi as co-accused. In December '06, they
were acquitted, but the CBI and the Bihar government, now under the
JD(U)'s Nitish Kumar, opposed the decision in the Patna high court.
Till date, 250 persons have been convicted. But the scandal's severest
toll has been on Laloo's reputation.

Petrol Pump Scam

Shortly after the NDA came to power in '98, the BJP was quick to prove
it was not "a party with a difference". By '02, it was evident that
most petrol pump, LPG and kerosene allotments during the NDA regime
had favoured BJP functionaries, Sangh activists and selected governors
and bureaucrats. Then prime minister A.B. Vajpayee was forced to
cancel all 3,158 allotments, with effect from January 2000. However,
the SC quashed the order. In 2005, an apex court-appointed panel
recommended that 296 of the 409 allotments be cancelled.

Operation West End

Tehelka.com sent shockwaves throughout the country when it released
secret video footage of senior politicians, including then BJP
president Bangaru Laxman and Samata Party national president Jaya
Jaitly, bureaucrats and army officers accepting bribes for defence
deals. This was the first major sting operation in Indian journalism.
From then on, getting 'Bangarued' came to mean being caught with your
hand in the till. The scandal forced Bangaru and then defence minister
George Fernandes to resign. The CBI filed charges against Bangaru and
two of his aides in July '06 and against Jaitly in December '06.
Chargesheets were also filed in 2006 against some of the other accused
in the Union ministry of defence and the army. R.K. Jain, former
treasurer of the Samata Party, was finally arrested in 2006 on charges
of receiving huge payoffs in defence deals.

Bu Smita Gupta with Debarshi Dasgupta

Aug 17, 2007 12:00 AM

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