There are 26 injury marks in his body other than the bullet marks. They can’t be anything but marks of torture and beating him. He had been beaten before the entire drama of encounter,” Ravinder Singh, father of 22-year-old Ranbir, said.

“We are not satisfied. We want a CBI investigation into it (the killing). If the government orders it, then it is okay. Otherwise, we will press for it,” he said.

A distraught Singh said he wanted “exemplary” punishment to those involved to prevent people from even thinking about such an act given the consequences. “I will fight for it,” he said.

The body of Ranbir Singh, gunned down by Uttarakhand police in an alleged fake encounter, bore 12 marks of bullets fired from close range and 27 other injuries showing that he may have been tortured, according to an autopsy report.

The family of Ranbir Singh, a resident of Ghaziabad city in Uttar Pradesh, alleges the police killed him in a fake encounter. Singh was visiting Dehradun to join a new job and was travelling with his two friends on a motorcycle when the police stopped him in a place called Dalanwala in the town.

Police allege the three men argued with a constable who asked them to stop and then fled after snatching his service revolver.

Police shot dead Singh at another checkpoint near a forest but his two friends escaped. Police claim they opened fired after being shot at. Anil Sihna, the Senior Superintendent of Police in Dehradun, claimed a pistol and knife was found in Singh’s bag.

Singh’s family rejected the police’s allegations and alleged he had been killed in cold blood. Singh’s father Ravinder alleged his son had no criminal record and the police killed him to win medals. Ravinder claimed the police had threatened him and wanted him not to complain.

Sunil Verma, who claims he saw the shooting, alleged police dragged and hit with Singh a rife before killing him. Police say they are searching for the two men who were with Singh.

“The State government shall forthwith withdraw the detention order against Varun Gandhi under the NSA,” a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said.

The bench also told the Mayawati government that it has “no ground to challenge” the state advisory board’s decision to scrap NSA’s imposition against Varun.

Reacting to the Supreme Court directive, Varun said, “I stand vindicated. I have always said that NSA was applied wrongly on me. Mayawati had flouted democratic norms.”

The BJP also welcomed the decision with party spokesperson Balbir PunjVarun Gandhi was because of political vendetta by the Mayawati government and the Congress party.” saying, “We welcome the SC judgment. The NSA against

28/04/2009

The judicial fate of Varun Gandhi will be determined by the Allahabad High Court Tuesday afternoon when the state advisory board takes a final call on the National Security Act (NSA) that was slapped on him by the Uttar Pradesh government earlier this month.

The meeting of the board is slated to be absolutely confidential. Sources, however, confirmed that Gandhi would appear before the board at 3.30 pm.

The three-member board is headed by Justice Pradeep Kant, senior judge of the Lucknow bench of the high court, and includes two retired high court judges.

As the ultimate statutory authority on the NSA, the advisory board has the right to approve or revoke the government order invoking the act against Gandhi, the BJP candidate from the Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh.

The verdict of the advisory board is final and if it chooses to revoke the NSA, Gandhi would be set free with immediate effect.

The law does not permit any NSA detenu to be accompanied by a lawyer before the advisory board. However, one person is free to join him.

Gandhi was charged for making highly inflammatory anti-Muslim utterances during his poll campaign in Pilibhit.

“Mayawati warns Varun to behave

himself or face more music”

It is still not very clear to my mind why Ms. mayawati, the C.M. of Uttar Pradesh has convened the Press Conference twice in last 20 days to explain her stand about Varun Gandhi to media. I don’t think that he is the most notorious criminal in Uttar Pradesh.Many eminent lawyers of the Supreme Court had also condemned the NSA against him.

Young Varun Gandhi today walked out of Etah jail in Uttar Pradesh after the Supreme Court granted him two-week parole after 20-day detention to allow him to contest the Lok Sabha polls with the rider - no more hate speeches. Attired in a maroon kurta pyjama, the BJP’s Pilibhit candidate walked out of the jail around 6.30 pm to a tumultuous welcome from BJP supporters.

The apex court earlier in the day ordered Varun Gandhi’s “forthwith release” for two weeks to enable him to file his nomination for Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency and campaign for the polls.

Varun Gandhi’s speeches in Dalchand locality of Pilibhit town, about 300 km from Lucknow, March 7 and at Barkhera village March 8, targeting the minority community, had created a controversy. He was arrested March 28.

He was charged with provisions under the stringent NSA the next day as his arrest came amid violence by his supporters who also clashed with police.

Mayawati’s  Government  had opposed Varun Gandhi’s parole tooth and nail, but the Supreme Court decided to grant him parole, so we have to abide by it.”

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Ultimately Mohd Azharuddin has won the Moradabad parliament seat. The people of Moradabad  has prefered Mr Azhar  against the other candidates who have their criminal background.

Campaigning for one of the most bitterly fought Lok Sabha elections in recent years ended on Monday, marking culmination of the five-phase month-long electioneering with no clear signs of the winner.

In Moradabad the date of voting is 13th May 2009. Mr. Azharuddin from Congress, Mr.Sarvesh Kumar Singh( Ex. MLA )  from BJP, Mr Rajeev Channa(sitting MLA )  from BSP and Mr Rizwan( Ex. MLA ) from Samajwadi Party  will  fight each other  in the coming Lok Sabha Election.

Except Mr. Azharuddin all the three candidates have criminal cases against them. Mr. Azharuddin had faced charges of match fixing when he was playing in indian cricket team.

All the national leaders of different parties joined the election campaign in Moradabad. Mr. Rahul Gandhi, Mr. Narendra Modi, Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav,Ms. Mayawati all came in support of their candidates. But surprisingly no candidate has declared his agenda as an MP for the welfare of Moradabad citizens.

Having weathered the storm on charges of match-fixing all these years and practically shutting himself from public eye, former Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin is excited over his new innings as the Congress candidate from this ‘Brass City’ for the Lok Sabha elections.

The city, with a population of over 1.7 million, has more than 400 factories manufacturing brass, aluminium, iron and glass products. Almost all big European and American retailers including Wal-Mart, Carrefour, JC Penny, Target and Casto Rama source merchandise from Moradabad.

Mr.Sarvesh Kumar Singh, Ex. MLA from BJP, Mr Rajeev Channa,sitting MLA from BSP and Mr Rizwan from Samajwadi Party, all belong to Moradabad will also fight  in coming Lok Sabha Election.

Below you may find some information about each candidate :

Profile Of Important Candidates for Moradabad Constituency

Mohd. Azharuddin : from Congress

D.O.B.     08/02/1963        at Hyderabad

Schooling -  Catholic Convent Boys School & All Saints High School ( Hyderabad ), Graduation from Nizam College

Background -  Former Indian Cricket Captain

.Cases —  No

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Rajeev Channa : from BSP

D.O.B.    19/01/1960

Schooling -  HighSchool in 1977

Background - Elected M.L.A. as BJP candidate , now ersigned from BJP and joined BSP

.Cases —  Yes, but still not convicted

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Sarvesh Singh : from BJP

D.O.B.   22/12/1951

Schooling- Intermediate from Thakurdwara

Background - 4 times M.L.A. from BJP ( 1991,93,96,2002 ) , defeated in 2004

.Cases — Yes, 4 cases pending

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Haji Rizwan : from Samajwadi Party

D.O.B.  04/07/1953

Schooling - Graduation from KGK College

Background - Ex. M.L.A. from Kundarkee

Pending Criminal Cases — Yes, at least 4 under various sections of I.P.C.

There should always be some  questions in the mind of a voter. Two candidates are MLA from Uttar Pradesh. Are we satisfied with their performance as MLA?  Have they any criminal record? They belong to Moradabad or not.

There should be some parameters on which a voter must decide the right choice.

Now it is the right time for Moradabad voters to ask the candidates to clarify their agenda about the development of Moradabad.

There are so many problems related with common man on which we have to ask the candidates about their opinion. Will these problems are in the agenda of these candidates?

Certainly we should ask about their opinion on National issues. Every party always  talks about Reservation. Only 10 out of 100 children complete their studies in India. No party says any word for the rest 90 students. Why?

Corruption, Terrorism, Good Governance should be the main agenda for every party. Please ask the candidates his views on these issues. Also see his bio data which he has submitted to Election Commission.

Please don’t hesitate to ask the candidates about his views on the problems related with you.

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Safety for all citizens and a terror-free nation

Right to three basic meals a day

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said, while frowning at the country’s woeful record in counterterrorism and legal prosecution.

“Despite New Delhi’s clear commitment to combating violent extremism, the Indian government’s counterterrorism efforts remains hampered by its outdated and overburdened law enforcement and legal systems,” the US State Department Country Terrorism Report for 2008 observed, after chronicling numerous terrorist attacks in India during the year culminating in the Mumbai carnage. None of the perpetrators of the attacks has yet been prosecuted, it noted.

The report said India was the focus of numerous attacks “from both externally-based terrorist organizations and internally-based separatist or terrorist entities,” while absolving Pakistan, which New Delhi has accused of virtually being complicit in the acts of terrorism against India.

Instead, the report says the Indian government assessed that “South Asian Islamic extremist groups including Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, and Harakat-ul-Jihad-i-Islami (Bangladesh) as well as indigenous groups” were behind these events. India, it said, believed these attacks were aimed at creating a breakdown in India-Pakistan relations, fostering Hindu-Muslim violence within India, and harming India’s commercial centers to impede India’s economic resurgence.

The report also notes that India-Pakistan relations were improving despite an increased number of infiltrations across the Line of Control, until they were significantly set back by the Mumbai attack in November. Pakistani officials pledged to prosecute all individuals in Pakistan found to be involved in the Mumbai attacks and offered to share intelligence regarding the attacks with the Government of India, it said, while censoriously observing that the composite dialogue between the two sides was frozen by the Indian government in December, ”contributing to heightened tension between the two governments.”

This year’s terrorism report is heavily focused on Pakistan, far more than Iraq or Afghanistan, and paints a grim picture of a country in the throes of endemic extremist violence. The report notes that the coordination, sophistication, and frequency of suicide bombings in Pakistan continued to grow in 2008.

Parents, school clash over death of

Modern School student

Anguished parents and screaming students Thursday took on the authorities of one of Delhi’s most reputed institutions, Modern School Vasant Vihar, blaming them for the death of 17-year-old girl Aakriti Bhatia who succumbed to an asthma attack during school hours three days ago.

The anger of family and friends  of Akkriti Bhatia (17) at Modern School, Vasant Vihar, on Thursday forced the school authorities to close the institution on Friday. The school was also issued a show-cause notice by the Delhi government.

Akkriti’s post-mortem report, which came on Friday, said she died a natural death caused by suffocation.

Three inquiries — by the Delhi government, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and the school — have been ordered into Akkriti’s death. She dies during school hours on Monday after she suffered an asthma attack.

Shouting slogans and holding placards, many of the protestors, including students from other well known Delhi schools, gathered outside Modern School in south Delhi, demanding the resignation of principal Goldy Malhotra for alleged negligence.

“I was horrified to know what had happened in school. A girl who was gasping for breath was not offered a vehicle by the school to take her to hospital,” said a former member of the school’s Parent Teacher Association.

“There are hundreds of cars parked in the school and the principal also possesses a car. Why were they waiting for ambulance? Goldy Malhotra is the most unethical principal I have ever seen and she should resign.”

Police complaint lodged

Aakriti’s own parents, who have registered a police complaint against the school authorities, were among the protestors and came face to face with the principal.

A heated exchange of words followed between the protestors and the school authorities.

Aakriti, a Class 12 student, had suffered an asthma attack in school Monday and died on the way to hospital. The principal however has refused to accept that she died due to the school’s alleged negligence.

“We demand an apology from the school principal and want her to resign. We will continue our protest till the principal tenders her resignation,” a friend of Aakriti’s said.

Principal must quit

Said a parent: “The principal should resign. Just imagine how would it feel if your or my family member passes away like this?”

Aakriti had reportedly complained of breathlessness to her teacher and had later called up and informed her mother as well. She was shifted to the school’s sports room and put on oxygen. As her condition deteriorated, she was rushed to Holy Angels hospital, where doctors declared her dead.

“Any staff member could have offered his or her car to take Aakriti to hospital but they kept waiting for Aakriti’s car. The hospital is only one km away from the school and they waited around 45 minutes, doing nothing. As a result we lost her. The principal should accept her fault and apologise,” said an angry parent.

Source: IANS

Today when I was passing through Sabka Bazar Chauraha, I have seen a Traffic jeep alarming the owners of wrongly parked vehicles for challans . It is a welcome move by the police administration. But I think both MDA and Avas Vikas Parishad is responsible for the congestion at that point. After the death of so many citizens they now should take some concrete steps for the safety of passengers.

19/04/2009

It is shocking to hear that A young brilliant girl Tanu died in an accident with a Truck at Sabka Bazar Crossing near R.N. Inter College, Moradabad. In last one year there have been many accidents at that point just due to heavy rush at that point. There is no traffic arrangements by the administration at that crossing. I appeal to District Administration to please make appropriate arrangements on that point. I also make a appeal  to people of Moradabad to take some interest in traffic problems of the city

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The key message is,

1)  If you want to change the system, it can’t come talking and criticizing from the drawing rooms, it can only be brought by going to grass root level, the common man.
2)  If you want to save the country from the clutches of the corrupt and principle less politicians; intellectuals and honest people will have to join politics
3)  We can’t see our country being divided into so many fractured groups on basis of caste, religion, region, language etc.. Our country can survive if we first consider ourselves as Indians and only Indians
4)  Someone has to make a begining , to take on these nauseating politicians., why not me, you and us?

Dr. Shalabh Agarwal

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