Pratibha trip raises dust OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Bhopal, June 29: Controversy has been Pratibha Patil’s companion during her four-day tour of Madhya Pradesh.
Yesterday, she left herself open to accusations of protocol breach when she made an unscheduled visit to brother Ranjit Singh Patil’s home in Ujjain.
But that, as local BJP and Congress leaders said, turned out to be the most inconsequential imprudence during her stay in the state.
She then went to Indore to inaugurate a private eye hospital, Choithram Netralaya, a subsidiary of Choithram Hospital Trust that is under the scanner for illegally removing patients’ kidneys and evading taxes.
The kidney racket, which involves an interstate gang spread across Chennai, Ahmedabad and Coimbatore, was busted on Friday, just before Pratibha’s visit, in Ujjain, around 50km from Indore town.
Ujjain police chief Manmeet Singh Narang said teams had been sent to Ahmedabad and Chennai but spoke only of “a hospital in Indore under the scanner”.
Choithram Hospital’s chief medical officer R. Mehta denied the allegations. “Our hospital is not involved. We believe in the highest standards of medical ethics.”
He acknowledged a complaint had been filed but said it “didn’t mean anything”.
Indore authorities claimed Choithram Trust, which runs several schools and hospitals, had also not paid taxes of Rs 2.28 crore. Collector Rakesh Shrivastava said the President’s office had been informed about the controversies.
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by birju on Jul 01, 2008 09:40 PM Permalink
said the President’s office had been informed about the controversies.
Today, Pratibha inaugurated the People’s Centre for Scientific Research and Development, a private entity that runs a chain of hospitals and institutes about which an “adverse report” had been sent to Rashtrapati Bhavan.
State home secretary Sanjay Rana said sending such reports prior to VVIP visits was standard practice. People’s centre public relations officer Anil Khanna, however, insisted no such report was sought or sent.
That wasn’t all. Later today, members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the BJP’s youth wing, braved rain to protest against the President’s inauguration of an “illegal” building of the Bhoj Open University. The structure is said to have come up against civic norms.
RE:MMS AND PATIL
by birju on Jul 01, 2008 09:44 PM Permalink
that;s what she was nomnated by maino for! weak prez,slave election commisioner navin chawla,and shikhandi PM....maino has made the perfect cocktail for herself!
RE:MMS AND PATIL
by Prakash Asrani on Jul 01, 2008 09:47 PM Permalink
birju, Your name sounds like you are neither a man nor a woman but somewhere in between. Please confirm.
RE:MMS AND PATIL
by Sastry on Jul 01, 2008 11:14 PM Permalink
i am also not sure about his gender. But what is required is the correctness of the comment. And implicitly you admit that you have nothing against the comment. What Birju has stated is 100% true.
India are burning in the heat of price,peoples are suffering day by day price highrise.PETROL,DIESEL,ATTA,RICE,DALL,EDIBLEOIL ALL COMMODITIES RATES ARE GO UP DAY BY DAY. ANOTHER ONE SIDE KASHIMER ARE BURNINNING BY LAND DISPUTE, BUT OUR U P A GOVT ARE DEALLING FOR NUCLEAR DEAL ITS SHAME FOR THOSE RULLING OUR COUNTRY.
More developments in the Jalgaon Case that called into question Pratibha Patil’s interference with law enforcement in Maharashtra allegedly to protect her brother. This latest development comes on the heels of the Mumbai High Court rapping the CBI while asking it to complete investigations by 25th July. The details of these developments are below courtesy Shri Sudheendra Kulkarni.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) faced tough questions in the Bombay High Court in the sensational Jalgaon Murder Case, which hit the headlines in the run-up to the election of the President of India last year. “We are not happy with the pace of the investigation,” remarked the two-judge bench comprising Justice R.M.S. Khandeparkar and Justice S. Majumdar, when the case came up for hearing in the court today. “How much more time do you need to complete the investigation?” the judges asked, reminding the agency that the case was transferred to it from the state CID in February 2007. The case pertains to the murder of Prof. V.G. Patil, president of the Jalgaon district unit of the Congress party, on 21 February 2005. Since then, Smt. Rajni Patil, widow of the deceased, has been fighting a courageous legal battle. The Bombay High Court admitted her writ petition in July 2007 and began to monitor and supervise further investigation of the case by the CBI. Smt. Patil has contended in her petition that the murder of her husband was due to a political conspiracy ha
RE:kaun prez?that scamster????????
by Ravan Raj on Jul 01, 2008 09:31 PM Permalink
india is controled by currptionists and criminals in the nae of secularisam
RE:kaun prez?that scamster????????
by Prakash Asrani on Jul 01, 2008 09:34 PM Permalink
Ravan, Your English is as horrible as your deeds. Go back to primary school.
RE:kaun prez?that scamster????????
by drax on Jul 01, 2008 09:36 PM Permalink
Arre CLOWN you back? My SON did you find that remedy you were looking for your Non-Father? :)
RE:kaun prez?that scamster????????
by Ravan Raj on Jul 01, 2008 09:39 PM Permalink
poda myre.Don't You have anything else to talk other than this.Bcaz you are making the same coment to everybody those who oppose congress.I know ur real name man-MuKhthar ali.You cannot hide anything.
RE:RE:kaun prez?that scamster????????
by Ravan Raj on Jul 01, 2008 09:41 PM Permalink
This prakash asrarni (Mukhthar ali)used to complain about the english fluency to everbody.I feel his mother tasted some white p.e.n.i.s (UK) before his birth.
RE:kaun prez?that scamster????????
by drax on Jul 01, 2008 09:45 PM Permalink
Dont you dare speak about my SON in that manner. I admit he is a little clownish and mentally challenged because I was in a bad mood at the time of consummation.
RE:RE:kaun prez?that scamster????????
by birju on Jul 01, 2008 09:37 PM Permalink
asrani,have u appointed urself as the grammar teacher here? better stick to cleaning the toilets at congress HQ and 10 janpath!
RE:kaun prez?that scamster????????
by birju on Jul 01, 2008 09:29 PM Permalink
hatched by his rivals in the local Congress unit in Maharashtra, Dr. G.N.Patil (brother of Smt. Pratibha Patil) and Dr. Ulhas Patil (a former Congress MP from Jalgaon). According to her, the duo engaged two intermediaries, Damodar Lokhande and Leeladhar Narkhede, to get Prof. V.G. Patil eliminated. She has named Lokhande and Narkhede as the persons who hired the two assassins, Raju Mali and Raju Sonawane, who were arrested and subsequently chargesheeted by the police. Mysteriously, Mali died in judicial custody on 7 April 2007, just a day before the CBI was scheduled to interrogate him. Accusing the state CID of being tardy and unwilling to probe the role of Dr. G.N. Patil and Dr.Ulhas Patil, Smt. Patil petitioned the Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court to transfer the case to the CBI. Her plea was not only accepted but the court also took cognizance of “the alleged complicity of influential political leaders”. Shockingly, the CBI too has been making every effort to cover up the truth in the case, as is evident from the fact that when it filed a supplementary chargesheet in the court of the chief judicial magistrate, Jalgaon, on 10 June 2008, it mentioned only Sonawane as the accused. Clearly, this was an attempt by the CBI to limit the complicity in this crime to the least important person in the conspiracy. Jethmalani’s impassioned argument When the case came up for hearing in the Bombay High Court today, Shri Mahesh Jethmalani, counsel for Smt. Rajni Patil, prese
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by birju on Jul 01, 2008 09:30 PM Permalink
presented an impassioned argument that, even as the widow of the murdered Congress leader was being made “to run from pillar to post” in search of justice, the CBI was trying to protect those “against whom there is already plethora of evidence”. Shri Jethmalani also pointed out that the investigation had suffered due to “suppression of evidence” and gave the example of the eye-witness statement, recorded by the CBI on 25 May 2007, of one Rambhau Pawar, in which the latter has given a graphic account of the murder. According to Pawar (who was used by the police to identify Mali and Sonawane when they were arrested), he tried to intervene when the crime was being committed but as he approached the assailants, Mali shouted at him: “Yahan se bhag nahin to tera bhi yehi hal karege. Hamare bahut lambe haath hain. Hamare peechhe netaon ke haath hain. Bharosa nahi hai to jaan le ki hamare peechhe Ulhas Patil, G.N. Patil, Ramesh Chaudhary (a local Congress MLA) ke haath hain”. Pawar had written the whole incident in his personal diary which was subsequently seized by the CBI. This vital evidence was not included in the first chargesheet filed on 22 December 2005, nor did the CBI take cognizance of it to include the names of Lokhande, Narkhede, Dr. G.N. Patil and Dr. Ulhas Patil in the second (supplementary) chargesheet it filed on 10 June 2008. In his detailed written submissions before the Court, Shri Jethmalani presented the following important pieces of evidence, showing the in
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by birju on Jul 01, 2008 09:31 PM Permalink
involvement of Dr. G.N. Patil, Dr. Ulhas Patil, Lokhande and Narkhede:
A detailed analysis of the mobile records of the calls made by Dr. G.N. Patil, Dr. Ulhas Patil, Lokhande, Narkhede and Mali to one another during the days prior to, and after, the crime, as also on the day of the crime itself. The dates and timings of these calls coincide with significant events pertaining to the conspiracy.
A letter written by Mali and Sonawane from inside the jail on 3 January 2006, mentioning the names of Dr. G.N. Patil and Dr. Ulhas Patil;
Raju Mali’s interview to a reporter of Aaj Tak TV channel, which telecast a comprehensive report on the murder case in February 2006.
Two statements of Rekha Mali, wife of Raju Mali, dated 18 September 2007 and 27 September 2007, in which she talks about Narkhede’s frequent visits to their house one month before the crime and the “closed-door” meetings between Narkhede and her husband, when she was not allowed to come in. Both Rekha Mali and her brother Bhaskar Mahajan are also on record stating that, when Raju Mali was in judicial custody, they used to receive money from Lokhande, Narkhede and Dr. G.N. Patil, who also paid the fees of the lawyers for Mali and Sonawane.
Statement by a witness that the mobike that Mali and Sonawane had used on the day of the murder had been sold by him to Narkhede. Narco tests: CBI’s double standards In the last hearing in the matter on June 16, Justice Khandeparkar had asked why th
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by birju on Jul 01, 2008 09:32 PM Permalink
had not so far conducted narco analysis and polygraph tests on Lokhande and Narkhede. The CBI counsel had contended that the agency was awaiting the Supreme Court’s verdict on the validity of such tests as investigative tools. Reacting sharply to this evasive response, the judge had remarked, “If the CBI can conduct such tests on the suspects in the Arushi Talwar case, why not in this case? Why are you adopting double standards — one standard in Delhi and another in Maharashtra? Or are you doing so only in this particular case?” Today the CBI engaged none other than Gopal Subramaniam, additional solicitor general, to be its counsel in the case. When Justice Khandeparkar asked Subramaniam about narco tests on Lokhande and Narkhede, the counsel said, “It has been the practice of the CBI to take the consent of the persons concerned before conducting narco tests. In this particular case, the agency has not been able to get their consent.” Once again, this prompted the judge to administer a rebuke to the CBI: “I know of two instances in Maharashtra alone in which the CBI has conducted narco tests without the consent of the persons concerned.” The judge also remarked, “Even without narco tests, there is sufficient information on record already for the agency to investigate the role of others.” In the final para of the written submissions on behalf of Smt. Rajni Patil, Shri Jethmalani quoted the following lines from a recent speech by Smt. Pratibha Patil, President of India: “The
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by birju on Jul 01, 2008 09:36 PM Permalink
“The Petitioner can do no more than quote from a speech delivered by Her Excellency, The President of India, Smt. Pratibha Patil, on the occasion of the inauguration of a seminar on judicial reforms organized by the Confederation of the Indian Bar on 23.2 2008, in New Delhi. ‘…The care, diligence and empathy with which the judiciary protects, even a lone individual who has truth on his side invests the judiciary with a superior purpose and a higher moral authority……………a very heavy responsibility is cast on the judicial fraternity to uphold the majesty of justice in all its magnificence. Courts are respected as temples of justice and the judicial fraternity regarded as custodians of law and dispensers of justice. This precious trust cannot be allowed to be eroded.’
The BJP's stand on nuclear deal is the most unfortunate. At least they must extend a conditional support..Their joining hands with commies amount to total betrayal of the nation. RN
RE:N-Deal
by Praashish A on Jul 01, 2008 09:36 PM Permalink
There are so many things in this deal which we cant accept. Most importantly there is a ban on nuclear testing....Which we cant accept at any cost. Of course but congress can accept...This party can do anything to the nation...Mr. PM & FM are just ruining the countries economy...lok at the inflation...they have no vision....LAst time also when mr. PM was a FM(10 years back) inflation reached at the highest level around 11%
RE:N-Deal
by Prakash Asrani on Jul 01, 2008 09:25 PM Permalink
BJP trying to be over smart. Their blunder in next election would be exposed like India Shining campaign in last one.
RE:N-Deal
by birju on Jul 01, 2008 09:42 PM Permalink
lol.asrani,pahle maino ko convince kar loe..................wlwction ke khauff se usse diarrhoea ho gayaa hai!
RE:Shiv Sena is supporting N-Deal.
by bhanu on Jul 01, 2008 09:23 PM Permalink
Try to read the 123 agreement, Hyde Act and you will understand why BJP wants to implement Nuclear deal only after Re-negotiation with US Counterpart
RE:Shiv Sena is supporting N-Deal.
by Prakash Asrani on Jul 01, 2008 09:26 PM Permalink
Renegotiation would be possible only if USA is willing. Otherwise, it would become like Mungerilal's dream.
RE:Shiv Sena is supporting N-Deal.
by sreekanth agneswaran on Jul 01, 2008 09:39 PM Permalink
Doesn't your statement itself reflect the compromised position of India in the deal?
I feel Communist parties are more communal than BJP.CPM is against to nuk deal because they want muslim votes from kerala and bangal. they are the real rebels of the country. communisum is dead chapter. We canot see the communisum which stalin or lenin tought any were in the world. CPM is always opposing progressive movements. Like IT implementaion . use of machinary in agriculture. They are not thinking about the future only want muslim votes for power. our former presidentMr APJ abdulkalam supporting the Nuke deal. Ok who cares about the future of the country.everybody wants vote.in the name of god or religion
Actuakky these silly politicians like maya, commies, so called political parties led by minorities would never want country to progress, as they would not be important .
they want to take country back to no electricity, no health , no treated drinking water, no telephone, no television and no books state. Unless these things are achieved they can not become PM.
kick these gundas out of country and have a public agitation.
