By the same author: Uncle Sam%u2019s nuclear hardsell
On October 27, he announced at a press conference that he had resigned as government counsel, and had filed criminal cases against Dhimant Purohit, correspondent of Aaj Tak, charging them with cheating, criminal conspiracy, breach of trust, fraud, trespass and breach of communal harmony. He contended that Purohit had offered him a role in a serial which the TV channel was purportedly producing and that he was captured on a hidden camera when he was reading from what had been given to him as a script for an audition test. The immediate result of Pandya%u2019s legal action was that Purohit sought anticipatory bail!
What ultimately happens to Pandya%u2019s cases should, it%u2019s suggested, be closely covered and followed up by all the media that cares for truth and decency in investigative journalism.
Such media, if they exist at all, should also ascertain why the usual bunch of social and human rights activists are not going to the highest judiciary and generally raising hell --- if not a %u201Csting%u201D---over the recent tragedy at Nandigram in Communist Bengal.
Our government%u2019s Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Priyaranjan Dasmunsi, called the Nandigram killings as a %u201Cstate-sponsored terrorism%u201D. Then why is Teesta Setalvad mum? Why are she and the rest of the usual suspects so tongue-tied now, when for the minutest reason, they rant and rave against the RSS, the VHP, the BJP, the Bajrang Dal and the sadhus and saints of Hindu
