http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6867 <pre>Legal brain storming on issue of Contempt This is an issue that had been disturbing us for long. Having entered the field of judicial reforms along with transparency and accountability in governance, we often have to face this very serious issue. When we present a matter before the Hon’ble Court, the Court often directs the concerned respondents to file their counter affidavits or their replies. Very often this reply has to be given within a fixed time period. The reply is asked so that the State’s position could be understood by the Court and then it can arrive at a definite decision, As is possibly quite well known, Audi alteram partem, the Latin phrase that literally means "hear [audi] the other side too” is the legal principle that no person should be judged without a fair hearing in which each party is given the opportunity to respond to the evidence against them. It is considered a principle of fundamental justice or equity in most legal systems. While in principle this rule is ab</pre> Amitabh Thakur 2013-05-17T11:25:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6866 <pre>Hon’ble HC decline relief to accused in BSNL unwanted SMS FIR I had filed an FIR  before the Mahanagar police station as regards sending unwarranted SMS in BSNL mobile phones and looting subscribers. I had said that at around 12 noon, me and wife Nutan Thakur got SMS on their mobiles from one EasyVault services through a number 525854020which said that my data backup was now safe. With this Rs. 20 got deducted from their respective account balance. I said that this is a clear case of cheating and theft done against their wish with the help of electronic devices. I prayed that since I had heard this happening with many people, hence I want to register an FIR in this matter of public interest. A petition was filed in the Hon’ble Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench by Sri A B Sharma, owner and Sri Siddharth Singh Bisht, Manager of Netage Solutions, New Delhi saying that the event was only a technical snag and is only a civil matter where FIR had been registered in my influence. But the Hon’ble Court d</pre> Amitabh Thakur 2013-05-16T11:54:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6865 <pre>Hon'ble High Court asks Govt to reply on PIL to free Vigilance, CID etc   It was really a great pleasure standing before the Hon'ble Chief Justice Court and getting an extremely positive and favourable response from all sides, including the Hon'ble Court and the respondent counsel. In the PIL filed by me and wife Nutan to end the current control exercised by the State Government on various investigative agencies of UP, the Jon'ble Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench asked the State government to respond with a detailed counter affidavit within eight weeks.   The bench of Chief Justice Hon'ble Shiv Kirti Singh and Justice Hon'ble D K Arora ordered that the State shall indicate in its response specifically about that part of the petition that prays that the concerned investigative agencies described as premier investigative agencies of the State, shall be allowed to file their charge sheet straight to the Court as against the present system of taking permission from the State government.    In the Court</pre> Amitabh Thakur 2013-05-16T10:22:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6863 <pre>Sir, RTI Hearing (in PMC) was very painful,Read - Vijay Kumbhar's Exclusive News &amp; Analysis http://ow.ly/l2UsJ </pre> vijay kumbhar 2013-05-15T12:03:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6862 <pre>PIL as regards control over investigative agencies In the wake of the National events where the Hon'ble Supreme Court statement on CBI as a caged parrot is being debated all over the country and the Hon'ble Supreme Court is looking into the possibilities and ways of completely freeing CBI from any extraneous influence,. finding that much more is possibly wanted in Uttar Pradesh, I and my wife Nutan today filed PIL in the Hon'ble Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench as regards the current situation about the investigations and enquiries carried by various premier investigative agencies of Uttar Pradesh including Vigilance Establishment, CB-CID, Economic Offences Wing (EOW), SIB Cooperative and Anti Corruption Organization (ACO). The petition says that investigations and enquiries of criminal cases are done as per the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). Under the CrPC, complete responsibility and powers for criminal investigation lies in the investigating officer and his superior police offi</pre> Amitabh Thakur 2013-05-14T10:43:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6861 <pre>Dear all, Readers may recall the execution of Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru convicted of terrorism-related crimes a few months ago. The executions were conducted within a few days of the President's decision to reject the mercy petitions in both cases. Now both the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the President's Secretariat (Prez. Sectt.) have rejected all my requests for information regarding the disposal of these mercy petitions. I apologise for the late reporting of these developments which took place in March-April 2013. As mentioned in my last email I was hospitalized due to ill-health and could not open the envelopes that came from these public authorities in response to my requests. Mercy petition relating to the Late Ajmal Kasab On 10th January 2013, I filed two information requests under the Right to Information Act, 2005 for documents relating to the mercy petitions filed for the Late Ajmal Kasab. My first application sent to the MHA contained the following queries: 1) "A clear photocop</pre> Venkatesh Nayak 2013-05-13T10:27:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6860 <pre>Friends, I present the Hon'ble Allahabad High Court Order delivered today in a Writ Petition filed by me, which also deals with certain important aspects of Hon'ble CAT and seem relevant for all the other Tribunals and subordinate Courts, particularly in the way to maintain the "majesty of law" as the Hon'ble Court said. It might be of use to many others in different other contexts as well Amitabh Thakur Lucknow # 094155-34526-- HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD, LUCKNOW BENCH ?Court No. - 27 Case :- SERVICE BENCH No. - 717 of 2013 Petitioner :- Amitabh Thakur Respondent :- R.M.Srivastava &amp; Ors. Petitioner Counsel :- Asok Pande,Rohit Tripathi Respondent Counsel :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Devi Prasad Singh,J. Hon'ble Ashok Pal Singh,J. Heard Sri Ashok Pandey, learned counsel for the petitioner. It appears that because of inaction on the part of the State Government to appoint the Presenting Officer in the Central Administrative Tribunal, the work is suffering. From the perusal of record, it ap</pre> Amitabh Thakur 2013-05-10T13:25:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6859 <pre>In Railways, do they flock together? Is it that Senior Officers in Railways are protected by the system against public complaints? One of my complaints seems to somehow give the same feeling. I present this matter in the form of a long narration, which many may find boring, many may find worthless and many may find foolish. I would have no grudge against any such opinion. Let us all have the freedom to have our own view points, opinions, ways of living and thought process. But I know for sure that this was the only way that I could have acted. I apologize once again for the narration being a bit too long and I take no responsibility for your wastage of time and energy, in case you find the narration worthless, boring or waste. I am pursuing this case for the last about three years and yet justice seems to eludes me. Thus even after my best efforts, my complaints against two senior Railways officers does not seem even being heard and the way the enquiry officers and the other concerned offic</pre> Amitabh Thakur 2013-05-09T09:26:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6858 <pre>Shall not beg , shall not quit  (My views) My mother always says that while other person’s works get done without any one even knowing about it, in my case even if the work is not done, it gets noticed and reverberated all through the world. Possibly she is not very wrong and I have been seeing this since the very beginning.  There would be hundreds of IITians who have got selected for IAS and IPS but I must possibly be the only person who was kicked out of M Tech program.  The reason was that when I performed rather poorly in the initial M Tech exams, my Professor asked me why I had done bad despite being a topper in the B Tech and I, instead of telling some lie, gave the true answer that I was preparing for the Civil Services examination, a fact that he could not relish and I was out of IIT. I came back home at Bokaro but it did not dishearten me in any manner nor did it have any adverse effect on me. There would be many officers in the IAS, IPS and other services who go for Study leave. No one ev</pre> Amitabh Thakur 2013-05-04T16:38:37 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6856 <pre>Friends, We have opposed the recommendations of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for various National sports awards. In our letter to Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs, we have said that the recommendations of batsman Mr Virat Kohli for Arjuna award and former captain Mr Sunil Gavaskar for the Dhyanchand award are against the provisions of law. As per the Government Rules for various National Sports awards, nominations made only by the National Sports Federations (NSFs) are entertained, but despite not being a NSF, BCCI sends nominations for these awards. We have filed a Writ Petition No 3153/2012 in the Allahabad High Court, Lucknow bench against the BCCI getting all benefits of a NSF despite consistently refusing to get recognized as a NSF and thus shielding itself from the accompanying responsibilities and in the Counter Affidavit to this petition, the Ministry has said that presently there are 51 recognized NSF, BCCI not being among them. While they have been requestin</pre> Amitabh Thakur 2013-05-02T08:06:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6854 <pre>अखिलेश के मंत्री कानून के फंदे में http://navabharat.org/national-news/politics/45276-%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B6-%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87-%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80-%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%A8-%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87-%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87-%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82?hitcount=0 लखनऊ. अखिलेश सरकार के मंत्रियों की बेलगाम जुबान को लेकर विरोधी दल जहां सरकार पर हमलावर रवैया अपनाए हुए हैं, वहीं अब सामाजिक संगठनों से जुड़े लोग भी कानूनी रूप से सरकार की घेराबन्दी में जुट गए हैं। आरटीआई कार्यकर्ता उर्वशी शर्मा न</pre> urvashi sharma 2013-04-26T15:16:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6853 <pre>Taking cognizance of news reports of Toilet Scam, unearthed by RTI ,UP Basic Education Minister Ram Govind Chaudhary has ordered probe and also for filing of FIR against the culprit officials. </pre> urvashi sharma 2013-04-26T06:06:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6852 <pre>Dear all, Readers may have been wondering at the long pause in communications from my end. As I was quite ill for a few weeks I could not keep up the task of updating you. I am on the road to recovery and have started work slowly. Apologies for the long silence. Readers may remember the recent notification of guidelines for implementing Section 4 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act) by the Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India. The guidelines are accessible at: http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02rti/Suo_moto_disclosur e-15042013.pdf While a large number of recommendations of the Task Force set up by the DoPT have been include in the guidelines there are glaring omissions. CHRI has written to the DoPT highlighting the need for plugging these gaps in the guidelines for implementing the proactive disclosure obligations under the RTI Act. A copy of the letter is attached. Please circulate this email as widely as possible. In order to access our p</pre> Venkatesh Nayak 2013-04-25T15:00:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6851 <pre>Friends, Today I and wife Nutan together started a new Blog by the name "Amitabh and Nutan's World" (http://amitabhandnutan.blogspot.in/) where we wish to share our thoughts, works, deeds, actions, view points, literary works and others. The blog shall be bilingual- in Hindi and English.  We hope this will prove to be a pleasant and enjoyable journey for us and all our friends who shall be following our blog. Hence we need all your good wishes. With regards and best wishes, Nutan and Amitabh # 094155-34525 and 094155-34526 emails-  nutanthakurlko-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org amitabhthakurlko-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org </pre> Amitabh Thakur 2013-04-25T11:26:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6850 <pre>Sahara Q Shop- fearing for innocent investors I and wife Nutan presented a complaint against Sahara Q Shop to many authorities including the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Government of India. We had said that complaints were coming about Sahara India collecting money through the so-called Consumer products network, called the Sahara Q Shop so as to keep it away from the regulatory framework of SEBI, hence suitable action under the provisions of law be initiated in the matter to save the innocent investors. The Ministry of Consumer Affairs sent our complaint dated 06 November 2012 to the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh on 30 November asking him to investigate the matter and take appropriate action. It also asked the State Government to send to an action taken report in the matter. We eagerly wait for further action in this matter from all suitable authorities, because from whatever reports coming to us, we fear history repeating in Sahara Q shop matter as in Saradha case (WB) and two Sahara</pre> Amitabh Thakur 2013-04-25T08:15:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6849 <pre>The Union finance ministry has refused to make public the order for commissioning a study to find out the quantum of black money floating in the economy, saying it would be a breach of parliamentary privileges. Admitting that it does not have any "exact estimate" of black money which is in circulation inside the country or abroad, the ministry said it had commissioned a study to estimate the quantum of unaccounted income/wealth inside and outside the country and its ramifications on national security. This was done on the basis of recommendations of Parliament's standing committee on finance. Responding to an RTI application seeking the order through which..................................................................................................................................... read full story at given link http://upcpri.blogspot.in/2013/04/mof-refuses-to-make-commissioning.html </pre> urvashi sharma 2013-04-24T13:29:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6847 <pre>Petition for complete open sale ban of Red/Blue beacon I today filed a writ petition along with wife Nutan for complete banning of public sale and purchase of beacon lights used in vehicles has been filed in the Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench. It asks for directing the Union and the State government to ensure that no beacon light shall be bought or sold in open market and all such beaconlights shall be provided only by the concerned government agencies, such that it becomes completely government controlled and there is a complete check on the use of the beacon lights and the possibilities of its misuse get almost eliminated. The petition says that many IAS, IPS and other officers are also found using beacon lights without being authorized so and hence prays that other than acting against the vehicle or the driver, appropriate disciplinary action shall also be against all such Government servant whose private or government vehicle uses unauthorized beacon light. Would request to have </pre> Amitabh Thakur 2013-04-23T15:14:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6846 <pre>He really loved his wife Many a times we don’t even know about some of the great warriors around us unless chance smiles at us. Their great exploits, their struggles and their fight for justice is a saga to regale and to salute and yet sadly many a times these facts remain unknown to us, unless per chance we come to interact with them or we get to know about their great acts through other quarters. As luck would have it, today I met one such wonderful person by the name of Sudhir Kumar Srivastava. Mr Srivastava is a banker by profession. An extremely sad event happened in his life when his wife Ms Nidhi Srivastava died, allegedly by wrong medical treatment. Since them he has been fighting for justice, against all odds, coming to face many hardships in various quarters, which resultantly has swarmed him into a cesspool of battles, taking a banker from his cozy banking environment to such rough fields as Medical Council, police stations and various Courts. Mr Srivastava came to me for certain legal discus</pre> Amitabh Thakur 2013-04-23T12:19:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6845 <pre>Friends, A long write-up on Facebook, which some of you might agree with. Would like to have your reactions please. Amitabh Thakur  amitabhth-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org, amitabhthakurlko-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org # 094155-34526 An Idiot on Facebook   As stated in an earlier post, it is not all that easy to write something on Facebook without the possibility of getting rebuked or severely attacked. More so when you are trying to write something which you think is a satirical piece.   I got the taste of writing satire on Facebook when after my piece on Boston police encounter, I was told to wake up and stop hallow bragging and also to limit myself towriting a few “I, me, myself” kind of puerile poems. As if this was not enough, I later cane to know of another post by a gentleman named Sujit Sarkar. Sarkar saheb is not directly connected to me as a friend on FB but we have a common friend Madhu Rayala. Mr Madhu shared by post on his wall which, it seems, was read by Mr </pre> Amitabh Thakur 2013-04-21T16:39:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6844 <pre> Friends, Two of my write-ups on issues presently under hectic and intense discussion. Would request for your comments please. Amitabh Thakur # 094155-34526 For a better policing In the wake of the spate of rapes and the alleged poor response of the police in these offences, if we really want a better policing in India, we need to stop our superficial approach and go for some of the fundamental reasons for the current state of affairs. Some of the things that are immediately needed include- 1.       Strictest action against the delinquents in police- This can happen only when we have an Independent Police Complaint enquiry system as found in Britain and many other foreign countries and as emphasized by the Supreme Court in the Police Reforms case 2.       Not limiting the action against policemen to mere administrative measures but to initiate criminal proceedings as well, as and when a policeman is found deliberately criminally liable in his conduct 3.       Immediately improve all t</pre> Amitabh Thakur 2013-04-21T16:38:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign/6843 <pre>Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh has always been cornered by political parties for failing to control law and order situation in the state and before the 2012 Assembly polls when exit polls predicted the comeback of the party again it was the same issue which was raised. However, when the party stormed back to the power in the 2012 assembly polls, the government claimed to have tightened the noose of the miscreants and alleged party workers but again failed to deliver on this front. The game of crowning of the tainted minister and then shunting them out to garner support and earn repute in the eye of the public, was already being played, meanwhile, one more game plan was introduced; it was reinstating the tainting official, last week in a major administrative reshuffle, Sadakant Shukla was again handed the charge of the department which saw him shunted to Central Home Ministry for dubious work. Sadakant was sent back to the state before the completion of his deputation</pre> urvashi sharma 2013-04-20T15:12:35 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.politics.antibriberycampaign