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Sarbajit Roy | 18 Jun 2013 13:38
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Re: [IAC#RG] Request for suo-moto Information under RTI Act

To:

Shri Dhiraj Srivastava

PS to CP and Central Public Information Officer

National Advisory Council,

2, Motilal Nehru Place,

New Delhi


18-June-2013

Dear Mr Shrivastava

Many thanks for your reply.

1) I had requested for the information to be provided suo-moto under the Life or Liberty proviso to section 7(1) of RTI Act 2005 , whereas the CIC decision you have relied on is "per incuram" referring to some Life and Liberty matter,

2) For your information, Mr. Vidya Charan Shukla has passed away in the meantime.It is really shocking that such a venerable UPA leader was compelled at age 83 years to attend a meeting without adequate security in a Naxal dominated region on the motivated advice of the NAC member, who subsequently resigned.

3) It is really shocking that the NAC has been infested with so many Maoists and Naxalites for so many years since 2006.

4) It is really shocking that ever since the NAC was formed the number of LWE controlled districts in India has gone up from 53 to 287.

5) It is really shocking that another former NAC member Mr. Harsh Mander was sheltering the wife of a known LWE leader for over 2 years, and had to resign over this issue when it came out.

In the circumstances it would be eminently fit if the NAC declares ON ITS OWN the qualifications and procedures for appointment of its members, including its Chairperson, so that the nation knows how why so many innocent lives INCLUDING OF PARA-MILITARY & SECURITY FORCES are being lost on a daily basis through leakage of confidential government information by secret and unexplained placement of private LWE persons in councils like the NAC, Planning Commission etc. which advise the Prime Minister of India.

For your information, a double Bench of the Central Information Commission in my own case by order dt. 01.06.2009 in CIC/LS/C/2009/00322 has reiterated that section 4 disclosure is to be provided immediately, free of cost  and without any request being made for it.

"(i) Since a reasonable time has now passed from the time of promulgation of the Act in 2005, the Public Authorities should now take urgent steps to have their records converted to electronic form, catalogued, indexed and
computerized for easy accessibility through the network all over the country, as  mandated in section 4 (1) (a) of the Act. The computerization, dissemination and updating of record is an ongoing and continuous process and all Public Authorities should put a proper system in place to make such sharing of records an automatic, routine and continuous process, so that access to such records is facilitated.

(ii) The Public Authorities are required to take immediate steps to publish detailed, complete and unambiguous information under the 16 categories, as on 31.3.2009 (if already not done or partially done) and thereafter update the information as and when necessary, but definitely every year, as mandated under section 4 (1) (b) of the
Act.

(iii) While formulating important policies or announcing the decisions affecting the public, the Public Authorities are required to publish all relevant facts about such policies
and decisions for the information of public at large, as mandated under section 4 (1) (c) of the Act.

(iv) The information disclosed by the Public Authorities under section 4 (1) (b) & (c ) of the Act is required to be disseminated through multiple means as provided under sub sections 2, 3 and 4 of Section 4 of the Act and as also suggested in Para 17.1 of the template prepared by the Tata Consultancy Service Ltd (Reference Para 14 above)/ or as per the practice adopted by the Government of Andhra Pradesh and the Andhra Pradesh State Information Commission (reference Para 13 above).

(v) Needless to say, the information disclosed by the Public Authorities under section 4 (1) (b) & (c) of the Act is a proactive disclosure and the Public Authorities are required to provide immediate access to this material as and when so requested, without the requirement of filing of any written request and the charging of any fee."

With best wishes

Er. Sarbajit Roy
National Convenor
Indian Against Corruption, jan andolan

B-59 Defence Colony, 2nd floor
New Delhi 110024
Tel: 011-24334262

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Dhiraj Srivastava <dhiraj.s-vXfIczYKVwKf0DUV/oxz1A@public.gmane.org> wrote:

Subject: Application under Right to Information Act, 2005

Dear Shri Roy,

Please refer to your E Mail on the subject mentioned above. You are requested to kindly intimate the substantive evidence in support of your claim of filing application under section 7(1) related to life & liberty of the RTI Act, 2005. Otherwise the application shall be processed as per normal provisions.

An order of the CIC in this context is enclosed for your reference in this context. In addition to above, you are also requested to remit Rs.10.00 as application fee by way of Postal Order / Demand Draft / Cheque in favour of Section Officer, Prime Minister's Office, New Delhi. The application shall be processed on receipt of the desired information.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

 

(Dhiraj Srivastava)

PS to CP and Central Public Information Officer

National Advisory Council,

2, Motilal Nehru Place,

New Delhi

 

 
 
On 06/10/13 01:07 PM, Sarbajit Roy wrote:
By EMAIL

To:
a) Central Public Information Officer
National Advisory Council
New Delhi

b) Secretary,
National Advisory Council
New Delhi

Date: 10-June-2013

Dear Sir/Madam,
URGENT

Sirs,

Sub: RTI request under section 4 of RTI Act 2005 to be complied immediately.

I am constrained to remind you that I have not received the suo-moto information sought by India Against Corruption's members vide my email dated 29-May-2013 (appended below).

The said email was sent under "Life or Liberty" clause of RTI Act on behalf of IAC (a strictly apolitical and secular people's movement) considering the deaths of so many persons in 25 May 2103 massacre who were "compelled" to go into areas well known to be LWE infested.

The reasons I am again requesting the information be published is summarised below:-

1) Because Ms Aruna Roy (former member NAC) is said to be a well known LWE. By way of example you may refer to the book "NGOs, Subversive Activists and Foreign Funds : the anti-nation industry 2nd edn." co-authored by her IAS batchmate Dr. Krishen Kak. Copies of the book are in the Library of Parliament. For your ready reference I am setting out a few directly relevant paragraphs therein
"'A careful look at the money trail of AID illustrates the functioning of the organisation, and throws light on other organisations that are used to funnel money collected by AID. These organisations co-ordinate their fund-raising activities and shadow their proceeds by passing through multiple accounts all controlled by like minded groups. One such organisation that has been funded by AID is called Tamil Nadu Science Forum (TNSF). TNSF works actively with DYFI. TNSF listed Balaji Sampath, who is also a founder of AID. Thus while Balaji Sampath's AID collects money in America, BALAJI SAMPATH (in his Indian incarnation!) receives money in India, ostensibly on behalf of TNSF.'

I understand that TNSF 'as a policy' would always impose a pre-condition on the libraries in Tamilnadu which they were financially supporting to the effect that the concerned libraries would only support DYFI and no other student body before receiving any funds. AID is a secretive organisation which enjoys the full political support of the UPA Government in New Delhi. It was AID which extended generous financial support to Sandeep Pandey, founder of ASHA and a known Naxalite sympathizer, to undertake a political trip to Pakistan some years ago.

Those who work with AID and its allies also seem to be experts in organizing international prizes and awards to themselves as part of a civil and cultural conspiracy. One Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy was given a prize by the Aga Khan foundation for having developed rainwater harvesting structures. Later investigations by The Week clearly revealed that he had hired a professional architect called Neehar Raina to get the job done. Upon this exposure, Aga Khan Foundation changed its citation to fit in with the known facts! A secularly shameless non-communal Roy, ended up by returning his prize. Bunker Roy's wife Aruna Roy, is a Maoist and has worked closely with AID. Like many who have worked closely with AID in its undeclared mission of national subversion, she too has been awarded a prize by the Ramon Magsaysay Foundation.

I can only conclude that NGO's like AID, ASHA, CAIR, FeTNA are all committed to their supreme objective of De-Hinduising the Indian State which means rendering the Hindu identity to any aspect of our national life illegitimate and irrelevant in public life and public discourse"

2) That apparently post the May 25 2013 Chattisgarh massacre, specific intelligence was available to the Govt of India concerning the involvement of private member(s) of the NAC  to "De-Hindu"-ise (?) the Congress Party's leadership in the presently BJP ruled States of Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh which go to polls very shortly .

3) That it is well known to MHA that front NGOs (such as Social Work Reserch Centre, Tilonia [Rajasthan]) of Mr. Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy (who is said to be Ms. Aruna Roy's husband) regularly receive many crores of rupees under FCRA from foreign sources routed via countries such as Tibet and Sierra Leone.

4) That it is very well known to Govt. of India and the MHA that large amounts of foreign exchange are flowing in to India for conversion of animist tribals to Christianity, especially in states such as Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh, and that radical Christian "priests" are actively inciting India's tribals to take up arms against the State, ie. LWEism also known as Naxalism, Maoism etc.

5) That Ms. Aruna Roy's husband actively runs massively foreign funded programs to train so-called "barefoot" doctors and "barefoot engineers". These illiterate unqualified depressed people are systematically brain-washed as agitators / technicians who go about fomenting disaffection against the Indian State and its institutions.

6) That Ms. Aruna Roy corruptly misused her status as a private (ie. "without salary to evade application of the Prevention of Corruption Act") NAC member to ensure that Ministries of Govt of India give huge funding to her husband's NGOs for the training of "barefoot" LWEs. Ms. Aruna Roy and her husband (who are only "humanities" graduates) have systematically ensured (through their proximity to Chairperson NAC and lobbying access thereby to critical Ministries) that the "Engineers Act/Bill" to regulate the qualifications and supervisory bodies to regulate the profession of Engineering is never passed. Thereby enabling this enterprising duo to carry on their hugely profitable private business of training "barefoot engineers" aka LWEs for some foreign natrions who openly finance them. It is also an open secret that Ms. Aruna Roy and her aforesaid husband were part of  the move to tamper with the autonomy of the IITs, and also caused the arrest on 28.11.2011 of many IAC volunteers for raising slogans like "Desh ke yuvak yahaan hain, Rahul Gandhi kahaan hain ?" close to NAC office that day.

7) That when the concerned Intelligence / Investigative agencies communicated their inability to investigate the May 25 Chattisgarh massacre in the face of such High Profile persons being close to Hon''ble Chairperson NAC and being in a position to impede their free and unfettered investigations, Ms. Aruna Roy got convinced to "resign" from the NAC.

8) That Ms. Aruna Roy was replaced at the NAC by another Christian tribal's agitator in a tearing hurry and without any public procedure and/or public scrutiny being available or followed (as the IAC had requested vide my email dt. 29.05.2013 which was also addressed to the Cabinet Secretary by name).

9) That IAC apprehends the said hurried appointment of Ms Aruna Roy's replacement is to continue an  unfinished agenda to de-Hinduise the Congress Party leadership in specific BJP ruled states. Hence IAC's request for urgent suo-moto disclosure.

In the circumstances, we repeat our request that all available information pertaining to procedure and terms for selection of members of the NAC is put into the public domain within 48 hours on Life or Liberty basis, as IAC is seriously interested in knowing how alleged/purported LWEs came to be appointed to NAC-I and NAC-II and if this was in any way responsible for deaths of so many citizens of India (with perhaps more to come).

With best wishes

yours sincerely


Er. Sarbajit Roy
National Convenor
Indian Against Corruption, jan andolan

B-59 Defence Colony, 2nd floor
New Delhi 110024
Tel: 011-24334262

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb-Re5JQEeQqe8@public.gmane.orgm> wrote:
By EMAIL

To:
1) Central Public Information Officer
National Advisory Council
New Delhi

2) Cabinet Secretary to Govt of India

Date: 29-May-2013

Kind Attn:
a) Mr Dhiraj Shrivastava (PS to Chairperson/NAC),

b) Mr Ajit Kumar Seth (Cabinet Secretary/GoI)
URGENT

Sirs,

Sub: RTI request under section 4 of RTI Act 2005 to be complied immediately.

Kindly treat this as a "Life or Liberty" application

I have come to know from the below mentioned NDTV link that there are now some vacancies for post of "Member" in the National Advisory Council and which post(s) I would like to formally apply to be considered for.

I am given to understand that the published qualification for the post is "professionals with diverse experience"
which I abundantly fulfill.

I would therefore be obliged to be urgently informed the procedure and application format (if any) to be considered.

I would also like to be urgently informed about the present prescribed salary and perquisites for the post, as I know for a fact that some corrupt members of NAC-I were misusing their posts (which was then an unpaid one) to lobby for foreign interests.

With best wishes

yours sincerely


Er. Sarbajit Roy
National Convenor
Indian Against Corruption, jan andolan

B-59 Defence Colony, 2nd floor
New Delhi 110024
Tel: 011-24334262

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Joshi NM <naishadhjoshi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
 
Sub: Re: Aruna Roy bidding goodbye to NAC

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/social-activist-aruna-roy-resigns-from-sonia-gandhi-led-national-advisory-council-372756 

Social activist Aruna Roy resigns from Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council


Social activist Aruna Roy has decided not to continue in the National Advisory Council, led by UPA chairman Sonia Gandhi, after her term expires on Friday.

Ms Roy has written a letter to Mrs Gandhi requesting that she should not be considered for another term of NAC that sets the social agenda for the government and the UPA Chairperson has accepted the request.

On her way out, Ms Roy criticised the government for not taking up recommendations of the council on minimum wages to workers under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).



 

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Murali Krishnan | 17 Jun 2013 20:30
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[IAC#RG] Online RTI facility extended to President Secretariat and MEA

Sarbajit and other RTI gurus,

Online RTI facility extended to President Secretariat and MEA

"However, the department has asked people not to file information related to state governments.

“Please do not file RTI applications through this portal for the public authorities under the state governments, including Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi. If filed, the application would be returned, without refund of amount,”

Doesn't this seem wrong ? Why no transfer under 6(3) ?

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Sarbajit Roy | 17 Jun 2013 16:34
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[IAC#RG] Another patriot gone

Bahukutumbi Raman  passed away in Chennai on Sunday evening after a prolonged fight with cancer. He was 77.

Described as an asset by the Indian intelligence community, "B. Raman" was a former additional secretary with the Cabinet secretariat. He was also the director of the Institute for Topical Studies, Chennai and one of India's foremost security experts and one of the founders of India's external intelligence wing -- the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)

He had also written a memoir titled "Kaoboys of Research and Analysis Wing: Down Memory Lane".

I had filed an RTI based on this book (and also another by Maloy Dhar) to the CabSec a few years back. A JointSec of Cabsec called me back and requested me not to pursue it further in National Interest. I replied that the fact of my queries were in public domain was enough.

some samples

b) Decision / policy, if any, to bifurcate IB to create R&AW on 21.Sep.1968 or  thereabouts
c) Decision(s) / policy, if any, to constitute or deploy covert action units of  R&AW after 1968,
d) Decision(s) / policy, if any, to constitute or deploy covert action units of  Directorate-General of Security (DGS) after 1968,
e) A copy of the noting(s) by B.N.Mullick (former Director IB) constituting the  "Burma Branch" presently with R&AW Archives,
f) Copy of the note issued by Indian Ambassador to Burma, and later supplied to  R&AW in 1968-69, stating that Govt of India I had no objection to Chinese assistance to Burma (now Myanmar) for aerial photography of Indian territory,
g) Decision to destroy / weed out from R&AW records the transcripts of records of negotiations for settlement by Mr Rajiv Gandhi, Mr R.N. Kao and others recorded by Mr B Raman before Army was sent into Golden Temple Amritsar in June 1984, along with record(s) of factum of destruction. NB: Mr. B Raman former Addl Secy of R&AW has published that that these valuable historical records were
entrusted by him to R&AW archives around 31,August 1994 in the hope they are  made available to future historians
h) Decision to destroy / weed out from R&AW records, communications from American Baptist missionaries in Burma (Kachin State) to R&AW after October 1968, along with records of factum of destruction.
i) Decision to destroy / weed out the Indian Army's minute of dissent to Joint  Intelligence Committee concerning over-assessment of Naga hostiles sent to China for training in 1968-69, along with records of factum of destruction.
j) Decision to conduct an enquiry into suspicions that CIA was involved in assassination of Mrs Indira Gandhi. It is pertinent that Mr B Raman former Addl Secy R&AW, has alleged the enquiry "could not prove this suspicion".
k) Decision(s) / policy not to upgrade India's "weak" (per Mr B Raman) maritime  intelligence capability concerning US and naval development in Indian Ocean region.

Entire document here  [ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rti_india/message/4808 ]

Sarbajit


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Sarbajit Roy | 17 Jun 2013 07:56
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[IAC#RG] Congress last ditch effort in Rank Pay case

India Against Corruption is concerned that crafty Congress Party is again out to shaft our IESMs and servicemen in the Major Dhanapalan / Rank Pay case by referring the matter to Attorney-General Ghoolam Vahanavati - their ultimate lying knave - who even got CBI taken out of RTI with a biased and unprofessional opinion (180 degrees  opposed to what SG Gopal Subramaniam) had written which IAC G.Sec Karira and I inspected at DoPT.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ministry-of-defence-ak-antony-rank-pay-matter-attorney-general/1/280281.html

IESMs 'loha garam hain hathoda maro' but you chaps are bungling about and being misled up the garden path by political forces. Get united on this and meet all parties - especially the ruling party - in full force..

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Sarbajit Roy | 14 Jun 2013 22:50
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[IAC#RG] Arvind Kejriwal, who are you fooling ?

It has taken 9 months for AAP to "clear" Mayank Gandhi of corruption charges leveled against him by Viren Shah and others. The baby they delivered is still-born.

8 of those 9 months were spent in desperately searching for 2 persons (in the whole of India) who would exonerate Mayank against the specific charges made against him with reams of evidence.

Actually when I had raised the issue of non-investigation of charges against Mayank Gandhi, Anjali Damania and Prashant Bhushan 3 months back, AAP publicly said no charges had been made against them - a blatant lie as it now turns out.

So lets see who the 2 scamps (for that is the best word to describe them) they found to exonerate Mayank Gandhi are.

a) Admiral Ramdas (Retd CoNS)
b) Illina Sen (wife of Binayak Sen) (and so what if she is a lady)

both of whom are so close to Prashant Bhushan that even the worlds thinnest condom will find it tough to squeeze between them.

After reading their semi-illiterate and mendacious exoneration of Mayank. Gandhi, I look forward to reading how they now get Ms. Damania and Mr. Bhushan off.

So if this is the brave new world Aam Aadmi Party is offering us - where judge, jury and executioner are all "fixed" (remember the Amar Singh allegations against Shanti Bhushan of fixing a judge for 4 crores), please give me Amar Singh any day for at least he makes no pretence of being honest.

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Sarbajit Roy | 14 Jun 2013 11:11
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[IAC#RG] PRESS RELEASE­­: publication by India Against Corruption

Dear IAC participants,

Swaup Sarkar's email to me, below, encapsulates the problem, ordinary people or groups with extra-ordinary views have in being heard in a controlled information society.

An information society where editorial content is openly negotiated  for advertising revenue (Zee TV and Naveen Jindal), or where semi-literate persons wielding power arbitrarily (Wikipedia refusing to acknowledge P Kalyanasundaram simply because his "truth" and Jimbo Wales's don't mesh).

When somebody approached me about 10 days back because he was harassed by a particularly abusive blogger (whose father incidentally is our valued contributor on spirituality and misgovernance) and a paid chamcha for Baba Ramdev, I advised the individual to use "open source cloud technology" to correct the information imbalance. Clouding works: for eg. Do a google search for "Baba Ramdev Coward" or "Sanjeev Sabhlok ass" to confirm that these links are #1 (or at least top 5) on Google.

So members can shortly start sending IAC their UNIQUE Press Releases and articles on politics, politicians, corruption, governance, events etc. with the IAC GUARANTEE that IAC will publish it if it meets IAC's standards (which we will inform members shortly).

PS: Save India Family Foundation's Press Release has been uploaded (after cleaning it up), but our sites are not operational (as yet) for public view.

Sarbajit

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Swarup Sarkar <swarup1972-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Date: Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:19 PM
Subject: PRESS RELEASE­­:Just like SurajPancholi, thousands of helpless men get victimized with threats of Suicide from wives and girlfriends every year.
To: letters <letters-UT0ypL5queGdGQ+YCijsmw@public.gmane.org>

PRESS RELEASE­­:Just like SurajPancholi, thousands of helpless men get victimized with threats of Suicide from wives and girlfriends every year.


http://swarup1972.blogspot.in/2013/06/press-releasejust-like-surajpancholi.html

Based on media reports and alleged suicide note of Jiah Khan, 22-year old SurajPancholi was arrested and sent to jail for committing the crime of abatement to suicide. We have to understand that such laws do not exist in other countries in the world. Is suicide a solution to break-ups or separation? Jiah Khan attempted suicide 8 months ago and nothing was done to ensure that she does not repeat it. It is absurd to assume that all human relations will remain everlasting in this age of modernity.Finally, women are portrayed as victims, and men as abusers.


SurajPancholi is no alone. Thousands of men across India call SIFF helplines every week. Half of them have faced threats of suicide from their wives from time to time, if they do not meet her unreasonable demands. 


These men are scared. These abusive wives refuse to come to a counselor or a psychiatrist. When these young men plead to the parents of women abouttheir suicidal nature, parents do not take it seriously. These men cannot run away from home or file for divorce, fearing that this may prompt her to commit suicide. They suffer mental and physical abuse from possessive, controlling and suspicious wives. In fact, the society laughs at them as “Harassed Husbands” rather than helping the man and making arrangements for counseling of such women. Now, this phenomenon is getting extended to relationships before marriage as well. Being obsessively possessive and controlling is not a sign of love.

In short, India is sitting on a ticking time bomb as the society refuses to recognize the issue of threats of suicide inside marriages or in relationships. The society just behaves as if such incidents are rare or wishes that this problem will go away on its own. Then, it recommends revenge on the man if the woman commits suicide. Home Ministry (NCRB) data says, 24% of all suicides in India are due to Family Reasons and 3.4% due to failed love affairs.

Here are concerns of SIFF around this case:

1.      There are no checks and balances in this abetment to suicide law. SurajPancholi did not point gun at the head of Jiah Khan to force her commit suicide. Breaking-up with a girlfriend or being commitment-phobic is not a crime. As reported, Suraj did everything he could so that Jiah Khan can get some psychiatrist help, after she attempted suicide 8 months ago. One has to wonder, why Jiah’s mother did not get her to a psychiatrist.

2.      This abetment to suicide law is very selectively applied by police. When a husband commits suicide blaming torture by wife and in-laws, the police refuse to arrest the woman and her parents. However, if a wife commits suicide, the husband and in-laws go to prison for 6 months to 2 years and are presumed guilty until proven innocent. Is the life of a man cheap? Males are the disposable gender.

3.      This abetment to suicide law and the social attitudes around it actually encourage suicides, by taking away the responsibility from a person to preserve his or her own life.

4.      Many possessive women are already abusing their husbands and boyfriends and threatening suicide, if he stands his ground and defends his dignity. Arrest of SurajPancholi will only increase such incidents rapidly. A man is completely helpless here.

5.      Jiah Khan attempted suicide 8 months back. It is reported that SurajPancholi was extremely concerned about her life after that incident and he called her mother to India and he even spoke to her for taking Jiah Khan to a psychiatrist. What more can a man do? He is helpless beyond a certain point, when a woman is obsessive and suicidal?

6.      Did Jiah Khan’s mother Rabiya Amin take her to a psychiatrist or counselor, even after knowing about her attempt to commit suicide? As a mother, is not it her responsibility to ensure that her daughter handles stress and relationship troubles with help from mental health professionals?

7.      SurajPancholi and many men are victimized as the hatred against men or misandry in general is fueled by mass hysteria after incidents of rape. SIFF demands an end to large scale gender hate, stereotyping and the attitude to judge men harshly. If hate cannot solve communal or religious problems, then why it is assumed that blaming men and spreading hate against men will solve crimes against women?

8.      If a young man commits suicide and he leaves a suicide note, blaming his girlfriend for hurting him, cheating on him and abusing him, will the society show same fervor in demanding arrest of the girl involved? If not, then why men are victimized for the decision for a woman to commit suicide for break up?

Threat of suicide by man is actually defined as domestic violence under Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (PWDVA), which is applicable to both marriages and live-in relationships. A woman can get a restraining order from a court against husband and boyfriend if they threaten suicide. However, the society and the women’s organizations force Government to refuse to protect men from such forms of domestic violence. If they had, then SurajPancholi would have got a restraining order and would have legally forced Jiah Khan to get psychiatric help.

It’s a slap on the face of Bollywood

Finally, Bollywood itself has indulged in spreading large scale hatred against men in recent times, with anti-male stereotyping without looking at issue in a more academic and meaningful manner. Many Bollywood actors are full of misandry. Now, one among them has committed suicide and a budding actor is in prison. It’s a slap on Bollywood’s face and its shows how disconnected Bollywood is from group realities in spite of its false claims to transform the society.

Many actors like Shah Rukh Khan to Amitabh Bacchan have publicly proclaimed, “I am ashamed of being a man”. Shaming all men for the crimes of a few is nothing but anti-male hate or misandry. If misogyny is not healthy for the society, then how can misandry create a better society? We hope, Bollywood actor realize that in this grave hour.

In this particular case (below), a husband committed suicide blaming torture by wife and in-laws. The police did not arrest the wife and in-law even after hundreds of phone calls are made to Mumbai police by SIFF members. If the law of abetment to suicide is to save people from suicide, should not it be applied equally to both genders? Or is men’s life cheaper in Indian society?


SFF Demands that:

1.      Government must bring checks and balances to all laws related to suicide, like abetment to suicide and dowry deaths.

2.      Government must make domestic violence law gender neutral and protect men from wives and girlfriends, who threaten suicide every now and then.

3.      Suicidal women must be forced to undergo counseling and treatment.

4.      All laws must be made gender neutral and both genders must be treated in a fair manner.

5.      The society must take steps to curb misandry. It is challenging, because it is too easy to blame and stereotype all men citing incidents of rape or other crimes against women. Such misandry will vitiate gender relations.

6.      It must be ensured that, men’s rights to liberty, dignity and basic human rights are not snatched away in the name of empowering women.

According to National Crime Records Bureau, about 20,000 men and about 12, 000 women committed suicide in 2011 for “Family Reasons” alone.

From Save Indian Family Foundation
Call: 0-9008302822, 0-9632812802




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Sarbajit Roy | 13 Jun 2013 23:14
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[IAC#RG] Future direction of the India Against Corruption movement

Dear Friends and fellow patriots.

Its been 7 months since IAC began formally jettisoning everybody who did not share our common vision of how India shall become a great nation where citizens are respected and accorded their rights equally.

Now, it was never the intention of IAC to be a intellectual group for idle chatter, as IAC's foes (and there are many of them), have been led to believe. IAC's strengths actually lie hidden elsewhere as every ruling party knows but cannot express in public.

So it is better that I speak frankly now on the direction the intellectual side of the IAC movement will be taking. But first a few basic truths (as IAC sees them) so that those who disagree can unsubscribe themselves :-

1) The vast majority of citizens are insignificant when it comes tackling real corruption. Citizens are the disease and not its cure. 

2) The entire system of governance is completely corrupt. There is not a single democratic institution left standing which is not afflicted by corruption or taken over by vested interests. In particular the 2 institutions which are supposed to act as bulwarks against the State - the Judiciary and the Media have been afflicted even more by corruption's rot than the rot within the Government. The less said about the present state of the Indian Defence Services and our para-military fighting forces the better.

3) Today it is impossible for a private citizen to avail either the Judiciary or the Media unless his interest and that of the institution converge. IAC has learned this the bitter way when we refused to accept (as a honest and principled apolitical movement) the profit sharing deals offered to us by some media houses offering to "run" our campaign.

4) India is going to be under election fever for the next 8 months so to expect that anything on anti-corruption beyond shrill rhetoric and false promises will be achieved is a pipe dream. Better we stay rooted to reality and tangible deliverables instead of futile / time-pass discussion on mailing lists.

5)  Being blacklisted by all media networks, IAC shall be setting up its own online and grassroots media outlets. IAC is entering the political information space to provide IAC's unique political and governance views to citizens at large and not only to our list subscribers. Having 57,000+ readers is simply not enough when we need to get IAC's focused message out to at least 20 times that number. (NB: There is an initial period of about 4 to 6 months required to "seed" our forthcoming non-traditional news platforms (which, just to clarify, is not based on social networks)

6) IAC has correctly read the present trend - 2014 is likely to have a 3rd front government with outside support, NaMo's elevation has started that process as we expected.  Election results in the 5 States going to assembly polls will show that, but interestingly a win for BJP in these States in 2013 will go against them in the Lok Sabha polls (except in Delhi). As all sides (including IAC) are constantly measuring the "mind" of the voter, all kinds of interesting combinations and strategies will be popping up to get that elusive "Wave".

2014 is going to be the most bitter campaign India has had so far (and IAC will be in the thick of it).

More soon.

Sarbajit
 
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Sarbajit Roy | 10 Jun 2013 14:37
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[IAC#RG] Request to authenticate the appointment of the national Advisory Council

To:
Ms. Rita Sharma
Secretary,
National Advisory Council

BY EMAIL
MOST URGENT

Date: 10 June 2013

Dear Madam

It has been noticed by the citizens that whereas the banner website of the National Advisory Council declares itself as "National Advisory Council - Government of India - Prime Minister's Office"; the Prime Minister's Office does not correspondingly list the NAC in its lists of councils / Committees (a declaration mandated in terms of s/s 4(1)(b) (viii) of the RTI Act 2005)

http://pmindia.nic.in/committeescouncils.php
http://pmindia.nic.in/committeescouncils-all.php

I would therefore be obliged if you, as Secretary NAC,  could kindly clarify this issue to me immediately in terms of the ancient principle of "quo warranto".

The grounds of urgency are:

A) FOR THAT the sudden resignation of Ms Aruna Roy (former member NAC) soon after the massacre of numerous eminent persons on 25.May.2013 in Chattisgarh by Left Wing Extremists is not explained.

B) FOR THAT no authentic gazette Notification notification dt. 27.05.2013 in continuation of No. A.22019/1/2010-PME purportedly issued by the Prime Minister's Office is published by NAC on its website.

NB: For the record, I am listing out below the entire list of PM's councils and committees on PMO website today.
with best wishes

Er. Sarbajit Roy

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Vidyut Kale | 9 Jun 2013 13:19
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[IAC#RG] A new Kiran Bedi Facepalm moment

India is a great country. There SHOULD NOT be a rift between LKA and NaMo. There CANNOT be a rift between Krishna and Arjun ~ Kirab Bedi

https://twitter.com/thekiranbedi/status/343628844160405504
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Sarbajit Roy | 8 Jun 2013 18:30
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[IAC#RG] Aruna Roy replaced by Virginus Titus in NAC

" After the exit of Aruna Roy, government has reconstituted the
National Advisory Council by inducting renowned sociologist Virginius
Xaxa into the 12-member panel chaired by Sonia Gandhi.

The term of the panel, which has been giving legislative and policy
inputs to the government ranging from the seminal rural jobs scheme to
the latest food security bill, has been made co-terminus with the term
of the present government."

Watch this space : some amazing developments on this by Monday.

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meetyesh gangar | 8 Jun 2013 12:29
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[IAC#RG] RTI second appeal hearing within 15 days

Pendency of Second Appeal come down to 58. Hearing with 15 Days flat after filling appeal.. Indeed a good work by Maharashtra SIC Mr. Ratnakar Gaikwad. Keep up the good work sir..
DNA 8th June, 2013--Page 8.
http://epaper.dnaindia.com/story.aspx?id=46670&boxid=31453&ed_date=2013-6-08&ed_code=820009&ed_page=8

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