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हम शरणागत हैं माँ विध्याचल-रानी ..
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भेजें: हम शरणागत है माँ विंध्याचल -रानी
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Friends,

I saw an Article in the NY Post (2nd March 2009) titled "City Cops'
Bad Buddies" followed by the subtitle "100+ Officers investigated for
ties to Mobesters, Robbers & Drug Pushers".
It is written by Murray Weiss who is the criminal justice editor at
the New York Post, reporting on everything from street crime to con
artists, law enforcement and the Mafia.
Its opening lines are- "Move over, Mafia Cops! More than 100 of New
York's Finest were investigated last year for allegedly associating
with criminals - from boozing with mobsters to pulling off robberies
with gang members to even carrying on affairs with lowlife drug dealers"
Some of the more astounding cases involve a transit cop Yaniris
Balbuena, 31, who was charged with laundering $250,000 for her
heroin-trafficking common-law husband - even making money pickups on
Bronx street corners for his far-flung operations, which reached into
the Dominican Republic, Jorge Arbaje-Diaz, a Bronx cop for three
years, who was charged federally with participating in a violent
stickup crew that posed as cops while committing 100 armed robberies
of drug traffickers along the East Coast, netting millions in cash and
drugs and Detective Luis Batista, who was  implicated in a cocaine
operation.
The reason for such a behaviour has also been analysed by Murray when
he says- "The issue has been of increasing concern as the force has
gotten younger and starting salaries have fallen." As one of his
sources explains- "You pay a low salary".
Again Murray feels that "accusations of cops consorting with criminals
are extraordinarily difficult to lodge because investigators must
prove an individual was aware of someone's unsavory background. And
many cops wind up being warned to avoid their errant relations."
Finally as Murray says, the NYPD poster boys for consorting with
criminals are ex-Detectives Louis Eppolito, who boasted of having a
mob capo for an uncle and penned an autobiography, "Mafia Cop," and
Steven Caracappa. They were unmasked as being on the mob's payroll,
pocketing bribes and participating in six murders - all while on the
force.
Do these things, such news and such situations sound familiar to
people living in India? So, is there something universal about human
behaviour?

Amitabh Thakur
SP (Intll),
Faizabad
# 94155-34526

Friends,

This is with regards to the incidence as happened to Sri Saugata
Chatterjee of B'lore in which he has not only narrated the facts of
the incidence but has also made his solemn vow to stand up and take
its culprits to their logical conclusion.
It was heart-rendering to go thru this incidence which as it says, is
the real-life story of a B'lore based young and active person who had
to go thru a most horrid experience in one of the most educated and
developed cities of our nation. That such events and such brutal
happenings still do take place in the heart of the sophisticated
metropolis is like an eye-opener to all of us, particularly to higher
police officers like me in the Indian Police Service, safely ensconced
in our well-guarded and nicely preserved empires.
But what seems to be no less relevant is the experience this person
had to go through vis-�-vis the police organization in and out of the
police station. When one comes to think of men like Thimmappa and
Vittal, we do start feeling ashamed and perturbed who, as the story
says, played a rather poor and undistinguished role in the time of
dire need, where the occasion required immediate and positive response.
But at the same time, there are policemen like Ajay whose actions and
attitude made such a pleasant and soothing mark on this bruised
person's heart, which also proves the fact that people are willing to
lap, clap and appreciate the policemen if we are reciprocating in our
own expected manner. Everyone of the police force has his/her own
lessons to learn and guidelines to take from this incidence where this
one person, Saugata so boldly and courageously came forward for the
sake of justice, at the same time praising and condemning the
policemen as he felt they deserved.
This is a lesson we need to harp upon again and again.

Amitabh Thakur
SP (Intll),
Faizabad
UP
#  94155-34526

Friends,

Let this chap be excused for having transgressed the purview and for
having thrown in some Garbage in this otherwise illuminating space.

Amitabh Thakur
SP (Intll),
Faizabad

Definition of a kiss


Prof .of Economics

Kiss is that thing for which the demand is always higher than the supply.


*******

Prof. Of Accountancy

Kiss is a credit because it is profitable when returned.


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Prof. Of Algebra

Kiss is infinity because two divided by nothing.


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Prof. Of Geometry

Kiss is the shortest distance between two lips.


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Prof. Of Physics

Kiss is the contraction of mouth due to the expansion of the heart.


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Prof. Of Chemistry

Kiss is the reaction of the interaction between two hearts.


*******

Prof. Of Zoology

Kiss is the interchange of salivary bacteria.


*******

Prof. Of Dentistry

Kiss is infectious and antiseptic.


*******

Prof. Of Philosophy

Kiss is the persecution for the child, ecstasy for the youth and
homage for the old.


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Prof. Of Architecture

Kiss is a process which builds a solid bond between the two dynamic
objects


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Prof. Of Comp.Science

What is a kiss? It seems to be an undefined variable


Finally, one by the Professor of Police Sciences-

Kiss is something which when done in public can always be translated
into money by a vigilante policeman and can always be accused by him
to have been done improperly or forcefully in private to yield the
same results.

Amitabh Thakur
Prof of Police Sciences,
Faizabad
# 94155-34526

Friends,

The IAS and the IPS services are considered among the
cr�me-de-la-cr�me of the Indian bureaucratic arrangement. Despite all
kinds of socio-political changes, people belonging to these services
still have public respect and public faith towards them, though for
many reasons, a kind of visible erosion is being perceived and there
is a perception that the so-called Steel frame is no more of the same
sterling quality it used to be.
Yet there are persons whose acts and whose deeds make one think twice
before arriving at such a conclusion. The Gujarat incidents of 2002
threw up many such heroes whose tales of courage, conviction and
dedication towards service have made it into the folklores. One such
person is Mr RB Sreekumar, the then Additional Director General of
Police, heading the Intelligence Department in Gujarat during those
troubled times.
This is what Teesta Setalvad, the social activists said about Mr
Sreekumar during her acceptance speech  of the Nani A Palkhivala Civil
Liberties Award, 2006-
"But only one man has remained a stoic and principled dissenter until
today, refusing to cave in even as weeks lapsed into months and months
into years. This man that I dedicate today's honour to. His only
quality-- that many but his co-travellers have seen as a fault-- is
that he refused to sit by and let the mass crimes planned at the
highest level go unchallenged. He suffered for these acts by being
denied due promotion to the post of Director General of Police,
Gujarat, the highest post in his field that as a policeman and thrice
Presidential Award winner for bravery, he would and should aspire to.
Mr RB Sreekumar, Additional Director General of Police, the state of
Gujarat, I salute you."
While it is true that the person whose speech has been produced here
has earned lots of controversies in her enthralling and eventful
journey, having earned an equal number of admirers and detractors but
when she praises Mr Shreekumar in no uncertain words doesn't it fill
the hearts of all the fellow IPS officers with pride? If this is not
true valour and heroism, what else is?
He later compiled his experiences in a book named "The Diary of a
Helpless Man" where he termed the State government as "cruelly
communal" and its officers "sophisticated sycophants" but everyone
knows that there is not much bravery and valour in writing books after
retirement because the fear of persecution is much diluted. But what
makes Mr Shreekumar stand out in the crowd is the fact that he refused
to toe the line expected of him even during the service where he had
to undergo through a Departmental enquiry and finally got his
promotion only through the intervention of the Court. This 1971-cadre
officer and a person holding Post-graduate degrees in three subjects
got superceded in the aftermath of his depositions before the Nanavati
panel.
An Article in "The Hindu" dated Sunday, Mar 04, 2007 titled-
"Sreekumar retires from service, but not his battles" portrays the
turmoil he had to go through- "He, however, scored a victory of sorts
with the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) ruling in his favour
against the Government's "refusal" to grant him promotion. But the CAT
order came only a few hours before 1971-batch IPS officer ended his
innings in the State police cadre on February 28. Also, the order
could not be implemented as a related case is still pending in the
Supreme Court. His pension will not be cleared until the court order
is received." As per the report in Hindu, he was denied promotion on
the ground that a charge sheet against him, related to the period he
was SP in Kutch way back in 1987, was pending in court. The high court
later found the order illegal and reinstated him as DGP on May 3,
2008, with retrospective effect from February 23, 2005. He now lives
in Gandhinagar and is working actively for justice to the victims of
Gujarat genocide.
Our due regards to this brave officer of the Indian Police Service.

Amitabh Thakur
SP (Intll),
Faizabad
# 94155-34526

Friends,

Another person who withstood his ground and emerged as hero for ever
was Mr Rahul Sharma, a 1992 batch IPS officer who was posted as
Superintendent of Police of Bhavnagar district about whom Mr
Shreekumar has written so high about in his book "The Diary of a
Helpless Man"  saying that he was the only other officer who stood to
himself in the affidavit before the Nanavati commission probing the
riots.
In Mr Sharma's district a mob was fired at killing four when it was
attacking an orphanage with 350 inmates in it. He dealt with the other
riotous elements with the same firmness and neutrality (almost with an
iron hand as is desired on such occasions) and thus Bhavnagar became
the first district in Gujarat where the rioters got so much
discouraged and frightened that they simply chickened out and the
riots got controlled with immediate effect
About Mr Rahul Sharma's contribution in the Gujarat riots, Vikram
Rautela of the Indian Express on Feb 08, 2009 titled- "IPS Rahul
Sharma expresses willingness to rejoin state police" , writes- "Sharma
had provided the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team
(SIT) with a set of two compact discs containing records of all mobile
phone calls made in and around Ahmedabad during the 2002 riots. He had
procured the call records from Cellforce and AT&T, which were
providing mobile phone service at that time." It was says- "During his
brief tenure as SP from February 27 to March 26, 2002, he had
successfully controlled rioting in the district. The Modi government,
however, shunted him to the low profile post of DCP in the Ahmedabad
police's control room on April 8, 2002. Less than a week after he got
the CDs in June 2002, Sharma was taken off the riot probe and sent to
group 11 SRP at Vav near Surat on July 6. The transfer was being
considered by some as a punishment posting for having ruffled several
feathers. On August 22, 2003, Sharma joined the CID (crime), and six
months later, he joined the CBI on February 17, 2004. "
In another Article  titled  "On hold for 7 yrs, probe picks up Gujarat
riot phone CDs " dated Feb 06, 2009 Vikram Rautela writes � "A set of
CDs containing mobile phone records of all calls made in Ahmedabad
during the 2002 Gujarat riots, ignored by at least one probe panel but
preserved by an IPS officer, is now helping the Supreme
Court-appointed Special Investigation Team in the reinvestigation of
the ten worst riot cases." Adding-  "The SIT has relied heavily on the
interpretation of the data in the CDs. "It took us almost six months
to analyse this huge data. It was on the basis of these findings that
we got a clear picture of who was where on February 28, 2002 and we
prepared questionnaires for the accused and suspects accordingly,"
said an SIT officer who did not wish to be identified."
Rautela further writes- "In October 2004, Sharma, appearing before the
Nanavati Commission, caused a stir when he took out copies of the CDs
from a bag and placed it before the panel. Shunted to Surat after the
riots, Sharma kept a copy of the CDs."
Here I would like to add that I belong to the same batch as Mr Rahul
Sharma and feel doubly proud to have been there with this brave person
for nearly two years at the National Police Academy, Hyderabad sharing
hours together. What makes Mr Sharma so very special in our eyes is
the fact that he is so unassuming and gentle-mannered that one would
tend to disbelieve that all the exploits being mentioned are really
his own. How could a person who can hardly harm a fly get transformed
into one in whose district the riots were quelled and crushed in the
most effective manner, going to the extent of being ruthless almost in
the copybook style?  He is very decent in his words and speech, very
cool and helping and very much a friend's friend. Yet when it comes to
his obligations towards his duty and his commitment to his job, he
gets the Arjun's eyes leaving everything else other than the work
assigned. This is our Rahul Sharma. He is now going back to the
Gujarat cadre from the CBI where we all know that he would continue
doing his good work.

Amitabh Thakur
SP (Intll),
Faizabad
# 94155-34526

Friends,

I went thru a slightly old India Today Article  (dated March 12, 2007)
titled "Indian Part-time Service" by Sri Sanjay Kumar Jha which began
with the following- "Shunted postings are prompting IPS officers to
channelise their energy and expertise in the areas of their interest.
Some are writing books, some are engaged in NGO activities, while
others have turned playback singers."
The Article mentions the name of 5 IPS officers of Bihar Cadre viz.,
Sri Manoje Nath, Arvind Pandey, Gupteshwar Pandey, Abhayanand and Ajay
Kumar Verma.
In the beginning I would like to state that the word "shunted" did
amuse me. We so often use this word for describing officers who are
placed in positions of so-called less socio-political relevance, where
their role and contribution to the mainstream gets naturally
diminished. But why the word "shunted". As per the Oxford dictionary
and Thesaurus, shunt (as a verb) means to diverge or cause (a train)
to be diverted to another track and as a Noun means the act or an
instance of shunting on to a siding.
Thus each one of these officers are like those trains who have been
moved or diverted to some other track from the regular one on which
they were supposed to be kept. At least this is what would emerge from
the dictionary meaning of the word.
Of these 5 IPS officers, I would specially mention Sri Ajay Kumar
Verma who has been facing so-called hardships for years because of his
iconoclastic views and non-conforming nature.
Of the various facts that I came to know about this 1985 batch IPS
officer are-
1. Mr Verma is considered to be an upright officer and thus has to
undergo the jitters of being posted at a `low profile' place.
2. As SP (Vigilance) he made it to the headlines when he unearthed a
scam regarding the appointment of lecturers.
3. In another case, criminal cognizance was taken against five top IAS
officials on Mr Verma's investigation.
4. Mr Verma was not paid his salary for four years at a stretch,
starting from June 1, 1998 to March 2002  for some such reasons which
he fought successfully in the Court..
5. Mr Verma have demanded for a "Property Declaration Act" to be
introduced. Under the demand they want all officers who are legible to
move on election duty should declare their assets in public, along the
same lines as politicians.
6. Presently Mr Verma is again fighting for a cause. He is ready to
challenge the Bihar police act 2007 saying it "bad in law and not
sustainable, as it is an attempt to overstep the SC order",

Thus here we have a person who has been facing all odds with great
aplomb and has been treading his own path completely away from all
kinds of allurements.
One can very well say that there are very few of his kind.

Amitabh Thakur
SP (Intll),
Faizabad
# 94155-34526

Friends,

In the same India Today Article by Sri Sanjay Kumar Jha, there was
also a reference to Sri Manoje Nath. It said- "Manoje Nath, a
1973-batch IPS officer posted as the commissioner, civil defence, in
Patna has the reputation of being fiercely independent, honest and
upright. The Patna High Court has assigned him tasks on many
occasions. In the famous Ms Shikha Gupta case relating to corruption
in education, Nath's report led to the prosecution of four
vice-chancellors and even a retired High Court judge, who had served
as the VC of Magadh University. His report on the state of higher
education in Bihar is as much a detailed expose of the "academic
underworld" as it is a work of literary merit. Nath has not restrained
himself to writing just inquiry reports. A prolific writer, he has
written on subjects ranging from science fiction to globalisation. His
series of humourous articles "Gulliver in Patiliputra" and "Modest
Proposals" in local newspapers have been very popular."
But what is hurting is the fact that the same Sri Manoje Nath had to
pass thru the trouble from an anonymous letter which leveled
allegations ranging from amassing of wealth to sexual abuse against
some top IPS officers in Bihar, including him and DG (Police Building)
Sri Anand Shankar. A private TV channel had in its news telecast on
December 1 shown the copy of the complaints highlighting these
allegations and claimed that Chief Minister Sri Nitish Kumar had
ordered an inquiry into these allegations.
While most of others would have felt crestfallen and would have turned
defensive and jittery, Sri Manoje Nath immediately rose to the
occasion to do the needful by  writing a letter to the Chief Secretary
seeking an impartial inquiry into how they reached the TV channel,
dubbing the letter as stage-managed. Interestingly, what happened
later was that the original copy of the "pseudonymous complaint" got
disappeared from the files in the State Home Department, prompting the
authorities to lodge an FIR in this connection and every one concerned
denying having ordered any kind of enquiry in this anonymous complaint.
This is how one has to pay the price for being honest and upright. And
this is what one would like to call real courage and grit.

Amitabh Thakur
SP (Intll),
Faizabad
# 94155-34526

Friends,

Here is a part of the report published in Media in regards to the
26/11 event. This seems to have remained one of the few aspects which
had not so far propped up in the aftermath of these much-discussed and
hotly commented upon events.

Amitabh Thakur
SP (Intll),
Faizabad
# 94155-34526


FBI woman sexually harassed me: 26/11 accused (The Times of India - 9
Feb 2009)

MUMBAI: The probe into the November 26 Mumbai terror attack took an
unusual twist with one of the accused, Faheem Ansari, levelling sexual
harassment allegations against a woman officer of America's Federal
Bureau of Investigation. An FBI team is conduction an independent
probe into the attacks.
Faheem has moved the court with his lawyer Ejaz Naqvi filing an
application before an Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
alleging that a woman FBI officer, who had interrogated the accused,
had "sexually harrassed him all through the night."
The court issued a notice on Monday to the city police's crime branch
and directed it to file their reply to the application by February 26.
The application also made a plea for Faheem to be sent for medical
check-up as he has developed "itches and wounds in his private parts
and all over his body".
"Faheem had been interrogated by three FBI officers out of which one
of them, a woman officer, had sexually abused him," Naqvi told the court.
Faheem and his associate Sabauddin Ahmed, are in the custody of the
Crime Branch till February 17. The Crime Branch is investigating
whether the duo was responsible for providing data regarding locations
targeted by terrorists during the November 26 attacks.
Faheem and Sabauddin were arrested last year in connection with the
2007 New Year eve attack on a CRPF camp in Rampur in Uttar Pradesh.

Friends,

I had sent some a mail speaking about a few interesting heights. One
of these was-

"What is height of Secrecy?
Offering blank visiting cards"

To this I got this mail from one of my friends which I find rather too
difficult to believe while he insisted of it's being absolutely true
even when I specifically asked him.

":Great and true (believe it or not).
Since, 9/11, in US , you are allowed only to give a blank visiting card."

Could someone please elaborate upon this?

Amitabh Thakur
SP (Intll),
Faizabad
# 94155-34526

Friends,

Here are a few of the more interesting and peculiar heights.

Amitabh Thakur
SP (Intll),
Faizabad
# 94155-34526

1. What is height of Secrecy?
Offering blank visiting cards
2. What is height of Active laziness?
Asking for a lift to house while on a morning walk.
3. What is height of Laziness?
Adopting a child
4. What is height of Craziness?
Getting a blank paper Xeroxed.
5. What is height of Forgetfulness?
Seeing the mirror and trying to recollect when you saw him/ her last.
6. What is height of Honesty?
A pregnant woman taking one and a half ticket
7. What is height of De-hydration?
A cow giving milk powder.