THE ATS FLIP FLOP- SADHVI CASE
Due to wedding season and guests over, i could not compile up my experience at FRNV. I shall be witing about it shortly.
Today media ( both print and electronic ) is full of half-truth and half-lies. Stories are being planted by vested interest groups to malign impeccable people like Lt. Col. Purohit. As you are aware that he has won many gallantary medals in the army and was regarded a no nonsense and a straight officer.
During the Media Session in the FRNV summit also, the eminent speakers from the media admitted, that they have to work under lot of constraints. Coverage and preference is given to the people who put up regular and big advertisements in the media. The media barons give diktats, what to write and what not to write. If i start opening the house of worms, you shall be shocked to learn, how these media houses operate. If the truth comes out, who actually controls big media houses, it will be the biggest scandal of all times. So it is better, not to touch this topic. All, i can say is that the " actual " ownership of big media houses both in print and electronic is not in safe hands today and the truth behind many of the planted stories, mostly never comes out. All of us take the media on face value and consider it as full truth, whereas the the story is entirely in contrast. We are informed, what media choses to inform us. A leading magazine has come out with a report, which i would like to share with you. You may have read this article, which i am reproducing.
Its probably a textbook case into how not to conduct an investigation. Seeking to link the arrested army officer, Lt. Col. Srikant Purohit, to not just the Malegaon bombing which killed 6 people, but the feb. 2007 Samjhauta train bombings that killed 68 persons, The Maharashtra public prosecutor told the Nasik court that Purohit may have pilferred nearly 60 kg of RDX from a military depot to use in the train blast. Purohit gave a portion of the explosives to one of the suspects and threw the rest into Jhelum rive, the prosecutor said. A day later, the ATS retracted the statement.
For the army which tracks even a spent cartridge during practice firing sessions, even the thought that the accused officer could have obtained such an absurdly vast quantity of explosives is simply unthinkable. For starters, the army does not use RDX but plastic explosive Kirkee or PEK. Besides, there is no way so much explosive could have gone missing, without triggering off an enquiry, says the army. " We are shocked at the conduct of the investigaions. ", says a senior army official. Even a cursory reading of the tragic train bombing would have told the ATS that firebombs were with gasoline, and not RDX, was used in the blasts.
The damage had already been done. In trying to link the accused to other blasts, The ATS may have ended up contradicting the Intelligence Bureau assessments that the Samjhauta bombings were planned and executed by Pakistani nationals. In March last year, India also handed over A suspect's photo to Pakistani Authorities. The question is whether the ATS has enough evidence against the Abhinav Bharat group accused of planting the bomb in Malegaon or is simply buying time by linking them up with the other blasts.
Do you expect the " Real " story to come out ? I have my doubts.
Today media ( both print and electronic ) is full of half-truth and half-lies. Stories are being planted by vested interest groups to malign impeccable people like Lt. Col. Purohit. As you are aware that he has won many gallantary medals in the army and was regarded a no nonsense and a straight officer.
During the Media Session in the FRNV summit also, the eminent speakers from the media admitted, that they have to work under lot of constraints. Coverage and preference is given to the people who put up regular and big advertisements in the media. The media barons give diktats, what to write and what not to write. If i start opening the house of worms, you shall be shocked to learn, how these media houses operate. If the truth comes out, who actually controls big media houses, it will be the biggest scandal of all times. So it is better, not to touch this topic. All, i can say is that the " actual " ownership of big media houses both in print and electronic is not in safe hands today and the truth behind many of the planted stories, mostly never comes out. All of us take the media on face value and consider it as full truth, whereas the the story is entirely in contrast. We are informed, what media choses to inform us. A leading magazine has come out with a report, which i would like to share with you. You may have read this article, which i am reproducing.
Its probably a textbook case into how not to conduct an investigation. Seeking to link the arrested army officer, Lt. Col. Srikant Purohit, to not just the Malegaon bombing which killed 6 people, but the feb. 2007 Samjhauta train bombings that killed 68 persons, The Maharashtra public prosecutor told the Nasik court that Purohit may have pilferred nearly 60 kg of RDX from a military depot to use in the train blast. Purohit gave a portion of the explosives to one of the suspects and threw the rest into Jhelum rive, the prosecutor said. A day later, the ATS retracted the statement.
For the army which tracks even a spent cartridge during practice firing sessions, even the thought that the accused officer could have obtained such an absurdly vast quantity of explosives is simply unthinkable. For starters, the army does not use RDX but plastic explosive Kirkee or PEK. Besides, there is no way so much explosive could have gone missing, without triggering off an enquiry, says the army. " We are shocked at the conduct of the investigaions. ", says a senior army official. Even a cursory reading of the tragic train bombing would have told the ATS that firebombs were with gasoline, and not RDX, was used in the blasts.
The damage had already been done. In trying to link the accused to other blasts, The ATS may have ended up contradicting the Intelligence Bureau assessments that the Samjhauta bombings were planned and executed by Pakistani nationals. In March last year, India also handed over A suspect's photo to Pakistani Authorities. The question is whether the ATS has enough evidence against the Abhinav Bharat group accused of planting the bomb in Malegaon or is simply buying time by linking them up with the other blasts.
Do you expect the " Real " story to come out ? I have my doubts.
posted by vaneet kundra at
Monday, November 24, 2008
3 Comments:
i am really shocked. how can we know, what is the true story. we only watch tv and read newspaper. from where we can get the truth
I just moderated your comment. Nice to receive your email. Moderation of comments means, that the reader of the blog, leaves his/her comment. It is directly shifted to my email a/c. Then i have the choice to publish that comment or not. I had to moderate the comments as i was receiving, some unwanted comments too. As far as the real truth is concerned, it is really very difficult to know the actual truth. I am been told, that some channels like Aaj Tak in TV are still giving the balanced news, they are less planted as compared to other media. It is just like choosing the lesser evil, on the same lines as our political parties. As all the political parties are corrupt, but you still choose the lesser evil to vote. The same is the case with media. There is a legislation, which Mr Somnath Chatterji, the speaker of the Lok Sabha, is quite eager to put. That is " No Vote ", button, when you go for voting. If more than 50% of the voters press " No Vote " button, while voting, the electon in that area will become null and void. But i doubt that such kind of legislation will be passed by parliament, as all the MP's are corrupt.
You are really bold Mr. Kundra. I appreciate your boldness. Prof Keshap
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home