How can anyone let their child to be treated like this. This is as bizarre as it gets. Heights of superstition.
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A bizarre holy man has been arrested on child torture charges after horrified parents found him stamping on their youngsters' throats to cure them of colds. Self-proclaimed demi-god Jamun Yadav, 50, told police his holy Hindu powers allowed him to transfer divine energy from the soles of his feet. He said the amazing feets of magic allowed him to fight all illnesses in Katihar, eastern India. "This is scandalous and we have arrested him. The parents didn't know just what his treatment involved when they agreed to it," said police spokesman Santosh Singh. "He claims he needs no defence in court because he speaks for God. So it should be an interesting trial," he added.
This is what influential people does in India. The accused get punishment after almost 20 years that too just six month jail and 1000 rupees fine. This is after the girl who has been molested went on to commit suicide after the harassment which she went through. This is the example in misuse of official power by a police officer who used his influence and contacts to escape punishment for nearly two decades for his crime.
This is how safe our girls are in India. And we say it is a democratic country. Bull Shit..
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Outrage is growing in India over a six-month jail sentence handed out to a former senior police officer convicted for molesting a 14-year-old girl.
Ruchika Girhotra complained in 1990 that she was assaulted by SPS Rathore.
After Mr Rathore used his influence to harass the Girhotra family, Ruchika committed suicide three years later.
Earlier this week, a court found Mr Rathore guilty, but Ruchika's family and activists say he has got away with a "very light punishment".
Mr Rathore sentenced in jail for six months and ordered to pay a fine of 1,000 rupees ($20).
He is currently on bail and has said he would appeal against the order.
"This six-month punishment is not enough, it has hurt us, what kind of justice is this?" Ruchika's father Subhas Chander Girhotra asked reporters in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh on Thursday.
"We want exemplary punishment for him so that Indian children can be safe in future. My daughter is dead, but at least no other girl should meet the same fate," he said, sobbing.
"All these years, we have stayed underground due to harassment. We would got knocks in the middle of the night. He was the director general of police - who could we turn to for help?
"We are still living in fear."
Television footage, showing a laughing and unrepentant Mr Rathore following the court order, has angered many civil rights groups.
Campaigners say he should be tried for "abetment of suicide" which carries a much longer jail sentence.Analysts say Ruchika's case is a classic example of misuse of official power by a police officer who used his influence and contacts to escape punishment for nearly two decades for his crime.
Ruchika was a budding tennis player when she was assaulted by Mr Rathore, a senior police officer and president of Haryana state Lawn Tennis Association.
After her family lodged a complaint with the Haryana chief minister, the state police chief RR Singh was asked to investigate the case.
In his report, Mr Singh said there was credible evidence in the allegations and ordered the police to file a case against Mr Rathore.
This was just the beginning of nightmares for Girhotra family as Mr Rathore used his influence to harass them.
She was thrown out of school for "late fee payment" and her 14-year-old brother Ashu was falsely charged with theft several times until the Punjab and Haryana high court intervened and ordered an end to his harassment.
Unable to deal with the trauma, Ruchika committed suicide in December 1993 and her family went into hiding.
In 1997, the case was handed over to the federal police, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which concluded Mr Rathore was guilty and formally pressed charges in court in 2000.
In the meantime, Mr Rathore was promoted to the head of Haryana police.
In a case that took 19 years to reach a conclusion, Ruchika's family and friends say they are disappointed by the verdict and will continue campaigning to get justice.
A candle-lit march will be held in Delhi on Thursday(24th December 09) in a bid to mobilise support for their campaign.
Aradhana's father, Anand Prakash, says, "We will see to it that justice is done."
Aradhana was Ruchika's close friend. Both of them used to play tennis together, where this incident happened.
Have a look at this video for the detailed report of this case.
Look at the way Mr. Ram Jethmalani(Senior Criminal Lawyer) is speaking as if nothing has happened. He is saying "I am sorry, this is not a serious issue and the law need not be changed for this case."
Have a look at the video:
Source: news.bbc.co.uk, 24th December 2009 and NDTV.com
Sunitha Krishnan has dedicated her life to rescuing women and children from sex slavery, a multimilion-dollar global market. In this courageous talk, she tells three powerful stories, as well as her own, and calls for a more humane approach to helping these young victims rebuild their lives.
About Sunitha Krishnan:
Sunitha Krishnan is galvanizing India’s battle against sexual slavery by uniting government, corporations and NGOs to end human trafficking.
Each year, some two million women and children, many younger than 10 years old, are bought and sold around the globe. Impassioned by the silence surrounding the sex-trafficking epidemic, Sunitha Krishnan co-founded Prajwala, or "eternal flame," a group in Hyderabad that rescues women from brothels and educates their children to prevent second-generation prostitution. Prajwala runs 17 schools throughout Hyderabad for 5,000 children and has rescued more than 2,500 women from prostitution, 1,500 of whom Krishnan personally liberated. At its Asha Niketan center, Prajwala helps young victims prepare for a self-sufficient future.
Krishnan has sparked India's anti-trafficking movement by coordinating government, corporations and NGOs. She forged NGO-corporate partnerships with companies like Amul India, Taj Group of Hotels and Heritage Hospitals to find jobs for rehabilitated women. In collaboration with UN agencies and other NGOs, she established printing and furniture shops that have rehabilitated some 300 survivors. Krishnan works closely with the government to define anti-trafficking policy, and her recommendations for rehabilitating sex victims have been passed into state legislation.
"The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there’s this huge silence about it around me angers me." Sunitha Krishnan
A gangster in Uttar Pradesh was having fun with few policemen. This is how few of the gangsters are treated by policemen in India.
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A jailed gangster who audaciously checked into a government guest house with the connivance of policemen and was javascript:void(0)having a good time has been caught in the act. Gangster Ateeq Khan is headed back to prison while four guilty policemen have been suspended. Charged with murders, abductions and other heinous crimes, Khan was brought from Uttar Pradesh’s Siddhartnagar district jail to Kanpur Dec 17 to attend a court case.
Later, instead of going back to prison, Khan quietly moved into the railway guest house in Lucknow with the connivance of the policemen, said police officials.
There, Khan and the policemen, joined by the former’s associates, every day enjoyed the “best of food and luxuries”, Additional Director General of Police Brij Lal told reporters here.
The guest house belonged to the North-Eastern Railway and was located in the Charbagh locality, near the Lucknow railway station.
Someone decided to expose the farce by tipping off the authorities.
On Monday, the Special Task Force (STF) raided the guest house and nabbed the notorious gangster, his accomplices and the policemen.
An inspector and three constables have been suspended. Criminal proceedings have also been initiated against those caught at the guest house.
Asked if railway officials too were involved in the scam, Lal said: “It needs to be probed.”
Ryan Lobo has traveled the world, taking photographs that tell stories of unusual human lives. In this haunting talk, he reframes controversial subjects with empathy, so that we see the pain of a Liberian war criminal, the quiet strength of UN women peacekeepers and the perseverance of Delhi's underappreciated firefighters.
About Ryan Lobo: As a photographer and filmmaker, Ryan Lobo uses his exquisite lens to capture humanity and nature at their most open and vulnerable moments. During a recent shoot on the streets and beaches of Chennai, Ryan Lobo turned his lens on men and women in relaxed, after-work poses. His starkly beautiful black-and-white photos, Lobo writes, reveal what it's like “to be young, employed and alive in Chennai today, regardless of one's language, economic class or social skills.” This follows the theme of Lobo's career: breaking down stereotypes while reframing the landscape.
Since 2001, Lobo has been taking haunting stills of everything from Yakuza tattoos and the illegal organ trade to the Indian middle class. He's worked as a field producer on many nature-oriented shows for National Geographic and founded Mad Monitor Productions, a production company based in Bangalore and Washington, D.C. There's no scientific, economic or sociopolitical boundary Lobo isn't willing to cross. His intense fieldwork continues to illuminate his traveling (you can read about his journeys and see photographs on his blog) and a forthcoming book project.
"I have attempted to delve beneath clichés and with photographs tell stories about the secrets, trials and ethos of urban Chennai." Ryan Lobo
India's revolutionary Aravind Eye Care System has given sight to millions. Thulasiraj Ravilla looks at the ingenious approach that drives its treatment costs down and quality up, and why its methods should trigger a re-think of all human services.
About Thulasiraj Ravilla:
Thulasiraj Ravilla is the executive director of the Lions Aravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology, helping eye-care hospitals around the world build capacity to prevent blindness. As director of the Lions Aravind Institute of Community Opthalmology, Thulasiraj Ravilla is helping to promulgate the Aravind Eye Care System's exam, diagnosis and treatment model to find culturally relevant solutions to the problem of avoidable blindness throughout India, and throughout the world. Ravilla serves as chair of the Southeast Asian arm of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, and is head of Vision 2020: The Right to Sight, a global initiative for the elimination of blindness. He developed the LAICO-Aravind Eye Hospital Care System, and continues to lead it. "When you grow in spiritual consciousness, we identify with all that is in the world so there is no exploitation. It is ourselves we are helping. It is ourselves we are healing." Dr. G. Venkataswamy, founder, Aravind Eye Care System
This is how the terrorists are trained. The person who earlier had admitted to his crimes and made a passionate plea to be "hanged" is now telling that he has not seen AK-47 in his life. He thinks that people of India will believe whatever he say. He should be hanged soon otherwise, he will start doing such naatak's everyday.
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In a dramatic turn around, the lone captured Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir alias Kasab Friday retracted his confession made earlier saying that he had come to Mumbai to work in Bollywood films and had never seen an AK-47 rifle in his life.
Retracting the confession made before a magistrate Feb 20 this year, Kasab told a special court that he had come to Mumbai at least 20 days before the 26/11 terror attacks.
"I was arrested three days before the 26/11 attacks, when I was going around Juhu area with some friends. I was in police custody at the time of the attacks," he told the stunned courtroom.
Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said that he had always anticipated that Kasab would retract his confessional statement.
"He has been trained by the terror organisations how to handle these things. But it (the retraction) will not affect the merits of the case in any manner. We have built up a solid evidence of 610 witnesses against him," Nikam told reporters during the lunch recess.
Kasab said that he had come to India on valid travel documents, but it is missing since his alleged arrest by police. He claimed that he had also lost his mobile phone and he did not know the whereabouts of his friends.
To a query from Special Judge M.L. Tahilyani, Kasab claimed that he was nabbed by the police since he was a Pakistani, three days before the attacks took place in Mumbai.
Kasab added that he closely resembled one of the terrorists killed in the 26/11 attacks and therefore was forced to take his place by police.
Kasab's surprise retraction of his confession came during the recording of his statement at the start of the second phase of the terror attacks trial.
He had earlier gone back on the confession July 20 in the court and later admitted to his crimes and made a passionate plea to be "hanged".
Kasab also claimed that he was forced to make and sign a confession before the magistrate.
"I was not present in the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) and I did not open firing inside the railway station. I have never seen an AK-47 in my life, or even a rubber dingy," he claimed.
He said that he had been interrogated by four white men of whom one was David Coleman Headley, one of the terror accused who is now in custody in US.
Reacting to this, Nikam said the accused had made only "a passing reference" to Headley and T. Rana, both arrested in the US, and not a detailed statement on the issue.
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