NHRC ISSUES NOTICE TO UP GOVERNMENT OVER ENGINEERS MURDER.
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We all are demanding that the Chief Minister of UP Km. Mayawati also to be booked u/s 120-B involved in this criminal conspiracy as she compelled her party MLA's to extort money from public & officers as well to celebrate her birthday....shame..shame, we further demand a CBI inquiry to give natural justice to late Mr. Gupta. It is also demanded that the tainted MLA's should recall back from their elected positions.
TWO MINUTE SILENCE TO PAY HOMAGE & KIND TRIBUTE TO THE DEPARTED SOUL>>>>>MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE!!!!!!!!!!
New Delhi, Dec 26 (PTI) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) today issued a notice to Uttar Pradesh government over the killing of a PWD engineer allegedly by a BSP MLA and his supporters.
Taking suo motu congnizance of reports about the killing of PWD engineer Manoj Gupta, the Commission asked UP Chief Secretary and Director General of Police to submit a report on the incident allegedly involving BSP MLA Shekhar Tiwari.
Gupta was allegedly beaten to death by Tiwari and his two associates after he reportedly refused to pay a "huge sum" for birthday celebrations of Chief Minister Mayawati next month.
Tiwari and his associates -- Manoj Tyagi and another surnamed Bhatia -- forcibly entered the house of the engineer at Gail Vihar Colony in Diviapur police circle in Auraiya and beat him to death.
The Commission has asked the senior officers to submit their report within two weeks. PTI
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The cold-blooded killing of Uttar Pradesh PWD executive engineer M.K. Gupta allegedly by BSP MLA Shekhar Tiwari in Auraiya district on Wednesday has exposed Chief Minister Mayawatis extortionist politics. All her ministers and BSP legislators function as her cronies, who can go to any extent to satiate their reigning deitys unending hunger for money. The engineer had to pay with his life because he had the guts to refuse to collect Rs 50 lakh as sought by the MLA to be presented to Ms Mayawati on her birthday on January 15 next. The Chief Ministers goons Tiwari and his associates had the audacity to take the unconscious engineer to the police station in the area and demand the registration of a case against the victim after he was beaten up mercilessly. They showed no fear of the law because they function under Ms Mayawatis protective umbrella.
Ms Mayawati has perfected the art of garnering money through forced gifts. Her birthday is an occasion when her party functionaries from those sitting in a ministerial chair to MPs, MLAs and BSP members at the village panchayat level have to hunt for funds from all the possible sources, including government departments and those enjoying official favours in the private sector. The Chief Minister is reported to have expressed her desire for at least Rs1000 crore in cash or kind to be presented to her next month, as Samajwadi Partys Shivpal Singh Yadav has alleged. Whatever is the truth, reports suggest that it will be a massive show at the state level. It is a matter of deep regret that the Chief Minister of the most populous state does not feel ashamed of the plausibility of these allegations. These illustrate her politics of greed.
Can there be greater violation of the Constitution? The time has come to stop this open loot by the Chief Minister and her cohorts. A way must be found to end the practice of extortion in the name of birthday celebrationsan excuse for legitimising illegal collection of money. The BSP czarina describes the occasion as Arthik Sahyog Diwas when her party pools its resources to help the poor! What, however, she is doing is only promoting corruption and exploitation of the people in a brazen manner.
http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/25/stories/2008122550210100.htmPHOTO: PTI
The body of Public Works Department engineer M.K. Gupta lies outside a community health centre in Auraiya on Wednesday.
LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party MLA from Auraiya, Shekhar Tewari, allegedly involved in the brutal murder of an executive engineer of the Public Works Department, Manoj Kumar Gupta, was arrested near Raniya in Kanpur late on Wednesday.
The engineer was battered to death, allegedly by the MLA and his henchmen in his Gail Vihar colony residence at Dibiapur in Auraiya district around 1 a.m. on Wednesday.
State Director-General of Police Vikram Singh told reporters in a late-night press conference here on Wednesday that the MLA was taken to the Akbarpur police station for interrogation. Mr. Singh said the FIR named two PWD engineers, S.K. Tyagi and Tyagi, as the persons likely to be involved in the murder. The DG said professional rivalry and the practice of commissions on contracts appear to be the probable causes of Mr. Gupta killing.
Earlier, fearing a fallout of the incident, with all the major Opposition parties making a case of extortion against the ruling party functionaries, the State government launched damage-control measures. Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh told reporters here that an FIR was lodged against the MLA under Sections 342, 323, 457, 364 and 302 of the IPC. The government would book him under the Gangsters Act. However, charges of extortion were yet to be proved.
The U.P. Engineers Association demanded a compensation of Rs.25 lakh for the engineers family and security for engineers.
Reports quoting the deceased s wife, Shashi Gupta, said two unidentified men entered the engineers residence in Gail Vihar around 1 a.m. and started raining blows on him. When Ms. Gupta tried to raise an alarm, she was locked up in the bathroom. According to Ms. Gupta, when her husband was rendered almost unconscious, the MLA reportedly arrived on the scene and directed his men to dump the engineer in the police station. The MLA and his henchmen took the seriously injured Mr. Gupta to the police station. He was rushed to hospital by the police, where he was declared brought dead around 3 a.m. on Wednesday.
Resignation demandedSamajwadi Party State unit president Shivpal Singh Yadav and Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee Rita Bahuguna Joshi demanded the resignation of the Chief Minister.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20081226/main2.htmRidiculing the contention that dispute over contribution towards her birthday bash led to the murder of a PWD executive engineer, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today even turned down the demand for a CBI probe into the incident. Meanwhile, violence was reported during a bandh organised by Samajwadi Party to protest the killing.
Mayawati said there was no need for a CBI probe into the case as the accused had already been arrested. She claimed preliminary investigations into the killing of the engineer had revealed that the murder was a fallout of some alleged dispute over contracts and commissions among the employees.
Blaming the opposition parties for flaring up the situation, the BSP supremo said they had allegedly joined hands to malign her party by linking the incident to her birthday celebrations.
Pointing out that it was during the previous Samajwadi regime that bureaucrats and engineers lived in a shadow of fear and terror, the Chief Minister said: Corruption and criminalisation of politics was at its peak under the Samajwadi rule. She said by linking the engineer's murder with her birthday celebrations her political opponents were allegedly trying to derive political mileage out of the unfortunate incident.
However, the BSP supremo did not deny the criminal background of her Aurraiya MLA Shekhar Tiwari, who was arrested yesterday in connection with the engineers murder.
Addressing mediapersons at her 5 Kalidas residence, Mayawati said her party would now observe her birthday - on January 15 as - Virodhi Party Dhikkar Diwas. On that day, she said, the BSP would hold rallies in every Vidhan Sabha segment to expose the so-called evil designs of rival political parties.
Mayawati said her party banked on financial assistance by party workers and not on donations by capitalists and corporate houses.
Also, she said she had directed all her party MLAs and MPs not to collect any funds for the upcoming general elections. The job will now be done by those in the party organisation.
About Tiwari, the Chief Minister said: If the MLA was named as an accused, my government did not lose time in arresting him. No other party has ever taken such stern action against their own members.
Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee suggested on Friday that the law should provide for recall of members of legislatures for any misbehaviour in the House or for failure to serve their electorates.
Inaugurating the 72nd Conference of Presiding Officers of Legislative Bodies in India here, the Speaker said that it was imperative to take effective steps to prevent the fast decline and deterioration in standards of legislators' behaviour.
"I feel it is a national duty for all of us to see that our Constitutional framework is not damaged irreparably (by the actions of the legislators)."
Referring to frequent disruption of the Houses, Mr. Chatterjee, who is also the chairman of the conference, said that high decibels and incapacity to communicate should not become the hallmarks of our functioning.
He said the presiding officers should not be spectators and allow the whole system to slide down, causing irreparable damage to the country's polity.
He lamented that even the Budget and Finance Bill had to be passed in Lok Sabha without discussion on several occasions.
While disruptions of proceedings get front-page coverage, important debates fail to attract media attention.
Role of judiciary
Referring to judicial activism, the Speaker said the judiciary could not exercise its power of judicial review to lay down new policy or assume executive authority.
"The constitutional mandate to the judiciary is to interpret the laws and not to make them, nor to lay down general norms of behaviour for the Government or to decide upon public policy."
No authority, he opined, can interfere with the Legislature's absolute constitutional right to enforce executive accountability. Kerala Assembly Speaker K. Radhakrishnan, who welcomed the gathering, said there was lack of fine-tuning between social base, politics and various instruments of authority, besides lack of consensus on issues.
"Economic soundness of policies seldom gets priority while framing policies."
Earlier, Mr. Chatterjee inaugurated an exhibition `Indian Parliament and State Legislatures: A Historical Perspective' organised by the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
He also opened another exhibition `Glimpses from History of Parliamentary Bodies in Kerala,' set up by the Kerala Legislature.
Hence we all demands the recall these kinds of tainted MLA's back from their elected positions.
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