MASSIVE SHORTAGES RECEIVED FROM PUBLIC SECTOR OIL COMPANIES
Bihar's honest petroleum dealers protest the massive oil shortages being received from public sector oil companies and in three districts petrol pumps stop upliftment from the Barauni oil refinery.
The three districts are Muzaffarpur, Sheohar and Sitamarhi and a petrol pump owner Mr. Jamal from Muzaffarpur has been elected to lead this agitation. He said, " On Tuesday we down our shutters as well as a warning to the oil companies."
Another petrol pump owner Mr.Shyamnandan, brother of Kargil martyr Pramod, said, "Honest dealers have to sell their land to keep this petrol pump going and despite repeated pleas company officials do nothing to stop the corruption."
In every oil tanker which has 12000 litres capacity there are shortages from 100 to 700 litres with an average shortage of 150 litres.
Shoratges are the main reason why unscrupulous petroleum dealers resort to adulteration or pass on the short supply to the customer by manipulating the delivery machines. This is also the main reason why incidents such as the one in which IIM graduate and IOC sales officer Manjunath was killed, happen.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Friday, January 26, 2007
A CRY FOR HELP
BPCL CHAIRMAN’S SISTER SAYS SOME OUT TO GRAB PROPERTY
DIAL MEDIA
By Manuwant Choudhary
Cries for help from a locked apartment in Patna’s Harihar Complex alarms residents who dial MEDIA for help and for five days the media try to rescue the woman but with no success.
On Republic Day a few mediapersons decide its high time to free this woman but when they arrive at the apartment its found open and a servant cleans the apartment. As we question the servant Raju, two men appear…one of them says he is Mithilesh Kumar – the caretaker of Anubha Sinha and a distant relative. We ask her why Anubha was kept locked in this apartment and he says, “No, we have not locked her up…she has a mental problem so we are concerned that she does not loiter around the streets and she always has a servant to take care of her. But its true her servant was sent to prison for three months for assaulting Anubha.”
We ask Mr. Mithilesh, a contractor, to take us to Anubha Sinha and he says, “Anubha has gone out and will be back only by evening.” We persist and he says, “If you trouble us so much then we will not look after her.”
40-year-old Anubha Sinha we are told is the only daughter of the late IAS U.N. Sinha and she is married to Dr. Sudheer Sinha who is in the United States of America. Mr. Mithilesh informs us that she is a divorcee. Besides, her brother Mr. Ashok Sinha is the chairman and managing director of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited based in Bombay.
We ask Mr. Mithilesh for the chairman’s telephone number and after much uneasiness he gives us a cell number. When we dial the number we are told it’s a wrong number.
So we tell Mr. Mithilesh that all we want is to meet Mrs. Anubha Sinha and we are promised that by evening a meeting will be arranged.
Mr. Mithilesh then disappears and returns with a lawyer Rashid who attempts at explaining Mrs. Anubha Sinha being a schizophrenic. We ask him for the medical records and also a meeting with Anubha Sinha’s only minor daughter Anuja Smriti. The lawyer says that he could convince Mr. Mithilesh for the meeting with Mrs. Anubha only if we agree to see the court cases, medical records, meet Anuja and then finally Mrs. Anubha in that order. We agree.
We wait and wait but no one appears. For eight hours we stand outside this apartment building and no resident even questions us why we are here. Perhaps, they all know.
The local Buddh Colony police don’t come even after repeated calls to the inspector.
Flat no.42 is where Mr. Mithilesh lives with his wife Shanti and their son and his three room rented apartment is also used as a girls hostel.
The flat has two entrances, the front entrance had a lock while inmates use a side-entrance and for the full day we ring the door bell and knock the door but no one opens, though voices can be heard inside.
The lawyer re-appears and says that the interview will be arranged tomorrow morning.
So when its 9 p.m. we dial 100 for help and a police team arrives after orders from senior police officers and we go to flat no. 42.
We find the front door is unlocked and when we knock the door Mrs. Shanti Sinha appears. On being questioned by the police where Mrs. Anubha Sinha is she replies, “She lives in Raja Bazaar area not here. K.K. Singh, the local police officer, knows everything.”
Police ask her where Mrs. Anubha Sinha’s daughter lives and she says she’s inside. The daughter Anuja comes out of the apartment and says, “My mother does not live here. She stays at the Raja Bazaar Apartment.”
When we ask her when was the last time you saw your mother she replies, “I have not seen her since two years. She’s mad.”
But we insist that the police check this apartment before we proceed to Raja Bazaar and we agree that only the police will enter the apartment.
Anuja insists that we check the Raja Bazaar apartment first and then come back. We persist.
Two cops enter and for 20 minutes the door remains shut and its only after much knocking, the door opens again. The police announce, “Mrs. Anubha Sinha is inside this flat.”
All this while there is no sign of Mr. Mithilesh.
We get to interview Mrs. Anubha Sinha. We find her very covered, her neck never straight, a little drowsy sitting on a bed in a terrace converted room but she could speak quite clearly. On being asked whether she called for help she replied, “Yes, I do call for help when I am unwell.”
Mrs. Anubha on being asked whether she is mad she says, “I am not mad.”
Do you face any threat to your life? “No, I am safe and I can walk anywhere, go anywhere…but there are some people very close to me who are eyeing my property…Unkee aankh meree property par hai….I will not name anyone now but some day later.”
Anubha Sinha needs help and from what we saw of her she is not in a position to even walk. Shanti Sinha gave police the telephone number (09820168255) of BPCL chairman Ashok Sinha but when we tried to get to him we were told it’s the wrong number.
Later today at 2.30 p.m. Aaj Tak gets a telephone call from cell no. 09810978445 the man claiming he is Mr. Ashok Sinha, CMD of BPCL and brother of Anubha Sinha, who said, "Yes, she is my sister and she has a mental problem."
When we asked him why he does not get proper medical help to his sister he replies, "You should serve the nation and not interfere with my private life. Everyone knows my problems."
When asked his sister has said people are eyeing her property he replied, "You may be eyeing her property!."
BPCL CHAIRMAN’S SISTER SAYS SOME OUT TO GRAB PROPERTY
DIAL MEDIA
By Manuwant Choudhary
Cries for help from a locked apartment in Patna’s Harihar Complex alarms residents who dial MEDIA for help and for five days the media try to rescue the woman but with no success.
On Republic Day a few mediapersons decide its high time to free this woman but when they arrive at the apartment its found open and a servant cleans the apartment. As we question the servant Raju, two men appear…one of them says he is Mithilesh Kumar – the caretaker of Anubha Sinha and a distant relative. We ask her why Anubha was kept locked in this apartment and he says, “No, we have not locked her up…she has a mental problem so we are concerned that she does not loiter around the streets and she always has a servant to take care of her. But its true her servant was sent to prison for three months for assaulting Anubha.”
We ask Mr. Mithilesh, a contractor, to take us to Anubha Sinha and he says, “Anubha has gone out and will be back only by evening.” We persist and he says, “If you trouble us so much then we will not look after her.”
40-year-old Anubha Sinha we are told is the only daughter of the late IAS U.N. Sinha and she is married to Dr. Sudheer Sinha who is in the United States of America. Mr. Mithilesh informs us that she is a divorcee. Besides, her brother Mr. Ashok Sinha is the chairman and managing director of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited based in Bombay.
We ask Mr. Mithilesh for the chairman’s telephone number and after much uneasiness he gives us a cell number. When we dial the number we are told it’s a wrong number.
So we tell Mr. Mithilesh that all we want is to meet Mrs. Anubha Sinha and we are promised that by evening a meeting will be arranged.
Mr. Mithilesh then disappears and returns with a lawyer Rashid who attempts at explaining Mrs. Anubha Sinha being a schizophrenic. We ask him for the medical records and also a meeting with Anubha Sinha’s only minor daughter Anuja Smriti. The lawyer says that he could convince Mr. Mithilesh for the meeting with Mrs. Anubha only if we agree to see the court cases, medical records, meet Anuja and then finally Mrs. Anubha in that order. We agree.
We wait and wait but no one appears. For eight hours we stand outside this apartment building and no resident even questions us why we are here. Perhaps, they all know.
The local Buddh Colony police don’t come even after repeated calls to the inspector.
Flat no.42 is where Mr. Mithilesh lives with his wife Shanti and their son and his three room rented apartment is also used as a girls hostel.
The flat has two entrances, the front entrance had a lock while inmates use a side-entrance and for the full day we ring the door bell and knock the door but no one opens, though voices can be heard inside.
The lawyer re-appears and says that the interview will be arranged tomorrow morning.
So when its 9 p.m. we dial 100 for help and a police team arrives after orders from senior police officers and we go to flat no. 42.
We find the front door is unlocked and when we knock the door Mrs. Shanti Sinha appears. On being questioned by the police where Mrs. Anubha Sinha is she replies, “She lives in Raja Bazaar area not here. K.K. Singh, the local police officer, knows everything.”
Police ask her where Mrs. Anubha Sinha’s daughter lives and she says she’s inside. The daughter Anuja comes out of the apartment and says, “My mother does not live here. She stays at the Raja Bazaar Apartment.”
When we ask her when was the last time you saw your mother she replies, “I have not seen her since two years. She’s mad.”
But we insist that the police check this apartment before we proceed to Raja Bazaar and we agree that only the police will enter the apartment.
Anuja insists that we check the Raja Bazaar apartment first and then come back. We persist.
Two cops enter and for 20 minutes the door remains shut and its only after much knocking, the door opens again. The police announce, “Mrs. Anubha Sinha is inside this flat.”
All this while there is no sign of Mr. Mithilesh.
We get to interview Mrs. Anubha Sinha. We find her very covered, her neck never straight, a little drowsy sitting on a bed in a terrace converted room but she could speak quite clearly. On being asked whether she called for help she replied, “Yes, I do call for help when I am unwell.”
Mrs. Anubha on being asked whether she is mad she says, “I am not mad.”
Do you face any threat to your life? “No, I am safe and I can walk anywhere, go anywhere…but there are some people very close to me who are eyeing my property…Unkee aankh meree property par hai….I will not name anyone now but some day later.”
Anubha Sinha needs help and from what we saw of her she is not in a position to even walk. Shanti Sinha gave police the telephone number (09820168255) of BPCL chairman Ashok Sinha but when we tried to get to him we were told it’s the wrong number.
Later today at 2.30 p.m. Aaj Tak gets a telephone call from cell no. 09810978445 the man claiming he is Mr. Ashok Sinha, CMD of BPCL and brother of Anubha Sinha, who said, "Yes, she is my sister and she has a mental problem."
When we asked him why he does not get proper medical help to his sister he replies, "You should serve the nation and not interfere with my private life. Everyone knows my problems."
When asked his sister has said people are eyeing her property he replied, "You may be eyeing her property!."
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
BIHAR MLC ABDUCTS TWO
AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT
By Manuwant Choudhary
In Bihar ransom is the main reason for abductions but not anymore you could be abducted simply because a Bihar MLCs vehicle collides against yours...
This morning as I drove into Patna on Bailey Road I noticed a crowd of onlookers at an accident site where a blue Maruti 800 had collided with a motorcycle. It seemed like a normal city skirmish that follows most accidents with one side hitting the other but what was unusual was when I noticed them forcing the two youth into the blue Maruti even as onlookers protested. And to scare away the public in a display of pure power one of the abducters took out a red light from inside the car and placed it on the roof and sped away as I noted its No. BR1A 8882.
Immediately, I called some media friends so that the abducters could be stopped. And when I got down from my car to inquire eyewitnesses said the blue Maruti had come out from Bungalow No. 4, the official residence of Monazir Hussain, Building Construction Minister, and it had a Vidhan Parishad sticker on it... "They got down and beat him up..he was bleeding from the nose and just as the crowd was gathering one of them took out a red light and placed it on top and forced them into the car...even as the public tried to complain..they ran away."
An armed security guard at the ministers gate did nothing to stop the abducters "My duty ends at the gate".
The minister Monazir Hussain when questioned on the abduction said "Prof Aslam Azad MLC did come to my house but I didn't meet him but they have not abducted the youth, only taken them to the Patna Medical College Hospital for treatment."
When the MLC was contacted on the cellphone one of his aides informed, "We have left the youth at Gandhi Maidan. Not the hospital, we only took them to the the garage to make them pay for the damages to our vehicle."
Damage control was in full force and one policeman could be heard saying, "Pehle bawaal Karte hain aur phir hamin ko kehte hain ki kya kijiye. " (First you create this huge controversy and then tell me what to do."
Police took the bike to the Kotwali police station and later the two youth were found and they were simply too scared to take this matter any further. "They took Rs.2,800 from us and let us go," said Rahul, faltering when asked which garage the car is in?
Witnesses shouted slogans outside the ministers house, Sushashan Murdabad, (Down with Good Governance." Even as the MLC Prof Aslam Azad attends the Karpoori Thakur birth anniversary!
By Manuwant Choudhary
In Bihar ransom is the main reason for abductions but not anymore you could be abducted simply because a Bihar MLCs vehicle collides against yours...
This morning as I drove into Patna on Bailey Road I noticed a crowd of onlookers at an accident site where a blue Maruti 800 had collided with a motorcycle. It seemed like a normal city skirmish that follows most accidents with one side hitting the other but what was unusual was when I noticed them forcing the two youth into the blue Maruti even as onlookers protested. And to scare away the public in a display of pure power one of the abducters took out a red light from inside the car and placed it on the roof and sped away as I noted its No. BR1A 8882.
Immediately, I called some media friends so that the abducters could be stopped. And when I got down from my car to inquire eyewitnesses said the blue Maruti had come out from Bungalow No. 4, the official residence of Monazir Hussain, Building Construction Minister, and it had a Vidhan Parishad sticker on it... "They got down and beat him up..he was bleeding from the nose and just as the crowd was gathering one of them took out a red light and placed it on top and forced them into the car...even as the public tried to complain..they ran away."
An armed security guard at the ministers gate did nothing to stop the abducters "My duty ends at the gate".
The minister Monazir Hussain when questioned on the abduction said "Prof Aslam Azad MLC did come to my house but I didn't meet him but they have not abducted the youth, only taken them to the Patna Medical College Hospital for treatment."
When the MLC was contacted on the cellphone one of his aides informed, "We have left the youth at Gandhi Maidan. Not the hospital, we only took them to the the garage to make them pay for the damages to our vehicle."
Damage control was in full force and one policeman could be heard saying, "Pehle bawaal Karte hain aur phir hamin ko kehte hain ki kya kijiye. " (First you create this huge controversy and then tell me what to do."
Police took the bike to the Kotwali police station and later the two youth were found and they were simply too scared to take this matter any further. "They took Rs.2,800 from us and let us go," said Rahul, faltering when asked which garage the car is in?
Witnesses shouted slogans outside the ministers house, Sushashan Murdabad, (Down with Good Governance." Even as the MLC Prof Aslam Azad attends the Karpoori Thakur birth anniversary!
Friday, January 19, 2007
AN E MAIL COSTS BIHAR GOVT. RS. 20 LAKHS!
A private initiative to promote investments in poor backward Bihar by Bihar Times.com and Institute for Human Development has got the Bihar government in a tizzy after Bihar Times portal owner Ajay Kumar sent a casual e-mail to India's President APJ Abul Kalam, and to everyone's suprise this President not only reads e-mails but responds by telling the Bihar government he wants to come to Bihar...This evening India's President will address a Global Meet for Resurgent Bihar.
But the past ten days have been hell for the Nitish Kumar government...patching-up potholed roads and whitewashing street dividers all at a cost of Rs.20 lakh rupees!
A private initiative to promote investments in poor backward Bihar by Bihar Times.com and Institute for Human Development has got the Bihar government in a tizzy after Bihar Times portal owner Ajay Kumar sent a casual e-mail to India's President APJ Abul Kalam, and to everyone's suprise this President not only reads e-mails but responds by telling the Bihar government he wants to come to Bihar...This evening India's President will address a Global Meet for Resurgent Bihar.
But the past ten days have been hell for the Nitish Kumar government...patching-up potholed roads and whitewashing street dividers all at a cost of Rs.20 lakh rupees!
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