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PU TEACHERS CONDEMN
PROF’S KILLING
B.K MISHRA, 4 DECEMBER 2006, TIMES NEWS NETWORK, PATNA
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Petition
to the Hon'ble Prime Minister
Petition to the Hon'ble Prime Minister |
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To
Dr. Manmohan Singh,
Prime Minister of India,
South Block,
New Delhi – 110001.
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3 April, 2008 |
Respected Sir,
Subject: Appeal for justice in the murder
of Prof.Papiya Ghosh of Patna University and
Malti Devi.
On the night of 2 December, 2006 my younger
sister, Professor Papiya Ghosh, was murdered
with indescribable brutality inside her own
house in Patliputra Colony, Patna. Neither
was her aged, invalid maid, Malti Devi
spared. Prof. Ghosh’s house was also looted
of all items of value, big and small, with
the criminals even managing to drive away in
the victim’s own car.
As per the police statement, quoted in the
press, six armed dacoits had entered Prof.
Ghosh’s house and executed the heinous
crimes with impunity.
The killing of Prof. Ghosh was carried out
with a degree of savage brutality
unparalleled in the crime history of Bihar.
The worst type of atrocities against women
and fatal violation of human rights were
perpetrated.
Prof. Papiya Ghosh was a scrupulously honest
citizen who lived on her own, and had
dedicated her life to the cause of higher
education in Bihar. I would request you to
kindly visit the website www.papiyaghosh.com
for more details about her works and life.
As a law abiding citizen, Prof. Ghosh
depended on the state to provide the
necessary security of life and property to
all its citizens. But things turned out to
be otherwise. Incidentally the victim’s
house was a mere stone’s throw from the
Pataliputra police thana.
Subsequent to the horrific killings, four of
the murderous gang have been rounded up, and
put on trial. But the case, although
committed to a Fast Track court, is moving
at snail’s pace.
But shockingly two of the culprits in the
reprehensible crimes, named by the police,
as quoted in the press, as Mustakeen and
Sanjogi Rai, still remain out of the reach
of the police even more than a year later,
in spite of numerous representations having
been made to the Chief Minister of Bihar,
for their speedy arrest.
Neither have petitions to the Chairman,
National Human Rights Commission, and the
Chairperson, National Commission for Women,
as well as other human rights organizations
to get justice, met with any response.
Even applications for information regarding
the absconding criminals, made under the
Right To Information Act, have not been
answered.
On behalf of the grieving family, I request
you to prevail on the Government of Bihar to
conduct a full and thorough investigation
into these reprehensible crimes and to
speedily arrest and put on trial the two
absconding criminals.
The pronouncements made by our Government
about the importance of protecting women’s
rights and providing redress when they have
been violated, need to be followed up with
necessary action when such violations have
unfortunately taken place. Otherwise they
will remain as nothing more than pious
intentions and we womenfolk will have to
continue to endure these worst kinds of
abuses of human rights in our society.
We await your kind intervention in the
matter.
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Yours Faithfully,
(Mrs. Keya Sen)
214, WTC Hilton Residency,
1191, Corniche El Nile,
Cairo, EGYPT
e-mail: keya_sen04@hotmail.com
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Petition to the Hon'ble Prime Minister by
Academic Colleagues, Seeking Justice
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To
Dr. Manmohan Singh
The Honorable Prime Minister of India
South Block, Raisina Hill
New Delhi 110011 |
December 8th, 2006 |
Honorable Prime Minister,
Please find attached a petition that was
circulated a few days go. It bears more than
120 attestations demanding justice in the
brutal murders of Professor Papiya Ghosh and
Ms. Malti Devi in Patna on the night of
December 2nd 2006.
The signatories to the petition are faculty
members teaching in various universities
across India and the world, and colleagues
and friends of the late Dr. Papiya Ghosh.
As the enclosed petition makes clear, we
urgently request that the Government of
India brings its full powers to bear in the
investigation of these murders so that the
guilty are brought to justice.
We thank you in advance for your
consideration of our efforts in this matter.
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Sincerely,
Sd/-
Sumathi Ramaswamy
Professor of History
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TO: Dr.
MANMOHAN SINGH, THE HONORABLE PRIME MINISTER
OF INDIA
RE: DEMAND FOR JUSTICE IN THE MURDERS OF DR.
PAPIYA GHOSH AND MALTI DEVI
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
We are writing to express our outrage at the
brutal and heinous murders of Dr. Papiya
Ghosh, Professor of History at Patna
University, and her domestic help Ms. Malti
Devi, on the night of December 2nd in Patna
in her home.
As of the time of this writing, it is clear
from the news services and Dr. Ghosh's own
accounts to her friends (some of whom are
among the undersigned) that this is not a
routine robbery case-gone-wrong as the local
police are alleging, but in fact involves
collusion of local criminal and political
elements who have over the past few years
been threatening Dr. Ghosh to relinquish her
ancestral property to their control.
With this letter that bears the signature of
many of Dr. Ghosh's academic and
professional colleagues and friends from
around the world, we demand that the
Government of India take immediate action to
bring all the criminal elements in this
matter to justice. It is critical that the
Central Government take charge in this
investigation at the highest levels given
the evident collusion between local
political and criminal elements that has
precipitated these horrible murders.
We will not rest in continuing to bring
national and international pressure to bear
on this outrage until the interests of
justice are served in this case.
We, the undersigned, hereby add our names to
this petition:
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