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WE ARE ALL AGGRIEVED, SAY TEACHERS
10 DECEMBER 2006, HINDUSTAN TIMES, 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 Dr.
T Kumar
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Dr
T. Kumar, IAS |
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To
The
Hon'ble Prime Minister
of India,
Govt. of India
New Delhi
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11 December, 2006 |
Respected
Sir,
Prof. Papiya
Ghosh of Patna University, my sister, lost her
life in the most barbaric and gruesome
circumstances on 3rd December, 2006, in Patna.
The perpetrators slaughtered her in the darkness
of the night. She was single and therefore
vulnerable. Her aged, invalid maid, Malti Devi,
was not spared either by the criminals. We in
the family, friends and well wishers are totally
devastated by this heinous and dastardly crime
against a defenceless woman.
It is
strikingly uncanny
that my father, Ujjal
Kumar Ghosh, a senior
IAS Officer of the
Bihar Govt. had met
a similar tragic end
at Patna on 3rd December,
1957.
Prof. Ghosh
was an erudite scholar and a dedicated teacher,
who devoted herself wholeheartedly to the cause
of higher education and original research on
Bihar. She cherished academic excellence and
consistently upheld the principles of
intellectual honesty and integrity. At the time
of her ghastly death, she was working on
crucially important subjects related,
inter-alia, to syncretic, popular culture,
Partition, Indian Diaspora, Bihari Muslims and
the history of traditionally deprived sections
of society. The very strong condemnation and
genuine outpouring of shock, outrage and grief
from all over the world for Prof. Ghosh is a
resounding acknowledgement of her abiding
contributions in the academic field and an
affirmation that she had touched and transformed
countless lives.
We cannot
grieve enough for Papiya or bring her back to
life. The last few hours of her life which were
violated and desecrated with sheer viciousness,
perversity and unimaginable cruelty, will always
haunt us.
In the
circumstances, I earnestly appeal to you to use
your good offices to ensure that justice is
neither delayed or denied and that Prof. Ghosh’s
supreme sacrifice does not go in vain. Inaction
or insensitivity, I may most humbly add, will
send out a very negative message and embolden
criminals to carry out similar ruthless crimes
with impunity against innocent, law-abiding
citizens, especially women.
A response
from you in this regard
will be greatly appreciated
so that I may share
it with family, friends
and well wishers who
are seriously concerned
that this case does
not end up becoming
part of the statistics
of “Unsolved or Unsolvable”
crimes.
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Thanking
You ,
Sd/
(Dr. T. Kumar)
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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
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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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