I had written a bit about Manoje Nath when he was shunted couple of years back. After that, it was a DySP, Vivek Kumar, who had severely beaten up a Russian NRI who had come down to Bihar for investing in hotel business. Now it is Irfan who was arrested along with his colleauges, beaten up & later released from lock up on the charges of abducting a person to whom, as Irfan claims, had given advance money to create a site for his business. As the story unfolds, it was a charge of abduction & intent of murdering Navendu, the abductee in question, against Irfan. Hope you remember Irfan. He is the same Irfan, an IIM graduate, who was invited by US President Barack Obama some time back & had won the Business Bazigar award.
The intent of writing here about Irfan is not about trying to convince you whether Irfan is right or wrong. The bigger question is if Irfan was indeed wrong & whatever he did was for the illful purpose of abduction & murder, why the bloody hell the Bihar police released him the very next day instead of filing a criminal charge against him & sending him to the Jail, why is he not produced before the court. Where are the defendants? Navendu had left his house at 1.30 pm for Irfan's office. His father called up the police at around 4.30 pm to register that his son, Navendu, has been abducted. First how did he know that he was abducted at the first place? Just 3 hrs had elapsed. That's quite a common thing. It was also not the case that Navendu was called late in the night. He was pretty much called up in the afternoon. If Irfan had the motive to murder, he would hire goons, why the hell on this earth would he want to do it himself. Even he wanted to, he would, why would he make Navendu sit in office? To wait for the police to come & find him out? I also wonder, Police was able to make out that since the person has not returned within 3 hrs, he would have been abducted while the procedures clearly state that a missing complaint can be registered only after 24 hrs of disappearence. In this case, it was not even disappearence. It was a well known fact that Navendu was with Irfan.
However as the story unfolds a bit further, the Bihar police says, it was the DySp, who had gone to Irfan's office, was misbehaved with. Oh ho, so the point is all about EGO issue again. So there was no question of any abduction & murder rather the DySP's ego that had been chased to death. What is the definition of this mis-behaving. As far as I know the police, it could have been nomore than talking to them at a higher pitch. When I say higher pitch, it just denotes that Irfan may have tried questionning them? That's it. That's more than enough for the Police to take it personally because essentially they know everything. Did he slap the DySP, did he push him, or whatever, these are certain things are are yet to be answered but it doesn't like any different than what DySP Vivek Kumar did with the other NRI too. NRI's car had just taken over DySP's official vehicle. That was enough to incite the DySP. The NRI was beaten up black & Blue. The DYSP went un-punished. Not just that very soon he was promoted to the rank of SP. That's Bihar Police & its administration for you.
The other reason why I tied to create a paralle with Manoje Nath's case is not because the cases are related rather to showcase the type of administration that is being run in Bihar. Every thing that looks hunky-dory from outside actually is not. BSEB chief can go unpunished even after scams upon scams but Bihar is shining. Media takes a minute to put Nitish on the world map for his progressive thought but why was that, just for making roads or re-selling the Sugar mills? Why didn't the national media cover this incident? Infact media won't showcase anything that is bad in Bihar because the star media manager Nitish keeps this departent in his portfolio. If you want to learn how much was spent by Nitish on advertisements & how he keeps control on the media, pl refer this link -- http://www.bihartimes.in/Newsbihar/2011/May/Newsbihar10May1.html.
Students of CNLU are on strike because of no campus placements however the dean has the guts to say that all have been placed & its site keeps beaming about its stature. CIMP has been placed amongst the top 20 management institutes in India, atleast that is what its site shines of, with just 13 full time professors on board. Majority of the instituions don't have faculty but Bihar is shining because every girl child has now a cycle to go to schools. Do you really check the statistics, if not, pl go & try to find out what is the %age of the girl child going to schools & where does it stand out compared to the national average. Goondas are in Jail, Yes they are but can one say that most of the elitist goondas are still not out in the form of your own politician?
Nitish is no doubt a better alternative to Lalu but if the question is if he is the best choice, I have my doubts unless Nitish is able enough to sort these issues specially the ones that show his inaptness as an administrator.
Jai Bihar
The intent of writing here about Irfan is not about trying to convince you whether Irfan is right or wrong. The bigger question is if Irfan was indeed wrong & whatever he did was for the illful purpose of abduction & murder, why the bloody hell the Bihar police released him the very next day instead of filing a criminal charge against him & sending him to the Jail, why is he not produced before the court. Where are the defendants? Navendu had left his house at 1.30 pm for Irfan's office. His father called up the police at around 4.30 pm to register that his son, Navendu, has been abducted. First how did he know that he was abducted at the first place? Just 3 hrs had elapsed. That's quite a common thing. It was also not the case that Navendu was called late in the night. He was pretty much called up in the afternoon. If Irfan had the motive to murder, he would hire goons, why the hell on this earth would he want to do it himself. Even he wanted to, he would, why would he make Navendu sit in office? To wait for the police to come & find him out? I also wonder, Police was able to make out that since the person has not returned within 3 hrs, he would have been abducted while the procedures clearly state that a missing complaint can be registered only after 24 hrs of disappearence. In this case, it was not even disappearence. It was a well known fact that Navendu was with Irfan.
However as the story unfolds a bit further, the Bihar police says, it was the DySp, who had gone to Irfan's office, was misbehaved with. Oh ho, so the point is all about EGO issue again. So there was no question of any abduction & murder rather the DySP's ego that had been chased to death. What is the definition of this mis-behaving. As far as I know the police, it could have been nomore than talking to them at a higher pitch. When I say higher pitch, it just denotes that Irfan may have tried questionning them? That's it. That's more than enough for the Police to take it personally because essentially they know everything. Did he slap the DySP, did he push him, or whatever, these are certain things are are yet to be answered but it doesn't like any different than what DySP Vivek Kumar did with the other NRI too. NRI's car had just taken over DySP's official vehicle. That was enough to incite the DySP. The NRI was beaten up black & Blue. The DYSP went un-punished. Not just that very soon he was promoted to the rank of SP. That's Bihar Police & its administration for you.
The other reason why I tied to create a paralle with Manoje Nath's case is not because the cases are related rather to showcase the type of administration that is being run in Bihar. Every thing that looks hunky-dory from outside actually is not. BSEB chief can go unpunished even after scams upon scams but Bihar is shining. Media takes a minute to put Nitish on the world map for his progressive thought but why was that, just for making roads or re-selling the Sugar mills? Why didn't the national media cover this incident? Infact media won't showcase anything that is bad in Bihar because the star media manager Nitish keeps this departent in his portfolio. If you want to learn how much was spent by Nitish on advertisements & how he keeps control on the media, pl refer this link -- http://www.bihartimes.in/Newsbihar/2011/May/Newsbihar10May1.html.
Students of CNLU are on strike because of no campus placements however the dean has the guts to say that all have been placed & its site keeps beaming about its stature. CIMP has been placed amongst the top 20 management institutes in India, atleast that is what its site shines of, with just 13 full time professors on board. Majority of the instituions don't have faculty but Bihar is shining because every girl child has now a cycle to go to schools. Do you really check the statistics, if not, pl go & try to find out what is the %age of the girl child going to schools & where does it stand out compared to the national average. Goondas are in Jail, Yes they are but can one say that most of the elitist goondas are still not out in the form of your own politician?
Nitish is no doubt a better alternative to Lalu but if the question is if he is the best choice, I have my doubts unless Nitish is able enough to sort these issues specially the ones that show his inaptness as an administrator.
Jai Bihar
