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From: "CHROkeralam" <chro1@rediffmail.com> Date: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:48am Subject: Father's superstition leads to child's death New Indian Express, December 20, 2004, Monday Father's superstition leads to child's death UNI SILIGURI: An ailing 32-month-old tribal child, who was caught in a tussle between rationalists and her superstitious father over her treatment, finally died in hospital here. Monorama Lakra, whose father is a follower of the Jehovah's witnesses religious sect, was against blood transfusion because of religious prohibitions, died of tuberculosis in a government hospital on Saturday. The tribal child, daughter of tea labourer Sanjoy Lakra of Bagdogra near here, had been suffering from multiple complications including acute anaemia, kidney failure, TB and malnutrition. She was taken out of the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) by her father in the first week of October when doctor advised him that the girl needed blood transfusion. Later when the police and some NGOs, including North Bengal Voluntary Blood Donors Forum, came to know this from media reports, Lakra was forced to re-admit his daughter at Siliguri Mahakuma Government Hospital for the transfusion. Doctor A K Saha, who was attending the child, said the girl was doing well after fresh blood transfusion, but acute malnutrition, failure of the both the kidneys and TB had taken a toll on the child. The Forum, which had undertaken all costs of treatment and took the girl under its undertaking, had re-admitted her in NBMCH on Friday after complication arose and she breathed her last the following day. Initial refusal of her father to allow blood transfusion had galvanised the rationalists. http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IEP20041219091628&Title=States&Topic=0& ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [2] New Indian Express, December 20, 2004, Monday They gave him chicken and alcohol, he gave them death BARABANKI: This tantrik allegedly fleeced people of five villages and poisoned at least four villagers to death. Hira Lal had people of villages of Radauli in Barabanki district, 90 kilometres from Lucknow, believing that their land was a goldmine. Finally, he was caught some days back, when an intended victim contacted the police. Hira Lal says that he told the villagers: ??????Sell your land worth lakhs, hand over the money to me. We will use the money to buy gold, which we will bury inside your house and perform a pooja to please Bhavani maa. You treat me to a meal of chicken and alcohol. This will bring up the deep-buried gold. After eight days, your investment would multiply 10-fold. Pour alcohol regularly over the spot for eight days.??™??™ Lal said he would pocket the gold and bury stones wrapped in a cloth in its place. He would talk about the deal only with earning members of families, allegedly threatening them that if the secret was revealed to anyone else, Bhavani maa would cause the person??™s death and make the gold disappear. ??????He would then hand over a bottle containing poison to the victim, saying he should drink it before digging for the gold. The victims died instantaneously while the rest of the family were left wondering what had caused his death and where the money from the land sale had gone,??™??™ says sub-inspector O.P. Yadav of the Barabanki police, who arrested Hira Lal. Police say he has killed four people but the toll could be higher. Lal allegedly migrated from Allahabad to settle in Radauli and married a local 17-year-old girl some time back. But for a mistake, Lal might have never been caught. His last victim was Lakshmi Devi (60) of Puremalik village. He told Devi that her daughter and son-in-law Sukhdev would die unless she pleased Bhavani maa. He made Devi sell her land worth nearly a lakh rupees and asked her to purchase gold, which he allegedly buried inside her house. However Lakshmi told Sukhdev about the deal and Lal gave the poison to both of them. Devi drank it before Sukhdev and died moments later. Sukhdev then took the bottle to the police who tested the contents. Finding it contained poison, they arrested Hira Lal. When Sukhdev searched the spot where the gold was supposed to have been buried, he found it empty. http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEP20041219224938&Page=P&Title=States&Topic=0& ---------------------------------------------------------------- [3] Report on forest land sale: DFO, Collector 'clueless' New Indian Express, December 21, 2004, Tuesday Report on forest land sale: DFO, Collector 'clueless' MALAPPURAM: The Malappuram District Collector M. Sivasankar has denied having any information regarding the sale of forest land as reported in this website??™s newspaper on Monday. He said it was yet to be known if a big stretch of land measuring around 1,000 acres exists under a single ownership in the district, which was not in the category of vested forest. This website??™s newspaperhad reported on Monday that Chennai-based Ace International Realty had advertised in some newspapers that the forest-land measuring around 1000 acres in the district was up for sale. ???Even if such a property exists, no transaction would legally enable the owner to make any construction on it. If somebody is foolish enough to buy the property, he can buy it, that??™s all,??? he said. He also added that a meeting of revenue officers has been called for December 23. ???We will verify it and sort out the issue immediately,??? he said. When contacted, Nilambur North DFO P. Pukazhenthi said that the District Collector would be sought to intervene in the deal in case the property advertised for sale was the 1,163 acres of forest land owned by the Nilambur Kovilakam, which was ecologically fragile and comes under the Nilgiri Biosphere. http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IER20041221010925&Page=R&Title=Kerala&Topic=0& ------------------------------------------------ [4] Sex And CPM In Latest "Kairali" Episode New Indian Express, December 21, 2004, Tuesday Sex and CPM in latest Kairali episode KOCHI: In CPM??™s Malayalam TV channel, Kairali, it??™s another edition of the cat-and-mouse game between the management and party acolytes. In the thick of it all is V Krishna Kumar, Kairali??™s Chief Operating Officer (COO), who admits he has often rubbed the party apparatchiks within the channel the wrong way. An ??????apolitical??™??™, senior professional with a high visibility in the state, thanks to a popular weekly music show he anchored, Krishna Kumar is now in danger of being booted out on allegations of sexual misconduct - one of the many that is haunting Kerala??™s mindscape. And, with the media getting into the act, no one in Kairali wants to either go with the allegation, or tell Krishna Kumar that he stands cleared. In short, it??™s a media story with a party twist. Promoted mainly by the CPM, Kairali has two distinct groups of employees on its rolls - partymen and professionals. The first have organised themselves into ???branch committees??™ in its different units, enjoying de facto supremacy over the other and considerable say in its affairs, through the party apparatus. A bunch of these partymen reportedly spread the word that Krishna Kumar was found indulging in indiscretions with a female colleague, even taking it up with the party top brass for action. Says a senior Kairali professional: ??????They alleged that a visitor standing outside had found out that Krishna kumar and his female colleague were inside his office room together. And while coming out, the woman told this visitor that she did not know where Krishna Kumar was, though he was inside. Conclusions were drawn from this, and taken all the way up to the party leadership.??™??™ Surprisingly, no records of this allegation are available, and no one has claimed to be the complainant yet. ??????It??™s plain corporate ambush. This is what could happen when there are conflicts between a professional management and a party organisation,??™??™ Krishna Kumar told this website's newspaper. He says there has always been conflicts between the two sides in the channel, and he is caught in the middle. Krishna Kumar insists that he has decided to stop attending office till his name is cleared, but will not hand in his resignation until he is formally charged and heard. John Brittas, Kairali??™s managing director, however, claims his channel is being made targetted unfairly. Brittas asserts that his COO had gone on leave for personal reasons. ??????There are certain serious personal issues that he has with the management. So when he requested for leave on personal grounds, I okayed it,??™??™ says Brittas. Brittas, who was earlier with the CPM mouthpiece Desabhimani, says neither the Kairali Board of Directors nor the CPM bosses had discussed the issue, nor was any action urged against the COO. But he could not say why, in that case, Krishna Kumar was not told he has been cleared. ??????As far as we are concerned, he is just another officer in Kairali. The COO tag is just nomenclature. He will hold his post only at our pleasure. No one is indispensable,??™??™ say Brittas. Krishna Kumar, incidentally, was one of the key men who helped establish the CPM channel four years ago. Primarily an engineer, he led the way in initiating analogue-digital fusion and direct uplink from Kerala. Employees say he also helped Kairali pull back from the brink of financial disaster last year when much of its top brass left. As for CPM workers cramping the channel??™s professional elbow room, Brittas claims he came to know of party units being formed only very recently. ??????But those are junior and insignificant employees. They can??™t influence the functioning or management policies in any way,??™??™ says Brittas. Maybe not, but for the moment, Krishna Kumar seems to be bearing the brunt of their ire. ??????It has been harrowing. I have a wife and a 23-year-old daughter, and I have only them to stand up with me on this,??™??™ he says. http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IER20041221010817&Page=R&Title=Kerala&Topic=0& |
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