| From
Tehelka Magazine, Vol 6, Issue 12, Dated Mar 28, 2009 |
|
| 5YEARS
OF PUBLIC INTEREST JOURNALISM |
|
investigations |
|
OPERATION COVER-UP
Operation Cover-Up
LEGACY IN SLEAZE
Mud On The Mahatama
Gandhi. Across India, the name
signifies honesty, truth, public
service, simplicity, sacrifice —
values that defined Gandhi’s
life. Yet institutions founded by
him — Delhi’s Harijan Sevak
Sangh and Ahmedabad’s
Sabarmati Ashram today
espouse opposite values —
dishonesty, lies, self-service,
excess, avarice. TEHELKA
discovered that these places,
along with Gandhi’s Samadhi
at Rajghat, have become
places of rampant malpractice.
MIHIR SRIVASTAVA, 24 DEC 2005
CAPTAIL PERIL
A Pilot’s LicenseWithout Taking Off
If you had the money, you could
net 10 flying hours without ever
stepping into a cockpit; for a
Rs 1 lakh bribe, you could get a
student pilot’s licence; a little
more cash could fetch you a
commercial pilot’s papers.
That’s what TEHELKA proved in a
sting operation that revealed
the shocking state of pilot
training in the country.
KUMAR BAADAL, 18 DEC 2004 |
THE COVER-UP of Sameer Khan’s murder
in a fake encounter by the Gujarat
Police extended up to Chief Minister
Narendra Modi’s office. After the Gujarat
government was forced to concede that its
police had killed a small-time extortionist,
Sohrabbudin Sheikh, and his wife
Kausar Bi in fake encounters, a TEHELKA
probe established that Sohrabuddin’s
cold-blooded murder was no aberration.
The killing of Khan laid bare the mammoth
cover-up crafted by Modi’s office.
TEHELKAIMPACT
Following the TEHELKA expose,
the Supreme Court in September
2008 issued notices to Gujarat
Chief Minister Narendra Modi
and Home Minister Amit Shah
seeking their responses |
After his death, Khan was announced
to have been involved in a plot to kill Modi and other BJP
leaders — a claim subsequently
dismissed by
the Gujarat High Court.
The police said they
shot Khan in self-defence.
However, the trajectory
of the bullet that hit Khan
proved that he was shot
at pointblank range while
lying prostrate. These and
other damning evidence of murder were uncovered by TEHELKA,
on the basis of a police officer’s report that
had been covered-up by the Director
General of Police and the Chief Minister’s
Principal Secretary.
ASHISH KHETAN & HARINDER BAWEJA, 7 OCT 2006
DEATH MONEY
The Selling Of Afzal Guru
DEBATES AROUND the
innocence of Afzal Guru,
awarded the death sentence
by the Supreme Court for
the 13 December 2001
attack on the Indian Parliament
aside, TEHELKA found
his brother making money in his name.
Across Kashmir, people, political parties
and secessionists alike spoke in one
voice — Afzal Guru must be granted
clemency or the Valley would go up in
flames. Even as ordinary Kashmiris
risked lives to join the clemency processions,
Afzal’s brother, Aijaz
Guru, and Yasin Guru, the
brother of Afzal’s co-accused
Shaukat Guru collected
up to Rs 7 lakh in the
name of ‘legal aid’ for Afzal.
Political party leaders of all
shades in Kashmir admitted on record to
having paid money to the duo in the
belief that it would be used in the campaign
to keep Afzal from death row. The
money collected was subsequently invested
in property.
MIHIR SRIVASTAVA, 3 FEB 2007 |
Archive.tehelka.com
