tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11551516490580056302024-02-20T04:45:41.941-08:00narco analysis right or wrong ?Nagaraja M Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419715036488993601noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155151649058005630.post-43394634938956283022008-03-04T06:16:00.001-08:002008-03-04T06:16:51.187-08:00narco analysis right or wrongHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH – Weekly newspaper on web<br />In campaign with AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL<br /><br />Editor : NAGARAJ.M.R. VOL.1<br />ISSUE.13 04/06/2005<br /><br />EDITORIAL: FREEDOM OF THE PRESS Vs AUTOCRACY<br /><br />Freedom is the inherent quality, natural trait of every human being<br />to carve out his own destiny. It is the resultant urge of everyone to<br />secure release from squalor, hunger, poverty and ignorance. Freedom -<br />urge to get oneself free from material wants/needs. This urge itself<br />makes human being inquisitive , persevere, plan, innovate, act &<br />achieve his goals . based on these in -born natural traits of a human<br />being - a level playing field is spread out for every one to secure<br />freedom from material wants. That level field is the DEMOCRACY. As<br />there is a boundary line to the field, there are certain limits -<br />social, cultural & statutory to the democracy, with in the<br />boundaries, there is a level playing field for growth to every one<br />i.e. freedom, guarding one-self & his fellows not to cross that limit<br />is " Responsibility/ Duties". As there are four corner stones to a<br />field, there are Legislative, Executive, Judiciary & the enlightened<br />citizens or press.<br />This in-born urge to freedom is therefore a natural birth right, a<br />human right. Democracy-the system of governance based on the natural<br />traits of human beings and ensuring their organic growth, is built<br />upon this very foundation. Thus The Constitution of India" has<br />rightly incorporated it in letter & spirit , in the very first page<br />as the pre-amble & the fundamental rights. The boundary line, the<br />limit is the " Fundamental Duties / Responsibilities". one of these<br />fundamental / human rights is " Freedom of Speech & expression (Right<br />to Information) " As per the constitution of India nobody the<br />President, Prime minister, Chief Minister, Speaker, Judges nor a<br />Journalist has special rights which makes him superior to a citizen<br />of India, under special, critical circumstances constitutional<br />functionaries are empowered with special privileges only to safeguard<br />the democratic set-up, to safe guard the unity & integrity of the<br />nation but not to make themselves superior & to subjugate his fellow<br />citizens into slavery.<br />Nowadays due to widespread criminalisation - unwanted elements have<br />entered into corridors of power - politics, bureaucracy & Judiciary.<br />From the seats of power they are running their criminal dens. Media /<br />press expresses the collective voice of the citizens and is the<br />source of information to the citizens. As more & more media reports<br />came out informing the people about the misdeeds / crimes of powers<br />that be and collectively expressed the anguish of the people,<br />criminals in power started feeling the heat, until the people were<br />ignorant about the crimes committed by powers that be until the<br />people were disunited / lacked collective voice, the criminals in<br />power were making windfall profits through their crimes. So the<br />information of their crimes must not reach the people - It is the key<br />to their riches . So some of these constitutional functionaries<br />physically assaulted media persons, got them beaten - up & even<br />murdered the dissenting media / human rights activists. The speakers<br />of the various state legislatures and of the parliament, started<br />censoring the diatribes of peoples representatives from the records<br />of proceedings of the house, live telecasts of the proceedings of the<br />house are fully censored. Most of the M.L.A.s M.Ps. are not even<br />aware of their duties. They don't even attend the house punctually.<br />Some of these members behaviour is against the dignity & decorum of<br />the house. All these misbehaviour of M.Ps & M.L.As were widely<br />reported in the media. So the criminals - the powers that be invoked<br />the special privileges under the normal circumstances itself and<br />choked , strangulated the throat of source of information /<br />expression - The Media / press.<br />Nowadays it is becoming frequent with Judges & the people's<br />representatives, to slap contempt proceedings "Against Journalists &<br />citizens" who demand information / accountability & against those who<br />speak - out against the crimes of Judges, MPs & M.L.As. Even if one<br />struggles through all hardships & tries to legally prosecute those<br />criminals, they escape legal prosecution / conviction through "Legal<br />Immunity Privileges". The recent cases are the "Roost resort case<br />involving Karnataka High Court Judges" where in the Karnataka high<br />Court slapped contempt proceedings against various news publications<br />and the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly speakers arrest warrant<br />against the journalists of The Hindu" & "Murusoli".<br />Now a time has come to clearly demarcate, define under what<br />circumstances these special privileges / Legal immunity privileges<br />accorded to the constitutional functionaries can be exercised. Also<br />certain sections of the constitution of India like the tenth schedule<br />the directive principles of the government, official's secret act<br />Reservation Policy, Article 370, various non-uniform civil codes<br />etc., which are at present non- justifiable are all together shaking<br />the very foundations of democracy. Thereby suppressing the natural<br />trait of human being to be free & destroying the level playing<br />field . Free- flow of information is the life-line of a functioning<br />democracy. Ensure , protect & preserve it.<br />JAI HIND VANDE MATARAM<br /><br /><br /><br />Your's Sincerely,<br /><br /><br />NAGARAJ. M.R.<br /><br />NARCO-ANALYSIS – RIGHT OR<br />WRONG?<br /><br />The advances in science must be used by the police to find out the<br />truth, to solve the mysteries of the crimes. It is the better option<br />for both investigation / interrogation than the classical<br />interrogation method involving third degree torture, where in the<br />accused breaks -down & blurts out the truth, usually, in most of the<br />cases innocents unable to bear the torture confesses to the crimes<br />they have not at all committed. The scientific tools of interrogation<br />namely Narco-analysis . Brain mapping & polygraph Tests must be made<br />mandatory for interrogation. The perpetrators of third degree torture<br />i.e. Police Military personnel must be punished severelly. Not just<br />on innocents, even on proven criminals police have no rights to<br />torture. It is grossly inhuman & illegal.<br />At present, there is certain bias in the usage of scientific<br />interrogation tools:-<br />1) Generally everybody is afraid of police & their corrupt practices.<br />Even innocent persons are frightened of false fix-ups & third degree<br />torture by police. This fear shows up in their heightened anxiety<br />level, changes in their blood pressure, respiration, heart-beat etc.,<br />There are chances of misinterpreting this as the "Fear of a criminal<br />of being caught"<br />2) These scientific tools are in the hands of police only. Therefore<br />it is biased towards the police or prosecution in a case. Forensic<br />science labs where these scientific interrogations are conducted are<br />under the control of Police department . Fundamental objective of<br />police is to prove their case, the prosecutions stand point rather<br />than finding out the truth. Sometimes, the stand points of<br />prosecution police are influenced by caste, political & monetary<br />considerations. This bias reflects in the preparation of<br />the "Questionnaire by the Interrogator" The interrogator if he wants<br />to bring out a negative image of the accused before the court, he<br />prepares the questionnaire such that only negative issues come out as<br />the answers. If the accused has got political patronage & has paid<br />hefty bribe to the police questionnaire is prepared such as to bring<br />out a positive image, to highlight innocent image of the accused.<br />Leaving out all other related questions, which brings out truth, a<br />negative image of the accused. The police are the one who decide the<br />fate, destiny of the accused.<br />3) Every human being has two personalities with in his sub -<br />conscious mind one personality is evil, selfish & craves for all<br />material pleasures. The other personality is good , humane & sociable<br />one. Whenever an issue comes up before a human being , whenever a<br />human being sees, reads or hears a subject two opinions are<br />formulated about it by him. One by his evil, selfish ego the other by<br />his good, humane self .A perfect human being, a social being is one<br />who controls his mind, contains the evil influences of his selfish<br />self and follows the guidance of his good self. This readily<br />expresses itself through good humane social actions. A criminal is<br />one who does not have control over his mind and acts according to the<br />evil guidance of the selfish self.<br />There are chances of mis-interpretation during scientific<br />interrogation . If you expose only evil self you will get a negative<br />image or else if you expose only the good self you will get a<br />positive image of the accused. For a balanced view, you have to see<br />the both evil-self & good self of the accused together with his past<br />& present actions.<br />4) At present only it is the prosecution who can use these scientific<br />interrogation facilities, but not the defence.<br />In the fake stamp paper scam during Narco Analysis , king pin Mr.<br />Karim Lala Telgi blurted out the truth - gave out the names of his<br />VVIP accomplices, Police accomplices, his business details, so far so<br />good.<br />Hereby I do request you to order both the union government & all<br />state governments :-<br />1) To keep the forensic science laboratories under the control of<br />autonomous bodies like National Human Rights Commission.<br />2) To make the scientific facilities of interrogation available for<br />both the prosecution & the defence of course, for a fee.<br />3) To enact legislation to subject the corrupt investigating officer,<br />corrupt public prosecutor, corrupt presiding judge of the case, etc.,<br />to scientific interrogations, by both the defence & prosecution.<br />4) To factor in the allowances for the natural fear for police (for<br />their corrupt, ruthless, devil face)<br />5) To create an unbiased impartial atmosphere free of fear or favour<br />to conduct the scientific interrogation.<br />6) To enact guidelines for scientific interrogation for framing<br />questions to bring out both good & evil self in the sub conscious to<br />have a balanced view of the man under question together with his past<br />& present actions .<br />7) To make it mandatory for all cases including VVIPs .<br />In various cases scams, involving VVIPs cases drag on for years.<br />Public money is wasted through waste of deliberations of the house (<br />Parliament, Legislative Assembly), Waste through constitution of<br />Parliamentary committees , Judicial commissions, why not all those<br />VVIPs accused of involvement in scams subjected to tests like Narco<br />analysis, poly graph, Brain finger printing etc., So that L K Advani<br />& Murali Manohar Joshi will tell about Babri Masjid demolition, Sonia<br />gandhi family will tell about Bofors, George Fernandese about<br />Tehelka, P V Narasimha Rao about Jain Diary, Forgery case , Sukharam<br />about Telecom purchases, Lallo Prasad Yadav about fodder scam. The<br />scam tainted VVIP list goes on. Why not these VVIPs are subjected to<br />scientific interrogation with unbiased questionnaire?<br /><br />AN APPEAL TO THE CHIEF MINISTER OF WEST BENGAL INDIA<br /><br />Police torture schoolboy in India<br />Written by Staff Writer<br />Saturday, 21 May 2005<br /><br />Police in India illegally detained and tortured a 16-year-old<br />schoolboy for four days in order to force his father to surrender,<br />two of human rights groups alleged today.<br />According to reports by Indian rights group MASUM and regional<br />watchdog Asian Human Rights Commission, the class IX student was<br />picked up after police in Galabari, West Bengal failed to arrest the<br />boy's father.<br />The police picked up the boy at midnight on May 12 after terrorizing<br />the family and held the boy in cell full of adults, and tortured him<br />for four days, they alleged.<br /><br />His mother claims that the police threatened to kill the boy and dump<br />his body in the river unless the father surrendered to the police.<br />The boy's mother managed to obtain his release on May 16, and<br />psychiatrists confirm that he is suffering from torture induced<br />trauma.<br />Police harassment of families of persons allegedly wanted as suspects<br />is quite common in India.<br />Families are often badly abused and tortured to find out the<br />whereabouts of the absconding suspect.<br />According well-documented evidence, Indian police routinely torture<br />and abuse minors, even though India is a party to the Child Right<br />Convention.<br />Devendra Pratap Singh, the victim's advocate has said that a petition<br />will be moved before the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Howrah court<br />against the Golabari officer-in-charge Chitta Ranjan Mondal for the<br />illegal detention of a minor boy.<br />AHRC and MASUM urged authorities to bring the alleged perpetrators to<br />justice, and pay adequate compensation for the traumatized boy.<br />Golabari police have refused to comment on the case.<br />Will you please look into the matter.<br /><br />FEEDING THE<br />WORLD – FACTS Vs FICTION<br /><br />Most hungry people live in countries that have food surpluses rather<br />than deficits. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation<br />(FAO), we are already producing one and a half times the amount of<br />food needed to provide everyone in the world with an adequate and<br />nutritious diet, yet one in seven people is suffering from hunger.<br />Rather than growing food to meet the needs of local communities for a<br />healthy, diverse diet, industrial agriculture produces crops to sell<br />on world markets. While world crop production has trebled since the<br />1950s, more people go hungry now than 20 years ago. Small family<br />farmers are driven off their land and local people cannot afford to<br />buy what is grown. Too often, the result is a downward spiral of<br />environmental destruction, poverty and hunger.<br />Food security will not be achieved by technical fixes, like genetic<br />engineering (GE). People who need to eat need access to land on which<br />to grow food or money with which to buy food.<br />Technological 'solutions' like GE mask the real social, political,<br />economic and environmental problems responsible for hunger.<br />The case of Argentina, the number two producer of GE crops in the<br />world and the only developing country growing GE food crops on a<br />large commercial scale, shows that GE does not lead to an increase in<br />food security. Millions of tons of GE soya are exported every year<br />from Argentina for cattle feed, while millions of Argentineans go<br />hungry.<br /><br /><br />The real causes of hunger:<br />Poverty and lack of access to resources: Hunger and malnutrition are<br />a direct result of a lack of access to, or exclusion from, productive<br />resources, such as land, the forests, the seas, water, seeds,<br />technology and credit. Seventy-five percent of the world's hungry are<br />politically marginalised people who live in rural areas. An example<br />of the grossly unequal distribution of land that directly contributes<br />to hunger: in Latin America, 80 percent of agricultural land is in<br />the hands of 20 percent of the farmers; the other 20 percent of the<br />land is in the hands of the remaining 80 percent.<br />Unfair trade regimes: The current agricultural trade system puts the<br />South in an impossible situation. The Organisation for Economic Co-<br />operation and Development (OECD) annual state subsidies of their<br />national agricultural sectors exceed Sub-Saharan Africa's entire<br />Gross Domestic Product. Subsidised exports, artificially low prices<br />and WTO legalised dumping by the rich countries characterise the<br />current unfair model of agricultural trade faced by poor countries.<br />Orientation of research towards industrial agriculture rather than<br />towards the needs of marginal farmers: Research often neglects the<br />development of agricultural techniques that reduce the inputs needed<br />and that are easy to control. Agricultural research at international<br />and national levels is highly orientated towards industrial<br />agriculture.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Edited, printed & published by nagaraj.m.r. at #EWS 190 HUDCO 3RD<br />STAGE HEBBAL MYSORE-570016 INDIA home page:<br /><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naghrw">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naghrw</a> e-mail : <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naghrw/post?postID=IXTw6Ss0K_Z3hnhhnz47NFZizNx5Pn53T2nABIMmIcQ88N1SbUVdh8HcgnN-pYZivUtazV7RkOwVLg">naghrw@yahoo.com</a>Nagaraja M Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419715036488993601noreply@blogger.com0