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Ajit Singh Bains exposes elements
Sukhbir hob nobs with
WSN Network
Amritsar: Weeks
after senior leaders of Punjab Congress alleged that a cable mafia
has become entrenched in Punjab and the Punjabi channel of the Zee
Network was being throttled at the instance of Deputy CM Sukhbir
Singh Badal, it was now the turn of Punjab Human Rights Organisation
(PHRO) chairman Justice Ajit Singh Bains to make the same charges.
He has also exposed the kind of people executing this operation.
The much
respected former judge, known for his steadfast stand in favour of
human rights movements, has said in a letter to the Director, CBI,
New Delhi, that the main accused of Siti Cable sleaze case was hand
in glove with the Badal family in controlling and expansion of DG
and Fastway cable network in the state.
Justice Bains
claimed that the main accused conspired with the Badals to control
the electronic media of the state by the formation of DG Cable. Even
the companies had complained to the central government about the
theft of their signals by the DG Cable network. But no action was
taken against the accused due to political pressure. The companies
had to bend to make peace and allow telecast of their programmes.
Justice Bains
alleged that the accused, using the influence of the Badals, was
pressuring the witnesses of Siti Cable scam to withdraw their
statements. The accused pressured the police and the administration
to bend the witnesses by lodging false FIRs, which later were
cancelled after they (witnesses) turned hostile from earlier
statements.
He demanded the
cancellation of bail of all six accused and said the PHRO would soon
release CDs to prove police officials were shielding the accused at
the behest of the government.
“While the
accused have been provided gunmen, witnesses are being threatened by
police officials themselves,” Bains said, alleging the accused had
also got false cases registered against the witnesses.
He said the
state police had ignored the directions of CBI Joint Director M.
Narayanan to provide security to witnesses. In the letter, the PHRO
urged the CBI to move court for the cancellation of the bail granted
to the accused. Following a report prepared by the PHRO in 2003, the
police had registered a case in the Siti Cable scandal. It was later
referred to the CBI.
25 March 2009
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