No Pradeep Criminal antecedents or even proved crime is not a bar to demand accessibility in infrastructure and processes. If a disabled criminal is behind bars, we can and should enquire about prison environment and its accessibility. For instance, if in prison, a convict or any other inmate is given facilities for education, then a disabled inmate has every right to such facilities being accessible to her or him. We cannot say that because a prisoner is hard core criminal so we may not provide for enabling environment for him/her to avail facilities being given to able bodied prisoners. disabled are persons first and foremost and we cannot discount or condition enabling environment by their blamelessness or being free from any vices or crimes. So, even if hasan ali khan may have committed N number of offences, he has every right to accessible infrastructure if it is required by his disability. If disability is feigned, even then if infrastructure is accessible, it can be made available without raising such a hew and cry if things are accessible by and large. Here inaccessible environment is being justified by criminal antecedents of criminal. if disability is pretended, they should prove it and cite it for denying him western commode, or it should be provided without making fuss about it. Do you think situation is any better for criminals or under trials with genuine disabilities?
-----Original Message----- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Pradeep Gupta Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 3:56 PM To: accessindia Subject: Re: [AI] I cannot use an Indian Loo Hi Rajesh, I think you have a point there. A hospital should at least have the basic facilities to be able to catter to the needs of its patients, whether temporarily or permanently disabled. But if a criminal pretends to be disabled, then he should not be given undue sympathy, advantage and favour on this account. at least the disabled welfare organizations should never stand up for him. In this particular case, even a child can judge that Hasan has bribed some officials in order to grab their undue attention. And Vamshi, a criminal should not at all be given undue importance even if he happens to be disabled. If a visually disabled criminal is in jail for raping a visually disabled girl, then his crime is too big to be ignored, and he least deserves publicity on any account. Now if we Access Indians start discussing his case on this forum, doesn't it actually mean that we are indirectly sympathizing with him? To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this email by error, please notify us by return e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Reserve Bank of India accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
