Hi,
Sometime back I was telling my American friend Tucker Mc Cravy a joke about how live Indian frogs can be transported in open jars- since they would pull down anyone who tries to make it to the top.
Perhaps he already knew, since he taught for 3 years in Sri Lanka incl Jaffna and had heard a similar one there as well. Recently he was in Jaiselmer.
A classic case - on that theme - is the current imprisonment of a "marketplace owner" (like Trump Towers) --who is sent to jail - becos someone sold some pornographic material in one of the shops he had rented out (the marketplace owner) or like a stock exchange top manager being sent to jail becos someone -totally unknown to him- did some insider trading or some stock market fraud on that stock exchange .
There are so many crimes being comitted in the stock market and even in market places in rented shops --- the owners who charge them rent for the service -- do not ever land in prison -- and kept in the same cell as rapists, murderers -and given just a blanket to sleep on.
Why - just becos he is an non-local Indian -- and Indian American with a MBA from Harvard and engg from IIT and happens to be the CEO of www.bazee.com --and www.ebay.com company. On the other hand, those Indian goons who have murder charges by the ton - are kept in Airconditioned cells and special privelages are accorded to them.
If wireless porn is such a big thing, then why doesn't the Indian govt close all the internet providers - since they all alow access to internet porn, why don't all email providers -including Yahoo.com be shut -since they all carry emails -including spams - full of porn, why not shut all "desi" sites of Indian porn.
Why don't you shut down the whole economy? Period.
Umesh
PS: When you can't stop child sex in India -- read: child marriage in Rajasthan -on Ankha Teej -wheer reporters do mange to get photos of the mass weddings every year - but the govt sleeps - faigning unawareness of child sex.
And where is the girl who was performing the sex act - why not bring her to the court. She is equally guilty. Gender equality - my foot!!
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From Baazee CEO to Jail No 3 of Tihar prison
NEW DELHI: Even in his wildest dreams, Avnish Bajaj, CEO of US-based auction portal eBay's Indian subsidiary, Baazee.com , would have never imagined that he'd be spending his days in India's most infamous jail.
Bajaj, arrested for letting an IIT-ian host the MMS sex clip involving two Delhi Public School students on baazee.com , is lodged inside Jail No 3 inside Delhi's Tihar Prisons with not one or two, but "about 70" other undertrials accused of crimes ranging from pick-pocketing and rape to murder.
The Harvard graduate, arrested on Friday, is in Jail No 3 without even a bed for himself. "Just like any other inmate, Bajaj sleeps on a bed-sheet on the ground. No one gets a bed here," Tihar Jail's Director General of Prisons, R P Singh, tells Indiatimes News Network .
Bajaj has been given "no extra facilities", Singh confirms, "! He is being treated just like any other undertrial at Tihar."
In judicial custody till December 24, Bajaj is in Jail No 3 because that's the allotted jail for prisoners whose names start with alphabets A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, L, V or W.
He gets just about enough space in his cell to curl up and sleep, if at all he manages to get some.
Bajaj, arrested for letting an IIT-ian host the MMS sex clip involving two Delhi Public School students on baazee.com , is lodged inside Jail No 3 inside Delhi's Tihar Prisons with not one or two, but "about 70" other undertrials accused of crimes ranging from pick-pocketing and rape to murder.
The Harvard graduate, arrested on Friday, is in Jail No 3 without even a bed for himself. "Just like any other inmate, Bajaj sleeps on a bed-sheet on the ground. No one gets a bed here," Tihar Jail's Director General of Prisons, R P Singh, tells Indiatimes News Network .
Bajaj has been given "no extra facilities", Singh confirms, "! He is being treated just like any other undertrial at Tihar."
In judicial custody till December 24, Bajaj is in Jail No 3 because that's the allotted jail for prisoners whose names start with alphabets A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, L, V or W.
He gets just about enough space in his cell to curl up and sleep, if at all he manages to get some.
Though spread over an area of 400 acres there are seven prisons at Tihar, with a sanctioned capacity of 4,000 prisoners. However, at present there are about 12,500 inmates lodged in the jail.
So space isn't something Bajaj, who looked extremely tired and worked up when he was produced in court on Monday, can hope to get too much of in Tihar.
"But since Bajaj is a US citizen, he is allowed to meet with his embassy staff between 4 pm and 5 pm on week days. It's a facility we provide to all foreigners," says Singh.
However, he maintains that "no exceptions whatsoever will be made for him (Bajaj)."
Bajaj has to wake up every morning as early as 5.30 am and walk out of the cell, which is more like a dormitory (though extremely unclean and stinky), for head-count of prisoners.
An hour later, he is served 'breakfast' of two slices of bread and a cup of tea on his bed-sheet inside the cell.
Then he walks out to the huge compound with the other inmates to attend the ' prarthna ' (prayer assembly), which lasts for half an hour.
Around 9.30 am, Bajaj has to attend a one-hour class, wher! ein a supervisor teaches and discusses "anything and everything under the sun".
The class is meant for the uneducated, however, "everyone must attend it, whether or not one is joining in the discussions or paying attention", says the DGP.
At 11.30 am he is locked back in the cell and has to wait for someone to serve him lunch, very served at noon sharp.
For lunch, he gets four rotis , one subzi and a little bit of dal. Even if he is still hungry, he can't get another helping.
The cell opens again at 3 pm, and Bajaj, along with the other prisoners, is allowed to walk in the compound and even play some games
"But since Bajaj is a US citizen, he is allowed to meet with his embassy staff between 4 pm and 5 pm on week days. It's a facility we provide to all foreigners," says Singh.
However, he maintains that "no exceptions whatsoever will be made for him (Bajaj)."
Bajaj has to wake up every morning as early as 5.30 am and walk out of the cell, which is more like a dormitory (though extremely unclean and stinky), for head-count of prisoners.
An hour later, he is served 'breakfast' of two slices of bread and a cup of tea on his bed-sheet inside the cell.
Then he walks out to the huge compound with the other inmates to attend the ' prarthna ' (prayer assembly), which lasts for half an hour.
Around 9.30 am, Bajaj has to attend a one-hour class, wher! ein a supervisor teaches and discusses "anything and everything under the sun".
The class is meant for the uneducated, however, "everyone must attend it, whether or not one is joining in the discussions or paying attention", says the DGP.
At 11.30 am he is locked back in the cell and has to wait for someone to serve him lunch, very served at noon sharp.
For lunch, he gets four rotis , one subzi and a little bit of dal. Even if he is still hungry, he can't get another helping.
The cell opens again at 3 pm, and Bajaj, along with the other prisoners, is allowed to walk in the compound and even play some games
However, jail sources say Bajaj sits quietly in a corner till 6 pm, until its time for inmates to be locked back in.
At 6.30 pm he is served dinner, as mercilessly as the previous meal.
And at 8 pm the lights are switched off. But whether Bajaj manages to get some sleep or not only he knows.
Sources allege jail superintendents "must be extorting a lot of money from him, else they would make him work like a slave".
But DGP Singh denies this, saying, "Undertrials are not made to work at all."
A statement that is rubbished by a former inmate, who recently got bail in a rape case. "I paid lakhs (of rupees) so that I am not made to work. Otherwise undertrials have to work," he says.
He further adds that every new inmate is "made to clean the dirty toilets (three in a cell) for a week at a stretch." "It's part of ragging," he emphasises.
US embassy officials say they are keeping a very close eye on the entire case and were r! eally concerned about Bajaj's health and well-being inside the jail.
"Washington is following the case really closely. We are giving it top priority and utmost importance," said an Embassy spokeswoman.
At 6.30 pm he is served dinner, as mercilessly as the previous meal.
And at 8 pm the lights are switched off. But whether Bajaj manages to get some sleep or not only he knows.
Sources allege jail superintendents "must be extorting a lot of money from him, else they would make him work like a slave".
But DGP Singh denies this, saying, "Undertrials are not made to work at all."
A statement that is rubbished by a former inmate, who recently got bail in a rape case. "I paid lakhs (of rupees) so that I am not made to work. Otherwise undertrials have to work," he says.
He further adds that every new inmate is "made to clean the dirty toilets (three in a cell) for a week at a stretch." "It's part of ragging," he emphasises.
US embassy officials say they are keeping a very close eye on the entire case and were r! eally concerned about Bajaj's health and well-being inside the jail.
"Washington is following the case really closely. We are giving it top priority and utmost importance," said an Embassy spokeswoman.
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