Maharashtra Chief Minister and currently Union Minister Vilas Rao
Deshmukh shielded his money lending relatives from charge sheets, which led to
suicides of many farmers in Vidarbha region. Sonia was preaching yesterday that
BJP can't lecture her on corruption, but she will not agree to a JPC
investigation. She has collected a thoroghly corrupt cabinet and enjoys loots
together. She has compromised with national security. Her two
sisters have received tons of money into their accounts. People is still poor
but billions are stashed away in foreign banks by these enemies of India. I
don't how much money Sonia needs. These Congressmen will keep on hounding honest
administrators like Narendra Modi's, because they don't like honesty in the
country. Indian newspapers are subservient to the Nehru dynasty. Sedition, bomb
blasts, and hooliganism have taken over the country. Naxalites have taken over
part of the country. No neighboring country is friend, but the defence of the
country is being neglected and the ministry has been assigned to a Muslim.
Please read today' story.
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NEW DELHI: In a stinging criticism of Maharashtra chief minister-turned Union
cabinet minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said he had
abused his constitutional position to prevent the police from registering a
criminal case against a Congress MLA's moneylender father and slapped a Rs 10
lakh fine on the state government.
Deshmukh was accused of interfering with registration of complaints and
investigation of an illegal racket in the state's Vidarbha region in which
moneylenders were alleged to have been squeezing debt-ridden farmers dry,
forcing them to commit suicide.
Shocked by the ''gross misuse of power," a Bench of Justices G S Singhvi and A K
Ganguly said: "Considering the entire matter in its proper perspective, this
court is of the view that the way interference was caused from the office of the
CM by his private secretary by two telephone calls on May 31, 2006, and the
manner in which the district collector was summoned by the CM on the very next
day, June 1, 2006, for giving instructions to specially treat any complaint
filed against MLA Dilip Kumar Sananda and his family members has no precedent
either in law or in public administration."
The Bench not only upheld the Bombay High Court order directing registration of
cases against the accused in the illegal moneylending ring but even enhanced the
cost imposed on the state government from Rs 25,000 to Rs 10 lakh.
A petition before the HC had alleged that though there were around 50 complaints
against one family related to Sananda for an illegal money-lending racket
collecting interest up to 10% per month from poor farmers in Vidarbha, the
police had refused to take action owing to consistent interference and
instructions from the chief minister and his office.
The Supreme Court bench said: "The message conveyed in this case is extremely
shocking and it shocks the conscience of this court about the manner in which
the constitutional functionaries behaved in the state."
Ripping apart the politically dramatized pro-farmer face projected by the
Congress-led coalition government, the Supreme Court said the complaint while
seeking action against moneylenders was categorical — farmers do not get the
benefit of various packages announced by the government and the state machinery
is ruthless with farmers.
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