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From: Pradip Pradhan <pradippradhan63@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:39 PM
Subject: [odishasoochanaadhikarabhiyan] Fwd: Officer-in-Charge, Thakurmunda Police station under Mayurbhanj district, Orissa misbehaved to RTI Activists, Information-seekers
To: odishasoochanaadhikarabhiyan <odishasoochanaadhikarabhiyan@googlegroups.com>
Dear friends
On 14.2.2011, a team of volunteers had visited to the office of Thakurmunda Police station under Mayurbhanj district to get some information proactively disclosed under section 4(1b) of RTI Act and to experience the system put in the police station as per Orissa High Court directives to provide the information to the citizens. It needs to be mentioned here that the DG of Police had filed an affidavit in High Court that all the Police stations have been declared as Public Authority with appointment of PIOs and display board is in place in every police station. During visit, the OIC, Thakurmunda Police station not only denied to provide any information saying that SP office is only authorized to provide the information but unruly behaved the volunteers to any extend. Complaint has been lodged to DG, Police, State Human Rights Commission, State Information Commission demanding action against Mr. Bhagawan Jena, OIC, Thakurmunda.
Regards
Pradip Pradhan
To
The Director General of Police Date- 16.2.2011
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Sub- Enquiry into misbehavior and unruly behaviour of Mr. Bhagawan Jena, Officer- In-charge of Thakurmunda Police Station under Mayurbhanj District to information-seekers and RTI activists.
Sir,
We, the following signatories, volunteers and RTI activists belonging to Mayurbhanj district bring to your kind notice the following complaint seeking your urgent intervention and remedial justice.
2) That on 14.2.2011, we visited Thakurmunda Police Station to seek some information, which are supposed to have been proactively disclosed and kept ready for public inspection with effect from the 12th October 2005 as mandated under Section 4 of Right to Information Act 2005. On reaching there, we found the gate of Police Station closed. We informed the gate keeper about the purpose of our visit. Requesting us to wait, she went inside to consult the OIC and after a few moments she returned and opened the gate to ensure our entry to the premises of the Police Station. We went straight to meet Mr. Bhagawan Jena, OIC and appraised him about the purpose of our visit i.e., to get some proactively disclosed information under Section 4 of the RTI Act. The OIC suddenly got irritated and shouted at us saying that no information was available in his office and asked us to get out. We returned back from there in silence and empty handed.
3) Then, when we were on the way back, a police jeep carrying SOG Jawans reached at us and asked us to visit the police station again. The said jeep carried us also to the police station and the Jawans put us before the OIC, who immediately started hurling abusive words at us. When we enquired to know about the reason of his misbehaviour, Mr. Jena suddenly became furious and scolded us in an aggessive manner saying "bloody nonsense, you are bloody Maoists, I will teach you a lesson" and the like. Then he used these very words like "sala besi dekhei hauchha, netagiri dekhauchha" For one hour at a stretch he continued his unruly and abusive gestures and utterances against us. We were not allowed to open our mouth. We also could not understand why he dealth with us so savagely.
3) When the OIC was at the peak of his infuriated rage against the group of RTI users, Mr. Pradip Pradhan a prominent RTI Activist from Bhuaneswar and a Trainer cum Resource Person on RTI reached the Police Station accompanied by Mr. Jyotiram Dash and Mr. Brahmanad Swain of Thakurmunda. When Mr. Pradip Pradhan was about to sit on a vacant chair, the OIC Mr. Jena started abusing him with vulgar language. His words were "You are a bloody nonsense; Who are you to sit here? Is it decent to sit before a police officer without permission? What is your academic qualification? How dare you to sit before me like this? When Mr. Pradip Pradhan started explaining him about the purpose of the visit and asked him to know about the arrangements made in the Police Station to provide the information under RTI Act, the OIC irritatedly retorted, 'Why shall we provide the information? It is SP office, which should provide the information? Who are you to ask for information? and so on and so forth. The OIC also meted out similar kind of unruly misbehavour to Jyotiram Dash and Brahmanand Swain using abusive words and scolding them. The OIC also called the SOG Jawans to heckle Jyotiram Dash, but Mr.Dash vehemently protested against it. Still one of the SOG Jawans physically assaulted Jyotiram. After scolding and threatening the RTI activists for abut an hour to his fill, Mr.Jena the OIC' asked us to leave the Police Station.
4) The act of unruly misbehaviour by the OIC Thakurmunda towards the RTI activists has badly damaged our sense of dignity and self-respect as citizens of India and also instilled into us a very scary feeling of fear, threat and insecurity amongst us about our local police and police station. We still continue to harbour an anxiety that our life may be endangered by the above Police Officer at any moment our of his deeply ingrained malice and hatred against the cause of RTI and RTI activists.
5) That we had recently come to know from the newspapers that the DG Orissa Police issued a circular instructing all the Police Stations to put in place Public Information Officers so as to provide information to the public directly, and the Orissa High Court also closed the concerned PIL following the apprisal to the Court by the State Government that the above mentioned new arrangement has already been put in place and consequently the members of the public are now in a position to avail the information under RTI Act from each Police Station directly. But the way Mr.Jena, OIC Thakurmunda misbehaved with RTI activists and flatly denied to provide information to the visiting RTI users shows that he has nakedly violated the instruction of DG Orissa Police and deserves therefore strong penal action rom the Departmental authorities.
So, we request you to enquire into the matter and take appropriate disciplinary action against the OIC Thakurmunda and ensure proper arrangement to be put in place in the said Police Station to comply with the request for information either under Section 4 or Section 6 of RTI Act 2005.
Thanking you
Yours sincerely
Pandab Kumar Mohanta Mahendra Nath Behera
Sanabaliposhi Champajhar Mankadabeda Champajhar
P.S.- Mahulidiha P.S.-Mahuldiha
Dist-Mayurbhanj Dist-Mayurbhanj
Ghanashyam Naik Pradip Pradhan
At/Post-Champajhar Plot No-791
P.S-Mahuldia Mangala Mandir Lane
Dist-Mayurbhanj Bhubaneswar
M-99378-43482
Jyotiram Dash Brahmanand Swain
At/post-Thakurmunda At/post-Thakurmunda
Dist-Mayurbhanj Dist-Mayurbhanj
M-7894990463 M- 8018542334
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