25 FREE. FAIR. FEARLESS VOLUME 10 FACEBOOK.COM/TEHELKA TWITTER.COM/TEHELKA ISSUE 46 NEW DELHI SATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2013 THE SPURIOUS EVIDENCE THAT FIXED LALU YADAV. AND THE REAL LEADS THAT WERE IGNORED. AJIT SAHI REPORTS P30
REJECTION BLUES RIYAZ WANI Why is the Congress in Jammu & Kashmir running scared of the nato option? RIFT WITHIN himanshu shekhar Why the Sangh Parivar doesn t want Narendra Modi as prime minister PHOTOGRAPHY DAYANITA SINGH TAXING TIMES RATNADIP CHOUDHURY Finally, Nagas come out to protest the illegal taxes levied by insurgent outfits SATURDAY 16.11.2013 I think it s really important for every artist to go to Varanasi once a year CAGED PARROT? AMITABHA PANDE What the cbi needs right now is accountability more than autonomy VOLUME 10, ISSUE 46; NOVEMBER 10-16, 2013, RELEASED ON NOVEMBER 8, 2013; NUMBER OF PAGES INCLUDING COVER: 86 FOR ENQUIRIES & COMPLAINTS CALL - DELHI - 011 3249 4466 MUMBAI - 022 3204 7766 BENGALURU - 080 3297 4466 OR E-MAIL - RESPONSE@TEHELKA.COM RAPE CULTURE andrea fernandes Do we accept the blame and hope it will stop, or do we continue to fight louder? THE WEEK S TOP READS MY HUSBAND, MY RAPIST by Aradhna Wal WHERE S THE PARTY? THE LEADER? THE FIGHT? by Brijesh Pandey & Ashhar Khan by Andrea Fernandes by Shougat Dasgupta KRISHNA MURARI KISHEN ON EDITOR Tarun J Tejpal MANAGING EDITOR Shoma Chaudhury DEPUTY EDITOR Ramesh Sharma EDITOR-AT-LARGE Ajit Sahi CONSULTING EDITOR Jay Mazoomdaar EDITOR, BUSINESS Shaili Chopra SENIOR EDITOR Rana Ayyub LITERARY EDITOR Shougat Dasgupta COPY EDITOR Srikanth S DESIGN EDITORS Anand Naorem (GROUP) Sudeep Chaudhuri (MAGAZINE) CHIEF OF BUREAU Brijesh Pandey ASSISTANT EDITOR (WEB) Kunal Majumder ASSISTANT EDITORS Kaushik Kashyap, Revati Laul, Sunaina Kumar (MUMBAI) SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS Ashhar Khan, Riyaz Wani (SRINAGAR), Virendra Nath Bhatt (LUCKNOW) PRINCIPAL CORRESPONDENTS Ushinor Majumdar, Ratnadip Choudhury (GUWAHATI), Nishita Jha (MUMBAI) CHIEF OF BUREAU Jeemon Jacob (SOUTH) SENIOR CORRESPONDENTS Imran Khan (BENGALURU), Avalok Langer, Deevakar Anand CORRESPONDENTS G Vishnu, Shonali Ghosal, Ajachi Chakrabarti, Nupur Sonar DY COPY EDITOR, FEATURES Anamika Chatterjee ASST COPY EDITORS Satyadeep, Cyril Sam, Sujay Chakraborty, Saif Ullah Khan, Shraddha Panicker SUB-EDITOR Aradhna Wal EDITOR S OFFICE Ritu Sud (91.9810572889) MANAGING EDITOR S OFFICE Kavita Sharma (91.9871972451) ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR Vikram Nongmaithem ILLUSTRATOR Mayanglambam Dinesh DESIGN TEAM Ajoy Sen, Mahesh Singh Bhandari PHOTO EDITOR Ishan Tankha PHOTOGRAPHERS Vijay Pandey, Ankit Agrawal, Arun Sehrawat SENIOR PHOTO COORDINATOR Deepak Jha TEHELKA TV Andrew Clarance, Sheeba Naaz MNGR-PRODUCTION Piyush Srivastava SYSTEMS HEAD Prawal Srivastava TEAM SYSTEMS Manoj Kumar, Pankaj Kumar, Nihar Ranjan, Bhumesh Kshetrimayum PUBLISHER Neena Tejpal Sharma CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Neena Tejpal VP-CIRCULATION Bharat Bhushan FINANCE MANAGER Brij Kishore Sharma ACCOUNTS Subodh Mishra, Rahul Varma ADVERTISING Satheesh Kumar (91.9845001410) E-MAIL adsales@tehelka.com OWNER Anant Media Pvt Ltd, M-76 (M-Block Market), Greater Kailash II, New Delhi-110048 PRINTER & PUBLISHER Neena Tejpal Sharma PUBLISHED FROM Anant Media Pvt Ltd, M-76 (M-Block Market), Greater Kailash II, New Delhi-110048 PRINTED AT M.P. Printers, B-220, Phase-II, Noida, UP HEAD OFFICE M-76 (M-Block Market), Greater Kailash II, New Delhi-110048 TEL 91.11.40575757 FAX 91.11 40575757 E-MAIL editor@tehelka.com FOUNDER GROUP Tarun J Tejpal, Neena Tejpal, Shoma Chaudhury, Brij K Sharma, Prawal Srivastava
CIVIL SERVICES TSR SUBRAMANIAN 73 FORMER CABINET SECRETARY WE WANT THE CULTURE OF MIDNIGHT TRANSFERS TO STOP LAST WEEK, the Supreme Court ordered that all government officials must have a fixed minimum tenure and should not act on verbal orders from politicians. It also directed that Civil Service Boards should be set up within three months in the states and at the Centre, for regulating postings, transfers and disciplinary action. Former cabinet secretary TSR Subramanian was one of the petitioners in the case. He talks to USHINOR MAJUMDAR about the state of the Indian bureaucracy and the implications of this path-breaking judgment. EDITED EXCERPTS FROM AN INTERVIEW S How do you view the Supreme Court judgment on your petition? The Supreme Court has come in as a guardian of the people. Ours was a pil for the civil services, not for civil servants. As retired civil servants, we (the petitioners) have first-hand knowledge of the problems that civil servants have to face. We are not saying that the Civil Services Board (csb) should make the final decision on transfers and postings. We just want the culture of midnight transfers to stop. Overnight transfers at the behest of the land or sand mafia must stop. When I was chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh, the then district magistrate (dm) of Dehradun asked me for an immediate transfer. The land mafia is illegally converting forest land into a housing colony and my life is under threat because I am opposing it, he said. I asked him to deal with it, but the then cm Mulayam Singh Yadav said that I should remove him. I assured the cm that it was a land issue and he didn t ask me anything more. What influences transfers and postings of civil servants these days? Vested interests often influence these decisions. Good civil servants are punished or neglected. It s not a question of the civil servant s right versus that of 12 TEHELKA 16 NOVEMBER 2013 PHOTO: VIJAY PANDEY
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COVER STORY THE CASE (THAT WASN T) AGAINST LALU YADAV The former Bihar CM s conviction in the fodder scam is based on the flimsiest, distorted and even non-existent evidence. Shockingly, the CBI failed to pursue real leads begging to be probed, and instead protected bureaucrats, auditors and embezzlers who should have been nailed for the crime. Inexplicably, the courts failed to push it to the correct path, says AJIT SAHI 16 NOVEMBER 2013 TEHELKA 31
SOCIETY SOMEONE S WATCHING YOU, BUT WHO? The use of private CCTV is on the rise in Mumbai. Should people feel safe or uneasy, asks NISHITA JHA IN THE fortnight leading up to Bakr- Eid, the Deonar slaughterhouse is replete with frayed tempers and dyed goats. In the past few years, the abattoir the largest in the country has seen caprine thefts worth thousands of rupees: goats, who had first begun to sport tufts of neon blue and pink to enable identification, were soon discovered at markets far from Deonar, sold by different traders at better rates. With an average of two lakh goats and three lakh traders in the abattoir at any given point of time, head-butting and bloodshed were usual fare. This Eid, cattle traders at the slaughterhouse received several gifts: clean mobile toilets, 242 policemen to prevent the trafficking of goats, a boundary wall made 8-feet taller to stop livestock from being tossed over and 41 forbidding cctv cameras. Bakr-Eid, in 2013, saw no stolen goats. Between two individuals, heightened surveillance monitoring of movement and activity indicates a corrosion of trust. Between the state and its citizens, it is intended to reassure: better behaviour is predicated on the threat of repercussion. cctv cameras are different from the panopticon in that they come accom- 62