The Hon’ble Chief Justice
of India
Dated 7/8/2019
Supreme Court of India
New Delhi
(Through the Registrar,
Supreme Court of India)
Subject: Unimaginable highhandedness and shamelessness
by Supreme Court of India
in harassing a
well-meaning senior citizen of India –
compensation thereof
References: 1. My email dated 29/7/2019 to the Registrar,
and earlier mails
mentioned there
in.
2. Assistant Registrar (Copying)’s email to
me dated 12/7/2019.
3.
Order dated 7/5/2018 by Court No. 1 in WP (C) 1163/2017
4. My open letter dated 27/3/2019 to
Supreme Court judges and
registered with diary nos.
18182/SCI/PIL(E)2019 and
18183/SCI/PIL(E)2019
under Grievance Management
5. My letter dated 16/5/2019 addressed to the
Hon’ble Chief Justice of
India
Sir,
I do hope that this email/ letter will
be put up to you, the Hon’ble Chief Justice of India, early and will not have a
fate similar to the letter by the mother of Unnao Rape Victim as was very
recently in news. I write this not because I have been /am being harassed, but
because it could be anyone in my place and because it shows how the Supreme
Court of India, and hence the country of India has gone to the dogs (I doubt if
any other phrase would be more appropriate, given the unfortunate facts).
Please do read on.
Only last week there was a
news item that told us that you had said there were some fundamental problems
in your registry and you found yourself helpless to do much/anything about it.
Did your responsibility end with that, giving your registry even more freedom
to continue acting like buffoons? Like highhanded monsters? That too, even
months after my letters under references 4 and 5 above. Not very long ago, we
learnt that CBI had been deputed to see/investigate what wrong had been going
on in the Registrar’s office of the Supreme Court of India. But certainly it
has had no deterrent effect. Are CBI officials there to crack jokes with the
registry officials?
It is evident now from the
Unnao Rape Victim case that Supreme Court of India acts only when there is
noise in the media. Does that mean it will never act on a matter in which the
media itself was the culprit? What have you and your Court done on letters
under reference 4 and 5 even after precious months elapsing, even after
registering one of these? Only you would know whether for some reason you
couldn’t go through those or you didn’t consider it worthwhile to do anything
about it. But since there is no noise in media about those, and won’t be any -
media itself being a major culprit - will the Supreme Court of India never act?
Is this the nation our freedom fighters had fought for, had dreamt of?
On the contrary, your
registry is now acting with even greater criminality and shamelessness. Rather
than acting to curb a monstrous proven public fraud and crime, the Court is
finding novel ways of harassing me, the messenger. It is true that powerful
politicians like Arun Jaitely, Sharad Pawar, and many others cutting across
political parties are/ have been at the helm of this monstrous fraud and loot,
and top industrialists and celebrities including Mukesh Ambani and Shahrukh
Khan are a part and parcel of it, not to mention the powerful cricketing world.
But is the institution of Supreme Court of India to act as their keep? Is that
the oath you people take when assuming office? Don’t you people have any
conscience of your own and/or shame left?
This is not about some
highhandedness by some police officials somewhere, some jungle raj somewhere in
the country, crimes of rapes and murders taking place somewhere. Nor is it
about disputes, some minor or massive public frauds, or scams worth thousands
or lakhs of crores of rupees coming to light now and then, or about some
injustice taking place somewhere. Those are unlawful acts indulged in by people
to be brought to justice. Here we are talking of extreme highhandedness and
jungle raj in your own courtyard, in the Supreme Court of India – the ultimate
destination to seek justice in the country - in a desperate attempt to shield
trillions of dollars’ worth continuing loot from the poor addicted bettors, a
substantial part of which goes to terror funding.
I have come across many
people jumping and saying, “So what? Why should people bet? They are
responsible if they lose money.” They say so out of ignorance. First of all
they are ignorant, with Ajit Dovals and PM Modis choosing to be blind for
reasons best known to them, that a substantial amount out of these mind
boggling sums finds way to terror funding. It is not my imagination; it is a
matter of record by police and mentioned so by judges in their judgements. So
even if bettors solely were to be blamed, to allow it to continue was highly
damaging to us as a people. Secondly, are bettors alone to be blamed? Don’t we
hold drug peddlers also accountable for drug addiction of our brethren and
sisters? And here matches are so scripted and fixed round the clock that the
bettors are not only looted but are also made addicts. Enough has been brought
out by me in public domain over the years to show it irrefutably and all that,
including the scientific proof of out and out scripted and institutionally
fixed cricket across formats and across countries arrived at by me and brought
out in media as well years ago, remains uncontested and undisputed till date;
even after detailing of same in my petition to the Hon’ble Court a couple of
years ago.
There are many
journalistic accounts of young people losing large sums and people losing lives
because of fixed matches and cricket betting. I have personally come across
promising youngsters who have been the victims of institutionally fixed
cricket. They are men of flesh and blood. And there are not hundreds, not
thousands, but millions and millions like them in our own country alone. Not
much comes out because of stigma attached with betting/ gambling in India. Many
bettors are quite aware what goes about in the name of competitive cricket
matches. But they are not a united lot and most of them don’t have means and
knowhow to fight this massive fraud being perpetrated by a powerful nexus and
facilitated by the media. The Supreme Court of India remains the only hope for
them at present.
I am sure people are still
largely unaware that there is nothing illegal about betting on cricket per se;
they are unaware of ruling dated 25th July, 2015 by Patiala House
Court, New Delhi in SC No. 115/13 (it is the order by which Sreesanth and
others were acquitted). Betting on Cricket was found to be excluded u/s 12 of
Public Gambling Act, Cricket being a game of skill. I myself was unaware till
recently. So those betting on cricket all these years, thinking it to be a
competitive sport as being marketed by the cricket world and the media, have
been continuously cheated through institutionally fixed cricket. Those betting
have not been the culprits, but all those responsible for continuous dishing
out of fixed and scripted cricket in the garb of a fair and competitive sport
to fool the bettors have been the culprits. Their crime has been phenomenal.
Such that many would find it difficult even to comprehend it. This crime even
extends much beyond national boundaries.
Court number 1, the CJI’s
Court, passes order in May, 2018 in WP (C) 1163/2017 inviting me as a
petitioner in that case to assist the Court in a particular case. But your
section III dealing with that particular case doesn’t recognize this order for
months. Finally it does and allows my IA (Impleadment application) in that case
CA 4235/2014. Then I request for case details in order to assist further in
deference to the Court’s orders. I get a mail from Assistant Registrar after
months, that too only after my letters under reference, asking me what
documents I required. I pleasantly thought someone responsible in Supreme Court
was finally awake, but how wrong I was! There is no response again to my several
mails in reply. I come all the way to Supreme Court from Kolkata (after having
duly informed the Registrar) to inspect the case file so that I could know what
documents were to be required by me, carrying a load of related papers myself,
but am told by same Assistant Registrar Mr Ram Ratan that now suddenly after
his email I had no locus standi in that particular case for which the Court had
given me the liberty to assist in, since some official in section III was
telling him so. Even if it was the case (though anyone would fail to see how it
could be so), then why the hell did he / Supreme Court of India send me email
dated 12/7/19, to someone who didn’t have any locus standi? Is it Supreme Court
of India, or a circus manned by a bunch of jokers?
Or am I a joker? I don’t
know. For the world I may be. I have been spending my own money, substantial
amounts of it (though I don’t mind it, still getting enough to make our both
ends meet), running from pillar to post at this age, allowing myself to be
harassed by all and the Court under your charge, the Supreme Court of India,
fighting almost single-handed against the combined might of the world in
exposing the largely unknown blackest face of corporatization and capitalism so
that necessary corrections in the interest of humanity could set in. Probably
not even a joker would dare do what I have been doing for some years now. I had
gone to Supreme Court only after exhausting all other possibilities over the
years, the world including President and Prime Minister of India and the
Supreme Court appointed Commissions on the subject (or their offices) acting
totally dumb.
For whatever it is worth,,
I am a retired joint secretary level officer from Indian Railways, who
successfully exposed a massive systemic scam in Railway procurement while in
service (the same was later confirmed by the Metro Man E. Sreedharan in a
report on the Indian Railways), a responsible senior citizen, a recipient of
national level award for crusade against corruption, a poet and writer, and one
who has exposed and proved trillions of dollars (yes, you have read correctly –
a conservative estimate based on real data helps us arrive at this figure) loot
of bettors’ money and cheating of hundreds of millions of cricket fans through
institutionally scripted and fixed cricket round the clock. And here I find
myself being harassed by your officials (seemingly having very low IQ or having
been bought out by the powerful mafia). And while that happens, apparently you,
your fellow judges and registrars, all sit tightly in air-conditioned
surroundings, well pampered using public money, conveniently acting deaf, dumb,
and blind.
Don’t those shielding the
monstrous fraud and crime, in and outside Supreme Court of India, understand
that they are fighting a losing battle? Whatever anyone does, can one keep
hidden for long something as sure as the shining sun? Even the whole cricketing
world and the world together hasn’t been able to counter my expose on cricket
for past 6 years, nor can it ever do so. It is only continuing with the monster
crime nonchalantly, with people like Shashank Manohar and Vinod Rai at the
helm, duly supported by the media and the establishment. The childish action by
the Supreme Court of India in blowing hot and blowing cold repeatedly, in not
honouring its own order, only exposes it more and indicates its own complicity
in the phenomenal crime, fraud and loot.
On second thought, it
helps the cause (our cause). Now without going into petition and without
applying mind to all that is in record and in public domain, people should
readily know that I had been right. If not, why would Supreme Court of India
have been behaving as it has to expose itself? Why would the apex Court of the
country openly act as an antagonist to a well-meaning and bonafide petitioner
who had brought a colossal and monstrous public fraud and crime to its
knowledge? Why would people of the stature of Vinod Rai expose themselves
losing all their credibility?
Does anyone realize what Supreme Court of India not honouring
its own order means? It implies total collapse of the legal system in India.
And this collapse becomes more pronounced since this dishonouring of its own
order by the Supreme Court of India continues unashamedly even months after my
letters under reference. It amazes me and should amaze anyone how the learned
judges of the Supreme Court of India and the rest of the legal fraternity of
the country have been happily digesting such a state of affairs.
Your PRO didn’t have much
time to listen to me either on the 29th July, 2019. He advised me to
buy a Supreme Court rule book and lodge a formal application for inspecting the
documents in the subject case CA 4235/2014, without bothering to know and
understand the background. And then,the other officials refused even to accept
such a request/ letter as had been advised by the Court’s own PRO. Even when an
advocate friend tried just to submit
such a request letter from me on the 1st August, 2019, he was denied
(though the contents of that letter were already emailed by me to the Registrar
on the 29th July itself, as per reference 1 above). Does it make you
stir in your chair?
Probably I should have
expected all this - for the Supreme Court of India to act for the powerful
lobby that appoints/ has a major say in appointment of the Supreme Court judges
themselves. Let me share with you, I did feel fulfilled and pleasantly
surprised on successful filing and listing of our WP (C) 1163/2017. Since that
itself created a permanent and irrefutable record of a massive public scam by
the most powerful from various spheres in the country combined. After that the
Court had only two choices: either to act honestly and purposefully in the
matter or expose itself. Sadly, after taking first few steps in the right
direction, now under some duress or temptation, the Court feels compelled to
expose itself, unfortunately forgetting its own motto ‘Satyamev Jayate.’.
First Vinod Rai, as head
of COA/BCCI danced naked in serving the interests of the cricket mafia and now
Supreme Court of India as a whole is following in his foot-steps. There is necessary
documentary evidence to show this. Probably the word shame belonged to
different times and cultures.Those feeling power drunk (the mafia masters and
their stooges alike) are forgetting that ‘The
evil that men do lives after them.’
But what do I do now? Do I
say ‘BALLS’ to all and everything and go to sleep, forgetting the plight of
hapless cricket fans, especially the tens of millions of bettors being robbed
day and night through a puppet show controlled by a powerful nexus of
mafia-politicians-industrialists-cricket world- media? Forgetting how the world including millions of highly learned and
intellectuals, including the learned judges, learned advocates, and all the
officials of your Court also, has been allowing it to be fooled day and night by
the cricketing world and media combined? Or do I fight on, first and
foremost demanding a reasonable token compensation, say Rs one crore (I don’t
want to be greedy - haha), from the Supreme Court of India for unduly harassing
me? As of now I go for the later course and request you to order the
compensation as above to me.
Under media pressure, you have acted in the Unnao Rape Victim
case now, so belatedly, announcing compensation and giving a very severe target
to CBI to complete the investigation. I still hope against hope that in this
case you will act like-wise on the merit of the case even though there is no
media pressure, and there won’t be any media pressure. The deafening silence of
the media on the subject since filing of our PIL loudly announces its own
culpability.
Do you find this letter
unpalatable? I shall be happy if it is so. That would mean some shame is still
left somewhere. Did the Supreme Court of India expect me to take its
inexplicable behaviour lying down? You will find that for past two years and
more I have been persevering in a most appropriate and submissive way, under
the provisions of the law of the land, despite apathy of the world and continuous
harassment by your registry, but the latest unimaginable act of highhandedness
by them causing me utmost discomfort and harassment – both physical and mental
– has compelled me to write the way I have done. And I am confident this will
not be the last Supreme Court of India will be hearing on the issue and the
subject, even if I am dead. Because at the core is a monster very much alive,
engulfing millions of victims every day. It will have to meet its end one day.
God / Nature will act through someone else. There will be a public outcry
sooner than later.
I urge your kind Honour to
go through the whole case file personally, and put yourself in my shoes. It
will consume your precious time, but I assure you that it will be worth it. I
had expected commendation from the Supreme Court of India for all the trouble
taken by me for years in exposing and proving a monstrous continuing
international public fraud and crime, and taking further trouble in knocking
the doors of this august Court. And here I find myself being treated like an
antagonist and dirt by its registry. But all the more painful is the fact that
all this while, the colossal fraud and crime merrily goes on.
Thank you.
(Atul Kumar)
CC: The President of India
The Prime Minister of India
Chairman, Bar Council of India
Director CBI
