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More revelations of Bhakta das case. An Eyewitness Account

 

By S.P. Radhesh

I once again appeal to all devotees unite worldwide and protest against this

injustice to your brothers! Consider this seriously please. At the end of this

article you will find all contact information.

 

I had extensive contact with Maria Schmidova and her daughter Tulasi from July

2000. Prior to that I had occasionally met them in October ‘99 at Alarnath

during a Sankirtan festival with the disciples of Paramadvaiti Maharaj.

 

My first impression of both mother and daughter was that they looked psychotic,

overly nervous and aggressive. After few months I heard that Ashok Sahoo was

sentimentally engaged with Maria. Shortly thereafter I met Ashok and Maria at

the Hotel Basu in Puri. They told me they were planning to marry, go to Austria

and settle there.

 

Things had to go differently for some reasons of the Lord that we don’t know. In

July the local newspaper reported: “40 people have abused a 6 year-old foreign

girl in Balia Panda, Puri”, “Ashok Sahoo is absconding”. I was utterly shocked.

Since I knew personally Ashok, the whole story seemed to me totally absurd.

 

When I again met Maria (by the inscrutable arrangement of the Lord) the alleged

case of gangrape to her daughter, the 6 year-old Tulasi, was in all the local

newspapers, both in English and Oriya. In the end of August a Director of the

Crime Branch told me to act as a translator for Maria and Tulasi when they made

a 164 statement before the Puri Magistrate. Some malicious people thought that

through my translation I was helping Maria to send everybody else to jail.

Nothing can be farther from the truth. First of all I was forced to do this duty

because Maria had threatened to put me in the case if I did not do what she

wanted. Secondly, but not less important, the investigators of the Crime Branch

of Cuttack had personally requested me to cooperate with them in this case.

Obviously I could not refuse. So I went to the court, but my translation was

clearly coerced and therefore inaccurate. I don’t mean to say that all of a

sudden I don’t know German, but you can imagine the situation. By the time

mother and daughter made their statements before the magistrate three people

(Ashok Sahoo, Mandali Bhadra, Bhakta das) had already been arrested. During the

statement Maria Schmidova called the lady magistrate corrupt and paid by the

accused. This was spoken in German and not translated by me to the magistrate

because I was in fear of Maria. That day I was not the only translator.

Sarasvati dasi, a Swiss lady who was already acquainted with Maria, was

assisting me in the translation work. Sarasvati was completely bewildered when

she heard Maria blaming the magistrate, but she was also in great fear of Maria

and did not speak.

 

I tried to convince the police authorities that the mental state of Maria and

Tulasi are worthy of a serious psychiatric investigation. The time that I spent

with her, due to my knowing her language (German) assures me that both this

woman and her daughter had been moved by irrational feelings, to say the least.

Many of their activities cannot be considered normal from the point of view of a

sane person. This has been witnessed by hundreds of people in Puri during the

time of her staying here. However the official investigators never considered

for a moment to properly search for the truth. The conspiracy of the madwoman

against four innocent people is a very sad page in the history of India, one of

those pages that should have never been written.

 

Here is the contact information for you to write your protests to in India and

in the USA.

 

Home Minister of India:

Mr. L.K. Advani

C-1/6, Pandara Road

North Block

New Delhi - 3

Tel. No:(011)301-2462 (o)

(011)378-2397 ®

Fax. No:(011)301-7763

 

Human Rights Commission, New Delhi:

Justice J.S. Verma

Chairman

National Human Rights Commission

1st Floor

Sardar Patel Bhavan

Parliament Street

New Delhi - 1

Tel. No: (011)334-6245 (o)

Fax. No: (011)334-0016

 

Chief Minister of Orissa:

Mr. Naveen Patnaik

Naveen Niwas

Aerodrome Gate

Bhubaneswar 751020

Tel. No: (0674)401100 (o)

(0674)590006 & 590488 ®

Fax. No: (0674)400100

 

Law Minister of Orissa:

Mr. Viswabhushan Harichandan

Tel. No: (0674)401304 (o)

(0674)404460 ®

 

Crime Branch Office in Cuttack:

Mr. M. Nageshwar Rao

Tel. No: (0671)304950

 

 

 

The National Human Rights Commission - India,

Sardar Patel Bhavan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi-110 001.

Telephone 91-11-3361611; 3348478

Fax 91-11-3340016; 3366537

Web:http://nhrc.nic.in/

 

Contacts:

 

Shri Justice J.S. Verma

Chairperson

91-11-3340891 (O)

91-11-3018085 ®

E-Mail: nhrc

 

Dr. Justice K. Ramaswamy

Member

91-11-3734986 (O)

91-11-3018814 ®

E-Mail:ramaswamy

 

Smt. Justice Sujata Vasant Manohar

Member

91-11-3348476 (O)

91-11-3016449 ®

E-Mail: smanohar

 

Shri Sudarshan Agarwal

Member

91-11-3346223 (O)

91-11-4648855 ®

E-Mail:sagarwal

 

Shri Virendra Dayal

Member

91-11-3347064 (O)

91-11-4642837 ®

E-Mail: nhrc3

 

Shri Justice Mohammad Shamim

Chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities

Member

 

Shri Dilip Singh Bhuria

Chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled

Tribes

Member

Smt. Vibha Parthasarathi

Chairperson of the National Commission for Women

Member

 

The Chief Executive Officer of the Commission is its Secretary General Shri

N.Gopalaswami and its Director General (Investigation) is Shri Y. N.

Srivastava.

 

The National Human Rights Commission, Sardar Patel Bhavan, Sansad Marg, New

Delhi-110001.

tel (011) 3348478 fax (011)3340016

 

Asian Human Rights Commission

Email: ahrchk

Web: http://www.ahrchk.net/

 

Embassy of India, Washington

Ambassador: amb-washington

Head of Chancery: dgaddam

Web: http://www.indianembassy.org/index.htmlb

 

Chancery

2107 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20008

Telephone: (202) 939-7000

Fax: (202) 265-4351

Embassy Hours: 930 AM - 600 PM

 

Consular Wing

2536 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20008

Telephone: (202) 939-9806

Fax: (202) 797-4693

http://profiles.msn.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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