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6. Attack on Tehelka for Using Call Girls Phoney Concern Attack on Tehelka for Using Call Girls Intervention Petition Submitted to the Chairman National Human Rights Commission by Madhu Kishwar Hon’ble Justice J. C. Varma, of sedition is punishable with death attempted to “bring into hatred and It came as a shock that the or life imprisonment. Tehelka is also contempt and excite disaffection National Human Rights Commission alleged to have “seduced various against the Government of India and has admitted a petition against officials of the Indian defence the armed forces”. However, the main Tehelka for “using sex workers to establishment from their allegiance peg used by Shakti Vahini to hang all entrap Army officers in the course of and their duties and encouraged them their wild and motivated allegations its sting operation” at the behest of to be disloyal to the nation”. Therefore, is the pious pretence of seeking to Shakti Vahini, an organization very few Shakti Vahini has sought action protect the rights and lives of the people had heard of till they sought against Tehelka under Section 131 of exploited prostitutes. To quote from the intervention of the NHRC and the the Indian Penal Code. This very their letter to the Deputy Delhi Police to take action against stringent provision provides for life Commissioner of Police: Tehelka under various draconian imprisonment for anybody who By their admitted acts of firstly Sections of the Indian Penal Code. “attempts to seduce” an Army officer procuring call girls/prostitutes I submit before the honourable “from his allegiance or his duty”. and providing them to the said Commission that the charges levelled Charge of Sedition army officials for the purposes by Shakti Vahini are frivolous, wrong, The complaint further states that of prostitution and then by absurd and motivated. They are by Tehelka carried out its journalistic clandestinely filming the said no means inspired by a genuine desire exposure “with the motive of shaking officials committing sexual acts to seek justice and rehabilitation for the confidence of the entire nation with the said women, they call girls. Their petition appears to be against the armed forces”; that it [Tehelka staffers] have clearly part of a blatant campaign to deflect attention from the very serious evidence of corruption against some of the top political leaders of the ruling party and power wielders in the Defence Ministry. It is very alarming that the NHRC has, by admitting this case, lent some credibility to the absurd and malafide charges levelled against Tehelka by Shakti Vahini. The chargesheet prepared by Shakti Vahini alleges that the Tehelka team had attempted to “destabilize our country and with a view to overawe the government of our country, have indulged in various acts of criminal conspiracy, cheating, impersonation and above all sedition.” The charge No.128 27 committed acts, which not only corrupt and antinational acts not have the rights that criminals in have the effect of denigrating becomes suspect in the eyes of Shakti regular prisons have. Not only are the women, but are also grave Vahini and others who have jumped living conditions far more appalling offences punishable under the in to defend those accused of than in prisons but these institutions Indian Penal Code and the corruption. are far more unsafe than ordinary Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, Guise of Rehabilitation jails. Let us not forget that Kamla, the 1956 (PITA). Apart from the arrest and young woman purchased from a flesh Without any supporting evidence prosecution of the Tehelka team, market of Madhya Pradesh by The Shakti Vahini further alleges that Shakti Vahini petition demands that Indian Express reporter Ashwini Tehelka tapes have been used for Tehelka should be compelled to Sarin mysteriously disappeared from subsequently blackmailing the disclose the identity of call girls used Delhi’s nari niketan despite having officials concerned and make them in the sting operation so that the entire national media’s gaze fixed “say or do things which jeopardize government can “rehabilitate” them on her fate—all because she was a the security and integrity of our “in consonance with the provisions living proof of the involvement and country”.The whole case rests on of the Immoral Traffic Act” and an complicity of some power wielders in the unsubstantiated allegation that antiquated provision of the the Madhya Pradesh government. the entire Operation Westend was International Convention for the If the treatment being meted out carried out “with ulterior motives to Suppression of Traffic in Persons to in government custody to a well off destabilize the polity and governance which India is supposed to be a person like Shankar Sharma is any of our country”. signatory. Article 16 of this outmoded indication, these vulnerable women According to Shakti Vahini since convention of 1949 vintage stipulates are bound to be under much greater it is “not ascertainable whether the that “the parties to the present threat if they come in the clutches of call girls procured by Tehelka.com Convention agree to take or the police. They might just had attained the age of majority” encourage, through their public and “disappear” as mysteriously and they may well have used minors private educational, health, social, rapidly as did Kamla. By demanding which would make the offence even economic and related services, that the call girls be taken into graver. Also, since these acts of measures for the prevention of custody, shakti vahini seeks to supplying call girls took place in a prostitution and for the rehabilitation endanger their lives even further. hotel located 200 meters from a place and social adjustment of the victims Therefore, it is not surprising that of public religious worship, of prostitution…” even after Shakti Vahini’s efforts on educational institution and hostel, And what does this behalf of prostitutes were widely therefore, it is additionally an offence “rehabilitation” package involve for broadcast through the media, neither against “public decency, apart from the women concerned? Here the the two call girls nor any of their being punishable under PITA” Shakti Vahini enthusiasts take associates showed any inclination to [Prevention of Imoral Traffic Act]. recourse to another antiquated law, take up Shakti Vahini’s offer of help Furthermore, “since the said women namely the Immoral Traffic and “rehabilitation”. have been filmed committing sexual (Prevention) Act 1956 (PITA) which The ludicrousness of this petition acts with the said army officials, has been long condemned for being to the NHRC and its real intent Tehelka has committed yet another anti-women because it mandates the becomes evident from the following cognizable offence under the punishment of the victimised press release by Shakti Vahini: Indecent Representation of Women prostitutes. Shakti Vahini’s idea of If Tejpal is correct and no action is (Prohibition) Act, 1986”. “rehabilitation” of prostitutes is to taken against him then the message It is unfortunate that army officials have them imprisoned or detained in will go across the country that it and top level politicians allowing a “corrective” institution under will be lawful to use sex workers, their decisions regarding purchase of Section 10 A of the PITA which prostitutes and women to get a defence equipment to be influenced provides for a detention of a minimum work done. Sex workers will be used by lavish entertainment, cash and sex of two years which can even extend for any thing. From procuring bribes does not bother Shakti Vahini up to five years. deals to getting big contracts and others targeting Tehelka. But In government run nari niketans everywhere people will use sex Tehelka offering filmic proof of these or “rehabilitation homes” women do workers and will take refuge in the 28 MANUSHI fact that Tejpal was not arrested. Also if we don’t arrest Tejpal we will give prostitution a licence….We are very concerned on the impact of the Tehelka fallout on the country women who will be used like this, as sex objects, as bribe, their bodies will be sold. Many women will join this as career because Tejpal has made it legal… Already sex industry and traffickers are increasing day by day and if no action is taken against Tejpal this industry will grow by leaps and bounds. Reading this outburst, one would get the impression that Tarun Tejpal is the man who invented the practice of prostitution, that it was smear campaign against Tehelka bribes with a few routine hitherto unknown to human society, launched by an influential section of inducements, including the services at least in India! The petitioners the media. Some of these papers have of a few call girls thrown in as extras labour hard to present the defence been dutifully reproducing every wild to try to add a touch of authenticity officials and others charged with allegation levelled by government to the fictitious company that gross impropriety and betrayal of the agencies and those accused of Tehelka’s reporters had invented. trust and responsibility that goes corruption without the slightest It is also significant that not one with their high offices as hapless attempt to verify the veracity of the of the officials or politicians caught victims who were trapped by some charges, including those that belong taking bribes expresses hostile forces out to subvert India. to the realm of the ridiculous. apprehensions about being caught The truth is that the Tehelka team Confident in Crookery or thwarted by fellow officials with a have merely lifted the curtain on a The most informative and reputation for probity. They talk small part of the evil drama being frightening aspect of the Tehelka disparagingly about those who do enacted routinely by our defence expose is not that military officers not deliver even after taking bribes establishment and that Tehelka is but not once about fearing and Ministry of Defence officials as attempting to expose existing obstruction from any upright well as the Defence Minister’s corruption rather than inventing it.
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