Ashok T. Jaisinghani |
| Blog | Posted By: hindtodaynews on:6/27/2012 7:30:42 AM |
(Ashok T. Jaisinghani)
The fire that
burned the top 4 floors of the eight-storey Mantralaya, the secretariat building
of the Government of Maharashtra in Mumbai, is reported to have destroyed lakhs
of documents in the files and computer records on land registration,
de-reservation and the important Adarsh Society scam papers.
On June 21, the fire started on the fourth floor at around 2-35 PM
between an urban development office and the office of Tribal Welfare Minister
Babanrao Pachpute. The minister did not call the fire brigade for some time. It
is claimed that Babanrao Pachpute tried to put out the fire himself. Due to this
delay, the fire spread rapidly in the upper four floors of Mantralaya.
The bodies of
two businessmen from Baramati, Umesh Potekar and Mahesh Gughule, were found
completely burned
outside Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's chamber on the sixth
floor of Mantralaya. The bodies of three more dead persons were also found in
the building.
There are widespread rumors that the
fire in Mantralaya was caused by a deliberate act of sabotage for destroying the
files that had records of many scams like those involving the Adarsh
Society.
Besides the act of sabotage to destroy the
records, was there also a conspiracy to deliberately lock some persons in rooms
and silence them for ever by getting them burned to death, and thus keep
some facts about the corrupt ministers and government officials secret? What was
the reason for the long delay in calling the Fire Brigade for starting the
fire fighting and rescue operations?
The Mantralaya fire has
destroyed the records that had evidence of many of the evil and
corrupt deeds of the ministers and other political leaders, the
officials of the Government of Maharashtra and their collaborators in the
business world. Now all such fellows can stop worrying about their crimes
and sleep soundly without getting any horrifying nightmares.
Ashok T.
Jaisinghani.
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