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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->This is outrageous. We should do something about this case and force the authorities pursue this to a meaningful conclusion culminating into at least some justice done to the family of a honest and highly intellectual person from a premier institute. I am also attaching a petitiononline link at the end of this mail, if you want to sign it. Thanks
- Sunil Ganu

<b>Please wake up: angry IIT chorus </b> 

Dubey Murder: We will give voice to anger of students and faculty: IIT Kanpur director
 
 
SONU JAIN


NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 2: With no official word from either the state or the Centre on what it plans to do for justice in the murder of IIT Kanpur Graduate Satyendra Dubey in Bihar last week, an outraged IIT community and eminent scientists have come out strongly to ask for prompt action.


Their demands include an independent probe into the murder, holding accountable the officials—at the Centre and the state—who passed the buck, putting pressure on the Bihar government and even systemic reforms like enacting the Whistle Blower’s act which now lies in cold storage.

Dubey, as exposed by The Sunday Express on November 30, was murdered last week, almost a year after he sent a complaint to the Prime Minister’s office about alleged corruption in the national highway project he was working on in Bihar.

In his letter, 31-year-old Dubey had requested that his name be kept secret, a request which wasn’t honoured—the letter was sent from the PMO to the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways and then to the National Highway Authority of India, with which Dubey was working as Deputy General Manager.

‘‘We will ensure that we find a suitable way to articulate our anger instead of just issuing our condolences,’’ said Sanjay Dhande, director of IIT Kanpur which has been flooded with letters and emails from its students worldwide. ‘‘It’s very clear that it is not a murder because of personal feud but because of corruption,’’ Dhande told The Indian Express.

He added that the institute would take the issue up and ‘‘give voice to the anger that is being felt by the students, faculty and alumni.’’

Among the faculty that taught Dubey, there is disillusionment. ‘‘This is shocking, we tell our students to be straight and to raise their voice against corruption but after this, which student will believe us?’’ asked an anguished P K Basudhar, one of the senior professors at IIT Kanpur’s civil engineering department, from where Dubey Graduated in 1994.

Meanwhile, the IIT Bombay Alumni Association has sent a letter to the PMO and the President referring to The Indian Express report and urging the Prime Minister to ‘‘use his powers to have them (the guilty) and their conspiring contractors arrested and punished.’’

‘‘Dubey is a martyr in the cause of an honest India, and his martyrdom should not be allowed to go in vain,’’ said the letter. ‘‘His sacrifice should propel us out of slumber, towards ensuring that everyone who choses to oppose dishonesty and crime does not have to gamble with their lives...A whistleblower’s act might be a fitting homage to the memory of this brave man.’’

The outrage is not limited to IIT campuses alone. ‘‘This only means that there is no rule of law, the basic fabric required in the society cannot be enforced by the government. This is what happens to someone who stood for certain things?’’ said IIT Kanpur Graduate and Padmashri Ashok Jhunjhunwala, who is now head of the department of electrical engineering at IIT Chennai.

Calling for a CBI probe and more pressure on the Bihar government, senior scientist and ex-IIT Chennai director P V Indiresan said: ‘‘It makes no difference for us to express any opinion with a government like Laloo Yadav’s. He has ruined the economy and this episode is a fallout of the economic ruin that the state is facing...Laloo talks of Assam not taking care of Biharis but does Bihar take care of its Biharis?’’ he asked angrily.

It is the students who are leading the protest though.

‘‘The IIT Bombay Alumni is now taking up this matter and will request other IIT Alumni Associations to gather support for this despicable loss of an idealist’s life. We also appeal to all citizens who value ethics and honesty in India for support,’’ said alumni chairperson Shailesh Gandhi. (with inputs from ENS, Mumbai)

 

Please sign the following petition

http://www.petitiononline.com/sdubey/petition.html

Thanks

Sunil
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