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original Hindi book of kalinayak written by Sanjeev

Jain and Dharmendra Sharma published from

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KALINAYAK 3

TRAGEDY OF A VISIONARY

FATHER

Dwarka Prasad Agrawal founded

Dainik Bhaskar and built up its

circulation which soared over a period

of time. But misfortune struck the

founder through his son, Ramesh who

became cunning and put the

publishing house through endless

litigation.

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In the annals of Hindi journalism, Dwarka Prasad

Agrawal is such a name that will be remembered in

many ways for millennia to come. As a newborn, he

opened his eyes in the midst of poverty and spent his

childhood knowing nothing but scarcity and

destitution. Dwarka never got the environment

efficacious for education. Circumstances compelled

him to carry sugar packs on his young shoulders to

eke out a living. Be it a big job or an odd job, he never

hesitated to carry it out. A sharp mind, desire to move

ahead and rise sky-high always kept the fire within

him burning. Countering the downs of life, he carved

the road for himself and with his two siblings in tow,

Dwarka reached that destination where a new epic

was to be written. He laid the foundation of such

a newspaper which gave a new meaning to Hindi

journalism. Yes, we're talking about Dainik Bhaskar,

the fastest-growing Hindi daily.

Dwarka would have never thought of a situation

where the sketch that he drew on the huge canvass

of mass communication would grow into a monster to

devour him in future. The son in whom he used to

see his successor turned into a villain of the piece.

With the launch of the newspaper, his family was

gradually getting out of the clutches poverty and,

being the sensible head of the family that Dwarka

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was, he galvanised all his energies to ensuring that

his family kept pace with the growth of his

organisation and reap rich dividends. So, taking his

son Ramesh and brothers Bishambar and Mahesh

Prasad along, he prepared a partnership deed which

could not be altered, nor anyone could sell his right

to anybody. Only the successors of the partners

could be part of the new firm that was rechristened

Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and Brothers. As per the

deed, Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and Brothers was

made the sole owner of the title ‘Dainik Bhaskar’.

However, when the joint efforts of the four partners

started bearing fruit, and the newspaper grew by

leaps and bounds, Dwarka's son Ramesh started

nurturing evil thoughts in his mind and dreamed of

usurping the entire ownership of the company. To

realise his sinister goals, Ramesh, his sons Sudhir,

Girish and Pawan, and their associates hatched a

conspiracy against Bishambar and Mahesh who

owned 30 per cent share each in Dwarka Prasad

Agrawal and Brothers. What is worse, the drive of

greed in Ramesh was so intense that he did not even

spare his father.

Once Dwarka smelt rat, he was alerted. But the old

patriarch did not realise that it was already too late.

Oblivious of the level to which his son had stooped,

what was on top of Dwarka's mind was to secure the

future of his daughters - Hemlata and Anuradha -

who were born to his second wife. The next thing

Dwarka did was that he declared his daughters as

his successor and ousted Ramesh from his movable

and immovable properties. But at this point, Dwarka

got the shock of his life to learn that the firm that he

was bequeathing to his daughters had long back

become the property of Ramesh on the basis of

forged documents.

With no other option left, Dwarka filed an FIR with

the police and told them that his son Ramesh was a

420 and that he had forged his signature to usurp

Dainik Bhaskar. He also moved court where, in front

of the judge, he gave a statement saying his own son

had used money and muscle power to oust him from

his hard-earned property, and that at his old age he

and his daughters were running from pillar to post in

search of justice.

From police to collector and district court to high

court, an old, paralytic father kept knocking at every

door for justice and a son, who had by then become

a media magnet, kept laughing at the old man’s

foolishness. And the father of Dainik Bhaskar

gradually sank into oblivion.

Though old age and the disappointment resulting

from not getting justice had taken the better of

Dwarka’s health, the resolute man that he was, he

had faith in the country's legal system and he

strongly believed that he would have the last laugh

through the highest court because truth was with

him. His faith in the Supreme Court was reinforced by

the fact that since the fourth estate of democracy, i.e.

media, was standing against him along with his

opponent, no platform other than the apex court

could redress his grievance. Even then, he was

feeling helpless as, like him, the rule of law was

standing as a mute spectator and the intricate

processes of the executive and the judiciary were

forcing him to spend sleepless nights.

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He could see everyone, from peons to officers

changing colours like a chameleon. Genuine

documents that used to narrate his woes in no way

carried the same weight as the money power of his

son. He could see original documents disappearing

from government files and forged ones taking their

place. Gradually, the evidence of truth was getting

buried. The worst came to light when Dwarka found

out that the Registrar of Newspapers of India (RNI)

did not have any document relating to Dwarka

Prasad and Brothers being the title owner of Dainik

Bhaskar.

Instead, the title of the paper had gone to a

company called Writers and Publishers owned by his

son Ramesh. RNI had, in fact, transferred the

ownership of Dainik Bhaskar from Dwarka Prasad

and Brothers to Writers and Publishers on the basis

of forged documents and in violation of all existing

rules and regulations.

Even those forged documents on the basis of

which the ownership was transferred were missing

from the office of the RNI. When asked for relevant

papers relating to the newspaper, the RNI officials

concerned simply refused to oblige, because

apparently they were working at the behest of

Ramesh.

Recently, Mahesh Agrawal sought information

under RTI regarding the transfer of Dainik Bhaskar's

ownership and the RNI in response said that the

relevant papers were missing from its office.

However, even after a complaint was lodged with the

press registrar, nothing was done in this regard

Probably, it is the shock that Dwarka got from the

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RNI that proved fatal for him. Disappointed by a non-

cooperative and biased RNI, Dwarka moved the

Supreme Court and before a verdict could come from

the court, mother nature delivered its blow. The eyes

that dreamed of a golden future for the newspaper

and the family shut themselves to the world with the

monstrous picture of a treacherous son.

Soon after the passing away of Dwarka, misfortune

fell with all its ferocity on his second wife Kishori Devi

and her two daughters. Despite having truth on their

side, they remain helpless. On the other hand,

Ramesh thought he has won even before the battle

was joined. At this stage, he thought, no one was

there to stand against him, let alone fighting the legal

battle.

However, in the face of such adversity, Hemlata

never lost her nerve. The golden words of her

illustrious father kept ringing in her ears : "Dear,

never lose heart. Justice is still alive. Trust me, the

final verdict will go in our favour." Hemlata then

mustered all her courage and pursued the case in

the Supreme Court on behalf of her late father.

In April 2003, history took an interesting turn when

the apex court delivered its verdict bringing to life the

late Dwarka Prasad. In its verdict, the highest court

of the land ruled that the real owners of the title

Dainik Bhaskar were none other than the firm

Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and Brothers. This verdict

shook the very foundation of this fourth pillar of

democracy. Now Ramesh Agrawal could feel the

empire that he created with the help of forged

documents slipping out of his hand. After this ruling,

even the RNI issued a letter to the district collectors

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of all Bhaskar editions acknowledging that the

owners of Dainik Bhaskar were Dwarka Prasad

Agrawal and Brothers and not Writers and

Publishers. It also requested them to take necessary

action. However, the happiness that came to

Hemlata's house through this judgement was

shortlived.

Again Ramesh's money power gave the whole

issue a new turn. He apparently greased the palms of

the powers- that -be and made the RNI issue shortly

thereafter a second letter. In this letter, the RNI

interpreted the Supreme Court ruling in such a way

that it gave Ramesh's “Writers and Publishers” locus

standi. While withdrawing the first letter that it issued

to the district collectors, the second letter said in the

RNI records there were five owners of the

newspaper, including Writers and Publishers. To

justify its action, the RNI said that the apex court had

directed it to restore pre-1992 ownership of Bhaskar.

Now the question is, doesn't the RNI know that as

per the PRB Act, a single language newspaper with

a single title and with circulation in a particular region

has to have a single owner? If the RNI has to follow

the PRB Act, then by no stretch of imagination

Bhaskar can have five owners. The aggrieved party

has been raising this issue with every press registrar

who has graced that chair at the RNI. But the

outcome so far has been only assurances that the

matter would be looked into. This is the power of

money and muscle that only a person like Ramesh

Agrawal can wield.

If today a CBI probe is ordered, then not only

many other misdeeds of Ramesh Agrawal and sons

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will come to light, but also several bureaucrats and

top RNI officials will find themselves not in their jobs.

After reading this summary of the book Kalinayak,

you may feel suffocated at the way our administration

works, or may go a step further and sympathise with

the aggrieved party, or may even think of revolting

against the injustices being committed in broad

daylight. If you are sensible enough, you will

empathise with the victims of such blatant violation of

law. But then, you too may forget it thinking when the

courts couldn't do anything, what can we do.

Today we need a change in this mentality of ours.

Because when the voice of the people persecuted by

the system reaches the court of the public, court

verdicts do change and the culprits do get what they

deserve. There are many instances of high profile

cases where the rich and powerful initially

manipulated the system and got away with

committing heinous crimes, but later when those

cases attracted public attention and consequently

angry reaction, those cases were reopened and the

guilty got their just dessets.

It's not the tragic story of such innocent Dwarka

Prasad Agrawal’s. It's the story of hundreds of

innocent Dwarka Prasads at different levels - from

slum-dwellers to professionals. Each one of them

has been a victim of Ramesh Aggarwal's greed some

way or the other. The book that is right now in your

hands appeals to you to come forward and help

ensure justice to the innocent victims of such

treacherous people.

After reading the book, you may realise that in

some way you too are a part of this episode. You too

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may get the encouragement from within to contribute

your bit in order to eliminate these kinds of injustices

meted out to millions by a few.

If you are in the government and are in the know of

the missing documents from the RNI office and

elsewhere, related to some other similar case, you

may kindly contact us.

If you are part of any social organisation, you may

consider a public interest litigation. Or if you are a

part of our legal system and feel that in this case your

system has actually let Dwarka down, you may work

towards ensuring that the 2003 apex court

judgement in this case is properly implemented.

You may be from another walk of life, but

remember, you have tremendous power in you to

really make a difference to this cruel world and make

it a better place to live in.

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. CONTENT

Sl.No. Topic Page No.

1. Prologue 13

2 Chapter 1- Birth of Ramesh 15

4 Chapter 2- Operation Bhopal 21

5. Chapter 3- Now it is Gwalior! 31

6. Chapter 4- And then Jabalpur 51

7. Chapter 5- Scam upon scam 61

8. Chapter 6- Now it is Jhansi 79

9. Chapter 7- Words do not match deeds 83

10. Chapter 8- Duping relatives 89

11. Chapter 9- “Sanskar”? 93

12. Chapter 10- Bharat the new pawn of Ramesh 99

13. Chapter 11- D B Mall land Scam 105

14. Chapter 12- Income tax evasion 123

15. Chapter 13- Blackmailer Ramesh 129

16. Chapter 14- Friend of traitors 131

17. Chapter 15- Insulting Awards 137

18. Epilogue 141

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PROLOGUEThis book narrates a series of crimes and scams of our

times (Kalyug). Kalinayak, in this context, must mean

“demon of our times”. It is difficult to imagine that

unparalleled crimes, or scams, can be perpetrated by a

son on his own father, father’s second wife and her two

daughters, besides his own uncles and their children.

Ramesh, son of a newspaper magnet, D.P. Agrawal,

who established the ever-expanding Dainik Bhaskar,

nearly 60 years ago, does not seem to be over burdened

by either moral values or filial obligations. His father was

a victim of paralysis and ageing.Yet, Ramesh drags the

old man to court battle after court battle, from the lower to

higher courts and even the apex court. Now that the old

man is dead, the surviving widow and her daughters are

not only waiting for justice, but find themselves helpless

totally. This is the crime perpetrated by Ramesh is

involved in a saga of manipulation hurting his step-mother,

Kishori Devi and her two daughters, Hemalata and

Anuradha, as also his uncles and their sons who are

made to run their establishments depending on his

goodwill, and have become lease-holders of the original

company being managed and manipulated by him.

Further, Ramesh is also involved in scams at more than

one place and hawala operations and even tax evasion,

depriving the State and the Centre of crores of rupees.

Yes, this is the story revolving round “Dainik Bhaskar”.

Normally, a newspaper is expected to bring news to you,

about you should there be such an occasion, alert you

about successes and failures of Government, Centre and

the States, about our nation-building endeavors. And then

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comment freely, fairly and frankly. And yet, it is not

expected to indulge in black-mail to further either the

paper’s interests of circulation or the owner’s personal

interests.It is not for nothing that the media is known as

the fourth pillar of a democracy like ours, which has

universal adult franchise, though a large majority of its

population is barely literate, and with a diversity covering

language, culture and traditions which, simply put, “is the

embodiment of unity in diversity”. It is a plural society ,at

large, as a free and independent country, barely 60 years

old as a Republic.

It is in such a milieu that Ramesh has committed his

scams and crimes, with the help of bureaucracy at

several levels, both at the State and the Centre, buying

the concerned

Ramesh resorted to many shortcuts to ensure that he

attains success and charted a course of deception, while

making an ass of the relevant laws. Thus, Ramesh first

deceived his father, then his sister, later his uncles and

finally the society and the country. A person who is not

loyal to his father won’t be loyal to anyone.

This is why the undersigned had to pick up the pen. The

power of the pen will not be used to tarnish the image of

someone but it has been picked up to reveal the truth,

rectify the “doubts of history”, an alert common people

about the cunning nature of Ramesh.

The writer is aware of the tricks of politics of politicians,

the moments of compromises and ‘quid-pro-quo’ all of

which will be exposed when the matter reaches the court

of the people.

Once the evil deeds start getting exposed, they stand

annihilated. A naked truth full of deception and duplicity is

brought to you in the succeeding pages.

.

AUTHORS

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KALINAYAK 15

BIRTH OF RAMESH

CHAPTER I

In our Hindu families birth of the first

child, more so, a son, is time for

celebration. That need not always be

the case, as this chapter reveals. A son

may prove a curse to the family.

Ramesh Agrawal was born in November,1944 at 5

am in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh to Dwarka Prasad Agrawal

and his wife Mrs. Kasturi Devi. His grandfather Keshav

Dev Agrawal had three sons, Dwaraka Prasad,

Vishambhar Dayal and Mahesh Prasad. Dwarka

married twice. From his first wife Kasturi Devi,he had

three children, namely Ramesh, Meena and Neelam.

From his second wife Kishori Devi, he had two children,

namely Hemalata and Anuradha. Ramesh married

Sharada Devi and had three sons – Sudhir, Girish and

Pawan.Vishambhar Dayal had five sons viz.

Manmohan, Ajay, Kailash, Prakash and Rakesh.

Mahesh Agrawal had only one son named Sanjay

Agrawal. From his childhood to early teens, Ramesh

grew up in the lap of his step-mother Kishori Devi,

besides mother Kasturi Devi, and played with Hemalata

and Anuradha. .

In early 60's Dwaraka Prasad shifted from Jhansi to

Bhopal with his family. In Bhopal, he started “Dainik

Bhaskar” with his brothers Vishamber Dayal and

Mahesh Prasad and was registered with RNI showing

DP Agrawal as the owner. The initial days were quite a

struggle. Further we will see how this poor family

transformed itself into a rich family? On growing up,

Ramesh began working with his father. At that time

‘Dainik Bhaskar’ was being published from Bhopal,

Jhansi, Gwalior and Ujjain.

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FOUR OWNERS OF ‘DAINIK BHASKAR’For keeping intact the unity of joint family Dwarka

Prasad liberally converted the business into a

partnership firm on April 10, 1972. The name of the

partnership firm in this partnership deed was kept --

Messers Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and Brothers. A firm

earns name by its business. This is what is called

'goodwill' which is an intangible asset of a firm. Through

the partnership deed the ownership rights of ‘Dainik

Bhaskar’, Title were handed over to this firm. In this

way, while earlier Dwarka Prasad was the sole

proprietor of ‘Dainik Bhaskar’, now there were 4 owners

of the paper.

Once the name of Dwarka Prasad was registered as

the owner of ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ in the records of

Registrar, Newspaper of India, it was impossible for

anyone to lay claims to his right. But It was the

greatness and large heartedness of Dwarka Prasad

that the paper that he had built up with his sweat and

tears and had taken to new heights of success was

distributed by him to his brothers so that the share of

his brothers was bigger than his own. This was the

heart of an elder brother.

It was decided that the business should be carried on

in the name of M/s Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and

Brothers. The head office would be Jhansi and its

branches would be opened in Bhopal, Gwalior and

Ujjain. The partners of the firm were free to open

branches at other places.

A very important condition in the partnership deed of

April 10, 1972 was that no partner of the firm could ask

for dissolution of the firm. If a partner wanted to retire

from the firm, he could do so by taking his share of the

profits. But he was not entitled to any share in the

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goodwill of t he firm. Another condition of the firm was

that it would continue to run through its successors and

would never be dissolved

THE DIVISION OF SHAREIn this firm Dwarka Prasad’s share was 25%, his son

Ramesh’s share was 15%, brother Vishambhar’s and

Mahesh’s share was 30% each.

We saw that the division of ownership rights of

‘Dainik Bhaskar’ yielded only a small portion of 15% to

Ramesh. We will soon see how Ramesh manipulated

15% into 100% and usurped the whole of ‘BHASKAR’.

After the execution of the Partnership deed of 1972,

in the records of Registrar of Newspapers of India, the

name of the firm Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and Brothers

was registered in place of Dwarka Prasad Agrawal.

With this change the goodwill of ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ was

merged into the partnership firm.With the establishment

of the partnership firm the business of Bhaskar began

to flourish and prosper as never before.

GWALIOR’S COMPANY.

To facilitate the publication work of Gwalior edition of

‘Dainik Bhaskar’ in 1977, a Company named “Bhaskar

Publications and Allied Industries” was formed.

The partnership firm gave the title of Dainik Bhaskar

on lease to this company. In this company Dwarka

Prasad Agrawal was made the Managing Director and

in the Articles of Association of the company it was

written that Dwarka Prasad Agrawal would be the

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company.

Everything was fine and there was peace all around.

This was the time for which Ramesh Chandra

Agrawal was eagerly waiting to fulfil his evil plans. The

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prosperous and well-off Agrawal family had not even

thought in their wildest dreams that the son of the family

is going to burn and destroy the relations within the

family.

Dwarka Prasad was growing old. His age did not

allow him to work hard. In 1982, when Ramesh was 38

years old, Dwarka Prasad suffered a paralytic stroke.

After this attack Dwarka Prasad handed over the work

and responsibility of Bhopal, Jhansi, Indore and

Jabalpur to his son and two brothers and restricted

himself to Gwalior only.

By now Dwarka had lost faith in Ramesh and he was

exploring potential in his daughter Hemlata. In 1984 he

admitted Hemlata as a permanent Director in the Board

of Directors of the Gwalior’s Company.

HUMANS DEATH, DEMON’S BIRTHOn seeing that his father was getting weaker and

weaker because of illness, Ramesh’s suppressed

desire of taking over the business empire completely,

took wings. He openly began working to this end and

started making his moves boldly.

The old times were gone.‘Mahabharata’ started in the

family. The domestic disputes reached the courts. All

this happened because of the efforts of Ramesh to

take over ‘Bhaskar’ all for himself.

As a father, Dwarka Prasad toiled hard to mend the

ways of Ramesh but to no avail.He had, in fact become

the “ Dog’s tail” which could never be straightened.

Ramesh was the only male heir among the 5 children of

Dwarka Prasad.

To realize his hidden plans, first of all, he threw away

his father Dwarka Prasad, step mother Kishori Devi,

sisters Hemlata and Anuradha, then uncle Vishambhar

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Agrawal and his sons, then uncle Mahesh Prasad

Agrawal and his son Sanjay agrawal like flies out of

milk.

He first merged the 25% share of Dwarka Prasad

with his 15% and his share in ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ rose to

40%.Then he sidelined M/s Dwarka Prasad and

Brothers by joining secretly M/s Writers and Publishers

Limited, Bhopal. This was a great shock to the partners

which they could not understand. From here only the

30% share each of two uncles became perfunctory. So

the erstwhile rulers of the Bhaskar Empire were

reduced to mere pawns.In this way, Ramesh became

the sole owner of ‘Bhaskar’. The uncle and his sons

realizing the treachery of Ramesh started their efforts,

but by that time Ramesh had tasted success in his evil

designs. After great efforts and upheavals Vishambhar

and Mahesh uncle got marginal share. Ramesh made it

clear to his two uncles that they depended on his

liberality to publish editions of Bhaskar from anywhere.

And thus started the game of black deeds of Ramesh

which is continuing till today. It is true that to scale the

heights rapidly you have to bend the steps.To attain

success Ramesh deceived the family, society and the

nation. The family members, the common man and

government, no one was spared by Ramesh. How did

he do this? Let us see his secrets one by one in the

succeeding chapters.

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KALINAYAK 21

OPERATIONBHOPAL

CHAPTER 2

Generally bureaucracy does not

brazenly collude with white-collar

criminals like Ramesh but here that

belief stands shattered.

For usurping the property of ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ Bhopal,

Ramesh prepared a fake Settlement Deed, besides he

also prepared a fictitious Agreement of Sale on March

13, 1985. The fake deed declares Ramesh as the

owner.

In the fake agreement it was laid down that Dwarka

Prasad had sold the title, rights and goodwill of ‘Dainik

Bhaskar’ publications, Bhopal to Ramesh’s Company

M/s Writers and Publishers for Rs. 5 lakhs.

The irony is that Dwaraka Prasad was not a party to

this and he had not signed it either. And further, this

fraudulent deed was neither registered nor shown to

Dwaraka Prasad or his brothers who were also in the

dark about this. Nor was this registered. Yet the RNI

transferred the title of the paper to “Writers and

Publishers”

The agreement also provided that the land of 4764

square feet situated on plot Number 6, Press Complex,

Maharana Pratap Nagar, Bhopal, was also sold to

Ramesh’s Company by M/s Dwarka Prasad Agrawal

and Brothers.It should be kept in mind that M/s Writers

and publishers is owned by Ramesh Chandra

Agrawal.The agreement shows that in the capacity of

Managing Director of the said company Ramesh had

executed that agreement. In fact, the whole agreement

was fraudulent, and the whole scheme was a strategy

to swallow ‘Dainik Bhaskar’

Strange to believe, Ramesh’s “agreement” was

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merely an “agreement” and not the “sale-deed.” There

is a great difference between a “sale-deed” and an

“agreement.”

The agreement also contained a clause that balance

amount would be paid after the registration, but that

had not happened.

THE OWNER WITHOUT REGISTRATION.Dwarka Prasad never did any registration in Ramesh’s

favour on the basis of the above agreement. The said

agreement did not bear the signatures of all the four

partners. If it is assumed for a moment that Dwarka

had signed the agreement, but the other partners had

not authorized Dwarka Prasad to sign the aforesaid

agreement on their behalf. But: Ramesh colluding with

government and administration got the land and by

teaming up with Registrar of Newspapers, India, got

the title of ‘Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal’ transferred in favour

of his Company ‘Writers and Publishers’. It should be

found out from Ramesh how without registration,

ownership rights can be procured? This skill is a rare

commodity. In this way Ramesh fully exploited the

illegal – fake agreement.

Dealing in deception Ramesh not only prepared the

fake agreement but also deposited Rs.1 lakh himself,

and later on he withdraw the same amount.Thus, he

never paid anything for this sale.

This agreement to sell was never registered and so

Ramesh managed to save the fees that has to be

paid as

Stamp duty on every registration.It should be borne in mind that even if all the partners

of M/s Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and Brothers wanted to

execute such an agreement with Ramesh’s Company,

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they had no such power to do so as per law.

The question that arises is if all the four partners of

the firm willingly wanted to sell the ownership rights and

title of Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal to Ramesh then why

did they not do so legally?

WHY THEY DIDN’T HAVE THE RIGHT TO SELL?The reason being that as per the Press and

Registration Act in one state there can not be two

separate owners of one newspaper.

In this case, the resultant situation is — the

ownership rights of Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal, was in the

name of Writers and Publishers Company, and those of

Dainik Bhaskar Gwalior and Indore were in the name of

M/s Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and Brothers – such an

agreement was void-ab-intio i.e. in the eyes of law this

agreement was simply null and void.

Ramesh realized this later that the agreement that he

made was legally untenable and you will read further

that how he redeemed and repaired his first scam with

a second one.

In 1985 Ramesh claimed on the basis of the fake

Agreement that the title rights of Dainik Bhaskar,

Bhopal has, been transferred to M/s Writers and

Publishers Limited, and the ownership of this Company

was with Ramesh Chandra Agrawal. This forged

agreement culminated in a series of similar fake

agreements between his father and uncles on one

hand, and between father and son, on the other.Now,

let us see how Dwarka Prasad reacted to Ramesh’s

fraudulent behavior.

COMPLAINT TO THE COLLECTOR.On December 14, 1987 Dwarka Prasad Agrawal

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handed over a letter to Collector, Jabalpur in which he

had exposed the cheating of Ramesh. This letter is

being produced hereunder,verbatim :

Honorable District Magistrate,

District Jabalpur

Madhya Pradesh

Subject:Regarding the letter presented by Shri

Ramesh Agrawal of M/s D.P. Agrawal and

Brothers,Jhansi about Dainik Bhaskar, Jabalpur.

Sir,

.I, Dwarka Prasad Agrawal, an owner and partner of

registered firm Dwarka Agrawal and Brothers.The

owner of Dainik Bhaskar paper is registered firm

Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and Brothers. I have learned

today only that my son Shri Ramesh Chandra Agrawal

had moved an application before you against

Vishambhar Dayal Agrawal about Dainik Bhaskar,

Jabalpur and in that application he had enclosed a

written letter about the sale of Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal

to M/s Writers and Publishers Pvt. Limited, Bhopal

dated 16.2.87. I have not signed this letter.He has

typed this letter in English and forged my signature on

it before presenting it to you. He has prepared this letter

so that he would be able to get a favorable decision

from you.In this said letter he has wrongfully shown that

letter of 16.2.87 was written by me in response to the

letter number W.P/136/ dated 12.2.87 of M/s Writers

and Publishers Private Limited, Bhopal. In fact, I have

never received any letter from him so the question of

answering doesn’t even arises.Even the letter does not

clearly show that from where the said letter has been

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dispatched, because on the letter pad Jhansi’s address

31, Rani Mahal is written and Bhopal Office address is

shown as Agrawal Bhavan, Sultania Road, Bhopal.

I pray that on 16-2-87 (February) I was neither in

Jhansi nor in Bhopal. Also I would like to clarify that the

Agrawal Bhavan of Bhopal which was the office of

Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal had been vacated by the

newspaper and it has been rented out to many

tenants.So no question arises about writing a letter

bearing that address.

The letter contains incorrect detail or fact that on

March 13, 1985 I had written an agreement for selling

the title of Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal to M/s Writers and

Publishers Ltd, Bhopal, another wrong fact written in

the letter is that from 1-4-85 the ownership rights of

Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and Brothers has ceased and

the business of printing paper has been stopped.This

lie he has written to cheat you and get decision in his

favour.The fact is also proved to be wrong by the

declaration dated 16.10.87 presented by him in your

office on 20-10-87 for publishing Dainik Bhaskar from

Jabalpur with his signature.In this declaration letter in

column number 10 he has shown himself as the partner

of M/s D.P. Agrawal and Brothers, 31 Rani Mahal,

Jhansi which is the owner of Dainik Bhaskar. Another

wrong fact is that we have not authorized the

publication of ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ from Jabalpur; the truth

is that we had given the permission to Bhaskar

Publication Pvt. Ltd, Bhopal to publish the paper from

Jabalpur. In the inauguration function held on 1-8-86 in

Jabalpur in which Hon’ble Chief Minister had come,

Shri Ramesh Chandra Agrawal and his son were

present with me, besides Shri Mahesh Prasad Agrawal

another partner was also present.From that time

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onwards ‘Dainik Bhaskar’, Jabalpur is continuously

being published. This is a wrong presentation of the

facts to close the publication of the paper from

Jabalpur.He has filed case by forging my signature on

forged letter.This comes under the category of crime,

so for proper action please forward this case to Police.

Date: 14-12-87

Applicant

(Dwarka Prasad Agrawal)

Partner

Firm: Dwarka Prasad Agrawal & Brothers,

Resident of 20, Lalit Puri Colony,

Gwalior.

DWARKA PRASAD COMPLAINS TO THE CSP.On December 14, 1987 Dwarka Prasad sent a written

complaint to City Superintendent of Police, Omti

Region, Jabalpur which is as following:

The City Superintendent of Police,

Omti Region,

Jabalpur (MP)

Subject:.To register complaint about the letter

presented by Shri Ramesh Agrawal (Bhopal) about the

case of D.P. Agrawal and Brothers, Jhansi, Dainik

Bhaskar, Jabalpur.

Sir,

This is to bring to your kind notice that the owner of

Dainik Bhaskar Hindi daily is the firm M/s D.P. Agrawal

and Brothers.I am one of the partners of this firm.My

son Shri Ramesh Agrawal and my Brothers Shri

Mahesh Agrawal and Shri Vishambhar Dayal Agrawal

are its other partners.

On 16.2.87 Shri Ramesh Agrawal presented a fake

letter bearing my forged signature in the office of the

District Collector, Jabalpur that I had sold the title and

goodwill of Dainik Bhaskar to his firm Writer and

Publishers Private Limited for Rs.5 lakhs. The truth is I

have not written any such sale-deed or any agreement

to such purport. He has forged this letter to cheat and

get the ownership rights of the paper.This act of his is a

crime and so please take necessary action.I have

learned about the enclosed letter today itself and so I

am filing a complaint today itself.

14.12.87

Applicant

(Dwarka Prasad Agrawal)

Partner

Firm - Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and Brothers

Resident of 20, Lalitpur Colony’Lashkar, GWALIOR

WHERE IS THE ORIGINAL SALE-DEED?Dwarka Prasad Agrawal had lodged a written complaint

with the Collector, Jabalpur and the C.S.P. Jabalpur, on

the basis of which the district Collector had asked

Ramesh Chandra Agrawal to produce the original sale-

deed. But Ramesh Chandra Agrawal has not been able

to present the original copy of the aforesaid fake sale-

deed till today. The fact is when no such sale-deed

exists, so how it can be produced.

FILE LOST … PAGE MISSING in RNI RECORDSOn June 29, 2009 the uncle of Ramesh Chandra

Agrawal – Mahesh Agrawal sent a letter to Central

Information Commission.The letter said,"We were

called for inspection of the files in the office of the RNI.

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On May 15, 2009 RNI showed us many files related to

the title of Dainik Bhaskar but the file marked and

directed in your order about the transfer of ownership

title of Dainik Bhaskar was not shown to anyone of us.

In this respect the RNI states that the concerned file

is lost. They also showed us the concerned CR register

from the records about the Dainik Bhaskar title, but

even in that register the page relevant to Bhaskar’s title

record was missing.

Once again on May 27, 2009 we wrote a letter to RNI

requesting them to search for the file regarding the

ownership title transfer of Dainik Bhaskar or otherwise

give it in writing that the said file has been lost by them.

We also requested them if they are not finding the

file,they can ask for a certified copy of that file from M/s

Writers and Publishers Ltd, Bhopal and then hand it

over to us. But they have neither tried to search for that

file nor have they given any written confession, nor are

they prepared to demand the aforesaid deed from

Writers and Publishers.

We again request you to provide us the required

original information about the Dainik Bhaskar title

ownership transfer deed “which has been executed by

M/s Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and Brothers in favour of

Writers and Publishers Limited, Bhopal."

In this way the law that punishes was itself murdered.

After this grave complaint also nobody cared to inspect

anything about the scam. Ramesh has clearly proved

that by teaming up with bureaucrats the rules can be

made a plaything.The ineffectiveness of the law can be

easily gauged from the fact that the illegal and forged

agreement was put into implementation by the corrupt

bureaucracy.

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After taking over the property of Bhopal-Indore

illegally Ramesh began thinking about continuing his

game of deception further.

By now Ramesh had realized that on the basis of

Bhopal’s forged and fake agreement he wouldn’t be

able to win over Gwalior.On May 13, 1993 in his

Registered Will in the office of Registrar, Gwalior

Dwarka Prasad, declared Kishori Devi his wife as his

only sole heir. But Ramesh had set his evil eyes on

father’s property. He didn’t want to share the property

with his sisters.Ramesh was very angry with his father

because he had made Hemlata the Director of Gwalior

firm ‘Bhaskar Publication and Allied Industry”. He was

nursing animosity against his ailing father. So how did

he execute the Gwalior scam to fulfill his evil desires?

For this keep reading this Ramesh Saga.

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NOW IT ISGWALIOR

Gwalior is the historical town of

Scindia Royal House and in the later

part of the last century, mother and

son of the royal house fell out because

of politics, as we know. But here son

makes father a victim by robbing in

business.

CHAPTER 3

Gwalior is the historical town of Scindia Royal House.

Here the establishment of ‘Bhaskar Publication and

Allied Industries’ was done by Dwarka Prasad.

Before laying bare the acts of Ramesh it should be

informed to all of you that in the above Company itself

two rival groups of Dwarka Prasad’s family had

emerged. The first group comprised of Dwarka Prasad,

his wife Kishori Devi, his daughters Hemlata and his

younger brother Vishambhar Dayal. The second Group

consisted of Ramesh, Ramesh’s wife Sharda and

Ramesh’s sycophant Devendra Tiwari.

Now Ramesh was eying and vying for this company.

Initially Ramesh and his Group were in minority. They

wielded less power. But vaulting ambition was brewing

in his mind. Ramesh wanted to dethrone his father and

become the owner of the firm. .

His one point agenda was to become Gwalior

edition’s owner.For this he needed majority in the firm’s

Board of Directors. In the present situation he could not

snatch away the share of his father, sister or uncle.This

was a great problem for him, how to become

Company’s owner? With which move could he tighten

his grip on the Company. .

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HOW TO BECOME THE OWNER ?In Gwalior, the Board was laid and this was Rameh’s

first move...to win over the Gwalior Company. Ramesh

increased the share capital in an arbitrary, wrongful and

illegal manner.It was the 9th day of July 1987 when

Ramesh in the meeting in which his father was absent

increased the share capital of the Company from Rs.

10,000/- to Rs. 30,000/-.

Ramesh issued shares without informing anyone.Ramesh did all these manipulations to make the

Company his own. By virtue of those shares Ramesh’s

faction got the majority and his father’s group came in

minority. This was a smart move, wherein he was both

the seller and the buyer. The extra shares that Ramesh

claimed to have bought, was a white lie because for

these shares Ramesh didn’t pay a single paise. Nor did

he deposit the increased share capital in the company

immediately.This is how he had harvested the crop of

corruption in Gwalior.

Till December 9, 1987 Dwarka Prasad was the

lifetime Managing Director and permanent Chairman of

General Body Meeting. In the Articles of Association of

the Company it was declared that Dwarka Prasad was

the life-time Managing Director and he could never be

removed from his post.

HOW HE EXPELLED HIS FATHER ?Ramesh didn’t call any meeting of Board of Directors

but he prepared fake documents of four such meetings.

No notices of these four meetings were sent to his

father, mother or sisters. In fact, no notices were sent

so there was no question of their receiving – nor were

any meetings held.Ramesh said that by being absent

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continuously in three meetings they had violated the

rules of the Company,and finally Ramesh on the basis

of this clause of absence from 3 consecutive meetings

removed his father Dwarka Prasad from the post of

M.D. on August 3, 1987 and his sister Hemlata from the

post of Joint Managing Director as she was absent at 4

consecutive meetings. On July 9, 1987 he kicked out

his step mother Kishori Devi also. In this way the

deception juggernaut of Ramesh trounced his father. It

seems as if not attending the meeting became the

biggest crime. This incident shows that blood relations

are not at all important if you are overpowered by lust

for power and money.

After expelling his blood-relations as if they were his

enemies, Ramesh planned to plant his confederates

into the Company.He made his favourite Sudhir

Agrawal Additional Director of the company.

In the fake meeting supposed to have been held on

July 9, 1987 Ramesh acquired the status of authorized

signatory to put his signature on all Cheques, Bills,

Promissory Notes, Demand Draft, etc. Simultaneously

he also delegated this power to sign to his sons Sudhir

and Girish.Since then Ramesh and his sons started

signing all the important Papers. First Company then

Chair then signature and than everything in

possession.

Dwarka Prasad alleged that Ramesh did not call any

meeting of the Board of Directors or General Body

meeting and had made a fake minute’s book. He also

alleged that in such duplicate minutes book Ramesh

had made fake inward entries, about the supposed

meeting of Board of Directors plus non-held Annual

General Meeting. Dwarka Prasad specifically said that

the entries were made in the duplicate minutes book to

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wrongfully remove him, his wife Kishori Devi and his

daughter Hemlata from their respective posts.This was

done to establish and prove that they had not attended

three meetings and by violating the rule of the

Company Law their posts would be deemed to be

vacant. This move made his father helpless.

ILLEGAL MEETINGSAs per the rules of the Company Law under the

provision of Article 287 – such a Director who is a

beneficiary, his suggestion should not be listened to nor

does his presence be counted for purposes of quorum.

The meeting in which the father and mother were

deposed, only two Directors were present and among

them Ramesh was a beneficiary Director whose

presence cannot be counted for quorum.The Company

had total 6 Directors and the Article 147 of Company

Law stipulates that the presence of 2 Directors was

essential and these two shouldn’t be beneficiaries. So

Ramesh who was a beneficiary director and could not

be counted for the sake of completing the quorum. So

his attendance in the meeting could not be counted.

Thus the presence of Ramesh couldn’t be counted and

so all the acts and decision of such meeting amounted

to being unconstitutional.

DETHRONED FATHER BY FORCE.On a subtle analysis of Article 293 (9) and provisions of

the Company Act, we notice that if a person deliberately

absents himself from 3 consecutive meetings then only

he would be treated as removed from his Directors

post. But if a person is absent because of some illness

or some other genuine excuse then his post cannot be

deemed to be vacant. Dwarka Prasad was suffering

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from paralysis since 1981. Ramesh had claimed “His

father’s age was 75. He had suffered a paralytic stroke.

One of his legs had to be amputated because of

gangrene. So even if we accept that he was in receipt

of the notices of the Board meetings, even then his

absence from such meetings was pardonable. In such

circumstances treating his post as vacant because his

absence, was not justified. Ramesh was familiar with

his father’s illness. Even then he managed to take away

his father’s directorship. We can say father’s illness led

to son’s welfareness.

The interesting point is that Ramesh did not take the

trouble of issuing a show cause notice to Dwarka

Prasad “why should you be not removed from your post

because of your continued absence? This was against

the principles of natural justice. This act of Ramesh

can’t be digested under any circumstances.

In the capacity of the Chairman of the Board of

Directors Dwarka Prasad had the power to supervise

business, exercise control over the company, and

maintain company’s property and appoint employees

under section 56 of the Companies Act.

Ramesh cancelled Article 56(A) but the notice to this

effect was given on April 18, 1988,whereas the

amendment regarding the cancellation of this article is

shown to have been affected on December 26, 1987.

Here the question that arises is why this notice was not

given in the scheduled time period? Has Ramesh got

any answer?

Ramesh had actually desired to kick him out of the

Company. This was identical to the Mughal Emperor

Aurangzeb who had dethroned his father Shahjahan

from the throne. Thus, all such nefarious and black

deeds were similar to the power lusty diplomacy of the

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Mughal Sultanate.

Ramesh could make his near one D.N. Khanna, his

sons the Directors of the Company but not his father.

The man who was the pioneer and sole owner of

‘Dainik Bhaskar’.Why? The higher posts were reserved

only for the dear ones of Ramesh.

RAMESH ANNOUNCED HIS FATHER’S EXIT.

Very happily Ramesh declared that his father was no

longer in the post of M.D. He sent this notice to the

Registrar of Companies also, and got his name struck

off from the record of Registrar. This is how he struck

his father with the reward of duplicity .

To root out the prospects of his father and his mother

and sisters return to the Company, Ramesh passed an

amendment in the Articles of Association of the

Company that such persons who are above 65 years in

age, or ill or are females cannot act as Directors in the

Company.

Dwarka Prasad was not only the founder of ‘Dainik

Bhaskar’ but he was all in all, and he was thrown out

like a fly from milk by his own son. Ramesh Chandra

Agrawal beat his father ruthlessly and insulted him. So

the father who had given birth to son became a thorn in

his side. Dwarka was suffering on two fronts. one at the

hands of his rascal son and two due to growing age.

Ramesh was not giving any chance to Dwarka and

his group to make any moves to counter his attack.

Dwarka was suffering from great stress because of his

son and his sickness. In the end Ramesh dragged his

father to the Court.

You should not be surprised at this legal battle

between the son and the father because in these

circumstances the old-ailing father had no option left

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but to knock at the court’s door.

THE BATTLE OF THE FATHER AND THE SONThe main bone of contention was the publication of

‘Dainik Bhaskar,’ Gwalior. This fight started from the

police station and reached first the civil and criminal

court, from then on to,Press and Registration Appellate

Board to High Court and finally the Supreme Court.

Deeply oppressed by Ramesh, Dwarka Prasad filed

a report in police station stating that Ramesh was trying

to remove him from his own property by force. He

wanted to snatch his property. The sister Hemlata

Agrawal also lodged a report against Ramesh Chandra

Agrawal and Vishnu Kumar Garg.

In response Ramesh also lodged a complaint

alleging that on April 17, 1988, V.S. Desai had come

with 15-20 anti-social guys to the Press and had tried to

open the door.

After having filed F.I.R. in the police station the

second confrontation took place when in this fight the

bureaucrats also joined the fray. After his F.I.R. Dwarka

Prasad got another chance and this was Dwarka’s

second move.

Dwarka Prasad applied to the District Magistrate

Gwalior complaining that Ramesh had illegally

possessed ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ Gwalior and was

circulating misleading information.Dwarka’s application

had the desired effect.

SEALING OF BHASKAR BUILDING AND PRESSWhen the police had come into the picture then the

Collector who is also the executive magistrate took

cognizance on the filed complaint and issued orders on

April 18, 1988 for attachment and sealing of the

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Bhaskar building and the Press. On the orders of the

District Magistrate, Gwalior, on the night of April 18,

1988 the Press building was attached and sealed.

The District Magistrate, Gwalior wrote in his order

that "Ramesh and Dwarka Prasad the son and the

father along with their supporters were not ready to

budge from the Bhaskar Bhavan’s Inderganj premises.

This might result in a serious uprising which may result

into endangering of peace and public life and property.

So till the time the claim of the rival groups on property

is not decided, I attach the debatable Bhaskar Building

and the Press in public interest. I also appoint Town

Inspector, Police Station, Inderganj as the receiver of

the said property for its proper supervision and

caretaking."

Had Dwarka been alert from the very beginning he

wouldn’t have suffered so much tension. Anyway it

seemed that Dwarka was finally having a better

environment. In the moves-counter moves each party

gets chances, now was the right time for Dwarka

Prasad Agrawal to attack - After this event Dwarka

made his third impressive move.

FILING OF FIRST DECLARATIONOn March 23, 1987 V.S. Desai on behalf of Dwarka

Prasad filed first declaration in the District Court,

Gwalior for publication of ‘Dainik Bhaskar’s Gwalior

edition.

Ramesh knew this fully well that nobody would sit

idle after loosing his rights. So he wasn’t satisfied and

settled. His full concentration was now focused on his

father and his supporters. When he learned about the

filing of declaration from his father he was greatly

disturbed. He couldn’t in any way digest this news

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about his father’s move. On July 4, 1987 Ramesh

lodged a complaint in the District Magistrate’s Court

and pleaded to cancel the declaration form of his father.

Ramesh argued that as he had filed declaration on

March 11, 1985 so his father Dwarka Prasad could not

present a new declaration. On the basis of Ramesh’s

complaint the District Magistrate cancelled the

declaration filed on March 23, 1987 by Dwarka

Prasad.This order was issued on July 23, 1987 when

Dwarka lost.

Is it not galling that the DM was fooled in that he

cancelled a fake declaration? Also, galling is the fact

that Ramesh fires his gun successfully from the

shoulders of the DM. Show the original copy of the

declaration dated March 11, 1985 on the basis of which

Ramesh was publishing paper from Gwalior, and win

Rs.10 lakhs. Readers show the original document and

earn cash prize.

By now the battle of police station was over from the

Collector’s Court – one party had moved to Appellate

Board …..And now Dwarka made his next move.

FOURTH PROCEED IN FILEDV.S. Desai on behalf of Dwarka Prasad appealed to the

Appellate Board under the PRB Act against the

cancellation order of July23, 1987 of the District

Magistrate, revealing both his knowledge and

experience. And the Appellate Board cancelled the

DM’s order on 23.7.1987, upholding the objection of

Dwaraka Prasad, and ordered the DM Gwalior to

review his order, after a fresh hearing. Now the ball is

back in DM’s court

Dwarka Prasad was Ramesh’s father and so on April

11, 1988 he filed a second declaration in District

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Magistrate, Gwalior’s Court for publishing Dainik

Bhaskar through V.S. Desai. In this declaration V.S.

Desai was shown as the Publisher and Printer of Dainik

Bhaskar and Dwarka Prasad was shown as the editor.

On April 12, 1988 the district Magistrate authorized the

Declaration form under the PRB Act. With this Dwarka

Prasad got the right to publish the paper from Gwalior.

Dwarka’s second declaration plan was a success.

Ramesh had now realized that his father was equal to

the task and he was loosing in the battle. So he

pondered over striking hard and that too once and for

all.

Ramesh reacted by lodging a complaint against the

second declaration in D.M’s Court. Ramesh filed an

objection against the authenticated declaration dated

April 12, 1988 of the DM, Gwalior on April 15, 1988.

The Collector did not take notice of Ramesh’s

objection, so he made the next move.He approached

the Appellate Board against the second declaration

As there was no result on his last objection so

Ramesh was getting anxious.Ramesh filed against the

authenticated order issued in favour of his father in the

Press and Registration Appellate Board.

On April 21, 1988 the Appellate Board stayed the

execution of Authenticated Order and Ramesh

emerged as the winner. It will be recalled that the

District Magistrate Gwalior had ordered to seal and

attach the Bhaskar Press Building on April 18, 1988.

Now the battle reaches the district court, for getting the

Bhaskar Press building back, when Ramesh lodged a

Criminal Revision petition No.53/1988 demanding

vacation of Gwalior DM’s order. Ramesh won and the

Police had to cease attachment of the building and

unlocked the same. The Court ordered the Dy Collector

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to revise the attachment order after hearing the parties,

vide its order dated May 6,1988.

CIVIL SUIT NUMBER 1-A/88.In response to this order,Dwarka Prasad, Kishori Devi

and Hemlata Agrawal filed civil suit number 1-A/88 in

the district Court in the Court of First Additional Judge’s

court. Civil suit means a long battle,an endless fight.

There is no guarantee that the decision would come in

one’s lifetime.In the civil suit they had demanded that

Ramesh’s family and supporter should not seize the

Printing Press forcibly and that they should not interfere

and interrupt the publication of ‘Dainik Bhaskar’.Dwarka

Prasad had also demanded this relief from the Court

that Ramesh should be stopped from publishing ‘Dainik

Bhaskar’ from Gwalior and further that he himself

should be allowed to continue working as the Managing

Director. He further pleaded that the respondent

Ramesh who is the son of Petitioner Dwarka is also a

Director of the Company, but Ramesh taking undue

advantage of the petitioner’s illness was trying to take

the possession of the Company in an illegal manner.He

also declared that Ramesh was trying to unseat him

from the post of M.D.and to this end only he had

increased the share capital of the Company on April 9,

1986 and then wrongfully and dishonestly allotted all

the new shares to himself.

It was also declared that the respondent Ramesh

had entered into a secret agreement with the other

Director (respondent No.5) D.K. Tiwari of the Company

and without convening the meeting of Board of

Directors he had illegally appointed new Director. At

this development, Ramesh felt that a snake had bit

him.He could not understand that how his old ailing

father was fighting on an equal footing with him.

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Anyhow Ramesh also decided to pull up his socks.

Ramesh also filed a civil suit number 2A/1988

against his father. By this Civil suit V/S Civil suit

Ramesh pleaded that publication of Dainik Bhaskar by

him should not be obstructed by the other party. After

the District Court, the High Court had become the battle

ground. Against the order passed in the civil suit the

fight reached the High Court.

Ramesh had filed a civil suit No. 2A/88 in the District

Court. In this case the judgment was given and both the

warring parties Ramesh Chandra and Dwarka Prasad

were not satisfied with the decision. So both the parties

filed an appeal against the above decision in the High

Court.

The writ petition filed against the civil court’s order

dated 28-30 May 1988 bore the number MA 60/88 and

61/88.High Court dismissed the Misc. W.P. No.61/88

filed by Dwarka Prasad on technical grounds.

The High Court said that the reliefs sought by

Dwarka Prasad in his appeal in the lower court were

tenable only through a company petition, and the lower

court had no power to grant such reliefs. In the light of

this order, Ramesh gained the upper hand and took

over Bhaskar’s possession.The High Court cancelled

the order of the District Court in Ramesh’s W.P. No.

MA-60/88.This journey till High Court was not sufficient

so Ramesh forced his father to knock the doors of

Supreme Court against the strictures passed by the

High Court.

Fight in the Supreme CourtA great tussle took place in the Supreme Court also.

Against the High Court’s order V.S. Desai filed Special

Leave Petition (SLP) on behalf of Dwarka Prasad.

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Supreme Court directed the Appellate Board to decide

on the appeal.

All fight in Unison.

Kishori Devi, Vishambhar Dayal Agrawal, Ajay Kumar

Agrawal, Dwarka Prasad Agrawal, Hemlata Agrawal

and Anuradha Agrawal opened a joint front against the

atrocities of Ramesh in 1988. They challenged in

Gwalior High Court Bench, Bhaskar Publication and

Allied Industries Pvt. Limited, Ramesh Chandra

Agrawal, Sharda Devi Agrawal, Sudhir Agrawal, Dhruv

Narayan Khanna and D.K. Tiwari. This was Company

Petition No: 2/88.

In the Company petition Ramesh pleaded to stop

Dwarka Prasad and Hemlata from running a parallel

office of the company, from stopping the publication of

‘Dainik Bhaskar’ and from working as the M.D.and Joint

Director of the Company.He also prayed for revocation

of Dwarka’s declaration dated April 11, 1988.

On April 27, 1988 Dwarka presented an application

to the D.M.Demanding the cancellation of Ramesh’s

declaration dated March 11, 1985. The District

Magistrate Gwalior issued a show cause notice to

Ramesh on Dwarka’s complaint. This shocked

Ramesh.

Ramesh prayed to be given some grace period to

give reply to the show cause notice issued by the D.M.

on Dwarka Prasad’s application.

The district Magistrate dismissed Ramesh’s

application. Now Ramesh realized that his destination

was far away. But even then he was not ready to accept

defeat.

Then Ramesh adopted two more ploys the date was

June 04, 1988.Ramesh had requested to be given a

grace period of 10 days. He raised the objection that

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the District Magistrate had no right and power to pass

decision on the objection of Dwarka prasad.

Ramesh had raised the point of maintainability to

stall the hearing, and when hearing would not take

place there would be no question of decision. The

District Magistrate had dismissed Ramesh’s

applications, so Ramesh had received a serious jolt.

Now Ramesh had no option but to knock at the doors

of the High Court. So he filed a Writ petition in the High

Court, Gwalior.

June 06, 1988: High Court stayed the proceedings

going on in the district Court on June 06, 1988. The day

brought a great relief for Ramesh.

Unaware of the order of the High Court, the district

Magistrate cancelled the Declaration dated March 11,

1985 of Ramesh.

Ramesh filed an appeal against this order in the

board. It is possible that at the time of appealing

Ramesh was downcast.

The Fake Declaration of Ramesh.The interesting thing is that this declaration of Ramesh

dated March 11, 1985 was not submitted before the

Sub-Divisional Magistrate or the Presidency

Magistrate. He was the proper authority to accept and

authenticate the declaration form. This declaration form

was submitted before the Deputy Collector-cum-

Magistrate who was not eligible for accepting and

authenticating such declaration form legally. So instead

of going to Japan, you reach China.

The more astonishing thing is that the declaration

was submitted before S.C. Shukla, Magistrate, Deputy

Collector, Bhopal and not before any S.D.M. of Gwalior.

But it was shown that the declaration was submitted

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before the executive Magistrate, Gwalior. This was

Ramesh’s move.

SCAPE-GOATRamesh walked away from this case and held

responsible the Director Devendra Tiwari for all the

mistakes. Ramesh said that in this case the declaration

was filed by Devendra Tiwari and he had nothing to do

with it. So putting the blame on Devendra, Ramesh

walked away free but even then he couldn’t explain that

how two seals were there on the declaration form? You

need such pawns and scapegoats that will do all the

dirty works for you, so that in the event of the mistake

coming to light you can always put the blame on them.

Before his fake declaration of March 11, 1985 could

be dismissed, Ramesh filed a new declaration before

the D.M. Gwalior through his Director, Tiwari. In this

declaration Ramesh was shown as the Publisher,

Printer and Editor of the paper. But this ploy of Ramesh

failed because the D.M. did not issue any order. The

case was pending before the Appellate Board so the

D.M. Gwalior refused to authenticate the declaration.

Now Ramesh was fluttering like a caged bird. So he

chose his way to Press and Registration Board.

RAMESH IN THE APPELLATE BOARDWhen the DM did not authenticate the declaration then

Ramesh filed an appeal in Press and Registration

Board. He demanded justice from the Board.

As the Appellate Board was not functional at that

time, Ramesh filed a Miscellaneous Petition No. 6-

706/88 in the High Court, Gwalior against DM’s order

dated June 6, 1988.

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WRIT CAME AND WENT BACKAs the appeal was pending in the Appellate Board,

Ramesh had to withdraw the Writ Petition from High

Court, Gwalior. But Ramesh had even to withdraw the

appeal from the Appellate Board.

He withdrew his appeal from the Appellate Board on

the pretext that before August 8, 1988 the date on

which the tenure of the Board was ending, there was no

possibility about the resolution of the appeal. So, for

Ramesh this was a very tough time indeed.

Against the order dated June 06, 1988, Ramesh filed

M.P. No. 798/88 in the High Court. On 26, 1989 High

Court passed the orders permitting Ramesh to print

‘Dainik Bhaskar’.High Court also ruled that till the

Appellate Board passes an order in the above case,

the Collector’s order dated May 29, 1991 would be

stayed.

Filed the first appeal against the DM’s authentication

of April 12, 1988 of Dwarka’s declaration of April 11,

1988. This appeal was dismissed on May 29, 1991 on

the ground that it was not maintenable.

Ramesh filed a second appeal against the order of

D.M. Gwalior dated June 6, 1988. Let us know about

the plight of this appeal. In the order of June 6, 88 the

Collector had refused to pass any order on the

declaration filed by Ramesh on May 12, 1988. On this

appeal the Appellate Board on May 29, 1981 cancelled

the DM’s order of June 6, 88 and further said that the

D.M. after full and complete investigation and hearing

all the parties should pass an order on the declaration

of May 12, ’With this order of the Appellate Board,

Ramesh felt that everything was going against him.

Ramesh was frightened.Ramesh felt that with the order

of the Board about the controversy regarding the title of

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the Company he might loose the case. Ramesh said

that by this injunction the Board had created

controversy about the title. Ramesh did not want this

thing to happen. Why Ramesh did not want this

because with these investigations Ramesh’s scams

and secrets would have been exposed. He wanted to

indulge in evil but was not prepared to face the

consequences.What was the evil, and what would have

been the results…….? Afteralll, from 1952 to 1972 the

owner of Dainik Bhaskar was Dwarka Prasad. After

1972 the sole proprietary firm of Dainik Bhaskar

became “Dwarka Prasad and Brothers”. This firm did

not give any right or power to Ramesh or his

Companies like Writers and Publishers or D.B. Group.

Further, Ramesh does not have any valid document

which establishes or proves him as the owner of Dainik

Bhaskar. Yet , even today he is printing the newspaper

openly. On June 6, 88 the D.M. had cancelled the

declaration of Ramesh dated March 11, ’85. Against

this order of the D.M. the third appeal was filed. This

appeal also met with the same fate as the other too. .

Miscellaneous appeal of Ramesh No. 1724/1991.

Ramesh filed a misc. appeal No: 1724/ in the High

Court against the Appeal No.1. In this petition Ramesh

had demanded the cancellation of his father’s

declaration. .

Ramesh did not stop here. He did not rest till he filed

a petition in the High Court against the orders passed

in the second and the third appeals. The number of this

petition was 1654/91.The High Court gave orders to

maintain the status quo as on September 30, 1991.This

was the super-fight of the legal cases. Ramesh was so

much neck deep in the controversy that he had no

option but to fight case after case and file writ after writ.

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TWO DAINIK BHASKARS !At this juncture the fight became very interesting. From

October 1, 1991 Dwarka Prasad also started publishing

a parallel ‘Dainik Bhaskar’. This hurt Ramesh greatly .

Now Ramesh made his next move.

Miscellaneous W P No. 1654/91.

To stop Dwarka Prasad from publishing a twin Bhaskar

from Gwalior, Ramesh filed a Writ petition in High Court

Gwalior. Ramesh argued that he was the publisher,

printer and editor of Dainik Bhaskar, Gwalior from

March 11, 1985. So by printing duplicate ‘Dainik

Bhaskar’, my father has insulted my authority.

Restless Ramesh filed a petition against his father’s

supporter V.S. Desai and Hemlata which was against

the authentication of declaration field by V.S. Desai

before the D.M. Gwalior. This was Ramesh’s style of

working.

In W.P. MA/1724/91 Ramesh says that from October

1, 1991 Dwarka Prasad was publishing a very pale

version of the Bhaskar Newspaper. He called his

father’s paper duplicate. Ramesh pleaded that his

paper was original and his father’s paper was duplicate.

He also meant that the quality of his newspaper was

much superior to his father’s paper. He was like a

burning cracker. As becomes him, Ramesh filed a

series of cases. If he lost one case he filed another, and

if that too failed, he was ready with yet another He was

never depressed or tired. He kept on fighting and

rested after winning only.

Father complained against son.

Dwarka complained against Ramesh in the Information

and Broadcasting Ministry. The Ministry directed the

RNI for investigation of the matter. After verification of

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the records it was found that Dwarka Prasad Agrawal

and Brothers were the real owners of Dainik Bhaskar,

vide their order dated May 4, 1990. This order

frustrated Ramesh. Meanwhile fighting cases from his

death-bed, Dwarka Prasad died on July 20,1993. Tired

bones could not tolerate son’s atrocities.

Against this backdrop of endless litigation, Dwarka

Prasad’s death was the result of exhaustion .

It was not unnatural for a father to have some

expectations from his son. In old age, any father of a

son would expect that he would not be denied joy. It is

legitimate for the old man to expect that his son would

defer to his feelings, shower him with love and

affection, and if there was “business” , he would keep it

up with his partners. Alas, Dwaraka expected so much

from his son, but the latter belied all his hopes.

Ramesh may pay for his many sins in another life, more

so for his base ingratitude towards his father. In a

nutshell, Ramesh turned upside down Maharshi’s

definition of “son”. Because in old age, a son is

expected to look after his parents and attend to their

needs, physical and psychological. In his father’s

death, it is possible, Ramesh won half the battle. His

father’s death removed one obstacle for him. His uncle

Vishambhar, too breathed his last, on April 21,2001.

Even these two deaths, have had no effect on his yen

for litigation, and Ramesh must be under the illusion

that he is immortal. Hemlata, Kishori, Mahesh and the

law are still there.

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AND THENJABALPUR

Ramesh has not spared his father, if

only to fatten himself with the family’s

wealth. So would he be different with

others in the family viz uncles and

sisters, to realise his ambition!

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After the city of Nawab of Bhopal, Holkar’s Indore

and Scindia’s Gwalior Ramesh eyed the Gordwana city,

Jabalpur. The chariot of scam of Ramesh now reached

Jabalpur. When father was not spared then how will the

unclebe spared ?

From 1986 Jabalpur Dainik Bhaskar was run by

Vishambhar Dayal Agrawal as a partner of D.P. Agrawal

and brothers. Ramesh could not stomach the fact that

while he owned “Bhaskar” Bhopal, Indore and Gwalior

but not Jabalpur. So he planned a new move to make

Vishambhar and his sons understand his power and

might. His move succeeded.Vishambhar, who was

once 30% owner of Dainik Bhaskar, now became a

lease-holder of Dainik Bhaskar for its publication.

Ramesh became the one who gave him that lease!

Vishambhar the owner of Bhaskar, Jabalpur.On July 8, 1986 Vishambhar Dayal Agrawal had started

the publication of Dainik Bhaskar, Jabalpur. In July

1986 the declaration form that Vishambhar Dayal had

filled showed him as the owner of ‘Dainik Bhaskar’..

After this on January 24, 1987 Vishambhar Dayal

wrote an application to, RNI, R.K.Puram, New Delhi to

allot registration number in his own name to publish

Dainik Bhaskar from Jabalpur.

In the application dated January 24, 1987 addressed

to the Registrar Newspaper of India, Vishambhar Dayal

wrote that since 1972 the registered firm of M/s Dwarka

Prasad Agrawal and Brothers is the real owner of

Dainik Bhaskar. It is under the lease granted by this firm

that the Bhaskar editions of Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore

and Jhansi are run. M/s Writers and Publishers Pvt.

Ltd, Bhopal, M/s Bhaskar Publications and Allied

Industries Pvt. Ltd, Gwalior, M/s Bhaskar Graphics and

Printing Art Pvt. Ltd, Indore and M/s Sanjay Agrawal,

Jhansi respectively are its Directors. In this series M/s

Bhaskar Prakashan Pvt. Ltd. has come forward to

direct ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ from Jabalpur.

The firm is the legal owner of Bhaskar.In reply to the letter of Vishambhar Dayal the RNI said

that the rightful owner and title holder of Dainik Bhaskar

is M/s Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and Brothers.Further

the RNI said that the title of Dainik Bhaskar cannot be

given in the name of Vishambhar Dayal. On Jan. 28,

1987 the RNI directed Vishambhar Dayal to file on

record Declaration-letter and in that to show M/s D.P.

Agrawal and Brothers as the owner and thus rectify his

earlier mistake. In Compliance of the above letter of

RNI, Vishambhar Dayal submitted new Declaration

Form in which he accepted the firm as the owner and

that the firm had authorized Bhaskar Prakashan Pvt.

Ltd. for the publication of paper from Jabalpur. R.N.I.

accepted the Declaration Form submitted by

Vishambhar Dayal on February 4, 1987.

When the above declaration was presented by

Vishambhar Dayal, Ramesh filed an objection before

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the District Magistrate, Jabalpur that the title of Dainik

Bhaskar belonged to his firm. Ramesh also said that

his firm had not given Vishambhar Dayal any

permission of this type, nor the consent of the partners

was taken.

JANUS FACED RAMESHThe inauguration of the Jabalpur edition of the paper

was done by the then Chief Minister Moti Lal Vohr.

Even Ramesh was present on that occasion and had

given a fiery speech, which was carried in the next

day’s paper. Yet, the same Ramesh turned a

chameleon and filed an objection in the Court of D.M,

Jabalpur that Vishambhar Dayal started the publication

of Jabalpur edition of Dainik Bhaskar without the

permission of the firm resulting in the cancellation of

Vishambhar’s “Declaration”. The DM, Jabalpur in his

order dated 14.10.87 had accepted that the rightful

owner of dainik Bhaskar was the firm - M/s Dwarka

Prasad and Brothers. On the basis of this, the

declaration form submitted by Vishambhar Dayal on

30.1.87 was cancelled. By kicking out Vishambhar

Dayal from the field and by placing himself in his stead

Ramesh played his duplicate move.

Ramesh fills new declarationTwo days after the order dated 14.10.87 of the D.M.

Jabalpur, on 16.10.87, Ramesh filed a new declaration

form for procuring the publication rights of the paper. In

the declaration he showed the firm M/s D.P. Agrawal

and Brothers as the owner and himself as the publisher

and the printer.

Limit of deceitSo you see how Ramesh does accept that the firm is

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the owner of the paper in Jabalpur but the same firm

when it comes to Bhopal and Gwalior is not the owner

of the Newspaper, but shows himself to be the owner

here in these two places. It is great story of great

paradoxes.

On one hand, in the writ filed on Nov. 28, 1987 he

says that the firm is finished, and on the other hand in

the declaration filed just 12 days before he shows

himself as the owner of Dainik Bhaskar.

Ramesh showed Family Division

In the hearing before the DM, Jabalpur on the

objection raised by him Ramesh presented evidences.

He presented the family division of 13-4-85 and the

letter of 16-2-87. In this letter Dwarka Prasad had

described that the title of Dainik Bhaskar was

transferred to M/s Writers nd Publishers, Bhopal. About

the family division the uncle said:

The Family Agreement is fakeRamesh’s uncle Vishambhar Dayal said before the

D.M. that the Family Agreement of 13.4.85 was never

executed. Ramesh had forged fake documents.

Vishambhar Dayal pleaded before the D.M. that

Ramesh should be directed to present the original copy

of the family agreement. Ramesh never presented the

original copy of the said agreement. How could he, as

it never existed?

On April 13, 1985 Ramesh also got prepared the

partition-deed. But it was only a draft. It was neither

registered nor did it bear the signatures of Dwarka

Prasad Agrawal and Vishambhar Dayal Agrawal.

This clarified that taking the excuse of fake partition-

deed Ramesh was pampering his own selfish interests.

In fact, Ramesh knew this very well that with the power

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of money, in this country any lie could pass muster.

With his perverted confidence, Ramesh wanted to

annex the ownership rights of Dainik Bhaskar from his

father and uncle on the basis of fake and fabricated

documents. In his petition bearing No. 75-A/1987,

Dwarka Prasad had replied that the agreement of

13.3.1985 was fake.

Case in the Bhopal Court.On November 28, 1987 Ramesh filed a case (No.

74A/1987) on behalf of his Company M/s Writers and

Publishers against Dwarka Prasad and Vishambhar

Dayal, in which he asked to declare his company the

owner of ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ and stop Vishambhar and

Dwarka from publishing ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ from Jabalpur

or any other place.

Investigation of the scam by an Independent Agency.

The act of Ramesh Chandra Agrawal of making M/s

Writers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd. the director Company

of ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ in place of M/s Dwarka Prasad

Agrawal should be investigated by an independent

Agency. This demand was made by Dwarka Prasad

when he was alive. After his death,by his widow Kishori

Devi and daughters Hemlata and Anuradha and his

uncles Mahesh Prasad, Vishambhar and their sons

also, repeatedly from time to time, but to no avail. The

inaction on the part of RNI must be deliberate in that

they must be siding with Ramesh, albeit for a

consideration

To teach a lesson to his Brothers, Nephews, Sisters

and Uncles, Ramesh through his son Sudhir Agrawal

floated in 1991,a new publication, by proposing

launching of ‘Nav-Bhaskar’.

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Drama of Nav-Bhaskar by Sudhir AgrawalIn the name of Bhaskar Publications Company through

his son Sudhir Agrawal he established ‘Nav-Bhaskar’

Newspaper and started its publication from Jabalpur.

Vishambhar Dayal who was publishing ‘Dainik Bhaskar’

from Jabalpur was greatly affected by Nav-Bhaskar’s

publication. Vishambhar Dayal could not tolerate the

attack on his empire and resorted to litigation. He

resolved to uproot ‘Nav-Bhaskar’ from his area. And so

The uncle-nephew fight.To stop the publication of ‘Nav-Bhaskar’, Vishambhar

Dayal filed a case (99-A/1991) in district Court,

Jabalpur. In this case, the Court by its order dated

December 23, 1991 put a ban on the publication of

‘Nav-Bhaskar’.

Ramesh had planned ‘Nav Bhaskar’s publication to

challenge Vishambhar Uncle’s publication of ‘Dainik

Bhaskar’. He submitted declaration letter before the

District Magistrate through his son Sudhir. On

December 3, ‘91 the declaration was accepted and

authenticated.

Against this authentication, Vishambhar filed a

miscellaneous Writ Petition, demanding dismissal and

cancellation of Collector Jabalpur’s order canceling his

objection regarding Nav-Bhaskar of October 11,1991

and Feb.14,1992 declaration. Further, Sudhir Agrawal

and his father should be stopped from using the name

‘Nav Bhaskar’ During the pendency of

W.P.No.1182/1992 in the Jabalpur High Court, a

compromise was reached between Ramesh and his

uncles; Dwaraka Prasad was overlooked in this

compromise. According to the compromise, Ramesh

and his son Sudhir would stop publication of ‘Nav

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Bhaskar’. Rules stipulate that the same paper cannot

be owned by two different owners, thus forcing

Vishambhar to accept “Writers and Publishers” in place

of “Dwaraka Prasad and Brothers” as the owner of the

paper. Further, Ramesh promised not to trouble

Vishambhar anymore. The compromise also meant

Vishambhar would take the publication rights in

Jabalpur and surrounding areas on lease from

Ramesh.

Vishambhar was apprehensive that Ramesh might

dispossess him of his rights just as he had done with

his father. So it was better to live in harmony with

Kalinayak. Atleast, he would get freedom from writs,

court cases Vishambhar had surrendered before

Ramesh and accepted his defeat. How long could he

fight? Thinking this Vishambhar and Ramesh

compromised.

The agreement was made on Ramesh’s termsThe firm Dwarka Prasad Agrawal has sold the title of

‘Dainik Bhaskar’ to Ramesh Agrawal’s own Company

‘Writers and Builders Pvt. Ltd; and Among the other

two partners, one Vishambhar has taken the title of

Bhaskar on lease from ‘Writers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd.

Mahesh was given the authority to publish Dainik

Bhaskar from Uttar Pradesh, where no traces of

Bhaskar can be seen. So Mahesh uncle was given

barren land.

Vishambhar who had 30% share in the firm was to be

content with a small portion of Jabalpur, Rewa, etc.

Mahesh uncle was given the authority to publish

Bhaskar from Uttar Pradesh only. By giving

unproductive land to his uncle Ramesh retained the

most profitable places for himself. On the basis of this

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agreement High Court, Jabalpur resolved the Writ

Petition filed by Vishambhar on June 29, 1992.

Vishambhar becomes a lease-holder from owner.

Even today the children of Vishambhar are running

the ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ in the capacity of lease holders

and not owners. The erstwhile owners have become

tenants today.

Despite the fact that their father Vishambhar along

with his elder brother Dwarka Prasad had laid the

foundation of ‘Dainik Bhaskar’. Ramesh had started

publishing ‘Nav-Bhaskar’ from Jabalpur and Raipur as

he had no rights for publication of the paper from these

two places. As a result of this agreement, Ramesh is

now spreading his influence all over the country.

Deceived sons of VishambharRamesh by showing the condition that- in one state two

owners cannot own one paper – forced the sons of his

uncle to enter into agreement with him. Sons of

Vishambhar could not see that even today in the

records of RNI Bhaskar Publication and Allied

Industries, the firm run from Gwalior is the owner of

Dainik Bhaskar. They could not fathom Ramesh’s evil

desires, and lost control at Jabalpur. In fact, this was

affected to finish the firm’s control in which Vishambhar

was a larger sharesholder than Ramesh.

Vishambhar was given this freedom so that his

children in future would work as per Ramesh’s desires.

Which is to say, for their happiness and prosperity they

depend on Ramesh for ever. As long as they are

dependent on Ramesh, they would show respect to

him. By pressurizing everyone and giving some rights

to some you can establish your empire. This was the

best deception. He made Vishambhar sit on the horns

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of a dilemma and forced him to sign the agreement in a

state of confusion. They stand to loose in all conditions.

RAIPUR’S SCAMThis is an incident of 1988. Ramesh was fighting in

Jabalpur and simultaneously he submitted a

declaration letter to the District Magistrate, Raipur for

starting a new edition of ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ from there.

This was also done by Sudhir Agrawal, Ramesh’ son to

hurt uncle Vishambhar.

Ramesh’s Nav-Bhaskar from Raipur.

The title of the paper from Raipur was ‘Nav Bhaskar’.

A name similar to ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ was simply used to

take advantage of Bhaskar’s popularity and adversely

affect the Dainik Bhaskar of his uncle. But the D.M.

Raipur cancelled this declaration. This controversy also

ended after the agreement of June 29, 1992.

The agreement was made - but it was illegal. It rarely

is the case that any agreement of Ramesh can be

lawfully correct. To expect this from Ramesh would be

a farfetched thing. In the next chapter you will read that

the Supreme Court cancelled the agreement of June

29, 1992.

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SCAM UPONSCAM

If determination to win your way,

right or wrong, is strong, you

resort to foul ways too. Ramesh

doesn’t disappoint us.

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As all the incidents were fake, the resultant outcome

was also fake. It was everywhere the scent of

fabrication and duplicity. The coins bought with

counterfeit coins can never be genuine. So Ramesh

finally declared that once I start faking documents I do

not listen to anyone, not even to my father.

The publishers of one family who were publishing the

‘Dainik Bhaskar’ amidst all such controversies, court

cases,etc. entered into self-benefitting agreement

during the pendency of Vishambhar’s case in Jabalpur

High Court in 1992.

After this, without intimating Dwarka Prasad Agrawal

while he was alive, an agreement was made between

Dwarka’s brother Vishambhar Dayal and his son

Ramesh before of the High Court Bench, Jabalpur and

this one-sided agreement transferred the title of ‘Dainik

Bhaskar’ to Writers and Publishers Ltd..

The fact is this agreement was made between the

two fighting factions of Dainik Bhaskar( property) on

June 29, 1992, and the founder of the paper Dwarka

Prasad Agrawal was not involved in this agreement.

Dwarka Prasad had not signed that agreement. So, the

agreement did not appear to have included all the

concerned parties.

The Hon’’ble Supreme Court said During the pendency of the Writ Petition in the High

Court, the agreement between Ramesh, Vishambhar

and his sons, Mahesh and his sons all of a sudden

executed a settlement deed on June 29, 92.This

settlement deed ultimately affected Dwarka as a

partner, and despite this he was neither a party to this

deed nor did he sign it.This was a one-sided

agreement. Then also the fake agreement took its toll.

Distribution without owner’s permissionOn the basis of the fake agreement dated March 13, ’85

and fake partition deed made on April 13, ’85 by

Ramesh, the property of Dwarka Prasad Agrawal was

being distributed without his knowledge and consent.

The title of Dainik Bhaskar was being distributed

without the consent of one of the four partners and

original founder, Dwarka Prasad, of the paper. This was

blatant display of arrogance by Ramesh.The mistake

that Dwarka had committed by making Ramesh his

partner was hurting him greatly. The agreement had

terminated the firm of which Dwarka was a partner; this

showed that Dwarka was insignificant.

Violation of Registration Act

Under this agreement the property was transferred

without registration. This was against the Indian

Registration Act. Whenever Ramesh got a chance he

cheated, for his interests Ramesh didn’t even spare the

temples of law.

Cheating in the High CourtThe petitioner gave an application in the High Court,

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Jabalpur for resolution of Writ Petition of Vishambhar

Dayal on June 29, ’92 on the basis of the settlement

deed. But there was no signature of Dwarka Prasad on

the above settlement-deed. The agreement was

submitted along with the application in a very dramatic

manner. The hero presenting this agreement in the

High Court in a well planned way was none other than

Ramesh Chandra Agrawal himself.

Lied in the High CourtAll the parties except Dwarka lied before the High Court

that the Petitioners and Respondents have made a final

agreement on the various issues of contention and the

different points allied to these issues, in different courts.

So all the points of dissent had become irrelevant after

the final settlement. It was prayed before the High Court

that the resolution of the Writ Petition be done in the

light of the agreement and its conditions.

Getting order from the High Court on the basis of the

Agreement deed signed by three partners of D.P.

Agrawal and Brothers and not all the four was in itself a

great act of cheating affected by the partners inside the

Court.

Decision of High CourtThe High Court accepted the false statements of the

parties and resolved the petition as per the settlement

of June 29, 92. The High Court, Jabalpur gave it legal

sanction. Ramesh’s desires were fulfilled after this

stamp of approval by M.P. High Court.Through this

agreement he wanted to achieve those goals indirectly

which were not possible to be achieved directly as per

law. What were those indirect objectives?

The rights that Dwarka prasad Agrawal enjoyed as

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the partner of the firm were taken away from him. The

three partners forfeited his rights in a legal way by the

said agreement. Ramesh and his partners annexed

Dwarka’s rights very easily. This crime of theirs was

overlooked by the High Court.

The law states that if there are 4 partners, then in the

agreement all the 4 must sign, but here the agreement

was finalized without the fourth partner-cum-founder

knowing anything at all. The Surprise of surprises was

that this white lie spoken by the parties in the High

Court was accepted by the Court too.

This is also a well settled fact that for resolution of

property and title related cases the Writ petition cannot

be filed in the High Court. This can be decided only

through a civil suit. But through the writ petition a

private dispute was solved. How did Ramesh Chandra

and Company deceive the High Court? How did this

miracle take place in giving relief to Ramesh? Now

Ramesh had finally to give no heed to Dwarka for

getting his sanction or permission..

The bad effects of misuse of legal process.Ramesh had cordial relations with the RNI but how with

the approval of the High Court Ramesh came nearer to

the RNI.RNI acted on the basis of the sanction given by

the High Court to the fake agreement. Change in the

ownership title ¾ As per the spirit of this great

agreement the RNI on September 3, 1992 changed the

owner of Dainik Bhaskar’s title from D.P. Agrawal and

Brothers to M/s Writers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd. As a

result the ownership rights of the Bhaskar were

transferred in the name of Writers and Publishers Ltd.

and it was declared the owner. And in this way by

misusing the judicial process, the RNI showed the

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Writers and Publishers as the real owner in place of

D.P. Agrawal and Brothers.

Taking advantage of the High Court decision in

Ramesh and Vishambhar’s case the civil suits filed in

the District Courts were also withdrawn.In these civil

suits the authenticity of the Agreement ought to have

been verified and examined. Among the four parties

Dwarka, Ramesh, Mahesh and Vishambhar many civil

suits were pending on the issue of transfer deed and

partition deed done in favour of Writers and Publishers

Private Limited in the respective courts. Ramesh

Chandra prepared some documents purporting to be

Sale-Agreement and family settlement deed (partition),

the authenticity of these documents is controversial and

this case is pending in the District Court, Bhopal (the

case No. 57 A/88).

The share of Dwarka Prasad’s property and

Bhaskar’s ownership title were being disbursed freely

on the basis of forged Agreement of March 13, 85 and

forged partition Deed of April 13, 85 without his consent

or signature.

It is clear from the agreement that it was deceptive

and the High Court decision delivered on that basis was

also totally wrong.

Challenge in Supreme CourtDwarka, his wife Kishori and daughter Hemlata, in a

state of shock, knocked on the door of Supreme Court.

The aforesaid agreement was executed without the

signature and knowledge of Dwarka Prasad. So in

1993 itself Dwarka took the case to Supreme Court,

Delhi and filed Writ Petitions No: (Civil) 527/93, Civil

Appeal No. 4782/96 and 4783/96.

Dwarka had spent much of his life in litigation.

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Fighting for a long period in different courts, he lost the

battle of life and waiting for the decision of the Court, he

breathed his last. Dwarka will not demand justice

because during the pendency of the case Dwarka

Prasad died an unfortunate death and then the

question before the Court was:

Whose name to be put instead of Dwarka

Court didn’t put the name of his first wife Kasturi

Devi.The question arose as to whose name should be

placed in Dwarka’s place? Whether his first wife or his

second wife Kishori and his daughters who remained

loyal to him till the end, the court ordered to replace

Dwarka by Kishori Devi and her daughters.

The Court said that Ramesh had submitted an

affidavit in the Court praying not to keep Kishori Devi’s

name in Dwarka’s place, as he pleaded that Kishore

Devi was not Dwarka’s wife but his keep. So we have

no hesitation in saying that by keeping Kishori Devi in

Late Dwarka’s place we have done the right thing. This

was Supreme Court’s natural justice. This made

Kishori Devi the legal successor of Dwarka Prasad.

The son had brought his father on the road, and

made him die waiting for justice.On behalf of Late

Dwarka Prasad his wife Mrs. Kishori Devi and the

daughters Hemlata and Anuradha Agrawal fought the

case in Supreme Court.

Kasturi became GandhariKasturi became the Kalyugi version of Gandhari in her

love for her son. She even became disloyal to her

husband. She opposed her husband in the Court. Her

lawyer pleaded in the court that the petition of Dwarka

was not maintainable.

The lawyer of Kasturi Devi said that Dwarka Prasad

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did not initiate any legal proceeding anywhere against

the agreement. So this was Kasturi standing against

her own husband in the love of her son.

Then came the day of JudgementOn July 7, 2003 the Supreme Court delivered a very

important decision in the case of Dainik Bhaskar’s

ownership rights. This gave a new twist in the ongoing

struggle but after how many years. After 10 years. The

suit has been going on since 10 years from 1993 and

now comes the decision.

Supreme Court delivers justice.The Supreme Court concluded the case of Bhaskar’s

ownership title rights by delivering its judgement and

thus ended a suit that had gone on and on for 20 years.

On July 7, 2003 the full bench of Supreme Court of

Chief Justice V.N. Khare, Justice S.V. Sinha and

Justice A.K. Laxman delivered the decision in the Writ

petition filed by Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and others in

1996.

It is said that everybody helps the powerful and

nobody helps the weak. But the Supreme Court in its

judgement broke this myth.

Lessons to High Court.Judgement without discretion.The High Court ought to

have used its discretion how in Public Law Remedy, the

agreement could have been recorded and the petition

disposed of. The High Court’s decision of June 29, ’92

clearly reflects that it hadn’t used its discretionary vision

in deciding the case.Many important points ought to

have been resolved by the High Court, but it adopted a

short cut and opined that the said agreement was not

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applicable on Dwarka Prasad.

The Law was misled On the basis of the review petition (Application) filed by

Dwarka, the High Court should have thought that – was

the agreement illegal due to the grounds given by the

petitioner. But without using discretion the High Court

decided that the agreement was valid. This tantamount

to the law going astray.

The judgement was delivered without keeping the

justice in mind, for showing this the Supreme Court

further said:

Supreme Court laying bare the fraud of Ramesh

High Court did not pay attention to the fact that an

agreement between 3 partners out of total 4 partners

cannot be seen as a resolution of all the differences and

so such an agreement cannot be taken on record.

High Court should know its jurisdiction. Supreme

Court defining the jurisdiction of High Court . The High

Court had the authority only to either permit the

petitioner to take back the petition or dismiss the

petition by considering it of no purpose.The area of the

pending petition in the High Court was only upto

delivering attestation order.Under Section 141 of code

of civil procedure these provisions do not apply in writ

petitions, and so normally the recording of agreement in

Court’s order is not permitted.

To show that the High Court had transcended its

jurisdiction the Supreme Court said further that the High

Court cannot increase its area of jurisdiction by saying

that different pending civil suits in different courts or

other legal proceedings would also be falling under the

purview of this agreement..In this way the High Court

had indirectly gone into the jurisdiction of the civil courts

which it cannot do directly.

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The Supreme Court in its judgement said that by

making the agreement as the base for deciding the

petition concerning the property ownership rights, it had

violated its jurisdiction.

To highlight the bad effects of the High Court’s

decision, it further said –To have recorded the

agreement in its order and to have delivered the

decision on its basis was tell-tale.To show that High

Court did not rectify its mistake even after it was pointed

out, the Supreme Court said -It was brought to the

notice of High Court that the agreement was being

wrongly recorded in the judgement order, but even then

the High Court didn’t rectify its mistake. So High Court’s

order reflects its indiscretionary approach in giving the

decision.

The people who save the world from injustice by their

right judgement, if they indulge in injustice, who will

punish them? Such judges who punish the whole world

are not punished for their mistakes - is this not a flaw in

our judicial system.

A lesson to the District Court by the Apex Court.

On the basis of the above decision in High Court, the

Civil Court dismissed the Civil suits number 74- A/87

and 75- A/87 filed by Writers and Publishers Ltd., and

Ramesh. Similarly Vishambhar’s case against Ramesh

was also dismissed when the former had applied for the

withdrawal of the said case.

Misusing the High Court’s order that accepted the

agreement, Ramesh had withdrawn all the civil suits –

just to show that after the decision of a higher court

such civil suits become irrelevant. As a result of High

Court’s order it was necessary to withdraw all such

cases.

Supreme Court said that the District Court should

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have used its discretion and thought that whether a

case ensued between the different parties on the issue

of their differences.

The Civil Court should have acted as per its own

discretion and not on the directions of any other court

where a totally different point was decided. By teaching

the High Court and the District Court a lesson or two the

Supreme Court dispensed justice. It issued some

orders. In this way by the orders of Supreme Court

Ramesh lost the ownership of BhaskarSupreme Court in its order accepted that Dwarka

Prasad was publishing Dainik Bhaskar before the

formation of the firm Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and

Brothers, and his name was registered in the record of

Registrar of News Papers India. In the course of time

the Supreme Court said affirming the ownership rights

of the firm.

The Supreme Court in its order dated July 7, 2003

accepted that title of Dainik Bhaskar is of M/s Dwarka

Prasad Agrawal and Brothers and due to family

agreement in the records of RNI the owner’s name was

changed in favour of Writers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd.

The most important line of Supreme Court’s order

The Supreme Court also cancelled the change in

Dainik Bhaskar’s ownership rights dated September 3,

1992. In this change over M/s Writers and Publishers

Ltd. Of Ramesh Agrawal was made the owner in place

of M/s Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and brothers.

Supreme Court categorically said --‘We cancel the

order dated Sept. 3, 1992 of R.N.I.

Firm made the owner by Supreme Court.The Court in its decision accepted that the firm Dwarka

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Prasad Agrawal and Brothers is the owner of Dainik

Bhaskar and not Ramesh Chandra Agrawal’s Company

Writers and Publishers Ltd. The Supreme Court

handed over the title and the keys of the paper to the

firm.

With this decision of the Supreme Court the

ownership of Dainik Bhaskar went back to M/s Dwarka

prasad Agrawal and Brothers and Ramesh’s Company

Writers and Publishers Ltd. did not remain its owner.

The order implied that Writers and Publishers Ltd.

Could neither publish ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ from any place

in the country nor could authorize any person or

Company for doing so. The publication of Dainik

Bhaskar by any firm other than M/S D.P. Agrawal and

Brothers would be illegal.

In 1985 Ramesh Chandra Agrawal had claimed that

the firm D.P. Agrawal and Brothers had dissolved. But

the Supreme Court after brooding over all the points

considered the firm as the real owner. So all the rights

were given back to Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and

Brothers. Supreme Court restored the position existing

before June 29, ’92.

Supreme Court declared that all the parties would be

deemed to be in the position before June 29, ’92 legally.

As per the order of the Supreme Court the ownership

disputes regarding the title of ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ were to

be restored to the situation of before 29 June ’92, but

you will read that it did not happen likewise.

Supreme Court said in this case that the High Court

had no power to record the agreement for the purpose

of passing the orders. Supreme Court declared illegal

the agreement affected on this dispute on 29 June ’92.It

also quashed the agreements legal sanction granted to

it by the High Court.

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HIGH COURT’S ORDER QUASHEDThe Supreme Court said that in the specific

circumstances of this case no writ order could be

issued because in this case, public law remedy could

not be given. So High Court’s order was illegal and

beyond its jurisdiction. So it should be quashed.

It further said no party should be harmed by such an

order which is not applicable to it. But it happened

because of High Court’s order. The High Court harmed

Dwarka by such law that was not applicable to him.

Therefore we quash the orders dated September 26,

1992 and November 13, 1992 of High Court. In this

way the Supreme Court quashed the orders of High

Court. In this way the Apex Court through its order

quashed the M.P. High Court’s order of agreement

dated June 29, ’92 which had transferred the ownership

title of Dainik Bhaskar from D.P. Agrawal and Brothers

to Writers and Publishers Ltd. of Ramesh Chandra

Agrawal.

The events on the basis of the Agreement were also

un-acceptable. The Supreme Court said that all the

orders and activities subsequent to the order of the

High Court were beyond its jurisdiction and so they

were also being quashed.

The Supreme Court said the all the orders issued

and action taken on the basis of High Court’s order,

under statutory authority and civil Court’s decisions

were also being quashed. The Agreement was

baseless and so all resulting things were void and

useless. Supreme Court said that the Writ Petition filed

by Vishambhar Dayal Agrawal was also quashed.

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according to this order.In the words of Supreme Court

“All parties, statutory authorities and court including

the civil courts are directed to act accordingly”.

So it was clear that M/s Dwarka Prasad Agrawal was

the real owner and not M/s Writers and Publishers

But game was not yet over. The orders of the

Supreme Court were thrown to the winds.

Order in favour of the Petitioner, but benefit to the

Respondents

This was the limit of dare-devilry when Ramesh

manipulated and forced RNI to do what he wanted them

to do. He did not allow the order of the Supreme Court

of July 2007 against him to be executed.

Despite the clear orders of the Supreme Court the

conditions before August 29, ’92 could not be restored.

Lawfully, M/s Dwarka prasad and Agrawal should be

mentioned as the owner of Dainik Bhaskar but even

today the Company of Ramesh is printed as the owner

of the Newspaper.

GAME IN THE RNIIn compliance of Supreme Court’s order of July 7, 2003,

the Deputy Press Registrar, Uday More of RNI wrote a

letter on November 24, 2003 to all District Collectors

from where Dainik Bhaskar was being published to

obey the orders of Supreme Court.

In a surprising development within 10 days, the

Press Registrar, G.D. Walia of R.N.I. withdrew the letter

of Deputy Press Registrar Uday More without citing any

solid reason. He only said that the earlier letter was not

issued with his permission. This was a great tide of

corruption in which Press Registrar first spit and then

licked the same.

In this way the process of justice was stalled.

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Injustice prevailed over justice. Ramesh got what he

wanted, Supreme Court dispensed justice on July 7,

2003, it went against Ramesh. On its basis RNI had to

make changes in its documents.

How more than one owner?To complicate the issue Ramesh Chandra Agrawal

played a new game by colluding with RNI. In RNI,

Ramesh’s game of power and money started and for

the next 6-7 months drama of investigation continued.

On June 18, 2004 the Deputy Press Registrar R.K.

Agrawal restoring the status quo before 1992 of the

property made 5 Companies the owner of Dainik

Bhaskar title in 5 different cities. This was an open

violation of P.R.B. Act Section-8. This was a sort of

dictatorship.

According to the order of the Supreme Court it was

only after agreement of 29-6-92 that in the records of

RNI ‘Writers and Publisher’s was given the ownership

rights. But against this fact.

In the guise of complying with Supreme Court’s order

and restoring the status quo of before 29-6-92, ‘Writers

and Publishers Ltd. was accepted as the owner of

Dainik Bhaskar Bhopal, and different Companies as

owners of different editions of the paper.Though in

reality these firms were lease-holders of M/s Dwarka

Prasad Agrawal and Brothers.

This conspiracy was hatched to complicate the

matters and to prevent Dwarka’s firm from becoming

the owner of the paper.

Contempt of Supreme Court by RNI.The Supreme Court had quashed the RNI’s order dated

Sept. 3,’92 by which the RNI had informed Dwarka

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Prasad Agrawal that the ttle of Bhaskar has been

transferred to Writers and Publishers Ltd.

As per the above orders of RNI the firm ‘Writers and

Publishers’ was made the owner of Dainik Bhaskar, but

the Supreme Court had quashed the above order. But

despite this the accepting of the firm ‘Writers and

Publishers’ as the owner of Bhaskar by the RNI even till

today is an open contempt of Supreme Court’s order.

The RNI has vowed with Ramesh that whatever the

conditions are or the orders are but they would continue

to behave in their own way.

When Supreme Court had quashed all the following

viz: RNI’s order and on the base of RNI’s order the

order of the High Court which subsequently depend on

the agreement and even after this if Writers and

Publishers were continued to be regarded as the

owner, then it proves that this firm was the owner even

before 26.9.92.

The question arisesWhen Writers and Publishers was the owner before

26.9.92, then there was no logic in declaring again the

‘Writers’ as owners by the RNI.

Why this agreement and all other documents were

needed? What was the purpose of so much litigation?

Why RNI declared ‘Writers and Publishers’ as the

owner in compliance of the ruling of the High Court.

Why Ramesh had to file a civil suit in the District

Court?

Was there any need for Supreme Court quashing the

RNI’s order of making Writers and Publishers the

owners of Bhaskar?

Only Ramesh Agrawal is competent to answer all

such questions.

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SIBAL’S OPINIONIn this case the opinion of Kapil Sibal, Senior Advocate,

Supreme Court and Central Minister is very significant.

He opined that the Supreme Court’s order of 7.7.2003

declares Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and Brothers as the

owner of ‘Dainik Bhaskar’.So in todays date the

publication of the paper is illegal and so it should be

banned immediately.

Supreme Court’s order in the Dust Bin.

Ultimately none obeyed the Supreme Court’s order.

Ramesh showed how you can go on with your illegal

occupation bypassing the law. He proved that he was

beyond Supreme Court. Getting the order to be obeyed

was not in anyone’s power.

The court had delivered its verdict but it did tell how

the winning party would get its rights? In the civil Court

the case has not been revived as per the orders of

Supreme Court. So first the father searched for justice

and now the mother and the sister are groping in dark.

Order issued, Not Justice.Those who lost their rights are waiting for justice or

they do not want to fight with Ramesh. So they have

been sitting silent after surrendering or they have

prepared themselves to live on the selfish courtesy of

Ramesh. So Ramesh has pocketed justice.

The law is where money is and not the reciprocal.

Justice has been buried. Ramesh, RNI, Civil Court and

the District Court cremated justice. Kishori Devi got only

a never ending waiting.

You should accept that it is not the duty of the

Government to put powerful criminals behind the bars.

After all these events, let us bow and pray before our

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law. Let us bow again and again and pay respect to our

Constitution.

Respect ConstitutionArticle 51 (A) of the Constitution States -

It is the duty of every citizen of India that he

--Abide by the Constitution and respect its ideals and

Institutions .

--Even if in the civil courts no revival of suits has been

done as per the Supreme Court Directives.

--Even though the High Court had done injustice to

Dwarka.

--Though RNI by disobeying the orders of Supreme

Court had proved a violator.

--Though the District Magistrates (Collectors)

disobeying the Supreme Court’s order are still

accepting ‘Writers and Publishers’ as the owners of

‘Bhaskar’

THEN ALSOIt is our fundamental duty that we respect these

institutions. So let us all once more bow and pay our

respect to all these Institutions of justice. Will you be

able to do this?

Ray of hope is there.

Whenever a big injustice is done and the Supreme

Court concludes that the principles of Natural Justice

have been grossly overlooked, then it revisit that case,

so the hope is there ...

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NOW, IT IS JHANSI

Ramesh reaches Jhansi unhindered!

But here he meets with unexpected

bureaucratic resistance! Yes, that is

also not impossible.

CHAPTER 6

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This was a very special scam of Ramesh at Jhansi.

The speed of his scams went on increasing Ramesh

presented forged Partnership Deed – 1972

After the order of Supreme Court, Ramesh had

realized that the ownership of Bhaskar, would be

transferred to the original firm M/s Dwarka Prasad

Agrawal and Brothers. Immediately a nefarious idea

came to his mind. The idea to prepare a forged

partnership deed of 1972 to snatch the share of Kishore

Devi and her daughters and present the fake deed in

the Office of Registrar, firms and Society, Jhansi.

The Thief caughtAssistant Registrar, Firm, Society and Chits Jhansi,

Arvind Mishra vide his letter dated December 12, 2003

informed the Registrar, Firm Society and Chits,

Lucknow that the hearing of the case of the firm M/s

Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and Brothers is being done

through Registrar, Lucknow.The enclosed documents

sent to us by the Lucknow Office contained photocopy

of form No 10 showing the registration of firm in 1976

and the photocopy of ‘partnership-deed’ made available

to us through the lawyer of Ramesh Agrawal. Further

the Registrar writes that it is notable that the

partnership deed of the above is not available in the

firm’s correspondence.The registered proforma of 1976

contains the form number 01 and in its remark column

it is written “we are not the members of H.U.F”, but in

the photocopy of the partnership deed given to this

office by the lawyer of Shri R.C. Agrawal it is written

“Members of H.U.F”.

As in the above firm’s file the partnership deed at the

time of Registration is not available and because there

is difference in the photocopies of form No.01 and R.C.

Agrawal’s lawyer’s deed, so it is necessary to take into

cognizance the above facts as sought by this office in

its letter written to you for seeking guidance.

Ramesh did not want to give to Kishori Devi the full

25% share of Dwarka, so in the records he wanted to

print ‘member of H.U.F’ instead of ‘not the members of

H.U.F’.

This was hidden agenda of Ramesh. he changed his

colour after Supreme Court’s decision.The moment

Supreme Court delivered the order in favour of the firm,

D.P. Agrawal and Brothers, Ramesh -- an expert in

changing colour like chameleon -- applied for adding

his name in the firm in place of his dead father on Jan.

14, 2004. This application was given to the Registrar

Firms and Society.

Ramesh took the 25% share of Kishori Devi.This was done to stop the legal heir of Dwarka Prasad,

Kishori Devi and her daughter from getting admission

into the firm. As per Dwarka’s will his 25% share in the

firm was to be given to Kishori Devi.

Hidden GeniusIf in the firm Dwarka Prasad is regarded as the head of

H.U.F. then Dwarka’s share of 25% would be divided

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into 2 portions.

The first portion would be given to Ramesh’s Group

that has mother Kasturi, sisters Neelam and Meena

and the second portion would go to Kishori’s group of

that has Hemlata and Anuradha.In this way Ramesh

would get 5th portion of 25% of Dwarka’s share (3.57 x

5 = 16.85 and Kishori Devi would get 3rd portion of

Dwarka’s Share (3.75 x 3= 10.71). So, Ramesh’s share

would come to 16.85% + 15% (his own) = 31.85%.

If in the firm Dwarka Prasad is not considered the

head of H.U.F then his whole share of 25% would go to

his wife Kishori Devi as per his will.

Original Partnership deed missing from recordsWe have already seen that all such documents that

seem to damage Ramesh go missing. In Gwalior the

minutes book, in Delhi the RNI records and in Jhansi

the 1972 partnership deed from the Registrar’s Office.

It is a straight forward fact – the papers do not have

feet to walk. So they are not missing on their own but

they are deliberately made to disappear.

The partnership deed presented by Ramesh’s lawyer

as mentioned by Registrar Arvind Mishra is also not

traceable now.This crime of Ramesh would also be

hidden. But here, Ramesh won despite having lost,

because despite Dwarka’s will Kishori Devi did not get

any share, Dwarka cared for her, but Ramesh cared for

his death.

Today in the records of Registrar, Firms Society and

Chits, Jhansi, there are only two partners – Ramesh

and Manmohan in the firm Dwarka Prasad Agrawal and

Brothers. Ramesh is in place of Dwarka and

Manmohan in place of Vishambhar.

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WORDS DO NOTMATCH DEEDS

Ramesh perhaps thinks what

he says through his paper will not

be taken seriously

CHAPTER 7

On September 26, 2010 Ramesh has given the

following message to millions of his readers in Dainik

Bhaskar (Jabalpur).

The joy of givingWe should always give something to others.The

universe has been created on this basis.We should

pray to God to instill in us this feeling of giving.This is

not only the helping of others but also paying back our

debt to our family, society and the nation. We think

about this, but in this hectic life we cannot do anything

in this direction. This is the way in which we can make

a better path and better world for the next generation.

The feeling of equality comes by the act of giving.This

feeling gives us joy and satisfaction.The satisfaction

would be of trying to understand life in its true sense.

From today for seven days try to experience the

mystery, importance and satisfaction of ‘The Joy of

giving”.There is no need to form a big plan for this.Let

us start with our parents. By spending some time with

them we can show them what their importance in our

lives is.This is our duty also. It is a humble effort of

Dainik Bhaskar.I hope that millions of our readers could

understand this feeling and would participate in this

work whole-heartedly. So enjoy ‘The joy of giving”

Ramesh Chandra Agrawal

Chairman, Dainik Bhaskar Group.

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In his 65th year Ramesh wants to present himself as

a great man before the people. So he delivered a

sermon like a saint or god-man. So the title

Rameshwara Nand Maharaj can be given to him. But

wait for a while.This gentleman has put a black curtain

over his personal life to give the semblance of a great

man in public life.

Ramesh should introspect in the Mirror about his

Behavior. This is the rule of life that as you go on doing

works in life, so the people will go on knowing about

you.The reason, all the acts of human-beings are a

reflection of their own desires.

Let us test Ramesh on this point.Ramesh was not a support to his parent’s in old age.

He had become their headache.Before dying a painful

death on May 13, 1993 Dwarka Prasad had declared

his wife Kishori Devi and daughters Hemlata and

Anuradha as his sole successors.In the will registered

in Registrar Office, Gwalior, Dwarka writes:

-- My son Ramesh has tried to kill me many times.

-- After my (the will executor) death my heir Kishori

Devi would get all the fixed and movable assets that

belong to me.

Ramesh snatched the property of his mother and

sister because he was possessed with selfish ends.

After Dwarka Prasad’s death Ramesh illegally sold

his Gwalior’s house in which Hotel ‘STYLE’ was the

tenant and the ‘Keshav Bhavan’ of Bhopal, both the

buildings, belonged to Dwarka.

The Agrawal Bhavan of Bhopal, Ram Bhavan on the

Sultania Road, Press Complex building in Maharana

Pratap Nagar, allotted land to Dainik Bhaskar on Agra-

Mumbai road, in Delhi Dwarka Sadan and INS Bhavan

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in Connought Place and Plot at Sabre Delhi, all of these

Ramesh took in his possession.

In the partnership deed of 1972 it was provided that

the firm would not be dissolved by the death of partner,

but it would continue to run with his legal heirs and

living partners.The share of the deceased would be

given to his successors. Accordingly, Kishora Devi,

Hemlata and Anuradha had the right over Dwarka’s

25% share but against the wishes of his father and by

cheating all other partners, Ramesh usurped this share.

The question is which this ‘joy of giving’ is.Before Oct.17, 1984 the owner’s name of Dainik

Bhaskar, Indore was Dwarka Prasad, Director, Bhaskar

Publication and Allied Industries, Gwalior. After this

date the owner’s name was Dwarka Prasad, Director,

Bhaskar Graphic and Printing Art Private Limited,

Indore. The editor was Yatindra Bhatnagar. But from

July 10, ‘92 the owner’s name was Ramesh Chandra

Agrawal, Director, Bhaskar Graphics and Printing Art

Pvt. Ltd, Indore. As per the will registered in the

Registrar’s Office, Gwalior none of the declared heirs

got a single pie in ‘Bhaskar Graphics’ and Printing Art

Private Ltd.’

Today Ramesh is talking about his family, society and

country. The act of giving to parents but while his father

was alive he only gave him tensions and headaches

and the heartache to which he finally died.

At the time when Ramesh was eating into his parents

rights, evading taxes, where had this feeling of giving

gone?

The person who never thought about the interests of

the family how could he think about the national

interests?

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Was it not the case that Ramesh equated selfishness

with sacrifice and taking with giving?

For the sake of showing Ramesh said the same

thing, which the Valmiki Ramayan also says, “There is

no other religion like service of father and obeying of his

orders”.

The thing is that Ramesh never acts on what he

says. Yes, if he gives 25% share of Dainik Bhaskar to

his step mother and sisters as per his late father’s will,

30% share to his uncle Mahesh and his son Sanjay and

30% share to Late Vishambhar’s sons then he would

really experience the joy of giving. In this way he would

become a proud son of a proud father, and worthy

brother of his sisters.

If he acts like this then we can say there is no

difference in his acts and words. A person singing the

praises of country and parents has shamelessly

snatched away the share of his mother and sisters.

Even the biggest selfish man would be shocked at his

behavior. A great diplomat whom you can never judge

as to what he really is? At the age of 65 growing old

and sitting like a snake on other’s property.

He never respected his father’s ideals, desires and

decisions.A man who gave continuous tensions to his

parents, sisters and uncles is now preaching to serve

the parents. A man who never served his own blood

relation how can he give to others? A great pretender.

He gave so many troubles to his near ones that they

never felt the need of enemies. He has eyes but he

cannot see the truth, he has ears but he cannot hear

the painful cries.

How can stone weep?Ramesh and trust are a part poles, and have no relation

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with each other. His teeth are that of an elephant.The

sins of life-time cannot be washed away in a day.

Mahavir Swami says,

“Whatever has been done in the past, it comes back

in future in the same form”.

From this attempt of Ramesh to show himself as a

paragon of justice and virtue we get another.

Even if you are not spiritual and religious from inside,

then also you must show yourself to be highly spiritual.

But you should realize that you are a hypocrite.

Remember this that prestige does not depend on what

is seen but on what has been hidden.

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DUPING RELATIVES

Though Dainik Bhaskar is a

family-owned paper founded

by a large-hearted elder

son/brother, there could be a

villain-in- the- making in that family

itself, as Ramesh reveals.

CHAPTER 8

Ramesh Chandra Agrawal might have been an over

ambitious, colonial ruler in some earlier birth.His

actions of this birth show that he must have been a very

ruthless king.

With his selfishness Ramesh has severed all

relations.

Uncle Mahesh limited to Jhansi and Vishambhar

restricted to Jabalpur and near about.Their livelihood

was limited to that point only. Kishori Devi and her

daughters have no place and they are lost in the mist of

oblivion

Ramesh has so destroyed a Joint Hindu family that

the feeling of togetherness has been killed.

Hemlata’s storyHemlata’s talent sowed the seeds of hatred in

Ramesh’s mind. Whenever he saw her, he felt her to be

his competitor and his hatred began to increase.

Hemlata ran from pillar to post along with her sick

father Dwarka to save her life.Ramesh had terrified her

to such an extent that the only thought uppermost in her

mind was about saving her and her father’s life and she

never thought about exposing the crimes of Ramesh.If

one continually faces conspiracies, then it would be the

natural result.

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To prevent Hemlata from leading a normal life

Ramesh bought every person who worked with her or

who did business with her. He filed false complaints

against her in the police. So dangerous is Ramesh.

With Dwarka’s death one powerful fighter against

Ramesh had gone. After father’s death Hemlata was

leading an obscure life.Ramesh Agrawal is responsible

for this oblivion of Hemlata.Nobody cares for a helpless

lady. Whether She dies or lives nobody is worried.

Dwarka’s soul is still restless. He will not get peace till

his wife Kishori Devi and his daughters get 25% share

in Dainik Bhaskar and other property as per his will.

WOMAN’S CURSEThe Indian cultural traditions say that where a woman

is worshiped, there Gods reside.But for making Dainik

Bhaskar his property Ramesh Chandra Agrawal threw

this religious principle to the winds.

Instead of treating his father’s second wife as his

mother he looked her as his enemy.Ramesh showed

his animosity.

Ramesh thoughtHemlata and Anuradha are my cousins.They have not

become my real sisters by tying Rakhi on my wrists.

What do I to give my real sisters? so I am bound to give

something to Hemlata and Anuradha.

Yes, in my childhood I grew up playing in the lap of

Kishori Devi. I even called her my small mother, but

now for my selfish interests I say that Kishori Devi is not

my father’s wife but my father’s keep. The children born

out of a keep can never be my sisters. So what is the

share for?

This was a result of his poisonous desires that to win

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the battle of Bhaskar he refused to consider Kishori

Devi as his father’s second wife. This was the limit to

the insult of women.

At Ramesh’s behavior even the humanity cried foul.

Love has the power to make others our own. Had this

love been present in Ramesh’s barren heart then things

would have been totally different.The moral is that the

rope of selfishness that binds relationship is the

strongest rope.

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"SANSKAR"?

Ramesh, the schemer wants to

present himself as somebody different

with a disposition to charity and

culture. Sanskar valley’s foundation

disproves him.

CHAPTER 9

Ramesh is a cheater-cum-schemer. He is an

allrounder. Due to his monomania nature Ramesh is a

great cheater from top to bottom. This tale is of

selfishness and not of selflessness or service of others.

After establishing his control over Bhopal, Indore,

Gwalior and Raipur Mahesh uncle was restricted to

Jhansi and Vishambhar to Jabalpur and its

surroundings.But Ramesh did not stop even after

earning crores.

Doing all types of frauds and wrong things one day

Ramesh arranged a ‘get together’ at home and

declared

“I wish to form “Sharda Devi Charitable Trust”. I also

wish to form ‘Kasturi Devi Trust”. In this venture my

sons Sudhir, Girish, Pawan and their wives respectively

Jyoti, Namita and Nika will also be there. For the

present, tomorrow i.e. on July 15, 2004 we have to

purchase 37.13 acres land at a cost of Rs.66,83,400/-

at Chandanpura Village in the name of the Trust.

The elder daughter-in-law Jyoti asked him, but father

till now the Trust has not been registered, so how we

will purchase the land and from whom?

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Ramesh replied that she had not to think about such

things. We will do a reverse thing. You do what I ask

you to do.

No son, but the name keepingceremony arranged.Ramesh’s thoughts and actions are not greatly

separated. So the Trust was not registered and before

that on July 15, 2004 in the name of the Trust the land

at Chandanpura was bought. This was Ramesh’s

‘modus-operandi’.

Scam in the registration of Trust.After the land was purchased the ‘Sharda Devi

Charitable Trust’ was registered in the Office of

Registrar, Public Trust, Bhopal as per Ramesh’s

wish.The date was Dec,17, 2004 and similarly the

second ‘Kasturi Devi Trust’ was registered in Bhopal on

March 10, 2007.

At the time of Registration itself Ramesh resorted to

a lie.He hid truth and registrations.The main trustee and

the obedient daughter-in-law gave affidavit that the

Trust had no fixed assets.Ramesh did not reveal the

fact that at the time of Registration the land worth

Rs.66.68 lakhs was in possession of Trust. This

Affidavit was signed by seven Trustees, Ramesh and

his three sons and their wives.

Hide the fixed assets at the timeof Registration for tax-evasion

By not declaring the fixed assets Ramesh indulged in

blatant violation of the law. But the question is in this

nation of Lord Ram and Krishna and Gandhi and

Subhash who has the power to punish Ramesh and his

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family? Is there anyone who can save the law of the

land?

Purchased land from fictitious manThe above land of Patwari ‘Halka’ number 40 in Hujur

Tehsil was registered in the name of Syed Musa Ali in

1955, as the name is recorded only when the

concerned person becomes an adult, so Najam’s age in

2004 should be 69 years. But in the registry the age of

the person selling the land is shown to be 50 years.

The question is how Mohammad Najam’s age can be

less by 19 years. The age is not a cloth that can be cut

to suit the size.This shows that a wrong man has sold

the land. To become a rented seller and then executing

the registration is a big scam.

But it seems that Ramesh won’t get any punishment

for this also.

Shaky history of Trust’s bought landThe land bought by the Trust was in M.P. Government’s

name in 1932, in the name of Mohammad Faj-ur-

Rehman in 1950-52, in the name of Mohammad Najam

S/o Syed Musa Ali in 1954-1962 and in the name of

Mohammad Najeem S/o Mohsin Ali in 2004.

In the District Registration Office when the said land

was transferred from Mohammad Fajal’s name to

Mohammad Najam, nobody knows. This is another

secret. The revelation of this secret will amount to

another scam.

After the registration Ramesh faced another problem.

The government had planned to declare the above land

as green land, so construction of building on that land

was not possible.

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Greenery destroyed before its birth.Ramesh could not realize that the green trees are for

everyone’s benefit.The Bhaskar Group wielded

pressure on the top bureaucrats and Ministers and got

that proposal of declaring the said land as green land

cancelled.He is enemy number one of environment.

On June 23, 2005 the Housing and Environment

department freed the said land from green belt under

Ramesh’s pressure. Then a concrete building was built

on the land and the name given to it was ‘Sanskar-

Valley’.

Robbed the Income-Tax DepartmentThe sources tell that Mohammad Najam did not pay

Income Tax on the deal of July 15, 2004. This proves

that he was a fictitious seller who did not get any

money. He was merely Ramesh’s puppet who was

made to stand in the Registrar’s Office at the time of

sale.

Ramesh had to face another problem also. The water

of ‘Kaliyasot Dam’ flowed in a culvert near his property.

How to save ‘Sanskar Vailley’? Let us see, how he

solved this problem?

Changing the culvert’s course illegallyTo save ‘Sanskar Valley’ from the water of ‘Kaliyasot

Dam’ he diverted its course illegally. With his control of

the corrupt administration, Ramesh has shown that he

is the biggest ‘hidden administrator’

Opening a School (temple of education) on the basis

of Scam and cheating.

The Bhaskar Group kept on indulging in scam upon

scam from the time of registration till the construction of

‘Sanskar Valley School’. In this way the base of

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Sanskar Valley was built upon ‘ku-sanskar’ (Ill-traits).

This was a duplicate ploy, character and the face of the

people who teach the children the lesson of cultural and

moral values,

The public will know about the lie hidden under the

Sanskar Valley, but Ramesh should not forget that the

justice of God is ultimate. When all his sins will be

exposed what will he do?

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BHARAT, THE NEWPAWN OF RAMESH

Ramesh finds a new collaborator in

Bharat, who can achieve so much that

his sponsor doesn’t feel disappointed

at all. Bharat is here, there and

everywhere.

CHAPTER 10

The King of Kings, the hero of Kalyug – ‘Kali-Nayak’

felt that his 3 sons Sudhir, Girish and Pawan were not

enough for his agency. He felt the need of a fourth

agent. So the mega star of Mega scams declared

Bharat Agrawal his adopted son and made him the

Executive Director of Bhaskar. Now it was Bharat’s

duty to walk on the path of ‘Kalinayak’.

The Company gives you identity

Bharat, I have come to know about your companions.

You are the adopted son of Ramesh. I have no problem

in telling who are you? Bharat, you are in the Company

of crooks for 24 hours. They are preparing you to send

to hell.Living in the Company of Bhaskar’s ring leader

Ramesh how did he affect the land scam?

Robbing poor’s landBhaskar Group laid its evil eye on Patwari ‘Halka’

Number 23 land at Lal Ghati, Air Port Road, Bhopal.

The land was adjacent to the colony of Gandhi Medical

College at Laukhedi Village. The Bhaskar Group

occupied illegally the 9.52 acre land belonging to

others. After the said occupation, it built a grand 2

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storeyed colony ‘Aditya Avenue’ on it.

The Company of Bharat Agrawal ‘R.K. Investment’ of

Bhaskar Group did this. Ramesh had specifically

adopted Bharat for this work

Who were the real owners?‘Rashriya Uthan Grih Niman Sahkari Sanstha’

registered on June 13, 1969 had purchased the said

land on July 3, 1982. In the same year the Institution

issued plots to its members and the registry was done

in the name of 152 members and their names were

recorded in the Patwari Records duly. These members

were the actual owners of this land. After this in 1996

the Deputy Registrar, Co-operative Societies dissolved

this Institution for various reasons.In the year 2002 the

Deputy Registrar appointed Senior Co-operative

Inspector P.N. Sonania as the receiver of the said

Institution.

How scam upon scam were affected.The Co-operative Inspector Sonania on March 30,

2002 registered the above land in the name of R.K.

Investment Company.

Dr.Bharat Agrawal and the MLA Shekhar Choudhary

bought the said land on behalf of the Company. In the

sale-deed it is written that P.N. Sonanina is empowered

to sell the land of the aforesaid society. The fact is that

the above land was not the property of the society. The

society had already sold it to its members. So P.N.

Sonania had no right to sale the above land without first

canceling the earlier sale-deed.

The names of the persons recorded as owners in

Patwari’s records were not given any notice and the

whole land was transferred in the name of Bharat

Agrawal’s fraud Company ‘R.K. Investment’ by the

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Upper Tehsildar. This was an open violation of rule

number 27 of News transfer rule.

Property of crores in hundredsThe co-operative inspector Sonania was greedy.

Sonania sold the land worth crores very cheaply and he

pocketed commission of crores. It appears that

Sonania had learned the tricks of corruption in his

childhood.

Co-operative Inspector Sonania misused his post for

the sake of harming the members of the society in a

well planned manner. Formula for success is “invest in

paise and get in rupees”.

The date on which the registry was made, on that day

the value of the land as per Collector guide-line was

Rs.56.70 lakhs. So government permission was

needed for selling it at a price Rs. 20 lakhs short of the

above price but it was not done. So the government lost

Rs.26 lakhs in this deal.

FIR filedThe ex-President of ‘Rastriya Ustan Grih Nirman

Sahkari Samiti’ filed F.I.R. against Sonania and

others.The Bureau framed case in Crime No: 28103

Section 120…………………..13(1) of P.C.Act.

Suspension of SonaniaState Economic Offences Investigation Bureau, Bhopal

registered Criminal case against Sonania for illegal sale

amounting to serious irregularity, as a result the

Commissioner and Registrar, Co-operative Society,

M.P. Bhopal suspended Sonania on April 25, 2004.

Member of the Society, Babulal Azad appealed to

S.D.M.(Revenue), Bairagarh against the Upper

Tehsildar’s transfer order.

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The hearing in the above appeal was fixed on July

10, 2006. As the Tehsildar had not intimated the

“Rastriya Uthan Grih Nirman Sahakari Society” about

the proposed title transfer, the S.D.M. cancelled the title

transfer in the name of R.K. Investment. As the Samiti

had executed the sale-deed in name of its members, so

the Samiti had no right over the said land. As the Samiti

had no right over the land, the receiver also had no

authority to sell the land.

On April 24, 2003 Magistrate-Class I, Bhopal gave

stay order in favour of the Samiti Members and ordered

to maintain status quo of the land.

Co-operative Inspector Sonania appealed against

this order in the District Court. On this appeal the

District Court also ordered the Status quo to be

maintained in its order dated June 20, 2003.

On May 22, 2002, Mahammad Jahoor and 9 others

filed a case in the Court of Magistrate Class II vide case

No: 1A. /2002. The Magistrate on Jan.13, 2004

declared the members of the Society the owners of the

said land and ordered the respondent co-operative

Inspector not to evict them out of the said land.

The conspiracy to dissolve the society failed

On October 4, 2006 the Deputy Registrar without

hearing the Society had unilaterally dissolved it and

appointed Sonania as the receiver.

The Society appealed against its winding up process

to the Registrar, Co-operative Society, joint Registrar,

V.S. Vaskal in his order dated Oct. 12, 2004 declared

the order of Deputy Registrar incorrect and quashed it.

He also ordered for fresh elections.

Revenue Branch’s crookednessCollector, Bhopal was respondent in the above legal

case. He was in the knowledge of Court’s stay order.

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Even then the Revenue (Nazool) branch of the

Collectorate issued a NOC with a condition that if any

dispute regarding this land was pending, then this NOC

would be treated as cancelled. It is clear that under the

pressure of Bhaskar Group, the Nazool Branch of the

Collectorate issued the NOC which amounted to

contempt of Court as stay order had already been given

by the Court.

Pathetic condition of Court ordersInspite of the above Court orders, the R.K. Investment

Company transferred the above land in its name in the

revenue records secretly.

It also applied for residential use of the land instead

of agricultural use. The MLA Rakesh Choudhary got it

diverted to residential land through the then Housing

and Environment Minister Rakesh Choudhary.

With the land becoming residential, the Bhaskar

Group constructed and sold Duplex Bungalows

immediately.

High Court decisionOn Nov. 18, 2005 in the initial hearing of appeal No.

208/2005 the High Court, Jabalpur ordered for

maintaining the status quo till next hearing.

In the posh colony Aditya Avenue’ the residents will

go on living, and the real evicted owners will go on

fighting case.

.

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D B MALL LANDSCAM

So far Ramesh is seen doing down

his parents, and uncles. Now, he takes

on the State, simply to cheat it of some

land and taxes.

CHAPTER 11

Ramesh’s Mall standing on the grave of 500 huts of

poor. In the capital Bhopal in Maharana Pratap Nagar

near the Office of VYAPAM there was the slum of

Sanjay Nagar on the government land.

The people of Sanjay Nagar slum had a good

support. The residents of the slum worked in the nearby

colonies as guards, gardener, and sweepers. Their

women-folk worked as domestic help. All in all the poor

people used to earn their livelihood by doing petty jobs

as labourers.But now you will not see any activities of

the poor here.

The daily wage earners have been evicted from here,

and they have lost their homes. Their world is

distraught. Now the land is empty and On the empty

land now-a-days sky scrappers are visible. The jhuggis

of poor have been crushed by the big tall buildings.

The First day of the conspiracyIn June 2005 a meeting of Land Reservation

Committee formed under the chairmanship of

Secretary, Housing and Environment Department was

held. In the meeting looking to the location and market

value of 5.90 Acre Land of Sanjay Nagar, a decision

was taken.As per this decision it was provided that the

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above land was to be reserved for allotment to M.P.

Housing Board for making commercial use of the land.

Some terms and conditions were kept.

Agreement of the year 2006On Nov. 20, 2006 an agreement was finalized between

M.P. Government and M.P. Housing Board. The

documents are evidence of the fact that at that time

itself the State Govt. had clarified all the terms and

conditions.

Four important conditions.The Revenue Department in its agreement at the time

of allotting the land of Sanjay Nagar kept this condition.

This was that the Housing Board itself would make use

of the land that the Govt. got evicted in Oct. 2006. This

was the 16th condition the Agreement, which clearly

mentioned that the land was non-transferable. The

meaning is that the Housing Board could not transfer

this land.

Second condition – The Board would use the Land

for commercial purposes.

This was the second condition that the Housing

Board would construct buildings for commercial

purposes and use it itself. The Housing Board would

not sell the land to any other party.

Third condition – If the land wasn’t used for the

declared purpose then Government would take it back.

One more condition was there for allotment, this was

that if the land was not used for its declared purpose, or

if its use was stopped later on, then the government

would take back the land and all constructed buildings

and property on it, in its possession. The allottee would

also not get a single paisa as compensation.

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Fourth condition - Land Premium of Rs 44.70 crores

and Rs.3.35 crores annual rent

The revenue department as per the nazul guideline

fixed the land-rent of this land. The Annual rent of the

land was Rs. 3.35 crores.

Under special conditions premium of Rs.44.78 crores

was the base on which this land’s permanent lease was

allotted to Housing Board. In this way from the year

2006-07, for a period of 30 years this land was leased

on annual rent of Rs.3.35 crores. These conditions of

the Government were as per the legal provisions.

Clause-16 of Revenue Book circular was the base of

these conditions. In clause 16 clearly states:

Object of Land allotmentGovt. land can be allotted only for educational, cultural,

religious, charitable or public objectives. If the object is

changed to some other than the above, the transfer for

allotment is prohibited. This is illegal. Private party

(person or trust) will not be eligible for getting this land

The development of land would be carried out only

by Govt. agency, registered society or public trust. But,

the law was broken.

Rule 26 of revenue book circular says that a plot of

more than 3000 sq. feet area will not be given for

building construction to a person.

Rule 26 also states that the allotted plot cannot be

sold till the expiry of 10 years. But In Sanjay Nagar’s

case this rule was thrown to the winds. Ramesh was

given more than 3000 sq. feet of land for construction

of the Mall. What is more, he started selling it with full

confidence.

So the land measuring 2 lakh 57 thousand sq. feet

handed over to Ramesh is violating two rules, One is

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that he has been given more land than the scheduled

and two he is filling his pockets by selling under

construction shops to Project users. As the government

had given the land to the Housing Board, and to

whomsoever the Board allotted that land, is also bound

by the above conditions, now and in future also.

From the above, it is clear that the land cannot be

given for business. But even then the Housing Board by

giving the land to D.B. Mall violated clause 26.

The land cost Rs.51.49 crores.The Housing Board had taken the proper possession

on April 29, 2006 itself. The Board deposited Rs. 44.78

crores in Govt, Account as premium. The rent of

Rs.6.71 crores was also paid to the govt.This rent was

for two years 2006-07 and 2007-08. In this way in the

head of land, the Housing Board paid total Rs.51.49

crores The deal finalised without Government

permission. You saw that first condition of the

agreement was – Board itself would use the land,

secondly Board would use it for business purposes,

thirdly if the land was not used for the scheduled use

then it would be returned to Government. But the

Board did not follow all the three conditions.

For selling this land the Board didn’t take permission

from the Revenue Department. So Board sold the land

without Government permission.

The condition of compliance was made a plaything.

The fact is that to try to terrify Ramesh and his biased

friends was foolishness.

Non-transferrable land transferableThe truth is in a hurry, the Housing Board before Govt.

approval in Sept. 2005 to benefit Ramesh had invited

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tenders for transfer of lease land.

This is not a shocking thing that the Housing Board

invited open tender for handing over lease land to

individual party without the Govt. permission.This

tender as per Clause-16 of Revenue Book was non-

transferrable. Despite this the land was handed over to

Ramesh.This is not shocking because no rule of the

nation applies to Ramesh. Therefore, the Board instead

of taking permission from the revenue department

chose to bypass it. Anyhow, the board accepted the

highest bid of R.K. Investment Pvt. Ltd.

The Company’s highest bid of Rs.64.65 crores was

accepted in March 2006.The Board entered into a

contract with the Company in Dec. 2006 for 30 years for

land transfer. As per this contract, the premium

payment of land would be done in 18 months on

installment basis.

Land sold without becoming ownerThe Board sold the D.B. Mall’s Sanjay Nagar’s land

without becoming the owner. So it is really interesting

that you sell something which you do not own.

M.P. Housing Board before taking the real lease,

before actual allotment, leased out the 5.90 Acre land

to R.K. Investment Pvt. Ltd through open tender. So the

Board also cheated the law by acting in this way.

Silent violation of allotment conditionsIt is crystal clear that the Board made a blatant violation

of the allotment conditions of land and did not use it

itself. Not using it for own use, the land allotted on lease

basis to it, the Board sold the land to Ramesh secretly

like a criminal.

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No right to transfer lease rights.In this case the then revenue Secretary on June 22,

2008 ordered to cancel the whole process. He argued

that the aim with which the land was handed over to the

Board was not fulfilled.The Board had no right to

transfer the lease.

Violation of Allotment conditions but no action.It is clear that the Housing Board had not used the land

for its designated purposes but neither the Government

took back the land nor it took action against the guilty

officers. Ministers and top officers under the pressure of

money and power kept silent and slept.

Collector, Bhopal transferred the land to the Housing

Board contrary to the provisions of Rule-26 of R.B.C.

Act. The Board later on played a secret game with D.B.

Mall. On the broken dreams of poor people the base of

sky scrapers were laid. The poor, powerless people

kept on weeping and with the bricks of selfishness the

buildings began to take shape.

Treachery with law, Government’s helplessness.There must have been some problem with the

government and its officers for their disobeying and

disloyalty to the rules and the poor people. We should

try to unravel this secret.

No person in his senses would come against

Ramesh openly and say “Kill me if you can”. Bad

publicity was to be avoided. This is why the

government pawns followed the dictums of Ramesh to

save themselves from mis-publicity in the newspapers.

It must have been said that we will permit you to build

the Mall, but you must not print anything against us.

You build Mall and give us money and let us rule in

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peace for 5 years.

Whatever task Ramesh undertook it not only violated

law but also amounted to destruction of Government

and public interests.

Govt. lost Rs.6.71 crores.After uprooting poor from the land, the place where

D.B. Mall is coming up, in the deal the government lost

not 1 or 2 but Rs.6.71 crores.

This sensational revelation was made in the report of

Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India’s report

that was in the latest presentation made to the Vidhan

Sabha for the year ending March 31, 2009. Irregular

contract in land transfer, giving undue benefit in

payment scheme and lateron in the rent of leasehold

the Government incurred loss of Rs.6.71 crores.

HOW THE GOVERNMENT LOST?Housing Board had entered into an agreement with

R.K. Investment that was involved in individual auction.

This agreement was for lease-hold transfer for a period

of 30 years. As per the contract, the premium of the

land was to be made within 18 months.The signed

documents are proof that till June 2008 after full

payment, the lease agreement was to be executed.

The lease deed was to be effective from the date of

execution.R.K. Investment had deposited the last

installment in June 2008.

CAG report also states that the time period given in

Dec, 26, 2006 contract was against the conditions laid

down in the agreement with Govt. dated Nov. 2006. As

per the contract with the govt. the tenure of the lease

was to start from 2006-07.The lease documents were

prepared on Oct. 13, 2008 and from that date it was

leased for 30 years from 13,10,2008,

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The Housing Board which was bent upon benefiting

Ramesh, who had broken all the terms and conditions,

and so the agreement started from 2008 instead of

2006. The contract made by Housing Board with the

bidder for payment of premium and execution of the

lease-deed was illegal.

In this way, by giving extra period of 18 months for

payment of premium, the Housing Board incurred a

loss of Rs.6.71 crore to the Govt.

Govt. Loss but no actionThe Govt. did not react at this huge loss in the revenue.

The CAG sent a report of this to the Govt. in May 2009.

But even then Govt. kept on turning a blind eye. It

appears as if the govt. is sleeping.

Deputy Secretary of Housing and Environment

Department informed CAG in Dec. 2009 that

explanation has been sought from the Commissioner

Housing Board and on getting the explanation in reply

they will inform the CAG. But the thing is lingering on.

The Housing Board has maintained its stony silence

and chronic blindness. It did not give any reply. In the

governmental insipidness the Rameshian Scam would

go unnoticed.

The lease deed stretched for 2 yearsThe Housing Board’s execution of lease-deed with a

private firm was open violation of Govt. provisions of

contract. As a result the tenure of the lease was

increased to 32years instead of 30 years. This

extension of 2 years was profit for Ramesh and loss for

government.

The government permitted the extended lease

agreement till Nov. 2038 (32 years) and regulrised the

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deed for payment of Rs.6.71 crores.So, the Company

of Ramesh was given 18 months extra period for

payment of premium This resulted in a profit of 2 extra

year time for Ramesh’s Company. This initial loss of

Rs.6.71 crore was just the beginning and not the end.

Le us see how the government incurred second loss.

No penalty, no stamp fees.The D.B. Shopping Mall built on Sanjay Nagar land was

defaulter to the tune of Rs.14.20 crore stamp fees. For

payment of this stamp duty the Collector of Stamps had

issued notice on Dec. 28, 2007 against Mall

administration.

Ramesh was given an ultimatum that he had to pay

the outstanding amount within 7 days of the order. The

then District Registrar had already stated that the fees

of stamp of lease agreement of land situated at M.P.

Nagar was not paid. For this a case (No, 2/B-1 03/07-

08) was registered in the Court of Collector of Stamps.

The order made it clear that as per the agenda of Dec.

26, 2006 D.B. Mall was debtor of crores of Rupees.

The outstanding amount of stamp fees

Rs.7,10,15,245 and the same additional amount

totalled to Rs. 14,20,30,490/-

Collector of Stamps and District Registrar had

ordered to deposit the due within 7 days of the order.

But no result ensued. Not 7 or 70 days but innumerable

days went by and the ‘Kalinayak’ did not pay the fees.

Order cancelled ….loss of Rs.14 crores.It is noteworthy here that on the nod of the Government

the officers bent upon selling land worth crores for

almost free ultimately got the decision in favour of D.B.

Mall and govt. lost crores in revenue.

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With the collusion of Officers, Board of Revenue

quashed the order of revenue payment. The name of

R.K. Investment nowhere in Government records.

You have read that instead of using the land itself, the

Board invited tenders for selling the land in an illegal

manner.

In the Housing Board four firms had presented the

financial bids. These were R.K. Investment Ltd. of

Bhopal, Parasnath Developers Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, DLF

Universal Ltd, Gurgaon and Phoenix Mills Limited,

Mumbai. As R.K. Investment succeeded in the ‘bid’ the

land was given to it. In reality it was all a formality. The

cabinet had decided to give the land on the basis of the

bid of R.K.Investment, but how the name of

R.K.Investment vanished from the Government records

in thin air. This is a great mystery that how from the

records of Housing Board and State Government the

name of actual Company R.K. Investment vanished.

The whitener did the trick and D.B. Mall came into

existence.

Now the records show that the land of Sanjay Nagar

was given to D.B.Mall Private Limited under the Right

to Information the Housing Board is also providing this

information that Sanjay Nagar’s land was sold to M/s

D.B. Malls Pvt. Ltd., M.P. Nagar, Bhopal. It seems as if

with the help of whitener the name of D.B.Mall has

come in place of R.K.Investment.

Without making any bid, D.B. Mall procured land.The interesting thing is that the land on which D.B.Mall

is presently being built, in that technical and financial

auction held by Housing Board, the D.B.Mall Pvt. Ltd.,

never participated. Now the question arises is when

D.B.Mall never participated in the auction then how

come the land has been sold to it by the Board.

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Manipulation in.records is Ramesh’s old speciality.

The slum-dwellers of Sanjay Nagar deceived.The land on which the D.B. Mall is coming up incurred

loss to the Govt. in crores and thousands of erstwhile

slum-dwellers of Sanjay Nagar find themselves

cheated even today.

The administration has rehabilitated them in far flung

areas. No adequate arrangements have been made for

them. From centrally located Sanjay Nagar they have

been thrown away to far away areas like on the banks

of Sarvadham Culvert, Bagh Mughalia, Near Naya Pura

Hospital and Shahpura.

They have to spend a big amount on local

conveyance daily as they have to come to the city for

their labour work. Many labours have lost their

livelihood also. But the administration is worried only

about Ramesh and no one else. What about the

promises, the Resolutions? When these slum dwellers

were removed, the Govt. had made tall promises which

were not fulfilled. At that time they were given some

amount for cartage, bamboos, polythene and a ‘patta’

for small plot. They were promised pucca houses by

the Government but these people and their family even

today are leading a hellish life in the absence of basic

amenities of life.

Here there were 950 Jhuggis and thousands lived.

All were evicted but not everyone was given ‘patta’.

What to talk about ‘Pucca” house these people have

not even been given toilets, street lights or potable

water.

Govt. incurs losses in rehabilitation also.In the agreement of lease the condition was there that

the arrangement of 5000 people living in sanjay Nagar

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was to be made by the Company taking the lease.

Despite this the Housing Board bore the rehabilitation

expenses. These people were adjusted in some of the

vacant houses for lower income group category of the

Housing Board. They have not got any ownership rights

of these houses.

The history of Sanjay Nagar’s invaluable land is full

of sorrow and pathos

First of all the Panchayat and Rural Development

Department had wanted to extend the Bhopal Hat on

this land of Sanjay Nagar for artisans. The department

had asked for this land to expand its Bhopal Hat Area to

provide a market for the artisans of the whole country to

display their products for sale.

M.P. Housing Board and Bhopal Development

Authority had demanded the land for residential and

commercial purposes. On June 16, 2006 in the

Secretary level meeting of Land Reservation

Committee, demand of these 3 major Institutions were

considered and it was discussed that to which body the

land should be transferred?

Due to the collusion of top officials and Housing

Board Officers the desire of Panchayat and Rural

Development department could not be fulfilled. So their

public interest motives were defeated. State

Government overlooked them and gave this land to

M.P. Housing Board, which was later on given to

D.B.Mall. In this way land landed in the hands of

D.B.Mall Directors.

The Artisans ignored.The aim of establishing Bhopal Hat was that the

artisans of the country could get a big marketing center

for their hand-made products. There is a rule that near

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and marketing center of artisans no private market

should be built. But now D.B. Mall is being established

without proper authority. This will mean a huge loss to

the skilled workers of Bhopal Hat. The number of

tourists and buyers would also be reduced. The buyers

will be attracted to bigger, shiny markets and the

smaller artisans will die.

No freedom from middle-men.

In Bhopal Hat not only the artisans would have received

more buyers for their artistic products, but because of

absence of middle men they would have received

proper price for their products also.

Residents of Bhopal and tourists coming to Bhopal

would also have received the artistic hand-made

products at low and concessional rates directly from the

producers. But this is not possible now. All these

possibilities have now ended completely.

Ramesh has got nothing to do with labourers, Actors

and Artisans. Ramesh’s principles are very clear that

my work should be done and the rest go to hell. But the

story doesn’t end here, fourth loss of government.

Mall’s construction, Park’s destructionNear this land the VYAPAM had developed a beautiful

garden after hard work of moths and at a cost of Rs.33

lakhs. Here imported grass and plants were planted.

Truck loads of soil were used to fill up the ditches.To

provide 12 mt. wide alternative road to the D.B. Mall,

Vyapam’s garden was destroyed and the road built.

Rs. 33 lakhs in the drain‘Vyapam’ tried its best to save its garden. ‘Vyapam’ and

Finance Department raised severe objections against

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this proposal. Even then to benefit the owners of D.B.

Mall the Housing and Environment Department allotted

this land to them. After Cabinet’s approval road was

built on this green patch.

Invitation to accidentsIn its objections Vyapam had stated that thousands of

students flock its premises for different examinations

daily. By the conversion of the park into road such

students and visitors would be deprived of place to sit.

In the present condition itself number of accidents takes

place on the entry gate of Vyapam. The new road would

result into increased vehicular traffic and the

possibilities of accidents. But the government is least

concerned with the inconveniences of the public. Only

Ramesh’s work should not be hampered.

Rules and Regulations bypassed for DB Mall.The rule stipulates that the gate of the construction

done on the side of National Highway should not open

on the main road. The D.B.Mall being constructed. On

the side of NH-12 is having its exit gate on the main

road, and this may prove to be the gate of death The

rules are framed for preventing accidents and ensure

safe traffic.

Overlooking of the rules would result into more

accidents, but nobody is worried. Sanjay Nagar’s

precious land on which the D.B. Mall is being built,

many plots were hatched at every stage and the rules

and regulations were played with. After the eviction of

Sanjay Nagar dwellers the land of revenue department

allotted to M.P.Housing Board, in its reservation and

allotment also a big scam was perpetrated. Read one

more scam.

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D.B. Mall given unreserved land.In 2006 when reservation provision was made the

Collector had reserved the land of ‘Khasra’ No. 1509 of

5.30 acres, and not of 5.90 acres. Due to the corruption

of officers even that land was allotted to D.B. Mall which

was not even reserved.The then Collector and

Commissioner of Bhopal had also not recommended

the allotment of this land, but even then the land was

allotted.

Wrong reservation proposal bearing:Land measuring 0.60 Acres ‘Khasra’ No. 1511 was not

reserved. So the Collector had calculated land

permission and land-rent on the basis of 5.30 acres of

land. The land which the Housing and Environment

department had not included in ‘Khasra’ No: 1509 was

also shown to be in Khasra No. 1509 and wrong

reservation proposal was prepared.

In September 21, 2006 the Upper and Deputy

Secretary of Revenue Department had also drawn the

attention to this point, but their objection was ignored

and the unreserved land 0.60 acres bearing Khasra No.

1511 was also given to D.B. Mall

When the process of land allocation was in progress

the Collector and the Commissioner had expressed

their dissent.

The two Officers had not recommended the land

allotment and proposal under point No” 25 of R.B.C.

4(1) was sent to the State govt. Under this point before

allotment many other things are to be considered. For

instance, local body proposals, consent of owners near

the land, the inspection report, for which purpose land

would be used, will any one be disturbed by such

allotment, layout all such dimensions are to be thought

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over. But all these important points were overlooked

and the land was allotted.

Board went astrayThe Housing Board was given the land on the condition

that it would utilize the land as per 1972 Act. It would

make development proposals under Section-33 of the

Act. This section says that the Board would construct

series of residential houses. It clarifies that the building

of D.B. Mall was a subject outside its jurisdiction.

Section (34 A) empowers the Board to make

development schemes and subsection-2 states that

under the development scheme bridges on rivers, big

roads, highway, urban water supplies system,

sewerage system or other similar activities can be

included. It becomes very clear that the building of the

D.B. Mall is totally illegal.

Section 34 permits the Housing Board to make land

development plans. The Section imbibes the objective

of converting the land into a residential colony, but in it

no place has been given to plan of Shopping Mall.

Ramesh can teach many of us how to cheat the law of

the land?

MP Town and Country Investment Act – 1973

In Section 33 of this Act it is clearly written that T &

CP is its competent authority. Section 49 and sub-

section 3, 4 & 5 specifically talkss about shopping

centers and commercial and industrial development.

Ruthless government systemGovernment and its body Housing Board did not fulfil

their social responsibility by not building residential

apartments and economic houses in the vacant land of

Sanjay Nagar, Instead it handed the land to D.B. Mall

in a very suspicious way.

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The downtroddens were further crushed and the

base was built for the bourgeoisie. Such buildings

were constructed in the land where a poor man would

not venture to come. This conspiracy was hatched to

oblige the powerfuls. The government and Ramesh are

one, you must have understood this.

Housing Board purchased the land from the

government for Rs.35 crores. Land rent of Rs. 2 crore

was paid. Board has spent Rs.1.92 crores for providing

pucca houses to Sanjay Nagar Jhuggi residents.

Government claims that Rs.15 crores would be spent

in rehabilitation. So the marriage is Ramesh’s and the

State Government incurs the expenditure. The truth, in

essence, is that expenditure of government is borne by

the common man, the tax-payee..

In this order to give road to D.B.Mall that leads to NH

end, the well developed garden of Vyapam worth Rs.33

lakhs ,was destroyed.

Even now the rehabilitation of 5000 poors is yet to be

done. What was the profit earned by Housing Board

when it had spent more than Rs.64.65 crores in buying,

providing pattas to the evicted and rehabilitation and

also Rs.33 lakhs that was spent by Vyapam only to

destroy its garden and other expenses, and then

selling the same land to D.B.Mall at a cost of Rs.64-65

crores.

Ramesh after getting the wrongful allotment of

Sanjay Nagar land is exploiting it fully. He has no fear

or regrets for what he has done. For his offences he

was to be punished but he is enjoying life.

Now D.B.Mall is in the last phase of its construction

and we can say -D.B.Mall enriches Ramesh and others

become bankrupt.

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INCOME TAX EVASION

There are many ways to make

money - by evasion of tax or by hiding

income or making money through

questionable ways. Our Ramesh, a

media man, evades income-tax through

doubtful exports.

CHAPTER 12

Under the cover of Dainik Bhaskar, Ramesh Chandra

Agrawal and his family accomplished many wrong and

incorrect and illegal tasks. Out of which some were

exposed and many others were cleverly hidden. In this

series let us know about one more black deed.

It so happened that Assistant Commissioner, Income

Tax Bhopal under the Income Tax Act, Section 147, 147

(3), passed the ‘Assessment Order’ of Bhaskar Group’s

Company like ‘Bhaskar Trading Corporation, ‘Galaxy

International’ and declared them defaulter in tax theft

and tax fraud cases. The Income Tax Department

declared them guilty of converting their black

unaccounted money into while through hawala. It is

noteworthy that Ramesh comes from such a profession

where white papers are blackened. This habit of

converting black into white and vice-versa also seeped

into his other professions.

Fake export gang busted in JaipurIn his order dated March 3, 2006 Mr. S.K. Chatterjee,

Asstt.Commissioner, Income Tax, Bhopal wrote that on

June 19, 2003 Income Tax Department, Jaipur raided

‘Sanjeev Prakashan Group’., when it came to light that

this Group was involved in making and giving forged

bills and making fake entries of import-export.

This gang is part of a big Export Racket. Among

these M/s ‘Anmol Ratna’, M/s ‘Shruti Gems’, M/s

‘Tirupati Balaji Gems’, etc. and more than 7 firms had

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prepared fake bills of Gems and Precious stones and

had given to plotting companies of Bhaskar Group.

Business of selling Bills.These firms only made the bills and they did not give

any goods. No kind of sale-purchase was done by

these firms. Only drama of sale purchase was enacted.

On July 22, 2003 Income Tax Department recorded the

statement of Om Prakash Ghia the owner of ‘Anmol

Ratna’ during the hearing of the above case. The

verbatim account is as following:

“In ‘Anmol Ratna’ I have not done any actual

purchasing or selling. Have only given the entry of bills.

In return of these bills my concern ‘Anmol Ratna’ has

not supplied any goods.

To give entries of bill to others I had to have stock.

So my firm ‘Anmol Ratna’ has taken the import entry. It

is bogus. Other than, this no purchase in local property

has been made”.

no goods were purchased or sold in this businessThe business of selling the bills was carried out at 0.4%

i.e. for a bill of Rs.100/- you had to pay 40 paise.The

business of selling goods without having any goods

was very easy. No tension of buying or selling the

goods.

The crores of rupees deposited in the account of

firms like ‘Anmol Ratna’, that money instead of being

depositing in the account of other supplier was

immediately withdrawn in cash It was so because when

you don’t have to sell the goods why buy?

In the raid by the Income Tax department the offices

of M/s Anmol Ratna and M/s Shruti Gems were situated

in byelanes. In these fake offices no stock, Account

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Books, Bill Books, weighing machines, Telephone-tax,

servants, etc. were found.

These offices were not offices but they were fake

centers opened in the houses by Ramesh’s supporters.

The offices were shown only on paper and they were

fake offices. This is because the money that was

transferred was withdrawn by the boss of the racket

Rakesh R.Puohit and his subordinates. So these firms

which were under the category of use and throw

servants, remained poor till the very end.

Mastermind ….The interesting thing is Om Prakash Ghia and Umesh

Sahu the so called owners of ‘M/s Anmol Ratna’ and

‘M/s Shruti Gems’, in truth, were mere pawns. Behind

them was the master-mind of racket ‘Laluji’ of Jaipur.

So the bigger thief got the smaller thieves nabbed!

These events teach us that at the time of supporting

thieves we should not forget that he can steal own

property also. Without selling Bhaskar Group earned

crores. Bhaskar Group’s Companies like Bhaskar

Trading Corporation and Galaxy International Bhopal

that got the fake bills of the gems, showed it as

exported to foreign countries. In the name of export to

foreign countries, the Group showed it as having sold it

at double rates and having earned profit @ 54%. It

implies that a thing purchased in Rs.100/- was sold for

Rs.220/-. At that time in the same business the profit

of actual firms was only 6 to 12%.

Cheaters of Crores remained poor onlyThe entertaining fact is that the Bhaskar Group which

earned crores by buying gems remained poor till the

very end. The owners of ‘Anmol Ranta’ and ‘Shruti

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Gems’ belonged to lower middle class for ever. There

was no change in their economic status. They did not

go anywhere and as a result did not reach any place.

They were only false pawns of Ramesh’s Board.

Anyone who cheats you is ‘thug’. But one who robs a

‘thug’ is called the King of thugs. This is the Ramesh-

family. One who has befooled the Income-tax

department?

On viewing the State Bank Accounts of ‘Anmol Ratna’

and ‘Shruti Gems’ it becomes clear that their standing

was not even of lakhs, and these firms gave loan of

Rs.10-10 lakhs worth stones so that Dainik Bhaskar

Group could earn crores for free. When a foreign

customer paid Bhaskar Group’s Company in dollars,

then the Bhaskar Group Company paid M/s Anmol

Ratna, etc. by cheque dollars, and then the Bhaskar

Group Company paid M/s Anmol Ratna, etc. by cheque

and took back the money in cash.

Fictitious foreign customers of BhaskarWhen the income Tax Department asked the Bhaskar

Group Companies to give copies of sold goods bills,

purchased goods bills, the telephone numbers, names

and addresses of their suppliers and foreign buyers,

they could not give any relevant information.

When the Bhaskar Group was asked to furnish the

details of their employees and staff then also they kept

silent and did not reply.

The interaction with foreign buyers was not on

telephone but with telepathy.

The profit and Los Account submitted by the Bhaskar

Group to the I.T. Department does not show any

expenses on telephone. Can anyone imagine of an

export business in which you don’t need to talk to your

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foreign customers on phone? Does it imply that the

whole business was run with telepathy? This is formula

of doing export business in thin air.

IT evasion done by colluding with fake export gang

Bhaskar Group’ Companies on the basis of fake bills

received from fake firms, showed income of crores in

their I.T. returns, and claimed IT relief under Section 80

HCC of IT Act, and in this way cheated the Department

by crores. This was a conspiracy to try to convert own

un-accounted income into white money.

Why profitable business was closed?From the year 1999-2000 to 2003-03 by these scams

Bhaskar Group companies showed windfall profits in

their accounts. But the moment the case was caught,

why did it close the fake profitable business? Why you

must have known by now?

Forgery became the prize.Five years had passed since the Asstt. Commissioner

issued the orders but,no one was punished for this

“organized Crime” as no criminal case was registered.

No penalty was recovered for Hawala and ‘Money

Laundering”. From where did this black money come to

the Bhaskar Group? Did this money come from

blackmailing or from drugs business or from any other

source. No attempt was made to know about this.

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BLACKMAILERRAMESH

Sometimes even a blackmailer’s

bluff can be called.

CHAPTER 13

All the blackmailers constitute a gun in one form or

another. Ramesh has a blackmailing weapon in the

shape of his Newspaper through which he keeps on

firing. Anyone who is weak and susceptible he goes

after him and demands lakhs and crores from him. He

says that you must offer bundle of notes or he will

publish series of news items against you.

One ExampleTook bribe of Rs. 30 lakh from a big business house of

Bhopal not to print news against it. Two cheques were

given to him in bribe. The first was of Rs.25 lakhs,

bearing the No. 306767 dated April 1, 2003. The

second cheque of the same date bearing No. 306770

was of Rs. 5 lakhs.

This cheque was of SBI’s IFB Branch, Bhopal and

the beneficiary was Ramesh.

Ramesh hurt himselfIf Dainik Bhaskar is popular it is dangerous also.

Ramesh has terrified so many with his gun of Bhaskar

that to defend themselves from its bullets they

themselves started daily newspapers. They thought

that instead of giving bribes and advertisements, it is

better to run their own daily paper. This has adversely

affected the Bhaskar interests in the long run.

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FRIEND OFTRAITORS

Nothing is bad for a bad purpose!

Hoping to benifit through roughnecks

Ramesh doesn’t hesitate to rub

shoulders with even traitors.

CHAPTER 14

Dear Countrymen, now just know what is the

relationship of Bhaskar with the enemies of our

country?.Before this you should know about such

traitors.Do you know that?

Who was Iqbal Mirchi alias Mohammad Iqbal Menon

alias Iqbal Mohammad Shaikh? The name itself implies

his acts. He was hard core terrorist. In 1993 Mumbai

was rocked by bomb explosions. In the bomb attacks

more than 300 people died. He was their killer and

sponsorer of terrorism.

International trader of drugs . He was a drug tycoon

who had destroyed many young lives with his drugs.

So much so that the then American President George

W. Bush had kept him in the list of top ten drug lords

(kingpins) and thus honoured him in the world of

crimes.

Active Member of ‘D’ Company . He was a major

partner of Dawood Ibhrahim. Dawood had anointed him

as mirchi. He was Dawood’s man; whenever he called

him he was present.Whatever he asked him to do – he

complied and obeyed. He was the number one

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lieutenant of Dawood and very dangerous, for

assessing this let us know about the Company’s

business.

‘D’ Company’s businessProviding money, weapons and network to the

terrorists. Murder by taking money (supari),India’s

biggest gold smuggling company. You cannot count

how many women have lost their husbands, mothers

their sons because of ‘D”’ Company. Around the year

1991 this King of Crimes (DON) ran away from India.

Iqbal in ArrestThe day was September 2, 1994 on which the Court

ordered the arrest Iqbal under U.D.P.S Act. On Oct. 20,

1997 the Government ordered the forfeiture of his

property.

Underworld Don Iqbal Menon was hiding. At that

time to save his property from government annexation

it was decided to gift his land.

In the history of Deputy Registrar, Bhopal’s office the

day of June 15, 1999 would be remembered as a black

day. On this day Iqbal Mirchi’s property at Bhopal was

gifted to his fake sister Mrs.Hawa Bai through

registered gift deed.

In this way the property that was in the name of

Iqbal’s wife Bibi Hina Asif was transferred in the name

of his so-called sister-in-law.

Fake Mumbaiker sisterThe office of the Deputy Registrar was informed that

Iqbal Mirchi and his wife have given Power-of Attorney

to Humayun S.Merchant. Through this so called

Attorney holder the Mirchi family transferred the above

property to its fake sister, resident of Kedar Manjil, 16

Caudos Road, Mahim, Mumbai-16.

The law stipulates that the gift-deed is justified only in

the case of blood relations. So in a well-planned move

fake sister of run-away Mirchi was created.

Fake holder of Power of Attorney.

The fake holder of Power of Attorney of Iqbal Mirchi

and his wife has signed differently in different gift-

deeds. This shows that a fake person posing as

attorney holder has transferred the title of the land.

The second thing is that Iqbal Mirchi had run out of

the country in 1991 itself, so how could he give Power

of Attorney to anyone in India? No it was not possible.

There is no chance that he has himself signed the

Power-of Attorney.

Gifted property worth croresIndia’s biggest gold smuggling company Mirchi’s

property situated at Nadir Colony, Shaymla Hills,

Bhopal (Plot No 18/1) was built on Municipal

Corporation’s 5038 sq feet plot (1679 + 1679 + 1680)

was worth Crores of rupees.

Through three different gift deeds Iqbal Mirchi gifted

this property to his fake sister. Similarly through two gift

deeds Mirchi’s wife Heena Asif gifted land measuring

3358 sq.ft (1679 + 1679) with constructed building to

her sister-in-law. Next day again i.e. on June 16, 1993

Iqbal Mirchi’s wife Heena Asif gifted the plot of 1680

sq.feet at the same place to her sister-in-law through

gift deed.

The question in this whole drama is what was the role

of Dainik Bhaskar? The Bhaskar’s role was small but

powerful.Under the patronage of Ramesh’s Dainik

Bhaskar the traitors of the country were cared for.

Ramesh’s lease holder.

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Manmohan became the introducer of Traitor.Both the parties involved in the above deal of gift were

outside Bhopal. The attorney holders of the Mumbai’s

Don and his sister were also unreal. On the documents

of land-transfer i.e. the registered gift-deed, Manmohan

Agrawal the lease-holder of Ramesh’s Dainik Bhaskar,

Jabalpur has signed as a witness. On June 15, 1999

Man Mohan had signed 5 illegal gift-deeds and again

on June 16, 1999 he signed on the gift-deed as a

witness.

To save the Company of this hard-core terrorist from

government annexation Manmohan became a party to

it, on the contrary as a media-man. He ought to have

exposed this drama of gift giving. This was an off-shoot

of keeping Ramesh’s company. The question is

whether this fact remained hidden or what did it expose

in due course of time?

The secret was out.Time did not help. The secret was revealed.Govt of

India in its order dated Nov 10, ’99 declared that the

property at Bhopal has been illegally occupied by Iqbal

Menon. Through the so-called gift deeds of 15 and 16

June ’99, Iqbal Menon and his wife through their agents

and Attorney holders were hatching a plot to name the

property at Shyamla Hills in the name of Hawa Bai Ali

Merchant. The aforesaid deed is contrary to the spirit of

good faith and is not genuine. This is being done only

to save Iqbal’s property from Government annexation.

The Govt. of India directed the Collector and

Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Bhopal to stop

the sale and transfer of the above property in any case.

Hawa Bai in Air

The so-called Hawa bai vanished in air itself. Later on it

was also learnt that she had gone to jail. So this was

Bhaskar’s pawn.

Traitor’s friendMirchi died a dog’s death. But the soul of thousands

who lost their life pre-maturely because of drugs is

asking questions to Ramesh’s brother Manmohan

Agrawal.

Why did Manmohan not inform the government

about the property of this drug lord in Bhopal? He

should have done this as the duty of a responsible

citizen.

Why did you put your signature on the fake transfer-

deed of the illegal property in the capacity of a witness?

Why did you not act as a patriot and informed the

government above this plot?

What is your intimacy with the Mumbai underworld

Don and his fake sister?

Was it not your duty towards the nation and was it not

the duty of your daily to expose this plot?

How could you forget that the land in which your life

is being lived, that same land has been rocked by

Mirchi?

Manmohan’s reply, probably, would not be very

convincing.

This is Result of Ramesh’s companyThis is the result of living in the company of Ramesh.

Manmohan learned many tricks from Ramesh. So he is

the last question from your thinking. Friend of traitors,

how would you escape from Divine Justice? All the

things that are done in excess could come to an

ignimonious end.

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INSULTINGAWARDS

Awards are generally known to be

instituted after famous people who

made a name for themselves,

distinguishing themselves in arts,

literature and culture. Such awards are

conferred on equally distinguished

personalities. Ramesh?

CHAPTER 15

Certain awards are instituted in memory of great

men and awarded to those really deserving. But it is

bad, if not worse, if one gets without deserving an

award, then deserving and not getting it.

Man becomes noble and great not by money but by

his acts. A man who treads the righteous path is the

right claimant to awards.

It is better that you deserve an award but you may

not get one than that you get the award without actually

deserving it. The prestige of awards instituted in

memory of great men gets distorted when these awards

are bestowed on undeserving persons.

Devaluation of three awardsShri Sarswati Puruskar, Tarun Kranti Award and Rajeev

Gandhi Life Time Achievement Award lost their prestige

when they were conferred on Ramesh Chandra

Agrawal. Before being given to Ramesh these awards

carried great name and respect but now these have

lost value.

Saraswati Award to Laxmi devotee Ramesh.Nasik’s Kailashmeth had lost its mind in that it gave

Sarswati Award to ‘Kalinayak’.In the last 1½ decade

this Sarswati Award was given to Senior Citizens

working in the fields of Vedic Education, Music,

Spirituality, Agriculture, and Yoga. But in 2010 when

Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chauhan, Swami

Vidhyanand Sarswati and Swami Vislaveranand Giri

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gave this award to Ramesh, the CM Chauhan’s chair

began shaking because of the Housing Scam and

ultimately he had to resign.

If you compare the life and achievements of Ramesh

with those of other recipients of this award then you will

find that the award has lost its prestige because of

Ramesh, the recipients include dignatories like

Maharashtra’s Baba Sahab Prandare, the Didi of Self-

help Group Dhanshree Tolwelkar, Anna Saheb More of

Swami Somarth Sewa Kendra, famous Mountaineer

Swami Sudranand, Acharya V. Kutumb Shastri,

Acharya Piyush, Professor of Sanskrit.Language in

Banaras Hindu University Kailash Mishra, the Head

Priest of Vaishnav Devi Mandir, Amirchand, the

Classical dancer Geeta Chandran, Krishna Didi who

had devoted her whole life in the service of tribals in

South Gujrat and the famous Tabla Player Pandit

Suresh Talwalkar.

Kiran and Ramesh—Inappropriate comparisonKiran Bedi ex-IPS Officer has a perfect image of a

dashing Police Officer whose name itself was a great

terror to criminals. Comparison of Ramesh with such a

great women is really inappropriate. But this shameful

act was done.

Kiran Bedi was given the first ‘Tarun Kranti’award

and she fully deserved it. But giving the same award to

Ramesh is a great insult to this award. The image of

revolutionary saint Tarun Sagarji Maharaj bestowing

this award on Ramesh is a great stain on the prestige

of a true saint also.It was declared from the dais that

the said award was being given to Ramesh for

constructive journalism and to Kiran Bedi for women

upliftment. The question is how a destroyer can be

involved in creative and constructive journalism. The

killer of his own father, a sinner how does he deserve

this prestigious award? The Awards Committee forgot

that a self-centered man does not deserve this award.

A person having self-respect will earn something with

his abilities rather than getting it free. Why was Ramesh

given such a prestigious award? This question gives

birth to many other questions.

The secret of the Awards1. After earning money a man desires respect and

honour. Are these awards not a form of sycophancy?

2. To get their name printed in Newspaper, Ramesh

was awarded or was this form of bribe to suppress

some plot of theirs?

3. Without knowing the personal profile, these awards

were given turning a blind eye to everything. Or

whatever be the reason but for keeping intact the

prestige of the awards.

Awards should be withdrawnAnyway if the award has been given, it can be

withdrawn also. This is the demand of time.

It is better to use reverse gear and take back the

Tarun Kranti Award. Do this for the name and prestige

of the top Jain Saint. Even the Trophy of Rajeev Gandhi

Life-time Achievement Award to Ramesh’s is out of

place. To preserve Rajiv Gandhi’s honour this Trophy

should be freed from Ramesh’s clutches. Just as these

awards were given, they could also be withdrawn, on

reconsideration? Afterall, Ramesh had not allowed his

father to die in peace, he snatched his sister’s rights,

amongst many other kinds of misdeeds.

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EPILOGUEWhat emerges from the previous chapters is that

Ramesh suffers from an unsatiated lust for money and

wealth. And he seems to believe in the dubious

precept that “nothing is bad for a bad purpose”. Or, are

we to think that something is wrong with his

breeding.Yet this does not seem so, because his father

showed his large-heartedness by making his brothers

also partners of his company and called the same

“Dwaraka Prasad Agrawal & Brothers” which owned

and published Dainik Bhaskar.He willed also that his

second wife, Kishori Devi ,will inherit his share of 25%

in the company, should such an eventuality arise..

Yet, we find Ramesh indulging in all the black deeds

enumerated in the previous chapters, behind his

father’s back. Though he grew up in the lap of Kishori

Devi and played with her daughters, who are, afterall

his sisters, he had the audacity to call Kishori Devi, his

father’s “keep”, and Hemalata and Anuradha as the

daughters of his father’s “keep”. Does it behove a

media man to indulge in such blasphemy?

For a media man, afterall journalism is synonymous

with ethics and a commitment to truth, because the

guiding principle of the media is “facts are sacred and

comment is free”. Ramesh gives the impression that he

is anything but devoted to the guiding principles of

journalism, and the moral code of print media, if one

may say so.

Ramesh boldly fabricates documents, forges

signatures, hides Minutes books of his father’s

publishing company. Without serving notice about the

company meetings to those who,he fears, will not be

party to his evil designs, he claims that they have not

attended three consecutive meetings of the company

and expels them. And yet, his father was the life-time

MD and permanent chairman of the company, and

Ramesh usurps the powers of his father’s position. As

if this were not enough, he produces a duplicate

Minutes book alleging that his father took away the

original. Poor old man, a paralytic, Dwaraka Prasad,

had no role in this unethical deed.

RNI, was perhaps in the pocket of Ramesh, albeit for

a consideration.Otherwise, how could relevant and vital

documents concerning Dainik Bhaskar vanish from his

office? Money of Ramesh could, perhaps, buy people

not only in RNI. The lower orders of the offices of the

District Magistrates in Gwalior, Indore,Jhansi, Raipur&

Jabalpur, appeared to be at the beck and call of

Ramesh, and co-operated in his nefarious designs.

Even the MP Housing Board staff were, apparently,

bought off by him, and the concerned District Collector,

Revenue Secretary and Commissioner of the Housing

Board were reduced to helplessness, all because he

had the ear of the politicians who mattered at the

relevant time. Imagine, the High Court could deliver

wrong judgements, and it had to be reminded by the

Supreme Court about its exercise of extra-jurisdiction,

because it exercised the powers of the District Court!

And when the Supreme Court delivered its judgements,

Ramesh managed to ensure that they were not acted

upon by the concerned authorities in RNI and the MP

Housing Board. He could flout the rules governing

environmental protection,and even evict residents of

slum colonies in Bhopal, and play havoc with the

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Bhopal Hat artisans, all with the connivance of the

concerned officers.

All these misdeeds were for what? Ramesh was

mad after money and his own influence. He could

blackmail the powerful in his area of operation, using

his paper. Imagine he could ignore the Income Tax

department’s orders. Joins hands with hawala

operators and even ‘D” company’s Iqbal Mirchi.

Ramesh operated on the principle that if he failed to

get something after which he set his heart, his rival

contenders could not get it either. His personal

philosophy in life is that by any and every means he

should become wealthy, and any means is good

enough in the process of realizing that Otherwise,

having fathered three sons, he adopts Bharat, calling

him his fourth son. But the flaw in the ointment is that

he will not succeed all the time, because all good things

are just not permanent, just as bad times will not last for

ever. Ramesh needs to understand this basic truth of

life on this earth.

The profile of Ramesh, in brief, is that he harasses

his father, drags him to endless litigation, usurps his

property, calls his step mother i.e second wife of his

father, “a keep”, evades taxes, both income-tax and

those due to the State of MP which attracted the

attention of the CAG, adopts a son while having

fathered three, joins hands even with Hawala operators

and gets friendly with a member of the notorious and

admittedly traitorous ‘D’ Company. Yes, one can say,

woebe to the parents of a son like Ramesh. Certainly

they would not have expected that their son would turn

out to be what he did to them.

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