‘Gunning for the Godman’ is a first-hand account of how IPS officer Ajay Lamba, then DCP Jodhpur-West, and his team tracked down and arrested Asaram for the rape of a minor.
The girl’s statements to police and the court, as well as the chargesheet, lay bare a chilling account of a minor assaulted by a ‘man of God’ she and her family deeply revered.
Days after the government passed an ordinance allowing the death penalty for child rapists, Twitter is abuzz with solidarity messages for the ‘innocent Asaram Bapu’.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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