Dr. Harshvardhan Hegde who stayed by my side throughout, my surgeon Dr. Praveer Agarwal, & the entire team at Fortis Escorts @fortis_hospital Delhi who made sure I sailed through this nightmare - my deepest gratitude.
It’s on to a life now with many healthier changes.
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I’m just glad to be back & will be up & running in no time slowly getting back to speed.
Oh btw Narendra & Amit - while they fixed my heart, I asked the docs to check for signs of fear. Lucky me - they couldn’t find any.
The fight goes on. Onward & upward.
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This is VERY important in the context of freedom of the media & freedom of expression overall.
Does a journalist/whistleblower need to approach the authorities before publishing an investigative piece?
Do they have to be complainants first?
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I was served a copy of the plaint just yesterday. All 429 pages of it.
Can a defendant be expected to read all of it & file a response within 24 hours?
Should a defendant be given a chance to at least file an affidavit with their rebuttals/counter-arguments?
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Not sure which law requires a complaint to be filed with authorities before publicly asking & publishing questions over the affidavit of a Union Minister.
Also which law requires a person to approach the “subject” first?
From May 2020, in the middle of lockdown, the Narendra govt sneakily stopped paying LPG subsidy to eligible customers.
Subsidy credit to people's bank accounts abruptly stopped exactly a year ago while LPG prices kept rising.
Here's what I was told 👇
LPG subsidy was paid as a difference between market price & subsidized price to eligible consumers. This started under the UPA Govt.
LPG subsidy was directly credited to bank accounts after linking of Aadhaar.
This abruptly stopped for all consumers in May 2020.
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That's because in May 2020, citing "low fuel prices", the Narendra Govt. claimed that the price of a subsidized AND non-subsidized LPG cylinder was now the same at Rs. 594 per cylinder.
This was used as an excuse to not pay/credit subsidies.
On April 25, I'd filed an RTI with @DelhiPolice seeking details after many Covid-19 volunteers complained they'd been called by the police asking them to delete posts regarding medicine/oxygen leads.
I'd also requested volunteers to save details of such calls.
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The @DelhiPolice HQ has flat-out denied that any such calls were made by the police or that any requests were made to take down social media posts.
There have been separate responses from ALL Delhi Police districts stating the same.
I have an appeal for all volunteers.
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If you/someone you know did receive a call from Delhi Police while doing Covid-19 volunteer work, please reach out to me with details.
Based on this RTI response, any call/demand made by any police officer to volunteers was unauthorized & illegal.
Been checking on this situation of Delhi Police calling volunteers sharing resources/leads & 1 thing came up:
If you are aware that someone is selling medicines/oxygen in black/higher prices, DO NOT SHARE OR AMPLIFY THOSE LEADS WITH PEOPLE.
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Police have called volunteers in some cases where a patient’s family were told that medicine/oxygen is available at XYZ place for higher prices & they complained.
Do NOT amplify any leads that you are aware are black marketing. No matter how desperate the case is.
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Also, if you have confirmed info about someone selling oxygen/medicines in black at inflated prices, record those numbers and inform the police immediately.
Hoarders & black marketers are a cancer to society right now. Don’t enable them & ensure they’re brought to justice