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Subject: Re: Grave Anomalies in Sri Ketan Bhatt's case- immediate attention needed

From: Amitabh Thakur

Date: 2010-09-19 12:54

To: "Director's Office"

CC: Vijaypat Singhania , Vibha Puri Das , "Ray S.K."

, "Pushpito K. Ghosh" , "Lal M. B."

, "Joti A.K." , "Joti A.K."

, Hasmukh Adhia , Hasmukh Adhia

, "Mantha S.S." , "Chintan N. Parikh"

, Ashank Desai , Rama Bijapurkar

, "Vasudevan N.C." , "Raghuram G.", "Prof. B. H. Jajoo" , "N. Vasudevan

Pillai" , ketan.bhatt@iitbombay.org

Respected Director sir,

This is as regards the mail I had sent u regarding a matter related to Sri Ketan

Bhatt, Computer Professional, Computer Center of IIMA and the reply I so thankfully

got from u.

The main issue raised by me in the mail was that as per Sri Bhatts version

instructions had been issued to ur staff not to acknowledge receipt of his letters,

while u had rightly said that I should have ascertained the facts before acceptingthe accusations against the Director/Dean of IIMA and giving it currency. U had also

attached the order issued by the information commissioner in April 2010 on Mr. Ketan

Bhat's filings against the Institute, having definite adverse comments against him as

a user of the RTI Act.

Yet the fundamental issue raise by me still remains unanswered. More importantly it

is backed by a audio recording where the same thing is possibly being stated by one

of ur own staff members. Meanwhile I have also come to know of another matter related

with Sri Bhatt (along with documentary proof), which is even more serious. The

documents with me say that Sri Bhatt was removed from some ERP Project in the

Institute in which an accusation was made about his having colluded with one

particular party and trying to do some illegal favour for that party. Since then Sri

Bhatt has sent a very large number of letters and mails asking for a proper vigilanceenquiry to be made in his accusations but so far no Vigilance enquiry has been

initiated.

I certainly agree that while this still could be a one-sided version of the entire

episode and there might be many more facts unknown to me yet two things immediately

come to my mind-

1. If Sri Bhatts letter are not being received by the authorities at IIMA, it would

definitely be regarded a matter of serious concern

2. If Sri Bhatt has been asking for a proper Vigilance enquiry to be made in a matter

in which he was accused, it should have been done immediately

Once again, I say that my version could be partial and one-sided but yet these are

facts (along with accompanied proofs) that need to be properly looked into. If SriKetan Bhatt is a nuisance and a rogue and is not performing his duties correctly,

proper disciplinary action must be initiated against him in a most open and ruthless

manner to be followed by the severest punishment imposed upon him but leaving the

matter in limbo only adds up to the confusion.

At the same time, I would make it clear that a high-level authority like u are in no

way answerable to me and more important than an answer would be to get the issues

permanently resolved.

Amitabh Thakur

President,

National RTI Forum,

Lucknow

# 94155-34526

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