SOS-Letter faxed to Hon'ble Home Minister

We sent our representation to the Hon’ble Home Minister by fax. Produced below wherein we have expressed explicitly our desire not to bow down to injustices heaped upon us and valiantly fight through till death.

In a case where issues of sexual harassment has been challenged, eviction notice is ordered by the Supreme Court. This just goes to show how the judges do not read the papers and are not competent to hold the office they are responsible for.

Contempt Notice served by Pondicherry Court Amin

We received service of notice of Contempt Proceedings through the Pondicherry court. Court Amin came at 8.45 am to serve the notice to us.

We are producing below the Office Order and the Order passed in the Court in the Contempt Proceedings filed by the Ashram Trustees against us. Office Order states that notice should be issued to five sisters in the Contempt Proceedings filed by the Trustees. Order passed on 15.09.2014 for issue of notice in contempt proceedings. Mysteriously these orders disappeared today from the official website of the Supreme Court. Why???

It is very interesting to note the amount of trouble the trustees are going to to suppress the facts of the contempt proceedings. Luckily a friend of ours had downloaded them and we have them with us.

Office Order is followed by the Order passed in the Court

Our Letter to Registrar, Supreme Court of India

We sent a letter to the Registrar by RPAD informing him that since we have no means to appear and present ourselves, our light may be considered. I am producing our letter to the Registrar below. We have also hinted at the professionally unethical lapses on the part of Judges.

Contempt Proceedings wrongly entertained by Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya

I was told by some well wishers who checked on the internet and found that the notice of contempt has been issued by none other Mr. Justice Sudhanshu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya on 15.09.2014, just two days after having enjoyed the hospitality of the Ashram Trustees at Pondicherry. Did he oblige the trustees for free ….!!!! Everybody’s guess.

How blatantly the judges of the Supreme Court are misusing their discretionary powers can be seen by this issue of notice in Contempt Proceedings.

1. Our SLP No.27620/2012 was initially listed before Justice Gokhale and Jusitce Nijjar, who had already part-heard the case and who had granted stay of the High Court proceedings. Next date of hearing was 15.07.2014.
2. On 26.04.2014 suddenly our SLP was preponed by 1 1/2 months from 15.07.2014 to 29.04.2014. We were given only two days time for preparation.
3. Our SLP came up entirely before a different bench comprising of Justice Sudhanshu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya and Justice Ranjan Gogoi 
4. Justice Mukhopadhaya and Justice Gogoi, on their first ever hearing, passed totally inappropriate orders on 29.04.2014, not pertaining to the reliefs sought for in the SLP.
5. Justice Mukhopadhaya and Justice Gogoi passed totally inappropriate orders on 29.04.2014 without giving us any chance to represent ourselves.
6. Justice Mukhopadhaya even mentioned in the open court that he had visited the Ashram. He ought not to have heard the case under such circumstances.
7. Orders passed by Justice Mukhopadhaya and Justice Gogoi stated that we had to vacate 'suit premises' when there was no claim for property since our case is for challenging the impugned report manufactured by the trustees of Ashram to hush up the sexual harassment faced by us.

What better example of blatant miscarriage of justice can there be? The victims of sexual harassment are further victimized by the judges who leave the aggressors scott free.

Notice in Contempt Proceedings filed by the Trustees

Today my elder sister Jayashree received notice through RPAD (register post acknowledgment due) with regard to the Contempt Petition filed by the Trustees of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. The posting was done from Villupuram and no sender’s address was mentioned. The notice failed to inform us before which Judge of the Supreme Court the contempt petition came up but it directed us to be present on 13.10.2014 before the Supreme Court of India and that all our correspondences should be addressed to the Registrar of Supreme Court of India.

Justice Sudhanshu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya compromised by Ashram Trustees

Today Mr. Justice Sudhanshu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya visits Ashram Trustees in the evening and enjoys their hospitality. There is no bar from the Judges visiting the Ashram as devotees. But when matters are pending before them are they professionally correct in doing so? Already Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya has passed malafide orders without following principles of natural justice and blatantly favoring trustees. Order dated 29.04.2014 is produced below.

Trustees request him to compromise Five Prasad sisters case. Let us see what he does next.

Contempt Petition filed by Five Sisters

The Supreme Court Order dated 29.04.2014 states that we sisters are supposed to vacate “suit premises” on or before 31.07.2014.

First of all the suit is not for claiming property but for challenging a malafide report concocted by the trustees based on which the trustees tried to expel us from Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, which has been our home for more than 3 decades. Therefore as the description of the property does not exist there order of the Supreme Court is not executable and is null and void or non-est in the eye of law. We were constrained to give undertaking to vacate the rooms wherein we are presently residing but that was only under threat and duress from these Supreme Court Judges. There is no contempt on our side.

Second point. Ashram Main Building has residential rooms to accommodate inmates. So, if we were to vacate our present rooms provided by the Ashram and as stated in the undertaking by us, would the trustees permit us to live in the rooms at Ashram Main Building? Obviously not because the trustees want to expel us from the Ashram by which they mean all the properties belonging to the Ashram Trust.

The Ashram trustees have only the right to administer and manage the Ashram properties and do not have any power over the inmates as stipulated by the Trust Deed executed by the Mother herself. The present corrupt trustees have usurped that power which they are now wielding unjustly to perpetuate their goonda-raj under the garb of spirituality and to maintain their personal positions of power since there are no bye-laws in the Trust Deed.

Thirdly the order of the Supreme Court does not deny us food and all other amenities as enjoyed and provided to every inmate of Ashram. However the trustees have denied us all of these basic facilities and amenities. Food has been given only after I gave in writing that there is no such direction in the Supreme Court Order. 

Therefore we have filed a contempt application against the trustees and their many henchmen and sent it by registered post. Our petition has been received on 05.08.2014 by Justice Sudhanshu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya and Justice Ranjan Gogoi and none of them have taken it up and given us relief.

Our Contempt petition is produced below.

Miscarriage of Justice by Corrupt Supreme Court Judges

With great difficulty and with an even heavier heart, in spite of losing all hope we were constrained to prefer S.L.P. No.27620/2012 before the Supreme Court of India. Luckily Justice H.L. Gokhale and Justice Nijjar were hearing our case and they granted us stay.

Thereafter our case was temporarily listed in April 2014 and without getting listed in the final list it was adjourned to 15.07.2014. However on 26.04.2014 suddenly our case was preponed by about 1 ½ months and got listed on 29.04.2014 before a new bench comprising of Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice Ranjan Gogoi. Both these judges were totally biased and without giving us any opportunity to present our case they passed perverse and malafide order in interim petition, especially when the trial was underway in the suit for the past four years. These two judges literally threatened our lawyers when they tried to present our case and under two minutes malafide order of eviction was granted on 29.04.2014 by these judges.

Order dated 29.04.2014 is produced hereunder.

Jayashree Traumatized in the Middle of the Night

Judicial enquiry constituted by Madras High Court is underway and we too have given our complaints regarding sexual harassment before the concerned enquiry officer. The neighbors of Jayashree, who had been constantly threatening her to withdraw her complaint, were scared of the enquiry and so they resorted to traumatizing her and making her look like a disbalanced person.

On 25.11.2013 their harassment reached its climax when at about 3.00 a.m. Michael Neville, Prashant and Chandramani Patel came to her room and banged on her door. When she opened to see who were there they threw water on her and in and around her room and balcony. She began to scream in terror listening to which Arunashri came running from her room to see what had befallen Jayashree. On seeing Arunashri these men fled and Jayashree collapsed. Arunashri called all the other sisters for help and together, following the directions given by the Ashram Doctor, Dr. Gayatri Satapathy, we took her to AUM hospital.

Jayashree was taken to ICU for trauma and had to stay in the hospital for more than a week recovering from the devastating experience. She also gave a complaint to the police, who called these men for questioning. Obviously these men denied their presence and pretended ignorance.

In fact Michael Neville, who is one of the in-charges of Ambabhikshu House wherein we are residing, acted senile and infirm before the police. He is nothing of the sort. He merrily drives around town even at night. He is so fit, hale and hearty that he even has a girl-friend who is his daughter's age in spite of having a daughter and a wife.

Justice S. Manikumar - Another Compromised Judge?

Even though the police had assisted the trustees in illegally stopping our food they abstained from assisting us to get back our food at Ashram Dining Room. In fact even our complaints for the assault on 22.07.2010 on us by some inmates were registered only under the Magistrate Court’s directions.

The trustees transparent acts of malice and duplicity came to light when knowing fully well and having received the letter dated 25.07.2010 from the Warden of Jenny Working Women’s Hostel, the trustees sent money orders to Jenny Hostel’s address for all of us, but their correspondences to us were all sent at the Ambabhikshu House address, wherein we were still residing.

We filed I.A.No.2094/2010 for restoring our food and all other facilities. Orders were passed allowing us to eat at Ashram Dining Room on 27.10.2010.

Trustees approached directly Justice K. Venkataraman and filed C.R.P. No.4219/2010 and Contempt No.1483/2010 against we five sisters. In fact in Contempt Petition No.1483/2010 Justice K. Venkataraman even named Mrs. R. Vasanthi (the upright judge of PDM who had passed order for restoring food and all other facilities). Thank god some sense prevailed and he did not pursue his vengeance against this most honorable judge.

However Justice K. Venkatarman went on harassing and intimidating my lawyer at Madras High Court, who with great difficulty managed to transfer both C.R.P. No.4219/2010 and Contempt No.1483/2010 to another bench consisting of Justice S. Manikumar.

Justice S. Manikumar also played foul because he was scared of his senior namely Justice K. Venkatarman and in any event corrupt judges always stick together and watch out each other’s back. Anyhow Justice S. Manikumar heard the arguments on both sides in April 2011. He did not record any contempt on our side but he took offence since we had used the word illegal while speaking of High Court order in our counter in the proceedings. We apologized for this mistake.

Generally High Courts and Supreme Court orders are dictated then and there in the open court, at least the directive part. But Justice Manikumar failed to follow procedure. He posted the matter for orders and after more than a year, past two summer vacations, he passed an even more malafide order dated 03.08.2012, not only upholding Justice K. Venkatarman’s order but modifying it still further and literally ordering eviction on an interim petition revision.