UPDATE
This case was listed before the Delhi High Court on 27 April 2018 as Writ Petition Criminal No. 437 of 2018. The following order was passed by the Delhi High Court.
"IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
W.P.(CRL) 437/2018
SEEMA SAPRA ... Petitioner
Represented by: Petitioner in person
versus
UNION OF INDIA & ORS ... Respondents
Represented by: Mr.Rahul Mehra, Standing
Counsel with Mr.Jamal Akhtar,
Advocate for respondent No.3
Mr.Sajan Poovayya,
Sr.Advocate with
Ms.Priyadarshi Bannerjee,
Ms.Mamta R.Jha and
Ms.Shruttinaa, Advocates for
respondent No.5
Insp.Sanjay Kumar, PS Saket
CORAM:
HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MUKTA GUPTA
O R D E R
27.04.2018
No steps have been taken for service of respondents No.1, 2, 5 and 6.
However, learned senior counsel for respondent No.5 enters appearance.
The main prayer of the petitioner in the present petition is removal of
the anonymous blog from blogger at Google titled as ‘Seema Sapra Alert’
and published at ‘http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in/’.
Considering the contents of the blog which are totally uncalled for
and unwarranted, respondent No.5 is directed to remove the anonymous
blog as noted above.
Learned senior counsel for respondent No.5 fairly states that since
respondent No.5 has entered appearance and all necessary details can be
provided by respondents No.5, respondent No.6 is not a necessary party. In
this view of the matter, no notice be issued to respondent No.6.
In the meantime, respondents No.1 and 2 be served through the
Standing Counsel, Union of India and respondent No.3 be served through
the Standing Counsel (Criminal), Govt. of NCT of Delhi by the petitioner.
Mr.Rahul Mehra, Standing Counsel, Govt. of NCT of Delhi, accepts
notice on behalf of respondent No.3. Copy of the petition be supplied to
learned Standing Counsel within two days. Status Report be filed before the
next date. Learned senior counsel for respondent No.5 assures that any
cooperation which is required in the investigation of the matter, will be
rendered to respondent No.3.
List on 1st November, 2018.
MUKTA GUPTA, J.
APRIL 27, 2018"
This case was listed before the Delhi High Court on 9 March 2018 as Writ Petition Criminal No. 437 of 2018.
This case was listed before the Delhi High Court on 12 February 2018 as Writ Petition Criminal No. 437 of 2018.
This case was listed before the Delhi High Court for hearing on 8 February 2018 as Writ Petition Civil No. 1173 of 2018.
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This Writ Petition Civil No. 1200 of 2017 was listed for hearing before the Supreme Court of India on 29 January 2018. The following order was passed.
"In the nature of the prayers made in this writ petition and having heard the petitioner, who appeared in person, we find no special reason as to why the petitioner should not pursue the grievances before the High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.
Petitioner prays that the petition itself may be sent to the Delhi High Court for being registered as a Writ Petition.
We see no reason to deny such a request. Therefore, the Registry is directed to transmit the papers to the Delhi High Court for being appropriately dealt with.
The writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of.
Pending application(s), if any, shall stand disposed of."
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Writ Petition Civil no. 1200 of 2017 was listed for hearing before the Supreme Court of India on 12 January 2018, when the following order was passed.
"List this matter before a Bench of which both of us (Hon'ble R.K. Agrawal, J. and Hon'ble Abhay Manohar Sapre, J.) are not Members.
At the request of the petitioner who appears in person, list this matter after a week."
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From: Sapra Consultants <sapraconsultants@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 7:42 PM
Subject: New Writ Petition Civil No. 1200/2017 by General Electric Company whistle-blower Seema Sapra listed before Supreme Court of India on 12 January 2017 - re SEC Complaint TCR1439646785831
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My Writ Petition Civil 1200/2017 (reproduced below) will be listed for hearing before the Supreme Court of India on 12 January 2017.
Seema Sapra
General Electric Company whistleblower
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Sapra Consultants <sapraconsultants@gmail.com> wrote:
The new writ petition filed by me in the Supreme Court of India (reproduced below and attached) has been registered as Writ Petition Civil No. 001200/2017, and will be listed for hearing in due course.
Seema Sapra
General Electric Company whistleblower
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Sapra Consultants <sapraconsultants@gmail.com> wrote:
I have filed the attached writ petition today in the Supreme Court of India under filing number 39711/2017.
The Writ Petition is also reproduced below. Annexures will be emailed to you later today.
Seema Sapra
General Electric Company Whistleblower
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
EXTRAORDINARY ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
WRIT PETITION CIVIL NO. OF 2017
(UNDER ARTICLE 32 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA)
IN THE MATTER OF
Seema Sapra … Petitioner
Versus
Union of India & Ors. … Respondents
I N D E X
______________________________________________________
Sl. No. PARTICULARS PAGES
________________________________________________________
1. Listing Proforma
2. Synopsis and List of Dates
3. Writ Petition with affidavit
4. Annexure P-1 – True copies of screenshots of
anonymous blog at http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in/
taken on 17 October 2017
5. Annexure P-2 – True copy of screenshot of Shamnad
Basheer's Facebook post
6. Annexure P-3 – True copy of email dt 20 August 2017
from Petitioner-whistleblower to Prime Minister
Mr Narendra Modi titled "Cover-up of complaint of
forgery made by whistleblower Seema Sapra against
General Electric Company - re SEC Complaint
TCR1439646785831".
7. Annexure P-4 – True Copy of email dt 18 September 2017
from Petitioner-whistleblower to Prime Minister
Mr Narendra Modi titled "Cover-up of complaint made
by whistleblower Seema Sapra of fraudulent impersonation
of General Electric Company by K R Radhakrishnan in Writ
Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 before the Delhi High Court - re
SEC Complaint TCR1439646785831".
FILED BY:
SEEMA SAPRA
PETITIONER-IN-PERSON
DRAWN ON: 6.12.2017
FILED ON: 6.12.2017
BRIEF SYNOPSIS AND LIST OF DATES
This is a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India being filed by the Petitioner, who is a citizen of India and a woman lawyer (enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi since 1995). The petitioner is a whistle-blower, complainant and witness in complaints of corruption, fraud, forgery, FCPA violations, bribery, perjury, and obstruction of justice against General Electric Company (a US conglomerate) affecting the Railway Ministry Projects and tenders for the Marhowra diesel locomotive factory and contract and the Madhepura electric locomotive factory and contract. She faces a grave threat to her life since 2010 because of these whistle-blower complaints.
The Petitioner is a woman lawyer who has also complained of sexual harassment by lawyer Raian Karanjawala and of sexual harassment and sexual assault (including attempted rape) by lawyer Soli J Sorabjee and these complaints were made public in 2011. The petitioner was also threatened with physical harm by Soli Sorabjee personally in 2011 who told the petitioner to drop her complaints against GE and whose daughter Zia Mody later acted as legal counsel for GE on the complaints of the Petitioner and helped cover up the petitioner's complaints against GE.
The petitioner is facing a grave threat to her life since 2010 because of her complaints against GE and since 2011 because of her complaints against Raian Karanjawala and Soli Sorabjee which were made public in 2011.
As part of the criminal conspiracy to destroy the petitioner, a planned criminal conspiracy to falsely label the Petitioner-whistle-blower as mentally ill has been pursued since 2011 with the active participation of State agencies including the Delhi Police.
As part of this conspiracy to destroy the petitioner, an anonymous, malicious and highly defamatory blog has been created to target her and which is online on the internet since March 10, 2014 at http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in/
2010 and 2011 The Petitioner worked as in-house counsel for General Electric Company and made whistle-blower complaints against General Electric Company in relation to the multi-billion dollar Railway Ministry Projects and tenders for a diesel locomotive factory at Marhowra and an electric locomotve factory at Madhepura.
2011 The Petitioner-whistleblower was threatened, targeted, drugged and poisoned.
2011 The Petitioner made her complaints of sexual harassment by lawyer Raian Karanjawala and of sexual harassment and sexual assault by lawyer Soli J Sorabee public.
2012, Feb The Petitioner filed a whistleblower right to life petition under Article 226 in the Delhi High Court, being Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 (in the matter of Seema Sapra vs. General Electric Company and Others).
25 May 2012 Order passed by Delhi High Court in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 directing the Delhi Police Commissioner and other authorities to protect the petitioner as a whistle-blower. This and subsequent protection orders were never complied with by the Delhi Police.
March 10, 2014 A blog titled "Seema Sapra Alert" was created by an anonymous account using the Google blogging platform 'Blogger' with the following internet address http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in/. This blog has only one single blog post. The Blog is linked to an anonymous email address also created using the petitioner's name - seemasapraalert@gmail.com. This blog contains a photograph of the petitioner which has been taken from the petitioner's own personal blogs and used without permission. This blog which continues to exist in the same unmodified form through March 10, 2014. The contents of this blog, as evident on a mere reading, are highly objectionable, obnoxious, pernicious, malicious, extremely defamatory and constitute criminal activity intended to target the petitioner and to facilitate her targeting. This blog-post is a mix of complete fabrication, falsehoods, half-truths and distorted references to some of the petitioner's whistleblower complaints and her complaints against two lawyers for sexual harassment and sexual assault. The intent of this blog post is to create a false narrative about the petitioner, that she is mentally ill and violent, thereby furthering the criminal conspiracy to isolate her, to facilitate the targeting of the petitioner by recruiting others, co-opting others and coordinating the targeting of the petitioner.
It is submitted, that this anonymous, pernicious assault on the petitioner's life, reputation and dignity by the creation and continued publication of this blog on the internet is itself evidence establishing that the petitioner is being targeted. Who is the person/ entity responsible for the creation, uploading and publication of this blog? Where did that person/ entity source the facts and information put out in this blog post, which are malicious and defamatory fabrication. It is pointed out that this blog post is clearly intended to facilitate the targeting and destruction of the petitioner.
This blog post provides evidence of a criminal intent and criminal conspiracy to target, destroy, and defame the petitioner and this blog post was created as one of the tools to further that end. It must be highlighted that this blog has been created anonymously.
This blog post was created to target the petitioner who is both a whistle-blower and a witness in very grave corruption complaints against General Electric Company and who has also broken the omerta in the legal community and has spoken up about her sexual harassment at the hands of two powerful and influential lawyers, Raian Karanjawala and Soli Sorabjee.
April 2014 The Petitioner discovered this blog in April 2014 when she googled her name.
12 April 2014 The petitioner complained about this blog to the Police when she first discovered it.
There was no response from the Police to the petitioner's complaint even though there were Delhi High Court orders directing the Delhi Police Commissioner to ensure that the Petitioner was not harmed. There has been no response or action by the Police till date on either this or for that matter on any other complaint of the petitioner including on her complaints of targeting and poisoning.
March 2015 The Delhi High Court wrongly dismissed Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 on the ground that it had become infructuous. This was done without hearing the Petitioner. The Petitioner intends to file an Article 32 Petition on her whistleblower complaints before the Supreme Court because of the continuing threat to the life of the Petitioner. There is no bar of res judicata because the petition was not dismissed on merits. Plus there are new causes of action that entitle the Petitioner to file an Article 32 petition seeking protection and the investigation of her whistleblower complaints against General Electric Company.
December 2015 The Petitioner was wrongly convicted for contempt of court by the Delhi High Court in a case arising from the hearing of Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012. The contempt appeal from this judgment is pending before the Supreme Court and is directed to be listed in February 2018 by order dated 4 December 2017 (passed in Criminal Appeal Diary No. 10342/2016).
This blog establishes the criminal conspiracy to target and destroy the Petitioner. The continued existence of this blog violates the petitioner's right to life, her right to accommodation, her right to food, her right to practice a profession and earn a living, her right to reputation, her right to live in society with dignity and respect, her right to privacy and her other fundamental and legal rights. The petitioner is a well-qualified and accomplished lawyer and her CV until 2010 when she ended up as a whistle-blower is reproduced below.
It is submitted that the Government of India, the Delhi Police, the CVC and the CBI have all ignored and failed to respond to the Petitioner's complaint against this anonymous blog. The Government of India and its agencies have therefore failed to protect the fundamental right to life of the petitioner and her other fundamental rights that are violated by the criminal activity directed at the petitioner through this anonymous blog.
The petitioner is also constrained to point out that this anonymous blog targeting the petitioner whistle-blower/ witness to GE corruption and a sexual harassment and sexual assault survivor during the created and published during the pendency of her right to life whistleblower petition in the Delhi High Court was also ignored by the Delhi High Court which heard that case (Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012) between April 2014 until February 2015.
The petitioner is therefore constrained to file this Petition under Article 32 seeking directions to the Government of India through the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Information Technology to ask Google to take down this blog with immediate effect; directions to the CBI and the Cyber Crime cell of the Delhi Police and Government of India to find out from Google and through other investigations as to who created this blog and at whose behest; and directions to the CBI and the Cyber crime cells of the Government of India and Delhi Police to register FIRs against the person/ s and/or entities for the crimes committed against the petitioner by the creation of this anonymous blog. An FIR must also be lodged into the role that this blog has played in the larger criminal conspiracy to target and destroy the petitioner-whistleblower and complainant of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
The Petitioner submits that Police and State complicity in targeting the petitioner-whistleblower is clear as no action was taken by State or Police authorities when the Petitioner brought this blog to the notice of the Police, the CVC, the CBI, the PMO, the Home Ministry, the Government of India, three ASGs of the Government of India and the Delhi High Court. No action has been taken against this crime committed against the petitioner and for the violation of the right to life of the petitioner by this crime which is continuing since March 2014 and even today. The State has the duty to protect the fundamental rights of all citizens and is obligated to act even if a third party violates the fundamental right to life of a person. And the duty of the State to protect the petitioner from harm and criminal acts by third parties is even greater because the petitioner is a whistleblower who has exposed corruption by General Electric Company and who is a crucial witness in these corruption complaints. The petitioner has risked her life exposing corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and perjury and her expose of this corruption is an act in public interest and constitutes the highest form of service to the country.
It is submitted that while this blog constitutes criminal defamation, it goes beyond that. This anonymous blog is intended to be used and is being used to incite and facilitate criminal activity targeting the petitioner-whistleblower. It is to be used and is being used to create an environment around the petitioner that results in the denial of her most basic human rights, and the most basic amenities needed to live. i.e., food, money and shelter. This anonymous blog was created to enable and is enabling the violation of the petitioner's right to live with dignity and respect, her right to be treated as a full human being, her right to earn a living, her right to shelter, her right to food, and her right to social interaction and social solidarity. This anonymous blog provides cover for the commission of criminal activity against the Petitioner.
The Petitioner has been targeted since 2010 and she has been repeatedly drugged and poisoned. Attempts are being made to eliminate her by incapacitating her or murdering her. The Petitioner is being defamed. She is being surveilled and followed 24/7. She is being poisoned with poisonous chemicals, anesthetic agents and nerve agents. She is being harassed, intimidated and being both physically and mentally tortured. The petitioner is being prevented from working and is being compelled to survive on charity. The petitioner is being deliberately kept homeless so that she can be more easily targeted.
It is submitted that this blog is part of these attempts to eliminate the petitioner-whistleblower and sexual harassment survivor. It is submitted that this blog constitutes abetment to the intended murder of the petitioner, abetment to poison, to harass, intimidate, threaten, and to target the petitioner, and abetment to cause grievous hurt to the petitioner-whistleblower by dangerous weapons or means and by poison. This blog abets, exhorts and incites violence, criminal use of force and assault against the petitioner. This blog falsely represents the petitioner as a threat to any person she may come in contact with. This blog is part of the criminal conspiracy to eliminate the petitioner and is intended to abet, incite, procure, enable, facilitate various crimes against the petitioner and to obstruct and deprive the Petitioner from access to various amenities essential to life and a life with dignity.
This blog abets the intended murder, incapacitation, wrongful confinement, wrongful institutionalization, poisoning, harassment, surveillance, stalking, targeting, drugging, and mental and physical torture of the petitioner.
This blog is part of and establishes the criminal conspiracy to deprive the petitioner-whistleblower of shelter and a home, deprive the petitioner of the means to earn a livelihood, prevent her from getting a job, or from practicing law, prevent others from normal social interaction with her, prevent her from earning money or even from raising money from others, prevent her from staying in a hotel, and prevent her from even eating in a restaurant.
This blog establishes the criminal conspiracy to thereby force the petitioner-whistleblower to sleep in her car, to harass her, target her, poison her and then wrongly label her mentally ill, and then use the police to institutionalize her.
The blog is intended to procure and abet the illegal drugging of the petitioner.
This blog amounts to the criminal intimidation of the petitioner-whistleblower by the threat of institutionalization. It also incites and abets further criminal intimidation of the petitioner.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
EXTRAORDINARY ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
WRIT PETITION CIVIL NO. OF 2017
(UNDER ARTICLE 32 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA)
IN THE MATTER OF
Seema Sapra
d/o Late Shri A R Sapra
aged 46 years
Presently homeless in New Delhi
Bar Council of Delhi enrolment number
D/1159/1995 … Petitioner
Versus
1. Union of India
Through Home Secretary
Ministry of Home Affairs
North Block
Central Secretariat
New Delhi – 110001
2. Union of India
Through Secretary
Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
Electronics Niketan, 6, CGO Complex,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110003
3. The Commissioner of Delhi Police
Police Headquarters, ITO
New Delhi
India
4. Central Bureau of Investigations
through the Director, CBI
Plot No. 5-B, 6th Floor, CGO Complex,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003.
India
5. Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA
6. Google India
Gurgaon
Sector 15, Part II Village Silokhera
Gurgaon 122001
India
… Respondents
WRIT PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 32 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
To
Hon'ble The Chief Justice of India and His Companion Judges of the Supreme Court of India., the petition of the Petitioner most respectfully showeth :-
1. This is a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India being filed by the Petitioner, who is a citizen of India and a woman lawyer (enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi since 1995). The petitioner is a whistle-blower, complainant and witness in complaints of corruption, fraud, forgery, FCPA violations, bribery, perjury, and obstruction of justice against General Electric Company (a US conglomerate) affecting the Railway Ministry Projects and tenders for the Marhowra diesel locomotive factory and contract and the Madhepura electric locomotive factory and contract. She faces a grave threat to her life since 2010 because of these whistle-blower complaints.
2. The Petitioner is a woman lawyer who has also complained of sexual harassment by lawyer Raian Karanjawala and of sexual harassment and sexual assault (including attempted rape) by lawyer Soli J Sorabjee and these complaints were made public in 2011. The petitioner was also threatened with physical harm by Soli Sorabjee personally in 2011 who told the petitioner to drop her complaints against GE and whose daughter Zia Mody later acted as legal counsel for GE on the complaints of the Petitioner and helped cover up the petitioner's complaints against GE.
3. The petitioner is facing a grave threat to her life since 2010 because of her complaints against GE and since 2011 because of her complaints against Raian Karanjawala and Soli Sorabjee which were made public in 2011.
4. The petitioner relies upon the record of a Criminal Appeal filed by her in the Supreme Court under diary No. 10342/ 2016against the judgment in Delhi High Court Contempt Case (Criminal) 2/2014 which is pending.
5. The petitioner also relies upon the record of CM 7197/ 2013 filed by her in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 which was neither heard nor considered in the judgment of the Delhi High Court dated 2 March 2015 dismissing the petitioner's whistleblower right to life petition. This application set out the petitioner's whistle-blower complaints against General Electric Company.
6. The petitioner also relies upon the record of CM 18969/ 2014 filed by her in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 which was not heard and considered in the judgment of the Delhi High Court dated 2 March 2015 dismissing the petitioner's whistleblower right to life petition. This application was on the issue of how one K R Radhakrishnan was used to unlawfully and fraudulently impersonate as the authorized signatory of General Electric Company before the Delhi High Court using fraudulent and invalid authority documents, in an obstruction of justice conspiracy to cover up the complaints of corruption against General Electric Company.
7. The Petitioner also relies upon the full court records of four cases in the Delhi High Court, Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 (Seema Sapra vs. General Electric Company & Others); OMP 647/2012; Contempt Case Crl 3 of 2012; and Contempt Case Crl 2 of 2014 and prays that this Hon'ble Court may be pleased to summon the original records of these four cases from the Delhi High Court.
8. As part of the criminal conspiracy to destroy the petitioner, a planned criminal conspiracy to falsely label the Petitioner-whistle-blower as mentally ill has been pursued since 2011 with the active participation of State agencies including the Delhi Police.
9. As part of this conspiracy to destroy the petitioner, an anonymous, malicious and highly defamatory blog has been created to target her and which is online on the internet since March 10, 2014 at http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in/
10. This blog titled "Seema Sapra Alert" was created on March 10, 2014 by an anonymous account using the Google blogging platform 'Blogger' with the following internet address http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in/. This blog has only one single blog post. The Blog is linked to an anonymous email address also created using the petitioner's name - seemasapraalert@gmail.com. This blog contains a photograph of the petitioner which has been taken from the petitioner's own personal blogs and used without permission. This blog which continues to exist in the same unmodified form through March 10, 2014 until the present day contains the following blog post which is set out below in its entirety. Screenshots of this blog taken on 17 October 2017 are annexed hereto as Annexure P-1.
Seema Sapra Alert
Monday, March 10, 2014
People Accused by Seema Sapra I General Electric I Laburnum Capital I Manmohan Singh I Soli Sorabjee | Seema Sapra Lawyer | Jeffrey Immelt | Montek Singh Ahluwalia
This website is being created as a resource for the victims of Seema Sapra, of New Delhi India. It will hopefully help people understand her background, and enable possible victims- be they lawyers, hotel and restaurant owners, or people living in the neighbourhoods in which she parks her car- prepare themselves to deal with her, and possibly reach out to other victims, in the event that they need help in specific situations.
To be clear, Seema Sapra is a pitiable creature in a very difficult situation. However, that does not detract from the fact that she is a public nuisance and that, due to a variety of peculiarities in her circumstances, the law offers only very limited protection from her. The point of this website is not to mock Seema, but rather to help those that encounter her protect themselves, whether they just want to avoid her or actually want to intervene and help her.
Seema is a lawyer who until a few years ago appeared to have a successful professional career, but currently seems to be suffering from mental illness. She is at present unemployed, has broken off all contact with her family (which has disowned her and refuses to take responsibility for her) and lives out of her car, which she parks in different New Delhi neighbourhoods, frequently quarrelling with residents when they complain about her "living" there. On one occasion, she started screaming at a woman whose house she had parked outside that the woman had been sent to murder her. On another occasion, she broke down the front door of a senior police officer who was not taking her call.
In the process she has become a public nuisance for homeowners, hotel and restaurant owners (where she insists on staying and eating, from time to time, without making payments), fellow lawyers (whom she regularly hounds for money), the Delhi Police (whom she constantly bothers with trivial complaints such as dogs barking outside her car), as well as several judges in the Delhi High Court before whom she files frivolous petitions.
She appears to believe that she was fired from General Electric, where she worked as a lawyer, because she "exposed" certain corrupt practices. GE apparently ordered an internal enquiry into her complaints and found them baseless. Several Indian courts also found no substance in her complaints and refused to hear her petition. Moreover, the contract about which she complained was scrapped by the government, rendering her entire complaint a moot issue.
She believes that General Electric, and in particular its CEO Jeffrey Immelt, the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, the former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee, the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Raian Karanjawalla, and several other lawyers and judges, are conspiring to have her murdered. She has a particular dislike for Karanjawalla, whom she has accused of sexual harassment, and for Montek Singh Ahluwalia, whom she has accused of being in conflict-of-interest situations vis-à-vis his son Pavan Ahluwalia, who worked at McKinsey and founded Laburnum Capital, his son Aman Ahluwalia, and advocate in Delhi, and his daughter-in-law, Shilpa Mankar Ahluwalia, a Partner at Amarchand Mangaldass.
Among other things, she thinks the individuals and organizations have:
Injected poison gas into a flat she lived in in Jangpura (before being evicted for failure to pay rent) as well as into her Taj Ginger hotel room (from which she was also evicted for failure to pay the bill)
Arranged to have construction rubble piled on her neighbour's roof, so that it might fall on her.
Sent strange men to spy on her
Arranged to have motorcyclists drive their bikes by her car at night to keep her awake
Arranged to have stray dogs near her car provoked by ultrasound whistles so that they bark loudly at night and keep her awake
She writes long, rambling emails to a list of lawyers whom she also periodically petitions for money. On the rare occasion that people have given her money- Amit Sibal, son of Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal, Soli Sorabjee, and Raian Karanjawalla, being a few examples- she has lashed at out them accusing them of blackmail, sexual harassment and attempt to murder. She has also accused several lawyers who have tried to get her psychiatric attention of being part of the "conspiracy."
The judiciary refuses to hear her petitions, and on one occasion she was physically removed from the courtroom of Justice Rajiv Shadker of the Delhi High Court by armed police officers. However, there is some sympathy for her as a lawyer who has fallen on hard times. At one point a judge asked the Bar Council to pay for her stay in an expensive hotel, when she pleaded that she had nowhere to go. Several senior lawyers have at various points made arrangements for her to stay at the India Habitat Centre and the India International Centre. Moreover, Indian law makes it very difficult for anyone other than a patient or their family to commit themselves to a mental institution. Although several judges have asked her to seek treatment, they have not been able to succeed in getting her institutionalized. They have too much sympathy for her to punish her and too little power over her to control her.
She has also picked numerous fights with the police, whom she has accused of trying to murder her on multiple occasions, and is known to create a huge ruckus if accosted by anyone in uniform and asked to move her car or not park overnight in residential neighbourhoods.
What this means, unfortunately, is that there are no real checks on her, since neither the judiciary nor the police want to have anything to do with her.
List of people she has accused
While the list of people she has accused is long, some specific accusations are listed below
Accused Jeffrey Immelt and other senior GE leaders, along with lawyers from Gibson Dunn, of acting in conspiracy with Montek Singh Ahluwalia to order her murder
Accused her family (mother, brother and sister) of domestic violence and of attempting to drug and poison her
Accused her maid Maya of drugging her and keeping her at home
Accused her neighbor Mrs. Rita Mohan of attempting to murder her
Accused Rajdeep Singh of introducing toxic substances into her house
Accused Amulya Patnaik and Ajay Chaudhary from the Delhi Police of being involved in attempts on her life and in intimidating and terrorizing her
Accused the Delhi Police of assaulting her and forcibly dragging her out from police headquarters on August 27 2011
Accused her neighbor Mrs. Sardana of threatening her and of being part of a 3-woman group formed by the police to harass her
Accused Dr. Ashwani of UCMS of overseeing the attack on her via toxic gases
Accused SI Sanjay Singh and Constable Maneesha Yadav of attempting to drug her in August 2011
Accused Soli Sorabjee of being involved in a smear campaign against her
Accused Ginger Hotels (Taj Group) of threatening her using goondas
Accused India Habitat Center and its employees of attempting to poison her
Accused Eatopia restaurant employees of trying to poison her food
Accused Soli Sorabjee and Raian Karanjwala of sexual harassment
Accused Justice Gita Mittal and JR Midha of delaying the hearing of her application for protection and safe housing
Accused Ved Mani Tiwari, an Indian Railways officer in the electrical division, of corruption
Accused Amit Sibal of blackmail, when he agreed to help her financially, by giving her Rs.10,000
Accused lawyers Upamanyu Hazarika and Harish Salve of refusing to offer financial help until she withdrew her case against GE
Accused several lawyers, including Rajiv Nayar, Darpan Wadhwa, Ritin Rai, Ruby Ahuja, Rajiv Mehra and others of trying to get her institutionalized
List of people she is in regular contact with
A list of people she is in regular contact with, or alternatively, whom she spams regularly, in case anybody wants to coordinate anything with them
Bk.gupta@nic.in
pmosb@pmo.nic.in
tka.nair@pmo.nic.in
cvc@nic.in
jmg.vc@nic.in
r.sri_kumar@nic.in
dcp-caw-dl@nic.in
dcp-pcr-dl@nic.in
dcp-south-dl@nic.in
dcp-central-dl@nic.in
dcp-newdelhi-dl@nic.in
dcp-crime-dl@nic.in
hm@nic.in
hshso@nic.in
ncw@nic.in
complaintcell-ncw@nic.in
sgnhrc@nic.in
dg-nhrc@nic.in
ffetf@usdoj.gov
chairmanoffice@sec.gov
help@sec.gov
fcpa.fraud@usdoj.gov
askdoj@usdoj.gov
jtcpsr@gmail.com
dch@nic.in
g.haldea@nic.in
mr@rb.railnet.gov.in
crb@rb.railnet.gov.in
splcp-vigilance-dl@nic.in
splcp-admin-dl@nic.in
splcp-security-dl@nic.in
KolkataPAS@state.gov
chennaic@state.gov
webmastermumbai@state.gov
HyderabadPA@state.gov
HydACS@state.gov
HydFPU@state.gov
MumbaiACS@state.gov
Mumbai_visa_fraud@state.gov
ConsularNewdel@state.gov
chennaiaf@state.gov
chennaiatt@state.gov
NDwebmail@state.gov
acsnd@state.gov
oighotline@state.gov
humanrights@americanbar.org
cpr@americanbar.org
ethicsearch@americanbar.org
peter.koelling@americanbar.org
hrwpress@hrw.org
blatche@hrw.org
berlin@hrw.org
paris@hrw.org
Brussels@transparency.org
ti@transparency.org
cswardt@transparency.org
mmarschall@transparency.org
czellmann@transparency.org
contact@whistleblowers.org
contact@hrln.org
sharmam1@state.gov
jtcp-phq1-dl@nic.in
dcpsed@gmail.com
cleggd1@state.gov
Newhaven@ic.fbi.gov
Ny1@ic.fbi.gov
Usanys.crcomp@usdoj.gov
Usanys.wpcomp@usdoj.gov
Dcp-east-dl@nic.in
Dcp-eow-dl@nic.in
Dcp-southeast-dl@nic.in
Dcp-southwest-dl@nic.in
Dcp-splcell-dl@nic.in
Dcp-vigilance-dl@ni.in
Dcp-west-dl@nic.in
Addlcp-security-dl@nic.in
Jtcp-splcell-dl@nic.in
Jtcp-sr-dl@nic.in
Splcp-armed-dl@nic.in
Splcp-crime-dl@nic.in
Splcp-intandops-dl@nic.in
Splcp-operation-dl@nic.in
Splcp-pandi-dl@nic.in
Splcp-pl-dl@nic.in
Addlcp-caw-dl@nic.in
Addlcp-eow-dl@nic.in
Addlcpt-dtp@nic.in
Jeffrey.eglash@ge.com
Jeffrey.immelt@ge.com
John.flannery@ge.com
Bracket.denniston@ge.com
jchesley@gibsondunn.com
fwarin@gibsondunn.com
greg.danilow@weil.com
Lorenzo.simonelli@ge.com
Tara.plimpton@ge.com
James.winget@ge.com
Alexander.dimitrief@ge.com
jjoseph@gibsondunn.com
directors@corporate.ge.com
rjs22@cornell.edu
john.krenicki@ge.com
brian.worrell@ge.com
mark.vachon@ge.com
keith.sherin@ge.com
john.samuels@ge.com
Michael.neal@ge.com
Susan.peters@ge.com
Puneet.mahajan@ge.com
Shane.fitzsimon@ge.com
Pamela.daley@ge.com
Beth.comstock@ge.com
Charlene.begley@ge.com
Mark.begor@ge.com
Steve.bolze@ge.com
Jeffrey.bornstein@ge.com
John.dineen@ge.com
Tom.gentile@ge.com
Dan.henson@ge.com
Jay.ireland@ge.com
Daniel.janki@ge.com
David.joyce@ge.com
Jamie.miller@ge.com
Dmitri.stockton@ge.com
Terri.bresenham@ge.com
Anish.shah@ge.com
Kishore.jayaraman@ge.com
Vishal.wanchoo@ge.com
John.rice@ge.com
Rita.purohit@ge.com
Nancy.anderson@ge.com
Rob.mckeel@ge.com
Joel.berdine@ge.com
Tina.donikowski@ge.com
Eric.ducharme@ge.com
Marcia.fish@ge.com
Tammy.gromacki@ge.com
Rich.herold@ge.com
Don.itzkoff@ge.com
Stephan.koller@ge.com
Guilherme.mello@ge.com
Monish.patolawala@ge.com
Tim.schweikert@ge.com
Russell.stokes@ge.com
Peter.thomas@ge.com
David.tucker@ge.com
Tim.waldee@ge.com
Cyrille.petit@ge.com
Katy.choo@ge.com
Joseph.noga@ge.com
Janine.dascenzo@ge.com
Carey.greiner@ge.com
Jeff.melluci@ge.com
Dan.hendy@ge.com
David.wheeler@ge.com
Stephen.henderson@ge.com
Doug.hensley@ge.com
Janice.baker@ge.com
Ross.wright@ge.com
Happy.perkins@ge.com
Molly.burke@ge.com
Kathleem.bardell@ge.com
Curtis.doster@ge.com
Carol.terry@ge.com
Victoria.lazar@ge.com
Margaret.morton@ge.com
Andi.hayworth@ge.com
Jen.riley@ge.com
Varun.tejpal@ge.com
Amarjyoti.barua@ge.com
David.lobo@ge.com
Shweta.singh@ge.com
Shruti.narang@ge.com
Rajneesh.jaswal@ge.com
Chandan.jain@ge.com
Mohit.bhatia@ge.com
Manish.batra@ge.com
Deepak.doegar@ge.com
Nitin.garg@ge.com
Abhinav.kapoor@ge.com
Prakash.chandra@ge.com
Sanjay.malhotra@ge.com
dplaine@gibsondunn.com
jalee@gibsondunn.com
dburns@gibsondunn.com
ddebold@gibsondunn.com
mdiamant@gibsondunn.com
bbaldrate@gibsondunn.com
pspeicejr@gibsondunn.com
ovretsona@gibsondunn.com
egoergen@gibsondunn.com
jcohen@gibsondunn.com
ldunst@gibsondunn.com
mkirsch@gibsondunn.com
jwalden@gibsondunn.com
asouthwell@gibsondunn.com
lzweifach@gibsondunn.com
awolf@gibsondunn.com
etilton@gibsondunn.com
rblume@gibsondunn.com
jsanderson@gibsondunn.com
lsturges@gibsondunn.com
jpartridge@gibsondunn.com
dwongyang@gibsondunn.com
mfarhang@gibsondunn.com
dfuchs@gibsondunn.com
mmcrae@gibsondunn.com
nhanna@gibsondunn.com
wchan@gibsondunn.com
pdoris@gibsondunn.com
cfalconer@gibsondunn.com
procher@gibsondunn.com
bdavidson@gibsondunn.com
bfleury@gibsondunn.com
bgrinspan@gibsondunn.com
jrobe@gibsondunn.com
aobadia-zerbib@gibsondunn.com
bschwarz@gibsondunn.com
mwalther@gibsondunn.com
mzimmer@gibsondunn.com
kaustin@gibsondunn.com
owelch@gibsondunn.com
Suggestions in dealing with her
(a) Do not meet with her in person, if possible, since she has made all sorts of accusations against anyone who has taken the trouble to meet with her personally. If you meet with her personally, INSIST on a witness being present and insist on the meeting occurring in a public place. She will typically try to say that this is not necessary. Do not be taken in by this.
(b) Do not under any circumstances give her money. If you feel strongly that you want to help her insist that it be contingent on her seeking immediate medical help.
(c) Do not engage in telephone conversations, since she records every phone conversation she has, selectively edits the conversations and places them on YouTube.
AS Chadiok was accused of trying to murder her after he had several telephone conversations with her
Various members of the Delhi Police accused of trying to murder her once they started engaging with her on the 100 number which she would repeatedly dial
(d) The police are of limited use in dealing with her, since she has made several allegations against them and is generally known to be a nuisance in Central Delhi. The police should certainly be contacted in the event she attempts or threatens physical violence, but when others have tried to do this the police usually asks them to apologize to her, in order to calm her down, since she has been known to get physically violent when highly agitated
(e) The courts are of limited use in dealing with her. Judges either refuse to hear petitions involving her, since this leads to commotion in the courtroom, or adjourn endlessly to avoid having to deal with her. As mentioned above, on one occasion she had to be physically evicted from a High Court courtroom
(f) The one thing she genuinely fears is institutionalization, so if she is harassing you and you mention that you will make some effort in this direction, there is a chance that she will stop. However, you have very limited ability to do anything in this regard.
For more information or any questions, please send an email to seemasapraalert@gmail.com
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11. The contents of this blog, as evident on a mere reading, are highly objectionable, obnoxious, pernicious, malicious, extremely defamatory and constitute criminal activity intended to target the petitioner and to facilitate her targeting. This blog-post is a mix of complete fabrication, falsehoods, half-truths and distorted references to some of the petitioner's whistleblower complaints and her complaints against two lawyers for sexual harassment and sexual assault. The intent of this blog post is to create a false narrative about the petitioner, that she is mentally ill and violent, thereby furthering the criminal conspiracy to isolate her, to facilitate the targeting of the petitioner by recruiting others, co-opting others and coordinating the targeting of the petitioner.
12. The petitioner submits that she does not want to dignify this blog-post with a detailed point by point response to it. She also submits that there is no need for the petitioner to counter this blog post point by point. The Petitioner submits that if called upon by the Court, the petitioner will provide a point by point rebuttal of this blog post pointing out the specific fabrications and lies in this demonstrably false blog post.
13. It is submitted, that this anonymous, pernicious assault on the petitioner's life, reputation and dignity by the creation and continued publication of this blog on the internet is itself evidence establishing that the petitioner is being targeted. Who is the person/ entity responsible for the creation, uploading and publication of this blog? Where did that person/ entity source the facts and information put out in this blog post, which are malicious and defamatory fabrication. It is pointed out that this blog post is clearly intended to facilitate the targeting and destruction of the petitioner.
14. This blog post provides evidence of a criminal intent and criminal conspiracy to target, destroy, and defame the petitioner and this blog post was created as one of the tools to further that end. It must be highlighted that this blog has been created anonymously.
15. This blog post was created to target the petitioner who is both a whistle-blower and a witness in very grave corruption complaints against General Electric Company and who has also broken the omerta in the legal community and has spoken up about her sexual harassment at the hands of two powerful and influential lawyers, Raian Karanjawala and Soli Sorabjee.
16. A few background facts may be pointed out. The Petitioner was sexually harassed by Mr Raian Karajawala when she was working as a junior in his law-firm between 1997-1999. On a work trip to Kolkata, when the petitioner and Mr Raian Karanjawala travelled to that city for a Lufthansa matter, Raian Karanjawala invited the petitioner for a "night-cap" into his room after a very late dinner at the Taj Bengal hotel. It was around mid-night and the petitioner was very tired, sleepy and also drunk because of the red wine that the group had consumed during the dinner. The petitioner was even unable to walk straight. The Petitioner refused the invitation without thinking and replied that she needed to sleep. The petitioner went into her room and fell asleep. After this, the petitioner was targeted by Raian Karanjawala and her work was slowly taken away from her and she was otherwise forced to leave the law-firm.
17. The petitioner worked with Soli J Sorabjee in 2001 as his chamber junior when he was the Attorney General for India. Soli J Sorabjee sexually harassed the petitioner by inappropriate and unwanted touching. On one occasion, Soli Sorabjee invited the petitioner for dinner. He plyed the petitioner with alcohol (red wine) and after dinner, he forced himself on the petitioner and started groping her and kissing her on the mouth. The Petitioner initially did not react for a few moments. Soli Sorabjee at one point put his tongue inside the petitioner's mouth. The petitioner was jolted out of her alcohol induced daze and she immediately protested and pushed Mr Sorabjee away and got up. The petitioner then told Mr Sorabjee that she had to leave. The Petitioner left Mr Soli Sorabjee's residence in Neeti Bagh and drove back home in her car. This incident was a case of sexual assault and attempted rape of the petitioner by Soli Sorabjee. The Petitioner suspects that Mr Soli Sorabjee might also have drugged the petitioner's drink. The petitioner was silenced at that time by an implicit threat that emanated from Soli Sorabjee. These are an abbreviated description of these sexual harassment complaints. Over time, the petitioner chose to move on with her life and to not let these incidents affect her or her life.
18. In 2010, the Petitioner was contractually employed to provide in-house counsel services to GE. The petitioner ended up making whistle-blower complaints against GE in 2010 and 2011.
19. From July 2010 to August 2011, the petitioner was poisoned and drugged without her even realizing that she was being deliberately harmed. The petitioner was also kept isolated in the rented flat in Jangpura Extenson where she was living at the time.
20. In February/ March 2011, Soli Sorabjee contacted the petitioner. He personally threatened the petitioner with physical harm and told her to drop her whistle-blower complaints against GE. He also told the petitioner that she would never be allowed to work again.
21. The Petitioner's phone was being tapped. In 2011, a one-time friend of the petitioner was used to make the petitioner talk about her experience of sexual harassment with Raian Karanjawala and Soli Sorabjee on the phone.
22. Soon after this, the Petitioner received a phone-call from lawyer Anupam Sanghi, the cousin sister of Mr Mukul Rohatgi's wife. She told the petitioner that if the petitioner was saying that everyone had harassed her, then "judges would harass" the petitioner if she went to Court. Unnerved and scared by the implicit threat in this statement to her by Anupam Sanghi, the petitioner made her complaints of sexual harassment against Raian Karanjawala and Soli Sorabjee public in 2011.
23. The Petitioner continued to be poisoned and drugged all through 2011 and into 2012. In February 2012, the petitioner managed to file a right to life, whistle-blower petition in the Delhi High Court being Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 (in the matter of Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others). Notice was issued in this petition on 7 March 2012 to GE and its two impleaded Indian subsidiaries, to the PMO, the Police Commissioner, the CVC, the CBI and to the Railway Ministry. On 25 May 2012 an order was passed by the Delhi High Court directing the Police Commissioner to ensure that the petitioner-whistle-blower is not harmed.
24. On 30 May 2012, the Petitioner was rendered homeless. She stayed at various, hostels and guest-houses through 2012.
25. From February/ March 2013, the petitioner was compelled to start sleeping in her car. She slept in her car all through 2013 until June 2014.
26. The Petitioner discovered this blog in April 2014 when she googled her name.
27. The petitioner complained about this blog to the Police when she first discovered it in 2014. A copy of one of the petitioner's several emails reporting this blog to the police is reproduced below. This complaint of the Petitioner dated 12 April 2014 was also placed on record before the Delhi High Court in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 at pages 10692 to 10693 in volume 31 of the Delhi High Court record.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:16 AM
Subject: I am being targeted by someone using the email - seemasapraalert@gmail.com - Seema Sapra - Writ Petition (Civil) 1280/ 2012 - in the matter of Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company and Others in the Delhi High Court
To: Sapra <seemasapra@hotmail.com>, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>, Rajiv Khosla <advrajivkhosla@gmail.com>, Jatan Singh <jatan_singh@yahoo.com>, Abhijat Bal <abhijat.bal@gmail.com>, Ashutosh lohia <lasutosh@gmail.com>, Vikram Singh Panwar <vikrampanwar2010@gmail.com>, Anoop Bagai <anoopbagai@gmail.com>, ashok.bhasin@yahoo.co.in, Aruna Tiku <arunatikuadvocate@yahoo.com>, Sunil Mittal <sunilmittaladvocate@gmail.com>, Meghna Mittal Sankhla <meghna@sankhla.in>, kadambari@ucolindia.com, Amit Sharma with khosla <advocateas@gmail.com>, Laxmi Chauhan <laxmichauhanmalhan@gmail.com>, Pankaj Kapoor <lawyerpankaj@gmail.com>, "rg.dhc@nic.in" <rg.dhc@nic.in>, Bhim Sain Bassi <cp.bsbassi@nic.in>, "sho-tilakmarg-dl@nic.in" <sho-tilakmarg-dl@nic.in>, "dcp-newdelhi-dl@nic.in" <dcp-newdelhi-dl@nic.in>, "dcp-central-dl@nic.in" <dcp-central-dl@nic.in>, director@aiims.ac.in, cp.ggn@hry.nic.in,jtcp.ggn@hry.nic.in, dcphq.ggn@hry.nic.in, seemasapraalert@gmail.com, "supremecourt@nic.in" <supremecourt@nic.in>
To seemasapraalert@gmail.com,
Can you identify yourself. Who are you? You are anonymously targeting me on the internet at http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in/. I attach a document containing the trash and lies you have published about me.
I have taken screen shots of your post. I will be making police complaints against you and seeking criminal prosecution against you.
Your statements also amount to contempt of the Delhi High Court as they are intended to interfere with the administration of justice in Writ Petition 1280 of 2012 being heard by the Delhi High Court against General Electric Company for corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery etc.
You are targeting a whistle-blower and a witness in a corruption case.
Seema Sapra
28. There was no response from the Police to the petitioner's complaint even though there were Delhi High Court orders directing the Delhi Police Commissioner to ensure that the Petitioner was not harmed. There has been no response or action by the Police till date on either this or for that matter on any other complaint of the petitioner including on her complaints of targeting and poisoning.
29. It will be clear to anyone who reads this blog that the contents of this blog make it impossible for the petitioner to live with dignity or safety. This blog effectively makes it impossible for the petitioner to get a job, to get a hotel room or to interact with anyone or to even eat in a restaurant.
30. This blog establishes the criminal conspiracy to target and destroy the Petitioner. The continued existence of this blog violates the petitioner's right to life, her right to accommodation, her right to food, her right to practice a profession and earn a living, her right to reputation, her right to live in society with dignity and respect, her right to privacy and her other fundamental and legal rights. The petitioner is a woman lawyer who as a whistle-blower has exposed corruption, fraud and perjury by a US Company, General Electric Company. The Petitioner has also complained that she was sexually harassed by lawyer Raian Karanjawala between 1997-1999 when the petitioner was working in his law-firm and that in 2001, the petitioner was sexually harassed by lawyer Soli J. Sorabjee (Attorney General of India at that time) and who on one occasion sexually assaulted the petitioner after plying her with alcohol and drugging her.
31. The petitioner had filed a whistle-blower right to life petition in the Delhi High Court in 2012 being Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 (in the matter of Seema Sapra versus General Electric Company & Others) in February 2012.
32. On 25 May 2012, the Delhi High Court passed an order in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 which interalia directed as follows:
The Commissioner of Police as well as all other concerned
authorities entrusted with the task of protecting the citizens of the country are directed to ensure that no harm is caused to the petitioner, who is contesting this battle in person as a whistle blower. Counsel for the Delhi Police says that it is undoubtedly the duty of the police to protect all the citizens and so it will be ensured that no harm is caused to the petitioner by anyone, including policemen.
33. The petitioner is a well-qualified and accomplished lawyer and her CV until 2010 when she ended up as a whistle-blower is reproduced below.
Curriculum Vitae
Seema Sapra
Contact details
seema.sapra@gmail.com
Work Experience
Legal Counsel for GE Transportation India in Delhi (2010 – 5 months until September 2010)
Consultant to Microsoft India on Innovation & IP law and policy - 2009-2010 in Delhi (approx. six months)
Visiting fellow at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi, 2008-2009, working on trade policy, climate change and energy policy
Director – Trade & Policy, at Delhi office of law firm Amarchand Mangaldas, Suresh A. Shroff & Co, 2008. Worked on trade policy, competition policy, nuclear policy, investment policy, India's comprehensive economic cooperation agreements, anti-dumping.
Visiting Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC 2004-2005, worked on trade and investment policy and law
Assisted GE India General Counsel, Ruby Anand as off-counsel from approx. 1999 till 2001
Associate in the office of Soli J Sorabjee, Attorney General of India, 2000-2001
Empanelled lawyer for the Government of India in the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi in 1999-2001
Lawyer with the litigation law firm of M/s Karanjawala & Co. in New Delhi, 1995-2000
Extensive litigation experience in the Supreme Court of India, the High Court of Delhi, and various special tribunals.
Policy expertise
International Trade
Bilateral and regional trade agreements
Investment policy, bilateral investment treaties
Climate change and sustainable development
Energy efficiency and climate change
Innovation policy, technology transfer and intellectual property
Competition policy
Teaching Experience
LLM tutor for the World Trade Law joint course at University College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies (2007)
Contract law tutor for 1st Year LLB at the University of Westminster, School of Law as a part-time visiting lecturer (2007)
Guest lectures for the LLM program at Kings College London and University of Leicester law school
Education
PhD studies at Kings College London 2003-2007 (not completed)
Title of proposed thesis: The Place, Treatment, and Meaning of Development in the WTO
Research supervisor - Professor Piet Eeckhout, Kings College London
3 year research fellowship by the Centre for European Law, Kings College London
LLM in Public International Law with distinction at the University of Leicester, 2001-2003
British Chevening scholar
LLB from the Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi - Ist Division. 1995
Diploma in Environmental Law from the Centre for Environmental Law, WWF-India -1994-1995
B. A. Honors in English Literature from St Stephen's College, University of Delhi - 1992
Editorial Assistant for the Journal of International Economic law, 2004-2005 based at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC
Internship with the United Nations Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania 2002-2003
Publications
Article titled "Sustainable Development and the role of the Indian Supreme Court", ASERI (Milan) publication, 2009
Article titled "An Agenda for Teaching International Economic Law in Indian Law Schools", Indian Journal of International Economic Law, 2009, National Law School, Bangalore
Article titled "The WTO System of Trade Governance: The Stale NGO Debate and the Appropriate Role for Non-state actors" in Oregon Review of International Law Journal, volume 11 issue 1, 2009
Chapter titled 'Domestic Politics and the Search for a New Social Purpose of Governance for the WTO: A Proposal for a Declaration on Domestic Consultation' in Debra Steger (ed.) Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009
Chapter titled 'New Agendas for International Economic Law Teaching in India: Including an Agenda in Support of Reform' in Colin B. Picker, Isabella Bunn & Douglas Arner, (ed.) INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW - THE STATE & FUTURE OF THE DISCIPLINE, Hart Publishing, 2008
'Ideas of Embedded Liberalism and Current and Future Challenges for the WTO', in Ortino and Ripinsky, WTO Law and Process, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2007. pg 330 - 352
Development: Its Place, Treatment, and Meaning at the WTO / Seema Sapra (2006). In: Proceedings of the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Vol. 100, pg 223-226
Papers / Conferences
Presented paper titled "An Indian perspective on sustainable development: the role of the Indian higher judiciary" at panel discussion at ASERI, Milan in December 2008
Panelist for EDGE network panel on WTO Institutional Reform at the Inaugural conference of the Society for International Economic Law, Geneva, 15-17 July 2008
Presented paper titled "Developing Countries and Outreach to Non-State Actors in the WTO", at an EDGE network project workshop on WTO institutional reform in March 2008 at Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Ontario.
Presented paper titled "The Case for International Economic Law Teaching in India: Possible Agendas Including an Agenda in Support of Reform" at the Annual Conference of the International Economic Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law at Bretton Woods in November, 2006
Panelist at the sixth Annual WTO Conference hosted by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in May 2006, on the topic "Doha Development Round: Current and Future Challenges"
Presented paper titled "Development - Its Place, Treatment and Meaning at the WTO" at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington D.C. 2006.
Presented paper titled "Special and Differential Treatment in international trade law" at the Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL), Georgetown University Law Center in September 2005
Presented paper titled "Constructivism and Special and Differential Treatment in international trade law" at the 2005 conference of the International Law Association, British Branch held at Edinburgh in May 2005
Memberships
Bar Council of Delhi
Society of International Economic Law
Asian WTO Research Network
34. By way of example of how this anonymous blog has been used to target he petitioner, it is pointed out that after the petitioner was convicted for contempt of court, the petitioner was targeted using this anonymous blog andusing two persons connected to the legal community. Kian Ganz has ties to Clifford Chance, a law-firm that handles cases for GE. Kian Ganz also has close connections to Ms Zia Mody and several other lawyers.
35. Kian Ganz, owner and editor of the website Legally India who again gets funding from law-firms with close ties to GE and has ties to Ms Zia Mody was also used to target the petitioner after the contempt judgment was issued and he put up a post on the Legally India website linking to this anonymous blog. This post and the link are still up on Legally India's website. The petitioner attempted to mitigate some damage to her reputation by responding through comments on this post. A copy of this Legally India post at https://www.legallyindia.com/the-bench-and-the-bar/heavy-handed-lawyer-seema-sapra-sentenced-to-1-month-jail-for-calling-judge-and-many-others-corrupt-20151217-6995#comments and the comments thereon are reproduced below.
Legally India
By Friday, 18 December 2015 01:04 Bar, Bench & Litigation
An estimated 3 minute read...
Heavy handed? Lawyer Seema Sapra sentenced to 1 month jail for calling judge (and many others) corrupt
Advocate Seema Sapra, who has long-alleged that General Electric and agents acting on its behalf are trying to poison her in retaliation for whistleblowing over alleged corruption at the multinational's India offices, has been sentenced to prison for a month by the Delhi high court for contempt.
She has also been fined Rs 2,000 and barred from practising law for two years, though the jail sentence will only take effect after three months to allow her a chance to appeal, reported Mint.
Sapra had called Delhi high court Justice Vibhu Bakhru corrupt by alleging that he sat on a bench out of turn; she defended herself that she only made the statement in the heat of the moment, which should not count as contempt of court, according to the PTI.
The PTI reported that a Delhi high court bench of justices Valmiki J Mehta and P S Teji held:
Clearly therefore the action of the noticee (Sapra) in calling Justice Vibhu Bakhru as corrupt is an act of criminal contempt of this court. The wholly unsubstantiated statement made against Justice Vibhu Bakhru scandalizes or tends to scandalize this court and also lowers and tends to lower the authority of this court.
The contemptuous statement prejudices or interferes or tends to interfere with the due course of judicial proceedings inasmuch as the unsubstantiated contemptuous statement has caused recusal of a bench of this court from hearing the matter on 6 May, 2015.
The facts of this case show that the contemnor is not in any manner contrite. Contemnor has been seeking to overawe different benches of this court and has caused recusal of different benches hearing the main writ petition.
After recusal by 28 judges of this court the main writ petition was heard by this Court and dismissed in terms of the judgment dated 2 March, 2015. Petitioner has continued in the same vein even in these contempt proceedings as noted in the order dated 30 October, 2015.
That writ petition had been filed by Sapra against General Electric and several of its officials but was dismissed with Rs 2 lakh exemplary costs by the Delhi high court as "totally frivolous and a mala fide petition, and it is also an abuse of the process of the law" (read judgment):
The present writ petition was never a genuine PIL and it was only an action of a disgruntled employee who was thrown out of her employment and such a petitioner/employee through this PIL is seeking to take vendetta against her erstwhile employer with whom she has enmity. By the time the judgment in the case was reserved vide order dated 3.2.2015, volumes of the writ petition had reached to number 35 ending at page nos. 12,440.
Sapra, who had been an employee of GE in part responsible for internal compliance, had alleged primarily that GE acted improperly in pitching for a tender for the manufacture of railway locomotives, which was later cancelled by the ministry.
She has since alleged that GE has tried to poison and psychologically terrorise her, which she has detailed on her blog and in emails sent to a long list of recipients.
An anonymous blog from 2014 has alleged that she "currently seems to be suffering from mental illness".
Update 18 December 12:54: Sapra has published a response to the high court decision on her blog that she would appeal to the Supreme Court and that the ruling and her imprisonment would "enable my being drugged and poisoned in a prison and my being eventually eliminated": http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/2015/12/fwd-general-electric-fcpa-obstruction_18.html
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Like +7 Object -2 Sensible Reporting 18 Dec 15, 09:52 interesting
Please consider removing last line of the news coverage commenting on the mental condition of Ms. Sapra. The mental status of any person (be it a convict or otherwise) should not be commented so lightly. Moreover, I do not see a comment like this in the coverage of similar news item by B&B.
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Like +3 Object -3 kianganz 18 Dec 15, 10:11
I agree it's a sensitive issue but we are not making that comment lightly and it is part of a balanced report since her blog with her allegations is linked to.
It is directly relevant to this case, as I don't think she should be held responsible for contempt or that what she has said has "scandalised the court".
If you read her blog, she has made allegations ofcorruption against a lot of people, so for judges to get prickly about this one instance and punish her with jail time seems excessive and insensitive.
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Like +4 Object -1 Seema Sapra 19 Dec 15, 11:59
Kian - I do think that you should remove the reference to this Anonymous blog targeting me from your report. First its anonymous. That itself should be a reason to ignore this bull-shit.
It talks bull-shit about me and spreads fiction & lies about me with clear intent to defame me and helps enable persons to target me by making potential well-wishers wary of me.
Some examples of lies in there which have no basis in fact. (Note again this is an anonymous blog which does not cite any supporting material for the lies it spreads.)
Outright Defamatory Lie - "On one occasion, she started screaming at a woman whose house she had parked outside that the woman had been sent to murder her"
Outright Defamatory Lie -".On another occasion, she broke down the front door of a senior police officer who was not taking her call.:
Lie _ "Several Indian courts also found no substance in her complaints and refused to hear her petition." - this statement made in March 2014 was a lie because Writ Petition Civil 1280/ 2012 was still pending hearing then.
Maybe you can ask Amit Sibal if I have ever accused him of blackmail, sexual harassment and attempt to murder. I certainly have not. Again a defamatory lie out of thin air.
Lie out of thin air - "At one point a judge asked the Bar Council to pay for her stay in an expensive hotel, when she pleaded that she had nowhere to go." - You can ask the Bar Council if this is true if you want. Its outright fiction.
Outright lie - that any lawyer arranged for me to stay at the India Habitat Centre. I am a member there and stayed under my own membership account and paid my own bills using my bank card.
The section on suggestions for dealing with me shows that this blog is intended to target me and to prevent people from supporting me or helping me or standing up for me.
According to this blog I should be institutionalized in a mental institution.
This blog is cleverly written. It mixes outright lies with distorted and incomplete and perfunctory references to my actual complaints. And its clear intent is to victimize me by falsely labeling me mentally ill.
At the time this blog was posted my petition in the Delhi High Court had not even been heard. It was pending. So the blog knowingly targeted a whistle-blower & a witness in corruption complaints. I made police complaints about this blog to no effect. They were ignored as have been all my other complaints.
I appeal to all readers here, Please do not help spread vicious lies about me.
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Like +2 Object -0 Hello,Adv.Seema Sapra 19 Dec 15, 16:30
Hello,Madam, I have read the above article about you in LI, and some pages,parts of anonymous blog falsely targeting you. I feel sympathy and attention for your situation. Please can you share correct information about (1). when you registered a complaint to the police against the anonymous blog falsely targeting you? (2). Did you filed RTI petition with the Police Department regarding action taken following your complaint against anonymous blog falsely targeting you? If yes, (3). What was reply from the Police Department ? Hope to hear your accurate answers.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 20 Dec 15, 17:46
See http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/p/covert-disinformation-campaign-about_5821.html
On 12 April 2014 I had complained by email to the Police about this anonymous blog. This complaint is reproduced on my blog at the above link.
This was followed by other email complaints too all of which were placed on the court record in WP Civil 1280/ 2012. I will look for those and point them out.
I did not file an RTI. I was preoccupied with dealing with other targeting and with the court case.
I am also afraid to go to the Police HQ. I was stopped from entering the Police HQ on an earlier occasion when I wanted to lodge a complaint at the Police Commissioner's office. This was despite court orders operational at that time directing the Police Commissioner to provide me protection. These complaints against the Police were also placed on the court record of WPC 1280/ 2012.
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Like +3 Object -0 Seema Sapra 20 Dec 15, 17:57
My affidavit dated 11 October 2012 describing what happened to me at the Police HQ on the night of 1-2 October and on 5 October 2012 can be read here https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzdLbTmYqfPvNkNhNjEyZlZqMTQ/edit
This was also part of the court record in WPC 1280/ 2012.
It is my belief that no Judge has even read this affidavit.
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Like +2 Object -0 Hello,Adv.Seema Sapra, 21 Dec 15, 01:06
Please I think you being a skillful lawyer know that a petitioner can filed a complaint by registered post with A/D or Email when the situation is not favourable and safety for the petitioner to visit the Police Station/Police HQ.How are you thinking to close down or stop the anonymous blog falsely targeting you? Are you performing any legal work nowadays for any client? Does any members of your family helping or supporting you at this time of your critical situation? Hope to hear your accurate answers.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 20 Dec 15, 02:58
Was this malicious anonymous blog not a crime committed against me. It uses and publishes my photograph without permission.
I was at the time this blog was published sleeping in my car - often outside gate 8 of the Delhi High Court. I was already complaining of being harassed nightly including by police and by the security personnel in the Delhi High Court. There is evidence of this.
I was complaining that toxic chemicals were being sprayed onto and near me while I was asleep.
When this blog was published there were at least 3 Delhi High Court orders passed in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 directing the Delhi Police Commissioner to provide me security. These orders were never complied with.
Did the publication of this blog not further endanger my life at that time. Does this anonymous blog not continue to endanger my life. Does this blog not violate my right to life and my right to work even today.
Why did the Police not investigate who is behind this blog? I filed this blogs contents on the Court record in my writ petition. Why was this also ignored by the Court?
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 20 Dec 15, 16:02
Anonymous defamatory malicious blog targeting General Electric whistleblower Seema Sapra
Just to continue to expose this anon blog
It states a Lie out of thin air - "At one point a judge asked the Bar Council to pay for her stay in an expensive hotel, when she pleaded that she had nowhere to go." - You can ask the Bar Council if this is true if you want. Its outright fiction.
Truth - Order dated 1/5/2013 in WP Cvil 1280/2012 (Seema Sapra v General Electric Company) directed as follows: "Consequently a direction is issued to the Secretary of the Delhi Bar Council to urgently examine the petitioner's case under any scheme that it has available for the benefit and welfare of Advocates enrolled with them and submit a report before us."
This was when I was before the Court in several applications seeking shelter, protection and security.
Result - The Bar Council of Delhi (despite communication of this court order) never bothered to comply even with this order, it made no contact with me, it did not file any such report and no Judge took up this issue again. I continued to sleep in my car on the streets until I fractured my leg in June 2014 and when my ankle was deliberate;y dislocated by a doctor in an attempt to force me into surgery and to disable me. Evidence for this also exists.
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Like +0 Object -0 Sensible Reporting 18 Dec 15, 10:36
Thanks Kian ... Din't expect you to publish the comment but you did & replied as well ...
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Like +1 Object -0 kianganz 18 Dec 15, 10:50
Pleasure, always happy to publish comments that are not abusive.
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Like +5 Object -2 Supporter 18 Dec 15, 11:03
She needs help! She was living out of her car till I last heard. I think she needs urgent financial, moral and medical support and counseling. Can some of us LI readers form a group to extend support to her. Of course, if she doesn't want us to get involved, it is upto her.
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Like +4 Object -0 kianganz 18 Dec 15, 12:18
Agree, she's been in a very difficult position for the past few years but I'm not sure if there's an easy way of assisting her.
I believe that she may have a bona fide original complaint that there were some irregularities at GE, though I'm not sure whether those extend to outright corruption or that she'd be able to prove it satisfactorily in a court, particularly when faced with a lot of high-powered lawyers on the other side.
And in any case, as held by the high court in March, the majority of her charges are now infructious since no tender was eventually awarded.
I also think that she's had a lot to deal with and GE and others could have been more supportive.
Counselling would be useful in helping her process what's been happening, but I don't think she's amenable to that.
It's clear she's a smart and capable lawyer but I fear that the Delhi HC's approach here is short-sighted and vindictive.
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Like +2 Object -1 Sensible Reporting 18 Dec 15, 12:04
I agree, we should all help her in whatever way we can. The irony is that the readers of this post are able to understand that she needs help but not the "Hon'ble Courts". Kian you better come up with a disclaimer or else they will also hold your website in contempt.
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Like +0 Object -0 kianganz 18 Dec 15, 12:40
I don't think there's any risk of contempt in what we've reported, is there?
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Like +4 Object -0 Sensible Reporting 18 Dec 15, 14:10
You never know ... At times I feel that 'contempt of court' is 'ego of court'. You hurt it and you are booked.
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Like +3 Object -1 Humane Judiciary 18 Dec 15, 12:45
Agree with you Kian. The entire court knows about her condition and instead of demonstrating sensitivity and recommending help for her, the Judges thought it more important to show that they are the almighty and can go to any extent to make people believe that. This judgement is actually more a reflection of the mental health of the judiciary which is definitely contemptuous.
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Like +1 Object -0 I think... 18 Dec 15, 13:03
I think you meant to say, "contemptible" :-)
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Like +3 Object -0 kianganz 18 Dec 15, 13:16
Agree. The judiciary's use of contempt reminds me of the proverb, "when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail".
Prison was clearly an inappropriate remedy in this case and speaks more of frustration than of justice being done.
Here's the previous order passed by the HC on 30 October of this year:
http://delhihighcourt.nic.in/writereaddata/orderSan_Pdf/vjm/2015/155726_2015.pdf
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Like +2 Object -0 Mx. X 18 Dec 15, 14:57
Dear Humane
Without going into the merits, and restricting my comment to Ms. Sapra's so-called condition as stated in your comment, one can only observe that the Court doesn't "know" anything without proof. Until such time, the Court is entitled to claim that it doesn't know what it doesn't know.
Here's hoping that the appeal succeeds!
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Like +1 Object -0 Intolerant 18 Dec 15, 14:54
So much intolerance in India....in fact extreme intolerance. Should I stay in this country or go to the grand Trump plaza. I am afraid to come to open the LI website. Simply intolerable. I hope the Force awakens...and all this comes to an end.
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Like +5 Object -4 Listen people 18 Dec 15, 16:04
Dont try to sympathise with her so unnecessarily...how do you call this insensitive of the court...at this rate i should start sympathising with anyone who wastes the court;s time, makes absolutely frivolous allegations, right? Also please do read how very far fetched her allegations are before trying to show the court in poor light...the woman needs help, no doubt...but that is no reason for the courts to allow for all such people and waste the court's time..
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Like +1 Object -1 kianganz 18 Dec 15, 16:04
But is prison the right remedy in this case?
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Like +3 Object -0 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 20:10
"Listen people" - in the spirit of polite and constructive engagement, could you tell me specifically which complaints of mine you found frivolous or far-fetched and why?
My complaints were and are certainly grave and remain un-adjudicated to date. The DB judgment in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others) did not deal with any of my complaints,
If you share your specific concerns, maybe I can set them at rest by showing you evidence and documents available on the court record in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others) that establish that my complaints were serious, genuine and borne out by evidence/ material on record.
& me approaching the Court to fight for my right to life is certainly no waste of judicial time.
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Like +6 Object -5 Mukeshji 18 Dec 15, 16:49 controversial
Dear Kian
Is LI a Seema Sapru Sympathy Society?
To an observer this lady has been filing dozens of complaints in every possible forum, court, department, you name it for many years now, always on the same old conspiracy theory. Sure every single court / police station / government department etc. cannot be corrupt or biased??
She writes a lot of comments on LI and most of it is bakwaas (stupid). She may be entitled to her views but her legal concepts are totally rubbish (politely speaking). If she was a judge every allegation would be true till proven guilty. The only thing that is needed is for her to be confined to a mental institution till her sanity returns.
I for one am glad that the court has sent this message. Quite clearly after quite a bit of provocation.
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Like +2 Object -0 kianganz 18 Dec 15, 16:53
I do think sympathy is more useful here than 'sending a message' via prison, yes.
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Like +4 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 17:03
Mukeshji, The only case/ complaint I ever filed in any Court or judicial forum was a whistleblower corruption case against General Electric Company in the Delhi High Court being Writ Petition Civil 1280/ 2012.
The rest is in your imagination, or are you deliberately spreading disinformation about me. Lets keep to specifics and facts please.
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 17:10
The issues here are the following?
Am I a whistleblower as described by me in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 that I filed against General Electric Company?
Was the decision of the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court dismissing that writ petition correct and sustainable in law?
Yes, I have thus far not appealed that decision for various reasons including hoping to buy peace. I was also targeted in several ways thereby preventing me from file such an appeal.
But that decision dismissing WP 1280/ 2012 was not a ruling on merits. There is no res judicata bar for me to file a fresh whistleblower and right to life petition before the Supreme Court of India.
It now appears as if I will have to file such a petition.
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 17:14
WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others) was not filed as a PIL nor was meant to be a PIL nor did I ever represent it as a PIL. I deliberately did this because I was seeking protection for myself as a whistleblower, complainant and witness. I was an interested party in this sense.
Yet the DB decision dismissing this petition mis-describes it as a PIL and uses that to penalise me. This is a clear error apparent on the face of the record.
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 17:23
WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others) - my whistleblower corruption case was according to the DB decision dismissed because it had according to the Bench become infructuous.
The ruling states in more than one place that the Court therefore would not / did not consider the documents/ material on record.
Yet without considering the material on record, the Court proceeds also to state in its ruling that my complaints were baseless and that I had not produced any evidence in support.
This ruling is clearly wrong and unsustainable.
The Court refused to look at the material, did not permit me to argue and its decision is contrary to the court record.
You can verify this yourself by going through the public court record available at http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/p/updated-court-documents-in-whistle.html
If you have less time, read one application that was before the Court and is available at http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/p/some-of-corruption-fraud-bribery_4275.html
I produced sufficient evidence in support of my corruption complaints against General Electric .
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 17:42
On the issue that WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others) had become infructuous.
There was complaints of bribes, illegal lobbying, tailoring and manipulation of tender documents, fraud, forgery, undue influence, favoritism, violation of disclosure guidelines, violation of conflict of interest provisions, illegal communication with the Railways etc in connection with a multi-billion dollar tender.
When it became clear to the Govt that it was not possible to proceed with the impugned tender with the evidence on record, the Govt cancelled the tender two years into the petitions's pendency.
How does cancellation of the tender render the complaints infructuous especially when the cancellation itself was a cover-up device?
The writ petition prayers including investigation of all complaints plus sought blacklisting in accordance with tender conditions if fraud. forgery, conflict of interest, illegal lobbying etc were proved.
So does the law say that the Govt can ignore corruption by a bidder by cancelling that tender and inviting the same bidder to a fresh tender for the same Project?
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 17:56
On the following sentence which appears in the report:
"An anonymous blog from 2014 has alleged that she "currently seems to be suffering from mental illness".
There are two facts here, first this is an anonymous blog created on 10 March 2014 one year before WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others) was dismissed.
This blog misrepresented my complaints and spread disinformation about me. It was part of GE's campaign to discredit and destroy me as a witness by repeated and unsuccessful attempts to falsely label me mentally ill.
Whistleblowers who complain about high-powered corruption often face retaliation of this kind.
Read this blog targeting me - it says nonsense.It deliberately misrepresents and caricatures my complaints and my situation.
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 18:42
In fact the DB decision in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others) does not even refer to the material that I had placed on record in support of my corruption complaints and in support of my complaints that I was being targeted and physically harmed. .
It is a 100 page judgment. Pages 7-18 merely reproduce extracts from SC decisions on PIL misuse when the instant petition was never filed as a PIL nor ever treated as a PIL by the Court or the Court registry from 2012 till 2015.
Pages 19-54 merely selectively reproduce previous orders passed in the matter. I was never provided an opportunity to explain those orders or the circumstances in which they were passed. These orders were then used by the Bench to draw adverse inferences against me. My response to several of those orders which was part of the court record was never considered by the Bench.
Pages 56-88 merely reproduce only the prayer clauses of selective applications which were pending before the Court. None of these nor other detailed applications were considered or taken up or decided by the Bench. But according to the Bench these applications showed my irresponsibility and frivolousness without the Bench going into either the preliminaries or the merits of these applications.
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 18:57
On page 78 of the DB judgment in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others) is another error apparent on the face of the record. The judgment quotes the title of my application CM 10493 of 2013 but then reproduces the prayer clause of CM 10492 of 2013 which was filed by AZB.
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 23:26
If the law as laid down in Supreme Court Bar Association of India v. Union of India (1998) 4 SCC 409 still holds, the Delhi High Court DB had no jurisdiction to debar me from practicing the profession of law before it and before subordinate courts for a period of 2 years.
Only the Bar Council of Delhi can suspend or abrogate my right to practice law and that too after following due process.
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Like +7 Object -0 RNR 19 Dec 15, 01:34 interesting
Go Seema Sapra! Fight your Battle! If you believe something, you do. Nobody should be able to tell you otherwise, court! a court does not matter in the spiritual scheme of things. I think the comment on B&B over your mental health and here too, though might fall within the freedoms of speech are of not much literary value and may in many quarters be considered distasteful. Five Six words wasted in pitying you instead of showing creativity! I like a fighter. And i see one in you! Go Seema Sapra!
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Like +2 Object -3 Seema Sapra 19 Dec 15, 14:08
Thank you RNR.
The B&B article displayed lack of journalistic integrity by crossing the line from fair and factual reporting into publishing falsehoods about me without any supporting evidence or citation.
That article states: "Sapra can be spotted regularly in Delhi High Court and is often seen making remarks during the hearing of cases and getting into arguments with other lawyers."
This is not true. I have not even entered a court-room in the Delhi High Court unless it was for my writ or the contempt matters against me for over a year.
Any honest regular in the Delhi High Court will confirm that I do not as falsely stated by B&B disrupt court hearings by making remarks during those hearings.
I have had the occasional argument with a lawyer but I have learnt to avoid those. The fact is that there are lawyers involved/ implicated in my complaints and lawyers close to persons/ entities implicated in my complaints. There is a cartel of lawyers actively working against me in the Delhi High Court especially. I have been told by several well-wishing colleagues that they have been pressured not to talk to me, stand with me, or to support me. Some lawyers have expressed apprehensions that Delhi High Court Judges might get upset if these lawyers are seen to be associating with me or helping me (and not in connection with my cases but even professionally or personally). I am sure many readers here know exactly what I am talking about. I am being professionally and socially blacklisted, isolated, being reduced to a pariah. And this is a deliberate campaign.
The B&B report also starts by describing me as one who "is known for making allegations against lawyers and judges". Yes I have made some complaints. I have been forced to. But the B&B statement depicts me as someone who makes frivolous complaints without any basis.
By the way B&B blocked me on Twitter for unknown reasons sometime in 2014. They don't allow my comments on their website. And they never reported my corruption case against General Electric Company. Again the influence of the lawyer cartel that is working against me?
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Like +8 Object -4 Logically speaking 19 Dec 15, 14:44
Hey Seema,
There is just one tiny little thing that I wanted to bring to your attention...that is that the world is not organised around to be able to kill you or to abet the same. Had that been the goal, with the giants that you're up against, the mission would have been accomplished a long time ago...look up paranoid personality disorder for your own benefit...
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Like +2 Object -6 Seema Sapra 19 Dec 15, 19:01
If people want to help me, then my foremost and most urgent need is financial assistance and a safe place to stay.
I am presently staying in a room at a B&B where I am paying Rs 50,000 per month. I am trying to raise funds to pay for this accommodation.
Over and above this I need money to spend on food and other living expenses.
Is there some way those who care can help me out here by crowdfunding this. They can do this anonymously.
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Like +3 Object -4 Mukeshji 20 Dec 15, 18:25
Kian, I feel LI should not support or encourage or provide a platform for solicitation of alms in this manner, no matter what your private view [...].
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Like +5 Object -5 Silent 20 Dec 15, 10:10 controversial
When an individual feels they deserve special privileges from the society without having done anything special for the society in return, it indicates a sense of entitlement disorder.
In a civilized society, the state would order an immediate psychiatric evaluation and treatment of such an individual. Empathy is the litmus test that differentiates a civilized society from a barbarian society.
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Like +3 Object -0 Seema Sapra 20 Dec 15, 16:19
It takes all kinds of humans to make this world. There is a space for paid trolls too. I choose to ignore you.
His/ her last sentence though is out of place, don't you think.
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Like +3 Object -0 Seema Sapra 20 Dec 15, 16:32
Well lets see we are talking of a hypothetical individual here who was honest, upheld her prescribed code of conduct, refused to facilitate corruption and exposed it. She was targeted, including being drugged and poisoned.
She managed somehow to file a writ petition. That petition was not heard for 3 years. She got no preliminary relief either, protection orders were issued but not complied, she continued to be targeted including by attempts to falsely label her mentally ill, her money ran out, she was rendered homeless, her belongings were taken away, she was forced to try and raise money, she started sleeping in her car because she needed less money that way, she continued to be targeted, drugged, poisoned, sprayed with noxious fumes. She continued to fight the corruption battle by drafting affidavits/ applications in cafes, in malls, in the Delhi High Court canteen.
Unfortunately she fractured her fibula on a very hot summer day because she was homeless and being targeted. Three days later, a doctor deliberately dislocated her ankle.
She managed to raise funds and stay in hotels with her broken leg and dislocated ankle which slowly healed. She used a walker to hop first, then a stick, she was in a cast for 1 year 3 months or so. She continued to be targeted.
Story to be continued plus lots of missing bits to be added. Hpefully this gives a flavor.
She is not asking for special privileges, but she needs justice and hopes that there are humane people around who will help her get that. Otherwise she will end up dead and people will say the system killed her.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 20 Dec 15, 10:56
Hello all those people who want to help,
I have been staying since October 2015 in a room at a B&B where I am paying Rs 50,000 per month. I have already paid Rs. 10,5000 to the owners of this place, where I have managed to keep myself safe.
I have been told this morning that unless I pay Rs 37500 (three weeks rent) which was due yesterday by tomorrow (Monday), I should vacate the place by Tuesday morning.
It is the dead of winter. I have a dislocated ankle so it is not possible for me to sleep in my car as I was doing earlier. Plus being in a car on the street again places me in danger.
So any people or group of people out there who want to help me with financial assistance so that I can pay for the accommodation? With the way I have been targeted as evidenced by the anonymous blog, you can appreciate that it has been made impossible for me to work and earn money.
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 20 Dec 15, 21:18
To this comment –
"There is just one tiny little thing that I wanted to bring to your attention...that is that the world is not organised around to be able to kill you or to abet the same. Had that been the goal, with the giants that you're up against, the mission would have been accomplished a long time ago...look up paranoid personality disorder for your own benefit..."
Now to answer this kind of GE propaganda against me that is intended to drown what I am saying.
Since I came out publicly with my complaints against General Electric, their crisis and PR managers/ agents have attempted to control the way in which I am perceived by the target audience. PR management is a very important part of how Corporates manage PR crises, and my complaints constitute one.
So one kind of propaganda that I face is from persons who are used to repeatedly describe me as mentally ill in public fora and within communities while trying to hide any reference to my whistle-blower complaints against GE. My present condition of being homeless, broke, forced to raise money, my currently dead career are therefore used to depict me as someone who has failed and is now mentally disturbed. All discussion of how I ended up in these circumstances is avoided. Thus someone can call me mentally ill merely by saying she has been begging for money or merely by saying she has been sleeping in her car. These facts itself are enough it seems for some people to term me mentally ill.
The other kind of propaganda is the kind that this commenter "Logically Speaking" is attempting here. He is saying basically that the fact that I am still alive proves that GE agents have not harmed me or tried to harm me. And that the simple fact of me being alive itself disproves my claim that I have been and am being harmed or that there is a threat to my life. My claim according to such propaganda stands disproved without any need for anyone to even see on what basis I am making my complaints or to hear me or to look at any evidence that I might have. And the propaganda goes further to suggest that merely because I am still alive all my complaints of attempts on my life, threat to my life, drugging, poisoning, physical harm are false and that I am merely being paranoid.
The argument is that if GE intended to kill me they would have succeeded by now.
Let me now expose this propaganda for what it is.
It is also important to tell my story in chronological form. One disadvantage that I faced in the Delhi High Court was that there was no chronological statement of how I had been targeted. I was complaining in real time.
First a corporate like GE does not have its enemies shot on the road. A corporate like GE would use other methods to get rid of someone who is a threat. They would for instance chronically poison someone to damage their health. They would create conditions in which the death could be passed off as natural. They would use doctors, police, judges, family members, friends etc for this. This is how high-profile enemies are eliminated. Remember the attempts to pass off Sunanda Pushkar's death as natural?
A corporate like GE would use contractors to do their dirty work. These contractors could be ex FBI, ex CIA, ex police, ex-military, security agencies, PR agencies, risk management companies, etc. A corporate like GE would use local police, local security agencies, local intelligence agencies to do their dirty work.
A company like GE would also control a person by covertly drugging that person.
So what has happened to me since 2010 when I became a threat to GE and its executives and lawyers.
It's a long story …
When I was still working with GE and I became a threat I was being drugged. I realised this only later. This would be June- July, August=September 2010.
I continued to be drugged and possibly also chronically poisoned through 2010 until the end of January 2011 while GE completed its alleged internal investigation.
I fell ill in January 2011 as a result of this drugging/ poisoning. I did not realise that I was being drugged or poisoned.
One evening in January 2011 I had difficulty breathing. I then started coughing out copious amounts of frothy phlegm. This happened a day after I met someone in Defence Colony market where I believe I was drugged/ poisoned.
I coughed copious amounts of phlegm through the whole month of January and part of February. At that time, I actually thought I was dying.
There was a respite of about a month when I started feeling better.
But around March April 2011 when I started challenging GE's internal investigation results the poisoning and drugging recommenced and or intensified.
So I continued to be drugged and poisoned through April, May June 2011. I saw a doctor in June 2011 about a swollen lymph node in the front of my neck which appeared overnight. I still did not suspect drugging or poisoning. In fact, the thought did not even enter my mind.
This doctor at Apollo wrote a strange prescription which prescribed double the dosage of a sedating anti-histamine. I believe this was a deliberate attempt to keep me sedated. This doctor also made a strange attempt to get me to consume a proton pump inhibitor for no reason.
Toxic fumes and gases were also being released into my home since around December 2010 – January 2011.
I smelt a gas called nitrous oxide in my home on more than one occasion. I believe this gas was being released into my home from May 2011 onwards. Nitrous oxide is an anaesthetic. Repeated exposure damages health, depletes vitamin B 12 which in turn causes nerve/ neuron damage and anemia. Exposure to nitrous oxide along with a proton pump inhibitor further exacerbates and hastens vitamin B 12 deficiency.
I had not yet gone to Court. I was at this time mainly confined to my home. I was being drugged and my health was being slowly damaged. The intent appears to have been to keep me drugged and use nitrous oxide and other substances etc to damage my health. Note that I have no way of even knowing what I was being drugged or poisoned with during this time. I can merely describe my symptoms.
But note that though I was kept alive I was controlled by being drugged and I was being slowly poisoned. So I was mainly confined to the house, and the damage I could do to GE during this period was curtailed. Thus far GE prevented me from approaching the Courts. I wasted one year because of this. I did however manage from April-May onwards to email lawyers and the Press about my complaints against GE. I remember a lawyer calling me and telling me not to spread this news. I believe this person was asked to call me and to suggest that I not publicise my complaints. The fact that I did make my complaints public at this time probably saved my life. Otherwise I might never have left that house.
What I believe also saved my life then was the fact that I sensed something was not right and that my maid had something to do with it. I recall thinking not very clearly that she might be tampering with my food. My symptoms in June were weakness in my legs upon waking up. And a pain upon bending forward in the left upper thorax/abdomen area just under my chest.
In June 2011 I also started to be harassed at my home at night.
At the end of June 2011, I curtailed my maids visits to my home and finally terminated her services.
I started feeling better within days and started going out of the house including to both the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court.
It is in July 2011 that with a clearer head and after talking to people in the Courts that I first realised that I was being drugged and poisoned. This was the first time that I understood that my life was in danger.
To be continued ...
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Like +2 Object -4 Mukeshji 21 Dec 15, 06:46
Nitrous Oxide is a ridiculous means to drug someone.
It has very little use today and is hard to procure. The online literature shows that it is not a very toxic gas either and exposure will on the contrary make a 'victim' want to leave the vicinity. For even medical conditions to show 'chronic' use of a high dose for weeks is needed. Less than 6 hours exposure at a time is harmless
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12751548
There are a zillion ways someone bent on hushing you can do it and if you think Nitrous Oxide is the way you really are as paranoid as they claim you are
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Like +1 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 08:27
I didn't say that nitrous oxide was being used to "drug" me.
Nitrous oxide was only one of several ways in which I have been targeted. It was being used to destroy my health. Something else was being administered to me to drug me.
"Long-term exposure to high concentrations of nitrous oxide may cause megaloblastic bone-marrow depression and neurological symptoms."
I was in the house alone the whole day for months. Often the windows and doors were shut. The AC was on. I was in a closed room. Very easy to expose me to poisonous fumes for extended periods of time. I smelt it in my home. I identified it as nitrous oxide after smelling it in Max Hospital in an examination room where I had an ultrasound.
I developed numbness and tingling in my hands, fingers and feet. It has since resolved.
Every thing you have said is wrong. Very easy to procure nitrous oxide. Commonly used by dentists. Commonly available anaesthetic. long term exposure to levels less than anesthetic levels will cause several health problems.
Nitrous oxide can cause analgesia, depersonalisation, derealisation, dizziness, euphoria, and some sound distortion.[22] Research has also found that it increases suggestibility and imagination.[23
Like other NMDA antagonists, N2O was suggested to produce neurotoxicity in the form of Olney's lesions in rodents upon prolonged (several hour) exposure.[52][53][54][55] However, new research has arisen suggesting that Olney's lesions do not occur in humans, and similar drugs like ketamine are now believed not to be acutely neurotoxic.[56][57] It has been argued that, because N
2O has a very short duration under normal circumstances, it is less likely to be neurotoxic than other NMDA antagonists.[58] Indeed, in rodents, short-term exposure results in only mild injury that is rapidly reversible, and permanent neuronal death only occurs after constant and sustained exposure.[52] Nitrous oxide may also cause neurotoxicity after extended exposure because of hypoxia. This is especially true of non-medical formulations such as whipped-cream chargers (also known as "whippets" or "nangs"), which are not necessarily mixed with oxygen.[59]
Additionally, nitrous oxide depletes vitamin B12 levels. This can cause serious neurotoxicity with even acute use if the user has preexisting vitamin B12 deficiency.[60]
Nitrous oxide is also neuroprotective, inhibiting glutamate-induced excitotoxicity.
The major safety hazards of nitrous oxide come from the fact that it is a compressed liquefied gas, an asphyxiation risk, and a dissociative anaesthetic. Exposure to nitrous oxide causes short-term decreases in mental performance, audiovisual ability, and manual dexterity.[61] Abusing nitrous oxide can lead to oxygen deprivation resulting in loss of blood pressure, fainting and even heart attacks. [62]
Long-term exposure can cause vitamin B12 deficiency, numbness, reproductive side effects (in pregnant females), and other problems (see Biological). The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recommends that workers' exposure to nitrous oxide should be controlled during the administration of anaesthetic gas in medical, dental, and veterinary operators.[63] People can be exposed to nitrous oxide in the workplace by breathing it in or getting the liquid on their skin or in their eyes. The National_Institute_for_Oc cupational_Safety_and_Hea lth (NIOSH) has set a Recommended_exposure_limi t (REL) of 25 ppm (46 mg/m3) exposure to waste anaesthetic.[64]
Nitrous oxide inactivates the cobalamin form of vitamin B12 by oxidation. Symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency, including sensory neuropathy, myelopathy, and encephalopathy, can occur within days or weeks of exposure to nitrous oxide anaesthesia in people with subclinical vitamin B12 deficiency. Symptoms are treated with high doses of vitamin B12, but recovery can be slow and incomplete.[68] People with normal vitamin B12 levels have stores to make the effects of nitrous oxide insignificant, unless exposure is repeated and prolonged (nitrous oxide abuse). Vitamin B12 levels should be checked in people with risk factors for vitamin B12 deficiency prior to using nitrous oxide anaesthesia.[69]
In India, for general anaesthesia purposes, nitrous oxide is available as Nitrous Oxide IP. India's gas cylinder rules (1985) permit the transfer of gas from one cylinder to another for breathing purposes. This law benefits remote hospitals, which would otherwise suffer as a result of India's geographic immensity. Nitrous Oxide IP is transferred from bulk cylinders (17,000 litres [600 cu ft] capacity gas) to smaller pin-indexed valve cylinders (1,800 litres [64 cu ft] of gas), which are then connected to the yoke assembly of Boyle's machines. Because India's Food & Drug Authority (FDA-India) rules state that transferring a drug from one container to another (refilling) is equivalent to manufacturing, anyone found doing so must possess a drug manufacturing license.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 07:41
In March 2013, while WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v General Electric Company and Others) was still pending, I discovered by chance that one Jayanand - Regional Security Director of GE India had sent a false complaint against me to the Police Commissioner and the Delhi High Court behind my back. This letter from Jayanand (on a GE letterhead) which I read when I inspected the court file falsely alleged that I was researching explosives on the internet and that I was mentally ill and was likely to harm myself or others and that I needed psychiatric treatment.
I moved CM 5007/ 2013 in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 asking for investigation into and prosecution of GE executives including Jayanand for making a false police complaint against me when I was in Court exposing GE corruption.
Note that this application like all my other applications was never taken up for hearing. It was never heard, considered or decided. This was a very serious complaint by me with proof.
This application as placed on the court record can be read at https://docs.google.com/filed/0BzdLbTmYqfPvTm55WVdfX3JpVFU/edit
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 09:00
Since I don't want to waste my time countering GE trolls hell-bent on preventing me from recording all that has been done to me because I exposed GE corruption and because I constitute a threat to GE executives and lawyers, I will ignore Mukeshji's comment on nitrous oxide.
I will only say that everything he has said is wrong and anyone interested can google nitrous oxide themselves.
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Like +0 Object -5 Guest123 21 Dec 15, 16:23
This is Seema Saprra's linked profile: https://in.linkedin.cm/in/seema-sapra-4953a46
Can someone who know her from DU/Leicester/AMSS/Karanja wala/Chevening network please help her?
I know someone who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. The more you ignore it the worse it gets. But it can be kept under control through medication and you can have a normal life. I wish Ms Sapra could see the film A Beautiful Mind and voluntarily visit a psychiatrist at VIMHANS/NIMHANS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Beautiful_Mind_(film)
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 17:07
All, please avoid this GE-sponsored troll. I intend to take my whistle-blower corruption complaints against General Electric to the Supreme Court including the issue of the fraud committed before the Delhi High Court where K R Radhakrishnan impersonated as the authorized signatory of General Electric Company.
See http://geimpersonationfrau.blogspot.in/ and http://genealelectricfakeauthoritydocs.blogspot.in/
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 19:26
For those interested, there is a better note on my background at
http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/p/about-me.html
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Like +0 Object -5 Guest123 21 Dec 15, 16:29
Ms Sapra should also read this article. Maybe this will make her realise she needs help.
http://bollywood.celebden.com/2014/03/19/the-complete-story-of-parveen-babis-illness-and-death/
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 17:12
All, once again please avoid these GE-sponsored trolls. Read about General Electric corruption in the Marhowra Project tender instead at
http://gemarhowracorruption.blogspot.in/
http://gemarhowracorruptionpart2.blogspot.in/
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 17:18
Read about money laundering by General Electric Company in India which the Enforcement Directorate and Income tax authorities are looking into
http://gemoneylaundering.blogspot.in/
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Like +3 Object -5 Anonymouse 21 Dec 15, 17:25
My sympathies are with Ms Sapra, but I think its important someone close to her ensure she receives the care she may require. I've witnessed schizophrenia up-close & think a visit to a good doctor at Max, Fortis, Apollo, CIMBS, VIMHANS, etc is the least her friends & family should do for her in this situation. Given that, what a pity that the Hon'ble Delhi HC has handed a harsh contempt sentencing instead.
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Like +3 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 17:30
Here's a message for everyone.
I am completely mentally sane and will fight my battle with General Electric in the Supreme Court of India.
I will use the court process to establish that I am being poisoned. Chronic poisoning shows up in the body in tox screens and in tissue like the hair and nails etc. So I will in my petition seek a court order that the Supreme Court direct AIIMS to test me for poisons and toxins. There is enough medical evidence on the court record in WPC 1280/ 2012 which will also establish any subsequent organ damage due to poisoning.
So don't worry about me. I am under no unmanageable stress and am confident of my abilities to fight my being targeted legally.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 17:44
I remind everyone that I had several applications in my writ petition seeking that the Medical Council of India be brought in to look at my complaints of past poisoning and how my complaints of poisoning had been handled by doctors.
I wanted those applications to be heard and for the MCI to be asked to look at my complaints and medical records which are part of the court record in WPC 1280/2012 including the complaint of deliberate ankle dislocation which is established by Xrays, audio records and doctor reports.
None of those applications were taken up in my writ. Why? Who was afraid of those applications being allowed and for the Medical Council of India to examine my complaints.
I will be impleading the Medical Council of India in my petition in the Supreme Court and will again seek directions that the MCI examine how in the past some doctors ignored and covered up my complaints of poisoning.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 18:57
I had filed CM 5008 of 2012 in WP Civil 1280 of 2012. It can be read at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzdLbTmYqfPvejBSTlhSOEZXNkU/edit
In this application I had described my complaints that several doctors at two private hospitals both with close ties to General Electric had attempted to cover up my complaints of poisoning and had even attempted to create false medical records, misdiagnose me with thyroid cancer, unlawfully drug me, etc. I had asked that notice be issued both to the Medical Council of India and the Medical Council of Delhi. Both these Councils as well as medical supervisory bodies both in the UK and the US are already aware of these complaints and of the accompanying medical evidence as I sent it to a whole lot of doctors and physician regulators on email.
Why was this application not heard and allowed? If I am wrong then the Medical Council of India would have said so. Obviously the implicated persons and doctors and their co-conspirators at General Electric were afraid of this application. The fact is that the medical records I have filed and the complaints I have made establish what I am asserting.
Also relevant to this application are copies of my medical records which I had filed IN WPC 1280/ 2012 aand are available at https://docs.google.com/fil/d/0BzdLbTmYqfPvb0dFVnFadC1lQjQ/edit
For those who do not know, GE Healthcare is probably the largest healthcare company in the world. It has very close and deep financial and other ties to many hospitals.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 20:10
Deliberate dislocation of ankle by Doctor - complaint and medical records as on the court record in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 - Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & others.
Read at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzdLbTmYqfPveDdmcVpOUXhSekU/edit
and
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzdLbTmYqfPvdUhGWW50bmNVSTg/edit
I remember a Tis Hazari lawyer whose bones were broken by a builder using goons.
General Electric does it in more style - it saw an opportunity and used a doctor to dislocate my ankle.
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Like +4 Object -5 Please help Ms Sapra 21 Dec 15, 20:52
Kian, enough. Please block Ms Sapra's posts and stop making a cruel exhibition of the mentally ill. This is a serious matter and she desperately needs to be admitted under the care of a psychiatrist. Someone must contact the police and forcibly admit her to a good hospital. I cannot believe that you are posting her rants. This is disgusting yellow journalism from you.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 23:44
Another GE troll. Looks like the folks at GE and their lawyers are getting very riled up with the truth getting exposed here.
The trolls are now getting nastier and nastier.
What kind of person are you to defame me like this? I think the readers of this site can see the truth now.
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Like +3 Object -0 kianganz 21 Dec 15, 23:44
Well, the comments are actually not journalism, yellow or otherwise, and this is a very complicated situation.
I also think there is some value for the profession and the judiciary to understand what's going on.
Finally, I don't think your proposed 'solution' is realistic or legal.
In any case, the discussion is not going anywhere new and we'll close the comments on this for a while. Please feel free to email me directly at the usual address if you have any thoughts.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 23:46
Here is more dirt on GE corruption in the Marhowra Rail Project - again from the public court record
General Electric corruptly obtained Indian Rail Marhowra Project bid docs before they were public
http://gecorruptionpart2.blogspot.in/
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 23:55
Wikileaks US Embassy cables on creation of Marhowra loco factory Project for General Electric
http://gecorruptionpart3.blogspot.in/
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Like +5 Object -0 AAP ka Aman 22 Dec 15, 00:30 interesting
Please contact Mr. Arvind Kejriwal or Mr. Sisodia. I am sure that they will help you out. They are honest people and so you can expect lots of good from them.
36. Legal academic Shamnad Basheer who has close ties to GE's lawyers and whose organizations avail funding from GE was used to put up a malicious Facebook post targeting the petitioner which he removed after the petitioner protested to him. Shamnad Basheer referred to this blog in email communications when the petitioner confronted and objected to his defamatory post. The Facebook post by Shamnad Basheer is reproduced below.
"I've been extremely troubled after reading this some days ago. We have some of the best brains in the legal profession. And some of the most compassionate souls (a minority yes, but they do exist!). No one willing to help her? I mean in a sustained way? From her responses to this post and several other earlier writings of hers that I've seen (on LI and other blogs), she clearly has an exceptionally astute and articulate legal mind. "I'm not sure of the veracity of her complaint, but close friends who know her better insist that she suffers from some kind of mental illness. Assuming this to be true, shouldn't we try and get her back on track? Get this remarkable legal brain to blossom again and be put to good constructive use? Or perhaps, her alleged insanity is not so much a reflection of her as it is about us. As R.D Laing put it many years ago, insanity is best defined as "a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world!"
37. A copy of a screenshot of Shamnad Basheer's Facebook post is annexed hereto as Annexure P-2.
38. Reproduced below is a copy of the email exchange between Shamnad Basheer and the Petitioner after this Facebook post was posted by Shamnad Basheer.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 6:07 PM
Subject: Incident of General Electric whistle-blower targeting & retaliation - Facebook post & email exchange with Shamnad Basheer - US SEC complaint TCR1439646785831
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Cc: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@gmail.com>, Seema Sapra <seemasapra@hotmail.com>
Please read this email exchange with Shamnad Basheer starting from the earliest to the latest email in chronological order.
I will be reproducing this correspondence and his Facebook post (screenshot attached) as an example of whistle-blower targeting and retaliation in the writ petition which I will file against General Electric Company in the Supreme Court of India.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 5:52 PM
Subject: Your Facebook post about me. -General Electric whistleblower
To: shamnad basheer <shamnad@gmail.com>
Cc: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@gmail.com>
So Shamnad,
You finally end up exposing yourself and your true agenda. And you are supposed to be a responsible academic.
I will be reproducing this correspondence and your FB post as an example of targeting in my writ petition which I will file against General Electric Company in the Supreme Court of India.
So the source of the information of your close friends is this anonymous blog which you are well aware contains lies as you have read my comments on the LI story at http://www.legallyindia.com/bar-bench-litigation/heavy-handed-lawyer-seema-sapra-sentenced-to-1-month-jail-for-calling-judge-and-many-others-corrupt
I think I'll concentrate my energies on fighting my corruption battle against General Electric in the Supreme Court of India rather than responding to the rest of your vitriol against me.
Seema Sapra
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 5:39 PM, shamnad basheer <shamnad@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Seema:
The LI article linked to a blog post that stated as below:
"To be clear, Seema Sapra is a pitiable creature in a very difficult situation. However, that does not detract from the fact that she is a public nuisance and that, due to a variety of peculiarities in her circumstances, the law offers only very limited protection from her. The point of this website is not to mock Seema, but rather to help those that encounter her protect themselves, whether they just want to avoid her or actually want to intervene and help her.
Seema is a lawyer who until a few years ago appeared to have a successful professional career, but currently seems to be suffering from mental illness. She is at present unemployed, has broken off all contact with her family (which has disowned her and refuses to take responsibility for her) and lives out of her car, which she parks in different New Delhi neighbourhoods, frequently quarrelling with residents when they complain about her "living" there. On one occasion, she started screaming at a woman whose house she had parked outside that the woman had been sent to murder her. On another occasion, she broke down the front door of a senior police officer who was not taking her call."
See link below:
http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in
And lawyers in the Delhi high court openly discuss this. So what is so surprising about this allegation? And why should my mention of it on a FB post as only a possibility (I was careful in my wording) harm you anymore than the theories already floating around about you. As the tenor of my Facebook post will demonstrate, I meant well for you--and wanted to find out if there are ways in which some of us could help. I really think you have a terrific legal mind.
If you insist that you are sane and others are doing this at the behest of GE (since your claim appears to be that almost everyone who raises issues about your sanity is necessarily an agent of GE), why don't you just volunteer to a neutral psychiatric evaluation? And if it makes you happy, some of us who wish to help you can also subject ourselves to such evaluation too so that you are not alone. And we can chose someone independent who is not an agent of GE and who will not dare poison or gas you! If I were you, I'd just do that and put an end to this speculation. Rather than being so hostile and adversarial to me and others that are trying to help you. I really dont want to engage with you anymore! I'm so sorry I even tried.
As I understand, the reason why nobody wishes to help you is because you attack the very same people that try and do so. I've really spent way too much time on this and have only received hostility from your end. I don't wish to engage with you anymore. This will be my last communication with you.
Please feel free to call me an agent of GE and publish all of this (you seem to be publishing your responses to me on your website even before you've actually emailed me and tagging me on twitter incessantly) and/or take me to court and initiate proceedings etc. I only wish you the very best and may god bless you.
Shamnad
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Shamnad, who are these close friends of yours who know me better. And how do they know this about me. So much that they insist upon this? Please name them. Maybe I can expose the basis/ motive for their obviously targeting me. Maybe I can also ask them to stop spreading such rumors about me.
Please post this entire exchange on your FB wall.
So you are saying that you chose to speculate on FB that I am mentally ill merely on the basis of conversation with some of your close friends who practice in the Delhi High Court.
Does the evidence that I have produced against GE and the evidence showing that I am being targeted, do my comments on the LI story, does my corruption case against GE not show that I am a whistle-blower.
How can you justify such extremely harmful speculation in an extremely sensitive mater merely on the basis of loose and cheap talk?
Seema Sapra
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Shamnad Basheer <shamnad@gmail.com> wrote:
Seema. You misunderstood the part about "close friends". These are my friends I refer to..not yours. Friends of mine who work in the delhi high court and know you. Please therefore amend your response in the light of above clarification and send. I will then post. Thanks.
Sent from my iPhone
On 25-Dec-2015, at 4:40 pm, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Shamnad,
The facts are that I filed a corruption case against General Electric Company which was wrongly dismissed by a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court in February 2015. In that case I produced evidence of wrongdoing by General Electric and evidence of physical harm (including poisoning) caused to me and attempted to be caused to me along with evidence of the most vicious retaliation against me. The Delhi High Court Bench did not look at this evidence and instead dismissed the petition by in my view a clearly legally unsustainable judgment.
Now the same Bench has passed an order sentencing me to prison for one month in a contempt case connected to the hearing of my corruption case against General Electric Company. I have stated that any prison sentence will be used to further drug, poison and eliminate me. And that I will not only appeal against the Contempt ruling but will also file an Article 32 petition seeking redressal of my whistleblower corruption complaints against General Electric which continue to give rise to a threat to my life and my complaints that I have been targeted, and have even been poisoned.
Legally India did a story on the contempt ruling where it mentioned my corruption case against General Electric and my complaints of poisoning. The LI story also linked to my statement on my blog at http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/2015/12/fwd-general-electric-fcpa-obstruction_18.html
Unfortunately the story also mentioned and linked to an anonymous blog targeting me since March 2014 which is being used to disseminate lies against me and to falsely describe me as mentally ill.
Now in the comments posted on the Legally India story, another person and I objected to Kian linking to the anonymous blog. In my comments I exposed that the anonymous blog was full of lies. I also provided links to documents and analysis to support my position that my corruption case against GE was wrongly dismissed.I linked to an application from the court record in my corruption matter seeking prosecution of General Electric executives for making a false police complaint against me with the atrocious claim that I was researching explosives on the internet. What such a false complaint against me was intended to achieve is self-evident. Anonymous trolls also targeted me in the comments at LI in an attempt to silence me, but some persons supported me. Unfortunately Kian Ganz shut down the comments on that story otherwise I would have continued to expose General Electric corruption and their retaliation against me.
You on Facebook linked to this LI story and posted the following:
"I've been extremely troubled after reading this some days ago. We have some of the best brains in the legal profession. And some of the most compassionate souls (a minority yes, but they do exist!). No one willing to help her? I mean in a sustained way? From her responses to this post and several other earlier writings of hers that I've seen (on LI and other blogs), she clearly has an exceptionally astute and articulate legal mind. "I'm not sure of the veracity of her complaint, but close friends who know her better insist that she suffers from some kind of mental illness. Assuming this to be true, shouldn't we try and get her back on track? Get this remarkable legal brain to blossom again and be put to good constructive use? Or perhaps, her alleged insanity is not so much a reflection of her as it is about us. As R.D Laing put it many years ago, insanity is best defined as "a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world!"
I have objected to your making a statement that "close friends who know her better insist that she suffers from some kind of mental illness". You do not name these alleged close friends or disclose the source of your information. I have pointed out to you that I have no close or other friends. I am not mentally ill. And that false rumors are being spread about me. Please tell me who are these alleged close friends? Have you spoken to them directly? Or is your information from a third party?What is the source of your information for this statement.
It was indefensible of someone in your position to call a lawyer mentally ill on Facebook without any material or basis therefor and that too a person fighting a corruption battle. As I have stated this was defamatory, it causes me harm and these kind of rumors which your post helped spread further aggravate the threat to my life.
I object to the following in your post:
"I'm not sure of the veracity of her complaint, but close friends who know her better insist that she suffers from some kind of mental illness. Assuming this to be true, shouldn't we try and get her back on track? Get this remarkable legal brain to blossom again and be put to good constructive use? Or perhaps, her alleged insanity is not so much a reflection of her as it is about us. As R.D Laing put it many years ago, insanity is best defined as "a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world!"
The rest of your statement above also affirms the mental illness falsehood as it starts with you saying "Assuming this to be true,"
I also point out that you can easily ascertain the veracity of my corruption complaints against General Electric by reading the public court record of my corruption case. See http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/p/updated-court-documents-in-whistle.html or at least http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/p/some-of-corruption-fraud-bribery_4275.html
The spreading of malicious and false rumors that I am mentally ill further endangers my life. I have had to personally message over 35 people who liked your post in order to set the record straight. This is a very serious issue given the kind of unfounded speculation you posted and encouraged about me. It only aggravates the threat to my life. Please undo the damage you have caused to me by publishing this email on your Facebook wall.
Thanks,
Seema Sapra
p.s
Shamnad, Can you please publish only the above on your FB wall.
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 3:44 PM, shamnad basheer <shamnad@gmail.com> wrote:
Also Seema: please note that since your main grouse is against the below quoted statements, please restrict your response (to be posted on my FB Page) only to that. Thanks and I wish you the very best.
""I'm not sure of the veracity of her complaint, but close friends who know her better insist that she suffers from some kind of mental illness. Assuming this to be true, shouldn't we try and get her back on track? Get this remarkable legal brain to blossom again and be put to good constructive use? Or perhaps, her alleged insanity is not so much a reflection of her as it is about us. As R.D Laing put it many years ago, insanity is best defined as "a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world!"
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Shamnad Basheer <shamnad@gmail.com> wrote:
Sure. Send me a response. I will post.
Sent from my iPhone
On 25-Dec-2015, at 1:13 pm, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Shamnad,
Merely deleting the defamatory post about me will not suffice. You have 2299 people following you. Many of them must have read your post and they were all misled about me. They will further discuss me with others and further spread defamatory and vicious rumors about me.
I am in such difficult circumstances and your post misled people about me. Your post has harmed me.
You must issue a public apology on your Facebook wall and allow me to comment there. Since your quota of 5000 follows is not exhausted, please accept my follow request so that I can post a response. Or post a response from me - I will send it to you.
This is a very serious issue given the kind of unfounded speculation you posted and encouraged about me. It only aggravates the threat to my life. Please undo the damage you have caused to me.
You know who I am as we corresponded in 2009. Those emails are reproduced below.
Seema Sapra
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Shamnad Basheer <shamnad@gmail.com> wrote:
I've deleted the post.
Sent from my iPhone
On 24-Dec-2015, at 9:09 pm, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Shamnad,
Thanks. Please edit your post.
I object to the following in your post:
"I'm not sure of the veracity of her complaint, but close friends who know her better insist that she suffers from some kind of mental illness. Assuming this to be true, shouldn't we try and get her back on track? Get this remarkable legal brain to blossom again and be put to good constructive use? Or perhaps, her alleged insanity is not so much a reflection of her as it is about us. As R.D Laing put it many years ago, insanity is best defined as "a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world!"
Which close friends? I am not suffering from any mental illness. http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/2015/12/fwd-general-electric-fcpa-obstruction_18.htmll
The spreading of malicious rumors that I am mentally ill further endangers my life. I have had to personally message over 35 people who liked your post in order to set the record straight.
Please post my response on your FB page yourself. I can draft a short response for you to post. This is only fair.
Seema Sapra
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Shamnad Basheer <shamnad@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry. Unfortunately I cannot add more friends since my quota of 5000 is exhausted. I will edit my post to remove that reference.
Sent from my iPhone
On 24-Dec-2015, at 8:16 pm, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Shamnad,
Your Facebook post is facilitating the spread of the malicious rumor that I am mentally ill. Please give me the opportunity to comment there to set the record straight.
I am sending you a FB friend request. Please accept it.
Seema Sapra
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Shamnad,
Since so much has happened over the last 5 years, I sometimes mix up dates if I am not careful. The email to you was drafted in a hurry so I mixed up some facts. Hence this email to set the facts straight.
I fractured my fibula in June 2014 and checked into a hotel (Red Fox at Aerocity) with a plaster cast that night because I had no where else to go. I was in a wheelchair and stayed at that hotel for 3 nights using a wheelchair to move around the disabled friendly room and to use the toilet. My ankle was fine.
I left that hotel and used a taxi to go straight to Fortis Hospital in Vasant Kunj where a doctor deliberately dislocated my ankle while removing the plaster cast and then tried to force me into surgery. I was not even told that my ankle had been dislocated.
I refused surgery and left the hospital in an Aircast boot. The taxi dropped me where my car was parked. I drove in my car to Ambience Mall where I used the internet in a Starbucks cafe to find a place to stay. That night I checked into the Oberoi Maidens Hotel at a discounted rate. I stayed there for about 3 weeks. Toxic chemicals were released into my room there to target me.Attempts were made to drug me. Perhaps I was drugged. I complained to the police. Nothing was done. Instead I was forced to leave the hotel using the Police. I was assaulted, threatened, physically dragged out, my laptop and phone sim card destroyed. I was at that time unable to walk, I was taken by the Police to a govt hospital where the police tried to get the doctors to create a false medical record against me. I was eventually told I could go. The police had moved my car from Oberoi Maidens to the hospital gate and I was left at my car
I drove off in my car. I first got a new sim card so that I could use my phone. I slept that night in my car outside gate 8 of the Delhi High Court. I slept sitting up in the drivers seat with my fractured leg stretched out across the hand brake area towards the passenger side where I rested the leg on some bags. The next morning I drove around trying to decide what to do and where to go. I drove to the YWCA on Parliament Street and checked in there. I was unable to walk, I was confined to the room for the duration of my stay here. I used a walker in my room to hop to the toilet. I was targeted there as well. Toxic chemicals were again released into my room. I was again most likely drugged. I was dependent upon food being delivered to my room. I made police complaints which were again ignored.
The story goes on.
All of these facts and complaints were on the court record in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 in my whistle-blower case against General Electric Company.
Seema Sapra
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Shamnad, please allow me to respond to your post about me publicly. First I thank you for drawing attention to my situation and for your sympathy. I am fighting a corruption whistle-blower battle against General Electric. The false rumors being spread about my being mentally ill are meant to target me. Which close friends are you talking about. Those who outright refused to help me find a place to stay when I was in court against GE, those who did not care if I had warm clothes, that I was forced to sleep in my car on Diwali, or in the dead of winter? Or that I had money for food. Or that I was being physically harmed. I request you to please not give voice to those spreading false stories about me, Let me comment in person on yr FB wall.
Do you know what J. Rajiv Shakdher said when my application for shelter came before him in July 2012. He had adjourned the application to Oct 2012 without relief. When I asked him please tell me where will I stay till then, his reply was "I have no clue".
I was forced to sleep in my car for over a year in the height of summer and the dead of winter.
When I fractured my leg and called lawyers from the hospital asking if they could help arrange for a place for me to stay, they all refused. I checked into a hotel. Three days later I was forced to leave that hotel because I was targeted there. That night I slept in my car with a three day old fractured fibula and a less than a day old dislocated ankle. All I had was an Aircast boot on.
I then checked into another hotel.
All of this was on the court record. All judges knew what I was going through. So did the Bar Associations & Bar Councils. None of them even responded to my written requests for support. These written requests for support with receipt stamps are part of the court record in WP Civil 1280/ 2012.
I requested several lawyers to help me rent a flat. No one helped.
And now these anonymous so-called friends are commenting online and defaming me by calling me mentally ill?
Seema
Email correspondence between Shamnad Basheer and me in 2009
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Shamnad Basheer <shamnad@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: Drug Seizures
To: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Great to hear back from you Seema,
Will be in touch.
Shamnad
On 29/07/09 6:21 PM, "Seema Sapra" <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi Shamnad,
Good to hear from you. Do read the article and let me know what you think.
And congratulations on your appointment at NUJS.
Regarding this post, I would have liked to get involved in a substantive discussion but I have a slight professional conflict of interest situation here so i'll pass the opportunity to comment.
But very generally there is no exhaustion of remedies kind of provision in WTO dispute settlement law. In fact, the DSU claims exclusive jurisdiction for the WTO DSB in adjudicating any violation of WTO law.
A challenge in EC domestic courts would raise the issues that have arisen in the "direct effect" series of caselaw.
I am based in delhi and working independently.
regards,
Seema
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Shamnad Basheer <shamnad@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Seema,
How're you doing? Where are you based now? I met with students of NLS and
they mentioned that you have a great article on IEL teaching--look forward
to reading.
I just did a follow up post on the drug seizure and TRIPS issue and
"importation" etc. Towards the end I've asked as follows:
" TRIPS: An "Exhaustion of Remedies" Doctrine?
Assuming that a plausible local remedy lies in this case (a challenge before
the Dutch courts), would this impact the WTO/TRIPS challenge that the Indian
and Brazilian government are preparing to bring in Geneva? In other words,
assuming such a dispute reaches a WTO panel, are they likely to duck the
issue by asking the parties to get a confirmatory ruling from local courts
suggesting that actions taken by Dutch customs authorities were "legal"
under Dutch law? Is there any concept of "exhaustion of remedies' doctrine
applicable to the WTO/TRIPS?
Most TRIPS cases have centred around disputes where the purport and ambit of
the impugned local legislation have been (more or less) clear. The only
challenge in such cases was the interpretation of TRIPS provisions
themselves. If this drug seizure dispute goes up before a WTO panel, it may
perhaps be the first case where the ambit of the impugned local legislation
itself is far from clear."
What do you think? Look forward to your views.
Shamnad
--
Shamnad Basheer
Ministry of HRD Professor in IP Law
National University of Juridical Sciences
NUJS Bhavan, 12 LB BLOCK
Salt Lake City, Sector III
Kolkata - 700098, India
Founder: SpicyIP
<http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com <http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com/>>
SSRN Author page: <http://ssrn.com/author=339749>
Tel No: +91 9831512975
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Shamnad Basheer
Ministry of HRD Professor in IP Law
National University of Juridical Sciences
NUJS Bhavan, 12 LB BLOCK
Salt Lake City, Sector III
Kolkata - 700098, India
Founder: SpicyIP
<http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com>
SSRN Author page: <http://ssrn.com/author=339749>
Tel No: +91 9831512975
39. The petitioner is a whistleblower against General Electric Company and a woman who has reported sexual harassment and sexual assault against two powerful lawyers. She has been targeted for now over seven years. This blog basically shows a criminal conspiracy to ensure that no one listens to the petitioner's complaints, to socially and professionally isolate her, to recruit people to target the petitioner, and to use a common technique used to target whistleblowers, destroy them and their credibility by falsely labelling them as mentally ill.
40. Who has created this blog? Who uses and accesses the email associated with this blog. How has that email been used?
41. That the Police and Home Ministry have failed to act on the petitioner's complaint about this blog shows that in both the previous UPA and present Modi Government, powerful government functionaries are working to protect GE and to target the petitioner.
42. A copy of this blog and the petitioner's complaints against this blog were filed by the petitioner in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012. The summoned and appearing respondents in that matter included the CBI, the Delhi Police Commissioner, the CVC, the Prime Minister's office, The Ministry of Home affairs, the Railway Ministry, all of which have ignored the petitioner's complaint about this anonymous blog targeting her. At least three ASGs were assigned Civil Writ Petition 1280/2012 (between 2012 to 2015) all of whom have ignored the petitioner's complaint about this anonymous blog targeting her. This establishes the complicity of the Indian State in targeting the petitioner.
43. It is submitted that the Government of India, the Delhi Police, the CVC and the CBI have all ignored and failed to respond to the Petitioner's complaint against this anonymous blog. The Government of India and its agencies have therefore failed to protect the fundamental right to life of the petitioner and her other fundamental rights that are violated by the criminal activity directed at the petitioner through this anonymous blog.
44. The petitioner is also constrained to point out that this anonymous blog targeting the petitioner whistle-blower/ witness to GE corruption and a sexual harassment and sexual assault survivor during the created and published during the pendency of her right to life whistleblower petition in the Delhi High Court was also ignored by the Delhi High Court which heard that case (Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012) between April 2014 until February 2015.
45. The petitioner is therefore constrained to file this Petition under Article 32 seeking directions to the Government of India through the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Information Technology to ask Google to take down this blog with immediate effect; directions to the CBI and the Cyber Crime cell of the Delhi Police and Government of India to find out from Google and through other investigations as to who created this blog and at whose behest; and directions to the CBI and the Cyber crime cells of the Government of India and Delhi Police to register FIRs against the person/ s and/or entities for the crimes committed against the petitioner by the creation of this anonymous blog. An FIR must also be lodged into the role that this blog has played in the larger criminal conspiracy to target and destroy the petitioner-whistleblower and complainant of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
46. It is submitted that anyone can misuse this anonymous online blog against the Petitioner. This blog is part of the smear campaign against the Petitioner. This blog makes it impossible for the Petitioner to find a job or practice the legal profession, as any prospective employee or client will find this blog upon googling the Petitioner's name and will be misled about the Petitioner. This Blog makes it impossible for Petitioner to live and work, or to have social interactions. This blog is part of a criminal conspiracy that is intended to destroy, incapacitate and eliminate the petitioner as she is a whistleblower/ witness in corruption, fraud, forgery, perjury and bribery by General Electric Company and also because the Petitioner has complained that she was sexually harassed by Raian Karanjawala and sexually harassed and sexually assaulted by Soli J. Sorabjee. This blog establishes and facilitates the criminal conspiracy to prevent the petitioner from finding a place where she can stay with a roof over her head; to prevent the petitioner from earning a living; to keep the petitioner homeless so that she can be more easily targeted, drugged and poisoned; to keep the petitioner dependent upon the charity of others for money to eat, live and survive; and to falsely label the petitioner whistleblower and survivor of sexual harassment and sexual assault as mentally ill to cover up the petitioner's complaints; and to facilitate the targeting, harassment, and poisoning of the petitioner-whistleblower by falsely labelling her as mentally ill.
47. The most pernicious and revealing part of this blog that establishes the criminal conspiracy to target the petitioner-whistleblower are the instructions to "people" on how to interact with the petitioner in the last part of this anonymous blog which are reproduced below.
Suggestions in dealing with her
(a) Do not meet with her in person, if possible, since she has made all sorts of accusations against anyone who has taken the trouble to meet with her personally. If you meet with her personally, INSIST on a witness being present and insist on the meeting occurring in a public place. She will typically try to say that this is not necessary. Do not be taken in by this.
(b) Do not under any circumstances give her money. If you feel strongly that you want to help her insist that it be contingent on her seeking immediate medical help.
(c) Do not engage in telephone conversations, since she records every phone conversation she has, selectively edits the conversations and places them on YouTube.
AS Chadiok was accused of trying to murder her after he had several telephone conversations with her
Various members of the Delhi Police accused of trying to murder her once they started engaging with her on the 100 number which she would repeatedly dial
(d) The police are of limited use in dealing with her, since she has made several allegations against them and is generally known to be a nuisance in Central Delhi. The police should certainly be contacted in the event she attempts or threatens physical violence, but when others have tried to do this the police usually asks them to apologize to her, in order to calm her down, since she has been known to get physically violent when highly agitated
(e) The courts are of limited use in dealing with her. Judges either refuse to hear petitions involving her, since this leads to commotion in the courtroom, or adjourn endlessly to avoid having to deal with her. As mentioned above, on one occasion she had to be physically evicted from a High Court courtroom
(f) The one thing she genuinely fears is institutionalization, so if she is harassing you and you mention that you will make some effort in this direction, there is a chance that she will stop. However, you have very limited ability to do anything in this regard.
For more information or any questions, please send an email to seemasapraalert@gmail.com
48. The Petitioner submits that Police and State complicity in targeting the petitioner-whistleblower is clear as no action was taken by State or Police authorities when the Petitioner brought this blog to the notice of the Police, the CVC, the CBI, the PMO, the Home Ministry, the Government of India, three ASGs of the Government of India and the Delhi High Court. No action has been taken against this crime committed against the petitioner and for the violation of the right to life of the petitioner by this crime which is continuing since March 2014 and even today. The State has the duty to protect the fundamental rights of all citizens and is obligated to act even if a third party violates the fundamental right to life of a person. And the duty of the State to protect the petitioner from harm and criminal acts by third parties is even greater because the petitioner is a whistleblower who has exposed corruption by General Electric Company and who is a crucial witness in these corruption complaints. The petitioner has risked her life exposing corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and perjury and her expose of this corruption is an act in public interest and constitutes the highest form of service to the country.
49. This blog establishes that the petitioner a whistleblower is being targeted, smeared, defamed and not being permitted to live. This constitutes a crime. This blog also amounts to the creation of false evidence. It misreports court proceedings of the Delhi High Court.
50. It is submitted that while this blog constitutes criminal defamation, it goes beyond that. This anonymous blog is intended to be used and is being used to incite and facilitate criminal activity targeting the petitioner-whistleblower. It is to be used and is being used to create an environment around the petitioner that results in the denial of her most basic human rights, and the most basic amenities needed to live. i.e., food, money and shelter. This anonymous blog was created to enable and is enabling the violation of the petitioner's right to live with dignity and respect, her right to be treated as a full human being, her right to earn a living, her right to shelter, her right to food, and her right to social interaction and social solidarity. This anonymous blog provides cover for the commission of criminal activity against the Petitioner.
51. Imagine a situation where the petitioner is in a public space, or in a mall or staying in a hotel. She gets targeted there with the participation of State police agencies or the IB etc, and an attempt is made to harm her. The petitioner complains. She tells people around her that she is a whistleblower and is being targeted. The persons targeting the petitioner can then show this blog to the persons who respond to the petitioner's call for help. This will result in no one coming forward to the aid and assistance of the petitioner. Also imagine if someone is being recruited to harm the petitioner. That person is shown this blog and is told that the Petitioner is not only mentally ill, but also that neither the Police nor the Courts will come to the aid of the petitioner if she complains and that her complaints even to the police will be ignored. This blog enables persons to be recruited to harm the petitioner-whistleblower.
52. The Petitioner is a whistleblower who has exposed corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and undue influence and illegal lobbying by GE in relation to the Railway Ministry's diesel locomotive factory project at Marhowra and its electric locomotive factory project at Madhepura. These complaints are being covered up. The Petitioner refers to the Criminal Appeal she has filed in the Supreme Court of India under diary no. 10342 of 2016.
53. She has also made still un-redressed complaints that as a young lawyer she was sexually harassed by lawyer Raian Karanjawala and was both sexually harassed and on one occasion, sexually assaulted by lawyer Soli J Sorabjee when the latter was Attorney General of India.
54. The Petitioner has been targeted since 2010 and she has been repeatedly drugged and poisoned. Attempts are being made to eliminate her by incapacitating her or murdering her. The Petitioner is being defamed. She is being surveilled and followed 24/7. She is being poisoned with poisonous chemicals, anesthetic agents and nerve agents. She is being harassed, intimidated and being both physically and mentally tortured. The petitioner is being prevented from working and is being compelled to survive on charity. The petitioner is being deliberately kept homeless so that she can be more easily targeted.
55. It is submitted that this blog is part of these attempts to eliminate the petitioner-whistleblower and sexual harassment survivor. It is submitted that this blog constitutes abetment to the intended murder of the petitioner, abetment to poison, to harass, intimidate, threaten, and to target the petitioner, and abetment to cause grievous hurt to the petitioner-whistleblower by dangerous weapons or means and by poison. This blog abets, exhorts and incites violence, criminal use of force and assault against the petitioner. This blog falsely represents the petitioner as a threat to any person she may come in contact with. This blog is part of the criminal conspiracy to eliminate the petitioner and is intended to abet, incite, procure, enable, facilitate various crimes against the petitioner and to obstruct and deprive the Petitioner from access to various amenities essential to life and a life with dignity.
56. This blog abets the intended murder, incapacitation, wrongful confinement, wrongful institutionalization, poisoning, harassment, surveillance, stalking, targeting, drugging, and mental and physical torture of the petitioner.
57. This blog is part of and establishes the criminal conspiracy to deprive the petitioner-whistleblower of shelter and a home, deprive the petitioner of the means to earn a livelihood, prevent her from getting a job, or from practicing law, prevent others from normal social interaction with her, prevent her from earning money or even from raising money from others, prevent her from staying in a hotel, and prevent her from even eating in a restaurant.
58. This blog establishes the criminal conspiracy to thereby force the petitioner-whistleblower to sleep in her car, to harass her, target her, poison her and then wrongly label her mentally ill, and then use the police to institutionalize her.
59. The blog is intended to procure and abet the illegal drugging of the petitioner.
60. This blog amounts to the criminal intimidation of the petitioner-whistleblower by the threat of institutionalization. It also incites and abets further criminal intimidation of the petitioner.
61. It appears from this blog as if the ultimate aim of the criminal conspiracy against the petitioner-whistleblower appears to be incapacitation and institutionalization.
62. The following criminal laws are attracted and violated by this obnoxious anonymous blog.
IPC Section 336.
Act endangering life or personal safety of others.—Whoever does any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life or the personal safety of others, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees, or with both.
IPC Section 440.
Mischief committed after preparation made for causing death or hurt.—Whoever commits mischief, having made preparation for causing to any person death, or hurt, or wrongful restraint, or fear of death, or of hurt, or of wrongful restraint, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, and shall also be liable to fine.
IPC Section 499
Defamation.—Whoever, by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by signs or by visible representations, makes or publishes any imputation concerning any person intending to harm, or knowing or having reason to believe that such imputation will harm, the reputation of such person, is said, except in the cases hereinafter expected, to defame that person. Explanation 1.—It may amount to defamation to impute anything to a deceased person, if the imputation would harm the reputation of that person if living, and is intended to be hurtful to the feelings of his family or other near relatives. Explanation 2.—It may amount to defamation to make an imputation concerning a company or an association or collection of persons as such. Explanation 3.—An imputation in the form of an alternative or expressed ironically, may amount to defamation. Explanation 4.—No imputation is said to harm a person's reputation, unless that imputation directly or indirectly, in the estimation of others, lowers the moral or intellectual character of that person, or lowers the character of that person in respect of his caste or of his calling, or lowers the credit of that person, or causes it to be believed that the body of that person is in a loathsome state, or in a state generally considered as disgraceful. Illustrations
IPC Section 501
Printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory.—Whoever prints or engraves any matter, knowing or having good reason to believe that such matter is defamatory of any person, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
IPC Section 469
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation.—Whoever commits forgery, 1[intending that the document or electronic record forged] shall harm the reputation of any party, or knowing that it is likely to be used for that purpose, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.
IPC Section 503
Criminal intimidation.—Whoever threatens another with any injury to his person, reputation or property, or to the person or reputation of any one in whom that person is interested, with intent to cause alarm to that person, or to cause that person to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do any act which that person is legally entitled to do, as the means of avoiding the execution of such threat, commits criminal intimidation. Explanation.—A threat to injure the reputation of any deceased person in whom the person threatened is interested, is within this section. Illustration A, for the purpose of inducing B to desist from prosecuting a civil suit, threatens to burn B's house. A is guilty of criminal intimidation.
IPC Section 507
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication.—Whoever commits the offence of criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication, or having taken precaution to conceal the name or abode of the person from whom the threat comes, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, in addition to the punishment provided for the offence by the last preceding section.
IPC Section 509
Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman.—Whoever, intending to insult the modesty of any woman, utters any word, makes any sound or gesture, or exhibits any object, intending that such word or sound shall be heard, or that such gesture or object shall be seen, by such woman, or intrudes upon the privacy of such woman, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
IPC Section 120A.
Definition of criminal conspiracy.—When two or more persons agree to do, or cause to be done,—
(1) an illegal act, or
(2) an act which is not illegal by illegal means, such an agreement is designated a criminal conspiracy: Provided that no agreement except an agreement to commit an offence shall amount to a criminal conspiracy unless some act besides the agreement is done by one or more parties to such agreement in pursuance thereof. Explanation.—It is immaterial whether the illegal act is the ultimate object of such agreement, or is merely incidental to that object.]
IPC Section 182
False information, with intent to cause public servant to use his lawful power to the injury of another person.—Whoever gives to any public servant any information which he knows or believes to be false, intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, such public servant—
(a) to do or omit anything which such public servant ought not to do or omit if the true state of facts respecting which such information is given were known by him, or
(b) to use the lawful power of such public servant to the injury or annoyance of any person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.
IPC Section 190
Threat of injury to induce person to refrain from applying for protection to public servant.—Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any person for the purpose of inducing that person to refrain or desist from making a legal application for protection against any injury to any public servant legally empowered as such to give such protection, or to cause such protection to be given, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
IPC Section 192
Fabricating false evidence.—Whoever causes any circumstance to exist or 1[makes any false entry in any book or record, or electronic record or makes any document or electronic record containing a false statement], intending that such circumstance, false entry or false statement may appear in evidence in a judicial proceeding, or in a proceeding taken by law before a public servant as such, or before an arbitrator, and that such circumstance, false entry or false statement, so appearing in evidence, may cause any person who in such proceeding is to form an opinion upon the evidence, to entertain an erroneous opinion touching any point material to the result of such proceeding, is said "to fabricate false evidence".
IPC Section 196
Using evidence known to be false.—Whoever corruptly uses or attempts to use as true or genuine evidence any evidence which he knows to be false or fabricated, shall be punished in the same manner as if he gave or fabricated false evidence.
IPC Section 203
Giving false information respecting an offence committed.—Whoever knowing or having reason to believe that an offence has been committed, gives any information respecting that offence which he knows or believes to be false, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both. 1[Explanation.—In sections 201 and 202 and in this section the word "offence", includes any act committed at any place out of 2[India], which, if committed in 2[India], would be punishable under any of the following sections, namely, 302, 304, 382, 392 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 402, 435, 436, 449, 450, 457, 458, 459 and 460.]
IPC Section 211
False charge of offence made with intent to injure.—Whoever, with intent to cause injury to any person, institutes or causes to be instituted any criminal proceeding against that person, or falsely charges any person with having committed an offence, knowing that there is no just or lawful ground for such proceeding or charge against that person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both; and if such criminal proceeding be instituted on a false charge of an offence punishable with death, 1[imprisonment for life], or imprisonment for seven years or upwards, shall be punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
IPC Section 338
Causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others.—Whoever causes grievous hurt to any person by doing any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life, or the personal safety of others, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.
IPC Section 351
Assault.—Whoever makes any gesture, or any preparation intending or knowing it to be likely that such gesture or preparation will cause any person present to apprehend that he who makes that gesture or preparation is about to use criminal force to that person, is said to commit an assault. Explanation.—Mere words do not amount to an assault. But the words which a person uses may give to his gestures or preparation such a meaning as may make those gestures or preparations amount to an assault.
IPC Section 355
Assault or criminal force with intent to dishonour person, otherwise than on grave provocation.—Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person, intending thereby to dishonour that person, otherwise than on grave and sudden provocation given by that person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
IPC Section 466.
Forgery of record of Court or of public register, etc.—1[Whoever forges a document or an electronic record], purporting to be a record or proceeding of or in a Court of Justice, or a register of birth, baptism, marriage or burial, or a register kept by a public servant as such, or a certificate or document purporting to be made by a public servant in his official capacity, or an authority to institute or defend a suit, or to take any proceedings therein, or to confess judgment, or a power of attorney, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine. 1[Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, "register" includes any list, data or record of any entries maintained in the electronic form as defined in clause (r) of sub-section
IPC Section 504
Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace.—Whoever intentionally insults, and thereby gives provocation to any person, intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause him to break the public peace, or to commit any other offence, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
IPC Section 107
Abetment of a thing.—A person abets the doing of a thing, who—
(First) — Instigates any person to do that thing; or
(Secondly) —Engages with one or more other person or persons in any conspiracy for the doing of that thing, if an act or illegal omission takes place in pursuance of that conspiracy, and in order to the doing of that thing; or
(Thirdly) — Intentionally aids, by any act or illegal omission, the doing of that thing. Explanation 1.—A person who, by wilful misrepresentation, or by wilful concealment of a material fact which he is bound to disclose, voluntarily causes or procures, or attempts to cause or procure, a thing to be done, is said to instigate the doing of that thing. Illustration A, a public officer, is authorized by a warrant from a Court of Justice to apprehend Z. B, knowing that fact and also that C is not Z, wilfully represents to A that C is Z, and thereby intentionally causes A to apprehend C. Here B abets by instigation the apprehension of C. Explanation 2.—Whoever, either prior to or at the time of the commission of an act, does anything in order to facilitate the commission of that act, and thereby facilitate the commission thereof, is said to aid the doing of that act.
IPC Section 115
Abetment of offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life—if offence not committed.—Whoever abets the commission of an offence punishable with death or 1[imprisonment for life], shall, if that offence be not committed in consequence of the abetment, and no express provision is made by this Code for the punishment of such abetment, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine; If act causing harm be done in consequence.—and if any act for which the abettor is liable in consequence of the abetment, and which causes hurt to any person, is done, the abettor shall be liable to imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to fourteen years, and shall also be liable to fine. Illustration A instigates B to murder Z. The offence is not committed. If B had murdered Z, he would have been subject to the punishment of death or 1[imprisonment for life]. Therefore A is liable to imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years and also to a fine; and if any hurt be done to Z in consequence of the abetment, he will be liable to imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years, and to fine. CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCE Para I: Punishment—Imprisonment for 7 years and fine—According as offence abetted is cognizable or non-cognizable—non-bailable—Triable by court by which offence abetted is triable—Non-compoundable. Para II: Punishment—Imprisonment for 14 years and fine—According as offence abetted is cognizable or non-cognizable—non-bailable—Triable by court by which offence abetted is triable—Non-compoundable.
IPC Section 117
Abetting commission of offence by the public or by more than ten persons.—Whoever abets the commission of an offence by the public generally or by any number or class of persons exceeding ten, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both. Illustration A affixes in a public place a placard instigating a sect consisting of more than ten members to meet at a certain time and place, for the purpose of attacking the members of an adverse sect, while engaged in a procession. A has committed the offence defined in this section. CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCE Punishment—Imprisonment for 3 years, or fine, or both—According as offence abetted is cognizable or non-cognizable—According as offence abetted is bailable or non-bailable—Triable by court by which offence abetted is triable—Non-compoundable.
IPC Section 118
Concealing design to commit offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life. —Whoever intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby facilitate the commission of an offence punishable with death or 69 [imprisonment for life]; 70 [voluntarily conceals by any act or omission or by the use of encryption or any other information hiding tool, the existence of a design] to commit such offence or makes any representation which he knows to be false respecting such design, If offence be committed — if offence be not committed. —shall, if that offence be committed, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or, if the offence be not committed, with imprisonment of either description, for a term which may extend to three years; and in either case shall also be liable to fine. Illustration A, knowing that dacoity is about to be committed at B, falsely informs the Magistrate that a dacoity is about to be committed at C, a place in an opposite direction, and thereby misleads the Magistrate with intent to facilitate the commission of the offence. The dacoity is committed at B in pursuance of the design. A is punishable under this section.
IPC Section 120
Concealing design to commit offence punishable with imprisonment.—Whoever, intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby facilitate the commission of an offence punishable with imprisonment, voluntarily conceals, by any act or illegal omission, the existence of a design to commit such offence, or makes any representation which he knows to be false respecting such design, If offence be committed—if offence be not committed.—shall, if the offence be committed, be punished with imprisonment of the description provided for the offence, for a term which may extend to one-fourth, and, if the offence be not committed, to one-eighth, of the longest term of such imprisonment, or with such fine as is provided for the offence, or with both.
63. Both the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Information Technology impleaded herein are the nodal ministries that are obligated to act to protect the right to life of the petitioner and act against the creator and procurer of this anonymous blog. The functions of the Ministry of Information Technology include policy matters relating to information technology; and Internet (all matters other than licensing of Internet Service Provider), Matters relating to Cyber Laws, and administration of the Information Technology Act. 2000 (21 of 2000) and other IT related laws.
64. Google Inc owns and runs the blogging platform Blogger on which this blog has been created and is being published. The petitioner submits that she be permitted to serve Google Inc through email as well using the email address of its CEO Mr Sundar Pichai, spichai@google.com.
65. The Delhi Police, and the CBI have also been impleaded as necessary parties to implement the relief sought in the present petition.
66. Annexed hereto as Annexure P-3 is a copy of an email communication dated 20 August 2017 from the Petitioner-whistleblower to the Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi titled "Cover-up of complaint of forgery made by whistleblower Seema Sapra against General Electric Company - re SEC Complaint TCR1439646785831".
67. Annexed hereto as Annexure P-4 is a copy of an email communication dated 18 September 2017 from the Petitioner-whistleblower to the Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi titled "Cover-up of complaint made by whistleblower Seema Sapra of fraudulent impersonation of General Electric Company by K R Radhakrishnan in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 before the Delhi High Court - re SEC ComplaintTCR1439646785831".
68. These two email complaints are being produced to establish the bonafides of the petitioner as a whistleblower. There are several other evidence-backed complaints of corruption made by the Petitioner against General Electric Company which are part of the court record in Writ Petition Civil NO. 1280/2012 before the Delhi High Court.
69. This is not a public interest litigation. It is a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India seeing to enforce the petitioner's fundamental rights guaranteed under Part III of the Constitution of India including her right to life under Article 21 and her right to equal protection of the law, under Article 14.
70. That the petitioner has not filed any other writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India before this Hon'ble Court or any other court for similar relief sought in the present Writ Petition.
71. That the petitioner has no other alternative and effective remedy or means except to approach this Hon'ble Court by
way of this Writ Petition.
PRAYER
It is, therefore, most respectfully prayed that this Hon'ble Court may graciously be pleased to;-
(i) Issue a writ of Mandamus to Respondents 1, 2, 3 and 4 to ask Google, i.e., Respondents 5 and 6 to immediately remove this anonymous blog from Blogger as it violates the right to life and other fundamental rights of the petitioner-whistleblower and complainant of sexual harassment;
(ii) Issue a writ of Mandamus to Respondents 1, 2, 3 and 4 to inquire and investigate as to who created and procured the creation of this anonymous blog titled "Seema Sapra Alert" and published at http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in/
(iii) Issue a writ of Mandamus to Respondents 1, 2, 3 and 4 to inquire and investigate into the use of the email address seemasapraalert@gmail.comand its use to target the petitioner who is a whistleblower against General Electric Company Company and a complainant of sexual harassment against Raian Karanjawala and of sexual harassment and sexual assault against Soli J Sorabjee;
(iv) Direct the Respondents 3 and 4 to register FIRs against the creators and procurers of this blog and the associated email ID for the crimescommitted against the petitioner listed hereinabove in the writ petition and to investigate these crimes in accordance with law and to bring criminal charges against all those involved in procuring, abetting and committing these crimes against the petitioner;
(v) Direct the Respondents 1, 2, 3 and 4 to take legal action against the violation of the Petitioner's right to life and her other fundamental rights by the creators and procurers of this anonymous blog;
(vi) To pass such other orders and further orders and to issue such other and further writs as may be deemed necessary on the facts and in the circumstances of the case.
FOR WHICH ACT OF KINDNESS, THE APPELLANT/ PETITIONER SHALL AS IN DUTY BOUND, EVER PRAY.
FILED BY:
SEEMA SAPRA
PETITIONER-IN-PERSON
DRAWN ON:6.12.2017
FILED ON:6.12.2017
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
EXTRAORDINARY ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
WRIT PETITION CIVIL NO. OF 2017
(UNDER ARTICLE 32 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA)
IN THE MATTER OF
Seema Sapra … Petitioner
Versus
Union of India & Ors. … Respondents
AFFIDAVIT
I, Seema Sapra, aged 46 years, D/o Late A. R. Sapra, presently homeless in New Delhi, with Bar Council of Delhi enrolment number D/1159/1995 do hereby solemnly state and affirm as under:
1. That I am the Petitioner in this Writ Petition and am familiar with the facts and circumstances of the case and am competent and authorized to swear this Affidavit.
2. That the accompany Writ Petition containing para from 1 to 71, pages from 1to 166, List of Dates containing pages from B to K have been drafted, read and understood by me and I state that the contents of the same are based on my personal knowledge and on other sources which I believe to be true and correct.
3. That the annexures to the accompanying Writ Petition are true copies of their respective originals.
4. That the facts stated in and the contents of the accompanying writ petition are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief and no part of it is false and nothing material has been concealed therefrom.
DEPONENT
VERIFICATION:
I, the above-named Deponent, do hereby verify that the contents of the aboveAffidavit are true and correct to my knowledge, no part of it is false and nothing material has been concealed there from.
Verified at New Delhi on this 6thday of December 2017.
DEPONENT
This case was listed before the Delhi High Court on 27 April 2018 as Writ Petition Criminal No. 437 of 2018. The following order was passed by the Delhi High Court.
"IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
W.P.(CRL) 437/2018
SEEMA SAPRA ... Petitioner
Represented by: Petitioner in person
versus
UNION OF INDIA & ORS ... Respondents
Represented by: Mr.Rahul Mehra, Standing
Counsel with Mr.Jamal Akhtar,
Advocate for respondent No.3
Mr.Sajan Poovayya,
Sr.Advocate with
Ms.Priyadarshi Bannerjee,
Ms.Mamta R.Jha and
Ms.Shruttinaa, Advocates for
respondent No.5
Insp.Sanjay Kumar, PS Saket
CORAM:
HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MUKTA GUPTA
O R D E R
27.04.2018
No steps have been taken for service of respondents No.1, 2, 5 and 6.
However, learned senior counsel for respondent No.5 enters appearance.
The main prayer of the petitioner in the present petition is removal of
the anonymous blog from blogger at Google titled as ‘Seema Sapra Alert’
and published at ‘http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in/’.
Considering the contents of the blog which are totally uncalled for
and unwarranted, respondent No.5 is directed to remove the anonymous
blog as noted above.
Learned senior counsel for respondent No.5 fairly states that since
respondent No.5 has entered appearance and all necessary details can be
provided by respondents No.5, respondent No.6 is not a necessary party. In
this view of the matter, no notice be issued to respondent No.6.
In the meantime, respondents No.1 and 2 be served through the
Standing Counsel, Union of India and respondent No.3 be served through
the Standing Counsel (Criminal), Govt. of NCT of Delhi by the petitioner.
Mr.Rahul Mehra, Standing Counsel, Govt. of NCT of Delhi, accepts
notice on behalf of respondent No.3. Copy of the petition be supplied to
learned Standing Counsel within two days. Status Report be filed before the
next date. Learned senior counsel for respondent No.5 assures that any
cooperation which is required in the investigation of the matter, will be
rendered to respondent No.3.
List on 1st November, 2018.
MUKTA GUPTA, J.
APRIL 27, 2018"
This case was listed before the Delhi High Court on 9 March 2018 as Writ Petition Criminal No. 437 of 2018.
This case was listed before the Delhi High Court on 12 February 2018 as Writ Petition Criminal No. 437 of 2018.
This case was listed before the Delhi High Court for hearing on 8 February 2018 as Writ Petition Civil No. 1173 of 2018.
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This Writ Petition Civil No. 1200 of 2017 was listed for hearing before the Supreme Court of India on 29 January 2018. The following order was passed.
"In the nature of the prayers made in this writ petition and having heard the petitioner, who appeared in person, we find no special reason as to why the petitioner should not pursue the grievances before the High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.
Petitioner prays that the petition itself may be sent to the Delhi High Court for being registered as a Writ Petition.
We see no reason to deny such a request. Therefore, the Registry is directed to transmit the papers to the Delhi High Court for being appropriately dealt with.
The writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of.
Pending application(s), if any, shall stand disposed of."
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Writ Petition Civil no. 1200 of 2017 was listed for hearing before the Supreme Court of India on 12 January 2018, when the following order was passed.
"List this matter before a Bench of which both of us (Hon'ble R.K. Agrawal, J. and Hon'ble Abhay Manohar Sapre, J.) are not Members.
At the request of the petitioner who appears in person, list this matter after a week."
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From: Sapra Consultants <sapraconsultants@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 7:42 PM
Subject: New Writ Petition Civil No. 1200/2017 by General Electric Company whistle-blower Seema Sapra listed before Supreme Court of India on 12 January 2017 - re SEC Complaint TCR1439646785831
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My Writ Petition Civil 1200/2017 (reproduced below) will be listed for hearing before the Supreme Court of India on 12 January 2017.
Seema Sapra
General Electric Company whistleblower
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Sapra Consultants <sapraconsultants@gmail.com> wrote:
The new writ petition filed by me in the Supreme Court of India (reproduced below and attached) has been registered as Writ Petition Civil No. 001200/2017, and will be listed for hearing in due course.
Seema Sapra
General Electric Company whistleblower
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Sapra Consultants <sapraconsultants@gmail.com> wrote:
I have filed the attached writ petition today in the Supreme Court of India under filing number 39711/2017.
The Writ Petition is also reproduced below. Annexures will be emailed to you later today.
Seema Sapra
General Electric Company Whistleblower
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
EXTRAORDINARY ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
WRIT PETITION CIVIL NO. OF 2017
(UNDER ARTICLE 32 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA)
IN THE MATTER OF
Seema Sapra … Petitioner
Versus
Union of India & Ors. … Respondents
I N D E X
______________________________________________________
Sl. No. PARTICULARS PAGES
________________________________________________________
1. Listing Proforma
2. Synopsis and List of Dates
3. Writ Petition with affidavit
4. Annexure P-1 – True copies of screenshots of
anonymous blog at http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in/
taken on 17 October 2017
5. Annexure P-2 – True copy of screenshot of Shamnad
Basheer's Facebook post
6. Annexure P-3 – True copy of email dt 20 August 2017
from Petitioner-whistleblower to Prime Minister
Mr Narendra Modi titled "Cover-up of complaint of
forgery made by whistleblower Seema Sapra against
General Electric Company - re SEC Complaint
TCR1439646785831".
7. Annexure P-4 – True Copy of email dt 18 September 2017
from Petitioner-whistleblower to Prime Minister
Mr Narendra Modi titled "Cover-up of complaint made
by whistleblower Seema Sapra of fraudulent impersonation
of General Electric Company by K R Radhakrishnan in Writ
Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 before the Delhi High Court - re
SEC Complaint TCR1439646785831".
FILED BY:
SEEMA SAPRA
PETITIONER-IN-PERSON
DRAWN ON: 6.12.2017
FILED ON: 6.12.2017
BRIEF SYNOPSIS AND LIST OF DATES
This is a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India being filed by the Petitioner, who is a citizen of India and a woman lawyer (enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi since 1995). The petitioner is a whistle-blower, complainant and witness in complaints of corruption, fraud, forgery, FCPA violations, bribery, perjury, and obstruction of justice against General Electric Company (a US conglomerate) affecting the Railway Ministry Projects and tenders for the Marhowra diesel locomotive factory and contract and the Madhepura electric locomotive factory and contract. She faces a grave threat to her life since 2010 because of these whistle-blower complaints.
The Petitioner is a woman lawyer who has also complained of sexual harassment by lawyer Raian Karanjawala and of sexual harassment and sexual assault (including attempted rape) by lawyer Soli J Sorabjee and these complaints were made public in 2011. The petitioner was also threatened with physical harm by Soli Sorabjee personally in 2011 who told the petitioner to drop her complaints against GE and whose daughter Zia Mody later acted as legal counsel for GE on the complaints of the Petitioner and helped cover up the petitioner's complaints against GE.
The petitioner is facing a grave threat to her life since 2010 because of her complaints against GE and since 2011 because of her complaints against Raian Karanjawala and Soli Sorabjee which were made public in 2011.
As part of the criminal conspiracy to destroy the petitioner, a planned criminal conspiracy to falsely label the Petitioner-whistle-blower as mentally ill has been pursued since 2011 with the active participation of State agencies including the Delhi Police.
As part of this conspiracy to destroy the petitioner, an anonymous, malicious and highly defamatory blog has been created to target her and which is online on the internet since March 10, 2014 at http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in/
2010 and 2011 The Petitioner worked as in-house counsel for General Electric Company and made whistle-blower complaints against General Electric Company in relation to the multi-billion dollar Railway Ministry Projects and tenders for a diesel locomotive factory at Marhowra and an electric locomotve factory at Madhepura.
2011 The Petitioner-whistleblower was threatened, targeted, drugged and poisoned.
2011 The Petitioner made her complaints of sexual harassment by lawyer Raian Karanjawala and of sexual harassment and sexual assault by lawyer Soli J Sorabee public.
2012, Feb The Petitioner filed a whistleblower right to life petition under Article 226 in the Delhi High Court, being Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 (in the matter of Seema Sapra vs. General Electric Company and Others).
25 May 2012 Order passed by Delhi High Court in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 directing the Delhi Police Commissioner and other authorities to protect the petitioner as a whistle-blower. This and subsequent protection orders were never complied with by the Delhi Police.
March 10, 2014 A blog titled "Seema Sapra Alert" was created by an anonymous account using the Google blogging platform 'Blogger' with the following internet address http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in/. This blog has only one single blog post. The Blog is linked to an anonymous email address also created using the petitioner's name - seemasapraalert@gmail.com. This blog contains a photograph of the petitioner which has been taken from the petitioner's own personal blogs and used without permission. This blog which continues to exist in the same unmodified form through March 10, 2014. The contents of this blog, as evident on a mere reading, are highly objectionable, obnoxious, pernicious, malicious, extremely defamatory and constitute criminal activity intended to target the petitioner and to facilitate her targeting. This blog-post is a mix of complete fabrication, falsehoods, half-truths and distorted references to some of the petitioner's whistleblower complaints and her complaints against two lawyers for sexual harassment and sexual assault. The intent of this blog post is to create a false narrative about the petitioner, that she is mentally ill and violent, thereby furthering the criminal conspiracy to isolate her, to facilitate the targeting of the petitioner by recruiting others, co-opting others and coordinating the targeting of the petitioner.
It is submitted, that this anonymous, pernicious assault on the petitioner's life, reputation and dignity by the creation and continued publication of this blog on the internet is itself evidence establishing that the petitioner is being targeted. Who is the person/ entity responsible for the creation, uploading and publication of this blog? Where did that person/ entity source the facts and information put out in this blog post, which are malicious and defamatory fabrication. It is pointed out that this blog post is clearly intended to facilitate the targeting and destruction of the petitioner.
This blog post provides evidence of a criminal intent and criminal conspiracy to target, destroy, and defame the petitioner and this blog post was created as one of the tools to further that end. It must be highlighted that this blog has been created anonymously.
This blog post was created to target the petitioner who is both a whistle-blower and a witness in very grave corruption complaints against General Electric Company and who has also broken the omerta in the legal community and has spoken up about her sexual harassment at the hands of two powerful and influential lawyers, Raian Karanjawala and Soli Sorabjee.
April 2014 The Petitioner discovered this blog in April 2014 when she googled her name.
12 April 2014 The petitioner complained about this blog to the Police when she first discovered it.
There was no response from the Police to the petitioner's complaint even though there were Delhi High Court orders directing the Delhi Police Commissioner to ensure that the Petitioner was not harmed. There has been no response or action by the Police till date on either this or for that matter on any other complaint of the petitioner including on her complaints of targeting and poisoning.
March 2015 The Delhi High Court wrongly dismissed Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 on the ground that it had become infructuous. This was done without hearing the Petitioner. The Petitioner intends to file an Article 32 Petition on her whistleblower complaints before the Supreme Court because of the continuing threat to the life of the Petitioner. There is no bar of res judicata because the petition was not dismissed on merits. Plus there are new causes of action that entitle the Petitioner to file an Article 32 petition seeking protection and the investigation of her whistleblower complaints against General Electric Company.
December 2015 The Petitioner was wrongly convicted for contempt of court by the Delhi High Court in a case arising from the hearing of Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012. The contempt appeal from this judgment is pending before the Supreme Court and is directed to be listed in February 2018 by order dated 4 December 2017 (passed in Criminal Appeal Diary No. 10342/2016).
This blog establishes the criminal conspiracy to target and destroy the Petitioner. The continued existence of this blog violates the petitioner's right to life, her right to accommodation, her right to food, her right to practice a profession and earn a living, her right to reputation, her right to live in society with dignity and respect, her right to privacy and her other fundamental and legal rights. The petitioner is a well-qualified and accomplished lawyer and her CV until 2010 when she ended up as a whistle-blower is reproduced below.
It is submitted that the Government of India, the Delhi Police, the CVC and the CBI have all ignored and failed to respond to the Petitioner's complaint against this anonymous blog. The Government of India and its agencies have therefore failed to protect the fundamental right to life of the petitioner and her other fundamental rights that are violated by the criminal activity directed at the petitioner through this anonymous blog.
The petitioner is also constrained to point out that this anonymous blog targeting the petitioner whistle-blower/ witness to GE corruption and a sexual harassment and sexual assault survivor during the created and published during the pendency of her right to life whistleblower petition in the Delhi High Court was also ignored by the Delhi High Court which heard that case (Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012) between April 2014 until February 2015.
The petitioner is therefore constrained to file this Petition under Article 32 seeking directions to the Government of India through the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Information Technology to ask Google to take down this blog with immediate effect; directions to the CBI and the Cyber Crime cell of the Delhi Police and Government of India to find out from Google and through other investigations as to who created this blog and at whose behest; and directions to the CBI and the Cyber crime cells of the Government of India and Delhi Police to register FIRs against the person/ s and/or entities for the crimes committed against the petitioner by the creation of this anonymous blog. An FIR must also be lodged into the role that this blog has played in the larger criminal conspiracy to target and destroy the petitioner-whistleblower and complainant of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
The Petitioner submits that Police and State complicity in targeting the petitioner-whistleblower is clear as no action was taken by State or Police authorities when the Petitioner brought this blog to the notice of the Police, the CVC, the CBI, the PMO, the Home Ministry, the Government of India, three ASGs of the Government of India and the Delhi High Court. No action has been taken against this crime committed against the petitioner and for the violation of the right to life of the petitioner by this crime which is continuing since March 2014 and even today. The State has the duty to protect the fundamental rights of all citizens and is obligated to act even if a third party violates the fundamental right to life of a person. And the duty of the State to protect the petitioner from harm and criminal acts by third parties is even greater because the petitioner is a whistleblower who has exposed corruption by General Electric Company and who is a crucial witness in these corruption complaints. The petitioner has risked her life exposing corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and perjury and her expose of this corruption is an act in public interest and constitutes the highest form of service to the country.
It is submitted that while this blog constitutes criminal defamation, it goes beyond that. This anonymous blog is intended to be used and is being used to incite and facilitate criminal activity targeting the petitioner-whistleblower. It is to be used and is being used to create an environment around the petitioner that results in the denial of her most basic human rights, and the most basic amenities needed to live. i.e., food, money and shelter. This anonymous blog was created to enable and is enabling the violation of the petitioner's right to live with dignity and respect, her right to be treated as a full human being, her right to earn a living, her right to shelter, her right to food, and her right to social interaction and social solidarity. This anonymous blog provides cover for the commission of criminal activity against the Petitioner.
The Petitioner has been targeted since 2010 and she has been repeatedly drugged and poisoned. Attempts are being made to eliminate her by incapacitating her or murdering her. The Petitioner is being defamed. She is being surveilled and followed 24/7. She is being poisoned with poisonous chemicals, anesthetic agents and nerve agents. She is being harassed, intimidated and being both physically and mentally tortured. The petitioner is being prevented from working and is being compelled to survive on charity. The petitioner is being deliberately kept homeless so that she can be more easily targeted.
It is submitted that this blog is part of these attempts to eliminate the petitioner-whistleblower and sexual harassment survivor. It is submitted that this blog constitutes abetment to the intended murder of the petitioner, abetment to poison, to harass, intimidate, threaten, and to target the petitioner, and abetment to cause grievous hurt to the petitioner-whistleblower by dangerous weapons or means and by poison. This blog abets, exhorts and incites violence, criminal use of force and assault against the petitioner. This blog falsely represents the petitioner as a threat to any person she may come in contact with. This blog is part of the criminal conspiracy to eliminate the petitioner and is intended to abet, incite, procure, enable, facilitate various crimes against the petitioner and to obstruct and deprive the Petitioner from access to various amenities essential to life and a life with dignity.
This blog abets the intended murder, incapacitation, wrongful confinement, wrongful institutionalization, poisoning, harassment, surveillance, stalking, targeting, drugging, and mental and physical torture of the petitioner.
This blog is part of and establishes the criminal conspiracy to deprive the petitioner-whistleblower of shelter and a home, deprive the petitioner of the means to earn a livelihood, prevent her from getting a job, or from practicing law, prevent others from normal social interaction with her, prevent her from earning money or even from raising money from others, prevent her from staying in a hotel, and prevent her from even eating in a restaurant.
This blog establishes the criminal conspiracy to thereby force the petitioner-whistleblower to sleep in her car, to harass her, target her, poison her and then wrongly label her mentally ill, and then use the police to institutionalize her.
The blog is intended to procure and abet the illegal drugging of the petitioner.
This blog amounts to the criminal intimidation of the petitioner-whistleblower by the threat of institutionalization. It also incites and abets further criminal intimidation of the petitioner.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
EXTRAORDINARY ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
WRIT PETITION CIVIL NO. OF 2017
(UNDER ARTICLE 32 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA)
IN THE MATTER OF
Seema Sapra
d/o Late Shri A R Sapra
aged 46 years
Presently homeless in New Delhi
Bar Council of Delhi enrolment number
D/1159/1995 … Petitioner
Versus
1. Union of India
Through Home Secretary
Ministry of Home Affairs
North Block
Central Secretariat
New Delhi – 110001
2. Union of India
Through Secretary
Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
Electronics Niketan, 6, CGO Complex,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110003
3. The Commissioner of Delhi Police
Police Headquarters, ITO
New Delhi
India
4. Central Bureau of Investigations
through the Director, CBI
Plot No. 5-B, 6th Floor, CGO Complex,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003.
India
5. Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA
6. Google India
Gurgaon
Sector 15, Part II Village Silokhera
Gurgaon 122001
India
… Respondents
WRIT PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 32 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
To
Hon'ble The Chief Justice of India and His Companion Judges of the Supreme Court of India., the petition of the Petitioner most respectfully showeth :-
1. This is a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India being filed by the Petitioner, who is a citizen of India and a woman lawyer (enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi since 1995). The petitioner is a whistle-blower, complainant and witness in complaints of corruption, fraud, forgery, FCPA violations, bribery, perjury, and obstruction of justice against General Electric Company (a US conglomerate) affecting the Railway Ministry Projects and tenders for the Marhowra diesel locomotive factory and contract and the Madhepura electric locomotive factory and contract. She faces a grave threat to her life since 2010 because of these whistle-blower complaints.
2. The Petitioner is a woman lawyer who has also complained of sexual harassment by lawyer Raian Karanjawala and of sexual harassment and sexual assault (including attempted rape) by lawyer Soli J Sorabjee and these complaints were made public in 2011. The petitioner was also threatened with physical harm by Soli Sorabjee personally in 2011 who told the petitioner to drop her complaints against GE and whose daughter Zia Mody later acted as legal counsel for GE on the complaints of the Petitioner and helped cover up the petitioner's complaints against GE.
3. The petitioner is facing a grave threat to her life since 2010 because of her complaints against GE and since 2011 because of her complaints against Raian Karanjawala and Soli Sorabjee which were made public in 2011.
4. The petitioner relies upon the record of a Criminal Appeal filed by her in the Supreme Court under diary No. 10342/ 2016against the judgment in Delhi High Court Contempt Case (Criminal) 2/2014 which is pending.
5. The petitioner also relies upon the record of CM 7197/ 2013 filed by her in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 which was neither heard nor considered in the judgment of the Delhi High Court dated 2 March 2015 dismissing the petitioner's whistleblower right to life petition. This application set out the petitioner's whistle-blower complaints against General Electric Company.
6. The petitioner also relies upon the record of CM 18969/ 2014 filed by her in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 which was not heard and considered in the judgment of the Delhi High Court dated 2 March 2015 dismissing the petitioner's whistleblower right to life petition. This application was on the issue of how one K R Radhakrishnan was used to unlawfully and fraudulently impersonate as the authorized signatory of General Electric Company before the Delhi High Court using fraudulent and invalid authority documents, in an obstruction of justice conspiracy to cover up the complaints of corruption against General Electric Company.
7. The Petitioner also relies upon the full court records of four cases in the Delhi High Court, Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 (Seema Sapra vs. General Electric Company & Others); OMP 647/2012; Contempt Case Crl 3 of 2012; and Contempt Case Crl 2 of 2014 and prays that this Hon'ble Court may be pleased to summon the original records of these four cases from the Delhi High Court.
8. As part of the criminal conspiracy to destroy the petitioner, a planned criminal conspiracy to falsely label the Petitioner-whistle-blower as mentally ill has been pursued since 2011 with the active participation of State agencies including the Delhi Police.
9. As part of this conspiracy to destroy the petitioner, an anonymous, malicious and highly defamatory blog has been created to target her and which is online on the internet since March 10, 2014 at http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in/
10. This blog titled "Seema Sapra Alert" was created on March 10, 2014 by an anonymous account using the Google blogging platform 'Blogger' with the following internet address http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in/. This blog has only one single blog post. The Blog is linked to an anonymous email address also created using the petitioner's name - seemasapraalert@gmail.com. This blog contains a photograph of the petitioner which has been taken from the petitioner's own personal blogs and used without permission. This blog which continues to exist in the same unmodified form through March 10, 2014 until the present day contains the following blog post which is set out below in its entirety. Screenshots of this blog taken on 17 October 2017 are annexed hereto as Annexure P-1.
Seema Sapra Alert
Monday, March 10, 2014
People Accused by Seema Sapra I General Electric I Laburnum Capital I Manmohan Singh I Soli Sorabjee | Seema Sapra Lawyer | Jeffrey Immelt | Montek Singh Ahluwalia
This website is being created as a resource for the victims of Seema Sapra, of New Delhi India. It will hopefully help people understand her background, and enable possible victims- be they lawyers, hotel and restaurant owners, or people living in the neighbourhoods in which she parks her car- prepare themselves to deal with her, and possibly reach out to other victims, in the event that they need help in specific situations.
To be clear, Seema Sapra is a pitiable creature in a very difficult situation. However, that does not detract from the fact that she is a public nuisance and that, due to a variety of peculiarities in her circumstances, the law offers only very limited protection from her. The point of this website is not to mock Seema, but rather to help those that encounter her protect themselves, whether they just want to avoid her or actually want to intervene and help her.
Seema is a lawyer who until a few years ago appeared to have a successful professional career, but currently seems to be suffering from mental illness. She is at present unemployed, has broken off all contact with her family (which has disowned her and refuses to take responsibility for her) and lives out of her car, which she parks in different New Delhi neighbourhoods, frequently quarrelling with residents when they complain about her "living" there. On one occasion, she started screaming at a woman whose house she had parked outside that the woman had been sent to murder her. On another occasion, she broke down the front door of a senior police officer who was not taking her call.
In the process she has become a public nuisance for homeowners, hotel and restaurant owners (where she insists on staying and eating, from time to time, without making payments), fellow lawyers (whom she regularly hounds for money), the Delhi Police (whom she constantly bothers with trivial complaints such as dogs barking outside her car), as well as several judges in the Delhi High Court before whom she files frivolous petitions.
She appears to believe that she was fired from General Electric, where she worked as a lawyer, because she "exposed" certain corrupt practices. GE apparently ordered an internal enquiry into her complaints and found them baseless. Several Indian courts also found no substance in her complaints and refused to hear her petition. Moreover, the contract about which she complained was scrapped by the government, rendering her entire complaint a moot issue.
She believes that General Electric, and in particular its CEO Jeffrey Immelt, the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, the former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee, the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Raian Karanjawalla, and several other lawyers and judges, are conspiring to have her murdered. She has a particular dislike for Karanjawalla, whom she has accused of sexual harassment, and for Montek Singh Ahluwalia, whom she has accused of being in conflict-of-interest situations vis-à-vis his son Pavan Ahluwalia, who worked at McKinsey and founded Laburnum Capital, his son Aman Ahluwalia, and advocate in Delhi, and his daughter-in-law, Shilpa Mankar Ahluwalia, a Partner at Amarchand Mangaldass.
Among other things, she thinks the individuals and organizations have:
Injected poison gas into a flat she lived in in Jangpura (before being evicted for failure to pay rent) as well as into her Taj Ginger hotel room (from which she was also evicted for failure to pay the bill)
Arranged to have construction rubble piled on her neighbour's roof, so that it might fall on her.
Sent strange men to spy on her
Arranged to have motorcyclists drive their bikes by her car at night to keep her awake
Arranged to have stray dogs near her car provoked by ultrasound whistles so that they bark loudly at night and keep her awake
She writes long, rambling emails to a list of lawyers whom she also periodically petitions for money. On the rare occasion that people have given her money- Amit Sibal, son of Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal, Soli Sorabjee, and Raian Karanjawalla, being a few examples- she has lashed at out them accusing them of blackmail, sexual harassment and attempt to murder. She has also accused several lawyers who have tried to get her psychiatric attention of being part of the "conspiracy."
The judiciary refuses to hear her petitions, and on one occasion she was physically removed from the courtroom of Justice Rajiv Shadker of the Delhi High Court by armed police officers. However, there is some sympathy for her as a lawyer who has fallen on hard times. At one point a judge asked the Bar Council to pay for her stay in an expensive hotel, when she pleaded that she had nowhere to go. Several senior lawyers have at various points made arrangements for her to stay at the India Habitat Centre and the India International Centre. Moreover, Indian law makes it very difficult for anyone other than a patient or their family to commit themselves to a mental institution. Although several judges have asked her to seek treatment, they have not been able to succeed in getting her institutionalized. They have too much sympathy for her to punish her and too little power over her to control her.
She has also picked numerous fights with the police, whom she has accused of trying to murder her on multiple occasions, and is known to create a huge ruckus if accosted by anyone in uniform and asked to move her car or not park overnight in residential neighbourhoods.
What this means, unfortunately, is that there are no real checks on her, since neither the judiciary nor the police want to have anything to do with her.
List of people she has accused
While the list of people she has accused is long, some specific accusations are listed below
Accused Jeffrey Immelt and other senior GE leaders, along with lawyers from Gibson Dunn, of acting in conspiracy with Montek Singh Ahluwalia to order her murder
Accused her family (mother, brother and sister) of domestic violence and of attempting to drug and poison her
Accused her maid Maya of drugging her and keeping her at home
Accused her neighbor Mrs. Rita Mohan of attempting to murder her
Accused Rajdeep Singh of introducing toxic substances into her house
Accused Amulya Patnaik and Ajay Chaudhary from the Delhi Police of being involved in attempts on her life and in intimidating and terrorizing her
Accused the Delhi Police of assaulting her and forcibly dragging her out from police headquarters on August 27 2011
Accused her neighbor Mrs. Sardana of threatening her and of being part of a 3-woman group formed by the police to harass her
Accused Dr. Ashwani of UCMS of overseeing the attack on her via toxic gases
Accused SI Sanjay Singh and Constable Maneesha Yadav of attempting to drug her in August 2011
Accused Soli Sorabjee of being involved in a smear campaign against her
Accused Ginger Hotels (Taj Group) of threatening her using goondas
Accused India Habitat Center and its employees of attempting to poison her
Accused Eatopia restaurant employees of trying to poison her food
Accused Soli Sorabjee and Raian Karanjwala of sexual harassment
Accused Justice Gita Mittal and JR Midha of delaying the hearing of her application for protection and safe housing
Accused Ved Mani Tiwari, an Indian Railways officer in the electrical division, of corruption
Accused Amit Sibal of blackmail, when he agreed to help her financially, by giving her Rs.10,000
Accused lawyers Upamanyu Hazarika and Harish Salve of refusing to offer financial help until she withdrew her case against GE
Accused several lawyers, including Rajiv Nayar, Darpan Wadhwa, Ritin Rai, Ruby Ahuja, Rajiv Mehra and others of trying to get her institutionalized
List of people she is in regular contact with
A list of people she is in regular contact with, or alternatively, whom she spams regularly, in case anybody wants to coordinate anything with them
Bk.gupta@nic.in
pmosb@pmo.nic.in
tka.nair@pmo.nic.in
cvc@nic.in
jmg.vc@nic.in
r.sri_kumar@nic.in
dcp-caw-dl@nic.in
dcp-pcr-dl@nic.in
dcp-south-dl@nic.in
dcp-central-dl@nic.in
dcp-newdelhi-dl@nic.in
dcp-crime-dl@nic.in
hm@nic.in
hshso@nic.in
ncw@nic.in
complaintcell-ncw@nic.in
sgnhrc@nic.in
dg-nhrc@nic.in
ffetf@usdoj.gov
chairmanoffice@sec.gov
help@sec.gov
fcpa.fraud@usdoj.gov
askdoj@usdoj.gov
jtcpsr@gmail.com
dch@nic.in
g.haldea@nic.in
mr@rb.railnet.gov.in
crb@rb.railnet.gov.in
splcp-vigilance-dl@nic.in
splcp-admin-dl@nic.in
splcp-security-dl@nic.in
KolkataPAS@state.gov
chennaic@state.gov
webmastermumbai@state.gov
HyderabadPA@state.gov
HydACS@state.gov
HydFPU@state.gov
MumbaiACS@state.gov
Mumbai_visa_fraud@state.gov
ConsularNewdel@state.gov
chennaiaf@state.gov
chennaiatt@state.gov
NDwebmail@state.gov
acsnd@state.gov
oighotline@state.gov
humanrights@americanbar.org
cpr@americanbar.org
ethicsearch@americanbar.org
peter.koelling@americanbar.org
hrwpress@hrw.org
blatche@hrw.org
berlin@hrw.org
paris@hrw.org
Brussels@transparency.org
ti@transparency.org
cswardt@transparency.org
mmarschall@transparency.org
czellmann@transparency.org
contact@whistleblowers.org
contact@hrln.org
sharmam1@state.gov
jtcp-phq1-dl@nic.in
dcpsed@gmail.com
cleggd1@state.gov
Newhaven@ic.fbi.gov
Ny1@ic.fbi.gov
Usanys.crcomp@usdoj.gov
Usanys.wpcomp@usdoj.gov
Dcp-east-dl@nic.in
Dcp-eow-dl@nic.in
Dcp-southeast-dl@nic.in
Dcp-southwest-dl@nic.in
Dcp-splcell-dl@nic.in
Dcp-vigilance-dl@ni.in
Dcp-west-dl@nic.in
Addlcp-security-dl@nic.in
Jtcp-splcell-dl@nic.in
Jtcp-sr-dl@nic.in
Splcp-armed-dl@nic.in
Splcp-crime-dl@nic.in
Splcp-intandops-dl@nic.in
Splcp-operation-dl@nic.in
Splcp-pandi-dl@nic.in
Splcp-pl-dl@nic.in
Addlcp-caw-dl@nic.in
Addlcp-eow-dl@nic.in
Addlcpt-dtp@nic.in
Jeffrey.eglash@ge.com
Jeffrey.immelt@ge.com
John.flannery@ge.com
Bracket.denniston@ge.com
jchesley@gibsondunn.com
fwarin@gibsondunn.com
greg.danilow@weil.com
Lorenzo.simonelli@ge.com
Tara.plimpton@ge.com
James.winget@ge.com
Alexander.dimitrief@ge.com
jjoseph@gibsondunn.com
directors@corporate.ge.com
rjs22@cornell.edu
john.krenicki@ge.com
brian.worrell@ge.com
mark.vachon@ge.com
keith.sherin@ge.com
john.samuels@ge.com
Michael.neal@ge.com
Susan.peters@ge.com
Puneet.mahajan@ge.com
Shane.fitzsimon@ge.com
Pamela.daley@ge.com
Beth.comstock@ge.com
Charlene.begley@ge.com
Mark.begor@ge.com
Steve.bolze@ge.com
Jeffrey.bornstein@ge.com
John.dineen@ge.com
Tom.gentile@ge.com
Dan.henson@ge.com
Jay.ireland@ge.com
Daniel.janki@ge.com
David.joyce@ge.com
Jamie.miller@ge.com
Dmitri.stockton@ge.com
Terri.bresenham@ge.com
Anish.shah@ge.com
Kishore.jayaraman@ge.com
Vishal.wanchoo@ge.com
John.rice@ge.com
Rita.purohit@ge.com
Nancy.anderson@ge.com
Rob.mckeel@ge.com
Joel.berdine@ge.com
Tina.donikowski@ge.com
Eric.ducharme@ge.com
Marcia.fish@ge.com
Tammy.gromacki@ge.com
Rich.herold@ge.com
Don.itzkoff@ge.com
Stephan.koller@ge.com
Guilherme.mello@ge.com
Monish.patolawala@ge.com
Tim.schweikert@ge.com
Russell.stokes@ge.com
Peter.thomas@ge.com
David.tucker@ge.com
Tim.waldee@ge.com
Cyrille.petit@ge.com
Katy.choo@ge.com
Joseph.noga@ge.com
Janine.dascenzo@ge.com
Carey.greiner@ge.com
Jeff.melluci@ge.com
Dan.hendy@ge.com
David.wheeler@ge.com
Stephen.henderson@ge.com
Doug.hensley@ge.com
Janice.baker@ge.com
Ross.wright@ge.com
Happy.perkins@ge.com
Molly.burke@ge.com
Kathleem.bardell@ge.com
Curtis.doster@ge.com
Carol.terry@ge.com
Victoria.lazar@ge.com
Margaret.morton@ge.com
Andi.hayworth@ge.com
Jen.riley@ge.com
Varun.tejpal@ge.com
Amarjyoti.barua@ge.com
David.lobo@ge.com
Shweta.singh@ge.com
Shruti.narang@ge.com
Rajneesh.jaswal@ge.com
Chandan.jain@ge.com
Mohit.bhatia@ge.com
Manish.batra@ge.com
Deepak.doegar@ge.com
Nitin.garg@ge.com
Abhinav.kapoor@ge.com
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Suggestions in dealing with her
(a) Do not meet with her in person, if possible, since she has made all sorts of accusations against anyone who has taken the trouble to meet with her personally. If you meet with her personally, INSIST on a witness being present and insist on the meeting occurring in a public place. She will typically try to say that this is not necessary. Do not be taken in by this.
(b) Do not under any circumstances give her money. If you feel strongly that you want to help her insist that it be contingent on her seeking immediate medical help.
(c) Do not engage in telephone conversations, since she records every phone conversation she has, selectively edits the conversations and places them on YouTube.
AS Chadiok was accused of trying to murder her after he had several telephone conversations with her
Various members of the Delhi Police accused of trying to murder her once they started engaging with her on the 100 number which she would repeatedly dial
(d) The police are of limited use in dealing with her, since she has made several allegations against them and is generally known to be a nuisance in Central Delhi. The police should certainly be contacted in the event she attempts or threatens physical violence, but when others have tried to do this the police usually asks them to apologize to her, in order to calm her down, since she has been known to get physically violent when highly agitated
(e) The courts are of limited use in dealing with her. Judges either refuse to hear petitions involving her, since this leads to commotion in the courtroom, or adjourn endlessly to avoid having to deal with her. As mentioned above, on one occasion she had to be physically evicted from a High Court courtroom
(f) The one thing she genuinely fears is institutionalization, so if she is harassing you and you mention that you will make some effort in this direction, there is a chance that she will stop. However, you have very limited ability to do anything in this regard.
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11. The contents of this blog, as evident on a mere reading, are highly objectionable, obnoxious, pernicious, malicious, extremely defamatory and constitute criminal activity intended to target the petitioner and to facilitate her targeting. This blog-post is a mix of complete fabrication, falsehoods, half-truths and distorted references to some of the petitioner's whistleblower complaints and her complaints against two lawyers for sexual harassment and sexual assault. The intent of this blog post is to create a false narrative about the petitioner, that she is mentally ill and violent, thereby furthering the criminal conspiracy to isolate her, to facilitate the targeting of the petitioner by recruiting others, co-opting others and coordinating the targeting of the petitioner.
12. The petitioner submits that she does not want to dignify this blog-post with a detailed point by point response to it. She also submits that there is no need for the petitioner to counter this blog post point by point. The Petitioner submits that if called upon by the Court, the petitioner will provide a point by point rebuttal of this blog post pointing out the specific fabrications and lies in this demonstrably false blog post.
13. It is submitted, that this anonymous, pernicious assault on the petitioner's life, reputation and dignity by the creation and continued publication of this blog on the internet is itself evidence establishing that the petitioner is being targeted. Who is the person/ entity responsible for the creation, uploading and publication of this blog? Where did that person/ entity source the facts and information put out in this blog post, which are malicious and defamatory fabrication. It is pointed out that this blog post is clearly intended to facilitate the targeting and destruction of the petitioner.
14. This blog post provides evidence of a criminal intent and criminal conspiracy to target, destroy, and defame the petitioner and this blog post was created as one of the tools to further that end. It must be highlighted that this blog has been created anonymously.
15. This blog post was created to target the petitioner who is both a whistle-blower and a witness in very grave corruption complaints against General Electric Company and who has also broken the omerta in the legal community and has spoken up about her sexual harassment at the hands of two powerful and influential lawyers, Raian Karanjawala and Soli Sorabjee.
16. A few background facts may be pointed out. The Petitioner was sexually harassed by Mr Raian Karajawala when she was working as a junior in his law-firm between 1997-1999. On a work trip to Kolkata, when the petitioner and Mr Raian Karanjawala travelled to that city for a Lufthansa matter, Raian Karanjawala invited the petitioner for a "night-cap" into his room after a very late dinner at the Taj Bengal hotel. It was around mid-night and the petitioner was very tired, sleepy and also drunk because of the red wine that the group had consumed during the dinner. The petitioner was even unable to walk straight. The Petitioner refused the invitation without thinking and replied that she needed to sleep. The petitioner went into her room and fell asleep. After this, the petitioner was targeted by Raian Karanjawala and her work was slowly taken away from her and she was otherwise forced to leave the law-firm.
17. The petitioner worked with Soli J Sorabjee in 2001 as his chamber junior when he was the Attorney General for India. Soli J Sorabjee sexually harassed the petitioner by inappropriate and unwanted touching. On one occasion, Soli Sorabjee invited the petitioner for dinner. He plyed the petitioner with alcohol (red wine) and after dinner, he forced himself on the petitioner and started groping her and kissing her on the mouth. The Petitioner initially did not react for a few moments. Soli Sorabjee at one point put his tongue inside the petitioner's mouth. The petitioner was jolted out of her alcohol induced daze and she immediately protested and pushed Mr Sorabjee away and got up. The petitioner then told Mr Sorabjee that she had to leave. The Petitioner left Mr Soli Sorabjee's residence in Neeti Bagh and drove back home in her car. This incident was a case of sexual assault and attempted rape of the petitioner by Soli Sorabjee. The Petitioner suspects that Mr Soli Sorabjee might also have drugged the petitioner's drink. The petitioner was silenced at that time by an implicit threat that emanated from Soli Sorabjee. These are an abbreviated description of these sexual harassment complaints. Over time, the petitioner chose to move on with her life and to not let these incidents affect her or her life.
18. In 2010, the Petitioner was contractually employed to provide in-house counsel services to GE. The petitioner ended up making whistle-blower complaints against GE in 2010 and 2011.
19. From July 2010 to August 2011, the petitioner was poisoned and drugged without her even realizing that she was being deliberately harmed. The petitioner was also kept isolated in the rented flat in Jangpura Extenson where she was living at the time.
20. In February/ March 2011, Soli Sorabjee contacted the petitioner. He personally threatened the petitioner with physical harm and told her to drop her whistle-blower complaints against GE. He also told the petitioner that she would never be allowed to work again.
21. The Petitioner's phone was being tapped. In 2011, a one-time friend of the petitioner was used to make the petitioner talk about her experience of sexual harassment with Raian Karanjawala and Soli Sorabjee on the phone.
22. Soon after this, the Petitioner received a phone-call from lawyer Anupam Sanghi, the cousin sister of Mr Mukul Rohatgi's wife. She told the petitioner that if the petitioner was saying that everyone had harassed her, then "judges would harass" the petitioner if she went to Court. Unnerved and scared by the implicit threat in this statement to her by Anupam Sanghi, the petitioner made her complaints of sexual harassment against Raian Karanjawala and Soli Sorabjee public in 2011.
23. The Petitioner continued to be poisoned and drugged all through 2011 and into 2012. In February 2012, the petitioner managed to file a right to life, whistle-blower petition in the Delhi High Court being Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 (in the matter of Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others). Notice was issued in this petition on 7 March 2012 to GE and its two impleaded Indian subsidiaries, to the PMO, the Police Commissioner, the CVC, the CBI and to the Railway Ministry. On 25 May 2012 an order was passed by the Delhi High Court directing the Police Commissioner to ensure that the petitioner-whistle-blower is not harmed.
24. On 30 May 2012, the Petitioner was rendered homeless. She stayed at various, hostels and guest-houses through 2012.
25. From February/ March 2013, the petitioner was compelled to start sleeping in her car. She slept in her car all through 2013 until June 2014.
26. The Petitioner discovered this blog in April 2014 when she googled her name.
27. The petitioner complained about this blog to the Police when she first discovered it in 2014. A copy of one of the petitioner's several emails reporting this blog to the police is reproduced below. This complaint of the Petitioner dated 12 April 2014 was also placed on record before the Delhi High Court in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 at pages 10692 to 10693 in volume 31 of the Delhi High Court record.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:16 AM
Subject: I am being targeted by someone using the email - seemasapraalert@gmail.com - Seema Sapra - Writ Petition (Civil) 1280/ 2012 - in the matter of Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company and Others in the Delhi High Court
To: Sapra <seemasapra@hotmail.com>, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>, Rajiv Khosla <advrajivkhosla@gmail.com>, Jatan Singh <jatan_singh@yahoo.com>, Abhijat Bal <abhijat.bal@gmail.com>, Ashutosh lohia <lasutosh@gmail.com>, Vikram Singh Panwar <vikrampanwar2010@gmail.com>, Anoop Bagai <anoopbagai@gmail.com>, ashok.bhasin@yahoo.co.in, Aruna Tiku <arunatikuadvocate@yahoo.com>, Sunil Mittal <sunilmittaladvocate@gmail.com>, Meghna Mittal Sankhla <meghna@sankhla.in>, kadambari@ucolindia.com, Amit Sharma with khosla <advocateas@gmail.com>, Laxmi Chauhan <laxmichauhanmalhan@gmail.com>, Pankaj Kapoor <lawyerpankaj@gmail.com>, "rg.dhc@nic.in" <rg.dhc@nic.in>, Bhim Sain Bassi <cp.bsbassi@nic.in>, "sho-tilakmarg-dl@nic.in" <sho-tilakmarg-dl@nic.in>, "dcp-newdelhi-dl@nic.in" <dcp-newdelhi-dl@nic.in>, "dcp-central-dl@nic.in" <dcp-central-dl@nic.in>, director@aiims.ac.in, cp.ggn@hry.nic.in,jtcp.ggn@hry.nic.in, dcphq.ggn@hry.nic.in, seemasapraalert@gmail.com, "supremecourt@nic.in" <supremecourt@nic.in>
To seemasapraalert@gmail.com,
Can you identify yourself. Who are you? You are anonymously targeting me on the internet at http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in/. I attach a document containing the trash and lies you have published about me.
I have taken screen shots of your post. I will be making police complaints against you and seeking criminal prosecution against you.
Your statements also amount to contempt of the Delhi High Court as they are intended to interfere with the administration of justice in Writ Petition 1280 of 2012 being heard by the Delhi High Court against General Electric Company for corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery etc.
You are targeting a whistle-blower and a witness in a corruption case.
Seema Sapra
28. There was no response from the Police to the petitioner's complaint even though there were Delhi High Court orders directing the Delhi Police Commissioner to ensure that the Petitioner was not harmed. There has been no response or action by the Police till date on either this or for that matter on any other complaint of the petitioner including on her complaints of targeting and poisoning.
29. It will be clear to anyone who reads this blog that the contents of this blog make it impossible for the petitioner to live with dignity or safety. This blog effectively makes it impossible for the petitioner to get a job, to get a hotel room or to interact with anyone or to even eat in a restaurant.
30. This blog establishes the criminal conspiracy to target and destroy the Petitioner. The continued existence of this blog violates the petitioner's right to life, her right to accommodation, her right to food, her right to practice a profession and earn a living, her right to reputation, her right to live in society with dignity and respect, her right to privacy and her other fundamental and legal rights. The petitioner is a woman lawyer who as a whistle-blower has exposed corruption, fraud and perjury by a US Company, General Electric Company. The Petitioner has also complained that she was sexually harassed by lawyer Raian Karanjawala between 1997-1999 when the petitioner was working in his law-firm and that in 2001, the petitioner was sexually harassed by lawyer Soli J. Sorabjee (Attorney General of India at that time) and who on one occasion sexually assaulted the petitioner after plying her with alcohol and drugging her.
31. The petitioner had filed a whistle-blower right to life petition in the Delhi High Court in 2012 being Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 (in the matter of Seema Sapra versus General Electric Company & Others) in February 2012.
32. On 25 May 2012, the Delhi High Court passed an order in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 which interalia directed as follows:
The Commissioner of Police as well as all other concerned
authorities entrusted with the task of protecting the citizens of the country are directed to ensure that no harm is caused to the petitioner, who is contesting this battle in person as a whistle blower. Counsel for the Delhi Police says that it is undoubtedly the duty of the police to protect all the citizens and so it will be ensured that no harm is caused to the petitioner by anyone, including policemen.
33. The petitioner is a well-qualified and accomplished lawyer and her CV until 2010 when she ended up as a whistle-blower is reproduced below.
Curriculum Vitae
Seema Sapra
Contact details
seema.sapra@gmail.com
Work Experience
Legal Counsel for GE Transportation India in Delhi (2010 – 5 months until September 2010)
Consultant to Microsoft India on Innovation & IP law and policy - 2009-2010 in Delhi (approx. six months)
Visiting fellow at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi, 2008-2009, working on trade policy, climate change and energy policy
Director – Trade & Policy, at Delhi office of law firm Amarchand Mangaldas, Suresh A. Shroff & Co, 2008. Worked on trade policy, competition policy, nuclear policy, investment policy, India's comprehensive economic cooperation agreements, anti-dumping.
Visiting Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC 2004-2005, worked on trade and investment policy and law
Assisted GE India General Counsel, Ruby Anand as off-counsel from approx. 1999 till 2001
Associate in the office of Soli J Sorabjee, Attorney General of India, 2000-2001
Empanelled lawyer for the Government of India in the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi in 1999-2001
Lawyer with the litigation law firm of M/s Karanjawala & Co. in New Delhi, 1995-2000
Extensive litigation experience in the Supreme Court of India, the High Court of Delhi, and various special tribunals.
Policy expertise
International Trade
Bilateral and regional trade agreements
Investment policy, bilateral investment treaties
Climate change and sustainable development
Energy efficiency and climate change
Innovation policy, technology transfer and intellectual property
Competition policy
Teaching Experience
LLM tutor for the World Trade Law joint course at University College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies (2007)
Contract law tutor for 1st Year LLB at the University of Westminster, School of Law as a part-time visiting lecturer (2007)
Guest lectures for the LLM program at Kings College London and University of Leicester law school
Education
PhD studies at Kings College London 2003-2007 (not completed)
Title of proposed thesis: The Place, Treatment, and Meaning of Development in the WTO
Research supervisor - Professor Piet Eeckhout, Kings College London
3 year research fellowship by the Centre for European Law, Kings College London
LLM in Public International Law with distinction at the University of Leicester, 2001-2003
British Chevening scholar
LLB from the Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi - Ist Division. 1995
Diploma in Environmental Law from the Centre for Environmental Law, WWF-India -1994-1995
B. A. Honors in English Literature from St Stephen's College, University of Delhi - 1992
Editorial Assistant for the Journal of International Economic law, 2004-2005 based at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC
Internship with the United Nations Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania 2002-2003
Publications
Article titled "Sustainable Development and the role of the Indian Supreme Court", ASERI (Milan) publication, 2009
Article titled "An Agenda for Teaching International Economic Law in Indian Law Schools", Indian Journal of International Economic Law, 2009, National Law School, Bangalore
Article titled "The WTO System of Trade Governance: The Stale NGO Debate and the Appropriate Role for Non-state actors" in Oregon Review of International Law Journal, volume 11 issue 1, 2009
Chapter titled 'Domestic Politics and the Search for a New Social Purpose of Governance for the WTO: A Proposal for a Declaration on Domestic Consultation' in Debra Steger (ed.) Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009
Chapter titled 'New Agendas for International Economic Law Teaching in India: Including an Agenda in Support of Reform' in Colin B. Picker, Isabella Bunn & Douglas Arner, (ed.) INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW - THE STATE & FUTURE OF THE DISCIPLINE, Hart Publishing, 2008
'Ideas of Embedded Liberalism and Current and Future Challenges for the WTO', in Ortino and Ripinsky, WTO Law and Process, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2007. pg 330 - 352
Development: Its Place, Treatment, and Meaning at the WTO / Seema Sapra (2006). In: Proceedings of the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Vol. 100, pg 223-226
Papers / Conferences
Presented paper titled "An Indian perspective on sustainable development: the role of the Indian higher judiciary" at panel discussion at ASERI, Milan in December 2008
Panelist for EDGE network panel on WTO Institutional Reform at the Inaugural conference of the Society for International Economic Law, Geneva, 15-17 July 2008
Presented paper titled "Developing Countries and Outreach to Non-State Actors in the WTO", at an EDGE network project workshop on WTO institutional reform in March 2008 at Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Ontario.
Presented paper titled "The Case for International Economic Law Teaching in India: Possible Agendas Including an Agenda in Support of Reform" at the Annual Conference of the International Economic Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law at Bretton Woods in November, 2006
Panelist at the sixth Annual WTO Conference hosted by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in May 2006, on the topic "Doha Development Round: Current and Future Challenges"
Presented paper titled "Development - Its Place, Treatment and Meaning at the WTO" at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington D.C. 2006.
Presented paper titled "Special and Differential Treatment in international trade law" at the Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL), Georgetown University Law Center in September 2005
Presented paper titled "Constructivism and Special and Differential Treatment in international trade law" at the 2005 conference of the International Law Association, British Branch held at Edinburgh in May 2005
Memberships
Bar Council of Delhi
Society of International Economic Law
Asian WTO Research Network
34. By way of example of how this anonymous blog has been used to target he petitioner, it is pointed out that after the petitioner was convicted for contempt of court, the petitioner was targeted using this anonymous blog andusing two persons connected to the legal community. Kian Ganz has ties to Clifford Chance, a law-firm that handles cases for GE. Kian Ganz also has close connections to Ms Zia Mody and several other lawyers.
35. Kian Ganz, owner and editor of the website Legally India who again gets funding from law-firms with close ties to GE and has ties to Ms Zia Mody was also used to target the petitioner after the contempt judgment was issued and he put up a post on the Legally India website linking to this anonymous blog. This post and the link are still up on Legally India's website. The petitioner attempted to mitigate some damage to her reputation by responding through comments on this post. A copy of this Legally India post at https://www.legallyindia.com/the-bench-and-the-bar/heavy-handed-lawyer-seema-sapra-sentenced-to-1-month-jail-for-calling-judge-and-many-others-corrupt-20151217-6995#comments and the comments thereon are reproduced below.
Legally India
By Friday, 18 December 2015 01:04 Bar, Bench & Litigation
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Heavy handed? Lawyer Seema Sapra sentenced to 1 month jail for calling judge (and many others) corrupt
Advocate Seema Sapra, who has long-alleged that General Electric and agents acting on its behalf are trying to poison her in retaliation for whistleblowing over alleged corruption at the multinational's India offices, has been sentenced to prison for a month by the Delhi high court for contempt.
She has also been fined Rs 2,000 and barred from practising law for two years, though the jail sentence will only take effect after three months to allow her a chance to appeal, reported Mint.
Sapra had called Delhi high court Justice Vibhu Bakhru corrupt by alleging that he sat on a bench out of turn; she defended herself that she only made the statement in the heat of the moment, which should not count as contempt of court, according to the PTI.
The PTI reported that a Delhi high court bench of justices Valmiki J Mehta and P S Teji held:
Clearly therefore the action of the noticee (Sapra) in calling Justice Vibhu Bakhru as corrupt is an act of criminal contempt of this court. The wholly unsubstantiated statement made against Justice Vibhu Bakhru scandalizes or tends to scandalize this court and also lowers and tends to lower the authority of this court.
The contemptuous statement prejudices or interferes or tends to interfere with the due course of judicial proceedings inasmuch as the unsubstantiated contemptuous statement has caused recusal of a bench of this court from hearing the matter on 6 May, 2015.
The facts of this case show that the contemnor is not in any manner contrite. Contemnor has been seeking to overawe different benches of this court and has caused recusal of different benches hearing the main writ petition.
After recusal by 28 judges of this court the main writ petition was heard by this Court and dismissed in terms of the judgment dated 2 March, 2015. Petitioner has continued in the same vein even in these contempt proceedings as noted in the order dated 30 October, 2015.
That writ petition had been filed by Sapra against General Electric and several of its officials but was dismissed with Rs 2 lakh exemplary costs by the Delhi high court as "totally frivolous and a mala fide petition, and it is also an abuse of the process of the law" (read judgment):
The present writ petition was never a genuine PIL and it was only an action of a disgruntled employee who was thrown out of her employment and such a petitioner/employee through this PIL is seeking to take vendetta against her erstwhile employer with whom she has enmity. By the time the judgment in the case was reserved vide order dated 3.2.2015, volumes of the writ petition had reached to number 35 ending at page nos. 12,440.
Sapra, who had been an employee of GE in part responsible for internal compliance, had alleged primarily that GE acted improperly in pitching for a tender for the manufacture of railway locomotives, which was later cancelled by the ministry.
She has since alleged that GE has tried to poison and psychologically terrorise her, which she has detailed on her blog and in emails sent to a long list of recipients.
An anonymous blog from 2014 has alleged that she "currently seems to be suffering from mental illness".
Update 18 December 12:54: Sapra has published a response to the high court decision on her blog that she would appeal to the Supreme Court and that the ruling and her imprisonment would "enable my being drugged and poisoned in a prison and my being eventually eliminated": http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/2015/12/fwd-general-electric-fcpa-obstruction_18.html
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Like +7 Object -2 Sensible Reporting 18 Dec 15, 09:52 interesting
Please consider removing last line of the news coverage commenting on the mental condition of Ms. Sapra. The mental status of any person (be it a convict or otherwise) should not be commented so lightly. Moreover, I do not see a comment like this in the coverage of similar news item by B&B.
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Like +3 Object -3 kianganz 18 Dec 15, 10:11
I agree it's a sensitive issue but we are not making that comment lightly and it is part of a balanced report since her blog with her allegations is linked to.
It is directly relevant to this case, as I don't think she should be held responsible for contempt or that what she has said has "scandalised the court".
If you read her blog, she has made allegations ofcorruption against a lot of people, so for judges to get prickly about this one instance and punish her with jail time seems excessive and insensitive.
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Like +4 Object -1 Seema Sapra 19 Dec 15, 11:59
Kian - I do think that you should remove the reference to this Anonymous blog targeting me from your report. First its anonymous. That itself should be a reason to ignore this bull-shit.
It talks bull-shit about me and spreads fiction & lies about me with clear intent to defame me and helps enable persons to target me by making potential well-wishers wary of me.
Some examples of lies in there which have no basis in fact. (Note again this is an anonymous blog which does not cite any supporting material for the lies it spreads.)
Outright Defamatory Lie - "On one occasion, she started screaming at a woman whose house she had parked outside that the woman had been sent to murder her"
Outright Defamatory Lie -".On another occasion, she broke down the front door of a senior police officer who was not taking her call.:
Lie _ "Several Indian courts also found no substance in her complaints and refused to hear her petition." - this statement made in March 2014 was a lie because Writ Petition Civil 1280/ 2012 was still pending hearing then.
Maybe you can ask Amit Sibal if I have ever accused him of blackmail, sexual harassment and attempt to murder. I certainly have not. Again a defamatory lie out of thin air.
Lie out of thin air - "At one point a judge asked the Bar Council to pay for her stay in an expensive hotel, when she pleaded that she had nowhere to go." - You can ask the Bar Council if this is true if you want. Its outright fiction.
Outright lie - that any lawyer arranged for me to stay at the India Habitat Centre. I am a member there and stayed under my own membership account and paid my own bills using my bank card.
The section on suggestions for dealing with me shows that this blog is intended to target me and to prevent people from supporting me or helping me or standing up for me.
According to this blog I should be institutionalized in a mental institution.
This blog is cleverly written. It mixes outright lies with distorted and incomplete and perfunctory references to my actual complaints. And its clear intent is to victimize me by falsely labeling me mentally ill.
At the time this blog was posted my petition in the Delhi High Court had not even been heard. It was pending. So the blog knowingly targeted a whistle-blower & a witness in corruption complaints. I made police complaints about this blog to no effect. They were ignored as have been all my other complaints.
I appeal to all readers here, Please do not help spread vicious lies about me.
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Like +2 Object -0 Hello,Adv.Seema Sapra 19 Dec 15, 16:30
Hello,Madam, I have read the above article about you in LI, and some pages,parts of anonymous blog falsely targeting you. I feel sympathy and attention for your situation. Please can you share correct information about (1). when you registered a complaint to the police against the anonymous blog falsely targeting you? (2). Did you filed RTI petition with the Police Department regarding action taken following your complaint against anonymous blog falsely targeting you? If yes, (3). What was reply from the Police Department ? Hope to hear your accurate answers.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 20 Dec 15, 17:46
See http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/p/covert-disinformation-campaign-about_5821.html
On 12 April 2014 I had complained by email to the Police about this anonymous blog. This complaint is reproduced on my blog at the above link.
This was followed by other email complaints too all of which were placed on the court record in WP Civil 1280/ 2012. I will look for those and point them out.
I did not file an RTI. I was preoccupied with dealing with other targeting and with the court case.
I am also afraid to go to the Police HQ. I was stopped from entering the Police HQ on an earlier occasion when I wanted to lodge a complaint at the Police Commissioner's office. This was despite court orders operational at that time directing the Police Commissioner to provide me protection. These complaints against the Police were also placed on the court record of WPC 1280/ 2012.
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Like +3 Object -0 Seema Sapra 20 Dec 15, 17:57
My affidavit dated 11 October 2012 describing what happened to me at the Police HQ on the night of 1-2 October and on 5 October 2012 can be read here https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzdLbTmYqfPvNkNhNjEyZlZqMTQ/edit
This was also part of the court record in WPC 1280/ 2012.
It is my belief that no Judge has even read this affidavit.
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Like +2 Object -0 Hello,Adv.Seema Sapra, 21 Dec 15, 01:06
Please I think you being a skillful lawyer know that a petitioner can filed a complaint by registered post with A/D or Email when the situation is not favourable and safety for the petitioner to visit the Police Station/Police HQ.How are you thinking to close down or stop the anonymous blog falsely targeting you? Are you performing any legal work nowadays for any client? Does any members of your family helping or supporting you at this time of your critical situation? Hope to hear your accurate answers.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 20 Dec 15, 02:58
Was this malicious anonymous blog not a crime committed against me. It uses and publishes my photograph without permission.
I was at the time this blog was published sleeping in my car - often outside gate 8 of the Delhi High Court. I was already complaining of being harassed nightly including by police and by the security personnel in the Delhi High Court. There is evidence of this.
I was complaining that toxic chemicals were being sprayed onto and near me while I was asleep.
When this blog was published there were at least 3 Delhi High Court orders passed in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 directing the Delhi Police Commissioner to provide me security. These orders were never complied with.
Did the publication of this blog not further endanger my life at that time. Does this anonymous blog not continue to endanger my life. Does this blog not violate my right to life and my right to work even today.
Why did the Police not investigate who is behind this blog? I filed this blogs contents on the Court record in my writ petition. Why was this also ignored by the Court?
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 20 Dec 15, 16:02
Anonymous defamatory malicious blog targeting General Electric whistleblower Seema Sapra
Just to continue to expose this anon blog
It states a Lie out of thin air - "At one point a judge asked the Bar Council to pay for her stay in an expensive hotel, when she pleaded that she had nowhere to go." - You can ask the Bar Council if this is true if you want. Its outright fiction.
Truth - Order dated 1/5/2013 in WP Cvil 1280/2012 (Seema Sapra v General Electric Company) directed as follows: "Consequently a direction is issued to the Secretary of the Delhi Bar Council to urgently examine the petitioner's case under any scheme that it has available for the benefit and welfare of Advocates enrolled with them and submit a report before us."
This was when I was before the Court in several applications seeking shelter, protection and security.
Result - The Bar Council of Delhi (despite communication of this court order) never bothered to comply even with this order, it made no contact with me, it did not file any such report and no Judge took up this issue again. I continued to sleep in my car on the streets until I fractured my leg in June 2014 and when my ankle was deliberate;y dislocated by a doctor in an attempt to force me into surgery and to disable me. Evidence for this also exists.
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Like +0 Object -0 Sensible Reporting 18 Dec 15, 10:36
Thanks Kian ... Din't expect you to publish the comment but you did & replied as well ...
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Like +1 Object -0 kianganz 18 Dec 15, 10:50
Pleasure, always happy to publish comments that are not abusive.
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Like +5 Object -2 Supporter 18 Dec 15, 11:03
She needs help! She was living out of her car till I last heard. I think she needs urgent financial, moral and medical support and counseling. Can some of us LI readers form a group to extend support to her. Of course, if she doesn't want us to get involved, it is upto her.
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Like +4 Object -0 kianganz 18 Dec 15, 12:18
Agree, she's been in a very difficult position for the past few years but I'm not sure if there's an easy way of assisting her.
I believe that she may have a bona fide original complaint that there were some irregularities at GE, though I'm not sure whether those extend to outright corruption or that she'd be able to prove it satisfactorily in a court, particularly when faced with a lot of high-powered lawyers on the other side.
And in any case, as held by the high court in March, the majority of her charges are now infructious since no tender was eventually awarded.
I also think that she's had a lot to deal with and GE and others could have been more supportive.
Counselling would be useful in helping her process what's been happening, but I don't think she's amenable to that.
It's clear she's a smart and capable lawyer but I fear that the Delhi HC's approach here is short-sighted and vindictive.
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Like +2 Object -1 Sensible Reporting 18 Dec 15, 12:04
I agree, we should all help her in whatever way we can. The irony is that the readers of this post are able to understand that she needs help but not the "Hon'ble Courts". Kian you better come up with a disclaimer or else they will also hold your website in contempt.
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Like +0 Object -0 kianganz 18 Dec 15, 12:40
I don't think there's any risk of contempt in what we've reported, is there?
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Like +4 Object -0 Sensible Reporting 18 Dec 15, 14:10
You never know ... At times I feel that 'contempt of court' is 'ego of court'. You hurt it and you are booked.
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Like +3 Object -1 Humane Judiciary 18 Dec 15, 12:45
Agree with you Kian. The entire court knows about her condition and instead of demonstrating sensitivity and recommending help for her, the Judges thought it more important to show that they are the almighty and can go to any extent to make people believe that. This judgement is actually more a reflection of the mental health of the judiciary which is definitely contemptuous.
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Like +1 Object -0 I think... 18 Dec 15, 13:03
I think you meant to say, "contemptible" :-)
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Like +3 Object -0 kianganz 18 Dec 15, 13:16
Agree. The judiciary's use of contempt reminds me of the proverb, "when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail".
Prison was clearly an inappropriate remedy in this case and speaks more of frustration than of justice being done.
Here's the previous order passed by the HC on 30 October of this year:
http://delhihighcourt.nic.in/writereaddata/orderSan_Pdf/vjm/2015/155726_2015.pdf
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Like +2 Object -0 Mx. X 18 Dec 15, 14:57
Dear Humane
Without going into the merits, and restricting my comment to Ms. Sapra's so-called condition as stated in your comment, one can only observe that the Court doesn't "know" anything without proof. Until such time, the Court is entitled to claim that it doesn't know what it doesn't know.
Here's hoping that the appeal succeeds!
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Like +1 Object -0 Intolerant 18 Dec 15, 14:54
So much intolerance in India....in fact extreme intolerance. Should I stay in this country or go to the grand Trump plaza. I am afraid to come to open the LI website. Simply intolerable. I hope the Force awakens...and all this comes to an end.
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Like +5 Object -4 Listen people 18 Dec 15, 16:04
Dont try to sympathise with her so unnecessarily...how do you call this insensitive of the court...at this rate i should start sympathising with anyone who wastes the court;s time, makes absolutely frivolous allegations, right? Also please do read how very far fetched her allegations are before trying to show the court in poor light...the woman needs help, no doubt...but that is no reason for the courts to allow for all such people and waste the court's time..
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Like +1 Object -1 kianganz 18 Dec 15, 16:04
But is prison the right remedy in this case?
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Like +3 Object -0 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 20:10
"Listen people" - in the spirit of polite and constructive engagement, could you tell me specifically which complaints of mine you found frivolous or far-fetched and why?
My complaints were and are certainly grave and remain un-adjudicated to date. The DB judgment in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others) did not deal with any of my complaints,
If you share your specific concerns, maybe I can set them at rest by showing you evidence and documents available on the court record in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others) that establish that my complaints were serious, genuine and borne out by evidence/ material on record.
& me approaching the Court to fight for my right to life is certainly no waste of judicial time.
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Like +6 Object -5 Mukeshji 18 Dec 15, 16:49 controversial
Dear Kian
Is LI a Seema Sapru Sympathy Society?
To an observer this lady has been filing dozens of complaints in every possible forum, court, department, you name it for many years now, always on the same old conspiracy theory. Sure every single court / police station / government department etc. cannot be corrupt or biased??
She writes a lot of comments on LI and most of it is bakwaas (stupid). She may be entitled to her views but her legal concepts are totally rubbish (politely speaking). If she was a judge every allegation would be true till proven guilty. The only thing that is needed is for her to be confined to a mental institution till her sanity returns.
I for one am glad that the court has sent this message. Quite clearly after quite a bit of provocation.
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Like +2 Object -0 kianganz 18 Dec 15, 16:53
I do think sympathy is more useful here than 'sending a message' via prison, yes.
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Like +4 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 17:03
Mukeshji, The only case/ complaint I ever filed in any Court or judicial forum was a whistleblower corruption case against General Electric Company in the Delhi High Court being Writ Petition Civil 1280/ 2012.
The rest is in your imagination, or are you deliberately spreading disinformation about me. Lets keep to specifics and facts please.
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 17:10
The issues here are the following?
Am I a whistleblower as described by me in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 that I filed against General Electric Company?
Was the decision of the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court dismissing that writ petition correct and sustainable in law?
Yes, I have thus far not appealed that decision for various reasons including hoping to buy peace. I was also targeted in several ways thereby preventing me from file such an appeal.
But that decision dismissing WP 1280/ 2012 was not a ruling on merits. There is no res judicata bar for me to file a fresh whistleblower and right to life petition before the Supreme Court of India.
It now appears as if I will have to file such a petition.
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 17:14
WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others) was not filed as a PIL nor was meant to be a PIL nor did I ever represent it as a PIL. I deliberately did this because I was seeking protection for myself as a whistleblower, complainant and witness. I was an interested party in this sense.
Yet the DB decision dismissing this petition mis-describes it as a PIL and uses that to penalise me. This is a clear error apparent on the face of the record.
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 17:23
WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others) - my whistleblower corruption case was according to the DB decision dismissed because it had according to the Bench become infructuous.
The ruling states in more than one place that the Court therefore would not / did not consider the documents/ material on record.
Yet without considering the material on record, the Court proceeds also to state in its ruling that my complaints were baseless and that I had not produced any evidence in support.
This ruling is clearly wrong and unsustainable.
The Court refused to look at the material, did not permit me to argue and its decision is contrary to the court record.
You can verify this yourself by going through the public court record available at http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/p/updated-court-documents-in-whistle.html
If you have less time, read one application that was before the Court and is available at http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/p/some-of-corruption-fraud-bribery_4275.html
I produced sufficient evidence in support of my corruption complaints against General Electric .
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 17:42
On the issue that WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others) had become infructuous.
There was complaints of bribes, illegal lobbying, tailoring and manipulation of tender documents, fraud, forgery, undue influence, favoritism, violation of disclosure guidelines, violation of conflict of interest provisions, illegal communication with the Railways etc in connection with a multi-billion dollar tender.
When it became clear to the Govt that it was not possible to proceed with the impugned tender with the evidence on record, the Govt cancelled the tender two years into the petitions's pendency.
How does cancellation of the tender render the complaints infructuous especially when the cancellation itself was a cover-up device?
The writ petition prayers including investigation of all complaints plus sought blacklisting in accordance with tender conditions if fraud. forgery, conflict of interest, illegal lobbying etc were proved.
So does the law say that the Govt can ignore corruption by a bidder by cancelling that tender and inviting the same bidder to a fresh tender for the same Project?
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 17:56
On the following sentence which appears in the report:
"An anonymous blog from 2014 has alleged that she "currently seems to be suffering from mental illness".
There are two facts here, first this is an anonymous blog created on 10 March 2014 one year before WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others) was dismissed.
This blog misrepresented my complaints and spread disinformation about me. It was part of GE's campaign to discredit and destroy me as a witness by repeated and unsuccessful attempts to falsely label me mentally ill.
Whistleblowers who complain about high-powered corruption often face retaliation of this kind.
Read this blog targeting me - it says nonsense.It deliberately misrepresents and caricatures my complaints and my situation.
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 18:42
In fact the DB decision in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others) does not even refer to the material that I had placed on record in support of my corruption complaints and in support of my complaints that I was being targeted and physically harmed. .
It is a 100 page judgment. Pages 7-18 merely reproduce extracts from SC decisions on PIL misuse when the instant petition was never filed as a PIL nor ever treated as a PIL by the Court or the Court registry from 2012 till 2015.
Pages 19-54 merely selectively reproduce previous orders passed in the matter. I was never provided an opportunity to explain those orders or the circumstances in which they were passed. These orders were then used by the Bench to draw adverse inferences against me. My response to several of those orders which was part of the court record was never considered by the Bench.
Pages 56-88 merely reproduce only the prayer clauses of selective applications which were pending before the Court. None of these nor other detailed applications were considered or taken up or decided by the Bench. But according to the Bench these applications showed my irresponsibility and frivolousness without the Bench going into either the preliminaries or the merits of these applications.
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 18:57
On page 78 of the DB judgment in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & Others) is another error apparent on the face of the record. The judgment quotes the title of my application CM 10493 of 2013 but then reproduces the prayer clause of CM 10492 of 2013 which was filed by AZB.
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 18 Dec 15, 23:26
If the law as laid down in Supreme Court Bar Association of India v. Union of India (1998) 4 SCC 409 still holds, the Delhi High Court DB had no jurisdiction to debar me from practicing the profession of law before it and before subordinate courts for a period of 2 years.
Only the Bar Council of Delhi can suspend or abrogate my right to practice law and that too after following due process.
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Like +7 Object -0 RNR 19 Dec 15, 01:34 interesting
Go Seema Sapra! Fight your Battle! If you believe something, you do. Nobody should be able to tell you otherwise, court! a court does not matter in the spiritual scheme of things. I think the comment on B&B over your mental health and here too, though might fall within the freedoms of speech are of not much literary value and may in many quarters be considered distasteful. Five Six words wasted in pitying you instead of showing creativity! I like a fighter. And i see one in you! Go Seema Sapra!
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Like +2 Object -3 Seema Sapra 19 Dec 15, 14:08
Thank you RNR.
The B&B article displayed lack of journalistic integrity by crossing the line from fair and factual reporting into publishing falsehoods about me without any supporting evidence or citation.
That article states: "Sapra can be spotted regularly in Delhi High Court and is often seen making remarks during the hearing of cases and getting into arguments with other lawyers."
This is not true. I have not even entered a court-room in the Delhi High Court unless it was for my writ or the contempt matters against me for over a year.
Any honest regular in the Delhi High Court will confirm that I do not as falsely stated by B&B disrupt court hearings by making remarks during those hearings.
I have had the occasional argument with a lawyer but I have learnt to avoid those. The fact is that there are lawyers involved/ implicated in my complaints and lawyers close to persons/ entities implicated in my complaints. There is a cartel of lawyers actively working against me in the Delhi High Court especially. I have been told by several well-wishing colleagues that they have been pressured not to talk to me, stand with me, or to support me. Some lawyers have expressed apprehensions that Delhi High Court Judges might get upset if these lawyers are seen to be associating with me or helping me (and not in connection with my cases but even professionally or personally). I am sure many readers here know exactly what I am talking about. I am being professionally and socially blacklisted, isolated, being reduced to a pariah. And this is a deliberate campaign.
The B&B report also starts by describing me as one who "is known for making allegations against lawyers and judges". Yes I have made some complaints. I have been forced to. But the B&B statement depicts me as someone who makes frivolous complaints without any basis.
By the way B&B blocked me on Twitter for unknown reasons sometime in 2014. They don't allow my comments on their website. And they never reported my corruption case against General Electric Company. Again the influence of the lawyer cartel that is working against me?
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Like +8 Object -4 Logically speaking 19 Dec 15, 14:44
Hey Seema,
There is just one tiny little thing that I wanted to bring to your attention...that is that the world is not organised around to be able to kill you or to abet the same. Had that been the goal, with the giants that you're up against, the mission would have been accomplished a long time ago...look up paranoid personality disorder for your own benefit...
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Like +2 Object -6 Seema Sapra 19 Dec 15, 19:01
If people want to help me, then my foremost and most urgent need is financial assistance and a safe place to stay.
I am presently staying in a room at a B&B where I am paying Rs 50,000 per month. I am trying to raise funds to pay for this accommodation.
Over and above this I need money to spend on food and other living expenses.
Is there some way those who care can help me out here by crowdfunding this. They can do this anonymously.
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Like +3 Object -4 Mukeshji 20 Dec 15, 18:25
Kian, I feel LI should not support or encourage or provide a platform for solicitation of alms in this manner, no matter what your private view [...].
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Like +5 Object -5 Silent 20 Dec 15, 10:10 controversial
When an individual feels they deserve special privileges from the society without having done anything special for the society in return, it indicates a sense of entitlement disorder.
In a civilized society, the state would order an immediate psychiatric evaluation and treatment of such an individual. Empathy is the litmus test that differentiates a civilized society from a barbarian society.
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Like +3 Object -0 Seema Sapra 20 Dec 15, 16:19
It takes all kinds of humans to make this world. There is a space for paid trolls too. I choose to ignore you.
His/ her last sentence though is out of place, don't you think.
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Like +3 Object -0 Seema Sapra 20 Dec 15, 16:32
Well lets see we are talking of a hypothetical individual here who was honest, upheld her prescribed code of conduct, refused to facilitate corruption and exposed it. She was targeted, including being drugged and poisoned.
She managed somehow to file a writ petition. That petition was not heard for 3 years. She got no preliminary relief either, protection orders were issued but not complied, she continued to be targeted including by attempts to falsely label her mentally ill, her money ran out, she was rendered homeless, her belongings were taken away, she was forced to try and raise money, she started sleeping in her car because she needed less money that way, she continued to be targeted, drugged, poisoned, sprayed with noxious fumes. She continued to fight the corruption battle by drafting affidavits/ applications in cafes, in malls, in the Delhi High Court canteen.
Unfortunately she fractured her fibula on a very hot summer day because she was homeless and being targeted. Three days later, a doctor deliberately dislocated her ankle.
She managed to raise funds and stay in hotels with her broken leg and dislocated ankle which slowly healed. She used a walker to hop first, then a stick, she was in a cast for 1 year 3 months or so. She continued to be targeted.
Story to be continued plus lots of missing bits to be added. Hpefully this gives a flavor.
She is not asking for special privileges, but she needs justice and hopes that there are humane people around who will help her get that. Otherwise she will end up dead and people will say the system killed her.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 20 Dec 15, 10:56
Hello all those people who want to help,
I have been staying since October 2015 in a room at a B&B where I am paying Rs 50,000 per month. I have already paid Rs. 10,5000 to the owners of this place, where I have managed to keep myself safe.
I have been told this morning that unless I pay Rs 37500 (three weeks rent) which was due yesterday by tomorrow (Monday), I should vacate the place by Tuesday morning.
It is the dead of winter. I have a dislocated ankle so it is not possible for me to sleep in my car as I was doing earlier. Plus being in a car on the street again places me in danger.
So any people or group of people out there who want to help me with financial assistance so that I can pay for the accommodation? With the way I have been targeted as evidenced by the anonymous blog, you can appreciate that it has been made impossible for me to work and earn money.
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Like +2 Object -1 Seema Sapra 20 Dec 15, 21:18
To this comment –
"There is just one tiny little thing that I wanted to bring to your attention...that is that the world is not organised around to be able to kill you or to abet the same. Had that been the goal, with the giants that you're up against, the mission would have been accomplished a long time ago...look up paranoid personality disorder for your own benefit..."
Now to answer this kind of GE propaganda against me that is intended to drown what I am saying.
Since I came out publicly with my complaints against General Electric, their crisis and PR managers/ agents have attempted to control the way in which I am perceived by the target audience. PR management is a very important part of how Corporates manage PR crises, and my complaints constitute one.
So one kind of propaganda that I face is from persons who are used to repeatedly describe me as mentally ill in public fora and within communities while trying to hide any reference to my whistle-blower complaints against GE. My present condition of being homeless, broke, forced to raise money, my currently dead career are therefore used to depict me as someone who has failed and is now mentally disturbed. All discussion of how I ended up in these circumstances is avoided. Thus someone can call me mentally ill merely by saying she has been begging for money or merely by saying she has been sleeping in her car. These facts itself are enough it seems for some people to term me mentally ill.
The other kind of propaganda is the kind that this commenter "Logically Speaking" is attempting here. He is saying basically that the fact that I am still alive proves that GE agents have not harmed me or tried to harm me. And that the simple fact of me being alive itself disproves my claim that I have been and am being harmed or that there is a threat to my life. My claim according to such propaganda stands disproved without any need for anyone to even see on what basis I am making my complaints or to hear me or to look at any evidence that I might have. And the propaganda goes further to suggest that merely because I am still alive all my complaints of attempts on my life, threat to my life, drugging, poisoning, physical harm are false and that I am merely being paranoid.
The argument is that if GE intended to kill me they would have succeeded by now.
Let me now expose this propaganda for what it is.
It is also important to tell my story in chronological form. One disadvantage that I faced in the Delhi High Court was that there was no chronological statement of how I had been targeted. I was complaining in real time.
First a corporate like GE does not have its enemies shot on the road. A corporate like GE would use other methods to get rid of someone who is a threat. They would for instance chronically poison someone to damage their health. They would create conditions in which the death could be passed off as natural. They would use doctors, police, judges, family members, friends etc for this. This is how high-profile enemies are eliminated. Remember the attempts to pass off Sunanda Pushkar's death as natural?
A corporate like GE would use contractors to do their dirty work. These contractors could be ex FBI, ex CIA, ex police, ex-military, security agencies, PR agencies, risk management companies, etc. A corporate like GE would use local police, local security agencies, local intelligence agencies to do their dirty work.
A company like GE would also control a person by covertly drugging that person.
So what has happened to me since 2010 when I became a threat to GE and its executives and lawyers.
It's a long story …
When I was still working with GE and I became a threat I was being drugged. I realised this only later. This would be June- July, August=September 2010.
I continued to be drugged and possibly also chronically poisoned through 2010 until the end of January 2011 while GE completed its alleged internal investigation.
I fell ill in January 2011 as a result of this drugging/ poisoning. I did not realise that I was being drugged or poisoned.
One evening in January 2011 I had difficulty breathing. I then started coughing out copious amounts of frothy phlegm. This happened a day after I met someone in Defence Colony market where I believe I was drugged/ poisoned.
I coughed copious amounts of phlegm through the whole month of January and part of February. At that time, I actually thought I was dying.
There was a respite of about a month when I started feeling better.
But around March April 2011 when I started challenging GE's internal investigation results the poisoning and drugging recommenced and or intensified.
So I continued to be drugged and poisoned through April, May June 2011. I saw a doctor in June 2011 about a swollen lymph node in the front of my neck which appeared overnight. I still did not suspect drugging or poisoning. In fact, the thought did not even enter my mind.
This doctor at Apollo wrote a strange prescription which prescribed double the dosage of a sedating anti-histamine. I believe this was a deliberate attempt to keep me sedated. This doctor also made a strange attempt to get me to consume a proton pump inhibitor for no reason.
Toxic fumes and gases were also being released into my home since around December 2010 – January 2011.
I smelt a gas called nitrous oxide in my home on more than one occasion. I believe this gas was being released into my home from May 2011 onwards. Nitrous oxide is an anaesthetic. Repeated exposure damages health, depletes vitamin B 12 which in turn causes nerve/ neuron damage and anemia. Exposure to nitrous oxide along with a proton pump inhibitor further exacerbates and hastens vitamin B 12 deficiency.
I had not yet gone to Court. I was at this time mainly confined to my home. I was being drugged and my health was being slowly damaged. The intent appears to have been to keep me drugged and use nitrous oxide and other substances etc to damage my health. Note that I have no way of even knowing what I was being drugged or poisoned with during this time. I can merely describe my symptoms.
But note that though I was kept alive I was controlled by being drugged and I was being slowly poisoned. So I was mainly confined to the house, and the damage I could do to GE during this period was curtailed. Thus far GE prevented me from approaching the Courts. I wasted one year because of this. I did however manage from April-May onwards to email lawyers and the Press about my complaints against GE. I remember a lawyer calling me and telling me not to spread this news. I believe this person was asked to call me and to suggest that I not publicise my complaints. The fact that I did make my complaints public at this time probably saved my life. Otherwise I might never have left that house.
What I believe also saved my life then was the fact that I sensed something was not right and that my maid had something to do with it. I recall thinking not very clearly that she might be tampering with my food. My symptoms in June were weakness in my legs upon waking up. And a pain upon bending forward in the left upper thorax/abdomen area just under my chest.
In June 2011 I also started to be harassed at my home at night.
At the end of June 2011, I curtailed my maids visits to my home and finally terminated her services.
I started feeling better within days and started going out of the house including to both the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court.
It is in July 2011 that with a clearer head and after talking to people in the Courts that I first realised that I was being drugged and poisoned. This was the first time that I understood that my life was in danger.
To be continued ...
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Like +2 Object -4 Mukeshji 21 Dec 15, 06:46
Nitrous Oxide is a ridiculous means to drug someone.
It has very little use today and is hard to procure. The online literature shows that it is not a very toxic gas either and exposure will on the contrary make a 'victim' want to leave the vicinity. For even medical conditions to show 'chronic' use of a high dose for weeks is needed. Less than 6 hours exposure at a time is harmless
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12751548
There are a zillion ways someone bent on hushing you can do it and if you think Nitrous Oxide is the way you really are as paranoid as they claim you are
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Like +1 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 08:27
I didn't say that nitrous oxide was being used to "drug" me.
Nitrous oxide was only one of several ways in which I have been targeted. It was being used to destroy my health. Something else was being administered to me to drug me.
"Long-term exposure to high concentrations of nitrous oxide may cause megaloblastic bone-marrow depression and neurological symptoms."
I was in the house alone the whole day for months. Often the windows and doors were shut. The AC was on. I was in a closed room. Very easy to expose me to poisonous fumes for extended periods of time. I smelt it in my home. I identified it as nitrous oxide after smelling it in Max Hospital in an examination room where I had an ultrasound.
I developed numbness and tingling in my hands, fingers and feet. It has since resolved.
Every thing you have said is wrong. Very easy to procure nitrous oxide. Commonly used by dentists. Commonly available anaesthetic. long term exposure to levels less than anesthetic levels will cause several health problems.
Nitrous oxide can cause analgesia, depersonalisation, derealisation, dizziness, euphoria, and some sound distortion.[22] Research has also found that it increases suggestibility and imagination.[23
Like other NMDA antagonists, N2O was suggested to produce neurotoxicity in the form of Olney's lesions in rodents upon prolonged (several hour) exposure.[52][53][54][55] However, new research has arisen suggesting that Olney's lesions do not occur in humans, and similar drugs like ketamine are now believed not to be acutely neurotoxic.[56][57] It has been argued that, because N
2O has a very short duration under normal circumstances, it is less likely to be neurotoxic than other NMDA antagonists.[58] Indeed, in rodents, short-term exposure results in only mild injury that is rapidly reversible, and permanent neuronal death only occurs after constant and sustained exposure.[52] Nitrous oxide may also cause neurotoxicity after extended exposure because of hypoxia. This is especially true of non-medical formulations such as whipped-cream chargers (also known as "whippets" or "nangs"), which are not necessarily mixed with oxygen.[59]
Additionally, nitrous oxide depletes vitamin B12 levels. This can cause serious neurotoxicity with even acute use if the user has preexisting vitamin B12 deficiency.[60]
Nitrous oxide is also neuroprotective, inhibiting glutamate-induced excitotoxicity.
The major safety hazards of nitrous oxide come from the fact that it is a compressed liquefied gas, an asphyxiation risk, and a dissociative anaesthetic. Exposure to nitrous oxide causes short-term decreases in mental performance, audiovisual ability, and manual dexterity.[61] Abusing nitrous oxide can lead to oxygen deprivation resulting in loss of blood pressure, fainting and even heart attacks. [62]
Long-term exposure can cause vitamin B12 deficiency, numbness, reproductive side effects (in pregnant females), and other problems (see Biological). The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recommends that workers' exposure to nitrous oxide should be controlled during the administration of anaesthetic gas in medical, dental, and veterinary operators.[63] People can be exposed to nitrous oxide in the workplace by breathing it in or getting the liquid on their skin or in their eyes. The National_Institute_for_Oc cupational_Safety_and_Hea lth (NIOSH) has set a Recommended_exposure_limi t (REL) of 25 ppm (46 mg/m3) exposure to waste anaesthetic.[64]
Nitrous oxide inactivates the cobalamin form of vitamin B12 by oxidation. Symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency, including sensory neuropathy, myelopathy, and encephalopathy, can occur within days or weeks of exposure to nitrous oxide anaesthesia in people with subclinical vitamin B12 deficiency. Symptoms are treated with high doses of vitamin B12, but recovery can be slow and incomplete.[68] People with normal vitamin B12 levels have stores to make the effects of nitrous oxide insignificant, unless exposure is repeated and prolonged (nitrous oxide abuse). Vitamin B12 levels should be checked in people with risk factors for vitamin B12 deficiency prior to using nitrous oxide anaesthesia.[69]
In India, for general anaesthesia purposes, nitrous oxide is available as Nitrous Oxide IP. India's gas cylinder rules (1985) permit the transfer of gas from one cylinder to another for breathing purposes. This law benefits remote hospitals, which would otherwise suffer as a result of India's geographic immensity. Nitrous Oxide IP is transferred from bulk cylinders (17,000 litres [600 cu ft] capacity gas) to smaller pin-indexed valve cylinders (1,800 litres [64 cu ft] of gas), which are then connected to the yoke assembly of Boyle's machines. Because India's Food & Drug Authority (FDA-India) rules state that transferring a drug from one container to another (refilling) is equivalent to manufacturing, anyone found doing so must possess a drug manufacturing license.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 07:41
In March 2013, while WP Civil 1280/ 2012 (Seema Sapra v General Electric Company and Others) was still pending, I discovered by chance that one Jayanand - Regional Security Director of GE India had sent a false complaint against me to the Police Commissioner and the Delhi High Court behind my back. This letter from Jayanand (on a GE letterhead) which I read when I inspected the court file falsely alleged that I was researching explosives on the internet and that I was mentally ill and was likely to harm myself or others and that I needed psychiatric treatment.
I moved CM 5007/ 2013 in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 asking for investigation into and prosecution of GE executives including Jayanand for making a false police complaint against me when I was in Court exposing GE corruption.
Note that this application like all my other applications was never taken up for hearing. It was never heard, considered or decided. This was a very serious complaint by me with proof.
This application as placed on the court record can be read at https://docs.google.com/filed/0BzdLbTmYqfPvTm55WVdfX3JpVFU/edit
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 09:00
Since I don't want to waste my time countering GE trolls hell-bent on preventing me from recording all that has been done to me because I exposed GE corruption and because I constitute a threat to GE executives and lawyers, I will ignore Mukeshji's comment on nitrous oxide.
I will only say that everything he has said is wrong and anyone interested can google nitrous oxide themselves.
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Like +0 Object -5 Guest123 21 Dec 15, 16:23
This is Seema Saprra's linked profile: https://in.linkedin.cm/in/seema-sapra-4953a46
Can someone who know her from DU/Leicester/AMSS/Karanja wala/Chevening network please help her?
I know someone who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. The more you ignore it the worse it gets. But it can be kept under control through medication and you can have a normal life. I wish Ms Sapra could see the film A Beautiful Mind and voluntarily visit a psychiatrist at VIMHANS/NIMHANS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Beautiful_Mind_(film)
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 17:07
All, please avoid this GE-sponsored troll. I intend to take my whistle-blower corruption complaints against General Electric to the Supreme Court including the issue of the fraud committed before the Delhi High Court where K R Radhakrishnan impersonated as the authorized signatory of General Electric Company.
See http://geimpersonationfrau.blogspot.in/ and http://genealelectricfakeauthoritydocs.blogspot.in/
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 19:26
For those interested, there is a better note on my background at
http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/p/about-me.html
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Like +0 Object -5 Guest123 21 Dec 15, 16:29
Ms Sapra should also read this article. Maybe this will make her realise she needs help.
http://bollywood.celebden.com/2014/03/19/the-complete-story-of-parveen-babis-illness-and-death/
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 17:12
All, once again please avoid these GE-sponsored trolls. Read about General Electric corruption in the Marhowra Project tender instead at
http://gemarhowracorruption.blogspot.in/
http://gemarhowracorruptionpart2.blogspot.in/
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 17:18
Read about money laundering by General Electric Company in India which the Enforcement Directorate and Income tax authorities are looking into
http://gemoneylaundering.blogspot.in/
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Like +3 Object -5 Anonymouse 21 Dec 15, 17:25
My sympathies are with Ms Sapra, but I think its important someone close to her ensure she receives the care she may require. I've witnessed schizophrenia up-close & think a visit to a good doctor at Max, Fortis, Apollo, CIMBS, VIMHANS, etc is the least her friends & family should do for her in this situation. Given that, what a pity that the Hon'ble Delhi HC has handed a harsh contempt sentencing instead.
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Like +3 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 17:30
Here's a message for everyone.
I am completely mentally sane and will fight my battle with General Electric in the Supreme Court of India.
I will use the court process to establish that I am being poisoned. Chronic poisoning shows up in the body in tox screens and in tissue like the hair and nails etc. So I will in my petition seek a court order that the Supreme Court direct AIIMS to test me for poisons and toxins. There is enough medical evidence on the court record in WPC 1280/ 2012 which will also establish any subsequent organ damage due to poisoning.
So don't worry about me. I am under no unmanageable stress and am confident of my abilities to fight my being targeted legally.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 17:44
I remind everyone that I had several applications in my writ petition seeking that the Medical Council of India be brought in to look at my complaints of past poisoning and how my complaints of poisoning had been handled by doctors.
I wanted those applications to be heard and for the MCI to be asked to look at my complaints and medical records which are part of the court record in WPC 1280/2012 including the complaint of deliberate ankle dislocation which is established by Xrays, audio records and doctor reports.
None of those applications were taken up in my writ. Why? Who was afraid of those applications being allowed and for the Medical Council of India to examine my complaints.
I will be impleading the Medical Council of India in my petition in the Supreme Court and will again seek directions that the MCI examine how in the past some doctors ignored and covered up my complaints of poisoning.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 18:57
I had filed CM 5008 of 2012 in WP Civil 1280 of 2012. It can be read at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzdLbTmYqfPvejBSTlhSOEZXNkU/edit
In this application I had described my complaints that several doctors at two private hospitals both with close ties to General Electric had attempted to cover up my complaints of poisoning and had even attempted to create false medical records, misdiagnose me with thyroid cancer, unlawfully drug me, etc. I had asked that notice be issued both to the Medical Council of India and the Medical Council of Delhi. Both these Councils as well as medical supervisory bodies both in the UK and the US are already aware of these complaints and of the accompanying medical evidence as I sent it to a whole lot of doctors and physician regulators on email.
Why was this application not heard and allowed? If I am wrong then the Medical Council of India would have said so. Obviously the implicated persons and doctors and their co-conspirators at General Electric were afraid of this application. The fact is that the medical records I have filed and the complaints I have made establish what I am asserting.
Also relevant to this application are copies of my medical records which I had filed IN WPC 1280/ 2012 aand are available at https://docs.google.com/fil/d/0BzdLbTmYqfPvb0dFVnFadC1lQjQ/edit
For those who do not know, GE Healthcare is probably the largest healthcare company in the world. It has very close and deep financial and other ties to many hospitals.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 20:10
Deliberate dislocation of ankle by Doctor - complaint and medical records as on the court record in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 - Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company & others.
Read at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzdLbTmYqfPveDdmcVpOUXhSekU/edit
and
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzdLbTmYqfPvdUhGWW50bmNVSTg/edit
I remember a Tis Hazari lawyer whose bones were broken by a builder using goons.
General Electric does it in more style - it saw an opportunity and used a doctor to dislocate my ankle.
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Like +4 Object -5 Please help Ms Sapra 21 Dec 15, 20:52
Kian, enough. Please block Ms Sapra's posts and stop making a cruel exhibition of the mentally ill. This is a serious matter and she desperately needs to be admitted under the care of a psychiatrist. Someone must contact the police and forcibly admit her to a good hospital. I cannot believe that you are posting her rants. This is disgusting yellow journalism from you.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 23:44
Another GE troll. Looks like the folks at GE and their lawyers are getting very riled up with the truth getting exposed here.
The trolls are now getting nastier and nastier.
What kind of person are you to defame me like this? I think the readers of this site can see the truth now.
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Like +3 Object -0 kianganz 21 Dec 15, 23:44
Well, the comments are actually not journalism, yellow or otherwise, and this is a very complicated situation.
I also think there is some value for the profession and the judiciary to understand what's going on.
Finally, I don't think your proposed 'solution' is realistic or legal.
In any case, the discussion is not going anywhere new and we'll close the comments on this for a while. Please feel free to email me directly at the usual address if you have any thoughts.
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 23:46
Here is more dirt on GE corruption in the Marhowra Rail Project - again from the public court record
General Electric corruptly obtained Indian Rail Marhowra Project bid docs before they were public
http://gecorruptionpart2.blogspot.in/
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Like +2 Object -0 Seema Sapra 21 Dec 15, 23:55
Wikileaks US Embassy cables on creation of Marhowra loco factory Project for General Electric
http://gecorruptionpart3.blogspot.in/
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Like +5 Object -0 AAP ka Aman 22 Dec 15, 00:30 interesting
Please contact Mr. Arvind Kejriwal or Mr. Sisodia. I am sure that they will help you out. They are honest people and so you can expect lots of good from them.
36. Legal academic Shamnad Basheer who has close ties to GE's lawyers and whose organizations avail funding from GE was used to put up a malicious Facebook post targeting the petitioner which he removed after the petitioner protested to him. Shamnad Basheer referred to this blog in email communications when the petitioner confronted and objected to his defamatory post. The Facebook post by Shamnad Basheer is reproduced below.
"I've been extremely troubled after reading this some days ago. We have some of the best brains in the legal profession. And some of the most compassionate souls (a minority yes, but they do exist!). No one willing to help her? I mean in a sustained way? From her responses to this post and several other earlier writings of hers that I've seen (on LI and other blogs), she clearly has an exceptionally astute and articulate legal mind. "I'm not sure of the veracity of her complaint, but close friends who know her better insist that she suffers from some kind of mental illness. Assuming this to be true, shouldn't we try and get her back on track? Get this remarkable legal brain to blossom again and be put to good constructive use? Or perhaps, her alleged insanity is not so much a reflection of her as it is about us. As R.D Laing put it many years ago, insanity is best defined as "a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world!"
37. A copy of a screenshot of Shamnad Basheer's Facebook post is annexed hereto as Annexure P-2.
38. Reproduced below is a copy of the email exchange between Shamnad Basheer and the Petitioner after this Facebook post was posted by Shamnad Basheer.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 6:07 PM
Subject: Incident of General Electric whistle-blower targeting & retaliation - Facebook post & email exchange with Shamnad Basheer - US SEC complaint TCR1439646785831
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Cc: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@gmail.com>, Seema Sapra <seemasapra@hotmail.com>
Please read this email exchange with Shamnad Basheer starting from the earliest to the latest email in chronological order.
I will be reproducing this correspondence and his Facebook post (screenshot attached) as an example of whistle-blower targeting and retaliation in the writ petition which I will file against General Electric Company in the Supreme Court of India.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 5:52 PM
Subject: Your Facebook post about me. -General Electric whistleblower
To: shamnad basheer <shamnad@gmail.com>
Cc: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@gmail.com>
So Shamnad,
You finally end up exposing yourself and your true agenda. And you are supposed to be a responsible academic.
I will be reproducing this correspondence and your FB post as an example of targeting in my writ petition which I will file against General Electric Company in the Supreme Court of India.
So the source of the information of your close friends is this anonymous blog which you are well aware contains lies as you have read my comments on the LI story at http://www.legallyindia.com/bar-bench-litigation/heavy-handed-lawyer-seema-sapra-sentenced-to-1-month-jail-for-calling-judge-and-many-others-corrupt
I think I'll concentrate my energies on fighting my corruption battle against General Electric in the Supreme Court of India rather than responding to the rest of your vitriol against me.
Seema Sapra
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 5:39 PM, shamnad basheer <shamnad@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Seema:
The LI article linked to a blog post that stated as below:
"To be clear, Seema Sapra is a pitiable creature in a very difficult situation. However, that does not detract from the fact that she is a public nuisance and that, due to a variety of peculiarities in her circumstances, the law offers only very limited protection from her. The point of this website is not to mock Seema, but rather to help those that encounter her protect themselves, whether they just want to avoid her or actually want to intervene and help her.
Seema is a lawyer who until a few years ago appeared to have a successful professional career, but currently seems to be suffering from mental illness. She is at present unemployed, has broken off all contact with her family (which has disowned her and refuses to take responsibility for her) and lives out of her car, which she parks in different New Delhi neighbourhoods, frequently quarrelling with residents when they complain about her "living" there. On one occasion, she started screaming at a woman whose house she had parked outside that the woman had been sent to murder her. On another occasion, she broke down the front door of a senior police officer who was not taking her call."
See link below:
http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in
And lawyers in the Delhi high court openly discuss this. So what is so surprising about this allegation? And why should my mention of it on a FB post as only a possibility (I was careful in my wording) harm you anymore than the theories already floating around about you. As the tenor of my Facebook post will demonstrate, I meant well for you--and wanted to find out if there are ways in which some of us could help. I really think you have a terrific legal mind.
If you insist that you are sane and others are doing this at the behest of GE (since your claim appears to be that almost everyone who raises issues about your sanity is necessarily an agent of GE), why don't you just volunteer to a neutral psychiatric evaluation? And if it makes you happy, some of us who wish to help you can also subject ourselves to such evaluation too so that you are not alone. And we can chose someone independent who is not an agent of GE and who will not dare poison or gas you! If I were you, I'd just do that and put an end to this speculation. Rather than being so hostile and adversarial to me and others that are trying to help you. I really dont want to engage with you anymore! I'm so sorry I even tried.
As I understand, the reason why nobody wishes to help you is because you attack the very same people that try and do so. I've really spent way too much time on this and have only received hostility from your end. I don't wish to engage with you anymore. This will be my last communication with you.
Please feel free to call me an agent of GE and publish all of this (you seem to be publishing your responses to me on your website even before you've actually emailed me and tagging me on twitter incessantly) and/or take me to court and initiate proceedings etc. I only wish you the very best and may god bless you.
Shamnad
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Shamnad, who are these close friends of yours who know me better. And how do they know this about me. So much that they insist upon this? Please name them. Maybe I can expose the basis/ motive for their obviously targeting me. Maybe I can also ask them to stop spreading such rumors about me.
Please post this entire exchange on your FB wall.
So you are saying that you chose to speculate on FB that I am mentally ill merely on the basis of conversation with some of your close friends who practice in the Delhi High Court.
Does the evidence that I have produced against GE and the evidence showing that I am being targeted, do my comments on the LI story, does my corruption case against GE not show that I am a whistle-blower.
How can you justify such extremely harmful speculation in an extremely sensitive mater merely on the basis of loose and cheap talk?
Seema Sapra
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Shamnad Basheer <shamnad@gmail.com> wrote:
Seema. You misunderstood the part about "close friends". These are my friends I refer to..not yours. Friends of mine who work in the delhi high court and know you. Please therefore amend your response in the light of above clarification and send. I will then post. Thanks.
Sent from my iPhone
On 25-Dec-2015, at 4:40 pm, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Shamnad,
The facts are that I filed a corruption case against General Electric Company which was wrongly dismissed by a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court in February 2015. In that case I produced evidence of wrongdoing by General Electric and evidence of physical harm (including poisoning) caused to me and attempted to be caused to me along with evidence of the most vicious retaliation against me. The Delhi High Court Bench did not look at this evidence and instead dismissed the petition by in my view a clearly legally unsustainable judgment.
Now the same Bench has passed an order sentencing me to prison for one month in a contempt case connected to the hearing of my corruption case against General Electric Company. I have stated that any prison sentence will be used to further drug, poison and eliminate me. And that I will not only appeal against the Contempt ruling but will also file an Article 32 petition seeking redressal of my whistleblower corruption complaints against General Electric which continue to give rise to a threat to my life and my complaints that I have been targeted, and have even been poisoned.
Legally India did a story on the contempt ruling where it mentioned my corruption case against General Electric and my complaints of poisoning. The LI story also linked to my statement on my blog at http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/2015/12/fwd-general-electric-fcpa-obstruction_18.html
Unfortunately the story also mentioned and linked to an anonymous blog targeting me since March 2014 which is being used to disseminate lies against me and to falsely describe me as mentally ill.
Now in the comments posted on the Legally India story, another person and I objected to Kian linking to the anonymous blog. In my comments I exposed that the anonymous blog was full of lies. I also provided links to documents and analysis to support my position that my corruption case against GE was wrongly dismissed.I linked to an application from the court record in my corruption matter seeking prosecution of General Electric executives for making a false police complaint against me with the atrocious claim that I was researching explosives on the internet. What such a false complaint against me was intended to achieve is self-evident. Anonymous trolls also targeted me in the comments at LI in an attempt to silence me, but some persons supported me. Unfortunately Kian Ganz shut down the comments on that story otherwise I would have continued to expose General Electric corruption and their retaliation against me.
You on Facebook linked to this LI story and posted the following:
"I've been extremely troubled after reading this some days ago. We have some of the best brains in the legal profession. And some of the most compassionate souls (a minority yes, but they do exist!). No one willing to help her? I mean in a sustained way? From her responses to this post and several other earlier writings of hers that I've seen (on LI and other blogs), she clearly has an exceptionally astute and articulate legal mind. "I'm not sure of the veracity of her complaint, but close friends who know her better insist that she suffers from some kind of mental illness. Assuming this to be true, shouldn't we try and get her back on track? Get this remarkable legal brain to blossom again and be put to good constructive use? Or perhaps, her alleged insanity is not so much a reflection of her as it is about us. As R.D Laing put it many years ago, insanity is best defined as "a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world!"
I have objected to your making a statement that "close friends who know her better insist that she suffers from some kind of mental illness". You do not name these alleged close friends or disclose the source of your information. I have pointed out to you that I have no close or other friends. I am not mentally ill. And that false rumors are being spread about me. Please tell me who are these alleged close friends? Have you spoken to them directly? Or is your information from a third party?What is the source of your information for this statement.
It was indefensible of someone in your position to call a lawyer mentally ill on Facebook without any material or basis therefor and that too a person fighting a corruption battle. As I have stated this was defamatory, it causes me harm and these kind of rumors which your post helped spread further aggravate the threat to my life.
I object to the following in your post:
"I'm not sure of the veracity of her complaint, but close friends who know her better insist that she suffers from some kind of mental illness. Assuming this to be true, shouldn't we try and get her back on track? Get this remarkable legal brain to blossom again and be put to good constructive use? Or perhaps, her alleged insanity is not so much a reflection of her as it is about us. As R.D Laing put it many years ago, insanity is best defined as "a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world!"
The rest of your statement above also affirms the mental illness falsehood as it starts with you saying "Assuming this to be true,"
I also point out that you can easily ascertain the veracity of my corruption complaints against General Electric by reading the public court record of my corruption case. See http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/p/updated-court-documents-in-whistle.html or at least http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/p/some-of-corruption-fraud-bribery_4275.html
The spreading of malicious and false rumors that I am mentally ill further endangers my life. I have had to personally message over 35 people who liked your post in order to set the record straight. This is a very serious issue given the kind of unfounded speculation you posted and encouraged about me. It only aggravates the threat to my life. Please undo the damage you have caused to me by publishing this email on your Facebook wall.
Thanks,
Seema Sapra
p.s
Shamnad, Can you please publish only the above on your FB wall.
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 3:44 PM, shamnad basheer <shamnad@gmail.com> wrote:
Also Seema: please note that since your main grouse is against the below quoted statements, please restrict your response (to be posted on my FB Page) only to that. Thanks and I wish you the very best.
""I'm not sure of the veracity of her complaint, but close friends who know her better insist that she suffers from some kind of mental illness. Assuming this to be true, shouldn't we try and get her back on track? Get this remarkable legal brain to blossom again and be put to good constructive use? Or perhaps, her alleged insanity is not so much a reflection of her as it is about us. As R.D Laing put it many years ago, insanity is best defined as "a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world!"
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Shamnad Basheer <shamnad@gmail.com> wrote:
Sure. Send me a response. I will post.
Sent from my iPhone
On 25-Dec-2015, at 1:13 pm, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Shamnad,
Merely deleting the defamatory post about me will not suffice. You have 2299 people following you. Many of them must have read your post and they were all misled about me. They will further discuss me with others and further spread defamatory and vicious rumors about me.
I am in such difficult circumstances and your post misled people about me. Your post has harmed me.
You must issue a public apology on your Facebook wall and allow me to comment there. Since your quota of 5000 follows is not exhausted, please accept my follow request so that I can post a response. Or post a response from me - I will send it to you.
This is a very serious issue given the kind of unfounded speculation you posted and encouraged about me. It only aggravates the threat to my life. Please undo the damage you have caused to me.
You know who I am as we corresponded in 2009. Those emails are reproduced below.
Seema Sapra
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Shamnad Basheer <shamnad@gmail.com> wrote:
I've deleted the post.
Sent from my iPhone
On 24-Dec-2015, at 9:09 pm, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Shamnad,
Thanks. Please edit your post.
I object to the following in your post:
"I'm not sure of the veracity of her complaint, but close friends who know her better insist that she suffers from some kind of mental illness. Assuming this to be true, shouldn't we try and get her back on track? Get this remarkable legal brain to blossom again and be put to good constructive use? Or perhaps, her alleged insanity is not so much a reflection of her as it is about us. As R.D Laing put it many years ago, insanity is best defined as "a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world!"
Which close friends? I am not suffering from any mental illness. http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/2015/12/fwd-general-electric-fcpa-obstruction_18.htmll
The spreading of malicious rumors that I am mentally ill further endangers my life. I have had to personally message over 35 people who liked your post in order to set the record straight.
Please post my response on your FB page yourself. I can draft a short response for you to post. This is only fair.
Seema Sapra
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Shamnad Basheer <shamnad@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry. Unfortunately I cannot add more friends since my quota of 5000 is exhausted. I will edit my post to remove that reference.
Sent from my iPhone
On 24-Dec-2015, at 8:16 pm, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Shamnad,
Your Facebook post is facilitating the spread of the malicious rumor that I am mentally ill. Please give me the opportunity to comment there to set the record straight.
I am sending you a FB friend request. Please accept it.
Seema Sapra
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Shamnad,
Since so much has happened over the last 5 years, I sometimes mix up dates if I am not careful. The email to you was drafted in a hurry so I mixed up some facts. Hence this email to set the facts straight.
I fractured my fibula in June 2014 and checked into a hotel (Red Fox at Aerocity) with a plaster cast that night because I had no where else to go. I was in a wheelchair and stayed at that hotel for 3 nights using a wheelchair to move around the disabled friendly room and to use the toilet. My ankle was fine.
I left that hotel and used a taxi to go straight to Fortis Hospital in Vasant Kunj where a doctor deliberately dislocated my ankle while removing the plaster cast and then tried to force me into surgery. I was not even told that my ankle had been dislocated.
I refused surgery and left the hospital in an Aircast boot. The taxi dropped me where my car was parked. I drove in my car to Ambience Mall where I used the internet in a Starbucks cafe to find a place to stay. That night I checked into the Oberoi Maidens Hotel at a discounted rate. I stayed there for about 3 weeks. Toxic chemicals were released into my room there to target me.Attempts were made to drug me. Perhaps I was drugged. I complained to the police. Nothing was done. Instead I was forced to leave the hotel using the Police. I was assaulted, threatened, physically dragged out, my laptop and phone sim card destroyed. I was at that time unable to walk, I was taken by the Police to a govt hospital where the police tried to get the doctors to create a false medical record against me. I was eventually told I could go. The police had moved my car from Oberoi Maidens to the hospital gate and I was left at my car
I drove off in my car. I first got a new sim card so that I could use my phone. I slept that night in my car outside gate 8 of the Delhi High Court. I slept sitting up in the drivers seat with my fractured leg stretched out across the hand brake area towards the passenger side where I rested the leg on some bags. The next morning I drove around trying to decide what to do and where to go. I drove to the YWCA on Parliament Street and checked in there. I was unable to walk, I was confined to the room for the duration of my stay here. I used a walker in my room to hop to the toilet. I was targeted there as well. Toxic chemicals were again released into my room. I was again most likely drugged. I was dependent upon food being delivered to my room. I made police complaints which were again ignored.
The story goes on.
All of these facts and complaints were on the court record in WP Civil 1280/ 2012 in my whistle-blower case against General Electric Company.
Seema Sapra
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Shamnad, please allow me to respond to your post about me publicly. First I thank you for drawing attention to my situation and for your sympathy. I am fighting a corruption whistle-blower battle against General Electric. The false rumors being spread about my being mentally ill are meant to target me. Which close friends are you talking about. Those who outright refused to help me find a place to stay when I was in court against GE, those who did not care if I had warm clothes, that I was forced to sleep in my car on Diwali, or in the dead of winter? Or that I had money for food. Or that I was being physically harmed. I request you to please not give voice to those spreading false stories about me, Let me comment in person on yr FB wall.
Do you know what J. Rajiv Shakdher said when my application for shelter came before him in July 2012. He had adjourned the application to Oct 2012 without relief. When I asked him please tell me where will I stay till then, his reply was "I have no clue".
I was forced to sleep in my car for over a year in the height of summer and the dead of winter.
When I fractured my leg and called lawyers from the hospital asking if they could help arrange for a place for me to stay, they all refused. I checked into a hotel. Three days later I was forced to leave that hotel because I was targeted there. That night I slept in my car with a three day old fractured fibula and a less than a day old dislocated ankle. All I had was an Aircast boot on.
I then checked into another hotel.
All of this was on the court record. All judges knew what I was going through. So did the Bar Associations & Bar Councils. None of them even responded to my written requests for support. These written requests for support with receipt stamps are part of the court record in WP Civil 1280/ 2012.
I requested several lawyers to help me rent a flat. No one helped.
And now these anonymous so-called friends are commenting online and defaming me by calling me mentally ill?
Seema
Email correspondence between Shamnad Basheer and me in 2009
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Shamnad Basheer <shamnad@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: Drug Seizures
To: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Great to hear back from you Seema,
Will be in touch.
Shamnad
On 29/07/09 6:21 PM, "Seema Sapra" <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi Shamnad,
Good to hear from you. Do read the article and let me know what you think.
And congratulations on your appointment at NUJS.
Regarding this post, I would have liked to get involved in a substantive discussion but I have a slight professional conflict of interest situation here so i'll pass the opportunity to comment.
But very generally there is no exhaustion of remedies kind of provision in WTO dispute settlement law. In fact, the DSU claims exclusive jurisdiction for the WTO DSB in adjudicating any violation of WTO law.
A challenge in EC domestic courts would raise the issues that have arisen in the "direct effect" series of caselaw.
I am based in delhi and working independently.
regards,
Seema
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Shamnad Basheer <shamnad@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Seema,
How're you doing? Where are you based now? I met with students of NLS and
they mentioned that you have a great article on IEL teaching--look forward
to reading.
I just did a follow up post on the drug seizure and TRIPS issue and
"importation" etc. Towards the end I've asked as follows:
" TRIPS: An "Exhaustion of Remedies" Doctrine?
Assuming that a plausible local remedy lies in this case (a challenge before
the Dutch courts), would this impact the WTO/TRIPS challenge that the Indian
and Brazilian government are preparing to bring in Geneva? In other words,
assuming such a dispute reaches a WTO panel, are they likely to duck the
issue by asking the parties to get a confirmatory ruling from local courts
suggesting that actions taken by Dutch customs authorities were "legal"
under Dutch law? Is there any concept of "exhaustion of remedies' doctrine
applicable to the WTO/TRIPS?
Most TRIPS cases have centred around disputes where the purport and ambit of
the impugned local legislation have been (more or less) clear. The only
challenge in such cases was the interpretation of TRIPS provisions
themselves. If this drug seizure dispute goes up before a WTO panel, it may
perhaps be the first case where the ambit of the impugned local legislation
itself is far from clear."
What do you think? Look forward to your views.
Shamnad
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Shamnad Basheer
Ministry of HRD Professor in IP Law
National University of Juridical Sciences
NUJS Bhavan, 12 LB BLOCK
Salt Lake City, Sector III
Kolkata - 700098, India
Founder: SpicyIP
<http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com <http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com/>>
SSRN Author page: <http://ssrn.com/author=339749>
Tel No: +91 9831512975
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Shamnad Basheer
Ministry of HRD Professor in IP Law
National University of Juridical Sciences
NUJS Bhavan, 12 LB BLOCK
Salt Lake City, Sector III
Kolkata - 700098, India
Founder: SpicyIP
<http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com>
SSRN Author page: <http://ssrn.com/author=339749>
Tel No: +91 9831512975
39. The petitioner is a whistleblower against General Electric Company and a woman who has reported sexual harassment and sexual assault against two powerful lawyers. She has been targeted for now over seven years. This blog basically shows a criminal conspiracy to ensure that no one listens to the petitioner's complaints, to socially and professionally isolate her, to recruit people to target the petitioner, and to use a common technique used to target whistleblowers, destroy them and their credibility by falsely labelling them as mentally ill.
40. Who has created this blog? Who uses and accesses the email associated with this blog. How has that email been used?
41. That the Police and Home Ministry have failed to act on the petitioner's complaint about this blog shows that in both the previous UPA and present Modi Government, powerful government functionaries are working to protect GE and to target the petitioner.
42. A copy of this blog and the petitioner's complaints against this blog were filed by the petitioner in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012. The summoned and appearing respondents in that matter included the CBI, the Delhi Police Commissioner, the CVC, the Prime Minister's office, The Ministry of Home affairs, the Railway Ministry, all of which have ignored the petitioner's complaint about this anonymous blog targeting her. At least three ASGs were assigned Civil Writ Petition 1280/2012 (between 2012 to 2015) all of whom have ignored the petitioner's complaint about this anonymous blog targeting her. This establishes the complicity of the Indian State in targeting the petitioner.
43. It is submitted that the Government of India, the Delhi Police, the CVC and the CBI have all ignored and failed to respond to the Petitioner's complaint against this anonymous blog. The Government of India and its agencies have therefore failed to protect the fundamental right to life of the petitioner and her other fundamental rights that are violated by the criminal activity directed at the petitioner through this anonymous blog.
44. The petitioner is also constrained to point out that this anonymous blog targeting the petitioner whistle-blower/ witness to GE corruption and a sexual harassment and sexual assault survivor during the created and published during the pendency of her right to life whistleblower petition in the Delhi High Court was also ignored by the Delhi High Court which heard that case (Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012) between April 2014 until February 2015.
45. The petitioner is therefore constrained to file this Petition under Article 32 seeking directions to the Government of India through the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Information Technology to ask Google to take down this blog with immediate effect; directions to the CBI and the Cyber Crime cell of the Delhi Police and Government of India to find out from Google and through other investigations as to who created this blog and at whose behest; and directions to the CBI and the Cyber crime cells of the Government of India and Delhi Police to register FIRs against the person/ s and/or entities for the crimes committed against the petitioner by the creation of this anonymous blog. An FIR must also be lodged into the role that this blog has played in the larger criminal conspiracy to target and destroy the petitioner-whistleblower and complainant of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
46. It is submitted that anyone can misuse this anonymous online blog against the Petitioner. This blog is part of the smear campaign against the Petitioner. This blog makes it impossible for the Petitioner to find a job or practice the legal profession, as any prospective employee or client will find this blog upon googling the Petitioner's name and will be misled about the Petitioner. This Blog makes it impossible for Petitioner to live and work, or to have social interactions. This blog is part of a criminal conspiracy that is intended to destroy, incapacitate and eliminate the petitioner as she is a whistleblower/ witness in corruption, fraud, forgery, perjury and bribery by General Electric Company and also because the Petitioner has complained that she was sexually harassed by Raian Karanjawala and sexually harassed and sexually assaulted by Soli J. Sorabjee. This blog establishes and facilitates the criminal conspiracy to prevent the petitioner from finding a place where she can stay with a roof over her head; to prevent the petitioner from earning a living; to keep the petitioner homeless so that she can be more easily targeted, drugged and poisoned; to keep the petitioner dependent upon the charity of others for money to eat, live and survive; and to falsely label the petitioner whistleblower and survivor of sexual harassment and sexual assault as mentally ill to cover up the petitioner's complaints; and to facilitate the targeting, harassment, and poisoning of the petitioner-whistleblower by falsely labelling her as mentally ill.
47. The most pernicious and revealing part of this blog that establishes the criminal conspiracy to target the petitioner-whistleblower are the instructions to "people" on how to interact with the petitioner in the last part of this anonymous blog which are reproduced below.
Suggestions in dealing with her
(a) Do not meet with her in person, if possible, since she has made all sorts of accusations against anyone who has taken the trouble to meet with her personally. If you meet with her personally, INSIST on a witness being present and insist on the meeting occurring in a public place. She will typically try to say that this is not necessary. Do not be taken in by this.
(b) Do not under any circumstances give her money. If you feel strongly that you want to help her insist that it be contingent on her seeking immediate medical help.
(c) Do not engage in telephone conversations, since she records every phone conversation she has, selectively edits the conversations and places them on YouTube.
AS Chadiok was accused of trying to murder her after he had several telephone conversations with her
Various members of the Delhi Police accused of trying to murder her once they started engaging with her on the 100 number which she would repeatedly dial
(d) The police are of limited use in dealing with her, since she has made several allegations against them and is generally known to be a nuisance in Central Delhi. The police should certainly be contacted in the event she attempts or threatens physical violence, but when others have tried to do this the police usually asks them to apologize to her, in order to calm her down, since she has been known to get physically violent when highly agitated
(e) The courts are of limited use in dealing with her. Judges either refuse to hear petitions involving her, since this leads to commotion in the courtroom, or adjourn endlessly to avoid having to deal with her. As mentioned above, on one occasion she had to be physically evicted from a High Court courtroom
(f) The one thing she genuinely fears is institutionalization, so if she is harassing you and you mention that you will make some effort in this direction, there is a chance that she will stop. However, you have very limited ability to do anything in this regard.
For more information or any questions, please send an email to seemasapraalert@gmail.com
48. The Petitioner submits that Police and State complicity in targeting the petitioner-whistleblower is clear as no action was taken by State or Police authorities when the Petitioner brought this blog to the notice of the Police, the CVC, the CBI, the PMO, the Home Ministry, the Government of India, three ASGs of the Government of India and the Delhi High Court. No action has been taken against this crime committed against the petitioner and for the violation of the right to life of the petitioner by this crime which is continuing since March 2014 and even today. The State has the duty to protect the fundamental rights of all citizens and is obligated to act even if a third party violates the fundamental right to life of a person. And the duty of the State to protect the petitioner from harm and criminal acts by third parties is even greater because the petitioner is a whistleblower who has exposed corruption by General Electric Company and who is a crucial witness in these corruption complaints. The petitioner has risked her life exposing corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and perjury and her expose of this corruption is an act in public interest and constitutes the highest form of service to the country.
49. This blog establishes that the petitioner a whistleblower is being targeted, smeared, defamed and not being permitted to live. This constitutes a crime. This blog also amounts to the creation of false evidence. It misreports court proceedings of the Delhi High Court.
50. It is submitted that while this blog constitutes criminal defamation, it goes beyond that. This anonymous blog is intended to be used and is being used to incite and facilitate criminal activity targeting the petitioner-whistleblower. It is to be used and is being used to create an environment around the petitioner that results in the denial of her most basic human rights, and the most basic amenities needed to live. i.e., food, money and shelter. This anonymous blog was created to enable and is enabling the violation of the petitioner's right to live with dignity and respect, her right to be treated as a full human being, her right to earn a living, her right to shelter, her right to food, and her right to social interaction and social solidarity. This anonymous blog provides cover for the commission of criminal activity against the Petitioner.
51. Imagine a situation where the petitioner is in a public space, or in a mall or staying in a hotel. She gets targeted there with the participation of State police agencies or the IB etc, and an attempt is made to harm her. The petitioner complains. She tells people around her that she is a whistleblower and is being targeted. The persons targeting the petitioner can then show this blog to the persons who respond to the petitioner's call for help. This will result in no one coming forward to the aid and assistance of the petitioner. Also imagine if someone is being recruited to harm the petitioner. That person is shown this blog and is told that the Petitioner is not only mentally ill, but also that neither the Police nor the Courts will come to the aid of the petitioner if she complains and that her complaints even to the police will be ignored. This blog enables persons to be recruited to harm the petitioner-whistleblower.
52. The Petitioner is a whistleblower who has exposed corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and undue influence and illegal lobbying by GE in relation to the Railway Ministry's diesel locomotive factory project at Marhowra and its electric locomotive factory project at Madhepura. These complaints are being covered up. The Petitioner refers to the Criminal Appeal she has filed in the Supreme Court of India under diary no. 10342 of 2016.
53. She has also made still un-redressed complaints that as a young lawyer she was sexually harassed by lawyer Raian Karanjawala and was both sexually harassed and on one occasion, sexually assaulted by lawyer Soli J Sorabjee when the latter was Attorney General of India.
54. The Petitioner has been targeted since 2010 and she has been repeatedly drugged and poisoned. Attempts are being made to eliminate her by incapacitating her or murdering her. The Petitioner is being defamed. She is being surveilled and followed 24/7. She is being poisoned with poisonous chemicals, anesthetic agents and nerve agents. She is being harassed, intimidated and being both physically and mentally tortured. The petitioner is being prevented from working and is being compelled to survive on charity. The petitioner is being deliberately kept homeless so that she can be more easily targeted.
55. It is submitted that this blog is part of these attempts to eliminate the petitioner-whistleblower and sexual harassment survivor. It is submitted that this blog constitutes abetment to the intended murder of the petitioner, abetment to poison, to harass, intimidate, threaten, and to target the petitioner, and abetment to cause grievous hurt to the petitioner-whistleblower by dangerous weapons or means and by poison. This blog abets, exhorts and incites violence, criminal use of force and assault against the petitioner. This blog falsely represents the petitioner as a threat to any person she may come in contact with. This blog is part of the criminal conspiracy to eliminate the petitioner and is intended to abet, incite, procure, enable, facilitate various crimes against the petitioner and to obstruct and deprive the Petitioner from access to various amenities essential to life and a life with dignity.
56. This blog abets the intended murder, incapacitation, wrongful confinement, wrongful institutionalization, poisoning, harassment, surveillance, stalking, targeting, drugging, and mental and physical torture of the petitioner.
57. This blog is part of and establishes the criminal conspiracy to deprive the petitioner-whistleblower of shelter and a home, deprive the petitioner of the means to earn a livelihood, prevent her from getting a job, or from practicing law, prevent others from normal social interaction with her, prevent her from earning money or even from raising money from others, prevent her from staying in a hotel, and prevent her from even eating in a restaurant.
58. This blog establishes the criminal conspiracy to thereby force the petitioner-whistleblower to sleep in her car, to harass her, target her, poison her and then wrongly label her mentally ill, and then use the police to institutionalize her.
59. The blog is intended to procure and abet the illegal drugging of the petitioner.
60. This blog amounts to the criminal intimidation of the petitioner-whistleblower by the threat of institutionalization. It also incites and abets further criminal intimidation of the petitioner.
61. It appears from this blog as if the ultimate aim of the criminal conspiracy against the petitioner-whistleblower appears to be incapacitation and institutionalization.
62. The following criminal laws are attracted and violated by this obnoxious anonymous blog.
IPC Section 336.
Act endangering life or personal safety of others.—Whoever does any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life or the personal safety of others, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees, or with both.
IPC Section 440.
Mischief committed after preparation made for causing death or hurt.—Whoever commits mischief, having made preparation for causing to any person death, or hurt, or wrongful restraint, or fear of death, or of hurt, or of wrongful restraint, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, and shall also be liable to fine.
IPC Section 499
Defamation.—Whoever, by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by signs or by visible representations, makes or publishes any imputation concerning any person intending to harm, or knowing or having reason to believe that such imputation will harm, the reputation of such person, is said, except in the cases hereinafter expected, to defame that person. Explanation 1.—It may amount to defamation to impute anything to a deceased person, if the imputation would harm the reputation of that person if living, and is intended to be hurtful to the feelings of his family or other near relatives. Explanation 2.—It may amount to defamation to make an imputation concerning a company or an association or collection of persons as such. Explanation 3.—An imputation in the form of an alternative or expressed ironically, may amount to defamation. Explanation 4.—No imputation is said to harm a person's reputation, unless that imputation directly or indirectly, in the estimation of others, lowers the moral or intellectual character of that person, or lowers the character of that person in respect of his caste or of his calling, or lowers the credit of that person, or causes it to be believed that the body of that person is in a loathsome state, or in a state generally considered as disgraceful. Illustrations
IPC Section 501
Printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory.—Whoever prints or engraves any matter, knowing or having good reason to believe that such matter is defamatory of any person, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
IPC Section 469
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation.—Whoever commits forgery, 1[intending that the document or electronic record forged] shall harm the reputation of any party, or knowing that it is likely to be used for that purpose, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.
IPC Section 503
Criminal intimidation.—Whoever threatens another with any injury to his person, reputation or property, or to the person or reputation of any one in whom that person is interested, with intent to cause alarm to that person, or to cause that person to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do any act which that person is legally entitled to do, as the means of avoiding the execution of such threat, commits criminal intimidation. Explanation.—A threat to injure the reputation of any deceased person in whom the person threatened is interested, is within this section. Illustration A, for the purpose of inducing B to desist from prosecuting a civil suit, threatens to burn B's house. A is guilty of criminal intimidation.
IPC Section 507
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication.—Whoever commits the offence of criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication, or having taken precaution to conceal the name or abode of the person from whom the threat comes, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, in addition to the punishment provided for the offence by the last preceding section.
IPC Section 509
Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman.—Whoever, intending to insult the modesty of any woman, utters any word, makes any sound or gesture, or exhibits any object, intending that such word or sound shall be heard, or that such gesture or object shall be seen, by such woman, or intrudes upon the privacy of such woman, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
IPC Section 120A.
Definition of criminal conspiracy.—When two or more persons agree to do, or cause to be done,—
(1) an illegal act, or
(2) an act which is not illegal by illegal means, such an agreement is designated a criminal conspiracy: Provided that no agreement except an agreement to commit an offence shall amount to a criminal conspiracy unless some act besides the agreement is done by one or more parties to such agreement in pursuance thereof. Explanation.—It is immaterial whether the illegal act is the ultimate object of such agreement, or is merely incidental to that object.]
IPC Section 182
False information, with intent to cause public servant to use his lawful power to the injury of another person.—Whoever gives to any public servant any information which he knows or believes to be false, intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, such public servant—
(a) to do or omit anything which such public servant ought not to do or omit if the true state of facts respecting which such information is given were known by him, or
(b) to use the lawful power of such public servant to the injury or annoyance of any person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.
IPC Section 190
Threat of injury to induce person to refrain from applying for protection to public servant.—Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any person for the purpose of inducing that person to refrain or desist from making a legal application for protection against any injury to any public servant legally empowered as such to give such protection, or to cause such protection to be given, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
IPC Section 192
Fabricating false evidence.—Whoever causes any circumstance to exist or 1[makes any false entry in any book or record, or electronic record or makes any document or electronic record containing a false statement], intending that such circumstance, false entry or false statement may appear in evidence in a judicial proceeding, or in a proceeding taken by law before a public servant as such, or before an arbitrator, and that such circumstance, false entry or false statement, so appearing in evidence, may cause any person who in such proceeding is to form an opinion upon the evidence, to entertain an erroneous opinion touching any point material to the result of such proceeding, is said "to fabricate false evidence".
IPC Section 196
Using evidence known to be false.—Whoever corruptly uses or attempts to use as true or genuine evidence any evidence which he knows to be false or fabricated, shall be punished in the same manner as if he gave or fabricated false evidence.
IPC Section 203
Giving false information respecting an offence committed.—Whoever knowing or having reason to believe that an offence has been committed, gives any information respecting that offence which he knows or believes to be false, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both. 1[Explanation.—In sections 201 and 202 and in this section the word "offence", includes any act committed at any place out of 2[India], which, if committed in 2[India], would be punishable under any of the following sections, namely, 302, 304, 382, 392 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 402, 435, 436, 449, 450, 457, 458, 459 and 460.]
IPC Section 211
False charge of offence made with intent to injure.—Whoever, with intent to cause injury to any person, institutes or causes to be instituted any criminal proceeding against that person, or falsely charges any person with having committed an offence, knowing that there is no just or lawful ground for such proceeding or charge against that person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both; and if such criminal proceeding be instituted on a false charge of an offence punishable with death, 1[imprisonment for life], or imprisonment for seven years or upwards, shall be punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
IPC Section 338
Causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others.—Whoever causes grievous hurt to any person by doing any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life, or the personal safety of others, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.
IPC Section 351
Assault.—Whoever makes any gesture, or any preparation intending or knowing it to be likely that such gesture or preparation will cause any person present to apprehend that he who makes that gesture or preparation is about to use criminal force to that person, is said to commit an assault. Explanation.—Mere words do not amount to an assault. But the words which a person uses may give to his gestures or preparation such a meaning as may make those gestures or preparations amount to an assault.
IPC Section 355
Assault or criminal force with intent to dishonour person, otherwise than on grave provocation.—Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person, intending thereby to dishonour that person, otherwise than on grave and sudden provocation given by that person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
IPC Section 466.
Forgery of record of Court or of public register, etc.—1[Whoever forges a document or an electronic record], purporting to be a record or proceeding of or in a Court of Justice, or a register of birth, baptism, marriage or burial, or a register kept by a public servant as such, or a certificate or document purporting to be made by a public servant in his official capacity, or an authority to institute or defend a suit, or to take any proceedings therein, or to confess judgment, or a power of attorney, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine. 1[Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, "register" includes any list, data or record of any entries maintained in the electronic form as defined in clause (r) of sub-section
IPC Section 504
Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace.—Whoever intentionally insults, and thereby gives provocation to any person, intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause him to break the public peace, or to commit any other offence, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
IPC Section 107
Abetment of a thing.—A person abets the doing of a thing, who—
(First) — Instigates any person to do that thing; or
(Secondly) —Engages with one or more other person or persons in any conspiracy for the doing of that thing, if an act or illegal omission takes place in pursuance of that conspiracy, and in order to the doing of that thing; or
(Thirdly) — Intentionally aids, by any act or illegal omission, the doing of that thing. Explanation 1.—A person who, by wilful misrepresentation, or by wilful concealment of a material fact which he is bound to disclose, voluntarily causes or procures, or attempts to cause or procure, a thing to be done, is said to instigate the doing of that thing. Illustration A, a public officer, is authorized by a warrant from a Court of Justice to apprehend Z. B, knowing that fact and also that C is not Z, wilfully represents to A that C is Z, and thereby intentionally causes A to apprehend C. Here B abets by instigation the apprehension of C. Explanation 2.—Whoever, either prior to or at the time of the commission of an act, does anything in order to facilitate the commission of that act, and thereby facilitate the commission thereof, is said to aid the doing of that act.
IPC Section 115
Abetment of offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life—if offence not committed.—Whoever abets the commission of an offence punishable with death or 1[imprisonment for life], shall, if that offence be not committed in consequence of the abetment, and no express provision is made by this Code for the punishment of such abetment, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine; If act causing harm be done in consequence.—and if any act for which the abettor is liable in consequence of the abetment, and which causes hurt to any person, is done, the abettor shall be liable to imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to fourteen years, and shall also be liable to fine. Illustration A instigates B to murder Z. The offence is not committed. If B had murdered Z, he would have been subject to the punishment of death or 1[imprisonment for life]. Therefore A is liable to imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years and also to a fine; and if any hurt be done to Z in consequence of the abetment, he will be liable to imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years, and to fine. CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCE Para I: Punishment—Imprisonment for 7 years and fine—According as offence abetted is cognizable or non-cognizable—non-bailable—Triable by court by which offence abetted is triable—Non-compoundable. Para II: Punishment—Imprisonment for 14 years and fine—According as offence abetted is cognizable or non-cognizable—non-bailable—Triable by court by which offence abetted is triable—Non-compoundable.
IPC Section 117
Abetting commission of offence by the public or by more than ten persons.—Whoever abets the commission of an offence by the public generally or by any number or class of persons exceeding ten, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both. Illustration A affixes in a public place a placard instigating a sect consisting of more than ten members to meet at a certain time and place, for the purpose of attacking the members of an adverse sect, while engaged in a procession. A has committed the offence defined in this section. CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCE Punishment—Imprisonment for 3 years, or fine, or both—According as offence abetted is cognizable or non-cognizable—According as offence abetted is bailable or non-bailable—Triable by court by which offence abetted is triable—Non-compoundable.
IPC Section 118
Concealing design to commit offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life. —Whoever intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby facilitate the commission of an offence punishable with death or 69 [imprisonment for life]; 70 [voluntarily conceals by any act or omission or by the use of encryption or any other information hiding tool, the existence of a design] to commit such offence or makes any representation which he knows to be false respecting such design, If offence be committed — if offence be not committed. —shall, if that offence be committed, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or, if the offence be not committed, with imprisonment of either description, for a term which may extend to three years; and in either case shall also be liable to fine. Illustration A, knowing that dacoity is about to be committed at B, falsely informs the Magistrate that a dacoity is about to be committed at C, a place in an opposite direction, and thereby misleads the Magistrate with intent to facilitate the commission of the offence. The dacoity is committed at B in pursuance of the design. A is punishable under this section.
IPC Section 120
Concealing design to commit offence punishable with imprisonment.—Whoever, intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby facilitate the commission of an offence punishable with imprisonment, voluntarily conceals, by any act or illegal omission, the existence of a design to commit such offence, or makes any representation which he knows to be false respecting such design, If offence be committed—if offence be not committed.—shall, if the offence be committed, be punished with imprisonment of the description provided for the offence, for a term which may extend to one-fourth, and, if the offence be not committed, to one-eighth, of the longest term of such imprisonment, or with such fine as is provided for the offence, or with both.
63. Both the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Information Technology impleaded herein are the nodal ministries that are obligated to act to protect the right to life of the petitioner and act against the creator and procurer of this anonymous blog. The functions of the Ministry of Information Technology include policy matters relating to information technology; and Internet (all matters other than licensing of Internet Service Provider), Matters relating to Cyber Laws, and administration of the Information Technology Act. 2000 (21 of 2000) and other IT related laws.
64. Google Inc owns and runs the blogging platform Blogger on which this blog has been created and is being published. The petitioner submits that she be permitted to serve Google Inc through email as well using the email address of its CEO Mr Sundar Pichai, spichai@google.com.
65. The Delhi Police, and the CBI have also been impleaded as necessary parties to implement the relief sought in the present petition.
66. Annexed hereto as Annexure P-3 is a copy of an email communication dated 20 August 2017 from the Petitioner-whistleblower to the Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi titled "Cover-up of complaint of forgery made by whistleblower Seema Sapra against General Electric Company - re SEC Complaint TCR1439646785831".
67. Annexed hereto as Annexure P-4 is a copy of an email communication dated 18 September 2017 from the Petitioner-whistleblower to the Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi titled "Cover-up of complaint made by whistleblower Seema Sapra of fraudulent impersonation of General Electric Company by K R Radhakrishnan in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 before the Delhi High Court - re SEC ComplaintTCR1439646785831".
68. These two email complaints are being produced to establish the bonafides of the petitioner as a whistleblower. There are several other evidence-backed complaints of corruption made by the Petitioner against General Electric Company which are part of the court record in Writ Petition Civil NO. 1280/2012 before the Delhi High Court.
69. This is not a public interest litigation. It is a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India seeing to enforce the petitioner's fundamental rights guaranteed under Part III of the Constitution of India including her right to life under Article 21 and her right to equal protection of the law, under Article 14.
70. That the petitioner has not filed any other writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India before this Hon'ble Court or any other court for similar relief sought in the present Writ Petition.
71. That the petitioner has no other alternative and effective remedy or means except to approach this Hon'ble Court by
way of this Writ Petition.
PRAYER
It is, therefore, most respectfully prayed that this Hon'ble Court may graciously be pleased to;-
(i) Issue a writ of Mandamus to Respondents 1, 2, 3 and 4 to ask Google, i.e., Respondents 5 and 6 to immediately remove this anonymous blog from Blogger as it violates the right to life and other fundamental rights of the petitioner-whistleblower and complainant of sexual harassment;
(ii) Issue a writ of Mandamus to Respondents 1, 2, 3 and 4 to inquire and investigate as to who created and procured the creation of this anonymous blog titled "Seema Sapra Alert" and published at http://seemasapraalert.blogspot.in/
(iii) Issue a writ of Mandamus to Respondents 1, 2, 3 and 4 to inquire and investigate into the use of the email address seemasapraalert@gmail.comand its use to target the petitioner who is a whistleblower against General Electric Company Company and a complainant of sexual harassment against Raian Karanjawala and of sexual harassment and sexual assault against Soli J Sorabjee;
(iv) Direct the Respondents 3 and 4 to register FIRs against the creators and procurers of this blog and the associated email ID for the crimescommitted against the petitioner listed hereinabove in the writ petition and to investigate these crimes in accordance with law and to bring criminal charges against all those involved in procuring, abetting and committing these crimes against the petitioner;
(v) Direct the Respondents 1, 2, 3 and 4 to take legal action against the violation of the Petitioner's right to life and her other fundamental rights by the creators and procurers of this anonymous blog;
(vi) To pass such other orders and further orders and to issue such other and further writs as may be deemed necessary on the facts and in the circumstances of the case.
FOR WHICH ACT OF KINDNESS, THE APPELLANT/ PETITIONER SHALL AS IN DUTY BOUND, EVER PRAY.
FILED BY:
SEEMA SAPRA
PETITIONER-IN-PERSON
DRAWN ON:6.12.2017
FILED ON:6.12.2017
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
EXTRAORDINARY ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
WRIT PETITION CIVIL NO. OF 2017
(UNDER ARTICLE 32 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA)
IN THE MATTER OF
Seema Sapra … Petitioner
Versus
Union of India & Ors. … Respondents
AFFIDAVIT
I, Seema Sapra, aged 46 years, D/o Late A. R. Sapra, presently homeless in New Delhi, with Bar Council of Delhi enrolment number D/1159/1995 do hereby solemnly state and affirm as under:
1. That I am the Petitioner in this Writ Petition and am familiar with the facts and circumstances of the case and am competent and authorized to swear this Affidavit.
2. That the accompany Writ Petition containing para from 1 to 71, pages from 1to 166, List of Dates containing pages from B to K have been drafted, read and understood by me and I state that the contents of the same are based on my personal knowledge and on other sources which I believe to be true and correct.
3. That the annexures to the accompanying Writ Petition are true copies of their respective originals.
4. That the facts stated in and the contents of the accompanying writ petition are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief and no part of it is false and nothing material has been concealed therefrom.
DEPONENT
VERIFICATION:
I, the above-named Deponent, do hereby verify that the contents of the aboveAffidavit are true and correct to my knowledge, no part of it is false and nothing material has been concealed there from.
Verified at New Delhi on this 6thday of December 2017.
DEPONENT
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