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Sep 25, 20238 min read

When a Victim has become a Culprit: Mr. Ajay Piramal Filed a Case against Dr. Debaprasad Bandyopadhy

Posted on 25/09/2023 (GMT 13:18 hrs)

Updated on 28/09/2023 (GMT 07:38 hrs)

We are proud and happy to note that Piramal’s legal team, viz., DSK Legal, has brought the charge of Contempt of Court against Dr. Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay⤡ (Unknown Defendant No. 6; it is surprising that they do not yet know Dr. Bandyopadhyay’s address, age etc., though he is an FD holder of DHFL and Mr. Piramal put 23.07% of deposit amount from Dr. Bandyopadhyay’s investment in the latter’s bank; hence, the details must have been already available with them!), for fighting for the business-related human rights of financially abused victims in the context of the DHFL scam.

It is also to be noted that after our responses (See Appendix) to DSK Legal’s the previous complaints such as:

(a) the 100 Cr defamation case find no mention in the above latest order;

(b) Even the question of geo-blocking and the pertinent points raised by us in relation to it have also been removed from their recent appeal except eulogies in favour of Mr. Piramal’s deeds as a so-called “reputed” “acclaimed” business tycoon.

We, on behalf of the Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA), repeatedly have used reports from other media houses (thus, reported speech) saying that we are not journalists ourselves with first-hand reports. Furthermore, we have used terms such as “alleged”/“possible” each and every time to point to the facts of insider-trading, eco-terrorism, contempt of courts by Mr. Piramal (twice) in the DHFL scam and so on. Telling the matter of facts (or states of affairs) in reported speeches is not at all a case of defaming someone’s reputation.

Let us reiterate what we have pointed out in our different articles /posts on the social media with regard to the corporate tycoon Mr. Ajay Piramal:

Mr. Piramal, as an influential person, seems to be an obsessive and habitual blanket stay order-seeker. Earlier, in a case of alleged eco-terrorism, he did the same thing and was duly rebuked by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Cf. Ajay Piramal: How Many Times Are You Seeking “Blanket” Stay Orders? VIEW HERE ⤡ .

In the occasion of both the stay orders in the context of alleged eco-terrorism as well as in the Supreme Court stay order on 11/04/2022 (on the NCLAT second verdict on 27/01/2022), it can be seen that Piramal is more equal than others⤡.

On our online mass petition⤡ as part of the non-violent web-based civil disobedience movement, addressed to

  1. The Honourable Chief Justice of India, Supreme Court of India

  2. The Honourable Minister of Law and Justice, Government of India

  3. The Honourable Governor, Reserve Bank of India

  4. The Honourable Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs, Government of India

  5. Volker Türk, The Honourable High Commissioner. OHCHR, United Nations

  6. The Honourable President, Government of India

we have mentioned following texts with relevant URLs regarding Mr. Piramal:

ALL ABOUT AJAY PIRAMAL, the “winner” of the DHFL Bidding:

1. Mr. Piramal is an alleged insider trader (2016) 2. He is an eco-terrorist (for polluting Digwal, Telangana in 2019) and also who sought “blanket stay order” at the National Green Tribunal, which was rejected. In the case of the DHFL also, he wanted such a similar stay order on the “controversial” NCLAT second verdict (27/01/2022). 3. He was involved in Flashnet Scam⤡, 2018 (though Mr. Piramal was ready to defame The Wire, who first exposed the scam, for reporting the same, but till date: no such step has been taken by him) Cf. DHFL: Return Gift by BJP to Piramal for Flashnet Scam VIEW HERE ⤡ . 4. He is possibly involved in contempt of court during the DHFL resolution process by ignoring NCLT’s first verdict (19/05/2021) and skipping the points raised by the NCLAT second order (27/01/2022).

It is also to be noted that India ranks 161 in the list of 180 countries worldwide in the Freedom of Press Index. Cf. INDIA WOUNDED: A BIRD’S EYE VIEW VIEW HERE ⤡

We think that Dr. Bandyopadhyay’s relentless efforts for the #DHFL_Victims will be supported by all of you and the web-based non-violent civil disobedience movement will get momentum along with parallel physical agitations.

Even if a contempt of court order is officially brought against Dr. Bandyopadhyay, it would only be in favour of the expansion (atideśa) of the anti-crony capitalism movement in India in general. It would contribute to the larger anti-fascist sentiments for the people, of the people and by the people.

Moreover, the Honourable Home Ministry has stated that one cannot arrest someone for being “abusive” on social media simply on the grounds that some person feels that to be so (under the controversial Section 66a of the IT Act,  which was struck down by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India on 24th March, 2015), since that goes against the Freedom of Speech and Expression [Article 19(1) (a)] guaranteed by the Indian Constitution.

No citizens to be prosecuted under Section 66A IT Act: SC VIEW HERE ⤡ (As reported on Oct 12, 2022 ©The Economic Times)                                                        

Furthermore, when no other defendants/respondents in the case, viz., Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter etc., are still allowing Dr. Bandyopadhyay to continue his posts as part of a larger socio-political anti-establishment struggle, and geo-blocking in the cyber-era is impossible, why should a victim of financial abuse be stopped by some other agency of power? DSK Legal Team, in this latest appeal, has omitted them from their list of respondents!

Dr. Bandyopadhyay’s standpoint is that of a non-violent, partyless earthian, which imbibes the goal of a free and just society with horizontal mutual aid. Therefore he repeatedly quoted Gandhiji’s opinion on lawyers from Hind Swaraj (1915) in the correspondence with DSK legal.

In the end, let us quote Dr. Bandyopadhyay response to this incident:

I won’t stop until all the ailing #DHFL_Victims would get their hard-earned money (with compensation for causing physical and psychological disorders) back from the cronies. I am ready to bear my cross alone. When an astronomical amount of wilful defaulters’ money is simply written off and/or waived off, when alleged rapists are roaming scot-free with political protection, when the opposition’s dissenting voices are being mercilessly suppressed– what else can one expect from the state-corporate nexus? Down With Financial Abuse! Down With the Crony Oligarchy!

APPENDIX

  1. LOUD VOICES MADE THE DEAF HEAR: PIRAMAL CHFL’S LEGAL ACTION AGAINST THE CYBER-DISSENTERS⤡

  2. PLEASURE OF “THE TRIAL”: A LETTER TO PCHFL’S LEGAL ADVOCATES⤡

  3. ATTACK AND COUNTER-ATTACK: A LETTER TO PCHFL’S LEGAL TEAM⤡

  4. DEAR MR. PIRAMAL AND DSK LEGAL TEAM, I WANNA BE A DEFAMATOR ⤡

  5. WHO IS TO BE DEFAMED: PIRAMAL CHFL OR THE DHFL VICTIMS? ⤡

  6. OBMA’S WEB-BASED CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT: AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. AJAY PIRAMAL ⤡

  7. ĀHLĀDA OR JOUISSANCE DUE TO LEGAL INTIMIDATION: FOLLOW-UP LETTER TO THE PCHFL’S LEGAL TEAM⤡

  8. REQUESTING FOR PROVIDING T.A. AND GOOD HOSPITALITY FOR ATTENDING COURT PROCEEDINGS: A LETTER TO PIRAMAL’S LEGAL TEAM ⤡

  9. Tweets on DHFL Scam: Invisibly Visible?! ⤡

  10. Ajay Piramal hypocritically smashing the Gauḍiya Vaiṣṇava Dharma (a letter to Śrīmat Rādhānātha Svāmī)⤡

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UPDATE:

Dr. Bandyopadhyay sent the following mail to DSK Legal Team on 25/09/2023 (GMT: 19.21 hrs):

Dear DSK Legal Team,

I, as a sufferer and a victim of financial abuse, am in fact honoured and happy to receive your mail containing your contempt petition. As an academician, I must not fail to appreciate the betterment (not the best) of your research and investigation after already serving the entire plate of foods to you in a letter to your plaintiff :OBMA’s Web-Based Civil Disobedience Movement: An Open Letter to Mr. Ajay Piramal VIEW HERE ⤡.

In fact, it is a matter of regret that the learned counsellors at law of the DSK legal do not know:

(a) the pains, anxiety disorder of the FD and NCD holders of the DHFL

and

(b) how much venomous epithets the DHFL victims are sprinkling against your plaintiff Mr. Piramal in both the overt and covert/private social media platforms as you remain far from the madding crowd. As a legal team of a multimillionaire, you are yet to know the ground reality as such.

If you so wish, I can send you all those curses and remarks about your plaintiff, Mr. Piramal. in the form of screenshots by blurring the names of the victims or remarkers so that you cannot file cases against those innocent sufferers, who are simply spontaneously venting out their anger (out of anxiety disorders, inevitable under the corporate capitalist schizophrenia; a la Deleuze and Guattari) after losing their life-savings.

I must also wholeheartedly appreciate your complaint, which I am receiving as a compliment:

Yes, I have indeed carried out a non-violent all-out attack against the crony capitalist framework (India is ranked in ninth position in the crony-capitalist index) itself with the help of empirically available data in order to voice the concerns of “the other 98%”. I myself have not produced any data as I am not a journalist with first-hand reports. I have simply put forth certain data in reported speech whilst using terms such as “alleged”/”possibly” etc., to maintain contingency without any absolute value-loaded judgment.

Thus, in conclusion, let me send you the Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)’s response to your contempt petition:

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay

An Appeal To All the Readers (And Their Fellow Citizens) Of This Article

Please sign the following online petition

उतिष्ठत जग्रत वरान् प्राप्य तत् निबोधत।

निशिता क्षुरस्य धारा दुरत्यया दुर्गं तत् पथः इति कवयः वदन्ति ॥

Arise, awake, find out the great ones and learn of them;

for sharp as a razor’s edge, hard to traverse, difficult of going is that path, say the sages.

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