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Publication: Media Centre, Chennai
Date: November 22, 2004
There was an allegation that Sankaracharaya
is likely to flee to Nepal, and he is making arrangements to leave
India from Pune by special aircraft. In this context, the procedure
that should be followed towards take off any private aircraft is
as follows:
a) Prior permission should be obtained
from Air Trarric Control (ATC) for any proposed take off of any private
aircraft.
b) Prior permission should be obtained
from Defence Authorities for any such takeoff of private aircraft.
The reasons for the above mentioned
clearance is to ensure that there is free air traffic and to check
the security and other agencies, regarding the passenger of such
aircraft and the destination where it reaches. If such permission
was not obtained such aircraft would be bought down forcefully or
shot down by the military person.
No such permission was sought for
from any quarters and the Pune police was not informed of this fact
or neither any permission was sought for for such proposed fly over
to Nepal from Pune before the concerned authorities.
There is an allegation by the Prosecution
that Swamyji was preparing to flee to Nepal from Pune as stated by
the public prosecutor in the court.. In this context the Tamilnadu
Police should have sought information from the Pune police whether
such information is true. The statement made by the Pune Commissioner
Mr D.N.Jadhav that the Pune Police have no idea whatsoever about
any probable plan of the Swamyji about the escape to Nepal and that
no police quarter from Tamilnadu ever visited Pune in this regard
would show that the police is only trying to the pre-judice the mind
of the public and the Court to scuttle the moves of Swamyji from
getting bail.
This statement was made by Mr. D.N.Jadhav,
Commissioner of Police, Pune in an English Daily namely The Hitavada
on 18th November, 2004.
But it is evident that the public
prosecutor by making such statement before the court really prejudice
the mind of the court not only in the matter relating to the grant
of bail but also prevented the court from taking a sympathetic view
by lodging the swamyji in a guest house.
