Procession of thousands of people on the occasion of Shrii P. R. Sarkar's Release from Jail on 2nd August, 1978 (thumbnail)
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It is well-known to all that whoever tries to make a change in this world in any field, be it spiritual, social, cultural, economic or political is subjected to face the merciless tortures from the evil and conservative forces. Shrii P. R. Sarkar was also not an exception. The C.B.I. concocted false charges against him and arrested him on 29th December 1971 at 06:00 am. He had to face tremendous tortures in the jail and not only that he was injected with poison in the name of medicines on 12th February 1973. As the reaction of that poison he lost his eye sight permanently. With a demand of full scale enquiry into this incident he started a fast from 1st April of the same year. That unequaled fast lasted for about five years and six months until his release from the jail by proving himself innocent of all those false allegations against him on 2nd August 1978. Soon after he started that historical fast he wrote a petition to the Governor of Bihar state (India) copied to the President of India and to the General Secretary of UN. The following was the letter he wrote the above mentioned national and international authorities to make them aware about his decision and the reasons for that.
Sir,
With due respect and humble submission I would like to bring to your kind notice the following facts along with tales of harassment, tortures, maltreatment, poisoning and other inhuman activities done by different agencies of the government.
- That I was arrested by CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation, of the Indian Government) on 29 December, 1971 at 6 o'clock in the morning on some charges concocted by the CBI with certain malafide and political motives. 28th December, 1971 being Ekadashi (llth day of the moon) was my fasting day. On the 29th morning after I was arrested by the CBI. They did not allow me to do my morning duties throughout the day. They did not allow me to even take a single drop of water and they produced me before SDO Patna in the afternoon. My remand order to jail was kept ready in SDO office before I was produced in SDO's chamber (not court). This shows that the SDO decided to send me to jail (SDO was a lady) even before she saw the arrested person. She did not ask me a single question and so I did not get the scope to narrate the tales of torture. I was brought to Buxar Jail (it is in another district) at about 11 o'clock in the night. I had to remain without food and water for about 60 hours at a stretch.
- Due to unhygienic conditions prevailing in jail I became sick and on 25th February 1972 I was sent to PMCH (Patna Medical College Hospital) for treatment. There I was kept under inhuman tortures by CBI and State Police for all the 24 hours up to 3rd April, 1972. There I was kept without food continuously for three days from the 25th February, 1972. The motive was clear and simple. They wanted to kill me as per the secret instructions of CBI in the PMCH room no. 17. I was forced to remain within the four walls of the room of the entire period up to 3rd April. I was not allowed to peep through the window or to raise the curtain of the door to see the sky. They did not allow me to read newspapers coming from my house. They did not allow me to take food coming from my house and forced me to take unhygienic food prepared by the men of their choice. They did not allow any of my friends and relatives to see me even from a long distance. They created disturbance even in my spiritual practice.
- I was sent to Bankipore Central Jail in the first week of April, 1972. Just a few days after my coming here the authorities stopped my interviews with my relatives and friends. Even now nobody can see me without written order from the court of law.
- In the first week of June 1972 my mother died. I am her first son. As per usage of India, the first son is to do spiritual observance of the parents. But the cruel, inhuman authorities of the government did neither allow me to see her in her death bed nor did they allow me to do her last rites.
- In Bankipore Central Jail also the authorities stopped my food continuously for fifty hours with the intention of killing me as per verbal instructions of the CBI.
- I am an aged man of above 50, but because of my regulated and routine life I used to maintain good health, but due to continuous torture by the government authorities in general and jail department in particular my -health has been ruined. Four persons who used to look after me became the eyesore of the jail authorities. Two of them were transferred to Daltonganj Jail and two to Buxar Jail, although none of them has got any court case in Daltonganj and Buxar. The only intention of transfer is to keep me alone and kill me conveniently.
- In the first portion of 1973 they have posted several sipahis just on the gate of my cell to prevent others to see me. It is clear that they wanted to kill me secretly and shift the dead body silently with the help of those sipahis.
- On 12 February, 1973 I felt very much unwell in the afternoon. The jail doctor came and prescribed certain medicines for diarrhea and dysentery. On the same day at 9 o'clock in the night I again felt unwell. The doctor was informed and he came at about 10.30 PM. He said that he would be informing the civil surgeon in Patna. I requested him to please inform my men also and gave him my residential address and phone number. The doctor came again at about 11 o'clock and told me that he had informed the jailor to send the news to the address of my men. Afterwards I came to know that the jailor did not convey the news to my men and suppressed the facts for reasons best known to him.
- At about 11 o'clock in the night of 12 February 1973, the jail doctor said, 'The civil surgeon is not to come to see you, but he prescribed a medicine for you.' He administered that so-called medicine which was actually poison. Just after taking the medicine I became senseless. I came back to sense at about 7 o'clock in the morning of 13 February, 1973.
At the time I was undergoing the five reactions of poison:
They were:
- Extreme weakness throughout the body,
- Nervous reaction throughout the body,
- Profuse watering from both the eyes,
- Extreme pain in the brain,
- Inertness of brain,
On 14th morning I felt the sixth reaction and that is, I was unable to see anything clearly even from a short distance. I became almost blind. A few days after that an eye specialist came and said that I was suffering from conjunctivitis. On 15th night two more specialists came. At that time my blood pressure was 180/100. On 16th morning my urine was examined, the sugar was +++(3+). I have got no doubt that I was poisoned on 12th night and all these diseases are reactions of that poison. On 19th February, 1973 a first class Magistrate was deputed by District Magistrate to record my statement. In the statement I have stated that in case of medical treatment the faith of a patient plays a very important role and as I have lost faith in these government doctors and as a strong suspicion has been created in my mind that they have poisoned me as per direction of CBI, I would like to be treated by my private doctor. On the night of 21st February, 1973, I requested the jail authorities verbally and on 27th February, 1973 in writing, to request the District Magistrate, Patna to depute a first class Magistrate to record my statement demanding a judicial probe. I further told them that I want that in that judicial commission there may be any judge of Supreme Court of any other High Court excepting that of Patna High Court (because Patna is the place of occurrence). But as ill luck would have it I have not yet been favoured with the presence of a first class Magistrate to record my statement.
In view of the foregoing I would request you to please favour me by appointing a judicial commission to go through all above mentioned complaints and order relevant matters at an early date. I have got strong suspicion that certain black hands are working against me from behind the curtain and some of them are important persons. I want to disclose names of those important persons before the judicial commission.
Yours faithfully,
S/d Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar - 5/3/73
Bankipore Central Jail. Patna
- Copy to President of India for information and necessary action.
- Copy to Secretary General, UND for information.
[Courtesy: "Sambhavamii" writen by Acarya Sugatananda Avadhuta, Published by Ananda Marga Publications, Kolkata, West Bengal, India]
Posted by proutist-universal on February 12, 2006 08:35 AM
