How does similar-sounding name of jailed liquor baron create controversy in Jharkhand?
SUMAN K SHRIVASTAVA Ranchi, Dec. 31: The lack of a coherent and precise way of spelling Hindi names in English may…
Jogendra Tiwari
SUMAN K SHRIVASTAVA
Ranchi, Dec. 31: The lack of a coherent and precise way of spelling Hindi names in English may get you sometimes in trouble!
No wonder, a big controversy was created when various newspapers in Jharkhand understood Jogendr Tiwari and Jogendra Tiwari to be the same person mentioned in a chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate in the Jharkhand liquor scam on December 27 in the Ranchi special court.
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Jogendr Tiwari, pronounced as Jogendra Tiwari in Hindi, is the elder brother of Jogendra Tiwari, who is better known as Yogendra Tiwari in Hindi. Their younger brother is Amrendra Tiwari.
Jogendra alias Yogendra, lodged in the Birsa Munda jail, Ranchi, is the number one accused in the ED chargesheet filed in the liquor and other scams.
Family tree
While describing the family tree of Jogendra Tiwari, the ED, in its chargesheet, named his elder brother Jogendr’s wife as Durba Paul, while Jogendra’s wife is Nitu Tiwari. Sima Rani Tiwari is Amrendra Tiwari’s wife. The eldest brother is a doctor by profession.
Various newspapers took Jogendr and Jogendra the same person and wrote that Jogendra Tiwari has two wives. Another vernacular daily wrote that Jogendra Tiwari earned Rs 9.15 crore and set up firms in the name of his ‘two wives’.
After considering the mistake, one prominent Hindi newspaper rectified it the next day.
Innocuous ‘mistake’
Still, this innocuous ‘mistake’ infuriated Jogendra Tiwari so much that he rang up the newspaper’s chief editor Ashutosh Chaturvedi and threatened him with dire consequences.
He used the jail’s landline number and made several calls.
The chief editor has lodged an FIR with the Sadar police station in this connection.
ED summons jailer
Taking cognisance of the incident, the ED summoned the jailer Pramod Kumar on January 2 to interrogate how Tiwari was getting facilities in the jail in violation of the jail manual. The ED has also asked the jailer to bring the CCTV footage of the cell where Tiwari is lodged and where the landline phone has been installed.
Meanwhile, in this connection, the jail superintendent has served a show cause to two staff members -Awadhesh Singh and Pawan Kumar.
Notably, the ED is already investigating the role of the jail officers on how the high-profile inmates arrested in connection with the land and mining scams are getting facilities violating the jail manual and how they are running the show from the jail to influence the investigation. The Jharkhand government also constituted a one-man judicial commission to probe into the charges.
Jogendra Tiwari, the prime accused in the ED chargesheet, is involved in the liquor business, sand mining and trade, purchasing and selling land and hotels and owns 23 partnership firms. The ED has found Rs 9.15 crore from the illegal trade of liquor and sand and Rs 5.62 crore from the illicit sale of one Roy Bangla, besides other ‘proceeds of crime’. The ED has also charge-sheeted 11 firms owned by Jogendra Tiwari.
