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Monday, December 21, 2009

‘Tamil girls in camps abused by troops’



According to 25-year-old Vany Kumar, who was locked up in a refugee camp for four months, along with many who escaped the horrors of the civil war, not only military guards traded sex for food with Tamil women but prisoners were also being made to kneel for hours in the sun, the Observer reported.

“It was a concentration camp, where people were not even allowed to talk... Girls came to wait for their relatives and military officers would come and touch them, and that’s something I saw. The girls usually didn’t talk back to them, as they knew that in the camp if they talked anything could happen to them... It was quite open, everyone could see the military officers touching the girls”, she said.

Kumar, from Essex, was released from internment in September, but she has waited until now to reveal the full scale of her ordeal in the hope of avoiding reprisals against friends and family held with her.

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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Domestic help, husband arrested for robbery

CHENNAI: The police on Wednesday detained the domestic maid, who allegedly decamped with more than 150 sovereigns of gold jewellery from her employee’s house in West Mambalam recently.Sources said Geetha and her husband Ramesh were picked up from their new house at Mettupalayam near Ashok Nagar.She had moved into the house, twoand- a-half km away from her old residence, three months ago.

The police spread their net for her after printing press owner Ramesh and his wife Lata filed a complaint on Monday, alleging that 152 sovereigns of gold jewellery, worth about Rs 16 lakh, were missing from their house.Their domestic help, Geetha, became the prime suspect as she absconded soon after the theft was detected. Efforts to contact her over her mobile phone also failed.The police probed into her cell phone records and questioned her close associates and traced her to her new house.“Geetha planned the entire robbery,” the sources said. “She removed the pieces of jewellery not in a single day but over a period of time. The couple discovered the theft only when she emptied the entire shelf.” During enquiry, the police learnt that the maid had been booked for a similar offence earlier. In 2003, Geetha was arrested for allegedly stealing Rs 6 lakh worth jewellery from a previous employer’s house, but was acquitted.“This is her modus operandi. 
She joins as a maid, wins the trust of her employers and then decamps with the loot,” the sources said.The police have recovered 50 per cent of the stolen items. They are also investigating whether Geetha and her husband are the notorious scooter couple, who indulge in chain snatching in different parts of the city.

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S Tel launches mobile services; joins 1p tariff war

S Tel, a joint venture between the Chennai-based Siva group and Bahrain Telecom, today said it will launch mobile services from tomorrow with twin tariff plans of one paise a second and 50 paise per minute.


To begin with, the company will start services in Himachal Pradesh and in the next ten days in Bihar and Orissa, P Swaminathan, Director, S Tel said, adding the company plans to add three more circles by the end of the first quarter next year.
S Tel is sharing the whole infrastructure with existing operators and has decided not to put up any tower of its own.

The company has licences for Himachal Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir and Assam circles.

For the remaining 16 circles, the company is embroiled in litigation with the Department of Telecom (DoT) and the case is being heard by the Supreme Court.

S Tel has tied-up over Rs 2,000 crore with debt component of Rs 953 crore and the promoters (Siva Group) and Batelco (Bahrain Telecommunications Company) have already brought in Rs 1,253 crore as equity capital.

Batelco has 49 per cent stake in S Tel and the Siva group holds 51 per cent stake.

Asked whether the company was keen to participate in the forth coming auction for 3G mobile spectrum, Swaminathan said "yes, we are looking at it but in which circles is yet to be decided".

S Tel CEO Shamik Das, said, "The 6 growth circles with a population of 226 million people provides an opportunity to deliver a tailored, relevant value proposition."

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