Right to self defence and right to life and liberty
Ankur Srivastava
(Querist) 27 September 2016
This query is : Resolved
Respected learned members,
My name is Ankur Srivastava, resident of Gandhinagar, Gujarat and I reside here with my family for last 3 years.
I originally belong to Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. My parents passed away when I was 14 years old and since then I have property dispute with my uncles who were in constant trial of usurping my inheritance. I got married in the year 2013 with my wife in an inter-caste marriage and since then I am facing threat to myself and my wife. I have filed FIRs against my uncles and some other relatives from whom I and my wife may have threat to life. Meanwhile I applied for a weapon licence in Gandhinagar, Gujarat which was arbitrarily rejected by the Licencing Authority of the district.
I wrote about the same to the Hon'ble CM of Gujarat, Hon'ble Governor of Gujarat and Hon'ble Chief Justice of Gujarat marking a copy to the Hon'ble CJI as advised by a close friend of mine who practice law locally (which I now feel was not a good suggestion in light of the legal procedure). On the basis of my letter to the CM of Gujarat, the Secretary to CM wrote to the DM & Collector (the Licencing Authority) to reconsider my case and marked me a copy of the letter. After this letter also, the DM never called me for a fresh hearing even after my several reminders. Annoyed by my reminder letter to the DM and with a severely hurt ego of a bureaucrat, Mr. V. G. Kalaria (Resident Additional Collector- Gandhinagar, Gujarat) called me in to his office office on 11th of May 2016 and abused me badly and threatened me with dire consequences of I pursued the subject any further. He used very foul language and cuss words for me and my wife and said that if he ever see me in the DM office again, it won't be good for me and told me not to followup on the subject with anybody or face dire consequences.
I was badly hurt. With my experience in the Licencing process and repeated humiliation at various levels from police to bureaucracy and finally the verbal abuse I wrote a letter to the Human Rights Commission to intervene as I felt it to be a violation of my Right to Life and Liberty (Right to Life with Dignity) apart from the violation of my Right to Self Defence and Self Protection.
I understand now that instead of writing the letter to all the dignitaries stated above, I should have gone with an appeal to the appellate authority (Home Ministry of State) against the rejection of my application. However since the backlog there is of almost 3-4 years, I was advised by friend to write to the dignitaries for the protection of my rights. (Which may or may not be a good decision). Now I am feeling that I may be harassed by the local police and bureaucracy as I have filed a complaint against the RAC- Gandhinagar.
I am a salaried employee from a very humble back ground who lost his parents at a very young age. When I faced a threat to my and my wife's life, I tried to seek the protection within the provisions of law and rights guaranteed by the constitution but the course it has taken, I am losing all my faith in the system of India and it's constitution. I am looking forward to seek support from you in my case.
I will be highly obliged to you.
Regards,
Ankur Srivastava
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R.K Nanda
(Expert) 27 September 2016
Query too long.
Raj Kumar Makkad
(Expert) 27 September 2016
What support you require when you yourself have admitted twice and even thrice that your approach was wrong. Instead of availing the legal path of making appeal, you chose to writ to dignitaries.
There is no query raised from you rather this is very vague personal story of you.
Rajendra K Goyal
(Expert) 28 September 2016
Efforts are not successful always.
Send reminders to all dignities.
In case of need discuss with senior lawyer and approach law for relief.
