Saam Daam Dand Bhed | Episode 06 | Indian Express Hindi
Host: Saurabh Dwivedi
Guests: Ritika Chopra, S. Y. Quraishi, Deeptiman Tiwari, Santosh Singh, Pooja Sasikumar Pillai, Sukrita Baruah,
For months, two members of India's Election Commission have been putting their dissent on paper. An Indian Express investigation shows that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi recorded at least 14 formal objections over 10 months. They said decisions on voter registration, deletion and restoration of names, SIR appeals and oversight of voter-data systems were taken without their knowledge or against their written advice. The full Commission met on 9 September, its first full meeting in four months.
In this episode, Saurabh Dwivedi speaks to the reporter behind the investigation and a former Chief Election Commissioner. They discuss how the story was reported, how the three-member Commission is meant to work, why the commissioners learnt of some decisions from the media, the constitutional questions around the SIR, and the questions CEC Gyanesh Kumar still has to answer.
The second big story of the week: Jamui and Kalkaji. In Bihar's Jamui, a group of men stopped two Class 10 students returning from coaching, beat them, sexually harassed the girl and circulated the videos online. In Delhi's Kalkaji, three men posing as policemen separated a 17-year-old girl from her friend and allegedly gang-raped her; nearby Lady Shri Ram College briefly moved classes online. The panel discusses moral policing as a cover for sexual violence, why offenders film their crimes, why girls find it hard to speak about abuse at home, how such violence affects the victim, the family and society, and what NCRB data can and cannot tell us.
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