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28 mai 2013, 12:46

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How? Where? When? Why?

We absolutely cannot let Vasant Bunwaree get away with this blasted MITD affair. If we do, then we might as well give up on the pretence that institutions still work; that the rule of law still prevails. We owe it to ourselves, to future generations, to this country that we’re ever so ready to profess our love and loyalty for, to ensure that Vasant Bunwaree is no longer allowed to administer any other ministry ever again.

The cardiologist admitted in Parliament on Tuesday that the Chief Police Medical Officer (CPMO) Sudesh Kumar Gungadin performed the medical examination on the MITD minor.

That now famous medical report, which declared the girl “intact”, was the basis for the official exoneration of the alleged pedophile. To quote the Prime minister in Parliament last week; “ In view of the Medico-legal Report submitted to the Fact Finding Committee (FFC), it has been found by the Committee that the issue of sexual intercourse between Instructor N.C. and Minor V.A. cannot stand. According to this Medico-legal Report, the examination of the minor on 25 February 2013 has revealed that there could not have been any sexual intercourse upon her in view of the intact genital conditions. The FFC finds that this medical evidence is crucial to put an end to speculations”, he said.

Except that public opinion has such little faith in the said committee that since then, speculations have thrived.

On Tuesday, MP Satish Boolell asked Vasant Bunwaree under whose authority the medical examination was performed. Bunwaree didn’t and couldn’t answer. MP Boolell, himself a former CPMO subsequently explained to us that only a sitting magistrate can order the CPMO to perform a medical examination. This is generally done when the police have opened an enquiry; otherwise a magistrate would have no reason to get involved in the first place.

We further learnt that the senior magistrate, who sat on the FFC, did not have the authority to order the medical examination as she wasn’t then sitting in her capacity as a magistrate but as the president of a FFC with absolutely no legal footing whatsoever. In other words, she had no power to order anything.

 Now, we need an answer to this question and we need it now. Who ordered this examination? In what circumstances was it performed? Who witnessed it?  Did the CPMO not deem it fit to refer the child to a psychiatrist for further evaluation in view of her recorded contradictions?

And while we’re at it, we also need to know how come Vasant Bunwaree, who gleefully quoted extracts of a privileged conversation between the minor and her lawyer, in Parliament, got hold of the minutes of this confidential meeting? “She also told me those things in person”, Bunwaree protested when the Speaker wouldn’t let him quote from this document. How? Where? When? Why?

We’ve had enough of this farce; this is called tampering with an investigation, it’s called cover up, it’s called manipulating institutions. And frankly, it stinks.