Judge asks cops and JDA to watch Khosla ka Ghosla

JAIPUR: A Rajasthan district judge has suggested a special screening of the film, "Khosla ka Ghosla'' for policemen and Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) employees. A woman's fight against ‘careless and insensitive' officials to save her residential plot from land grabbers moved the judge prompting him to give this suggestion.Additional district judge Dinesh Gupta "stronglysuggested'' to the additional chief secretary (home) and principal secretary(UDH) to organise a screening of the Bollywood film for personnel in theirdepartments to make them sensitive to a common man's rights.Directedby Dibakar Banerjee with Anupam Kher as a lead actor, the film released in 2006depicts a middle class man's struggle to regain his plot from a landmafia.The judge made the recommendation while accepting the case ofManjushi Jhunjhunwala, a resident of Sikar district, who now lives in Shillong.Manjushi bought a piece of land in a residential colony along the Kalwad Road inJanuary 1982. Last year, she discovered that her land had been illegally sold toa third party by an unknown person. Similar sounding names were used to fudgeland records in JDA.The housing society that sold the land in 1982recorded the buyer's name as "Manjushi Jhunjhunwala, wife of Arun KumarJhunjhunwala''. In the JDA land records, however, the owner is named: "ManjuDevi, wife of Arun Kumar''.During the trial in court, it turned outthat "Manju Devi'' didn't exist. Nobody by that name lived at the addressmentioned in the JDA records. Sarpanch of the village, where "Manju Devi''claims to be a resident, also confirmed it. Moreover, she never appeared beforethe police officer who investigated the case or before the court that tried thelitigation.Before issuing land deeds had the JDA officials attemptedto verify the plot owners' records submitted to it by the housing society, thefraud would have been detected and the real owner (Manjushi) would have beemsaved the trouble of fighting a year-long legal battle, the judgenoted."Nothing rankles more in a human heart than a brooding senseof injustice,'' the judge quoted from the first national judicial salarycommission report. He also observed that disappointment, frustration andannoyance against the system gave birth to problems like Naxalism andterrorism.