Abhishek Manu Singhvi, a very senior
Congress leader engaged in sex with a soon ‘to be Judge’ advocate in
High Court Chambers. His Driver recorded the act with the spy cam,
approached media houses but meanwhile Singhvi filed a suit in Delhi High
Court. And the court granted a permanent injunction against the
publication, circulation, dissemination and distribution of the video.
Almost all of the political,
journalistic and High level Judicial class becomes aware of the scandal
but no one dare to talk about it in open. Meanwhile Abhishek Manu
Singhvi, who had earlier filed cases of threatening and blackmailing
against his driver Mukesh Lal, managed out of court settlement with the
driver and The Delhi High confirmed the injunction by stating that it
was issuing “an order of permanent injunction in favour of plaintiffs
and against each and all of the defendants, restraining them from
publishing, broadcasting distributing or disseminating in any form or
manner whatsoever any defamatory material including the purported CD.”
By the High Court orders reporting about
the sex CD became illegal, media houses pulled back and the news was to
be buried soon but the twist came on 19 April eve. At around 9 PM
someone posted the sex act video on youtube and then viraled the video
via facebook page named ‘Singhvi Video’, addressed at www.facebook.com/SinghviSexVideo.
(Both this page and the first post video on youtube are deleted now,
but the sex video is available at numerous sources by now)
And thus the war begins between the
mighty politicians, the super mighty media and the much-much advanced
netizens. The netizens posted video multiple time and every time it was
deleted. In the cat and mice game the netizens proved victorious. The
video which was subsequently downloaded by many and was uploaded every
time it was deleted from youtube and facebook.
Within minutes the video appeared on
youtube, Abhishek Manu Singhvi trended on twitter. Despite hundreds of
tweets were generated per minute about the video, the mainstream media
and the opposition parties kept their silence. This gave netizens
their chance of lifetime to express their true feelings about
politicians and journalists.
Many tweets with hash tag paidmedia,
laidmedia, and similar tags were generated. Seniour Journalists like
Rajdeep Sardesai and Arnab Gowswami were questioned but none of them
dared to speak.
Shoma chowdhary of tehelka wrote an
article about moral ethics of using a spycam. The article landed tehelka
in twitter trends with netizens cursing tehelka like never before. The
netizens spoke in such harsh words as if tehelka has been sold out the
Indian National Congress. A netizen tweeted ‘Kangress uses tehelka to do
sting ops on opposition & also defend congress when they are caught
in sting ops’. The same sentiments were reflected in many other tweets
posted in thread to the issue.
The hindustan times comes up with other
article saying that the driver of Abhishek Manu Singhvi has accepted
that he has morphed the CD. The Newspaper published the statement of the
driver but sentiments of thousands of Indians find no place in most of
mainstream media reports. Nowhere in the report did newspaper mentioned
that the video is by now viral on youtube and has been watched by lakhs
of users.
The Story that was restrained by High
Court, buried by mainstream media and neglected by the political class
reached to common man, by their own media ie the social network. The
War is still on, the opposition is silent, the media helpless and the
netizens at their best.
This scandal has also proved that no
matter how best you try, you can not bury a sex scandal in this digital
age. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who is also spokesperson of World’s largest
Democracy’s largest Political Party find it hard to speak for himself.
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