AFTER THE WHOLE WORLD HAS SEEN IT, HC STOPS IT:
HC stops telecast of alleged s*x clips of Andhra governor Tiwari
TNN 25 December 2009, 03:18pm IST
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HYDERABAD: A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh high court issued an injunction on Friday, prohibiting a private TV channel from showing
explicit clippings purportedly of the 85-year-old state governor, N D Tiwari, in bed with three young women.
The court order came in response to a PIL, which was filed even as the images hit the TV screens on Christmas morning, leaving the citizens shell-shocked. By the time the court order reached the Telugu channel, owned by Andhra Jyothi newspaper, the images had been on air for about an hour.
The images showed an old man, purportedly Tiwari, wearing no trousers and a shirt pulled up to the neck. All three women are naked, one at his legs and the others on his upper half. One of the women is said to be seven months pregnant, another just 18 years old.
While the visuals appear to tell all, the allegations of Radhika, a woman from Uttarakhand, are even more damning. Radhika claims to have sent these young women to the Raj Bhavan on Tiwari's request through a Raj Bhavan official. She says the octogeneranian's appetite for women is insatiable: he would ask for women in the middle of the night and also seek after-lunch sessions.
Women's rights activists, lawyers and politicians have reacted strongly to the sordid episode. Calling the governor a s*xual deviant and a man who has brought shame to the office, women activists said the first citizen of Andhra Pradesh should be brought to heel immediately.
Radhika's role in the events remains hazy as she claims that Tiwari had said he would provide jobs to these young women, but used them for s*xual favours instead. Radhika says that Tiwari, through an official, had promised her a mining licence in Kadapa. When he did not, she chose to expose him by leaking the video clips and photos.