Staff Reporter
Port Blair, Mar 18: After Times of India published news on 18, March 2012 issue, regarding former IGP Mr. Sanjay Beniwal’s Human Safari experiment for his family members, the Government of India today asked for a report from A & N Administration in this regard, sources told Andaman Sheekha.
A senior police officer, Mr. Sanjay Beniwal, has been transferred from Andaman following reports appeared in two local dailies of A & N Islands, of his taking his family and guests on a special “human safari” to meet the Jarawas on February 28, 2012.
Inspector general of police Beniwal, the second-in-command in the Andaman police force, was especially assigned the task of monitoring activities in the Jarawa reserve following the expose in January of police involvement in illegal tourism in the reserve that showed vile exploitation of the tribals.
The two videos, released by The Observer (UK), showed uniformed men recording semi-clad Jarawa girls dancing for food. Another clip zoomed into the girls’ and showed men pestering them to dance.
But there seems to be no shaming. Weeks later on February 28, flouting both rule and responsibility, IGP Beniwal allegedly took his relatives on a “human safari” where they met about 18 members of the tribe. Reports of his trip the next day in local dailies, saw Beniwal transferred.
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