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Rajesh Sapte case: FWICE chief Ashok Dubey procures anticipatory bail; to resume office today
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Ashok Dubey and Rajesh Sapte
Months after FWICE came under the scanner for art director Sapte’s death, body’s chief Dubey procures bail; to resume office today
Mohar Basu (MID-DAY; October 4, 2021)
In July, art director Rajesh Sapte died by suicide, after accusing Rakesh Maurya — auditor of Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) — of extortion and harassment. His death brought the cine unions’ hafta culture to the fore, and put the FWICE under the scanner. In the months since, FWICE chief Ashok Dubey was arrested in another extortion case, along with Gangeshwarlal Shrivastav, senior leader of the Film Studios Setting and Allied Mazdoor Union (FSSAMU), Maurya and Rajesh Anubhave. In the latest development, Dubey — who procured anticipatory bail in September — is expected to resume work as the FWICE general secretary today.
Confirming the news, Birendra Nath Tiwari, president, FWICE, states, “Ashok has been granted bail. He was embroiled in a matter that he had almost no role in. Sapte hadn’t accused him. At the time of Sapte’s death, Ashok was in Benares.”
Tiwari dismisses the rumours of FWICE being restructured from the ground-up. “The only person who has been let go of is Rakesh Maurya, given the charges on him. Dubey has taken the matter to the Bombay High Court. We are often told that producers will form a separate body for the workers. It’s unimaginable how producers, who hire the workers, will form a body to safeguard them. If we fight for their rights, for better hours and better pay, how does that make us wrong?”
Many in the industry are said to be skeptical of the FWICE getting back in action, believing that the cine association used to aid the extortion culture. Tiwari retorts, “We are planning a press conference soon. We have records that producers owe almost Rs. 440 crore to workers. [This should] give people a sense of who is duping whom.”
Kabir Khan gives widow a cheque of Rs 8.40 lakh within 10 days after technician's death
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Asira Tarannum (MID-DAY; January 8, 2015)
That Bollywood is a ruthless industry with undertones of indifference and
dispassion is no secret. But, Kabir Khan seems to have his heart in the
right place. Bucking the usual practice of delaying compensation to
bereaved families of workers, the filmmaker acted quickly when a
lightman on the sets of Bajrangi Bhaijaan died of cardiac arrest last
month.A source close to the unit says since the hectic shoot schedule, the 38-year-old worker, Munib Ansari, was on duty round the clock and suffered a heart attack. Within 10 days of the death, Khan cleared his dues and offered compensation to his wife who lives in a village near Mumbai. “Generally, compensations take a long time to be delivered but in this case, Kabir Khan showed he has high ethical standards by handing over a cheque of R 8.40 lakh to his wife Zainab Khatoon,” the source suggests.
Rakesh Maurya, joint secretary of the Allied Mazdoor Union, says, “This has been the quickest compensation and payment made to the family of a deceased worker. Otherwise, they are made to wait endlessly. Ansari’s dues amounted to Rs 62,100 and the rest was compensation.”
Khan remained unavailable for comment.
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