Upon
receiving a call from the Head Quarter of OIL INDIA LTD (Personnel Section)
based at Duliajan, Assam to know my mind whether or not I shall join the New
Position at Duliajan, the letter for which was issued to me for more than a
month and half back; wherein the last date of joining was indicated at
8/7/2004; I replied that I was unaware of it being no communication was made
with me either verbally or through forwarding the letter to me by any in this
connection. Being overjoyed on getting the information together with seeing of
bearing of a fruit of fighting with the management of the Company for almost a
decade to transfer me from Rajasthan Project to Assam following completion of
‘Exploratory Drilling Operation’ within the area as per commitment given by the
Company prior to my transfer to Jodhpur, Rajasthan from Duliajan, Assam {mainly
to look after my ailing Parents as per their desire expressed}; I demanded the
letter from GM(RP) who kept it hidden from me, up-to nearer to the time of
expiry of joining date and sought an explanation from him for doing so when he
replied that no ‘human being’ ever stay in a Company following inflicting of so
much humiliation by each and every {men & women alike}; working within an
Organization and hence he intended to help me in securing my entire dues hassle
free within 24 Hrs including that of withhold salary of mine; if I submit my
letter of ‘Early Retirement’ at RP itself which help might not be extended to me at Duliajan, Assam.
He further connected me to acting CVO over Phone to confirm correctness of his
deliberation with me; who too agreed to withdraw all lined up Departmental
Inquiries against me if I follow the Instruction as stated or desired by GM
(RP). While appreciating the words delivered to me as such by any, I said that
since it was more of a desire of my Parents to cover their last days at
Duliajan staying with me and that as my long fighting for more than decade with
the Company had bore fruit at last; I behold a strong of the strongest desire
to submit my letter of ‘Early Retirement’ at Duliajan instead of ‘RP’ to cool
down my burning HEART to the extent possible.
However,
there suddenly developed a rider. Since the ‘Migration Certificate’ of our son
after clearing his Class XII Examination was misplaced {of all Students} during
transit without which he cannot take admission into any College and the School
Principal too, refused to issue the same to any other; other than directly to
the student or to his Parents {even with submission of undertaking on Court
Paper}; I was at my wits end what to do being the dead line for submitting the
same to the concerned College was just @4 days later than that of my last date
of joining at Duliajan and hence I found
a clash of dates of meeting 2 important deadlines within a very short gap.
Accordingly
following joining the New Position at Duliajan amidst limitless humiliations; I
have submitted my letter for ‘Early Retirement’ and went through the process of
facing a Committee set-up for the purpose by GM (O) to convince my decision of
doing so as well as of my decision of surrendering of @ 6 months of earned
leave in lieu of serving the Company for 3 Months. Accordingly the Company
arranged my return Ticket to Jodhpur, Rajasthan to collect the ‘Migration
Certificate’ from the School concerned and presented it to the concerned
College at Bangalore on the last date of the same as set by the University
.Following returning to Jodhpur once again; we sold off almost entire of our
house hold items or goods at a throw price and hired a mini Truck to take the
leftover to Bangalore where we are staying now.{During the period, our son met
with a very serious Road Accident with
multiple fractures in the Head in a Hit & Run Case. When the said vehicle
tried to run over his unconscious body for the second time, a local
Auto-rickshaw Driver saved his life; breaking one of his legs from which he is
still suffering and goes nowhere without me still}.
Since
my visiting of Duliajan, Assam was much different than normal or ordinary; the
Company was pre-informed about my schedule of staying just for one day at
Duliajan and returning again to ‘RP’ to attend an urgent issue of collecting
the ‘Migration Certificate’ of our son from the School concerned. But after
reaching Duliajan, when I went to the Guest House to stay for a night; I was
told that I being no longer an executive of the Company to entitled to stay in
the Guest House, my staying was arranged at the ‘Apprentice’s Hostel which was
@ 3 KM away from the Dujiajan Township; which mostly remains empty of occupants
unless ‘School Dropped outs’ pay visits to the Company to take free Training as
a part of their School curriculum. When I reported therein, I saw no human
being around except the cooks but saw nothing much wrong in covering a night
alone there; without having a slightest idea about what was stored for me to
face in the Hostel.
While
on the way to join the New Position at Duliajan; I met one of my best friends
{an Ex OIL employee working at private Sector elsewhere that time} at Kolkata
Airport who knew everything about what had befallen upon me; narrating many of
the incidences which no 3rd Party supposed to knew of. On facing a
query from me how did he know about it; he took the issue into a much different
direction through doing of a trick and hurriedly introduced a Group of about 5
persons as his associates { from the look, they were certainly not from NE but
from other parts of India} who looked like Criminals in Gentlemen’s dresses. In
the same breath, he requested me to stay at Duliajan for few days instead of
one day only. On wondering how he came to know about my schedule of visit to
Duliajan; he together with the Group vanished from the scene. Considering the
incident as normal; I allowed the incident to go off my head.
My
first night (7/7/04) in the Apprentice’s Hostel went-off well nonetheless
struggled with Bed bugs whole night to get a sleep in view of absence of any
adequate care given to the Hostel being built mostly for student Trainees only.
In the next day (8/7/04); following my joining Office I was given an attached
Car as per Company’s rule to provide such a facility to all employees for the
first 3 days of joining in a new Position. On completing all formalities
towards receiving P.F as well as submission of the letter of ‘Early Retirement’
letter duly; I had returned to the Hostel after office hours and allowed the
Car to break-off; unlike others who prefer to keep the same together with them
for off time use.
In
the evening time when I intended to call the vehicle back to pay to visit to
one my friends {with Hostel totally empty}; I found that the telephone line was
suddenly got disconnected and became instantly dead which was a very rare
phenomena to happen so at Duliajan with weather condition more than normal at
that particular point of time. When I offered a peep or a glance outside; I saw
the Criminals introduced to me at Kolkata Airport by my close friend slowly
circling around the Hostel in a Brand New Ambassador Car with Number Plate
painted Black and one such person in control of the wheel. No sooner I saw them
{who had already cut the Telephone line to delay receiving of any message from
any through it, if any accident happened to any by any chance}; I sensed danger
to my life having automatically all Doors & windows got closed. I took
shelter under the Bed where I had fallen asleep. Since them unable to see the
attached vehicle around the Hostel to get sure of my presence in the Hostel;
they kept knocking all Doors including that of mine one too and later withdrawn
presumably after postponing the Task for early next day; exactly alike one of
my colleague {late P.K. Saikia} who was shot dead in the early morning while
proceeding to the Airport; ignoring my advice to advance the time of proceeding
to Airport and was supposed to join me at Jodhpur (RP) on transfer nonetheless
I never saw carrying of any arms by them in open.
Being
broke-off early; the Driver of the attached Car unable to sleep as if he was
continuously hearing my voice of calling him and accordingly he decided to pass
the night in the Hostel instead of at home and reported to me just past mid-night.
After waking up and after making sure that they are not the Criminals on
hearing the sound of the Car; I saw the Driver of the Attached Car, when I ran
towards the Car with my small hand beg in one hand and fled from the area
losing no time and proceed to Airport where both slept at the Airport’s Car
Parking Area inside the vehicle. This is the most Absolute Miracle experienced
by me during my life time till date being it duly averted a foolproof Plot
drawn up many Brilliant Brains joining hands together to eliminate me reasonless.
Since these are facts; all have the right to know it.
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