This Kolkata tea seller wants to win Olympic gold

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teenaged tea seller at a roadside shop in Kolkata wants to go to the Olympics, not as a spectator but as a swimmer. And his big dream is to win a gold for India.

Sourav Saha has decided to swim his way to glory. The odds are stacked against him -- he helps his father sell tea at a roadside stall. But he has already won a national gold and is dreaming big.

"To get ahead I have to practice well. Whatever my coaches tell me I have to follow. My dream is to go to the Olympics," Sourav said.

The 14-year-old's family thought swimming was a waste of time, till the medals came pouring in. Now his father and his coach want the government to take over his training.

"I am trying very hard, and sacrificing a lot. I hope to see him succeed one day. He has a dream to go to the Olympics," his father Pinaki Saha.

"We are expecting he will do better. He'll benefit after getting admission at SAI (Sports Authority at India). He'll definitely benefit," Sourav's coach Biswajit de Chowdhury said.

Between selling tea and swimming, Sourav's school attendance is erratic. But he wants to be India's Michael Phelps and is not willing to let his dream die young.

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CBI official sent back to state cadre for bungling Arushi case

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UCKNOW - Senior Indian Police Service (IPS) official Arun Kumar, deputed to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), has been sent back to his state cadre Uttar Pradesh following his poor handling of the sensational Arushi murder case.

The decision followed the startling revelation about surreptitious replacement of Arushi Talwar’s vaginal swab that was taken during the course of the post-mortem, a senior police official told IANS here.

CBI director Ashwini Kumar, who was initially all praise about Arun Kumar, posted as a deputy inspector general in the agency and widely known for his uprightness, found the lapse in the high profile case extremely embarrassing.

Arushi was found murdered in her Noida home May 15, 2008. Their domestic help Hemraj, initially suspected of the crime, was later found dead on the roof-top.

A major controversy was sparked off by the statement of then Meerut zone Inspector General Gurdarshan Singh, who pointedly accused Arushi’s dentist father Rajesh of the murders, alleging he had killed the two after finding them in an “objectionable” position.

Talwar’s arrest evoked much hue and cry, following which the case was transferred to CBI with Arun Kumar in command.

Noida government district hospital physician S.H. Dohre had taken the swab sample, and handed it to the CBI, which sent it to the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics in Hyderabad December 2008. However, the centre found the sample was not of Arushi.

“I told the CBI officials that I had made a slide of the swab, which needed to be sent for DNA test that could also indicate whether she had a sexual intercourse just before the murder, as was being made out by police,” Dohre told IANS over telephone.

While Kumar gave a clean chit to the Talwars and accused three servants, known for their proximity to Hemraj, he allegedly took no action about the replacement of Arushi’s vaginal swab sample, neither finding out who was behind destroying vital evidence nor registering a case for destruction of evidence.

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