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Victim of an internet crank Shantanu Panigrahi affecting job-hunting
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And reading the blog he does seems to have a problem with a lot of people and organisations.Ex forum ambassador
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If you had nothing to do with this loony why did you engage in any correspondence with him ?0
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Candyapple wrote: »OP I have edited your post to remove the names.
I have to agree with Carrot's post, if a company Googled you and believed this nutty website where he is trying to sue the Queen and Jeremy Corbyn amongst many others, then more fool them and it's not a company I'd want to work for if they are that gullible.
Which brings me bang on to the next answer::
I don't know if you're in the job market, sir, but for a desirable position there are so many hopeful applicants that Recruitment/HR don't have much time to explore the website. Google delivers them directly to the section of the page, making its worse. And their view can be, if it is false then why didn't you get it removed?
Please see the end of the start-post and you can see what has been tried already, praps not only by me but by other victims too.0 -
If you had nothing to do with this loony why did you engage in any correspondence with him ?
He emailed having been passed on by a websmart colleague he was already annoying. It was something he needed to be done in connection with a job. A reply was obligatory. If I had googled his name first I might have considered passing on the reply to someone else.
I don't want to say more here because though I am (one of) the victim/s and he is the persecutor, he will not be subject to legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/6/contents
If you spend five minutes reading shantanup.wordpress.com you will get the picture as to the scale of the mischief.
If the listing of 250 persons including those 25 or 30 government departments he says he is suing or complaining about hadn't been removed by an admin, it would be clearer.0 -
And reading the blog he does seems to have a problem with a lot of people and organisations.
I make it two hundred and fifty people and organisations he is fighting with, all in the past 3-4 years.
But take my advice and do not email him or post there without masking your id. He is capable of lodging false complaints with the cops too, even concocting disgusting crimes.
One example is at present on the homepage (Dec 2017).
Why his local police don't nick him I don't know, but he has dozens of complaints against them, has sued and is suing them, including for a speeding ticket, so I guess they are sick and fed up of him and ignore it all no matter what damage he does to others.
All in his own website, about his being locked up in a secure mental health unit for observation or whatever, from which (his exact phraseology) he "lawfully absconded" till the police caught him and dragged him back in cuffs. That was in the noughties.
Happily I am a hundred of miles from him and my place of work fifty miles away because I would not put it past him to barge in.
The only thing I did wrong was put my name at the end of my civil email to him telling him he was not following the correct legal procedure re his "claim" (claim numbered 1,234, maybe).0 -
Victim_of_crank wrote: »All in his own website, about his being locked up in a loony bin, from which (his exact phraseology) he "lawfully absconded" till the police caught him and dragged him back in cuffs. That was in the noughties.
Do you mean a mental health unit/ hospital? Please don't use such an offensive term.0 -
Have you tried https://wordpress.com/abuse/ ?0
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BorisThomson wrote: »don't use such an offensive term.
shantanup.wordpress.com/2016/08/21/dr-shantanu-panigrahi-returns-to-the-mental-health-tribunal-for-a-judgement/
shantanup.wordpress.com/2017/03/
shantanup.wordpress.com/2017/05/
shantanup.wordpress.com/2017/12/06/
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ciderboy2009 wrote: »Have you tried wordpress.com/abuse ?
See my original post, from the end-What I tried so far -
> Complaining to cops, met with a stone wall, 'civil matter, sir' even about the 'p!gsh!t people'.
> Citizen's Advice Bureau, no joy. - 'Sue'.
> Libel, too expensive, further he claims to have put everything in the wife's name including their jointly-owned property (house worth about £500,000).
> Harassment suit, may be possible but solicitor in free 15 mins not optimistic since he says no one would take this guy seriously, see his medical mental health record (also online on his site).
> Vexatious Litigant reporting, but this is up to a judge (?). He is attacking about a half dozen sitting judges but it is up to them.
> Wordpress.com, it is a USA website and they don't even acknowledge complaints except under DMCA though his posting is against their ToS.
> Google to kill the link (may work yet)0 -
Victim_of_crank wrote: »Evidently, you have not even begun to read his website to grasp who is using offensive language. See
shantanup.wordpress.com/2016/08/21/dr-shantanu-panigrahi-returns-to-the-mental-health-tribunal-for-a-judgement/
shantanup.wordpress.com/2017/03/
shantanup.wordpress.com/2017/05/
shantanup.wordpress.com/2017/12/06/
etc/
His language is not at issue here, it is you that is posting offensive terms on here.
Honestly, you're coming across as rather irrational yourself. You've been given the courses of action available to you, if you do not wish to use them, or are unable to do so, you need to let it go.0
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