Corruption Watch

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Supremely injudicious

Sandhya Jain

21 Dec 2010

Some startling pronouncements, orders, and judgments by the Supreme Court in recent times necessitate urgent scrutiny of the definition of ‘justice’ which seems to have undergone a strange metamorphosis without national debate or consent. There is also a danger that judicial overreach is transcending the constitutional scheme of separation of powers between the executive, legislature, and judiciary, thereby eroding a basic feature of the constitution.



It is astonishing that the Centre has meekly agreed to comply with the Supreme Court’s order of Dec. 14, 2010, to furnish the ‘complaint’ that led to tapping of corporate lobbyist Nira Radia’s telephone by income tax, and possibly other, agencies. Such court intervention in the work of intelligence-gathering agencies can have a corrosive impact on their confidentiality and operating procedures, and must be discouraged. If the Union Home Ministry found merit in a warning that a person residing in India was indulging in espionage and anti-national activities, it was duty-bound to investigate the same.



From a public perspective, the Radia tapes disclosures have exposed the murky underbelly of high finance - corporate lobbying to make Andimuthu Raja the Telecommunications Minister; the unprecedented loss to the exchequer in allocation of 2G spectrum; corporate fixing of the judiciary, etc. The real issues of tax evasion and money laundering are yet to be exposed.



Editing of the Radia tapes makes it difficult to know which judge allegedly received Rs nine crores. But there is a clear reference to a squabbling corporate family. In this context – and the crushing Rs. 3/litre rise in petrol prices – it may be fair to ask the court to suo moto revisit its judgment in the pricing dispute between the Ambani brothers, specifically, the critical issue of ownership of national resources.



In the dispute between Mr Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and Mr Anil Ambani’s Reliance Natural Resources Ltd, (RNRL), the public interest pertains to the cost of natural gas. During the settlement of late Mr Dhirubhai Ambani’s estate in 2005, ICICI managing director K.V. Kamath negotiated a purchase price for RNRL at US$2.34 per mmBTU from RIL-operated KG-D6 block in the Krishna-Godavari basin. RIL made a profit from this deal.



Yet two years later, the government fixed US$ 4.20 per mmBTU for National Thermal Power Corporation to buy gas from the same firm; this prompted Mr Mukesh Ambani to insist RNRL pay the higher price.



The Supreme Court upheld the contention of Petroleum Minister Murli Deora that gas is a natural – and national – resource, and government has the right to fix its price. But can government fix a price higher than that agreed to by two parties in the free market, and can the benefit of this differential be pocketed by one private party, that too at the cost of a public sector undertaking?



The issue affects all who will pay for the power generated by NTPC and other firms. Experts estimate RIL will earn an extra Rs 23,000 crores from this verdict. Had the Supreme Court awarded this as royalty to the Petroleum Ministry, it could have been used to buffer the public against sharp jumps in prices. The apex court should revisit this verdict.



Equally astounding was the Supreme Court decision in February 2010, to stay the trial of 64 members of the Indian Mujahideen in Ahmedabad, for alleged involvement in several terror attacks from 2005 onwards in Ahmedabad, Delhi, Jaipur and Lucknow. The accused pleaded they would not get a fair trial in Gujarat and demanded transfer outside the state, adding they were being ill-treated in jail.



By staying the trial just three days before its commencement, the Supreme Court virtually declared ‘no confidence’ in the entire Gujarat High Court. The question arises, what kind of judgment must certain types of accused get in order to accept that justice has been done? And does the Indian judicial system allow open ‘shopping’ of judges and courts, which is what the demand for transfer to another state amounts to?



Has the Supreme Court learnt nothing from the manner it which it allowed ideologically biased activists to make it transfer the Gujarat riot cases to a state where they felt they could conveniently monitor them? Once the Supreme Court learnt that the National Human Rights Commission had recommended this transfer on the basis of an unsigned affidavit submitted by controversial activist Teesta Setalvad, did it retreat from brinkmanship? Now that the mass manufacture and doctoring of affidavits by Setalvad’s NGO has been exposed, and cases are falling apart, has Supreme Court revisited its operational procedures?



We may legitimately ask if court intervention has effectively derailed the trial of the Indian Mujahideen men. It is now December 2010, and Indian Mujahideen has executed a bomb blast in Varanasi, causing the death of an infant. Won’t judicial activism demoralize the intelligence agencies and police who risk their lives in umpteen unknown ways to nab such criminals? If ill-treatment in jail leads to calls to transfer a case outside a state, why didn’t the battering of Sadhvi Pragya in a Mumbai jail result in the transfer of her case to another state?



This brings us to the myth of ‘Hindu/saffron terror’ propagated by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her cohorts in the government and party (WikiLeaks says US thought her politics ‘unprincipled’). The Mumbai ATS has been unable to stick any charge against Sadhvi Pragya and her co-accused, yet some cussed mentality denies them bail, though Pragya is allegedly suffering from cancer. Now WikiLeaks has exposed that Rahul Gandhi told American envoy Timothy Roemer that ‘radicalised Hindu groups’ were a greater concern than Islamic groups like Lashkar-i-Toiba! Surely this is a wake-up call to the Indian judiciary - to do justice, and to be seen to be doing justice.



Finally, we have the ‘uncle’ judge syndrome. Without casting aspersions on the integrity or calibre of former Supreme Court judge Shivraj V. Patil, appointed by telecom minister Kapil Sibal to probe the 2G scam, his qualification seems to be close family ties with former union home minister Shivraj Patil. And former Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan has also been exposed for claiming that the CJI-Madras High Court did not name A. Raja as the minister who tried to influence a judge in a murder case. Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we first practice to deceive…

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From rediff -live

Supari for Darbari, Jayachandran, Mahendroo?:

In a sensational development, yet to be confirmed, two undertrials today told a Delhi court that they were allegedly pressured by Tihar jail officials to kill two Commonwealth games officials lodged in the high security prison.

The application filed by Nishant and Amit, who are facing trial for murder, claimed that they have been under pressure of the Tihar jail officials to eliminate two of the three CWG officials who are in judicial custody.

Three former top Organising Committee officials T S Darbari, M Jayachandran and Sanjay Mahendroo are in judicial custody in Tihar jail.

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[quote name='Mudy' date='21 December 2010 - 10:50 PM' timestamp='1292951567' post='109948']

From rediff -live

Supari for Darbari, Jayachandran, Mahendroo?:

In a sensational development, yet to be confirmed, two undertrials today told a Delhi court that they were allegedly pressured by Tihar jail officials to kill two Commonwealth games officials lodged in the high security prison.

The application filed by Nishant and Amit, who are facing trial for murder, claimed that they have been under pressure of the Tihar jail officials to eliminate two of the three CWG officials who are in judicial custody.

Three former top Organising Committee officials T S Darbari, M Jayachandran and Sanjay Mahendroo are in judicial custody in Tihar jail.

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Could be a trick to get these criminals out of jail on bail.

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http://www.politicsparty.com/commonwealth_scam.php



Now new secret disk is in CBI's hand, CBI is Congress President's lap dog, they will not create any problem to Queen. Why politics guy is shouting from roof top?

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[url="http://www.dailypioneer.com/306196/BJP-to-sue-Radia%E2%80%99s-ex-TV-channel-for-slander.html"]BJP to sue Radia’s ex, TV channel for slander[/url]

The Opposition BJP on Friday threatened legal action against a former aide of Nira Radia, whose claims about “close links” between the corporate lobbyist and BJP leaders were prominently carried by an English news channel. The party would also start legal action against the TV channel for broadcasting allegations by a person who had “spent two years in jail and has a personal score to settle”.



Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley told newspersons here on Friday evening, “Merely because someone else is making these allegation does not dilute the channel’s responsibility… It treated as gospel truth the allegations against prominent BJP leaders (which were) made by someone who not only spent two years in jail but is close to a senior Congress member and has a personal score to settle.”



Radia’s close aide Rao Dheeraj Singh, who was in jail for two years after she accused him of kidnapping her son, told news channel Headlines Today that the lobbyist got hugely benefited out of her close links with BJP leader Ananth Kumar (then Civil Aviation Minister).



He had also accused Ananth of facilitating a Eurocopter deal with the BJP Governments in Karnataka and Maharashtra in 1998, in which Radia was also involved. In an apparent reference to Nitin Gadkari (now BJP chief), Singh claimed the lobbyist also met a BJP leader in Nagpur to facilitate the deal.



“There was no BJP or NDA Government in the two States during the period mentioned by Singh. And Gadkari was Leader of the Opposition in the legislative council (from where he could not have influenced the State Government’s decision on purchase of helicopters),” Jaitley said, adding that Gadkai did not even know Radia before the news about her phones being tapped broke out.



On Singh’s claims about the BJP Government “allotting a huge piece of land” to Radia’s trust in Vasant Kunj in 2002 and LK Advani attending the foundation stone-laying ceremony, the BJP replied that Advani had never attended the said programme.



“The only function he attended in Vasant Kunj in 2002 was that of the trust run by Pejawar Swami, who has himself clarified that the land was allotted to his trust by the United Front Government,” Jaitley claimed.



He also disputed Singh’s claim that Ananth Kumar used to leak Cabinet papers to Radia who, in turn, would pass these on to her clients. “Which Cabinet papers and relating to which issue? We all are oblivious of it,” Jaitley asked. He also strongly rejected the allegation that Ananth Kumar had any bank account in Zurich.

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http://news.in.msn.com/national/article....932&page=2

In a statement here, Iyer urged Parliament and the Prime Minister to appoint a high-powered commission to inquire into the issue.



"The President of India must require politely Balakrishnan to resign", Justice Iyer said of Justice Balakrishnan who is the National Human Rights Commission Chairman.



A Malayalam television channel had aired a report stating that P V Sreenijan, son-in-law of Justice Bakakrishnan, had within a span of four years purchased flats, landed properties in prime locations in various parts of Ernakulam and Thrissur districts, which are at present valued at over Rs 7 crore.



Sreenijan and Justice Balakrishnan declined to comment on the allegations.

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[url="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/kalmadi-shipped-out-cwg-papers-to-us-sources/138684-3.html?from=tn"]Kalmadi shipped out CWG papers to US: sources[/url]

New Delhi: Commonwealth Games Chairman Suresh Kalmadi has reportedly shipped out incriminating documents related to the Games to the USA. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sources have told CNN-IBN that the documents are reportedly with Kalmadi's nephew Rajender Rao in Minnesota, US.



The sources claimed that Kalmadi and his close aide BK Ratnakar Rao are involved in shipping out Commonwealth Games documents.

However, Kalmadi claimed that he did not ship out any document saying that he was open to any enquiry.



Kalmadi and BK Ratnakar Rao, currently President of Squash Federation of India and former RAW officer, reportedly shipped out incriminating documents to Rajender Rao, who lives in 10619 Maple Boulevard, Woodbury Minnesota, MN 55129, USA.



Rao had been a Reserve Bank investigator of commercial fraud and was a security advisor to Commonwealth Games. Rao's residence in Bangalore - 425, 10th Main Road, Banasankari 2nd Stage, Bangalore 560070 -[color="#FF0000"] might be raided soon by the CBI[/color].



Rao's connections in London with Ash Patel was made during the time he was the minister of coordination and visa in Indian High Commission at London between 1989-92.

He used his contacts in the London High Commission and informed them that CWG would make the arrangements for Queen's Baton Relay and deal directly with local contractors, hire equipment, rent accomodation and deal with security arrangements.



He visited UK in August 2009 and contacted contractors like Ash Patel to set up shell companies with false accounts and prepare false invoices for the overlays.

In April 2009 Rao was asked to squeeze £250,000 of CWG money by over-invoicing for overlays. Darbari was asked to hand over the CWG money to Ash Patel in Oct 2009 for the Queen's Baton Relay.



Darbari was told to collect his share of 10 per cent of the deal with a diamond ring at the duty free airport in Dubai. Darbari, apparently, never suspected he had walked into a trap and would be charged under FEMA/FERA for money-laundering and non-declaration of customs duty on imported jewellery.

What is worse ? Your home address everywhere connected with one of the biggest fraud.

Well, future employers and neighbors will have field day. <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />

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[url="http://www.dailypioneer.com/306869/PMs-offer-on-PAC-meaningless-defies-rule-Sushma.html"]PM's offer on PAC meaningless, defies rule: Sushma[/url]

"Under the Lok Sabha Rules, PAC cannot call a Minister, much less the Prime Minister. (The) Prime Minister's offer therefore, has no meaning," she tweeted.



Her comments come a day after Singh wrote to PAC chairman Joshi expressing his readiness to appear before the panel, which is probing the 2G Spectrum scam.



Joshi, who does not seem to be very enthusiastic about the campaign for a JPC, yesterday said that the PAC will take an "appropriate decision at an appropriate time" on Singh's offer after going through rules and procedures and in accordance with them.



Swaraj said the "scope of PAC is totally different from that of JPC. While PAC deals with accounts, JPC deals with accountability and governance."



Under Speaker's Direction 99 under the rules of procedures and conduct of business in Lok Sabha, the 22-member PAC cannot call a minister to give evidence or for consultations in connection with the examination of accounts by it.



The chairman of the committee, however, may have an informal talk with a minister on the subject under consideration by the committee.

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The article also has Swamy's statement about Sonia's efforts to save Prabhakaran.



[url="http://expressbuzz.com/states/tamilnadu/JPC-on-2G-scam-will-trigger-PM?s-exit-Swamy/235083.html"]JPC on 2G scam will trigger PM’s exit: Swamy[/url]

CHENNAI: Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday said a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the multimillion 2G spectrum scam would not yield desired results. He favoured a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) investigation stating that a JPC probe would only lead to the ouster of the Prime Minister.



Speaking to reporters here on Tuesday, Swamy said if a JPC was constituted, it would have more members from the ruling Congress and the probe would not be fair. Moreover, it would lead to the ouster of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, only to be replaced by someone who is acceptable to party chief Sonia Gandhi.



Stating that he was for a PAC probe, Swamy claimed that BJP's Murli Manohar Joshi, who heads the PAC, is very knowledgeable.



The Janata Party chief wanted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to interrogate four prominent politicians and one former minister of State, who recently became a chief minister of a State, whose names figure in the diaries of A Raja.



The 2G spectrum issue was also a threat to national security. He said both the DMK and the Congress were "corrupt" and "antinational".



Swamy said he was happy that the Prime Minister had accepted his suggestion to write to the US government to release information on the money trail in the 2G spectrum scam, which caused a loss of `1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer.



Swamy alleged that DMK chief M Karunanidhi would not act against Raja, as "some of the politicians from the State were beneficiaries of the scam." They, he alleged, amassed money and moved it out of the country through illegal electronic financial transactions.



He said he had moved court to become the Public Prosecutor in a corruption case he had filed in connection with the 2G scam. It will decide on his plea on January 7.



Chidambaram's resignation sought



Swamy sought the resignation of home minister P Chidambaram, who, he alleged, wrote a letter to LTTE chief Prabhakaran towards the end of the Lankan civil war, asking him to give up arms "at the behest of Sonia Gandhi."



Chidambaram, he said, had committed an antinational act by writing to the leader of a banned organisation and action should be taken against him under the National Security Act (NSA).



He demanded a commission of inquiry to probe India's role in the 20082009 antiLTTE terrorist operations in Sri Lanka. He claimed that he had accessed information from very highlevel sources in India and abroad that a sixmember delegation was secretly sent to Colombo to prevail upon the Lankan President to save Prabhakaran from annihilation during the last four days of "antiterrorist" operations in May 2009.

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[url="http://www.dailypioneer.com/307240/Too-clever-by-half.html"]Too clever by half[/url]

Congress ploy to foil JPC demand exposed

Continued efforts of the Congress to reiterate the importance of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee in probing the `1.76 lakh crore 2G Spectrum scam is a desperate attempt to divert attention from the demand of a majority of parliamentarians for a Joint Parliamentary Committee inquiry and divide the Opposition on the issue. On the back foot and faced with another round of House disruption once Parliament meets for the Budget Session in 2011, the Congress has thrown in the Opposition’s face what it sees as a ‘master stroke’ — the Prime Minister’s letter to the PAC offering to appear before it. The fact that Mr Manmohan Singh is willing to appear before one panel but steadfastly refuses the constitution of another is because the JPC has the mandate to cast its net far and wide, unlike the PAC which cannot question policy issues. Considering that faulty policies of the UPA Government are at the root of the scam, the Congress obviously does not want to take a chance by setting up a JPC. If the JPC is formed and it decides to summon the Prime Minister, he will have some answering to do because he presided over those policies. At the best, he would have to extricate himself by pointing out that he had called for a freeze on spectrum licence allocation until the contentious issues were sorted out. But then, he would have to explain how his then Telecom Minister, Mr A Raja, got away with flouting his directive. This is an uncomfortable question for Mr Singh, and it will expose his helplessness as the head of the Government. Coalition dharma cannot be cited by him for explaining his inaction that has caused massive loss to the public exchequer. Nor can he afford to suggest that the need to sustain the Congress’s alliance with the DMK, to which Mr Raja belongs, was reason enough for him to turn a Nelson’s eye to the open loot in the Telecom Ministry. The Opposition has fortunately seen through the game and remains united on the demand for a JPC probe. Apart from harping on the PAC, the Congress had hoped to dent that unity by suggesting a special session of Parliament to discuss the demand for a JPC inquiry. But the party knows there is nothing to discuss. So why did Mr Pranab Mukherjee offer a special session? Was he hopeful of using his persuasive skills to soften the stand of some Opposition parties?



For a party and Prime Minister who claim there is nothing to hide, it is strange that they should continue to duck the demand for an overarching inquiry that will also cover the period when the NDA was in power. Besides the issue of faulty policies, there are other matters such as the role of the corporate sector and Mr Raja’s links with some lobbyists who assured him that the Telecom Ministry was his for the asking when the Government was being formed that need to be investigated. These are not matters that the PAC can handle. In any case, the Opposition has not objected to the PAC doing its job. Let that continue within the prescribed format. But the PAC scrutinising the CAG’s report is not the same as a JPC inquiry. There are already several probes going on: The Telecom Ministry has set up a panel to review its functioning on the issue; the CBI is inquiring into the scam under the Supreme Court’s supervision; the Income Tax Department and the Enforcement Directorate too are in the picture. None of them precludes a JPC inquiry.

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[url="http://janamejayan.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/india-in-major-financial-crisis-call-for-mass-upsurge-against-soniag-patron-of-corruption-dr-swamy/"]India in major financial crisis.Call for mass upsurge against SoniaG, patron of corruption: Dr. Swamy[/url]

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[quote name='Savithri' date='01 January 2011 - 12:35 AM' timestamp='1293821822' post='110061']

[url="http://janamejayan.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/india-in-major-financial-crisis-call-for-mass-upsurge-against-soniag-patron-of-corruption-dr-swamy/"]India in major financial crisis.Call for mass upsurge against SoniaG, patron of corruption: Dr. Swamy[/url]

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Fully agree with him. They should kick out Queen of Corruption and his stooges and appointed joker.

Economy can collapse.

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[url="http://deshgujarat.com/2010/12/30/raja-ke-pichhe-rani-hai-swamy-says-sonias-2g-kickback-share-60/"]“Raja ke pichhe Rani hai, Sonia’s kickback share 60% in 2G”[/url]

Janata Party leader Shri Subramaniam Swamy today in his speech at Ahmedabad said that 2G spectrum scam could have 35% commission involved from which then central minister Raja got only 10%, while Karunanidhi got 30% and Sonia Gandhi got 60% money.



Swamy said “Raja(A.Raja) ke pichhe Rani hai” and “Manmohan Singh remained silent because Rani had made him the Prime Minister.”



“The 2G scam involves Rs. 1,76,000 crore Rupees, but not all this amount went to kickbacks. In New Delhi the current rate of kick back is 35%. Out of this only 10% went to A.Raja, while Karunanidhi got 30%, and Sonia Gandhi was the highest gainer with 60%,” Shri Swamy said.



He said, “Sonia has already made so much money that her stomach is full. And therefore the 2G scam money was sent to Anushka and Nadia, her two sisters settled in foreign land. The sisters have deposited the money to an account in Macaw.”



Swamy said he has told the court in Delhi recently that though he has named A.Raja only in court case against 2G scam at this point, he would add two more names in 2G scam case, and one of the names would be of Sonia Gandhi.



Swamy said the judge was honest and to his this intention he reacted that “yes it is your right to add more names in future.”



Meanwhile during question answer round after his speech in the programme on Wednesday Dr. Swamy said, “In Commonwealth scam Rs. 16000 crore went to Rahul Gandhi and Rs. 10000 crore to Vadra. But let me first complete the fight against 2G scam, and then there will be a turn of Commonwealth.”



“The good thing is that we can file corruption case even after years have passed,” he added.

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[url="http://expressbuzz.com/opinion/columnists/zero-tolerance-secret-billions/236261.html"]

Zero tolerance, secret billions[/url]

S Gurumurthy

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[url="http://newsblaze.com/story/20110103211018zzzz.nb/topstory.html"]India in Major Financial Crisis, Sonia Gandhi Called Patron of Corruption[/url]



By Dr. Subramanian Swamy

The Indian economy is headed for a major crisis by March 2011 due to the vast liquidity in the economy caused by corruption and compounded by ill-advised financial derivatives such as Participatory Notes.



As a consequence of the rise in money supply caused by black money generated by Corruption such as arising from 2G Spectrum allocation, CWG, and IPL, hoarders have played havoc with cereals, fruits, vegetables and processed foods, with prices skyrocketing. The core industries especially oil refining, steel, cement and coal have also undergone declines in output due to inadequate new investments.



With the Central Budget nearly bankrupt and depending solely on loans from public sector banks to balance the books, there will be a further spurt in inflation and cut-backs in real investment.



Money stashed away abroad by Indian politicians and business houses, in illegal secret accounts, is expected to enter the stock market through the Participatory Notes, to earn quick capital gains. Thus I predict the BSE will have a crash in March when the PNs will be withdrawn after short-selling, in the stock market for windfall profits.



The Prime Minister, despite being an economist, is a politically impotent person. Already, despite the mild rebuke of the Supreme Court on his inaction on the 2G Spectrum orgy, his Ministers Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid are busy white-washing the crimes committed in the licence allocation, by settling for minor fines and looking for loopholes to exonerate the Telecom companies.



The solution therefore lies not in Dr.Manmohan Singh resigning, but in a mass upsurge against the UPA and its patron of corruption Ms.Sonia Gandhi.



This however cannot be done by those opposition parties whose leadership is also tainted by the same scandals as the UPA.

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So why did Raja resign, asks BJP

January 08, 2011 2:07:40 AM

PTI | Guwahati

[url="http://www.dailypioneer.com/309107/So-why-did-Raja-resign-asks-BJP.html"] link[/url]

Rubbishing the Government’s claim of “nothing wrong” in 2G spectrum allocation, the BJP on Friday asked why A Raja was forced to quit as Telecom Minister if the estimated loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer was not a fact.



“If the entire argument is that there was no loss to the exchequer, then why did Raja resign?” asked senior leader Arun Jaitley. <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />



“Kapil Sibal’s entire argument is fallacious. He is just playing with statistics... Confusing the position...(he is playing) PAC +JPC+CBI rolled into one...And contending there is no loss as far (in) revenue,” said Jaitley, who was in the city for the national executive meeting beginning on Saturday.



The Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha said Sibal had ‘missed the basic point’. “When spectrum was allotted in 2008, why was it done at 2001 prices?” he asked.



Meanwhile, BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad described as “reprehensible” Sibal’s comments against the CAG.

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[size="4"][url="http://janamejayan.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/call-sonia-to-the-dock-subramanian-swamy/"]Call Sonia to the dock: Subramanian Swamy[/url][/size]



January 8, 2011 by janamejayan



We do have a reference in this article of Dr. Subramanian Swamy of the role of Hajpayee in protecting Sonia and her family. He should answer why he was so protective of this monster of corruption to the nation before he hits the bucket. Of course the BJP is shamefully seeking ‘Bharat Ratna’ for Hajpayee perhaps because he falls in line with all other corrupt people who received this award!



Janamejayan



Sonia should be called to the dock. This is the clarion call to the nation from a patriot.



If I may add, Sonia should be called to the public dock also to answer charges of subversion of the Constitution through chamcha-giri practised as a fine-art, in an undeclared emergency. The imperative is to restore the rule of law and enshrine dharma in the rashtram.



Sonia, subverter of the Constituion, quit India, bring back the looted wealth of the nation.



Singhasan khaali karo ke janataa aati hai.



kalyan



Call Sonia to the dock



Subramanian Swamy, Pioneer, OPED | Saturday, January 8, 2011



[ Bofors remains the world's biggest unresolved mystery because we Indians shy away from calling a spade a spade. The person who holds the key is Sonia Gandhi, who is protected by layers of silent conspirators ]



Why does the Bofors corruption scandal keep resurfacing in our national attention? Because it is an unresolved issue involving India’s defence preparedness and the corrupt subversion of national interest by foreigners in favoring the purchase of 400 long-range 155 mm guns produced by a Swedish company because of bribes.



Indians are still patriotic by and large, and are loathe to tolerating any compromise with national security. That is why in every war since 1947 from Kashmir to Kargil in 1999, Indians have risen as one, much to the surprise of our enemies.



Therefore, the Bofors scam will never fade away till the guilty are brought to book. The people instinctively know that it represents corruption in very high places. The key figure in this scam is the Italian family friend, and fixer, of the then young Prime Minister who was introduced to the nation as ‘Mr Clean’. But the hapless inexperienced PM was manipulated by his Italian wife to commit this unforgivable crime against the nation.



By the time he woke up to it he was assassinated under mysterious circumstances in 1991 by the terrorist and now defunct LTTE. So too was the then Swedish Prime Minister, and his close associate. But the key figure behind the scenes in effecting the deal in 1986 is in power today, and was influential with those in power for most of the period since 1991.



The Italian fixer and small arms supplier to the LTTE, Ottavio Quattrocchi, who was nailed as the catalyst in the deal by the CBI, in return for a hefty commission, had escaped from India in 1993, then from Malaysia in 2002 via a rigged court judgment obtained by collusion, and from Argentina by the same CBI fudging the records – all achieved under three different and consenting Prime Ministers.



But like the law of Karma, the scam keeps re-surfacing from one window or another. The latest is the ITAT quasi-judicial order, which under the law cannot be appealed against in the High Court unless it can be proved that a ‘substantial’ law has been violated by the order. There is no such violation. As I see it, the ITAT order therefore holding the Italian fixer guilty and the government of the day as of liars, is final and has to be executed by the government. That means also re-opening the CBI case against the Bofors scam.



This scam is stuck in Sonia Gandhi’s political throat. It was ‘Q’ who got a big slice, and so too the Jamshed Dadachandji managed ‘Gandhi Trust’ of the family referred to by Martin Ardbo in his diaries (in which Sonia is residual legatee], and the then brother-in-law of Sonia Gandhi, Walter Vinci, who was married to Anushka. He was grafted by Sonia on Rajiv Gandhi’s delegation to Sweden on March 26, 1986. This was to ensure that as PM, Rajiv signed the deal to ensure the March 31, 1986 deadline set by Bofors Co., was met by ‘Q’ to earn his dirty commission via AE Services. Since the deal was consummated, Vinci has bolted with his loot, abandoning Anushka.



As Union Law & Justice Minister 1990-91, the files sent to me by Prime Minister Chandrashekhar made it obvious that Rajiv was just a facilitator, but nevertheless an unforgivable accessory in the Bofors scam. The real operator however was Sonia, alias Antonia Edvige.



The principal investigator of the felony in Sweden, the Police Commissioner, in fact later wrote to Defence Minister George Fernandes in the NDA government that it is Sonia, who must be interrogated to get at the truth, but that he was constantly denied access to her by successive Indian governments. George too soon after he called for the files from his Ministry was told: ‘Is par haath math lagao’ (don’t touch the Bofor files). So he dropped the matter.



In a chance(?) meeting in Brussels in late 1990 as Union Commerce Minister, Dr Igor Linderoth, the new Bofors chairman and successor to Martin Ardbo introduced himself to me as a student of the Harvard Business School, and said he remembered me from then. I was told by him that if the Indian government which had already invested 550 crore in joint production of the Bofors gun, went ahead with it, he would give us the list of payments made with bank transfer details, which list was safely kept in a locker in Sweden.



When I brought this to the attention of Chandrashekhar, he arranged to bring Linderoth to Delhi incognito and a deal was discussed. It required the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) to revoke the blacklisting of Bofors Company. But before we could get the papers ready for that, Rajiv and Chandrashekhar got into a scrap over the Haryana Police surveillance issue. The second Janata government fell on March 12, 1991.



I also learnt while in Brussels that a fight in early 1986 had erupted between Sonia and the Bofors Company, which was delaying finalisation of the deal and making ‘Q’ nervous. It was over her insistence on getting the 20 per cent commission as a lump sum and up front. The Bofors company said they would give the commissions in installments as the government purchased the installments (of 20 guns per month).



The matter was resolved by the Hindujas, whose powerful antenna had picked up the details of the fight. They paid her the lump sum and agreed to collect the installments from the Bofors Company, and thus the deal was clinched. Hindujas are technically right when they said in court later that the Bofors payments to them did not constitute a bribe. It was in effect a repayment of a ‘loan’ in installments. Thus began a close friendship of the Hindujas with Rajiv, who earlier in 1985 had cancelled a dinner with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the UK because the invitees list included the Hindujas. That friendship continues today with the residual legatee Sonia as well, and naturally it better!



What is to be done now? ITAT bench of Tolani and Sharma have done for India on corruption what earlier Justices Jagmohan Lal Sinha and HR Khanna did for the nation’s democracy. I am of the view that in the present circumstances we must work with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has a chance to redeem himself to get to the bottom of the scandal. We must give him a chance. In any case, if he does not come through, we can later always prosecute him as an accessory after the fact.



I suggest therefore the following steps be taken:



Step. No 1: An Informal Action Committee (IAC) of persons having no past taint on corruption or sleaze or having links to Sonia be constituted to prepare a criminal complaint under the Prevention of Corruption Act, with Sonia Gandhi as the first accused and Quattrocchi as second accused. Other accused can be added later.



Step No. 2: Before it is filed in a Special CBI Court for taking cognizance under the Act we need to send the complaint to the PM for grant of sanction.



Step No. 3: If the Lok Pal Bill is enacted in the coming session of Parliament then this complaint can be filed in that institution as well.



Step No. 4: The IAC can take up the money trail question with the Governments of India, Switzerland, and other safe haven nations.



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– The writer is president, Janata Party

[Capt M Kumar]

The CAG which has done marvellous work and came into limelight starting from Bofors in my memory has an equally impressive website: [color="#006400"][size="7"]http://www.cag.gov.in/[/size][/color]

pdis@cag.gov.in



Read the Report No. 19 - Performance Audit of Issue of Licences and

Allocation of 2G Spectrum by the Department of Telecommunications (

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology) from the CAG

website.

[Capt M Kumar]

Interestingly, when companies like S Tel Ltd were ready to offer more price for spectrum, the Department of Telecom completely ignored it. In its letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, S Tel had volunteered to pay an additional revenue share of Rs. 6,000 crore and later enhanced its offer to Rs.13,752 crore in its letter to Mr. Raja. It even agreed to increase the bid price in the event of any counter bid. http://hindu.com/2011/01/11/stories/2011...581600.htm



As per calculations based on S Tel's offer, the government exchequer would have got Rs. 65,909 crore as against Rs. 12,386 crore collected by DoT. “This indicated that had an open process of bidding/auction been used for price discovery and hasty and abrupt changes in the deadlines date not been made, it could have been possible for the government to have received at least this amount,” the CAG said in its report.