^ What's their exact gripe ?Surasena wrote:6 muslims arrested in Madurai trying to kill public bus passengers, plan was to throw pipes filled with iron nails at drivers so that they would lose control of vehicles.
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26/11 was meant to start India-Pak war: ex-CIA analyst
The 26/11 Mumbai terror attack was intended to change dramatically the future of South Asia, perhaps even by provoking a war between rising nuclear powers India and Pakistan, according to a top counter-terrorism expert. Bruce Riedel, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst, who has advised four US presidents on South Asian issues, says he had pointed this out to then President-elect Barack Obama and his transition team at the time in several briefings. Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taeba group (LeT) had carefully chosen the targets and meticulously researched them over several years, he wrote in The Daily Beast, an American news reporting and opinion website AFP. AFP. "They received considerable assistance in doing so from two sources-the Pakistani intelligence service, called the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate or ISI, and Al Qaeda." "Each had its own agenda for the operation. But the targets were the same - Indians, Americans, and Jews - the targets of the global jihad started by Al Qaeda in the late 1990s," Riedel wrote. Describing the November 2008 attack as "the most important terror attack since 9/11" he pointed out that the "10 terrorists' tactics have been copied by others since - for example, just weeks ago in Nairobi." But "perhaps the most shocking element of the Mumbai attack was the role played by David Coleman Headley, an American citizen of Pakistani descent, in the intelligence collection that preceded the attack," Riedel wrote. Born Daood Sayed Gilani in Washington, DC, in 1960, Headley changed his name at the behest of LeT to hide his Pakistani identity when travelling abroad. In his guilty confession, Headley, Riedel noted, acknowledged "the raid also was planned with active ISI involvement at every stage. At each of his meetings in Pakistan, he said he met with ISI officers as well as the LeT terror leaders." "Sometimes the ISI gave him particular assignments separate from what the LeT asked; for example, tasking him with taking photos of an Indian nuclear facility near Mumbai," Riedel said. Yet "the Pakistani mastermind of the Mumbai plot, LeT leader Hafiz Saeed, remains free in Pakistan, where he continues to be a darling of the ISI and regularly calls for more attacks on India and America," Riedel wrote noting "Five years after Mumbai, justice has yet to be served."
Do they need any specific gripe? Remember they are peaceful mujjlims. Let me give you the roughly translated name of the organisation, it reads "All Worlds Islamic Forum". So, it could be anything like Palastine, Syria, Egypt or Kashmir.Lilo wrote:^ What's their exact gripe ?Surasena wrote: 6 muslims arrested in Madurai trying to kill public bus passengers, plan was to throw pipes filled with iron nails at drivers so that they would lose control of vehicles.
Or is it just the regular one that Hindus exist in TN - and that itself is unacceptable according to the diktats of their dead Prophet ?
Can some one translate more...
Hope Tamil Nadu Q Branch and Special Branch have their eyes and ears on the ground. Generally TN Police does a good job, if they have the political backings. BTW, this sort of sly trick to kill people was tested by NDF in Kerala in mid 1990s. In one district of Kerala, lots of RSS & BJP workers were dying in what looked like motor accidents. The police through a thorough investigation figured out that this was murder. When these folks were riding down in the night, the murderers would pop out of a hiding holes and place an iron rod at the head level of the victim. The victim's head bangs on the rod, loses control and topples down to his death. During this investigation the police also got the first detailed set of clues regarding the terror organization NDF.Prasad wrote: In dindukkal, they caught 6 but 8 escaped. Idiots were going to throw nail-filled pipes at bus drivers and
cause accidents and make it look like it was a revenge attack for some prior incident.
The Congress-led UPA Government is desperate to see through the Communal Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2013. Therefore, the Union Home Ministry wants to hide some home truths about religion-wise population figures
Most data pertaining to Census 2011 has been finalised and released online by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, Union Ministry of Home Affairs. There is, however, a noticeable exclusion. The religion-wise population figures are still being kept under wraps. On Monday, I called up at the Data Dissemination Centre at the headquarters of the Registrar General only to learn that it has no clue to its release schedule. There is no technical reason for withholding the headline data in one particular category, when data in other categories have been rendered in great details.
The provisional Census figures have been appearing online since 2012, except for the religion-wise data. There were two volumes on provisional population data containing minute statistics. While the provisional figures have now been largely finalised, absolute secrecy is being maintained on religion-wise population figures. I have been trying since February 21 to retrieve these concealed figures under the Right to Information Act, 2005. The replies that I received were deceptive and unsatisfactory, prompting me to file a second appeal before the Central Information Commission on May 30. It is being pending before Ms Sushma Singh, then Information Commissioner, since then. The appointment of five new Information Commissioners at CIC recently might cut down the waiting list.
But I am left with no doubt that the religion-wise data is being purposely concealed. It is unlikely to be released before the upcoming general election. The reason is that the religion-wise census is sure to confirm an upsurge in Muslim population that militates against all predictions by sociologists. It is likely to reveal that the Hindu population has fallen below 80 per cent in India for the first time after independence. It implies severe micro-level changes in the entire northern belt running from western Uttar Pradesh to Assam covering trans-Ganga districts of Bihar and a chunk of West Bengal. Parts of northern Kerala, Haryana (Mewat district) and some districts of Jammu have become red zones for the Hindus. This also has severe implications for internal security.
A dispassionate analysis would reveal clear linkages between micro-level population shifts with acts of communal violence. A study of western Uttar Pradesh rocked by riots like in Bareilly (2010), Moradabad (2011) and Muzaffarnagar (2013) in the recent past will confirm the ground-level changes in religious demography.
It might be argued that India is constitutionally a secular nation-state. The results of the religion-wise data in Census should have absolutely no bearing on public policy. Quite so. Why then is the Government holding back only the results of the religion-wise data collected under Census 2011? At least the headline data should have been revealed as ungrudgingly those related to Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes’ population, gender ratio, literacy figure and slum population etc. Thus, a proclaimed secular Government is itself contravening the precepts of secularism. A political answer might be that the UPA would not like to provide the BJP a handle in the forthcoming elections. The Hindu fear psychosis might drive voters into the fold of the BJP.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has begun concealment on another front. Its annual reports contain figures of casualties in communal conflicts. Earlier, there used to be two separate passages on Hindu-Muslim conflicts and Hindu-Christian conflicts, of which the latter one was quite insignificant. Major issues for Hindu-Muslim conflicts were identified as carrying and slaughtering of cattle, routing religious processions through mixed localities, desecration of places of worship, distribution and playing of provocative CDs/cassettes, disputes for land/property, eve-teasing and personal enmity.
Regarding the slaughter of cattle, the religious identity of the offender becomes quite clear. The other community generally resists such attempts, and it leads to flare-ups. The cow has been a flashpoint of communal trouble throughout the medieval ages. Hindu monarchs like Rana Kumbha and Shivaji have been lavishly praised for the protection of the animal. Desecrations of religious places have also been systematically done by a particular religious community for its fundamental iconoclastic zeal. It would be wrong to say that the tendency has been left behind. The reverse aggressions, if ever, were freak. As regarding eve-teasing (sexual harassment) incidents like in Muzaffarnagar, Kamduni, Raniganj and Moradabad etc, these have shown from which religious community the offender hails from when there is an
inter-religious angle.
From the Ministry of Home Affairs Annual Report 2011-2012, the practice of mentioning the major factors behind Hindu-Muslim communal conflicts has been discontinued. It was presumably done to help the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2011, premised on the assumption that the majority community is the conventional aggressor and the minority community the victim. In all States of India except Jammu & Kashmir, the Muslims are in a minority. In most States of India the Hindus are in a majority. Yet there were attacks against the majority community, by the minorities, especially in pockets were the latter dominated. Acknowledging the actual factors in case of Hindu-Muslim riots would falsify assumptions on which the communal violence Bill was premised. Thus, it was necessary to conceal the jaded communal reality.
When Mr P Chidambaram was the Home Affairs Minister, he ‘disarmed’ the Border Security Force personnel against the cattle trafficking mafia at the India-Bangladesh frontier. This was apparently done to please a ‘friendly regime’ in Dhaka and appease some human rights groups. Several cattle traffickers had fallen prey to bullets of the BSF personnel over the years. This was perceived by some jholawallahs as a grave violation of human rights.
The Minister concurred and strictly enforced the rule that BSF personnel on the India-Bangladesh border should carry non-lethal weapons. This reversed the trend of attacks. Since 2012, the BSF personnel began to come under heavy attack from cattle traffickers. For instance, on July 22, Rajender Singh of 91st Battalion passed away in a Kolkata hospital. He had been attacked by a group of violent cattle traffickers wielding sharp weapons at Jhorpada border in Nadia district of West Bengal. This was only a fortnight prior to when India exploded in anger at the beheading of five soldiers at the Line of Control by Pakistani Armed Forces. But while those five soldiers who fell victims of a cross-border raid were fully armed and entitled to shoot back, the hands of many like Rajender Singh were tied by an order of the Home Minister. No television channel, no Member of Parliament bothered to raise the issue.
The Communal Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2013, is not yet in the public domain for comments. The Prime Minister’s Office had sent the draft to Chief Ministers in confidence. Going by their adverse reaction, it appears to be a thinly disguised version of the controversial Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2011 that was prepared by the National Advisory Committee. For the Bill to succeed, it is necessary that the Ministry of Home Affairs hides some home truths about communal reality in India.
chaanakya wrote:Court orders security to judges, lawyers of Ayodhya title suit
LUCKNOW: The Allahabad High Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh and the central governments to improve security arrangements of three judges, who pronounced the judgement in the Ayodhya title suit, and the lawyers involved in the case.
The order was passed by the Luckhnow bench of justices Devi Prasad Singh and Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya on Thursday on a writ petition filed by a local lawyer Ranjana Agnihotri, who was associated with the Ayodhya suit.
The bench fixed January 15 as the date of filing the compliance report.
The court order came in the wake of the report submitted by the Intelligence Bureau regarding threat perception to the three judges and the lawyers.
"The IB report reveals that recce of the Bench was done even before the delivery of the judgement and later on SIMI activists chalked out a plan to eliminate not only the judges, but also the advocates who appeared in the Ram Janam Bhumi-Babri Masjid case," the court said.
According to the IB report, SIMI activists have joined hands with Indian Mujahideen to make their plan successful, it said.
The court observed that the report of IB indicates the nature of threat emanating from IED and rapid fire, beside other such devices.
"The use of explosive material and petrol tanker has also not been ruled out. Accordingly, the IB recommended that appropriate security may be provided since there is imminent threat to the judges," it said.
The court directed that Justice S U Khan and (Retired) Justice D V Sharma be provided Z category security with improved arrangements.
It said that the state government shall provide necessary assistance as well as infrastructure to central security agency personnel posted at their residences.
The Bench directed that Justice Sudhir Agarwal be provided Z+ category security.
"Let central government take appropriate decision and substitute present security arrangements by personnel of its own agency with Z+ category security within a period of one month. Till then present security arrangement shall continue," it directed
Yep. His fate is sealed. If Modi makes it, he won't spare him. He was an active participant in either the conspiracy to kill Modi or cover it up.Karan M wrote:So Nitish has gone Lalu.
The Uttar Pradesh government cannot withdraw prosecution in terror cases under the central acts without the permission of the Centre, the Allahabad High Court held on Thursday.
The ruling was given by the high court's Lucknow bench of justices Devi Prasad Singh, Ajai Lamba and Ashok Pal Singh on questions raised by a two-judge division bench on a PIL filed by Ranjana Agnihotri and five other local lawyers.
The PIL had sought a direction for quashing the order of the Akhilesh government for withdrawl of cases against people accused of terrorist activities and serial blasts.
"Prosecution under central acts cannot be withdrawn without permission of the central government," the three-judge bench said.
"For offences under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Explosive Substances Act and Arms Act and the offences falling in Chapter VI of IPC or alike offences the executive power of the Union of India extends, hence the permission of the central government with regard to withdrawl of prosecution shall be necessary," it held.
The bench also said that the prosecution cannot be withdrawn without assigning reason.
"If an application is moved for withdrawl from prosecution in a case relating to terrorism and waging of war against the country, specific and special reason has to be assigned," it said.
On June 7 while staying the state government's order to withdraw cases against people accused of terror activities, a division bench of justices Rajeev Sharma and Mahendra Dayal had referred the matter to a larger bench.
AHMED HASAN ( BABU)
On June 21, 2002, the police arrested two alleged Pakistani spies, Ahmed Hasan alias Babu and his neighbour Wasif from near a railway station in Bijnore. The police claimed to have recovered maps indicating movement of the Indian Army.
MAQSOOD, JAVED (GUDDU) & TAJ MOHAMMAD
The police had alleged that they had passed sensitive details regarding the Indian Army to Pakistan, and maps of military installations were recovered from their possessions. The police chargesheeted them under POTA, Section 121 and 21A of the IPC. The case was transferred to the Moradabad court from Rampur after POTA was invoked against them.
On August 13, 2002, the UP Special Task Force arrested Javed alias Guddu, his neighbours Taj Mohammad, Maqsood and Mumtaz Mian from Kashipur area under Ganj police station in Rampur for leaking Indian military secrets to Pakistan. The police said that Javed had visited Pakistan where he had an affair with a girl who was working for the ISI. The police said that information to Pakistan was sent through fax and email. The others allegedly helped Javed in his anti-national activities, the police said.
YAKOOB & NASIR HUSSAIN
The two alleged HuJI militants were arrested from two different localities of Lucknow on June 21, 2007. Residents of Bijnore, Yakoob and Nasir are accused of supplying RDX across the country and were reportedly caught by the police along with explosives. The cases filed against them pertained to waging war against the country and under the Explosives Act.
MOHAMMAD KALEEM & SYED ABDUL MOBEEN
They were booked by the police for their alleged involvement in the blast which took place near Sahkarita Bhawan in Lucknow on August 15, 2000. The police arrested Mohammad Kaleem from Srinagar where he was teaching in a school, while Syed Abdul Mobeen was booked while he was already lodged in a jail in connection with another case.
MUKHTAR HUSSAIN,
MOHAMMAD ALI AKBAR,
AJIJUR REHMAN, NAUSHAD HAFIZ & NOOR ISLAM
The police had arrested Naushad, a resident of Bijnor, along with alleged HuJI area commander Jalaluddin alias Babu Bhai on June 23, 2007. The police claimed that the duo had come from Bengal along with Mukhtar Hussain, Mohammad Ali Akbar and Ajijur Rehman. The police said that while waiting for Naushad and Babu Bhai, the three men got to know of their arrest while watching TV at a tea stall. They went to a place near the SGPGI in Mohanlalganj, Lucknow, and buried 10 hand grenades, 10 detonators and nine rods of explosives at a construction site and returned to Bengal. The police claimed that they arrested the three HuJI operatives from West Bengal with the help of the local police, brought them here, recovered the explosives they had hidden near SGPGI, and booked them under the Explosives Act and the Unlawful Activities Act. The fifth accused, Noor Islam, was arrested in July, 2007 from West Bengal.
IMTIYAZ ALI
He was arrested in September, 2009 for allegedly spying for Pakistan's intelligence agency. The police claimed that he was on the ISI payroll, getting Rs 5,000 per month. The ATS recovered eight SIM cards and documents having details of Indian Army from his possession. He was chargesheeted under various sections of the IPC, including 420, 467, 468, 471, 115.
SHAMIM (SARFARAZ)
A native of Chandauli's Launda village, Shamim is accused of planting a bomb at a public place in Varanasi in 2006. The bomb, which did not explode, was found soon after the twin blasts at Sankatmochan Mandir and Varanasi Cantt Railway Station in which 21 persons died on March 7, 2006. The third bomb was planted near Jamuna Fatak in Godaulia locality under Dasaswamedh police circle.
MOHAMMAD TARIQ QASMI & KHALID MUJAHID
On March 5, 2013, the government issued direction to the Gorakhpur DM to file application in the court for withdrawal of case against alleged HuJI operative Tariq Qasmi in connection with the 2007 serial blasts in Gorakhpur. Six persons were injured in the blast. Lodged in Lucknow District Jail, Tariq faced charges under the Explosives Act, Section 7 of Criminal Law Amendment Act, and attempt to murder. A Unani doctor from Azamgarh, he is married and has four children.
Qasmi is also facing trial in the cases of serial blasts which took place in the courts of Faizabad and Lucknow on November 23, 2007. The state government's plea to withdraw the case is pending in the court. of the case has begun.
Juvenile
A native of Kanpur, he was 15-year-old when the blast took place. The police booked him under the Explosives Act and on charges of attempt to murder, sedition, and waging war against the state. He was arrested by UP's Anti-Terrorist Squad from Mumbai in February 2011.
SITARA BEGUM
She faces charges of waging war against the state and knowingly helping an alleged Pakistani spy who was arrested by UP's Anti-Terrorist Squad from Kanpur's Bithoor area in May 2009.
The police alleged that Sitara had sheltered one Waqas Ahmed of Lahore in her house. Later, Waqas married her daughter Shabana. A native of Khanpur in Auraiya district, Sitara, 50, is currently in Kanpur Jail. The police have booked her under Sections 115, 121 and123 of the IPC.
not enough details on how far the plan has been brought to action, whether a team was put in place etc. at this point, they have a guy who has a 'diary' with a 'plan'.New Delhi: In a major breakthrough, the Special Cell of Delhi Police has busted a Lashkar-e-Toiba module spread across Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan, reports said on Friday.
According to reports, the LeT module was planning to target several vital installations in the national capital.
The Special Cell is also believed to have arrested Mohammed Shahid, an imam from Mewat allegedly linked to the LeT module.
According to Delhi Police sources, Shahid had visited Pakistan twice and a diary with details of a plan to attack the national capital was also seized from him.
A close associate of Shahid managed to give a slip to the police officials.
Arrest was made after police got a tip off when they traced calls between Javed Baluchi, a top LeT commander and their alleged handler and Shahid.
A 17-year-old Pakistani national was held in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur without any relevant documents or passport and is being interrogated, police said Saturday. Imran, a resident of Lahore, told police that he entered India from Atari by rail and was working as a labourer in Amritsar. He came to Uttar Pradesh a fortnight back. He also said he was accompanied by his brother Yusuf who went missing from Jalandhar. Intelligence and other security agencies have also joined the interrogation. Officials told IANS that they would now try to verify the claims made by Imran through the Pakistan high commission in New Delhi. "We have heard him out but his claims have to be verified by some Pakistan agency and we are in the process of doing so," an official told IANS.
Read more at: http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/pakistan ... ef_article
Over one lakh Muslims on Sunday took an oath against terrorism and to spread the message that Islam is a religion of peace and has always promoted harmony.
The ceremony,organised by the Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind, was held at the Ramlila ground, and came after a two-day conference attended by clerics of Jamiat-e-Ulemas in the Maldives, Britain, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar at Deoband in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district, where it was decided to set up a forum to promote world peace.
"The forum will help promote peace and make the entire world understand that the motive of Islam is to promote peace and harmony. Islam has always wanted that peace prevails in the world," Jamiat-e-Ulema general secretary Maulana Arshad Madani said.
Only better understanding and a proper universal brotherhood will bridge the rift among people and let the world live in peace, he added.
"Freedom is the basic human right of every person in the world and by spreading terrorism, a lot of organisations have just tried to sabotage tranquility prevailing in the world," said Maulana Madani.
Speaking on the occasion, Jamiat-e-Ulema-Pakistan (Fazlur) chief Fazlur Rahman maintained that peace cannot prevail as long as "atrocities are done on the people by the dictators in a society".
"Today the issue of terrorism is not just limited to Afghanistan and Pakistan but has affected almost all the nations of the world, which has made it immensely important for the people to come together and tackle all such sort of issues to let peace prevail in the society," he said.
how is JJ allowing this ???Ramanathapuram district, 527 km south of Chennai, which houses Rameswaram Temple and many holy shrines, is getting out of bound for outsiders. Local Jamaath Councils have issued ‘fatwas’ declaring Muslim-majority villages out of bound for people even from the district itself.
Are you seriously asking this question?Aditya_V wrote:Why is Media silent on this?
And this is the district from which APJ Abdul Kalam hails. In his book, he talks about the peaceful environment there, Muslim shops selling devotional products to the Rameswaram temple goers, his Brahmin teachers etc. Those must've been the days when Muslims were a minority in the district and co-existence was possiblekrishnan wrote:http://www.dailypioneer.com/todays-news ... lages.html
how is JJ allowing this ???Ramanathapuram district, 527 km south of Chennai, which houses Rameswaram Temple and many holy shrines, is getting out of bound for outsiders. Local Jamaath Councils have issued ‘fatwas’ declaring Muslim-majority villages out of bound for people even from the district itself.
Yikes!!merlin wrote:Reference to an entire floor of a 5 star hotel in Delhi - http://www.newsinsight.net/Theconspirac ... age=page-1
Now which might that 5 star hotel be?
Just guessing. Might be Le Meridien. Favourite haunt of shady people and also located on Janpath (address of Queen).merlin wrote:Reference to an entire floor of a 5 star hotel in Delhi - http://www.newsinsight.net/Theconspirac ... age=page-1
Now which might that 5 star hotel be?
After the Election, Drones of Makhhiqueen will be without signals and instructions. West bound flights will be pakced with Flies,wasps, spiders, scorpions,snakes , termites and Khatmals residing in cozy Delhi. Election 2014 might as be called Insecticidection 2014.darshhan wrote:Just guessing. Might be Le Meridien. Favourite haunt of shady people and also located on Janpath (address of Queenmerlin wrote:Reference to an entire floor of a 5 star hotel in Now which might that 5 star hotel be?
But yeah Congress has not just indulged in Corruption and scams. They have also engaged in treason.
Dusahobas’ (translated roughly as living difficult), was scheduled to be shown on the small screen from tonight on the ‘Aakash Aath’ channel.
In a statement, the channel said the serial was based on women empowerment and had nothing to do with any religion or community whatsoever.
Abdul Aziz of minority group Milli Ittehad Parishad told news reporters that they had written to the producers asking them to withdraw Taslima’s name and reference from the serial and withdraw scenes which might create a controversy.
“We have been told that there are some scenes in the serial which MIGHT hurt our sentiments. Through this serial she is trying to come back to Kolkata. Therefore we have opposed this,” Aziz said.
The minority groups have already forced the channel to withdraw all hoardings about the serial which has Taslima’s name.
Maulana Nurur Rahman Barkati, Shahi Imam of the Tipu Sultan Mosque in Kolkata, said, “We will not allow the channel to show the serial at all”.
Idris Ali, president of All India Minority Forum, alleged that Taslima is trying to break peace and harmony in the State.
“We will not let her break communal harmony,” Ali said.
He was eliminated to stop the police from figuring out who gave the orders. Dead men tell no tales.nageshks wrote:Man accused in BJP worker's death hacked to pieces.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/131220/n ... g-murdered
Wonder who was responsible for killing this thug?
CPM in Kerala has killed 3 BJP/RSS workers in the last few months. Similar response requirednageshks wrote:Man accused in BJP worker's death hacked to pieces.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/131220/n ... g-murdered
Wonder who was responsible for killing this thug?
Delhi ducks a fresh irritant
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Darjeeling, Dec. 21:An American citizen with an Indian “lookout circular” against him was today detained on the India-Nepal border but pushed back into Nepal because New Delhi didn’t want to escalate the ongoing diplomatic row with Washington, sources said.
It’s not clear for what alleged crime the Union home ministry had issued the lookout circular against Minnesota resident Scott Daniel Turner, 42.
Administrative sources said Turner would probably have been arrested had he been a national of any country other than the US.
Turner, holder of a Person of Indian Origin (PIO) card as the spouse of an Indian citizen, was detained around 3pm at the immigration check-post at Rangigang, about 30km from Darjeeling.
“(Turner) married Elina, daughter of Nikhuhe Kinney of the Kushibill area of Dimapur, Nagaland, in 2009. Apart from people who have their roots in India, the spouse of an Indian citizen or of a Person of Indian Origin is eligible for the PIO card,” an administrative source said.
A PIO card holder does not need a visa to visit India and can stay for up to six months at a stretch.
“Turner was detained as he had a lookout circular against him. His PIO card was impounded and we have handed him over to Nepal police to be taken to the Indian embassy in Kathmandu,” Darjeeling superintendent of police Kunal Aggarwal said.
Turner, who carried a US passport bearing the number 075891329, will be sent back to his country by the Indian embassy in Nepal, sources said. A police source said the American knew he had a lookout circular against him.
“During his one-hour interrogation, he said he feared arrest at Indian airports and therefore decided to travel to Nagaland by road from Nepal,” he said.
“A lookout circular does not give the history of the (alleged) offence,” an intelligence source said.
“Soon after he was detained, authorities at the Foreigners Regional Registration Office and the Union home ministry were informed. It was under their directions that Turner was handed over to the Nepal police around 4.30pm. The Indian government does not want to escalate the ongoing diplomatic row.”
Turner had visited India in 2004, and later in 2009 when he got married in Dimapur.
The gang arrested is not an isolated one and apart from circulating videos and blackmailing innocent victims, their accommplices are also indulging in a full fledged flesh trade which has its ybiggest hub in Alappuzha. 8 persons who formed part of this gang were racket were arrested. The gang members all aged between 21 and 24 hailing from Surathkal, Kasargod and Natekal Manjanady were arrested by the police. The arrested are Shamshuddin, Rauf, Harshad, Shameer, Iqbal, Hussain, Nawaz and Nisar.
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The police state that such gangs also contribute heavily to the sex trade. Take for instance a major racket at Allapuzza in Kerala. The kingpins of the sex rackets rely heavily on such gangs. These gangs are sent out to lay traps and innocent victims are blackmailed and threatened to join the flesh trade. The Allapuzza police had found that there were nearly 1700 girls who were trapped into this racket. Many of them were exploited due to their financial background and some were forced into this trade as a result of threats and blackmail. Some were kept back in Kerala to contribute to an illegal sex tourism racket while some were sold off to rich people for a sum as low as 30000. Those financially backward women were paid a one time sum of Rs 10000, investigations have revealed.
Another connected racket that was busted was at Thiruvananthapuram. This racket which also forms part of this dirty circle had the head of an institution set up with funds of the social welfare department. This racket was controlled by a nun who ran the institution and the charge levelled against her was that she forced some of the inmates of this charity home to become part of the sex trade.
The police say that the ***** syndicate which is based out of Gulf and also Dubai is the one that controls this racket. It is not directly under the control of the underworld but these groups do have their blessings and protections. The rich Arabs are the ones who form part of a major customer base.
There was no smuggling of arms in any coastal hamlet in the State as the entire coastline was constantly monitored by the marine police moving in 24 speedboats. Village monitoring committees on the coast were also functioning well, said C. Sylendra Babu, Additional Director General of Police, Marine Police Wing, on Monday.
Speaking to reporters at Vaan Island off Tuticorin, where a team of marine police commandos is undergoing training in scuba diving, the ADGP said the commandos had to undergo a range of exercises to become a full-fledged amphibious force. Though they would have to dive up to a depth of 40 metres, they were being trained initially in areas where the depth was only 10 metres. The Tamil Nadu Marine Police’s commando wing, with 20 personnel, is undergoing rigorous training in a range of aspects, including swimming, paragliding and para-motoring.
They took part in a similar training at Rameswaram and Kanyakumari.
“The marine police commando force will be stationed at Chennai. But it can be rushed to any part of the State to carry out operations swiftly,” Mr. Babu said. To make their services more effective, 30 more marine police stations would be started shortly to take the total to 42. The marine police saved the lives of 12 fishermen stranded on high seas this year and 34 boats were rescued, Mr. Sylendra Babu said.
