Internal Security Watch

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 29 Jan 2014 22:47

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http://greatgameindia.wordpress.com/201 ... ircus-ipl/

Sunanda Pushkar : Another Victim of Diamond Mafia’s National Circus – IPL

Cricket is hardly the primary activity in IPL. The large, growing and dark circle around the field includes a secret society of franchise owners, pretty party girls and men of unknown means. Presiding over this is the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which has ensured lack of transparency. BCCI is a registered secret society completely autonomous from the Government. It only started paying income tax in 2007 after authorities decided that it wasn’t simply a charitable organisation “promoting the sport of cricket”. In the effort to become successful, IPL has cut corners. Interpol wanted to investigate the bookie phenomenon and and asked for Rs 90 crore as expenses, just as it had asked FIFA when it set out to investigate football sleaze. FIFA paid. International Cricket Council (ICC) President Sharad Pawar refused. Very conveniently, ICC’s Anti Corruption Unit was hired

member_19686 · Post by **member_19686** » 29 Jan 2014 23:58

Meerut tense after acid attack on 4 schoolgirls
Purusharth Aradhak,TNN | Jan 27, 2014, 12.16 AM IST

MEERUT: Four students of a college in Meerut had a miraculous escape after some miscreants threw acid on them with a syringe.

Police have lodged an FIR against the troublemakers and heavy police force has been deployed but are yet to nab them.

According to Sarurpur police, the incident occurred on Saturday when three boys threw acid at four girls on their way to Kisan Inter College. An alarm was raised for help and locals chased the boys who managed to escape.

"We were going to college using the main road. Three locals - Gulzar, Saif Ali Khan and another man - came out of the sugarcane field and threw acid on us using a syringe," one of the victims told the police. She added that the accused threatened people who attempted to catch them.

Fearfully, the girls reached their college and narrated the incident to the college authorities and their family members who took to the streets, disrupting traffic on the Meerut-Karnal Road to demand the immediate arrest of the accused. To quell the flare-up, heavy police force was dispatched to the scene to avoid any communal tension.

"We are keeping a close tab on the situation. Police officials are meeting with people from different communities to maintain communal harmony," said a senior police official.

"We have lodged an FIR against the three accused under various sections of the IPC including 326 and 354. A manhunt is on to nab the culprits. We have questioned their family members but so far they are absconding," said Shwetabh Pandey, DSP, Sardhana.

"We have recorded the statements of the victim and matter is being probed from all angles," Pandey added.

When contacted to get comment on the law and order situation in Meerut and neighbouring districts, IG (Meerut range) Alok Sharma and SSP Meerut Omkar Singh were unavailable.

It is to be noted that the incident follows a recent spate of acid-related cases. On January 4, the police arrested a person who threatened a girl with acid if she did not accept his friendship proposal while on December 16, acid was thrown on a student at Meeva village in the Mawana area.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 426794.cms

Anand K · Post by **Anand K** » 30 Jan 2014 13:36

Local channels in KL are telecasting scenes of two CPM workers getting hacked in broad daylight. The PFI/SDPI apparently did not like a CPM panchayat victory celebrations in their Ilaaka. A bike driven by a Sudaapi (SDPI) rammed into the procession and when he was handed to the cops out comes a car from nowhere and hacks a 55 year old man and another youngster who tried to shield him. Dunno if they survived.... people milled around but one goon circled the victims daring anybody to help them.

I think a few people here, including myself, have pointed out the the Quick Reaction mobile squads of the SDPI/PFI

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 30 Jan 2014 13:44

I think Indins should understand after deeply evaluating the INC and other secular parties whether they want they accept Dhimmi status under sharia law. Liberals on TV have enough money to settle abroad, its going to be AAM AADMI who faces the consequences which have been sucessfully blacked out by Media.

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 30 Jan 2014 14:13

Anand K wrote:Local channels in KL are telecasting scenes of two CPM workers getting hacked in broad daylight. The PFI/SDPI apparently did not like a CPM panchayat victory celebrations in their Ilaaka. A bike driven by a Sudaapi (SDPI) rammed into the procession and when he was handed to the cops out comes a car from nowhere and hacks a 55 year old man and another youngster who tried to shield him. Dunno if they survived.... people milled around but one goon circled the victims daring anybody to help them.

I think a few people here, including myself, have pointed out the the Quick Reaction mobile squads of the SDPI/PFI

This could be their MO. PFI is also trying to infiltrate into TamilNadu areas. EyeBee has been told to keep watch over their activities. It is also learnt that they have established links with more radical counterparts of PFi in Kerala. Now this QRMT type of operation to create trouble in target area is a worrying sign.

Anand K · Post by **Anand K** » 30 Jan 2014 14:30

The victims have serious injuries but they might live. Apparently they are longtime Commie Muslims. For the Sudaappis only thing worse than a commie is a Muslim Commie. Not the reverse watermelon type, the real atheist Commie type.

Anyway, formation of trained militias in a place with VERY high population density is recipe for disaster. Especially if there are a number of groups vying for political control. IMO they will not graduate to guns soon but the machetes and clubs are bad enough. The Party Village model in Kannur district works because they were never challenged during the accelerated evolution towards being a party village long time back. Trying to replicate that in urban/suburban Malappuram or Kozhikkod where other significant forces exist will be....

nawabs · Post by **nawabs** » 30 Jan 2014 16:26

http://www.indiandefencereview.com/good ... gn-policy/

As had been the practice with his predecessors, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has started the exercise of rewarding or taking interests of his close civilian officers before demitting office. That it is a distinct sign of his realisation that the Congress stands no chance of retaining power in the coming general elections is a different matter. It is natural for him to ensure that officials closely associated with him get good positions before his innings comes to an end. It is in this context that the running gossips in the power corridor here that Vikram Mishri, Joint secretary to the Prime Minister, is being shifted to Spain as Ambassador in place of Sunil Lal, who, in turn, is being shifted to Turkey. It is also rumored that the Prime Minister is keen to send National Security Advisor (NSA) Shiv Shankar Menon to Jammu and Kashmir as the Governor, under the belief that even a possible Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre will not disturb Menon as he is reportedly close to a senior BJP leader, who was a very important minister under Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.

RoyG · Post by **RoyG** » 30 Jan 2014 17:50

SSM is powerful but how long he'll be able to stay in the ring when the entire state machinery comes bearing down on him led my Modi remains to be seen.

SRoy · Post by **SRoy** » 30 Jan 2014 18:24

One important thing that possible NDA/BJP govt. do is to immediately create an establishment that suits its nationalistic ideology. This was one of the failure of the ABV led NDA govt. Purge must begin from the day one.

Sonugn · Post by **Sonugn** » 31 Jan 2014 00:03

http://www.news18.com/news/five-maoists ... 46831.html

Five Maoists surrender with arms, pledge to lead normal life in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district

May more follow.

vasu raya · Post by **vasu raya** » 31 Jan 2014 08:28

Two contrasting piece of news,

'Death sentence to Italian marines will be an act of war'

US to seek death penalty for accused Boston bomber

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 31 Jan 2014 13:44

chaanakya wrote:EyeBee has been told to keep watch over their activities. It is also learnt that they have established links with more radical counterparts of PFi in Kerala. Now this QRMT type of operation to create trouble in target area is a worrying sign.

To add on. During the recently held Prophet's Birthday festival (Nabi Dina Rally) in Kasargod, there were reports which stated that there were youngsters marching around in military uniforms. The same incident had happened last year, and the police did register a case. But they kept quiet and ignore it after local mosque committees pleaded with them. As per these mosque committees these folks were mis-guided youngsters

. Looks like they still remain misguided and the mosque commitees have no power (or interest) to control them. BTW, these morons in military uniform were more like a nuisance value. And all of them wore dark glasses, perhaps in a hope that they would NOT be identified.

Another pattern I observed was that when ever Sudaapis/PFI takes out a rally there would be some hefties in black dungarees, fake military uniforms moving in front of them. All of them would have dark glasses on as well. There was another rally which was in support for releasing dear old Maudhani. There were a few such characters in that as well, which prompted many people to ask if these dark fellows have escaped from a fire works factory disaster

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chetak · Post by **chetak** » 01 Feb 2014 05:43

Ishrat case:Law Min refuses to give legal opinion on sanction

Citing insufficient documents, the Law Ministry has refused to give legal opinion to the CBI on whether sanction is needed to prosecute Intelligence Bureau officers in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case.

The government's legal arm has told CBI to bring sufficient documents before a legal opinion can be provided on whether prior sanction is required to prosecute Special Director Rajinder Kumar (now retired), and three other officers -- P Mittal, M K Sinha and Rajiv Wankhede. CBI had recently approached the Law Ministry through the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) seeking a legal opinion.

It is learnt that when the Law Ministry demanded documents, the CBI informed it that it would share the documents with the Attorney General but cannot give copies as the papers were sensitive in nature. Law Ministry had then suggested that a CBI officer can bring the documents to allow its officers to examine the papers before they can move further.

The Law Ministry would also prefer the Home Ministry - the administrative ministry of Intelligence Bureau - to give its views on the questions raised by CBI on sanction to prosecute. CBI says it has gathered enough evidence about the role of IB officers in the conspiracy behind the encounter but there are contrary views on whether sanction from Home Ministry is needed to prosecute them.

One view holds that since Kumar was in active service at the time of the alleged crime, sanction for his prosecution is needed from Home Ministry, which is the cadre controlling authority. Another opinion was that since he retired from service in July this year, the agency could go ahead with its charge sheet without any need for a sanction to prosecute. If Law Ministry says that a nod from the Home Ministry was needed, CBI would send a request seeking sanction to prosecute the officers.

Sonugn · Post by **Sonugn** » 01 Feb 2014 13:27

When he began walking down the street along with his friend, two shopkeepers, Akram and Farhan, waylaid them and again thrashed him with the help of around three to four men,” said Mr. Kumar

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Del ... epage=true

Hmm...NE Youth and Muslims, not sure if things got heated on the spur or some other motivations were there.

habal · Post by **habal** » 01 Feb 2014 14:01

Akram & Farhan should surely be tied upside down in Tihar for a few days. That will teach other Akram's & Farhan's before they embark on taking panga with North Easterners. Obviously this is related to the earlier NE fiasco that a certain minority community had sponsored a while back.

harbans · Post by **harbans** » 01 Feb 2014 19:21

Obviously this is related to the earlier NE fiasco that a certain minority community had sponsored a while back.

What is that please? Meanwhile i am suspicious about the haste that sagarika and MSM started labeling it racist. Agree that racial slurs, discrimination, harassment all occur and must be stopped, but racist killing is like Whites chaining blacks to a pickup and dragging them to their death or that woman pushing an unknown Indian onto an oncoming train.

Skanda · Post by **Skanda** » 01 Feb 2014 20:43

This is turning out to be a Hate Crime. We are just not labeling it.

The earlier incident refers to North Eastern students fleeing Bangalore because of a mass SMS that was sent by folks belonging to a particular community that they will be assualted. This was around the same time, that Assam witnessed riots between Assamese and Bangladeshi encroachers.

ManjaM · Post by **ManjaM** » 01 Feb 2014 20:44

harbans wrote:
Obviously this is related to the earlier NE fiasco that a certain minority community had sponsored a while back.
What is that please? Meanwhile i am suspicious about the haste that sagarika and MSM started labeling it racist. Agree that racial slurs, discrimination, harassment all occur and must be stopped, but racist killing is like Whites chaining blacks to a pickup and dragging them to their death or that woman pushing an unknown Indian onto an oncoming train.

It appears that the initial taunt about the NE kid was made by one of the shopkeepers. From there it went to the NE kid breaking the window glass of one of the shops. This led to a beating of the NE kid by a few shopkeepers of the area. Police came in and took the shopkeepers and the kid and made them "compromise" which involved the NE kid paying Rs 7K towards the glass that he broke. Things might have ended there, but apparently he needed to go back to the same area and asked police to drop him back there where a verbal duel ensued and resulted in additional beatings by teh shopkeepers.

This race angle is a mischievous one that has been inserted into what is a confrontation between a "bada baap ka beta" teenager and a bunch of lawless shopkeepers. Both parties had multiple opportunities to de-escalate the situation and walk away, but continuously chose the path of most damage. Sad to see one life end this way. I feel for his parents who will have to deal with the loss of a son for the rest of their lives. But those are not things that a teenager thinks about. The shopkeepers no doubt will have the book thrown at them now, esp since there is so much visibility to this story. I hope they will get their just desserts at their favorite Delhi prison.

The race angle is just media mischief. There are more than 1 lakh students from NE in Bengaluru and a much greater number in NewDelhi. While there is some teasing for being different, it is no different from the stares one will get in India anyway.

vasu raya · Post by **vasu raya** » 02 Feb 2014 07:17

Intel nod for visa-on-arrival

Under the new IVFRT system, more than 80 per cent of Indian missions, hotels in most Indian cities and travel agents have been networked.

What has made the change possible is technology. At one time, it was unthinkable for intelligence agencies to even consider the visa-on-arrival option. It was with great difficulty that they were persuaded to allow this for 11 non-risk countries, such as New Zealand, Japan and Vietnam. But this did not take off in a big way, with only 17,594 tourists using this facility in 2013.
The tourism ministry was keen to include 40 more countries, which again met initial resistance, but it soon emerged that the basic problem was how to organise the facility at airports and the pressure of cumbersome queues. The security aspect, it appears, is no longer an unmanageable problem, giving a push to discussions on the new approach. Of particular importance is the new Immigration, Visas, Foreigners’ Registration and Tracking (IVFRT) system, a project that was launched after the David Coleman Headley case. He had managed to hoodwink Indian authorities by travelling on a US passport, used his stay to scope the targets for the 26/11 attack, and even travelled to Pakistan from here without a red flag going up in the system.

member_19686 · Post by **member_19686** » 02 Feb 2014 08:43

Tension hits Meerut after gang rape
Sanjay Pandey, Lucknow, Feb 1, 2014:
Security personnel on alert to avert communal clash
Tension prevailed in Uttar Pradesh’s communally sensitive Meerut town, about 450 kilometres from here, after a teen was allegedly gang raped by some members of a different community.

Reports said one of the alleged culprits has been arrested while four others are absconding. Efforts are on to nab them.

Police sources here said the victim, a class 10 student, was abducted on Wednesday. Her family members found her lying unconscious near their house on Friday evening.

On gaining consciousness, the victim said she was taken to a forest area where she was repeatedly raped after being administered sedatives.

She also told police that the culprits used to pass lewd comments on her while on her way to school. Medical examination of the victim has confirmed rape, sources said.

A crowd later gathered at the police station demanding that the culprits be booked under the National Security Act (NSA).

The crowd also raised anti-government slogans and warned of serious consequences if in any case the culprits were not arrested within 48-hours.

The crowd relented only after officers assured speedy action in the matter.

Saffron organisations have threatened an agitation to protest against the incident and demanded immediate arrest of the accused persons.

The incident sent the police into a tizzy as a similar incident at Kaval town in the neighbouring Muzaffarnagar district in September last year had triggered large scale communal clashes in which 62 people were killed and hundreds others injured. Communal violence had also spread to the rural areas bordering Meerut district.

Security personnel in strength were deployed at all sensitive spots in the town to maintain order.

A massive search has been launched to nab the alleged culprits, police officers said.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/384 ... -rape.html

Prasad · Post by **Prasad** » 02 Feb 2014 08:47

School?! What sort of a sick ahole rapes a school going child.

darshhan · Post by **darshhan** » 02 Feb 2014 10:37

Prasad wrote:School?! What sort of a sick ahole rap pies a school going child.

Followers of a particular religion whose founder had sex with a nine year old child.

Shanmukh · Post by **Shanmukh** » 03 Feb 2014 22:13

West Bengal gangrape case - a different story.

http://www.ibtl.in/column/1402/the-trut ... -gang-rape

I have no idea if this is true, but I think this should be investigated fully.

brihaspati · Post by **brihaspati** » 05 Feb 2014 06:30

I know that zone well. From what I have been told - this version is closer to the truth. The police are in anyway under an unwritten instruction to protect Muslim leadership at any cost. The CPI(M) as I predicted has been losing its mid-level leadership steadily - and especially the more criminal types, to the TMC and Congress. Ironically MB cannot dare to take action either because the left still panders and dotes on the Islamists, and are desperate to get Muslim votes too.

The police are being what they always were - the legacy of a smooth transition from serving His Majesty to Nehru baba and then whoever sits in local or central masnad. Their confidence that their sadism or dishonesty will always be rewarded makes them all the more brutal on the innocents onlee. I am quite positive it is the "Hindu" officers who take the most initiative in appeasing the islamists, even if from the last 5 years of Left font rule and through TMC rule, increasingly political admin has given in to the demand to have Muslim officers onlee for "Muslim" zones.

kmkraoind · Post by **kmkraoind** » 05 Feb 2014 12:46

Did Salem wed on train to Lucknow? Court orders inquiry - Firstpost

According to reports, Salem married a woman, 27, on a running train on January 8 while he was being taken to Lucknow for a court appearance. The 'nikah' was allegedly solemnised by a kazi in Mumbai over the phone. Constables from the Locla Arms division were present at the ceremony, it was reported.

It also said that Salem's nephew Rashid Ansari and two sets of policemen, one from Mumbai and other from Luknow were witness to the ceremony.

Really dumb-folded to express my anguish. While real innocents like Aseemanand and Sadhvi Pragya were abused worse than animals, Sickulars were providing earthly quota of 72 to Terrorists.

Shanmukh · Post by **Shanmukh** » 06 Feb 2014 19:01

Rajasthan labourer saves French women from molestation.

http://www.indiatvnews.com/crime/news/l ... -5248.html

The interesting part of the story is this

The stonecrusher labourer Pukhraj Rajput, while on work, saw two French women being abused sexually by two men who posed as guides.

The two youths, one from Bihar, Mubarak(22) son of Shamaluddin, and another from Jodhpur Zeeshan Khilji (21), son of Barkatullah took the French women to Mandore gardeb for sight-seeing. There they took them to a deserted area and began molesting them.

Is this the real reason for the spurt in recent molestations?

Shanmukh · Post by **Shanmukh** » 06 Feb 2014 19:07

brihaspati wrote:I know that zone well. From what I have been told - this version is closer to the truth. The police are in anyway under an unwritten instruction to protect Muslim leadership at any cost. The CPI(M) as I predicted has been losing its mid-level leadership steadily - and especially the more criminal types, to the TMC and Congress. Ironically MB cannot dare to take action either because the left still panders and dotes on the Islamists, and are desperate to get Muslim votes too.

The police are being what they always were - the legacy of a smooth transition from serving His Majesty to Nehru baba and then whoever sits in local or central masnad. Their confidence that their sadism or dishonesty will always be rewarded makes them all the more brutal on the innocents onlee. I am quite positive it is the "Hindu" officers who take the most initiative in appeasing the islamists, even if from the last 5 years of Left font rule and through TMC rule, increasingly political admin has given in to the demand to have Muslim officers onlee for "Muslim" zones.

Thanks, B-ji. is there any group that is standing up for the rights of these tribals? Is it left to Evangelistic organisations? Or are any Hindu organisations taking any active part in standing up to the bullying of the Islamists in this belt? Also, politically, this Birbhum region is the Santhal belt and JMM is strong there. Isn't the JMM capable of standing up to the TMC here?

Quite apart, this Monirul Islam is a well known terror in the region. He threatened to decapitate a Congressman, Bapi Dutta, IIRC. Mamta seems to have become the more radical Communist.

svenkat · Post by **svenkat** » 06 Feb 2014 20:29

http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/Ishrat-Case-CBI-Files-Charge-Sheet-Against-Former-IB-Official-3-Others/2014/02/06/article2041761.ece

The CBI today charged former Special Director in the Intelligence Bureau Rajinder Kumar with murder and criminal conspiracy in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case but left out Amit Shah, a close aide of Narendra Modi, who was under the scanner in the case.

Shah, who was Minister of State for Home during the sensational killing of Ishrat, a girl from Mumbra near Mumbai, and three alleged LeT activists in June 2004, is an accused in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.

The CBI went ahead and filed the charge sheet against Kumar and three other IB officers despite law ministry's denial of sanction to prosecute them.

Besides Kumar, a 1979 batch IPS officer who retired last year, those named in the charge sheet are P Mittal, M K Sinha and Rajiv Wankhede.

sum · Post by **sum** » 06 Feb 2014 21:01

^^ Cant even express the disgust at this current GoI for throwing nationalist officers of the covert services under the bus for their cheap vote tricks.

Kumar is supposed to be a TSP expert ( esp on IM etc) and a "hard nosed on TSP" type officer and now he gets his just rewards for serving his nation at personal risk, courtesy UPA-1/2

Ack thoo...

Cosmo_R · Post by **Cosmo_R** » 06 Feb 2014 22:33

What we need along the borders, and in certain parts of certain cities

"But what the images revealed — to a degree impossible just a few years ago — was location, mapped over time. Second by second, they showed a gang assembling, blocking off access points, sending the shooter to meet his target and taking flight after the body hit the pavement. When the report reached police, it included a picture of the blue stucco building into which the killer ultimately retreated, at last beyond the view of the powerful camera overhead."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... ml?hpid=z1

Chandrasekhar · Post by **Chandrasekhar** » 08 Feb 2014 20:40

This news has been blacked out by most of the Media.

Sashastra Seema Bal hints at Bihar minister's link with ISI men

devesh · Post by **devesh** » 09 Feb 2014 00:05

kmkraoind wrote:Did Salem wed on train to Lucknow? Court orders inquiry - Firstpost

According to reports, Salem married a woman, 27, on a running train on January 8 while he was being taken to Lucknow for a court appearance. The 'nikah' was allegedly solemnised by a kazi in Mumbai over the phone. Constables from the Locla Arms division were present at the ceremony, it was reported.

It also said that Salem's nephew Rashid Ansari and two sets of policemen, one from Mumbai and other from Luknow were witness to the ceremony.
Really dumb-folded to express my anguish. While real innocents like Aseemanand and Sadhvi Pragya were abused worse than animals, Sickulars were providing earthly quota of 72 to Terrorists.

our Constitution abiding Patriots would tell you that it is a necessary sacrifice that must be made.

Shanmukh · Post by **Shanmukh** » 12 Feb 2014 18:01

Bikram Singh says that illegal immigration from Bangladesh is a threat.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 249244.cms

"The problem of illegal migration in Bangladesh has led to demographic changes in the northeast. It has led to serious internal security challenges in Assam," Singh told a seminar on "Border and Naxal Management", organised by a security think tank. He said the forces had received a lot of help from the current political dispensation in Bangladesh but responsibility needed to be fixed on illegal migration.

Does anyone know which thinktank organised this, and if we can get the full speech of the Army Chief?

Kati · Post by **Kati** » 13 Feb 2014 23:03

nageshks wrote:
brihaspati wrote:I know that zone well. From what I have been told - this version is closer to the truth. The police are in anyway under an unwritten instruction to protect Muslim leadership at any cost. The CPI(M) as I predicted has been losing its mid-level leadership steadily - and especially the more criminal types, to the TMC and Congress. Ironically MB cannot dare to take action either because the left still panders and dotes on the Islamists, and are desperate to get Muslim votes too.

The police are being what they always were - the legacy of a smooth transition from serving His Majesty to Nehru baba and then whoever sits in local or central masnad. Their confidence that their sadism or dishonesty will always be rewarded makes them all the more brutal on the innocents onlee. I am quite positive it is the "Hindu" officers who take the most initiative in appeasing the islamists, even if from the last 5 years of Left font rule and through TMC rule, increasingly political admin has given in to the demand to have Muslim officers onlee for "Muslim" zones.
Thanks, B-ji. is there any group that is standing up for the rights of these tribals? Is it left to Evangelistic organisations? Or are any Hindu organisations taking any active part in standing up to the bullying of the Islamists in this belt? Also, politically, this Birbhum region is the Santhal belt and JMM is strong there. Isn't the JMM capable of standing up to the TMC here?

Quite apart, this Monirul Islam is a well known terror in the region. He threatened to decapitate a Congressman, Bapi Dutta, IIRC. Mamta seems to have become the more radical Communist.

I don't know how much you guys are following the situation, but in the entire 'Santhal Parganas'
area tribals are extremely aggrieved for several reasons (indirectly linked to the Labhpur 'gang rape' case).
There is hardly any economic activities in this area (even though the Proletariat Left ruled for 34 long years). The surveys conducted by the NGOs and social activists paint a bleak picture. The tribal girls are employed at brick kilns and stone quarries. In this back-breaking work that barely pays minimum wage there is another twist. And the girls are lured (into prostitution???) by the kiln/quarries' owners - of course
with monetary inducements. As a result, the abortion among the tribal girls has shot up significantly over the last 20 years which has made the traditionalist tribal society extremely unhappy. Please note that the tribal girls within their own society enjoy a very liberal status, including living together arrangement before
getting married which is their well-accepted custom for thousands of years. (In fact, children born
out of living together arrangement get full support of the tribal society, and in no way that prevents the mothers from getting married, or getting ostracized.) .....
..... And the mix to this demographic powder keg is something many may not know. I asked a friend of mine who carried out a survey in Santhal Parganas. May be it is just a coincidence......but about 80% of the kiln/quarries' owners are muslims. That's why the tribals are so upset with this incident, and up in arms
against the muslim owners.

In the Labhpur incident, the girl (whose name I'm withholding) was lured by Sheikh Khalek, who is already married and have two children. One can argue that since the girl is an adult (20 years) and hence she has the right to get into prostitution. The tribals are accusing the police of working in tandem with the local TMC MLA Manirul Hasan for the fabricated case since Sheikh Khalek was made to pay Rs. 27,000 for the illicit relationship.

nawabs · Post by **nawabs** » 15 Feb 2014 13:37

MHA suspects source, blocks funding to Amnesty India unit

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/ ... ndia-unit/

The home ministry has blocked funding of 300,000 pounds (Rs 3.09 crore) for Amnesty International India as the source of a third of that amount is a trust registered in the tax haven of Gibraltar, founded by a man of Indian origin who pleaded guilty to gambling fraud in the US.

While the Indian arm of the global human rights advocacy group sought government permission in 2012-13 to receive 200,000 pounds from Amnesty International in Britain, the source of the remaining 100,000 pounds was The Kusuma Trust, founded by Anurag Dikshit. Dikshit had pleaded guilty to gambling fraud and the US FBI had imposed a $300 million fine on him and another $105 million on his PartyGaming PLC, an Internet gambling firm, also registered in Gibraltar.

Amnesty International India does not have a Foreign Contribution Regulation Act registration, and hence approached MHA for clearance to receive funds from Kusuma. Amnesty had approached MHA in 2010 and 2011 to receive funds from abroad and the two requests were clubbed and the agency was allowed to receive 200,000 pounds from Amnesty International, London, in 2011.

But the new proposal to receive 100,000 pounds from Kusuma — which came with another proposal to receive 200,000 pounds from Amnesty International in Britain — was referred to the Intelligence Bureau and Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) for inquiry.

Amnesty, a Nobel peace prize winning organisation, primarily focuses on advocating and campaigning for human rights. It has been highly critical of Indian security agencies and the Indian government for their human rights track record.

In its strategy for 2011-14, The Kusuma Trust’s website said, “Our mission is to facilitate and increase access to education and other life opportunities for children and young people, with the focus on the most economically disadvantaged.” Kusuma funds 10 organisations, all working in the field of education. Kusuma’s annual report for 2013 also reveals that its key area of spending is education, with a focus on establishing tangible assets and research to improve education in India. Reached for comment, a spokesman for Kusuma said in an e-mail response, “The trustees of the Kusuma Trust UK are proud to be supporting this important educational initiative; teaching the fundamentals of human rights in schools.”

Amnesty India chief executive, Anantha Padmanabhan too said the funding proposal is for human rights education in India.

“At present Amnesty is engaged in 30 schools and we want to increase our reach to 300 schools. Kusuma’s funding is only for this purpose and not for advocacy. Our human rights education initiative is well received in India and the fact that the National Human Rights Commission chairman and Vice President of India invited us to make presentations stand testimony to it,” he told The Indian Express.

MHA sources, however, said reports from RAW and IB pointed out that Kusuma mainly worked in the area of education and this is “vastly different from Amnesty International’s focus” and there is a “disconnect” with the nature of work of the trust and Amnesty.

The sources also said the MHA is planning to put Kusuma on the list of foreign donors who require prior approval from MHA to donate to Indian NGOs. Finance Minister P Chidambaram had recently asked the home secretary to cancel the registration of NGO’s allegedly misutilising foreign funds. Subsequently, the MHA has also informed the Economic Intelligence Council that it has sent queries to 188 associations appearing in the list of the IB for allegedly misutilising foreign funds.

Also, the MHA has kept 27 foreign donors under observation and four foreign donors have been put under prior approval category. MHA has also referred six cases to the Central Bureau of Investigation and various state police forces.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 16 Feb 2014 00:42

RoyG wrote:SSM is powerful but how long he'll be able to stay in the ring when the entire state machinery comes bearing down on him led my Modi remains to be seen.

SSM is "powerful" because of his current backers.

On his own he has no mass support, exactly like MMS, both are rootless and shiftless.

nvishal · Post by **nvishal** » 16 Feb 2014 10:58

My opinion on telangana and seemandhra circus show in parliament

The problem is that seemandhra fails to see that telangana has called it quits on them. It doesn't understand the seriousness of it.

It thinks that india has ganged up on the telugu nation to divide it. The only power that can stop division is telangana. The seemandhra politicians have not bothered to subdue telanganas anger in the last 5 years and continue to do all sorts of nautanki to prevent telangana from going its own way.

Seemandhras politicians have embarrassed themselves in front of the country and still continue to do so through their over the top bollywood type filmy protests.

In Seemandhra, cries for a separate Telugu nation

If we can't have a united Andhra Pradesh, we want our separate country and our separate parliament.

"Give us our own parliament. We will be a separate country like Bangladesh and Pakistan"

Shoot these fools

member_19686 · Post by **member_19686** » 17 Feb 2014 23:59

ವೆಂಕಟೇಶ ‏@venkateshkm 5m
Coastal Karnataka is in real danger. Armies is mraching. Notice the Arab flag(similarity to Jordan flag) http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_dis ... _id=218224

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 19 Feb 2014 03:58

Bank accounts of Teesta, Javed Anand and her Trusts ceased

http://en.newsbharati.com//Encyc/2014/2/18/100221.aspx

Ahmedabad, February 18: On the orders of the Ahmedabad Crime Branch, the Union Bank of Indian and IDBI bank have frozen six bank accounts of infamous activist Teesta Setalvad, her husband Javed Anand and her social Trusts.
The Crime branch of Ahmedabad has ordered Union Bank of India, Juhu Tara Road, Mumbai and IDBI Bank, Khar Branch, Mumbai to freeze the accounts of Sabrang Trust, Citizens for Justice & Peace (CJP) and 4 SB accounts of Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand on 15 January 2014. This action was mentioned in the 2 letters of the Crime Branch, Ahmedabad. Direction for the freezing of bank accounts to the banks was given by Mr K.N. Patel, ACP, Crime Branch Ahmedabad.The Crime Branch, Ahmedabad which has registered a Criminal case of misappropriation of funds against Teesta Setalvad, Javed Anand and three others on 4thJanuary, 2014 on the complaint of 11 Residents/members of the Gulabarg Co-operative Housing society Ltd.Teesta Setalvad who shaped her career as a rights activist by milking on the most unfortunate 2002 Gujarat riots is now facing an embarrassment for her dubious financial transactions. Her fighting for riots victims gained her not only name and fame but crores of rupees via foreign donations which came to wipe the tears of riot victims. Unfortunately, it seems that the “fight for riots victims” has turned into a money grabbing mechanism as the funds came for riots victims are actually bulking the personal bank accounts of Teesta, her husband and even her daughter.
Teesta Setalvad, on 24.01.14, has filed a Writ Petition in the Mumbai High Court praying for the quashing the proceedings of the respondent no-2 i.e. Crime Branch, Ahmedabad in ceasing the above bank accounts.Teesta, knowingly fully well that Bombay High Court has no jurisdiction, stated in her Petition that “Despite the complaint being lodged at the office of the Deputy Commissioner, Ahmedabad, this Court has jurisdiction to entertain the present Petition.”Earlier on 13.01.14, the Bombay High Court refused to grant anticipatory bail to Teesta and to her husband on the grounds that“ the powers of the High Court are limited to its territorial jurisdiction and the powers cannot be usurp by disregarding the principal of territorial jurisdiction which is in the interest of Comity of the Court.”

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member_28352 · Post by **member_28352** » 19 Feb 2014 10:34

Killers of an ex-PM to walk free today. What signal does it give to people attempting misadventure against Indian leaders? Sad day for national interest.