Internal Security Watch

[Sachin]

Since Chotta Rajan is known to be a "patriotic" gangster who lends his hand to Mumbai Police/IB/RAW from time to time, could it have been that the officers were actually attending to keep good relations with their informers or were there on a info gathering mission?

They certainly would not be there on an info-gathering mission. This was a party, with booze flowing around and personally I don't feel this would be a correct place to gather any info. IMHO the policemen did make a mistake of attending this party. The whole world knows they are police men (holding higher ranks), and if they are found with gangsters it would surely be noted. And the press-wallahs will splash it on papers. They should have been more discrete (if they are there to be pally-pally with informers).

[derkonig]

What are the chances that this story came out due to instructions from dubai/krachi?

[SSridhar]

India & Bangladesh to sign 3 treaties on counter terrorism

India and Bangladesh are expected to sign three pacts related to counter-terrorism and organised crime during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit here from January 10, a step that could help address India’s concerns about north-east insurgents taking shelter in that country.

. . . The two countries are expected to sign an Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, Agreement on Transfer of Sentenced Persons and a pact on Combating International Terrorism, Organised Crime and Illicit Drug Trafficking during the visit . . .

The agreements are aimed at addressing India’s concerns with regard to north-east insurgents taking shelter in Bangladesh as a legal framework would be in place to transfer them, including those having undergone sentences in that country.

India and Bangladesh have agreed to develop mechanisms to hasten the process of verification of nationality of prisoners lodged in jails of either country, particularly of those who have completed their sentences, to enable their early repatriation, the sources said.

[SSridhar]

The case of the 3 escaped Pakistani prisoners is getting murkier

. . . after they complained of an eye ailment {all the three of them ?}, the escorting sub-inspector Dinamuni Singh took them to the Guru Nanak Eye Centre behind the G.B. Pant Hospital in Central Delhi. “He borrowed a car hired by a beggars’ home, located adjacent to the Lampur detention centre{borrowed car for taking hardcore terrorists ?} . . . went to Ambica restaurant for lunch. The sub-inspector claimed that he found the three missing when he came back, after answering nature’s call in a nearby toilet.{No other police escort for these terrorists ? One SI took all the three all by himself ?}

If the GoI wanted them to escape deliberately (or had them done away with), they would certainly float more realistic stories. This seems to me like an insider assistance for the three to run away or a serious misjudgement and violation of SOP by the police.

[Pranav]

Kishenji was living in Kolkata in 2006, Govt did not arrest him
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news ... im/563061/

Madhuparna Das
Posted: Jan 04, 2010 at 0503 hrs IST

In 2006, the then Superintendent of Police, West Midnapore district, Ajay Nanda, submitted an information folder to the government, containing details of Kishenji’s whereabouts, his hideouts, and his attempts to win the support of intellectuals in and around Kolkata.

Kishenji was then living in an apartment in Baguiati, close to the Kolkata airport. However, the police and government of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee — who have now launched a massive, unsuccessful manhunt for Kishenji — simply sat over the report.

On December 27, 2009, Bhattacharjee said it was “very difficult” to pinpoint Kishenji’s “exact location”, even though he has been talking to innumerable journalists on an almost daily basis. On December 23, Kishenji rang Principal Secretary (Environment) Madan Lal Meena and had a lengthy conversation, for which the government reprimanded the officer. State DGP Bhupinder Singh has said phone taps show Kishenji is in Bengal, but “there are a number of reasons” why he cannot be caught.

The West Midnapore police report, which The Indian Express has accessed, said over 100 Maoist commanders, of which seven or eight were central committee members — had been operating out of Kolkata since 2005. Kishenji had been staying in the Baguiati apartment for about three years, building up the base of the underground armed tribal movement. The Maoists had been in touch with ‘intellectuals’ based in the city, collecting funds for their tribal resistance movement in the districts of West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia.

The 150-odd page report was prepared after Sushil Roy, the seniormost leader of the CPI(Maoist) and founder member of the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI), was arrested in West Midnapore. The folder included pictures of Maoist leaders operating in Kolkata, and of ‘intellectuals’ holding arms in jungles along with the Maoists. It had detailed information on the Maoist operational strategy in Bengal. According to the report, seven members of the CPI(Maoist) central and state committees were then living in Kolkata.

However, the police failed to act against them, allegedly because they were denied the mandate by the government, which was uncomfortable with the idea of voters getting to know that Maoist leaders had a free run of the city.

“All information about Maoist operational strategies and their leaders, including Kishenji, who were then operating in the city, was shared with us. We repeatedly sought permission to arrest them, but didn’t get the orders,” said a top Kolkata Police officer who declined to be named.

“The state government wanted to hide the fact (of Maoist operations) as Assembly elections were due in 2006. We were told that arrests cannot be made in the city, as it would impact adversely on the Left Front’s poll prospects,” the officer added.

Another senior officer said the police were instructed “not to touch ‘intellectuals’ as arresting them might have earned the government the wrath of the public”. Besides, some of these Maoist sympathisers were close to CPM leaders, the officer said.

“We got several pictures of a doctor from B R Singh Railway Hospital, carrying arms, alongside Maoists in West Midnapore. We submitted all the photos and other documents about the doctor to state authorities and asked for an arrest order. But the order was not issued because the doctor is close to a CPM heavyweight. This doctor continues to serve in the hospital,” said the officer.

He added that police had information and photographs to establish the Maoist connections of a CITU leader who used to then lead a trade union of transport operators in Beliaghata in North Kolkata, and is now often interviewed as a Maoist commander. “An arrest warrant was not issued against him as he was a CITU leader,” the officer said.

Ajay Nanda, who is now additional director, National Police Academy, Hyderabad, told The Indian Express over the phone, “We created a data bank in 2006. The data bank included very crucial information about Kishenji and his hideouts in the city. The information folder is at present with the Midnapore Police. They must be working on the information.”

DGP Bhupinder Singh said, “We have the information folder with us. We are still continuing to work on the inputs. However, I cannot comment on why state authorities did not respond to the inputs at that point of time.”

[Sachin]

Kishenji was living in Kolkata in 2006, Govt did not arrest him

Looks like commies where ever they are do not understand any thing about the country's security. In WB they sat doing nothing when folks like Kishenji was roaming around freely, where as in the socialist republic of Kerala the commies had no qualms in joining with a terrorist suspect Abdul Nassar Mahdani. Finally because of these stupidities Central Govt. agencies have to over-work and start the investigation work all over again.

[Stan_Savljevic]

Maoists:
Lalgarh: 100 people killed in the last 3 months of naxal violence
http://www.morungexpress.com/business/40749.html
When PC asked the same question that an ordinary poster might have asked, Buddha to PC: Make it short --- CM berates home minister over letter, Telangana
http://telegraphindia.com/1100104/jsp/f ... 939849.jsp
So much for intelligence....

Traders want arms

Jamshedpur, Jan. 3: Traders in the city have once again reiterated their demand for arms licences after yesterday’s murder of jeweller Tushar Vagadia. Singhbhum Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) convened a meeting at Chambers Bhavan this morning to discuss the issue.

http://telegraphindia.com/1100104/jsp/j ... 938602.jsp

Northeast:
Bangla envoy fears ULFA backlash

Bangladesh’s envoy to India has sought immediate steps for upgrading the New Delhi mission’s security fearing retaliation by ULFA in the wake of BSF arresting two top militant leaders, who were reportedly earlier detained in his country, reports PTI. Bangladeshi High Commissioner to India, Tariq A Karim, in a recent letter to Dhaka, said a possible backlash from ULFA and religious extremists in Bangladesh has made the mission’s compound at the Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave in New Delhi extremely vulnerable, The New Age reported.

http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/det ... n0410/at02
Pro-talks rebels, student shot dead
http://telegraphindia.com/1100104/jsp/n ... 939732.jsp
The least common denominator in the following and the previous WB report is you no hu.....
Tripura fails to use Delhi funds

Tripura’s Left Front government has failed to spend a larger share of the plan allocations made for the state despite its increasingly strident anti-Centre tirade over denial of funds. Out of the annual plan allocation of Rs 1,680 crore for 2009-2010, Tripura has been able to spend only Rs 618 crore till November 30 last year. This startling revelation came out in the course of a review meeting over plan implementation held at the state secretariat yesterday under the stewardship of chief minister Manik Sarkar.

http://telegraphindia.com/1100104/jsp/n ... 938365.jsp

Join Hand in Hand for Solidarity: Diana Francis, a member of the Quakers team join in dancing with Naga women at Noklak village. The Quakers have been assisting the ongoing Naga reconciliation efforts undertaken by the Forum for Naga Reconciliation.

A common platform with a nation building agenda
http://www.morungexpress.com/political_ ... 29499.html
Ceasefire Flaw or End Game?
http://www.morungexpress.com/political_ ... 13120.html

But to the credit of both the Government of India and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim, the greater cause for a peaceful resolution of the Indo-Naga political problem has ensured that the peace process has survived the rough weather till today. However the recent stand-off between the Army of the NSCN and the Indian Armed Forces at Shiroi in Ukhrul district under Manipur State is by far one of the most serious of threats to the hard earned peace process.

An interesting point that should be noted here is that the text of the ceasefire ground rules agreed between Delhi and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland—Khaplang begins at the top by clearly writing that the ground rules will be valid only for the State of Nagaland. No such thing is mentioned in the ground rules between Government of India and NSCN-IM. Obviously one can therefore infer that the Government of India has taken a liberal view on the matter of coverage of the ceasefire. But then unless there is a clear mention of this in the text agreement there is bound to be confusion and misinterpretation on both sides.

While it is understandable given the sensitivity of other North East States involved, for the Government of India to clearly spell out the scope of the ceasefire beyond Nagaland State, yet the question now is whether it is time to clearly point out the same because it does not make sense to confine a ceasefire agreement to Nagaland State alone.

But then one is made to seriously wonder as to whether the impasse actually goes beyond Shiroi. Has political negotiation reached a dead end? Have we reached the end game? Is Shiroi the beginning of the end? If all these questions are factors in the current crisis then the stand-off at Shiroi is as a matter of fact speaking not only a reflection of the flaws in the ceasefire but also the strain of hard political negotiation of over ten years, which is showing in the relationship between the two entities. Both the Government of India and the NSCN will have to take a serious re-look into some of these points if at all the peace process is to survive.

[Stan_Savljevic]

What Next For ULFA? --- Subir Bhowmick
http://subirbhowmikscolumn.blogspot.com/

Rajkhowa did not realise all his four mobiles were tracked by the Detective branch - who were helped by two Indian signals intelligence experts, both working in Indian High Commission under diplomatic cover. There are some army officials in Bangladesh who are very upset with this - they think the Indian intelligence is penetrating the detective branch and working through them to track down Indian militants. Be that as it may, the long and short of the story is that Rajkhowa did not surrender. He tried to escape to Burma though his chances of getting through the Teknaf-Maungdaw border was pretty low because there's heavy presence of border guards on both sides - the BDR and the Burmese NAKASA, because the relations between Burma and Bangladesh is very tense now.
For the whole of 3rd December, the Indian officials tried to pressurise Rajkhowa to get to start talks by dropping the sovereignity demand, Delhi asked Bangladesh to send him to Assam. But by cooking up the surrender story, they have upset Rajkhowa so much that even this rather moderate rebel leader will be unwilling to start talks. The big bosses in Delhi dont often realise that this was the right time when they should have offered talks to the entire leadership - and without pre conditions . Though I cannot be totally sure, I would imagine, having spoken to Paresh Barua twice in recent weeks, that if the talks were without pre-conditions, even he would be willing to start talks.

With much of ULFA funds frozen by Bangladesh - 3990 crore BD Taka in 42 accounts of Sonali Bank- Barua might have little options. The Chinese have not promised him heavens, just given him some hope If he is not interested, why should he be apologising for Dhemaji blasts ? After so many years. Finally Delhi and Dispur have realised what a chance they have missed. Something that was set up for them on a platter by Bangladesh. The feeling now in both capitals, State and Centre, is to wait and watch.

That is the right thing to do. No hurry, no rush, no shortcuts. These things need a lot of patience and mature planning and solid groundwork. My own feeling is that Delhi and Dispur were neither prepared for this sudden breakthrough. They did not realise Bangladesh would be going so far as to nab the chairman - the feeling was they have caught Sasha Choudhury and Chitrabon Hazarika to make their case for seeking concessions before Prime Minister Hasina's visit. Indian intelligence was not aware that Hasina is not attacking the ULFA under Indian pressure - she has very good reasons to do it for her own sake. She believes - rightly or wrongly - that the ULFA was used by Bangladesh military intelligence and the BNP to attack the Awami League rally in Dhaka in August 2004 - an attack that killed a lot of senior Awami League leaders and nearly killed her.

In 1997, Hasina started the crackdown on ULFA under Indian request. But after the arrest of Anup Chetia, some senior Awami League and Bangladeshi leftist leaders went to her and argued for sympathetic treatment for the ULFA. Their logic was simple and straight - the ULFA is fighting against Indian exploitation and for Assam's indepedence in much the same way the Bengalis in East Pakistan fought against Pakistan. The classic colonial exploitation thesis. Apparently Hasina bought the logic and did not proceed very much against the ULFA. Hasina has her own mind, her own politics and she cannot be moved very much by any kind of pressure. So after Rajkhowa's handover, Paresh Barua told me in an interview for BBC Bengali service that he did not expect the Awami League to crush "another national movement" next door and under Indian "colonial pressure." He was again pandering to Hasina's politics , which has made her support the cause of Burmese democracy and Aung Sang Suu Kyi immediately after becoming Prime Minister - at a time when democratic India is playing goodie-goodie with the generals in Rangoon.

The ULFA must realise it has lost two major trans-border base areas - Bhutan and Bangladesh. Burma's remote Sagaing does provide some hope but that's an area the ULFA does not find it easy to maintain bases. The ULFA has two options - either join up with the Indian Maoists, which the Manipuri PLA is persuading it to do , and create a broad anti-Delhi front , to continue the struggle . But Paresh Barua does not trust the Maoists very much because he senses they may hijack his struggle.

Barua is a military minded guerrilla leader. He has little patience for the Marxist-Leninist and Mao thought and all the polemical debates the Maoists engage in. He likes to keep to his politics simple. That is said to be reason why he slowly discontinued the ULFA's initial practice of political commissars. NGOs and rights activists who have been close to ULFA resent Barua's style and blame him for not allowing them to launch strong democratic struggles on local issues.

But if Barua and his field commanders are not keen on an alliance with the Maoists, I dont think they have very much choice but talk to Delhi. China has been testing the waters and they may be training a few ULFA guerrillas for limited purpose disturbance but they are still not given any indication to revive the ULFA movement in a significant way. And China does not have a direct border with Assam. As Bangladesh had with India or even Mizoram with east Pakistan.

So at the end of the day, Paresh Barua will have to deal with India - either on the table of talks with the government in Delhi and Dispur or strike an alliance with Indian Maoists, atleast for tactical reasons. The days when he or the ULFA can strike it out on their own with some foreign support is perhaps over.

[Karna_A]

Hopefully Indian, US and other European countries can learn from Israel's airport security.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/artic ... tle-bother

[shravan]

What are the chances that this story came out due to instructions from dubai/krachi?

Did cops dance to Chhota Rajan music?

Sources say fugitive don devised X'mas eve party to ensure police force would forever be wary of associating with his lieutenant D K Rao, who is now a rising threat
....
But his target was not the cops, but his lieutenant D K Rao, who was released on bail recently, after 11 years in jail.

Sources say that by making the clippings public, Rajan has effectively ensured that no policeman associates with Rao or his men in the near future.

Threat 1

"Rao is recruiting new members into the gang. He is regrouping some splinter groups and rubbing shoulders with rival Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar.

He is known to have made his peace with arch foe and Dawood gangster Chhota Shakeel for his safety after his release. Chhota Rajan does not like this at all," explained a former Rajan associate.

Threat 2

Rajan reportedly believes that yet another of his associates, Farid Tanashah, who was released on bail in July 2008, is also getting too big for his boots.

"Tanashah was unhappy with his mentor in jail. He has engaged personal bodyguards for his security in the last few days. He actually got some local goons in Tilak Nagar, a Rajan stronghold, beaten up.

With the underworld-police nexus exposed, both Rao and Tanashah are on the defensive. Not many officers will risk hobnobbing with gangsters for some time now," the source added.

[SSridhar]

The escape of the '3 Paki Terrorists' - Heads may roll

[Stan_Savljevic]

1) Northeast

Bodo spearhead’s sister shot

Jan. 4: The sister of Ranjan Daimary, the man spearheading a violent campaign for a Bodo state and accused of the worst serial blasts in the Northeast, was shot dead in central Assam this evening. Lilabati Basumatary, a 52-year-old schoolteacher, is the elder sister of Daimary, the chief of the anti-talks faction of the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB). Those who carried out the point-blank-range murder have not been identified but initial suspicion fell on the pro-talks group. The pro-talks faction is engaged in preliminary discussions with a former Intelligence Bureau chief who has been named interlocutor by the Centre. The murder adds a frightening dimension to the cycle of vendetta in the region amid renewed efforts by the Centre to cajole extremists into joining the talks table. Arabinda Rajkhowa, the chairman of Ulfa — the other dreaded outfit in Assam — is in custody and efforts are on to persuade him to hold talks with the government.

The murder came close on the heels of the killing of Uday Mushahary, the elder brother of pro-talks NDFB commander M. Fwilao, by unidentified assailants at Silapur village along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border in Sonitpur on January 1. The anti-talks faction had yesterday owned up to the murder. On October 8 last year, Daimary’s younger sister, Anjali, was attacked by gunmen. Anjali today said Lilabati had been warned against venturing out alone as the ceasefire group had planned to kill her.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100105/j ... 943978.jsp
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed ... 93819.aspx
Daimary looks to fill up Ulfa void
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100105/j ... 941318.jsp

A source said Daimary has sent some of his close men to Sagaing province of Myanmar in company of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang). The Naga outfit works in close co-ordination with the Kachin rebels as well as various other insurgent groups from India, including Ulfa and the NDFB. Its chairman, S.S. Khaplang, a Hemi Naga, lives in this northern Myanmar region.

“As Indian agencies close in on Daimary and with the likelihood of a rapprochement with Barua, there are reports the NDFB wants to step in. They are recruiting in Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam,” said an intelligence agency source. Daimary who was ousted from the NDFB in December 2008 — the pro-talks group of the NDFB has de-linked itself from the violent faction — has apparently found takers for his new plan. Earlier, too, the NDFB shared a close relationship with the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), the Achik National Volunteers Council (ANVC) and the NSCN (K).

Constable dies in NC Hills ambush
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100105/j ... 943727.jsp
Forces keep watch on Paresh ---- Tale of two leaders: One refuses to come to negotiating table, another awaits word from Delhi
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100105/j ... 941854.jsp

No talks offer yet: Muivah

Kohima, Jan. 4: The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) today said it had “not received any communication from the government of India” to discuss the Centre’s proposals for hammering out an “acceptable and honourable” solution to the Naga political problem.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100105/j ... 941431.jsp

NLFT rebels admit crisis

Agartala, Jan. 4: The cadres of the banned NLFT, demoralised by a growing resource crunch and hostile attitude of the Bangladesh security forces, are continuing their surrender spree. Yesterday, four hardcore rebels of the outfit surrendered before officers of the 15 battalion of the Assam Rifles at remote Taidum under Kanchanpur subdivision, sharing its boundary with Mizoram.

“The Tripura State Rifles jawans have now been given night vision devices and GPS for operations at night. This is helping them a lot; other paramilitary forces like the Assam Rifles and the CRPF must be using advanced devices during operations,” deputy inspector-general (operations), Nepal Das, said.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100105/j ... 941177.jsp
Don’t pit cadres against HNLC, cops told ---- Outfit’s ex-chief asks govt to conduct peace talks directly
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100105/j ... 941705.jsp

There are no takers for Meghalaya police’s idea to rope in surrendered Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) cadres to neutralise the activities of the militant outfit in the state. After the December 23 hit-and-run by the HNLC militants in East Khasi Hills, which left a coal baron dead and his wife injured, Meghalaya director-general of police S.B. Kakati had suggested that the police might ask surrendered HNLC militants for their help to search for the hideouts. However, former HNLC chairman Julius Dorphang told The Telegraph today that to use the surrender militants was not a right approach and instead he asked the government to initiate peace talks directly with the outfit.

Assam Rifles pins hope on Myanmar polls

SHILLONG, Jan 5 – The upcoming general election in Myanmar, the first in two decades, has made the Assam Rifles optimistic that the new government there will mount pressure on North-East insurgents hiding in that country, reports PTI. “We share a deep understanding with the Myanmar army. I am sure whichever government comes to power, the understanding will continue,” Assam Rifles Director-General Lt Gen K S Yadava told reporters here.

Assam Rifles, the oldest paramilitary force of India, is responsible for guarding the Indo-Myanmar border besides holding counter-insurgency operations in the North-East. Many Northeast insurgent groups still have their camps and training centres across the 1,631 km-long border that runs along the frontier states of Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram.

http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/det ... n0610/at07

Mizoram Chief Minister likely to visit 'Bru camps' in Tripura

Agartala, 4 January : Mizoram Chief Minister, Lal Thanhawla was likely to visit camps of Brus from his state sheltered in Tripura during a visit to the Jampui Hills in North district on Wednesday, official sources said. About 35,000 Brus, who migrated to Tripura following ethnic clashes with Mizos since 1997 are now sheltered in the six camps in the foothills of the Jampui. Following fresh ethnic clashes in Western Mizoram last month over 1000 Brus migrated to Tripura and have taken shelter elsewhere in the Jampui hills.

2) Maoists

According to insiders, Ajsu chief Sudesh Mahto is determined to grab the home portfolio, but Soren is not willing to “relent”. The JMM chief is being backed by the BJP on this issue.

“In 2005, the home portfolio was given to Sudesh Mahto at the behest of Babulal Marandi, whose aim was to weaken then chief minister Arjun Munda. So, he brokered home for Mahto and other important portfolios for non-BJP ministers. But if Soren wants to run a strong and stable government, he ought to keep home with himself as well as personnel,” argued a senior BJP leader.

Soren’s lenient approach towards ultra-left rebels has stirred a hornets’ nest too. Though senior BJP leader and deputy chief minister Raghubar Das has “endorsed” Soren’s views on Naxalism, the BJP members are not convinced. A senior party leader pointed out that in Chhattisgarh, the BJP government had taken a completely different stand on Naxalism whereas in Jharkhand, it is intending to go the other way. This, in turn, will cause friction within the BJP fold in the long run, he added.

Another senior BJP leader, Sarayu Roy, said Das had given his personal opinion on Naxalism. “Talks with Naxalites began in several states, including Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh, but failed to have any significant impact due to different reasons. Now, there are only two options before the government. Either it should surrender before the Naxalites or eliminate them fully. As the new government in Jharkhand is being backed by the BJP, the central leadership should clarify its stand again,” he added.

The chief minister, however, has claimed that there was no infighting among the allies over sharing of ministries and that he would soon find an amicable solution to the rebel menace. “I have always been quoted out of context. The Naxalite movement was started by me in Jharkhand in the real sense of the term. But if the rebels indulge in violence, no government can stop the police from taking action,” he told newsmen after the oath ceremony of the pro tem Speaker on Saturday.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100105/j ... 943705.jsp

3) Misc: SATP

Suspected LTTE militant arrested in Kerala

PTI reports that a suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) militant has been arrested at a check post at Cumbum near Theni in Kerala after his passport and identity cards were found to be forged. Police said Siridharan (32) and his friend, a registered refugee of the Mandapam camp, were on their way back from the Sabarimala temple in Kerala on January 4 when they were stopped for a routine check. Police grew suspicious when they heard his Sri Lankan Tamil accent and asked for his identity card which was found to be false. A check of his passport also revealed that it was forged. They said the suspect had received military training prior to 1992 and had stayed at Velvattithurai in Jaffna Peninsula.

Bihar Police denies media reports of Taliban and LeT terrorists infiltration into State from Nepal side

Bihar Police on January 4 denied the media reports of Taliban and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists infiltration into the State from Nepal side, reports Times of India. Additional Director General (ADG) (headquarters) U.S. Dutt wondered where from the media got such information. &quotThere is no such indication from the Central intelligence agency either," he said. He said that a man was killed in Nepal side across Araria District and the killers are suspected to have entered Bihar. Apparently this led to speculations about terrorists moving in Bihar, Dutt added. As for the threat to Indian Railways, meanwhile, sources said an ADG-rank police officer in Kerala received an anonymous call recently. The caller identified himself as Bashir and said trains and railway properties would be targeted. The caller did not give any specific details about the location of the target. As a precautionary measure, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) circulated a nationwide warning to the Railway Police.

[munna]

Indian Mujahideen planning 9/11-type attack

Intelligence Bureau (IB) sources say Shahzad Ahmed alias Pappu, one of the key accused in the September 2008 Delhi blasts case, learnt to fly planes in Bangalore and could now be planning to execute an airborne terror strike. A dozen other trained Indian Mujahideen terrorists are also at large and, together with Shahzad, pose a big security threat.

In his early twenties and hailing from Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district, Shahzad gave Delhi Police the slip during the 2008 Batla House encounter in the city. He was the one who opened fire on slain Delhi Police officer Mohan Chand Sharma during the encounter.

Shahzad underwent pilot training just before the Delhi blasts and has been absconding since the Batla House encounter

[ramana]

On the MHA plan to emulate the US setup.

Here is K P Nayar's take in Telegraph,

Chidambaram's Fantasy

CHIDAMBARAM’S FANTASY
- India should think twice about copying American security systems
Diplomacy
K.P. Nayar


A doting father goes to the authorities to take the incredibly difficult step of telling them that his son may be palling around with terrorists. He is no ordinary father loitering on the streets, but a prominent citizen, a well known banker, someone not prone to airing his concerns without thinking, not a loose talker who easily flies off the handle.

There are other red flags. The son has disappeared in a country which is fast catching up with Pakistan as a fountainhead of global terrorism. But he has also told his family that he is voluntarily cutting off all contacts with them for the sake of what he considers to be a higher cause. And the son is no ordinary son; he is not an idler or a waster, but someone who measured up to the expectations of his prosperous family, which found it fit to send him to London where he graduated with a degree in engineering. The boy has cleared the rigorous vetting process by American and British consular officials, and both governments have given him long-term visas to visit or stay, as the case may be, in their countries.

Such a youth is a windfall catch for terrorists because he can travel around the world with ease, board airplanes without arousing suspicion and, as it turned out, can even take banned and dangerous stuff on-board an aircraft headed for a destination with extremely rigorous security checks.

And yet, the information given by the father and other hints of suspicion are filed away by spooks, and nothing is done about the suspect using tools that were specifically created to prevent terrorism in the air of the kind which destroyed the World Trade Center in New York. Until it is too late: the son boards a commercial plane and attempts to destroy the aircraft he is in with nearly 300 other people in mid-air.

Some readers may be forgiven for thinking that this is a plot that could have played out in India, given the security lapses that become talking points after every major terrorist attack in the country.

But no, this was an intelligence failure that happened in the United States of America on Christmas Day just a fortnight ago. And it happened despite tips and warnings that America could be targeted by terrorists during Christmas. Although the airliner that the Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tried to destroy was saved by a fortuitous combination of circumstances, it was a successful terrorist operation from al Qaida’s point of view. After all, their man managed to evade America’s vast tracking system that is designed to keep terrorists from flying, he managed to get an incendiary device on-board a US airliner and he tried to set off that device on American airspace.

Exactly a week ago, the Central Intelligence Agency suffered its worst setback in 27 years when a Jordanian double agent was admitted into the CIA’s most sensitive base in Khost province in Afghanistan: he killed seven US spies, a Jordanian intelligence officer said to be on loan to the CIA, and wounded six others by detonating an explosives belt that he was wearing under his clothes.

It defies all logic that the Jordanian was allowed into the base without being searched or frisked; that so many CIA operatives were with him for his debriefing when two would have been appropriate, that the Jordanian was allowed to stay in close proximity to valuable CIA agents whose main job at the critical Khost base was to supervise a covert US programme of unmanned aerial strikes in Afghanistan and in Pakistan. It is difficult to recall any security failure in India on this scale costing the lives of so many Indian intelligence personnel.

But then, the history of US intelligence has always been more hype and less accomplishments. The CIA has done extremely well in overwhelming poor societies or governments ill-equipped to contain its ideology-driven onslaughts. Chile under Salvador Allende, the Socialist president who was overthrown at Washington’s behest, is one example. But at crucial times in history, US intelligence has let down the people of America. The CIA could not predict or even report the Indian nuclear tests in 1998 quickly enough, although it was well known that the Bharatiya Janata Party was committed to exercising India’s nuclear option.

Recently, declassified documents in the West have revealed that contrary to popular myth, the Soviet Union and its former satellites did not collapse on account of any CIA heroism, but under the weight of the stagnant communist system and because of the momentum of a process that was triggered by Mikhail Gorbachev.

The botched CIA attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro have led to a Channel 4 documentary entitled 638 Ways to Kill Castro. The credit for the film’s title goes to Castro’s aide, Fabian Escalante, who once had the responsibility of detecting and subverting CIA plots to kill the Cuban leader. He calculated that there have been 638 attempts on Castro’s life.

More recently, the longevity of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez in office, despite the Bush-era CIA’s attempts to overthrow him, is evidence that the American covert operations are falling behind even in the kind of anti-Allende-style coup attempts that they excelled in.

Yet, the Union home minister, P. Chidambaram, wants to recreate India’s counter-terrorism infrastructure in America’s failing image. It is true that when the home minister was in Washington and in New York, the Americans opened the doors for him like they have not done even for his counterparts from America’s allied states. Indeed, prominent elected representatives on Capitol Hill have complained, half in jest, that since Chidambaram’s visit they do not often get the kind of access to the US intelligence set-up that Chidambaram got when he was in the US from September 8 to 11 last year.

In the context of America’s most recent intelligence failures, that may well be a problem rather than an advantage. Chidambaram, as one among the more intelligent Indian ministers, returned to India from his September visit to the US with lots and lots of ideas, as he has acknowledged.The home minister is now looking at replicating in India a number of US institutions that are involved in the business of promoting national security: the National Counter-Terrorism Center, the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, as well as the work of the New York Police Department in securing a megalopolis like New York. Although he no longer has anything to do with finance, having been finance minister, Chidambaram has been trying to inject his ministry into the work of the global Financial Action Task Force, of which India is not yet a member.

The trouble with opening up sensitive American institutions to foreigners like Chidambaram, especially foreigners from developing countries, is that American installations like their Joint Terror Task Force or the NYPD are very impressive establishments on the surface and have a facade of quality and efficiency. The question that Indians must ask loudly before their country is firmly and inextricably linked with America in its counter-terrorism effort is how well have these impressive institutions, including the NYPD, performed during times of crisis.

The answer, alas, is in the negative. India should, therefore, think twice about copying American systems. Those systems, in the end, allowed the Nigerian terrorist to get on-board an American airliner and violate US airspace. In the final analysis, terrorism cannot be fought by huge systems that invariably lead to inefficiency and lethargy, systems of the kind the US has created after September 11, systems which leave false impressions of being close to the ideal. There should be greater emphasis, instead, on common sense and raw human intelligence output, which is the strength of India’s counter-terrorism efforts. The US systems lack these.

It is interesting that in the days after the Christmas Day flight carrying the Nigerian terrorist was saved, there were big calls in the US for using imaging techniques at airports, machines that hide nothing of the human body. They had been delayed because of concerns about privacy. But in recent days in the US, two top former officials of the department of homeland security have been campaigning in public about the need to use the all-revealing scanners. Obviously, they represent certain industry lobbies, which want to sell scanners for body imaging. For that they will do anything.

Chidambaram may have been pleased with the reception he got in Washington, but this is something that is worth analyzing at some stage. Experts in the US may well be targeting India for its slow response to terror threats, but it is necessary to see these criticisms and the home minister’s visit in the context of holding off pressure from Washington to buy US high-tech counter-terrorism products worth millions of dollars that are being projected as critical to Indian security.

My objection is the consolidation sets up single point of failure. its India's multiple agencies that have stood it in good stead. Yes co-ordinate but dont sub-ordinate them.

[putnanja]

Dantewada tribals attack Patkar

BHOPAL: Tribals angry with activists fighting for human rights of Naxals while ignoring poor ‘adivasis’ threw rotten eggs and tomatoes at Magsaysay award winner Medha Patkar and Sandeep Pandey as they reached Dantewada town in Chhattisgarh on Wednesday.

While Medha, being a woman, did not face much humiliation, her companion Pandey was pulled down from the motorcycle and given a hiding. He was pushed around and asked why the activists had done nothing for the tribals but found cause to support Naxals.
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Shouting slogans like ‘‘Wapas jao, wapas jao (go back)’, the tribals alleged that NGOs ‘‘support Naxals under the pretext of human rights.’’
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[ramana]

Sometign is rotten here.

Cong MLA in dock over Pak nationals stay without visa

TNN, 7 January 2010,
JAIPUR: A show-cause notice has been issued to Jai Mahal Palace in connection with the stay of a Pakistani citizen, Nazmi Rizwi, at the hotel for three days without visa for Jaipur. At the same time, Foreigners Registration Office (FRO) has written to the home department to blacklist her from visiting India.

According to reports, Congress MLA from Punjab, Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi had booked three rooms in the five-star hotel from December 29 to January 2 to celebrate New Year. Sodhi had booked rooms for four persons, including Rizwi but did not reveal her identity to the hotel authorities.

Sources said Sodhi and his guests checked in on the evening of December 29, but as he is a legislator, hotel authorities did not verify the facts. Sodhi hid the details about Rizwi and told them that the guests were his family members.

However, the hotel authorities came to know about Rizwi’s identity on December 31 while she was talking to a floor manager and revealed that she wanted to buy Rajasthani handicraft items to take them to Pakistan. Appalled by the revelation, the hotel authorities informed the police about Rizwi’s real identity and that they would check out on January 2. But cops did not take any action and the MLA checked out along with Rizwi and other guests.

So the hotel that reported the issue is being charge with show cause notice? And what about local police who took no action on the hotel's information? And how did the person cross over the border without visa? And what about the Congress MLA's motives in hiding details while booking the rooms?

And the authorities want to go after the hotel?

Any way who is the is MLA what is his janam kundli that he gets away with this? Who is going to blacklist this guy?

[munna]

Any way who is the is MLA what is his janam kundli that he gets away with this? Who is going to blacklist this guy?

The guy in question Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi is a INC MLA from border district of Firozepur and represents Guruharshai constiutency in Punjab Vidhan Sabha. He is close confidante of ex CM Capt Amarinder Singh and was his political secretary during previous term ie 2002-2007. As per this Tribune Report

He says though Capt Amarinder Singh was also in Rajasthan those days, he was not staying with him in the hotel

. This should be read in conjunction with earlier reports of the Indian Express

Over two and a half years after former Punjab CM and senior Congress leader Capt Amarinder Singh courted controversy for having allegedly taken a Pakistani national, Aroosa Alam, on a tour of Rajasthan without proper travel documents

[ramana]

More from DNA

LINK

Chandigarh: Former chief minister Amarinder Singh’s close associate and Congress MLA Gurjit Sodhi has landed in soup for taking a Pakistani female friend on a tour of Rajasthan without a visa.

Nazmi Rizvi, 54, had reportedly accompanied the MLA to Jaipur on New Year’s eve. She later visited Ajmer. Rizvi, who is from Rawalpindi, had a visa to visit only three places — Chandigarh, Agra and Delhi.
Rizvi’s Rajasthan tour came to light after a five-star hotel in Jaipur where she was staying, detected her illegal visit to the state and reported the matter to the Rajasthan CID.

The CID later issued a show-cause notice to the hotel, seeking a clarification. It has also recommended the state home department to blacklist Rizvi.

Though the column of the spouse’s name has been left blank in Rizvi’s visa, name of Syed Akbar Nawab has been mentioned in the column of father’s/husband’s name.

On December 24 last year, she was granted 30 days’ visitor’s visa to go to Delhi, Chandigarh and Agra.

The visa exempted her from reporting to the police. Under visa rules, a visitor or tourist, especially from Pakistan, is exempt from reporting to police only if he or she is granted special permission. Otherwise, the person has to mark her attendance at the nearest police station about his or her stay in India.

Sodhi, however, said the Pakistani woman had “unknowingly come to Jaipur thinking that her Indian visa was valid for the whole country.” She returned to Delhi a day after the hotel staff informed her that she had no visa for Rajasthan. “I cannot be held responsible for her ignorance or her actions,” Sodhi said.

Amarinder had landed in trouble five years ago by escorting his Pakistani friend Aroosa Alam and her family members to Ajmer without a valid visa. The then external affairs minister Natwar Singh, who is Amarinder’s brother-in-law, had then bailed him out.

Something is odd here.

[putnanja]

Chinese cellphone importer booked under COFEPOSA

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Official sources said the Delhi-based businessman was recently booked under the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act (COFEPOSA) after his documents showed large scale imports of Chinese mobile phones allegedly based on forged papers. The mobile importer is also accused of running a hawala network.
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[Masaru]

More JDAMS being prepared

[Avinash R]

Judicial imposition of Muslim law on Hindu girl
By: V Sundaram
Wednesday, 30 December, 2009 , 02:29 PM

When 2 or 3 years ago, the Supreme Court of India passed what I considered to be a patently illegal and unconstitutional order in a specific case, I wrote an article in these columns under the title ‘The darkest day in India’s Legal History’.

I am constrained to use the same words again in respect of a blatantly and patently illegal order recently passed by the Calcutta High Court. It is a matter of national shame for all the Hindu women of India that the Calcutta High Court on 17 December 2009 granted the anticipatory bail plea of a 26-year-old youth from Murshidabad who had been accused of kidnapping and marrying a 15-year-old Hindu minor girl.

One Sairul Sheikh, a resident of Bakultala in Behrampore, has been accused of kidnapping and forcibly marrying a Hindu minor girl called Anita Roy. Anita’s mother Jyotsna had lodged a complaint with Behrampore Police Station that her daughter had been missing since 14 October. On 15 October, she came to know that Sairul Sheikh had ‘kidnapped and married’ her minor daughter.

A Division Bench of the Calcutta High court consisting of Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh and Justice S P Talukdar allowed Sheikh’s plea after his lawyers submitted that the marriage was legal under Muslim Personal Law. Holding the marriage to be legal, the Bench Calcutta High Court granted Sheikh’s anticipatory bail application.

Even if Sairul Sheikh had married a minor Muslim girl then he would have been entitled to the full benefit of Muslim Personal Law. But he has no right to impose that Islamic law upon the Hindu men and women of India in general and Hindu minor girls in particular. He cannot claim kidnapping of a Hindu minor girl or rape of a Hindu minor girl as a legitimate ‘minority right’ under the Indian Constitution!!

The Calcutta High Court has given a new and twisted illegal interpretation to Muslim Personal Law. By denying legitimate legal relief to the Hindu minor girl Anita and her mother Jyotsna under The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 (Courtesy: Website of Ministry of Women and Child Development, GOI http://wcd.nic.in/cmr1929.htm), the Calcutta High Court has made the Hindus of India stateless non-persons similar to the status of non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia.

I FERVENTLY HOPE THAT MANY HINDU ORGANIZATIONS IN INDIA WOULD FILE AN APPLICATION TO THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA FOR PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE GENERAL BLANKET ILLEGAL IMPOSITION OF MUSLIM PERSONAL LAW ON THE HINDU CITIZENS OF INDIA.

The standard legal dictum is that no citizen can legally claim ignorance of law as an excuse for violation of laws of the land. What is applicable to an individual is equally applicable to all our Courts of Law as well. In this context let me invite the attention of the Calcutta High Court to the following provisions of The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 (19 of 1929):

Section 2 : Definitions — In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context:

(a) “Child” means a person who, if a male, has not completed twenty one year of age, and if a female, has not completed eighteen years of age ;

Section 4 : Punishment for male adult above twenty one years of age marrying a child — Whoever, being a male above twenty one years of age, contracts a child marriage shall be punishable with simple imprisonment which may extend to three months and shall also be liable to fine.

Sairul Sheikh, the accused in this case as per Muslim Personal Law is patently guilty of blatant violation of Section 4 of The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929. Any special Islamic privilege he might have under Muslim Personal Law cannot be invoked under this Act when the offence is committed against a Hindu minor girl.

Moreover, In my opinion, having kidnapped a Hindu minor girl (who has nothing to do with Muslim Personal Law) and forcibly marrying her, Sairul Sheikh has opened himself to the charge of committing the rape of a minor girl under the Indian Penal Code.

Here the words of the great American Chief Justice Felix Frankfurter are very relevant: “Judges as persons or Courts as institutions are entitled to no greater immunity from criticism than other persons or institutions. Just because the holders of judicial office are identified with the interests of Justice they may forget their common human frailties and fallibilities. … Therefore Judges must be kept mindful of their limitations and of their ultimate public responsibility by a vigorous stream of criticism with candour however blunt.”

When I was discussing the kidnapping case of Anita with one of the leading Hindu women social workers of Chennai, she jocularly exclaimed: ‘My way of joking is to tell the brutal and bitter truth about the Hindu women of India today and more particularly Hindu minor girls. The stupid self-absorbed attitude of most Hindu women today seems to be this: “I have had no problems whatsoever so far from the Muslims’.

Jagmohan Singh Khurmi, a fearless writer, has written a brilliant essay titled ‘Islamic Lust for Hindu Women: Psychological Warfare’. Let me quote his hilarious and yet sobering words here: “If these silly Bollywood Hindu filmmakers think that they are actually building “secular bridges” by portraying a Muslim hero riding a Hindu woman, then they are in error. They fail to understand Islamic mindset. Even if you make all the Muslims in India superstars, in Pakistan this will not be accepted as a sign of Hindu benevolence or even a gesture of genuine ‘Congress secularism’ but as an explicit evidence of Hindu inferiority and Islamic superiority! Such is their contempt for all things Hindu.’

One woman journalist TAVLEEN SINGH, known for her pro-Islamic stand and who at times went so far as to even justify Islamic terrorism, once got inside the Islamic house of the fanatic Dar-ul-Uloom at Deoband and for the first time in her life discovered the real nature of Islam for herself! To her horror she found that it was millions of light-years away from the rosy imagery Khushwant Singh and Romila Thapar had taught her for years. After a few minutes Tavleen Singh came out stamping her feet in fury. She was so angry that she wrote her next article under title: ‘If this is what secularism means, give me Hindutva’.

Finally, I cannot help quoting the beautifully apt words of Koenraad Elst: ‘One of the most painful aspects of Muslim demographic warfare is the open attempt by Muslims to grab non-Muslim girls to use them for their own demographic ambitions, meanwhile also inflicting a good dose of humiliation on the accursed kafirs. In Bangladesh and in Muslim-majority areas inside India, this often takes the form of simply kidnapping girls, or of threatening their families to marry them out to Muslims.’

(The writer is a retired IAS officer)

[vera_k]

Something is odd here.

I'd guess it's about sex trafficking.

[SSridhar]

Something is odd here.

The only odd thing is that such things which are so common in India - given our VIP culture and total disregard for rules, laws, security and common sense - even merit a mention. Capt. Amarinder Singh, an ex-serviceman himself, takes Aroosa Alam, Gen. Rani's daughter, and Natwar Singh bales him out. Somebody else will bale out this MLA too, who was really unfortunate enough to be caught.

[Avinash R]

There was a newslink posted by shiv many months ago which talked about rise in drug smuggling through punjab border and resultant rise in addiction in punjab.

Vulnerable politicians in punjab are being entrapped to facilitate drug smuggling thru the border. What's interesting is this MLA is from a border district. Until the people in MHA take a serious note of such visa violations get ready to see the blood of youth being pumped full of this poison.

And instead of praising the hotel officials for bringing this violation to their notice the local police are putting them thru this show-cause notice trouble, not the right method if the police hope for more such info from civilians.

[AdityaM]

not sure if this is the right forum:
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/cop-attacked ... ml?from=tn

all the ministers, babus, police guards standing and watching should be charged with Culpable homicide

[SSridhar]

Terrorists acquitted

. . . four out of six "LeT terrorists" arrested by the Delhi Police four years ago for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to attack the Indian Military Academy (IMA) in Dehradun were acquitted by a sessions court. The court held the other two men guilty of the relatively lighter charge of possessing explosives.Hameed Hussain and Mohd Shariq, who were arrested on March 5, 2005 with 10.5kg RDX in the capital. {Possessing 10.5 Kg of RDX is a 'lighter offence' ? What were they possessing this for ? For making firecrackers for Diwali ? Even God cannot save this land with this kind of condoning serious offences.}

[sum]

not sure if this is the right forum:
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/cop-attacked ... ml?from=tn

all the ministers, babus, police guards standing and watching should be charged with Culpable homicide

Errr...and what about the media people there?

[sum]

Terrorists acquitted

. . . four out of six "LeT terrorists" arrested by the Delhi Police four years ago for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to attack the Indian Military Academy (IMA) in Dehradun were acquitted by a sessions court. The court held the other two men guilty of the relatively lighter charge of possessing explosives.Hameed Hussain and Mohd Shariq, who were arrested on March 5, 2005 with 10.5kg RDX in the capital. {Possessing 10.5 Kg of RDX is a 'lighter offence' ? What were they possessing this for ? For making firecrackers for Diwali ? Even God cannot save this land with this kind of condoning serious offences.}

I always see these acquittals with a wary glance.

We never know if some of these guys have been turned and are being let go with a wink or are they actually being acquitted?

[Raja Bose]

not sure if this is the right forum:
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/cop-attacked ... ml?from=tn

all the ministers, babus, police guards standing and watching should be charged with Culpable homicide

The man is clearly alive and calling for help - what is the bloody media guy doing there shooting pictures? And what are those bloody policemen doing walking away?!

[sum]

Sad to see the video but the media guys deserved to be kicked.

The minister at least ensured that the dying man was taken in his convoy vehicle ( though very belatedly) and transferred to a ambulance enroute where he died.

[SSridhar]

Delhi gets modern communication link to manage disaster

When the terrorists had planted and exploded bombs in the commercial hub of Connaught Place on September 13, 2008, the civil administration officials who had rushed there were unable to converse with or even locate each other as their mobile phones were not functioning since the system had got jammed.

To avoid such a situation, the Delhi Government is now purchasing a Rs.100-crore Terrestrial Trunked Radio (Tetra) communication from HCL Infosystems and Motorola that would help establish the country’s first exclusive Government Radio Network (GRN) and also enable the civil administration to be better prepared for disaster management before the Commonwealth Games.

Since the Tetra network seeks to facilitate swift and secure communication among various government agencies like the Delhi Police, Fire Services, Hospitals, Public Works Department and the Delhi Transport Corporation, sources said the system would be of great help in any disaster management exercise should the need arise.

Time for all metros to get this facility, starting immediately with Mumbai.

[SSridhar]

The three escaped Pakistani terrorists may be back in TSP

Though various teams of the Delhi police and intelligence agencies have been trying to trace the three missing Pakistan nationals, they suspect that the fugitives might have escaped to their country.

The police are trying to find out if some local resident was in contact with any of the three, Rafaquat Ali, Abdul Razzaq and Mohammed Sadiq. Investigations so far have revealed that Razzaq had tried to escape from Tihar Jail in 2003 by impersonating as another inmate with the same name lodged in the jail in a case registered at the Jama Masjid police station under the Arms Act. A case in this regard has been registered at the Hari Nagar police station.

It is learnt that Razzaq was lodged in Jail No.4 of Tihar when he came across his namesake, who was a resident of Bihar. Razzaq allegedly became friends with that person apparently to ferret out personal details as part of the escape plan. When the other “Abdul Razzaq” was granted bail in his case, a jail official went to inform him about his release on bail. However, the Pakistan national stepped forward claiming to be his namesake.

According to sources, Razzaq managed to answer all queries pertaining to his namesake’s personal life during verification. However, he faltered at the last check-point where he was asked to reveal his body identification mark and that did him in.

[dinakar]

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:shock: The man is clearly alive and calling for help - what is the bloody media guy doing there shooting pictures? :evil: And what are those bloody policemen doing walking away?!

RB, The convoy of ministers cars came there after 5 minutes of this incident. During the attack some country bomb and pipe bombs were thrown. The security people who accompanied the convoy in two cars adviced them not to come out as there were still unexploded bombs and they also thought that some gang people may be hiding in bush and can attack or throw the bombs again. In the mean time one car of security people went chasing the gang and even fired three rounds whereas the other car remained there for the security of ministers. From the vernacular press i heard that it took half an hour for the police to send him to hospital in a police jeep as the ambulance didn't turn up quickly. Yes ofcourse we cant give a clean cheat to them as it took thirty minutes for them to transfer him to a jeep and carry him to hospital.

[AdityaM]

RB, The convoy of ministers cars came there after 5 minutes of this incident. During the attack some country bomb and pipe bombs were thrown. The security people who accompanied the convoy in two cars adviced them not to come out as there were still unexploded bombs and they also thought that some gang people may be hiding in bush and can attack or throw the bombs again.

It is said that the ministers were told not to come out for security reasons. This doesn't cut ice. If its security that was the concern, then why weren't they evacuated from there asap, rather than stopping and waiting in the car? sitting ducks, eh !?
no one came forward to help the person for a long time, all standing 50 meters away! although the car closest to him was barely 2 meters away!

[Kati]

26/11 glare on Hotels:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100109/j ... 962937.jsp

[sum]

Some more perspectives on the three Pakis absconding:

Fishy story

Nine years ago, a Crime Branch team led by Assistant Commissioner of Police Ravi Shankar conducted raids around Delhi and Rohtak, and arrested three militants and five ISI agents. Fifteen kilos of RDX and 50kg of heroin, worth Rs 50 crore, were seized from them. The three were accused in the 2000 Red Fort blasts.

The Pakistani militants—Abdul Razzak (61), Rafaqat Ali (55) and Mohammed Sadiq (55)—who completed their five-year jail sentence on October 23, 2009, were lodged at the Lampur Detention Home in Narela under the supervisory custody of Delhi Police’s Special Branch. They had to be detained because they didn’t have the repatriation documents. On January 1, the trio complained of an eye problem. They were taken to the Guru Nanak Eye Centre in central Delhi. Sub-inspector Dino Moni Singh of the Meghalaya Police’s Indian Reserve Battalion escorted them. Later, while having lunch at Ambika Restaurant in Old Delhi, the trio hoodwinked Singh and escaped.

An Intelligence source said the photographs of the militants indicated they were in their 30s, whereas they were middle-aged when arrested. He doubted the police claims of what they seized from them. “No network will carry both drugs and explosives simultaneously, and that, too, such huge quantities,” he said.

According to senior officers, it was likely that the police arrested local drug peddlers and branded them as terrorists with Pakistani addresses. So when it was time for the trio to leave for Pakistan, they might have escaped, fearing for their life. Some believe that the militants were let off to help them infiltrate a terrorist outfit and spy for the security forces. Shabnam Hashmi, president of NGO Anhad, said some other agency might have picked them up for interrogation. Intelligence sources and the police denied this allegation.

The police said that they had initiated deportation proceedings, but the home ministry and the Pakistan High Commission claimed they had not been informed. Said a senior officer: “In this case, the Pakistan Special Branch should have been informed and their personnel sent for to escort the militants. That was not done.’’

The trio's call records show that several calls were made to Pakistan—those calls are being traced. The cops have the addresses and phone numbers of two persons from Jehangirpur who visited the militants last December.

The bolded part is a very interesting point. Gets more murkier since it means DP was bluffing all along about the imminent deportation. Also, very very unlikely that all three complained of eye problems at the same time ( DP had first mentioned that they went to a heart hospital but hastily changed the story when media confirmed that these people had not visited the GP hospital)

Many theories are revolving around the militants’ escape. Said Naseem: “It happened with Charles Sobhraj who was detained in India and lodged in Tihar Jail on minor offences, but had to be deported to Bangkok where he faced murder charges for which the punishment is death. He escaped Tihar Jail so that he gets re-arrested and can stay in India for some more time. Maybe, these three did not want to be deported, and if the accused are not prosecuted for a certain period of time and that time period lapses the sentence is quashed. The trio might want just that.”

So, as per my (limited) understanding :
1. The DP really messed up big time
2. They "staged the escape" to ensure that the pigs are not let away lightly and are already in some unmarked cell or have met their 72.
3. They had arrested some other local goons and when the time for forced deportation came, they allowed them to walk away to save any embarrassing scenes at the border when deportation process is on with the Paki authorities.

[sum]

Govt tightens security for 10 scientists facing terror threat

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January 10, 2010 18:18 IST
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Security around 10 scientists working in sensitive areas has been tightened in the wake of threats from Pakistan-based terror groups like Lashker-e-Tayiba (LeT).

The scientists who have not been identified are working in crucial areas of nuclear, defence and space fields. The names of these scientists was mentioned by Sarfaraz Nawaz, who was deported from Muscat, during interrogation and which were further corroborated by T Nazir, LeT's pointsman in South India.

Sources said on Sunday that following corroboration of the threats, a security review was carried out after which it was decided to enhance the security of the scientists as a precautionary measures.

While Nawaz (33) was deported and brought back by security agencies from Muscat, Nazir was arrested along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Northeast recently. Both of them had played a key role in Bangalore blasts.

Nazir allegedly had a direct hand in executing the Bangalore blasts in 2008 and is accused of having supplied electronic components used by Indian Mujahideen [ Images ] to fabricate improvised explosive devices used in other strikes.

Based on the information from the interrogation of US terror suspect David C Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Rana [ Images ], whose roles are being probed by the security agencies, security around Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and some Bollywood studios in Mumbai [ Images ] have been already tightened.

Thankfully DDM didn't reveal the scientists names...

[Stan_Savljevic]

1) Northeast:

Dispur & Delhi tap Chetia

Dibrugarh/Guwahati, Jan. 10: The Centre and the Assam government are now working on convincing Ulfa general secretary Anup Chetia, alias Golap Baruah who is in prison in Bangladesh, and “major” Jivan Moran to join the proposed peace move involving the outfit’s leaders already in custody.

Sources today said the government had recently facilitated Chetia’s brother Suren Barua’s visit to Bangladesh through unofficial channels for a meeting with Chetia. “On his return from Bangladesh we had discussions with him and the indications are positive,” a source said. Although Chetia’s jail term had expired, the Ulfa leader is still lodged in a Dhaka prison.

Those behind the move feel that if the two leaders come on board, it will vastly erode the influence of Paresh Barua among the Moran and the Muttock communities in Upper Assam. Most members of these two communities not only have soft corners for these three militant leaders but will not be convinced of any peace deal without them which may keep the militancy pot boiling.

“Once we can have them, there will be a major upheaval among the Ulfa cadres in Upper Assam because these two leaders also carry a lot of weight and know the organisation inside out. Their coming overground will also see a churning in the community following of Ulfa. We will then have several important leaders from Upper Assam, including Rajkhowa, Pradip Gogoi, Bhimkanta Buragohain and Pranati Deka. In lower Assam, we already have Sasha Choudhury, Raju Barua, Chitrabon Hazarika and Mithinga Daimary. How long can we wait for Paresh?” a security official asked.

http://telegraphindia.com/1100111/jsp/n ... 967138.jsp
Arunachal seeks joint drive against rebels
http://telegraphindia.com/1100111/jsp/n ... 955013.jsp

2) Maoist: SATP:

Four CPI-Maoist cadres killed in Chhattisgarh

The Hindu reports that four Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were killed in an encounter with a Police party comprising the Combat Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) and the Koya Commandos at Surpanaguda area near Jagurugondo in Dantewada District on January 9. Superintendent of Police Amrish Misra said that one 12 bore gun and three muzzle loaders were recovered. All the four were in uniform and suspected to be members of the Jagarugonda area committee of the outfit. There are two women among the four Moists killed, adds PTI.

Miffed Teklal may hit back
http://telegraphindia.com/1100111/jsp/f ... 968178.jsp
JMM cracks over cabinet ---- Hemant rushes to pacify seniors
http://telegraphindia.com/1100111/jsp/f ... 968177.jsp

3) J&K: Srinagar hotel siege has lessons for police nationwide - Praveen Swami
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/ ... epage=true

[Surya]

what is Swami smoking to compare a 3 storey mofussil hotel against the Taj or the Trident??

This is not taking anything from JKP and CRPf - they did a great job but its a stupid comparison to Mumbai attack

[shyamd]

PM arrives in New Delhi

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in New Delhi Sunday evening on her first state visit to India since assuming office a year ago.

A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carried the prime minister.

The prime minister left for India with Bangladesh pinning high hopes on opening up a new chapter in Indo-Bangla bilateral relations and keeping the issues of yawning trade imbalance, security and water sharing high on the agenda.

Prior to her departure on a three-day visit, she hoped she would seize the opportunity to seek warmer ties and resolution of longstanding issues with the world's largest democracy.

"We are eagerly looking forward to the visit of the prime minister, and I strongly believe it will enable us to build on the already solid foundation of our existing friendly relations with India," said Foreign Minister Dipu Moni at a roundtable in capital on Saturday.

India has already said the Bangladesh prime minister's visit will be a "landmark" event in bilateral ties amidst indications that New Delhi is willing to “travel extra mile” by taking some non-reciprocal steps in various fields including reducing tariff barrier.

The premier's official entourage includes Dipu Moni, Water Resources Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen, PM's Advisers HT Imam, Mashihur Rahman and Gowher Rizvi and secretaries of several ministries concerned. Besides, a high-level business delegation will accompany her as a sign of Bangladesh's willingness to expand trade with its economically excelling neighbour.

Meanwhile, the Indian capital is being spruced up for the Bangladesh PM's visit. A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying Hasina and her entourage is scheduled to take off from Zia International Airport at 6:00pm to land at Palam Air Force Base in New Delhi.

Unprecedented security measures are also in place in New Delhi, particularly in Chanakyapuri area. Additional police and paramilitary forces have been deployed in and around the places to be visited by Hasina and her entourage during their stay in the Indian capital.

Hasina will be lodged in the presidential Chandragupta suite at the super luxury Maurya Sheraton Hotel, famous for accommodating the then US presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush, and other world dignitaries during their visit to India. The then Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia also stayed in the same suite during her India visit in March 2006.

The Chandragupta suite with its décor spreading over 2,500 square feet is reminiscent of the Maurya period of the third century BC.

Hasina will be accorded a ceremonial reception at Rashtrapati Bhavan in the Indian capital at 9:00am on Monday. She will be given a 21-gun salute and a guard of honour in the forecourt of official residence of the Indian president. Horse-mounted Indian Presidential Guards will escort her at the time.

Three agreements and a few memorandums of understanding (MoUs) will be signed after the formal delegation level talks between the two countries led by Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh at Hyderabad House tomorrow evening.

Reports from New Delhi said Maurya Sheraton, where Hasina and her entourage will stay, has been turned into a fortress with the Special Security Force (SSF) of Bangladesh and Indian elite National Security Guard (NSG) screening every visitor. Hotel employees have been issued special passes.

Delhi police will man the outer ring of multi-layer security arrangement. India's Intelligence Bureau will be in charge of the second ring while the inner cordon will be left to the SSF and NSG. Delhi police will install barricades to check vehicles on the roads to be used by the prime minister's motorcade.