Internal Security Watch

[Sachin]

Now what could be the reason for that

Because in most parts of India, Cr.PC 144 has been liberally put to use. Most of the folks would already have got home .

[shyamd]

LeT leader held in N’ganj

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested the Bangladesh chapter coordinator of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistan-based militant organisation, at Madaninagar in Siddirganj upazila of Narayanganj Wednesday night.

The arrestee was identified as Maulana Mohammad Imran, son of Mohammad Ali of Paikpara in Baniachang upazila of Habiganj, reports our Narayanganj correspondent.

Gazi Mohammad Ahsanuzzaman, director of Rab-11, said this at a press conference at the Rab-11 office at Adamji in Narayanganj town at noon.

A huge amount of counterfeit foreign currency, one mobile phone set and books on Jihad were seized from his possession.

The LeT leader used to recruit members for the organisation and prepare passports and visas to send them to Pakistan, RAB claimed.

S Sohayel, director of RAB's media and legal wing, said previously some Pakistani citizens, supposedly to be members of the militant outfit, were arrested in Bangladesh.

The law enforcers were certain that locals were involved in sheltering these Pakistanis, he added.

Imran is being quizzed, which Sohayel hoped, will help uncover more important information regarding the hideout of the other LeT members in Bangladesh.

[Pratyush]

ok.

was ignorent of that.

[ShyamSP]

Hon'ble Sudhir Agarwal, J.

Gist on some point
1. The area covered under the central dome of the disputed structure is
the birthplace of Lord Rama as per faith and belief of Hindus.
..
4. The building in dispute was constructed after demolition of Non-
Islamic religious structure, i.e., a Hindu temple.
...

The two points are enough to vindicate VHP/RSS/BJP point of view and
put away all Pseudo-Hindus that have been arguing endlessly and senselessly.

It is one thing Muslims argue for Mosque and how they want to follow up on this judgment
and whether they want to consider alternative sites to construct mosques.

All the Pseudo folks need to be shunted away if they come in the way of constructing
temple. All other disputed areas where temples were destroyed need to be claimed back.

[chetak]

All the Pseudo folks need to be shunted away if they come in the way of constructing
temple. All other disputed areas where temples were destroyed need to be claimed back.

Can't be done saar, as per our won laws.

The Places of Religious Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, which clearly states that "the religious character of a place of worship existing on the 15th day of August, 1947, shall continue to be the same as it existed on that day".

[Anantha]

Swami Ramdev on Aaj Tak
Ibrahim Lodhi gave his life fighting Babur and was Indian just like todays muslims. Todays muslims stand with Ram rather than Babur and Ram and Hindus are forefathers of all Indians.

[ShyamSP]

All the Pseudo folks need to be shunted away if they come in the way of constructing
temple. All other disputed areas where temples were destroyed need to be claimed back.

Can't be done saar, as per our won laws.

The Places of Religious Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, which clearly states that "the religious character of a place of worship existing on the 15th day of August, 1947, shall continue to be the same as it existed on that day".

The act in 1991 looks sneaky. Just like it was done in 1991 another act can be brought in 2010.

Anyway, this new judgment overturns that act. Precedent law is norm so this can set good precedent for future cases.

Anyway, I said "disputed sites" not all sites. Some of those disputed sites have been in dispute prior to 1947 so law can be bendable.

[Sachin]

Petition of Madani's relative dismissed
A case was lodged by a relative of Abdul Nassar Mahdani against Superindent of Police Kollam, Kerala and Dy.Commissioner of Police, Bangalore. The petitioner said that as per rules an arrested person have to be first produced before a Magistrate having the jurisdiction in the area of arrest, before taking away the accused to the court which issued the arrest warrant. It seems this was not followed in the arrest of Abdul Nassar Mahdani.

The Magistrate court even though accepted this plea, threw it out yesterday. One simple argument was all it required to get the case thrown out. Cr.PC Sec 79 (1) clearly deals with the provision regarding an arrest which has to be made outside the jurisdiction of the police officer who is to make the arrest. But for this both the police officers had to get help from lawyers, and what more.. the advocate for the plaintiff wants to go for an appeal .

Mean while.. all is calm in the Western fronts (all of India..).

[Dilbu]

PM's security breached

At about 7.15 pm on Wednesday, when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's caravan was on its way to 7, RCR, a white Ambassador pierced the security cover at Teen Murti Marg in Chanakyapuri and travelled with the cavalry for a few metres. The joyride came to an end after an escort car spotted the errant vehicle.

Sources in the police, meanwhile, said that an ambassador car with about three men in police uniform sitting inside suddenly entered into the PM's caravan at Teen Murti Marg.

"They had probably exited from house number 11 at Teen Murti Marg, which belongs to Congress leader Buta Singh, and entered the convoy. All the policemen, who were reportedly from paramilitary forces, were detained along with the vehicle and interrogated at length at the Chanakyapuri police station on Wednesday night and a Daily Diary (DD) entry was filed about the incident," a senior police officer stated.

Cops, however, remained tight-lipped on what action was taken against the security men.
The Prime Minister was on his way to his residence from the airport after visiting Maharashtra for the launch of the AADHAR project, with the Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

Looks like a mistake or accident from the paramilitary men but shows loopholes in the system. What if it was some one other than cops?

[ramana]

Something very rotten has happened. If the man was from Bihar whty didnt the Punjab police have his antecedents checked out in Bihar. And who were the real perpetrators of teh Ludhiana blasts?

Branded a Pakistani, Wasil Khan now walks free as an Indian

I think its a legitimate case for inquiry into Punjab Police actions and definite need for restitution.

Wasil Khan, who languished behind the bars for eight years after being wrongly branded a Pakistani and convicted in a terror attack case, was released today following a high court order.

43-year-old Khan was received by his family members outside the Amritsar jail.

Khan, a resident of east Champaran district of Bihar found his Indian identity a few days back when his family members met Amritsar deputy commissioner Kahan Singh Pannu and produced the voter list of their area in which his name was present and his school certificates to prove his nationality.

Pannu brought the matter to the notice of Punjab and Haryana high court Justice Mehtab Singh Gill during his visit to the Amritsar jail, who immediately ordered his release.

Khan was detained by the police in 2000 near the India-Pakistan border as he was allegedly unable to explain his visit to the border.

He was declared by local authorities a Pakistani who had illegally crossed over to India.

In March 2002, the Punjab police charged him with being involved in a bomb blast in Sirhind town near Ludhiana. He was convicted and sentenced to eight years in jail.

Khan served the sentence and no other case was pending against him but had to stay in jail as efforts for his repatriation to Pakistan were on.

After being released from the jail, Khan thanked the media which recently highlighted his plight.

Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC) had last week taken notice of Khan's plight and sought a report in this regard.

About time.

its injustices like this which makes the people alienated.

Follow-up story:

The human rights commission in Punjab has issued a notice to the state government seeking details about Wasil Khan, 43, who was made to spend eight years in various jails for his alleged involvement in a bomb attack in Ludhiana in 2000.

Khan was also charged with having illegally crossed over to India from Pakistan.

However, the Punjab and Haryana high court ordered Khan’s release after an inquiry found he had been wrongfully confined as he was not only an Indian citizen, but also had no hand in the blast. On Thursday, Khan’s sister Mohazra Khatoon gave Pannu documents supporting Khan’s identity and demanded his immediate release from jail.

Khan, who used to clean trucks, was picked up by Gurdaspur police near the Indo-Pak border under suspicious circumstances. He was declared a Pakistani national.

He was moved to Ludhiana and was accused of involvement in a bomb blast. Khan was tried as a Pakistan national as police did not bother to verify whether he was an Indian. After spending six years in Ludhiana jail, he was moved to Amritsar central jail.
After Pakistani embassy refused to confirm whether Khan was their national, Punjab Police sent a letter to an address in Bihar. After receiving the letter, Khan’s sister came to Amritsar this week and presented Pannu proof of his identity.

Shouldn't they have done that early on when they first arrested him?

[shyamd]

Terror beyond borders.
Gulf Malayalis fall prey to LeT trap

THE FIRST clues were picked from an encounter site in Kashmir two years ago. An army unit recovered a cell phone that, it was subsequently discovered, belonged to Umar (9469402337), a Kashmir-based Lashkar-e- Tayyeba (LeT) operative. The call list showed a series of phone calls had been made from this mobile to one in Kannur (9744382047). This gave the investigating agencies a lead into the conspiracy behind the 2008 Bengaluru blasts case, and also to the alarming trend of recruitment of Malayalis living in Gulf countries for terror activities.

The calls were made on 1 and 2 October 2008, a week prior to the killing of four Malayalis in an encounter with the army in Kashmir. The Kerala government formed a Joint Investigation Team to probe the involvement of Malayalis in terror activities. During the probe, the alleged involvement of T Nazir in the conspiracy came to light. Nazir, a historysheeter jailed earlier on murder charges, was a member of Abdul Nasar Madani’s People’s Democratic Party.

Nazir was also charged with conspiring to assassinate former Kerala CM EK Nayanar in 1999. An air-conditioner mechanic by profession, Nazir had, as a 16-year-old, taken part in protest rallies organised by Madani in the wake of the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992.

According to the JIT investigators, the Kerala number belonged to 38-year-old Kannur resident Abdul Jaleel. A painter by profession, the Kerala Police alleged that Jaleel acted as a middleman, passing messages between Nazir and the recruits. He was arrested on 18 October 2008. Jaleel spilled the beans that five Malayalis — Abbul Raheem, Mohammad Fayaz, P Fais, Mohammad Yaseen and Abdul Jabbar — were sent to Kashmir by Nazir, an alleged LeT recruit, for training in a LeT-run camp near Lolab valley. The camp was raided by the army in the first week of October 2008.

Only Jabbar managed to flee and made his way back to Kerala. But the police, armed with the information provided by Jaleel, nabbed Jabbar at his second wife’s house in Hyderabad. With Jabbar in their hands, the investigators got their first glimpse into the conspiracy behind the 2008 Bengaluru blasts case and the involvement of a Gulf-based Malayali recruit of LeT in it. Jabbar told police that Raheem, one of the four boys killed in the encounter, was the son-in-law of Zainuddin alias Abdul Sattar who, along with his son Sarfuddin, helped in preparing the bombs used in Bengaluru. Both were arrested.

Jabbar and Zainuddin told the investigators that the Bengaluru conspiracy was hatched by Nazir with the help of a Gulf-based Malayali Sarfaraz Nawaz, who was based in Muscat, Oman. Indian investigators got a shot in the arm with the arrest and extradition of Nawaz.

The interrogation of Nawaz filled in the blanks in the terror nexus involving fundamentalist youth in Kerala. Nawaz, a diploma holder in computer hardware and networking, told his interrogators that he was involved with the activities of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in Kerala before it was banned in September 2001. He moved to Muscat in 2003 and moved to Dubai two years later. Soon he joined a fundamentalist discussion group of expatriate Malayalis.

In the meanwhile, he was introduced to Nazir in 2006 when he was on a trip back to Kerala. Nazir and Nawaz hit it off immediately. During one of their later meetings, Nazir expressed his desire to send some boys abroad “for training”. Nawaz assured him that he would find a way to organise the training.

Nawaz has told police that in 2006 he met with an LeT operative, Haroon, through a Pakistani imam, Muslim Bashir, in Muscat, who in turn took him to the regional in-charge of the LeT known by his operational name Wali. In their first meeting, according to an account provided by Nawaz, Wali spoke about the global situation and the problems of Muslims in India, with reference to Kashmir, Gujarat riots and Babri Masjid. When Nawaz sought Wali’s help for the training mission, he suggested he go for training first. Nawaz reluctantly agreed. His entrapment was complete.

“It happens in a very subtle manner,” says Union Home Secretary GK Pillai in an exclusive chat with TEHELKA. “Suppose you have overstayed your visa or done some criminal act and the Dubai or Bahrain police is after you. You are scared that your work permit may get cancelled. There are guys who come and help you. Once they have helped you out they have got you into their clutches. Then you get brainwashed over a period of time. You are given a Nepali or Pakistani visa and sent to Pakistan for training in arms.There you learn how to make a bomb and handle weapons.”

According to Nawaz’s statement to police in January 2008, Nazir told him that he was planning a “big job” and asked him to arrange at least Rs. 2 lakh. Nawaz discussed the matter with Wali and revealed that Nazir was planning simultaneous bombings in Chennai and Bengaluru. Wali immediately agreed to finance the operation but suggested that they should target only Bengaluru because it would attract far more global attention than Chennai. Nawaz sent 2,500 rials (Rs. 2.9 lakh) in two installments to Nazir through a hawala channel.

According to figures available with the Union Home Ministry for Kerala alone, the total annual remittance through hawala is around Rs. 20,000 crore. Pillai explains that the hawala network is the easiest way for genuine Malayalis living in the Gulf to send money home. “Sometimes terrorists are also using the same channel, which is more worrisome,” says Pillai.

Terror finance sent through hawala was used to set off eight bomb blasts in Bengaluru on 25 July 2008. One woman was killed and 20 others were injured. The police managed to defuse one live bomb in the nick of time.

According to the chargesheet filed by Bengaluru police, when Nazir told Nawaz that he had five boys ready for training, Wali was informed of the development. Wali gave Nawaz the phone number of Umar, a Kashmir-based LeT operative. Nazir provided fake identity cards to the boys, who were handed over to Umar in Srinagar in September 2008. After a few days, Wali informed Nawaz that two boys were creating problems.

JABBAR, WHO managed to come alive from Kashmir, told the police they were shocked to learn that their training would be in arms and ammunition. They had been under the impression that they would be taught the Quran. The unhappy boys wanted to go back to Kerala. Nazir called his boys and warned them that the LeT operatives would kill them if they didn’t finish training.

In fact, the calls made to cajole and threaten the unhappy boys were the same 10 calls which eventually put investigating agencies on Nazir’s trail. With the arrest of Jaleel, Nazir came on the radar of the investigators. After the encounter in Kashmir Nazir fled to Bangladesh in November 2008. Nawaz has told police the he had made arrangements for Nazir’s safe passage to Bangladesh, where he was taken to various safe houses of LeT. However, after spending around six months in Bangladesh, his luck finally ran out in the middle of 2009.

He was ensconced in an LeT safe house in Chittagong when the local police raided the hideout and arrested him. He was handed over to India to face trial. The challenge before the police is to prove the charges against Nazir and his terror module in court.

(With inputs from Shahina KK in Thiruvananthapuram)

[sum]

Policing encounters

Three police encounters in less than 10 days. Now, if that sent the chill down the spine of every criminal in the City, would you dub the police trigger-happy?

While human rights activists predictably claim these encounters were ''deliberately staged,'' the police have the usual alibi: We had no choice, we were pushed to the corner!

The slained killers’ relatives obviously cry hoarse, citing human rights violation. But the police reel out a long list of the criminal’s misdeeds. Even the criminal has the right to get the due process of law. But if he turns violent, the police say, they would act. Going one step further, the police would even send a more deadly message. Like they did by honouring a house owner recently for shooting to death a sandalwood thief.

But encounters aren’t anything new to Bangalore. In the first such case, Station Shekhar, an associate of don M P Jairaj, was gunned down in 1989. Over 30 such encounters have been recorded since then. This year alone, the police have killed four persons and injured one in separate encounters.

Involved in the encounters, the anti-rowdy squad is a small team comprising only a few officers. ACP Ashok Kumar and Abdul Azeem, now an MLC, have been involved in five encounters, with the rowdies surviving in two cases. Former ACP G A Bava led the team that killed Eric D'Souza, a Mumbai-based gangster, who was in the City to murder another former gangster.

Mumbai encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar had gunned down three Mumbai gangsters on Cubbon Road. In January and February 2007, the then ACP B K Shivaram and his team killed Shimoga Naga, an associate of Hebbet Manja, on Hebbal flyover.

Only in some of these cases were the police taken to court. But the police had the last laugh.

Police stand

City Police Commissioner Shankar Bidari does not see encounters as a means to enforce justice. “Certain situations force encounters as they are not planned occurances. The police officers on the spot use weapons considering the situation,” he explains.

Pulakeshinagar ACP, B B Ashok Kumar justifies each of the 18 encounters he was
involved in across the State. “Encounters are required if one looks into the background of those killed. They were involved in several heinous crimes, had taken law into their hands frequently, had posed a great threat to society and the police and attacked the police.”

Police are convinced that the crime graph dips after every encounter. Is this a trend that, as some department insiders say, tempts the police top brass to resort to such killings when they fail to control activities of notorious criminals?

But the police are quick to deny it. “The decision to use weapons is not a pre-meditated one. It happens based on a particular situation,” defends an officer.

Death sentence without trial

Human rights votaries say encounter killing is a death sentence without trial. Policemen dubbed as ‘encounter specialists’ ought to be treated for what they are, criminals, instead of being labelled as heroes, they contend.
......
Here’s their critical contention: “How is that policemen rarely die in encounters, when these insurgents are typically shown to be much better armed than our police? The men in khaki should realise they are paid to bring offenders to justice, not to kill them. It is high time the uniformed units are trained to be patient.”

But Bidari cites Section 103, IPC which permits the use of weapons for self defence. “Is it not a human right violation when criminals open fire at the police?” he asks. “And, what about those officers who were injured or killed by criminals? What about those innocent people who were brutally murdered by criminals? Why don’t human rights activists fail to consider this?” Ashok Kumar wonders. The debate goes on.

[ramana]

One has to understand that language is a recent and false marker of identity. As modernity is peeled off the different layers of identity which were used to mask the core get cast away. See the concurrent story of German jihadis being killed by drone strikes.


http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewto ... 36#p953436

[SSridhar]

British media reports bomb threat at CWG Village - The Hindu

17:57 England media reporting that there has been an anonymous bomb threat to the Athletes Village. The Delhi police have said that there is no credible threat at this point in time to the Village. I will bring you more on this story as and when something happens.

I fervently hope it is a hoax.

[Dilbu]

Anon bomb threat call puts CWG village on alert

New Delhi, Oct 5: Delhi police on Tuesday, Oct 5 afternoon received an anonymous call that a bomb has been placed inside the Commonwealth Games Village prompting an alert and a thorough security check.

The residential complex with 14 blocks, 34 towers and 1,168 air-conditioned apartments, which host around 7,000 athletes and officials, was checked thoroughly by dog squads and bomb disposal teams.

Even though the search was still on, police officials believe that the call could have been a hoax.

[Raghavendra]

Kolkata a haven for terrorists: Buddha http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20101008/80 ... buddh.html
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday admitted that the state capital has become a haven for terrorists.

"Terrorists have to come to Kolkata for shelter. The police receive information on the movement of the terrorists and keep a watch on them," Bhattacharjee, also in-charge of Home (Police) department, told at a police function here. Pointing out that the Kolkata Police had less personnel compared to the police-public ratio in cities like Mumbai, he said there were 26,000 personnel in 48 police stations in Kolkata which had a population of 60 lakh. "This ratio is higher in Mumbai and other cities," the chief minister said. He also said that even in this situation the Kolkata Police works well. He, however, said criminals who operated in their own areas in cities like Mumbai, could not do so in Kolkata.

The Kolkata Police, meanwhile, introduced a special initiative 'Pronam' for the assistance of senior citizens. The police would provide help to the senior citizens if they contact the control room.



Bilal's role in Bakery blast can't be ruled out: ATS http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20101008/80 ... n-t-b.html
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) today told the Chief Judicial Magistrate's court in Nashik that it "cannot completely rule out the possibility of Sheikh Lalbaba Mohammed Hussain Farid alias Bilal's involvement in the German Bakery blast in Pune".

Bilal was arrested on September 7 for his alleged role in heading a sleeper cell in Nashik and for allegedly scouting targets in Nashik, including the Maharashtra Police Academy, the Police Commissionerate and Nashik Cantonment at Deolali, at the behest of one of the conspirators of the German Bakery blast Mirza Himayat Baig (29). Meanwhile, Baig was today transferred to Nashik where the court granted the investigators his custody for 11 days.

Bilal's link was raised by Special Prosecutor for ATS Ajay Misar while seeking the custody of Baig for the Nashik offence. Baig, has so far been identified as the planter, bomb maker and a co-conspirator in the February 13 German Bakery blast, along with Indian Mujahideen's Mohsin Chaudhary and their leader Yasin Bhatkal.

The ATS surrendered the police custody of Bilal earlier after they had questioned him in two separate sessions. "For the first time, we sought the custody of an accused again after surrendering him on the basis of the result of the identification parade of Baig. Considering that identity parade had positive results where people gave good leads and identified the accused, we felt the need to interrogate Baig and Bilal in presence of each other," said Misar.

"The ATS has informed the court that phone records of Bilal and Baig show active communication. They stayed together in Latur for a considerable time. This puts the probe in a very crucial stage where we need to know what was the nature of the interaction."

[Sachin]

Attack on Professor: Fund collection in the Middle East for the accused

The Kerala Police have reportedly learned that Islamists have formed committees abroad, especially in the Gulf, for assisting the accused in the case of the attack against college professor TJ Joseph even as the NIA has informed the Central Government of its readiness to investigate the attack.

According to sources, the police have received detailed information regarding extensive collection of money by Islamists in the Gulf to help the accused in the legal cases relating to the attack and their family members. It is said that the Popular Front of India, to which all the accused in the case belong, itself is behind the money-collection campaign abroad.

According to reports, the funds collection for assisting the Popular Front activists accused in the case is being carried out by an outfit called the NDF Fraternity Forum based in Doha, Qatar. NDF (National Development Front) is the erstwhile avatar of the Popular Front of India.

Sources say that the president of the forum is one Subahan, thought to be a native of the State of Karnataka. But they also think that Subahan could be a Malayalee hailing from Perumbilavu in central Kerala.


NIA gets legal advice (to take up the "Attack on Professor" case or not)

[Raghavendra]

Bengaluru blasts: Arrests made in Kerala, Rajasthan http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/oct/ ... asthan.htm

[anchal]

Good news and good job by RAW! Bangladesh is indeed delievering results:)

The United National Liberation Front (UNLF) on Saturday confirmed the arrest of its chairman R.K Meghen alias R.K Sana Yaima. Meghen’s capture by a “joint team of Indian and Bangladeshi security personnel” was reported four days ago.....
“He was returning to where he was putting up in Dhaka in his own vehicle bearing registration number Dhaka Metro G-17-0716 when some security personnel in civvies and in uniform signalled him to stop just 10 minutes away from his place,” said Pambei....
The UNLF demanded New Delhi should come clean on Meghen’s arrest and disclose his whereabouts. It termed the arrest as “an act of terrorism and thievery, which is against the international law”...

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Manipur-o ... 13911.aspx

[shyamd]

Is Lalit Modi seeking asylum in Iceland?

As the noose tightens around former Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi, it has come to light now that he might seek asylum in European island nation Iceland.

The one-time uncrowned king of cricket is now just one step short of being an international fugitive as Modi might lose his Indian passport after the enforcement directorate (ED) making a request to the Mumbai regional passport office in this regard. Consequently, the passport office has sent a show cause notice to Modi seeking an explanation as to why his passport should not be cancelled.

The ED request to the passport office comes on the basis of accusation of not responding to five summons to appear in a Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) case investigation involving Modi. It had on October 1 issued a blue alert notice to the immigration authorities.

Sources told Headlines Today that if the passport gets cancelled, ED might issue a red corner notice and file a criminal case against Modi under FEMA.

Most recently, the Chennai Police booked Modi along with others for alleged criminal misappropriation of the funds of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) following a complaint by its secretary N. Srinavasan.

But Modi always seems to be a step ahead of the law. Rumour has it that Modi is all set to get an Icelandic passport using his wife Minal's connections in high places. Minal is a close friend of Dorrit Moussaieff, wife of Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson.

Lawyer denies ED charges
On the other side, Modi's counsel Mahmood Abidi completely denied the ED's claim of non-cooperation saying he was staying away from India because of a threat to his life. He claimed Modi has been cooperating and replying to all notices.

"ED did not directly contact us. We heard about the notice on Mr Modi's passport in the media. Lalit has valid reason to not return to India because of elevated threat to his life here. Srinivasan has malicious intent that is why he filed the complaint in his hometown Chennai and not Mumbai," Abidi said.

Modi, the globe trotter
Meanwhile, indifferent to whatever has been happening in India, Modi has been busy globe trotting ever since his unceremonious exit from the IPL. Accompanied by burly bodyguards, he shuttles between London, Paris and Milan these days.

After his ouster, his first stop was London where he maintains his base. He has rented a huge apartment in Cadogan Square, one of the fanciest addresses in the city. After London, he left for Monaco. In mid-May 2010, he was holidaying with industrialist Vijay Mallya and his son Siddharth, attending the Formula One Grand Prix.

From Monaco, he returned to London and began his grand tour of Italy. In early June, Modi was accompanied by actress Sushmita Sen to Florence. By mid-June, Modi had dashed off to South Africa for the FIFA World Cup with his kids in the company of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan.

In August, Modi was off to Bali with wife Minal and brother-in-law Suresh Chellaram, where he rented a house for a month. From Bali, Modi left for Thailand with his family for the extended 70th birthday celebration of his industrialist father K.K. Modi. This Saturday he is expected to be in Milan to attend a bash thrown by Countess Maily Zegna.

- With Sandeep Bamzai and Aatish Srivastava in New Delhi

[Ameet]

UNLF admits Sanayaima kidnap in Bangladesh; alleges RAW hand

http://kanglaonline.com/2010/10/unlf-ad ... -raw-hand/

Mystery surrounding the arrest of UNLF chairman RK Sanayaima has somewhat unfolded as the party has now admitted its leader was indeed arrested by a combined intelligence team of India and Bangladesh in Dhaka.

The UNLF also said the whereabouts of RK Sanayaima is yet to be ascertained but presumed the UNLF chairman is under the custody of India.

....published reports that Sanayaima was transferred to India by a special flight, it said adding Bangladeshi and Indian government will never have the courage to admit the treacherous act.

It further claimed such treachery always has been the way of the Indian government and it is now showing its true intent of suppressing the people of Manipur and asserted that some nations are extending a helping hand to such practices.

[Sen_K]

Deganga’s Hindus abandoned by own

Nothing else explains the indifference of Hindus towards their hapless co-religionists in Deganga who, after suffering the “organised fury of the Muslim mob”, led by Trinamool Congress MP Haji Nurul Islam, have been virtually abandoned by both community and state to their fate. Starting September 6, Haji Nurul Islam and his thugs, who met with resistance when they tried to demolish the main Durga Mandap that has existed for long, ran riot in Deganga block of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, a short distance from Calcutta. Hindu homes were ransacked, Hindu shops were set on fire, Hindu temples were desecrated. All this happened while the district administration and the police twiddled their thumbs. In West Bengal, the Marxists are loath to take on the mullahs; for the Trinamool Congress, the mullahs are powerful allies in Ms Mamata Banerjee’s quest for power at any price.

Humiliated and simmering with rage, abandoned and forsaken by their own in West Bengal and elsewhere, the grieving Hindus of Deganga decided not to celebrate Durga Puja, the most important festival in the Bengali Hindu calendar, this year. The Durga Mandaps in Deganga wore a deserted look, the joyous sound of dhaak, the traditional drum, was not heard, and an overwhelming sense of mourning prevailed. Fear played spoil sport, too: If the September riots were any indication, Muslim belligerence was not to be taken lightly. Meanwhile, in a demonstration of crude triumphalism, Haji Nurul Islam and his goons, with the full support and blessings of the Trinamool Congress, have built and inaugurated a new mosque right in the middle of Deganga market. The high-volume and high-pitched azaan is more a taunt to the Hindus than a call to prayers for the faithful.

The ghetto now rules Deganga. The Hindus, reduced to an awful minority by Muslim ‘settlers’ who entered West Bengal illegally and settled in Deganga as ‘citizens’ after being provided with ration cards by the local committee of the CPI(M) that facilitated the inclusion of their names in the voters list, can only grieve over their persecution today. Ironically, the Hindus voted en bloc for the Left, as did the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants-turned-Indian citizens. Then the demography changed radically; the pampered minority became the oppressive majority. That coincided with the waning of the Left Front and the waxing of the Trinamool Congress which, mindful of numbers, chose Muslims over Hindus in Deganga and strengthened its hold by patronising the likes of Haji Nurul Islam. When Ms Mamata Banerjee went around ‘inaugurating’ Durga Puja at various pandals in Hindu majority constituencies of Kolkata this year, she did not spare a thought for the Hindus of Deganga; she need not have because their votes do not matter. That’s the power of demographic change, forced and natural.

Nor does the Left Front, especially the CPI(M), care about the Hindus of Deganga. The Marxists believe survival depends not on alienating the mullahs but pandering to them. Hence the recently announced communal quota; hence, too, the West Bengal Government shamelessly looking the other way as students of a tax-payer funded Islamic ‘university’ — really an over-glorified madarsa — in Kolkata force their women teachers to wear the burqa on campus. Then there is the media which has blacked out the plight of Hindus in Deganga, striking an ideological posture with which we are all too familiar. But it is not Left-liberalism that has kept Deganga out of the columns of newspapers and prime time bulletins of 24x7 news channels: It is the fear of incurring the wrath of both Ms Mamata Banerjee and her Marxist foes. The tragedy that has befallen the Hindus of Deganga is similar to the stuff that once made Ripley’s ‘Believe It or Not’ a popular inclusion in Sunday papers.

[Abhi_G]

From the same site: So WB has already accepted Sharia....

http://www.dailypioneer.com/290147/Dega ... y-own.html

Postscript: I have received the following e-mail from Hindu Samhati, the only organisation which has been trying to draw the attention of media and authorities to the fear that reigns in Deganga, admittedly without any success so far:

“Minor Hindu girl abducted by Muslim youth in Deganga in broad daylight on October 1.

Victim — Sangita Mandal; age 17 years, four months. Class 12 student. Daughter of Sukumar Mandal. Address: Village Purba Changdana, PS Deganga.

Kidnapper — Naharul Islam; age 22. Son of Abdul Rahim. Address: Village Doharia.

Sangita was abducted in a Maruti Omni van at Ambika Nagar in front of Polytechnic College.”

In a similar case of abduction and forced nikah when the mother of the minor girl appealed for justice to a division bench of Calcutta High Court earlier this year, the honourable judges of secular India’s secular justice system had cited sharia’h to legitimise the ‘marriage’, insisting that the age of the girl was inconsequential. We live in depressing times.

[anchal]

^ That is very depressing indeed

[Hari Seldon]

Deganga’s Hindus abandoned by own

It's over. Finished. Just waiting for this pattern to repeat all over the eastern region first - Asom is next right after Bengal, and then spread up the ganges and down the corommandel from there. The yindus in Debganga should convert to Islam and spare themselves further such trouble. Ditto the yindooze left in Pakistan. Am actually saying this in all seriousness.

[nkumar]

Deganga’s Hindus abandoned by own

It's over. Finished. Just waiting for this pattern to repeat all over the eastern region first - Asom is next right after Bengal, and then spread up the ganges and down the corommandel from there. The yindus in Debganga should convert to Islam and spare themselves further such trouble. Ditto the yindooze left in Pakistan. Am actually saying this in all seriousness.

HS, totally agree with you there, that is the rational thing to do for yindoos in Deganga. When the state, political parties, media and their own community has abandoned them, you are left with only one choice. Actually, democracy game is structured like that. In a sham democracy like ours, which is not driven by policy but by identity, bottom line is democracy=demography. Kashmir is already gone, next in line are parts of Assam and WB and may be of Kerala too. I just don't want to see "Kashmiriyat" in other places of India in my lifetime. A very sorry state of affairs. Unless the structure of game is changed or strong, honest politicians get in power, there is not much hope for some pockets of India.

[AbhishekD]

what can be done under these conditions. Are there legal options available, how can sharia law be forced on hindus. This is absurd. If the girl was abducted and then forced to marry, then it is a clear case of forced marriage and it should become a criminal case with the perpetrators brought to justice.

This case should goto supreme court now and then it should be highlighted at the highest level to show the injustice of application of a communal law on other community by force. This is simply unacceptable

[arjunm]

This is the real story that happened in Deganga-The illegal Bangladeshi Muslims after encroaching Hindu properties and their gradual settlement in Deganga area became the majority, now forced the meek Hindus to stop Idolatry(Durga Puja) which is against the tenet of Islam using their political mussels and blessings of the Communists and TMC.-The TMC MP Hazi Nurul Isalm is the main culprit of these pre-planned assault on the Hindus and their properties. This spontaneous attacks took place on 6th,7th, & 8th September,2010)

Deganga Visited – not a riot, but an Islamic Onslaught
A CAAMB Report 13 September 2010

There was looting, burning for three days. Military was called. Deganga is just hardly 45 km
away towards northeast from Kolkata. But no TV camera reached there, no interview of victims
shown in any TV channel. After two days, some newspapers reported only of ‘violence
between two communities’.No reporting about the identity of the attackers, even if
well-known to everybody there. No Human Rights groups went there. No intellectual
brigadewent there, not even a statement by the Santras Virodhi Mancha, the newly formed body to talk
against all kinds of terror, both from the state and non-state actors. So some of us had to go there and report about the
burning Deganga. It is perhaps the test case what the Hindus of West Bengal will have to face
in the new CHANGE that is swaying West Bengal. In a nutshell, our findings indicate that what
happened in Deganga was not a riot, but a one-sided pogrom with a clear planning and its
successful execution.

How it all Started
It all started as a dispute over a piece of land. The land which once belonged to legendary
Rani Rasmoni, is now shared by a Muslim graveyard and a Hindu temple land (Debottar). There
has been some dispute about the boundary between the two estates and the issue is now lying
with the Calcutta High Court. The Durga temple on the land isabout 50 years old and owned by Chattal Samity. The samity (organization) is an organization of the Hindu refugees fromChittagong in East Pakistan. They organize a big Durga Puja festivalwhich is the major festival spot in thenearby locality. There were somemeetings between two communitiesabout the land very recently but no
solution was found. Like every year,the Samity has started to constructthe pandal for the puja.
On 6th September at about 1 pm in the afternoon, a group ofMuslim started excavation to build a wall which would prevent people from using a common road which passes through the
disputed land. This road is the only link to the Hindu village ofthe refugees from Chittagong and also the way to reach thepuja pandal. This simply means a direct provocation to stop theupcoming Durga Puja. The Samity people resisted the illegalmove by the Muslims on the disputed lan. Then the local police came to stop the ensuing
clash. However the Muslim group was well prepared for that and attacked police with bricksalready collected, anticipating police intervention. The Muslim group had children and women in its army of stone throwers – a tradition from Palestine to Kashmir. The police had to retreat
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and again came back with larger forces from Barasat and Basirhat Police stations. Two police
officers Arupratan Ghosh and Dibyendu Ghosh were injured by spade and bricks. To control
the mob the police then fired 7 rounds in the air, in which no one was injured.
The Muslim Attack 6th SeptemberLocals allege that TMC MP Hazi Nurul Islam was responsible for the next chain of events as hepromised to snatch the land from the Hindus. After the police firing the Muslims went back for
time being but started to get organized to teach Hindus a lesson. So the Muslims led by TMC activists from Dogachhia
village later came in a number of Matador vans and attacked Kartikpur village. This is the village nearest to the
disputed land and it has a market and temple on the State Highway connecting to district headquarter Barasat. The
Muslim attackers first broke the Kali idol in the market temple, destroyed two shops of Milon De and Rabin De.
Another group started vandalizing the Hindu shops in near by Deganga Market.

Theylooted and destroyed the shops of Sanjay Das, they forcedopen the grocery shop of Kanai Gupta and looted
everything. Then they looted the mobile shop of Uttam Sahaand another mobile shop (Shri Krishna Mobile) of Tanmoy. Thelocals have alleged that TMC MP Hazi Nurul Islam himself was
present there to facilitate the looting. In this mayhem, theMuslim mob placed loud speakers on the top of the Deganga Mosque. It is to be noted thatdue to High Court order, Deganga Mosque could not install permanent loud speakers. It is alsoalleged by locals that Hazi ensured that he would put the loud speakers permanently on the
mosque.In next wave of attack the Muslim attackers again cameto Kartikpur market in the evening and destroyed moreHindu shops. The Hindu shops of Beliaghata market,another major market few kilometers away were alsolooted. The Shib-Kali Temple by the side of a local water body was ransacked. Then they burnt one bus, two
trucks and a Matador van at Kartikpur market.Another Muslim mobfrom nearby village ransacked the Kartikpur Health Centre and the adjoining Hindu houses and shops. Shops of Santu Das, Tapas and
others were ransacked there. They also attacked the house of Partha Das, broke the windowpanes of the house
by brickbating and damaged the Qualis jeep in the house.
7th September As the Muslims saw that the Left Front police would not domuch to save the Hindus, they again became active onnext morning. TMC activists Miraj Maklukar, Shohrab, Talebwere the leaders. They again came to Kartikpur Market at10 am in the morning. The Muslim mob again vandalized the Kali temple, destroyed the Kali idol
2which was plastered and placed again on the pedestal in the night. This time they alsourinated in the temple. They beat Prasad Basu who tried to talk to them. They injured Biswajit Biswas by sword. Then they attacked Hindu village Palpara. Police came and fired two roundsin the air, no one was injured.Army was called in the evening.
8th September Even in the presence of the Army, Muslims torched the houses of Haren Bakshi, Badal Ghosh and four other families in Khejurdanavillage close to Kartikpur Market. Then they ransacked the
house of Dr Tapas Roy and Tarun Bhowmik. Angry Hindu villagersburnt TMC party office at Kartikpur. But even in the face of such large scale desecration of properties, pandals and deities, the Hindus did not even touch the gates raised to celebrate the Eid due within a couple of days.This is mostly report of violence in and around Kartikpur, the
centre of the disputed land. The other areas and villages affected by Muslim violence were Beliaghata, Ramnathpur, Gambhitgachi, Doharia, Falti and others. One assessment puts as about 100 housesransacked and 200 shops damaged. 200 families took shelter elsewhere. 9th September There was panic among the Hindus. It seemed they are
living not in West Bengal but in a Sharia-ruled state. At about 12 noon TMC Central Ministers Mukul Roy, Dinesh
Divedi and others came in a number of cars withheavy security and visited the local police station and
BDO office. While going back they were shown blackflags, shoes by angry Hindu villagers including a large number of women and children in a number of places. As military people were seen packing up to go back, again fear of Muslim
attack was spreading among the Hindus.

Who did it and Why?

The facts speak loud that the mayhem was organised by the local TMC leaders. The Muslim fundamentalists have
been long appeased by Marxist government for 34 years. In a changed political scenario, the Muslim fundamentalist
forces have got the shelter of TMC. Some of them are now prominent TMC leaders. These fundamentalist Islamic force
has been successful to drive out Talsima Nasrin, there are a number of attacks on Hindus at Haringhata, Katwa,
Mallikpur and elsewhere in very recent times. Muslims now know that Left Front police will never fire at them. At
Nandigram, police fired on a Vaishnabite Hindu crowd offering prayers to Sri Chaitanyadev and out of 14 persons killed, only one was Muslim. But to appease Muslims, TMC nominated its MLA candidate from that Muslim martyr’s family. During Muslim rioting in Kolkata to oust Taslima, police remained a silent spectator and no one was
punished for destroying hundreds of cars and buses. In Deganga too Military was not required
at all, police force was enough to contain the violence of the local rioters. As the Marxist
government did not want its police to open fire on a Muslim mob if necessary, the Marxists
cunningly called Military to do the job. Then the central government can be easily blamed for
any untoward incident. The regressive Islamic leaders like Haji Nurul
Islam, Imam of Tipu Sultan Mosque or Idris Aliare now TMC leaders. So they know now they
can capture any disputed land by force, can put up loud speakers anywhere – no court or
government will dare to do anything.In 1991 census Deganga Block had 67.65%
Muslims, by now it must be more than70%. Like all Muslim majority places, be it Pakistan
or Bangladesh, the Hindu minority can only live as a dhimmi (hostage). The Hindus there
are feeling like that or otherwise many of them have to be refugee again. Human rights professionals or the so-called
changemakers will remain silent. But We must ALL STAND UP, lest DEGANGA becomes THE FUTURE OF
WEST BENGAL.
______________________________________________________________________________________
CAAMB (Campaign Against Atrocities on Minorities in Bangladesh) is a human rights advocacy
group working on the issues of minority rights in Bangladesh and campaigns for upholding
secular values in society
Contact: caambkolkata@hotmail.com

Thanks-

Arjun-m

[darshhan]

Hindus of West bengal are paying for the support they extended to marxists for all these years.It is Karma only.

Non islamists in Kerala should take note.There is a high chance that the same scenario would be replicated there as well.The settings are very similar.A Hindu hating Communist govt,Rising Islamic fundamentalism and a general apathy on the behalf of Hindus.

[Venkarl]

God's Own Country eh!!

[MChandraSekhar]

Hindus of West bengal are paying for the support they extended to marxists for all these years.It is Karma only.

Non islamists in Kerala should take note.There is a high chance that the same scenario would be replicated there as well.The settings are very similar.A Hindu hating Communist govt,Rising Islamic fundamentalism and a general apathy on the behalf of Hindus.

Calling it their karma is just not right. How can we be so callous? The Hindus in Debganga might not have voted, or might have been coerced into voting for Marxists.
As someone else said, the case of the forced marriage should be taken to the Supreme Court. The fact that there is hardly any mention of this anywhere, is alarming. What has happened to the BJP/VHP or RSS? Are they sleeping like Kumbhakaran?

[Rahul Mehta]

Deganga’s Hindus abandoned by own

The title is horribly misleading. A handful of Ministers, policemen, IAS, judges have indeed decided to ignore suffering of Hindus in Debanga for Saud money (and no other reason). But the title says that most of the Hindus of almost entire WB or India have chosen to ignore the sufferings. This is a lie. Almost all Hindus I meet, including illiterate auto rickshaw drivers, do want to reduce Islamist violence in India. Pioneer is not a a pioneer in giving misleading titles, but would surely get a Gold Medal.

==

If the girl was abducted and then forced to marry, then it is a clear case of forced marriage and it should become a criminal case with the perpetrators brought to justice. This case should goto supreme court now ....

AbhishekD,

Many (including myself) in India believe that Supreme Court judges are at least 10 times more corrupt than HCjs, who in turn are more corrupt than policemen/Ministers. eg SC-Cj Khare gave bail to two wealthy convicted Swiss pedophiles and thus helped them in escaping from India. And many (including myself) in India also believe that SCjs have deeper nexuses with Saud agents. For those who harbor such beliefs against judges, going to SCjs will be horrible waste of time.

==

Islamists violence in JK is because Islamists get money and direct material help from Pakistan, which gets help from US, UK, Saud and China.

Islamist violence in Debanga (West Bengal) and 100s of places in India is because of Saud money only and corruption in PM, CM, HomeMin, judges, IPS, IAS and no other reason. There is no direct material help as places are far from border. Some people say that Islamist violence is because of Muslim Votebank aka 14 > 82 Doctrine (or 24 > 70 Doctrine in case of West Bengal). I think that one needs 4 digit IQ to appreciate that 14 > 82 . My brain's IQ is only 107 and so it refuses to accept any "doctrine". So AFAIS, the reason behind Islamist violence outside JK is Saud money and corruption only.

So what are the solutions I propose to Islamist violence in JK and outside JK?

I think this thread is only to raise awareness and crying aloud , and so posting "administrative solutions to Islamist violence" will be OST. So I have proposed the solutions here : http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewto ... 41#p963241 . I request all to propose their solutions in the thread they choose.

[arjunm]

Recently in West Bengal, the Hindu Bangladeshi migrants and some locals formed an Organization called "Hindu Samhati under Tapan Ghosh, a local activist ,who organized massive rallies against these attacks which were attended by thousands.TMC leaders and the left party members are very upset with this development and they gave free hand to the West Bengal Police to handle it and put it's leaders behind the bar.Recently Mr.Ghosh visited New York to collect funds for rehabilitation of the riot hit poor Hindus and he was interviewed by the local TV Chanel -

http://hindusamhatitv.blogspot.com/

[Sachin]

Two more arrests in the Bengaluru blasts case
Karnataka Police have picked up two more terrorists who master minded the Bengaluru blasts.
1. Ummer Farook a close chum of Thadiyantavida Nazir was picked up from Ajmer.
2. Ibrahim Moulavi was picked up from Kasaragod Dt. in Kerala. This chap was working as a Mukhri/Imam in a local mosque. Kerala Police was not even informed of this chap's arrest.

[ramana]

Happy Dasera!

Punish Teesta for perjury, Godhra accused tell SC

There is an outfit in Bay Area with prominent VCs and high flying Silicon Valley Indians that distributed videos based on Teestji's false testimony.

[SSridhar]

LeT's links deep-rooted in Kerala, says National Investigation Agency (NIA)

The Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) has a welllinked network in Kerala and a core group of its activists organised by LeT commandant Abdul Aziz and David Coleman Headley has been operating in the state, sources in the National Investigation Agency (NIA) have said.

After the Karnataka police arrested Ibrahim Moulavi and Umar Farooq, the two suspected Malayali LeT activists, the focus of the investigation agency has shifted to unearthing the links the two had with Aziz, Headley and Tahawur Hussain Rana.

A team of Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the NIA will quiz the arrested to delineate the links established by the LeT in Kerala with the active support of suspects Thadiyantavide Nazeer, Umar Farooq and Ibrahim Moulavi.

"The LeT links are emerging well and clear with the Karnataka police keenly pursuing those behind the Bangalore serial blasts. The interrogation of Moulavi and Farooq will provide clear leads to the visit of Rana, the close aide of Headley, to Kochi, IB officials said.

It has been learnt from sources in the NIA that Nazeer and Farooq had coordinated with LeT leader Illyas Kashmiri, {Ilyas Kashmiri is *not* an LeT leader. I hope it was just a reporter's error} who in turn had worked in tandem with Headley and Rana.

Sources said the interrogation of Mohammed Zia ul Haq, who is said to be an important link in the global terror operating in the country, had ascertained the terrorist network in the country.

"Zia has links with Abdul Rahman Makki, who is said to be a deputy to LeT chief Hafiz Sayeed. Makki is coordinating the activities with Abdul Aziz, who is controlling terror operations in South India either from Bangladesh or Saudi Arabia," the sources said.

IB sources said Moulavi is suspected to be coordinating activities in Kerala as he had been camping in the state even after LeT's key operative Thadiyantavide Nazeer was nabbed by the police.

[A_Gupta]

http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_dis ... %3C%2Fb%3E

Kasargod, Oct 19: The intelligence department has gathered information that Ibrahim Moulvi, arrested by the anti-terrorist cell of Karnataka in connection with Bangalore serial blasts, used to brainwash the youngsters into indulging in terrorist activities. Moulvi was taken into custody from Gunaje mosque in Munditadka within the limits of Badiyadka police station here, recently.

The investigation team is confident that it would be able to put together important information on various subversive activities that had occurred in south India during the last some years, from Moulvi (48), who hails from Orambattu in Vellimukh Padinharattara in Vyanad district, Kerala. There is information that the Karnataka police may bring him back to Badiyadka in connection with investigations, to pool more information about his activities.

Ibrahim, who was attracted towards religious scriptures since a young age, has a wife and children at his native place. He was introduced to the world of terrorism, after coming into contact with Tadiyandavita Nasser from Kannur, was arrested in the past in connection with Bangalore blasts. Ibrahim, who accepted a poor girl residing at Kapad in Kannur-Chakkarakkal Road as second wife, started to run religious classes in a rented building in Kannur, it is learnt. The classes, for which entry was given only after detailed verification, were run during nights. Even though about 200 youngsters joined his classes initially, a few reportedly dropped out, after the preaching turned towards terrorism.

Out of the five youths, who were selected for being trained in Pakistan, four died during firing by Indian army in Kashmir. Before their deaths, these four youths called Abdul Jaleel, against whom cases were registered relating to Bangalore blasts, asking him to convey to Moulvi that they are in danger of being nabbed. The intelligence wing got wind of Moulvi’s activities because of this call. Ibrahim later hid himself, and got a new name, Muhammed Moulvi, and joined Gunaje as Mukri, feeling that this would be the right place to stay away from police dragnet.

It is said that Ibrahim, who was trained in Pakistan, worked as recruitment agent for Pakistani agencies. Although around 180 youth reportedly were made members of Lashkar-e-Toiba by Ibrahim Moulvi and Ummer Farooq, the policemen have information only about 50 among them. The policemen hope that they will be able to cull more information about the other members of the said organization from Moulvi.

[aditya]

Arunachal Buddhists under threat forced to convert to Christianism

[D Roy]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 777632.cms

[Raghavendra]

Govt funds used to aid Assam terror group: NIA http://www.zeenews.com/news662350.html

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Tuesday filed charges in an Assam court against 16 people, including politicians and government servants, for allegedly channelising crores of rupees of developmental funds to a terrorist gang to procure arms.

A charge sheet submitted to the chief judicial magistrate at a special court in Guwahati named government servants, contractors, politicians and terrorists of the insurgent outfit Dima Halam Daogah in the case.

The accused include members of the autonomous hill council Mohet Hojai and Golon Daulagupu, government engineer Karuna Saikia, social welfare officer Radaul Hussain Khan and contractors Jibangsu Paul, Phojendra Hojai, J.K. Ghosh, Sandeep Ghosh and Debashis Bhattacharjee.

They have been accused of "conspiring to defalcate huge amounts of developmental funds allocated to the North Cachar Hills Council (now Dimahasao district) for the procurement of arms and for other activities of the terrorist gang in order to wage war against the state," a home ministry statement said here.

The NIA alleged that "huge amounts of developmental funds were defalcated and transferred to the terrorists through Kolkata with the help of couriers and hawala operators".

According to the statement, the funds reached arms dealer Vanlalchhana of Mizoram.

The arms dealer supplied ammunition to the terror outfit on the directions of its leaders Niranjan Hojai and Jewel Garlosa.

A large number of sophisticated arms including 27 AK and M-16 rifles were recovered during investigation.

The NIA has arrested two members of the group, Ahshringdao Waris and Samir Ahmed, who were allegedly associated with Garlosa.

The investigation of the case was spread over Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Karnataka and West Bengal.

"The case also had international dimensions with the leaders of the DHD reaching out to Nepal, Thailand, Singapore and Myanmar for conducting and supervising operations in North Cachar Hills by remaining away from the areas of operations," the home ministry statement said.

The terrorist leaders used contacts in Myanmar to organise the procurement of arms utilizing the funds and then channelled the supply of arms through the Mizoram-Myanmar border.