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SSridhar wrote:Key arrest in espionage case - Devesh K Pandey, The Hindu

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) said here on Wednesday that the arrest of a Sri Lankan national who gained access to several security sensitive installations was a breakthrough in an espionage case.

An NIA official said Arun Selvarajan was arrested in Chennai in connection with a case involving spying at the instance of an official of the Pakistan High Commission in Colombo.

This arrest is a continuation of an earlier arrest of Zakir Hussain, another Sri Lankan, in connection with plans to bomb the American & Israeli consulates in Chennai & Bangalore respectively.

The Pakistani embassy in Colombo has become a back door entry into India, the last bastion among our neighbours to fall for the ISI. It has been recruiting not only Sri Lankan & Tamilnadu Muslims but also digruntled and out-of-work Lankan Tamil Tigers as probably has happened in this case.

Indian security agencies are verifying unconfirmed reports of a young suicide bomber of Chennai origin blowing himself up for the Islamic State (IS) in the Syria-Iraq theatre. If the reports about the Indian fidayeen are true it could have serious repercussions for India as this would be the first time that an Indian has been found involved in a suicide attack anywhere in the world.

Tuan wrote:Here is a blog about LTTE nexus with ISI

SSridhar wrote:

Tuan wrote:Here is a blog about LTTE nexus with ISI

Tuan, we know that nexus. We are also aware of Colombo's nexus with the ISI. Both warring parties have bedded the same whore.

Amidst reports of the Trinamool Congress’s alleged
funding of Jamaat-e-Islami, the Bangladesh-based
extremist group, Members of Parliament from both the
ruling Awami League and the Workers Party have
demanded a probe into the allegations.
The allegations gained ground as the Kolkota-based
Bengali daily Anandabazar Patrika reported on Friday
that crores of money from the Saradha chit fund scam
were used to instigate violence in Bangladesh. The
newspaper said the money made its way to the Jamaat
in 2012-13 through Ahmed Hassan Imran, a Rajya
Sabha member from Trinamool Congress.
Fazle Hossain Badsha, MP from northern Rajshahi,
bordering West Bengal, who is also general secretary of
the Workers Party, an ally of the Awami League, said
his party had expressed serious concern when the
Jamaat last year procured “gun powder” and funds
from across the border ahead of the January 5
elections. “We raised concerns because without consent
from the ruling party there, the Jamaat would not have
got such help to carry out violent anarchy,” he said.
Mostafa Lutfullah, Awami League MP from Satkhira,
said “We have enough evidence to prove that Jamaat
militants, when chased or injured during clashes with
police, crossed the border into West Bengal.” Satkhira,
on the border with West Bengal, was the centre of
widespread Jamaat-sponsored violence during last
year’s anti-election agitation. “We have also
information that the leaders of the Trinamool Congress
gave them shelter,” he said. He alleged that Jamaat
leaders and workers worked for the Trinamool during
the recent Lok Sabha elections.
News reports in Bangladesh have alleged that the
Jamaat, with close contacts with the TMC leadership,
has built a “base” in Kolkata and other parts of West
Bengal. Dhaka has already communicated its concerns
on the issue to New Delhi, newspapers said.
The Jamaat, in a statement, however, brushed aside
the allegations, terming it baseless and politically
motivated.
Authoritative sources told The Hindu that the NDA
government has already clarified its position on
confusion caused by last week’s private visit to Dhaka
of journalist and BJP leader M.J. Akbar. Mr. Akbar, met
leaders of the BNP, a staunch ally of the Jamaat, during
his visit. Mr. Akbar’s visit was his “own” and “nothing
to do” with BJP’s stand on Bangladesh, the BJP has
said.

SSridhar wrote:The flood gates are opening up. There was a time until a few years back when India's plurality was touted as the reason for Indian Muslim jihadists not being caught from terrorism infested parts of the world. Even then, I felt an unease that such a situation was unlikely to continue for too long. Now, well educated Muslims are thronging to the more brutal IS from AP, TN, Maharashtra, J&K, Gujarat etc. We already have well-educated Muslims as part of IM. Shi'a from UP are going to Iraq to fight the IS and Sunnis are going to Syria to be part of the IS. Soon, they will return to create terror and sectarian violence in our country. This is what emboldens the ISI, AQ and the IS to imagine India as a fertile place for harvesting. Already, another faith has been harvesting souls in India for a long time and now we have this phenomenon. These terrorists and their families must be kept under surveillance. They must feel the hard pinch. And those who have gone on a hijra from Dar-ul-Aman to Dar-ul-Harb *MUST* not be allowed to return to Dar-ul-Aman. We do not need those vermin. They do not deserve to live here and propagate their jihadi ideas and take us back to medieval times. I am sure that the ISI will 'harvest' them at an appropriate time.

BTW, op-eds are appearing that these threats need not be taken seriously etc. It is such articles that are dangerous.
See for example, this

MN Kumar wrote:
Very true Sridhar. Thejihadi climate has taken roots already and now there is a ready available man power for such factories. The timing of AQ's announcements and IM's active involvement in IS seems perfect.

Meanwhile Owaisi Jr. wellknown for his hate speeches was in Mumbai few days back addressing an election rally.

Following the arrest of Arun Selvarajan, who is suspected to be an ISI agent, Tamil Nadu 'Q' branch sleuths have started enumerating Sri Lankans staying in Tamil Nadu.

Police sources said there are about 65,000 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in the 114 camps in the state. There are more than 12,000 Sri Lankan Tamils with passports settled outside the camps. Selvarajan had got an Indian passport influencing some government officials, police said.

After trailing him for more than a month, NIA officials nabbed him at a hideout in Saligramam near Vadapalani on September 10. Police seized several incriminating documents, photographs of installations of NSG Academy, Officers' Training Academy, Naval bases and Army installations in Chennai, Vishakapatinam and 20 other places in south India. NIA officials had recovered from his apartment in Saligramam six mobile phones, a laptop, four hard disks, an iPad, 1TB portable drive and three pen drives.

Following his arrest, Intelligence Bureau sleuths had asked the state police to check for his probable accomplices. The 'Q' branch sleuths have been monitoring movements of refugees in camps, but they have little information about those staying outside. Sri Lankan nationals are supposed register at the nearest police station. "Some of them don't do this," said a police officer. "Now we have to make sure that every Sri Lankan is accounted for."

Policemen say unlike tracking other foreigners, it is not easy to identify and keep an eye on every Sri Lankan, especially if he is a Tamil. "With the looks and language, such people can easily merge with the local population," he said. But some have charged the police with inaction even after getting information. Sudhanthiram, who works for an NGO in Virugambakkam, said he had tipped off the city police about a Sri Lankan Tamil staying in an apartment on Arcot Road. "But police did not conduct any inquiry," he said.

'Q' branch sleuths said the enumeration would help them update their records. As NIA officials have taken Selvarajan into custody for six days, local police said they were awaiting more information on his activities in the city.

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Written by Debabrata Mohanty | Bhubaneswar | Posted: September 18, 2014 5:43 pm | Updated: September 18, 2014 5:48 pm

Centre has sounded warning to State governments over reports that foreign nationals are buying immovable property illegally in some parts of the country in violation of the rules and regulations under FEMA.

In a recent letter to State governments including Orissa, Centre has intimated that foreign nationals coming to India and staying beyond 182 days on tourists visa or other visa meant for a certain period are illegally acquiring immovable property.

Quoting the warning, Orissa revenue secretary Dr Taradatt in a letter to all district collectors early this week wrote that a foreign national who is residing in India for more than 182 days for taking up employment or carrying on business or for any other purpose indicating his stay for uncertain period may acquire immovable property in India subject to fulfilling certain requirements prescribed by the State authorities.

“To be treated as a ‘person resident of India’ under FEMA, a person has not only to satisfy the condition of period of stay (being more than 182 days during the course of the preceding financial year), but has also to comply with the condition of the purpose of the stay. No person being a citizen of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, China, Iran, Nepal or Bhutan would acquire or transfer immovable property in India without prior permission of RBI,” the letter said.

The provisions contained in Foreign Exchange Management (Acquisition and Transfer of Immovable Property in India) Regulation-21/2000 stipulate that an Indian citizen residing outside India and a Person of Indian Origin residing outside India may acquire immovable property in India other than agricultural land, plantation or farm house.

A foreign company which has established a branch office or other place of business in India under the provision of Foreign Exchange Management (Establishment in India of Branch or office or other place of business) Regulations, 2000 can acquire immovable property in India which is a necessary for or incidental to carrying on such activity, subject to the conditions stipulated in Regulation 5 of Foreign Exchange Management Regulations, 2000.

The Centre made it clear that a foreign national who is residing in India for more than 182 days during the course of the preceding financial year for taking up employment or carrying on business/vacation or for any other purpose indicating his intention to stay for an uncertain period can acquire immovable property in India as he would be a person resident in India as per section 2(v) of the FEMA 1999.

To be treated as person resident in India under FEMA, a person has not only to satisfy the condition of the period of stay, but also his purpose of stay as well as the type of Indian visa granted to him to clearly indicate the intention to stay in India for an uncertain period. In this regard, the intention of stay has to be unambiguously established with supporting documentation including visa.

Orissa has now asked all the district collectors as well as sub-registrars to be extra vigilant in such matters and ensure eligibility under FEMA before registering sale or purchase of immovable properties by foreign nationals and seek necessary declarations and the verify the nature of visa from the intending buyer. The Centre has also asked the States to consider reviewing registration of sale/purchase already made if necessary.

Lahore-based Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist outfit's de facto chief Ratandeep Singh, who had only last year replaced ailing Wadhawa Singh as the BKI head and was sent by Pakistan's ISI to carry out strikes in Punjab during Navratras, was arrested by Punjab police on Wednesday.

The over six-foot tall terrorist was wanted in several cases, including the 1999 bomb blast at Chandigarh's Sector 34 passport office and another blast on a Panipat railway bridge the same year .

He was sent to India as Hussain Sheikh Zahid (son of Sheikh Nasiruddin) and was arrested by the State Special Operations Cell (SSOC) team of Punjab police near Gorakhpur on late Wednesday. He was sent to 10-day police remand by an Amritsar court.

The 43-year-old had been tasked by ISI to eliminate several top Hindu leaders in Punjab, said police.

"A plan was conceived after PM Narendra Modi government was sworn in to use Bhindranwale's name to fan radicalism and polarise the communities after attacking Hindu leaders," a top Punjab cop told TOI.

Ratandeep's name had first cropped up last year in August during the interrogation of Lashkar-e-Taiba top militant Abdul Karim Tunda.

Tunda had revealed that he (Tunda) had sent a consignment of explosives to Delhi before the Commonwealth Games 2010 on the demand of BKI's Ratandeep and that the latter had taken over charge from Wadhawa.

Besides leading BKI, he had been picked up by the ISI to head an old terror outfit Bhindranwale Tigers Force of Khalistan (BTFK).

Punjab cops had been on his trail ever since he got training with one ISI commandant Colonel Sahbaz Minhas in Lahore in July this year.

He was first arrested by the police on May 9, 1996, while sneaking into India through the Samba sector but managed to escape.

Ratandeep, who belongs to Rohar village of Jind in Haryana began his terror activities in 1992 when he went to Bangkok and then to Germany.

He got in touch with Babbar Khalsa operatives in Pakistan in March 1993 when he went to Lahore on a forged passport issued in the name of Harjinder Singh from Kapurthala. He then underwent arms training in August 1993 and June 1994 at a camp located in hilly terrain, 45 km off Islamabad.

SSridhar wrote: Simply shameful & pathetic. Somebody should have told the hotel and the mall to do so. It needs to be found out.

deepal trivedi
‏@DeepalTrevedie
@India_MSM ofcourse we will produce evidence when asked.
but that does NOT mean exposing NE staffers and hotel exe who told us on twitter!

Nakul Swamy ‏@Nutology Sep 17
@ShivAroor Boss the Mirror News abt NE ppl is fake. Have call recordings of staff I spoke to. Head Chef is NE resident. Lama Dawa

Ahmedabad Police, hotel deny issuing diktat to NE staff during Xi Jinping's visit

Hours after the Union Home Ministry ordered a probe into reports that employees of an Ahmedabad hotel from the northeast were asked to stay away from duty during Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent visit, the city police and hotel management have denied issuing any such instruction.

"I am not aware of any such diktat given by police to the hotel authorities about their staff. We were just concerned about the Tibetans," said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) AK Sharma.

JCP of Special Branch Vikas Sahay too said he was not aware of any such order having been issued.

The Management of hotel Hyatt Ahmedabad expressed surprise over the reports and claimed all staffers, including those from the northeast, did duty on September 17 when Xi had a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi there.

"There was no such order given to the hotel staff on that day. All staff, including those from the northeast, was present in the hotel and doing duty when Chinese President arrived. I am surprised as to how such baseless reports are doing the rounds," said Marketing Manager of Hyatt Ahmedabad Ayesha Mishra.

Earlier in the day, the Home Ministry had asked the Intelligence Bureau to ascertain the veracity of reports about the order and, if it was indeed issued, who did it and why.

sivab wrote:Unfortunately few political parties in NE have fell for this trick and protested. This has necessitated the investigation.

Surasena wrote:Video of Muslims assaulting the PETA activists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SppqbQw ... e=youtu.be

Seems like none of the followers of Muhammad were arrested & instead the PETA women were booked for spreading "communal disharmony" (the woman being targeted in Green looks like she herself is a Muslim) or some such nonsense

Surasena wrote:

Surasena wrote:Video of Muslims assaulting the PETA activists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SppqbQw ... e=youtu.be

Seems like none of the followers of Muhammad were arrested & instead the PETA women were booked for spreading "communal disharmony" (the woman being targeted in Green looks like she herself is a Muslim) or some such nonsense

At 3:51 the woman in Burqa says "balatkar karo iska, balatkar karo" calling for the PETA woman to be raped.

At 6:19 "koi bhi Islam ke upar haath uthaayega, usko phaad denge", saying if anyone lifts a hand against Islam, we will break the hand.

Yet who seems to have got arrested by the BJP gov't?

nageshks wrote:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-new ... 67038.aspx

As for the BJP, the order didn't come from the government. It was done by the Collector and the ADM. It is not that the BJP is dhimmi - they have their set of faults, but dhimminess is not the greatest. The greatest failure of the BJP, IMHO, seems to be the failure to move the establishment to the right. They are content to follow the Leftist rules, and procedures. Why can't the BJP, even in BJP ruled states, shift the establishment to the right? Rewrite the rules and administrative procedures?

ramana wrote:Those goons harassing the PETA activist should be arrested for assault and battery which is IPC offense.

muraliravi wrote: But this should also remind of the larger rot within BJP and its secularized leaders.

But i am optimistic of the future. This is the reason the sangh/namo have promoted people of Amit Shah/Yogi instead of banking on people like SSC.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that henceforth all encounter killings by police will be thoroughly investigated after registration of FIRs to “bring to justice the perpetrators of the crime who take law in their own hands”.

Issuing detailed guidelines, the court held an “independent investigation into the encounter shall be conducted by the CID or police team of another police station under the supervision of a senior officer — at least a level above the head of the police party engaged in the encounter”.

“We are of the view that it would be useful and effective to structure appropriate guidelines to restore faith of the people in police force. In a society governed by rule of law, it is imperative that extra-judicial killings are properly and independently investigated so that justice may be done,” said a bench led by Chief Justice of India R M Lodha.

The probe report shall be forwarded to the court concerned so that a magisterial inquiry is carried out and a final report, in the form of a chargesheet or a closure report, is presented, it said.

“No out-of-turn promotion or instant gallantry rewards shall be bestowed on the concerned officers soon after the occurrence. It must be ensured at all costs that such rewards are given or recommended only when the gallantry of the concerned officers is established beyond doubt,” said the bench, also comprising Justices Kurian Joseph and Rohinton F Nariman.

The bench said, “The killings in police encounters affect the credibility of the rule of law and the administration of the criminal justice system. It is the constitutional duty of this court to put in place certain guidelines adherence to which would help in bringing to justice the perpetrators of the crime who take law in their own hands.”

It said that if an incriminating chargesheet is filed against the police officers, the trial must be concluded expeditiously, apart from initiating disciplinary action against such officers and placing them under suspension.

The bench said the trial court shall grant compensation to the dependants of the encounter victim under Section 357-A of the IPC. The relatives of a victim can also approach a sessions court if the authorities fail to comply with the Supreme Court directives on either starting a probe or conducting it impartially.

The court said that if a police officer was found to be prima facie accused of an offence, he or she will surrender his or her weapons and any other material, subject to the rights against self-incrimination. An intimation about the incident, the court said, must also be sent to the police officer’s family and legal assistance should also be provided if asked for.
The court was hearing petitions by NGO People’s Union for Civil Liberties, which had raised the issue of genuineness or otherwise of nearly 99 encounters between the Mumbai Police and alleged criminals resulting in death of about 135 persons between 1995 and 1997.

The court regretted that in spite of Constitutional and statutory provisions aimed at safeguarding the personal liberty and life of a citizen, the death in police encounters continued to occur.

It underscrored that the court was “not oblivious to the fact that police in India has to perform a difficult task when many hardcore criminals with organised gangs have taken strong roots in society. “But then such criminals must be dealt with by the police in an efficient and effective manner so as to bring them to justice by following rule of law,” it said.