Bharat Rakshak

The group discusses the book 'Breaking India' by Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan. (Published by Amaryllis, an imprint of Manjul Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi in 2011) ISBN 978-81-910673-7-8

The book is subtitled: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines.

Overview of the book: India's integrity is being undermined by three global networks that have well-established operating bases inside India:
(1) Islamic radicalism linked with Pakistan;
(2) Maoists and Marxist radicals supported by China via intermediaries such as Nepal; and
(3) Dravidian and Dalid identity separatism being fostered by the West in the name of human rights.

The book focuses on the third: the role of the US and European churches, academics, think-tanks, foundations, governments and human rights groups in fostering separation of the identities of Dravidian and Dalit communities from the rest of India. The book is the result of five years of research, and uses information obtained in the West about foreign funding of these India-based activities. The research tracked the money trails that start out claiming to be for 'education', 'human rights', 'empowerment training', and 'leadership training', but end up in programs designed to produce angry youths who feel disenfranchised from Indian identity.

A special court on Friday disallowed the Enforcement Directorate's plea for the custody of the Pune-based businessman, Hasan Ali Khan, citing lack of “reasonable grounds for believing that the accused is guilty under the PMLA [the Prevention of Money Laundering Act]. No case is made out for the custody of the accused. The ED has not been able to place any sufficient material that any scheduled offence was committed by the accused.”

The Intelligence Bureau is keeping a vigil on the movement of suspected persons in the border areas of Tamil Nadu after it received inputs that members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam had reportedly tried to set up camps in the forest areas near Idukki district.

Idukki's forest areas bordering Tamil Nadu in the Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) could be used by the cadres to regroup.

SSridhar wrote:Hassan Ali Khan granted bail

A special court on Friday disallowed the Enforcement Directorate's plea for the custody of the Pune-based businessman, Hasan Ali Khan, citing lack of “reasonable grounds for believing that the accused is guilty under the PMLA [the Prevention of Money Laundering Act]. No case is made out for the custody of the accused. The ED has not been able to place any sufficient material that any scheduled offence was committed by the accused.”

By its own admission, ED said that they have been investigating Hassan Ali since 2006. It raises suspicion when after 5 long years of investigations, the ED has nothing to chargesheet this guy. He should be extremely well connected.

The city is getting fortified like never before on the eve of the India-West Indies World Cup match on Sunday.

In the wake of intelligence reports suggesting possible threat to the World Cup venue, the state police have recommended the Army to deploy anti-aircraft arms at strategic places. The DGP has also asked the Indian Coast Guard to step up surveillance along the Chennai coast. The Coast Guard will deploy two of its vessels along the Chennai coast to monitor movements in the sea. More than 2,000 police personnel will be on vigil in and around the MAC Stadium at Chepauk.

"We are taking the help of Army and Coast Guard to provide strategic support," Chennai police commissioner T Rajendran told reporters. The stadium and its periphery will be cordoned off and traffic would be diverted around the area. Only people with valid passes will be allowed near the stadium.

Fishermen along the Chennai coast have been asked to report any suspicious movement to the police. The intelligence wings have been asked to activate the coastal village committees for intelligence gathering.

In addition to the city police, two Swift Action Groups of 100 personnel each and two Quick Reaction Teams of an equal number will take positions in the stadium. These teams will be armed with assault rifles like AK-47s and AK-56s Plainclothes policemen will mingle with the crowd.

ramana wrote:
Most likely this HAK is a front for big business house/s in Mumbai. Politicians would be revealed by now by rivals. IOW he might be a holding front for rest of the loot that business house/s has.

Daniel P George, TNN, Mar 17, 2011, 03.11am IST

CHENNAI: Real estate businessman Sadiq Batcha had close ties with a number of people in Dubai, including known hawala operators, say sources in central intelligence agencies. A team of CBI officials probing the money trail in the 2G spectrum scam was to visit Dubai to collect evidence on hawala transactions and other investments allegedly carried out by Batcha.The CBI had under its scanner a businessman from Kilakari in Ramanathapuram district based in Dubai who is known for his proximity to the rich and famous. Earlier, the CBI had interrogated Mahesh Jain and his brother Bobby, two known hawala operators with Dubai connections, after DB Realty's Shahid Balwa reportedly named them during his questioning.

Batcha used Balwa, another accused in the 2G scam and a frequent visitor to Dubai, for his investments through the hawala route, sources told TOI. Officials said he was familiar with hawala operations in the Gulf and South-East Asia and had extensive contacts.

"The CBI knows the names of hawala operators who channeled funds into UAE but Batcha's death can affect the probe to a certain extent as he was privy to a lot of information not known to others,'' a top diplomat in the Indian mission in Dubai said.

However, Indian ambassador to the UAE M K Lokesh told TOI that he had only read about it from the media and declined to comment on the issue.

CBI was focusing on tracking the money trail that allegedly led from Swan Telecom to close relatives and acquaintances of Raja and then to Dubai. Interrogation of Balwa had also thrown up the names of a few Indian businessmen based in the UAE, sources said. "Three Dubai-based hawala operators have been under the scanner both of the Enforcement Directorate and the CBI after interrogation of some persons arrested by the agency in the scam," said an official in the Indian consulate. Indian diplomats said there was also a move to float a radio station in the UAE by a south-based TV channel and a leading business group in Dubai.

Balwa has sizeable business interests in the UAE and is also the vice-chairman of Etisalat DB. Etisalat DB Telecom Pvt Ltd is a joint venture between Etisalat, a telecom service provider in the UAE, and the Dynamix Balwas Group.

Josy Joseph, TNN | Mar 19, 2011, 01.02am IST

The govt ignored warnings by intelligence agencies of Shahid Balwa's underworld links.
NEW DELHI: The security establishment has several specific details to link Shahid Balwa, his father Usman Ebrahim Balwa, Vinod Goenka, his father Krishna Murari and brother Pramod Goenka to the Dawood gang and Chhota Shakeel. Shahid Balwa and Vinod Goenka are currently in jail in connection with the 2G scam.

Over the past seven-eight years, there has been a stream of inputs on the underworld links of both the families, a senior official said. The official, who looked at the two families as well as companies such as the Jet Airways in the past told TOI, "It's disheartening. We invest so much resource because there are serious issues of national security. But governments just ignore them."

According to documents seen by TOI, as late as 2008, after Swan Telecom was given 2G licence, there were inputs to show that both Shahid Balwa and his father Usman Balwa were in close contact with Chhota Shakeel. Alongside were inputs of the intelligence agencies, cautioning the government against permitting UAE's Etisalat to invest in Swan. Both of these inputs had no impact on the expansion of Swan Telecom.

The first input from Mumbai on the Goenkas came in March 2003 when Tariq Abdul Karim Merchant, a close associate of Chhota Shakeel, was arrested. In his interrogation Merchant, also known as Tariq Bhai, said Vinod Goenka's father Krishna Murari Goenka and brother Pramod Goenka were associated with the D Company. Merchant told them about Pramod Goenka carrying out property deals with Jabir Moti, a Karachi resident and an important member of the D Company.

The most important details are from October 2003, when builder Rajesh Patange was shot dead in Nallasopara by four underworld operatives.

In his dying declaration Patange named Krishna Murari Goenka among those behind his murder. Surprisingly, the Mumbai police did not act against Goenka, sources told TOI. He was neither arrested nor chargesheeted. In September 2004, when Mumbai crime branch arrested Zameeruddin Ghulam Rasool Ansari, an associate of Anees Ibrahim, further details of the Goenka family's links to the underworld spilled out. He spoke in detail about Pramod Goenka's links with Dawood and his brother Anees. He spoke also about the heavy investments of D Company in Pramod Goenka's businesses.

After Abu Salem was brought back to India in November 2005 from Portugal, the investigators got further inputs on the links of the two families. Among other details, Salem told the interrogators that Pramod was a prominent guest at the wedding of Humayun, younger brother of Dawood. The marriage was held in Karachi.

Marten wrote:
I've seen Telgi, the ACP who was arrested with him, and an assistant prosecutor at the same hospital (Ruby in Pune) in rooms next to each other, and enjoying chai in each others' company. One of the Pawarful advisers was a frequent visitor to first two of the folks above.

Nothing will come of this investigation, as well. Unless there is a change in the government and Uddhav is part of it. That would bring about another set of issues later, but at the very least it would pull out the current set of frontmen.

Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday came under attack in Parliament for reportedly saying that India would have made more progress if it had only Southern and Western parts, with some members demanding his removal for utterances "against national unity".

chaanakya wrote:That's a common bias/view that he stated. He has blamed UP and Bihar openly, in recent past. But so has Sheila Dixit and may be many others, incl members here, might hold similar views. What's the big deal in revelation.

Also he can't deny, lest voice sample surface.

chaanakya wrote:That's a common bias/view that he stated. He has blamed UP and Bihar openly, in recent past. But so has Sheila Dixit and may be many others, incl members here, might hold similar views. What's the big deal in revelation.

Also he can't deny, lest voice sample surface.

jagga wrote:MPs lambast Chidambaram for ‘anti-national’ comments

The PCA Stadium is expecting jam-packed stands, including scores of Pakistani fans. Over 16,000 match tickets, PCA officials claim, were sold over in a day and a half, and the remaining tickets for the 28,000-capacity stadium were bought by the ICC to be distributed to its officials and guests. It is reported that several tickets are being sold in the black market for over 10 times the actual cost.
http://www.hindu.com/2011/03/27/stories ... 990100.htm

The drug cartel in Tamil Nadu and the radicalisation underway in Kerala [ Images ] have prompted terror groups from the across the border to pump in fake currency down south. Recently, there were reports stating that groups such as the Al Qaeda [ Images ] were routing a lot of money for terror-based operations through south India [ Images ].

Investigators have seized fake currency to the tune of nearly Rs 18 crore from south India in the recent past. And the numbers have been on the rise. While Rs 8 crore was seized in 2009, last year fake notes amounting to Rs 10 crore were seized, a clear indication of the flourishing money racket in south India, say investigators.

Terror groups shifted their operations base to south India owing to the high security presence along the Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh borders. These borders were once considered the safest routes to pump in counterfeit currency into India. It took a while for security agencies to bust this network and although they have not entirely succeeded, they have managed to curb these illegal operations along the borders to a large extent.

Reports by the Intelligence Bureau suggest that fake currency will be now be routed through the southern states. The currency is being circulated out of Tamil Nadu and Kerala into Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. The money is picked up from these places by agents and then distributed to other parts of the country, IB officials said.

With almost all terror organisations having set up base in Kerala, it was the favoured choice of anti-social elements. But what has baffled investigators is the increasing inflow of counterfeit currency into Tamil Nadu.

A recent arrest of two drug peddlers in Bengaluru [ Images ] revealed how south India had become a hub for narcotics trafficking and money-laundering. The peddlers confessed that they operated in Chennai, but further investigation brought to light that the police had zeroed in on the small fry.

The Tamil Nadu capital is the headquarters for the trade in date rape drugs, which is controlled by the drug mafia from Goa [ Images ]. The hand of a Russian mafiosi and fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim [ Images ] is also suspected, say investigators.

Agitated crowd, comprising of women and a group of Special Police Officers (SPOs), threw eggs at social activist Swami Agnivesh, hurled abuses, pulled him out of his car, pushed him around and forced him to return as he was proceeding towards Tadmetla near Chintalnar where the security forces had allegedly set more than a 100 houses ablaze following the death of their three colleagues in an encounter with Maoists on March 14.

A large number of people, including women, were present at Dornapal crossing, blocking the road that leads to Chintalnar. As Swamy Agnivesh’s vehicle stopped, few people gathered around his vehicle and shouted “Are we all animals? Don’t we have any human rights? See these women. They are widows of Errabore, where the Maoists had set ablaze a relief camp killing more than 33 people few years ago”.

These youths also snatched camera, mobile phones and bags from a couple of media personnel and pushed them accusing the media of playing into the hands of rights activists and directly and indirectly supporting the Maoists. The youth, apparently SPOs, were alert to ensure that no photographs are taken.
“Where were you when 76 security personnel were massacred by the Maoists at Tadmetla in April last year? Where were you when the Naxalites set the relief camp on firefew years and burnt 33 people, including children, alive few years ago?”, the agitated crowed threw questions at Swamy Agnivesh, Art of Living Gurus and at the media personnel accompanying them.

Apart from Dornapal, hundreds of people, who are staying in the relief camps at Errabore and Pollampalli, had gathered on the way from Dornapal to Chintalnar to prevent Swamy Agnivesh and media personnel from reaching Tadmetla. Most of the relief camps—which were set up by the government after the Salwa Judum movement— are being guarded by the Special Police Officers (SPOs), the local youth recruited on honorarium basis, to assist the security forces.

“Every action seemed that someone had taught them to do so. I am going back to Sukma and wait to talk to Chief Minister Raman Singh. Suspicious people are following us in vehicles without number plates. What does it mean? “, Swami Agnivesh told the Indian Express while returning from Dornapal.

Even the local government staff is scared of the SPOs said a group of government staff, who went to these villages yesterday to supply relief material and food to the affected tribals, were threatened by the SPOs not the visit this area again. “SPOs have become reckless. Somehow we managed to return to Dornapal”, a government who accompanied the team said.

abhishek_sharma wrote:Aseemanand takes back all he said, was ‘coerced’

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/aseem ... ed/769654/

chetak wrote:SOP previously set up by..........