Internal Security Watch

Kati · Post by **Kati** » 19 Apr 2010 02:18

^^^^^^^

Shyamd-ji,
My 2 paise.
Has BCAS taken any precaution to monitor its own staff? What I heard that in a neighboring
country LeT is trying hard to influence/bribe some inside personnel to get inside information
about internal matters. It'll be hard to weed out such bad apples. The recent arrest in
'Rani's desh' has made high officials very uncomfortable about such a possibility. Random
checks about the background of the security personnel, checking their financial dealing
through bank transactions, etc. may be one way to keep an eye on the system. But it'll be difficult
if one is motivated by ideology. ........

JE Menon · Post by **JE Menon** » 19 Apr 2010 02:26

If it is true that Tharoor was influenced by her to in favour of her business interests using his capacity as a minister of GoI, then good riddance. Better now than later when he might have been in a higher position and capable of bringing greater harm... I don't think this story is over though...

He has proven remarkably inept at handling local politics in India, specifically within the party he chose to be a part of. He probably would have fared better in the BJP, where the sycophancy factor is not as stifling as in the congress, but he may have burned his bridges there.

Kati · Post by **Kati** » 19 Apr 2010 05:30

For Tharoor the party affiliation is not by ideology, but by opportunity. True, he would have been a better fit with BJP,
but given the ground realities he could not have won from Kerala on a BJP ticket. Not sure if things could have been different had he been fielded in another state.

But the bigger question is - now that Tharoor has lost his portfolio, will the lady still find him attractive enough to make him her third husband? I thought she was walking up her way through the ladder on behalf of some other co. had not the IPL bomb went off prematurely.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 19 Apr 2010 07:14

Stadium Attacks Herald new Indian Mujahideen Offensive - Praveen Swami

. . . were executed by an Indian Mujahideen cell led by Mohammad Zarar Siddi Bawa . . .Karnataka-born Bawa—also known as ‘Yasin Bhatkal'—is allegedly a key figure in a series of urban bombings executed by the Indian Mujahideen between 2005 and 2008 that claimed hundreds of lives.{He is related to Riyaz Bhatkal who is the founder of IM and is currently expected to be in TSP, probably at Karachi}

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 19 Apr 2010 07:51

The re-birth of the Indian Mujahideen - Praveen Swami

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 19 Apr 2010 09:04

I never liked Tharoor's induction process into Indian politics which happened as if GOI is indebted to him. IMHO, he is unfit to be UN's general secretary to start with, and when that failed he was given a safe seat in Kerala, and then immediately a ministerial post.

It all appears scripted to my CT eyes and he seem to have strong god fathers somewhere; and the god fathers have lot of influence on INC, especially SG and MMS.

amdavadi · Post by **amdavadi** » 19 Apr 2010 09:47

god father is foggy bottom.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 19 Apr 2010 10:06

Also recall ST's role in going after Natwar Singh thru the Volcker Report. He ha sa track record.

amdavadi · Post by **amdavadi** » 19 Apr 2010 10:19

ST worked against Indian interest while he was sitting in comfy UN office.

sum · Post by **sum** » 19 Apr 2010 10:43

amdavadi wrote:ST worked against Indian interest while he was sitting in comfy UN office.

Could you please give some examples?

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 19 Apr 2010 22:36

amdavadi wrote:god father is foggy bottom.

Checked with googlopadhyaya on "Foggy Bottom" and got complete jnan.

And wiki-shastra tells me that IMFwallah wanted to hire him as state-MEA minister in 2007 iteself, well before 2009 elections. This IMFwallah behaves as if Bharat is his kaka's property.

I hear someone saying Indian PM is not like pesirent of massa

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 20 Apr 2010 03:20

Link

Days after the Kochi IPL franchise issue snowballed into a major controversy and a source of embarrassment for the party at a politically critical time, the Congress core committee showed the door to minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor. The minister tendered his resignation to prime minister Manmohan Singh around 9pm on Sunday; it was forwarded to president Pratibha Patil. But long before Singh’s hectic two-hour deliberations with the party’s core committee, comprising Congress president Sonia Gandhi, cabinet ministers Pranab Mukherjee, P Chidambaram, and AK Antony, and Gandhi’s political secretary Ahmed Patel, the fate of the beleaguered minister was sealed by a confidential report of the Intelligence Bureau (IB).
The bureau, which was asked to look into Tharoor’s role in getting his friend Sunanda Pushkar a deal with the Kochi franchise of the Indian Premier League (IPL), reportedly gave an adverse six-page report against the minister. The IB was roped in after Tharoor’s meeting with Gandhi on Thursday turned out to be unsatisfactory. According to a central intelligence officer, Tharoor was reportedly unable to give a clear picture of his stand on the issue. “Immediately after the meeting, the IB was asked to conduct a confidential probe into the entire controversy,” the officer said.
According to sources, the bureau in its report advised the central government that it would be most appropriate if Tharoor were asked to resign. The report, prepared by the IB along with the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), reportedly raised many questions regarding Pushkar. “Even the preliminary reports given by the income-tax department on its findings in the IPL-Kochi dealings were taken into consideration while preparing the report,” the officer said.

The IB, along with other agencies, has also been tracking the source of money which has been used to bid for the Kochi franchise, the officer said. The money was being sourced from Dubai, the officer said.

The money coming from Dubai didnt necessarily have to be a bad thing as the Dubai govt guys had declared interest already (Emaar chairman Mohammed Alabbar's Private jet was used by SRK a number of times, which probably meant that Alabbar came to watch some of the games etc), and along with Prince Al Waleed were already said to be interested in bidding for the teams btw. BUt why route it and invest in this way is the question? Was it Dawoods money? IT dept hasnt given Pushkar a clean chit either.

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 20 Apr 2010 03:31

shyamd wrote:
The money coming from Dubai didnt necessarily have to be a bad thing

Foreign money without proper channels and necessary permission for investing in IPL is wrong.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 20 Apr 2010 06:40

India’s North East: Insurgency and civil services reform ---- Ali Ahmed

The situation in the North Cachar Hills district is representative of the North- East. The DHD (Jewel) faction having come over-ground last year, the Army, supplemented by the para-military, remains deployed with a ceasefire in place and rebel groups placed in camps. The talks process has been initiated with former IB chief, PC Haldar, being appointed as the Centre’s interlocutor. The two projects of some importance – four-laning of the National Highway and broad gauge conversion – proceeding uninterrupted, it would appear that the internal situation at that remote location has turned a corner.

Two events with wider regional implications testify to such optimism. The first is the arrest and return to India from Bangladesh of top ULFA leaders including Arabinda Rajkhowa, and second are talks between the Naga leadership and the Centre at New Delhi. The former owes less to Indian diplomacy than to a change of regime in Bangladesh. The latter owes to the Home Minister viewing negatively the preceding twelve years of talks handled by the interlocutor, former Home Secretary, Padmanabhaiah. Nevertheless, as seen with Indian hockey during the recent World Cup, India may manage penalty corners, but its ability of converting them into goals remains in question.

Diplomats are required to help cauterise insurgency areas from external sanctuary and assistance. India has been unable to ensure this with both Myanmar and Bangladesh to any degree of satisfaction. That the IFS has only a 700-strong cadre with attendant problems, as captured in Daniel Markey’s work at the Council on Foreign Relations, may be a reason for lack of vigour on this score. The cadre is set to increase by a mere eight officers yearly to cope with the growing demands of diplomacy for a billion people in an age of globalisation and interdependence!

http://claws.in/index-new.php?action=ma ... 44&u_id=94

Infiltration from B’desh can’t be ruled out: BSF

Shillong, April 19: The BSF today said infiltration, movement of militants and smuggling of arms from Bangladesh into India through the porous international border in Meghalaya cannot be ruled out. “Smuggling of arms and cross-border movement of militants cannot be ruled out. The nature of border is very hostile and it is difficult to completely check the menace unless the fencing project is completed,” said BSF Inspector General (Assam and Meghalaya frontier) Prithvi Raj. The statement comes close on the heels of intelligence inputs indicating that the porous Meghalaya-Bangladesh border continues to be a major route for entry of militants from Bangladesh and transshipment of arms and explosives into India.

In Meghalaya, DD Lapang finally bites the dust and factional disputes in INC sees Mukul Sangma replacing him as CM. DD Lapang was seen to be soft on ANVC (Achik National Volunteer Council), the group that is now terrorizing Garo Hills. Lapang also oversaw an administration that was caught red-handed in siphoning cash from the DONER Ministry and NREGA right into the soft cushion of the terrorist cabal, which was often indistinguishable from the administration at times.

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 20 Apr 2010 07:20

Acharya wrote:
shyamd wrote:
The money coming from Dubai didnt necessarily have to be a bad thing
Foreign money without proper channels and necessary permission for investing in IPL is wrong.

DDM seems to have lost all interest in the most important question in this whole issue - where did the money come from.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 20 Apr 2010 17:03

Navy alert on West Coast

Fishermen in Diu informed security agencies that they had seen a white boat with ‘Al—Salam’ written on it near the Diu coast. There were five persons on board and were asking for directions from them.

“Soon after the information was shared with us, a massive search operation was carried out day and night. Till now, no suspicious boat was found. We have enquired the fishermen who made such claims. So far, we have not come across any such boat,” the Navy official said.

“We cannot say the search operation is on now but the surveillance along the coast has been enhanced. We are coordinating with coast guard and policemen for various inputs,” the official added.

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 20 Apr 2010 17:27

So far, whatever has been revealed about the Kochi IPL investors doesn't explain the reports about the owners wanting to move the team to UAE, and hiring Pakistani players.

Meanwhile, congress cannot contain its rage and is after Lalit Modi's blood by any means fair or foul:

Friends desert Modi, ministers say he has to go

The Government is also gunning for Modi and if he does not step down from the IPL then he might be in more trouble as a number of charges related to income tax evasion have been initiated behind him. The Enforcement Directorate is also investigating the IPL franchises and the auctions.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/friends-dump ... ml?from=tn

Huge, elaborate exercise on to nail Modi - thousands of transactions being scanned: http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/tharoor- ... -20344.php

How about trying to nab Lalu Prasad or Raja of spectrum scam fame?

A Deshmukh · Post by **A Deshmukh** » 20 Apr 2010 20:21

SSridhar wrote:Navy alert on West Coast

- The diversionary bomb blasts in Bangalore to shift the IPL semi finals to Mumbai.

- TSP and TSPAF major exercises.

- missing boat from TSP.

Don't want to join these dots, but could there be a major terrorist attack coming up during the IPL semi-finals/finals?
I hope our security people are alert on this possibility.

kshirin · Post by **kshirin** » 20 Apr 2010 20:30

Regarding Ali Ahmed's observation above about a small IFS cadre being the reason for neglect of issues, that may well be true but unless a clear mandate and vision are provided - simply expanding numbers will not solve any problems. In today's age of instant communications, videoconferencing, emails etc. -information gathering can be done by a team of dedicated researchers in Delhi- and the IFS needs a different raison d-etre which has been intelligently thought through. But innovation and bureaucracy do not always sit well together.
I do not wish to comment on the IPL issue, but the idea of reaching out to thousands on current issues through new technologies like twitter was something new and perhaps the first time politicians in india have reached out that way.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 20 Apr 2010 23:16

A Deshmukh wrote:
SSridhar wrote:Navy alert on West Coast
- The diversionary bomb blasts in Bangalore to shift the IPL semi finals to Mumbai.

- TSP and TSPAF major exercises.

- missing boat from TSP.

Don't want to join these dots, but could there be a major terrorist attack coming up during the IPL semi-finals/finals?
I hope our security people are alert on this possibility.

When is the semi-finals date? Most likely it will be May 13th to watch for. Its POKII anniversary and also stated alert status date for TSPA.

Rangudu · Post by **Rangudu** » 20 Apr 2010 23:26

ramana wrote:When is the semi-finals date? Most likely it will be May 13th to watch for. Its POKII anniversary and also stated alert status date for TSPA.

Good call. I'll be wary of April 26th as well because of the increasing number of incidents in the recent days.

pgbhat · Post by **pgbhat** » 21 Apr 2010 00:15

ramana wrote: When is the semi-finals date? Most likely it will be May 13th to watch for. Its POKII anniversary and also stated alert status date for TSPA.

April 25th is the Finals. Apr 21 & Apr 22 Semi-finals IIRC.

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 21 Apr 2010 00:38

Pranav wrote:
The money coming from Dubai didnt necessarily have to be a bad thing
Foreign money without proper channels and necessary permission for investing in IPL is wrong.
DDM seems to have lost all interest in the most important question in this whole issue - where did the money come from.

This is a battle between special interest groups within UPA. DDM is being used to beatup the other party.
That is why nobody has bothered about the - where did the money come from.
Too much money in a short time should be a trigger

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 21 Apr 2010 08:28

Good article from rediff about Tharoor-gate: http://cricket.rediff.com/slide-show/20 ... contentTop

Why and how the Gujarati investors gave huge chunk of 25 percent equity for free to Rendezvous Sports World Limited is not yet known, because none of them have spoken yet.

Harshad Mehta has 12 percent stake, Atul Shah of Anchor Earth has the highest, at 27 percent, Vipul Shah of Parinee developers has 26 percent in IPL Kochi. RSW had given 5 percent sweat equity to Pushkar, a consultant in Dubai, due to which Tharoor had to resign as minister of state for external affairs. There are other eight sweat equity holders too, but since they are not linked to any high-profile minister or such entity they have largely remained off the radar of public scrutiny.

Clearly, RSW and its free equity is at the root of the mystery.

sum · Post by **sum** » 21 Apr 2010 09:01

Some progress on the Bluru blasts:

Five held in Hubli for B’lore blasts

The new twist comes in the wake of a former Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) employee emerging as the mastermind behind the blasts that left 17 people injured and forced the shifting of the semi-final matches to Navi Mumbai. The city police had reportedly found some similarities in the April 17 blasts and the serial explosions that struck Bangalore in July 2008.

The Hubli arrests followed the CCB’s trail of a suspect who was travelling without ticket on a train from Bangalore to Gaziabad. The police reportedly took him into custody in Belgaum and interrogated him. He was brought to Hubli and, based on his information, four other ultras were nabbed, sources said. The suspects had booked two rooms—No 107 and No 109—at the Sriram Residency at Hosur Cross in the name of Sunil Rao and M Irfan on Sunday and Tuesday respectively. On a tip-off, the police raided the hotel and took the suspects into custody. It is said that a senior police officer in Hubli played a major role in zeroing in on the suspects.

One of the suspects is physically disabled. Some of them had Uttar Pradesh links. It was not immediately known whether they would be brought to Bangalore. The police have decided to subject the hotel management for a detailed examination.

The Hindu reports that a 15 member team came to the hotel, few of the policemen dressed up as hotel boys, surveyed the room and whisked away 5 of the people there ( though police are confirming only 4)

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 21 Apr 2010 10:23

sum wrote:The Hindu reports that a 15 member team came to the hotel, few of the policemen dressed up as hotel boys, surveyed the room and whisked away 5 of the people there ( though police are confirming only 4)

Read the report in the printed edition today. The Hindu reporter seems to be miffed over the fact that police men did not give all the information to him. The report had lots of "as per local sources", "as per the hotel staff" kind of statements. BTW, if ex-police personnel are involved the risks are always higher. These people would know exactly how the police goes on with their bandobust duties, and what kind of security checks they do. Vulnerabilities can be easily detected and leveraged.

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 21 Apr 2010 18:23

Manmohan Singh himself gets involved in the Modi affair: http://www.ptinews.com/news/619520_Modi ... -with-BCCI

Modi fights back: http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/modi-wan ... -20557.php

Modi's suggestion on revealing all stakeholders rejected by others

On April 14, just days after he tweeted his way into cricket's biggest controversy yet, Modi suggested, in an email to the BCCI and to IPL team-owners, that all stakeholders be revealed. Modi was outvoted. Those who were not in favour of his proposal were BCCI chief, Shashank Manhoar, and the BJP's Arun Jaitley, who is also on the BCCI's Working Committee.

Here is Modi's email:

Sent: 14 Apr 2010 22:40

Dear Friends

Propriety and fair play demand we should as public body disclose ownership details along with name of directors of all franchisees once again. Earlier we at the time of bidding only disclosed the names and share holding.

If everyone is okay with this we will issue the same right away, that way all doubts and aspirations being cast on IPL franchises and members of GC appropriately rebutted. I hope you all agree with the same.

Warm Regards

Lalit Modi
Chairman and Commissioner IPL

Shashank Manohar's reply to Modi's email:

Subject: For your eyes only
Sent: Apr 15, 2010 9:17 AM

Dear Lalit,

The issue is complex and needs detailed deliberations and legal implications need to be gone into and hence can be considered at the GC meeting where all documents and papers relating to the bids are available.

Warm Regards,
Shashank

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 21 Apr 2010 18:35

Attention all posters. The IPL episode is of interest to this thread only so far as security-related issues go. Other than those, we should not discuss a la Modi or other affair per se. Those discussions do not have a bearing on the internal security of India. They can be discussed elsewhere.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 21 Apr 2010 20:55

SSridhar wrote:Attention all posters. The IPL episode is of interest to this thread only so far as security-related issues go. Other than those, we should not discuss a la Modi or other affair per se. Those discussions do not have a bearing on the internal security of India. They can be discussed elsewhere.

If any link to "D" company comes then its germane to this thread.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 22 Apr 2010 01:50

US warns of terror strikes in congested Delhi markets

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 841008.cms

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 22 Apr 2010 02:07

To Bangalore, with hate
Praveen Swami

http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/22/stories ... 241000.htm

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 22 Apr 2010 02:28

abhishek_sharma wrote:US warns of terror strikes in congested Delhi markets

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 841008.cms

Looks like US is also reading the same as the forum about TSPA intentions.

Karna_A · Post by **Karna_A** » 22 Apr 2010 03:30

ramana wrote:
abhishek_sharma wrote:US warns of terror strikes in congested Delhi markets

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 841008.cms
Looks like US is also reading the same as the forum about TSPA intentions.

Instead of markets like last time, this time the piglets may focus on Metro, Delhi CWG villlage and nearby famous temple for obvious reasons.

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 22 Apr 2010 16:04

Mean while from the Socialist Republic of Kerala...
Huge stock of explosives seized at Manjeri

This is considered to be the the biggest explosives haul in the "Socialist Republic". The shop keepers did not have any explosives license, but still went ahead and stocked them. So far the police have not said any thing on the terrorism angle. Malappuram Dt, which Manjeri town is part of - is one of the districts in Kerala where the presence of the "minority community" is really huge. If I am not mistaken most of the folks arrested for terrorism links is from this district.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 22 Apr 2010 16:56

Lajpat Nagar Blast Case: 3 JKLF terrorists to go to gallows, 1 to life imprisonment, 2 released

Any bets if the death sentence will be executed ? After all, the blast was 14 years back and the judgement comes now. What a shame.

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 22 Apr 2010 18:16

abhishek_sharma wrote:US warns of terror strikes in congested Delhi markets

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 841008.cms

RAW and IB are going hammer and tongs after Lalit Modi ... hope they will spare some time for this.

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 22 Apr 2010 18:33

Good article about the sophisticated effort to penetrate Google and many other US companies by the Chinese. (If you use gmail it may be a good idea to change your password).

Google hackers duped system administrators to penetrate networks, experts say : http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 05300.html

Paul · Post by **Paul** » 23 Apr 2010 07:48

‘No love jihad movement in State'

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The State Government on Thursday informed the Karnataka High Court that there was no love jihad movement in the State.

The State made this submission when the court was hearing a petition by Selvaraj seeking a direction to the Chamarajnagar police to trace his daughter, Shelja Raj, who he claimed was a victim of love jihad.

He said love jihad meant that Muslim youth were being used to lure Hindu and Christian girls. The girls got married to Muslims and then were indoctrinated into jihad.

The police had investigated the case and come to the conclusion that Shelja had married a Muslim youth of her own free will and that there was no force used to convert Shelja into a Muslim. Though the Shelja case was closed, the court had asked the police to investigate incidents of love jihad in Karnataka.

The State police had filed an interim report several months ago. When the matter came up on Thursday, the State filed a final report on love jihad. The report, filed by Director-General and Inspector-General of Police Ajai Kumar Singh, said teams were formed to look into such incidents in all the districts. The police said there was no organised attempt by any group or individual in Karnataka to entice girls and women into marriage. However, a large number of Hindu girls have converted to Islam of their own will.If the Hindu which downplays these happenings says no is high then

http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/23/stories ... 760500.htm

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 23 Apr 2010 09:46

Separatist outfits condemn death term for blast convicts

http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/23/stories ... 721000.htm

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 23 Apr 2010 15:24

Calls made to Britain, Sri Lanka from Nalini's mobile: TN govt
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 848057.cms