jilo ji bhar ke

somnath munde ko mila samman.....................bns chief somnath munde.

mera stv mera sai tv

tin sal se lagatar.........

ye to hona hi tha

susma our manmohan sero shayari khelo ... janata to pagal hi hai bhuke pet sero shayari sunane ko

a raje ke sath manmohan ko bhi giraftar karo somnath munde bns chief

a rato chor nikala par aasali chor to manamohan hai ............... sale ko bhi aandar dalo .............................ye log janata ke gunahegar hai .... bhuki janata saval karati hai ki kya raja ko girftar karake usanane luti hueee garibo ki roti vapas milegi kya.............. bolo javab do nahi to manamohan ko bhi giraftar karo................. somnath munde bns chief

a raje ke sath manmohan ko bhi giraftar karo

andher nagari our chopat raja ............. soniya our manamohan ka naya game mai to kafi dino se dekhata aa raha hun lekin tum bhi dekho ....

a raje ke sath manmohan ko bhi giraftar karo

a raja bharat ki garib our bhuki janata ka gunhehgar bad me hai ...... raja se pahale to manamohan ko giraftar karo taki garib janata ko lutane wala our koee raja na bane ...........somnath munde bns chief...........

a raje ke sath manmohan ko bhi giraftar karo

One terse sentence brought a chapter of the 2G spectrum scam to an end at 3 pm this afternoon. An officer of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told former telecommunications minister Andimuthu Raja, “Mr Raja, you are under arrest,” after four hours of questioning for the fourth time this month.
Raja’s arrest followed the interrogation of his brother, A K Perumal, about the funding of some front organisations owned by telecom companies, which had been issued 2G licences between October 2007 and January 2008.

Raja’s former personal secretary, R K Chandolia, and former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura were also arrested for allegedly abusing their official positions and manipulating tendering procedures to benefit certain telecom companies.

As Raja belongs to the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), an ally of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), and contributes 18 MPs out of 40 from Tamil Nadu-Pondicherry, there had been some misgivings in the government that the arrest could impact its stability. The UPA has 259 MPs in a House of 543. If the DMK were to walk out of the government in protest against the arrest of one its MPs, the UPA would slip into a minority.

However, immediately after news of the arrest, DMK chief M Karunanidhi went into a meeting on tenders for the free TV scheme that the state government has launched and barred reporters from the venue. Karunanidhi’s alder son, Azhagiri, who has been critical of the role played by Raja, told associates that he had suggested to his father that Raja be suspended from the party. In response, Raja had been removed from his post as propaganda secretary. But there was no reaction from the party — not even mild condemnation of the Centre’s move.

One reason could be the relationship that the Congress and DMK enjoy in the state. The DMK has 99 MLAs in a House of 235. The Congress, which supports the government from the outside, has a strength of 34. Although the Pattali Makkal Katchi with 18 MLAs now supports the DMK, the Karunanidhi government is sure to fall if the Congress pulls out. Moreover, with Tamil Nadu elections due in a matter of months, the DMK simply cannot afford to rock the boat and would prefer to sacrifice one of its MPs instead.

There were absolutely no reverberations in Chennai after Raja’s arrest: No protests, no demonstrations or rallies. “It is hard for people to understand the finer points of corruption in the allocation of 2G spectrum,” said a Congress party worker.

Raja’s troubles started after he issued 122 new licenses to some nine companies in 2008 at a cost of Rs 1,651 crore each — a price fixed in 2001. Many of the new licensees such as Unitech Group and Swan Telecom sold equity in their telecom ventures at a high premium to the license fee. Swan and Unitech sold 45 per cent and 60 per cent stakes, respectively, to foreign players for around $2 billion.

This issue was taken up by political parties in the Left as well as by the BJP, which alleged that Raja had allowed some companies to make a windfall by coming out with an arbitrary policy for allocating licences and scarce spectrum. They said this money belonged to the government. Raja was also attacked by operators, who said his policy was opaque and that the bidding terms were arbitrarily changed to suit select players.

A report by the comptroller & auditor general (CAG) released in November last year said the allocation of new licences at a price fixed in 2001 resulted in a loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer, based on the 3G auction price. The report faulted Raja for ignoring advice from the Prime Minister’s Office and the law ministry to consider auctions

The CAG report also said that many of the new licensees did not meet eligibility conditions and therefore should not have been given a licence in the first place.

On the basis of CAG’s testimony as well as other issues, the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has been demanding a joint parliamentary committee be set up to look into the spectrum issue and did not allow the winter session of Parliament to function. Now, they say Raja’s arrest has only strengthened their case for a JPC. They have demanded the PM depose before the JPC, a demand the Congress is loath to accept.

Today, the Congress party said Raja’s arrest would not affect DMK-Congress ties in the forthcoming election. M Karunanidhi was in Delhi for seat negotiations with the Congress chief Sonia Gandhi two days ago. The impression in the Congress is that Raja’s arrest would tilt the balance of negotiating advantage in the Congress’s favour.

Congress workers in Tamil Nadu, who have been bearing the cross for being seen as party to DMK corruption, are jubilant. Their forecast is that if state Opposition leader Jayalalithaa and film actor Viajakanth, who has formed his own political party, come together, the DMK will be swept out of power in the upcoming Assembly elections. Their assessment is that the DMK is fighting with its back to the wall

Indian Mujahideen claims responsibility for Varanasi blast

New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) Terror group Indian Mujahideen Tuesday owned responsibility for a bomb explosion in Varanasi that killed a small girl and left 20 injured, saying it was to avenge the 1992 demolition of Ayodhya's Babri Masjid.



In an e-mail to media houses soon after the blast, the terror group said: 'Indian Mujahideen attribute(s) this attack to the 6th of December that will haunt your nation of world's 'greatest demoNcracy' until Muslims are paid back justly and fairly for the loss of their beloved Babri Masjid, the precious lives of their near and dear ones, their pride, dignity and self-respect.'




The mail was sent from an e-mail ID alfateh00005@gmail.com.




The Indian Mujahideen, blamed for series of terror attacks in India, has been using unsecured WiFi connections for sending mails to media houses within minutes of the blasts in the last few years.




The home ministry said it was verifying the authenticity of the e-mail.




An official said investigative agencies were looking into and tracking the internet protocol (IP) address used to send the e-mail.




The security agencies say the Indian Mujahideen is supported by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group.




The security agencies also believe that the Indian Mujahideen is one of many groups that has members from the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).




The group claimed responsibility for the 2008 Jaipur bombings, Ahmedabad serial blasts and Delhi blasts.

varanshi me blast ..... bns chief ..... 1 musum ladaki ki mot

Temple was crowded

The first blast took place inside the Sankat Mochan temple adjacent to the Kashi Vishwanath temple. The bomb went off around 6.30 p.m. when the temple was teeming with devotees during the evening pooja. An eyewitness said a marriage ceremony was in progress at the temple.

``The blast was so powerful that it could be heard across the town ... we have moved five or six badly-burned dead,'' he said.

Everyone was running. There were corpses lying around,'' another witness told a television news channel. ``There was almost a stampede.''

Rescue workers struggled in the city's narrow lanes to cart out the victims, said the people on the scene.

Minutes later, another bomb went off in the holding area of platform one of the Cantonment railway station.

The third blast occurred in a crowded coach of the Shiv Ganga Express just before it was to leave for New Delhi. The compartment was packed with people going on vacation ahead of the Holi.

An official said 10 persons died at the temple and 11 at the railway station. Eight of them were women, he said.

``We are counting the bodies as they are coming in. There is confusion everywhere and all I can say of now is that three of the eight are young girls,'' he told AFP by telephone.

Around 62 people were injured, some in critical condition, he said.

a raja ke gar par hi nahi karunanidhi ke gar par bhi chhpe maro bns chief somnath munde

The 2G spectrum financial scandal in the Telecommunications and IT Ministry under A.Raja is noteworthy as the largest political corruption case in modern Indian history, amounting to a record $40 billion loss from underpricing to the Government of India. The alleged modus operandi was telecom bandwidth being grossly undervalued and offered to a chosen few with vested interests, on a dubious 'First-Come-First-Served' basis. It is alleged that it should have been put under a transparent auction system, purportedly advised by higher office.

The bandwidth-spectrum allocation of 2G bandwidth had later come under criticism for gross irregularities. An FIR filed by the CBI claims that the allocation was not done as per market prices, resulting in a scam worth 200,000,000,000 (US$ 4,540,000,000)[3]. However it had been alleged by Arun Jaitley of Bhartiya Janata Party that the scam is worth around Rs. 1,70,000 crores (US$37.5 billion) . The Comptroller and Auditor General holds A. Raja personally responsible for the sale of 2G spectrum at 2001 rates in 2008, resulting the previously mentioned loss of up to Rs. 1.70 lakh crores (US$40 billion) to the national exchequer. [4] In August, 2010, evidence was submitted by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) showing that A. Raja had personally signed and approved the majority of the questionable allocations.[5] Although the political opposition was demanding his resignation over the 2G spectrum scam, A. Raja initially refused to resign stating his innocence, and this view was backed by his party president M.Karunanidhi. [6].

The financial scam eventually led to Raja's resignation [7] on the 14th of November, 2010. There will be further criminal investigation and action on A. Raja with reports being filed by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

pakistan ko uda do .... varanshi me bomb usane hi lagaya tha

two-year-old girl was killed and about 20 people, including four foreigners, were injured in a bomb blast at the Dashashwamedh Ghat on the banks of Ganga river in Varanasi at around 6.30 pm on Tuesday. Terrorist group Indian Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the blast saying that it related stories
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is a response to the recent Ayodhya verdict.

A bomb hidden in a metal canister exploded during the Ganga Aarti (a daily lamp ritual) between Shitlamata Ghat and Dashashwamedh Ghat. The state police and the Union Home Ministry have confirmed the blast.

Additional Director General of Police (ADG)-- Law and Order, Brijlal: "The state has been put on high alert. And anti-terrorist sqauds and a bomb disposal squad have been rushed to the site."

Though it has been reported that the bomb was possibly kept in a milk container. Quoting IG Varansai the ADG said that the bomb was placed in some cavity. The rest is being verified. All top Varanasi district and police officers are on the spot. ADG said that there was no laxity as the state was already on alert due to Babri Masjid demolition anniversary.

The blast took place when thousands of devotees and the foreign tourists had assembled at the ghat for having darshan of the Ganga Arti, police sources said.

Sources said the injured, which included some foreigners also, have been rushed to the nearby hospital. They said a high level meeting is currently on in Lucknow where senior offcials are working out a plan to contain any possible tension due to the explosion.

Some people have been injured due to the blast and some others due to the consequent stampede which occured due to the collapse of the railing. Home Seceretary GK Pillai said that four to five people were injured due to the blast while 14-15 people were injured due to the stampede following the blast.

mar diya na 8 sal ki bacchi ko.......

Varanasi Bomb Blast
Today’s evening turned out to be the last evening of some votaries of God at 6:30 pm in Varanasi as a dangerous terrorist attack took place Dashawarnedh Ghat during Ganga Arti.

In this cowardly attack one innocent girl of 2 years lost her precious life and at least 25 people got injured. This not enough because many more people got injured seriously in the stampede after the blast.

According to the information provided by the trustworthy sources of DLN (improvised Explosive Device) IED has been recovered by the police from the dustbin found at the site of blast in Varanasi.

So far as this blast is concerned so in accordance with the the cogitation of Varanasi Police it seems to be a well planed terrorist attack.

So far as the responsibility of this bomb blast is concerned so it has been claimed by terrorist Group Named Indian Mujahideen.

The responsibility of today’s Bomb blast in Varanasi taken by Indian Mujahideen has been confirmed through the e-mails sent to the media agencies.

In the e-mail sent to media agencies Indian Mujahideen said that today’s attack is their tribute to the demolition of Babri Masjid that took place in the year 1992.



Read more: http://www.ganpatinews.com/2010/12/07/varanasi-bomb-blast-terrorist-group-indian-mujahideen-claims-responsibility-77298#ixzz17ShOpqyO

bharat nav nirman sena ke chief ko di badhaee....

neera radiya chor hai ......use jel me dalo

For generations of Indians, and even outside the country, if there was one word which spelt “trust” and “integrity”, it was the word Tata. One of the well known legendary tales in the Indian industry about Tatas, was that “Tatas don’t bribe” and “Tatas don’t indulge in politics”. It was an intrinsic principle of the House of Tatas, and for all the employees of this humongous group, it was a matter of honour that they believed and practiced this principle.

Recently the present Chairman of the Tata group, Ratan Tata, who has taken his group beyond even the wild imagination of its founder, Jamsetji Tata, in his over two decades of stewardship, came out publicly, how he did not get the permission to start an airlines, because he did not want to pay a bribe. Meanwhile, his group has got caught in a huge controversy, following the Radia tapes being made public, and his own conversations with the controversial lobbyist, Niira Radia, whom he has hired to take care of the corporate communications of his entire group, an extra-ordinary step by itself.

Here it would be interesting to mention that the Tata group has one of the most acclaimed and oldest in-house Corporate communication network. What was then known as the Department of Publicity, the modern version of Corporate communications, was established in or around 1928, and alongwith the Indian Railways Publicity department, is considered the oldest set up in the country. It was this set up which handled all the work of liaisoning with Governments, media and public, in the interest of the various companies of the Tata group for decades, before Ratan Tata decided to bring in Niira Radia’s Vaishnavi communication around 2006-07. It has left the Corporate communication wing of the Tata groups of companies to just manage events, while Radia is being, according to sources, paid Rs.34 crore per year.

Coming back to Ratan Tata and his interview on television, he has warned the country of heading towards becoming a “banana republic”. He has also claimed in this interview while referring to him having contracted Niira Radia’s firm, Vaishnavi Communications to represent his group that, “Never once in our association with her have we tried to subvert policy, move policy.—– Never once have we used her to make payments or to seek favours—“.

How much does this statement stand to scrutiny in the light of the revealations made in the Tapes and also in the documents of the CBI and Directorate General of Income Tax which are in the public domain, and have not been challenged so far.(see documents http://indiasreport.com/magazine/data/the-radia-papers-raja-tata-ambani-connection/.

In the “Internal evaluation report of July 2009” phone calls, after Niira Radia’s phones had been kept under surveillance the report states(see http://indiasreport.com/magazine/data/the-radia-papers-raja-tata-ambani-connection/), “ there is a long call between Mr.Ratan Tata and Mrs.Radia, which establishes that Mr.Tata wanted to prevent Mr.Maran(Dayanidhi) from becoming the Telecom Minister at any cost”(this tape is still not in public domain).

Meanwhile in the published tapes of his conversation with Niira Radia, (see outlook dated Nov.29,2010) Ratan Tata tells Radia—-

RT: — I guess the only concern I have is that Maran is going hammer and tongs for Raja. And I hope Raja doesn’t trip or slip out”.

It is now well known through all the tapes available in the public domain that Niira Radia was desperately trying to keep Maran out of the Telecom Ministry in May 2009, when the UPA II Cabinet was being formed. Now is this not subverting policy or trying to move policy? And does it not blow up the myth that Tatas don’t indulge in politics?

Now coming to the second assertion of Ratan Tata in the TV interview, about him(his group) not having used Niira Radia to make payments or to seek favours, the following is the conversation, the transcripts of which have hitherto not been available in public domain.

The conversation is between Ratnam, Chartered Accountant of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi’s third wife Rajathiammal, Rajathiammal herself and Niira Radia. The conversation took place on June 13, 2010, more than three weeks after the UPA II Cabinet had been formed and A.Raja had been successfully planted as the Telecom Minister and Dayanidhi Maran, was kept out, as desired by Ratan Tata and also Mukesh Ambani, as conversations of Radia with others clearly indicate.

Following is the full text of the conversation between Ratnam/Rajathiammal and Niira Radia:

Ratnam to Radia: Hii morning Madam.

Radia to Ratnam: Hii, hii, uhh uhh

Ratnam to Radia: Madam(Rajathiammal, third “wife” of Karunanidhi and mother of DMK MP, Kanimozhi) baat karna chahti hai, de doon?

Radia to Ratnam: haan haan, please ok,(whispers to someone nearby— Karunanidhi ki patni)— call is being transferred, (she takes a deep breath) call connects— oh I am so sorry, hello how are you(very sweetly indulgent)?

Rajathi to Radia: Hello, I am fine, how are you(in english)?

Radia to Rajathi: I am so sorry, I have not been in touch, I am busy! How are you?

Rajathi to Radia: am fine.

Radia to Rajathi: Yeah, keeping better?

Rajathi to Radia: ummm

Radia to Rajathi: Good, good, good. How is CM(Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi)

Rajathi to Radia: (mumbles) aahhh, —ok.

Radia to Rajathi: (tone is still sweetly indulgent), good, Kani(Kanimozhi), Kani, I met last week, I didn’t meet her this week. Kani is in Chennai?

Rajathi to Radia: ahh yes.

Radia to Rajathi: Shes come no? How are things?(Rajathi mumbles again, clear she is not comfortable talking English), good. How are things?

Rajathi to Radia: mumbles something inaudible

Radia to Rajathi: Haan?(silence for sometime)

Rajathi to Radia: what happened?

Radia to Rajathi: (voice turning anxious) to?

Rajathi to Radia: aaahh

Radia to Rajathi: Tata?

Rajathi to Radia: ah, yes

Radia to Rajathi: (very anxious)not done?

Rajathi to Radia: no, not done( voice low )

Radia to Rajathi: Ratnam is there?

Rajathi to Radia: Yes.

Radia to Rajathi: I will talk , let me speak to him. I thought it was all done

Rajathi to Radia: (voice low) yes, ummm( hands over to Ratnam)

Radia to Ratnam: Hi Ratnam( tone changes, more authoritative)

Ratnam to Radia: Hi Madam

Radia to Ratnam: What happened its not done?( anxious indignation in the voice)

Ratnam to Radia: No Madam, it s not done(??). I just give you a message, no madam.

Radia to Ratnam: I didn’t get a message.

Ratnam to Radia: Madam?

Radia to Ratnam: I got a new mobile, I thought you got my mobile. You don’t have my new mobile number?

Ratnam to Radia: I am talking to you on that mobile only na? Same mobile he(?) also tried no.

Radia to Ratnam: No, no, this is my regular mobile, the other one, my indicom, my indicom(she gives the number)

Ratnam to Radia: no, this(new number) has not been given to us.

Radia to Ratnam: I had told Cecilia(Personal assistant to Niira Radia) last week itself.

Ratnam to Radia: You know Cecelia is totally last one week , not in touch.

Radia to Ratnam: no, no, I will tell you why. Her mother’s is in hospital.

Ratnam to Radia: yeah, that I know.

Radia to Ratnam: She’s been very sick. So that’s why Cecilia has been a little problematic.

Ratnam to Radia: ummm, ummmm. But you said no, you yourself has done.(Radia—yeah!), But that has not come. That’s why I sent a message to you.

Radia to Ratnam: (short silence) I cant believe it, is it?(Ratnam—yeah madam, yeah madam) That can’t be possible( anxiety in her voice)

Ratnam to Radia: No mam, it(?) has not come.

Radia to Ratnam: (short silence) What about Tatas? Whats happening on that?

Ratnam to Radia: Mam, Tata everything’s ok, but this rent 50 percent, yesterday I got a mail, that’s why yesterday also I tried you.(Radia—haan) This agreement, they say that 50 percent of the rent has to be paid by us. So I have already sent a mail to Krishna Kumar(Director, Tata Sons and key aide of Ratan Tata and Chairman, Tata Realty and Infrastructure Ltd.) stating that its not possible. Then I made a call to Krishna Kumar, he did not picked up(sic) and then I called Sanjay Ubhalia(Managing Director, Tata Realty and Infrastructure ltd) (Radia—haan). He says that he will take up the issue with Krishna Kumar and sort it out that(sic).

Radia to Ratnam: No, but when you were in Bombay, it was agreed that no rent and—

Ratnam to Radia: Everything was clearly agreed and Krishna Kumar also said that he will talk to Voltas(a Tata Group company) and he will waive that. But yesterday I tried ten times to call Krishna Kumar and he didn’t pick up, and he was in a meeting it seems.

Radia to Ratnam: No, No yesterday there was a board meeting of Indian Hotels and the annual results were being announced, and also they were in the middle of buying Sea Rock Hotel in Bombay, you know? (Ratnam—ummm). So that’s why it was very difficult to reach him yesterday.(Ratnam—-yeah, yeah)

Ratnam to Radia: yeah, yeah, that’s why I called you , I want to tell you this yesterday.

Radia to Ratnam: No, I will speak to him, ahh Ratnam, I will speak to him Monday, because you know today he is not there, he has gone with the Chairman(Ratan Tata). I hope he hasn’t gone, he was supposed to travel to the US today(Ratnam—who mam?), Krishna Kumar was supposed to travel to US today.

Ratnam to Radia: No mam, only one day, Thursday only he come back, na madam?

Radia to Ratnam: No, no, he has gone again. He is going with his Chairman today. (Ratnam— is it mam?), Yeah, yeah, he was scheduled to travel this morning by Air India(Ratnam—oh!), let me check, le me check. I will have a word with them. But then I am surrrprised!

Ratnam to Radia: Yes, Mam, that’s why I am repeatedly calling Cecilia, and that mobile is totally switched off.

Radia to Ratnam: ummmmm ahhhh, let me talk to her. I will talk to her annnddd, you got my other number na?

Ratnam to Radia: I got your number, that number is what you are talking now na?

Radia to Ratnam: yeah, yeah, do me a favour Ratnam. Give me a missed on that number from your phone. (Ratnam— yeah, yeah) You don’t have any other phone Ratnam?(Ratnam—I have Madam) Give me a missed call from that number na, which is— (gets disconnected)
http://business.outlookindia.com/view.aspx?vname=RatnamDMK-worknotdone-20090613-114740.wav&format=1

The issue being discussed in this conversation becomes clear when one peruses the Internal evaluation report of the Directorate General of Income Tax( see http://indiasreport.com/magazine/data/the-radia-papers-raja-tata-ambani-connection/), wherein the report clearly states:

3. Tata through Voltas(a Tata group organisation) is in touch with Niira Radia and Ratnam, CA of (Rajathi)Ammal, wife of (Chief Minister) M.Karunanidhi,. They are apparently going to construct a building in Chennai on a land controlled by “TRIL” (Tata Realty and Infrastructure ltd.) with the Karunanidhi family as a payoff to DMK for keeping Maran out of Telecom(ministry).

Coming to another legendary truth about the Tata group, that their dealings are most transparent, as its founder J.N.Tata had envisaged. Again as per the documents of the DGIT two transactions which comes out of the conversations between Niira Radia and others, including Tata( which are still not in the public domain) shows how Radia influenced Tata to indulge in “not so transparent” operations.

One is the Rs.250 crore which Tatas have paid to Unitech(as per documents http://indiasreport.com/magazine/data/the-radia-papers-raja-tata-ambani-connection/), during the time of the 2G spectrum allocation, which has now come under a great deal of cloud. The document states:

6. Unitech as per conversations holds TATA’s Rs.250 crore, which were organized by Mrs.Radia. Many cheques for repayment have bounced. (This tape is not yet in the public domain)

Now apart from having links with Unitech, the taped conversation analysis has also found that :

2. —– Apparently Tata, as per taped conversation, indirectly controls equity in Aircel( a rival mobile operator apparently), through Maxis Communication and Apollo. (this tape is also still not in public domain)

It is also interesting to note that Niira Radia in more than one conversations with different people, keeps harping about how former Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Madhu Koda had demanded a pay off of Rs.180 crore to extend a iron ore mining lease to the Tata Steel. Apparently this mine in South Jharkhand has been with the Tata Steel for decades, and the lease has to be periodically extended by the Government. She also claims in her conversations that she had rejected it.

What however she doesn’t say in these conversations is how she managed to get the lease extended. That is available in the DGIT documents summarizing the conversations taped. In the document, it says:

3. Apparently in Jharkhand, Tatas needed its lease on a mine to be extended. As per conversation, former CM Madhu Koda had sought a payoff of Rs.180 crore. Mrs.Radia had got the lease extended from the Governor of Jharkhand(apparently Syed Sibte Razi) and part from her success fee(amount not known) Ratan Tata has sanctioned Rs.1 crore as reward for the team handling it.

The question which arises from this revealation is what was this “success fee”? As per industry insiders who are familiar with such transactions, it is an euphemism for “payoffs” to be given to those who demand it for getting the work done. Incidentally it may be recalled after Madhu Koda was forced to quit in August 2008, Shibu Soren came in as CM, only to lose it in January 2009, after which there was President’s rule in Jharkhand between January and December. Sibte Razi was Governor between Dec. 2004 and July 2009, when he was shifted after a series of controversies. Two of Razi’s aides, Avinash Kumar, an IAS officer and Rajesh Thakur, PA to Razi, are both facing CBI enquiry into charges of corruption and disproportionate assets at present. So is there any relation to the “success fee” and these officials?

So does Ratan Tata’s assertions hold true? Is the House of Tatas today as it was legendary known to be always? These are the questions which are now begging answers., especially after the way in which hand his lobbyist Radia, moved heaven and earth to get Raja the Telecom Ministry. And they were able to get their way, as the above conversation between Radia and Rajathiammal indicates, after appeasing the DMK’s first family.

On the other hand If Tata has nothing to hide and as he claims wants a clean investigation into all the allegations flying around, why is he planning to move the Supreme Court to bring a stay order on further disclosure of the intercepted conversations? Are there more skeletons in the cupboard, as the as yet undisclosed conversations mentioned above indicate? If not why should he shy away from a “transparent” investigation? The legend that “Integrity” and “Tata” are synonymous may sadly just get dented, if not destroyed, if any such attempts are made now.

—–ends

barkha dutt our neera ki property chek karo .....patrakarita ke nam ko kalankit kar rahi hai ye.

Unbelievable! Of all, Mr. Ratan Tata, $73 bn worth Tata group chief, is begging for right to life. Invoking Article 32 to secure Article 21, he complains that his right to privacy is being violated. Being a beneficiary in 2g spectrum allocation, which is biggest scam of independent India, he asks Supreme Court to direct an iron veil of secrecy around Radia Tapes to stop leaking to public through new media, i.e., Internet. It is his privacy! This nation need not know it! It is not about his private conversation with his wife or with his standing counsel. His PR chief Mrs. Nira Radia will have ‘private’ talk with famous journalists, news anchors, MPs, leaders, bureaucrats about politics, business, leadership, coalition, cabinet berths, portfolios, 2G spectrum, Raja, DMK, Congress and so on… and nothing is public affair. Everything his PR Chief Radia speaks is private affair, corporate matter, privileged communication, and everything is part of his ‘private life’, right to life. If these secrets are not kept secret, he cannot survive. It spells end of life. The apex court has to protect his right to life by securing these secrets!


On the other hand senior counsel Prashanth Bhushan asked the Supreme Court not to hold back the transcripts of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia’s telephonic conversations from the public gaze as the people had a right to know how political governance was functioning in tandem with vested interests. Appearing in the apex court for the Centre for Public Interest Litigation, he told the court that the intercepts were a telling commentary on how things were done in the government. Prashanth Bhushan said that there was an attempt that transcripts of 5,851 intercepts do not see the light of the day.[1]

After due authorization from the Home Ministry the Indian Income Tax department tapped Radia’s phone lines for 300 days in 2008-2009 as part of their investigations into possible money laundering, restricted financial practices, and tax evasion. The tapes revealed that Radia had frequent conversations with politicians, A. Raja, former Telecommunication and IT Minister, Kanimozhi, Rajya Sabha MP, Journalists, Barkha Dutt, Group editor, English news, NDTV, M.K. Venu, senior business journalist, Prabhu Chawla, editor of India Today magazine, Rajdeep Sardesai, Shankar Aiyar, then with India Today Group, Vir Sanghvi, HT advisory editorial director, Industry Heads, Ratan Tata, Tata Group, Tarun Das, former CII head, (Mention of) Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries, and Ranjan Bhattacharya (foster son-in-law of former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee), Suhel Seth, management guru and columnist.


When the print & electronic media maintained stoic silence pretending to ignore sensational tape tales, this news was prominently debated on social networking sites Twitter and Facebook. It was called the barkhagate which became number one topic on Twitter in India for more than a week. According to the Washington Post, “Twitter has played an important role in launching what has become an international conversation on the issue, with the Indian diaspora weighing in”. It was the Fifth Estate, netizen with the web technology which really exercised freedom of expression and kept the issue in lime light, while Fourth Estate was blocking out the sensation involving some of its prominent faces.


In one of the tapes, an unidentified interlocutor asks Ms Radia, whose clients include both Mr. Tata and Mukesh Ambani, why “you people [i.e. the Mukesh Ambani group] are supporting [Raja] like anything … when the younger brother [Anil Ambani] is the biggest beneficiary of the so called spectrum allocation”. “Issue bahut complex hai,” Ms Radia replies. “ Mere client Tatas bhi beneficiary rahein hain (my client, the Tatas, have also been a beneficiary).” [2]

There was a crucial conversation between Ratnam, Chartered Accountant of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi’s third wife Rajathiammal, Rajathiammal herself and Niira Radia, on June 13, 2010, more than three weeks after the UPA II Cabinet had been formed and A.Raja had been successfully planted as the Telecom Minister and Dayanidhi Maran, was kept out, as desired by Ratan Tata and also Mukesh Ambani, as conversations of Radia with others clearly indicated.[3]

It is also reported that Tata through Voltas (a Tata group organisation) is in touch with Niira Radia and Ratnam, CA of (Rajathi)Ammal, wife of (Chief Minister) M.Karunanidhi,. They are apparently going to construct a building in Chennai on a land controlled by “TRIL” (Tata Realty and Infrastructure ltd.) with the Karunanidhi family as a payoff to DMK for keeping Maran out of Telecom (ministry).


Privacy is for private persons and also for private affairs of public persons. It is illegal, illogical and unreasonable for public persons to claim privacy for their public activities such as governance, policy making, formation of ministry and politics. Privacy should not be mistaken with secret business operations causing harm to public institutions. Once a crime is committed, the suspicious persons need to be interrogated or investigated. Those suspected or involved cannot claim privacy and ask for protection of their criminal secrets as privacy saying that such privacy is part of right to life. Secret lobbying behind 2G spectrum corruption has to be probed into. Looking into authorized recorded tapes is a required and legitimate process and if it reveals the conversation of Tata’s people with political lobbyists, which insist on somebody to be made Telcom minister or not to be made, it is quiet relevant public affair and has to be probed. If these tapes are blocked, the rich and powerful brokers would get emboldened to adjust the deals to escape from the long hands of law, which destroys the public interest. Privacy is not secrecy for hiding unethical deals and cornering state wealth through manipulations. If these secret unethical manipulations are supposed to be protected under right to privacy, no investigating agency can probe into any crime anywhere in the world.


If Tata, Burkha Dutt, Vir Singhvi and others who figured in Radia tapes and Radia herself feel defamed by these revelations, they can test their right to reputation by suing publishers, which will end up in favour of publishers. They have absolutely no case under right to privacy as that right is available for victims of crime but not to criminals or their helpers.


Privacy: An Undefined Right


Privacy in general means the right to be let alone and its object is to protect inviolate personality. Privacy is yet to be defined as a legal right in India. Privacy is a fundamental human right that has been defined as the presumption that individuals should have an area of autonomous development, interaction and liberty, a “private sphere” with or without interaction with others and free from State intervention and free from excessive unsolicited intervention by other uninvited individuals.[4]


A professor team studied interface between public interest, media and privacy for BBC and other State Commissions of UK[5]. That report concluded with suggestion of public interest exception to privacy: The general public put great value and importance on media information or coverage which promotes the general good, for the well-being of all. These include the identification of wrongdoing and of the wrongdoers themselves, with the media acting as guardians of shared moral and social norms. Under these conditions, and with suitable regard to the relative severity of the individual case, individuals’ privacy can be intruded upon – in extreme cases should be – in the name of the greater good.[6]


Though it is regarded as a Fundamental Right it is not absolute as it can be restricted on the basis of compelling public interest.[7] This is the real scope of privacy and this space of Ratan Tata and his legitimate interests are not invaded by publication of tapes.


After privatization and globalization, the need for right to know the activities of corporate giants in clandestine association with rulers, has enormously increased. In Time V. Hill, U. S. Supreme Court said: “The constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech in the press, not for the benefit of the press, in order to benefit the entire nation. Powerful industrialists like Tata and influential communicators like Vir Sanghwi and Burkha Dutt should understand that with great power comes great responsibility, and therefore the freedom under Article 19 (1) (a) correlates with a duty not to violate the law.


Unwarranted invasion of privacy is the exception to right to information as per section 8 of Right to Information Act, 2005, that means a required or warranted invasion is welcome to enforce right to know. Supreme Court judges’ assets case, the Delhi High Court held that personal information related to the performance of the public duties by public officials does not receive the same level of protection as that of private individuals who do not perform such duties[8].


In Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) v. Union of India,[9] P. Venkatarama Reddy J. observed: By calling upon the contesting candidates to disclose the assets and liabilities of his/her spouse, the fundamental right to information of a voter citizen is thereby promoted, when there is a competition between the right to privacy of an individual and the right to information of the citizens, the former right has to be subordinated to the latter right as it serves larger public interest.

If a privacy interest in nondisclosure exists, the public interest in disclosure, if any, is weighed against that privacy interest.[10] Even if the interest in protecting privacy is substantial, the importance of the public interest must still be considered because, unless the invasion of privacy is clearly unwarranted, the public interest in disclosure must prevail.[11]

Given that freedom of information laws have at their core the purpose of disclosure, exemptions are strictly construed, and it has been said that the public right to know should prevail unless disclosure would publicize intimate details of a highly personal nature.[12] The Radia tapes, so far published revealed public issue, but not an iota of personal life of claimant Tata. There is neither ‘personal privacy’ nor ‘unwarranted invasion’.

Nixon’s Privacy?


Like Ratan Tata, Nixon also sought to protect his tapes. However, Tata should know that Nixon failed. Former US President Richard Nixon challenged the constitutionality of the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act, which provided for the historical archiving of and public access to recordings and materials made by the President during his tenure in public office. In addressing Nixon’s claim that providing public access to his White House recordings and papers would violate his right to privacy, the Court recognized and reaffirmed that “one element of privacy had been characterized as the ‘individual interest in avoiding disclosure of personal matters….”[13] The Court continued, recognizing that “public officials, including the President, are not wholly without constitutionally protected privacy rights in matters of personal life unrelated to any acts done by them in their public capacity.”[14]. The Court concluded that the “tape recordings made in the Presidential offices primarily relate to the conduct and business of the Presidency,” and that “the overwhelming bulk of the [records at issue] pertain, not to appellant’s private communications, but to the official conduct of the Presidency.”[15] Therefore, the Court concluded “only a minute portion of the materials implicates appellant’s privacy interests,” precisely because “of his lack of any expectation of privacy in the overwhelming majority of the materials” – those that reflected on his official conduct.[16]

Unless information in the government’s hands is non-public and of a “highly personal and sensitive” nature, such that its public disclosure “would be offensive and objectionable to a reasonable person,” the disclosure of such information cannot, as a matter of law, violate an individual’s right to privacy. See Flanagan,[17] (applying the first prong of Martinelli to internal affairs file and concluding that “data in files ‘which is not of a highly personal or sensitive nature may not fall within the zone of confidentiality”) The US Supreme Court held that the evidence obtained by wire tapping was admissible against petitioners[18].


With these public interest exceptions controlling the right of privacy, which is yet take a firm shape, it is doubtful as to entitlement of Tata to block out the tale telling tapped tapes vis-à-vis their disclosure in public interest.


Conclusion: The legal principles regarding right to privacy and disclosure in public interest:

Telephone tapping is held constitutional if ordered according to a prescribed procedure. (SC judgment in PUCL Case)
Information obtained by authorized telephone tapping is not illegal information.
If such information discloses clues and evidence of a crime or scandal, they have to be pursued. (Investigation in public interest to protect public property)
Right to privacy is available to the disclosure of information about private or personal life of the public or private person. Protection under privacy cannot be extended to criminal activities, conspiracies and attempts to manipulate political and governance related policies.
Disclosure of Public information in the hands of Government is matter of state duty and right of citizen. (Right to know as part of right to life and Right to Information Act, 2005)
Protection for private information from disclosure is not available if there is overwhelming public interest in disclosure.
Overweighing public interest in non-disclosure should be proved for not considering public interest in disclosure. In such conflicts privacy is not prime concern. If a privacy interest in nondisclosure exists, the public interest in disclosure, if any, is weighed against the privacy interest.
Unless information in the government’s hands is non-public and of a “highly personal and sensitive” nature, such that its public disclosure “would be offensive and objectionable to a reasonable person,” the disclosure of such information cannot, as a matter of law, violate an individual’s right to privacy.
Even if the interest in protecting privacy is substantial, the importance of the public interest must still be considered because, unless the invasion of privacy is clearly unwarranted, the public interest in disclosure must prevail.
10. Given that freedom of information laws (US) have at their core the purpose of disclosure, exemptions are strictly construed, and it has been said that the public right to know should prevail unless disclosure would publicize intimate details of a highly personal nature. Attorney General v. Assistant Com’r of Real Property Dept. of Boston, 380 Mass. 623, 404 N.E.2d 1254 (1980).

11. The courts have laid down no definitive rules as to what constitutes “an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy” within the meaning of exemption 7(C) of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

12. The doctrine laid down in the Olmstead (Olmstead v. United States, 277 U. S. 438) case is that since wire tapping does not violate the Constitution, evidence so obtained is admissible under the common law of evidence no matter how illegally obtained. It is significant that the US Federal courts have uniformly considered the Olmstead case controlling on the general proposition that in the absence of legislation by Congress evidence even though unethically or illegally obtained is admissible unless rights under the Constitution have been invaded.

Facts against Tata

Telephone tapping has been done after due authorization.
The IT department or any other authority is not allegedly involved in disclosure or leakage.
It is not known as to who copied and leaked the tapped phone conversations.
It is not aimed at any individual industrialist like Tata or Ambani. It is a revelation that some bigwigs including them were referred to and heard in these conservations.
Under no stretch of imagination the issues discussed or sought were not about personal or private or family matters of individuals involved in conversations. They are public matters, public activities such as coalition politics, cabinet portfolio allocations, distribution of public wealth (2g spectrum, or natural gas in Krishna Godavari Basin) running to the tune of lakhs of crores of rupees which belong to sovereign people at large.
Though third wife, son, daughter and other relatives of DMK President are referred, it is not private family affair but about national coalition. It is unfortunate that we have to discuss families to know about politics in this country.
More over the whole issue is about the biggest scandal wherein corrupt motives dominate over collective responsibility of coalition cabinet. Prime Minister appeals or suggests to junior minister Raja and when the later simply ignores and rejects it, the PM leaves it to the fate of Indians and continues to rule this country while that decision of junior minister ruins this country.
Such issues forming part of tapes of tapped phones of big public persons are substantial issues of governance pertaining to rule of law and the Constitution that has been desecrated and violated with all impunity by the cabinet, industrialists including petitioner Tata, a section of Media bearing big names willingly becoming tools (a disgrace to Fourth Estate in fact) in the hands of a professional lobbyist working in the garb of PR official (a shame to profession of public relations indeed).
This information in the government’s hands is public and not of a “highly personal and sensitive” nature, such that its public disclosure “would be offensive and objectionable to a reasonable person,” the disclosure of such information cannot, as a matter of law, violate an individual’s right to privacy.
Either Tata or those lobbying for him including persons in media, politics, PR or in other professions, were not discussing legal strategies to improve industries of Tata or his family affairs. Thus no private information of Tata is involved in these conversations, instead, sinister motives to send some body out and bring somebody in as Union Telcom Minister, with whom Tata and other telecommunication industrialists were been ultimately benefited at the cost of this nation, in fact these communications reveal a serious treachery of nation which is not defined as a crime in Indian Penal Code, as authors of IPC 150 years ago failed to visualize emerging of great industrialists planning to grab national wealth through lobbying.
Even if we assume for a moment that privacy of Tata is invaded, (which never happened) that invasion was committed by Niira Radia and others who willingly served interests of these industrialists rather the nation, a shame again. Hence Tata has to try whether he has a cause of action against them and certainly not against the highly inactive government which does not even know what is happening even after CAG reported the serious proportion of gigantic scam.
Assuming for a moment that his privacy is invaded (which did not happen) its disclosure is highly warranted in public interest and not unwarranted as Tata claimed.
It is a fit case where nation has a right to know other unrevealed tapes of tapped phones to go to the roots of 2G scam, KG Scam etc. The people of this Nation has every authority to demand its representative government to continue to tap all these corporate or industrialist terrorist who are targeting national wealth under ground (KG) and in the space above (2G) to catch dacoits of gas and spectrum and produce alive before the Sovereign “We the people..”.
More important is that certain conversations reveal that they have scant regard for higher courts and confident of securing any favourable judicial process or order. This is in fact the contempt of court, and this is where power to punish that contempt need to be used. It is another aspect which disprove the claim that what was being discussed was not privacy but contempt of court.
The clues and evidence thus obtained by authorized tapping of phones could be used and adduced as admissible evidence of guilty in these scams.
It is high time that people centric media, other than those high profile persons serving Radia and her clients, to engage in string operations to catch hold of dacoits of national wealth since the law can support admission of evidence obtained by illegal tapping also. (See significant decisions of US Supreme Court above).
When politicians, media persons and other big men are not bothered about their right to privacy why Ratan Tata alone is seeking protection of apex court? Is it because more skeletons are there in cup boards?
Mr. Ratan Tata should have a sense of shame in begging Supreme Court for right to life when more than 40 crore people living below poverty line do not afford or access or care to seek right to life in Article 21 invoking Article 32 in Supreme Court of India, though they are dying in poverty as their national wealth is looted by big and famous.

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शहीदों के नाम पर लूट, आखिर कब तक???
मुंबई के पॉश इलाके कोलाबा में आदर्श हाउसिंग कोऑपरेटिव सोसायटी की इमारत
को लेकर इस समय सियासी माहौल गरमाया हुआ है। करगिल के शहीदों के परिजनों
के नाम पर औने-पौने दाम पर ली गई जमीन पर बनी इमारत के फ्लैट सेना के आला
अफसरों और बड़े-बड़े राजनेताओं ने ‘हड़प’ लिए हैं।


मामला उस वक्‍त और गंभीर हो गया जब सेना के जनरल रहे एन सी विज और दीपक
कपूर के अलावा महाराष्‍ट्र के मुख्‍यमंत्री अशोक चव्‍हाण के रिश्‍तेदारों
के नाम इन फ्लैटों के आवंटियों के तौर आए।

करगिल के शहीदों के लिए मंगाए गए तबूतों में दलाली का मामला हो या आदर्श
सोसायटी घोटाला, या फिर सैनिकों को दिए जाने वाले राशन में गड़बड़ी की
घटना, हर बार शक की सूई सेना के अफसरों और राजनेताओं पर घूमती रही है। देश
की आन-बान-शान के लिए अपना जीवन न्‍यौछावर करने वाले सैनिकों को आखिर कब
तक इस तरह ‘धोखा’ दिया जाएगा।


सरकार हर बार शहीदों के घरवालों को मरहम के तौर पर कई घोषणाएं करती है
लेकिन इन घोषणाओं का जमीनी‍ स्‍तर पर कितना पालन होता है। इसकी पड़ताल भी
की जानी चाहिए। सैनिकों की सहायता के नाम पर लाखों-करोड़ो रुपये
वारे-न्‍यारे होते हैं। चूंकि ऐसे मामलों के सेना अफसर फंसते हैं तो उनके
खिलाफ कार्रवाई की एक अलग प्रक्रिया (कोर्ट मार्शल) है लेकिन राजनेता हर
बार ऐसे मामलों से साफ बच निकलते हैं।


इन घटनाओं से ऐसा लगता है कि भ्रष्‍टाचार हमारी नियति बन चुका है और इससे
बचने का कोई रास्‍ता नहीं दिख रहा। लंबी और जटिल कानूनी प्रक्रिया की वजह
से भ्रष्‍टाचार के दानव से निपटना मुश्किल दिखाई पड़ता है।

prabhu ram chandra ki jai