Re: [HumJanenge] Re: petition seeking prosecution of Sonia Gandhi sent to PMO

Hi Sarabjit,

Thanks for reply.

I shared information promptly as was available, just in case such sharing is appreciated by this group members. I share facts & information without any political leanings.

I read various threads in this group like "Politics of Corruption" sharing interesting information.

Pl do inform moderator policy which I will comply.

best regards,

Joshi NM

Advocate.

On 17 April 2011 18:55, sarbajit roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:

And this has something to do with RTI or information access ????

Sarbajit

On Apr 17, 3:33 pm, Joshi NM <naishadhjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Excerpts of letter to PMO, seeking sanction against NAC chair person:
> you may pl. verify from your sources about correctness:
>
> 15, April 2011
>
> Dr.Manmohan Singh
> Prime Minister as Sanctioning Authority
> u/s 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act (1988) [PCA]
> South Block, New Delhi.
>
> Re: Sanction to prosecute Ms.Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson (in Cabinet Rank),
> NAC, under Prevention of Corruption Act (1988).
> Dear Sir:
> 1. Ms.Sonia Gandhi MP, wife of the deceased Rajiv Gandhi, was first
> appointed as Chairperson National Advisory Council [NAC] in May 2004. She
> resigned in 2006 but was re-appointed by an Order of the Cabinet Secretariat
> dated March 29, 2010, read with Order dated October 8, 2010 [Annexure 1].
> 2. As per Order of May 31, 2004 [Annexure 2] the Prime Minister's Office
> will provide Central Government funds to meet the expenditure of the NAC,
> and service the NAC for its secretarial needs. Hence she is a public servant
> as defined in Section 2 ( c ) of the Prevention of Corruption Act (1988).
> 3. You, in your capacity as deemed appointing authority are therefore the
> Designated Authority under Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act
> for granting Sanction to prosecute the said Ms. Sonia Gandhi. As you know,
> there are no laches or statute of limitations for prosecuting offences of
> corruption.
> 4. Your Sanction is required by me for prosecuting Ms. Sonia Gandhi on a
> private complaint proposed to be filed by me in the criminal court under
> Prevention of Corruption Act (1988), based on the materials available to me
> (and enclosed with this letter/application) with reference to two issues:
> FIRST ISSUE:
> 5. Ms.Sonia Gandhi holds office which enables her to give direction to
> Government departments and Ministries and also call for confidential reports
> from CBI, and according to the then Union Law Minister, she can even call
> for files [Annexure 3]. She has been as Chairperson of NAC giving directions
> to several ministries and departments.
> 6. It is charged that she obtained for, and colluded with family friend, Mr.
> Ottavio Quattrocchi—an Interpol Red-Corner Noticee & a proclaimed offender
> under Indian criminal law, to obtain for him the pecuniary advantage from
> defreezing of his CBI-frozen account, thus committing offence u/s 13 (1)(d)
> of the PCA, and also conspired with Quattrocchi to enable him to escape
> prosecution in Bofors Gun Purchase scam.
> 7. Bofors scam that occurred in 1986 represents corruption in very high
> places and the key figure in the scam is Mr. Ottavio Quattrocchi, the
> Italian family friend and fixer. The then Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi was
> manipulated by Ms.Sonia Gandhi, his Italian born wife, to abet the crime in
> Bofors gun purchase committed by Quattrocchi against the nation.
> 8. Ms.Sonia Gandhi stationed Mr.Walter Vinci, her brother-in-law, in Sweden
> to influence her husband and then Prime Minister, when on a visit to Sweden
> to finalize the Bofors Deal. Also present in the same hotel was the Italian
> fixer, small arms supplier, and Snam Progetti agent, Mr. Ottavio
> Quattrocchi, [who was hailed as the catalyst in the deal by the CBI in their
> Letters Rogatory documents], and who had in return for a hefty commission
> prevailed on the Prime Minister to sign the deal before March 31, 1986.
> 9. Thereafter when the arm of the law began reaching near him, he escaped
> from India in 1993, then from Malaysia in 2002 via a rigged court judgment
> obtained by collusion with as yet unnamed parties and from Argentina— by the
> CBI fudging the records – all achieved under
> the influence exerted by Ms. Sonia Gandhi under three different and
> consenting Prime Ministers.
> 10. This is further confirmed in the interview conducted by Ranjit Bhushan
> of Outlook magazine [Annexure 4 ] in 1998 with Mr.Sten Lindstorm, the Chief
> of the Investigation Division of Swedish National Bureau of Investigation
> and Special Prosecutor of the Swedish Government into the Bofors payoffs.
> The Swedish National Audit Bureau which he assisted concluded after an
> independent probe that bribes had indeed been paid in the Bofors deal.
> 11. Lindstorm states in the interview, which has not been contradicted by
> anyone including Ms. Sonia Gandhi, that: "The Bofors Papers all point to the
> [Sonia] Gandhi family" and further that Ms.Sonia Gandhi should "explain how
> Quattrocchi-owned companies got such fat sums as payoffs from the Bofors
> deal."
> 12. This report is corroborated by another interview given by Lindstorm to
> Chitra Subramanian [Indian Express, March 22, 1998] wherein he stated; "All
> information we had at that time pointed to the Gandhi link—Sonia Gandhi
> should place her cards on the table. The bribes have been traced to her
> friend and this is not something out of the blue. This is no coincidence."
> 13. Headlines Today is in possession of the written statement of then
> Intelligence Bureau officer Naresh Chandra Gosain made before CBI Inspector
> Ghanshyam Rai on March 29 1997. Between 1984 and 1987, Gosain was posted in
> the Special Protection Group[SPG] of the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
> He was part of the escort team. Between 1987 and 1989, Gosain served as the
> Personal Security Officer or the PSO of Sonia Gandhi.
> 14. During the tenure of Prime Minister Deve Gowda in 1997, Gosain deposed
> before the CBI. This deposition has so far never been made public. Headlines
> Today dug out this deposition, in which Gosain talks at length about the
> close family ties between the Gandhis and the Quattrocchis.
> 15. In his testimony Gosain says, "Mr.Ottavio Quattrocchi and his wife Ms
> Maria Quattrocchi were very close to Mr Rajiv Gandhi and Mrs Sonia Gandhi.
> When Shri Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister, Mr. Quattrocchi and his family
> members used to visit PM house and the family members of Shri Rajiv Gandhi
> also used to visit the house of Mr.Quattrocchi."
> 16. He adds: "In the initial period of Prime Ministership of Shri Rajiv
> Gandhi, the children of Shri Rajiv Gandhi used to stay at Mr.Quattrocchi's
> house during the foreign visits/domestic visits of the Prime Minister. We
> used to perform our shift duties at the residence of Mr.Quattrocchi on such
> occasions. Sometimes, Mrs Sonia Gandhi has also stayed in the house of
> Mr.Quattrocchi and at that time we used to perform our duties there."
> Gosain goes on to add that Mr.Quattrocchi and his wife Maria enjoyed free
> access to the Prime Minister's house. "At No. 5 & 7 Race Course Road,
> private cars were not allowed to enter inside the bungalow. Only the ferry
> cars of SPG, after severe security checks, used to carry such visitors from
> reception to porch and back. Mr. Quattrocchi and Mrs Maria Quattrocchi were
> very close to Shri Rajiv Gandhi's family and they got free access to the
> PM's House."
> He further added: "All visitors to No 5 & 7 Race Course Road were issued
> passes at the reception near the alighting point. Every time, a card was
> kept ready for Mr. Quattrocchi and his family members as and when they
> visited the PM's house. Everybody in SPG posted at PM house knew Mr
> Quattrocchi and his family members. Hence, there was no question of
> identifying them."
> 17. Ottavio Quattrocchi's proximity to the Gandhis is well known. What is
> also known is this proximity continued even after Quattrocchi began to be
> linked to the Bofors scandal. What documents show is that despite the cloud
> of suspicion surrounding Quattrocchi's involvment in the Bofors paybacks, he
> continued to have unfettered access to 10 Janpath, the residence officially
> assigned to Ms.Sonia Gandhi, which in itself makes her a public servant
> under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
> 18. It is important to recollect that by January 25, 1990, a team of CBI
> officials was already in Switzerland with a list of suspected recipients of
> the Bofors payback. According to a Frontline magazine story of the time,
> Ottavio Quattrocchi was the first name on that list. Between 1988 and 1990,
> the media too carried many stories about the involvement of Quattrocchi as a
> middleman in the Bofors deal.. . . . . . .(contd.)
> *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
>

> On 16 April 2011 21:42, sarbajit roy <sroy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear Vikram
>
> > Your point about this group's discussion being limited to RTI is well
> > taken. As of now this group is moderated for month of April and we
> > have about 4 active moderators logging in frequently to approve the
> > posts. One of them must have seen the reference to RTI in NM Joshi's
> > message and approved it without reading the email in its entire
> > context.
>
> > Sarbajit
>
> > On Apr 16, 7:44 pm, Vikram Simha <vikramsimh...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> > > What is this PMO in the Subject and MMS in the Text Columns  and why is
> > Subramiam swamy very Fond of these PMO or MMS , when he Usually approaches
> > courts with all the data & Documents . Is this a joke on us members of this
> > group .
> > > Next what is the source that it is 205 pages and how does any RTI
> > Activist lay his/her hands on it  other than through RTI the very next day .
>
> > > I read that the Group Moderators have limited this Group for RTI
> > discussions and not Discussions on S.Swamy or S Gandhi
>
> > > N vikramsimha , KRIA Katte , #12 Sumeru Sir M N Krishna Rao Road ,
> > Basvangudi < Bangalore 560004.
>
> > > --- On Sat, 16/4/11, Joshi NM <naishadhjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > From: Joshi NM <naishadhjo...@gmail.com>
> > > Subject: [HumJanenge] petition seeking prosecution of Sonia Gandhi sent
> > to PMO
> > > To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com
> > > Date: Saturday, 16 April, 2011, 12:13 PM
>
> > > Dr. Subramaniam Swami has sent yesterday a 206 page Petition to MMS
> > seeking Sonia's prosecution for which he needs sanction.
>
> > > any RTI activist having copy of this petition, pl. upload.
> > > -Joshi NM