RE: [IAC#RG] More thick-skinned than any pachyderm

Thanks,sir,
Let us see reaction of S. Roy as convenor on your offer.
Incidentally, I wonder if it is a co-incidence that one day Digvijay singh takes agrresive posture and the next day GOM is formed to consider freeing CBI from control to meet court,s objections. But if you look at the composition of GOM,most of them had brush with the SC at one time or the other. I hope it does not turn out to be an eyewash.
Regds
JKGaur

Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 00:25:32 +0530
From: rkatri1@gmail.com
To: indiaresists@lists.riseup.net
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] More thick-skinned than any pachyderm

Thanks Shri Sarabjit Roy & JK Gaur,
 
Time for people of India has come for decisive action and we must
rally arround judges who are credible for bringing them in the
forfront of advising as to how country should be run with key experts
in respective fields.
 
We must plan an action group separately for people who are keen on
ground action.
 
I am willing to coordinate that action group for next 2-3 Months for
making a Nation wide Team India for final action with coordinated
planning.
 
Thanks & Regards
 
R.K.Atri
 
On 5/14/13, Gaur J K <gaurjk@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 14/5/13/
>
> Dear sir,
> it is a matter of survival not being thick-skinned and they will use every
> trick in the trade to keep the Govt. alive till the last day and manipulate
> to get fresh mandate.
>  Realisation has dawned on UPA-2 that with scams tumbling out every other
> day,many heads may roll if the investigations are taken to their logical
> conclusions.
> They are persistently sidlining the Parliament and put the blame for
> nonfuctioning on the opposition.
> Various par;liamentary committes are not allowed to function freely.
> Now Supreme court is being percieved as the stumbling block. It is for this
> reason, Digvijay singh has questioned the court calling CBI a parrot on the
> ground of respect for insitutions. He forgets that CBI is not an institution
> but an investigating agency functioning under the Govt. control.
> He also forgets that it is the Govt. who is undermining the authority of
> consitutional institutions, be it CAG or CVC or elction commission. The
> situation developing is similar to 1975 when concept of committed judiciary
> was floated, all in the name of Socialism and welfare of the masses.
> Regds
> JKGaur
>
>
>
> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 09:23:50 +0530
> From: sroy.mb@gmail.com
> To: indiaresists@lists.riseup.net
> Subject: [IAC#RG] More thick-skinned than any pachyderm
>
>
> More thick-skinned than any pachyderm
> Tuesday, 14 May 2013 | A Surya Prakash | in Edit
> The Prime Minister pretends as if he was never involved. Most distressing of
> all, the Attorney General of India and the officials who interfered with the
> process of justice continue in office, as if nothing has happened
> The brazenness with which the United Progressive Alliance has interfered
> with the working of the Central Bureau of Investigation's probe into
> Coalgate has left citizens wondering whether any institution will remain
> intact when hopefully, someday, this Government and its Prime Minister bow
> out of office. While the story of the interference of the Prime Minister's
> Office, the then Union Minister for Law and Justice, the Coal Ministry and
> the Attorney General in the preparation of the CBI's report to the Supreme
> Court in this matter is indeed shocking, the lies uttered by key players in
> this episode have shaken public confidence not just in the Ministers but for
> the first time in the country's law officers.
> How despicable the conduct of these individuals has been can be gauged from
> the following facts: The Government allocated coal blocks to its cronies in
> an irresponsible manner during UPA1. The Comptroller and Auditor-General of
> India investigated these allocations and said that by not adopting a
> transparent method of allocation to private parties through methods like
> competitive bidding, the Government's actions had caused a humongous loss of
> Rs 1,85,591 crore up to March 31, 2011 to the public exchequer. This was far
> more than the loss caused by the unscrupulous manner in which the Government
> sold 2G Spectrum to private telecom companies.
> When the CAG report became public, Ministers in the Government hurled abuses
> at the CAG and sought to ridicule the findings of the auditor. Thereafter,
> the matter came before the Supreme Court and the court directed the CBI to
> investigate the allocations and report back to it. It was decided that the
> CBI would file its report in a sealed cover.
> But, such was the respect that the UPA and its former Law Minister Ashwani
> Kumar had for the court that they insisted on seeing the CBI's report before
> its submission.
> The CBI had said exactly what the CAG had said. Its report spoke of the
> absence of clear cut norms for allocation of coal blocks. Mr Kumar, who had
> ridiculed the CAG's findings earlier, had this inference removed from the
> CBI report. Among those who were involved in this exercise, which smacks of
> contempt for the highest court in the country, were the then Law Minister,
> the Attorney General, the PMO and the Coal Ministry. The Minister summoned
> the Director of the CBI and the law officer to his office to see the report.
> Alongwith Attorney General GE Vahanvati, Additional Solicitor General Harin
> Raval attended this meeting. The Attorney General later summoned CBI
> officials to his home office. Meanwhile, officials from the PMO and the Coal
> Ministry landed at the CBI headquarters and asked that they be shown the
> report. All the characters in this drama suggested changes of some kind or
> the other or approved the line taken by the Minister.
> The CBI was expected to keep its report confidential because the status of
> the Government in this case is that of a suspect or an accused in a criminal
> case. Have you ever come across an investigating officer being asked to show
> his investigation report to an accused before submission in a court?
> Secondly, have you ever come across an investigating officer changing the
> contents of the charge-sheet on the suggestions of the accused? This is
> common sense and very easily understood by India's 1.2 billion people, but
> persons in the Union Government are so drunk with power that this simple
> logic went over their head.
> But, the story does not end here. When news of the Government's interference
> in the CBI's report came into the open, the persons involved resorted to
> outright dishonesty. Shockingly, Attorney General Vahanvati, the country's
> topmost law officer, claimed in the Supreme Court that he had not seen the
> CBI report before it was presented to the court. The then Law Minister and
> his friends in Government resorted to a string of untruths to explain what
> he had done. It was said that he did not call a meeting of the CBI Director
> and others. Next, he said he had made only grammatical changes in the
> report, as if that is the job of the Law Minister. Thereafter, it was said
> that he had not made any "substantial changes" in the report. Finally, in an
> attempt to brazen it out, Mr Kumar and his friends argued that as Law
> Minister he had the right to oversee the legal side of the CBI's work. As
> the scandalous conduct of the then Law Minister, the PMO and the law
> officers came to light, the Supreme Court directed CBI Director Ranjit Sinha
> to file an affidavit stating exactly who had interfered with the report and
> what changes were made at their behest and why the court was misled on this
> issue.
> Mr Sinha's affidavit contradicted the claims made by the then Law Minister
> and the Attorney General. He said the Minister made two significant
> deletions in the report, called two meetings in this connection in February
> and March, and Mr Vahanvati was present at both these meetings. Further, on
> March 6, Mr Vahanvati called CBI officers to his home office, saw the
> report, made some observations and suggested some changes. The PMO and the
> Coal Ministry had also interfered with the status report — which tells us a
> lot about the respect that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has for the Supreme
> Court. In addition, Mr Raval, in a letter to Mr Vahanvati, has also
> confirmed that both the then Law Minister and the Attorney General directly
> interfered with the contents of the CBI report. Mr Raval, in addition, has
> exposed Mr Vahanvati's dishonesty before the court. Mr Sinha's affidavit and
> Mr Raval's letter gives us an idea of the audacity with which the key
> players lied to the court and the people about their involvement in this
> case.
> In the light of these facts, the court has indicted the Government for its
> conduct and asked the CBI whether it is a "collaborator or investigator". No
> Government has ever got such a tongue-lashing from the Supreme Court. This
> moment is one of the most shameful in the history of the Union Government
> after independence. Yet, the Law Minister was screaming and kicking when he
> demitted office and he remains defiant to this day. The Prime Minister
> pretends as if he was never involved and, most distressing of all, the
> Attorney General and the officials who interfered with the process of
> justice continue in office as if nothing has happened. Never before have we
> seen so many thick-skinned persons in one Government. Where do we go from
> here?
> http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/edit/more-thick-skinned-than-any-pachyderm.html
>
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