Sir/s
1) We are non-political persons (and being non-political is a key part
of our "ideology"),
2) As genuine (apolitical) anti-corruption experts - with track
records, "we" reserve the right to caution the public at large about
fake anti-corruption experts who are political 'joomlas' and/or
foreign financed 'haramis'.
3) FYI, this thread originated on and is running on India Against
Corruption's mailing list, and IAC list members have a charter,
manifesto and common direction. If Rakesh is circulating these emails
outside the IAC list the possibility of any productive discussion
diminshes, as you have correctly observed.
4) BTW: There were 'n' number of silent, unsung, patriots who did not
compromise pre-1947. AFAIK, most of them were as equally opposed to
political participation then as IAC is today.
5) We also cannot dismiss the foreign financing issue as lightly as
Rakesh would have us do.
The CIA / Ford Foundation etc, has infiltrated all levels of AAP/SA to
the extent that, say, CSDS where Prashant Bhushan is a Governing
Trustee and Yogendra Yadav is a tenured Professor, is heavily Ford
(ie.CIA) financed and agenda based.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/surajit-dasgupta/the-cia-ford-ngo-congress-nac-aap-nexus/10152395314509630/
Quote:
"Expanding community rights over natural resources" (this agenda
figured prominently in the first policy meeting of the AAP held in the
house of Shalini Gupta, Prashant Bhushan's sister, in Noida in between
January 11-13, 2013. Yogendra Yadav, Anand Kumar and invitees Prof
Arun Kumar and Aseem Shrivastava stressed the need to switch socialism
from bureaucratic control to community ownership)"
Therefore as an independent non-financed people's movement we cannot
blindly trust anybody who is tainted by accepting funds with string
attached, and especially not with foreign / corporate / political
strings attached -and merely because they are "good persons" - in this
context, IAC will not repeat mistakes of the past.
Sarbajit
for
India Against Corruption
On 2/9/16, Prabodh Raj Chandol <pedpanchayat@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have participated in this dialogue because I thought that it would a
> healthy discussion. But persons like sarbjit seems to be influenced by an
> ideology or a political group. If it is so, than this discussion will
> become a debate and everyone will speak about his own political group,
> without trying to understand the feelings of others.
>
> Prabodh
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Rakesh Manchanda <
> rakeshmanchanda65@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Sarabjit Roy,
>>
>> Thanks for sharing your clear vision and preference.
>>
>> If your text is taken seriously then history of pre-independent India is
>> full of compromising with truck load of evidences of compromises.
>>
>> Today same compromised DNA who supported British Raj is ruling modern
>> India today.
>>
>> Still people will risk for a better process and seek clear evidences
>> against possible leaders and changemakers.
>>
>> Still the weak taxpayers are hungry for a change and want to remain
>> united.See file image enclosed.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Rakesh
>>>
>>> In my experience the persons are more important than the process.
>>>
>>> Our views on those persons are consistent and in public domain. If SA
>>> chooses to associate with them, it is because discredited and rootless
>>> persons like Yogendra Yadav are finding nobody else.
>>>
>>> It is absolutely inconceivable that professional parasites like Aruna
>>> Roy et al are any kind of anti-corruption experts. The recent episode
>>> where they got CIC Vijai Sharma to invite them (and only them) to the
>>> CIC 10th RTI Convention so they could call for PM's speech to be
>>> boycotted completely exposes them as Congress agents.
>>>
>>> It is very clear that fronts like so-called Swaraj Abhiyan are devices
>>> to collective the disaffected for some Congress/AAP controlled
>>> Maha-Gatbandhan in the future. I rather suspect that Yogendra Yadav
>>> would go crawling back to AAP if invited and given some token post.
>>>
>>> Sarbajit
>>>
>>> On 2/7/16, Rakesh Manchanda <rakeshmanchanda65@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > It will be more sad for us if Corruption as *process* is not
>>> > challenged
>>> > collectively by all.
>>> >
>>> > Sh.Sarajeet roy your alert focus is more is on *persons and not on the
>>> > process.*
>>> >
>>> > I agree your team should have invited during the finalisation of
>>> speakers
>>> > in this new group-Anti Corruption Team-ACT.
>>> >
>>> > Yesterday few of us as independent birds attended the ACT preparation
>>> meet
>>> > and it was cleared Swaraj Abhiyan is only one of several stakeholder
>>> > groups.
>>> >
>>> > By the way this funda of Funds source alert controlling the agenda as
>>> > highlighted by you is stale.
>>> >
>>> > This alert is unknowingly used again and again wherein the modern
>>> > logic
>>> > remains that 90% taxpayers who pay taxes need to get their funds and
>>> > services back from the 10% corrupt lobbies.
>>> >
>>> > Allow me to share a recent article via link in this direction....
>>> >
>>> > Tolerance Vs Intolerance -Global Game controlled by 1%?
>>> > http://beyondheadlines.in/2015/11/tolerance-vs-intolerance/
>>> >
>>> > Warm Regards,
>>> >
>>> > Rakesh Manchanda
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Monday, February 8, 2016
[IAC#RG] COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST GOA CIC PRASHANT TENDOLKAR FOR ILLEGALLY USING RED BEACON
A complaint has today been filed against Goa's Chief Information Commissioner Prashant Prabhu Tendolkar for illegally and blatantly using a red beacon on his official vehicle GA-07-G-5555 in clear defiance of law and amounting to a gross contempt of the Supreme Court's order.
In the complaint jointly addressed to the Chief Secretary, Director General of Police and the Director of Transport it has been pointed out that the Supreme Court has flagged the red card over the blatant misuse of the red beacon.
It has been further pointed out that in accordance with the Supreme Court order the Goa Government by a notification issued on 3rd July 2014 notified the list of persons entitled to use the red beacon on their official vehicle and that as per that notification only allowed to use the red beacon are the Governor, Chief Minister and Ministers, Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Chief Justice and Judges of the High Court, Leader of Opposition, Advocate General and the Chief Secretary.
Prashant Tendolkar in clear defiance of law and in gross contempt of the Supreme Court's order is illegally using the red beacon. The law enforcement officers though fully aware of this blatant violation have failed to take action against Prashant Tendolkar just because he is politically well connected.
The rule of law must prevail and Prashant Tendolkar cannot be high-handedly using a perk and privilege that he is not entitled to. Immediate action must be taken to seize the red beacon and prosecute Prashant Tendolkar for an offence under the Motor Vehicles Act. Failure to take action would also amount to contempt of the Supreme Court's order.
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[IAC#RG] भाजपा की बेटी
भाजपा की बेटी
………………
कांग्रेस के दामाद से
कम नहीं भाजपा की बेटी,
इनके सामने जाँच एजेंसियाँ
चारो खानें चीत लेटी।
इनको अगर हो जाए
किसी भी चीज की दरकार,
तो इनके लिए कानून भी
बदल देती सरकार।
सत्ता में काबिज़ इनके
परिवार और रिश्तेदार,
इन्हीं के थानेदार भी
और इन्हीं के चौकीदार।
जनता की जमीन लूटते
जनता का नाम लेकर,
स्वागत करते झोपड़ीवाले
पहने बनियान - नेकर ।
कब तक लूटे जाएँगे हम,
करो 'भगत' का सपना साकार,
जागो मेरे देश के वीरों,
'ग़ुलाम कुन्दनम' करे पुकार।
Õm - Õnkār - Allāh .God…..
ॐ.ੴ.الله .† …….
Jai Hind! Jai Jagat (Universe)!
- ग़ुलाम कुन्दनम्
08/02/2016
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AAP PRESS BRIEF ON FEBRUARY 5, 2016 ON LAND SCAM IN GUJRAT BY
ANANDIBEN PATEL'S DAUGHTER
VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/jo2r7533KvM
AAP PRESS RELEASE
5 January, 2016
Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel's daughter's business partners gifted prime land
Land worth hundreds of crores given at throw away price
AAP demands SIT probe, CM's resignation
AAP to move court if demands not met in a week
Aam Aadmi Party today demanded resignation of Gujarat Chief Minister
Anandiben Patel and setting up of an SIT probe into allotment of 250
acres of public land to business partners of her daughter Anar Patel
at throw away price. The land was allotted when Narendra Modi was
Chief Minister of Gujarat and Anandiben Patel was Revenue Minister.
Revenue department was the land allotment agency. The land was
allotted for setting up a resort, which was never set up. Land use of
the land was also changed. Records show several transactions between
companies owned by the promoters of the land owning company and Anar
Patel's companies.
Addressing a press conference today, Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader
Ashish Khetan said,"It's a clear case of loot of public land by the
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel. We demand resignation of
Anandiben Patel and setting up of an SIT to probe the case. If these
demands are not met in seven days, the Aam Aaddmi Party will move the
court."
Giving details of the case, Khetan said Anandiben Patel's revenue
ministry allotted 250 acres of land to a company called Wildwoods
Resorts and Realities Pvt. Ltd. at a rate of Rs 15 per square metre.
Market rate of agriculture land of this measurement in the area was
125 crore rupees, which was given to this company for less than 2
crore rupees. Land use of the land was later changed, which further
hiked the price of the land by five times. It was a clear cut give
away of the prime land near Gir lion sanctuary to the business
partners of Anandiben Patel's daughter's business partners."
"Documents show that no non-forest activity was permitted on the land
allotted as it fell within 2 km radius from forest border, but the
government revised the policy and shrunk the prohibitory radius to 1.5
km to benefit the company. The allottee company Wildwoods Resorts and
Realities Private Limited was owned by Dubai based Jewellery
businessman Sanjay Kumar Dhanak and his father Varjulal Dhanak. Sanjay
had no experience of setting up resorts and hotels. He used to
organize exhibitions for Anar Patel in Dubai. After the land was
allotted, Dhanaks sold off their company to Anil Infraplus Limited and
Parshwa Texchem (India) Private Limited. This company is controlled by
Dakshesh Shah and Shripal Sheth." said Ashish Khetan showing Registrar
of Companies documents and added,"Documents show that Dakshesh Shah
and Anar Patel are business partners in a company called Innovative
Infraplus India Limited. They are also partners in another company
called Aahna Solar Private Limited. In Aahna Solar Private Limited 33
per cent shares are held by Anil Infraplus Limited, which also
partially owns land owning company Wildwoods Resorts and Realities
Private Limited. That clearly shows how Anar Patel is connected with
people and companies holding the ownership of the land."
Ashish Khetan said,"What completes the circle and establishes
quid-pro-quo is a series of transactions between companies and people
owning the land in question and Anar Patel as well as companies owned
by her. These transactions are in crores and have been reported by The
Economic Times in today's edition. We want to know if the Gujarat
Government had a policy in place for such allotments or it was a case
of benefiting the chosen few. We also want to know why land allotment
was not cancelled after the allottees failed to set up a resort on the
land. We demand that Anandiben Patel should immediately resign and the
scam is thoroughly probed by an SIT. We will wait for seven days and
if the demands are not met, we will move the court."
https://t.co/yGfu0HwnHT
न्यूज लिंक : -
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/how-business-partners-of-gujarat-cm-anandibens-daughter-anar-patel-landed-a-good-deal/articleshow/50858173.cms
STORY PUBLISHED IN ECONOMIC TIMES ON FEBRUARY 5, 2016
HOW BUSINESS PARTNERS OF GUJARAT CM ANANDIBEN'S DAUGHTER ANAR PATEL
LANDED A GOOD DEAL
BY ROHINI SINGH, ET BUREAU | 5 FEB, 2016
NEW DELHI: Business associates of Anar Jayesh Patel, 45, daughter of
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, own a company that's sitting
on 400 acres of land near the Gir lion sanctuary in the state —and 250
acres of that land was given to that company at an official rate of Rs
15 per square metre.
Anar Patel describes herself as a social worker and an entrepreneur.
Filings with the Registrar of Companies (RoC), accessed by ET, show a
number of transactions between her and her business partners that
started when the Gujarat government allotted 250 acres of public land
in 2010-11 to Wildwoods Resorts and Realties.
Wildwoods' current promoters, Dakshesh Shah and Amol Shripal Sheth,
are business partners of Anar Patel. ET sent questions to all
involved, the CM, her daughter, Anar's business partners and Gujarat
revenue secretary. There was no response from the Gujarat government.
Anar Patel, Shah and Sheth responded to ET and insisted all
transactions were above board. ET also spoke to Sanjay Dhanak, the
original promoter of Wildwoods. The land is in Gujarat's Amreli
district, next to the lion sanctuary at Gir, and therefore an
attractive commercial proposition.
Wildwoods also received government nod to purchase a further 172 acres
of agricultural land, as well as approval to change land use from
agricultural to non-agricultural.
Anandiben Patel was the Gujarat revenue minister at that time. The
revenue department is the nodal authority for such land allotments.
Anandiben retains the revenue portfolio as chief minister. Her office
did not respond to ET's questions. Her office and that of the state
revenue secretary did not respond to the question whether allotting
such large land parcels to for-profit private enterprises was common
official policy, especially when beneficiaries did not have a track
record of setting up largescale facilities.
The original promoter of Wildwoods said plans to build a tourist
resort on that land didn't work out. Current promoters insisted there
were no proscriptions against building resorts in the area and that
all regulatory clearances were obtained. No resort has been built so
far.
WILDWOODS 1.0 & WILDWOODS 2.0
Wildwoods is owned by Parshva Texchem and Anil Infraplus Ltd. When the
land allotment orders were issued in 2010, Wildwoods was owned by
Dubai-based businessman Sanjay Dhanak. Shah and Sheth took control of
the company in 2011-12.
Dhanak told ET that Wildwoods had applied for the land and had
planned to build a tourist resort. Parshva and Anil Infraplus are
co-investors in firms where Anar Patel has a substantial stake. ET's
review of documents filed with the Registrar of Companies shows a host
of transactions between companies that received the government's land
allotment as well as other companies run by Shah and Sheth and
companies where Anar Patel has significant equity presence.
Dhanak told ET he could not remember how much was paid for the 422
acres of land. Dakshesh Shah, too, did not elaborate on the issue. He
also told ET he was not aware how much Wildwoods had paid for the 422
acres since he bought into the firm in 2011 and was "not aware of
previous transactions".
Dhanak, however, told ET that Shah was his partner at the time of
allotment and that "he has all the books that detail all the
transactions including how much was paid to change land use".
Dhanak told ET that after the allotment he changed his mind about
setting up a tourist resort and wanted to cash out. "Jama nahi(My
plans did not work out). Shah did not want me to sell my stake in the
market and insisted I transfer it to him," he said. Dhanak said he has
never been in the business of setting up resorts and only has a
jewellery business in Dubai.
In an emailed response to ET, Dakshesh Shah said Wildwoods promoters
weren't aware of any official advisory against building resorts in
that area. He also said: "The original promoter had acquired all
permissions from the respective regulatory bodies relating to land
development. After acquisition of stake, no further
permissions/relaxations have been given."
Shah also said he was not aware how much Wildwoods had originally
paid the government for the land or the amount spent as land
conversion charges. A spokesperson for Amol Sheth also did not
disclose the amount Wildwoods paid. Neither did he disclose how much
current promoters paid to the original promoter of Wildwoods.
MANY TRANSACTIONS
Dakshesh Shah is Anar Patel's business partner with a 50% stake in
Patel's company, Anar Project. Besides, Shah's firm Parshva Texchem,
which co-owns Wildwoods, is also a substantial shareholder in Anar
Patel's Relish Pharmaceuticals. Shah and Anar Patel are also directors
in Anar Project, Relish Pharma and 24x7 Fitness.
"Mr Dakshesh R Shah is one of my business partners. Mr Shah and me
are joint promoters in Relish Pharma and he has invested in Relish
Pharma from Parshva Texchem & Ms Renuka is investor in Relish Pharma,"
Anar Patel said in an email response to ET.
Shah told ET that Anar Patel is his business partner. He did not
elaborate on the details of their dealings. "I am a businessman and I
do invest in prospective projects when I find the opportunity," he
said. Shah also said Wildwoods has had no financial dealings with any
firm associated with Anar Patel. However, RoC filings tell a different
story:
1. Anar Project filings show a "payable" of Rs 10 lakh to Wildwoods.
2. Innovative Infraplus, majority owned by Shah, advanced a Rs
2.95-crore loan to Anar Project and Rs 20 lakh to Anar Patel herself.
3. Innovative Infraplus, where Anar Project has a substantial stake,
received an "advance" of Rs 8.73 crore from Amol Sheth's Anil Ltd as
well as Rs 11.015 crore from Anil Mega Food Park.
4. Innovative also lists Anil Infraplus and Anil Technoplus among its
creditors to whom it owes Rs 2.6 crore and Rs 15 crore, respectively.
5. Anar Project had advanced Rs 9 crore to Anil Technoplus. Sheth says
the money was an "advance" against "material supplied subsequently".
6. Innovative has also loaned money to 24x7 Fitness and Aahna Solar,
firms in which Anar Patel is a substantial investor.
7. Proper Dealcom, in which Shah's firm Parshva has a stake, had
loaned Rs 9 crore to Relish Pharma in 2011-12.
8.Parshva Texchem also loaned Rs 2.30 lakh to Gramshree-Women
Empowerment, a Section 25 company promoted by Gujarat CM Anandiben
Patel and Anar Patel.
9. Innovative has also given a Rs 15-lakh advance to Gramshree, which
it lists as a creditor. Amol Sheth did not comment on his business
dealings with Anar Patel. According to filings made with RoC, Sheth
and Anar were directors briefly in Aahna Solar. The shareholding
pattern of Aahna shows Patel, Shah and Anil Infraplus, which co-owns
Wildwoods, are equal partners. In its filings, Aahna Solar states its
only business is solar power generation. However, its balance sheets
show that its revenues are from a restaurant and food business.
………………
कांग्रेस के दामाद से
कम नहीं भाजपा की बेटी,
इनके सामने जाँच एजेंसियाँ
चारो खानें चीत लेटी।
इनको अगर हो जाए
किसी भी चीज की दरकार,
तो इनके लिए कानून भी
बदल देती सरकार।
सत्ता में काबिज़ इनके
परिवार और रिश्तेदार,
इन्हीं के थानेदार भी
और इन्हीं के चौकीदार।
जनता की जमीन लूटते
जनता का नाम लेकर,
स्वागत करते झोपड़ीवाले
पहने बनियान - नेकर ।
कब तक लूटे जाएँगे हम,
करो 'भगत' का सपना साकार,
जागो मेरे देश के वीरों,
'ग़ुलाम कुन्दनम' करे पुकार।
Õm - Õnkār - Allāh .God…..
ॐ.ੴ.الله .† …….
Jai Hind! Jai Jagat (Universe)!
- ग़ुलाम कुन्दनम्
08/02/2016
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AAP PRESS BRIEF ON FEBRUARY 5, 2016 ON LAND SCAM IN GUJRAT BY
ANANDIBEN PATEL'S DAUGHTER
VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/jo2r7533KvM
AAP PRESS RELEASE
5 January, 2016
Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel's daughter's business partners gifted prime land
Land worth hundreds of crores given at throw away price
AAP demands SIT probe, CM's resignation
AAP to move court if demands not met in a week
Aam Aadmi Party today demanded resignation of Gujarat Chief Minister
Anandiben Patel and setting up of an SIT probe into allotment of 250
acres of public land to business partners of her daughter Anar Patel
at throw away price. The land was allotted when Narendra Modi was
Chief Minister of Gujarat and Anandiben Patel was Revenue Minister.
Revenue department was the land allotment agency. The land was
allotted for setting up a resort, which was never set up. Land use of
the land was also changed. Records show several transactions between
companies owned by the promoters of the land owning company and Anar
Patel's companies.
Addressing a press conference today, Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader
Ashish Khetan said,"It's a clear case of loot of public land by the
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel. We demand resignation of
Anandiben Patel and setting up of an SIT to probe the case. If these
demands are not met in seven days, the Aam Aaddmi Party will move the
court."
Giving details of the case, Khetan said Anandiben Patel's revenue
ministry allotted 250 acres of land to a company called Wildwoods
Resorts and Realities Pvt. Ltd. at a rate of Rs 15 per square metre.
Market rate of agriculture land of this measurement in the area was
125 crore rupees, which was given to this company for less than 2
crore rupees. Land use of the land was later changed, which further
hiked the price of the land by five times. It was a clear cut give
away of the prime land near Gir lion sanctuary to the business
partners of Anandiben Patel's daughter's business partners."
"Documents show that no non-forest activity was permitted on the land
allotted as it fell within 2 km radius from forest border, but the
government revised the policy and shrunk the prohibitory radius to 1.5
km to benefit the company. The allottee company Wildwoods Resorts and
Realities Private Limited was owned by Dubai based Jewellery
businessman Sanjay Kumar Dhanak and his father Varjulal Dhanak. Sanjay
had no experience of setting up resorts and hotels. He used to
organize exhibitions for Anar Patel in Dubai. After the land was
allotted, Dhanaks sold off their company to Anil Infraplus Limited and
Parshwa Texchem (India) Private Limited. This company is controlled by
Dakshesh Shah and Shripal Sheth." said Ashish Khetan showing Registrar
of Companies documents and added,"Documents show that Dakshesh Shah
and Anar Patel are business partners in a company called Innovative
Infraplus India Limited. They are also partners in another company
called Aahna Solar Private Limited. In Aahna Solar Private Limited 33
per cent shares are held by Anil Infraplus Limited, which also
partially owns land owning company Wildwoods Resorts and Realities
Private Limited. That clearly shows how Anar Patel is connected with
people and companies holding the ownership of the land."
Ashish Khetan said,"What completes the circle and establishes
quid-pro-quo is a series of transactions between companies and people
owning the land in question and Anar Patel as well as companies owned
by her. These transactions are in crores and have been reported by The
Economic Times in today's edition. We want to know if the Gujarat
Government had a policy in place for such allotments or it was a case
of benefiting the chosen few. We also want to know why land allotment
was not cancelled after the allottees failed to set up a resort on the
land. We demand that Anandiben Patel should immediately resign and the
scam is thoroughly probed by an SIT. We will wait for seven days and
if the demands are not met, we will move the court."
https://t.co/yGfu0HwnHT
न्यूज लिंक : -
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/how-business-partners-of-gujarat-cm-anandibens-daughter-anar-patel-landed-a-good-deal/articleshow/50858173.cms
STORY PUBLISHED IN ECONOMIC TIMES ON FEBRUARY 5, 2016
HOW BUSINESS PARTNERS OF GUJARAT CM ANANDIBEN'S DAUGHTER ANAR PATEL
LANDED A GOOD DEAL
BY ROHINI SINGH, ET BUREAU | 5 FEB, 2016
NEW DELHI: Business associates of Anar Jayesh Patel, 45, daughter of
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, own a company that's sitting
on 400 acres of land near the Gir lion sanctuary in the state —and 250
acres of that land was given to that company at an official rate of Rs
15 per square metre.
Anar Patel describes herself as a social worker and an entrepreneur.
Filings with the Registrar of Companies (RoC), accessed by ET, show a
number of transactions between her and her business partners that
started when the Gujarat government allotted 250 acres of public land
in 2010-11 to Wildwoods Resorts and Realties.
Wildwoods' current promoters, Dakshesh Shah and Amol Shripal Sheth,
are business partners of Anar Patel. ET sent questions to all
involved, the CM, her daughter, Anar's business partners and Gujarat
revenue secretary. There was no response from the Gujarat government.
Anar Patel, Shah and Sheth responded to ET and insisted all
transactions were above board. ET also spoke to Sanjay Dhanak, the
original promoter of Wildwoods. The land is in Gujarat's Amreli
district, next to the lion sanctuary at Gir, and therefore an
attractive commercial proposition.
Wildwoods also received government nod to purchase a further 172 acres
of agricultural land, as well as approval to change land use from
agricultural to non-agricultural.
Anandiben Patel was the Gujarat revenue minister at that time. The
revenue department is the nodal authority for such land allotments.
Anandiben retains the revenue portfolio as chief minister. Her office
did not respond to ET's questions. Her office and that of the state
revenue secretary did not respond to the question whether allotting
such large land parcels to for-profit private enterprises was common
official policy, especially when beneficiaries did not have a track
record of setting up largescale facilities.
The original promoter of Wildwoods said plans to build a tourist
resort on that land didn't work out. Current promoters insisted there
were no proscriptions against building resorts in the area and that
all regulatory clearances were obtained. No resort has been built so
far.
WILDWOODS 1.0 & WILDWOODS 2.0
Wildwoods is owned by Parshva Texchem and Anil Infraplus Ltd. When the
land allotment orders were issued in 2010, Wildwoods was owned by
Dubai-based businessman Sanjay Dhanak. Shah and Sheth took control of
the company in 2011-12.
Dhanak told ET that Wildwoods had applied for the land and had
planned to build a tourist resort. Parshva and Anil Infraplus are
co-investors in firms where Anar Patel has a substantial stake. ET's
review of documents filed with the Registrar of Companies shows a host
of transactions between companies that received the government's land
allotment as well as other companies run by Shah and Sheth and
companies where Anar Patel has significant equity presence.
Dhanak told ET he could not remember how much was paid for the 422
acres of land. Dakshesh Shah, too, did not elaborate on the issue. He
also told ET he was not aware how much Wildwoods had paid for the 422
acres since he bought into the firm in 2011 and was "not aware of
previous transactions".
Dhanak, however, told ET that Shah was his partner at the time of
allotment and that "he has all the books that detail all the
transactions including how much was paid to change land use".
Dhanak told ET that after the allotment he changed his mind about
setting up a tourist resort and wanted to cash out. "Jama nahi(My
plans did not work out). Shah did not want me to sell my stake in the
market and insisted I transfer it to him," he said. Dhanak said he has
never been in the business of setting up resorts and only has a
jewellery business in Dubai.
In an emailed response to ET, Dakshesh Shah said Wildwoods promoters
weren't aware of any official advisory against building resorts in
that area. He also said: "The original promoter had acquired all
permissions from the respective regulatory bodies relating to land
development. After acquisition of stake, no further
permissions/relaxations have been given."
Shah also said he was not aware how much Wildwoods had originally
paid the government for the land or the amount spent as land
conversion charges. A spokesperson for Amol Sheth also did not
disclose the amount Wildwoods paid. Neither did he disclose how much
current promoters paid to the original promoter of Wildwoods.
MANY TRANSACTIONS
Dakshesh Shah is Anar Patel's business partner with a 50% stake in
Patel's company, Anar Project. Besides, Shah's firm Parshva Texchem,
which co-owns Wildwoods, is also a substantial shareholder in Anar
Patel's Relish Pharmaceuticals. Shah and Anar Patel are also directors
in Anar Project, Relish Pharma and 24x7 Fitness.
"Mr Dakshesh R Shah is one of my business partners. Mr Shah and me
are joint promoters in Relish Pharma and he has invested in Relish
Pharma from Parshva Texchem & Ms Renuka is investor in Relish Pharma,"
Anar Patel said in an email response to ET.
Shah told ET that Anar Patel is his business partner. He did not
elaborate on the details of their dealings. "I am a businessman and I
do invest in prospective projects when I find the opportunity," he
said. Shah also said Wildwoods has had no financial dealings with any
firm associated with Anar Patel. However, RoC filings tell a different
story:
1. Anar Project filings show a "payable" of Rs 10 lakh to Wildwoods.
2. Innovative Infraplus, majority owned by Shah, advanced a Rs
2.95-crore loan to Anar Project and Rs 20 lakh to Anar Patel herself.
3. Innovative Infraplus, where Anar Project has a substantial stake,
received an "advance" of Rs 8.73 crore from Amol Sheth's Anil Ltd as
well as Rs 11.015 crore from Anil Mega Food Park.
4. Innovative also lists Anil Infraplus and Anil Technoplus among its
creditors to whom it owes Rs 2.6 crore and Rs 15 crore, respectively.
5. Anar Project had advanced Rs 9 crore to Anil Technoplus. Sheth says
the money was an "advance" against "material supplied subsequently".
6. Innovative has also loaned money to 24x7 Fitness and Aahna Solar,
firms in which Anar Patel is a substantial investor.
7. Proper Dealcom, in which Shah's firm Parshva has a stake, had
loaned Rs 9 crore to Relish Pharma in 2011-12.
8.Parshva Texchem also loaned Rs 2.30 lakh to Gramshree-Women
Empowerment, a Section 25 company promoted by Gujarat CM Anandiben
Patel and Anar Patel.
9. Innovative has also given a Rs 15-lakh advance to Gramshree, which
it lists as a creditor. Amol Sheth did not comment on his business
dealings with Anar Patel. According to filings made with RoC, Sheth
and Anar were directors briefly in Aahna Solar. The shareholding
pattern of Aahna shows Patel, Shah and Anil Infraplus, which co-owns
Wildwoods, are equal partners. In its filings, Aahna Solar states its
only business is solar power generation. However, its balance sheets
show that its revenues are from a restaurant and food business.
Re: [IAC#RG] Swaraj Abhiyan exposed as Congress proxy
8/2/16
Dear Sh. S. Roy
I agree that you have known these people-Aruna Roy, Arvind K and others more than most of us and therefore,your opinon should carry weight.
But now that Yogendra Yadav and P. Bhusan have invited her for support on 27-28, You cannot complain for the simple reason that Sh. Shantibhusanji had asked for your support of volunteers and you flatly refused.
Aruna Roy is now free from NAC and even in Rural employment schemes there is not much she can do. But certainly She has not been an anti-corruption crusader.Obviously her choice is wrong on the face of it .May be it is one time association.
Your assessment of Y.Yadav is correct.It would have been better if he had stuck to his earlier profession.
Prashant Bhusan has his commitments in PILs and the Courts. He cannot give more push to SA. Also he is not a public speaker like AK.
I understand that Anna Hazare has also been invited and he has agreed to participate. If that happens,it will be interesting to see what stands he takes against AK.
Ford Foundation or foreign financed outfits-will continue to flourish as they have been continuing for the last 65 years. Their roots and spread is very wide.
Finally if Swabhiman Abhiyan does not take off, some of the critics of AAP may rejoin AK or Congess(RG).
Reds
Jk>Gaur
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Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2016 10:59 PM
To: indiaresists@lists.riseup.net
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] Swaraj Abhiyan exposed as Congress proxy
Dear Rakesh
In my experience the persons are more important than the process.
Our views on those persons are consistent and in public domain. If SA
chooses to associate with them, it is because discredited and rootless
persons like Yogendra Yadav are finding nobody else.
It is absolutely inconceivable that professional parasites like Aruna
Roy et al are any kind of anti-corruption experts. The recent episode
where they got CIC Vijai Sharma to invite them (and only them) to the
CIC 10th RTI Convention so they could call for PM's speech to be
boycotted completely exposes them as Congress agents.
It is very clear that fronts like so-called Swaraj Abhiyan are devices
to collective the disaffected for some Congress/AAP controlled
Maha-Gatbandhan in the future. I rather suspect that Yogendra Yadav
would go crawling back to AAP if invited and given some token post.
Sarbajit
On 2/7/16, Rakesh Manchanda <rakeshmanchanda65@gmail.com> wrote:
> It will be more sad for us if Corruption as *process* is not challenged
> collectively by all.
>
> Sh.Sarajeet roy your alert focus is more is on *persons and not on the
> process.*
>
> I agree your team should have invited during the finalisation of speakers
> in this new group-Anti Corruption Team-ACT.
>
> Yesterday few of us as independent birds attended the ACT preparation meet
> and it was cleared Swaraj Abhiyan is only one of several stakeholder
> groups.
>
> By the way this funda of Funds source alert controlling the agenda as
> highlighted by you is stale.
>
> This alert is unknowingly used again and again wherein the modern logic
> remains that 90% taxpayers who pay taxes need to get their funds and
> services back from the 10% corrupt lobbies.
>
> Allow me to share a recent article via link in this direction....
>
> Tolerance Vs Intolerance -Global Game controlled by 1%?
> http://beyondheadlines.in/2015/11/tolerance-vs-intolerance/
>
> Warm Regards,
>
> Rakesh Manchanda
Dear Sh. S. Roy
I agree that you have known these people-Aruna Roy, Arvind K and others more than most of us and therefore,your opinon should carry weight.
But now that Yogendra Yadav and P. Bhusan have invited her for support on 27-28, You cannot complain for the simple reason that Sh. Shantibhusanji had asked for your support of volunteers and you flatly refused.
Aruna Roy is now free from NAC and even in Rural employment schemes there is not much she can do. But certainly She has not been an anti-corruption crusader.Obviously her choice is wrong on the face of it .May be it is one time association.
Your assessment of Y.Yadav is correct.It would have been better if he had stuck to his earlier profession.
Prashant Bhusan has his commitments in PILs and the Courts. He cannot give more push to SA. Also he is not a public speaker like AK.
I understand that Anna Hazare has also been invited and he has agreed to participate. If that happens,it will be interesting to see what stands he takes against AK.
Ford Foundation or foreign financed outfits-will continue to flourish as they have been continuing for the last 65 years. Their roots and spread is very wide.
Finally if Swabhiman Abhiyan does not take off, some of the critics of AAP may rejoin AK or Congess(RG).
Reds
Jk>Gaur
________________________________________
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Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2016 10:59 PM
To: indiaresists@lists.riseup.net
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] Swaraj Abhiyan exposed as Congress proxy
Dear Rakesh
In my experience the persons are more important than the process.
Our views on those persons are consistent and in public domain. If SA
chooses to associate with them, it is because discredited and rootless
persons like Yogendra Yadav are finding nobody else.
It is absolutely inconceivable that professional parasites like Aruna
Roy et al are any kind of anti-corruption experts. The recent episode
where they got CIC Vijai Sharma to invite them (and only them) to the
CIC 10th RTI Convention so they could call for PM's speech to be
boycotted completely exposes them as Congress agents.
It is very clear that fronts like so-called Swaraj Abhiyan are devices
to collective the disaffected for some Congress/AAP controlled
Maha-Gatbandhan in the future. I rather suspect that Yogendra Yadav
would go crawling back to AAP if invited and given some token post.
Sarbajit
On 2/7/16, Rakesh Manchanda <rakeshmanchanda65@gmail.com> wrote:
> It will be more sad for us if Corruption as *process* is not challenged
> collectively by all.
>
> Sh.Sarajeet roy your alert focus is more is on *persons and not on the
> process.*
>
> I agree your team should have invited during the finalisation of speakers
> in this new group-Anti Corruption Team-ACT.
>
> Yesterday few of us as independent birds attended the ACT preparation meet
> and it was cleared Swaraj Abhiyan is only one of several stakeholder
> groups.
>
> By the way this funda of Funds source alert controlling the agenda as
> highlighted by you is stale.
>
> This alert is unknowingly used again and again wherein the modern logic
> remains that 90% taxpayers who pay taxes need to get their funds and
> services back from the 10% corrupt lobbies.
>
> Allow me to share a recent article via link in this direction....
>
> Tolerance Vs Intolerance -Global Game controlled by 1%?
> http://beyondheadlines.in/2015/11/tolerance-vs-intolerance/
>
> Warm Regards,
>
> Rakesh Manchanda
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Re: [IAC#RG] Swaraj Abhiyan exposed as Congress proxy
Dear Rakesh
In my experience the persons are more important than the process.
Our views on those persons are consistent and in public domain. If SA
chooses to associate with them, it is because discredited and rootless
persons like Yogendra Yadav are finding nobody else.
It is absolutely inconceivable that professional parasites like Aruna
Roy et al are any kind of anti-corruption experts. The recent episode
where they got CIC Vijai Sharma to invite them (and only them) to the
CIC 10th RTI Convention so they could call for PM's speech to be
boycotted completely exposes them as Congress agents.
It is very clear that fronts like so-called Swaraj Abhiyan are devices
to collective the disaffected for some Congress/AAP controlled
Maha-Gatbandhan in the future. I rather suspect that Yogendra Yadav
would go crawling back to AAP if invited and given some token post.
Sarbajit
On 2/7/16, Rakesh Manchanda <rakeshmanchanda65@gmail.com> wrote:
> It will be more sad for us if Corruption as *process* is not challenged
> collectively by all.
>
> Sh.Sarajeet roy your alert focus is more is on *persons and not on the
> process.*
>
> I agree your team should have invited during the finalisation of speakers
> in this new group-Anti Corruption Team-ACT.
>
> Yesterday few of us as independent birds attended the ACT preparation meet
> and it was cleared Swaraj Abhiyan is only one of several stakeholder
> groups.
>
> By the way this funda of Funds source alert controlling the agenda as
> highlighted by you is stale.
>
> This alert is unknowingly used again and again wherein the modern logic
> remains that 90% taxpayers who pay taxes need to get their funds and
> services back from the 10% corrupt lobbies.
>
> Allow me to share a recent article via link in this direction....
>
> Tolerance Vs Intolerance -Global Game controlled by 1%?
> http://beyondheadlines.in/2015/11/tolerance-vs-intolerance/
>
> Warm Regards,
>
> Rakesh Manchanda
In my experience the persons are more important than the process.
Our views on those persons are consistent and in public domain. If SA
chooses to associate with them, it is because discredited and rootless
persons like Yogendra Yadav are finding nobody else.
It is absolutely inconceivable that professional parasites like Aruna
Roy et al are any kind of anti-corruption experts. The recent episode
where they got CIC Vijai Sharma to invite them (and only them) to the
CIC 10th RTI Convention so they could call for PM's speech to be
boycotted completely exposes them as Congress agents.
It is very clear that fronts like so-called Swaraj Abhiyan are devices
to collective the disaffected for some Congress/AAP controlled
Maha-Gatbandhan in the future. I rather suspect that Yogendra Yadav
would go crawling back to AAP if invited and given some token post.
Sarbajit
On 2/7/16, Rakesh Manchanda <rakeshmanchanda65@gmail.com> wrote:
> It will be more sad for us if Corruption as *process* is not challenged
> collectively by all.
>
> Sh.Sarajeet roy your alert focus is more is on *persons and not on the
> process.*
>
> I agree your team should have invited during the finalisation of speakers
> in this new group-Anti Corruption Team-ACT.
>
> Yesterday few of us as independent birds attended the ACT preparation meet
> and it was cleared Swaraj Abhiyan is only one of several stakeholder
> groups.
>
> By the way this funda of Funds source alert controlling the agenda as
> highlighted by you is stale.
>
> This alert is unknowingly used again and again wherein the modern logic
> remains that 90% taxpayers who pay taxes need to get their funds and
> services back from the 10% corrupt lobbies.
>
> Allow me to share a recent article via link in this direction....
>
> Tolerance Vs Intolerance -Global Game controlled by 1%?
> http://beyondheadlines.in/2015/11/tolerance-vs-intolerance/
>
> Warm Regards,
>
> Rakesh Manchanda
RE: [IAC#RG] Swaraj Abhiyan exposed as Congress proxy
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On Feb 07, 2016
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 23:01:42 -0600
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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 23:01:42 -0600
From: nsvenkatchennai@gmail.com
To: indiaresists@lists.riseup.net
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] Swaraj Abhiyan exposed as Congress proxy
You are right. Probably, Prashant Bhushan is inviting people like Aruna Roy to get media publicity, as these so called environmentalists and anti corruption crusaders enjoy huge media support for whatever reasons.
The fight against corruption has to be straightforward, pure and blunt.
Certainly Prashant Bhushan has been carrying out anti corruption crusades in his own way, though he allowed Kejriwal to exploit the Hazare led movement for his personal benefit and to get into power. Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav have proved themselves to be naïve by playing into the hands of Kejriwal. Now, they should not once again show themselves to be naïve by inviting for Swaraj Abhiyan meet people like Aruna Roy who have certainly motivations that could be suspect.
The fight against corruption is not a one day affair or one election affair. Ultimately, it has to be fought in the minds and hearts of people, who should be made to revolt against the corrupt forces. The team of Prashant Bhushan and Yadav should not fall to the temptation of media publicity. If they would adopt such approach, Swaraj Abhiyaan movement would collapse like a pack of cards.
There is huge revulsion in the country amongst people about the widespread corruption. Any honest anti corruption crusader is bound to get support. Media publicity does not amount to support from people. Let not anyone think that media publicity is popularity, which is not so. On the other hand, it may be the just opposite.
N.S.Venkataraman
Nandini Voice for the Deprived
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
It is really sad to see these stale jokers like Yogendra Yadav and
Prashant Bhushan having to scrape the bottom of the barrel by touting
completely discredited foreign financed lightweights like Aruna Roy,
Nikhil Dey, Anjali Bhardwaj as "anti-corruption experts" and star
attractions at Swaraj Abhiyan's anti-corruption meet scheduled for
27-28 Feb 2016.
All these Ford Foundation / CIA backed scamps seem to be aligning to
promote RaGa as the next Mr.Clean (like his father pre-Bofors). The
only people who will benefit from this kind of Swaraj Abhiyan
nonsense, politically, is AAP.
Sarbajt
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Re: [IAC#RG] LODHA Committee report on cricket
Dear Sir
I am not for allowing betting in cricket. But practically can it be enforced.? Only where the police benefits An answer is a BIG NO so best bet is to legalize it though regulate the same on and off the field - a big task indeed. It will then become a regulated Satta Bazaar and the players and broadcasters and organisers will become its tools..So we will then need to have a social regulator like SEBI
Vijoy Ambasta
On 7 February 2016 at 07:32, Nakul stud <nakulstud@gmail.com> wrote:
The Lodha Commission Report, The Supreme Court directions on 5.2.2016, Times of India report,below, on the good work of our NSA, Ajit Doval, ALL POINT THAT THE BALL IS IN THE FINANCE MINISTRIES, COURT.----//----//---Times of India report:-NEW DELHI: National security advisor Ajit Doval has a strategy to weaken Dawood Ibrahim and his syndicate. The plan is to identify D-Company's offshore assets and get them frozen, sources say.IB and RAW teams have begun identifying assets D-Company owns globally. Most of these are in Dubai and Africa, investigations show. This will need extensive use of the global intelligence network, as most assets are benami. Some are in Dawood's daughter and son-in-law's names.Doval's Dawood dossier lists firms like Dubai's Oasis Oil and Lube LCC, Al-Noor Diamonds and Oasis Power LCC, allegedly owned by Dawood. Other firms include Dolphin Constructions, East West Airlines (now defunct), King Video, Dubai, Moin Garments, Dubai and others.The dossier names one Feroze as a key syndicate member handling the Dubai operations. "Feroze handles Oasis oil and Lube LCC and is often addressed as Feroze Oasis. He's South Indian, speaks Tamil, Arab, English and Hindi. Feroze handles Al Noor diamonds too," it says.Most of the syndicate's operations are in India, it says and highlights Dawood's role in the 2008 Mumbai blasts. The dossier details the syndicate's smuggling links in south Asia, Africa and Middle East shared with al-Qaida."Dawood has close links with al-Qaida as a result of which the US declared him a 'global terrorist' in 2003 and pursued the matter with the UN to freeze his assets. Dawood controls the hawala system. His syndicate has consistently aimed to destabilize India through riots, terrorism and civil disobedience," it reads.The dossier quotes a US treasury department report citing D-Company's involvement in shipping narcotics to the UK and Western Europe. "The US has designated Dawood as a terrorist... and maintains a factsheet on him," it says. The US treasury department has details on his movements through Afghanistan in the late '90s under Taliban protection.The dossier lists one Javed Chutani, alias Doctor, as Dawood's man handling operations in Dubai. "He's a bookie with interests in real estate and his gambling book is in the name of Kamran. Chutani is a bridge between one Tariq Dubai and Dawood," the dossier claims.The file says Dawood's cash comes from drug trade; fake currency racket, realty and money laundering. Agencies feel once they have control over Dawood's offshore assets, "it'll break the security cordon around him. Once that goes, getting him will be a cakewalk," an officer said.------///---------///ACTION PLAN :-Subject: END UNDERWORLD AND THROUGH THEM THE DANGEROUS TERROR NETWORK !Dear Sir,
Human beings are gamblers by nature.The reader of this piece gambles every time he or she crosses a road – one gambles that one will make it safely before being decapitated by that onrushing vehicle visible in the distance. When such a gamble goes wrong (i.e. misjudgment of the oncoming object's velocity), the result is an accident.
Every time anyone eat a prawn, enters a building, plants a crop, takes a medicine, sits in an aircraft, they gamble that the outcome is a favourable one. They wager that the prawn is free from E. Coli, that no earthquake occurs while you are in a building, that Monsoon rains are timely, that the medicine you have ingested is not spurious, that the airplane lands safely.
Given the observed frequency with which such "gambles" succeed, almost invariably we get away unscathed. Except, of course, very unfortunate few.
Insurance is a gamble. The insurance companies are betting that we are going to live and employ an army of actuaries to calculate the odds; we are betting that we are going to die prematurely; and we pay them for the privilege of thinking so.
In such a situation, one has to wonder about the social stigma against wagering on sport in India.
Until the conduct of players like Hansie Cronje, Manoj Prabhakar, Mohammad Asif, Sreesanth, etc., came under the microscope, cricket was regarded as being lily-white clean, despite the knowledge of widespread under-the-table wagering and match-fixing.
Accurate estimates are of course impossible, but anecdotal estimates suggest cricket wagering in India runs into thousands of crores. And potential revenue from this source seeps unchecked into the UNDERWORLD AND THROUGH THEM TO THE DANGEROUS TERROR NETWORK !
Similarly, "day trading" at the bourses is considered to be "investment" despite the fact that it more closely resembles gambling.
What cannot be cured must be endured, and if the Central and State Governments think that betting on cricket, football, tennis, etc., can be eliminated by mere administrative fiat, they are indulging in the sort of fantasies that have bedevilled the country's polity for decades under earlier administrations.
It is far better, then,to regulate wagering on all sports by e-governance by establishment of a nation-wide Totalisator to legally pool betting and distribute dividends.
It may not be a perfect example, but if one city in CHINA – Hong Kong – can generate a turnover of HK$103.9 billion (US$13.4 billion ) in 2013-14 from horse racing alone, the scope of revenue from legal sports betting on E-governance Totalisators, can well be imagined.
Indisputably a country of 1.2 billion people with 7 times the GDP of Hong Kong can do 7 times better by collecting Rs1,09,200/-crores in taxes* paid wilfully annually.
Good plan to reduce the nagging fiscal deficit of the Government of India. No archaic "principles" should prevent tapping this rich source?
Of course, like in Hong Kong, betting tax needs to be applied sensibly: a low "take-out" and exemption of wagering dividends – like those from equity shares – from income tax are pre- requisites.
A low "take-out" will make it impossible for illegal dangerous networks to exist.
Wagering revenue from sports will thereby accrue to the state and to conductors of sport, both rightful recipients of funds, wilfully* and voluntarily*, offered by citizens from their discretionary incomes.
The generation and distribution of "black money" by the vast illegal network will end.
Revenue apart, there is a strong security imperative to end illegal wagering in India. It will end evils like performance-altering inducements or threats, money-laundering, etc.!
Before anyone even hints that permitting legal wagering will drown India in a moral morass, consider that in England one can legally wager on elections, whether your just-born child will win Wimbledon in 2036, whether it will snow on Christmas Day, whether a man will walk on Mars before 2020, and any other weird or amusing happenstance that tickles your fancy. Legalization of such wagering has not made Great Britain debauched – though many would argue that in the absence of e-governance on Totalisers, bookmakers there have profited more than the Government!
Such an admittedly drastic change in attitudes towards legal wagering in India on all chance occurrences will require the exhibition of a degree of dynamism that was not evident in the previous dispensation.
Are the current authorities, those in a position to fulfil the aspirations of the Indian people and bring them Achhe Din, up to it?
Regards, Pawan Bhatia.
On 30-Jan-2016, at 7:32 pm, truevalue_pandian (via indiaresists Mailing List) <indiaresists@lists.riseup.net> wrote:How can legalising prevent fixing? Imagine this move destroying the morality of the society and ruin the finances of the gullible. Don't even think of it. Regards
Rina Mukherji <rina.mukherji@gmail.com> wrote:Government line or not, legalising betting will prevent the murkiness that has crept in to our sports. And pray, what is wrong with that, when you can have government lotteries, lifting of prohibition and the like. Remember, we have government -run liquor shops too.The latter have prevented deaths from drinking illicit liquor!Dr Rina MukherjiKolkataOn Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:55 AM, Prakash Katoch <prakashkatoch7@gmail.com> wrote:Very simple - Lodha always toed the government line. This joker presided over the Gen VK Singh case !On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:3) Saying that betting must be legalised is like saying sale of narcotics should also be legalised. Very conveniently Justice (?) Lodha recommends that this legalised betting industry should be regulated by retired High Court judges.[Presumably one mafia will smoothly replace another]2) It seems there is more "fixing" in these kind of retired judges reports than in the BCCI. {Cure being worse than the disease)After reading the Lodha Committee report on Indian cricket my initial comments :-1) How was this person (Justice (retd) RM Lodha)) ever elevated to SC, going on to become CJI ?
https://lodhacommittee.wordpress.com/IAC wonders what is more dangerous for the nation, puffed up retired interfering duffers like Ajit Doval who bungle our security to score brownie points or such retired judges ?Sarbajit
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