S.O.

S e - Voice For Justice - e-news weekly

Spreading the light of humanity & freedom
Editor: Nagaraja.M.R.. Vol.12..Issue.11........19/03/2016

SHOW-CAUSE NOTICE TO GOVERNOR RESERVE BANK OF INDIA ( RBI ) , UNION FINANCE MINISTER , GOI and CHIEF JUSTICE OF
INDIA , SCI

I dont know whether secretariat staff of RBI office & DARPG / DPG officials are forwarding my appeals for justice , emails to you or not. They will be held accountable for their lapses if any. This notice is against the repeated failure of
constitutional duties & indirect collusion with criminals (mya be out of fear or favor or both ) by previous RBI Governors ,
CJIs , Union Finace Ministers. Notice is served against them , to the office of RBI GOVERNOR , office of CJI & office of Union
Finace Minister , NOT personally against you. At the individual level I do whole heartedly respect your honourableselves.
Below mentioned huge financial frauds , scams , swindling , cheating like MALLYA fraud , Satyam Fraud , NPA fraud
cannt go unnoticed by your offices. They cannt happen without covert or overt , direct or indirect support from your offices.
When these frauds were brought to your notice & information sought under RTI Act , your offices failed to answer properly.
Lest the truth come out. Thereby , they are shielding the criminals. When the issue was brought to the notice of SCI & CJI and
appealed to them for justice , safety of public money they too failed to do their duties. Thereby , CJI too supported criminals
by shielding them.

In india democracy is a farce , freedom a mirage. the most basic freedom RIGHT TO INFORMATION & EXPRESSION , is not
honoured by the government,as the information opens up the crimes of V.V.I.Ps & leads to their ill-gotten wealth. The public
servants are least bothered about the lives of people or justice to them. these type of fat cats , parasites are a drain on the
public exchequer . these people want ,wish me to see dead , wish to see HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH closed . so that, a voice
against injustices is silenced forever , the crimes of V.V.I.Ps closed , buried forever.

To my numerous appeals , HRWs appeals to you ,you have not yet replied. It clearly shows that you are least bothered about
the lives of people or justice to them .it proves that you are hell bent to protect the criminals at any cost. you are just
pressurising the police to enquire me ,to take my statement, to repeatedly call me to police station all with a view to silence
me.all of you enjoy legal immunity privileges ,why dont you have given powers to the police / investigating officer to
summon all of you for enquiry ?or else why dont all of you are not appearing before the police voluntarily for enquiry ?at the
least why dont all of you are not sending your statement about the case to the police either through legal counsel or through
post? you are aiding criminals ,by denying me job oppurtunities in R.B.I CURRENCY NOTE PRESS mysore , city civil court
,bangalore , distict court , mysore ,etc & by illegally closing my newspaper.

there is a gross, total mismatch between your actions and your oath of office. this amounts to public cheating & moral
turpitude on your part.

1.you are making contempt of the very august office you hold.
2.you are making contempt of the constitution of india.
3.you are making contempt of citizens of india.
4.you are sponsoring & aiding terorrism & organized crime by allowing the swindled money to fund terrorist outfits , mafia
and underworld.
5.you are violating the fundamental & human rights of the citizens of india and of neighbouring countries.
6.you are violating & making contempt of the U.N HUMAN RIGHTS CHARTER to which india is a signatory.
7.you are obstructing me from performing my fundamental duties as a citizen
of india.
8. As a result of your gross negligence of
constitutional duties you have caused enormous financial loss to the public exchequer , caused damages to our national
security , economic security.
9. You have
cheated the public by saying some thing on oath and doing different thing.
10. You are shielding criminals who are funding criminal
activities.

Hereby , we call upon you to show cause within 30 days of this notice why cannt you be legally prosecuted for above mentioned charges.

Date : 12.03.2016..yours sincerely,

Place : Mysuru , India.Nagaraja M R

PIL BANK ROBBERIES by bank executives

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. OF 2015
IN THE MATTER OF
NAGARAJA . M.R
editor SOS e Clarion of Dalit & SOS e Voice for Justice
# LIG 2 , No 761 ,, HUDCO First Stage , Laxmikantanagar ,
Hebbal , Mysore 570017 , Karnataka State
.
....Petitioner
Versus
Honourable Governor , Reserve Bank of India (RBI) & Others
....Respondents

PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 12 to ARTICLE 35 & ARTICLE 51A OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA FOR ISSUANCE OF A WRIT IN THE NATURE OF
MANDAMUS UNDER ARTICLE 32 & ARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA.
To ,
Hon'ble The Chief Justice of India and His Lordship's Companion
Justices of the Supreme Court of India.

The Humble petition of the Petitioner above named.

MOST RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH :
1. Facts of the case:
"Power will go to the hands of rascals, , rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw. They will have sweet
tongues and silly hearts. They will fight among themselves for
power and will be lost in political squabbles . A day would come when even air & water will be taxed." Sir Winston made this statement in the
House of Commons just before the independence of India & Pakistan. Sadly , the forewarning of Late Winston Churchill has been proved right
by some of our criminal , corrupt public servants.
2. Eventhough , I have repeatedly appealed to RBI authorities since years seeking justice regarding illegalities , irregularities in recruitment ,
currency handling , currency theft , etc @ RBI , they didnt provide justice at all.
3. For a common man it is a herculean task to get Rs.5000 loan from a bank , but rich & connected get lakhs , crores of rupees loan quite
easily from banks , how ?
4. When a common man , farmer defaults to pay loan of few thousands of rupees bank immediately dispatches loan recovery agents /
Rowdies , seizes his property & auctions and recover their dues to last penny. Farmers are committing suicide unable to pay loans to escape
from ignominy .
5. Huge companies get crores of rupees loan from banks eventhough basically the project report itself is at fault , not viable. Siphons off
company resources by insider trading to their sister concerns although bank representatives are very much their on the board of companies.

6 . Such companies default on loan dues to bank , but no recovery agents / rowdies are sent by banks. Finally the company becomes bust.
7. Bank looses money , the company is declared as NON PERFORMING ASSET and government + bank waives off interest or else loan itself.
8. End looser the public whose money went down the drain , profiteers company promoters , executives and bank manager. No recovery
from their personal , family properties why ?
9. Eventhough , I have repeatedly appealed to RBI authorities , Union Finance Ministry since years seeking information under RTI Act
regarding illegalities , irregularities in RBI , Various banks , RBI Note Press ( BRBNMPL ) , etc , the RBI authorities have evaded answering
our questions lest the TRUTH come out. Supreme court of India specifically Chief Justice of India were also approached to order RBI , Union
Finance Ministry to disclose information to us in public interest. But SCI , CJI also failed to do their duties.
10. The money involved here is public money , it is nobodys papas money.
11. These swindled monies are finding its way to under world , Mafia & Terror outfits. This proves RBI Governor , Union Finance Minister
and Chief Justice of India are least bothered to safe guard PUBLIC MONEY. They are least bothered about our national security.
12. We have offered our conditional services to RBI , Union Finance Ministry & SCI to apprehend corporate criminals , to recover money
while the concerned officials have failed to do their duties. Till date RBI , SCI , Government have failed to respond to our offer.
13. We SOS e Clarion of Dalit & SOS e Voice for Justice once again offer our conditional services to authorities , RBI , SCI to legally apprehend
corporate criminals , tax evaders & corrupt bank executives and to recover monies from them. Are RBI , SCI & Union Finance Ministry Ready
to catch tax thieves , corporate criminals , corporate terrorists ? Are they ready to utilize our services ?
14. By , shielding corporate criminals RBI , SCI , Union finance ministry are shielding corporate criminals to continue financial aid to terrorist
outfits , underworld & mafia. Thereby , RBI Governor , Union Finance Minister & CJI , Supreme Court of India have also become parties to
those crimes , they themselves have become criminals.
15. These Huge financial frauds , swindling for years cannt happen repeatedly for years without tacit understanding , cooperation ,
collusion , connivance of RBI GOVERNOR and UNION FINANCE MINISTER. These crimes are spared from fair , timely legal trials with tacit
support of Chief Justice of India.
16. These swindled money is destabilizing our economy , funding terrorist outfits , mafia & underworld. These are posing constant threat to our
national security , integrity.
17. By financially supporting funding of criminals , terrorists RBI GOVERNOR , UNION FINANCE MINSTER & CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA themselves
have become anti nationals , criminals , terrorists.

2. Question(s) of Law:
Is it right for banks , government to let out fraudsters , bank executives without criminal prosecution & recovery ?
3. Grounds:
Requests for equitable justice , Prosecution of master minds of financial frauds.
4. Averment:
Covering up Financial Frauds. Please read details at :
https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/rbi---robberer-s-bureau-of-india ,
https://evoiceofhumanrightswatch.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/rbi-robberers-bureau-of-india/ ,

Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to consider this as a PIL for : writ of Mandamus and to issue instructions to the
concerned public servants in the following cases to perform their duties & to answer the questions.
The Petitioner has sent many letters / appeals / petitions to supreme court of india & other courts through e-mail , DARPG website & through
regular mail requesting them to consider those as PILs. But none ofthem were admitted , even acknowledgement for receipts were not given.
See How duty conscious ,our judges are & see how our judges are sensitive towards life , liberty of citizens , commonmen & see howcareless
our judges are towards anti national crimes , crimes worth crores of rupees. That the present petitioner has not filed any other petition (which
are admitted by courts) in any High Court or the Supreme Court of India on the subject matter of the present petition.
PRAYER:
In the above premises, it is prayed that this Hon'ble Court may be pleased:

a . Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to consider this as a PIL for : writ of Mandamus and to issue instructions to the
concerned public servants , RBI authorities in the following cases to perform their duties & to answer the below RTI questions.
b . to pass such other orders and further orders as may be deemed necessary on the facts and in the circumstances of the case.
c. To legally prosecute authorities of M/s RBI & M/s BRBNMPL , who denied job opportunities to me under the behest of criminals responsible
for late PM Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
d. To legally prosecute responsible bank executives & fraudsters.
e. To make it mandatory for all bank executives including board members to make their income , wealth details public every year. This must
be disclosed under RTI A ct.
f. To form a statutory mechanism to share information about creditors , debtors , borrowers , policy holders , insurers , wealth managers , etc
between all financial institutions like SEBI , RBI , IRDA , Banks , etc. Creditor , debtor information must be disclosed under RTI Act.
g. To book criminal cases of Rowdyism , goondaism against rowdy loan recovery agents & respective bank managers.
h. To reopen cases of Currency exchange scandal @ RBI Bangalore incinerator and currency theft cases @ RBI currency note press , Mysuru.
To also legally prosecute bank executives & CBI investigating officials who shielded original criminals in these cases.

i. To order full payment of unjustly withheld salary , gratuity , pension dues , etc to victimized RBI staff Mr. Ganapathi Hariram immediately.
j. To appoint a person from lending bank to loan availing companies to monitor its daily financial affairs.
k. To legally prosecute RBI Governor , Chief Justice of India & Union Finance Minister for aiding fund raisers of terrorists , underworld.
l. To order Government of India to accept our conditional offer of apprehending corporate terrorists.
m. To criminal legal prosecution against promoters of fraud companies , partners in their crimes supporting company executives and bank
executives.
n. To order for recovery of money with interest & penalty , by confiscation of properties of such company promoters , their family properties ,
property of concerned bank executives and most importantly PROPERTIES OF RBI GOVERNOR , UNION FINANCE MINISTER & CJI must be
attached.

FOR WHICH ACT OF KINDNESS, THE PETITIONER SHALL BE DUTY BOUND, EVER PRAY.
Kindly read full details at following web page :
https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/rbi---robberer-s-bureau-of-india ,
https://evoiceofhumanrightswatch.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/rbi-robberers-bureau-of-india/ ,

Dated : 12th March 2016 .FILED BY: NAGARAJA.M.R.

Place : Mysuru , India. PETITIONER-IN-PERSON

Of Rs 7,000 crore lent to Kingfisher, banks can now recover just Rs 6 crore

As Vijay Mallya and his son Siddharth sit with a Rs 21 crore purse and seven cricketers he can sell to make some money in the IPL auction,
India's public sector banks are struggling to recover even a fraction of their Rs 7000-crore loans from Mallya's grounded Kingfisher Airlines.
Documents, forensic reports and accounts of people from across the world studied by dna reveal that members of the 17-bank consortium of
lenders led by SBI may never be able to recover the money loaned to Mallya's airline.
SBI-Kingfisher tale
The State Bank of India (SBI), the major lender to Mallya's airline, till now has managed to recover only Rs 155 crore out of the Rs 1,623 crore
due from it. dna has learnt from official SBI sources that the value of Kingfisher Airlines pledged to the bank has now plummeted from Rs
4,000 crore to Rs 6 crore! SBI is unable to find a single buyer for the 'Kingfisher' trademarks. And Kingfisher Airlines has told Indian courts that
it is not in a position to payback its debts.
According to the hypothecation deed signed between SBI and Kingfisher Airlines on August 10, 2010, SBI was given ownership of all
trademarks and goodwill if Kingfisher Airlines failed to repay its debts.
These included Fly Kingfisher (label mark & word), Flying Models, Fly The Good Times, Funliner & Kingfisher (label mark). In 2009, global
consultancy firm Grant & Thronton valued Kingfisher trademarks at Rs 4,111 crore or roughly $1 billion. In 2012, when the airline's licence was
suspended by India's aviation regulator Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Kingfisher Airlines valued itself at Rs 3,008 crore. The current
value of the trademarks now stands at a mere Rs 6 crore! "We have put it up for sale. But have not received any satisfactory responses till
now," according to official bank sources.
Year Brand value of Kingfisher Airlines Money owed to banks (estimated)
2009: Rs 4,111 crore : Rs 4,000 crore
2012: Rs 3,008 crore : Rs 7,000 crore
2014: Rs 6 crore : Rs 7,000 crore
The role of some banks is also quite suspicious. One of the banks under the radar of the CBI for its loans to Kingfisher Airlines is IDBI. CBI
sources reveal that IDBI had extended loans to Kingfisher despite being warned by some board members not to do so. The result is that the
bank has ended up with bad debts of Rs 700 crore. Curiously, IDBI gave the loan to Kingfisher after being pledged the airline's now 'junk'
trademarks worth a mere Rs 6 crore!
Among the medium-sized banks, Bank of India is owed Rs 308 crore. The bank was mortgaged all the current assets of the airline. It included
items like air conditioners, tractors and monetarily unsubstantial items like folding chairs. The bank has been struggling to recover even a
fraction of its loan from the sale of Kingfisher's bag of random goodies. How could a bank give over Rs 300 crore after being pledged office
stationary like boarding pass printers & folding chairs remains a mystery. BOI did not respond to dna's questions.
Sumanto Bhattacharya, spokesperson of UB Group, denies manipulating the banks, "There is no question of any deliberate undervaluation by
Kingfisher Airlines Ltd as the banks themselves had conducted their own due diligence including the security available and also satisfied
themselves about the viability of Kingfisher Airlines Ltd before undertaking the debt restructuring."
Property given as bank guarantee
Documents accessed by dna show that Mallya had also given a personal guarantee of several other physical properties one of which was his
'Hollywood' style Kingfisher Villa located at Candolim, Goa. SBI is awaiting a reply from the District Magistrate who has to give permission for
police personnel to step in and help the bank recover the property. The application is yet to be even listed for hearing. Even if SBI gets physical
possession of the property, all it will manage is to dent Mallya's ego. The value of the villa, though higher than Kingfisher trademarks, is barely
a fraction of the Rs 1,600 crore that Mallya owes SBI.

Another one of 'irrecoverable' properties was Kingfisher House, measuring over 17,000 square feet in Mumbai's suburban Andheri locality,
which was given as a personal guarantee by Mallya. The property was originally hypothecated to Punjab National Bank in 2010 and Kingfisher
Airlines owes the bank Rs 290 crore. Kingfisher Airlines refused to part with the property and the matter is currently listed in the Chief
Metropolitan Court in Mumbai after SBI filed an application under the securitisation and reconstruction of financial assets and enforcement of
security interest (SARFAESI) Act, 2002.
Sumanto Bhattacharya, spokesperson of the UB Group, denies playing hardball, "Kingfisher House is owned by Kingfisher Airlines Ltd and not
Mallya. Kingfisher Villa is owned by United Breweries (Holdings) Ltd and not Mallya. In any case, Kingfisher Airlines Ltd is a party defendant to
proceedings filed in the Goa courts by United Spirits Ltd in respect of Kingfisher Villa and since the matter being sub-judice it won't be
appropriate to comment on it."
Other banks caught in Kingfisher's loan trap
Perhaps more curious is the case of Indian Overseas Bank. The airline owes IOB a sum of Rs 108 crore for which it had mortgaged two
helicopters in 2008. IOB did not respond to dna's questions on the whereabouts of the choppers. It is believed that the Eurocopters were not in
flying condition and the bank is struggling to dispose them of to recover its bad debts. IOB is now a loss-making bank having posted a Rs 516crore loss this quarter.
There are other smaller banks in the consortium which have lent money to Kingfisher Airlines after being pledged the airline's current assets.
Central Bank of India gave a term loan of Rs 350 crore on the condition that all sale proceeds and lease rents would be remitted in an escrow
account with the bank. The airline was grounded within a year and the bank couldn't recover the money. Banks like Corporation Bank, State
Bank of Mysore and Vijaya Bank gave loans of close to Rs 400 crore after being pledged all movable assets, movable assets and plant &
machinery of the airline.
Many of the banks have reached a dead end. A realisation has dawned on them that Rs 7000 crore of public deposits they lent to Kingfisher
Airlines have vanished in thin air. Chances of even recovering even a fraction of the amount seem to be fading by the day.

Was IDBI ex-CMD behind Rs 900-cr loan to Vijay Mallyas airlines?

Yogesh Agarwal, former CMD of IDBI Bank, may have played a key role in sanctioning loans worth Rs 900 crore to Vijay Mallyas Kingfisher
Airlines (KFA) despite the carriers low credit ratings, a CBI probe has revealed, sources said.
KFA had applied for a corporate loan of Rs 950 crore on October 1 of 2009, out of which around Rs 900 crore was sanctioned in three
installments by November 19 last year by the banks credit committee, the source added.
The CBI is looking into the minutes of an alleged meeting held between Mallya and Agarwal on October 6 last year to see if it led to the issue
of the sanction subsequently, he added. The then CFO of KFA, A Raghunathan, who was named in CBIs First Information Report of July last
year, had twice written to the IDBI top brass, requesting to expedite the loans sanction process, and referred on both the occasions that a
meeting was held between Mallya and Agarwal in this regard.
When contacted by HT, Aggarwal said: I dont want to comment on this issue.
Read: Kingfisher loan default case: ED summons IDBI Bank, KFA officials
Raghunathan had written to the bank to expedite the sanction of the loan despite the fact that KFA allegedly did not meet the conditions
stipulated under the banks corporate loan policy on account of negative financials and inadequate credit ratings, the source added.
The loan application was signed by Raghunathan.
Twice the CFO wrote to the bank, citing a meeting between Vijay Mallya and the then IDBI CMD, and things began moving fast, the source
said. The loan was okayed by the banks credit committee with Agarwals approval.
The UB Group has denied any wrongdoing so far.

Bank of Baroda finds Rs 6,000 crore of illegal forex transfers

NEW DELHI: Bank of Baroda officials recently stumbled upon illegal transfers of a whopping Rs 6,172 crores in foreign exchange,
made to Hong Kong through newly-opened accounts in the bank's Ashok Vihar branch.
The Congress revealed details of the case at a press conference on Friday.
The bank was alerted to the scam when it found that the forex business of its Ashok Vihar branch shot up to Rs 21,529 crores during
2014-15 - an increase of more than 500 times -- from Rs 45 crores in 2013-14. Between August 1, 2014 and August 12 this year, there
were 8,667 forex transactions from the branch, prompting the bank to look into the increase.
An internal investigation by the bank revealed that the transactions did not trigger alerts such as the generation of an exceptional
transaction report by the branch in North Delhi. The income tax department and other agencies were also oblivious to the transactions
despite amounts transferred adding up to several crores a day.
TOI tried several times to reach BoB executive director B B Joshi for more details, but he was unavailable.

Investigations showed major irregularities, because the forex transactions were done mainly via advance remittances for import,
through newly-opened current accounts. Heavy cash transactions -- sometimes four or five times a day -- were also noticed.
BoB's internal audit team recently red-flagged the irregularities to the finance ministry. It is not clear yet whether this money belongs to
an entity, or a group of people, that wanted its black money sent abroad. Central agencies like the CBI and the ED are likely to soon
investigate the matter, said sources.
The revelation comes at a time when the Narendra Modi government is trying to ensure that black money does not flow abroad, and
instead comes back into the country. The Congress said the irregularity punched holes in Prime Minister Modi's claim that there have
been no scams since he assumed office.
The Congress alleged that the amount, made up of "black money", was sent out of the country through a series of bank transaction two
months after the Modi government took charge at the Centre last year. "Leave alone Vyapam, Lalit Modi or the Chhattisgarh rice scam,
I want to tell the PM that this scam is happening in Delhi right under the nose of the Centre," Congress spokesperson R P N Singh said.
He added that for the past two days in Bihar, the PM has been saying that there has been no scam since his government took over, and
he has repeated the same thing in his speeches abroad.
"The bank is in Delhi and the government has all the information about the scam as the audit report was sent to higher authorities. BJP
has been talking about scandals. So many scams are coming out, but the PM says that there is not even one allegation against him.
We are placing proof of the scam," Mr Singh said, demanding an independent investigation into the transactions.
The Congress claimed that the government has been aware of the scam for the past two months, since the time the bank submitted the
inquiry report. The Congress spokesperson wondered why no FIR been filed in the case so far.
He said such a scam could not have been carried out without the "complicity" of top officials in the banking network and finance
ministry.
"One is forced to wonder as to how a government bank did not adhere to the very basic due diligence as regards deposits, transfers
and withdrawals by any entity," Singh alleged.
In its audit report, the entries for remittances -- many of which were done manually -- have allegedly been fudged and many of them
have been made by punching the exchange rate as Rs 0.0001 to a dollar when the prevailing exchange rate was Rs 60 to a dollar.
While the remittances for exports and imports were normal, suddenly there was a spike of Rs 6172.92 crore transactions in the form of
advance remittances for import.
"Most of the foreign exchange related transactions were carried out in the newly opened current accounts of some 59 companies," the
report reveals. There were heavy cash receipts also in newly opened accounts of some importers.
The investigation report accessed by TOI adds that the amount was remitted as advance for imports, and in most of the cases, the
beneficiary was the same (such as Victroxx International Ltd, Great Asian Exports, King Winner International Ltd, Star Exim Ltd, I touch
Infocomm Ltd, Fortune Trading Pvt Ltd, Jasco Ltd, Mega Forwarders and Traders etc).
The amount remitted in all the transactions was less than $100,000. The remittances in all cases were made to Hong Kong, said the
report.

"It was observed that on many occasions, the party made 4/5 remittances in a single day to the same exporter and the total amount of
all the remittances was more than $100,000. 4-5 remittances were probably done to keep the amount of each remittance less than
$100,000," adds the report.

Explaining the modus operandi , the report states that the branch was in the practice of consolidated reporting of forex transactions
against large number of public bills. Docket numbers were not obtained/generated for each remittance and despite heavy advance
payments for imports being made to the same suppliers, credit reports of the suppliers were not obtained. And wherever credit reports
are available with the branch, the same contained adverse remarks. "The branch has not adhered to due diligence while remitting
advance payment for imports," says the report.

Subsequently, A-1 form in most of the cases was not signed by the branch head/bank official and in many cases by the customer.

It adds that "in most of the cases mode of shipment, date of shipment and place of shipmen are not mentioned in the proforma invoice"
and "bill of entry/evidence of imports was not obtained before making further remittances to the same supplier". No effort was made by
the bank to obtain evidence of import/bill of entry from importers.

India ranks 4th in black money outflows per annum: Report

WASHINGTON: India ranks fourth in black money outflows with a whopping $51 billion siphoned out of the country per annum between
2004-2013, a US-based think-tank's report said on Wednesday.
Notably India's defence budget is less than $50 billion. China tops the list with $139 billion average outflow of illicit finances per annum,
followed by Russia ($104 billion per annum) and Mexico ($52.8 billion per annum), according to the annual report released by Global
Financial Integrity (GFI), a Washington-based research and advisory organisation.
The illegal capital outflows stem from tax evasion, crime, corruption and other illicit activity, the report said, according to which a record
$1.1 trillion flowed illicitly out of developing and emerging economies in 2013, the latest year for which data is available.
In all, during this decade-long period of 2004-2014, GFI estimates that more than half a trillion ($510 billion) went out of India and in the
case of China the figure was $1.39 trillion and Russia $1 trillion.
Titled 'Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2004-2013', the study shows that illicit financial flows first surpassed $1 trillion
in 2011 and have grown to $1.1 trillion in 2013, marking a dramatic increase from 2004, when illicit outflows totalled just $465.3 billion.
China also had the largest illicit outflows of any country in 2013, amounting to a staggering $258.64 billion in just that one year, the
report said.

"This study clearly demonstrates that illicit financial flows are the most damaging economic problem faced by the world's developing
and emerging economies," said GFI President Raymond Baker, a longtime authority on financial crime.

"This year at the UN the mantra of 'trillions not billions' was continuously used to indicate the amount of funds needed to reach the
Sustainable Development Goals. Significantly curtailing illicit flows is central to that effort," he said.

Noting that Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls on countries to significantly reduce illicit financial flows by 2030, the report
said the international community has not yet agreed on goal indicators, the technical measurements to provide baselines and track
progress made on underlying targets and subsequently the overall SDGs.

In its report, GFI recommends that world leaders should focus on curbing opacity in the global financial system, which facilitates these
outflows.

Suicide Mystery and Corruption at IFFCO

The farmers' cooperative with a turnover of Rs 21,000 crore comes under a cloud after the sudden death
of its chairman and an ED probe into graft charges against its CEO

Sandeep Bamzai

July 9, 2011

On January 17, Surinder Jakhar, chairman of India's fertiliser behemoth, Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO), with a turnover
of Rs 21,000 crore in 2010-11, was found dead in his farmhouse in Abohar, Punjab. Jakhar was the son of senior Congress leader Balram
Jakhar, who served as Lok Sabha speaker, Union agriculture minister and Governor of Madhya Pradesh. His body was riddled with bullets. The
police closed the case saying it was an accidental death-Jakhar shot himself while cleaning his gun. The police never explained how an
accident with a non-automatic weapon could have led to his body being riddled with bullets. The sheer number of bullets fired also seemed to
rule out suicide. There were apparently no eyewitness.
What adds to the mystery is the letter that the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) wrote to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) a few months
earlier, asking it to investigate IFFCO Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Uday Shankar Awasthi, 66. Allegations of a
lavish lifestyle and accusations of running the cooperative like a fiefdom prompted the CVC to take up the matter. Awasthi has been running
IFFCO, which has a pan Indian footprint and is the umbrella body for 37,000 smaller cooperatives, for close to two decades. Under his
leadership, IFFCO's Vision 2015 aims to achieve a production target of 15 million tonnes and a turnover of Rs 30,000 crore, 50 per cent higher
than the turnover recorded in 2010-2011. An art aficionado, Awasthi even got the MD's retirement age hiked to 65.

The CVC's letter to the ED alleged irregularities in the procurement of phosphoric acid and other raw materials for fertiliser production
from certain African countries, Senegal being one of them. The CVC's complaint suggested that Awasthi, as MD, favoured firms that
paid a consideration to a company, Catalyst Business Solutions, run by his son Anupam and Amol Awasthi. According to the CVC,
Catalyst has offices in several countries-Senegal, the UAE, Cameroon, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, India and the USA.

The CVC's reference to ED lays out specific allegations. Most of them relate to tax and foreign exchange violations, hence the
reference to ed to investigate. They include:
A tax and foreign exchange fraud to the tune of Rs 5 crore per month for the past seven years. The total amount involved comes to
Rs 420 crore.

Catalyst has no self-acquired business or revenue. It over-bills companies like Industries Chimiques du Senegal (ICS) of Senegal,
and then shows a loss to avoid tax.

Awasthi is involved in money laundering.

Awasthi earned illegal commission on imports of raw materials and finished fertilisers.

Awasthi purchased a posh bungalow for himself from cooperative funds.

IFFCO's PR manager, who replied to India Today's email sent to Awasthi, denies any wrongdoing on the part of the IFFCO MD and
denies an ED probe is on (see box). His claims, however, run counter to the ED's ongoing investigation. In mid-April, ED Deputy
Director Prabhakant wrote to his director, Arun Mathur, on the status of the investigation against Awasthi and others. The contents of
the three-page status report FO T-3/Misc/73/2010/AD (RS)/VM, based mostly on the CVC's reference, are extremely damaging for
Awasthi. ED sources told India Today, "Detailed investigations are on with foreign enquiries being the bulwark. We continue to focus on
Awasthi and his two NRI sons-Amol and Anupam. We are also focusing on companies that his sons have spawned around the world
and the contracts that they have signed. We are also looking at IFFCO's procurement patterns vis-a-vis global suppliers."
Earlier, a reference had been made to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to collect documents with relevance to the case. After many
reminders, RBI had responded on October 29, 2010 that Catalyst Business Solutions had received 35 inward remittances amounting to
over Rs 10 crore between June 2005 and January 2010. Of these remittances, the company reported 29 remittances after the expiry of
the 30-day stipulated period in terms of para 9(1)(A) of notification number 20 of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA). The
company allotted shares to foreign investors on four occasions but did not report it to RBI in time, that is, within 30 days of the
allotment. IFFCO's response to India Today categorically states: "We are not aware of any RBI investigation against Awasthi. We are
also not aware of any letter rogatory having been issued to any country."
Based on the information received from the RBI, the ED has decided to dig deeper and also procure additional documents by sending a
letter rogatory to Senegal and USA to ascertain facts in its investigation into the matter, a matter once again disputed by IFFCO. Also, a
directive has been issued under the provisions of fema to Amol Awasthi, chief operating officer of Catalyst Business Solutions. This was
followed by a summons. IFFCO, meanwhile, continues to take refuge behind the plea that the Awasthi siblings have nothing to do with
the company.
In response to the ED summons, P.K. Roy, MD of Catalyst, said that Amol Awasthi was an NRI and non-executive director of the
company. ED issued summons to his brother Anupam, CEO of the company. The company replied that Anupam was also an NRI.
Documents reveal that Catalyst Business Solutions has received foreign investment and engaged in the import of capital goods and
export of services. ED has also recorded the statement of Roy under Section 37 of FEMA with regard to overseas establishments and
businesses in and outside India. ED has issued another set of summons to Amol, Anupam and Roy. A notice has also been sent to
IFFCO.

ED received a reply from IFFCO which furnished details of imports, remittances sent out of India in the last five years, break-up of
wholly owned subsidiaries/joint ventures and details of FDI in the last five years. The documents are under examination. ED's probe
has seen directives being issued to the bankers of both Anupam and Amol Awasthi. Replies have been received and these too are
being scrutinised. The dragnet is tightening as the ED chases the quarry.

Multi-national re-insurance brokers violate Indian laws

Multinational Insurance brokers are expected to infuse knowledge and expertise into insurance and reinsurance business in India.
However, instead of supporting the Indian insurance industry and the Country, multinational brokers have started large-scale alleged
cheating and looting the industry and finding ways and means to breach or circumvent Indian laws, insurance experts say.

After the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India, (IRDAI) cancelled the license of Wills India - the third largest re-insurance
brokers in the world - for financial irregularities; it still continues to do huge business in India - backdoor through Almondz Brokers, India.
Clandestinely all expenses are reimbursed to Almondz by Wills Risk Services India, as it does not need IRDAI clearance to operate or move
funds in and out of the country a clear case of cheating that is challenging the foundation of the IRDAI, the reinsurance experts aver.
To quote a recent example there was a serious fraud committed by Almonds re-insurance Brokers, in Aug 2014, to the tune of Rs.13 Crores.
Interestingly, Swan Insurance Company, Singapore paid re-insurance premium to Willis, Singapore, who had to pay to the re-insurer, namely
KILN Singapore, for a Trade Credit Insurance.
Surprisingly Willis, Singapore chose to route the re-insurance premium through Almondz Brokers in India. The re-insurance money was required
to be paid to KILN Singapore, but it never reached KILN. Almondz had opened a fictitious Bank Account in the name of KILN Global Pte Limited
and transferred the money in to that account by using forged documents and siphoned the funds. Technically there is no re-insurance cover
since the re-insurance premium was never paid and the client and the insurance company were fooled, the experts who are in the know of
things say.
Opening a Bank Account through forged documents by a broker, for that matter by any entity, is a serious criminal offence. The matter was
reported to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Economic Offence Wing New Delhi for necessary investigation. The matter was also reported
to IRDAI, which had remained a mute spectator till date.
Banking System was thus used for these illegal transactions and there has been no inspection by the RBI, FERA or by IRDAI to know the
volume of illegal business done. Being a banned entity, this transaction exposes either the weakness or hand in glove operations of the
Regulator, and thus the industry can't depend on the either the Regulations or the Regulator, the experts aver.
Rerouting the Business through this mode, ends the insurer with no re-insurance but given to believe that he had been covered. When the
insurer is in Singapore, reinsurer is in Singapore, bank too is in Singapore, there is no reason to route the transaction through India, except to
siphon the money, by ulterior motives.
Similarly, Indian operations of Marsh, one of the largest brokers in the world, are under Government scanner for illegally transferring large
sums of money out of the country to their overseas companies in low tax regimes. The Enforcement Directorate and Research and Analysis
Wing (RAW) are now seized of the matter.
Marsh began operations in India seven years ago through the FDI route by investing 26 percent in Marsh India as per the Insurance
Regulations. The license fee for the composite broker license is Rs.2.5 Crores which for 26 percent translates to Rs. 65 lakh.
During the first four years, they have transferred out of the country, approximately Rs.40 Crores by way of service charges and risk
management fee to Marsh Overseas operations, primarily in Singapore. This was a serious objection from the Income Tax Department under
the transfer pricing rules and the matter has simultaneously been referred to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for foreign exchange
violations and misuse of the FDI rules. The Indian partner has been cheated of these profits, says insurance experts but the union government
chose to turn a blind eye to the large scale fraud, they say.
The Income Tax (IT) department has ordered a penalty of Rs.4.84 Crores and will initiate further legal proceedings against Marsh India
Insurance Brokers, a joint venture of US based Marsh USA and Marsh India. Marsh India is facing transfer pricing charges for transferring large
sums of money out of India to associate enterprises in low-tax regimes.
The IT department assessed Marsh Indias books for the assessment year 2010-11. During the period, Marsh India had posted an operating
income and profit of Rs.62.33 crores and Rs.17.8 crores, respectively, against Rs.52.07 crores turnover in assessment year 2008-09. In
assessment year 2010-11 Marsh India reported total income from international transactions are Rs.20.29 crores.
The department said looking from the balance sheet the company was to receive Rs.7.29 crores from debtors, of which Rs.1.53 crores was
receivable from its associate enterprises as on March 31, 2010. The department issued a show-cause notice asking why notional interest at 12
percent could not be calculated on the outstanding balance from the associate enterprises.
Marsh India has said In connection with this query raised by the department, we are working with them to resolve this quickly. In the
consulting sector, there is no custom to charge interest on delayed receivables. Unlike a trader, a consultant does not normally have a
contractual right to receive interest on delayed receivables.
Even where a right is available, it has not come across instances where a consultant has charged the client interest on delayed receivables. It
is only where the matter travels to the court and the court grants interest that a consultant actually receives such interest. Transfer pricing
does not and cannot contemplate an adjustment which would result in a transaction that would be outside the ordinary court of business.
Another case of cheating was with Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation GSPC. For many years, Marsh India was the broker placing the
insurance of the GSPC assets on behalf of Oriental Insurance Company Limited. Two years ago, the management of GSPC decided to transfer
the business from them and it was found that there were serious irregularities in the reinsurance made by Marsh India including grossing up
the premiums.
Yet the union government and state governments did not wake up from the slumber. GSPC conducted detailed investigations by the ED who
have called for all the files from Oriental Insurance Company Limited. GSPC has blacklisted Marsh India from all business. It also reported the
matter to the central investigating agencies.
Three years ago Marsh India had messed up with the reinsurance placement of Air India. This had cost Air India and additional Rs20 Crores in
premiums and could not recover the claim in full the unfortunate Mangalore air crash.

Marsh India is headed by CEO Sanjay Kedia who is responsible for the closure of JLT operations in India after a large Reliance Industries Limited
SBM claim was not resolved due to incorrect reinsurance placement. The matter is in the courts and Oriental Insurance and New India have
joint liability in excess of Rs.1000 Crores.
Strangely, JLT plans to return to the Indian market through another source although this huge money is due to India by foreign companies
through the intermediary of JLT. Sanjay Kedia is known over the years for paying large sum of money to the PSU Insurance Companies namely,
Oriental Insurance, New India Assurance, National Insurance, united India Insurance and GIC.
Similarly, it is learnt that Aon, one of the largest broker in the world, has taken more than 26 percent holding in the Indian joint venture against
the Insurance Regulations. The matter was referred to IRDAI by FIB and ED and action from IRDAI is still pending.
IRDAI is taking serious action against such grave violation of the law by these large multinational brokers, who seem to simply want to take
advantage of the Government regulations for their selfish benefits and urgent action is required to stop this blatant plundering of the country
at cost of domestic insurance.
Experts say that Union Finance Ministry should step in at least now to stem the rot before it becomes too unwieldy and goes out of hands and
ruin the Indian economy.
How does it affect the Indian economy?
Insurance experts aver that when the economy is opened for capital inflow through FDI, money is siphoned out of the country, through these
means, with total disregard to the law of the land.
Total loss of money to the Government is yet to be estimated and if this goes unchecked India will become like Bermuda or Mauritius.
Insurance Regulator, if equipped with powers of Government through the new insurance bill, and if the Regulator turns blind or is not aware of
these type of transactions, the entire insurance industry will collapse because, the transaction relates to not for insurance but to reinsurance.
The overseas entity, if allowed to get into these type of transactions, the entire broking system would collapse. If the Regulator either allows
by remaining mute or the Regulator has no clue of what is happening, the entire insurance business will be in jeopardy. Also, these foreign
entities, use regulators silence to these grave issues, even after repeated reminders from various lobby, as not just an opportunity, but the
correct way to do illegal business and enrich through illegal means.

The Rs 6,500-Crore Mystery At Mukesh Ambanis Reliance Industries Limited

By PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA AND JYOTIRMOY CHAUDHURI | 4 February 2015

Some financial transactions attract attention because of the scale and nature of the irregularities being brought to light. Others may warrant
scrutiny because of the profile of the people involved. The case in this article deserves close examination on both counts. The protagonist of
this tale is Indias richest man, Mukesh Ambani, the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Indias biggest
private corporate conglomerate. The supporting character is a former Indian National Congress member of parliament associated with the
Reliance Group, Annu Tandon.

On the sidelines are unnamed executives from the overseas wing of one of Indias biggest private sector banks, ICICI (formerly the Industrial
Credit and Investment Corporation of India) Bank. The plot also includes officials from two regulatory authorities, the Reserve Bank of India
(RBI), the countrys central bank and apex monetary authority, and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the Ministry of Finance, which is
responsible for enforcing the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) of 1999.
It was on 19 July 2013, about a year and a half ago, that the ED wrote to the RBI, seeking its advice on the legality of a loan of Rs 6,530.36
crore that was granted by an overseas branch of ICICI bank to a now-defunct firm called Biometrix Marketing Pte Ltd that was based in
Singapore and associated with the Reliance Group. Curiously, this money, given in the form of a loan, later returned to Indiaas alleged by
First Secretary (Economic) GT Venkateswara Rao of the Indian High Commision in Singapore in the investigation he conducted on investments
made by Biometrix in Reliance Group companiesas foreign direct investment (FDI) through the issuance of certain financial instruments
called compulsorily convertible preferential shares (CCPS) by Biometrix in four Reliance Group companiesReliance Gas Transportation
Infrastructure, Relogistics Infrastructure, Reliance Ports and Reliance Utilities. This investment was the highest inflow of FDI into India during
200708 from a single corporate entity based in Singapore.
Senior officials of the ED have said that, since the letter was written, Annu Tandon and other senior figures connected with RIL have been
questioned about the transactions relating to Biometrix and their statements have been recorded.
Rao's investigation into Biometrix's investments was first suggested in July 2011 by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) in
the Union Ministry of Industry and Commerce, which is responsible for formulating and enforcing policies on FDI. The investigation was
thereafter conducted by the High Commission of India in Singapore, which resulted in the preparation of a commercial intelligence report
dated 31 August 2011.
The report pointed out that the records of Singapores Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) indicated that Biometrix was a
holding company registered in Singapore. A company called Strasbourg Holdings Private Limited held 91 percent of Biometrix. Strasbourg is
incorporated in Singapore and is owned by Atul Shantikumar Dayal, a legal expert with AS Dayal & Associates, Mumbai, who has been of
particular assistance to the Reliance Group in some of its recent arbitration cases against agencies of the Indian government, and who is also
a director of a few Reliance Group companies.
The remaining 9 percent of Biometrixs shares were held by Reliance GeneMedix Plc, a company registered in London and a subsidiary of
Reliance Life Sciences Private Limited (RLSPL). Biometrix was earlier called Orna Pte Ltd, and its principal activities are described as acting as
a holding company and consultancy.

Many India-based corporate conglomerates, in particular the Reliance Group, maintain a complex structure of cross-holdings of shares among
subsidiary and associate companies. Theoretically, these cross-holdings are perfectly legal. However, the patterns of shareholdings of these
companies are often made deliberately complex to make it difficult for regulatory authorities to lift the corporate veil and establish the
identities of the beneficiaries. If their identities are obfuscated, it makes it cumbersome to establish an audit trail to track the flow of funds.
This case, in particular, appears to use a set of such complex control structures.
Right now, the dispute is stuck at a preliminary stage. Two formal letters that were sent by the joint director of the ED on 21 and 22 May 2013,
elicited only a single reply, dated 19 July 2013, from Divya P, a manager in the foreign exchange department in the central office of the
overseas investment division of the RBI in Mumbai. In its reply, the RBI stated that borrowings by an overseas WOS (wholly owned subsidiary)
/ JV (joint-venture), (a) first level step down subsidiary or subsidiaries beyond first level, with support from the Indian party for purposes of
investment back into India was not a bona fide business activity as per FEMA guidelines framed in 2004. The countrys central bank added
that the case was being examined by officials in the RBIs Department of Banking Operations and Development and that the apex bank would
respond to the ED in due course.
Representatives of the Reliance Group have claimed to the ED that the investments should not be treated as FDI but as an external
commercial borrowing (ECB). If the investment is indeed an ECB, this would put Reliance in the clear and in compliance with the RBI and
provisions of FEMA. This is the crux of the dispute. Did the money return from Singapore to India as FDI or as an ECB?
If the money did indeed return from Singapore as an FDI, then there is reason to pay attention to the possible source of these funds. Prashant
Bhushan, a lawyer and founding member of the Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) offered an interesting explanation to this question at a press
conference, which we will come to later in this article. In June 2011, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, had made note of anomalies
in the capital cost of the RIL natural gas project in the D6 block in the Krishna-Godavari (KG). The CAGs report stated that Reliance had overinvoiced their imports of capital equipment during the project. Taking off from this report, Bhushan alleged that the funds transferred from
Biometrix had been illegally obtained through RILs fudging of its imports.
To begin with, the mammoth investments, amounting to Rs 6,530.36 crore came from companiesBiometrix and Strasbourgwhich had
relatively small equity capital bases. Biometrix was set up with an equity capital of 110,000 Singapore dollarsor approximately Rs 29 lakh
and operated out of just one room, which was closed most of the time. Raos report added that the premises where Strasbourg was
registered was occupied by another firm named Rikvin (about which, too, more interesting information will follow). Filings with ACRA, reviewed
by the Business Standard indicated that between May 2007 and September 2008, Biometrix made a loss of Rs 400 crore on a revenue of
121,433 Singapore dollars (approximately Rs 32 lakh). Its total liabilities to equity ratio was an improbable 4,637 because it had obtained a
$1.7 billion Singapore-dollar loan with a capital of 110,000 Singapore dollars (approximately Rs 29 lakh). ACRAs records show that Biometrix
has been dissolved and that its members voluntarily wound up the company. Business Standard also reported that the loan obtained by
Biometrix had been paid off.
Raos investigations through the High Commission of India in Singapore point to several suspicious facts that deem this case worthy of close
scrutiny.
He also stated that it was highly probable that the funds shown as loans from Singapore or other tax heavens [sic] returned through a
circuitous route to companies whose owners were in India. Therefore, he argued, the source of the money needed to be ascertained.
On 22 June 2012, M Furquan, a Delhi-based journalist, wrote to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) and the Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) asking the two agencies to investigate whether or not the transactions were legal. His allegation was based on certain documents
including first secretary Raos report from August 2011that he claimed to have received from a reliable source through registered post. After
he received no response from either the CVC or the CBI, he filed a writ petition in the Delhi High Court on 17 November 2012.
Furquan pointed out that during the period between March 2007 and October 2008, RIL's warrants worth Rs 16,500 crore were converted into
equity shares by Reliance Utilities Private Limited, Reliance Ports & Terminals Limited, Relogistics Infrastructure Limited and Reliance Gas
Transportation Limited as per the records of the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange. The holder of a warrant can
purchase securities, usually equity shares, from the issuer at a specific price within a certain time frame. Furquans petition alleges that the
money required for converting RILs warrants into shares by the four RIL subsidiaries came from none other than RIL itself as none of the four
subsidiaries had shown a commensurate amount of external or bank borrowing and neither did they have any influx of income of such
magnitude.
He alleged that part of this money came into RIL in the form of a loan of $1.7 billion Singapore dollarsapproximately Rs 6,500 crore at the
timefrom Biometrix, which was shown as subscription money for preference shares (CCPS) [compulsorily convertible preferential shares]
issued by Reliance Utilities Private Limited, Reliance Ports & Terminals Limited, Relogistics Infrastructure Limited & Reliance Gas Transportation
Limited. This means that Biometrix raised the money from ICICI on the ground that it sought to buy CCPS shares issued by the four
subsidiaries.
Furquan subsequently claimed that, after his petition was filed in court, Swatantra Kumar, Director General, Income Tax (Investigation), who
was based in Mumbai, had commenced a probe into the transactions relating to Biometrix and companies in the Reliance Group. However,
Kumar was suddenly transferred to Chandigarh in December 2012. The case itself is still pending in the Delhi High Court.

We were able to gain access to the documents submitted by Furquan in court. Among these is a letter written by LV Merchant, Director, RLSPL,
to MG Attri, Assistant Director, ED, on 14 August 2012 which makes the holding structure of Biometrix and its relationship with RIL extremely
clear.
The letter states that 49 percent of the shares of Reliance Holding Netherlands BV (RHBV), Netherlands, were held by Reliance Clinical
Research Services Pvt Ltd (RCRS), which is a subsidiary of Reliance Life Sciences Pvt Ltd (RLSPL). The remaining 51 percent was held by RLSPL.
In 2006, RHBV acquired 79.58 percent of GeneMedix Plca company listed on a stock exchange in Londonwith the balance being held by
public shareholders. GeneMedix acquired Biometrix in 2007, thus making it an indirect subsidiary of RLSPL.

Biometrixs loan from ICICI Bank was taken under a Put and Call Option Agreement with Ekansha Enterprises Private Limited, a group
company of RLSPL. An option agreement between two companiesin this case between Biometrix and Ekanshaprovides either of the two
firms with the right, but not the obligation, to buy, sell or obtain a specific asset at an agreed upon price at some time in the future.
Between 2006 and 2008, when the transactions involving Biometrix took place, Atul Shantikumar Dayal was a director of thirty-two companies,
quite a few of which were part of the Reliance Group, including Reliance Power Ventures Ltd, Reliance Enterprises Ltd, Reliance Petroleum Ltd,
Ekansha Enterprises Pvt Ltd and Strasbourg Holdings. As mentioned earlier, Dayal is reportedly a close adviser to the Reliance Group on
corporate law, indirect taxation and, notably, international commercial contracts. According to the ED report, Strasbourg Holdings was
acquired from Dayal by the late Sandeep Tandon, husband to Annu Tandon. The acquisition was made through a remittance of US$100,000
(approximately Rs 48 lakh) to Singapore under the liberalised remittance scheme (LRS) of the RBI that was announced in February 2004.
Under the LRS at that time, resident Indians were allowed to remit up to $125,000 (approximately Rs 60 lakh) in each financial year for any
permitted capital and/or current account transaction or a combination of both.
Sandeep Tandon was a former officer of the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) who used to work in the ED. He had conducted an investigation into
foreign companies floated by Reliance while he was in the Directorate. He had raided the residence of Tina Ambani (nee Munim) before her
marriage in February 1992 to Anil Ambani, the younger and now estranged brother of Mukesh Ambani. Soon thereafter, Sandeep Tandon joined
RIL in 1994 as a consultant. His wife, Annu Tandon, was elected as the Lok Sabha MP from Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, in the 2009 elections. An
unlikely candidate with no previous political experience, she claimed a surprise victory and won by a large margin of 32,092 votes, defeating
her rivals from the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).

Annu was managing director of MoTech Software Ltd., which had been promoted by Mukesh Ambani. In 2007, MoTech was one of twelve
entities that came under the scrutiny of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) over charges of insider trading in the shares of
Reliance Petroleum Ltd (RPL). On 3 January 2008, two months after the RPL transactions, she resigned from her position, citing her decision to
contest elections from Uttar Pradesh as the reason.
At the time, there was speculation in the media that seat-sharing talks between the Congress and SP in Uttar Pradesh fell through because of
the Congresss insistence on Annu Tandons candidature. The Hindu on 30 April 2009 hinted that her husbands allegiance to Mukesh Ambani
was a reason for the SP to walk away from the alliance. The SP, as was widely known, was closer to the younger Ambani sibling, Anil, when the
brothers crossed swords over the division of the Reliance empire. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Annu Tandon stood for election again, but
came fourth, barely retaining her deposit with 16 percent of the votes.
In his commercial intelligence report, First Secretary Rao of the Indian High Commission in Singapore pointed out that another company called
Rikvin was located at the same Cecil Street address as Strasbourg Holdings. This company had an equity capital of 110,000 Singapore dollars
(approximately Rs 29 lakh), and its only shareholder was Dayal who held the entire 125,000 Singapore dollars (approximately Rs 33 lakh) paidup share capital of the company. Rikvin had another directorShalin Narain Tandonwho, however, did not own any shares in the company.
Shalin is, incidentally, the son of Annu and the late Sandeep Tandon.
Shalin is also the vice president of the groups flagship company RIL. Additionally, he is on the board of Ekansha Enterprises Pvt. Ltd, which in
turn, is associated with two companies linked to RILReliance Consolidated Holdings Pvt. Ltd and Relcom Venture Capital Pvt. Ltd.
The senior officials in the ED have said that both Shalin and Annu Tandon, as well as Dayal have been questioned. The RBI is yet to respond to
the EDs query on whether certain transactions by RIL violate the provisions of FEMA.
Both the Reliance Group companiesStrasbourg and Ekanshaapplied to the RBI for compounding for their violation of the FEMA act as noted
by the RBI. Ekansha paid Rs 19.59 crore to the RBI as the fee for compounding. An application on behalf of the late Sandeep Tandon, for
Strasbourg, is still pending with the RBI.
We contacted RIL, Dayal and Tandon for comment, but our questions went unanswered.
If the RBI confirms that the transaction was illegal, the ED can proceed against the Reliance Group companies either through a process of
adjudication through the special directorate of the ED, or through the RBI by compounding the offence. The RBI incidentally has the power to
lower the compounding award given by the ED.

Information about this unusual transfer of funds was brought into the public domain for the first time by Prashant Bhushan at a media
conference on 27 February 2014. Bhushan pointed out that the Indian High Commission in Singapore had made enquiries about Biometrix
following a request by the DIPP in 2011, but the government had failed to act on the information provided, even after three years.
After Bhushans conference, RIL released a press statement in which it denied that its legal adviser, Dayal, was either the owner or the director
of Biometrix. With reference to the loan given by the Singapore company, RIL stated:
The investments by Biometrix were open, transparent and perfectly legitimate transactions in full compliance with the extant
regulations. These investments in the Indian companies were made by Biometrix out of loans raised from ICICI Bank, Singapore branch.
ICICI Bank has confirmed this fact to the regulators. Regulatory authorities have fully investigated the matter and found no substance
in the allegations of money laundering. The insinuation that this money was from gold plating from KG-D6 is completely irresponsible
and false.

Bhushan, in a letter dated 8 July 2014, to the Special Investigation Team on black moneyformed by the government on the orders of the
Supreme Courtalleged that the government has just sat over these facts [relating to Biometrix] for three years now, and that the
government has not bothered to investigate this case of money laundering, perhaps because powerful entities like Reliance are involved.
On 23 July 2014, Bhushan wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking, why would a bank give such a large loan to a post box company with
no known assets and source of income? Given the fact that the CAG [Comptroller and Auditor General] report has already indicted Reliance for
over-invoicing and siphoning out money from the KG-D6 contract, isnt it highly likely that the Rs 6,500 crore was in fact money siphoned out
of the country by Reliance from the KG-D6 contract, or dealing with the government, and which was being brought back by way of an
investment by a shell company?

Bhushan enclosed with his letter Raos commercial intelligence report, which stated: The equity of both the investing companiesBiometrix
and Strasbourgfrom Singapore is very small compared to the amount invested; both the companies have claimed exemption from filing
annual accounts to the Singapore regulator stating that the income is small. If the income was small, the question arises about the source of
such huge amounts were [sic] raised.
Why is the RBI dragging its feet in answering the ED as to whether the complicated maze of transactions relating to these companies violated
the provisions of the law? Is this is a case of money laundering? How can the foreign associate of an Indian bank lend money to a firm that
uses the funds to purchase financial instruments of companies that are associated with the parent company in India? These questions remain
unanswered. The last is yet to be heard on this subject.

Frauds ripped public sector banks of Rs 23,000 crore

Public sector banks have cumulatively lost a massive sum of Rs 22,743 crore due to cheating and forgery in the last three years alone,
HT has found through a right to information RTI) reply.
Indian Overseas Bank is the worst hit with a loss of Rs 3,200 cores as against State Bank of India (SBI) which lost Rs 2,712 crore.
Between April 2010 and September 2013, the number of bank fraud cases has shown a slight decrease yearly but the amount of
money lost has been increasing year on year.
The number of fraud cases, for instance, came down to 2996 in April 2012 to March 13, from 3748 in April 2010 to March 2011, but the
amount shot up to Rs 10179.42 crore from Rs 3275 crore.
The Reserve bank of India (RBI) issued detailed instructions to banks on July 2, 2012 containing details related to how banks should
examine fraud cases and report them to CBI, the police and the special fraud investigation office (SFIO). Even after this, the money lost
in fraud cases have increased.
Interestingly, by way of comparison, Indian Overseas Bank lost more to fraud than it earned in profits. It
registered a net profit of 2848 crore between 2010 and 2013 but leaked Rs 3200 crore for the same period.
For SBI, the blow was cushioned. It registered a profit of Rs 39692 crore between April 2010 and September
2013. In the corresponding period, the bank lost Rs 2712 crores to fraud.
As per the documents available, more than 6000 employees of different banks are under the scanner for
involvement in these cases. These are not just lower or mid-level employees, but in some cases, CMDs and
directors of different banks. For Instance, in May 2013, a CBI special judge convicted M Gopalakrishnan,
former Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Indian Bank, Chennai as he had sanctioned credit facilities of
huge amounts to a company without sufficient securities and also by surpassing the rules of the bank.
Analysis of cases investigated by the CBI reveal that bankers sometimes exceed their discretionary powers and give loans to
unscrupulous borrowers on fake or forged documents. After getting the money, the borrower escapes causing huge loses to the banks.
While loans on forged documents are the main component of these losses, there are other reasons too. Ashvin Parekh, National
Leader, Global financial services, EY, said, The increase in alternate channels including internet banking and even use of ATMs which
has reduced as human interface with the customer and banks has led to an increase in fraudulent activities.
We have already taken corrective measures to ensure preventive vigilance. Policy tightening is also being undertaken, said M
Narendra, Chairman and Managing Director, Indian Overseas Bank. He also added that adequate training is being provided to the staff
and the bank is fine-tuning operations aspects. Canara Bank, UCO Bank and United Bank did not respond despite numerous
reminders.
A senior official at SBI said the amount is a cumulative one. In the last one year several stringent measures of checks and balances
have been put in place and in the last one year the number of cases has substantially come down, the official, who did not wish to be
identified, said.

In a year, bank frauds doubled in India: RTI query reveals

By Gangadhar S Patil

In May 2015, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) set up a Central Fraud Registry to check growing bank fraud. After this, the Prime
Ministers Office called a meeting to review the fraud-detection system, a clear indication that the government was worried.

It was more than just a bunch of bounced cheques.

The media reported the move, but largely laid the blame on the rise in bank non-performing assets (NPA), loans in danger of default.
Now, data obtained by OnlineRTI.com, a Bangalore-based startup helping citizens file queries under the Right-to-Information (RTI) Act,
via the RTI reveals that NPAs are not entirely to blame.
NPAs did rise 23% between 2013-14 and 2014-15, threatening Indias banking system, but it is also true that in the year since Narendra
Modis government took charge, there has been a 100% increase in bank fraud (as per RBI data). Indeed, this is why the RBI set up the
fraud registry and why the PMO reviewed the fraud-detection system.

Over the year since Modis government took office, the amount involved in bank fraud rose from Rs 10,170 crore ($1.6 billion) in the
fiscal year 2013-14 to Rs 19,361 crore ($3 billion) in 2014-15, i.e. nearly 100%.

The fraud ranged from cheque alteration to fake loans, debit/credit card fraud to cyber fraud.
Maharashtra and West Bengal lead the way in bank fraud
The spike is mainly because of a multi-fold increase in cases of fraud recorded by banks in Maharashtra and West Bengal, both states
accounting for more than 50% of the total loss through fraud.
While banks in Maharashtra saw a 150% increase in fraud, from Rs 2,445 crore in 2013-14 ($376 million) to Rs 6,115 crore in 2014-15
($940 million), banks in West Bengal notched a six-fold increase in fraud, from Rs 773 crore ($118 million) to Rs 5,930 crore ($912
million).
The RBI has been able to close only 30% of these cases every year.

Public-sector banks appear to have borne the brunt of the fraud-spike, with the Punjab National Bank, which lost a sum of Rs 2,310
crore ($355 million), topping the list, followed by the Central Bank of India, where the lost amount stands at Rs 2,150 crore ($330
million), the data further reveal. Both banks recorded a fraud increase of more than 200%.
Top frauds in 2014-15 (figures in crores)
Punjab National Bank, 2309.7313
Central Bank of India, 2149.718
State Bank of India, 1601.0372
UCO Bank, 1410.9772
Bank of Baroda, 1186.676
Corporation Bank, 1222.0934
Indian Overseas Bank, 574.3611
Oriental Bank of Commerce, 764.8375
IDBI Bank Limited, 557.951
United Bank of India, 680.3515
Union Bank of India, 362.8029
Syndicate Bank, 793.1045
ICICI Bank Ltd., 268.8547
Allahabad Bank, 75.9764
Canara Bank, 177.2872
Experts are confounded why bank fraud has risen in West Bengal. While some believe more cases of fraud were reported, others said
the increase in banking transactions could be responsible.
Athorough probe is needed to to explain the sudden rise in banking fraud in West Bengal, said Rajesh Goyal, a former banker and
founder of allbankingsolution.com, a banking watchdog portal.
The increase in fraud in the case of PNB is phenomenal and could be either because the figures are wrong or these were cases
suppressed in earlier years but reported only now, said Goyal. Public-sector banks have never shown urgency to unravel the root
causes of these [cases of fraud] or to find the modus operandi of the fraudsters. Soon after a probe is initiated, banks stop investigation
with the plea that no further leads are available.
The government should fast track such cases because they involve direct cheating or siphoning of the public money, said the All India
Bank Employees Associations general secretary Viswas Utagi.
Public-sector banks handle fraud better than private banks
Contrary to popular belief, public-sector banks have actually handled fraud better than private banks.
Despite a market share of 30%, private banks collectively account for around 40% of losses from bank fraud. India has 20 private
banks, 26 public-sector banks and 30 foreign banks.
Private bank losses from bank fraud

A RBI circular issued in July said that when banks discovered fraud, they were to report cases to the Central Bureau of Investigation,
the police or to the Serious Fraud Investigation Office.
In some cases, bank staff were involved: 47 such cases of fraud, valued at Rs 177 crore, were detected during 2014-15, according to
data submitted to Parliament.
When staff are involved, bank have always tried to suppress fraud and categorise them as NPAs (to show they were business loses),
alleged Utagi.

NPAs, the fig leaf behind which fraud hides, soared 23% from Rs 2,51,060 crore ($38 billion) in March 2014 to Rs 3,09,409 crore ($48
billion) in March 2015, according to a statement in Parliament this July by Minister Of State (Finance) Jayant Sinha.

Editorial : RBI Governor Corrupt ? Terror Links ?

CORPORATE CRIMINALS / CORPORATE TERRORISTS / TAX THIEVES RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL ILLS IN INDIA
Inspite of repeated requests since years , RTI appeals to RBI Governor , he is not divulging information , answering
questions concerning financial crimes. He is not even accepting our conditional offer to book corporate criminals. Union &
state finance ministers are also mum. They are not doing their duties properly , keeping mum either for benefit , or favour or
fear.
The fraud money is finding its way to underworld , terror outfits & anti nationals. As a result corporate criminals are roaming
free and continuing with more crimes. The money involved is public money , not papas money of any bankers or public
servants.
This proves RBI Governor , Union Finance minister and state finance ministers are shielding corporate criminals and
facilitating them to aid terrorists , mafia , under world & anti nationals.
In India , a small shop owner to big industrialist have mastered the art of TAX EVASION . their teachers - some corrupt tax
officials & auditors. The black money thus created
is causing inflation, feeding the mafia , underworld. Some industrialists lobby ( bribe ) with the government & gets favourable
laws enacted. This black money is the main source of funds for political parties , religious bodies & terrorist outfits.

The recent raids by C.B.I & KARNATAKA LOKAYUKTHA have proved how the tax officials have become multi-millionaires. The
sad part is that some of the police officials who are on deputation to C.B.I & LOKAYUKTHA themselves are utterly corrupt.

This scourge can only be cured by corporate accountability intoto. However , all the industrialists , traders who are demanding
for more flexible labour reforms , economic reforms , infrastructure , etc are not at all concerned about their own
accountability with respect to tax , environment , other laws. The MNCs coming to India are not coming here for best Indian
talents or infrastructure alone. In their own countries they are feeling the
heat of strict environment laws , consumer laws , share holder disclosures , corporate accountability. Some of these MNCs are
being kicked out of their countries , by it's own people .These MNCs are aware that in India , by greasing the palms

environment laws , labour laws , tax laws , etc everything can be flouted , cases in courts can be dragged on for years . share
holder disclosures , corporate transparency is minimum.

However when a concerned citizen complains about the crimes of guilty corporates , organizations or corrupt public servants ,
immediate action is not taken. The file is kept pending for months , years together , allowing the criminals to manipulate all
the evidences , records , ground situations. Finally even if action is taken guilty will be let out due to favorable evidences ,
there are chances that the concerned citizen himself is falsely implicated & put behind bars . in all such cases all the involved
parties must be subjected to lie detector tests .

Bottomline : development is a must , it must be all around . but not at the cost of majority to make a few richer.
Jai Hind. Vande Mataram.

Yours sincerely,
Nagaraja.M.R.

Syndicate Bank scam: CBI tracks mastermind's nexus with corporates

The scam has grown to involve all of an alleged Rs 8,000 crore of sanctioned loans from the piffling two
or three it started with.

The more they dig the bigger it gets. The bribe-for-loan scandal is literally exploding in the Central Bureau of Investigation's hands as it
wades through documents related to the deals and analyses phone intercepts that nailed Syndicate Bank Chairman and Managing
Director S.K. Jain.
The scam has grown to involve all of an alleged Rs 8,000 crore of sanctioned loans from the piffling two or three it started with.
The breakthrough for the CBI was its arrest of Jain along with a chartered accountant called Pawan Bansal acting as middleman for
deals between the Syndicate Bank chief and companies looking for large loans. As the bureau dug deeper, it uncovered a well-oiled
nexus in operation: bribes to the heads of public sector banks and financial institutions for loans in return.

Top sources said Bansal is alleged to be the mastermind of this scandal.

The scope of investigation is likely to widen beyond the Syndicate Bank case as the agency is looking into allegations that Bansal
struck deals worth over Rs 8,000 crore with other banks. The CBI is in possession of documents and phone intercepts indicating that
Bansal got loans for companies from UCO Bank, Bank of Maharashtra and Canara Bank.
Loans worth Rs 6,500 crore sanctioned by UCO Bank and the Bank of Maharashtra where Bansal is alleged to have lobbied for several
companies paying bribes to top bank officials are also under the CBI's scanner now.

Some of the loans allegedly sanctioned at Bansal's behest include a loan of Rs 600 crore to Era Infra, Rs 500 crore to Tayal Group, and
Rs 1,300 crore to Arshiya International. The Bank of Maharashta allegedly sanctioned Rs 200 crore to Era Infra, Rs 400 crore to SEL
Manufacturing and Rs 200 crore to Shiv Vani Group.
In many cases, these loans became non-performing assets, forcing banks to go in for corporate debt restructuring.
CBI sources said to understand the entire scam they need to analyse all these cases. "We need to establish that Bansal paid bribes to
bank officials to get these loans passed as has been done in the Syndicate Bank case. Our efforts to establish the money trails are on,"
said a CBI officer.
Sources said Bansal uses his firm Altius Finserv Limited as a front to collect fees from various companies who paid him to get the loans
sanctioned, and a part of this money was then passed on to bank officials. The CBI's First Information Report in the Syndicate Bank
case clearly states that Bansal is in touch with heads of several heads of public sector banks and acts as a middleman.
"It has been learnt that Shri Pawan Bansal regularly meets these bank officials for pursuing the loan proposals prepared and
processed by his firm on behalf of his clients," the FIR states. Bansal who functions from his offices at Mumbai's tony Nariman Point
and the upmarket Barakhamba Road in New Delhi is said to be a soft-spoken and smooth operator who uses his personal influence on
bank officials.
Knowing his clout over senior officials in banks, business houses submit their loan proposals through his firm on the pretext of providing
various financial services like credit solutions, debt capital market and investment banking.

The investigation could expose one of the biggest corruption scandals in public sector banking if the CBI can get to the bottom of the
conspiracy where Bansal seems to be the key player. The CBI has several incriminating intercepts of conversations between Bansal
and others involved. More cases could be registered if there is prima facie evidence and the role of Bansal is being scrutinised to
unearth the entire scam.

Write-offs a scam, small loans rarely in it, says former RBI Deputy Governor

Public sector banks have written off Rs 1,14,000 crore in the last three years, as reported in The Indian Express on February 8, based
on a response by the Reserve Bank of India to an RTI application.

Former Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Dr K C Chakrabarty says technical write-offs by banks is a scam and should be stopped.
Technical write-offs by Indian banks are inequitable and should be stopped. It is a big scam. Small loans are rarely written off, most of them
are big loans, London-based Chakrabarty, who handled the supervision department of the RBI from 2009 to 2014, told The Indian Express.

Public sector banks have written off Rs 1,14,000 crore in the last three years, as reported in The Indian Express on February 8, based on a
response by the Reserve Bank of India to an RTI application.

Banks are planning to write off more bad loans in the current year, and this could be Rs 52,227 crore, similar to the quantum written off in
2014-15.
Theres a reason for the eagerness on the part of banks to write off loans though a loan is technically the banks asset. It benefits banks in
terms of tax liability, M Narendra, former chairman and MD of Indian Overseas Bank, said. The other benefit is that the bad loan no longer
stays in the banks books.
The write-off instruction comes from the head office.
Technical or prudential write-off is the amount of non-performing loans which are outstanding in the books of the branches, but have been
written off (fully or partially) at the head office level. Amount of technical write-off should be certified by statutory auditors, says the RBIs
master circular on income recognition and asset classification.
Banks should either make full provision as per the guidelines or write off such advances and claim such tax benefits as are applicable, by
evolving appropriate methodology in consultation with their auditors/tax consultants. Recoveries made in such accounts should be offered for
tax purposes as per rules, the RBI says.
Narendra said, Write-off happens when a loan becomes non-recoverable or dead asset. Its done after making 100 per cent provisioning. The
bank continues its recovery measures even after the write-off.
Non-performing assets (NPAs) reflect poorly on the bank and they are eager to write it off or remove it from the balance sheet and reduce the
tax liability.
According to a former government official, some banks write off accounts to sell them to asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) at lower
prices and make easy money out of it. Banks dont want to take on the tedious recovery process. Selling the assets to ARCs is a quick-fix
solution for banks. In some cases, bank officials cut sweet deals with the promoter of defaulting companies to write off loans, the official
said.
Theres lack of vision to manage the NPA accounts among bank managements. Theres also lack of direction on the part of the Reserve Bank.
Whats happening in PSU banks doesnt get noticed. The attitude of borrowers is also changing on the issue of repayment. Many of them
inflate the cost of the project. Valuers empanelled with the banks also go by that valuation, Ramnath Pradeep, former chairman and MD of
Corporation Bank, said. I have seen some of the banks in a consortium writing off loans while others dont do it. Theres no uniformity in their
approach.
If it is the head office of a bank that approves write-offs, loans are sanctioned by a credit approval committee comprising the chairman,
executive directors and the general managers of a bank. This mechanism was put in place through a 2012 directive by the Finance Ministry.
These committees can approve credit proposals up to Rs 400 crore in the case of Category A banks and Rs 250 crore in the case of other PSU
banks. If the loan proposal is above this limit, it has to be vetted by the board committee. Often, the board clears the proposal put across by
the management without much discussion. Small PSU banks blindly follow the decisions of bigger banks without going for any due diligence on
their own, a government source said.
Boards of public sector banks have senior officials from the government as well as the RBI on their boards. The irony of NPAs of PSU banks is
that they have happened right under the nose of RBI officers who are on the boards of PSU banks. Thus, in a way the RBI becomes directly

responsible for the banks decisions on credits that became NPAs, K K Srinivasan, former Member (Life) of the Insurance Regulatory
Development Authority of India, said.
For instance, Financial Services Secretary Anjuly Chib Duggal and Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Dr Urjit R Patel are on the SBI board. Rajesh
Aggarwal, Joint Secretary in the Department of Financial Services, is a Director on the board of Punjab National Bank. B P Kanungo, who was
Regional Director of the RBI in Kolkata, is also on the board of PNB.
In Bank of India, Anna Roy, Joint Secretary in the Department of Financial Services, is the government nominee while S S Barik, Regional
Director of RBI, North Eastern States, is the RBI nominee on the board. Alok Pande, Director in the Department of Financial Services, and
Nirmal Chand, Regional Director of RBI, Thiruvananthapuram, are on the board of Indian Overseas Bank.
A regulator should not be a part of the apex business decision-making body (board of directors) of regulated entities. This position needs to
be rectified if the RBI is to be absolved of the responsibility of NPAs of PSU banks, Srinivasan said. This will require the RBI to withdraw its
nominees from 27 PSU bank boards.

Wilful defaulters owe Rs 10,869 cr to PNB; top 10 firms make up one-third

Gross non-performing assets, or bad loans, are expected to jump 31.48 per cent in the fiscal ending March 2016 to Rs
426,400 crore from Rs 324,300 crore.
State-owned Punjab National Bank on Monday published the details of 904 wilful defaulters who collectively owe over Rs 10,869 crore to the
bank as on December 15, 2015 up 18 per cent from September 15, 2015.
Some of the prominent defaulters who figure in the list include Winsome Diamond and Jewellery Ltd (Rs 900.37 crore) and its arm Forever
Precious Jewellery and Diamonds (Rs747.98 crore), Zoom Developers Pvt Ltd (Rs410.18), National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing
Federation of India (NAFED) (Rs 224.26 crore), Suryavinayak Industries Ltd and its subsidiary (Rs 172 crore), S Kumar Nationwide (Rs 146.82
crore) and Century Communication Ltd and its subsidiaries (Rs 111 crore).

Winsome Diamonds and three other wilful defaulters Zoom Developers, Suryavinayak Industries Ltd and Century Communication Ltd have
been named in the list of top ten defaulters in India by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). In fact in April 2015, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan
wrote to the Prime Ministers office (PMO) seeking concerted action against the top 10 bank loan defaulters. Since then these companies
have been under the scanner of multiple investigating agencies in the country. In some cases the CBI and the enforcement directorate has
attached the properties of the defaulters.

On February 8, The Indian Express reported that 29 public sector banks have written off Rs 1,14,000 crore in the last three years, according to
a response by the Reserve Bank of India to an RTI application. Loan write-offs in the first half of 2015-16 were Rs 25,000 crore. With this, banks
would have written off Rs 277,400 crore in the last ten years with more than half the write-offs happening in the last three years. Gross nonperforming assets, or bad loans, are expected to jump 31.48 per cent in the fiscal ending March 2016 to Rs 426,400 crore from Rs 324,300
crore

Why Indias Private Banks Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank

Everyone knows public sector banks are less profitable, more prone to political influence and have higher ratios of non-performing assets
(NPAs) than their private sector counterparts. In contrast, new private sector banks, set up post 1991, are media and stock market darlings.
Most analysts tend not to mention that public sector banks carry the main burden of the governments developmental policies from rural
lending to infrastructural development and now the Jan Dhan Yojana. Rather, the private sectors better profits are taken as a sign of superior
management.

Government banks are rightly criticised for their poor credit management and corruption. But who remembers the private banks that faltered
and were merged with other banks? Global Trust Bank, established in 1994, was involved in the 2001 Ketan Parikh-managed stock scam that
resulted in losses of Rs 1,000 crores. These were finally borne by the majority government-owned Oriental Bank of Commerce in 2004. Other
banks like Times Bank, Centurion Bank and Bank of Punjab were ultimately merged with HDFC Bank as their promoters lost interest or ran into
difficulties.

Glimpse behind the veil

The new private sector banks pride themselves on their low reported NPAs and attribute this to their superior credit skills. As in the normal
course of business, banking secrecy laws do not permit the disclosure of clients, the reported NPAs are the only public indicator of the banks
credit risk management. However in 2013, Deccan Chronicle Holdings became a celebrity fraud case and the banking industrys exposure was
made public. Interestingly, in this high risk company, as compared to Canara Banks Rs Rs 347 crores and IDBI Banks Rs 263 crores exposure,
ICICI Bank had Rs490 crores, Axis Bank Rs400 crores, Yes Bank Rs194 crores and Indusind Bank and Kotak Bank Rs100 crores each. In this
particular case, not only did new private sector banks have exposures but two of them had lent the highest to the company.

Private banks appear to enjoy a charmed regulatory environment. In May 2013, an investigation by the online media firm,Cobrapost, showed
officials of both private and government banks soliciting clients for laundering black money and offering bank lockers to store the black money.
The sting videos revealed these practices to be so widespread, even systemic, and not the work of rogue employees. Rajiv Takru, the then
Union banking secretary, remarked in an interview with CNBC-TV on 14 March 2013, What worries me about the whole thing, everybody in
these sting operations is coming out with a same kind of response, although it is carried out at a number of places. If these are actually bank
employees, this would mean a remarkable coincidence that these people are doing it individually and coming out with the same reaction.

Nevertheless, the Reserve Bank of India merely fined 25 banks on the lesser charge of not complying with Know Your Client (KYC) norms: Axis
Bank and HDFC Bank were fined the most, at Rs 5 crores and Rs 4.5 crores respectively, while government banks like State Bank of India,
Canara Bank, Bank of Baroda, Indian Overseas Bank and Bank of India were each fined Rs3 crores. The quantum of fines suggests the problem
was more severe in Axis and HDFC Banks as compared with the government banks, most of whom have a much larger branch network than
the private sector banks. The banks happily paid the trivial fines, while the senior management of the implicated banks were not held
responsible by the regulator despite the online videos revealing that the problem was systemic and not the work of rogue employees.

DLFs accomplices

Let alone journalistic exposes, even findings of other regulatory bodies do not seem to carry weight with the RBI. The Securities and Exchange
Board of India (SEBI) order of October 2014 found the real estate giant DLF to have engaged in sham transactions to camouflage the
association of DLF with its three subsidiaries. SEBI found the company guilty of active and material suppression of material information to
defraud and mislead investors. DLF appealed the order; but what is of interest here is what SEBI said of Kotak Bank. Kotak Bank gave
personal unsecured loans to the key management personnel (KMP) of DLF, who in turn gave loans to their spouses; they in turn bought out the
shareholdings of DLF in its subsidiaries. As a result of these sham transactions, the three subsidiaries of DLF were no longer reported as
subsidiaries the ownership had changed hands, to the wives of the KMP of DLF.

The SEBI order revealed a similar pattern for 355 DLF subsidiaries, although it did not say who financed the transactions. While Kotak Bank
provided the personal loans, its subsidiary, Kotak Mahindra Capital Company, was a part of a consortium of eight lead investment bankers for
the DLF initial public offering. The offer certified that these 355 entities owned by wives of KMP of DLF were not DLF subsidiaries. Strangely,
since the SEBI order, the RBI and SEBI do not appear to be concerned that a commercial bank is facilitating financial transactions to disguise
the ownership of subsidiaries; nor that the banks investment banking subsidiary is introducing such companies to the capital market. Since
the SEBI order, there has been no news that the regulators have penalised Kotak Bank or Kotak Capital, or that Kotak Bank employees involved
in the sham transactions have been disciplined.

The new private sector banks report significantly higher fee income than government banks. A part of it can be explained by their selling of
third party products like insurance. However, the Cobrapost expose and the SEBI order on DLF provide a possible insight on the business
model of these banks and the drivers of their profitability. The normal banking customer, being cost conscious, would be reluctant to pay fees,
but those engaging in questionable activities would pay handsomely to disguise their activity. The media and the vast tribe of analysts appear
disinterested in probing the sources of the high fee income of new private sector banks. While banks publicly claim to maintain the highest

standards of integrity the Cobrapost online videos and the SEBI order on DLF depict otherwise, and the onus is on the regulator to crack down
on such practices.

Never a rainy day

The divergent performance of the Indian banking sector was reflected in the fourth quarter (Q4 FY2015) earnings: 11 private sector banks
posted a robust 35 per cent rise in net profits while 10 government banks declared a 59 per cent fall in net profits. (Business Standard, May
14, 2015) No doubt private banks are more profitable but exactly how are private banks doing so well, when the economy is not?

Strangely, despite corporate sales growth decelerating, industrial growth remaining anemic (2.8 per cent for 2014-2015) and a general
squeeze on corporate cash flows, the private sector banks with significant exposure to Indian companies appear to be immune to the general
economic slowdown. Private sector banks attribute their performance to better credit appraisal and monitoring and stringent asset recovery
procedures, resulting in superior asset quality. For example, in 4QFY2015, ICICI Bank, the largest new private sector bank by assets, reported
gross and net impaired (non-performing plus restructured standard) loans of 6.5 per cent and 4.4 per cent of total loans respectively, while
Punjab National Bank, the largest of the nationalised banks, reported gross and net impaired loans of 16.3 per cent and 14.2 per cent
respectively.

If the business media and analysts were to probe deeper, they would detect some highly questionable practices adopted by some private
sector banks in reporting low poor quality loans.

In the current industrial slowdown, many corporate projects (the setting up of new capacities) financed by bank term loans are stuck for
diverse reasons and companies have been unable to commence commercial production. As cash flows for the project will commence once
commercial production starts, the date of commercial production is extremely important. As the projects are unable to achieve completion,
some of the private sector banks go so far as to extend the date of commercial production by backdating credit committee meeting minutes.
This is, to put it very mildly, highly irregular. By extending the date of these projects in this manner the banks are able to classify the loans as
standard and not non-performing even after the original date of commercial production has past.

Ever-greening loans

The practice of lending a defaulting borrower more money, so that the loan does not have to be classified as non-performing, is called evergreening. However, such practices could be noticed by the regulator during onsite inspection, so certain private sector banks adopt another
innovative practice: when a promoter-controlled company is about to default on a loan, the bank provides a loan to another company
managed by the same promoter which in turn lends the funds to the company which was about to default. The company is able to service its
loan, and the bank can continue to claim the debt is not bad.

Private sector banks having foreign branches have used dubious methods to keep loans standard. In the case of a prominent infrastructure
company which was awarded a large foreign contract, the loan was financed by a private sector banks Singapore branch. When the company
was about to default on its loan, the bank extended a further loan from its Dubai branch, the proceeds of which were used to service the
Singapore branch loan. Since different foreign destinations and regulators were involved it escaped the notice of regulators. However, the
problem has become so extensive that the Monetary Authority of Singapore reportedly instructed Indian banks operating in Singapore to desist
from financing Indian companies.

While even government banks resort to ever greening to report lower non-performing loans, it is undertaken by select individuals and done
on a much lower scale. In certain private sector banks, however, it appears to be systemic. The absence of the Central Vigilance Commission,
a compliant board of directors and the existence of lucrative performance incentives in private sector banks (in the form of increments,
bonuses and disproportionate stock options granted to senior management) encourage such practices.

RBI must regulate

The RBI also lends a helping hand in allowing banks to report higher profits. ICICI Bank in 4QFY2015 reported a net profit growth of 10 per cent
to Rs 2,922 crores but a note to accounts stated that with the regulators permission the bank had reversed Rs 929 crores of interest income
till FY2008 as a direct deduction from reserves (in a single quarter as against RBI allowing it over three quarters) instead of reducing the profit
in 4QFY2015. If the RBI had not given this largesse, ICICI Banks 4QFY2015 net profits would have declined instead of the rise it reported. The
regulator apparently did not seem to mind that the bank had inflated its income, yield on credit, net interest margin (interest income less
interest expenditure/average interest earnings assets) and profits till FY2008 and that it is disclosed to shareholders and the public after six
long years.

Indian companies are confronted with major issues: a demand slowdown impacting sales, unfinished projects set up at inflated costs,
lengthening working capital cycle squeezing cash flows, and rising debt. Corporate India banks with both government and private sector
banks, and hence problems in the corporate sector should impact the entire banking sector, as corporate loans form a significant component
of total bank loans. Yet it is only government banks which report high non-performing loans and lower net profits, while private sector banks
report low bad loans and higher profits.

The media may be excused for their softness towards private banks; not only are the latter big advertisers, but some media houses have
stakes in themwhile promoters of banks have also stakes in media houses. More puzzling is the regulators feather-touch approach which
permits these banks to continue to do business as usual.

Bad debts: Write-offs big fraud, give us defaulter list, orders

Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ordered RBI to share information about cases where loans
amounting to Rs 500 crore and above have been written off by public sector
banks.
Taking suo motu cognizance of The Indian Express report that Rs 1.14 lakh crore of bad loans had been written off by
state-owned banks between 2013 and 2015, the Supreme Court Tuesday ordered the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to
share with it names of all defaulters who owe over Rs 500 crore and continue to lead lavish lifestyle.

People are owing thousands of crore to the public banks it is a big fraud. Top ten public sector banks have written off
Rs 40,000 crore alone in 2015. It is all there in this Indian Express report. Public financial institutions are lending money

despite knowing no returns. RBI is supposed to keep a watch on these banks. What are you doing about it? a bench
headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur asked Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar.

On February 9, The Indian Express reported that a RTI response from the RBI revealed that while bad loans stood at Rs
15,551 crore for the financial year ending March 2012, they shot up over three times to Rs 52,542 crore by the end of
March 2015. The government has been trying to shore up public sector banks through equity capital and other measures
even as bad loans written off between 2004 and 2015 amounted to more than Rs 2.11 lakh crore.

More than half such loans (Rs 1,14,182 crore) were waived between 2013 and 2015. Responding to the RTI application
which had sought details of the biggest defaulters, whether individuals or business entities, whose bad debts to the tune
of Rs 100 crore or more had been written off, the RBI said: The required information is not available with us. Banks are
required to report the bad loans on a consolidated basis, it said.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court bench, also comprising Justices R Banumathi and Uday U Lalit, directed the RBI to
submit details of defaulters with debts over Rs 500 crore, rejecting the banking regulators argument that it will have to
first check the policy on such disclosures. The court was hearing a PIL filed in 2003 by NGO CPIL regarding alleged
irregularities in advancing loans by the Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited (HUDCO) when its
counsel Prashant Bhushan handed over The Indian Express report, pointing out that the problem of bad loans has
assumed dangerous proportions.

After going through the report, the bench questioned the Solicitor General: This report is based on RTI it is not based
on the reporters assumptions. NPA (non-performing assets) declaration is not unknown to any economy but one has to
be prudent in advancing loans, and cautious and vigilant in recovering it. Are you happy in keep funding these
companies who declare themselves as sick companies and they have lavish lifestyle? Ranjit Kumar said the
government is taking steps under the SARFAESI Act (Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and
Enforcement of Security Interest Act) whereby banks can recover loans in cases where NPAs are backed by securities
charged to the bank by way of hypothecation or mortgage or assignment.

But the bench said: Thousands of crore have been written off as bad debts on one day. You must recover that money.
From this news report, it looks like a regular phenomenon. Thousands of crores are being written off every year and then
you spend more money to recover money. Issue of bad debts is a general issue faced by public sector banks. This is
plaguing all financial institutions, especially PSU banks. It made RBI a party and issued notice, seeking details of
defaulters where loans of Rs 500 crore and more have been restructured. When the RBI counsel said it would be difficult
to adduce the list, the bench said: You are supposed to keep a watch on these banks. What are you doing about
keeping a watch if you dont even have this information? You have a list of major defaulters who run empires and yet
default. You file an affidavit showing extent of bad debts written off in last five years within six weeks. It accepted the
RBI counsels plea to let it submit the details in a sealed cover initially.

PIL Stop Robberies @ RBI by bank staff

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. OF 2015
IN THE MATTER OF
NAGARAJA . M.R
editor SOS e Clarion of Dalit & SOS e Voice for Justice
# LIG 2 , No 761 ,, HUDCO First Stage , Laxmikantanagar ,
Hebbal , Mysore 570017 , Karnataka State
.
....Petitioner
Versus
Honourable Governor , Reserve Bank of India (RBI) & Others
....Respondents

PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 12 to ARTICLE 35 & ARTICLE 51A OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA FOR ISSUANCE OF A WRIT
IN THE NATURE OF MANDAMUS UNDER ARTICLE 32 & ARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA.

To ,
Hon'ble The Chief Justice of India and His Lordship's Companion
Justices of the Supreme Court of India. The Humble petition of the
Petitioner above named.
MOST RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH :
1. Facts of the case:
"Power will go to the hands of rascals, , rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of
straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight among themselves for
power and will be lost in political squabbles . A day would come when even air & water will be taxed." Sir Winston
made this statement in the House of Commons just before the independence of India & Pakistan. Sadly , the
forewarning of Late Winston Churchill has been proved right by some of our criminal , corrupt public servants.
2. Eventhough , I have repeatedly appealed to RBI authorities since years seeking justice regarding illegalities ,
irregularities in recruitment , currency handling , currency theft , etc @ RBI , they didnt provide justice at all.
3. For a common man it is a herculean task to get Rs.5000 loan from a bank , but rich & connected get lakhs , crores
of rupees loan quite easily from banks , how ?
4. When a common man , farmer defaults to pay loan of few thousands of rupees bank immediately dispatches loan
recovery agents / Rowdies , seizes his property & auctions and recover their dues to last penny. Farmers are
committing suicide unable to pay loans to escape from ignominy .
5. Huge companies get crores of rupees loan from banks eventhough basically the project report itself is at fault , not
viable. Siphons off company resources by insider trading to their sister concerns although bank representatives are
very much their on the board of companies.
6 . Such companies default on loan dues to bank , but no recovery agents / rowdies are sent by banks. Finally the
company becomes bust.
7. Bank looses money , the company is declared as NON PERFORMING ASSET and government + bank waives off
interest or else loan itself.
8. End looser the public whose money went down the drain , profiteers company promoters , executives and bank
manager. No recovery from their personal , family properties why ?

2. Question(s) of Law:
Is it right for banks , government to let out fraudsters without criminal prosecution ?
3. Grounds:
Requests for equitable justice , Prosecution of master minds of financial frauds.
4. Averment:
Covering up Financial Frauds. Please read details at :
https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/rbi---robberer-s-bureau-of-india ,
https://evoiceofhumanrightswatch.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/rbi-robberers-bureau-of-india/ ,

Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to consider this as a PIL for : writ of Mandamus and to
issue instructions to the concerned public servants in the following cases to perform their duties & to answer the
questions.
The Petitioner has sent many letters / appeals / petitions to supreme court of india & other courts through e-mail ,
DARPG website & through regular mail requesting them to consider those as PILs. But none ofthem were admitted ,
even acknowledgement for receipts were not given. See How duty conscious ,our judges are & see how our judges are
sensitive towards life , liberty of citizens , commonmen & see howcareless our judges are towards anti national
crimes , crimes worth crores of rupees. That the present petitioner has not filed any other petition (which are admitted
by courts) in any High Court or the Supreme Court of India on the subject matter of the present petition.
PRAYER:
In the above premises, it is prayed that this Hon'ble Court may be pleased:
a . Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to consider this as a PIL for : writ of Mandamus and to
issue instructions to the concerned public servants , RBI authorities in the following cases to perform their duties & to
answer the questions.
b . to pass such other orders and further orders as may be deemed necessary on the facts and in the circumstances of
the case.
c. To legally prosecute authorities of M/s RBI & M/s BRBNMPL , who denied job opportunities to me under the behest of

criminals responsible for late PM Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

FOR WHICH ACT OF KINDNESS, THE PETITIONER SHALL BE DUTY BOUND, EVER PRAY.
Kindly read full details at following web page :
https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/rbi---robberer-s-bureau-of-india ,
https://evoiceofhumanrightswatch.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/rbi-robberers-bureau-of-india/ ,

Dated : 23rd July 2015 .FILED BY: NAGARAJA.M.R.

Place : Mysuru , India.PETITIONER-IN-PERSON

ICICI Bank:True to its Motto, Khayal Aapka, ICICI Welcomes Tainted Money to Make It Clean
By Cobra Post

A countrywide undercover investigation by Cobrapost finds ICICI Bank committing gross violations of the Income Tax Act, FEMA,
RBI regulations and the anti-Money Laundering Act. These activities render the vast assets it manages, the deposits it
maintains, the profits it makes, and the spectacular growth it has registered, suspect.
It was an innocuous visit by a journalist to the bank. The proposition was not innocuous: A politician wants to invest a huge
amount
of
money
to
make
it
white.
Would
ICICI
Bank
officials
help?
A six-month long undercover investigation by Cobrapost, codenamed Operation Red Spider, found almost all officials of ICICI
Bank bending over backwards to help sequester black money and make it white. Bankers in scores of ICICI branches, spread
across the states of Rajasthan, Haryana, UT Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and
Maharashtra were willing to help the Cobrapost reporter (posing as a relative of a fictitious politician) launder huge sums of illgotten
money.
Living up to its Khayaal Aapka (We care for you) motto, almost all the officials of ICICI Bank, caught on camera, welcomed
Associate Editor Syed Masroor Hasan. They suggested innumerable ways to convert black money into white: invest the black
money in insurance, split the money in smaller chunks to avoid attention, open multiple accounts to make multiple invstments
in different names, withdraw money after maturity and close the accounts. All this would serve the purpose of making the
money
legitimate
without
the
Income
Tax
Department
knowing.
The modus operandi the ICICI Bank officials suggested overall can be summarized as follows:
*
Open
an
account
to
route
the
cash
into
the
Banks
menu
of
insurance
products.
*
Do
it
even
without
the
mandatory
PAN
card.
*
Split
the
money
to
invest
in
a
diversified
portfolio
including
gold.
* Invest in multiple instruments in the names of different individuals, not necessarily from among the family, to facilitate the
investment
of
black
money.
*
Use
dummy
accounts
to
faceplate
the
conversion
of
black
money.
* Get demand drafts made for the client either from their own bank or from other banks to facilitate investment without it
showing
up
in
the
clients
account.
*
Allot
lockers
for
the
safekeeping
of
the
illegitimate
cash.
*
Personally
come
to
the
residence
of
the
client
to
take
the
black
money
deal
forward.
* Make a suitable profile for the client, such as showing him as an agriculturist or engaged in some businesses, so as to make
the
investment
unquestionable.
* Help the client to transfer black money abroad either through NRE (Non-Resident External)/NRO (Non-Resident Ordinary)
accounts or through means other than regular banking procedures.
Helping such bankers and insurers are certain loopholes in the system, such as Section 10-10 (D) and the provision of scrutiny
of investments up to a period of 7 years, which are being used to clean customers money. But the Anti-Money Laundering Act
clearly stipulates that any dubious transactions should be reported to the regulatory authorities and their records preserved
for
a
period
of
10
years.
Such was their eagerness to help that one ICICI Bank official who fell hook line and sinker for the fictitious story sold to him by
the Cobrapost reporter, went about looking for Vandana, the invented wife of the invented politician and for the Peeli Kothi
in Noida, their fictitious home. As one official claimed: Aisa hai Hindustan mein aisa nahin hai ki koi vyavastha na ho (In
Hindustan, there is nothing which cannot be arranged). Said another official: Nahin toh kuch na kuch jugaad karte hain
aapke liye (Otherwise, we will make some jugaad for you). When asked if he could do it using some dummy accounts, yet
another official offered: Theek hai ghumate hain ghoomega idhar se hi ghoomega (Alright, I will manipulate. It will be
manipulated
from
here
only).
Since the start of its operations in 1994, ICICI Bank has emerged as the second largest bank in India, after SBI, with 2900
branches, a presence in 19 countries, and interests in life and general insurance, securities, and venture and asset
management, among others. According to the information available on its websites, managing assets worth Rs. 4736.47 billion,
the bank earned a profit of Rs. 64.65 billion in the fiscal year ending March 2012, a 20.3 per cent jump over the precious
fiscal.
What
ICICI
Bank
has
achieved
in
19
years
is
phenomenal
growth.

However, the revelations made by bank officials during Operation Red Spider raise questions about the banks methods, the
culpability of the top brass in money laundering, and the failure of the regulatory authorities to monitor their activities.
- See more at: http://cobrapost.com/index.php/news-detail?nid=102&cid=28#sthash.A3aucIV4.dpuf

HDFC Bank: Bank on Us to Make Black Money White

By Cobra Post

A nationwide, undercover investigation across dozens of branches by Cobrapost reveals HDFC Bank is involved in extensive
money laundering. The bank is blatantly violating various sections of the Income Tax Act, FEMA, RBI regulations and the AntiMoney Laundering Act, making the legitimacy of its deposits and its phenomenal profits and growth suspect.
It was a simple visit by a journalist, posing as a frontman of a politician, to the bank. So was its stated purpose: A huge amount
of black money of the politician was to be invested with the bank. Would the officials help make it white? The rider: Under no
circumstances should the politician be identified.
A six-month long undercover investigation by Cobrapost, codenamed Operation Red Spider, found dozens of officials of HDFC
Bank, one of the oldest and most prestigious private banks in India, willing to help convert black money into white. Bankers
across dozens of branches spread across the states of Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and
Karnataka, were willing to help our reporter (posing as a frontman for an imaginary politician) launder huge sums of
illegitimate cash.
At almost all branches, the Cobrapost journalist got a red carpet welcome, with officials going out of way to suggest myriad
ways of converting the black money into white, with the Income Tax Department never coming to know about it: invest the
black money in insurance and gold; split the money in smaller lots to avoid attention; open multiple accounts with the bank
and withdraw the money after maturity. Almost all the officials claimed they were old hands in helping customers turn black
money into white.
Cumulatively, the modus operandi suggested by HDFC Bank officials to help launder a huge sum of the imaginary politicians
black money (source obviously criminal) was
* accept cash and invest it in the Banks menu of insurance products and gold;
* do it even without PAN card;
* keep the identity of the client secret;
* help the client to transfer black money abroad through remittance using legal methods;
* transfer the money telegraphically;
* open multiple accounts and close them at will to facilitate the investment of black money and withdrawal;
* get Demand Drafts made for the client from their own bank and other banks;
* allot lockers to the client to ensure the safe keeping for their illegitimate, scam-tainted cash;
personally collect the cash from the politicians house.
All these acts constitute violations under various sections of the Income Tax Act, FEMA, RBI regulation and the Prevention of
Money Laundering Act (PMLA) of 2002 which was promulgated to prevent the flow of money to groups or individuals who are a
threat to the Indian state, its economy and social fabric.
Coming in handy for such acts are certain provisions, such as Section 10-10(D), which bankers and insurers use to help their
customers to launder money. HDFC officials were so confident that they threw discretion to the winds while talking business
with potential customers. As one official claimed: HDFC baitha hi hua hai black money khane ke liye (HDFC has been set up to
eat up all the black money).
HDFC Bank began operations in 1995. In the 17 years of its existence, the bank has emerged as one the leading financial
institutions in the private sector with interests in securities, mutual funds, realty, life insurance and financial services.
According to information available on its websites, its deposits totaled Rs. 246,706 crore as of March, 2012. The bank has
registered a more than threefold increase in its net profits from Rs. 1590.12 crore in the fiscal ending March 2008 to Rs.
5164.96 crore in the fiscal ending March 2012. However, the information unearthed by Operation Red Spider throws doubt on
the legitimacy of this growth story because it points to an illegitimacy of its deposits and therefore profits. In an ideal world
where banks followed regulation and where regulators did their jobs, the story would have been different.
True to its dictum, We Know Your World, nobody knows the world of black money better than HDFC.
Listed below are the encounters Associate Editor Syed Masroor Hasan had in different HDFC branches:

- See more at: http://cobrapost.com/index.php/news-detail?nid=89&cid=27#sthash.Vq8BfSpR.dpuf

Top 10 Financial Scams in India

- Siddharth Singh

Financial scams have a habit of cropping up with an alarming regularity in the Indian financial system. We have reconciled to
financial irregularities to such an extent that we simply do not pay heed to smaller scams that take place around us on a daily
basis. I am, or rather was, a part of the financial machinery for a few years, and trust me, even the private sector is not
entirely free of the machinations of unscrupulous and enterprising scamsters. The scope of the money involved multiplies
manifold in the public sector, with a corresponding drop in accountability.

Financial Scamsters Are Rarely Punished

Despite a plethora of scams that surround us on a daily basis, frequently scams of large proportions come to light, and manage
to stun even our jaded sensibilities. Then, there is the usual round of allegations, counter-allegations, enquiries and
legislation. Some of our most notable regulations and financial institutions are the results of such scams.
I have compiled a list of ten leading financial scams in India, which have affected a large population of investors, and involved
huge sums of money. They managed to shake the very foundations of our financial system, and were driven by that most basest
of human instincts GREED. In most cases, it was the greed of just one individual, or a very small group of individuals, who
managed to pull of such huge scandals.
Insurance Scam This scam had originated and prospered in the period immediately following Independence in 1947. At that
time, the insurance sector was not nationalized, and a handful of private companies ruled the roost. These companies were
more concerned with providing benefits to selected industrialists, and ignored the interests of the common man. The
government responded by nationalizing the insurance sector, and the LIC was founded under an special Act passed by the
Parliament. This scam laid the foundation of the nationalization culture in India.
Securities Scam Harshad Mehta This is perhaps the most well known of all financial scams probably because it happened in
a highly visible period economic reforms had just been started in 1991. Harshad Mehta was quick to understand the
weaknesses of the banking system, and exploited these weaknesses to the hilt. He managed to procure huge amounts of money
using the so called Ready Forward deals, and used this money to purchase large amounts of shares at hugely inflated prices.
He earned the sobriquet of Big Bull due to this penchant. Later, the banks got a clue of his shady deals, and demanded their
money back. The house of cards collapsed, and the rest, as they say, is history!
CRB Scam This scam took place in the years 1992-1996, the period immediately following the Harshad Mehta fallout. This
makes the scam even all the more daring and surprising. CR Bhansali, the perpetrator of this scam, floated more than 100
companies, such as CRB Mutual Funds and CRB Capital Markets. The primary purpose of these companies was to attract huge
funds from the public by promising high rates of interest. This interest was later paid form further borrowings, and so on. In
1995, the stock market collapsed, and this proved to be the undoing of CR Bhansali. He was investigated, and later arrested.
After a brief 3-month stint in jail, he has disappeared without a trace, and nobody is asking!
UTI Scam The UTI scam involved the flagship US-64 scheme of UTI, which was meant to channel the funds of small investors
into instruments bearing high returns. Gradually, US-64 developed a investor base of around 2 crore investors. The economic
liberalization in India, coupled with the absolute opacity in the operations of UTI, led to a situation wherein the Government
was forced to announce a huge bailout of about Rs 3,500-4,000 crores in an order to prevent default in payments to the
investors. The consequences of such a situation are unimaginable. But the story does not end here. Later, it turned out that
the UTI Chairman appointed at this time, Mr P S Subramanyam, along with a couple of executive directors, acted wrongly to
selectively benefit a powerful coterie of brokers and industrialists, while at the same time, jeopardizing the interest of lakhs
of small investors.
Home Trade Around the year 2000, a finance portal emerged on the financial landscape, and gained quick recognition on the
back of endorsements by personalities like Hrithik Roshan, Sachin Tendulkar and Shahrukh Khan. The portal, owned by Sanjay
Agarwal, claimed to deal in gilts. Soon, RBI got suspicious of activities of some cooperative banks in the gilt market, and a scam
was uncovered. The same old saga brokers and bankers combining to rob people of their hard earnings was repeated. Funds
from Seamans Provident Fund and PPF were affected. The total scam size was reported to be around Rs 300 crores, and more
than Rs 200 crores were spent on publicity costs alone.

Ketan Parekh
Securities Scam Ketan Parekh That our system never learns its lessons was proved by this scam. Ketan Parkekh, a qualified
CA, and a stock broker, identified a number of stocks (popularly called the K-10), and took up huge positions in these. For this
purpose, he used a large number of Benami accounts and smaller stock exchanges, such as the Kolkata and Ahmedabad stock
exchanges. He also borrowed heavily from banks such as Global Trust Bank and Madhavpura Mercantile Cooperative Bank.
Unfortunately, he was stuck in a bear cartel, and was soon pounded to pulp on the stock exchange. The extent of the scam was
estimated to be around Rs 1,500 crores.

Abdul Karim Telgi

Fake Stamp Papers This scam promised to be the mother of all scams in India, with the initial reports quoting a figure of Rs
30,000 crores as the scam size. Later, RBI clarified that this figure was rather exaggerated, and the correct figure was
around Rs 200 crores. Again, this scam exposes how the India system works Mr Abdul Karim Telgi, the scam kingpin, paid
bribes to get access to the security press in Nasik, where stamp papers and currency notes are printed. He later used this
knowledge to print fake stamp papers. At the height of the scam, Telgis network spanned 14 states, 125 banks and more than
1,000 employees.
DSQ Software Though this scam was modest in terms of money involved (only Rs 600 crores!), and did not affect the general
public to a great extent, yet it is notable for how it came into being. The main player in the scam was Mr Dinesh Dalmia, who
was the MD of DSQ Software Ltd. This company issued around 1.3 million shares in 2001, and these shares were allotted to four

companies on a preferential basis. NSDL, a stock depository, dematerialized and helped in delivering the shares. Nothing wrong
in that, except that the shares were not even listed on any stock exchange! Oops!
IPO Scam A number of key operators, including corporate stock brokers such as Karvy and Indiabulls, were involved in the IPO
scam that spanned the years 2004 2005. The modus operandi was simple the operators would open thousands of fake
accounts to purchase shares in IPOs, in the hope of selling later at huge profits. A spate of IPOs issued during this period were
heavily oversubscribed due to this scam, sometimes by as much as 40 times!
Satyam On a cold January morning in 2009, Ramalinga Raju, chairman of Satyam Computer Services, admitted to falsification
in the company accounts and various other irregularities, and sent a chill down the collective spine of the Indian financial
system. Coming on the back of the global recession, this incident promised to bust the Indian outsourcing industry and the
stock market, but for some deft bailout work by the government. The matter is still under investigation and litigation, and the
true extent of the scam will be known in the future, perhaps. Mr Raju himself had admitted to irregularities worth around Rs
12,000 crores.
An analysis of the scams reveals a common script greed, corruption, unscrupulous brokers, colluding bankers, irresponsible
authorities and hapless investors, who refuse to learn their lessons. But then, these are the essential ingredients of a worthy
financial scam!
Incoming search terms:
top 10 scams in india, us 64 scam, biggest financial scams in india, top scams in india, major scams in india, business scams in
india, stock market scams in india, capital market scams in india, crb scam, scams in indian financial market, CR Bhansali
scam, fake currency scam in India, Finance Scams in india, top 5 financial scam in india, scam scandal india, indian business
scams, list of industrialists involved in scams, scams in india, indian capital market frauds and scams, leading scams in india, c r
bhansali scam, uti scam story, biggest financial scams, top ten scam matter of india, number of scams of india, major scams
india, major scams in stock exchange in india, mutual funds india scams, scams from india, major frauds in indian stock
markets, scams in india hapened recently in banks, scams in india in 1991, Photographic scam in India, scams in indian
financial system, scams of india, scams story of capital market of india, major financial scams in india, major financial
scams, major scandals in india - kethan parekh and, scam in india 2010, more than 1500 crores scam in india, Open my
kotaksec account, Money scams from India, ppf cheat fraud india, major ups and down in indian stock market in 20082010, major stock exchange scams in india, presentation on financial frauds in taxation, private finance company
Fraud, Sanjay Agarwal fraud OR investigated OR investigation OR sentenced OR imprisoned, major scams in nse, major security
scam in india, scam in financial sector, number of scams in indian stock market scam, scams and scandals related to
directors, software industry and scams in india, top most corporate fraud of harshat mehta in india, top scandals and scams in
india, Top ten financial scandals, top ten indian scams of all time, TOP TEN SCAM IN INDIA, top ten scam of india, top ten
successful frauds or scams, two biggest scams of india, two biggest stock market scams in India, why financial scam takes
place, US-64 scam, use in coterie two sector in india, uti 64 scam, uti scam in india, uti scam us-64, uti us 64 scam, Various
Scams & Frauds taken place in Indian Stock Market, top indian scams, top indian blogger, statistics on insurance frauds in
india, stock market scamsters in india, stock market scandal india, stock market scandals in india in 1991, the big scams in
indian stock market, the biggest scams in stock exchanges, top 10 bank in indian share market, top 10 biggest frauds in
india, top 10 financial frauds in india, Top 10 financial scam in india?, TOP 10 financial scams in india, top 10 scam in india, top
10 scandals of india, Top 5 Largest Companies Scams in India, top financial frauds in india, top financial scam, top financial
scams, what legal action can be taken for financial irregularities by NGOs, 10 biggest corporate fraud India Harshad Mehta
Satyam Ketan, company fraud in India investor, concept of scam in indian financial market, coruption and frauds in financial
institution in india, crb scam learnings, dinesh dalmia, fake currency scam in ahmedabad, financial frauds in co-operative
sectors, financial frauds in india by top companies, FINANCIAL MARKET REGULATION SECURITY SCAMS IN INDIA
-NARAYANAN, financial scams, financial scams and regulations india, Financial Scams in India, financial scams of indian
companies, frauds in financial institutions in India, frauds in indian financial institutions, frauds in various cooperative
bank, frauds on provident fund in india, companies scam in india, capital market scams in inida, capital market in india
scams, 1500 crore scam, a list of stock market scams in india, allintext: mutual funds ~top ten, bank scams in india, banking
scams in india, bear cartel, best financial and retirement planning free software in india, best top ten script in indian stock
market, biggest economic scams in india, biggest financial scams ever, Biggest indian scams, biggest scams in india
2010, biggest stock market scams, c r bhansali, C R BHANSALI OF CRB NOW TO DIVINE WORLD, c r bhansali scam story, Calcutta
scam tax evasion investment private, harsh mehta scam is simple terms, harshad metha scam saga, how to chit harshad
maheta, investment scam in india, ipo scam india ketan parekh, ketan parekh scam story, kotak sec & arrest, latest financial
fraud in indian companies, lessons from harshad mehta scams, list financial frauds in India, list of big scammers in tax in
india, list of biggest scams of stock market, list of financial scam in india, list of frauds in leading companies of india, indian
scamsters, list of major scam in india, list of scam in india, list of scammers in india, list of Scams in Indian financial
markets, major business scams in india, insurance scam in india 1947, insurance scam in 1947, insurance brokers scam in
india, huge scams india, india big financial scams, india biggest scamster, india/marriage/scams, indian companies involved in
scams, indian financial market in 2010, indian financial scam, indian gold scams, indian Money Scams, indian personalities who
earned in stocks, indian scam, indian scams, indias biggest financial scams, indias top 10 corporate scams, indias top ten
scams, indias top ten schams, individual financial fraud in india, major economic scams in india,

A brief about Top 10 Investment Scams in India

1. The Securities Scam

The capital market witnessed its foremost investment scandal in the form of securities scandal in the year 1992. It revealed the
utter anarchy and lack of administration in the prevailing fiscal market. The money market at that time permitted funds to be
relocated with impunity from financial institution and corporates into equity and consequently witnessed crores of bank's capital to
transfer into brokers' account. This illegal market practice was later asserted as "legal and acknowledged".
In an attempt to punish the tricksters, a special court was initiated and scrutinized around 70 cases registered by CBI. Surprisingly,
not even a single trickster was found guilty by the dreadfully sluggish judicial system. As a matter of fact, the scamsters made
frequent attempts to re-enter the market with same set of traps and resulted in losses to investors.

2. The IPO scam Soon after the entry of international organizational investors, the Control over Capital Issues was banned as the

market saw heavy bull trend resulting in the revitalization of the secondary market from the previous scandals. The ban of Control
over Capital Issues unlocked the prospects of massive scandal in Initial Public Offerings (IPO). The scam was executed in two parts;
the first part was carried out by the firms that increased their market costs to incur profits in order to sponsor lucrative projects.
The second part saw the unison of small time merchants, CAs, investment bankers and traders to hoist new firms and heave public
capitals.
The IPO scam prevailed for three long years from 1993-1996 and finally saw its downfall when the costs of the registered firm
started deteriorating.
3. Favored share scam
The scandal was an outcome of the extensive cost fixing on the derivative market. Besides increasing fresh capital, advocates of
Indian firms promptly coordinated general body authorizations to transfer shares to themselves on a privileged basis and at a
considerable reduction to the market, thinking that the share prices would never see the ground. Conglomerates started this trend
and accrued profits of nearly 55o crores until Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) formulated strict guidelines to abandon
the market practice.
4. CRB's cardboard scam
The Rs 1000 crore finacial multinational named as Chain Roop Bhansali (CRB) was the only biggest firm and most impudent of all to
benefit and disappear in the loosened market ambiance of mid-1990s. The services offered by his firm entailed FC collection,
mutual fund, banking, etc. The clearances obtained by the firm for the trading of these services required sufficient inspection by
SEBI and the RBI and the fact that they managed to qualify shows the supervisory weariness of the regulators. Facilitated by the
clearances and profitable credit ranking, CRB accrued greater profits based on high value financing. The CRB collapse not only
affected the investors but also the other finance firms.
5. Plantation firms' scam
Since few firms in mid-90s were subject to no guidelines, the plantation companies during that time also got away with profit
protrusions. The plantation firms projected themselves as a part of IPO and assured massive returns. The investors were lured and
the companies accrued profits from fake campaigns of around Rs 8000 crores plus.
6. Mutual Funds scam
After several mutual fund scams, the UTI bailout reflected the lack of proper guidelines in the Indian capital market. Since UTI was
initiated under its own regulations, it was the tax payers who suffered the loss of Rs 4800 crore in the process. After three years,
the company was back purchasing Ketan Parekh's controlled scrips and incurring massive losses in the process. The evidence of the
private mutual funds performance has also been inconsistent after hitting the downfall in 1999 and 2000. It took a considerable
amount of time for capital market to win back the trust of mutual fund investors.
7. The 1998 scam
The scamster of 1992 scam, Harshad Mehta came back with a bag of tricks again in 1998. This time he lured investors through a
website by trading stock tips. His unremitting manipulation of several shares resulted in the much expected collapse of Bombay
Stock Exchange.
8. Home Trade scam
Initiated in 2000, Home trade invested rs 24 crore in promotional campaigns to attract investors. The scam affected 8 co-operative
banks that lost Rs.82 Crore in EPF scheme. The Chief Executive of Hometrade, Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal was convicted by Nagpur Police
later.
9. DSQ Software Scam
In the year 2000 and 2001, the Managing Director of DSQ Software, Mr. Dinesh Dalmia, was held responsible for ambiguous mergers
and prejudiced allocation of the amount of upto Rs.595 Crores. He was later convicted in the year 2006.
10. Satyam Scam
After manipulating the firm's documents for several financial years, the former Chairman and Chief Executive of Satyam Computers,
Mr.Ramalinga Raju, was arrested for committing scam, following unethical practice and forgery. He showed greater profits and
committed fraud of Rs 700 crores.

The rupee-rouble scam--Part-I

UPA has much to explain
By Namit Verma
The whole story rests on the dual pricing of the rouble in India, even though this practice was given up elsewhere in the world
after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Russia?s assimilation in the comity of free world economies.
Recent disclosures have, for the first time, brought out the full extent of the rupee-rouble scam which dominated the
economic regime shift during the early nineties, at the start of the liberalisation process presided over by the then Finance
Minister Manmohan Singh. Preparing to breakaway from the P.V. Narasimha Rao-led Congress government, Shri Arjun Singh had
alleged in his historic Bhopal rally that the Narasimha Rao government was embroiled in scams and misappropriation to the
tune of Rs. 80,000 crore. While this was reported in the media, it was not taken seriously, because the Indian masses did not
believe that a fraud of such enormous magnitude was possible. In retrospect, it appears that the charges levelled by Shri Arjun
Singh were wholly correct.
Understanding the new methodology of scams, which began during Dr Manmohan Singh?s first political tenure as Finance
Minister of India, has become important because of the increasing regularity with which this method is being applied. The
method involves effecting a regime change in the economic sphere. At the time of regime changes, there is greater tolerance
for procedural irregularities in the name of incompatibility between succeeding regimes. This tolerance is used to
systematically indulge in irregularities which are purported to be insignificant, but instead drain the national treasury of tens
of thousands of crores of rupees. The secrecy surrounding these irregularities only makes the decision-makers? intent even
more suspect.
The demise of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on 8 December 1991 led to upheavals across the world. The Soviet Union
and its successors paid the price of the regime change. The economic cost of this regime change was borne almost entirely by
constituents of that once great country. Not ally or protectorate was asked to share the burden of the collapse, not Cuba, not
Poland, not Czechoslovakia, nor Yugoslavia. Only India volunteered to share the burden.
Strangely, the burden of the Soviet collapse, as shared by India, did not end up in Moscow; most of it ended up in numbered
accounts in Switzerland. So did we share the burden of the Soviet collapse with that once friendly nation: obviously not. But
we did share substantial proceeds out of the Indian GDP and government revenue in this guise. The question is, whom did we
share this booty of tens of thousands of crores with? Were these merely book operations? In straight words, how many of these
operations were phony operations? Worse, how many times were these real and phony operations inflated at the time of
settling the bills? How was this scam rationalised inside government decision-making circles? And finally, who was the
mastermind behind this loot of the Indian exchequer?

The whole story rests on the dual pricing of the rouble in India, even though this practice was given up elsewhere in the world
after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Russia?s assimilation in the comity of free world economies.
When the Soviet polity collapsed, its economy and financial system also crashed. Not only were the Russians forced to correct
the international value of their currency, they also had to contend with galloping inflation the like of which the world had
never seen before, not even in the famed economic history book renderings of German inflation during and between the World
Wars.
Soviet Union had been a major international player who had extended debts to various East Bloc and other friendly countries,
including Cuba, Poland, India, et al. As their currency?s exchange rate collapsed to 1/5000th its value and even further to
1/15000th of its pre-December 1991 value, its international loan portfolio was accordingly revalued. Rather than collect a
pittance compared to the original debt value, the successor state of the Soviet Union, viz the Commonwealth of Independent
States, decided to write off the entire rouble debt. Thus the debt to Poland, Cuba and a host of other countries was written
off.
At that point of time, India had the option of settling the entire Russian debt for a then current exchange rate determined
total value of around 23 crore rupees. We did not do so. Even as great economist Dr Manmohan Singh presided over the
Finance Ministry, we voluntarily offered to revalue the rouble debt. Instead of then current value of 23 crore we agreed to pay
back the revalued debt in installments over several years in staggered installments. We ended up paying tens of thousands of
crores out of the notional Vostro escrow accounts in the Reserve Bank of India.
Understanding this phenomenon is key to understanding how a significant part of the Indian GDP is creamed off by the top by
corrupt Indian politicians, bureaucrats, businessmen and their foreign accomplices.

** The Rupee-Rouble Scam - II

Manmohan knew it all along
The rupee-rouble scam--Part-II
By Namit Verma
Despite opposition from the other ministries concerned, Commerce, Defence and External Affairs; the Indian Finance Ministry
under Dr Manmohan Singh and with the redoubtable team of flamboyant officers like Montek Singh Ahluwalia, N.K. Singh, N.P.
Singh and A.K. Singh allowed Boris Yeltsin to unilaterally abrogate the 1978 protocol without any legal and/or compensatory
financial recourse.
Ever heard of SISTEMA, or of NORILSK? They will outbid all competition to buy your stock, your company and your mineral
reserves. Whether it be coveted telecom licenses or scarce mineral resources, nobody can withstand their purchasing power.
But then, they have an advantage, they buy the rupee at a discount. Technically, at a 90 to 95 per cent discount; reportedly,
after paying off their political, bureaucratic and central banking friends, at a 40 to 45 per cent discount.
These companies are the progeny of Dr Manmohan Singhs long career in the world of Indian finance. Few entrepreneurs could
have sired such brilliant corporate children whose growth rate defied gravity. Fewer still could have nurtured such dreams in
the tenuous world of governance and politics in a democracy. Yet, the vision and genius of Dr Manmohan Singh made these
profit centre marvels possible, as he nurtured them in many capacities.
As Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs, Government of India, he masterminded the
Intergovernmental Protocol of 25 November 1978 with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Through the 1978 protocol, he
arranged for the administered fixed parity of the rupee and the rouble to be replaced by a floating parity linked to western
currencies. This led to the withdrawal of the Soviet Blocs back-channel access to western economic systems through the shock
absorber Indian economy.
Removal of the Indian buffer made the USSR vulnerable to the contradictions between its domestic and international trading
sectors; thereby facilitating the West getting its foot in the door and bankrupting the Soviet treasury. Of course, the Soviet
state with its enormous asset base couldnt be bankrupted; yet, following this liquidity/monetary crisis, America friendly faces
started emerging in key positions in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, setting up the dominoes for Mikhail Gorbachev to
unleash, and Boris Yeltsin to collect upon. As Co-Chairman of the Indo-Soviet Joint Planning Group Meeting (1980-82), he
authorised the Deferred Payments Protocol of 30 April 1981.
This smokescreen has proved to be more an instrument of administered value inflation/revision of an ostensibly floating
rouble, than a deferred payment agreement: contradictions abound. As leader of the Indian delegation to the Indo-Soviet
Monitoring Group Meeting (1982), like an adept rural moneylender, he ensured self-inflating clauses in the revised protocol to
ensure that the loan repayment would remain incomplete despite being paid back several times.
As Minister of Finance, he authorised the Letters of Exchange dated 29 January 1993, to open unhindered access to Indias
national treasury for Russian companies. By now, the political wheel had turned upside down in the erstwhile Soviet Union,
and the US friendly Boris Yeltsin had taken over.
Despite opposition from the other ministries concerned, Commerce, Defence and External Affairs; the Indian Finance Ministry
under Dr Manmohan Singh and with the redoubtable team of flamboyant officers like Montek Singh Ahluwalia, N.K. Singh, N.P.
Singh and A.K. Singh allowed Boris Yeltsin to unilaterally abrogate the 1978 protocol without any legal and/or compensatory
financial recourse. We shall discuss these actions of the Government of India in greater detail in forthcoming paragraphs.
As Prime Minister, Dr Singh is running his final lap in India, he is in a rush to sanction full liquidity and valuation rights accorded
to these special rupees, despite the fact that while signing the 1993 protocol, Yeltsin had specifically promised that this would
not be allowed. Yet, every agreement has been set aside and this has been effected.
Thus a company like Sistema is bidding for majority control of Shyam Telelink which in turn was allotted a Universal

Telecommunication License for the whole country earlier this year. Now Sistema bought Shyam Telelink shares at Rs 55 each,
or around 1.1 Soviet Rouble (Sixth Rouble: 1961-1997) under the 1993 protocol read with Public Notice No 12 (RE 2007)/20042009 of 27 June 2007, whereby the RBI fixed the Indian Rupee value of the Special Currency Basket linked to the Rouble at
56.8292 effective from 19 April 2007.
Again, conversion rate from Sixth Soviet Rouble to the Seventh Russian Rouble was fixed at 1000 Sixth Rouble to 1 Seventh
Rouble at the time of new issue on 1 January 1998. Thus, the price of 1.1 Sixth Rouble per Shyam Telelink share = 0.0011
Seventh Rouble per Shyam Telelink share = 0.0011 x 0.044012 dollars per Shyam Telelink share = 0.0000484132 dollars per
Shyam Telelink share = 0.0000484132 x 42.735 rupees = 0.002068938102 Rupees or 2.068938102 paisa per Shyam Telelink
share! Calculating further, that Sistema bought these Rupee credits at a 90 per cent discount, or at 10 per cent of face value,
the effective cost per Shyam Telelink share for Sistema works out at 0.0207 paise! Given that the effective discount was only
50 per cent, assuming 20 per cent kickback each to the Indian and Russian establishments, even so, the price per Shyam
Telelink share to Sistema works out at 1.034469 paise or Re 0.01.
So, by channeling their money through the arbitrage funnel of the Indo-Russian Intergovernmental Agreement of 1993, the
foreign company is grabbing shares for effectively 1 paisa each. All this, while indigenous bidders would have to pay 55 honest
rupees for the same shares at the same time, i.e. five thousand five hundred times the price paid by the Russian company!
Such is the magnanimity of Dr Manmohan Singh in handing over Indian assets to foreign entities. In the wake of these facts, can
there be any doubt about the love, adulation, prestige and loyalty he commands in the international
arena.http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=248&page=4
The rupee-rouble scam--Part-I @
http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=247&page=3
Posted by GlobalCitizen at 11:19 AM

The outsider in the system

What stands out in Javid Chowdhurys autobiographical account of his life as a civil servant is his angst and mild bitterness
about governance in general and, more particularly, the manner in which economic liberalisation took place after the 1990-91
crisis. Clearly, Mr Chowdhurys mindset is different from that of those who ran economic policy while he was in the finance
ministry heading a directorate responsible for the enforcement of foreign exchange laws and, later, as revenue secretary.
He makes no bones about his dislike of the tsars of economy policy in government. He does not name them specifically, but
you can easily guess who these people may be from the many incidents he recounts. Montek Singh Ahluwalia will easily top
that list. Vijay L Kelkar and N K Singh also figure in that list of the tsars with whom Chowdhury could not see eye-to-eye on
economic policies. Chowdhury is no fence-sitter. You may not always agree with his assessment of Messrs Ahluwalia, Kelkar or
Singh, but his frank views on people and policies display a quality that is increasingly becoming rare among civil servants.
Mr Chowdhury reserves his most critical comments for Mr Ahluwalia. Recounting the finance ministrys comments on the
securities scam in the early 1990s before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing charges of financial irregularities,
Mr Chowdhury says the performance of Mr Ahluwalia, then the economic affairs secretary, was that of an excellent advocate
with a very weak brief. It was clear that Mr Ahluwalias explanation that the securities scam was an outcome of a systemic
failure did not impress Mr Chowdhury, then in the enforcement directorate. Worse, the JPC proceedings, according to him,
showed how the government brazenly defended illegalities in the universe of securities and banks.
It is here that Mr Chowdhury gives you a clue as to why he may have disliked the tsars of economic policy. This is how he sums
up Mr Ahluwalias long lecture before the JPC: There was not the slightest tinge of introspection or remorse there was only
an absolute confidence of talking ones way out of the crisis. The attitude was that if laws had been violated, the laws were
wrong because they understood economics, and therefore what they say should be the law. And systemic failure became a
ready alibi for any otherwise indefensible action in the decades that followed.
Mr Ahluwalia figures again when the author writes about the irregularities over foreign exchange transactions relating to IndoRussian rouble-rupee trade. As enforcement director, Mr Chowdhurys team had investigated the misuse of the vostro accounts
maintained by some banks, including a few branches of well-known foreign banks. However, just before officials of these banks
could be charge-sheeted, the matter was taken up by the finance minister (who else but Dr Manmohan Singh!), who quickly
convened a meeting. Significantly, Mr Chowdhury writes, the revenue secretary at that time, M R Sivaraman, did not attend
that meeting citing some other important engagement, and Mr Ahluwalia questioned the advisability of proceeding with the
charge-sheets since they would be bad for investment and shake up the corporate world. Mr Chowdhury fought a gallant battle
and emerged victorious in the end, getting even a rare comment from Dr Singh that suggested that he was not happy with the
way the finance secretary had dealt with the matter.
Mr Chowdhury also makes it clear that he was extremely uncomfortable with the reforms process, although he does not single
out anything substantive or specific as problematic. He saw an uncritical liberalizer in Vijay Kelkar, with whom he worked as
additional secretary in the petroleum ministry. Privatization fever was raging in the government in 1995-96 and was getting
a fillip under Mr Kelkar.
N K Singh, another tsar of economic policy, surfaces in these memoirs in a rather strange episode as secretary in the Prime
Ministers Office when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was PM. Mr Vajpayee had decided to remove the ban on production of non-iodised
salt on the basis of a petition made by some Gandhians. However, as Mr Chowdhury learnt as the health secretary, Mr Singh had
not conveyed that decision to the health ministry since he knew the decision would have wide-ranging public health
implications. Mr Chowdhurys explanation of why Mr Singh took no action is significant: While NK could gift away Rashtrapati
Bhawan if he was in the mood, he would be canny enough to know the public cost of that generosityPublic loss with no
corresponding private gain was a proposition NK could not rationalize. Later, the PM realised what must have happened and
called Mr Chowdhury personally and directed him to remove the ban!

A recurring theme is a sense of hurt and disappointment that Mr Chowdhury fails to conceal in recounting how the reform
process dismantled the earlier policy regime. He presents himself as a bewildered bureaucrat who was always told we were
reforming, but no one had a clue about the macro-plan or the reason. As someone who headed the enforcement directorate,
his main grievance was that the tsars of the economy wanted the foreign exchange regulations to be made toothless. He
resents the campaign that the foreign exchange regulation act had to be repealed and replaced with the foreign exchange
management act, as the earlier law was only an instrument for harassment. However, the impression given, that high-profile
corporates were routinely and falsely targeted, is sheer fiction, Mr Chowdhury declares. This lacks conviction as elsewhere in
the memoirs, he narrates how the directorate was prone to misuse by politicians and ministers to meet political objectives.
Mr Chowdhury describes his memoirs as an insiders view. But his disappointment with the way the Foreign Exchange
Regulation Act was diluted and how double-tax avoidance agreements became the conduit for tax evasion shows that he largely
remained an outsider in the system at a time when much of Indias economic policies were changed. The Insiders View is
testimony to that disconnect.

UPA Oil for food scam

The scam took place in 2005 and K.Natwar Singh was dismissed from the duty after finding the oil scam with Iraq for food. He
allegedly favoured some people to take part in the oil for food program of the Iraq government. Kickbacks were allegedly paid.
Scam
The UN-appointed Volcker Committee, which probed irregularities in Iraq's oil-for-food programme during the regime of
Saddam Hussein, isuued its report in October last year.
In his report, Paul Volcker, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve who headed the committee, named Natwar Singh and
the Congress party as 'non-contractual beneficiaries' of the programme, triggering the political controversy that forced him to
resign as external affairs minister on November 8, 2005.
He, however, continued as minister without portfolio till he finally quit the government almost a month later. The government
also appointed former diplomat Virender Dayal as a special envoy to liase with the UN to collect documents related to the oilfor-food scam.
About 135 Indian entities figured in the 630-page Volcker Committee report, and the Income Tax department carried out
enquiries into transactions of some of the Indian individuals and firms listed in the document.
The Volcker Committee, which extensively examined the oil-for-food programme that was meant to enable Iraq to use oil
revenues to provide humanitarian supplies to its people, found irregularities in both Iraqi earnings from oil exports and the use
of these revenues for purchasing relief materials.
Between December 1996 and March 2003, Iraq sold oil worth $64.23 billion to 248 companies under the programme. During
this period, it purchased $34.5 billion of humanitarian supplies from 3,614 companies from across the world.
The Volcker Report alleged Saddam Hussein's regime levied an 'illicit' surcharge on oil contracts between September 2000 and
September 2002. It estimated the regime mobilised $228.8 million from such surcharges paid by 139 companies.
The panel also alleged that 2,253 companies that sold humanitarian supplies paid 'kickbacks' worth $1.55 billion to the regime.
The Volcker panel estimated the total 'illicit' income accruing to the Iraqi regime at $1.779 billion.
Natwar Singh and the Congress were named in the Volcker Committee's report in a section that provided details of oil
allocations made by the then Iraqi government to various entities and individuals. All these entities, classified 'non-contractual
beneficiaries,' were recipients of oil allocations, according to the report.The reports said 'Iraq dispensed oil allocations to and
on behalf of a wide array of individuals and groups whom it considered influential in their respective countries and who
espoused pro-Iraq views or organised anti-sanctions activities.'
Andaleeb Sehgal, a friend of Jagat Singh, and Aditya Khanna, a relative of Natwar Singh, are understood to have received
financial payoffs in the deal by getting oil coupons based on the letters of recommendation given by Natwar Singh.
The authority has found that Natwar and his son had misused their position in helping Sehgal and Khanna bag three oil
contracts from the UN sanctioned Saddam regime.
Sehgal and Khanna, in turn, passed the contracts on to Swiss oil company Masefield AG which drew the oil and paid them a
commission, the report says, adding that on a cut of five cents a barrel, Sehgal and Khanna received a total commission of
$1,46,000, which they divided between themselves in a ratio of 4:1.
Former Indian Ambassador to Croatia and Congress leader Aniel Matherani, who was part of a four-member delegation led by
Natwar to Baghdad in January, 2001, was also exonerated of any wrong doing.
When the oil-for-food scam came to light in November last year, Natwar Singh, had to first quit as external affairs minister and
then from the Union Cabinet within a month on December 6.
In between after a political uproar the government appointed the Inquiry Authority headed by Justice R S Pathak, former Chief
Justice of India, to probe the whole affair and at the same time it asked the Enforcement Directorate to investigate the
financial dealings of the Indian entities. Virender Dayal collected documents from the UN, Iraq and Jordan, running into more
than 1,100 pages and a CD containing material of 82,000 pages. Among these were documents from Iraq's State Oil Marketing
company and banks in Jordan.

The Indian entities allegedly routed kickbacks through Jordanian banks. The papers obtained from Iraq related to oil contracts
issued during the Saddam Hussein regime. The firm Masefield, named in the Volcker report for having lifted oil earmarked for
Indian entities, was linked to Hamadaan Exports of Andaleeb Sehgal, who was accused of passing on kickbacks to Natwar Singh
and the Congress.
Both had denied these charges and the Pathak panel too said financial transactions had not been traced to them.
Investigation
The Justice Pathak Committee on 3 August 2006, indicted former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh and his legislator son
Jagat Singh for procurement of contracts in the United Nations oil-for-food programme in Iraq during Saddam Hussain's regime.
However, no money has been traced to them.
The copy of the 110-page report, including 22 pages of annexures, was handed over to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by
Justice R S Pathak, who headed the one-man inquiry authority. The authority is believed to have exonerated the Congress of
all charges of being a non-contractual beneficiary in the scam in 2001.
Natwar Singh, who was summoned by the Authority, as were Sehgal and others, had always maintained that he had not done
anything wrong in the whole affair and the inquiry would prove his innocence. He had also accused the Enforcement
Directorate of indulging in a witch-hunt and harassing his son and others. He had hinted at some higher-ups in the Congress
party of going after him and had complained to the prime minister.

PIL - Corporate Crimes & Corporate Thugs

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. OF 2015
IN THE MATTER OF
NAGARAJA . M.R
editor SOS e Clarion of Dalit & SOS e Voice for Justice
# LIG 2 , No 761 ,, HUDCO First Stage , Laxmikantanagar ,
Hebbal , Mysore 570017 , Karnataka State
.
....Petitioner

Versus
Cabinet Secretary ,Ministry of Corporate Affairs , Government of India & Others
....Respondents

PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 12 to ARTICLE 35 & ARTICLE 51A OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA FOR ISSUANCE OF A WRIT
IN THE NATURE OF MANDAMUS UNDER ARTICLE 32 & ARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA.
To ,
Hon'ble The Chief Justice of India and His Lordship's Companion
Justices of the Supreme Court of India. The Humble petition of the
Petitioner above named.
MOST RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH :
1. Facts of the case:
a. "Power will go to the hands of rascals, , rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of
straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight among themselves for power and will be lost in
political squabbles . A day would come when even air & water will be taxed." Sir Winston made this statement in the
House of Commons just before the independence of India & Pakistan. Sadly , the forewarning of Late Winston Churchill
has been proved right by some of our criminal , corrupt public servants.
b. There are many companies in india , promoters of which are indulging in illegal practices in their greed to make
money. They are swindling lending banks & share holders by posting wrong picture about their project worth ,
product costing, etc. They siphon off money too to their sister companies by insider trading , by buying machineries
& material at higher than market price from sister companies , by selling products to their sister companies at lower
value , by lending loans , guarantees to their sister companies , etc. some of our greedy auditors & company
secretaries are teaching these criminal industrialists how to tweak laws , how to escape through legal loop holes
unscathed. These type of Industrialists are nothing but Rogues , Third class people with third class
culture but in First class attire.
c. Add to this corporate corruption , the high ranking executives indulge in corrupt practices during purchase , sales
functions draining the company resources.
d. The managers of lending banks , executives of SEBI , officers of MCA have a say in the running of the culprit
companies. But they keep mum , for a price ?
e. Most part of that swindled money , black money is destabilizing our economy , causing inflation , funding
underworld & Terrorist outfits.

2. Question(s) of Law:
What is the guarantee for public money invested or lent to such fraudulent companies ? How to recover the public
money ?
3. Grounds:
Requests for equitable justice , Accountability for public money worth crores of rupees.
4. Averment:
Private companies in their greed for money are violating norms in league with public officials. They have caused loss
to the public exchequer and to the public. Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to consider this
as a PIL for : writ of Mandamus and to issue instructions to the concerned public servants in the following cases to
perform their duties & to answer the questions in the case of Reliance , RPG , Nestle and others.

PRAYER:
In the above premises, it is prayed that this Hon'ble Court may be pleased:
(i) Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to consider this as a PIL for : writ of Mandamus and to
issue instructions to the concerned public servants in the following cases to perform their duties & to answer the
questions.
(ii) to pass such other orders and further orders as may be deemed necessary on the facts and in the circumstances of
the case.
(iii) To bring all private companies who have either borrowed loans from public , bank , FIs , government or collected
share capital from public , FIs , government or received subsidy , seed capital from public , public institution under
purview of RTI Act of Government of India.

(iv) To annually make public , combined list of all Non Performing Assets of banks , FIs , NBFCs , Government
with names of defaulting promoters.
(v) To annually make public wealth details of Bank Managers , FI managers.
(vi) To make it mandatory for each company , to take approval of share holders , banks before making any
donations either to political parties , religious bodies , etc.
(vii) When a company goes bust due to siphoning off money by promoters , in such cases the sister companies or
companies in criminal nexus who have benefitted from the swindled money must also be seized , personal properties
of promoters of the culprit company / sister companies and the properties in the names of their family members
must also be seized , auctioned off to recover public money.
(viii) The financial transaction or material transaction like purchase / sale of material between an Indian company and
a company abroad , must be endorsed by share holders , lending banks.
(ix) To annually make public wealth details of all state government & central government Tax officials , who are
aiding the Criminal Industrialists in their crimes.
(x) We at SOS e Voice for Justice & SOS e Clarion of Dalit offer our conditional services to the SCI , to apprehend
criminals , guilty industrialists. Are you ready to utilize it ?
(xi) Whistle blowers who alert about corporate crimes must be protected & rewarded.
(xii) The channeling of money from these corporate to Underworld & Terrorist outfits must be stopped.
(xiii) All NGOs , Political Parties , Religious Bodies must annually make public the details of donations received from
public & corporates.
(xiv) To make Corporate Social Responsibility mandatory for all corporate making profit .
(xv) To annually make public CSR details of Corporates and punish those showing inflated figures.
(xvi) As a final step banning all corporates from making donations to NGOs , Political Parties , Religious bodies and
make it mandatory for them to invest in CSR initiatives.
(xvii) In cases of corporate crimes , liability should cover promoters , directors , decision making executives of the
company individually.
FOR WHICH ACT OF KINDNESS, THE PETITIONER SHALL BE DUTY BOUND, EVER PRAY.
Kindly read full details at following web page :
Fraud in Banking Sector
http://www.bis.org/review/r130730a.pdf ,
http://media1.intoday.in/businesstoday/images/fraud-survey-ErnstYoung.pdf

PIL- Reliance Scams

https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/pil---reliance-scams

PIL Killer Colas , Noodles , Medicines

https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/pil---killer-noodles-colas-medicines

RBI Robbers Bureau of India

https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/rbi---robberer-s-bureau-of-india

DOW Pay up
https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/dow---pay-up

Corporate Terrorists of India

https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/corporate-terrorists-of-india-1

Vostro Account Scam

https://sites.google.com/site/eclarionofdalit/vostro-account-scam-crimes-of-r

CORPORATE CRIMES RPG CABLES LIMITED

http://crimesatrpg.blogspot.com/ ,
http://crimesatrpg.wordpress.com/ ,

Dated : 16th January 2015.. FILED BY: NAGARAJA.M.R.

Place : Mysuru , India.. ..PETITIONER-IN-PERSON

Editorial : CORPORATE CRIMINALS / CORPORATE TERRORISTS / TAX THIEVES RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL ILLS
IN INDIA
In India , a small shop owner to big industrialist have mastered the art of TAX EVASION . their teachers some corrupt tax officials & auditors. The black money thus created
is causing inflation, feeding the mafia , underworld. Some industrialists lobby ( bribe ) with the
government & gets favourable laws enacted. This black money is the main source of funds for political
parties , religious bodies & terrorist outfits.
The recent raids by C.B.I & KARNATAKA LOKAYUKTHA have proved how the tax officials have become
multi-millionaires. The sad part is that some of the police officials who are on deputation to C.B.I &
LOKAYUKTHA themselves are utterly corrupt.
This scourge can only be cured by corporate accountability intoto. However , all the industrialists ,
traders who are demanding for more flexible labour reforms , economic reforms , infrastructure , etc are
not at all concerned about their own accountability with respect to tax , environment , other laws. The
MNCs coming to India are not coming here for best Indian talents or infrastructure alone. In their own
countries they are feeling the
heat of strict environment laws , consumer laws , share holder disclosures , corporate accountability.
Some of these MNCs are being kicked out of their countries , by it's own people .These MNCs are aware
that in India , by greasing the palms environment laws , labour laws , tax laws , etc everything can be
flouted , cases in courts can be dragged on for years . share holder disclosures , corporate transparency
is minimum.

However when a concerned citizen complains about the crimes of guilty corporates , organizations or
corrupt public servants , immediate action is not taken. The file is kept pending for months , years
together , allowing the criminals to manipulate all the evidences , records , ground situations. Finally
even if action is taken guilty will be let out due to favorable evidences , there are chances that the
concerned citizen himself is falsely implicated & put behind bars . in all such cases all the involved
parties must be subjected to lie detector tests .

Bottomline : development is a must , it must be all around . but not at the cost of majority to make a few
richer.
Jai Hind. Vande Mataram.

Yours sincerely,
Nagaraja.M.R.
PIL Legal Prosecution of Government officials , Public Servants involved in Reliance Scams

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ORIGINAL JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. OF 2015

IN THE MATTER OF

NAGARAJA . M.R ,
editor , SOS e Clarion of Dalit & SOS e Voice for Justice ,
# LIG 2 , No 761 , HUDCO First Stage , Laxmikantanagar ,
Hebbal , Mysore 570017 , Karnataka State
.....Petitioner

Versus

Honourable Cabinet Secretary , PMO , Government of India & Others

....Respondents

PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 12 to ARTICLE 35 & ARTICLE 51A OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA FOR ISSUANCE OF A WRIT
IN THE NATURE OF
MANDAMUS UNDER ARTICLE 32 & ARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA.

To ,

Hon'ble The Chief Justice of India and His Lordship's Companion

Justices of the Supreme Court of India. The Humble petition of the Petitioner above named.

MOST RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH :

1. Facts of the case:

Our whole hearted respects to honest few in judiciary , parliament & public service. Our salutes to them
, due to honest efforts of those few noble persons only at least democracy is surviving in India.
A . "Power will go to the hands of rascals, , rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of
straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight among themselves for power and will be lost in
political squabbles . A day would come when even air & water will be taxed." Sir Winston made this statement in the
House of Commons just before the independence of India & Pakistan. Sadly , the forewarning of Late Winston Churchill
has been proved right by some of our criminal , corrupt peoples representatives , police , public servants & Judges.
Some of the below mentioned judges fall among the category of churchills men Rogues , Rascals & Freebooters.
B . Loot of natural resources , telecom spectrum & public property in India and illegal aid to those criminals by
government officials.
2. Question(s) of Law:
Are government officials , telecom , petroleum , finance department officials , police & revenue officials who aided
loot , above Law & can go scot free ?

3. Grounds:
Requests for equitable justice , legal prosecution & punishment of guilty government officials and public servants .
4. Averment:

Give what action has been taken by government of india or state governments or other statutory bodies against
reliance industries for its irregularities in telecom , oil sector , etc.

That the present petitioner has not filed any other petition (which are admitted by courts) in any High Court or the
Supreme Court of India on the subject matter of the present petition.

PRAYER:

In the above premises, it is prayed that this Hon'ble Court may be pleased:
(i) Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to consider this as a PIL for : writ of Mandamus and to
issue instructions to the concerned public servants in the following cases to perform their duties & to answer the
questions.
(ii) Hereby , I do request the honourble supreme court of india to legally prosecute guilty officials mentioned in the
above said report.
(iii) Hereby , I do request the honourble supreme court of india to uphold the constitution of india , to protect natural
resources and to protect the constitutional rights of all Indian citizens including mine.
(iv) Hereby , I do request the honourble supreme court of india to immediately keep all government officials
mentioned in the above said report under suspension from service & to take necessary steps to protect all type of
evidences.
(v) to pass such other orders and further orders as may be deemed necessary on the facts and in the circumstances of
the case.

FOR WHICH ACT OF KINDNESS, THE PETITIONER SHALL BE DUTY BOUND, EVER PRAY.

Date : 28th November 2015Filed By : Nagaraja.M.R.

Place : Mysuru India..Petitioner in person

PIL Legal Prosecution of officials involved in Bellary Mining Scam

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ORIGINAL JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. OF 2015

IN THE MATTER OF

NAGARAJA . M.R ,
editor , SOS e Clarion of Dalit & SOS e Voice for Justice ,
# LIG 2 , No 761 , HUDCO First Stage , Laxmikantanagar ,
Hebbal , Mysore 570017 , Karnataka State
.....Petitioner

Versus

Honourable Chief Secretary , Government of Karnataka & Others

....Respondents

PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 12 to ARTICLE 35 & ARTICLE 51A OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA FOR ISSUANCE OF A WRIT
IN THE NATURE OF
MANDAMUS UNDER ARTICLE 32 & ARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA.

To ,

Hon'ble The Chief Justice of India and His Lordship's Companion

Justices of the Supreme Court of India. The Humble petition of the Petitioner above named.

MOST RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH :

1. Facts of the case:

Our whole hearted respects to honest few in judiciary , parliament & public service. Our salutes to them
, due to honest efforts of those few noble persons only at least democracy is surviving in India.
A . "Power will go to the hands of rascals, , rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of
straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight among themselves for power and will be lost in
political squabbles . A day would come when even air & water will be taxed." Sir Winston made this statement in the
House of Commons just before the independence of India & Pakistan. Sadly , the forewarning of Late Winston Churchill
has been proved right by some of our criminal , corrupt peoples representatives , police , public servants & Judges.
Some of the below mentioned judges fall among the category of churchills men Rogues , Rascals & Freebooters.
B . Loot of natural resources in Karnataka state and illegal aid to those criminals by government officials. Read
Karnataka Lokayukta Mining scam report .

2. Question(s) of Law:
Are forest officials , police & revenue officials who aided bellary mining loot , above Law & can go scot free ?

3. Grounds:
Requests for equitable justice , legal prosecution & punishment of guilty police , revenue , forest officials.
4. Averment:
GIVE WHAT ACTION HAS BEEN TAKEN AGAINST THE GUILTY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS MENTIONED IN THE KARNATAKA
LOKAYUKTA REPORT submitted by Justice Santosh Hegde & Shri.U.V.Singh ABOUT BELLARY MINING SCAM. IF NOT WHY
? REASONS THEROF.
How many guilty government officials mentioned in the above report got promotions , continuing in service making it
easy for them to tamper evidences ?
What action against public servants , officials who are hushing up the case & protecting the guilty ?
The Petitioner has sent many letters / appeals / petitions to supreme court of india & other courts through e-mail ,
DARPG website & through regular mail requesting them to consider those as PILs. But none of them were admitted ,
even acknowledgement for receipts were not given. See How duty conscious ,our judges are & see how our judges are
sensitive towards life , liberty of citizens , commonmen & see how careless our judges are towards anti national crimes
, crimes worth crores of rupees.

That the present petitioner has not filed any other petition (which are admitted by courts) in any High Court or the
Supreme Court of India on the subject matter of the present petition.

PRAYER:

In the above premises, it is prayed that this Hon'ble Court may be pleased:
(i) Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to consider this as a PIL for : writ of Mandamus and to
issue instructions to the concerned public servants in the following cases to perform their duties & to answer the
questions.
(ii) Hereby , I do request the honourble supreme court of india to legally prosecute guilty officials mentioned in the
above said report.
(iii) Hereby , I do request the honourble supreme court of india to uphold the constitution of india , to protect natural
resources and to protect the constitutional rights of all Indian citizens including mine.
(iv) Hereby , I do request the honourble supreme court of india to immediately keep all government officials
mentioned in the above said report under suspension from service & to take necessary steps to protect all type of
evidences.
(v) to pass such other orders and further orders as may be deemed necessary on the facts and in the circumstances of
the case.

FOR WHICH ACT OF KINDNESS, THE PETITIONER SHALL BE DUTY BOUND, EVER PRAY.

Date : 04th November 2015Filed By : Nagaraja.M.R.

Place : Mysuru IndiaPetitioner in person

PIL - Bhopal Gas Leak

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ORIGINAL JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. OF 2015
IN THE MATTER OF
NAGARAJA . M.R ,
editor , SOS e Clarion of Dalit & SOS e Voice for Justice ,
# LIG 2 , No 761 , HUDCO First Stage , Laxmikantanagar ,
Hebbal , Mysore 570017 , Karnataka State
.....Petitioner
Versus
Honourable Chief Seceretary , Government of Madhya Pradesh & Others
....Respondents
PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 21 , ARTICLE 14 16 , ARTICLE 21 , seeking Justice , compensation and for issuance of
WRIT of MANDAMUS UNDER ARTICLE 32 & ARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA.
To ,
Hon'ble The Chief Justice of India and His Lordship's Companion
Justices of the Supreme Court of India. The Humble petition of the Petitioner above named.
MOST RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH :
1. Facts of the case:
Our whole hearted respects to honest few in judiciary , parliament & public service. Our salutes to them
, due to honest efforts of those few noble persons only at least democracy is surviving in India.
A . "Power will go to the hands of rascals, , rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of
straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight among themselves for power and will be lost in

political squabbles . A day would come when even air & water will be taxed." Sir Winston made this statement in the
House of Commons just before the independence of India & Pakistan. Sadly , the forewarning of Late Winston Churchill
has been proved right by some of our criminal , corrupt peoples representatives , police , public servants & Judges.
Some of the below mentioned judges fall among the category of churchills men Rogues , Rascals & Freebooters.
B . As per the preamble of the constitution of India all the people , all Indian citizens are equal in every respect ,
equally entitled to justice , equally responsible to uphold constitution . Only People , Citizens of India are supreme No
Judges , No Ministers , etc are supreme. Judges , ministers , president etc are all public servants constitutionally
mandated to SERVE the public , NOT to master over them. Even after 69 years of independence these judges ,
ministers have not come out of colonial hangover instead become worse treating general public as their servants.
C . Union carbide plant ( UCIL ) was unsafe and indulged in unsafe work practices , maintenance was inadequate.
D . Even a local journalist through a news publication publicly brought to notice of authorities concerned perils of
Bhopal gas plant , years before the Bhopal gas leak , industrial accident occurred . He forewarned.
E . Inspite of forewarning Madhya Pradesh Industries , Factories Inspectorate departments failed to take adequate
steps , allowed the UCIL plant to run uninterrupted.
F . Inspite of forwarning Madhya Pradesh state pollution control board failed to take adequate steps , allowed the
UCIL plant to run uninterrupted.
G . Madhya Pradesh state government side by side with UCIL management is equally responsible for the Bhopal gas
leak case. It failed to do its statutory duties and to prevent disaster in time.
H . Even after the disaster took place , Madhya Pradesh state government and Government of India instead of
legally prosecuting Mr.Warren Anderson ( Head of UCIL) who was in custody , illegally , brazenly helped him to run
away from law.
I . Even after the disaster took place , Madhya Pradesh state government failed to legally arrest and prosecute union
carbide top executives.
J . Union Carbide USA head quarters wanted lucrative Indian market , cheap Indian resources , cheap Indian labor , lax
Indian laws but didnt have the decency to respect Indian laws.
K . Government of India , Government of Madhya Pradesh failed to seek extradition of Mr. Warren Anderson and other
top Union Carbide executives from USA. They failed to get right cost & compensation from US Corporate giant & US
government.
L . The government of USA and Supreme Court of USA is practicing double standards , just see the example of BP oil
spillage in USA territory by a UK based corporate giant. The government of USA & Supreme Court of USA extracted
huge cost & compensation from UK based British Petroleum , for American citizens suffering due to the oil spillage.
The arrogant Government of USA & Supreme Court of USA shamelessly perceives lives of Americans precious and
others as cheap. Our spineless Indian government , supreme court of india bows , kow tows before them.
M . The government of India & Government of Madhya Pradesh who are themselves culprits alongwith UCIL to cover
up their own crimes , to favor US multinational enacted a new law curtailing the legal rights of Bhopal gas victims ,
Indian citizens.
N . Shamelessly Supreme Court of India , went a step further Then Chief Justice of India Justice Ahmadi & his bench
colleagues diluted the penal charges of prosecution.
O . Till date neither Union Carbide nor DOW who took over the management of Union Carbide has paid right cost &
compensation nor they have cared about the clean up of Bhopal gas disaster site till date even after decades.
P . When Government of USA & Supreme Court of USA does not respect Indian Laws , Indian citizens why should
American Citizens , American Corporations , American Interests in Indian territory should be protected ?

2. Question(s) of Law:
Are Multi national Corporations & its top executives above law ? Is the acts of our ministers , judges in aiding a
criminal , fugitive to run away from law just , legal ?

3. Grounds:
Requests for equitable justice , legal prosecution of guilty under ARTICLE 21 , ARTICLE 14 16 , ARTICLE 21 ,
seeking Justice , compensation and for issuance of WRIT of MANDAMUS UNDER ARTICLE 32 & ARTICLE 226 OF THE
CONSTITUTION OF INDIA.

4. Averment:
Give what action has been taken against culprits involved in Bhopal gas leak case till date.
PRAYER:

In the above premises, it is prayed that this Hon'ble Court may be pleased:
(i) Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to consider this as a PIL for : writ of Mandamus and to
issue instructions to the concerned public servants in the following cases to perform their duties & to answer the
questions.
(ii) Hereby , I do request the honourable supreme court of india to legally prosecute Madhya Pradesh state
government industry department , factories safety & Inspectorate department and MP Pollution Control Board
officials for criminal negligence of duties.
(iii) Hereby , I do request the honourable supreme court of india to legally prosecute the MP state government &
Indian government ministers and officials who helped fugitive Mr. Warren Anderson to run away from Indian law.
(iv) Hereby , I do request the honourable supreme court of india to legally prosecute the MP state government &
Indian government ministers and officials who failed to seek extradition of Mr. Anderson and other UC top executives
from USA.
(v) ) Hereby , I do request the honourable supreme court of india to legally prosecute the MP state government &
Indian government ministers and officials who failed to extract appropriate compensation , costs from Union Carbide
or from DOW or from counter guarantor Government of USA till date.
(vi) Hereby , I do request the honourable supreme court of india to declare void , annul the Bhopal Gas Victims Act
and related enactments , government orders passed by both Government of India and Government of Madhya
Pradesh which curtails the constitutional rights of Bhopal gas leak victims.
(vii) Hereby , I do request the honourable supreme court of india to legally prosecute former chief justice of india Mr.
Ahmadi & his bench colleagues who diluted the prosecution charges against union carbide and its top executives.
(viii) Hereby , I do request the honourable supreme court of india to order DOW Chemicals to pay the appropriate
cost & compensation towards Bhopal gas leak disaster.
(ix) Hereby , I do request the honourable supreme court of india to order Government of USA , Supreme Court of
USA to respect Indian Law if they want reciprocal respect. To order government of USA & Supreme Court of USA to
extradite former top executives of Union Carbide to India , to ensure appropriate payment of cost , compensation in
the said case as government of USA happens to be a counter guarantor.
(x) To declare President of USA & Chief Justice of USA as criminals for their double standards , for aiding
perpetrators of man slaughter at Bhopal .
(xI) To order for CBI investigation into assets of Mr.Ahmadi , ministers , government officials who helped union
carbide & its executives.

FOR WHICH ACT OF KINDNESS, THE PETITIONER SHALL BE DUTY BOUND, EVER PRAY.

Date : 07th November 2015Filed By : Nagaraja.M.R.

Place : Mysuru India..Petitioner in person

PIL - RPG Telecables Scam

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ORIGINAL JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. OF 2015
IN THE MATTER OF
NAGARAJA . M.R
editor SOS e Clarion of Dalit & SOS e Voice for Justice
# LIG 2 , No 761 ,, HUDCO First Stage , Laxmikantanagar ,
Hebbal , Mysore 570017 , Karnataka State
.
....Petitioner
Versus
Cabinet Secretary ( Telecommunications) Government of India & Others
....Respondents

PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 12 to ARTICLE 35 & ARTICLE 51A OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA FOR ISSUANCE OF A WRIT
IN THE NATURE OF MANDAMUS UNDER ARTICLE 32 & ARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA.
To ,
Hon'ble The Chief Justice of India and His Lordship's Companion
Justices of the Supreme Court of India. The Humble petition of the
Petitioner above named.
MOST RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH :
1. Facts of the case:
"Power will go to the hands of rascals, , rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of
straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight among themselves for
power and will be lost in political squabbles . A day would come when even air & water will be taxed." Sir Winston
made this statement in the House of Commons just before the independence of India & Pakistan. Sadly , the
forewarning of Late Winston Churchill has been proved right by some of our criminal , corrupt public servants.
2. Eventhough , certain PIJF companies were previously found to be involved in illegal practices , CPIO of DOT / BSNL is
hiding information . Thereby , he is trying to shield criminals.
3. By this action CPIO of DOT / BSNL is aiding criminals.

2. Question(s) of Law:
DOT / BSNL has paid crores of rupees to PIJF Telecable manufacturers towards purchase of cables. The money is
from public exchequer , peoples money . That public money is swindled by cable manufacturers with tacit support of
DOT / BSNL officials. Why no prosecution of DOT / BSNL officials & cable manufacturers ? are they above law ?
3. Grounds:
Requests for equitable justice , Accountability for public money worth crores of rupees.
4. Averment:
Private companies in their greed for money are violating norms in league with public officials. They have caused loss
to the public exchequer.
Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to consider this as a PIL for : writ of Mandamus and to
issue instructions to the concerned public servants in the following cases to perform their duties & to answer the
questions.
The Petitioner has sent many letters / appeals / petitions to supreme court of india & other courts through e-mail ,
DARPG website & through regular mail requesting them to consider those as PILs. But none of them were admitted ,
even acknowledgement for receipts were not given. See How duty conscious ,our judges are & see how our judges are
sensitive towards life , liberty of citizens , common men & see how careless our judges are towards anti national
crimes , crimes worth crores of rupees. That the present petitioner has not filed any other petition (which are admitted
by courts) in any High Court or the Supreme Court of India on the subject matter of the present petition.
PRAYER:
In the above premises, it is prayed that this Hon'ble Court may be pleased:
(i) Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to consider this as a PIL for : writ of Mandamus and to
issue instructions to the concerned public servants in the following cases to perform their duties & to answer the
questions.
(ii) to pass such other orders and further orders as may be deemed necessary on the facts and in the circumstances of
the case.
FOR WHICH ACT OF KINDNESS, THE PETITIONER SHALL BE DUTY BOUND, EVER PRAY.
Kindly read full details at following web page :
CORPORATE CRIMES RPG CABLES LIMITED
http://crimesatrpg.blogspot.com/ ,
http://crimesatrpg.wordpress.com/ ,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naghrw/message/218 ,
https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/pil---telecable-scam

Dated : 13th June 2015.. FILED BY: NAGARAJA.M.R.

Place : Mysuru , India.. PETITIONER-IN-PERSON

PIL - Killer Noodles , Medicines of India

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ORIGINAL JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. OF 2015
IN THE MATTER OF
NAGARAJA . M.R
editor SOS e Clarion of Dalit & SOS e Voice for Justice
# LIG 2 , No 761 ,, HUDCO First Stage , Laxmikantanagar ,
Hebbal , Mysore 570017 , Karnataka State
.
....Petitioner
Versus
Chief Secretary Government of Karnataka & Principal Secretaries , Food & Health , Government of India
....Respondents

PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 12 to ARTICLE 35 & ARTICLE 51A OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA FOR ISSUANCE OF A WRIT
IN THE NATURE OF MANDAMUS UNDER ARTICLE 32 & ARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA.
To ,
Hon'ble The Chief Justice of India and His Lordship's Companion
Justices of the Supreme Court of India. The Humble petition of the
Petitioner above named.
MOST RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH :
1. Facts of the case:
"Power will go to the hands of rascals, , rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of
straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight among themselves for
power and will be lost in political squabbles . A day would come when even air & water will be taxed." Sir Winston
made this statement in the House of Commons just before the independence of India & Pakistan. Sadly , the
forewarning of Late Winston Churchill has been proved right by some of our criminal , corrupt public servants.
2. Eventhough certain food products are banned & certain medicines are banned in developed nations , still they are
permitted to be manufactured & sold in india.
3. Eventhough certain food products & medicines are manufactured within stipulated limits of ingredients in
developed nations , the multinational companies cross those limits in india.

2. Question(s) of Law:
Are the lives of millions of Indians cheaper , dispensable ? Are the lives of Indians cheaper than the lives of white
skinned people in developed nations.
3. Grounds:
Requests for equitable justice , protection of indians lives & prosecution of guilty public servants who permitted
manufacturers / sellers of killer noodles , killer colas & killer medicines.
4. Averment:
Multinational companies , private companies in their greed for money are violating norms by established international
bodies and making money by slowly killing people , by their fake food products & fake medicines. Our own corrupt
central government & state government public servants are giving licenses , clearances to those companies to carry
on their illegal businesses. Who will bear the cost of loss of lives , damages to health of gullible public , hapless Indians
?
Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to consider this as a PIL for : writ of Mandamus and to
issue instructions to the concerned public servants in the following cases to perform their duties & to answer the
questions.
The Petitioner has sent many letters / appeals / petitions to supreme court of india & other courts through e-mail ,
DARPG website & through regular mail requesting them to consider those as PILs. But none of
them were admitted , even acknowledgement for receipts were not given. See How duty conscious ,our judges are &
see how our judges are sensitive towards life , liberty of citizens , commonmen & see how

careless our judges are towards anti national crimes , crimes worth crores of rupees. That the present petitioner has
not filed any other petition (which are admitted by courts) in any High Court or the Supreme Court of India on the
subject matter of the present petition.
PRAYER:
In the above premises, it is prayed that this Hon'ble Court may be pleased:
(i) Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to consider this as a PIL for : writ of Mandamus and to
issue instructions to the concerned public servants in the following cases
to perform their duties & to answer the questions.
(ii) to pass such other orders and further orders as may be deemed necessary on the facts and in the circumstances of
the case.
FOR WHICH ACT OF KINDNESS, THE PETITIONER SHALL BE DUTY BOUND, EVER PRAY.
Kindly read full details at following web page :
https://sites.google.com/site/eclarionofdalit/pil---threat-to-judge ,
https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/pil---killer-noodles-colas-medicines ,

Dated : 11th June 2015. FILED BY: NAGARAJA.M.R.

Place : Mysuru , India PETITIONER-IN-PERSON

Will somebody please impeach Manipur Chief Justice LK Mohapatra for corruption?

7 April 2015, India: OK, heres a question: Can you and I make a profit of about Rs 90 lakh by selling a plot of government land before it
is transferred to us? Can we sell it to a known crook and swindler at the height of his career? Answer: If we are common people, then
no. But if we are high court judges, then yes, we can not only do it, but we can also be elevated to the position of a Chief Justice! Come,
let us learn from Justice Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra, Chief Justice Of Manipur, how it is done.
Like all our High Court and Supreme Court judges, Justice Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra (http://hcmimphal.nic.in/judges.html) is immune to
the laws of the land. When he was a High Court judge in Odisha, Mr. Mohapatra accepted a bribe of about Rs 90 lakh through a shady
land deal with a chit-fund fraudster named Pradeep Sethy (http://tinyurl.com/pradeep-sethy), whose Artha Tatwa Chit Fund scam in
Odisha was estimated by Supreme Court to be Rs 4,600 crore roughly twice the size of the infamous Saradha scam in West Bengal.
(Others put it at Rs 20,000 crore.) In this unusual sale of land, the Cuttack Development Authority actively cooperated with Justice
Mohapatra. In connection with this same land transaction, Advocate General Ashok Mohanty was arrested last year
(http://tinyurl.com/AG-ashok-Mohanty), but Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra then the Acting Chief Justice of Manipur High Court went
on to be elevated to Chief Justice on 10th July 2014, well after the scandal became well-known in the public domain and the
media! Isey kehte hain Independence Of Judiciary!
One however wonders about the dynamics of how this particular elevation happened. Did somebody bribe the members of the Supreme
Court collegium on behalf of the honble Mr Mohapatra? Or did one of the collegium judges highly recommend Mr Mohapatra as,
relatively speaking, the cleanest judge available for the position of CJ of Manipur? Did this brother judge convincingly argue that a little
bit of shady dealings, stamp duty evasion and money-laundering should be considered acceptable among the brotherhood of judges?
Or was it the collegiums considered decision that, since Justice Mohapatra was only exploiting well-known legal loopholes in Odishas
Stamp Act and other laws, it was legally acceptable?
(For the record, the government of Odisha was in the habit of making such discretionary land allocations to high court judges and
others. This facility was widely known and exploited for years by VVIPs. (Read http://tinyurl.com/Odisha-land-allotments. After this
scandal, in December 2014, the government seems to have decided to mend its ways (http://tinyurl.com/Odisha-cancels-allotments).
RTI Activist Jayanta Kumar Das, in his Letter Petition (http://tinyurl.com/Jayanta-Das-Letter2CJI) to Chief Justice of India on 18th
March 2015, presented a blow-by-blow account of Justice Laxmi Kanta Mohapatras wrongdoings, with supporting evidence, and is
awaiting some action. Tall hopes? Maybe. Wait and watch.
HIGHLIGHTS:
1.

On 11.10.2006, in his capacity of a judge of Odisha High Court, Laxmikanta Mohapatra applied for a government plot in Markata
Nagar to Cuttack Development Authority (CDA). Within seven months, CDA allotted a 4000 square foot plot in Sector-11 in Bidanasi project area,
Cuttack) and instructed him to pay Rs 9.8 lakhs. Having an ancestral property in Cuttack district (Stoney Road, Post- Candinichowk, P.S- Lal Bag,
Dist Cuttack), Mr Mohapatra was actually not eligible to get a government plot from CDA. So, his letter was evasively worded, stating that neither
he nor his family owned land at Markata Nagar. After taking possession in July 2007, lthough the allotted plot was not yet transferred in his name,
Laxmikanta Mohapatra proceeded to build a double storied building on the allotted plot. Read documents: http://tinyurl.com/Judge-gets-land

2.

within four years of the allotment of government land to him, Justice Laxmikanta Mohapatra transferred the possession of this plot for a
consideration of Rs one crore. The land was sold by means of a simple affidavit on ten-rupees stamp paper to Pradeep Kumar Sethy, the chit-fund
baron. The mode of payment was not mentioned (Cheque? Cash? Any other means? Who knows?) The affidavit said, I have taken over the
possession of the plot on 23.7.2007 and lease deed has not been executed in my fabour (sic!) till date. The plot is double storied building is existing
on the plot. As Justice Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra was not the owner of this plot, he had no right to execute and register a sale deed or to transfers
this plot in favour of any party. Indeed, no law in India or in Odisha empowers anybody to transfer or sell a property to any party by means of a mere
affidavit but that is precisely what this learned judge did! Read http://tinyurl.com/Sethy-buys-from-Judge

By means of this unlawful transaction, Justice Laxmikanta Mohapatra enabled chit fund operator Pradeep Kumar Sethy to do him an
undue favour of about Rs 90 lakh. Simultaneously, the honourable judge broke the law to avoid paying at least Rs 5 lakhs stamp duty
and registration. And last but not least, this person who is now Chief Justice of Manipur committed offences of money-laundering by
accepting and creating black money from the chit fund operator possibly in order to provide him some undue favours.
Cuttack Development Authority aided and abetted this unlawful transaction. It transferred this plot in the name of Sri Pradeep Kumar
Sethy vide its Letter No.8098/CDA/Dated 23.4.2011 based on Justice Laxmikanta Mohapatras affidavit and a request letter written by
Pradeep Sethy.
Meanwhile, lakhs of people in Odisha started raising their voice against Artha Tatwa Chit Fund Company, its Chief Managing Director

3.

Pradeep Sethy and other directors for the nonpayment of their matured fixed deposits in different branch offices of the company. Anticipating his
arrest, Pradeep Sethy approached the Advocate General of Orissa High Court Sri Ashok Mohanty for an undue favour, and a deal was struck.

Barely one and a half years after the land was transferred in his name, Pradeep Sethy made another affidavit dated 03.10.2012
transferring the land plot for a consideration of Rs 1,00,01,000/- (Rupees One Crore and One Thousand) only. Again, the mode of
payment was not mentioned (Cheque? Cash?). This affidavit suggests, as CBI mentions in its chargesheet, that Advocate General
Ashok entered into this transaction as a consideration for giving undue favours in Orissa high Court. Read http://tinyurl.com/Sethy-sellsto-AG
4.

A case was registered against Pradeep Sethyand his staff by Balasore Town Police for cheating innocent investors (Balasore Town P.S.
Case No. 352 of 2012 dated 06.10.2012, U/S 420/506/34 I.P.C etc). Pradeep Sethy applied for anticipatory bail before Odisha High Court, on
09.10.2012 (Annexure- 21). Thanks to Advocate General Ashok Mohanty, this anticipatory bail was allowed. Pradeep Sethy and all his associates
were released on anticipatory bail without production of the case diary on 18.10.2012.

5.

Soon afterwards, Cuttack Development Authority took steps to ensure that the bribe paid to Ashok Mohanty reached him, i.e. the transfer
of the land to Ashok Mohanty, who was possibly anxious that the land plot may be seized by the authorities, along with other assets belonging to
Sethy. So, by a form-letter dated 8th February 2013, it summoned Sethy to appear in person on the same day between 2 and 4 pm with necessary
documents for signature verification and verification of his identity. It is not know by what mode this letter was delivered, and so one may presume
that an urgent hand-delivery was made, possibly by the Advocate General himself! Read http://tinyurl.com/CDA-writes-to-Sethy

6.

In its preliminary charge sheet in the Artha Tatwa Chit Fund Scam Case, CBI states that the consideration of Rs one crore to Justice Laxmi
Kanta Mohapatra came out of misappropriated funds from the Artha Tatwa company accounts. It says, As per records, accused P.K. Sethy had
purchased said building from Justice L.K. Mohapatra for consideration of Rs. 1,00,00,000/- during April, 2011 out of the money flown from the
accounts of AT Group and later, transferred the said plot to Asok Mohanty. You may read the relevant paragraphs of the CBI chargesheet
here: http://tinyurl.com/CBI-chargesheet-Artha-Tatwa

7.

The CBI chargesheet says: Investigation disclosed that accused Asok Mohanty was the Advocate General of Odisha during the period from
June, 2009 to September, 2014. He had purchased a building located at plot No. 11-3B/1332, Category-B, measuring 4000 sqft in sector -11,
Bidanashi, Cuttack from the accused Pradeep Kumar Sethy. As per records, accused P.K. Sethy had purchased said building from Justice L.K.
Mohapatra for consideration of Rs. 1,00,00,000/- during April, 2011 out of the money flown from the accounts of AT Group and later, transferred the
said plot to Asok Mohanty. Though the sale transaction was shown to be of Rs 1,01,00,000/- but in fact an amount of Rs. 70,00,000/- only has been
paid by accused Asok Mohanty to accused P.K. Sethy. During the course of investigation two money receipts were seized from the official premises
of accused Asok Mohanty indicating the payment of Rs. 1,01,00,000/- towards consideration. The said money receipts bear forged signatures of
accused Pradeep Kumar Sethy. During the relevant period of time i.e. during October, 2012, when the above transaction took place, agitations were
going on in Odisha against the accused Pradeep Kumar Sethy and against AT Group by the depositors which is evident by registration of the 1st
FIR against the AT Group on 06.10.2013 following which the accused P.K.Sethy had moved an anticipatory bail petitions before the Honble high
Court on 09.10.2012 and during the relevant time the present accused AG entered into a criminal conspiracy with the said Pradeep Kumar Sethy
and in furtherance thereof extended his hospitality towards the accused P.K.Sethy as a result of which the anticipatory bail was granted to the
accused P.K.Sethy on 18.09.2012. During the course of investigation, two separate agreements for sale of the said plots were recovered/seized from
the possession of accused Asok Mohanty. In the said two agreements, the consideration agreed upon was Rs One Crore and One Lakh which is
contrary to the consideration mentioned in the affidavit dt. 03.10.2012 submitted to the Cuttack Development Authority for transfer of ownership of
the said property. It may be mentioned here that in the said affidavit dt. 03.10.2012, the consideration amount is mentioned as Rs. One Crore and
One Thousand. Thus, it is clear that the accused Asok Mohanty misappropriated the remaining amount of Rs. 31 lakhs that he was supposed to pay
to the accused Pradeep Kumar Sethy.

8.

Significantly, CBI was able to investigate the role of Advocate General Asok Mohanty but do they have the authority or the mandate to
investigate the role played by Justice LK Mohapatra? No. And therefore, one is left wondering whether Justice Mohapatras role was as innocuous
as the CBI chargesheet makes it out to be!

Final outcome:
o

Lakhs of citizens of Odisha swindled. Money not yet recovered

Chit fund swindler Pradeep Sethy arrested & chargesheeted by CBI.

Advocate General Asok Mohanty ditto and he lost his job.

Odisha High Court Judge Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra got to keep Rs 90 lakhs that came from the savings of chit fund investors and he
was elevated to the position of Chief Justice of Manipur after the scandal.

Will somebody please rap the Supreme Court collegium on the knuckles for this decision, and impeach this honourable Chief
Justice of Manipur? If this is not done, one worries that before his scheduled retirement on 10th June 2016 upon attaining the age of
62, the SC collegium (or Judicial Appointments Commission) may elevate him to the exalted status of a Supreme Court Judge, or even,
who knows?Chief Justice of India? You can never tell.
Justice by the backdoor
http://www.vijayvaani.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?aid=1570

Former CJI Y K Sabharwal - Conflict of interest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogesh_Kumar_Sabharwal
Allegations of Real Estate Operations by his sons[edit]
During the 2006 Delhi sealing drive, the Supreme Court under Sabharwal demonstrated extraordinary zeal in demolishing a slarge
number of commercial properties which were illegally running in residential areas. There were very extensive protests every day, and
considerable political pressure, due to which demolitions would often be hindered. The court monitored events and regularly
reprimanded the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for its tardy progress. As a consequence of the extensive bulldozing of buildings, legal
commercial properties, as in the new shopping malls, rose dramatically in price.[4] Particularly, luxury store owners and other upscale
businesses were very keen to get into the limited mall floor space.
In May 2007, five months after Sabharwal retired from the bench, the afternoon newspaper Mid-Day brought out a series of articles that
presented documents showing that YK Sabharwal's sons, Chetan and Nitin Sabharwal, owned at least four small ventures, most of
them oriented towards garment exports, but one in the construction arena. During Sabharwal's tenure as Chief justice, two of these
firms suddenly attracted the interest of the very largest players in the shopping mall industry.
The first firm, Pawan Impex, Pvt Ltd, was registered for some time at Justice Sabharwal's official bungalow in the heart of Delhi, and
later at his private house. Having the firm registered at his government-furnished house may have been illegal. [5] In a newspaper
editorial on Sept 2, 2007, Justice Sabharwal has said that he asked his sons to shift the registered address as soon as he found out
about it,[6] but in an interview recorded by Mid-Day in April 2007, after the shift, he claims complete ignorance about the matter. [5]
More damaging is the fact that Pawan Impex, which had remained with a capitalization of 0.1 million Rs. since its founding in 2002,
suddenly attracted the interest of Kabul and Anjali Chawla, owners of the large and rapidly growing real estate firm Business Park Town
Planners (BPTP)[7] which had promoted large malls like Park Centra (Gurgaon), Next Door (Faridabad), and the Parklands Shop-In
Park (North Delhi). In June 2006, at the peak of the Supreme Court interest in the 2006 Delhi sealing drive, the Chawla's invested in
Park Impex, raising the Share Capital 300 fold to Rs. 30 million, with equal shares between the original promoters and the Chawlas. [8]
[9]
Two months later, in August, the company obtained a loan of Rs. 280 million by a bank which happens to be a tenant of a BPTP
property. These allegations appear to be well documented in a set of papers released by the Campaign for Judicial Accountability [10] and
were not addressed in Justice Sabharwal's public response, [6] though he did mention that his sons were creating an IT Mall. After the
partnership with BPTP in June 2007 Pawan Impex purchased 4 acres (16,000 m2) of land in NOIDA on which this IT Mall is being
constructed; Mid-Day reports it to be a Rs. 560 million project with 300,000 sq ft (28,000 m2). saleable floor area.[11]
A second firm, Harpawan Constructors, equally unknown, had also been promoted by the brothers. In October 2005, the promoters
of Filatex India, a polyester yarn firm with a turnover of Rs. 3 billion in FY 2007, Purshottam and Madhu Sudan Bhageria, also the
owners of real estate firm Fargo Estates, invested in Harpawan. Subsequently, the Bhagerias announced plans for developing the
Square One, a mall devoted to luxury brands in Delhi. Justice Sabharwal has said that Purshottam Bhageria was his son's childhood
friend, and that Harparwan Construction, despite its name, has not made any real estate or other investments. [6]
The business of Chetan and Nitin expanded dramatically after 2005. Besides setting up several garment manufacturing factories, they
have embarked on a massive real estate programme in NOIDA.
Possibly the largest project for Pawan Impex is the Rs. 560 million IT Mall being constructed in Noida. In the application to construct
this mall, they had given the turnover and business of their company as "Nil". Their application for constructing this mall was approved
rather mysteriously, given that in the application they had declared their company to be "Nil turnover" and "Nil business". [5] An earlier
applicant, Softedge Solutions, had been rejected on the ground that they could not satisfactorily answer questions about their previous
experience in IT and their technical tie up. But Pawan Impex represented by Chetan Sabharwal with Nil business, no previous track
record in IT and no technical tie up, managed to obtain permission. [5]
Conflict of Interest charges[edit]
Whatever the facts of the case, it is widely felt that Justice Sabharwal's being active in such decisions when his sons were even partly
involved in the Delhi real estate business lacked propriety, and that he should have recused himself from these cases. To the contrary,
the Outlook (magazine) printed a report claiming that he had "called for and dealt with the sealing of commercial property cases in
March 2005, though it was not assigned to him.". [5]
The actions have been condemned as being at best improper and at worst an attempt "to benefit his sons who entered into
partnerships with shopping malls and developers of commercial complexes". [12] Former Solicitor General KK Sud called this behaviour
"the height of indiscretion."[13]

In terms of the content of the charges, the most damaging aspect is the participation of the shopping mall construction giant BPTP in
his son's export-import business. Both the Chawla's were on the board of the firm by early 2005, around the same time that Sabharwal
started taking interest in the demolition drive. What is surprising is that while Justice Sabharwal in his justification [6] addresses the other
two (lesser) charges in some detail, but he is completely silent about the BPTP connection.
Jail term for two Journalists, cartoonist, publisher[edit]
In September 2007, four Mid-Day journalists were sentenced to prison by the Delhi High Court for contempt of court (making such
allegations about an ex-judge).[14] The scribes said: "We stated facts in our stories. (in the articles relating to former Chief Justice of
India Y K Sabharwal) and that is why we should not be hauled up for contempt. The laws in the country are outdated." The contempt
laws in India do not rely on truth as the primary test for judging contempt. The columns were also somewhat tongue-in-cheek,
accompanied also by a cartoon (the cartoonist has also been sentenced to four months in jail).
Justice R S Sodhi and Justice B N Chaturvedi of the Delhi High Court, in their judgement, said: "We feel, in this peculiar case, the
contemnors have tarnished the image of the highest court and the sentence of four months' imprisonment would serve the justice." M K
Tayal, senior journalist, said, "The judges did not go into the merits of the argument. They did not apply their minds while delivering the
judgement.".[15] "The Supreme Court in its judgement has clearly laid down the Laxman Rekha which we feel the publications have
crossed." (The Laxman Rekhais a Ramayanic reference to a line that should not be crossed). However, the defendants had already
processed their bail requests from the Supreme Court, and they were immediately released on bail. Tayal and three others are no more
associated with Mid Day. It appears that the management of the newspaper compromised with Sabharwal and BPTP. Tayal, a former
Indian army officer, objected Mid Day's policy of refraining from exposing more about the dealings of ex-CJI. Mid Day's MD Tariq
Answari had written a note regarding the newspaper not carrying any more article on Sabharwal.
About the judgement, ex-law minister Shanti Bhushan stated that Parliament had in 2006 amended the Contempt of Courts Act to say
that "if the allegations against a judge were found to be true, then they would not be considered contemptuous". In view of this, the
judgement, he said, may be "only aimed at terrifying the media and an attempt to curb truthfulness." [12]

RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED - WHERE IS ACCOUNTABILITY?

Dear mukesh & anil ambani,

The reliance industries has always got a favourable treatment from the state & central governments.there are allegations that
,

1.years ago, the central government gave import concessions for import of certain raw materials of textile sector ,which
hugely benefitted the P.F.Y & TEXTILE projects of your's ie reliance industries.

2.the O.N.G.C which has painstakingly surveyed the oil & gas reserves & prepared a list of lists,gave that list & you got
godavari basin oil & gas project from the government .O.N.G.C could have developed it & earned millions.

3.few months back you were charged both by the government & cellular operators (GSM) that you are giving S.T.D & ROAMING
FACILITIES to your reliance phone subscribers.your's was only a W.L.L. they even claimed that you are misusing a legal
loophole & causing crores of losses to the government & other GSM operators. however while the issue was before the T.R.A.I,
the trai legalized your actions by announcing unified licence for telecom operators.

4.now you are charged by the government of re-routing ISD CALLS as local calls,thereby causing crores of losses to the
government & BSNL.this time also you may get the reprieve from the government. the government ,if a commonman does not

pay his electric bills in time slaps interest & cuts down the electric supply immediately. however the same government ,even if
your company has been alleged of causing crores of rupees losses to the government & other players, always enacts
favourable laws for you like a SANTA CLAUS.

WILL YOU PLEASE CLARIFY mr.mukesh ambani & mr.anil ambani?

the TRAI announced unified licence regime in haste that too with retrospective effects.so all the charges against reliance were
dropped. in the same vein as unified licence got retrospective effect , why not the government re-imburse the differece
amount out of hefty fees collected from other cellular operators ? take the reliance fees as bench mark.anyway , finally
commonman is the looser.

10 things you should know about the Reliance KG-D6 gas deal

Reacting to Arvind Kejriwals presser where he said that an FIR will be filed against Mukesh Ambani, current oil minister Veerappa Moily
and former oil minister Murli Deora over the gas pricing formula, Moily said that we should sympathize with his ignorance since kejriwal
doesnt know how the government functions. He reiterated that the norms were being followed and there is a system for fixing prices.
ALSO READ: Kejriwal orders FIR against Mukesh, Moily
So who is actually ignorant in this case? Were the norms actually followed or has Kejriwal raised some valid points.
ALSO READ: T N Ninan: One more!
Here is a refresher and ready reckoner on the entire KG D6 gas basin controversy.
1) What is KG D6 basin?
Krishna Godavari (KG) Basin is spread across 50,000 sq km in the Krishna River and Godavari river basins near the coast of Andhra
Pradesh. The site Dhirubhai-6 (D6) is where Reliance Industries discovered the biggest gas reserves in India. In government records,
the 7,645 sq km block is known as KG-DWN-98/1. The KG basin is considered to be the largest natural gas basin in India.
2) How did Reliance Industries get into KG basin?
Government of India opened up hydrocarbon exploration and production (E&P) in the country to private and foreign players in 1991.
Small and medium sized blocks were opened up in this round which was followed up by giving out bigger blocks in 1999 as per the
New Exploration and Licensing Policy (NELP). Through NELP, Reliance bagged the rights to explore the D6 block.
3) Did government have a role after the block was handed over?
Since all mining resources belong to the people of India, government monitors the exploration and production of these. In the case of oil
and gas sector, government enters into contractual relationship with the private player through a Production Sharing Contract (PSC).
The PSC lays out roles and responsibilities of all parties, specifies the detailed procedures to be followed at different stages of
exploration, development and production. It also specifies the cost recovery and profit sharing in the contract. Directorate General of
Hydrocarbon (DGH) monitors the PSC. A PSC was signed between the government of India (GOI) and undivided Reliance Industries
and its minority partner Niko Resources (10 per cent stake) for exploration and production of oil and gas.
4) What happened to KG D6 when the Reliance group split?
Even before production could start from the KG D6 wells, Reliance group was split vertically between the two brothers, with the gas
business of Reliance Industries remaining with Mukesh Ambani, the elder brother. The brothers fought over this huge reserve of gas
even though it was not theirs in the first place. The very first line of a production sharing contract clearly says that By virtue of article
297 of the Constitution of India, Petroleum is a natural state in the territorial waters and the continental shelf of India is vested with the
Union of India.
The brothers while splitting their fathers empire split the gas reserves too. A family pact between the two brothers, which was never
made public till the issue blew out of proportion, was at the core of the dispute. Anil Ambani owned RNRL (Reliance Natural Resources
Ltd) citing the agreement by the brothers in 2005, claimed it had rights to gas from Reliance KG basin for 17 years at $2.34 per mmBtu
(million British thermal unit).The Supreme Court finally settled the matter by saying that the government owns the gas till it reaches its
ultimate consumer and parties must restrict their negotiation within the conditions of the government policy.
Here the role of the government needs to be highlighted. None of the ministries involved in the process, including the oil ministry which
Moily now represents, raised the point that the gas reserves belonged to the country and was not a property of the Ambani family. Even
the Prime Minister, ManMohan Singh meekly requested the brothers to settle their differences in the interests of the country.

But how did the Ambani brothers arrive at this magic figure of $2.34 per mmBtu when there was no benchmark. In fact ONGC was
supplying gas to the government at half the rate.
5) How did Anil Ambani arrive at the price of $2.34 per mmBtu for KG basin gas?
In June 2004, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) invited bids for supply of gas for its 2600 MW power plant in Kawas and
Gandhar. Reliance Industries, hopeful of starting production of gas by the time NTPCs power plant is ready bid for the project and was
awarded it as the lowest techno-commercial bidder. A Letter of Intent (LOI) was issued to Reliance Industries to supply 132 trillion units
of gas per annum to NTPC for 17 years at a price of $2.34 per mmBtu. Anil Ambani used this as a basis for asking gas for his power
plant.
6) Why is the NTPC-Reliance dispute all about?
Reliance Industries refused to sign the contract for supply of gas. Jairam Ramesh, the Minister of Power in a written reply to a question
in Lok Sabha in 2009 said that After issuance of LOI, RIL did not come forward to sign the Gas Sale and Purchase Agreement and
sought major changes in the draft GSPA.In spite of all the efforts (by NTPC) RIL did not sign the GSPA agreed during the bidding
process.
NTPC dragged Reliance to Bombay High Court on December 20, 2005 but unfortunately the case that has dragged on. The case after
nine years is still sub judice. Here again the government's disinterest in protecting the interests of its own PSU has been a matter of
much debate.
While NTPC was fighting the case with Reliance in the Bombay High Court, the government referred the matter to an Empowered
Group of Ministers (EGoM) in 2007 headed by none other than the current President Pranab Mukherjee, who was then the finance
minister. EGoM approved a rate hike of $4.2 per mmBtu of gas. This decision was taken without a single unit of gas coming out of the
KG basin.
Reliance grabbed at this opportunity and said that it could not supply gas at a price lower than the mandated price set by the
government.
7) How did Pranab Mukherjee arrive at the price of $4.2 mmBtu for gas?
The price was arrived by Reliance through its price discovery mechanism. As per a Reliance crafter formula, user companies were
asked to quote a price which gave them a choice of arriving at a value between $4.54 and $4.75 per mmBtu. Reliance initially
forwarded a figure of $4.59 which was later brought down to $4.3, but Pranab Mukherjee claimed victory by announcing a figure of $4.2
per mmBtu.
The brazenness of the entire exercise by the government can be seen from the fact that the objections raised by the Principal Advisor,
Power and Energy to the government of India, Surya P Sethi along with the then cabinet secretary were ignored by the government.
Surya questions the recommendation saying that nowhere is the cost of production more than $1.43.
8) Is it exploration or exploitation?
A CAG report released in 2011 (initiated in 2007 but delayed due to non-co-operation) on Performance Audit of Hydrocarbon PSCs
castigated the oil ministry along with Reliance to retain its entire KG-D6 block in contravention of the PSC. As per the PSC, Reliance
should have relinquished 25 per cent of the total area outside the discoveries in 2004 and 2005, but the entire area was declared as a
discovery area (after initial objections) and the company was allowed to retain it. Without drilling adequate wells, Reliance kept on
claiming that there was potential for petroleum. In CAGs words this was done to confuse potential/prospectivity with actual discovery of
hydrocarbons. The move allowed Reliance to keep the entire area to itself without following the norms laid under the PSC.
In a recent report CAG has said that Reliance moved directly from discovery to commercial production, skipping the intermediate
appraisal programme step required as under PSC. CAG asks, without an appraisal programme how did the government and DGH
ascertain the amount of gas in the well? And if they did not know how much gas was there in the well, what is the logic and basis of
blaming Reliance of hoarding gas. Further, as pointed out by CAG, how did DGH assure itself of reliability of the development plan,
production rate and production costs without the appraisal report?
9) Why more investments are bad?
CAG pointed out that as per the PSC, more investments, especially in initial stages would mean more profit for the operator and less for
the government. This structure gives inadequate incentive for operators to reduce capital expenditure and provides them with
substantial incentives to front-end capital expenditure. Share of government profit varies from 85 per cent in a low investment scenario
to 5 per cent in a high investment scenario. This explains the case of exaggerated investment made against Reliance Industries.

Incidentally, as pointed out by V Ranganathan of IIM Bangalore in his article in Economic Times, the case of exaggerated investment
was first pointed out by Anil Ambani, where he pointed out that investment as per Reliances plan is increasing four times but production
is expected to only double. Reliance revised its production estimates from 40 mmscmd (million metric standard cubic metres per day) to
80 mmscmd while increasing its investment from $2.4 billion to $8.8 billion.
10) How was the new pricing formula arrived at?
Former RBI governor C Rangarajan came out with a formula which has been followed nowhere in the world, which has resulted in
Reliance (and other players too) getting a price on import parity basis. Surya Sethi, former Principal Adviser, Power and Energy,
Government of India does not mince words when he asks the Prime Minister in an open letter [Read here] not to burden the nation with
Rangarajan Committees madness that only benefit a select few.
Conclusion
Sethis open letter to the Prime Minister sums up the entire issue when he points out that the CAGs findings reveal how crony
capitalism benefited RIL. The pre-qualification norms were diluted to ensure RIL qualified, the claimed size of gas discoveries, the field
development plans and the investment outlays proposed escaped rigorous due diligence says Sethi. Above all, the companys
commitments under the PSC on gas output were not enforced.
The entire episode stinks of anything but natural gas. While Moily may claim that system was followed, there is enough evidence out
there that says otherwise.
THE MEGA 4G SCAM BY GOVERNMENT AND RELIANCE

After the 2G spectrum allocation scam of the UPA Government, another major telecom scandal in the allocation of 4G spectrum (BWA) has
come to light by the recent CAG report. In fact, AAP leader and senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan has filed a PIL in the Supreme Court
seeking cancellation of Reliance Industries telecom license and a through criminal investigation. Supreme Court had issued
notice to Government and Reliance on that petition on 9 th May 2014.
The factum of the scam is this. The UPA Government in March 2013 allowed a back-door entry of Reliance Jio Infocomm into
voice telephony in violation of the judgment of the Supreme Court in the 2G case. This was done at the price discovered in
2001 of Rs 1,658 crores for a pan-India licence, which is the same price that was struck down by the Supreme Court in the 2G
judgment because of having caused a huge loss to the public exchequer.
During May-June 2010 the auctions for 3G and 4G were concluded. The 3G auction fetched Rs 16,750.58 crore for 5+5 MHz spectrum in 2100
MHz (or 2.1 GHz) band. Thus, per MHz price worked out to be Rs 1,675 crore. Immediately, after the 3G auction, the 4G auction began which
fetched Rs 12,847.77 crore for 20 MHz pan-India license in the 2300 MHz (or 2.3 GHz) band. This works out to be Rs 642.39 crore per MHz.
This was so because all documents stated that 4G spectrum was for data services only, whereas 3G spectrum can be used for both data and
voice telephony.
Infotel Broadband Services Pvt Ltd (IBSPL) emerged as the only company to have acquired pan-India 4G spectrum. IBSPL had an internet
license since November 2007 and had just one subscriber with revenue of Rs 16.28 lakhs during 2009-10, and its authorized share capital was
Rs 3 crore and the paid up capital was Rs 2.51 crore. Infotel Digicomm Pvt Ltd (IDPL) held 99.99% share of the IBSPL at the time of submission
of application in March 2010.
Within hours of completion of 4G auction on 11.06.2010, IBSPL increased the authorised share capital from Rs 3 crore to Rs 6,000 crore. On
17.06.2010, the company authorized its Board of Directors to allot 475 crore equity share of Rs 10 each to Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and 25
crore equity share of Rs 10 to Infotech Digicomm Pvt Ltd (IDPL) aggregating to the equity capital of Rs 5,000 crore. On the same day, the
company also decided to change from a private company to Public Limited Company (Infotel Broadband Services Ltd). Thus, the company
within a week of winning the 4G spectrum disposed off 95% shares to RIL while 5% was retained by IDPL. Much later in March 2013, the
company was renamed as Reliance Jio Infocomm Pvt Ltd.
CAG has found that the Government did not protect its interest at the time of framing eligibility criteria for the 4G auction. It allowed
participation of internet (ISP) licensees without ensuring adequate safeguards in terms of net-worth of the companies participating in the
auction. It found that while a UAS licensee or even a new company without a license was allowed to participate in the 4G auction, but they had
to pass through the test of net-worth in order to become eligible, but no such criteria was specified for the existing internet (ISP) licensees
participating in 4G auction. CAG observed that this criterion was important even for ISP-A licensees as they had to participate in the bidding
where the reserve price was fixed at Rs 1,750 crore per pan-India license for 20 MHz spectrum in 2.3 GHz band. The only company which won
the pan-India 4G license, was an ISP-A licensee, Infotel Broadband Services Pvt Ltd (IBSPL), a HFCL promoted group company. CAG has stated
that IBSPL was given the ISP-A license in November 2007, and it had just one leased-line subscribers as on December 2009 and total revenue
of just Rs 16.28 lakh for FY 2009-10. The paid-up capital was just Rs 2.51 crore and 99.99 per cent of it was held by Infotel Digicom Pvt Ltd at
the time of submission of application for the 4G auction in March 2010. Thus, this company could not be termed as a serious player. And there
were no checks in-built in the auction process to eliminate such non-serious players, CAG has observed.
After the company was taken over Reliance Industries, the Government allowed it to provide voice telephony (which was earlier prohibited)
without conducting a fresh auction. This was done at the rate of Rs 1,658 crore which was fixed in 2001, and had been struck down by the
Supreme Court in the 2G case for causing huge loss to public exchequer. The CAG has now concluded that besides vitiating the auction
process, an undue advantage of Rs 22,842 crore was given to RIL at the cost of exchequer. The relevant part of the CAGs report is reproduced
below: It was found that the basis of the decision i.e. payment of entry fee of Rs 1,658 crore by ISP licensee for a permission to Pan India
provision of mobile voice services using BWA spectrum considered by the DoT Committee, Telecom Commission and the MOC&IT, was
primarily intended to fill the gap between the eligibility criterion stipulated for participation in the 3G / BWA auction in 2010 as UAS /
CMTS licensees had paid entry fee of Rs 1,658 crore while ISP licensees had paid only Rs 30 lakh.
The DoT Committee, Telecom Commission and the MOC&IT however ignored the fact that the quantum of entry fee i.e. Rs 1,658 crore
was basically discovered in 2001 through the bidding for the 4th Cellular licenses. Market conditions since then have changed drastically,
and this price needed to be modified to reflect the present value. Neither the DoT Committee / TC under the Chairmanship of the
Secretary DoT nor the MOC&IT felt the need for revision of the price discovered in 2001 as the entry fee for UASL in 2013, even when the
Honble Supreme Court of India had cancelled 122 licenses granted in 2008 on the basis of the same entry fee stating that it was
impossible for them to approve the action of the DoT.

Therefore, by permitting ISPs to provide mobile voice service using BWA spectrum won in 2010 auction post-auction, the government
has brought ISP licensees with BWA spectrum at par with UAS / CMTS 3G spectrum winners so far as provision of services are concerned
Voice, Data, etc., and post auction interpretation of such vital nature would appear to be arbitrary, inconsistent and not appropriate.
Hence, IBSPL, now Reliance JioInfocomm, appeared to have been accorded undue advantage of Rs 22,842 crore i.e. the difference of the
proportionate prices for 20 MHz block size in 2.1 GHz spectrum band (3G spectrum) and 2.3 GHz spectrum band (BWA spectrum) plus
the Net Present Value of the entry fee for UASL at the end of FY 2009-10 (Rs 20,653 crore plus Rs 3,847 crore - Rs 1,658 crore). Besides,
the sanctity of the entire auction process has been rendered vitiated due to post auction interpretations and interventions after three
years. It was therefore no surprise that Reliance JioInfocomm was among the first group of companies which applied for UL immediately
after introduction of the scheme and obtained the Letter of Intent (LoI). Had the spectrum blocks been specified and declared as
liberalised spectrum blocks i.e. open for all technology / services in the NIA in February 2010, there was no doubt that bidders would
have taken informed decision for putting up their bid and the market discovered price would have been significantly different for 3G and
BWA spectrum.
Therefore, the Aam Aadmi Party demands the NDA government to immediately cancel the telecom license and allotment of 4G
spectrum given to Reliance Industries and also a registration of an FIR by the CBI for a through criminal investigation into this
scam involving Reliance Industries and the UPA Government.

Petroleum Ministry document leak: Its a Rs 10,000 cr scam, claims accused Santanu Saikia; R-ADAG
office raided

The dramatic claim comes after police arrested five senior executives from top energy firms and two consultants,
including Sanatnu Saikia in the Petroleum Ministry 'leak' case.
A key accused in the corporate espionage case today claimed that it was a Rs 10,000 crore scam that he was trying to uncover as police said
documents seized from corporate executives related to national security that can attract Official Secrets Act provisions.
Meanwhile, a local court remanded the five arrested corporate executives in police custody till February 24 for further questioning. Delhi Police
also conducted raids here and in nearby Noida looking for stolen documents from offices of petroleum companies.
Santanu Saikia, a former journalist, now running an energy consultant running a website, claimed to reporters outside an Crime Branch office
that it was a Rs 10,000 crore scam, which he was trying to uncover. Please quote me, he said as policemen took him in for interrogation.
Reacting to his claim, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said Saikia was saying such things for covering up his own defence.
Let him spill out all the information he has. The primary accusation is that somebody stole the papers from the ministry. Police is
investigating. Anybody has the right to tell everything to the police, he said.
Pradhan said police is doing an independent job and everything will be clear after investigation. Law will take its course, whoever they may be,
he said when asked about the arrest of executives of private companies.
Producing the five corporate executives arrested yesterday before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Khanagwal, the police said, National
interest was taken for a ride in the case.
Documents related to national security have also been recovered. This may attract charges under the Official Secrets Act.
The fiveShailesh Saxena from RIL, Vinay Kumar from Essar, KK Naik from Cairns, Subhash Chandra from Jubilant Energy and Rishi Anand from
Reliance ADAGwho were produced in the court in police custody till February 24 for further questioning.
The police told the court that they have to consult the concerned ministries regarding the documents which have been recovered from the
possession of the accused and their custodial interrogation was required to confront them with the same.

These five accused were procuring these sensitive documents at the behest of their senior officials, some of whom might be interrogated in
the ongoing investigation, police said.
The advocates appearing for these five accused vehemently opposed the polices plea seeking five days police custody, contending that their
clients have been illegally detained since February 18 and 19.
The defence counsel also contended that there was nothing to be recovered from their clients and the police have not told the court regarding
the specific allegations against these accused.
With the arrest of these five accused, the total number of arrests in the case rose to 12. Seven others were produced in the court yesterday
out of whom four were sent to police custody till February 23 and three were remanded to judicial custody for two weeks.
Police sources said that Subhash Chandra, a senior executive with Jubilant Energy, who was arrested along with four other top officials of
energy companies yesterday, was taken to Jains office in the morning.
After searching Jains office, the police team took him to the Noida office of Jubilant Energy. His office and some other rooms were searched by
the police to recover stolen documents.
Office of another petroleum company whose executive was also one of them arrested was also raided by the police. Laptop and computers of
the arrested officials have been seized by investigators which would be sent for forensic analysis.
Asked about the issue, Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi said, We have searched places which were necessary for the course of
investigation. We may further raid places as our aim is to reach the bottom of the whole thing.
The police chief also said that investigation is on in the case and it will end only when a charge sheet will be filed.
We need to know since how long this has been going on and who all benefited from it, said a senior official.
According to police, all these company executives allegedly received stolen documents which have been recovered by police teams during
raids from their establishments.
Saxena is Manager, corporate affairs, Reliance Industries Limited(RIL); Chandra is senior executive, Jubilant Energy; Anand is DGM, Reliance
ADAG; Vinay is DGM, Essar and Naik is GM, Cairns India.
They have been booked under IPC sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy) and 411 (dishonestly receiving stolen property).

The case FIR, produced in a local court yesterday said an input on the National Gas Grid for the Finance Ministers Budget speech of 2015-16 is
among the various secret documents recovered from the accused.
The office of Reliance ADAG group at a premier five-star hotel here was also raided today by police in this connection.
We are basically looking for the stolen documents from the establishments linked to the 12 people we have arrested so far. Searches are
being conducted at various places in Delhi and NCR, said a senior police official associated with the probe.
The raids have been confined to this region and not being carried out across the country as was speculated, he added.
Sources, meanwhile, said that police had also stumbled upon another module operated separately from the those arrested so far and their
area of operation was another plum ministry.
They added that a junior level officer and some more corporate executives are under scanner in this connection and arrests are expected by
Monday.

KG basin controversy: SC seeks response from Reliance

The Supreme Court on Friday granted six weeks time to Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) to respond to the final CAG report,
which found alleged irregularities including in payments made to the contractors on drilling of D6 wells at the Krishna-Godavari basin.
The apex court posted the next hearing for March 20 during which it would examine the RIL's response to the CAG report that had sought
disallowance of $357.16 million (about Rs 2,179 crore) expenditure RIL incurred on drilling of wells and payments to contractors in KG-D6.
Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar said the Centre can make comments on the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) recommendations and
findings only after getting the report of the Parliament's Public Account Committee which is examining it.
The order was passed during a brief hearing of petitions filed in 2013 by senior CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta and NGO Common Cause,
challenging the then UPA government decision to double the price of natural gas from $4.2 to $8.4 per mmbtu and seeking cancellation of
RIL's contract for exploration of oil and gas from the KG basin.
The third PIL on the issue has been filed by advocate M L Sharma. A bench headed by Justice T S Thakur also allowed Dasgupta and other
petitioners to file their response to the NDA government's fresh guidelines which would "supersede" the earlier UPA dispensation's policy on
price fixation for natural gas, including that from KG basin, which has been the bone of contention between the Centre and RIL.
The Solictor General on November 14, 2014 had said before the bench, which also comprised justices J Chelameswar and Kurian Joseph, that
the 'new domestic natural gas policy' was approved by the government on October 18 raising natural gas price to $5.61 per mmbtu from
November 1 and had said that "recommendation of the Rangarajan Committee would not be given effect".
The Rangarajan formula on gas pricing was approved by the previous UPA government. Rangarajan was Chairman, Economic Advisory Council
to the then Prime Minister.
In its second audit of RIL's eastern offshore KG-D6 block, the CAG on November 28, 2014 recommended disallowing the company from
recovering $279.8 million in cost of three wells as well as a part of expenditure the firm had incurred in area which was improperly declared
discovery area.
The CAG, in its report tabled in the Parliament, found irregular payment of $427.48 million to contractors, of which it sought disallowance of at
least $77.36 million cost. Earlier RIL's senior advocate Harish Salve had said "he is not happy with the new guidelines (on gas pricing)".
While the Centre has maintained that the issue raised by Dasgupta has been addressed with the new guidelines, advocate Prashant Bhushan,
appearing for the NGO, had said several other issues needed to be argued.
He had said that the draft CAG report itself suggested that RIL "hugely over-estimated" the reserves of the KG gas block and other
irregularities are cited.
Among the other issues, the NGO has alleged that fraud was committed by RIL requiring government to take back the field and there was a
need for court-monitored probe on the issue.
Dasgupta and the NGO had said government should be asked not to make "any further increase" in the price of gas produced by RIL from KG
basin.
RIL has refuted the allegation of extraneous consideration for the increase in the gas price from $4.2 to $8.4 per mmbtu for the gas taken from
the existing fields like KG D-6 basin. RIL had submitted that the gas output from KG basin has fallen to 8 mscmd against expected 80 mscmd
due to "technical reason".
M Veerappa Moily, the then Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, was also named as one of the respondents in the petitions. The PILs
have also sought imposition of penalty on private parties for failure in adhering to commitments.
The petitioners have sought a direction for a thorough audit by CAG of the working of the production-sharing contract (PSC) governing KG
block, gold plating by RIL, underproduction by RIL and all related issues.
The former CPI MP had alleged collusion between the government and the company, saying RIL "is holding country's energy security to
ransom". He also said that natural resources belong to the citizens and the government.
The Common Cause has supported Dasgupta's arguments and referred to controversial intercepted telephonic conversations between former
corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with others to support the allegation of collusion.

The NGO has urged that Centre should wait for the outcome of the two petitions pending before the apex court.

Kejriwal trains his guns on Reliance Industries Limited ( RIL ), wants gas pact cancelled

Kejriwal attributes Jaipals ouster to his refusal to carry out Mukesh Ambanis diktat
India Against Corruption on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the NDA government as well as the Manmohan Singh
government for protecting the interests of corporates, especially Reliance Industries Limited (RIL). It demanded that the
governments contract with RIL be scrapped as the Mukesh Ambanis company allegedly cut down on production from its KG
D6 gas- field to gain huge profits after the proposed gas price revision.
Linking the shifting of Jaipal Reddy from the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry to his refusal to follow RILs diktat to revise
the price before the scheduled deadline of April 2014, IAC leader Arvind Kejriwal said Mr. Reddy was shunted out as he
refused to bow to RIL, arguing that a price revision would fetch the company an additional profit of Rs. 43,000 crore.
Mr. Reddy had prepared a note for the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM), in which he mentioned that acceptance of RILs
demand would mean an additional profit of Rs. 43, 000 crore [to the company]. Most of this gas is used in power and fertilizer
production. Increasing the gas price would mean an additional financial burden of Rs. 53,000 crore on the Central and State
governments. This would in turn mean higher power and fertilizer prices or a higher subsidy burden on the taxpayer, Mr.
Kejriwal said in his third expose, after targeting Congress president Sonia Gandhis son-in-law Robert Vadra and BJP president
Nitin Gadkari.
Mr. Kejriwal, who addressed journalists, along with Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan, said that in 2006, it was Mani
Shankar Aiyar who got the axe and Murli Deora was brought in to allow RIL to increase capex from $2.39 billion to $8.8 billion
and to increase the gas price from $2.43 per Million Metric British Thermal Units (mmBtu) to $4.2 mmBtu. We demand that
the contract with RIL for the KG D6 be scrapped immediately and the state-run companies like ONGC be given the block for
future production. The government should immediately put in place adequate systems to get full production from the KG D6
at the cheapest prices for the country and its people.
Mr. Kejriwal said that under RILs contract, the company was supposed to sell gas at $4.2 per mmBtu until March 2014. But
midway, the company wanted the price increased to $14.2 per mmBtu.
Mr. Kejriwal and Mr. Bhushan alleged that to pressure the government to revise the gas price, RIL had substantially reduced
production for over the past one year. The total consumption in the country stood at 156 Million Metric Standard Cubic Metre
Per Day (mmscmd). RIL was supposed to produce 80 mmscmd from 2009. However, it was turning out just 27 mmscmd.
Production was being artificially kept low to blackmail the government. They are not just hoarding gas but also forcing
various consumers to buy gas from abroad. Gas from abroad costs $13 per mmBtu, and if RILs demand for increasing the gas
price is accepted, it will lead to the shutdown of several gas-based power plants and an increase in power and fertilizer prices.
It will result in Rs. 43,000 crore of additional benefits to RIL.
Mr. Kejriwal said the drastic reduction in gas production forced many gas-based power plants to shut down or run with a
reduced capacity. Today, power from a gas-based power plant costs Rs. 3 a Kwh (Kilowatt hour). If the gas price is increased
from $4.2 to $14.2 as demanded by RIL, power rates will go up to Rs. 7 a Kwh. We urge the people of this country not to
allow the government to pass the huge benefit to RIL and [to] flood the Petroleum Ministry and its new Minister, Veerappa
Moily, with RTIs [Right to Information questions] so that he does not dare to undertake any revision. We should not allow
this government, which changes Ministers at the instance of Mr. Ambani, to work at the direction of RIL.
Mr. Kejriwal played the clippings of tapes, involving conversations between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and Atal Bihari
Vajpayees son-in-law Rajnan Bhattacharya. First, the NDA regime favoured RIL in the structuring of the deal in 2000, and
various modifications were made thereafter. Citing the CAGs report on the KG D6, he alleged that the motivated structuring
of the contract could cost the exchequer up to Rs. 1 lakh crore.
He said RIL had signed a contract with state-run NTPC in 2004 to supply gas for its power plants at $2.34 per mmBtu.
However, the company backed out of the deal, and the matter was in court. UPA I or UPA II did not deem it fit to vigorously
take up the case of NTPC against RIL, but worked in a proactive manner to get the price revised for RIL gas. The EGoM, headed
by the then Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, revised the gas price to $4.2 per mmBTU, and by doing so, it gave RIL an
undue benefit of Rs. 8,000 crore.

Kejriwals latest: Reliance blackmailing govt, Mukesh Ambani running India

NEW DELHI: S Jaipal Reddy was axed as petroleum minister for refusing a Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries proposal to
hike charges of gas it supplied to state-run power plants, India Against Corruptions Arvind Kejriwal charged on Wednesday,
demanding that the Krishna Godavari basin allotted to the company be taken back.
Mukesh Ambani is running the country it seems, Kejriwal told the media here. Jaipal Reddy was removed as he refused to
hike the charges levied by Reliance Industries to supply gas to the NTPC (National Thermal Power Corp).
Reliance called the charges irresponsible.
According to Kejriwal, the KG basin was awarded to Reliance in 2000 by the NDA government when the company agreed to
supply gas to the NTPC for the next 17 years at $2.34 per unit.
But, said Kejriwal, the company revised the rate to $4.25 per unit in 2007 which then finance minister Pranab Mukherjee
agreed to as the head of an empowered group of ministers.
The entire contract was meant to benefit Reliance because the cost would be determined by the company, and if the cost
increases, so will the profit, he said, adding this was unheard of in business.
The company, he said, revised the rate to $4.2 per unit in 2007, which then finance minister Pranab Mukherjee agreed to as
head of an empowered group of ministers, benefiting Reliance to the tune of Rs.10,000 crore.
Kejriwal alleged that in 2006 then petroleum minister Mani Shankar Iyer was removed and Murli Deora brought in to increase
Reliance Industries capital expenditure from $2.39 billion to $8.8 billion, and to hike gas price from $2.34 per unit to $4.2 per
unit.
Later, the company wanted the rate further hiked to $14.2. Jaipal Reddy, who reportedly did not agree to the proposal, was
shunted out in Sundays cabinet rejig, said the activist-politician.
Kejriwal released to the media a secret document of the petroleum ministry that said that accepting the Reliance demand
would generate for it an additional profit of Rs 43,000 crore ($8.5 billion).
In order to pressurize the government, RIL substantially reduced its production of natural gas, a statement from India
Against Corruption said.
Production has been artificially kept low to blackmail the government. They are not just hoarding the gas but also forcing
various consumers to buy gas from abroad.
When Reliance sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs intervention, he asked the attorney general to find out if the gas
prices should be hiked or not.
Why did the PM not show similar concern when NTPC was forced to accept higher gas price from RIL? Why is the PM not
pulling up Reliance for not producing gas as per their commitment? Why did the PM not seek legal opinion when the countrys
interests were at stake?
Kejriwal, who was flanked by fellow activists Prashant Bhushan and Manish Sisodia, demanded that Reliance Industries
blackmailing should be immediately stopped.
Their KG Basin contract should be cancelled. The government should immediately put in place adequate systems to get full
production from KG Basin at the cheapest price for the country.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) asked the prime minister to respond to IAC and explain why Jaipal Reddy was dropped from

the petroleum ministry.

Is it any malfunction in the ministry that has persuaded Manmohan Singh to effect this change? Or is that Jaipal Reddy was
not found a convenient minister? Or is this another example of corporate interests taking precedence over national good?
BJP leader Jaswant Singh asked.
After taking on Congress president Sonia Gandhis son-in-law Robert Vadra and BJP president Nitin Gadkari, anti-corruption
activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday charged Mukesh Ambani, Indias richest man and chairman of Reliance
Industries Limited (RIL), with getting undue
related stories
Cong slams IAC over RIL allegations, questions source of funding
RIL denies IAC allegations, says chargess made at behest of vested interests
BJP to govt: Was Jaipal shifted to benefit RIL?
favours from the government over a contract to develop natural gas fields.
The allegations pertain to RILs D-6 block in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin, Indias largest gas producing field off the eastern
coast in Andhra Pradesh, which is being jointly developed by RIL and its partners, Britains BP and Canadian firm Niko
Resources.
Kejriwal and his colleague, lawyer Prashant Bhushan, termed the deal a classic case of crony capitalism and said both the
BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and Congress-led UPA (United Progressive Alliance) governments were responsible
for RIL getting this contract.
The contract, signed in 2000 by the then NDA government, according to Kejriwal, would rob the national exchequer of
revenues to the tune of Rs. 45,000 crore if RILs demands for a higher price for its gas were met.
The government has not decided yet on a demand by RIL to raise the price of gas from the field to $14.25 per unit from $4.25,
the subject of a long-running controversy.
In a brief statement, RIL dismissed the charges as being devoid of any truth or substance.
Irresponsible allegations made by IAC at the behest of vested interests without basic understanding of the complexities of a
project of this nature do not merit a response, it added.
Petroleum minister Veerappa Moily refused to comment.
I have better things to do, he said.
I dont want to respond.
The press conference also witnessed high drama when a Congress worker wanted to question Kejriwal, but was heckled by
camerapersons and IAC volunteers, and forced to leave the venue.
Kejriwal based his attack on the government and RIL on the so-called Radia tapes, a collection of phone taps from between
2007 and 2009 in one of which someone thought to be former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayees son-in-law Ranjan
Bhattacharya is heard telling RIL and Tata Groups corporate lobbyist Niira Radia that Ambani had told him that Congress to
apni dukaan hai.
The unearthing of the Radia tapes had triggered accusations of corporate influence in the distribution of ministers portfolios
in the UPAs second term.
On Wednesday, Kejriwal gave this accusation fresh legs by linking Jaipal Reddys removal from the petroleum ministry on
Sunday to his run-ins with RIL over the pricing of gas.
He also gave a populist spin to his allegations by linking the governments restriction on the supply of cheap LPG cylinders to
the public to the high profits being allowed to RIL.
We want to know why the PMs heart beats only for RIL. Why did he not seek the attorney generals opinion when NTPC was
not getting gas at cheap rates? Kejriwal said.
State-run National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) had sought cheaper gas to fire its power plants.
* In 2006, Mani Shankar Iyer was removed and Murli Deora brought in to increase RIL capex from $ 2.39 billion to $ 8.8 billion
and to increase gas price from $2.34 per mmBTU to $ 4.2 per mmBTU
* In 2012, Jaipal Reddy has been removed and Moily brought in to increase gas prices from $ 4.2 per mmBTU to $ 14.2 mmBTU
and to condone RILs blackmailing of reducing gas production
* Both BJP and Congress involved. BJP signed a sweet deal with RIL in 2000. Congress faithfully implemented it
* If RIL demand of increasing the gas price to $ 14.2 is accepted, it would lead to shut down of several gas based power plants
and increase in power and fertilizer prices
* By this deal, RIL would benefit by an additional Rs. 43,000 crore
* In Nira Radiia tapes, Ranjan Bhattacharya (Vajpayees son in law) is heard telling Nira that Mukesh Ambani told him
Congress to ab apni dukaan hai
* Huge benefits given to RIL in last one decade despite flagrant violations of various agreements by RIL. Benefits to RIL
causing serious price rise in the country.
* In order to pressurize the government, RIL substantially reduced its production of natural gas. Total consumption of natural
gas in the country is 156 mmscmd. According to agreement, RIL was supposed to produce 80mmscmd (more than 50% of the
total demand) from 2009.
* RIL got this contract during NDA regime in the year 2000. The contract was meant to favor RIL right from the beginning. In
any business, increase in costs means decrease in profits.
The IAC press release alleged that performance of RIL so far has been much worse than perhaps the worst performing
government department.
1. 4 times cost escalation within 2 years from $ 2.39 billion in 2004 to $ 8.8 billion in 2006.
2. Increase in gas price from $ 2.34 per mmBTU in 2004 to $ 4.2 per mmBTU in 2007 to the present demand of $ 14.2 per
mmBTU.
3. Capacity created for producing 80 mmscmd after incurring such a huge cost ends up producing just 27 mmscmd after 12
years.
4. 31 oil wells should have been in production till now. Out of them, just 13 are functional.
Kejriwal and lawyer Prashant Bhushan, a leading member of IAC, alleged the allocation of KG Basin to Reliance is on similar
lines as coal block allocation scam. They alleged both Congress and BJP were in Ambanis pocket.

REAL STORY OF Late DHIRUBHAI AMBANI of Reliance Industries

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3924530/Polyester-PrinceThe-Real-Story-of-Dhirubhai-AmbaniBanned-in-India

Another Major Scam : Govt. Favours Reliance In KG Basin

The CAG draft report that nails the connivance between Government agencies and Reliance Industries Ltd. leading to huge
losses to the Government exchequer is yet another example of the power of corporates in the UPA Government to subvert
rules and regulations in their favour.
The CAG has noted that the former Director-General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) permitted Reliance to inflate its development
costs on the gas extraction in the D6 block of KG basin from 2.47 billion dollars to a whopping 8.84 billion dollars. This money
taken by RIL affected the revenues of the Government. Government should prosecute the former DGH without any delay.
The Governments connivance with RIL has a direct impact on the aam aadmi because increased claims of development cost
get reflected in the price of gas given to consumers and also affect the prices of fertilizer and power. Letters have been
written to the Prime Minister to institute an independent enquiry into the complaint of artificial jacking up of the capital
expenditure by RIL for D6 KG Basin and its hasty approval by the concerned authority to find out the actual cost before gas
price is fixed.
In a repeat of the 2-G scam, the Prime Ministers silence on the issue, has again exposed the UPA Governments acquiescence
to corporate manipulation.
Related posts:
1. The Great Billion Dollar Drug Scam
2. Supreme Snub : Court SIT A Major Embarrassment For Govt

3. Now A Petroleum Scam?

4. The -Reliance KG Gas Scam Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick
5. Way to Rural Self Reliance: National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM)
6. Demand For JPC On Spectrum Scam :Go Beyond Rhetoric
7. THE ADARSH SOCIETY SCAM A Shocking Exposure of Congress govt Venality Ashok Dhawale
8. SUPREME COURT VERDICT ON KG BASIN GAS -Dipankar Mukherjee
9. AMBANIS ROW : GOVT HAS LAST WORD ON KG BASIN GAS PRICE : SC
10. POOL PRICING FOR KG BASIN GAS TO HARM ANDHRA PRADESH INTERESTS
11. PRODUCTION OF GAS IN KG BASIN
12. FINDINGS OF ICAI IN SATYAM SCAM CASE

QUESTIONS FOR MONEY PARLIAMENTARY ACTS/LEGISLATIONS FOR ????-improper functioning of democracy in india

the vohra committee report has proved the criminalisation of politics in india. There are many number of criminals in the
parliament & state legislatures. Some of those criminals are cabinet ministers as well as members of vital parliamentary
committees. Thereby, they are in a position to manipulate , enact laws favouring , benefitting the criminals their cronies.

Just see how the GOI gave export incentive of Rs.1800 crore to reliance petroleum although it didn't even export a barrel.
Reliance infocom & tata teleservices were CDMA mobile service providers & have paid license fee of few crores only equal to
landline fees without any competitive bidding . They were supposed to provide mobile service to operate like fixed phones
within a radius of 40k.m. however they were providing service like mobile service from one state to another like GSM mobile
service providers. By this act of RIC & TTSL , the GSM providers who have paid thousands of license fee in competitive bidding
were economically hurt , the dispute went to court. The court was on the verge of pronouncing it's verdict awarding damages
worth Rs.18000 crore to GSM players & Rs. 3000 crore of license fees with penalty to GOI. The government announced a
unified telecom license regime with retrospective effect. Thereby, the GOI lost thousands of crores of rupees & the share
holders of GSM players lost thousands of crores. Once again the RIC was charged by PSU bsnl THAT RELIANCE IS RE-ROUTING
INTERNATIONAL CALLS AS LOCAL CALLS & SWINDLING THE GOI. This time too, GOI bailed it out. during the dispute between
ambani brothers the younger ambani mr. Anil ambani director of reliance himself has stated that for the favours received from
the GOI , the company gifted some shares to then IT & COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER mr. Pramod mahajan.

Various indian & multinational companies are looting indian exchequer to the tune of thousands of crores of rupees , through
lobbying / bribing. In india, indirect democracy is the form of governance. In this form, people's representatives are bound to
raise the questions , issues concerning their constituents on their behalf , on the floor of the house. However the sad part in
india even after 58 years of democracy , is the lobbying is at it's peak. The lobbying is a gentleman's white collared crook's
way of forming favour seeker's group , creating a corpus to pay lumpsum bribe & influencing decision making. The people's
representatives are bound to represent their people first , then their party & party think tanks. India has come to this sorry
state of affairs , widespread corruption , huge black economy & rampant poverty, all due to inefficient legislations &
enforcements. These think tanks & IAS lobby, consider themselves as most super brains on earth & gives out suggestions . the
present state of affairs is a barometer of their brilliance. These think tanks & IAS lobby are the hand maidens of lobbyists /
bribers.

Now consider the following example : Mr.raj gandhi is a member of parliament from mandya constituency in karnataka state.
He is a MBA graduate & member of ruling indian progressive party. The multinational giant M/S GREY HOUND CORPORATION
wants to enter into paper manufacturing business in india. It's sight falls on the public sector paper giant mandya national
paper mills ( MNPM) in mandya district of karnataka. The MNC effectively lobbies with the government. The ruling party think
tank & the cabinet advisory group recommends to the government to make strategic disinvestment in the PSU M/S MNPM.
They bring out graph with full power point presentation stating that it is good for the company as well as the government. The
lobbyists follows it up with media reports on the positive aspect of strategic disinvestment. A favourable impression is
created in the minds of literate public. The cabinet committee okays it.

The " strategic dis investment issue " comes before the parliament for legislation / approval. The ruling party issues a party
whip to it's members to vote in favour of dis investment. However M.P mr.raj gandhi who is an MBA in his own wisdom also
favours the dis investment. However ,most importantly the constituents people in mandya parliamentary constituency
through protest marches , mass post card campaigns lakhs in numbers expresses their disagreement with the dis investment
& urges their MP mr.gandhi to vote against the disinvestment legislation.

On the D-day in parliament , mr. Raj gandhi as per his party whip & his own wisdom votes in favour of strategic disinvestment
legislation, much against the wishes of his people , constituents & mis represents them in parliament. the democracy has
failed here. in This way democracy is being derailed since 65 years in india.

In democracy, party whip , MP or MLA's own wisdom / brilliance, think tank & IAS lobby recommendations are all secondary ,
the constituent's of his constituency , people's wishes aspirations are of primary importance & supreme. What people need is
a honest representative, who simply delivers the people's aspirations on the floor of the house back & forth , without
superimposing it with his own ideas & party ideas. For true democracy , the people's representatives must be true postmans.

Towards this end , the people must be educated about their democratic rights & responsibilities. This is an appeal to the
honest few in the parliament & state legislatures to weed out their corrupt colleagues , lobbyists, to uphold the dignity of the
house & to install democracy in it's true form.

THREAT TO INDIA'S SECURITY BY CORPORATE CRIMINALS

- An appeal to honourable prime minister of india & honourable chief minister of Karnataka

In india , since ages certain section of people dalits , tribals are being oppressed in the name of caste by forward caste
people. The name sake independence has not changed the lives of dalits & tribals. The upper caste people were in control of
government & economic sector before independence as well as after independence too. The upper caste people are now MPs ,
MLAs & are running businesses . they have framed rules , laws to suit their ends. They are getting bank loans , subsidies , tax
cuts , etc , by greasing the palms of those in power their own caste men. The reservation policy is just a vote winning

gimmick of forward caste politicians , it is neo divide & rule policy. Only few dalits with money & contacts have benefitted , by
the reservation policy of government. Majority of them are still sufferring from utter poverty & social oppression.

Now, due to rapid industrialisation & globalisation a new economic divide has taken place rich & poor , haves & have nots.
Now, economically poor are also being oppressed along with dalits. The forward caste people in government have framed laws
to suit their ends , they have provided concessional priority loans , tax cuts , subsidies , etc from the government to corporate
sector . The corporate sector has demanded & got monetary benefits , infrastructure facilities from the government . however
the same corporates , MNCs are violating statuotary laws & are averse to social welfare measures of the government . they
are averse to provide jobs to dalits , tribals & poor , why ? these corporates are bribing the labour , tax department & other
government officials . as a result the government is loosing tax revenues to the tune of thousands of crores every year , the
government doesn't have money to provide social welfare measures to common people. The lives of common people are under
threat.

Now, the number of common people dying due to starvation , lack of health care is more than in a war field. The threat to
unity & integrity of india is more from the corporate sector than pakistan or china.
Now, the government of india & other state governments are literally under corporate control. HRW has brought to the notice
of government cases of statuotary law violations by various corporate entities ,
till date no action has been taken. Why ? hereby , HRW once again offers it's conditional services to the government of india &
karnataka in apprehending corporate criminals , corrupt tax , labour , pollution control board offricials. Are you ready sir ????

COVERING-UP CORPORATE FRAUDS IN INDIA

- CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY & CORPORATE GOVERNANCE NEED OF THE HOUR

In India , most of the commercial ventures cheat the government of it's rightful tax dues. As a result the governments doesn't
have enough money to carryout it's social welfare duties Providing health care , food , potable water to all. In turn common
people are dying due to lack of health care , hunger , mal nutrition , etc. the murderers of these commoners are TAX EVADING
CORPORATES , the politicians & officials keep mum by taking bribe.

Nowadays , even the underworld activities of mafia , terrorist outfits , political parties are being financed by the illegal
corporate deals. Who says threat to India is from Pakistan only , it is most likely from our own entrepreneur. Till date the GOI
has not put any corporate bigwigs behind bars for their crimes. The corporate lobby always clamours for flexible labour laws ,
credit policies as in U.S.A , but are mum about SOCIAL SECURITY NET , ENVIRONMENT POLICY & CORPORATE GOVERNANCE as
in the same U.S.A. Why ?

Recently , it has been published that , in India out of vast sales of counterfeit MOVIE CDs & software CDs , underworld is
funding narcotics trade , terrorist movements. It is high time the small investors , public became aware about the activities of
their neighbouring businessmen / Entrepreneurs.

List of Reliance Scams

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is an Indian conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The company
operates in five major segments: exploration and production, refining and marketing, petrochemicals, retail and telecommunications. [1][2]
Seminar magazine (2003) detailed Reliance founder Dhirubhai Ambanis proximity to politicians, his enmity with Bombay Dyeings Nusli Wadia,
the exposes by the Indian Express and Arun Shourie about illegal imports by the company and overseas share transactions by shell
companies, and the botched attempt to acquire Larsen & Toubro. [3]
As early as 1996, Outlook magazine addressed other controversies related to fake and switched shares; insider trading; and a nexus with the
state-owned Unit Trust of India. Five main allegations concerning Reliance, and which have plunged the Indian capital markets into a period of
uncertainty unsurpassed since the days of the securities scam were (1) Reliance issued fake shares (2) It switched shares sent for transfer by
buyers to make illegal profits (3) It has indulged in insider trading in shares (4) It established a nexus with the Unit Trust of India to raise huge
sums of money to the detriment of UTI subscribers (5) It attempted to monopolise the private telecom services market through front
companies.[4]

Insider Trading[edit]
Stock market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) issued a show-cause notice to Reliance Industries Ltd following a
probe into alleged insider trading in Reliance Petroleum Ltd (RPL) shares in November 2007. Sebi probed transactions by entities that
participated in and led to some three months of speculative rally after which the RPL stock surged to an all-time intraday high of Rs295
on 1 November 2007. In a separate and independent investigation related to the same issue, the income-tax (I-T) department looked at
possible tax evasion by a dozen entities that Mukesh Ambani-owned RIL acknowledged to be its agents. [5]
In Jan 2011, Sebi barred Anil Ambani and four other officials of Reliance Groupuntil recently known as the Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai
Ambani Group (R-Adag)companies from investing in listed shares until December 2011. Two group firms, Reliance Infrastructure Ltd
(R-Infra) and Reliance Natural Resources Ltd (RNRL) were barred from making such investment until December 2012. According to
Sebis investigations, R-Infra and RNRL were prima facie responsible for misrepresenting the nature of investments in yield
management certificates/deposits, and the profits and losses in their annual reports for the fiscal years 2007, 2008 and 2009. It also
found misuse of FII regulations. The then minister of state for finance Namo Narain Meena, on 1 December 2009, in a written response
to a query raised in the Upper House of Parliament, said that three firms of R-AdagR-Infra, RNRL and RComhad violated overseas

debt norms. These end-use violations were observed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) regarding two ECB transactionsof $360
million and $150 millionby R-Infra.[6]
In another case, Sebi, settled a dispute with Reliance Securities Ltd (RSL) with a consent order on June 2011, under which the
brokerage will spend Rs1 crore within six months on investor education and not add any new clients for 45 days starting 15 June. In the
settlement, it was also added that the brokerage will also pay Rs25 lakh towards settlement charges. This order followed a Sebi
investigation into RSLs books and accounts for fiscal 2007 and fiscal 2008, which said that it had allegedly violated various clauses of
Sebi stock brokers and sub-brokers regulations. The Sebi inquiry cited 20 irregularities, including the brokerage not informing clients
about various charges at the time of opening accounts. RSL sought power of attorney in the name of Reliance Commodities Ltd from
clients and used this to debit clients bank accounts, purchase and sell post office deposits and government of India bonds among other
transactions. Brokerage, not fully equipped to handle its customer base at the time, used the name Reliance Money at all its offices and
on employee visiting cards, instead of Reliance Securities, which was the registered trading member, leading to confusion. Brokerage
was found to have received funds from other client bank accounts other than the ones available to it, thus failing to have a sound thirdparty check on the receipt of payments. RSL had failed to update client details despite the stock exchanges pointing this out in their
inspection reports. The Sebi inquiry also said RSL collected higher securities transaction tax from its clients in 2006-2008, allotted more
than one terminal in the same segment for a single user, and also collected cheques in the name of Reliance Money. Brokerage also
did not maintain clear segregation between broking and other activities of group companies. Further, there were frequent disruptions in
the brokerages trading platform, which showed connectivity problems at the applicants end. [7]
2G spectrum[edit]
Reliance Telecom was charged with criminal conspiracy to cause criminal breach of trust by a public servant, criminal conspiracy under
section 120-B, cheating under section 420 and forgery under sections 468 and 471. Reliance Telecom was booked under
the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.[8] Resulting in to arrest of Reliance Group's corporate executives Gautam Doshi, Surendra
Pipara and Hari Nayar.[9]
NICL[edit]
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a chargesheet in a Mumbai court against Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and four
retired employees of National Insurance Company Limited (NICL), including a former CMD, under provisions of the Prevention of
Corruption Act for criminal conspiracy and other charges. Acting on a reference from CVC in March, 2005, the CBI started probing the
conspiracy that led to the filing of the chargesheet on December 9, 2011. The 2005 complaint had alleged irregularities in issuance of
insurance policies for coverage of default payments by NICL to RIL. Chargesheet also mentioned criminal offences with dishonest
intention and causing wrongful loss totaling Rs 147.41 crore to NICL and wrongful gain to the private telecom provider. [10]
Two retired senior officials of National Insurance Company Limited and 11 others were awarded varying jail terms by a Delhi court in
Jan 2014.[11]
RIL Plane grounded[edit]
A business jet owned by Reliance Industries (RIL) was grounded by The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on 22 March
2014 during a surprise inspection, for carrying expired safety equipment on board; its pilot was also suspended for flying without a
licence.[12]
ONGC Controversy[edit]
In May 2014, ONGC moved to Delhi High Court accusing RIL of pilferage of 18 billion cubic metres from its gas-producing block in the
Krishna Godavari basin.[13] Subsequently, the two companies agreed to form an independent expert panel to probe any pilferage. [14]
Krishna Godavari (KG) Basin gas[edit]
The Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) was supposed to relinquish 25% of the total area outside the discoveries in 2004 and 2005, as
per the Production Sharing Contract (PSC). However, the entire block was declared as a discovery area and RIL was allowed to retain
it. In 2011, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) criticized the Oil Ministry for this decision. The CAG also faulted RIL for
limiting the competition in contracts, stating that RIL awarded a $1.1 billion contract to Aker on a single-bid basis. [15][16]
Petition against Reliance Jio[edit]
A PIL filed in the Supreme Court by an NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation, through Prashant Bhushan, challenged the grant of
pan-India licence to RJIL by the Government of India. The PIL alleged that RJIL was allowed to provide voice telephony along with its
4G data service, by paying an additional fees of just INR16580 million (US$280 million) which was arbitrary and unreasonable, and
contributed to a loss of INR228420 million (US$3.8 billion) to the exchequer. [17][18]
The CAG in its draft report alleged rigging of the auction mechanism, whereby an unknown ISP, Infotel Broadband Services Pvt Ltd,
acquired the spectrum by bidding 5000 times its net worth, after which the company was sold to Reliance Industries. [19]

State Bank of India rewards whistleblowers with dismissal, defamation suit

CHENNAI: Defamation complaints and dismissal from service - these were the gifts management of the State Bank of India showered
on four of its employees who acted as whistle-blowers and exposed a series of 'currency bundle missing' cases involving several lakhs
of rupees from various branches of the bank.
Halting the witch-hunt by top brass of the biggest bank in India and coming to the rescue of the employees one of whom was even
dismissed from service, Madras high court said: "It is unfortunate that a public sector bank like the SBI should file a (defamation) suit
not only claiming damages for loss of reputation, but also seeking for a prior restraint on the trade union in publishing hand bills,
posters and putting up placards."
A division bench of Justice V Ramasubramanian and Justice K Ravichandrabaabu said, "Image of the bank cannot be confused with
officers at lower level committing fraud, misconduct and embezzlement. Certainly when a trade union finds that action is not being
taken, they can take the issue to the public and the grievance projected in no way amounts to defaming the bank. An employee
working in a public sector bank also owes a public duty when public funds were frittered away or misappropriated."
In May 2006, a sum of Rs 30 lakh - six bundles of Rs 500 denomination - went missing from currency notes stored in the strong room
of Avinashi branch of Coimbatore module in SBI's Chennai circle. Holding that chief general manager Pradip Chaudhary cannot be
spared for the loss caused to the bank, three persons - M V Thangaswamy, president, S Gunasekar, general secretary and G
Arasukumar, treasurer of SBI Ambedkar Trade Union - wrote complaints to the RBI and pasted posters seeking action.
In this regard, they pointed out that cash bundles worth Rs 5 lakh had gone missing from Salem branch, Rs 6 lakh went missing from
Rasipuram branch, Rs 5.5. lakh from Aminjikarai branch, Rs 5 lakh from Kulithalai branch, Rs 6 lakh from Avinasi branch, Rs 1 lakh
from Avinasi branch and the latest case of Rs 30 lakh going missing from the same Avinasi branch.
The bank hit back by issuing show-cause notices, memos, defamation suits and then dismissal of one officer from service, on the
ground that they pasted posters without properly verifying the truth and with a view to defame the bank and cause damage to their
business and reputation.
Setting aside the dismissal and other proceedings, the judges said, "It is seen from the contents of the posters that it was only an
appeal to the bank for taking action. Specific instances were pointed out to the chief general manager to take appropriate action.
Instead of taking action on the grievances projected by the trade union, the bank had filed the suit."
Exposing inaction of the bank in the light of a series of cash shortages can only be in public interest and making such statements
cannot be detrimental to the interest of the bank, the bench said. The bank itself expects its officers to take all possible steps to
ensure and protect the interests of the bank. Publishing or exposing the cash shortages in the bank and the inaction of the top
officers cannot amount to willful damage to the property of the bank. It cannot even be said to be prejudicial to the interest of the
bank, they concluded.
"Merely because it has exposed some irregularities, the poster will not affect the commercial interest of the bank," they said, adding
that on the other hand, only by such exposures, correctional measures could be taken and the bank could assure the general public
that all is well with them.
In this regard, the bench pointed out that it is usual practice for trade unions and public sector banks to publish the list of
defaulters and the non-performing assets of the bank in order to bring it to the notice of the general public and the government, so
that corrective actions can be taken.

SOILED NOTE FRAUD CASE @ RBI BANGALORE

Trauma of an old man

Complete case details also available at http://members.lycos.co.uk/ganapathihariram/

As per allegations of RBI management Bangalore in 1977-79 , criminal
nexus of RBI employees stole Rs. 220000 from RBI Bangalore. All the
banks , government treasuries in Karnataka , submit defaced / soiled
currency notes to RBI Bangalore in exchange for good notes. RBI after
collecting such defaced currency notes , sorts out fairly good notes
which can be reissued & burns off the remaining totally defaced
currency notes. All these process is done in a systematic manner.
As per allegations of the management , the crime took place in the
period of 1977-79 at RBI Bangalore. A nexus of employees, took away
the currency bundles meant for destruction & substituted it in the
place of bundles of reissuables.
Charge sheet issued by RBI Bangalore office to mr.G.Hariram
Staff no.3698/156/84-85 dt 1 april 1985
Amended charge sheet staff no 3798/156-84/85 dt 8 april 1985
CBI has charge sheeted 17 employees in connection with this case ,
case olde no. cc34/1989
new no. sc 436/1991
. the
honourable 21 city additional city civil & sessions court Bangalore in
it's order dated 24.01.1992
discharged
03 charge sheeted employees , as the prosecution
failed to prove the charges against them. They came out clean , as
they were innocents saddled with the crime done by others. One of the
charge sheeted employee who turned approver for the prosecution, has

given detailed account of the crime. Nowhere he has mentioned the

involvement of accussed no.15 mr.G.Hariram in the crime.
Even after coming out clean, mr.G.Hariram was not reinstated into
service by RBI. They gave the ruse of domestic enquiry & showed
contempt to the court order. On appeal, the honourable high court of
Karnataka ordered RBI to review it's order with respect to
mr.G.Hariram , still RBI failed to reinstate mr.G.Hariram into service
, once gain showing contempt to the court of law.
In India as per law , the decisions of court of law are binding on all
, orders of court over rides the organisation's internal rules ,
service rules , etc. inspite of lack of evidences, in a whimsical
manner the higher authorities of RBI , fixed some innocents as the
scape goats heaped all charges against them ( against whom they had
personal grudge , dislikes ). RBI repeatedly showed contempt to the
court orders , dismissed the scape goat - ailing old man mr.G.Hariram
from service. RBI snatched away his PF money towards the alleged loss
to the bank , didn't pay his gratuity amount , salary arrears and
finally he was even deprived of the pension. As a result , the old man
has even lost his social prestige, dignity , his family suffered a lot
& he is a mental wreck today.
Why RBI authoroties are hell bent upon to send away the innocents /
scape goats away from service ? why CBI didn't conduct polygraph tests
of all the accussed , specifically higher officers of RBI , managers
of RBI office Bangalore ? probably the scape goats were aware of the
crimes master minded by higher ups & didn't co-operate with the higher
ups in their crimes. So, the criminals were afraid that the scape
goats will blurt out truth to the world , fixed non co-operating
innocents themselves as criminals.
Who will give justice to innocents like old man mr.G.Hariram & who
will bell the corrupt , criminals , fat cats of RBI ?

RBI Governor Hiding Information & Hiding Crimes

APPEAL UNDER SEC 19 (3) OF RTI ACT 2005 OF GOVERNMENT OF INDIA & GOVERNMENT OF KARNATAKA

FULL NAME OF THE APPLICANT : NAGARAJA.M.R.

ADDRESS OF THE APPLICANT : NAGARAJA.M.R.,

EDITOR , SOS E-VOICE JUSTICE & SOS E-CLARION OF DALIT ,
# LIG-2 / 761, OPP WATER WORKS OFFICE,
HUDCO FIRST STAGE, LAXMIKANTANAGAR,
HEBBAL, MYSORE , KARNATAKA PIN 570017.

"Power will go to the hands of rascals, , rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw. They will
have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight among themselves for power and will be lost in political squabbles . A day would
come when even air & water will be taxed." Sir Winston made this statement in the House of Commons just before the independence
of India & Pakistan. Sadly , the forewarning of Late Winston Churchill has been proved right by some of our criminal , corrupt
peoples representatives , police , RBI Officials , public servants & Judges. Some of the below mentioned public servants fall
among the category of churchills men Rogues , Rascals & Freebooters. RBI Officials are denying me information under one
pretext or the other and covering-up SCAM worth crores of rupees.

We salute honest few in public service , our whole hearted respects to them. HEREBY , I DO HUMBLY REQUEST YOU TO GIVE ME
WRITTEN STATEMENTS / ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS WHICH IN ITSELF ( ie answers ) ARE THE INFORMATION SOUGHT
BY ME. HERE WITH I AM SEEKING NOT THE OPINIONS ABOUT SOME HYPOTHETICAL ISSUES , BUT YOUR OFFICIAL STAND , LEGAL STAND
ON ISSUES WHICH ARE OF FREQUENT OCCURRENCE WHICH ARE VIOLATING PEOPLES FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS & HUMAN RIGHTS. WE DO
HAVE HIGHEST RESPECTS FOR JUDICIARY & ALL PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS , THIS IS AN APPEAL FOR TRUTH , INFORMATION SO THAT TO
APPREHEND CORRUPT FEW IN PUBLIC SERVICE, WHO ARE AIDING & ABETTING TERRORISM , UNDERWORLD & CRIMINALS.

HEREBY , I DO HUMBLY REQUEST YOU TO GIVE ME WRITTEN STATEMENTS / ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS - WHICH IN
ITSELF ( ie answers ) ARE THE INFORMATION SOUGHT BY ME. WITH RESPECT TO CASE NO old CC34 / 1989 & NEW NO SC436/1991 AT
21
ST ADDITIONAL CITY CIVIL & SESSIONS COURT BANGALORE
CHARGE SHEETED OFFICER MR.G.HARIRAM RBI BANGALORE
CHARGE SHEET NO staff no.3698/156/84-85 dt 01.01.1985
Amended charge sheet staff no.3798/156-84/85 dt 08.04.1985

1. Why didn't you notice the alleged crimes of 1977 , 78 & 79 till the
mid of 1979 ?
2. This crime came to light only due to anonymous phone calls of good
Samaritans to authorities , but not due to your inspection . is your
inspection division working properly ?
3. why there is no security check up of officers during entry & exit
out of premises ?
4. why there is no individual weighment , individual statement of
value of bags of reissuable notes & bags of note meant for destruction
, after sorting is done, why they are not tallied with total weight ,
value of notes issued for sorting ?
5. Immediately after noticing the crime, why did not you transfer all
the employees of those sections ?
6. why did not you take steps to preserve3 & protect respective
documents relating to such high profile crime ?
7. why didn't you immediately issue charge sheet to all the accussed &
waited till 1983 ?
8. Why RBI has left out , so many officers ( who worked in the same
sections for more period than accused officers ) from domestic
enquiry ?
9. why CBI also failed to put those people in the charge sheet before
the court ?
10. is it because they were in favorable terms with the vested
interests ?
11. did the CBI dance to the tune of vested interests in RBI while
preparing charge sheet & during investigation , instead of
independent investigation ?
12. those left out probables from the charge sheet might have caused
the destruction of evidences / records. During the course of domestic
enquiry / court proceedings , it has been recorded that some records
have been destroyed. Are not CBI & RBI responsible for destruction of
evidences , aiding true criminals get away ?
13. in normal times , what is the period specified in RBI regulations
for preserving old documents / records ?

14. after noticing such a high profile crime the RBI must have taken
utmost care to preserve such old records for indefinite time , for
producing before courts of law as & when demanded. But it didn't ,
why ?
15. does not this point to connivance of higher authorities of RBI ,
with the criminals ?
16. RBI authorities have conducted domestic mass enquiries , instead
of individual enquiries , is it not detrimental to the rights of
defense ?
17. RBI authorities have stated that court proceedings & domestic
enquiry are independent of each other & are not binding on one
another. However RBI authorities straight away took on record of
domestic enquiry the court statements , evidences , but didn't honour
the order of same court of law ? why this double standard by RBI ?
18. The alleged crime was committed in 1977-79, but charge sheet was
framed in mid 1985 , why this long delay ?
19. didn't this facilitate the masterminds of crime to destroy ,
manipulate evidences ?
20. as stated before court , indeed some records , 22nd currency note
packet were missing , who is responsible for it ?
21. has the CBI conducted enquiry , polygraph test of RBI higher
officers - S.N.RAZDAN , W.S.SARAF , J.P.AWASTHI , J.MITRA & others ,
if not why ?
22. is it not due to inefficiency , negligence of duty by such high
ranking managers , that such a crime occurred in RBI Bangalore ?
23. what disciplinary action RBI has taken against the inefficient ,
negligent higher officials ?
24. whatever internal rules an organization makes must be within the
line of law. If such internal laws of the organization are violative
of law , fundamental rights of employees , such internal rules become
illegal. Are not the way of RBI disciplinary proceedings illegal ?
25. as per RBI pension regulations 1990 , RBI has the right to deduct
any loss caused to the bank , from the pension of RBI employee if the
misconduct of employee is proved in judicial proceedings . even though
mr.G.Hariram came out clean from the court , why RBI has denied his
pension ?
26. judicial courts of law are appellate authorities over & above ,
domestic enquiry committees & judicial orders supersedes the domestic
enquiry proceedings. Still RBI showed contempt of court & didn't
reinstate mr..G.Hariram into service , why ?
27. even if an employee's misconduct causing loss to the bank is

proved , before denying him pension (towards making up loss to the

bank) , previous sanction of the central board of RBI must be taken.
But in mr.G.Hariram's case , pension was denied in full without taking
previous sanction of the central board of RBI , is it not illegal ?
28. RBI alleged that mr..G.Hariram caused loss to the tune of Rs.14000
to the bank & recovered it from his provident fund dues. There was
nothing left over to recover , still RBI completely denied pension to
mr.G.Hariram , why ?
29. ideally, domestic enquiry findings / disciplinary actions should
be completed first , then the employee can appeal to appropriate court
of law. In mr.G.Hariram's case , CBI & RBI failed to prove the charges
in court of law , as a result court discharged him from the charges.
To cover-up it's failures RBI management dragged domestic enquiry much
beyond court orders date & gave findings indicting mr..G.Hariram. does
the enquiry officer of domestic enquiry think that he is over & above
the court of law ? is it not illegal & contempt of court ?
30. ideally , RBI authorities should have appealed to higher court
against lower court order discharging mr.G.Hariram from charges. But
it was not done , why ?
31. did the RBI pay interim relief to mr.G.Hariram , during suspension
period ?
32. the undue delay in filing charge sheet , consequent destruction of
key evidences , dishonour / contempt of court orders , undue haste in
giving findings , dismissal , denial of of pension without central
board's sanction , all point towards criminals within RBI higher
management. What disciplinary action has been taken against
J.P.AWASTHI, S.N.RAZDAN,J.MITRA, W.SARAF & others ? if not why ?
33. why charge sheet was amended? Is it legal ?
34. did the charge sheet was amended to falsely implicate
mr..G.Hariram , by including cancelled note vault in the charge
sheet ?
35. does not this itself show that it is not statement of actual
happenings / facts , but a cunning ploy to mislead investigation
towards fixed innocents from actual criminals ?
36. is it true that that only 5% of sample inspection is done out of
bundled verified defective note packets ?
37. is not the conduct of joint / mass enquiries of all charge sheeted
officers illegal ?
38. how come such an important evidence 22nd note packet went
missing ?
39. is it because it may point towards real criminals ?

40. as per the statement of management witness / inspection head /

expert mr.vijendra rao , the notes of earlier dates have been removed
from packets made into new bundles , right ?
41. as per his statement , entire certificates , seals of some asst
treasurers are there , who didn't work at all on that day is not it ?
42. does not it show that some body else was misusing the seals ,
putting some innocents seals over the notes ?
43. does it not show that , crime has taken place at verification
section ?
44. does it not show involvement of some asst treasurers ?
45. why asst treasurers have not been charge sheeted ?
46. why inspection of RBI Bangalore office was not done between 1975 &
1979 ?
47. is it not true that you failed to produce all records showing
internal inspection / audits , during domestic enquiry & court
proceedings ?
48. your expert mr.vijendra rao has stated that some seal marks are
smudged , he has stated some seal marks appears to be so & so. He has
clearly nowhere stated that this seal mark is exactly this , so he
himself is not 100% sure ?
49. your expert nowhere said that 100% sure this seal mark is this ,
on that day this seal was issued to mr.G.Hariram , isn't it ?
50. your expert says during 1975 , he didn't notice3 any fraud.
However approver says fraud was there before mid 1977 also. Why no
action has been taken ?
51. why you didn't produce all records of all persons , who have
specifically worked in alleged sections , the registers of those
departments with daily activity report containing seal nos , packet
nos , bag nos , etc ?
52. are not their chances of some criminals putting the seal marks of
innocent officers over the notes , bundles , bags , etc ?
53. your expert is not 100% sure of seal mark , your records are not
there to prove the presence of charge sheeted officers in the alleged
sections , neither your expert nor your records are 100% sure on what
date , at what stage , by whom crime was committed , isn't it ?
54. is not the charge sheet amounting to higher ups picking up
officers they dislike & falsely implicating them ?
55. is it not cunning ploy of higher ups to divert attention from
original criminals ?
56. why no action was taken against currency officer of 1977-79
mr.J.Mitra ? why his pension , super annuation benefits were not

withheld ?
57. what is your justification , supporting evidence , records for
picking up only three officers including mr.G.Hariram for legal
prosecution and leaving the majority of probables ?
58. why you have dropped charges against five asst treasurers ? why
you didn't even conduct domestic enquiry against them , let alone
legal prosecution ?
59. Is it RBI's & CBI's way of fair play & justice ?
60. as inly 5% sampling of verified note bundles are done , there are
more possibilities of rebundled packets getting unnoticed in relaxed
95% lot , isn't it ?
61. you have left out so many officers who worked in those sections,
some of whom even became management witnesses , instead of being
charge sheeted by the management, is it fair play & legal ?
62. who are the bank employees , from whom you have recovered the alleged bank loss of Rs.220000 ?
63. were all of them charge sheeted , enquired , legally prosecuted ,
dismissed & their pension , gratuity withheld ?
64. you don't have any internal statuotary records to prove that
mr.G.Hariram worked in those departments , except a currency officer's
office note dated just on the eve of charge sheet years after the
alleged crime ? does it not prove that this note has been concocted
just to fix mr.G.Hariram ?
65. where as you have records of other officials attendance in those
departments , but not charge sheeted them why ?
66. three officers of staff grade A daily work in three sections out of 40 officers , why you have picked up only mr.G.Hariram , out of
1095 working days , he has worked for only 223 days in those
sections , still those officers who worked for more days in those
sections are not charge sheeted why ? the approver , the management
expert witness , shift registers , V2 registers , Destruction
certificates , Form CD 55 , etc , nobody , no records were able to say
on what date , at what stage , by whom crime took place , also they
were unable to say on what date at what stage crime was committed by
mr.G.Hariram ? is it not futile imagination , cunning ploy of RBI
higher authorities to fix innocent Mr.G.Hariram ?
67. the management expert witnesses said , the most probable place of
crime is punching / Cancelled Note Vault , incinerator , where asst
treasurers were joint custodians . they were not enquired & let off
why ?
68.

the charge sheet alleges extraction / substitution of

defaced note packets. Where as the management expert witness say

substitution of defaced notes only ? is not there difference between
loss of one number of note & 100 number of notes ?

69.

as per the normal course of duty , staff officers does not

count notes in each bundles , but they just count the number of
bundles only. Is not there chances of inserted note bundles or bundles
containing less number of notes going unnoticed ? is it not the
failure of statuotary system of work practices ?
70.

does not all these prove higher authorities of RBI & CBI

were hell bent to fix mr.G.Hariram & to shield the original

criminals ?
Questions with respect to other cases :
71.

how do you monitor the work of bank officials nominated as

directors of companies which have availed bank loans ?

72.

how do you monitor the work of companies , in which banks

have invested ?
73.

how do you monitor the rapid wealth growth of certain bank

officials , who work in shares investment / equity funds section ,

etc ?
74.

inspite of project reports by bank officials , over

assessment of collateral securites / value of debtor companies by bank

officials , the loans become NPAs & full value cann't be realized in
the market by selling off the assets of debtor companies also. In such
cases , what action is taken against erring bank officials who collude
with criminal industrialists for availing higher amount of loan than
permissible ?
75.

give bankwise specific figures of NPAs.

76.

give names of industrial groups / promoters whose

companies have become NPAs , so that public can be aware of them ,

before investing in new companies promoted by them.
77.

is not collection of loan from debtors of bank through

rowdies / recovery agents , illegal ?

78.

why not criminal complaints filed against bank mangers for

aiding , abetting rowdism , murdering people ?

79.

if your method of employing rowdies to collect loans of Rs.

10000 from commoners is right , what would you do to a promoter of a

debtor company to recover loans of crores of rupees , supari killing ?
but debtors of crores of rupees is let off coolly by banks , why ?
80.

what is the exact amount of loss caused to the exchequer

by karim lala telgi who printed fake stamp papers ?

81.

what action has been taken against those involved ?

82.

have you taken action against all those mentioned by telgi

during narco analysis test , if not why ? is it because they are

powerful & bigwigs ?

83.

how you are controlling the illegal finance activities ,

money lending by individuals , pawn brokers & chit fund companies ?

84.

how you are monitoring the receipt of public donations ,

foreign donations by many NGOs ?

85.

how many erring NGOs , chit fund companies , pawn

brokers , individuals you have booked for illegal finance activities ?

Questions relating to RBI CURRENCY NOTE PRESS MYSORE
86. who were responsible for selling the good printing machine at
security press nasik to scamster karim lala telgi as scrap ?
87. who recruited the candidates below merit rankings in R.B.I for
what criminal roles ?
88. how many irregularities have taken place in R.B.I till date ?
89. who is responsible for installing, operating & supervising the
security set-up in R.B.I ?
90. how the raw materials ie number of paper sheets, ink, etc are
accounted for in inward stores & while issuing for printing ?
91. how wastages, scrap of ink , papers , etc in the printing process
are accounted for?
92. How the finished goods ie currency notes are accounted for ?
93. Who keeps physical figures & possession of goods, inventory of
all the above?
94. How the scrap paper is disposed off ?
95. From security angle who keeps track from start till dispatch ?
96.

Give me the merit ranking list of all candidates for the

post of stores assistant in BRBNMPL in the year 1995-96 ?

97.

give me the merit ranking list of all candidates for the

post of process assistant at BRBNMPL in the year 1996 ?

98.

give me the merit ranking list of all candidates for the

post of process assistants & maintenance assistants at BRBNMPL in the

year 1996-1998 ?
99.

is not RBI & BRBNMPL authorities created by statuotary

laws , fully funded by public money ie from government exchequer ?

100. still why BRBNMPL & RBI refused to answer my previous
information request as per RTI Act ? are you afraid that skeletons
will come out of cubboard ?
101. what action initiated against the SBI branch Bangalore & SBI
Overseas branch for loss of cheque / draft amounting to crores of
rupees ? if not why ?
102. give me specific figures bank wise with respect to loss caused
to the bank by loss of cheques or demand drafts , etc ?
103. how RBI is containing crimes of loss of cheques / DDs causing huge losses to the banks to the tune of crores of rupees ?

104. what action taken against the RBI officials who are covering up crimes inspite of my repeated appeals & RTI requests ?

YEAR TO WHICH ABOVE PERTAINS : MAJORITY OF DOCUMENTS PERTAINS TO YEAR 1995 - 2015 .

PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER WHO FAILED TO GIVE INFORMATION :

CPIO , C/o PCGM and Secretary , Secretarys Department , Reserve Bank of India , 16 th floor, Central Office Building , Shahid
Bhagat Singh Marg , Mumbai 400 001

FEES PAID : IPO 16G 733466 for rupees TWENTY only

DATE : 28.03.2015 ..NAGARAJA.M.R.

PLACE : MYSORE , INDIA.. .( APPLICANT)

FINANCE SCAMS IN INDIA & 5-STAR LEADERS WITH BEGGING BOWL

In " mysooru mithra" a kannada daily dated 15/06/2005, the editor has
written about a copy of the complaint made by Transparency
International India-Bangalore to central vigilance commission of
india.
In indian banks , there is a strange practice that whenever a cheque
is put before the clearing house by a bank, the clearing house sends
that cheque to the service branch of bank paying. The service branch
then sends that cheque to the appropriate bank branch
for deduction of cash from the cheque account. In this travel , if the
cheque is lost or misplaced midway, the service branch pays out of
it's suspense account to the cash collecting bank. Logically,
afterwards the service branch must initiate a thorough inquiry, get
authentication from both persons one who gave cheque & other who
collected cheque. Finally, the money must be transferred from the
account of cheque giver to the suspense account.
However , upto 1997 two branches of state bank of india in bangalore &
overseas branch sufferred from frequent loss of cheques totally
amounting to RUPEES THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED CRORE. In all cases of
cheque loss the bank has paid out of suspense account, totally
amounting to Rs.3200 crore. However the bank has not
initiated any enquiry to recover that amount from the cheque givers.
In the 1997 internal audit report of the bank itself , this has been
clearly pointed out. Till date, even the central vigilance commission
has not initiated any action about it. A member of central vigilance
commission happens to be ex-chairman of state bank of india.
It is just an instance of two branches of SBI, what about hundreds of
branches of SBI, what about thousands of branches of other public
sector,private sector & co-operative banks. It is fraud,fraud,fraud
all the way. Few months back to cover-up the crimes
of global trust bank ( GTB) , it was taken over by oriental bank of
commerce ( OBC).
While sanctioning a loan of just Rs.10000 to a common man , he has to
comply with lengthy legalities. If he defaults, bankers breath down
his neck, bankers send rowdies in the form of recovery agents to
humiliate the common man & his properties are
auctioned-off, finally all dues to the last penny are recovered. In
most of the cases bankers even force the defaulters to commit suicide.

However influential persons easily gets loans amounting to hundreds of

crores of rupees, coolly defaults, siphons-off the funds & shuts his
shop. No recovery at all , just it becomes a non- performing asset
(NPA) in the bank ledger. The total NPAs of all public sector banks is
more than Rs.80000 crore. This burden is spead over the crores of
hapless indians.
The government takes pride in murdering forest brigand veerappan. The
ill-gotten wealth of veerappan is not even pea nuts before this huge
amount. Remember past finance scams MS SHOES, HAWALA, HARSHAD MEHTA
SHARE SCAM, KETAN PAREKH SHARE SCAM, UTI, etc. totally in all these
scams billions of dollars of public money have gone to the coffers of
criminals. These scamsters put veerappan to shame in their turnover.
However the government is not even exhibiting a fraction of it's
ELIMINATE VEERAPPAN DRIVE against these scamsters, why?
In india, both central & state government tax/ revenue officials are
neck deep in corruption. By, taking bribe they make lower assessment
of income, gains, etc & spare businessmen from the tax payment. The
government in return for favours received from
lobbies, gives tax exemptions to them at it's sweet will. All these
scams & it's cover-ups are insider jobs. The government is not
interested to collect, recover it's own monies
amounting to billions of billions of dollars every year. However our 5star leaders living at the expense of tax-payers, go-on foreign jaunts
with a begging bowl for a few lakhs of dollars. What a shame?
More than 50 billion indians are barely surviving on a single meal per
day & hundreds are dying due to starvation, billions don't even have
basic necessities of life. If the government even just collects a
fraction of it's dues from scamsters, defaulting industrialists
people won't die of hunger in india. Has this enlightened our thick
skinned netas ?

Editorial : Crimes @ Reserve Bank of India

An appeal to SUPREME COURT OF INDIA & central information commission
Ref no. RTI APPEAL via web DPG/B/2008/80341
RBI is a public authority , set up by an act of parliament. Numerous
irregularities , illegalities , crimes have taken place at RBI , still
it is fully covered up by those in influential positions.

Just refer Oil for Food Money in Iraq scam and Vostro Account Scam of 1990s. Influential people are involved ,
everything happened under the noose of RBI , With the connivance of RBI officials ?

We requested the CPIO of RBI HQ for information as per RTI Act ( our
letter dt 20th September 2008 ) about various issues concerning the
activities of that institution in whole. However the CPIO OF RBI HQ
through his letter no.DAPM.CO.RIA.4001/07.50.01/2008-09 dt October
03rd 2008 declined to give information citing certain ruses. ( RBI Ref
no. RIA 798/2008-09 )
He has stated that some information pertains to security press ,
nashik & note press at mysore. True , both those institutions are
fully owned subsidiaries of RBI , hence RBI is in a position to
answer. Still , RBI can transfer a copy of our RTI Application to
those authorities as per provisions of Sec 6(3) of RTI ACT 2005. CPIO
didnt do that.
One more ruse of CPIO of RBI is that , I am seeking his views /
opinions on issues concerning RBI activities. He is wrong , I am
seeking to know the official / legal stand of RBI regarding its
activities for example , appointment of rowdies as loan recovery
agents by banks , etc. CPIO has failed to state the official stand
regarding various activities of RBI.
One more ruse given by CPIO of RBI is that I have raised many issues ,
to be specific 103 questions on various topics concerning RBI , giving
information on all those diverts the resources of authorities , hence
information request is denied. TRUE , information sought is many , so
do the crimes @ RBI which are also many. When compared to magnitude of
crimes @ RBI which is 3-4 times the entire budget outlays of Indian
government to the tune of crores of rupees , the resources spent to

ascertain information as per our RTI Application is just few hundreds

of rupees. When compared to the money spent by RBI officials by way of
TA / DA during their travel , etc, our information request resource
needs are peanuts.
To sum up , CPIO of RBI is hell bent to protect the criminals @ RBI
lest the truth comes into open. Hereby , we request the honourable
Supreme Court of India & central information commission to order the RBI to give us truthful
information in whole , so that justice is given to those victimized &
fat criminals are sent to gallows. JAI HIND. VANDE MATARAM.
Read the article "Crimes @ RESERVE BANK OF INDIA" @ http://theftinrbi.blogspot.com/
, http://theftinrbi.rediffblogs.com/ , http://theftinrbi.wordpress.com/
Yours sincerely,
Nagaraj.M.R.

The hawala trail

PRAVEEN SWAMI

BRITISH officials are investigating the activities of one of the most prominent overseas backers of secessionist groups in Jammu
and Kashmir. Last month, the United Kingdom's Charities Commission and the Metropolitan Police began looking into allegations
that Ayub Thokar, the head of the World Kashmir Freedom Movement, had funnelled funds raised for charity to the terrorist
groups.
Investigations into Thokar's role in funding terror began after Indian officials handed over evidence in the case to their British
counterparts in June. The two Indian officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs and a senior Jammu and Kashmir Police officer
made available details of funds funnelled from Thokar's charity, Mercy International, through Standard Chartered Grindlays
Bank (since then renamed Standard Chartered Bank) and the Development Credit Bank. The investigators also provided
transcripts of telephone intercepts and cases filed against the recipients of the funds in India.
On May 25, a long-running Intelligence Bureau operation led to the arrest of Srinagar-based journalist Imtiaz Bazaz. Officials
claim that he was a key conduit for transferring funds to Hizbul Mujahideen field commanders in Jammu and Kashmir. On April
22 Bazaz had received a foreign currency remittance of Rs.4,84,875 into his account with Standard Chartered in New Delhi,
and on May 15 a second remittance of Rs.14,98,000 into the Development Credit Bank. Although intelligence officials
monitored the first transaction, they did not intervene, in the interest of building up evidence. The second transaction was
frozen.
The funds trail led straight to Thokar. It transpired that in early 2001, Hizbul Mujahideen chief Mohammad Yusuf Shah had sent
Rs.48 lakh to Jamaat-e-Islami leader Syed Salahuddin through Thokar. Subsequently, after the arrest of Jamait-ul-Mujahideen
finance commander Qasim Faktu, Thokar began to finance his organisation through the terrorist's wife, Asiya Indrabi. Most of
the funds were routed through Bazaz, who arranged for the transfer of funds received in New Delhi to accounts held with the
Jammu & Kashmir Bank in Srinagar. Cash was then paid to the final recipients.
Meanwhile, Income Tax Department investigations against All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani
have started to bear fruit (Frontline, July 5, 2002). The secessionist leader claimed an annual agricultural income of Rs.10,000
in his tax returns, and also received the official pension of Rs.85,200 due to two-term MLAs - ironically enough for a man now
at the cutting edge of the secessionist anti-election campaign! His expensive house in Hyderpora, however, had several cars
parked there and the household was run by a personal staff of 14 people. The monthly kitchen expenses amounted to
Rs.25,000. Income Tax Department searches of the Geelani home also yielded Rs.10.25 lakhs and $10,000 in cash. Income-tax
officials have now decided to impose penalties of Rs.30 lakhs on Geelani, based on his estimated income over the last six
years, the maximum period allowed by law. His businessman son-in-law Altaf Ahmad Shah, who allegedly used his legitimate
operations to launder funds, has been slapped with a Rs.40 lakhs penalty. Failure to pay could lead to the auctioning of
Geelani's assets, including the Hyderpora home.
Separate income-tax penalties of Rs.2 crores have been imposed on businessman Abdul Rashid Saraf, who was allegedly
involved in handling hawala funds sent to APHC chairman Abdul Gani Bhat. Saraf, income-tax authorities found, had failed to
disclose income of Rs.3.37 crores over the last six years.
The vigour that the Income Tax Department has shown in this matter marks a welcome departure from the past. After it was
driven out of Srinagar in the later 1980s by mobs that attacked income tax inspectors, the organisation had granted de-facto
independence to the State. This time, two planeloads of officials flew into the Avantipora Air Force base and they were
escorted to the raids by police officers. Their successes seem to have convinced the Income Tax Department that it is after all
possible to play a useful role in Jammu and Kashmir.
In the U.K., both Mercy International and Thokar will now have to answer some hard questions. For one, there is no
explanation why the organisation did not send supposed philanthropic donations to the several-dozen charities in Jammu and
Kashmir which have clearances under the Foreign Exchange Management Act. Thokar will also have to explain how he paid for
the purchase of his London home, and his regular overseas travels, given the fact that he has no ostensible means of income.
India has, however, chosen not to seek Thokar's extradition, since the fact that his wife is a U.K. national makes this outcome
unlikely.
For India, British action in this case will be a key test of its loudly-advertised anti-terrorist stance. In March, sources
told Frontline, Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani had handed over to British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw a dossier on the
activities of secessionist groups in the U.K. Titled 'Misuse of British Soil by Kashmir Expatriates Based in the U.K. for Funding

Terrorism in J&K', the document outlined many of the charges which investigations have now added substance to. Sources say
the team that visited the U.K. pointed to Straw's promises to crack down on terrorism-related money laundering, and were told
that criminal prosecutions would take place in the U.K. Earlier, the U.K. successfully prosecuted two Khalistan-linked British
nationals involved in backing the Babbar Khalsa International.
If funds transfers to terrorist groups are effectively cut off, it will do not a little to cripple such organisations. The reasons are
simple. While it is easy to send cadres across the Line of Control, actually sustaining their activities in Jammu and Kashmir
needs an elaborate financial structure. Money is needed to pay for everything from food and shelter to informants, political
support and the legal defence of arrested sympathisers. Since it is impossible to lug sacks full of cash across the LoC, illegal
funds transfers come into play. For many businessmen in the Kashmir Valley, holding such cash for short terms has been a
profitable, risk-free enterprise. Now the penalties imposed should persuade conduits for blood-money transfers that crime
does not, in fact, pay.

Al-Qaeda routing money to India via Europe

New Delhi, Mar 6: European countries are being used as hot destinations by terror group al-Qaeda to route money to India,
according to a report by Peruvian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).
The report said the FIU had found at least one case of such suspicious transaction by al-Qaeda every month and shared them
with the US investigators.

"The FIU also reports tracking cases similar to that of an OFAC-designated (US Office of Foreign Assets Control) of al-Qaeda
element moving money from Europe through Lima and on to India," the report leaked by Wikileaks, a non-profit media
organisation dedicated to bringing important information to the public, quoting FIU head Enrique Saldivar disclosed.
"Asked if this al-Qaeda case was the first of its kind or they had seen similar cases before, Saldivar told NASOff that they see
about one case a month," the cable said.
The FIU receives and analyses STRs, may request additional information relevant to cases or operations related to money
laundering or terrorist financing, provides Financial Intelligence Reports (FIR) to the Public Prosecutor's Office, participates
and/or requests joint investigations, and coordinates with foreign FIUs and entities.
"Of the 7,710 suspicious activity reports examined by FIU analysts in 2009, 781 resulted in financial intelligence reports sent
to the Public Ministry for further processing and investigation.
"Based on these 781 intelligence reports, the FIU concludes more than 3 billion USD moved illegally through Peru''s financial
sector in 2009," it said.
"83 per cent of this amount, according to the FIU, is related to drug trafficking. The other 17 per cent is reportedly related to
fiscal fraud, corruption and illegal gun dealing. Currently, 308 of these intelligence reports are at various stages of
investigation and prosecution in the legal system as compared to four cases in 2008," the cables read.
According to Saldivar, anti-money laundering efforts in Peru are hindered by several factors.

StanChart prospectus quiet about cases

Mumbai: Standard Chartered Plc, (StanChart) which is set to hit the market with the first ever issue of Indian depository
receipts (IDRs) on 25 May, has not disclosed many pending cases against it for alleged violation of foreign exchange remittance
norms in the draft red herring prospectus submitted to the capital markets regulator.
The alleged violations17 transactions of drafts, one telex transfer and two cash transactionsgo back to 1991-92, when the
Enforcement Directorate (ED) found a series of forex violations made through the banks Mumbai branches to the UK.
ED is a government agency that looks into foreign exchange transactions.

The violations were discovered after ED investigated a number of banks, including Standard Chartered, in the aftermath of the
Harshad Mehta scam that rocked the stock markets in 1991-92.
The ED complaint was filed in the court of chief metropolitan magistrate in Mumbai by enforcement officer S. Parvez in May
2002.
These complaints, which are still pending, charge the bank and its then chairman Rodney Galpin of total violation of the
exchange control manual and provisions of then prevailing foreign exchange regulation norms.
Mint has reviewed copies of some of these case files.
The Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements (ICDR) norms, laid down by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi),
require any firm floating a public issue to disclose all pending proceedings initiated for economic offences against the issuer or
its directors, as well as the present status of such cases.
StanChart said that it has no material litigation to disclose. The banks spokesman Arijit De said the lender has applied the
relevant materiality standard in arriving at the disclosures.
In response to an email questionnaire, he said the bank would comply with the applicable laws, regulations and international
practice with regard to material information disclosure and uniformity of disclosures.
Accordingly, in relation to disclosure on litigation, as provided under the provisions of the Sebi (ICDR) regulations, 2009, as
amended, Standard Chartered Plc, as an issuer of IDRs, is required to disclose material litigation. In considering whether
disclosures are necessary in relation to litigation, Standard Chartered Plc has applied the relevant materiality standard. On this
basis, no litigation is required to be disclosed, the email said.
Under Sebi rules, the so-called materiality of a case must be judged on three broad parameters: qualitative nature, litigation
or defaults that may not be material at present but might have a material impact later, and litigations that may not be material
individually, but may be found material collectively.
A questionnaire to Sebi on whether it has granted any special exemption to StanChart for the IDR remained unanswered.
A senior lawyer at a national law firm said: All pending litigations that have a bearing on the issue should be disclosed in the
prospectus as per ICDR regulations. Moreover, the issue of materiality varies from case to case and is subjective. If I were an
underwriter, I would have disclosed the status of the cases and justified if the cases have any material impact on the
companys businesses or not, in the prospectus. The lawyer did not want to be identified.
Market analysts say there is no definitive yardstick for deciding the importance of a case.
Materiality is subjective and judgemental, said Prithvi Haldea, chairman and managing director of Prime Database, a primary
market tracker. The merchant banker, issuer and lawyer can collectively take a call on whether a matter is material or not.
However, if these matters are decided in court and proven to be material, the issuers, bankers and lawyers can be taken to
court for substantial damages, he added.
The amount involved in the 17 transactions listed by ED and facilitated by the bank between February 1991 and September
1992 is Rs4 crore. The bank also allegedly facilitated a telegraphic transfer of Rs1.5 crore. ANZ Grindlays Bank, which was
acquired by StanChart in 2000, allegedly helped the same entities transfer around Rs55 crore. Separate cases are pending
against both banks in the matter.
According to the case files, Irish rugby player Keith Fairbrother was the key beneficiary of the transfers. He owned a company,
Indo International, earlier known as Eastern Suburbs, based in the UK, but with bank accounts in both names in India as well as
the UK.
Fairbrother is said to have facilitated a few import-export deals between some Indian firms and their counterparts in the
erstwhile Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Since India and USSR had bilateral trade pacts, any payment to entities
there needed to be routed through the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) with appropriate approvals and sanctions. Fairbrother, the
files claim, broke these rules using various foreign banks, including StanChart.
Through his associate Kuldip Singh Sood in India, Fairbrother would collect Indian rupee drafts drawn by an Indian bank on its
domestic branch. Allegedly with the connivance of StanChart, he would get them cleared without making any declarations or
taking any approvals and credit the amount to a vostro account of StanChart London and Manchester. These banks would, in
turn, transfer the amount to a beneficiary of the same name in the UK.
A vostro account is the local currency account held by a local bank for a foreign one. Such accounts are used for inter-bank
transfers, and money transfers to non-residents need RBIs nod. ED has charged that the bank and its then CEO violated these
rules.
A senior broker, on condition of anonymity, said that as a matter of principle, the company should publish all
pending legislation and leave the question of materiality to investors judgement.
By choosing to ignore pending legislations, they are setting a bad example for the companies coming to list such instruments
in future, he said.
n.subramanian@livemint.com

Excise scam money used to fund terror'

PANAJI: Opposition leader Manohar Parrikar on Thursday said he would write to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, fearing that
money from a multi-crore excise scam linking Goa with Indian border states is being used to fund terrorist activities.
Parrikar has also alleged that the state excise department has been issuing permits to companies furnishing bogus addresses.

Incidentally, the state government's reply that the state finance secretary is investigating earlier
allegations made by Parrikar on the excise scam has not satisfied the opposition leader, who has demanded that the matter be
immediately handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Raising the matter during question hour, Parrikar said that illicit alcohol consignments worth crores of rupees are being sent to
border states in the north and north-east of India.
"Money from this scam is being used to fund terror networks. The excise departments from other states such as Punjab,
Rajasthan and the north eastern states are involved," he said. The opposition leader also reminded the House that he had first
made these allegations in the last assembly session.
"I believe the prime minister is an upright person and I will write to him to probe into this," Parrikar said. Chief minister
Digambar Kamat, however, did not commit to a criminal investigation into the scam.
"The finance secretary is currently conducting an inquiry into the matter," he told the House.
Parrikar retorted: "The finance secretary does not have powers to conduct such an inquiry. We have to verify the signature of
the superintendent of excise on the order, which the finance secretary will not be able to do. He cannot go to Punjab and
Rajasthan to investigate the matter."
"The only thing that needs to be investigated is who made the payment for the 1.04 lakh litres of alcohol that was imported in
September. Trace the source of payment and you will find out who the culprit is," Parrikar said.

UBS deal died over unexplained money

Mumbai / Pune: The reluctance of a top Swiss bank to help Indian investigators is slowing the unravelling of an intricate
multinational trail of money transfersacross Switzerland, New York, the British Virgin Islands and Punebetween an Indian
horse owner and a fugitive Saudi arms dealer, according to officials in the Enforcement Directorate, the government body that
investigates economic crimes.
A top official in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) who did not wish to be identified confirmed on Friday that the agencys
officials, in December 2007, had advised the Indian government not to clear a Rs467 crore plan by UBS (United Bank of
Switzerland) AG, the worlds biggest wealth management company, to buy the Indian mutual fund business of Standard
Chartered Bank because the Swiss bank had not helped track international money transfers of Pune horse owner Hassan Ali
Khan.
Investigators from the ED, who recently claim to have found $8 billion in the Swiss bank accounts of Hasan Ali Khan, say they
now have evidence of a $300 million transfer to him (via a Chase Manhattan bank account in New York) from billionaire Saudi
arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, whose arms supplies to Tamil terrorists, the LTTE, were revealed during an investigation into the
1991 assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.

alt="Home turf: Hassan Ali Khan (second from right, in safari suit) with wife Rheema
(second from left) and father-in-law Abbas Ali Khan (fourth from right). " title="Home turf: Hassan Ali Khan (second from right, in
safari suit) with wife Rheema (second from left) and father-in-law Abbas Ali Khan (fourth from right). "
v:shapes="_x0000_s1026">Home turf: Hassan Ali Khan (second from right, in safari suit) with wife Rheema (second from left) and
father-in-law Abbas Ali Khan (fourth from right).
As the Bombay high court hears an Enforcement Directorate plea not to return passports to Khan and his wife Rheema,
theHindustan Timeshas previewed a secret ED report that reveals the agencys attempts to find the links between Khan and
Khashoggi.
As evidence the report quotes a notation, funds from weapon sales, made by UBS AG, a top-tier investment banking and
securities firm, after it froze an account belonging to Hassan Ali Khan, the Pune horse owner, following the $300 million
transfer to himit isnt clear when from Khashoggi.
I would not like to talk about this, said UBS India managing director and chairperson Manisha Girotra, referring all questions
to the banks spokesperson.

As a truly global entity, our policy on such issues is to comply with the laws and regulations in each host country, while at the
same time, complying with the banking laws in Switzerland, the UBS spokesperson said in an email. The spokesperson
declined to comment specifically on the arms sale notation.
The government has told the Bombay high court that the Khans are virtually absconding and if they are allowed to leave
India, investigations could collapse. Khans counsel, Milind Sathe, said his client regularly appeared before the Directorate.
Asked where Khan was, his main lawyer, Mugdha Jadhav, said: Cant tell you, sorry.
At Pune race course, HT found Hassan Ali Khans father-in-law, Abbas Ali Khan, who said his son-in-law was not well and in
Mumbai. He dismissed all allegations.
Hassan Ali Khan has three Indian passportsissued from Pune, Patna and Mumbai; he also applied for passports from Guwahati
and Chandigarh and he and his wife have applied to Switzerland for citizenship, another ED official who did not wish to be
identified said. Passport authorities in those three cities are now trying to find out how three passports were issued to Khan.
Kashoggi now lives a quiet life in the principality of Monaco. There is a British warrant out for his arrest.
Another top official at ED who also did not wish to be identified said Kashoggis $300-million transfer was only the tip of the
iceberg and that the agency was trying to connect the dots in the global trail, which also includes evidence of another $290
million in two fictitious companies created by Hassan Ali Khan and a friend in the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. All
the money transfers are recorded in a laptop seized in January 2007 from Hassan Ali Khans house in Pune and while
investigators believe this is laundered money, there is no direct evidence. They would also need corroboratory evidence to
establish that these transfers have anything to do with terror networks.
These are all false allegations, said Sathe. Asked about the $300 million transfer from Khashoggi, he said: When the
Enforcement Directorate questions us, we shall give a reply.
The ED official, who confirmed the agencys involvement in spiking UBS deal with Standard Chartered, said the Swiss bank had
told Indian investigators to get a letter rogatory, a formal request from an Indian court to a Swiss court. This is a complicated
process and would have needed to be routed through the ministry of external affairs, and it would have involved finding and
presenting clear evidence of Hassan Alis links to terror.
It now seems apparent that UBS stand in the ongoing investigation led to the collapse of its deal with Standard Chartered
Bank.
In a December report, Mint said that the Reserve Bank, Indias banking regulator, would not approve the deal because of
possible money laundering through the Swiss bank involving certain transactions of Khan. On Friday, RBI declined to comment.
We are a civil body, a spokesperson said. Whenever we find violations, issued to be investigated, we hand over the
information to the Enforcement Directorate. We have not issued any comments on the issue of UBS.
In December, Standard Chartered, the parent of Standard Chartered Bank in India, sent a notice to stock exchanges in London
and Hong Kong, where it is listed, saying it would not proceed with the deal, without giving a reason.(Hindustan Times)

CRIMES OF RBI & CBI & IT'S COVER-UP

- An appeal to honourable supreme court of India
The central bank of India Reserve Bank Of India , which is supposed
to direct the fiscal policies of government of India , has failed to
do so. It has enabled many looters in the garb of entrepreneurs , to
swindle the exchequer to the tune of crores of rupees. The premiere
investigating agency of India CBI has failed to nail the culprits.
Hereby , I do request the honourable supreme court of India to treat
this as a PIL application & to provide speedy justice in following
cases.
Read the article "Crimes @ RESERVE BANK OF INDIA" @ http://theftinrbi.blogspot.com/
, http://theftinrbi.rediffblogs.com/ , http://theftinrbi.wordpress.com/
Read the article "PF scam shame shame judges" @
http://corruptmajority.blogspot.com/ ,
http://corruptjudges.rediffblogs.com/

AN APPEAL TO UNION FINANCE MINISTER GOVERNMENT OF

INDIA
An age old saying AS THE KING SO DOES THE SUBJECTS. In india various
financial scams, crimes & it's cover-ups have taken place amounting to
billions of billions of dollars have taken place, made possible , just
due to the involvement of the king the netas & government officials
themselves in the shameful act the crime.
The tax officials are utterly corrupt, the wards of these officials
spend double their pappa's salary just during
weekends. Now, realise their financial might. These ill-gotten wealth
is destabilising our economy & might have even found it's way into the

hands of underworld, terorrists. INDIA WILL BE DEFEATED FROM

CRIMINAL FORCES WITHIN LIKE THIS NOT FROM THE EXTERNAL FORCES.
Hereby, the HRW urges you to make public:
1. the financial worth of finance minister to tax official at circle
level, on annual basis including his spouse's worth & property
details.
2. to make public the NPAs, losses & monies under litigation by both
private & public sector banks annually.
3. to make public measures taken to recover these monies.
4. to publish annual accounts with complete details of discretionary
funds allotted to the defence ministry, president, prime minister,
chief ministers , governors & intelligence agencies.
Public want to know whether proper discretion is being applied while
spending.

R.B.I CURRENCY THEFT CASE COVER-UP ACT BY C.B.I?

- AN APPEAL TO THE UNION FINANCE MINISTER & CENTRAL VIGILANCE COMMISSION
Even in ordinary branches of banks , the safety
locker room keys & currency chest room keys are with senior managers
only. with advance of technology various electronic gadgets like
burglar alarms, user id & palm readers are in use. It is quite
shocking to know that , in high security RBI CURRENCY PRESS , mysore
these gadgets were not in use & the keys were easily accessible to
ordinary security guards. Also, in mysore press there is no proper
accounting practices for blank papers issued for printing , after
printing is done accounts of accepted notes & rejected notes is not
at all kept. CBI is putting the whole blame on an ordinary security
guards & hurrying to close the case. The repeated thefts are not at
all possible by security guards alone without the help of insiders /
higher executives. CBI is trying to fool whom?
Even with respect to my complaint regarding
recruitment scandal complaint no: DPG/B/2005/80049 (2) (RBI) new
complaint no: DPG/Z/2005/90040, neither CBI nor secretary ( finance
sector ) department of economic affairs government of india nor the
RBI governor has taken any steps till date , why?
Hereby, e-voice urges the honourable union finance
minister & CENTRAL VIGILANCE COMMISSION to look into the matter & to
provide speedy justice to all concerned.

C.B.I COVERING UP THEFTS IN R.B.I

Lie detector tests for C.B.I officers ?

Nowadays even free e-mail accounts need password to operate, to

operate a bank locker there are multi level security settings.
However , it is ridiculous, unbelievable to note that in the high
security reserve bank of india currency note press mysore, there were
no different key sets , palm readers, pass words, no different
authorised persons, no troops of security guards, to access the area.
Just only one security guard- a constable.
It is a cock & bull story of C.B.I, that all alone a single security
guard stole the booty. There must be a crime syndicate. The C.B.I
officers themselves must be subjected to polygraph, brain mapping
tests to know why they are lying , to cover-up whom? The C.B.I has
not answered previous questions raised by us. The C.B.I must answer
the following questions :
1. who were responsible for selling the good printing machine at
security press nasik to scamster karim lala telgi as scrap ?
2. who recruited the candidates below merit rankings in R.B.I for
what criminal roles ?
3. how many irregularities have taken place in R.B.I till date ?
4. who is responsible for installing, operating & supervising the
security set-up in R.B.I ?
5. how the raw materials ie number of paper sheets, ink, etc are
accounted for in inward stores & while issuing for printing ?

6. how wastages, scrap of ink , papers , etc in the printing process

are accounted for?
7. How the finished goods ie currency notes are accounted for ?
8. Who keeps physical figures & possession of goods, inventory of all
the above?
9. How the scrap paper is disposed off ?
10. From security angle who keeps track from start till dispatch ?

ILLEGAL RECRUITMENT IN R.B.I CURRENCY NOTE PRESS RESULTING IN FREQUENT THEFTS ???

Dear sir,
I have applied for the post of STORES ASSISTANT in
1995 & for the post of PROCESS ASSISTANT in 1996 for vaccancies at
Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited ( BRBNMPL) MYSORE
& SALBONI. I didn't even get the interview/written test call letter.
However candidates with lesser merit ranking were selected. My
requests for a copy of merit ranking list fell on deaf ears.
In the end of 1996, i once again applied for the
posts of PROCESS ASSISTANT & MAINTANANCE ASSISTANT at BRBNMPL. This
time
round i got written test call letters for both posts. I have
successfully cleared the common written test for both posts.
Subsequently i got the interview call letters for both posts. I have
successfully appeared for the common interview for both posts.
However candidates of lesser merit were selected & i didn't get any
communication at all. My repeated requests for MERIT RANKING LIST
fell on deaf ears.
It is the criminals in R.B.I MANAGEMENT who
declared a good printing machine at nasik security press as scrap &
sold it to fake stamp paper king pin karim lala telgi It may be
possible that the criminals in the R.B.I MANAGEMENT selected
candidates who suited their criminal objectives. As a result there is
frequent occurrence of currency thefts & related
irregularities at R.B.I CURRENCY NOTE PRESS, mysore & salboni.
Hereby, i call upon the C.B.I to look into this matter.
Also, hereby i urge you to provide me justice by giving merit ranking
lists of all recruitments made from 1995onwards till date.
Specifically, for the above mentioned 4 posts in accordance with the
TRANSPARENCY /RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT of government of india.

SATYAM CO FRAUD - ARE YOU SINCERELY READY TO CATCH TAX THEIVES , CORPORATE CRIMINALS ? - AN APPEAL TO UNION
FINANCE MINISTER & KARNATAKA STATE FINANCE MINISTER

Corporate fraud is nothing new to india , satyam company is just a

new addition to it. Satyam co was able to commit such a huge fraud &
keep it under wraps for years goes to prove the honesty , integrity of
our public servants , government officials belonging to SEBI , RBI ,
tax dept , pollution control , labour depts. , etc & the honesty of
auditors & company secretaries. Ofcourse , still there are few honest
people in public service , auditing & company secretaryship , but
majority of them are hand in gloves with corporate criminals.
Definitely , this fraud will also be brushed under the carpet after
certain time as other frauds happened , afterall these frauds are the
money spinners for political party funding , mafia , underworld &
other criminal activities.
In india , tax compliance is worse. In our criminal justice system,
there is rigorous imprisonment for a pick-pocketer stealing Rs.10.
even the authorities spend thousands of rupees in legally prosecuting
him & the thief spends a year or more as punishment behind bars. Where
as there is no commensurate investigation nor legal prosecution nor
punishment for corporate thieves , evading tax to the tune of crores
of rupees. In contrast, those tax thieves pay a part of that booty to
the ministers & political parties and get crores of rupees tax
exemptions , incentives from the government. Government is rewarding
corporate criminals.
The tax officials of central & state governments
are hand in glove with these corporate criminals & traders. For a
price, they are helping corporates & traders in evading tax. Most of

the tax officials are wealthy & leading luxurious lifestyles , much
beyond the scope of their legal income. The black money thus generated
every year by tax evasion , is many times more than our total annual
budget allocation. As a result, all our fiscal reforms fail &
inflation is soaring. This black money is the source of illegal
funding of political parties , terrorist outfits & underworld. It is a
greater threat to national unity & integrity.
Both the central government & karnataka state
government have failed to collect the full , actual tax dues from
corporates & traders. As a result , the governments don't have enough
money in their coffers even to provide basic needs like health care ,
education , safe drinking water , etc to the poor & needy. For every
Rs.100 tax evaded , one poor patient is dying without medical care ,
10 poor persons lack education , 100 persons don't get safe drinking
water , 100 persons barely survive on a single piece meal per day , 20
persons starve. Most of The government officials , ministers &
people's representatives who have deliberately failed in their duties
of tax collection & welfare of poor citizens , SHAMELESSLY indulge in
luxurious lifestyle at the expense of poor tax payer . they live in
paltial bungalows , chauffer driven AC cars , all living food expenses
paid by exchequer , dine at 5-star hotels , only drink bottled mineral
water , eat non-vegetarian dishes , drink alcohol sitting before
mahatma gandhi's photograph & preaching mahatma's ideals. Mahatma
preached & practiced simple living , vegetarianism & he was teto
teller , he paid for his expenses from his earnings . these public
servants are parasites , who are making merry at the expense of tax
payer.
Some non government organisations ( NGO) have
formed trusts and under the aegis of those trusts are running
educational institutions , hospitals , community halls , etc , in the
name of providing free / subsidised services like education , health
care , etc to the poor. It is only in record books , they conduct fake
medical camps , self employment training camps . in practice they are
running these educational institutions , hospitals & community halls
as commercial enterprises & collecting huge fees. they are not even
remitting full fees collected to the trust account & swindling the
money. no outsider is allowed to become a member of these NGOs , only
their cronies & their family members are in these trusts.
Numerous NGOs promoted by religious bodies , mutts
are swindling public & government money to the tune of crores of
rupees. Nobody dares to question the heads , pontiffs of these
mutts , as at his feet VVIPs , ministers fall down. These religious
bodies are hot beds of fundamentalism , terrorism & mafia. Hwere is
the accountability of religious bodies & political parties in in
india ?
Inspite of bringing specific cases to the notice
of authorities , they are mum ? hereby , E-VOICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
offers it's services ( subject to conditions ) to the governments of
india & karnataka , in apprehending the criminals tax evaders. Are
you ready?

MEGA FRAUD BY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA Rs 85 000 crore tax arrears waiver + non performing assets of banks to the tune
of Rs. 200 000 crore
An appeal to Honourable Supreme Court of India

India has become an IT power , taken giant strides in the field of

science & technology. More & more MNCs are investing in India. However
due to our skewed , corrupt economic system , lack of accountability
on the part of corporates & public servants a wide chasm has been
created between the ultra rich & the poor , the fruits of development
has all been usurped by the rich & mighty. This is the basic reason
for growth of black economy , growth of naxalism , terrorism &
underworld in India. As per a recent study by UN organization ,
majority of Indians ie more than 50 crore Indians are barely
sustaining on Rs.13 per day earnings , a whole family depends upon Rs.
13 , they are struggling to get just single meal per day. People are
starving to death , farmers are committing suicides , people are
selling their own children for a bag of grains. Whereas , corporate
biggies , public servants are leading luxurious lifestyles , having
big parties full of drinks , non-veg foods not at their papaa's
expense but at the expense of public exchequer , out of the tax dues ,
loan repayments cheated to the public exchequer.
The banks insist on matching collateral security even for self
employment / educational loans by poor for an amount of Rs.5000. if
the loans are not paid in time , rowdies / recovery agents are sent by
banks to collect the amount by muscle power. As a final step , banks
auction-off properties of collateral security to recover it's dues.

Even, the tax authorities mercilessly extract tax dues to the last
penny from the middle class.
The same banks, overestimate the project cost of corporates ,
overestimate the project feasibility & it's worth and coolly extend
hundreds of crores of rupees loans without matching collateral
security. The banks extend overdraft facilities without matching
collateral securities , to these corporates. When loans are not
repaid, no rowdies are sent by banks. The promoters , directors of
such tainted corporates drain off the companies resources cunningly
through insider trading , finally making the company sick. Such
companies don't pay taxes , electricity bills , water bills , etc
properly to respective authorities. The authorities are deaf , dumb &
blind to all these actions of such corporates. At the end , banks
write-off such loans as non performing assets (NPA) & file case before
courts for recovery of dues. Even if the properties of collateral
security are auctioned-off dues cann't be fully realized. Finally
public money is swindled . ALL THIS IS POSSIBLE DUE TO THE CONNIVANCE
OF KEY BANK OFFICIALS , TAX OFFICIALS WITH CRIMINAL CORPORATES SINCE
THE INCEPTION OF SUCH COMPANIES . THIS ALSO POSES UNFAIR COMPETITION
TO HONEST CORPORATES. How to stop this ? by making corporate
accountability ,accountability of bank , tax officials more stringent
with penal provisions . afterall , they are playing with public money
not their papa's property.
Already , by the connivance of public servants , bank , tax officials
we have witnessed many scams like harshad Mehta , ketan parekh ,
hawala , etc and more than Rs. 2000000 crore NPAs are on the books of
the banks. Now, the government of India is planning to waive-off tax
arrears of corporates to the tune of Rs.85000 crore , why ? read
vijaya Karnataka kannada daily dated 04th January 2007. just look at
this in the backdrop of "QUESTIONS FOR MONEY BY SOME MPs" and "MP
LOCAL AREA DEVELOPMENT FUND ALLOCATION FOR A PRICE SCANDAL". The
government is always unresponsive , careless towards the sufferings
of poor , however it is always on toes to help out corporates that too
criminal ones but not honest corporates. Why ?
HRW has extended it's services to GOI months back itself , to
apprehend tax thieves , till date there is no reply from GOI , why ?
Hereby , E-VOICE OF HRW requests the Honourable Supreme Court of India
to order GOI ,
1.
to make necessary amendments to companies act , to make the
promoters , directors of the corporates personally accountable for all
their actions.
2.
to constitute committees consisting of public persons with powers
to scrutinize & verify all the actions of corporates for insider
trading like selling products , materials , shares to their sister
concerns at discounted prices or buying products , materials ,
shares from their sister concerns at inflated prices or lending loans
at discount rates to their sister concerns or taking loans from their
sister concerns at high rate of interest or loaning materials ,
machines to their sister concerns , etc.
3.
to constitute committees consisting of public persons , to
scrutinize & verify the annual personal tax returns filed by key bank
officials & tax officials , who have amassed riches & leading
luxurious life styles much beyond the scope of their legal known
sources of income.
4.
to recover all tax dues , loan dues , etc from the corporates from
the personal properties , wealth of promoters , directors of such
companies.
5.
to put behind bar the key bank officials who have helped the
corporates in swindling public money by overestimating project
viability , worth and by overlooking the insider trading of promoters
and still extending loans to them.
6.
to put behind bars tax officials who have helped such corporates
in swindling public money.
7.
to take all the necessary help from public like as services
extended by HRW in apprehending tax thieves.
8.
to recover & protect public money at any cost.
9.
to confiscate all money , properties possessed by directors of such
criminal corporates & properties of corrupt bank , tax officials ,
public servants.
10.
to declare illegal black money kept by corporate criminals ,
politicians , etc in the banks of tax haven countries like Trinidad ,
Mauritius , Switzerland , etc as national property of India , as
public property of government of India & to secure that money to
Indian exchequer.

QUESTIONS FOR MONEY PARLIAMENTARY ACTS & LEGISLATIONS FOR ????

improper functioning of democracy in india

the vohra committee report has proved the criminalisation of

politics in india. There are many number of criminals in the
parliament & state legislatures. Some of those criminals are cabinet
ministers as well as members of vital parliamentary committees.
Thereby, they are in a position to manipulate , enact laws favouring ,
benefitting the criminals their cronies.
Just see how the GOI gave export incentive of Rs.1800 crore to
reliance petroleum although it didn't even export a barrel. Reliance
infocom & tata teleservices were CDMA mobile service providers & have
paid license fee of few crores only equal to landline fees without any
competitive bidding . They were supposed to provide mobile service to
operate like fixed phones within a radius of 40k.m. however they were
providing service like mobile service from one state to another like
GSM mobile service providers. By this act of RIC & TTSL , the GSM
providers who have paid thousands of license fee in competitive
bidding were economically hurt , the dispute went to court. The court
was on the verge of pronouncing it's verdict awarding damages worth Rs.
18000 crore to GSM players & Rs. 3000 crore of license fees with
penalty to GOI. The government announced a unified telecom license
regime with retrospective effect. Thereby, the GOI lost thousands of
crores of rupees & the share holders of GSM players lost thousands of
crores. Onceagain the RIC was charged by PSU bsnl THAT RELIANCE IS REROUTING INTERNATIONAL CALLS AS LOCAL CALLS & SWINDLING THE GOI. This
time too, GOI bailed it out. during the dispute between ambani
brothers the younger ambani mr. Anil ambani director of reliance
himself has stated that for the favours received from the GOI , the
company gifted some shares to then IT & COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER mr.
Pramod mahajan.
Various indian & multinational companies are looting indian
exchequer to the tune of thousands of crores of rupees , through
lobbying / bribing. Take the recent case of allotment of 3G spectrum.
In india, indirect democracy is the form of governance. In this
form, people's representatives are bound to raise the questions ,
issues concerning their constituents on their behalf , on the floor of
the house. However the sad part in india even after 58 years of
democracy , is the lobbying is at it's peak. The lobbying is a
gentleman's white collared crook's way of forming favour seeker's
group , creating a corpus to pay lumpsum bribe & influencing decision
making.
The people's representatives are bound to represent their people
first , then their party & party think tanks. India has come to this
sorry state of affairs , widespread corruption , huge black economy &
rampant poverty, all due to inefficient legislations & enforcements.
These think tanks & IAS lobby, consider themselves as most super
brains on earth & gives out suggestions . the present state of affairs
is a barometer of their brilliance. These think tanks & IAS lobby are
the hand maidens of lobbyists / bribers.

THREAT TO INDIA'S SECURITY BY CORPORATE CRIMINALS

- An appeal to honourable prime minister of india & honourable chief
minister of karnataka
In india , since ages certain section of people dalits , tribals are
being oppressed in the name of caste by forward caste people. The name
sake independence has not changed the lives of dalits & tribals. The
upper caste people were in control of government & economic sector
before independence as well as after independence too. The upper caste
people are now MPs , MLAs & are running businesses . they have framed
rules , laws to suit their ends. They are getting bank loans ,
subsidies , tax cuts , etc , by greasing the palms of those in power
their own caste men. The reservation policy is just a vote winning
gimmick of forward caste politicians , it is neo divide & rule policy.
Only few dalits with money & contacts have benefitted , by the
reservation policy of government. Majority of them are still
sufferring from utter poverty & social oppression.
Now, due to rapid industrialisation & globalisation a new economic
divide has taken place rich & poor , haves & have nots. Now,
economically poor are also being oppressed along with dalits. The
forward caste people in government have framed laws to suit their
ends , they have provided concessional priority loans , tax cuts ,
subsidies , etc from the government to corporate sector . The

corporate sector has demanded & got monetary benefits , infrastructure

facilities from the government . however the same corporates , MNCs
are violating statuotary laws & are averse to social welfare measures
of the government . they are averse to provide jobs to dalits ,
tribals & poor , why ? these corporates are bribing the labour , tax
department & other government officials . as a result the government
is loosing tax revenues to the tune of thousands of crores every
year , the government doesn't have money to provide social welfare
measures to common people. The lives of common people are under
threat. Now,
the number of common people dying due to starvation , lack of health
care is more than in a war field. The threat to unity & integrity of
india is more from the corporate sector than pakistan or china.
Now, the government of india & other state governments are literally
under corporate control. we have brought to the notice of government
cases of statuotary law violations by various corporate entities ,
till date no action has been taken. Why ? hereby , we once again
offers it's conditional services to the government of india &
karnataka in apprehending corporate criminals , corrupt tax , labour ,
pollution control board offricials. Are you ready sir ????

Black money in foreign banks amounts to plunder of nation: Supreme Court

Black money stashed away in foreign banks is not just a case of tax evasion, it is mind- boggling crime amounting to theft
and plunder of national wealth, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday.
In a frank message to the Union government, the court wanted it to realise the gravity of the issue. We are talking about
mind-boggling crime. We are not on the niceties of various treaties, a bench of justices B Sudershan Reddy and SS Nijjar told
solicitor-general Gopal Subramanium.
Earlier, the government had contended that money in foreign banks was a case of tax evasion and it cannot make public the
names of Indian account holders.
The authorities have to go on the basis of mutual agreement with various countries where the money is stashed, Subramium
said.
This is the problem worrying us. It is not only about tax evasion and has something more, the bench said after it was pointed
out that the source of the money could be narcotics, terror fund or arms dealing.
The court was hearing a petition filed by noted criminal lawyer Ram Jethmalani and some retired bureaucrats and police
officers.

Standard Chartered tries to cover up its messy past, but SEBI is in a slumber
Standard Chartered Banks draft red herring prospectus to raise $500 million-$700 million through the first-ever issue of Indian
Depository Receipts (IDRs) has completely blanked out at least 15 litigations pending against it in connection with the securities
scam of 1992 and a foreign exchange scandal involving the misuse of its vostro account, also in the 1990s.

The prospectus has reportedly been cleared by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), which is fully aware that most
litigations pertaining to the 1992 scam are still dragging their way through the Indian judicial system. It is shocking that the Bank has
attempted to avoid disclosure, given that the Bank's deep involvement in the scam is widely known in India and the IDRs are being
sold to Indian investors. What is worse, when asked about the failure to disclose litigation pending against the Bank, SEBI has chosen
to not to respond to the emails marked to the entire top brass of the Bank.

On checking with the Bank, Arijit De, head of external communications, has this to say: With reference to your email to Neeraj
Swaroop, our response is as below: The IDRs represent the shares of Standard Chartered PLC, UK , the ultimate parent company of
Standard Chartered Bank, India. In accordance with the disclosure requirements under SEBI Regulations, IDR Rules, other applicable
laws and international practice, SC PLC has made appropriate disclosures of all material issues in the draft offer document filed with
SEBI. We have nothing further to add beyond what is disclosed in the DRHP.

However, a simple reading of page 414 of its draft red herring prospectus suggests otherwise. It says: As of the date of this Draft
Red Herring Prospectus, neither the Company, any member of the Group, any Director, or any material associate of the
Company (emphasis ours) are involved in any material governmental, legal or arbitration proceedings or litigation and the Company
is not aware of any pending or threatened material governmental, legal or arbitration proceedings or litigation relating to the
Company, any member of the Group, any Director or any material associate which, in either case, may have a significant effect
on the performance of the Group, and there are no liabilities or defaults (including arrears and potential liabilities) in relation to
such material proceedings or litigation which would be required to be disclosed under the SEBI Regulations.

Moreover, the cases filed by the Enforcement Directorate and in the Special Court do not all pertain to the Indian operations (the
Bank's Indian operation itself is significantly large and important, especially after the impact of the global financial crisis). In fact,
many of them specifically name a former chairman of the Bank, Rodney Galpin.

Among the cases that we have information about include some in the Special Court set up to try the securities scam related offences
(MA 365/2003 SCB v/s the Custodian & others; Suit 45 of 1995 SCB v/s Andhra Bank; Suit No 6 of 1994 SCB v/s Andhra Bank and Suit
No 32 of SCB v/s Andhra Bank). Then there are at least half a dozen cases filed by the Enforcement Directorate, many of them in
2002. We have sent a list of all these cases to SEBI, but have no response from the regulator.

Are these cases serious enough to make a difference to the Bank's global operations and performance? Probably not. Also, many
Indian companies have successfully raised funds, even after disclosing that the main promoters were accused of murder or worse.
The issue is the Bank's lack of transparency, while selling a financial instrument to Indian investors.

What is worse, the failure to insist on this disclosure reflects even more badly on the market watchdog. In its very first IDR
clearance, SEBI has shown that it is probably overawed with the international bank's plans to raise funds in India or its fat, 801-page
offer document. Either way, it is not insisting on the same transparency and disclosure standards that it expects from Indian
companies, which should be a matter of serious concern, given that global banks have not covered themselves in glory in the lead-up
to the financial crisis of 2008. Sucheta Dalal

Too many loopholes

Anand Adhikari

Hidden-camera videos of the country's three leading private banks' officials allegedly advising customers on money-laundering
recently kicked up a storm. Heads have started to roll at the junior levels in these banks - ICICI, HDFC and Axis. But punishing
wrongdoers is unlikely to stem the irregularities. A commenter on Cobrapost.com, the Delhi-based website which conducted the
sting, hit the nail on the head. He said the problem was not just these three banks - it was that the entire system was riddled with
loopholes. "It's a good opportunity for the regulators to plug these loopholes," he wrote.
He pointed to the multiplicity of acceptable identity documents - for instance, the PAN (permanent account number) card, passport
and Aadhaar unique identification (UID) number - and the fact that none of them are interlinked. "It's a real pity for a country which
produces some of the best IT talents in the world," he added. Contrast India with the United States, where social security numbers
are in place since 1935.

There are numerous problems at multiple levels - the industry regulator, the government, and the banks themselves. At the level of
the bank, the core issue is the approach to banking, as banks are caught up in an aggressive sales culture. The ones named in
Cobrapost's allegations have said they do business ethically. However, all three declined to speak to Business Today until they had
investigated the matter fully.
At the level of the regulator - the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) - there is an urgent need to improve the frequency and quality of
inspection. More importantly, there is a need to overhaul Know Your Customer (KYC) norms for financial intermediaries such as
banks, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), insurers and mutual funds.
And at the government level, there is a need to speed up Aadhaar - the national unique identification (UID) number project - as it
would eliminate the multiplicity of documents.
The central bank's KYC guidelines require banks to collect three documents - photographs, identity proof, and address proof - from
customers before they can open an account or get a locker. If a customer has no UID number, the bank has no option but to accept
documents such as voter ID, electricity bill, passport, or PAN card.
"The root cause of many of the problems today is the multiplicity of enforcement agencies, array of regulations and variety of
documents for the identification of a single person," says Pavan Kumar Vijay, Managing Director of Corporate Professional Group, a
corporate advisory firm.
The Cobrapost videos show bankers asking for easily available KYC documents, and, in some cases, even advising customers not to
submit a PAN card so they can stay off the tax radar. Bankers say some customers get away with submitting a lease agreement and
rent receipts as address proof. "These are the most suspect cases, where the bank should do a ground check or periodically re-check
whether the customer still has the same residence or job," says the chairman of a public sector bank.

Some banks accept a company ID card as proof of identity, and a letter from an employer as residence proof. That is in line with RBI
guidelines, but banks are also required to update the customer data from time to time. But many bankers say these checks get short
shrift, as the bank is focused on attracting new customers.
"The problem is not with the KYC, but its implementation," says M.D. Mallya, who recently retired as Chairman of the state-owned

Bank of Baroda. He may be right, as the genuineness of even crucial government-issued documents is not always above quest ion.
According to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), there were close to 96 million PAN cards as of March 2010, but only 34
million tax returns were filed.
The PAN card is one of the most abused documents. The CAG noted in 2010/11 that big tax evaders spread out their money by
opening multiple bank accounts with fake PAN cards. Tackling PAN card fraud is not enough, though. The Income Tax Act allows those
who claim not to have a PAN card to fill out Form 60 and say they have no taxable income, or Form 61 to say their income is from
agriculture. A Cobrapost video shows a banker allegedly advising an undercover re-porter to fill out Form 60 to avoid detection by
tax authorities.
So just by filing Form 60 and without submitting a PAN card, a tax evader can deposit cash of over Rs 50,000 in a bank or post office,
no questions asked. According to banking industry sources, the RBI and the finance ministry are investigating cases in which banks
have not reported transactions backed by Form 60 or 61 to the government's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram

Eventually, Aadhaar will resolve the KYC issue. But until that happens, some argue, it is impossible to require just one or a few
documents as acceptable proof of identity and residence. "There is the issue of financial inclusion, or people having different sets of
documents," says a banker from one of three banks named by Cobrapost. He adds that some people genuinely do not have taxable
income, many do not have a passport, and for some, the only address proof is an employer's letter.

"Banking is a serious business where service, compliance and safety are core elements," says A.K. Khandelwal, former Bank of Baroda
chairman and author of the book Dare to Lead. But private banks have a strong culture of cross-selling their subsidiaries' products,
and increasing the number of savings and cur rent account deposits.
"Nurturing an ethics-based corporate culture, with provisions to claw back performance-based incentives... can help correct the
current approach of mobilising fresh business by any means," adds Khandelwal.
The Cobrapost expose shows bankers allegedly marketing insurance products to convert black money into white. Insurance products
are profitable, because the bank earns a high first-year commission on the premium. The bank manager could benefit, too: many
banks and insurers offer rewards for high sales, such as foreign junkets.
Insurance products are easy to sell. The bank's KYC requirements are sufficient proof for investing any amount in an insurance
scheme. A PAN card is not necessary, even though some single-premium policy amounts are as high as Rs 30 lakh. Many banks sell
policies that mature after seven years. At that point, nobody can question the source of the money, because income-tax laws do not
require banks to keep records for more than seven years.

RBI Governor D. Subbarao

Cobrapost has also alleged that the three banks have been laundering money. Money-laundering means the transfer of money from
illegal sources - drugs and arms trafficking, terrorism, extortion and theft - into the financial system through fictitious bank
accounts and hawala transactions. Cobrapost alleges that the banks suggested opening accounts in the name of the applicant's
spouse, cousin, or friend, which is not money-laundering in the strict sense.
By law, bank employees have the authority to ask a customer for details of transactions that are not consistent with the customer's
profile. The onus is on the bank to ensure that the account is not being used to launder money. Insurance companies, too, are
required to report cash transactions of over Rs 10 lakh a month to the FIU.
Following Cobrapost's allegations, the RBI and the Insurance Regulatory Development Authority are investigating KYC violations and
the background of customers who have put large sums into singlepremium insurance plans. ICICI Bank's life insurance arm has
launched a probe, too.
Some in the industry say the FIU is seeking details of policy holders with high-value single-premium policies. The RBI, too, is
investigating high-value transactions. "If there is a series of cash transactions valued at Rs 10 lakh or more in a month, they need to
be reported under AML," says a public-sector banker on condition of anonymity. AML refers to anti-money laundering rules.
Banks are required to report demand drafts, mail transfers and travellers' cheques worth Rs 50,000 and more to the RBI. A source in
the central bank says: "The investigation will also look at the extent of complacency shown by the top management of these banks."
Some bankers argue that it would be unfair to blame the top management of the three private banks that Cobrapost has named the country's largest in terms of market capitalisation. ICICI and HDFC have nearly 3,000 branches each, and Axis Bank has close to
2,000. The Cobrapost investigation covered some 50 branches. All three banks have comprehensive codes of conduct for employees.
For example, ICICI Bank, with a balance sheet of Rs 5 lakh crore, has a detailed manual outlining due diligence for accepting a
customer.
A day after Cobrapost published its investigation, ICICI and HDFC banks appointed audit firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu to carry out
an independent forensic enquiry in addition to their own internal investigations into Cobrapost's allegations. The stock market has
reacted, too: the banks' stocks have fallen more than the BSE Sensex.
"The RBI may also put the brakes on new branch licences to some banks," says Kashyap Jhaveri, analyst at Emkay Global Financial
Services, in a recent report. An analyst who manages the money of foreign institutional investors says the probe could expand to
other banks. A Goldman Sachs report notes: "These developments, if proven true, could potentially lead to slower growth across
private banks' deposits and business."
The RBI's deadline for a scrutiny of the head office and branches of the three private banks is March 31. The central bank is also

studying whether the banks' gold coins and wealth management products could be potential ways to stash black money. RBI Deputy
Governor K.C. Chakrabarty has downplayed the expose, saying: "If we find there is a need to further tighten any guidelines, we will
do that."
Some in the industry say that Finance Minister Chidambaram's estimate that 46,800 people have taxable income of over Rs 1 crore is
baffling, considering the growth of banks' wealth management services and the portfolio management services of mutual funds and
brokerages.
In addition to being the government's debt manager, the RBI manages the country's monetary policy, and supervise and regulate
banks. "There is a strong case of hiving off the banking supervision from RBI," suggests a banker.
The number of bank branches in the country has grown to 80,000. The RBI has some 20,000 employees, of which one-third are
maintenance and technical staff. Some bankers question, however, whether adding layers of people will improve the situation.
Former RBI governor Bimal Jalan says: "We should learn from the current experience and see how we can improve our ethical
governance system in implementing the banking guidelines."
There is also the issue of black money - estimated at Rs 10-15 lakh crore - being generated in the first place. It is common
knowledge that much of it is stashed in other countries. The Cobrapost sting has highlighted that banks, which are highly regulated,
seem to be doing little to bring tax evaders to book at home. It is anyone's guess what goes on in more loosely regulated financial
intermediaries such as co-operative banks, NBFCs and credit societies.

Edited, printed , published owned by NAGARAJA.M.R. @ # LIG-2 No 761,HUDCO FIRST STAGE ,

OPP WATER WORKS , LAXMIKANTANAGAR , HEBBAL ,MYSURU 570017 KARNATAKA INDIA
Cell : 91 8970318202
Home page :
http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/sosevoiceforjustice/ , http://groups.google.co.in/group/hrwepaper / ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice / , http://evoiceofhumanrightswatch.wordpress.com / ,
http://naghrw.tripod.com/evoice/ ,
http://e-voiceofhumanrightswatch.blogspot.com ,
http://paper.li/f-1368369249 ,
Contact : naghrw@yahoo.com , nagarajhrw@hotmail.com ,
http://www.amnesty.org/en/user/naghrw
A

Member of Amnesty International