tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71568859665068682622024-03-19T20:08:22.696-07:00The Scams, Corruption, Conflict of Interest & Benami Companies of Suresh Prabhu Seema Sapra, General Electric Company whistleblower in India Seema Saprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07094308832539462568noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156885966506868262.post-26176236013689960582015-11-13T02:00:00.001-08:002015-11-13T02:19:12.932-08:00The Corruption, Conflict of Interest & Benami Companies of Suresh Prabhu<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu as the new Railway Minister has helped General Electric Company and Montek Singh Ahluwalia in covering up the corruption, bribes, forgery, fraud, and illegal lobbying involved in the Projects and tenders for the diesel locomotive factory at Marhowra and the electric locomotive factory at Madhepura. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Read below for information about the benami companies owned by Suresh Prabhu, his wife Uma Prabhu and his son Ameya Prabhu. Also read below for how Suresh Prabhu's career is built upon violation of all principles of good governance and conflict of interest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">I remind you of some aspects from Mr Suresh Prabhu's past and recent past. Suresh Prabhu has facilitated and benefited from multiple scams right through the 1990s, the 2000s and now he is facilitating the General Electric Company Marhowra Diesel Rail Factory scam. For information on Suresh Prachu's scam ridden career, please read through the links below. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Suresh Prabhu was involved in the Ponzi schemes & investor frauds of Nandan Gadgil (the Gadgil Western Group) in 1990s</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Mr Suresh Prabhu was involved in the multi-crore cobbler scam in Maharahtra in the mid-1990s when he was Chairman of Saraswat Bank.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Mr Suresh Prabhu also played a dubious role in the Enron-GE-Dabhol scam when he was Power Minister in the Vajpayee led NDA government. It appears as if Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Power Minister was to facilitate the cover up of the corrupt dealings in the Dabhol Project.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><a href="http://sureshprabhu-alert.blogspot.in/2015/11/suresh-prabhu-manoj-tirodkar_13.html" target="_blank">http://sureshprabhu-alert.blogspot.in/2015/11/suresh-prabhu-manoj-tirodkar_13.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Suresh Prabhu facilitated and benefited from the Adarsh scam as a flat allottee, and with his links to power and politics in Maharashtra, his claim that he was unaware of the illegalities and was a mere "victim" is disingenuous.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><a href="http://sureshprabhu-alert.blogspot.in/2015/11/suresh-prabhu-facilitated-and-benefited_13.html" target="_blank">http://sureshprabhu-alert.blogspot.in/2015/11/suresh-prabhu-facilitated-and-benefited_13.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Also read how </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu was appointed Rail Minister under influence of General Electric Company to cover up corruption in Marhowra and Madhepura loco Projects & tenders </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;">& how </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu inappropriately appointed former DMRC Managing Director, E. Sreedharan as a one-man committee to fix accountability in all rail tendering processes</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;">I attach a copy of Mr Suresh Prabhu's CV. He claims to be active as an entrepreneur in the area of renewable energy. He is therefore bound to have past and ongoing ties to General Electric Company, one of the biggest corporates in the area of energy and renewable energy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Mr Suresh Prabhu is pursuing a PhD at the Freie University in Berlin, which is described on the internet as a CIA funded organization.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Mr Suresh P. Prabhu is Chairperson of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Suresh Prabhu's son Ameya Prabhu is an entrepreneur and investor in energy portfolios and projects. His CV reads like that of a middleman for energy deals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Suresh Prabhu and his son Ameya Prabhu appear to have been jointly working as a lobbying/fixer/facilitator team for corporate interests in the area of renewable energy and water policy and projects in India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Suresh Prabhu and his son Ameya Prabhu must disclose their past and present dealings (including financial dealings) with General Electric Company and its affiliates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Ameya Prabhu's business interests create a clear conflict of interest if Suresh Prabhu handles any energy/ renewable energy related policy/ projects for the Government of India. It is therefore a matter of grave concern that the present government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed Suresh Prabhu as the head of a high-level panel on power revamp — "Advisory Group for Integrated Development of Power, Coal and Renewable Energy."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I have earlier complained of conflict of interest concerns regarding Montek Singh Ahluwalia and his son Pawan Ahluwalia. Mr Suresh Prabhu and his son Ameya Prabhu are in the same boat and Mr Suresh Prabhu's recent appointments to positions in the Government of India raise serious concerns of conflict of interest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The Narendra Modi government came to power after an election campaign run on anti-corruption messaging and promises. That is why the appointment of Mr Suresh Prabhu to government positions and to the Railway Ministry despite his conflict of interest and past background of involvement in corruption and its cover-up is very disappointing. I urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi to correct course and to ensure that there is no cover up of the corruption, bribes, forgery, fraud, and illegal lobbying involved in the Projects and tenders for the diesel locomotive factory at Marhowra and the electric locomotive factory at Madhepura. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I am concerned that Mr Sadanand Gowda was replaced with Suresh Prabhu because the former was hesitant to proceed with the corruption-tainted Madhepura and Marhowra projects. Recently in September 2014, the Railways Financial Commissioner in a letter to Mr Gowda (as Rail Minister) had recommended that these Projects be scrapped as such long-term purchase orders with assured off-take were unnecessary and constituted a debt-trap for the Indian Railways. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Dossier on Suresh Prabhu</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" , "times new roman" , "" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Even a basic background search about Mr Suresh Prabhu and his family would have shown many red flags in connection with his suitability for a cabinet ministerial post or any government post.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" , "times new roman" , "" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">An internet search shows that Suresh Prabhu's son Ameya Prabhu and Suresh Prabhu's wife Uma Prabhu are promoter-directors in several companies whose names indicate operations in the business areas of finance, infrastructure, consultancy and energy. Mr Suresh Prabhu is not a business tycoon. Since 1995/1996, he claims to have been in politics. He has been an MP four times. He was a Chartered Accountant. His wife Uma Prabhu is supposed to be a journalist/ writer.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" , "times new roman" , "" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Then why are his son and wife promoters/ directors in the following companies. These are obviously Suresh Prabhu's benami companies. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" , "times new roman" , "" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">This confirms that Suresh Prabhu, his wife and son have been involved in some very suspicious business/ financial dealings through these companies. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" , "times new roman" , "" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">SURVALL GLOBAL PROJECTS PRIVATE LIMITED</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="color: #d14242; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Brief</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #525252; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">SURVALL GLOBAL PROJECTS PRIVATE LIMITED is a private company registered on 14/03/2011. The company has an authorized capital of Rs 50,00,000.00 and paid-up capital of Rs 1,00,000.00.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">809, DALAMAL TOWERS,NARIMAN POINT, FREE PRESS MARG,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">City</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">MUMBAI</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 33.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;"><td style="border-top: none; border: solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt; height: 33.75pt; padding: 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 7.5pt; width: 40.0%;" width="40%"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">State</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Maharashtra</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Country</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">INDIA</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Pin</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">400021</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 33.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 12; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"><td style="border-top: none; border: solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt; height: 33.75pt; padding: 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 7.5pt; width: 40.0%;" width="40%"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Email Id</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 33.75pt; padding: 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 7.5pt; width: 60.0%;" width="60%"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ameyaprabhu@gmail.com</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 37.5pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"><td colspan="5" style="background: #F0F0F0; border-bottom: none; border: solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt; height: 37.5pt; padding: 0cm 7.5pt 0cm 7.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="149bec002f6d955c_signatory"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="color: #be2020; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; text-transform: uppercase;">DIRECTOR & KEY PERSONS</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 33.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td style="background: #F8F8F8; border: solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt; height: 33.75pt; padding: 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 7.5pt; width: 20.0%;" width="20%"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">DIN/DPIN/PAN</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Director Name</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Appointment Date</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Designation</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.companywiki.in/wiki/survall-global-projects-private-limited.html#00629670"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">00629670</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">AMEYA SURESH PRABHU</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">14/03/2011</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Director</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.companywiki.in/wiki/survall-global-projects-private-limited.html#01725272"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">01725272</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">UMA SURESH PRABHU</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">21/03/2014</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Additional Director</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="149bec002f6d955c_otherDirector"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="color: #be2020; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; text-transform: uppercase;">OTHER DIRECTORSHIPS OF CURRENT DIRECTORS</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr style="height: 33.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;"><td colspan="2" style="background: #F8F8F8; border: solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt; height: 33.75pt; padding: 2.25pt 2.25pt 2.25pt 7.5pt; width: 30.0%;" width="30%"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">DIN/Director Name</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Company Name</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #575757; font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Designation</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Amerya Prabhu is the Deputy Managing Director of Greenergy Renewables Private Limited which describes itself as a Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer (IPP) and a Renewable Energy Services Company (RESCO). According to its website, Blue Crane Holdings Pvt. Ltd. (BCH) is the investor in Greenergy Renewables Pvt. Ltd. Ameya Prabhu is the nominee of Blue Crane in Greenergy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Greenergy's website contains the following profile for Ameya Prabhu:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"Mr. Ameya Prabhu - Deputy Managing Director</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Mr Ameya Prabhu, in his capacity as Deputy Managing Director, is responsible for working closely with the Managing Director to lead the organization towards achievement of its goals. Mr Prabhu is involved extensively in devising a corporate strategy for Greenergy, and in raising funds for the company.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Mr Prabhu is a nominee of Blue Crane Holdings on the Board of Directors of Greenergy Renewables. Blue Crane Holdings is a company focused on emerging business opportunities in the water and clean energy sectors. His areas of expertise include: finance, renewable energy, energy efficiency, power, foreign collaborations and partnerships.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Mr Prabhu was previously a Director with Energy India Corporation and was involved in developing thermal and wind power projects in South Asia. He was involved in formulating a relationship with a leading European utility for co-developing a thermal power plant in Maharashtra, India and in tying up the coal linkage for the project. His earlier experience includes stints at IL&FS marine transport division, Enam Consultants, DSP Merill Lynch and ICICI Bank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Mr Prabhu holds a Masters in Financial Management from the IE Business School and is a CFA Level II Candidate. He has a B.Sc. in Economics, Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The Blue Crane website at <a href="http://www.bluecraneholding.com/index01.htm" target="_blank">http://www.bluecraneholding.com/index01.htm</a> contains no information about its officers or its investors. The only information on this website is some contact information which reads as under:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"Aban House, 3rd floor, Sai Baba Lane</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">(Rope Walk Lane), Behind Rhythm House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Fort, Mumbai 400023 INDIA</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Email: <a href="mailto:info@bluecraneholding.com" target="_blank">info@bluecraneholding.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Web : <a href="http://www.bluecraneholding.com/" target="_blank">www.bluecraneholding.com</a>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Ameya Prabhu is also shown as a Director in Essay Infra, and the company's website contains the following profile for Suresh Prabhu:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">With a Bsc. in Economics, Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick and a Masters in Financial Management from the IE Business School in Madrid, Spain, he is actually positioned as a CFA Level II Candidate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Previously a Director with Energy India Corporation, Mr. Prabhu was involved in developing thermal and wind power projects in South Asia. He was involved in formulating a relationship with a leading European utility for co-developing a thermal power plant in Maharashtra, India and in tying up the coal linkage for the project. His earlier experience includes stints at IL&FS marine transport division, Enam Consultants, DSP Merill Lynch and ICICI Bank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Mr.Prabhu's areas of expertise include: finance, renewable energy, energy efficiency, power, foreign collaborations and partnerships. Currently he is actively working towards promoting closer integration between companies in India, China and Latin America."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Essay Infra has evolved its key areas of focus in synch with the India-development theme. With our focus on Solar Energy, Water, Infrastructure, Finance and Trading, Essay Infra is aligned to make most of the immense potential that lies ahead in the region.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">We have designed the interplay between our areas of focus and our global partnerships to embed speed and efficiency as we seek to focus on SWIFT in a swift manner."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"AMEYA PRABHU FINANCE LIMITED</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">AMEYA PRABHU FINANCE LIMITED is a listed company registered on 31/03/1997. The company has an authorized capital of Rs 30,00,000.00 and paid-up capital of Rs 25,00,000.00.</span></div>
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Seema Saprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07094308832539462568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156885966506868262.post-85865921345870399522015-11-13T01:59:00.003-08:002015-11-13T01:59:51.859-08:00Suresh Prabhu facilitated and benefited from the Adarsh scam <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The appointment of Mr Suresh Prabhu as Railway Minister was influenced by General Electric Company using Mr Sharad Pawar as an intermediary with intent to cover up the corruption complaints and evidence against General Electric Company set out in Writ Petition Civil 1280/ 2012.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I draw your attention to some further facts in connection with Suresh Prabhu's role in facilitating and benefiting from the Adarsh scam.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Suresh Prabhu was involved in permitting the Adarsh building society to proceed with construction in violation of applicable environmental rules including the CRZ regulations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Suresh Prabhu's modus operandi in facilitating this was very similar to Montek Singh Ahluwalia's facilitation of the Dabhol Project where the latter wrote letters which were interpreted as approval of the financial structure of the Dabhol Project including power pricing. Montek Singh Ahluwalia's modus operandi was to later retract and suggest that his letter was not an approval as he was not authorised to grant the approval.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Correspondence with the Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) in 2003 has been used by the Adarsh society promoters and even by the Maharastra State government to argue that environmental clearances including CRZ clearances were obtained from the MoEF in 2003. The MoEF has since denied that it issued any clearance. However, the letters issued by the MoEF which were relied upon as granting clearance which facilitated various Central and State regulatory authorities to assume that someone had granted clearance appear to have involved the hand of Suresh Prabhu.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I reproduce at the end some news reports on the issue of the environmental clearances for Adarsh. Of course, as is usual course in India, a mammoth cover-up of the Adarsh scam has been undertaken shielding many politicians involved. I do point out that such cover-ups are not without cost to the national interest as failure to apply the rule of law even when corruption is exposed contributes to and perpetuates the "sab chalta hai" culture that engenders, breeds and encourages corruption.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But the questions to ask about Suresh Prabhu and the Adarsh scam are:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">There was some involvement of the MoEF in the Vajpayee Cabinet in facilitating the Adarsh society. Was Suresh Prabhu involved? Suresh Prabhu has stated that he was not Environment Minister in 2003 when the MoEF cleared the Adarsh structure. But there are several citations on the internet recording that Suresh Prabhu was environment minister in 2003. Plus Suresh Prabhu was environment minister in 1998- 1999 when the Adarsh proposal first came to the attention of the MoEF. Did Suresh Prabhu deal with the Adarsh file as environment minister in 1998-1999?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">http://earthjournalism.net/stories/india2019s-river-linking-scheme-a-case-of-troubled-waters</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">India's River-Linking Scheme: A case of troubled waters</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">By Keya Acharya, 5 May 2014</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Forum of Environmental Journalists of India, India</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">With the exception of some select fields, few other issues in India have raised as much passion as the inter-state sharing of river waters. And, stemming partly from this socio-political acrimony together with environmental and economic concerns, India's grandiose National River Linking Project (NRLP), has been on the potboiler ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in 2003 set up a Task Force on inter-linking of rivers, headed by then Environment Minister Suresh Prabhu.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Congress tried to put the blame on the Shiv Sena, as the proposal had first come to the state government when Narayan Rane, who was then with the Sena, was the chief minister in 1999. The party also accused Prabhu of giving the green clearance. Incidentally, Prabhu is a member of the Society and has been allotted a flat in the building.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Suresh Prabhu was no longer a government employee in 2004 when the Adarsh flat was allotted to him. He claims to have purchased the flat with a bank loan. First it has been established that the allotment to Suresh Prabhu was illegal. He could only have been allotted a flat as a private citizen if his income was less than Rs 20,000. Is it Suresh Prabhu's case that he fell within this category? Further, even if Suresh Prabhu fell within this category, he would have been entitled to a flat only half the size of what he was actually allotted. Why was he allotted a larger flat?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">More importantly, Suresh Prabhu claims that he did not examine the society documents and its legal compliances himself but merely accepted the position of the promoters and blindly obtained a bank loan and paid money to purchase the flat. Are we expected to believe this?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Suresh Prabhu is a chartered accountant, a former banker and a former Cabinet minister who boasts about his administrative skills and achievements on his bio and website. Are we to believe that with these qualifications, Suresh Prabhu decided to take out a loan and buy a flat without examining the sale papers and the legal status of the property he was buying? Did the bank not insist on a due diligence and on Suresh Prabhu representing that the proposed purchase had been vetted and was legitimate and genuine? Was the bank loan issued against a mortgage of the Adarsh flat? Did the bank not vet the property documents?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Even a common man will not purchase property without assuring himself that the building was authorised? And is Suresh Prabhu saying that being a chartered accountant he decided to purchase property without assuring himself that the construction was authorised and the proposed building had necessary approvals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Suresh Prabhu was at some time the environment minister in the Vajpayee Cabinet in 2003. He was environment minister in 1998-1999. He was aware of the CRZ notification. He must have at some time as a minister dealt with a file on the Adarsh building, whether or not he himself approved a clearance. He is a Mumbai resident and would have known that the location of the Adarsh building raised issues of CRZ clearances.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And we are expected to believe that despite his specialist knowledge, Suresh Prabhu decided to purchase the Adarsh flat with eyes and ears closed and with no due diligence?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Suresh Prabhu is one of the 32 illegal allottees in the Adarsh building and we are expected to assume that he is innocent and a victim?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Suresh Prabhu obtained a prized Colaba flat at a nominal undervalued price to which he was not legally entitled along with 31 other illegal allottees and he would have gotten away with it if the scam had not been exposed. And we are expected to believe that he was a victim. Why is it that no ordinary citizens were victimised by the Adarsh Society and allotted flats at nominal prices in Colaba? Why are all the illegal beneficiaries of the Adarsh scam powerful politicians and bureaucrats who were all connected in some manner to those public officials or ministries who/ which facilitated the usurpation of land and the illegal construction?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">How did Suresh Prabhu end up becoming a part of the Adarsh building society in 2004 if he had no connection to the scam or if he was not being rewarded for corrupt services rendered at some point (like in the Dabhol Project corruption cover-up)? Surely there were many potential buyers for such undervalued Colaba flats. Let Suresh Prabhu explain exactly how he got involved with Adarsh?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Suresh Prabhu must be removed from his position as Rail Minister as his background establishes his unsuitability for this or indeed any other government post.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Adarsh Had No Environment Clearance: Maharashta Govt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">MUMBAI | JAN 16, 2013</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The two-year marathon inquiry conducted by a judicial commission into the Adarsh scam has ended with the Maharashtra government said to have admitted for the first time that the controversial housing society did not have necessary environmental clearances.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The commission set up in January 2011 wrapped up its inquiry into the scam yesterday and is likely to submit its final report to the state government next month, sources in the panel told PTI.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The government may accept or reject the findings of the commission.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Concluding his arguments, state government counsel A Y Sakhare is understood to have told the commission that the 31-storey plush Adarsh building in south Mumbai was constructed without Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance or nod from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The sources said it is for the first time that the government, which had consistently maintained that no rules were violated in granting permissions to the building, has admitted that the society did not have the required environmental clearance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The state is said to have supported the MoEF's claim that the March 2003 letter by the Urban Development Department to the society was misrepresented as environmental clearance by one of the accused P V Deshmukh, a former deputy secretary in the department.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The MoEF, in response to UDD's letter forwarding the society's proposal for construction, had said that state has a body- Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA)-to look into CRZ clearances. The MoEF's response was allegedly misconstrued by Deshmukh as a clearance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The state government in its final arguments is said to have noted that the society should not have constructed 31 floors as the Development Control Regulations (DCR), 1967, applicable to it, did not permit that. According to the state, the building situated in south Mumbai's upscale Colaba, could have been built only up to 46.5 m and not the present 100.7 m.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">According to the government, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) wrongly applied DCR 1991 which did not have height restrictions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The commission, headed by Justice (retired) J A Patil, has started dictating its findings in chamber and will submit its final report to the government by the end of next month.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The commission had in its interim report last year negated the Ministry of Defence's claim on the land where the building stands and held that its ownership rested with the state government. The panel had also noted that the land was not reserved for Kargil war veterans, widows and their relatives.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The commission's final report will throw light on whether requisite permissions had been obtained by the society and if any rules violated by bureaucrats while granting various clearances.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A total of 214 witnesses were examined by the commission including Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, former Maharashtra chief ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh and Ashok Chavan, former army chiefs N C Vij and Deepak Kapoor, several IAS officers and bureaucrats from the state and central government.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ashok Chavan is an accused in the case but was never arrested.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mumbai, November 03, 2010</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">First Published: 00:24 IST(3/11/2010)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Housing scam: Ex-minister wants Adarsh money back</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Shiv Sena leader and former Union environment minister Suresh Prabhu said he would send a notice to Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society asking it to return the money he paid for a flat in the 31-storey tower. He also denied granting it any environmental clearance. The tower at Colaba was allegedly built in violation of environmental norms and on the promise that houses would be given to Kargil war veterans and widows. However, most of the flats were allotted to bureaucrats, politicians and army and navy commanders.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Congress had accused Prabhu of clearing the project while he was environment minister in the National Democratic Alliance government.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"I was not a minister when the clearance was given. I held the post in 1998-1999," said Prabhu on the phone from Singapore on Tuesday. He pointed out that it was the DMK's TR Baalu who was environment minister in 2003.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is a partner in the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The plot on which the society stands is part of the Coastal Regulation Zone 1, the most eco-sensitive coastal area because it has mangroves and mudflats. In such zones projects costing more than R5 crore require clearance by the Union environment ministry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ministry officials, however, have said no sanction was given to the Adarsh project.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Prabhu said he is not a promoter or office-bearer of the society. "I got a flat that was part of a quota for MPs and because it was going at a concession. I took a home loan for it and the flat is still on mortgage," he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Prabhu said he got all the clearances required for the loan, including an approval from the collector. "Now I find out the project is in trouble. I will send a notice to the society asking it to return my money," he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He insisted that he was not aware of any violations by the society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">No MoEF clearance was issued to Adarsh Housing Society</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has denied that it has issued a No Objection Certificate (NOC) on March 11, 2003, to Adarsh Housing Cooperative Society, Mumbai, for construction of a residential building. The Navy has taken strong objection to grant of clearances to the building, citing violation of norms.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The society, with its high profile members, is in the eye of a storm for violating environmental and other norms and misusing the land granted to it. The MoEF issued a statement on Thursday giving the exact text of the letter dated March 11, 2003, which it had issued to P.V. Deshmukh, Deputy Secretary, Urban Development Department, government of Maharashtra.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The letter notes that "the proposed residential complex falls within the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) - II area. This Ministry has already delegated the powers to the State government for undertaking development in Coastal Regulation Zone -II. Accordingly, the proposed construction may be taken up as per the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 1991 (as amended from time to time) and the approved revised Coastal Zone Management Plan of Greater Mumbai."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The MoEF clarified that any reference from the State government about the coastal matters was examined under the provisions of the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 1991, and the approved Coastal Zone Management Plan of Mumbai.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Height no problem</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Citing that the housing society received all necessary clearances and permissions, Adarsh society, in letter, stated that the building plan was approved by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority in stages as per rules. "CRZ [Coastal Regulatory Zone] clearance was obtained from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi vide letter NoF.No.J-17011/46/2002-IA III dated March 11, 2003." It also said that CRZ clearance had nothing to do with the height of the building.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It claimed that the height of the building (103.4 meters) was approved by the High Rise Committee headed by Retired Chief Justice of Tamil Nadu. "The final Commencement Certificate was issued by the MMRDA on August 04, 2010 and, lastly, Occupation Certificate was also given on September 16, 2010."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The MoEF denied that this letter gave any permission, pointing out that in March 2003, all construction in the CRZ area, which was permissible under the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification and were in consonance with the approved Coastal Zone Management Plan of Mumbai, had to be considered by the Maharashtra State Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA). At that time, the approval authority was meant to be the State government; in the case of Maharashtra, it was the environment department. The society did not make any application to the environment department, it is learnt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Ministry had approved the revised Coastal Zone Management Plan of Mumbai on January 19, 2000. To obtain clearance under the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 1991, the project proponent needs to submit the proposal enclosing the details of construction, classification of Coastal Regulation Zone area in the requisite format to the concerned Coastal Zone Management Authority; in this case this proposal should have been submitted to the MCZMA.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The MCZMA was constituted in January, 2002, in compliance with a Supreme Court order. The statement said clearance under the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification 1991 by the MOEF was in a prescribed format. The clearance letter issued by the Ministry was always addressed to the Member Secretary, MCZMA, and copied to all concerned. The power to issue of Coastal Regulation Zone clearance was withdrawn on April 22, 2003, in respect of projects costing more than Rs. 5 crore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Demolish Adarsh, says MoEF official</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">MUMBAI: Reiterating its stand on the Adarsh housing society, a former Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) official told a judicial panel that the building has to be demolished as it does not have environmental clearance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Former MoEF director Bharat Bhushan told a two-member inquiry commission set up by the state government to probe into the scam, that the Adarsh building stands in the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) and hence environmental clearance is mandatory.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"The building has not obtained any clearance from the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA). The MCZMA has not sent any recommnedation to the MoEF regarding clearance to be given to Adarsh," he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He said that when the Adarsh scam broke in October 2010, the MoEF had asked for a report from the secretary of the department of environment who is also the chairperson of the MCZMA.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The report stated that no clearance was obtained or given to the plush 31-storey Adarsh building in South Mumbai.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"The final order of Janury 14, 2011, passed by the MoEF for the building's demolition was based on details sent by the MCZMA chairperson, Maharashtra government, hearing of Adarsh representatives, as well as other documents," he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ex-MoEF director Bharat Bhushan told a probe panel set up by the state on the scam, that the Adarsh building stands in the CRZ and hence environmental clearance is mandatory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Why didn't your ministry stop the controversial building project in 2003 itself?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">PRASANNA MOHANTY | JANUARY 17, 2011</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh loves publicity, more so if it comes free. It would, therefore, have been naïve not to expect him to issue a demolition notice to the Adarsh housing society which he has done now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Do bask in glory, Mr Ramesh, but please answer a few questions. The first question is: Why this notice to the Adarsh society now? The 31-storey building that you think deserves to be completely demolished for "egregious violation" of environment laws, got the occupation certificate on September 16, 2010. Which means, the construction activities have already been completed for people to move in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Presumably, construction began after the Adarsh society applied for environment clearance from your ministry in 2003. Your ministry wrote back on March 11, 2003 saying the appropriate clearing authority under the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification of 1991 was the state government – rather the Maharashtra State Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So, your ministry and MCZMA knew about the case way back in March 2003. Why did both of them go to sleep for the next seven years?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">MCZMA has, in its deposition before your ministry, said it had issued notice to the Adarsh society on lack of environment clearance on November 3, 2009. Why did it take six years for it to do so?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The second question, therefore, is: What action do you propose to take against your ministry officials and those of the MCZMA?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The third question pertains to the violation of the CRZ notification of 1991 vis-à-vis section 3(2)(v) of the Environment (Protection) Act of 1986 itself. As your communiqué mentions, this section "provides for 'restriction of areas' in which any industries, operations or process of class of industries, operations or processes shall not be carried out or shall be carried out subject to certain safeguards. Construction of buildings falls with the category of 'process' ".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Find us one more individual, Mr Ramesh, who agrees with this interpretation of "process". Why is the language so vague and prone to misinterpretation? Is this deliberate or do you expect us to believe that the literacy level of your officials is so poor? No wonder the Adarsh society is protesting, arguing that it didn't violate any the law as this section deals with industries, not housing societies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Adarsh society is also right in questioning the locus standi of MoEF, citing the ministry's March 11, 2003 letter, which said the state government was the clearing authority. To which, your communiqué mentions that your ministry has clarified that the CRZ notification was amended on April 22, 2003 (a month later) withdrawing that power from the state government because of "misutilisation" of power. But you are silent on whether this amendment was communicated to the Adarsh society at that time and what action was taken to ensure that the amendment was followed by other applicants.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Adarsh society is a fait accompli, Mr Ramesh, just as many other big-ticket projects that your ministry first cleared and then issued notices about violations of law when public outcry reached unmanageable levels - Lavasa project in Pune, Vedanta's smelting and refinery plants in Orissa, Jindals' thermal plants in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, Lafarge's mining in Meghalaya and so on. It would be naive again to expect that the Adarsh society would actually be demolished.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Get your act together, Mr Ramesh, and get right the vaguely worded laws, notifications and regulations and ask your men to act proactive, not reactive to public outcry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">No record of environmental clearance: MoEF</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">MMRDA Allowed Housing Society In Violation Of Coastal Regulation Rules</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">New Delhi: Adding a new twist to the controversy surrounding Adarsh Housing Cooperative Society, the Colaba highrise in which a clutch of powerful politicians, bureaucrats and former Army chiefs have cornered flats, the Union ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) on Tuesday indicated that it has no records of the building obtaining the necessary environmental clearances. TOI had reported on October 26 how Adarsh Society had appropriated defence land in the name of building houses for war veterans and war widows, and indulged in a host of other violations along the way.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Based on TOI reports, the MoEF on Tuesday issued a notice to the Maharashtra environment secretary, asking her to examine the project, clearances obtained and the action taken against the violations. The notice says there is a violation of the CRZ (Coastal Regulation Zone) rules and the EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) rules as well. When contacted, Union minister for environment & forests Jairam Ramesh confirmed that his ministry had written to the state government to find out if the building had obtained necessary clearances. The ministry has sought a reply by Monday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> A day after the TOI report, when the state environment department conducted its own preliminary probe, it found that the urban development department and MMRDA had approved the proposal in blatant violation of CRZ rules in collaboration with the BMC. Although environment secretary Valsa Nair Singh refused to comment, a senior official on Tuesday confirmed that all the rules, particularly under CRZ, were completely ignored. (According to CRZ rules, any project of Rs 5 crore and above has to be approved by the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority and later by the ministry of environment & forests.) "We examined all the applications submitted to MCZMA. We were stunned to find that while the project was within the CRZ area, the society never submitted an application for approval,'' the official said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> MCZMA and MoEF were both in the dark on the first phase of Adarsh. However, the state environment department stepped in in 2007 when local residents lodged a complaint, saying there were blatant violations in Phase Two of the project. "We had issued a show cause notice to the promoters of the society and asked them to submit the approvals granted to them by MCZMA and MoEF. They failed to produce the documents — instead, they showed us the correspondence between MoEF and the urban development department,'' the official said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Vice-Admiral Sanjeev Bhasin, the flag officer commanding-In-chief of the Mumbai-based Western Naval Command, in his letter to the headquarters in July, had pointed out that under CRZ rules, the height of the building had to be restricted to 30 metres. The current height of the building is evidently 100 metres or more, with 31 floors and 124 flats.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Admiral Bhasin also quoted from a letter that the principal secretary, urban development department of Maharashtra, had written on August 19, 1999, seeking an NOC for the complex since it falls under the CRZ-1 plan. The letter, which was forwarded to naval headquarters, said the members of the society were officers who had "dedicated their lives to service of the Motherland and deserved all special consideration''. It added that several members were even today fighting at Kargil and in surrounding areas. Records show that none of the senior defence officers who own flats there fought in the Kargil conflict.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Land belongs to revenue dept, say officials</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mumbai: Chief minister Ashokrao Chavan on Tuesday said that he has sought information on the row over the allotment of a prime piece of land to the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society in south Mumbai. "I have carefully read the report in the Times of India and I am seized of the matter. I have asked the concerned departments to submit a comprehensive report on the allegations. Once the information is received, we will decide on the course of action. So far, no decision has been taken,'' Chavan told TOI.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Meanwhile, Mumbai collector Chandrashekhar Oke has submitted a preliminary report to the revenue department on the controversy over the allotment of the land to the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society in 2004. The report also deals with ownership of the land.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Though Oke refused to comment on his report, a senior Mantralaya official confirmed that the land allotted to the cooperative housing society belonged to the revenue department. TNN AMONG THE ALLOTTEES</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I A KUNDAN | Former collector of Mumbai, current joint secretary (planning) P V DESHMUKH | Ex-deputy secretary</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">KANISHKA J PHATAK | Son of former BMC commissioner Jairaj Phatak KANHAIYALAL GIDWANI | Former Congress MLC and sons Kailash and Amit SEEMA VYAS | FDA commissioner JITENDRA S AWHAD | NCP MLA RAJESH KUMAR DAS | VP, Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">RANJIT SANGITRAO | Son of transport secretary C S Sangitrao</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">DEVYANI KHOBRAGADE | Daughter of former BEST GM Uttam Khobragade</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">J M ABHYANKAR | Ex-director, education</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Tuesday, 2 November 2010 - 7:08pm IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: PTI</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-former-union-minister-suresh-prabhu-denies-involvement-in-adarsh-scam-1461252" target="_blank">http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-former-union-minister-suresh-prabhu-denies-involvement-in-adarsh-scam-1461252</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Prabhu, a former Shiv Sena MP who is a member of the Adarsh Housing Society, said that he joined the Society as an MP but when the NDA was not in power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Former Union minister Suresh Prabhu today washed his hands off the Adarsh scam, saying that he never gave any permission for the project during his tenure in the Union cabinet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"I never gave any permissions for this project during my tenure as the environment minister," Prabhu said from Singapore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Prabhu, a former Shiv Sena MP who is a member of the Adarsh Housing Society, said that he joined the Society as an MP but when the NDA was not in power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"So, there is no question of me influencing any allotment," he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"I was not the promoter nor the office-bearer of the Society. I borrowed money from a bank and all the documents were verified before granting me loan," he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Prabhu said that his application was scrutinised and verified by the Mumbai city collector. "I followed the same procedure which is a normal routine for applying for membership in such societies."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"If any irregularity regarding the land had been brought to my notice, I would never have become a member. If there is indeed any irregularity, I am a victim," he claimed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">As the Kargil for Profit scam grows bigger, there is overwhelming evidence that politicians across political colour and creed bent over backwards in colluding with the scamsters. The finger of suspicion also pointing squarely at Suresh Prabhu, the then Union Minister of Environment and Forests and seems to have mysteriously vanished now. As the Kargil for Profit scam blows up too many instances seem to point to the Prabhu.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The two-member panel set up to probe the alleged Adarsh housing society scam was on Friday told by former Union minister Suresh Prabhu, IAS officer Seema Vyas as well Omkar Tiwari, son of former urban development secretary Ramanand Tiwari, that they had not checked the status of the controversial plot before applying for membership.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Maharashtra government has rejected the report of the judicial commission of inquiry on the Adarsh scam it tabled in the Legislative Assembly today which indicted several politicians including three former Chief Ministers for "blatant violations" of statutory provisions.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The report of the 2-member commission headed by retired high court judge J A Patil came down heavily on those in authority describing the scam as a "bad precedent" which reflected "greed, nepotism and favouritism" by those associated with it.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The panel found 25 of the society's 102 members ineligible and 22 cases of benami purchase of flats.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The report said Adarsh society enjoyed political patronage of former Chief Ministers, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Sushil Kumar Shinde and Ashok Chavan, former Revenue Minister Shivajirao Nlengekar Patil, former Minister for Urban Development Sunil Tatkare and former Minister of Urban Development Rajesh Tope.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ashok Chavan was the only Chief Minister charge sheeted in the scam by the CBI but Governor K Sankaranarayanan had refused sanction to the investigative agency to prosecute him a few days ago.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The beneficiaries included politicians across the spectrum and their relatives.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Those found ineligible for ownership of flats included former Maharashtra Assembly speaker Babasaheb Kupekar of NCP, senior Indian diplomat in US Devyani Khobragade, former Shiv Sena MP Suresh Prabhu and three relatives of former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, who had to step down after the scam surfaced.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The much awaited report, which was submitted to the state government on April 18 this year was tabled in the House on the last day of the Winter Session today.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The interim report was submitted to the state government on April 13, 2012 and the Action Taken Report (ATR) was tabled on the floor of the House on April 17, 2012.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">"Evidence clearly indicates that it is neither ideal (Adarsh) nor role model but a bad precedent. Adarsh is a saga of ideal co-operation but it is a shameless tale of blatant violations of statutory provisions, rule and regulations," the report said.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">It expressed "deep regret" over the "greed, nepotism and favouritism" involved in the scam.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">"It reflects greed, nepotism and favouritism on part of people who were in one way or the other associated with Adarsh. It is sad story of unscrupulous greed of some persons closely connected with the society.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">"Some persons not satisfied with the allotment of one single flat have tried and succeeded in securing flats for their nears and dear ones. They went to the extent of benami transactions in violation of provisions. That such an episode should take place in Maharashtra is a matter of deep regret," it said.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The judicial panel, however, acknowledged the state government's ownership of the land and said it did not belong to Ministry of Defence, defence personnel nor was it reserved for Kargil martyrs or war veterans.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Ashok Chavan, during whose tenure the scam surfaced, was among 13 people who were charge sheeted by CBI in connection with the case.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Chavan had challenged his inclusion in the charge sheet, saying no sanction for prosecution was taken from the Governor which was countered by CBI which argued since he was a former minister at the time of being charge-sheeted, there was no need for sanction.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "" "times new roman" "" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">CBI had alleged in its charge sheet that Chavan had increased the floor space index of the controversial Adarsh society in return for flats for his relatives. Chavan had also asked the housing society to take 40 per cent members from civilian category, when it was originally meant only for war veterans, CBI had alleged, adding that Chavan played a key role in the scam.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Seema Saprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07094308832539462568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156885966506868262.post-23576124697324944092015-11-13T01:59:00.001-08:002015-11-13T01:59:02.285-08:00In 2002, Suresh Prabhu’s NGO Manav Sadhan Vikas Sanstha received funds from CIA front - Ford Foundation <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Suresh Prabhu's NGO received Ford Foundation funds</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">" while he was a Cabinet Minister in the Vajpayee government, Suresh Prabhu was accepting foreign donations to his NGO Manav Sadhan Vikas Sanstha of which he was and still continues to be Chairman.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Manoj Tirodkar claims to have earned Rs 4500 crores from the sale of “Global Electronics Commerce Services Ltd”. Note that in an interview reproduced below Tirodkar claims to have sold Global Electronics in 1999, whereas he acquired this company in 2000 and then sold it in 2000 for Rs 4500 crores. Both GE and Enron had signed deals with Tirodkar’s companies before 2000 which inflated their value.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The Ketan Parekh scam was also used to artificially inflate the value of Manoj Tirodkar’s companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The Enron-GE-Dabhol bribes were transferred through this alleged sale of Global Electronics Commerce Services Ltd using Tirodkar and Suresh Prabhu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Suresh Prabhu was involved with Manoj Tirodkar since the mid- 1990s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Suresh Prabhu was later brought into politics and appointed power minister to further bail out Enron, Dabhol and GE.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Suresh Prabhu facilitated the Enron corruption for Enron and GE ad you have appointed him as Rail Minister when GE is facing complaints of corruption regarding the rail ministry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Suresh Prabu still has links with Tirodkar and his Global group. Two persons described as holding senior management positions in Greenergy Renewables (a company held by Suresh Prabhu through Blue Crane Holdings and in which his son claims to be the Deputy Managing Director) are affiliated with the Global Group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Greenergy Renewables also looks like a scam because two key management persons there have other full time jobs. See the screenshots attached showing that L Y Desai still works with Tirodkar’s GTL Infra. While Shirish Garud is still working full-time in TERI. Yet both Desai and Garud are shown as full-time senior management in Greenergy Renewables.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">In 2002, Suresh Prabhu’s NGO Manav Sadhan Vikas Sanstha received funds from the Ford Foundation which has well-established and acknowledged ties to the CIA and which is known to disburse funds on behalf of the CIA and to further CIA projects. (US Senate/ Congressional records disclose that the CIA played a role in facilitating the Dabhol Power Project.) In 2002, Suresh Prabhu was the Union Power Minister and was involved with the disputes on the corruption-ridden Dabhol power plant. His decisions, positions and actions as Power Minister benefited General Electric Company in the Dabhol disputes."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">at page 26 records that Suresh Prabhu's NGO Manav Sadhan Vikas Sansthan got USD 71,775 from the Ford Foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Global Group is India's leading Infrastructure services group focused on Telecom, Shared Network Infrastructure and Power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Global Holding Corporation Pvt. Ltd. is the holding company of "Global Group" that has companies – GTL Limited and GTL Infrastructure limited, listed on Indian Stock Exchanges. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Group has revenues in excess of US$ 800 million , Balance sheet size of over US$ 2.5 Billion (FY 2014E) and over 30,000 towers . The Group has operations across Asia Pacific, Africa, Americas, Europe and Middle East.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">For over 2 decades Global Group has been partnering with leading technology players to offer infrastructure services to telecom operators, OEMs and Utilities offering its expertise in wireless communications and Power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Group employs people of more than 20 nationalities and supports communities in the areas of Education, Disability and Health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ask Manoj Gajanan Tirodkar who he is close to in industry and he is most likely to reply: "I have no friends." Those who work with him point out that he leads a simple life, works from nine to six, and then goes back to his home in south Mumbai's Colaba. But when this writer prodded him about his social circle, Tirodkar couldn't resist this quip: "I met Sunil Mittal a long time back when I was big and he was small — and later again when he became big and I was small."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That one line sums up Tirodkar's roller-coaster ride ever since he started a company called Global Tele-Systems to sell telecom equipment such as fax machines and telephones, in 1987, when he was in his mid-20s. Today, after making two multibillion-dollar acquisitions this year, Tirodkar is once again going up the roller-coaster to riches and the limelight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">With Lady luck smiling on him, Tirodkar could well be saying to himself: Who needs a friend when you have a great business partner? Last fortnight, the man who didn't go to college — he completed his schooling from a Marathi-medium school in Mumbai — cut the deal of his life when he bought into Anil Ambani's telecom towers business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">DESIGNATION: Chairman, Global Holding Corp, the holding firm for six operating companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">EARLY DAYS: A first-gen entrepreneur who, in his mid-20s, founded Global Tele, a marketing & distribution firm for telephones and faxes, in 1987.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">SETBACK: Scrutinised by SEBI for alleged nexus with stockbroker Ketan Parekh in a promoterbroker scam to rig up share prices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">CLOSE FRIENDS: Former Tata Finance MD Dilip Pendse and former Union Minister and Shiv Sena MP from Maharashtra Suresh Prabhu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">LEADERS HE ADMIRES: J.R.D. Tata, Mukesh Ambani and N.R. Narayana Murthy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">AWAY FROM WORK: Doesn't socialise, reads Peter Drucker, loves gardening and listening to music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">By acquiring Reliance Infratel's 50,000-odd towers, Tirodkar's company, GTL Infrastructure, has become the largest telecom tower company in the world with 80,000 towers. The transaction is valued at Rs 50,000 crore. This figure is arrived at by multiplying the number of tenants per tower with the revenue generated per tenant. Anil Ambani will own 26 per cent of GTL Infra, with Tirodkar's holding coming down to 33 per cent from 52 per cent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That's the second big bang to come from the 46-year-old Tirodkar in just six months. In January this year, GTL Infra bought the tower business of mobile services provider Aircel for Rs 8,400 crore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">From any angle, the diminutive and stocky Tirodkar doesn't come across as an archetypal takeover artiste. His headquarters in Janmabhoomi Chambers in South Mumbai's old commercial district of Ballard Estate is unassuming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And he shuns business suits, preferring the cool comfort of cotton shirts with two-buttoned pockets. But he loves reading the books of management guru Peter Drucker and legendary ex-CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch. Perhaps, Peter Lynch, who wrote One Up on Wall Street and Robert Shiller, author of Irrational Exuberance, should also find space on Tirodkar's bookshelf. After all, he knows a thing or two about stock markets. And he is no stranger to the rise and fall of fortunes brought about by irrational exuberance either — he was a beneficiary of the dotcom boom as well as a victim of the subsequent bust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">At the peak of the cycle in early 2000, the stock price of Global Tele-Systems — now clipped to GTL, perhaps, in a bid to bury the pain of the past — had climbed to an all-time high of Rs 2,212. The market value of the stock crossed Rs 15,000 crore at one time, running neck and neck with bellwethers like ITC and Hero Honda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That Tirodkar was close to Dilip Pendse, then Managing Director of Tata Finance, who was accused of insider trading in 2001, didn't do much for his reputation. Result: Tirodkar and his operations were perceived — rightly or wrongly — to be dubious. "In the years after the scam, investors who lost money looked on him with suspicion,'' says an analyst with a domestic brokerage firm. And Tirodkar was forced to lie low for most part of the decade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Tirodkar may have remained beneath the radar all those years, but he was still making important moves. Between the years ended March 2003 and March 2010, GTL's top line and net profits grew at a compounded average rate of 20 per cent and 14 per cent, respectively. The entrepreneur also found time to kick off new businesses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The tower operations were carved out of GTL, which resulted in the birth of GTL Infra, with the flagship becoming a pure-play network services company. Other companies in the group today are Global Rural NetCo, which is wiring up buildings for better data transfer in a wireless environment; Global Towers, a tower manufacturer; Global Projects, a procurement and project services company; and Global InnovSource, a recruitment and staffing services firm. The size of the group's balance sheet is estimated at $5 billion and the market value of two listed companies is roughly $2 billion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Interestingly, Tirodkar also has an aircraft maintenance company that services the planes of corporate tycoons, including the planes of Mukesh and Anil Ambani. The big question, however, is: How did Tirodkar finance his expansion spree? And the even bigger question is: How is he bankrolling the multi-billion dollar buyouts? "The money factor is grossly misconstrued," says Tirodkar. Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In 1999, Tirodkar sold his apparently flourishing e-commerce operation, called Global Electronics Commerce Services Ltd. to a clutch of investors, including Bank of America, UTI and T.RowePrice, at a valuation of Rs 4,500 crore. "Some of that money came to me, whilst the rest was used for building new businesses," he says. He's quick to add that GTL has not raised any money from the market since an initial public offering in 1994.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In fact, Tirodkar goes on to say that even after the recent huge investments, "we don't need money from the Indian capital market". That may smack of arrogance, but the canny entrepreneur appears to have more than one option to raise money. For starters, banks see few reasons not to lend to the GTL Group, with Deutsche Bank and half a dozen state-owned banks, including State Bank of India (SBI), having offered lines of credit for expansion and acquisitions. "He has a clear vision in the telecom services space," believes M.M. Agrawal, Deputy Managing Director, Axis Bank. And private equity majors such as Blackstone and Carlyle are said to be keen to invest in Tirodkar's companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So, how is he financing the acquisitions of Aircel's and Ambani's towers? For Aircel's towers, Tirodkar has taken a debt of Rs 5,000 crore and there is an equity infusion of Rs 3,400 crore by GTL, Global Holding Corp and GTL Infra. The Reliance deal has been structured differently. A person close to the transaction reveals that Reliance Infratel's debt of Rs 12,000 crore will be transferred to GTL Infra. Anil Ambani will get a 26 per cent stake in GTL Infra. Tirodkar will have to pay out some cash, and that amount will be finalised once the valuation exercise is completed in a few weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Such transactions involving dollops of debt, equity and hard cash don't give Tirodkar sleepless nights — the group's net debt/equity ratio stands at 1.4, there is still an unused debt limit of Rs 3,500 crore (after tying up funds for the Aircel deal) and he's sitting pretty on a cash balance of at least Rs 2,500 crore. He can raise more debt as infrastructure companies can go up to a debt/equity ratio of three.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Tirodkar says he can easily mobilise Rs 15,000 crore by securitising the future earnings of his tower business since it has triple A-rated customers. "If we take Rs 2,000 crore revenue every year for 15 years with a three per cent escalation every year, we have a revenue pipeline of Rs 40,000-45, 000 crore," says Tirodkar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Rs 8,400 crore paid for Aircel's towers may seem a lot, but Tirodkar is confident of a huge payback. "The tower model is a self-financing one — just like roads that are financed by toll," says Tirodkar, as he explains the annuity-driven revenue model. "Rs 8,400 crore may look huge today, but over a 15-year period Aircel will be paying us between Rs 17,000 crore and Rs 22,000 crore," he says with a twinkle in his eye.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">GTL Infra will earn rentals of Rs 700 crore in the first year, Rs 1,100 crore in the second, Rs 1,400 crore in the third and so on, for 15 years, from Aircel. And, of course, if another tenant comes on board, that's another bonanza. GTL Infra currently has operators like Vodafone, Bharti Airtel and Tata Tele using its towers. New revenue streams from wireless broadband services providers and radio stations are also possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"Our time has come," says Tirodkar, as he leans back in his chair. The upcoming rollout of third generation (3G) mobile phone services will throw up another huge opportunity. Tirodkar recently floated a company called Global Rural NetCo, which will take on the task of wiring up buildings for data transfer in the 3G era. This company achieved financial closure with a $1.2-billion loan from Axis Bank and IDBI Bank.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">For now, though, towers is where the action is. "His towers will dwarf all his other businesses in terms of size," says Ajay Parmar, Head of Research at Emkay Global Research. Tirodkar clearly has reasons to be excited: He's created a huge asset that is at the threshold of generating whopping revenues and he's found a dependable ally in Anil Ambani. And this time around the exuberance appears more rational than in the past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A year ago, everybody complimented Manoj Tirodkar for his restlessness to grow and create value. Today, the same lot will turn around and say that is his millstone. At a dinner banquet last year at the Taj Mahal rooftop – after successfully concluding a merger between Aircel’s towers and group company GTL Infrastructure – Tirodkar was hailed as sagacious, humble and hands-on by a motley bunch of suave bankers, analysts and media persons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Tirodkar, for most, epitomised the new entrepreneurial India, transcending his humble beginnings in the chawls of Mumbai's Girgaum as a charting broker in the shipping industry, and claiming his place in the Forbes rich list while rubbing shoulders with many of the Brahmins of the Bombay Club. The same set are now blaming him for unbridled growth, stretched financials and dreaming too big, too soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The punishment has been severe. Tirodkar’s listed entities – Global Telesystems Limited (GTL) and Global Telesystems Infrastructure (GTL Infra), two sister concerns with large holdings by foreign investors – have been mauled by investors in the past week. On Monday alone, GTL plummeted 62 per cent in one trading day, the second-highest fall in a single day in over a decade for BSE-500 stocks after the Satyam crash. To put it in perspective, since last Thursday, the two companies together have lost Rs 4,420 crore in market capitalisation – a 63 per cent erosion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">While GTL infrastructure owns the assets and earns rental income, GTL sells the equipment and offers other services to operators.As in the past, conspiracy theories abound. First there was speculation that foreign investors in the counter were dumping the stock on fears that Mauritius may start taxing capital gains. Then there were whispers of corporate rivals hell-bent on launching an assault on the company and the fire sale was a precursor to a takeover. Such gossip usually gets aggravated in the street, especially when it comes to GTL, as many still associate with Tirodkar’s chequered past. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">GTL’s chairman is not new to controversy. At 27, he had become a poster boy of the dotcom boom in 2000-01, only until it later emerged that the stock was part of a pack of securities whose prices were jacked up artificially by the now-tarnished and banned operator, Ketan Parekh. A KP redux was also the talking point, and what was more worrying was the fact that Tirodkar was not buying up the falling shares to provide support. Was he, then, not confident of his telecom tower operations? Was he out of cash? Were investors and institutions cashing out of the pledged shares that Tirodkar had parked with them to raise capital? The markets desperately wanted answers. Sadly, there were none.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The concerns of leverage – Rs 10,000 crore on a consolidated basis – are genuine. And, it’s largely acquisition-led. To put some numbers in perspective, GTL Infrastructure saw interest costs rise nine-fold to Rs 254 crore in 2010-11, from Rs 28 crore the previous year. This ate away most of the operating profit of Rs 323 crore made by the company in the last financial year. And once depreciation was added, it dragged the company into the red.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">There are additional pressure points: A likely redemption of $300 million zero coupon FCCBs, due in November 2012. And bonds worth $228 million are still due. Most analysts have written off chances of the FCCBs getting converted, which means that they are likely to be redeemed for cash next year and the company will have to pay a 40 per cent premium and raise additional debt on an already overstretched balance sheet. The possibility of a conversion seemed even slimmer, as the stock needs to multiply three-to-four-fold for that to happen.Cash is tight and the macro situation in the telecom sector means that operating cash flows on incremental rental income will also be low. Investors are also discounting any immediate stop-gap arrangements. Plans for a $300 million QIP never really took off amidst volatile markets, and investors saw no clarity emerging out of GTL’s talks with banks for a $400 million mezzanine financing facility to bridge the equity requirements. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">All those who have seen Tirodkar or know him do admit that he has been a tad wistful in the recent past, bothered by the regulatory and policy climate in the country. Will this first generation entrepreneur give up the fight? Will the towers collapse under the weight of debt? There have been cases of turnarounds across India Inc – maybe, just like his favourite teas, something is indeed brewing inside GTL’s HQ, which not many are aware of.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company was incorporated on 23rd December as a private limited company and was converted into a public limited company on 12th September, 1991. It was promoted by Manoj Tirodkar, G.R. Tirodkar and Fritz D'silva.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company manufactured telecommunication products. It extended its range of products to include fax machines, modern key telephone systems, wireless mobile telephone systems, V-Band Viax instant access communication systems etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company undertook distribution and servicing of telecommunication products. Subsequently, the company entered into tie-ups with Tata Keltron Ltd., India Telecomp Ltd. and internationally with V-Band Corporation USA, Lane Telecommunication Ltd. UK etc. Whole range of sophisticated instruments were introduced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company set up seven service centres all over the countries, three in Mumbai, one each in Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Nagpur.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- 12,00,000 No. of equity shares of Rs 10 each issued to promoters, directors, their relatives etc. 18,00,000 No. of equity shares of Rs 10 each were then issued at par in April 1992 of which 90,000 shares reserved for allotment on preferential basis to employees. Balance 17,10,000 shares issued.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- During April-May, the company issued 17,06,250-15% secured fully convertible debentures of Rs 35 each for cash at par on Rights basis in proportion 1 deb: 2 equity shares held. Another 28,95,000 - 15% debentures of Rs 40 each were issued through the prospectus as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- On 10th October, the company issued 70,00,000 warrants to promoters, their friends and associates companies. Warrantholders exercised their right to convert these into 70,00,000 No. of equity shares at a price of Rs 50 per share.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company made foray into software development and Export. The company started executing I-Trade CommNet and Logistics Tracking System (LTS) projects. The I-Trade CommNet aims to establish electronic exchange of information and documents which is currently being exchanged manually amongst the entities of cargo community in India by using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) technology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- Global Tele-Systems Ltd has introduced for the first time in India the GC 455, a two-line cordless phone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- Global Tele-Systems has also launched its GC 477 cordless phone with digital answering machine. It has two voice mail-boxes for separating personal messages and business messages, 25-channel auto selection, intercom, and voice day/time announcement at the beginning of each message.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- GTSL had recently tied up with the US-based GE Information Systems, under which the companies will together develop a source code, on which applications would be developed and exported.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The company has entered into alliances with AFNET, which will distribute all of AFNET's traffic into India, and with UNIFI Communications to distribute fax traffic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- In June, the Company placed privately 5,000,000 Equity Shares of Rs. 10/- each for cash, at a premium of Rs. 95/- per share.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- Mr. Sadanand D. Patil and Prof. Sudhakar C. Sahasrabudhe were appointed effective from 5th September, and Mr, Dipak K. Poddar was appointed on 27th October, as Additional Directors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- During the year under review, 2,00,000 Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares of Rs. 100/-each aggregating Rs. 2 Crores which were placed privately with Bajaj Auto Ltd. had been redeemed at par.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- Global Tele-Systems, which is a part of the Rs 500-crore Global group, has tied up with UK-based Silverslate International Ltd, for its software and Internet business group for providing specialised telecom solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Mumbai-based Global Tele-Systems Ltd has entered into a strategic partnership with the US-based General Electric's General Electric Information Services (GEIS).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- Microsoft Corporation of USA has recently certified Global Telesystems Ltd (GTL) as competence centre on Internet and e-commerce businesses. GTL has thus become the only company in India to have been accorded this status.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company has issued 2,00,000 Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares of Rs. 100/- each aggregating Rs. 2.00 crores. These Preference Shares have been placed privately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company has allotted 4981295 No. of equity shares at a premium to FCCB holders consequent upon exercise of right of option for conversion of FCCBs worth Swiss Francs 1070000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company has signed a MoU with Vysya Bank Ltd. in connection with utilisation by Vysya Bank Ltd. of e-commerce payments processing infrastructure of the company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The company is launching a state-of-the-art call centre at Mahape in Navi Mumbai in October for servicing large off-shore firms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The International Global Tele-Systems Ltd. of Mauritius, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Global Tele-Systems, is acquiring an undisclosed equity stake in The Voice Company based in the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- IGTL has entered into a joint venture with Al-Nasser LLC in the Middle East for engineering services. It has also acquired a strategic stake in an international telecom value added service provider i.e. The Voice Company Pte. Ltd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- Oracle Software India Ltd., the wholly owned subsidiary of the Oracle Corporation of the US entered into a strategic tie-up with the Global Tele-Systems Ltd. for addressing the high growth application service provider market in the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company has allotted 35,000 No. of equity shares under ESOP upon exercise of right of option for conversion of warrants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company has proposed to acquire an unlisted company Global Electronic Commerce Services Ltd. in its bid to create the largest e-commerce entity in the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company allotted 30,496 No. of equity shares of Rs 10 each for cash at a premium in terms of the employees stock option scheme upon exercise of right of conversion of warrants into equity shares by the employees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company had acquired two software companies - Thermax Systems and Software, an associate of Thermax group and Fine Infotech, a company focused on banking products - in a Rs.15 crore all stock deal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- Global Tele Systems has allotted 85,000 equity share of Rs.10 each for cash at a premium in terms of the employees stock option scheme upon exercise of right of option or conversion of warrants into equity shares issued under the scheme into equity shares.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company allotted 83474 No. of equity shares of face value of Rs. 10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company has entered into an MOU for a joint venture with Enron to build a state-of-the-art fibre optic broadband network.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company received a Silver Plaque from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for the Best Presented Accounts for entries received from non financial private sector companies for the year 1998-99.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- Mr. Manoj G. Tirodkar, Executive Vice Chairman, became the first Indian to win the World Young Business Achiever Award for the year 2000 in Orlando, USA, from Worldcom, USA.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company has received letter from T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., for acquisition of shares of the company. Shareholding of T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. in the company on behalf of itself and its subsidiaries, has gone up to 38,26,675 shares, 8.79% of te paid up equity share capital of the company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- Amalgamation of Global Electronic Commerce Services Ltd. with the company. will be at the ratio of one equity share of GTL (Rs 10 each) for every six of GECS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Board of Global Electronic Services and Gloal Tele-Systems have approved a share-swap ratio of 6:1 after the merger of the two companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- Enron India has tied up with Global Tele-Systems and Maharashtra State Electricity Board for connecting major towns in the state through optical fibre network using power transmission lines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- Global Tele-systems is all set to acquire 100 per cent equity of Thermax Systems & Software, an infotech company belonging to the Pune-based Thermax group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- Issue of Allotment of 1,00,000 No. of equity shares of the shareholders of Thermax Systems & Software Ltd. in terms of Scheme of Acquisition of the bsiness of the company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company has 856,375 outstanding warrants issued its employees as of September 30, under ESOP scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company has signed a `professional services agreement' with Cisco System Inc., world leader in the networking technology for the Internet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- The Company has entered into MoUs with several leading banks for providing ASP and Technology and software Support, and activities related to that continue un-affected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">- Allotment of up to 2,65,28,600 equity shares to the shareholders of Global Electronic Commerce Services Ltd. on amalgamation with the company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-GTL has won the Goldeb Peacock Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance in the private sector category.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-GTL Board has approved for the allotment of 5000 warrants to the eligible employees under the Employee Stock Option Scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-GTL Board has approved for the scheme of merger of Redington Mauritius Ltd with the company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-The board of directors of GTL have approved for the proposal for issue of fresh equity of 14.3cr shares at the price of Rs.150 per share to the Chanrais.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-Mr.Vijay N Paranjpe has relinquished officer as whole time director and director of the company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-GTL Ltd and Tata Teleservices has been shortlisted by Andhra Pradesh government to manage the information assets created by state as part of its e-governance initiatives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-GTL Ltd has entered into partnering agreement with GBS. LLC premier Enterprise Wide Outsource provider based in the US.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-GTL Ltd appoints Dr Michael Clark as the Chief Executive Officer wef July 3, 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-"Nortel N power Partner of the Year 2005" Award from Nortel Networks -"Most Significant Competition Breakthrough 2005" Award from Nortel Networks - "Best Process Compliance Year 2005" Award from Nortel Networks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-GTL Ltd has appointed Mr Manoj G Tirodkar as Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of the Company,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-Acquisition of UK Based Genesis Consultancy - Listing of GTL Infrastructure Limited, a spin off from GTL as part of the restructuring process -Opens office in Thailand -Bags first project in Africa -Bags BSR Award for Corporate Governance - Business for Social Responsibility -President’s award to Mr. Charudutta Jadhav, a visually impaired GTL employee -"APAC Partner of the Year 2006" Award for Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition -"The Best On time Renewal Partner in the Year 2006" Award from Oracle Support Services<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-GTL hives off Enterprise Networks and Managed Services business to Orange Business Services, an arm of France Telecom. -GTL wins the prestigious Golden Peacock Global Award for Corporate Governance -GTL enters into a strategic alliance with Ericsson UK, to offer Managed Network Infrastrucutre Services to customers in UK and Ireland -GTL International, a 100% international subsidiary of GTL, acquires SCS, a Network Deployment Company in USA -GTL successfully completes the buy back of shares -GTL International, a 100% international subsidiary of GTL, acquires ADA Cellworks, the leading Network Planning and Optimization player in Asia Pac<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-GTL Wins Golden Peacock National Training Award 2008. -GTL receives the prestigious Greentech Environment Excellence Silver Award 2008. -GTL forms Strategic Alliance with Vanu Inc to Conduct Shared Active Infrastructure Field Trials in India. -GTL wins Outstanding Contributor to Corporate Responsibility Award from Nokia-Siemens. -GTL becomes No. 1 Telecom Turnkey Company of the year in V&D 100 Survey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Suddenly, Suresh Prabhu, the powerful Union Environment Minister, finds his clean-n-green reputation going up in a blaze of irate investors, court cases, and political vendetta. What's the verdict?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This jungle trail runs from business to politics, from bankruptcy to deceit, from ambition to jealousy. At every twist and turn, it appears to have turned cold, but there is no doubt that the track unerringly leads to a swamp of fraud which the investor has, unwittingly, stumbled into. Embroiled in this forest of controversy is the 46-year-old Union Minister For Environment And Forests, Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, whose meteoric rise in the last 2 years has stunned both his rivals and his friends. After all, Prabhu, who was not even a primary member of any political party when the Shiv Sena first announced his candidature in the 1996 Lok Sabha elections, immediately became the Union Minister For Industry in the 13-day Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Suresh PrabhuSince then, the cases against the flamboyant chartered accountant-turned-banker-turned-politician have been mounting. Totalling over 30--and filed in Panjim, Ernakulam, and Mumbai--they have uncorked his past: strong connections and cosy relationships. Did Prabhu prey on investor gullibility? Or is he the victim of a political plot? Prabhu swears by his innocence: "The campaign against me has been launched by some vested interests." The small investor, who has dragged him to court, disagrees. And, although all the cases are sub-judice, the needle of suspicion points to politics as much as it does to business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It certainly appeared so when a criminal case was filed before the Judicial Magistrate (First Class ), Court No. 2, Ernakulam, on January 6, 1997. A Kochi-based investor, K. Joseph, complained that 2 cheques--which were issued by a Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC), the Rs 7.83-crore Western India Financial Services, for Rs 2 lakh and Rs 9,896, respectively--had bounced. That was hardly surprising: since 1996, investors have lodged as many as 60,000 complaints against nbfcs with the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the courts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What was unusual about Joseph's case--and the 30 others filed against Western India Financial Services--was the name of the co-accused: Suresh Prabhu. Nearly 15,000 investors had deposited Rs 20 crore with the NBFC promoted by the now-bankrupt industrialist, Nandan Gadgil, 42, whose Rs 300-crore empire--including the Rs 90.66-crore Western Paques, the Rs 68.97-crore Western India Industries, and the Rs 11.47-crore Western India Securities (later renamed Wisec Global)--crumbled in 1996-97.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Like other scams, a businessman's (Gadgil's) fraudulent offices led to a politician's (Prabhu's) home. Prabhu--who won the Parliamentary polls as a Shiv Sena candidate from the Rajapur (Maharashtra) constituency in May, 1996, and March, 1998--was the Chairman and Managing Director of Western India Financial Services besides being a director on the boards of 11 other companies, including the Rs 486.63-crore Global Tele-Systems and the Rs 387.38-crore Sai Service Station. Which is why criminal charges under the Negotiable Instruments Act were levelled against both Prabhu and Gadgil after investors discovered that the post-dated cheques issued by the company had bounced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Even as Gadgil's Pune-based uncle, Avinash Wardekar, 61, is desperately trying to resurrect the Gadgil Western Group, Prabhu is fighting to prove his innocence. Legally, the bouncing of a cheque is an offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, and the directors of an offending company can be prosecuted under Sections 141 and 142 of the same Act. While the Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Mumbai, has accepted Prabhu's plea that he should be discharged from the case, the Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Court, Panjim, has refused to follow suit. Instead, the latter has contended that Prabhu's innocence can only be proved after a full trial. BT explores the nexus by investigating the cases against Prabhu, and his proximity to Nandan Gadgil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It was meant to revive the sagging fortunes of the Gadgil Western Group, which had diverted Rs 139.15 crore from its cash-rich companies--Western India Industries (1996-97 net profits: Rs 11.31 crore) and Western Paques (Rs 22.22 crore)--to finance its unrelated diversification into financial services, sugar, and shipping. In Western India Financial Services' 3-month fixed deposit scheme--which had been launched at regular intervals since 1995--investors were allowed to participate in the bill-refinancing business. After discounting a Bill of Exchange, Western India Financial Services would re-discount it in favour of the depositors based on the latter's quantum of investment. They were promised attractive returns: an annualised yield of 20 per cent on deposits of less that Rs 5 lakh, 22 per cent on deposits between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 10 lakh, and a "negotiable" yield on deposits of over Rs 10 lakh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">To reduce the depositors' risks, WIFS issued post-dated cheques for both the principal and the interest. It also forced the parties involved in the bill discounting deal--the issuer and the acceptor of the bill--to sign the bills of exchange. This was, obviously, done to protect the interests of the depositors in case the money was not paid up by the creditor company. But, at the time of encashing their profits, all that the depositors got was a stream of bouncing cheques. On November 14, 1996, when Joseph deposited 2 cheques in his account at the Central Bank of India, he was told that they could not be honoured due to "insufficiency of funds." On December 23, 1996, Joseph received a letter (dated November 14, 1996) from Western India Financial Services, which explained: "Due to the prevailing market conditions... our cash inflows are disturbed... Therefore, we request you not to present the aforesaid post-dated cheques as we are not certain of funding the account on the due date."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Little wonder, then, that the investor is crestfallen. Laments Joseph: "All my life, I had invested in schemes of the Unit Trust of India and the Post-Office. But, I guess, a mistake had to be made some day." By then, other creditors like H.G. Parekh, a Mumbai-based businessman, started realising what was happening. A cheque for Rs 1 lakh, which was issued to him by the company, bounced in September, 1997. But it was too late; Gadgil's empire was on the verge of bankruptcy, and investors had no option but to approach the courts to recover their money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Gadgil was on the run. Law-enforcers finally caught up with him in April, 1997, when he was arrested in Dubai for another bounced cheque, which had been issued to a Dubai-based financier, Sunil Mansukhani. But he managed to get bail by putting some of his assets--including the Dubai-based Western India Oil Refinery, which planned to use a new technology to extract kerosene and diesel from refinery-wastes--on the block, and obtaining an advance from his bankers to repay his creditors. While Western India Financial Services has since been sold to Yogesh Kumar Tiwari, a Mumbai-based businessman, Gadgil's uncle, Wardekar, has taken over Western India Securities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The case for the defence, essentially, rests on a single date: the day Suresh Prabhu resigned from the Western India Financial Services board. If it can be proved that his resignation was effective May 7, 1996--when the letter, dated May 6, 1996, was received by the company--it will prove his innocence. Since all the bounced cheques were issued after that date, that means that Prabhu was not involved in the scam. Points out Prabhu: "I resigned from the boards of (12) companies on May 6, 1996, to contest the Lok Sabha elections. I was not on the Western India Financial Services board when the cheques were dishonoured."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Did he? Agrees Manoj Tirodkar, 34, CEO, Global Tele-Systems: "We had asked Prabhu to be a non-executive director of our company. He resigned from our board on May 6, 1996." To buttress his claim, Prabhu shows copies of Form 32, which were filed by 11 companies--including Sai Service Station, Global Tele-Systems, and Global Wireless--with the Registrar of Companies (ROC) to indicate board-level changes. Indeed, all of them show Prabhu's resignation date as May 6, 1996.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, that is not the case with the form filed by Western India Financial Services, which uncapped the controversy. That document, filed by the NBFC on December 13, 1996, states that Prabhu, along with Gadgil and another director, Brij Bhushan Nagpal, resigned on November 14, 1996--the day Gadgil signed an memorandum of understanding to sell the company (which has since been renamed Amnet India) to Tiwari. In fact, the 4 new directors appointed on that date were Tiwari and 3 of his aides. However, another Form 32, dated March 26, 1997, lists Prabhu's resignation-date as March 15, 1997. If either of these dates (November 14, 1996, or March 15, 1997) is right, Prabhu will become an accused in at least some of the cases filed against Western India Financial Services.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">To set the record straight, Prabhu even appears to have got the roc, Mumbai, to issue a clarification. In response to his letter, dated June 9, 1998, the roc wrote to Amnet India on July 24, 1998: "It appears that Suresh Prabhu had resigned on 7/5/96, and not on 15/3/97, as per Form 32 dated 26/3/97. You are, therefore, advised to rectify Form 32 immediately on receipt of this letter." Indeed, Prabhu's lawyers used this letter as evidence in their legal battles in Panjim and Mumbai to indicate that he had resigned from the boards of companies on May 7, 1996.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Last month, the roc also initiated legal proceedings against Western India Financial Services for violations under Section 303 (2) of the Companies Act. In a case filed in the Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Mumbai, the roc alleged that the company failed to file Form 32, notifying Prabhu's resignation in May, 1996, within the mandatory 30 days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If true, why did Western India Financial Services decide to deliberately delay Prabhu's resignation? The reason, as disclosed by Prabhu's lawyers to the Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Court, Panjim: the company's board of directors would have lost legal sanction if Prabhu's resignation had been accepted in May, 1996. That's because Section 252 of the Companies Act states that a public company's board should have a minimum of 3 directors. And, after Prabhu's resignation in May, 1996, Western India Financial Services would have had only 2: Gadgil and Nagpal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Those fears should not have influenced the resignation submitted by a director who wanted out. Points out S.S. Rana, 57, Advocate, Delhi High Court: "Nobody can stop a director from resigning. If it contravenes the law, the other 2 directors can co-opt a third director till the next general body meeting ratifies the decision, or inducts a new director." Maintains Prabhu: "My effective date of resignation from all companies, including Western India Financial Services, is the date on which I submitted my resignation to the respective companies." That was May 6, 1996, or May 7, 1996, if one considers the date when the letter was received by the company. Although there is no provision in the Companies Act about the process through which a director can resign, such events are decided by the relevant provisions in the Articles of Association of a company and legal precedents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Take the case of Western India Financial Services. Article 155 of its Articles of Association states: "A director may, at any time, give notice in writing of his intention to resign by addressing it to the board of directors of the company and delivering such notice to the secretary or leaving the same at the registered office of the company Thereupon, his office shall be vacated." Legal precedents also support Prabhu's defence. Agrees Tirodkar: "A director's resignation is effective immediately if there is no mention in the Articles of Association. Else, one has to go by specific clauses in the Articles."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Are deliberate attempts being made to villify Prabhu? Yes, says Kirit Somaiyya, 44, the Maharashtra State President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who has known Prabhu since 1975: "The number of cases filed against him reflects the extent of political jealousy. Notes Prabhu: "Most of the cases against me were initially filed 20 months ago. They were refiled after I became a minister once again in March, 1998."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In fact, the controversy has seeped into the Goan political arena. There, the legal campaign against Prabhu is being spearheaded by Gopal Mayekar, 64, a former Congress-I Member of Parliament, who himself had invested Rs 2 lakh in Western India Financial Services, and is actively involved in the 29 cases filed by Goan investors against Prabhu. All these cases have now been transferred to the Sessions & District Court, Panjim, and the next hearing is scheduled for January 6, 1999. But Mayekar denies that the charges are politically motivated: "There is no campaign against Prabhu since I am also a victim. In fact, he was the only director against whom we could initiate prosecution as all the others (including the promoter, Nandan Gadgil) are missing."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Of course, his political links have compounded Prabhu's problems. Points out Somaiyya: "When Madhu Dandavate represented Rajapur in Parliament between 1971 and 1989, Prabhu always supplied him with details on crucial business issues. He was also close to Congress (I) politicians like Sharad Pawar and Vittal N. Gadgil." But, in the same breath, Prabhu's friends contend that he has never been involved in any controversy before the Western India Financial Services scam. Agrees Mukesh Kalmadi, 46, Joint Managing Director, Sai Service Station, where Prabhu was a director: "He has a clean image in business and politics."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But, then, how did Prabhu get involved with Nandan Gadgil? Explains Prabhu: "I was invited by a number of promoters, including Nandan Gadgil, to join the boards of their companies because of their perceptions about my standing in public life." Moreover, Prabhu's political aides contend that neither did he have any executive powers in any of the companies--including Western India Financial Services--nor large equity stakes in them. For instance, his family's stake in Western India Financial Services, which had an equity base of 58.50 lakh shares, was a mere 300 shares.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Of course, Prabhu's business roots go deeper (see box). Both in his capacity as a chartered accountant and the chairman of the Saraswat Cooperative Bank (1997-98 income: Rs 254.83 crore), he was close to numerous businessmen. For instance, Tirodkar admits that Prabhu's chartered accountancy firm was the auditor of one of his companies. And Prabhu himself says that, as the chairman of the Saraswat Bank for 81 months (between 1989 and 1995), he regularly interacted with businessmen. Indeed, he is still a director on the bank's board and, in September, 1998, he and his supporters were again elected to it. In fact, among the 12 directors elected, Prabhu got the maximum number of votes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Going by the number of cases against Prabhu, he may find it tough to emerge completely unscathed. Already the rulings of the Panjim and the Ernakulam Courts indicate that he is unlikely to wriggle out of his predicament easily despite the fact that he has received a favourable decision from the Mumbai High Court. For instance, after the Ernakulam Court issued 2 non-bailable warrants against Prabhu on January 14, 1998, and March 19, 1998, in the Joseph case, he managed to get a stay on the proceedings from the Kochi High Court on July 2, 1998. But, on October, 23, 1998, Joseph filed a counter-affidavit before the High Court, which has yet to deliver a final judgement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In Goa, the lower courts have delivered a body blow to Prabhu's defence. States the judgement by the Judicial Magistrate in Panjim, C. Fernandes, delivered on August 29, 1998: " the alleged defence taken by the accused No. 2 (Suresh Prabhu) will be looked into only at the stage of trial where both the parties adduced their respective evidence and documents." And in another case in Goa--filed by the Panjim-based Gulf Goan Hotels Company--the Judicial Magistrate, Desmond D'Costa, ruled on September 1, 1998: "At this stage, there is a strong suspicion that the accused (Prabhu) had cheated the complainant by inducing the investment of money"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Prabhu's defence will be further demolished if fresh cases--relating to the period when he was the Chairman and Managing Director of Western India Financial Services--are filed. Indeed, many companies promoted by Nandan Gadgil have failed to repay their creditors, but they have decided against taking legal action against him or his companies. Points out Kalmadi, who refuses to disclose the exact amount his company lent to the Gadgil Western Group: "We are sure that we will not get the money back. And this is part of doing business in India."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But, then, as Suresh Prabhu has realised, there is yet another danger of being associated with businessmen like Nandan Gadgil: that of being embroiled in a long-drawn legal battle. And, even if it is just a case of dirty business discolouring ugly politics, Prabhu cannot easily disentangle himself from the knots he himself once tied between the two.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Reported by Alam Srinivas, Rajeev Dubey & R. Sridharan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Friends Of Suresh Prabhu Ltd<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It has been a political pole-vault for Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu. In the mid-70s, he was only the President of the Khar Residents' Association in Mumbai; by 1996, he had joined the ranks of the Union Cabinet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Maharashtra politics was aflutter when Prabhu, a Saraswat Brahmin from Konkan's Malvan region, got a Shiv Sena ticket to contest the 1996 Lok Sabha elections. Explains a Mumbai-based Shiv Sena leader: "We though Prabhu was ideally placed to fight the elections under the Congress (I) or the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) banner. He was close to politicians from both the parties." Prabhu, however chose, the Shiv Sena which gave him a ticket because its supremo, Balasaheb Thackeray, apparently wanted the intelligentsia to represent the Shiv Sena in Parliament. And Prabhu had the right credentials: a gold medal in the chartered accountancy examinations in 1980; years of charitable work; and proximity to politicians like Madhu Dandavate of the Janata Dal and Sharad Pawar of the Congress (I).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What was even more important was Prabhu's influence in the co-operative movement, which wields considerable political power in Maharashtra. In fact, Prabhu's 15-year stint, from October, 1983, as the Director of the Saraswat Co-operative Bank, and his 81-month tenure as its Chairman-between January, 1989, and September, 1995-brought him close to both politicians and businessmen. During his chairmanship, the bank's net profits rose from Rs 1.96 crore in 1988-89 to Rs 7.43 crore in 1994-95 while its deposits zoomed from Rs 5,002.84 crore to Rs 8,453.41 crore. "His ambitions may have grown during this time," says Kirit Somaiyya, 44, the President of the BJP's Maharashtra unit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What benefited Prabhu was also his proximity to Suresh Kalmadi, 54 an Independent Member of the Rajya Sabha, his brother Mukesh Kalmadi, and Nandan Gadgil, the Chairman of the now-bankrupt Gadgil Western Group. Admits Mukesh Kalmadi, 46, Joint Managing Director, Sai Service Station: "My interactions with Prabhu were due to the latter's participation in high-profile activities in Mumbai." Unfortunately, Prabhu got too close to Nandan Gadgil, whose among small investors. And now threatens to engulf Prabhu too in controversy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In an exclusive interview with BT, the Union Minister For Environment & Forests, Suresh Prabhu, defends himself:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Q. Mr Prabhu, when did you resign as the CEO of Western India Financial Services?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A. I resigned from all the (12) companies in May, 1996, to contest the Lok Sabha Elections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Why is there a discrepancy in the dates mentioned in Form 32?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Form 32, which has be filed to the Registrar of Companies, has to be complied with by the companies. My resignations of the Articles of Association of the respective companies and the requirements of the Company Law as well as the prevalent practices in the corporate sector. My effective date of resignation from all the companies, including Western India Financial Services, is May 6, 1996. My resignations from these companies have been taken note of by the authorities concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">How many criminal cases have been filed against you? Are they related to only Western India Financial Services?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The cases are not filed against me personally, but against Western India Financial Services, in which I have been sought to be implicated in my capacity as a director. All the cases pertain to the cheques issued by Western India Financial Services, which were not signed by me. I was (also) not on the board when the cheques were dishonoured.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What explains your presence on the board of a dozen companies?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As a chartered accountant with a flourishing practice, I had relations with several companies. I was (also) invited by a number of promoters, including Western India Financial Services' Nandan Gadgil, to join the boards of their companies in view of their perception about my standing in public life. I have been working in social, and educational areas for more than 2 decades through voluntary agencies. The campaign against me is by vested interests. I do not ascribe it to any particular political party.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Global Tele-systems Ltd has decided to divest its entire stake in its group company global Electronic Commerce Services (GECS) for a consideration go around Rs 500 crore at Rs 350-400 per shares. Global Tele-Systems holds around 11.74 per cent in GECS after divesting 1.26 per cent recently to Morgan Stanley Fund for Rs 50 crore at Rs 250 per share.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It has already placed 5 per cent of the equity with domestic and foreign institutions, while the balance 6.74 per cent is yet to be placed. While promoters through GECS Holdings Ltd and Singapore-based Technology Resources Ltd hold 42 per cent stake each in the company, relatives of the promoters hold another 3 per cent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Company managing director Manoj Tirodkar confirmed the agreement with institutions. The specified lock-in period had ended recently, he added. He said as per the agreement entered into with the investors, the base price for selling the stake has been fixed at Rs 200.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">While global Tele-Systems has already entered into a specified lock-in period agreement with foreign and domestic financial investors over five per cent of its stake, it has received a flood of orders from three major FIIs and Fis for the remaining 6.74 per cent holding. The lock-in period with several investors is now reaching the expiry date, Tirodkar said. Consultants Deloitte & Touche, who recently submitted the valuation report has valued GECS at Rs 4,500 crore and advised the price for selling the equity between Rs 350-400 per share.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Tirodkar, however, did not comment on the company's plans to divest the remaining 6.74 per cent stake in the company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He said the investor picking up Global Tele equity in GECS will look for investors who can bring in value propositions to the company, including payment gateway and electronic fund transfer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">On the rationale of selling the entire stake, Tirodkar said that global Tele does not have any majority control in GECS and by selling its stake it can utilize the money for retiring its debt and working capital requirement, invest in e-commerce and IT businesses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">MUMBAI, July 19<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">GLOBAL Tele-systems Ltd (GTL) has decided to amalgamate with itself an unlisted group company, Global Electronic Commerce Services Ltd (GECS).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The board of GTL, at a meeting on Wednesday, decided to appoint two international chartered accountants firms as valuers to recommend the ratio for exchange of shares of GECS with GTL within four weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The GTL board also appointed a committee of two of its independent directors, Mr. T.N.V. Ayyar and Prof. S.C. Sahasrabudhe, to review and recommend to the board, for final approval, the terms and conditions of amalgamation and ratio of exchange of shares based on the valuation report submitted by M/s Deloitte Haskins & Sells and M/s Pannel Kerr Forster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">M/s Salomon Smith Barney have been appointed as advisors in vetting and reviewing the business synergies for the proposed amalgamation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The GTL Executive Vice-Chairman, Mr. Manoj Tirodkar, said that the board decided to have the entire process of amalgamation to be transparent and objective as promoters are involved in both the companies by virtue of their holdings in both the companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The merger, valued at over Rs. 9,000 crores, is intended to create one of the largest e-commerce entities with a revenue in excess of Rs. 900 crores.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The merger will pool engineering, project management, software and knowledge skills leading to the rapid implementation of e-commerce projects and will provide the new entity with a first-mover advantage in the internet infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The merger will create an end-to-end e-commerce enabler comprising engineering services, software services, applications services provider, virtual private network, managed network services.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">By merging GTL and GECS, the combined entity will be uniquely positioned to speed the development of e-commerce business in delivering e-commerce and networking solutions through its own digital data network spanning across 14 major cities in India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">GECS, an unlisted company with revenues of Rs. 50 crores and cash profit of Rs. 10.5 crores (net loss of Rs. 5 crores after depreciation of Rs. 15 crores) for the year ended March, 2000, is engaged in corporate internet infrastructure and access, data ce ntres, managed network services, virtual private network and messaging services in B2B space.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It owns one of the largest private sector digital data networks spanning 14 major cities in India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">BJP Delhi unit chief Harsh Vardhan on Monday questioned whether Kejriwal had links with foreign agencies, who were trying to create instability in the country. “Is he a CIA agent or working for other foreign agencies including CIA? Before forming a political party, Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia have already received lakhs of dollars from the Ford Foundation in the name of NGOs. The whole world knows that it works at the instance of American intelligence agency, the CIA. The Ford Foundation works for destabilising developing countries and spreading anarchy with the help of NGOs in those countries,” said Harsh Vardhan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Harsh Vardhan said Kejriwal had betrayed Delhiites by quitting within 49 days of forming the government, that too with the help of the Congress. The BJP leader, in turn, also called the Congress party the most corrupt. “Why didn’t he seek referendum at the time of resigning from the post of the chief minister?” Vardhan asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I reproduce the article below as an example of pro- Suresh Prabhu propaganda. In fact, as a result of not purchasing the Enron stake in bankruptcy proceedings, the Indian Government has lost much more money till date on Dabhol. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">By T. V. R. ShenoyPublished: 00:00 February 11, 2002Gulf News<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indian politicians across the spectrum have paid lip-service to enacting a 'Freedom of Information Bill' on the lines of its American counterpart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This is pure farce – something on the lines of that sister legislation, the 'Women's Reservation Bill'. There is nothing politicians and, even more so, bureaucrats would abhor as much as unhindered public access to information. And recent events in the United States have underlined that gut instinct.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Dana Milbank and Alan Sipress of The Washington Post used their nation's 'Freedom of Information Act' to gain access to the government-funded Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Their aim was Enron, specifically to see what the fallen giant had been doing abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In the process, the two reporters came across an attempt at a shotgun wedding which American officials were trying to arrange between Enron and some of the most powerful men today in the Government of India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The documents reveal a couple of amazing facts. First, the attempted negotiation was carried out by the U.S. National Security Council, one of the highest policy-making bodies in that country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Second, the Ame-rican side took the Enron issue so seriously that it continued with the work even after the World Trade Centre attacks when terrorism was, supposedly, the over-riding issue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Here is a small sample of the documents published by The Washington Post. In an e-mail message sent on June 26, 2001, the U.S. National Security Council said: "He would also be willing to meet with Kenneth Lay (the then chairman of Enron) and the bankers, but only at the residence (of the Indian ambassador)."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It is, I think, unfair to name the Indian official concerned as there is no indication of whether such a meeting actually went through.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">However, these things cannot remain under wraps forever. My friends, both in Delhi and in Washington, tell me that the Bush administration put almost unheard-of pressure on India to accommodate Enron's requests. This attempt was at its peak between September 14, 2001 and November 9, 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That last date is significant, being the day that Prime Minister Vajpayee met President Bush.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">According to the record, there was a move to raise the Enron issue even at that conference, an attempt that was given up almost literally at the last minute. Later, as Enron began to unravel in public, the pressure began to ease.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Dealing with the bankruptcy of Enron and the larger issues of corporate governance is, of course, an American headache. But the cursory references to India intrigued me enough to poke around a bit on my own. Very briefly, I submit that there was a strong pro-Enron group in the Government of India as there was in the U.S. federal government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This group – I don't believe it was all the work of an individual – was powerful enough to make a concerted attempt to hoodwink the Government of India. It did, in fact, get both the Prime Minister's Office and the Union Ministry of Finance to see things Enron's way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">At the end, it was only the watchfulness of the Prime Minister himself and the Union Power Ministry which kept India from suffering a loss of roughly Rs60 billion. (Some say it could have been more.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That was the amount – over a billion U.S. dollars – that Kenneth Lay demanded as "compensation" for buying out Enron's share in Dabhol. He did not specify how he had arrived at that sum. Nor, as far as I know, did the pro-Enron Indian officials arrange for any audit of their own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Yet, seemingly in an attempt to make the White House happy, there was a push to give Enron whatever it desired. If this was carelessness, then it almost amounts to criminal negligence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Enron's bankruptcy was not exactly a bolt from the blue. As early as January 2001, the Attorney-General of California publicly stated that he would try to have Kenneth Lay jailed. The investment house Moodys had downgraded Enron's shares, calling them just average even if they belonged to a Fortune 500 firm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Given these straws in the wind, how did Indian officials decide to accept Enron's valuation? How did officers in both the Prime Minister's Office and the Finance Ministry try to rush through the money that Enron was seeking?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The tale gets even more shocking. After the prime minister and the Union Power Minister squelched the initial demand for $1.2 billion, the pro-Enron group in Delhi refused to give up. Enron came back asking for $800 million. (Apparently, Dabhol had lost one-third of its value overnight!) Yet again, there was no explanation of how this figure was reached.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Yet again, there was no attempt by India to have an independent audit. So riddle me this: which bureaucrats in the Government of India are so arrogant in their own power that they tried to overturn a decision made by the Prime Minister and the Power Minister? Equally important: who were so powerful that they could rush a proposal through the Union Finance Ministry without going through approved procedures of valuation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I suspect this is one scandal which cuts across parties. The original Dabhol deal was struck with Enron by a Congress (I) ministry in Maharashtra, and that at a very suspicious time. (The votes had been cast but not yet counted in the Assembly polls that would bring the Shiv Sena-BJP coalition to power.) And it seems the Enron issue came up even when a Congress leader met the American Vice-President last year. (Again, I name no names.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I am happy Prime Minister Vajpayee and Power Minister Suresh Prabhu squelched the pro-Enron group in Delhi and saved over a billion dollars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But should the errant officials be permitted to rest in anonymity, or should all the facts come out into the open after investigation? It may be just as well to air the matter before the American media does so, would it not!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Heard of interlinking rivers? In India these days, this phrase refers to a gigantic proposed project to link several of India’s rivers. It would involve canals and dams and much more to transfer water across hundreds of miles of Indian geography. In the last year or so, it has been endorsed and encouraged by our Supreme Court and president. The Vajpayee government has formed a Task Force on Interlinking of Rivers chaired by the former union minister for power, Suresh Prabhu, to implement it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Predictably, the project has dedicated proponents and opponents. On an e-list I belong to, I hear from vocal and passionate members of both sides. Not long ago, one vocal proponent circulated an account of a meeting in Houston that Prabhu attended last June to drum up support for the project. Prabhu was enthusiastically received, he said, and made very compelling arguments for linking rivers. So compelling, that a senior scientist from NASA, an Indian immigrant, endorsed the project whole-heartedly. The scientist, said this account, “appreciated the energetic minister’s speech and said [NASA] would use Prabhu’s model if NASA needs to link rivers on Mars.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Now I would think this had to be a joke. Wouldn’t you? But this man reported it as just one more point in favor of the project made at the meeting. So I tracked down this scientist and wrote him a note. Here’s his reply:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">“My comment about linking rivers on Mars based on Mr. Prabhu’s discussion is not to be taken seriously. It was a comment made jokingly to lighten the mood of the meeting. I am surprised that [the man] considered this light-hearted humorous comment as serious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">[Also,] in my personal opinion: there are many aspects of this project that need further development. I am not a hydrologist or a hydraulics engineer, but my engineering colleagues tell me that this concept is still at phase zero.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Isn’t that interesting? A joke by a man who is not even persuaded of the merits of this project is twisted to sound like he—and by implication NASA—endorses the project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">In fact, here in India we heard that the Lower Colorado River Authority in Texas offered, as a result of Prabhu’s Texas tour, its support for the project. Is that another misconstrued joke?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Now I, and a lot of other people, have many questions about linking rivers. A big project does throw up questions, and previous projects have never satisfactorily answered them. But more than that, it is the curiously inept duplicity of the NASA episode that makes people like me even more skeptical about such projects. And so we ask our questions again, and louder. Here are just three:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Question 1: Precisely what is the problem for which linking our rivers is the solution? Suresh Prabhu once said that it “would lead to creating employment, power generation, economic growth, and elimination of poverty.” Other things often mentioned are floods in water-surplus areas, droughts elsewhere, falling food production, and irrigation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Fine aims. Any one of all these, by itself, might be reason enough for this gigantic effort; all of them, even more so. Nobody argues that these are not serious concerns. Yet the evidence is that it’s hardly because of them that river-linking suddenly came to life, and found itself an official Task Force. Because that happened when a Justice of the Supreme Court made an observation, in a different context, about linking rivers. Does an observation, even from the Supreme Court, amount to the normal—or what should be normal—process of identifying a problem and working out its solution?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">A computer scientist by training, Dilip D’Souza now writes for his supper in Bombay. His main interests are social and political issues in India.</span></div>
Seema Saprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07094308832539462568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156885966506868262.post-38024788474011376012015-11-13T01:57:00.001-08:002015-11-13T01:57:18.705-08:00Suresh Prabhu's involvement in the infamous Cobbler scam <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu was involved in the multi-crore cobbler scam in Maharahtra in the mid-1990s when he was Chairman of Saraswat Bank.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">THE boot may well be on the other foot now. While it was former sheriff Sadruddin Daya of Dawood shoes, Rafique Tejani of Metro Shoes and Kishore Signapurkar of Milano Shoes who were held as the prime accused in the Rs 1,000-crore cobbler scam, fresh investigations have revealed the full-fledged compliance of Maharashtra politicians in the fraud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Leaders from all three prominent parties—the Congress, the BJP and the Shiv Sena—appear to have been involved in the diabolical siphoning of public funds under the garb of setting up cooperative societies for poor cobblers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">And in the coming weeks, investigators hope to unearth the names of the political beneficiaries of the embezzlement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Meanwhile, allegations are flying thick and fast. Among the political links being investigated is that of former Maharashtra chief minister, Sharad Pawar. Though there is no direct evidence implicating the Congress leader, investigations have revealed Tejani to be a director of the Rs 500-crore Dynamix Dairy Products Pvt Ltd in which Pawar is believed to have a stake through the holdings of family members. According to sources, the sole milk supplier to Dynamix, the Baramati Milk Cooperative, is controlled by Pawar. Sources hint that a good amount of the money from the shoe scam may have been diverted to Dynamix. However, the Pawar link still remains tenuous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">What is not tenuous, however, is that it was during Pawar's regime that Congressmen had a field day. It was at this time this time that Sushil Kumar Shinde, chief of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC), floated the Chakrayu society which flouted every rule in the book. It dealt in machine-made goods against the mandatory rule of handcrafted leatherwear. So while the project report guaranteed employment to 2,000 cobblers, only about 50 were actually employed. Further, the rules say that 10 per cent of the total funds should be contributed by members of the society; 60 per cent should come from financial institutions and the state government should loan the remaining 30 per cent. However, according to the Accountant General's report, member contribution to the Rs 133-lakh Chakrayu project was just Rs 4.75 lakh. Of this, Rs 4.25 lakh was contributed by 200 members who were shown as "people of repute". Investigations reveal that they included Kripashankar, vice-president, MPCC and Ramdas Phutane, a Congress MLC, among others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> Many of the details are going to shock you and for people who've never even heard about this scam,you might even find it amusing,initially. Most people haven't heard about the Great Indian Cobbler Scam because it happened only in Mumbai and was exposed in 1995 and ever since there have been SEVERAL scams that have been unearthed which were way bigger and significant than this one. Nevertheless, this scam involved a lot of money and many banks and prominent people as well. And we need to be aware of how rampant corruption in India is in every single field. No wonder India can be aptly called 'The land of Scams'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> The Cobbler Scam is one of the biggest multi million dollars scam in Indian History, is nicknamed The Great Cobbler Scam. What really happened in this Great Cobbler Scam was that various businessman & politicians had siphoned around $600 million US dollars from a scheme that was floated by the Government of India meant to benefit the poor cobblers of Mumbai. Instead, it went into the pockets of the elites who used this money to built luxury homes for themselves and also brought luxury cars, boats, arts, etc. The money of the scheme was meant to provide low interest loans and tax concessions to the Mumbai's poorest – cobblers who work 16-hours a day for less than $2. Not a single penny reached these cobblers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The modus operandi of the mastermind was to float a cooperative society of cobblers to avail of soft government loans through various schemes. Several bogus societies of cobblers were formed only for the purpose of availing these soft government loans. The main heads Daya of Dawood Shoes, Rafique Tejani of Metro Shoes and Kishore Signapurkar of Milano Shoes created fictitious cooperative societies for cobblers. On behalf of these non existing cooperative societies they availed loans of crores of rupees from different banks. The accused created a fictitious cooperative society of cobblers to take advantage of government loans through various schemes. The banks involved in giving loans were also charge sheeted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The primary accused in the multi-crore shoe scam is Sohin Daya, son of former Sheriff of Mumbai. The people involved in this racket were Saddrudin Daya, former sheriff of Mumbai and owner of Dawood Shoes, Rafique Tejani, owner of Metro Shoes, Kishore Signapurkar, proprietor of Milano Shoes, and Abu Asim Azmi, president of Samajwadi Party's Mumbai unit and partner in Citywalk Shoes. Beside them various officials of banks and financial institutions were also involved in this multi million dollars scam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The Banks whose officials were involved in this scam are: Maharashtra State Finance Corporation, Citibank, Bank of Oman, Dena Bank, Development Credit Bank, Saraswat Co-operative Bank, and Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">MUMBAI, June 1: The unearthing of the Rs 1600-crore cobbler's scam that closed in on bigwigs of the shoe industry was expected, caused as it was by three agencies working towards its exposure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Officials of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's octroi department had lodged complaints about raw materials being brought into the city on a large scale. These materials had octroi concessions as they were brought in lieu of the cooperative societies. On the basis of the complaints, the police carried out its own investigations, and a diligent officer in the office of the Registrar of Cooperative Societies decided to do a complete survey of registered societies in Mumbai.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">•The poor Cobblers of Mumbai are the one who are majorly affected by the Scam as they were not benefited by a single rupee of the Scheme which was meant only for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The boot may well be on the other foot now. While it was former sheriff Sadruddin Daya of Dawood shoes, Rafique Tejani of Metro Shoes and Kishore Signapurkar of Milano Shoes who were held as the prime accused in the Rs 1,000-crore cobbler scam, fresh investigations have revealed the full-fledged compliance of Maharashtra politicians in the fraud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Leaders from all three prominent parties the Congress, the BJP and the Shiv Sena appear to have been involved in the diabolical siphoning of public funds under the garb of setting up cooperative societies for poor cobblers. Meanwhile, allegations are flying thick and fast. Among the political links being investigated is that of former Maharashtra chief minister, Sharad Pawar. Though there is no direct evidence implicating the Congress leader, investigations have revealed Tejani to be a director of the Rs500-crore Dynamix Dairy Products Pvt Ltd in which Pawar is believed to have a stake through the holdings of family members. According to sources, the sole milk supplier to Dynamix, the Baramati Milk Cooperative, is controlled by Pawar. Sources hint that a good amount of themoney from the shoe scam may have been diverted to Dynamix. However, the Pawar link still remains tenuous. What is not tenuous, however, is that it was during Pawar's regime that Congressmen had a field day. It was at this time that Sushil Kumar Shinde, chief of the Maharashtra Pradesh CongressCommittee (MPCC), floated the Chakrayu society which flouted every rule in the book. It dealt in machine-made goods against the mandatory rule of handcrafted leatherwear. So while the project report guaranteed employment to 2,000 cobblers, only about 50 were actually employed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Further, the rules say that 10 per cent of the total funds should be contributed by members of the society; 60 per cent should come from financial institutions and the state government should loan the remaining 30 per cent. However, according to the Accountant General's report, member contribution to the Rs 133-lakh Chakrayu project was just Rs 4.75 lakh. Of this, Rs 4.25 lakh was contributed by 200 members who were shown as "people of repute". Investigations reveal that they included Kripashankar, vice-president, MPCC and Ramdas Phutane, a Congress MLC,among others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">With the cobblers being too poor to contribute even the token Rs 100 to join cooperatives, it is usually the Mahatma Phule Vikas Mahamandal which pays their membership fee. However, in the case of Chakrayu, the Mahamandal refused to give the funds. In 1992, Shinde, then state finance minister, got the government to sanction Rs 44.5 lakh for the society in three instalments. In a further flouting of rules, Shinde got the Maharashtra State Finance Corporation to sanction Rs 60 lakh. Once Chakrayu was formed, the cobblers' interests were given a back seat, say sources. Normally, every member of a cooperative society has equal voting rights, but Chakrayu modified the rule only members with a contribution of Rs 1,000 or more were entitled to vote. This virtually alienated the cobbler members of the society. The Congress involvement has given enough ammunition to the BJP and the Shiv Sena against the previous regime, although both parties cannot deny the involvement of some of their own members.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">For the moment, however, it is Pawar and his party men who are being accused of turning a blind eye to the looting of public money. Points out Kirit Somaiya, MLA and Mumbai city president of the BJP: "The previous government cannot be absolved of the responsibility of letting such activity flourish for over 10 years." Nor does that absolve the Shiv Sena-BJP government. The present deputy chief minister, Gopinath Munde, who held the finance portfolio for about three months and presented the '96-'97 budget, is also under the cloud of suspicion. Mrs.Maharuk Keravala, a friend of Tejani's wife and a prime suspect in the scam, has alleged that she, along with BJP MLA Sadashiv Lokh-ande and others, approached Munde to help them out. Munde obliged by raising the sales tax exemption limit to Rs 50 lakh and doing away with the need for societies to get a certification from the Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC).The KVIC had laid down in 1987 that only societies located in villages were entitled to benefits from it. By doing away with the need for certification, Munde made it possible for cooperatives located in Mumbai to enjoy the benefits of KVIC subsidies. As investigations continue, lesser known politicians are also being pulled into the net. Money to prime accused Sadruddin Daya was sanctioned by the chairman of Saraswat Cooperative Bank, Suresh Prabhu, who is now a Shiv Sena MP. Bomb blast accused Abu Azmi of the Samajwadi Party has also been found to have links with the scam-sters. The Economic Offence Wing has identified Shiv Sena legislator Baburao Mane among those who may have been aware of the scam. The BJP claims it is looking into the involvement of its members. The Sena has not been as categoric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">•Based on the complaints of BMC, the police started investigations. The banks whose officials were involved in this scam are : Maharashtra State Finance Corporation, Citibank, Bank of Oman, Dena Bank, Development Credit Bank, Saraswat Co-operative Bank, and Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait were charge sheeted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">• Officials of Bank of Baroda, Saraswati Co-operative Bank and the Bombay Mercentile Co-operative Bank are also facing charges for fraudulent manipulation of government funds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">•The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai police filed seven charge-sheets against 28 accused in the Rs 1,600-crore cobbler scam at the 37th metropolitan court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Surprisingly, Rafique Tejani of Metro Shoes, Kishore Signapurkar of Milano Shoes and Abu Asim Azmi of Citywalk Shoes have not been charge-sheeted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">India is a country riddled with corruption. The Cobbler Scam cost the government $600 million. The irony is that the money was hijacked from a scheme that should have benefited the poor of Mumbai. Instead it went into the pockets of the wealthy elite. The local government in Mumbai set up a scheme to provide low interest loans and tax concessions to the city's poorest – cobblers who work 16-hour days for less than $2. But not a cent ever got through to the cobblers. Instead various businessmen and politicians built luxury homes, bought luxury cars, boats and art. "For India's poor, the Great Cobbler Scam is just confirmation that fifty years after independence, little has changed." said Dominique Schwartz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Suresh Prabhu's past not only includes his involvement in the Cobbler scam, the Dabhol power plant corruption & coverup, the Adarsh scam, but also includes a scam pre-dating all of these. He was also involved in the Ponzi schemes and investor frauds of Nandan Gadgil (the Gadgil Western Group) in the 1990s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">For a banker and chartered accountant like Suresh Prabhu to have been involved in these scams, is his biggest indictment. It shows that he is a crook through and through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Seriously, please consider should a man with Suresh Prabhu's illustrious background in scams and corruption be a Cabinet Minister in the Indian Government in 2014-2015?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Suddenly, Suresh Prabhu, the powerful Union Environment Minister, finds his clean-n-green reputation going up in a blaze of irate investors, court cases, and political vendetta. What's the verdict?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This jungle trail runs from business to politics, from bankruptcy to deceit, from ambition to jealousy. At every twist and turn, it appears to have turned cold, but there is no doubt that the track unerringly leads to a swamp of fraud which the investor has, unwittingly, stumbled into. Embroiled in this forest of controversy is the 46-year-old Union Minister For Environment And Forests, Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, whose meteoric rise in the last 2 years has stunned both his rivals and his friends. After all, Prabhu, who was not even a primary member of any political party when the Shiv Sena first announced his candidature in the 1996 Lok Sabha elections, immediately became the Union Minister For Industry in the 13-day Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Suresh PrabhuSince then, the cases against the flamboyant chartered accountant-turned-banker-turned-politician have been mounting. Totalling over 30--and filed in Panjim, Ernakulam, and Mumbai--they have uncorked his past: strong connections and cosy relationships. Did Prabhu prey on investor gullibility? Or is he the victim of a political plot? Prabhu swears by his innocence: "The campaign against me has been launched by some vested interests." The small investor, who has dragged him to court, disagrees. And, although all the cases are sub-judice, the needle of suspicion points to politics as much as it does to business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It certainly appeared so when a criminal case was filed before the Judicial Magistrate (First Class ), Court No. 2, Ernakulam, on January 6, 1997. A Kochi-based investor, K. Joseph, complained that 2 cheques--which were issued by a Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC), the Rs 7.83-crore Western India Financial Services, for Rs 2 lakh and Rs 9,896, respectively--had bounced. That was hardly surprising: since 1996, investors have lodged as many as 60,000 complaints against nbfcs with the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the courts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What was unusual about Joseph's case--and the 30 others filed against Western India Financial Services--was the name of the co-accused: Suresh Prabhu. Nearly 15,000 investors had deposited Rs 20 crore with the NBFC promoted by the now-bankrupt industrialist, Nandan Gadgil, 42, whose Rs 300-crore empire--including the Rs 90.66-crore Western Paques, the Rs 68.97-crore Western India Industries, and the Rs 11.47-crore Western India Securities (later renamed Wisec Global)--crumbled in 1996-97.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Like other scams, a businessman's (Gadgil's) fraudulent offices led to a politician's (Prabhu's) home. Prabhu--who won the Parliamentary polls as a Shiv Sena candidate from the Rajapur (Maharashtra) constituency in May, 1996, and March, 1998--was the Chairman and Managing Director of Western India Financial Services besides being a director on the boards of 11 other companies, including the Rs 486.63-crore Global Tele-Systems and the Rs 387.38-crore Sai Service Station. Which is why criminal charges under the Negotiable Instruments Act were levelled against both Prabhu and Gadgil after investors discovered that the post-dated cheques issued by the company had bounced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Even as Gadgil's Pune-based uncle, Avinash Wardekar, 61, is desperately trying to resurrect the Gadgil Western Group, Prabhu is fighting to prove his innocence. Legally, the bouncing of a cheque is an offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, and the directors of an offending company can be prosecuted under Sections 141 and 142 of the same Act. While the Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Mumbai, has accepted Prabhu's plea that he should be discharged from the case, the Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Court, Panjim, has refused to follow suit. Instead, the latter has contended that Prabhu's innocence can only be proved after a full trial. BT explores the nexus by investigating the cases against Prabhu, and his proximity to Nandan Gadgil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It was meant to revive the sagging fortunes of the Gadgil Western Group, which had diverted Rs 139.15 crore from its cash-rich companies--Western India Industries (1996-97 net profits: Rs 11.31 crore) and Western Paques (Rs 22.22 crore)--to finance its unrelated diversification into financial services, sugar, and shipping. In Western India Financial Services' 3-month fixed deposit scheme--which had been launched at regular intervals since 1995--investors were allowed to participate in the bill-refinancing business. After discounting a Bill of Exchange, Western India Financial Services would re-discount it in favour of the depositors based on the latter's quantum of investment. They were promised attractive returns: an annualised yield of 20 per cent on deposits of less that Rs 5 lakh, 22 per cent on deposits between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 10 lakh, and a "negotiable" yield on deposits of over Rs 10 lakh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">To reduce the depositors' risks, WIFS issued post-dated cheques for both the principal and the interest. It also forced the parties involved in the bill discounting deal--the issuer and the acceptor of the bill--to sign the bills of exchange. This was, obviously, done to protect the interests of the depositors in case the money was not paid up by the creditor company. But, at the time of encashing their profits, all that the depositors got was a stream of bouncing cheques. On November 14, 1996, when Joseph deposited 2 cheques in his account at the Central Bank of India, he was told that they could not be honoured due to "insufficiency of funds." On December 23, 1996, Joseph received a letter (dated November 14, 1996) from Western India Financial Services, which explained: "Due to the prevailing market conditions... our cash inflows are disturbed... Therefore, we request you not to present the aforesaid post-dated cheques as we are not certain of funding the account on the due date."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Little wonder, then, that the investor is crestfallen. Laments Joseph: "All my life, I had invested in schemes of the Unit Trust of India and the Post-Office. But, I guess, a mistake had to be made some day." By then, other creditors like H.G. Parekh, a Mumbai-based businessman, started realising what was happening. A cheque for Rs 1 lakh, which was issued to him by the company, bounced in September, 1997. But it was too late; Gadgil's empire was on the verge of bankruptcy, and investors had no option but to approach the courts to recover their money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Expansion had contracted the Gadgil Western Group's fortunes. Between 1991 and 1997, Gadgil set up several greenfield ventures across the globe: in India, Dubai, and the US. He also raised large amounts of money by floating public issues at premiums. Not surprisingly, the share premium reserves of the group were Rs 329 crore on March 31, 1997, but it owed Rs 350 crore to the financial institutions, banks, corporates, and investors. Worse, the group's diversifications backfired: while the Rs 23.15-crore Western India Shipyards incurred a loss of Rs 30.35 crore in 1996-97, the Rs 5.68-crore Western Orissa Sugars made a loss of Rs 3.28 crore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Gadgil was on the run. Law-enforcers finally caught up with him in April, 1997, when he was arrested in Dubai for another bounced cheque, which had been issued to a Dubai-based financier, Sunil Mansukhani. But he managed to get bail by putting some of his assets--including the Dubai-based Western India Oil Refinery, which planned to use a new technology to extract kerosene and diesel from refinery-wastes--on the block, and obtaining an advance from his bankers to repay his creditors. While Western India Financial Services has since been sold to Yogesh Kumar Tiwari, a Mumbai-based businessman, Gadgil's uncle, Wardekar, has taken over Western India Securities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The case for the defence, essentially, rests on a single date: the day Suresh Prabhu resigned from the Western India Financial Services board. If it can be proved that his resignation was effective May 7, 1996--when the letter, dated May 6, 1996, was received by the company--it will prove his innocence. Since all the bounced cheques were issued after that date, that means that Prabhu was not involved in the scam. Points out Prabhu: "I resigned from the boards of (12) companies on May 6, 1996, to contest the Lok Sabha elections. I was not on the Western India Financial Services board when the cheques were dishonoured."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Did he? Agrees Manoj Tirodkar, 34, CEO, Global Tele-Systems: "We had asked Prabhu to be a non-executive director of our company. He resigned from our board on May 6, 1996." To buttress his claim, Prabhu shows copies of Form 32, which were filed by 11 companies--including Sai Service Station, Global Tele-Systems, and Global Wireless--with the Registrar of Companies (ROC) to indicate board-level changes. Indeed, all of them show Prabhu's resignation date as May 6, 1996.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, that is not the case with the form filed by Western India Financial Services, which uncapped the controversy. That document, filed by the NBFC on December 13, 1996, states that Prabhu, along with Gadgil and another director, Brij Bhushan Nagpal, resigned on November 14, 1996--the day Gadgil signed an memorandum of understanding to sell the company (which has since been renamed Amnet India) to Tiwari. In fact, the 4 new directors appointed on that date were Tiwari and 3 of his aides. However, another Form 32, dated March 26, 1997, lists Prabhu's resignation-date as March 15, 1997. If either of these dates (November 14, 1996, or March 15, 1997) is right, Prabhu will become an accused in at least some of the cases filed against Western India Financial Services.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">To set the record straight, Prabhu even appears to have got the roc, Mumbai, to issue a clarification. In response to his letter, dated June 9, 1998, the roc wrote to Amnet India on July 24, 1998: "It appears that Suresh Prabhu had resigned on 7/5/96, and not on 15/3/97, as per Form 32 dated 26/3/97. You are, therefore, advised to rectify Form 32 immediately on receipt of this letter." Indeed, Prabhu's lawyers used this letter as evidence in their legal battles in Panjim and Mumbai to indicate that he had resigned from the boards of companies on May 7, 1996.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Last month, the roc also initiated legal proceedings against Western India Financial Services for violations under Section 303 (2) of the Companies Act. In a case filed in the Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Mumbai, the roc alleged that the company failed to file Form 32, notifying Prabhu's resignation in May, 1996, within the mandatory 30 days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If true, why did Western India Financial Services decide to deliberately delay Prabhu's resignation? The reason, as disclosed by Prabhu's lawyers to the Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Court, Panjim: the company's board of directors would have lost legal sanction if Prabhu's resignation had been accepted in May, 1996. That's because Section 252 of the Companies Act states that a public company's board should have a minimum of 3 directors. And, after Prabhu's resignation in May, 1996, Western India Financial Services would have had only 2: Gadgil and Nagpal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Those fears should not have influenced the resignation submitted by a director who wanted out. Points out S.S. Rana, 57, Advocate, Delhi High Court: "Nobody can stop a director from resigning. If it contravenes the law, the other 2 directors can co-opt a third director till the next general body meeting ratifies the decision, or inducts a new director." Maintains Prabhu: "My effective date of resignation from all companies, including Western India Financial Services, is the date on which I submitted my resignation to the respective companies." That was May 6, 1996, or May 7, 1996, if one considers the date when the letter was received by the company. Although there is no provision in the Companies Act about the process through which a director can resign, such events are decided by the relevant provisions in the Articles of Association of a company and legal precedents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Take the case of Western India Financial Services. Article 155 of its Articles of Association states: "A director may, at any time, give notice in writing of his intention to resign by addressing it to the board of directors of the company and delivering such notice to the secretary or leaving the same at the registered office of the company Thereupon, his office shall be vacated." Legal precedents also support Prabhu's defence. Agrees Tirodkar: "A director's resignation is effective immediately if there is no mention in the Articles of Association. Else, one has to go by specific clauses in the Articles."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Are deliberate attempts being made to villify Prabhu? Yes, says Kirit Somaiyya, 44, the Maharashtra State President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who has known Prabhu since 1975: "The number of cases filed against him reflects the extent of political jealousy. Notes Prabhu: "Most of the cases against me were initially filed 20 months ago. They were refiled after I became a minister once again in March, 1998."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In fact, the controversy has seeped into the Goan political arena. There, the legal campaign against Prabhu is being spearheaded by Gopal Mayekar, 64, a former Congress-I Member of Parliament, who himself had invested Rs 2 lakh in Western India Financial Services, and is actively involved in the 29 cases filed by Goan investors against Prabhu. All these cases have now been transferred to the Sessions & District Court, Panjim, and the next hearing is scheduled for January 6, 1999. But Mayekar denies that the charges are politically motivated: "There is no campaign against Prabhu since I am also a victim. In fact, he was the only director against whom we could initiate prosecution as all the others (including the promoter, Nandan Gadgil) are missing."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Of course, his political links have compounded Prabhu's problems. Points out Somaiyya: "When Madhu Dandavate represented Rajapur in Parliament between 1971 and 1989, Prabhu always supplied him with details on crucial business issues. He was also close to Congress (I) politicians like Sharad Pawar and Vittal N. Gadgil." But, in the same breath, Prabhu's friends contend that he has never been involved in any controversy before the Western India Financial Services scam. Agrees Mukesh Kalmadi, 46, Joint Managing Director, Sai Service Station, where Prabhu was a director: "He has a clean image in business and politics."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But, then, how did Prabhu get involved with Nandan Gadgil? Explains Prabhu: "I was invited by a number of promoters, including Nandan Gadgil, to join the boards of their companies because of their perceptions about my standing in public life." Moreover, Prabhu's political aides contend that neither did he have any executive powers in any of the companies--including Western India Financial Services--nor large equity stakes in them. For instance, his family's stake in Western India Financial Services, which had an equity base of 58.50 lakh shares, was a mere 300 shares.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Of course, Prabhu's business roots go deeper (see box). Both in his capacity as a chartered accountant and the chairman of the Saraswat Cooperative Bank (1997-98 income: Rs 254.83 crore), he was close to numerous businessmen. For instance, Tirodkar admits that Prabhu's chartered accountancy firm was the auditor of one of his companies. And Prabhu himself says that, as the chairman of the Saraswat Bank for 81 months (between 1989 and 1995), he regularly interacted with businessmen. Indeed, he is still a director on the bank's board and, in September, 1998, he and his supporters were again elected to it. In fact, among the 12 directors elected, Prabhu got the maximum number of votes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Going by the number of cases against Prabhu, he may find it tough to emerge completely unscathed. Already the rulings of the Panjim and the Ernakulam Courts indicate that he is unlikely to wriggle out of his predicament easily despite the fact that he has received a favourable decision from the Mumbai High Court. For instance, after the Ernakulam Court issued 2 non-bailable warrants against Prabhu on January 14, 1998, and March 19, 1998, in the Joseph case, he managed to get a stay on the proceedings from the Kochi High Court on July 2, 1998. But, on October, 23, 1998, Joseph filed a counter-affidavit before the High Court, which has yet to deliver a final judgement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In Goa, the lower courts have delivered a body blow to Prabhu's defence. States the judgement by the Judicial Magistrate in Panjim, C. Fernandes, delivered on August 29, 1998: " the alleged defence taken by the accused No. 2 (Suresh Prabhu) will be looked into only at the stage of trial where both the parties adduced their respective evidence and documents." And in another case in Goa--filed by the Panjim-based Gulf Goan Hotels Company--the Judicial Magistrate, Desmond D'Costa, ruled on September 1, 1998: "At this stage, there is a strong suspicion that the accused (Prabhu) had cheated the complainant by inducing the investment of money"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Prabhu's defence will be further demolished if fresh cases--relating to the period when he was the Chairman and Managing Director of Western India Financial Services--are filed. Indeed, many companies promoted by Nandan Gadgil have failed to repay their creditors, but they have decided against taking legal action against him or his companies. Points out Kalmadi, who refuses to disclose the exact amount his company lent to the Gadgil Western Group: "We are sure that we will not get the money back. And this is part of doing business in India."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But, then, as Suresh Prabhu has realised, there is yet another danger of being associated with businessmen like Nandan Gadgil: that of being embroiled in a long-drawn legal battle. And, even if it is just a case of dirty business discolouring ugly politics, Prabhu cannot easily disentangle himself from the knots he himself once tied between the two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It has been a political pole-vault for Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu. In the mid-70s, he was only the President of the Khar Residents' Association in Mumbai; by 1996, he had joined the ranks of the Union Cabinet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Maharashtra politics was aflutter when Prabhu, a Saraswat Brahmin from Konkan's Malvan region, got a Shiv Sena ticket to contest the 1996 Lok Sabha elections. Explains a Mumbai-based Shiv Sena leader: "We though Prabhu was ideally placed to fight the elections under the Congress (I) or the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) banner. He was close to politicians from both the parties." Prabhu, however chose, the Shiv Sena which gave him a ticket because its supremo, Balasaheb Thackeray, apparently wanted the intelligentsia to represent the Shiv Sena in Parliament. And Prabhu had the right credentials: a gold medal in the chartered accountancy examinations in 1980; years of charitable work; and proximity to politicians like Madhu Dandavate of the Janata Dal and Sharad Pawar of the Congress (I).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What was even more important was Prabhu's influence in the co-operative movement, which wields considerable political power in Maharashtra. In fact, Prabhu's 15-year stint, from October, 1983, as the Director of the Saraswat Co-operative Bank, and his 81-month tenure as its Chairman-between January, 1989, and September, 1995-brought him close to both politicians and businessmen. During his chairmanship, the bank's net profits rose from Rs 1.96 crore in 1988-89 to Rs 7.43 crore in 1994-95 while its deposits zoomed from Rs 5,002.84 crore to Rs 8,453.41 crore. "His ambitions may have grown during this time," says Kirit Somaiyya, 44, the President of the BJP's Maharashtra unit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What benefited Prabhu was also his proximity to Suresh Kalmadi, 54 an Independent Member of the Rajya Sabha, his brother Mukesh Kalmadi, and Nandan Gadgil, the Chairman of the now-bankrupt Gadgil Western Group. Admits Mukesh Kalmadi, 46, Joint Managing Director, Sai Service Station: "My interactions with Prabhu were due to the latter's participation in high-profile activities in Mumbai." Unfortunately, Prabhu got too close to Nandan Gadgil, whose among small investors. And now threatens to engulf Prabhu too in controversy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A. I resigned from all the (12) companies in May, 1996, to contest the Lok Sabha Elections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Why is there a discrepancy in the dates mentioned in Form 32?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Form 32, which has be filed to the Registrar of Companies, has to be complied with by the companies. My resignations of the Articles of Association of the respective companies and the requirements of the Company Law as well as the prevalent practices in the corporate sector. My effective date of resignation from all the companies, including Western India Financial Services, is May 6, 1996. My resignations from these companies have been taken note of by the authorities concerned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">How many criminal cases have been filed against you? Are they related to only Western India Financial Services?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The cases are not filed against me personally, but against Western India Financial Services, in which I have been sought to be implicated in my capacity as a director. All the cases pertain to the cheques issued by Western India Financial Services, which were not signed by me. I was (also) not on the board when the cheques were dishonoured.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As a chartered accountant with a flourishing practice, I had relations with several companies. I was (also) invited by a number of promoters, including Western India Financial Services' Nandan Gadgil, to join the boards of their companies in view of their perception about my standing in public life. I have been working in social, and educational areas for more than 2 decades through voluntary agencies. The campaign against me is by vested interests. I do not ascribe it to any particular political party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">By all counts Suresh Prabhu was a good power minister. Although the benefits of his policies and actions are not yet quite visible, he has made a name for himself as an efficient and clean minister. Ironically, the latter has caused his downfall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Bal Thackeray, supreme leader of the Shiv Sena and the man who put Prabhu in Parliament as also in the ministerial chair, has pulled the plug. Prabhu was ordered to resign as power minister and had no option but to comply.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Newspaper editorials have bemoaned the exit of a 'clean' minister and criticised the dictatorial Thackeray for putting his party before the country by sacking Prabhu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But let us face it - that is the ground reality of Indian politics and we need to recognise it. I am not condoning Thackeray's actions or his priorities, but I am equally surprised at the naïve expectations that the media and the intelligentsia still seem have from its politicians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In a hard-hitting interview to The Indian Express last week, Thackeray had signalled his displeasure over Prabhu's performance and called him 'Alice in Wonderland' who was trying to be clean like Rajiv Gandhi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The description probably applies to all those of us who are surprised at Prabhu's ouster. And it certainly applies to Prabhu if he thought he could defy the party leader and get away with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Let us look at who is Suresh Prabhu. Less than five years ago, he was just the husband of a colleague and the head of Saraswat Co-operative Bank - a tiny, but successful and high profile, outfit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He was occasionally mentioned in connection with his directorship and (probably) personal guarantee extended to the Western India Group of Pune whose promoter Nandan Gadgil was in serious financial trouble. There was also some skirmish over loans extended by Saraswat Bank to fictitious cobbler co-operatives in what was dubbed as the 'cobbler scam'. But none of it was any worse than anything other bankers have been in trouble for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Prabhu's decision to throw his lot with the saffron Shiv Sena was a surprise, but hardly anyone gave a second thought to the aspiring politician's ambitions. It only showed how foolish we were. The decision was the beginning of a virtual miracle - a non-cash jackpot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Less than a month after Prabhu moved from being a banker to a politician, he was a Member of the Lok Sabha and was swearing in as a full Cabinet minister. In fact, Prabhu's meteoric rise is more like Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland rolled into one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Prabhu was hand picked by Bal Thackeray for a political career. In the past, he had catapulted a journalist-editor-entrepreneur into the Rajya Sabha, but that did nothing for the party's national profile. This time he wanted an educated, articulate and moderate face to be the Sena man in Delhi, and chose Prabhu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He ensured that Prabhu won his election through a super-safe seat in a constituency that was the fief of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Narayan Rane. Prabhu's win was a cakewalk. When he became the Shiv Sena minister in the National Democratic Alliance's Cabinet it was again Thackeray's choice. It was never the prime minister's decision. And that was probably Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's first mistake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When the PM acquiesced to having Prabhu in his Cabinet, he could have had no notion that he would either be clean or even passably efficient. He took him on without question because he had no choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It was a bonus for the Bharatiya Janata Party that Prabhu turned out the way he was; an even bigger bonus was that he seemed keener to please the prime minister than his party boss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Since Thackeray made no bones about the fact that he held the 'remote control' over his party men and women and dictated their actions, Prabhu was clearly asking for trouble. That he lasted for so long, or had his tenure extended at the prime minister's personal intervention was also part of the Prabhu fairy tail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But the clock may have finally struck midnight and the horses have probably turned into mice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Prabhu knew exactly what the score was when he made his pact with the Shiv Sena and became a minister. In fact, when Thackeray chose him, several senior party leaders had been furious at his instant stardom. They felt let down that the boss should choose a novice over them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Prabhu knew that his selection came with specific expectations. His decision to incur the Thackeray wrath by being more useful to the BJP may have been a calculated move. He may have planned a successful switch in political affiliations and the fairy tale could get still have another chapter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But let us face it; Prabhu is not a grassroots politician with a mass base. He has no track record of public service. He is just a nominee of the Shiv Sena leader. We can complain all about the destructive nature of coalition politics but we cannot change it in a hurry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As for the prime minister wanting Prabhu to remain a minister because of his efficiency - that is pure hogwash. If Vajpayee wanted ministers who were clean and efficient, there is nothing to stop him from choosing any number of them with long and proven track records in their respective fields.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He could hand pick people with intelligence and dedication and make them ministers. They needn't even all be in the Rajya Sabha; the BJP surely has a few safe seats from which to get them elected to the Lok Sabha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">For instance, why not ask Infosys chief N R Narayana Murthy to be minister for information technology? He could win an election from Bangalore; or appoint Deepak Parekh as finance minister - after all they seem to consult him on so many issues. He would probably have as much of a chance of winning from South Mumbai as his friend Murli Deora.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Surely a Sunil Gavaskar or a Kapil Dev would make an excellent sports minister and even win an election with ease. You could also have efficiency, honesty and talent in the Rajya Sabha by getting someone like R A Mashelkar to head science and technology, or Arundhati Roy to head the ministry for social welfare or even education; a Keki Dadiseth would make a good industries minister and Dr R Chidambaram could be the defence minister.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But we don't expect that to happen, do we? While a Suresh Prabhu may have had his own little fairy tale, we can't expect a much bigger one to transform this nation and its politics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So let us stop moaning over Prabhu's exit and accept the reality. The very fact that he himself hasn't said a word, shows that he knew the consequences of his actions and was possibly looking far ahead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">DAWOOD is the Islamic equivalent for David, the mighty Biblical king of Israel who had just one fatal flaw: he coveted another man's wife and paid dearly for that. The same mistake has been committed by Sadruddin Daya, former sheriff of Mumbai, promoter of Dawood Shoes and prime accused in the fake cobbler co-operatives scam that has rocked Mumbai over the past month and more. But this time, it's hard government cash that rightfully belonged to cobblers and poor shoemakers, most of which has been diverted to Daya and two more—Rafique Tejani, Daya's former partner and promoter of Metro Shoes, and Kishore Signapurkar of Milano Shoes. And they are paying dearly. Of the 10 people initially arrested these three are still in jail. All their outlets and offices have been sealed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Known in the tightly-knit, and extremely affluent Aga Khan sect of Muslims (which largely controls the Mumbai shoe trade) as a man with a golden heart and a generous purse, Daya heads the growing list of high-profile people who have coveted, and accessed, public funds for personal benefit. He owns several properties in and around Mumbai and maintain a fleet of 15 Indian and foreign cars. Starting with one shoe shop a few years ago, he built a chain of 25 retail outlets. Likewise, Tejani, son of a salesman, retails through 10 shops and owns four of them. Of the three, only Signapurkar was an uneducated cobbler but the police have reason to believe that his recent prosperity is not entirely a result of back-breaking work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Mumbai shoe market comprises about 300 retail outlets with a turnover of about Rs 200 crore annually. Metro, Dawood and Milano retail through 30 shops and account for nearly 40 per cent of the Mumbai business. They are the most powerful buyers. The other 270 are owned by almost as many people with their own workshops. Now, thousands of cobblers, workshop owners and even retail outlet owners (most of these outlets are franchises) are left without work and wage. Some of them are looking at moving back to their villages or setting up retail stalls around Mumbai.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It was a grand idea that eventually went bust for the shoe barons. Around 1987, the Maharashtra government floated the Modified Automated Refinance Scheme (MARS) which offered Rs 25,000 for individual cobblers at an interest rate of 14.5 per cent to set them up in business. About 50 cobblers' co-operatives, some listing up over 2,000 cobbler-members, helped themselves of the scheme. None of the actual beneficiaries were cobblers, but societies formed by influential people like Daya. Even leading politicians are involved in the Rs 1000-crore scam. BJP MLA Sadashiv Lokhande, Shiv Sena legislator from Dharavi Baburao Mane and Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee chief Sushil Kumar Shinde have been identified by the Economic Offence Wing, which feels there is enough evidence to initiate action, even arrest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Police sources claim that the whole sordid affair dates back to the early seventies when city-based cobblers' cooperatives got approvals under the Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC)—the commission had to certify that the applicants were genuine artisans. Investigations suggest that such generous disbursement was done with the collusion of banks. A 2,000-member society can, by simple arithmetic, claim about Rs 5 crore (at Rs 25,000 loan per artisan). And the banks involved include the Mumbai District Co-operative Bank, Dena Bank, Bank of Baroda and foreign banks like Citibank and Oman International Bank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Also involved is the Maharashtra State Finance Corporation, which sanctioned, among others, a Rs 50-lakh loan to Charmakar Yuba Kranti Co-operative Society, a brainchild of Shinde when he was state finance minister and set up by his personal assistant. The Congress state government had sanctioned another Rs 45 lakh to it. Mane is a director of the Mahacharmodyog Utpadak Sahakari Sangh of Dadar, while Lokhande has been a prime mover behind the launch of the Jai Bharat Cooperative Society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That's how long the scam went on, unearthed and unchecked. Prompting cynics to accuse the government of floating the MARS to benefit those who mattered. "How many banks would entertain the neighbourhood cobbler?" asks a shoe-shop owner. "Nobody brought it out in the open because everyone benefitted".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">IT was, at first glance, a simple operation. Smaller shopowners, who don't own workshops, find it difficult to source their goods. If they make a billed purchase from unregistered dealers, like the neighbourhood cobbler, they have to pay a sales tax of 8 per cent on value of the goods. But under MARS, the promoters of societies had access not only to cheap funds but also sales tax exemption on the shoes they made. So the shopowners sourced the goods on cash from the unregistered dealers and bought bills from these societies paying a 'fee' of 3 to 4 per cent to the society. And the societies made some more money without manufacturing any goods. The shoes were actually made in a few thousand small workshops, employing 10 to 100 cobblers, who lent their names to these co-operatives. In return they had jobs where they could earn upto Rs 200 a day. A small workshop owner could earn Rs 10,000 to 15,000 a month by supplying only about 400 shoes. The banks got good clients who paid up on time. Few cobblers would have been able to do that. And everybody was happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But investigations are now revealing loopholes, thick and fast. Tejani and Daya claim that most of their outlets are franchised, not owned. But many employees are found on Daya's payroll. One of the first to be arrested, Anwar Merchant, Daya's brother-in-law, not only headed the administration of Dawood shoes, but also worked as accountant of the bogus Jeevan Vikas Cooperative Cottage Leather Industries Ltd. He admitted to maintaining the records of the cooperative society and preparing salary slips and maintaining attendance registers for members, who existed only in name. Franchisees include names with dubious reputations like Rizvi Builders and wife of underworld man, Iqbal Mirchi. Loan applications show forged signatures. The societies have been unable to produce a single genuine cobbler or a workshop to prove actual shoemaking. Yet, Dawood and Metro show turnovers of about Rs 5 crore each.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Even as the families of the prime accused are tight-lipped on the affair, their supporters accuse that Daya got on the wrong side of an income-tax official and a police official, who in turn started the investigations to avenge his insult. But the shoe community has not reacted till now. "We are scared and trying to save our own skin, especially as we hear of them (the accused) being tortured in jail," says a source close to some of the accused. P.R. Vakil, defence counsel for Tejani, accused the deputy commissioner of police, Sanjay Pandey, in court of assaulting his client. But some of them have started to speak after considerable coaxing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">For one, they point out, the cooperatives had been filing their returns for about eight years. Saying that these books are wrong is tantamount to stating that a government inquiry has no value. Exclaims Asif Merchant, director, Catwalk Fashions Pvt Ltd: "It's like currency notes being invalid." To police accusations that all levies from sales tax to excise to octroi have been dodged, the shoemakers answer that only the government departments concerned are capable of deciding the extent of evasion, not the police. And how could the banks give lump sums to the societies and conduct no checks on the whereabouts of the money, they ask. "We are solvent and therefore the perfect sitting ducks," says one owner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Even as speculation is rife about the fate of the money—the police believe it's been circulated in hawala channels, and even used to fund bomb blasts and property deals—the local shoe industry comes out as the worst loser. Says Adarsh Gupta, executive director, Liberty Shoes: "This scam reflects badly on the industry". While industry circles try to put up a brave front by asserting that the three prime accused will be freed—which may well happen, considering past experience—they can barely hide their worry. Now that the keeping-everyone-happy cooperatives have been clamped down, Asif Merchant believes that shoe prices will go up by up to 25 per cent in Mumbai. And, irrespective of the powerful Daya and his ilk, this will hurt every ordinary foot in Mumbai city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">ALPINE, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 1995--After two years of planning, Interline Resources Corp. (AMEX:<a href="http://irc.ec/">IRC.EC</a>) and Gadgil Western Corp. officially inaugurated the first fuel oil refinery in the world to use Interline's technology in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on May 27.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">At the inauguration, Nandan Gadgil, chairman of Gadgil Western announced his intention to build additional refineries in Dubai, Bahrain, Singapore and India that will use Interline's technology to produce petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and marine diesel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">According to Gadgil, Interline's technology will open a new chapter in petroleum refining. The additional plant in Dubai will be located adjacent to the existing plant, expanding the Dubai plant's refining capacity to 57 million gallons per year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It came as a shock for around 100 investors two years ago when they found their cheques being dishonoured, issued by the Western Indian Financial Services Ltd, then headed by Suresh Prabhu, a reputed banker-turned-politician.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In fact, one of the JMFC had even agreed to apply section 420 of the IPC, on the grounds that Prabhu did not make any provision for honouring the cheques. Prabhu's sole contention to drop his name was based on the claim that he had resigned before the cheques got bounced in November 1996.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The district and sessions judge Nelson Britto, while dropping his name now, observed that it was unjustifiable on the part of the magistrates in issuing process against Prabhu when the complainant had not made a statement under section 141 of the Negotiable Instruments Act that he was the in charge of and was responsible for the conduct of the business of the WIFSL while it was also not substantiated on oath under section 200.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Dropping Prabhu's name comes as a big setback for the investors, some of whom had invested their life-time earnings into it, as all the other directors are still absconding. They include Nandan Gadgil, Brijbhushan Nagpal and Narendra Kumar. The police are still unable to trace them while one investor has also approached the high court, complaining against police investigations moving at snails pace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Everybody thought he had flown down from Delhi to felicitate Advocate Uday Bhembre, noted Konkani writer, thinker and journalist, until he was then seen entering the court building and appearing before the judge as an accused in a multi-millionrore financial scam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The investors feel lost because Prabhu is the only director of the WIFSL who is available. The banker-turned-politician is the elected MP and holding Union minister's position in the central government. His other former colleagues, Nandan Gadgil, Brijbhushan Nagpal and Narendra Kumar are still told to be absconding.</span></div>
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Seema Saprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07094308832539462568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156885966506868262.post-31780120778931325402015-11-13T01:53:00.001-08:002015-11-14T20:58:40.774-08:00When Suresh Prabhu inappropriately appointed former DMRC Managing Director, E. Sreedharan as a one-man committee to fix accountability in all rail tendering processes<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">One of Mr Suresh Prabhu’s first decisions as Rail Minister was to appoint former DMRC Managing Director, E. Sreedharan as a one-man committee to fix accountability in all rail tendering processes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This decision is strange and improper and reveals why Suresh Prabhu is clearly unsuited to the job of rail minister.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You will be aware that the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFO) of the United Kingdom is prosecuting Alstom companies and executives for having bribed Delhi metro officials to secure Delhi metro contracts between 2001 and 2006, when Mr E Sreedharan was the Managing Director of Delhi Metro.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The fact that criminal charges have been leveled against Alstom and criminal trials are underway in the United Kingdom establish that the SFO would have obtained credible evidence that Alstom did bribe Delhi metro officials.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As usual the Indian government and authorities have made no efforts to identify the Delhi metro officials who received bribes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In a public relations exercise, Mr Sreedharan in some statements issued to the press has attempted to cover up the fact that Delhi metro officers were bribed. Sreedharan’s statement that since DMRC dealt with Alstom France and not Alstom UK, the bribery charges are wrong is so disingenuous so as to be laughable. Is Mr Sreedharan so naïve that he cannot appreciate that money to bribe DMRC officials might have been deliberately routed through Alstom UK instead of Alstom France? Further Sreedharan’s other statements giving nonsensical reasons for his outright dismissal of the bribery complaints and charges show that he is trying to cover something up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Sreedharan places reliance on the role of Pacific Consultants International who he says handled DMRC tenders. Is Sreedharan unaware that senior executives of Pacific Consultants International were convicted by Japanese courts for bribing Vietnamese officials during the same period to which the Alstom Delhi Metro bribes pertain?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Has Sreedharan seen the evidence with the UK authorities? If not, then why did Sreedharan feel the need to publicly and prematurely defend DMRC against bribery charges? This defensiveness of Sreedharan leads one to wonder if he himself has something to hide.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Shouldn’t Shreedharan instead have asked that the Indian authorities also investigate these charges and identify which DMRC officers were bribed?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The fact that the SFO has launched criminal proceedings leads to an inference that the SFO has found evidence including money trails of payments made by Alstom to DMRC officials through intermediaries.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Indian government and authorities are still to officially react or investigate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Then why is Sreedharan jumping the gun and defending DMRC and himself?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The question therefore arises should someone like Sreedharan who by his press statements has attempted to cover up the Alstom bribes to DMRC under his watch, have been appointed by Suresh Prabhu as a one man committee to recommend how to fix the Railway tendering process?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Doesn’t the SFO case against Alstom place Sreedharan himself under a cloud until the public knows exactly which DMRC officials received bribes from Alstom? And until it is established what role if any Sreedharan played in the Alstom - Delhi Metro corruption.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Under the circumstances it was improper of Suresh Prabhu to appoint Sreedharan to this one-man committee and this committee must be disbanded. Sreedharan must not be given any government position or role until he is cleared of involvement in the Alstom DMRC bribery case.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">These facts and Sreedharan’s appointment to this one-man committee by Suresh Prabhu again raise grave doubts about Prabhu’s suitability and intent as Rail Minister. Suresh Prabhu appears to lack a moral compass and appears not to have an innate sense of right versus wrong.</span></div>
Seema Saprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07094308832539462568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156885966506868262.post-68151465854221775002015-11-13T01:29:00.003-08:002015-11-13T01:44:15.807-08:00Suresh Prabhu appointed Rail Minister under influence of General Electric Company to cover up corruption in Marhowra and Madhepura loco Projects & tenders - Seema Sapra, General Electric whistle-blower <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">To the President of India the Prime Minister of India, the Rail Minister of India and to ASG Sanjay Jain,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I am writing further to my representations against the recent appointment of Mr Suresh Prabhu as Railway Minister. This appointment has been influenced by General Electric Company using Mr Sharad Pawar as an intermediary with intent to cover up the corruption complaints and evidence against General Electric Company set out in Writ Petition Civil 1280/ 2012 pending before the Delhi High Court since February 2012.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I also point out that despite my status as witness-whistleblower-petitioner and despite the threat to my life, I have no protection and I am being poisoned.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I reproduce below an application and an affidavit filed by me on the issue of Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Railway Minister in WP Civil 1280/ 2012, which were sent to you earlier as well.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I draw your attention to some further facts in connection with Suresh Prabhu's role in facilitating and benefiting from the Adarsh scam.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu was involved in permitting the Adarsh building society to proceed with construction in violation of applicable environmental rules including the CRZ regulations.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu's modus operandi in facilitating this was very similar to Montek Singh Ahluwalia's facilitation of the Dabhol Project where the latter wrote letters which were interpreted as approval of the financial structure of the Dabhol Project including power pricing. Montek Singh Ahluwalia's modus operandi was to later retract and suggest that his letter was not an approval as he was not authorised to grant the approval.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Correspondence with the Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) in 2003 has been used by the Adarsh society promoters and even by the Maharastra State government to argue that environmental clearances including CRZ clearances were obtained from the MoEF in 2003. The MoEF has since denied that it issued any clearance. However, the letters issued by the MoEF which were relied upon as granting clearance which facilitated various Central and State regulatory authorities to assume that someone had granted clearance appear to have involved the hand of Suresh Prabhu.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I reproduce at the end some news reports on the issue of the environmental clearances for Adarsh. Of course, as is usual course in India, a mammoth cover-up of the Adarsh scam has been undertaken shielding many politicians involved. I do point out that such cover-ups are not without cost to the national interest as failure to apply the rule of law even when corruption is exposed contributes to and perpetuates the "sab chalta hai" culture that engenders, breeds and encourages corruption.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">But the questions to ask about Suresh Prabhu and the Adarsh scam are:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">There was some involvement of the MoEF in the Vajpayee Cabinet in facilitating the Adarsh society. Was Suresh Prabhu involved? Suresh Prabhu has stated that he was not Environment Minister in 2003 when the MoEF cleared the Adarsh structure. But there are several citations on the internet recording that Suresh Prabhu was environment minister in 2003. Plus Suresh Prabhu was environment minister in 1998- 1999 when the Adarsh proposal first came to the attention of the MoEF. Did Suresh Prabhu deal with the Adarsh file as environment minister in 1998-1999?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">With the exception of some select fields, few other issues in India have raised as much passion as the inter-state sharing of river waters. And, stemming partly from this socio-political acrimony together with environmental and economic concerns, India's grandiose National River Linking Project (NRLP), has been on the potboiler ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in 2003 set up a Task Force on inter-linking of rivers, headed by then Environment Minister Suresh Prabhu.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Congress tried to put the blame on the Shiv Sena, as the proposal had first come to the state government when Narayan Rane, who was then with the Sena, was the chief minister in 1999. The party also accused Prabhu of giving the green clearance. Incidentally, Prabhu is a member of the Society and has been allotted a flat in the building.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu was no longer a government employee in 2004 when the Adarsh flat was allotted to him. He claims to have purchased the flat with a bank loan. First it has been established that the allotment to Suresh Prabhu was illegal. He could only have been allotted a flat as a private citizen if his income was less than Rs 20,000. Is it Suresh Prabhu's case that he fell within this category? Further, even if Suresh Prabhu fell within this category, he would have been entitled to a flat only half the size of what he was actually allotted. Why was he allotted a larger flat?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">More importantly, Suresh Prabhu claims that he did not examine the society documents and its legal compliances himself but merely accepted the position of the promoters and blindly obtained a bank loan and paid money to purchase the flat. Are we expected to believe this?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu is a chartered accountant, a former banker and a former Cabinet minister who boasts about his administrative skills and achievements on his bio and website. Are we to believe that with these qualifications, Suresh Prabhu decided to take out a loan and buy a flat without examining the sale papers and the legal status of the property he was buying? Did the bank not insist on a due diligence and on Suresh Prabhu representing that the proposed purchase had been vetted and was legitimate and genuine? Was the bank loan issued against a mortgage of the Adarsh flat? Did the bank not vet the property documents?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Even a common man will not purchase property without assuring himself that the building was authorised? And is Suresh Prabhu saying that being a chartered accountant he decided to purchase property without assuring himself that the construction was authorised and the proposed building had necessary approvals.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu was at some time the environment minister in the Vajpayee Cabinet in 2003. He was environment minister in 1998-1999. He was aware of the CRZ notification. He must have at some time as a minister dealt with a file on the Adarsh building, whether or not he himself approved a clearance. He is a Mumbai resident and would have known that the location of the Adarsh building raised issues of CRZ clearances.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">And we are expected to believe that despite his specialist knowledge, Suresh Prabhu decided to purchase the Adarsh flat with eyes and ears closed and with no due diligence?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu is one of the 32 illegal allottees in the Adarsh building and we are expected to assume that he is innocent and a victim?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu obtained a prized Colaba flat at a nominal undervalued price to which he was not legally entitled along with 31 other illegal allottees and he would have gotten away with it if the scam had not been exposed. And we are expected to believe that he was a victim. Why is it that no ordinary citizens were victimised by the Adarsh Society and allotted flats at nominal prices in Colaba? Why are all the illegal beneficiaries of the Adarsh scam powerful politicians and bureaucrats who were all connected in some manner to those public officials or ministries who/ which facilitated the usurpation of land and the illegal construction?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">How did Suresh Prabhu end up becoming a part of the Adarsh building society in 2004 if he had no connection to the scam or if he was not being rewarded for corrupt services rendered at some point (like in the Dabhol Project corruption cover-up)? Surely there were many potential buyers for such undervalued Colaba flats. Let Suresh Prabhu explain exactly how he got involved with Adarsh?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I am again requesting that Suresh Prabhu be removed from his position as Rail Minister as his background establishes his unsuitability for this or indeed any other government post.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Also please ensure that the corruption complaints and evidence against General Electric Company in connection with the Projects and tenders for the proposed diesel and electric locomotive factories at Marhowra and Madhepura are not covered up as was being done by the UPA government. General Electric Company must be blacklisted and cannot be permitted to participate in the 2013 tenders for these Projects which themselves deserve to be scrapped in public interest.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Please ensure that ASG Sanjay Jain is present for the court hearings for WP Civil 1280/ 2012. ASG Sanjay Jain also needs to ensure that this matter is taken away from the UPA (A S Chandhiok) appointed counsels Sapna Chauhan (for Respondent 5, the PMO) and (Om Prakash) for the Railways (respondent 4) who were both colluding in attempts to cover up the corruption complaints against General Electric Company and their co-conspirators including Montek Singh Ahluwalia and former PM Dr Manmohan Singh. This matter needs to be remarked by ASG Sanjay Jain to the new standing counsels appointed by the new NDA government.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Also since May 2014, no lawyer is appearing in this matter for the CBI. Since 2012, no authorised lawyer is appearing in this matter for the CVC. Both the CBI and CVC are parties and have been issued court notice.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The two-year marathon inquiry conducted by a judicial commission into the Adarsh scam has ended with the Maharashtra government said to have admitted for the first time that the controversial housing society did not have necessary environmental clearances.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The commission set up in January 2011 wrapped up its inquiry into the scam yesterday and is likely to submit its final report to the state government next month, sources in the panel told PTI.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Concluding his arguments, state government counsel A Y Sakhare is understood to have told the commission that the 31-storey plush Adarsh building in south Mumbai was constructed without Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance or nod from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The sources said it is for the first time that the government, which had consistently maintained that no rules were violated in granting permissions to the building, has admitted that the society did not have the required environmental clearance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The state is said to have supported the MoEF's claim that the March 2003 letter by the Urban Development Department to the society was misrepresented as environmental clearance by one of the accused P V Deshmukh, a former deputy secretary in the department.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The MoEF, in response to UDD's letter forwarding the society's proposal for construction, had said that state has a body- Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA)-to look into CRZ clearances. The MoEF's response was allegedly misconstrued by Deshmukh as a clearance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The commission, headed by Justice (retired) J A Patil, has started dictating its findings in chamber and will submit its final report to the government by the end of next month.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">A total of 214 witnesses were examined by the commission including Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, former Maharashtra chief ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh and Ashok Chavan, former army chiefs N C Vij and Deepak Kapoor, several IAS officers and bureaucrats from the state and central government.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Shiv Sena leader and former Union environment minister Suresh Prabhu said he would send a notice to Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society asking it to return the money he paid for a flat in the 31-storey tower. He also denied granting it any environmental clearance. The tower at Colaba was allegedly built in violation of environmental norms and on the promise that houses would be given to Kargil war veterans and widows. However, most of the flats were allotted to bureaucrats, politicians and army and navy commanders.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Congress had accused Prabhu of clearing the project while he was environment minister in the National Democratic Alliance government.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The plot on which the society stands is part of the Coastal Regulation Zone 1, the most eco-sensitive coastal area because it has mangroves and mudflats. In such zones projects costing more than R5 crore require clearance by the Union environment ministry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Prabhu said he is not a promoter or office-bearer of the society. "I got a flat that was part of a quota for MPs and because it was going at a concession. I took a home loan for it and the flat is still on mortgage," he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Prabhu said he got all the clearances required for the loan, including an approval from the collector. "Now I find out the project is in trouble. I will send a notice to the society asking it to return my money," he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">No MoEF clearance was issued to Adarsh Housing Society</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has denied that it has issued a No Objection Certificate (NOC) on March 11, 2003, to Adarsh Housing Cooperative Society, Mumbai, for construction of a residential building. The Navy has taken strong objection to grant of clearances to the building, citing violation of norms.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The society, with its high profile members, is in the eye of a storm for violating environmental and other norms and misusing the land granted to it. The MoEF issued a statement on Thursday giving the exact text of the letter dated March 11, 2003, which it had issued to P.V. Deshmukh, Deputy Secretary, Urban Development Department, government of Maharashtra.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The letter notes that "the proposed residential complex falls within the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) - II area. This Ministry has already delegated the powers to the State government for undertaking development in Coastal Regulation Zone -II. Accordingly, the proposed construction may be taken up as per the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 1991 (as amended from time to time) and the approved revised Coastal Zone Management Plan of Greater Mumbai."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Citing that the housing society received all necessary clearances and permissions, Adarsh society, in letter, stated that the building plan was approved by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority in stages as per rules. "CRZ [Coastal Regulatory Zone] clearance was obtained from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi vide letter NoF.No.J-17011/46/2002-IA III dated March 11, 2003." It also said that CRZ clearance had nothing to do with the height of the building.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">It claimed that the height of the building (103.4 meters) was approved by the High Rise Committee headed by Retired Chief Justice of Tamil Nadu. "The final Commencement Certificate was issued by the MMRDA on August 04, 2010 and, lastly, Occupation Certificate was also given on September 16, 2010."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The MoEF denied that this letter gave any permission, pointing out that in March 2003, all construction in the CRZ area, which was permissible under the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification and were in consonance with the approved Coastal Zone Management Plan of Mumbai, had to be considered by the Maharashtra State Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA). At that time, the approval authority was meant to be the State government; in the case of Maharashtra, it was the environment department. The society did not make any application to the environment department, it is learnt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Ministry had approved the revised Coastal Zone Management Plan of Mumbai on January 19, 2000. To obtain clearance under the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 1991, the project proponent needs to submit the proposal enclosing the details of construction, classification of Coastal Regulation Zone area in the requisite format to the concerned Coastal Zone Management Authority; in this case this proposal should have been submitted to the MCZMA.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The MCZMA was constituted in January, 2002, in compliance with a Supreme Court order. The statement said clearance under the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification 1991 by the MOEF was in a prescribed format. The clearance letter issued by the Ministry was always addressed to the Member Secretary, MCZMA, and copied to all concerned. The power to issue of Coastal Regulation Zone clearance was withdrawn on April 22, 2003, in respect of projects costing more than Rs. 5 crore.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">MUMBAI: Reiterating its stand on the Adarsh housing society, a former Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) official told a judicial panel that the building has to be demolished as it does not have environmental clearance.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Former MoEF director Bharat Bhushan told a two-member inquiry commission set up by the state government to probe into the scam, that the Adarsh building stands in the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) and hence environmental clearance is mandatory.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"The building has not obtained any clearance from the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA). The MCZMA has not sent any recommnedation to the MoEF regarding clearance to be given to Adarsh," he said.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">He said that when the Adarsh scam broke in October 2010, the MoEF had asked for a report from the secretary of the department of environment who is also the chairperson of the MCZMA.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The report stated that no clearance was obtained or given to the plush 31-storey Adarsh building in South Mumbai.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"The final order of Janury 14, 2011, passed by the MoEF for the building's demolition was based on details sent by the MCZMA chairperson, Maharashtra government, hearing of Adarsh representatives, as well as other documents," he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Ex-MoEF director Bharat Bhushan told a probe panel set up by the state on the scam, that the Adarsh building stands in the CRZ and hence environmental clearance is mandatory.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh loves publicity, more so if it comes free. It would, therefore, have been naïve not to expect him to issue a demolition notice to the Adarsh housing society which he has done now.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Do bask in glory, Mr Ramesh, but please answer a few questions. The first question is: Why this notice to the Adarsh society now? The 31-storey building that you think deserves to be completely demolished for "egregious violation" of environment laws, got the occupation certificate on September 16, 2010. Which means, the construction activities have already been completed for people to move in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Presumably, construction began after the Adarsh society applied for environment clearance from your ministry in 2003. Your ministry wrote back on March 11, 2003 saying the appropriate clearing authority under the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification of 1991 was the state government – rather the Maharashtra State Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">So, your ministry and MCZMA knew about the case way back in March 2003. Why did both of them go to sleep for the next seven years?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">MCZMA has, in its deposition before your ministry, said it had issued notice to the Adarsh society on lack of environment clearance on November 3, 2009. Why did it take six years for it to do so?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The second question, therefore, is: What action do you propose to take against your ministry officials and those of the MCZMA?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The third question pertains to the violation of the CRZ notification of 1991 vis-à-vis section 3(2)(v) of the Environment (Protection) Act of 1986 itself. As your communiqué mentions, this section "provides for 'restriction of areas' in which any industries, operations or process of class of industries, operations or processes shall not be carried out or shall be carried out subject to certain safeguards. Construction of buildings falls with the category of 'process' ".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Find us one more individual, Mr Ramesh, who agrees with this interpretation of "process". Why is the language so vague and prone to misinterpretation? Is this deliberate or do you expect us to believe that the literacy level of your officials is so poor? No wonder the Adarsh society is protesting, arguing that it didn't violate any the law as this section deals with industries, not housing societies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Adarsh society is also right in questioning the locus standi of MoEF, citing the ministry's March 11, 2003 letter, which said the state government was the clearing authority. To which, your communiqué mentions that your ministry has clarified that the CRZ notification was amended on April 22, 2003 (a month later) withdrawing that power from the state government because of "misutilisation" of power. But you are silent on whether this amendment was communicated to the Adarsh society at that time and what action was taken to ensure that the amendment was followed by other applicants.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Adarsh society is a fait accompli, Mr Ramesh, just as many other big-ticket projects that your ministry first cleared and then issued notices about violations of law when public outcry reached unmanageable levels - Lavasa project in Pune, Vedanta's smelting and refinery plants in Orissa, Jindals' thermal plants in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, Lafarge's mining in Meghalaya and so on. It would be naive again to expect that the Adarsh society would actually be demolished.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Get your act together, Mr Ramesh, and get right the vaguely worded laws, notifications and regulations and ask your men to act proactive, not reactive to public outcry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">New Delhi: Adding a new twist to the controversy surrounding Adarsh Housing Cooperative Society, the Colaba highrise in which a clutch of powerful politicians, bureaucrats and former Army chiefs have cornered flats, the Union ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) on Tuesday indicated that it has no records of the building obtaining the necessary environmental clearances. TOI had reported on October 26 how Adarsh Society had appropriated defence land in the name of building houses for war veterans and war widows, and indulged in a host of other violations along the way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Based on TOI reports, the MoEF on Tuesday issued a notice to the Maharashtra environment secretary, asking her to examine the project, clearances obtained and the action taken against the violations. The notice says there is a violation of the CRZ (Coastal Regulation Zone) rules and the EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) rules as well. When contacted, Union minister for environment & forests Jairam Ramesh confirmed that his ministry had written to the state government to find out if the building had obtained necessary clearances. The ministry has sought a reply by Monday.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> A day after the TOI report, when the state environment department conducted its own preliminary probe, it found that the urban development department and MMRDA had approved the proposal in blatant violation of CRZ rules in collaboration with the BMC. Although environment secretary Valsa Nair Singh refused to comment, a senior official on Tuesday confirmed that all the rules, particularly under CRZ, were completely ignored. (According to CRZ rules, any project of Rs 5 crore and above has to be approved by the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority and later by the ministry of environment & forests.) "We examined all the applications submitted to MCZMA. We were stunned to find that while the project was within the CRZ area, the society never submitted an application for approval,'' the official said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> MCZMA and MoEF were both in the dark on the first phase of Adarsh. However, the state environment department stepped in in 2007 when local residents lodged a complaint, saying there were blatant violations in Phase Two of the project. "We had issued a show cause notice to the promoters of the society and asked them to submit the approvals granted to them by MCZMA and MoEF. They failed to produce the documents — instead, they showed us the correspondence between MoEF and the urban development department,'' the official said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Vice-Admiral Sanjeev Bhasin, the flag officer commanding-In-chief of the Mumbai-based Western Naval Command, in his letter to the headquarters in July, had pointed out that under CRZ rules, the height of the building had to be restricted to 30 metres. The current height of the building is evidently 100 metres or more, with 31 floors and 124 flats.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Admiral Bhasin also quoted from a letter that the principal secretary, urban development department of Maharashtra, had written on August 19, 1999, seeking an NOC for the complex since it falls under the CRZ-1 plan. The letter, which was forwarded to naval headquarters, said the members of the society were officers who had "dedicated their lives to service of the Motherland and deserved all special consideration''. It added that several members were even today fighting at Kargil and in surrounding areas. Records show that none of the senior defence officers who own flats there fought in the Kargil conflict.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mumbai: Chief minister Ashokrao Chavan on Tuesday said that he has sought information on the row over the allotment of a prime piece of land to the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society in south Mumbai. "I have carefully read the report in the Times of India and I am seized of the matter. I have asked the concerned departments to submit a comprehensive report on the allegations. Once the information is received, we will decide on the course of action. So far, no decision has been taken,'' Chavan told TOI.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Meanwhile, Mumbai collector Chandrashekhar Oke has submitted a preliminary report to the revenue department on the controversy over the allotment of the land to the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society in 2004. The report also deals with ownership of the land.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Though Oke refused to comment on his report, a senior Mantralaya official confirmed that the land allotted to the cooperative housing society belonged to the revenue department. TNN AMONG THE ALLOTTEES</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">1. I, Seema Sapra, daughter of Late Shri A. R. Sapra, aged 43 years, previously resident of G 4, first floor, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi 110014 and rendered homeless on 30 May 2012 (because of and as a result of the whistleblower complaints of corruption, forgery, bribery, fraud and illegal activities made against General Electric, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Planning Commission, Railway Ministry and Ministry of Finance and as a result of the whistleblower corruption petition (W.P. (C ) 1280/ 2012) and because of my complaints of sexual harassment against Mr Soli J Sorabjee and Mr Raian Karanjawala) in contempt of this Hon'ble Court's order dated May 25, 2012 and presently homeless do hereby solemnly affirm and state as under.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">2. I am the Petitioner in the present Petition and am well aware of the facts of the case and am competent to file the present affidavit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">3. This affidavit is being filed to supplement the Petitioner's application (filing diary no. 234826/ 2014) on the issue of Mr Suresh Prabhu's dubious appointment as Rail Minister under influence from General Electric Company in this writ petition which is coming up for hearing before Court for the first time on 1 December 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">4. In this application the Petitioner has stated that on 9 November 2014, Mr Sadanand Gowda who was opposed to the Madhepura and Marhowra proposed locomotive factory Projects and tenders because these Projects and tenders were tainted with corrupt dealings was unceremoniously replaced as Railway Minister with Mr Suresh Prabhu by Prime Minister Narendra Modi under pressure from General Electric Company, respondent 1 in this whistleblower corruption case.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(a) Direct the Government of India through the PMO (respondent 5 herein) to ascertain and declare the conflict of interest if any regarding Suresh Prabhu and this writ petition and/ or the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and tenders; to ascertain and declare any dealings (financial or otherwise) between Suresh Prabhu, his son or their companies and General Electric Company and/or its affiliates; and to ascertain and declare whether Mr Suresh Prabhu has been made aware of this writ petition and of the full evidence of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and illegal lobbying concerning the tenders for the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(b) Direct the Government of India through the PMO (respondent 5 herein) to ensure that Suresh Prabhu as Railway Minister does not act unlawfully in connection with the Marhowra and Madhepura locomotive factory Projects and that no attempt is made to cover up the complaints of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery, FCPA violations, tender manipulation, and illegal lobbying that are pending against General Electric Company in connection with the Projects and tenders for the proposed diesel and electric locomotive factories at Marhowra and Madhepura;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(c) Direct Advocate Om Prakash to disclose who instructed him to oppose the Petitioner's representations to the President and Prime Minister against Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(d) Issue notice of criminal contempt to Advocate Om Prakash for obstruction of court proceedings on 20 November 2014 when he prevented the petitioner from addressing the court by shouting at her and by shouting her down with the specific intent to prevent her from addressing the court and to prevent her from responding to his invalid objections;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(e) Direct the Railway Ministry to replace advocate Om Prakash with a lawyer who will not facilitate the cover-up of the corruption complaints against General Electric and who will not collude with General Electric Company's alleged lawyers to sabotage this writ petition;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(f) Direct that ASG Sanjay Jain who has been instructed to appear in this matter for respondents 4 and 5 (Railway Ministry and the PMO) start assisting the Hon'ble Court and not skip court hearings;</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">6. Mr Suresh Prabhu has a history of covering up General Electric corruption and protecting General Electric interests while foregoing legitimate interests and rights of the Government of India which he exhibited while he was Power Minister in the Vajpayee Cabinet and dealing with the Enron-GE-Bechtel consortium's Dabhol Project.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">8. Mr Sharad Pawar also has a long history of dealings with General Electric Company involving corrupt deals at the expense of the Indian exchequer. Some examples are again the Dabhol Project and the Air-India aircraft purchase orders from Boeing fitted with General Electric engines. The corruption inherent in what is now known as the Air India scam which has ended up bankrupting and destroying the national air carrier (a matter that of national shame that calls for introspection) has been the subject of a CAG report and involved then Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, appointed to the Manmohan Singh Cabinet as a nominee of Mr Sharad Pawar's party (NCP) and close to Mr Sharad Pawar.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">9. The recent legislative assembly elections in Maharashtra and the failure of the BJP to secure a complete majority and its resultant dependence on either the NCP (Mr Sharad Pawar's party) or the Shiv Sena afforded an opportunity for General Electric Company to again pressurise the BJP led Government of India.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">11. The Petitioner has already raised serious concerns based upon facts and evidence about Mr Suresh Prabhu's suitability for appointment as Rail Minister in her application which will be listed on 1 December 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">12. The Petitioner's concerns that General Electric Company is behind Mr Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister and that Suresh Prabhu has been brought in to cover up corruption by General Electric Company in the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and tenders is further buttressed by an interview given by Mr John Rice, Vice Chairman of General Electric Company to an Indian media outlet on 19 November 2014 which is reproduced below. Through this interview cleverly moulded using pre-set questions with the help of the interviewing journalist, Mr John Rice acknowledges that Suresh Prabhu is amenable to General Electric's position, and Mr John Rice further lobbies for award of the Marhowra Project by stating: "I have been in talks with the government on rail modernization probably for the last 17-18 years. Some of my earliest trips to India involved rail modernization. We are ready, willing and able to go and we are quite hopeful that the new minister will move the tendering process forward."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Nov 19, 2014, 01.08 PM IST | Source: CNBC-TV18 New gas price at low end of expectation: GE On rail modernization, John Rice of GE says he has been in talks with the government for the last 17-18 years. He is hopeful that the new minister will move the tendering process.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Q: Prime Minister Modi has been making the Make in India call. What does it mean for a foreign investor like you if it was for railway modernization, can we expect you to be setting up plants for manufacturing in India and also for other infrastructure projects?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The problem is we are not a separate reporting section within Caterpillar and we don't reveal the business we do with separate customers. In India, we have one customer — Indian Railways — so it would be difficult to share numbers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Which countries provide you business?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Not China?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">We do some business in China, but it is not a large market for us. Several years ago, in 2005, we had a large order to provide 300 locomotives to China…But India is a consistent market for us.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Did this China order incorporate a transfer of technology component (as the Chinese tend to always do)?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">It had some. Some technology we transferred, some we didn't.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Was the transfer of technology agreement with China based on the number of locomotives or the number of years?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Good question, but I don't know the answer to that question. They (EMD) did that part before we (Progress Rail) acquired them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">What is the nature of customers for Progress Rail — primarily state-owned or private owned? Could you give us a break-up?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">North America is primarily private. But if you get outside North America, quite a bit is government-owned. Brazil is privatising rail roads, Australia has privatised rail roads. So, I would say it is more private than government. In India, it is government-owned, and so is the case in some other jurisdictions. But it would be difficult to give specific numbers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">You have the railway systems of so many countries as your customers. Which markets are still seeing good growth in orders in the backdrop of the current overall slowdown?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Even though the market is slowing down, worldwide, people are realising that transporting goods and services by rail is the most economical and environment-friendly way to move. Moving freight by rail is two-to-four times more fuel efficient than moving by truck. And when people move by rail they reduce carbon emissions. So, I would say, on a worldwide basis, people are adding more rail infrastructure and a lot of capacity.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Haven't you seen the incremental capacity addition slowing down in the last five-six years?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Well, it ebbs and flows depending on where you are. Obviously in 2009, everything was depressed. But overall, there is growth in rail movement.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">You discussed rail versus road competition. What about intra-rail – the diesel versus electric debate. With diesel prices going up, how will your customers get more value for money?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Caterpillar is our parent company. We are the largest high-horsepower engine manufacturer in the world. At EMD, we have the best engine technology available to our customers. So, for the customers that burn diesel we are making more fuel efficient engines.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">But one of the big initiatives we are working on with our customers is in the area of liquefied natural gas (LNG). We have demos at the end of this year in North America. Using gas rather than diesel-based engines offers customers substantial savings on current prices in the US now. Also, we are also discovering more and more gas (globally). We are definitely looking at alternative fuel plans.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Are you referring here to the BNSF project (a railroad where Warren Buffett is an investor)?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I won't name any customer. We are working with several customers on gas-based technology.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Indian Railways, too, has been talking about biodiesel- and LNG-based locomotives. Are you currently involved in any discussion in these areas?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Biodiesel, yes. We have told Indian Railways that 5 per cent blend is what we would be perfectly fine with. We are also willing to work with the RDSO (Indian Railway's Research Design and Standards Organisation) on how high we can go with the blend. We are also doing bio-fuel with vegetable oil.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">You are already supplying to Brazil, which does a lot of bio-fuel blending. But we have heard that customers who do bio-diesel blending face warranty issues from loco manufacturers…</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Bio-diesel is hydroscopic; it absorbs a lot of moisture. So, you have to be careful about how much you blend.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">About your business in China. You got the 300 locomotives order in 2005; why hasn't that moved forward?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Well, we worked with China Northern Locomotive and had a 300loco order that we sold them. They were 6000 HP locomotives. There are other opportunities in China that we are evaluating currently. But we see other markets in rail...(and they are) the ones that we are putting our resources in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Is it true that one of the firms you supplied to in China is today competing with you in the Indian Railways' loco tender now?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(With a laugh): You did say that, I did not. All I can say is we are focussing our resources on specific countries that I talked about earlier.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Have you previously executed public private partnership (PPP) contracts of the kind that you are evaluating now in India (the tender floated by the Railways involves setting up a locomotive project at Madhepura in Bihar through a joint venture)?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">PPP is a big word. We have done a lot of deals with governments to provide locomotives and sell them maintenance services. We would not comment about the ongoing tender.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Last time, (in 2008-09), the diesel loco tender got cancelled because EMD did not bid for the project, and Indian Railways was left with just one bidder — GE. You are most likely to be short-listed this time. If short-listed, will you bid?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">We have to pre-qualify. We have submitted the documents to pre-qualify. And other than that, when the request for qualification is in process, we don't comment.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">But your qualification is almost certain. So, if you qualify, will you bid financially?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Our company policy is to not comment when the process is on.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">All I am trying to know is whether you will submit financial bids this time, given the last experience when you pre-qualified but still did not submit a financial bid?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">We are not going to comment on that. We are a publicly traded company.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Verified at New Delhi on this 27th day of November 2014 that the contents of the above affidavit are true and correct to my knowledge and that nothing material has been concealed therefrom.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Petitioner's affidavit to supplement Petitioner's application (filing no. 234826/2014) on the issue of Mr Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister under influence from General Electric Company</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">27 November 2014 Seema Sapra</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Rendered homeless since May 30, 2012 as a result of corruption complaints against General Electric and as a result of this whistleblower corruption petition (W.P. (C) 1280/ 2012) and presently homeless</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Note: All 17 respondents have been served with an advance copy of this affidavit by email dated 27 November 2014</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> In the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi at New Delhi</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">An Application under Section 151, Civil Procedure Code seeking directions that the Government of India through the PMO (respondent 5 herein) ascertain and declare the conflict of interest if any regarding Suresh Prabhu and this writ petition and/ or the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and tenders; any dealings (financial or otherwise) between Suresh Prabhu, his son or their companies and General Electric Company and/or its affiliates; and declare whether Mr Suresh Prabhu has been made aware of this writ petition and of the full evidence of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and illegal lobbying concerning the tenders for the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects; and directions to Advocate Om Prakash to disclose who instructed him to oppose the Petitioner's representations to the President and Prime Minister against Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister; and for issuance of notice of criminal contempt to Advocate Om Prakash for obstruction of court proceedings on 20 November 2014 when he prevented the petitioner from addressing the court by shouting at her and by shouting her down with the specific intent to prevent her from addressing the court and to prevent her from responding to his invalid objections</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">1. This is an application placing on record the concerns of the Petitioner-whistle-blower regarding developments in the Railway Ministry, Respondent 4 herein, which have an impact on how the Government of India deals with the complaints of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and illegal lobbying that are before this Court in connection with the Projects and tenders for the proposed diesel locomotive factory at Marhowra and the proposed electric locomotive factory in Madhepura.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">2. The new NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed office after the General Elections in May 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed Mr Sadanand Gowda as the Railway Minister in May 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">4. On 9 November 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi suddenly replaced Mr Sadanand Gowda with Mr Suresh Prabhu as the Railway Minister.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">5. Since this petition was filed in February 2012 drawing attention to the biggest corruption scandal in the Railway Ministry to date involving public revenue to the tune of almost 20 Billion USD, the Railway Ministry has seen several rail ministers including Ms Mamata Bannerjee, Mr Dinesh Trivedi, Mr Pawan Bansal, Mr Kharge, Mr Sadanand Gowda, and now Mr Suresh Prabhu. Even former PM Mamohan Singh held charge of this Ministry for a short time. Out of this list, at least 2 rail ministers (Pavan Bansal and Sadanand Gowda) overseeing these projects have been subjected to phone taps. Both Pavan Bansal and Sadanand Gowda have faced criminal investigations involving close family members during their tenure as Rail Ministers. The Rail Minister is required to approve the award of the Marhowra and Madhepura Projects.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">6. It must be reiterated that General Electric Company is capable of influencing political leaders and of targeting Rail Ministers and Railway Board members in order to prevent them from discharging their official duties in connection with the complaints of corruption against General Electric.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">7. PM Narendra Modi met the CEO of General Electric Company (Jeffrey Immelt) during his September 2014 visit to the United States.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">8. In September 2014, the Financial Commissioner of the Railway Board had written to then Rail Minister Sadanand Gowda complaining about the corruption in the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and recommending that the 2013 tenders for these Projects should also be scrapped as these constitute debt traps for the Indian Railways. According to the Railway Board Financial Commissioner there was no necessity for the Railways to enter into such long term binding purchase orders with assured offtake for electric and diesel locomotives in such large numbers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Ajmer Singh, ET Bureau Oct 18, 2014, 04.00AM IST</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">NEW DELHI: The financial commissioner of the Indian Railways has been removed a month after she came up with projections that the state-owned transport behemoth could be headed for an 'irreversible debt trap' if it went ahead with plans to set up new rolling stock manufacturing units. The official, Rashmi Kapoor, was removed on October 14 and replaced by Rajalakshmi Ravi Kumar.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The change took place when Kapoor, who was also holding post of Additional Member (Finance) in the Railway Board, was in Japan on an official trip. On September 5, Kapoor had sent a note to Railway Board chairman Arunendra Kumar, cautioning against setting up new rolling stock manufacturing units under Assured Offtake Agreements (AOT) on the ground that this would result in a financial commitment of Rs 1.65 lakh crore, which would plunge the Railways into a debt trap.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The September 5 letter was marked to the Railway minister. Kumar confirmed that the finance department had reservations about the wisdom of the locomotive manufacturing plans, but said the Railways would go ahead.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"In 2009 the finance department said yes, and in 2014 it says no, that is not acceptable. I must tell you that due diligence has been done, there is no question of debt trap. We are getting the best technology, these are high technology locomotives which our factories can't make. The locomotives are instant revenue earners, tracks won't give you money," Kumar told ET. An official from the finance department said its analysis indicated huge outflows on account of interest payments.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"We sensitised the new regime in July-August, and in September, recorded our objections on the files that there is no requirement of additional locomotives. And that the proposals to set up rolling stock manufacturing units under Assured Off-Take (AOT) agreements through PPP mode should be dropped."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">If financial commitments are affected, the annual lease charge serving liability of Indian Railways (IR) towards Indian Railways Finance Corporation (IRFC), from whom loans shall be raised, would exceed the annual borrowing," a senior Railway officer told ET on condition of anonymity.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"We had apprised the previous Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge also, but nothing happened. And now we decided, this is a national waste and can't be allowed," he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Further, locomotives and wagons, if needed, can be sourced from units belonging to the Railways. Besides, Dedicated Freight Corridors, once made operational, would permit high-speed freight trains, thereby reducing the additional rolling stock requirement, so there is a need to decongest the tracks, the finance department reportedly advised.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">However, the officials of Mechanical and Electrical wings of the Raiways, insists that the figures projected by the finance wing are theoretical and not applicable to field situations. They insist there is a requirement of additional wagons and locomotives, and commitments made in Parliament to set up these units must be honoured.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"We are short by 500-600 locos and we can't invest in inefficient loco units, where saturation has already reached. Also money generated through these new locos will be high. The two units at Madhepura and Marhowra would manufacture 1800 locos, these are revenue earners. The Cabinet has approved the financial bid document for these two projects. Under the AOT agreements, we have rigid performance parameters. And for 6000 HP and 12000 HP locos, the technology being offered is far superior, which our units at Chitaranjan and Varanasi can't manufacture," Kumar said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The two units proposed to be set up under AOT agreement are ELF Madhepura (for electric locomotive) and DLF Marhowra (HP Diesel Locomotives). In all, 15 rolling stock units are proposed to be set up under AOT agreements, through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode. According to official figures, in 2013-14, Railways borrowings were at Rs 11,790 crore, whereas lease charges (debt servicing) stood at Rs 13,180 crore, with a negative cash flow of Rs 1,390 crore.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"The total financial commitment between 2018- and 2029 is estimated to be Rs 1.65 lakh crore. These are all green field projects and railways shall have to pay for them by borrowing from IRFC. And if AOT commitments are affected, then average annual borrowing from IRFC would peak to Rs 38,000crore. Railways is not generating enough to pay service charges, which include dividend charges to government of India and lease charges to IRFC," disclosed a senior railway official, who has direct knowledge of the ongoing controversy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">9. News reports were subsequently published that Mr Sadanand Gowda was not inclined to proceed with the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">10. Therefore when Mr Sadanand Gowda was suddenly replaced on ( November 2014 by Mr Suresh Prabhu as Railway Minister, the Petitioner decided to look into Mr Suresh Prabhu's background.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">11. Based upon her research into Mr Suresh Prabhu's background, the Petitioner emailed her concerns about Mr Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister to the President of India and to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 17 November 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">12. These two emails of the Petitioner dated 17 November 2014 and titled "Suresh Prabhu's benami companies - further representation to PM Narendra Modi about unsuitability of Suresh Prabhu as Rail Minister from Seema Sapra, General Electric whistle-blower in WP Civil 1280 of 2012, a corruption whistleblower case (Seema Sapra v General Electric Company and Ors.)" totalling 23 pages have been filed by her in this matter on 19 November 2014 and are on the court record.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">13. These emails raise the following concerns about Mr Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">To the President Pranab Mukherjee, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I am concerned that Mr Suresh Prabhu as the new Railway Minister will assist General Electric Company and Montek Singh Ahluwalia in covering up the corruption, bribes, forgery, fraud, and illegal lobbying involved in the Projects and tenders for the diesel locomotive factory at Marhowra and the electric locomotive factory at Madhepura, which complaints are subjudice before the Delhi High Court in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 (Seema Sapra v General Electric Company & Others). The PMO, the Railway Ministry, the CVC, the CBI and the Delhi Police Commissioner are the State respondents who have all been issued notice by the Delhi High Court in this matter. General Electric Company, Bombardier, Siemens, Alstom, EMD (a Caterpillar subsidiary) and BHEL are all respondents in this matter who have been issued notice by the Delhi High Court.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I remind you of some aspects from Mr Suresh Prabhu's past and recent past.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Suresh Prabhu was involved in the multi-crore cobbler scam in Maharahtra in the mid-1990s when he was Chairman of Saraswat Bank.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Suresh Prabhu also played a dubious role in the Enron-GE-Dabhol scam when he was Power Minister in the Vajpayee led NDA government. It appears as if Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Power Minister was to facilitate the cover up of the corrupt dealings in the Dabhol Project.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu benefited from the Adarsh scam as a flat allottee, and with his links to power and politics in Maharashtra, his claim that he was unaware of the illegalities and was a mere "victim" is disingenuous.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I attach a copy of Mr Suresh Prabhu's CV. He claims to be active as an entrepreneur in the area of renewable energy. He is therefore bound to have past and ongoing ties to General Electric Company, one of the biggest corporates in the area of energy and renewable energy.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Suresh Prabhu is pursuing a PhD at the Freie University in Berlin, which is described on the internet as a CIA funded organization.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Suresh P. Prabhu is Chairperson of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, India.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu's son Ameya Prabhu is an entrepreneur and investor in energy portfolios and projects. His CV reads like that of a middleman for energy deals.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu and his son Ameya Prabhu appear to have been jointly working as a lobbying/fixer/facilitator team for corporate interests in the area of renewable energy and water policy and projects in India.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu and his son Ameya Prabhu must disclose their past and present dealings (including financial dealings) with General Electric Company and its affiliates.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Ameya Prabhu's business interests create a clear conflict of interest if Suresh Prabhu handles any energy/ renewable energy related policy/ projects for the Government of India. It is therefore a matter of grave concern that the present government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed Suresh Prabhu as the head of a high-level panel on power revamp — "Advisory Group for Integrated Development of Power, Coal and Renewable Energy."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I have earlier complained of conflict of interest concerns regarding Montek Singh Ahluwalia and his son Pawan Ahluwalia. Mr Suresh Prabhu and his son Ameya Prabhu are in the same boat and Mr Suresh Prabhu's recent appointments to positions in the Government of India raise serious concerns of conflict of interest.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Narendra Modi government came to power after an election campaign run on anti-corruption messaging and promises. That is why the appointment of Mr Suresh Prabhu to government positions and to the Railway Ministry despite his conflict of interest and past background of involvement in corruption and its cover-up is very disappointing. I urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi to correct course and to ensure that there is no cover up of the corruption, bribes, forgery, fraud, and illegal lobbying involved in the Projects and tenders for the diesel locomotive factory at Marhowra and the electric locomotive factory at Madhepura, which complaints are subjudice before the Delhi High Court in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 (Seema Sapra v General Electric Company & Others).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I have included below a brief dossier on Mr Suresh Prabhu and his son Ameya Prabhu.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Amerya Prabhu is the Deputy Managing Director of Greenergy Renewables Private Limited which describes itself as a Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer (IPP) and a Renewable Energy Services Company (RESCO). According to its website, Blue Crane Holdings Pvt. Ltd. (BCH) is the investor in Greenergy Renewables Pvt. Ltd. Ameya Prabhu is the nominee of Blue Crane in Greenergy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Greenergy's website contains the following profile for Ameya Prabhu:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"Mr. Ameya Prabhu - Deputy Managing Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Ameya Prabhu, in his capacity as Deputy Managing Director, is responsible for working closely with the Managing Director to lead the organization towards achievement of its goals. Mr Prabhu is involved extensively in devising a corporate strategy for Greenergy, and in raising funds for the company.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Prabhu is a nominee of Blue Crane Holdings on the Board of Directors of Greenergy Renewables. Blue Crane Holdings is a company focused on emerging business opportunities in the water and clean energy sectors. His areas of expertise include: finance, renewable energy, energy efficiency, power, foreign collaborations and partnerships.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Prabhu was previously a Director with Energy India Corporation and was involved in developing thermal and wind power projects in South Asia. He was involved in formulating a relationship with a leading European utility for co-developing a thermal power plant in Maharashtra, India and in tying up the coal linkage for the project. His earlier experience includes stints at IL&FS marine transport division, Enam Consultants, DSP Merill Lynch and ICICI Bank.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Prabhu holds a Masters in Financial Management from the IE Business School and is a CFA Level II Candidate. He has a B.Sc. in Economics, Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Blue Crane website at http://www.bluecraneholding.com/index01.htm contains no information about its officers or its investors. The only information on this website is some contact information which reads as under:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"Aban House, 3rd floor, Sai Baba Lane</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(Rope Walk Lane), Behind Rhythm House</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Fort, Mumbai 400023 INDIA</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Tel : +91-22-4002 5770</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Fax : +91-22-4002 5778</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Email: info@bluecraneholding.com</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Web : www.bluecraneholding.com"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Ameya Prabhu is also shown as a Director in Essay Infra, and the company's website contains the following profile for Suresh Prabhu:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"Ameya Prabhu, Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">With a Bsc. in Economics, Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick and a Masters in Financial Management from the IE Business School in Madrid, Spain, he is actually positioned as a CFA Level II Candidate.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Previously a Director with Energy India Corporation, Mr. Prabhu was involved in developing thermal and wind power projects in South Asia. He was involved in formulating a relationship with a leading European utility for co-developing a thermal power plant in Maharashtra, India and in tying up the coal linkage for the project. His earlier experience includes stints at IL&FS marine transport division, Enam Consultants, DSP Merill Lynch and ICICI Bank.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr.Prabhu's areas of expertise include: finance, renewable energy, energy efficiency, power, foreign collaborations and partnerships. Currently he is actively working towards promoting closer integration between companies in India, China and Latin America."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Energy India Corporation has no functional website. This is where Ameya Prabhu claims to have worked earlier.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">http://essayinfra.com/ameya_prabhu.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">201, Sumer Kendra,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">P.B. Marg, Worli,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mumbai 400093,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Maharashtra, India.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Tel.: +91 22 - 40963300</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Email: info@essayinfra.com</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Essay Infra's website describes its business areas in the following terms:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">SWIFT business, swiftly.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Essay Infra has evolved its key areas of focus in synch with the India-development theme. With our focus on Solar Energy, Water, Infrastructure, Finance and Trading, Essay Infra is aligned to make most of the immense potential that lies ahead in the region.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">We have designed the interplay between our areas of focus and our global partnerships to embed speed and efficiency as we seek to focus on SWIFT in a swift manner."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Suresh Prabhu also appeared to own a Finance Company at one time.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"AMEYA PRABHU FINANCE LIMITED</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">8</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">AMEYA PRABHU FINANCE LIMITED is a listed company registered on 31/03/1997. The company has an authorized capital of Rs 30,00,000.00 and paid-up capital of Rs 25,00,000.00.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Its registered office is situated at Unit No 1/2 & 3 Mid Townplaza Shivaji Nagarnear Punjab National Bank, Thane, Maharashtra, India-400604.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The status of company in the records of Registrar is strike off which means that it has closed its operations.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Company has currently 0 director and falls under the jurisdiction of Registrar of Company-Mumbai.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">31/03/1997</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Registrar of Company-Mumbai</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">106955</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Indian Non-Government Company</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Authorized Capital</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Rs. 30,00,000.00</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Paid-up Capital</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Rs. 25,00,000.00</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Published: July 2, 2014 01:58 IST | Updated: July 2, 2014 01:58 IST</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu to head panel on power</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The National Democratic Alliance government has appointed the former Cabinet Minister, Suresh Prabhu, as the head of a high-level panel on power revamp — "Advisory Group for Integrated Development of Power, Coal and Renewable Energy."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr. Prabhu will draw on his experience as the initiator of reforms in the power sector during his tenure as Power Minister in the former NDA government when he had piloted the integrated electricity bill and the law for setting up a regulator, something that current Minister Piyush Goyal wants to do in the coal sector, sources said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr. Prabhu will be assisted by three former bureaucrats — Pratyush Sinha, Anil Baijal and Partha Bhattacharya.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The former Central Vigilance Commissioner, Pratyush Sinha, was earlier heading a committee overseeing distribution of Central officers of Andhra Pradesh cadre between the two successor States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in the previous government.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr. Baijal has extensive experience in the public and private sectors. A former Indian Airlines chief and former Union Home Secretary, he has also been associated with DLF, ITC and Bharti Groups post-retirement.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr. Bhattacharya is a former Coal India Limited chief who had piloted the country's largest IPO. He was also instrumental in turning around Bharat Coal that was incurring annual losses of Rs. 600 crore.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/suresh-prabhu-to-head-panel-on-power/article6167646.ece</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">National MAGAZINE | JAN 15, 1997</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Politicians are implicated in the Rs 1,000-crore cobbler scam</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">THE boot may well be on the other foot now. While it was former sheriff Sadruddin Daya of Dawood shoes, Rafique Tejani of Metro Shoes and Kishore Signapurkar of Milano Shoes who were held as the prime accused in the Rs 1,000-crore cobbler scam, fresh investigations have revealed the full-fledged compliance of Maharashtra politicians in the fraud.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Leaders from all three prominent parties—the Congress, the BJP and the Shiv Sena—appear to have been involved in the diabolical siphoning of public funds under the garb of setting up cooperative societies for poor cobblers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">While Congressman Shinde's Chakrayu society flouted rules with impunity, the Sena-BJP's Munde (right) helped by making it easy for Mumbai cooperatives to avail of KVIC subsidies. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">And in the coming weeks, investigators hope to unearth the names of the political beneficiaries of the embezzlement.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Meanwhile, allegations are flying thick and fast. Among the political links being investigated is that of former Maharashtra chief minister, Sharad Pawar. Though there is no direct evidence implicating the Congress leader, investigations have revealed Tejani to be a director of the Rs 500-crore Dynamix Dairy Products Pvt Ltd in which Pawar is believed to have a stake through the holdings of family members. According to sources, the sole milk supplier to Dynamix, the Baramati Milk Cooperative, is controlled by Pawar. Sources hint that a good amount of the money from the shoe scam may have been diverted to Dynamix. However, the Pawar link still remains tenuous.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">What is not tenuous, however, is that it was during Pawar's regime that Congressmen had a field day. It was at this time thistimethat Sushil Kumar Shinde, chief of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC), floated the Chakrayu society which flouted every rule in the book. It dealt in machine-made goods against the mandatory rule of handcrafted leatherwear. So while the project report guaranteed employment to 2,000 cobblers, only about 50 were actually employed. Further, the rules say that 10 per cent of the total funds should be contributed by members of the society; 60 per cent should come from financial institutions and the state government should loan the remaining 30 per cent. However, according to the Accountant General's report, member contribution to the Rs 133-lakh Chakrayu project was just Rs 4.75 lakh. Of this, Rs 4.25 lakh was contributed by 200 members who were shown as "people of repute". Investigations reveal that they included Kripashankar, vice-president, MPCC and Ramdas Phutane, a Congress MLC, among others.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">With the cobblers being too poor to contribute even the token Rs 100 to join cooperatives, it is usually the Mahatma Phule Vikas Mahamandal which pays their membership fee. However, in the case of Chakrayu, the Mahamandal refused to give the funds. In 1992, Shinde, then state finance minister, got the government to sanction Rs 44.5 lakh for the society in three instalments. In a further flouting of rules, Shinde got the Maharashtra State Finance Corporation to sanction Rs 60 lakh.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Once Chakrayu was formed, the cobblers' interests were given a back seat, say sources. Normally, every member of a cooperative society has equal voting rights, but Chakrayu modified the rule—only members with a contribution of Rs 1,000 or more were entitled to vote. This virtually alienated the cobbler members of the society.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Congress involvement has given enough ammunition to the BJP and the Shiv Sena against the previous regime, although both parties cannot deny the involvement of some of their own members. For the moment, however, it is Pawar and his partymen who are being accused of turning a blind eye to the looting of public money. Points out Kirit Somaiya, MLA and Mumbai city president of the BJP: "The previous government cannot be absolved of the responsibility of letting such activity flourish for over 10 years." Nor does that absolve the Shiv Sena-BJP government. The present deputy chief minister, Gopinath Munde, who held the finance portfolio for about three months and presented the '96-'97 budget, is also under the cloud of suspicion. Mrs Maharuk Keravala, a friend of Tejani's wife and a prime suspect in the scam, has alleged that she, along with BJP MLA Sadashiv Lokh-ande and others, approached Munde to help them out. Munde obliged by raising the sales tax exemption limit to Rs 50 lakh and doing away with the need for societies to get a certifi-cation from the Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC). The KVIC had laid down in 1987 that only societies located in villages were entitled to benefits from it. By doing away with the need for certification, Munde made it possible for cooperatives located in Mumbai to enjoy the bene-fits of KVIC subsidies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">As investigations continue, lesser known politicians are also being pulled into the net. Money to prime accused Sadruddin Daya was sanctioned by the chairman of Saraswat Cooperative Bank, Suresh Prabhu, who is now a Shiv Sena MP. Bomb blast accused Abu Azmi of the Samajwadi Party has also been found to have links with the scam-sters. The Economic Offence Wing has identified Shiv Sena legislator Baburao Mane among those who may have been aware of the scam.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The BJP claims it is looking into the involvement of its members. The Sena has not been as categoric. But with the interrogation of the accused revealing names of leading lights in the political firmament, the cobbler scam is likely to have a fallout whose repercussions will be felt by all parties, be it the Congress, the BJP or the Shiv Sena.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">So, in my 5th semester I had to make a project and presentation on 'The Cobbler Scam' and while doing all my online research on this topic I realized there wasn't a wikipedia page dedicated to this scam so I thought I'd post my project on my blog for anyone who'd be interested in knowing more about it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Many of the details are going to shock you and for people who've never even heard about this scam,you might even find it amusing,initially. Most people haven't heard about the Great Indian Cobbler Scam because it happened only in Mumbai and was exposed in 1995 and ever since there have been SEVERAL scams that have been unearthed which were way bigger and significant than this one. Nevertheless, this scam involved a lot of money and many banks and prominent people as well. And we need to be aware of how rampant corruption in India is in every single field. No wonder India can be aptly called 'The land of Scams'.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">So here it is, The Great Indian Cobbler Scam</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> The Cobbler Scam is one of the biggest multi million dollars scam in Indian History, is nicknamed The Great Cobbler Scam. What really happened in this Great Cobbler Scam was that various businessman & politicians had siphoned around $600 million US dollars from a scheme that was floated by the Government of India meant to benefit the poor cobblers of Mumbai. Instead, it went into the pockets of the elites who used this money to built luxury homes for themselves and also brought luxury cars, boats, arts, etc. The money of the scheme was meant to provide low interest loans and tax concessions to the Mumbai's poorest – cobblers who work 16-hours a day for less than $2. Not a single penny reached these cobblers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The modus operandi of the mastermind was to float a cooperative society of cobblers to avail of soft government loans through various schemes. Several bogus societies of cobblers were formed only for the purpose of availing these soft government loans. The main heads Daya of Dawood Shoes, Rafique Tejani of Metro Shoes and Kishore Signapurkar of Milano Shoes created fictitious cooperative societies for cobblers. On behalf of these non existing cooperative societies they availed loans of crores of rupees from different banks. The accused created a fictitious cooperative society of cobblers to take advantage of government loans through various schemes. The banks involved in giving loans were also charge sheeted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The primary accused in the multi-crore shoe scam is Sohin Daya, son of former Sheriff of Mumbai. The people involved in this racket were Saddrudin Daya, former sheriff of Mumbai and owner of Dawood Shoes, Rafique Tejani, owner of Metro Shoes, Kishore Signapurkar, proprietor of Milano Shoes, and Abu Asim Azmi, president of Samajwadi Party's Mumbai unit and partner in Citywalk Shoes. Beside them various officials of banks and financial institutions were also involved in this multi million dollars scam.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Banks whose officials were involved in this scam are: Maharashtra State Finance Corporation, Citibank, Bank of Oman, Dena Bank, Development Credit Bank, Saraswat Co-operative Bank, and Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">This scam cost the Government of India around $600 million US dollars. This was one of the worst scam in India that cheated the poorest people of the society and benefited a lot of rich and elite people. This is one of the reasons why poverty in India is difficult to eliminate. The scam was exposed in 1995.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">MUMBAI, June 1: The unearthing of the Rs 1600-crore cobbler's scam that closed in on bigwigs of the shoe industry was expected, caused as it was by three agencies working towards its exposure.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Officials of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's octroi department had lodged complaints about raw materials being brought into the city on a large scale. These materials had octroi concessions as they were brought in lieu of the cooperative societies. On the basis of the complaints, the police carried out its own investigations, and a diligent officer in the office of the Registrar of Cooperative Societies decided to do a complete survey of registered societies in Mumbai.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Immediately after taking charge in 1995, Sudhir Thakre, the joint registrar of the Cooperative Society for Mumbai division, ordered a survey of the registered societies. "Our officers, especially auditors of each of these societies complained that most of these societies did not exist at the registered addresses furnished to this office," Thakre said in an exclusive interview to Express Newsline, narrating the process of investigation into the big business' way to success through fictitious cobbler societies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Thakre decided to survey all the societies that had been formed. "Normally, since most of the cobblers were poor and illiterate, we did not like to harass them with too much inspection. "This leniency on the registrar's part was misused by the businessmen," he admitted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The BMC, meanwhile, complained to the police about huge consignments of raw materials (used for the purpose of shoe-making) being brought into Mumbai. Worth around two crores, these materials obtained octroi concessions. The police started making their own investigations, and both the agencies got suspicious when "all the cobblers' societies were found missing."A clearer picture emerged by January 1996 when flying squads with the registrar were given specific orders to follow a society to its very last. A report on prima facie evidence was made for the police by March 1996.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"My boys worked for five months, sometimes without the societies themselves realising it, and by August 1996, we got the complete picture," he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">DCP Sanjay Pandey, who had taken over the Economic Offences Wing then approached him asking for details, since he too was working on the case. "By September 9, a report of 80 to 90 pages was ready for the police. "Till then, we had completed 19 raids and 51 societies were being investigated." The rest, as they say, is history.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•The poor Cobblers of Mumbai are the one who are majorly affected by the Scam as they were not benefited by a single rupee of the Scheme which was meant only for them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•Government of India was also affected by the Scam as the scam cost the Government around 1200 crores Indian rupees.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•The Banks whose officials were involved in the scam like Maharashtra State Finance Corporation, Citibank, Bank of Oman, Dena Bank, Development Credit Bank, Saraswat Co-operative Bank, and Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait, spoiled their reputation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•Politicians, bureaucrats and top shoe manufacturers in Maharashtra were also affected as the Shoes manufacturers have to shut their shoe outlets and their business was lost.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Politicians Implicated in the Scam</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The boot may well be on the other foot now. While it was former sheriff Sadruddin Daya of Dawood shoes, Rafique Tejani of Metro Shoes and Kishore Signapurkar of Milano Shoes who were held as the prime accused in the Rs 1,000-crore cobbler scam, fresh investigations have revealed the full-fledged compliance of Maharashtra politicians in the fraud.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Leaders from all three prominent parties the Congress, the BJP and the Shiv Sena appear to have been involved in the diabolical siphoning of public funds under the garb of setting up cooperative societies for poor cobblers. Meanwhile, allegations are flying thick and fast. Among the political links being investigated is that of former Maharashtra chief minister, Sharad Pawar. Though there is no direct evidence implicating the Congress leader, investigations have revealed Tejani to be a director of the Rs500-crore Dynamix Dairy Products Pvt Ltd in which Pawar is believed to have a stake through the holdings of family members. According to sources, the sole milk supplier to Dynamix, the Baramati Milk Cooperative, is controlled by Pawar. Sources hint that a good amount of themoney from the shoe scam may have been diverted to Dynamix. However, the Pawar link still remains tenuous. What is not tenuous, however, is that it was during Pawar's regime that Congressmen had a field day. It was at this time that Sushil Kumar Shinde, chief of the Maharashtra Pradesh CongressCommittee (MPCC), floated the Chakrayu society which flouted every rule in the book. It dealt in machine-made goods against the mandatory rule of handcrafted leatherwear. So while the project report guaranteed employment to 2,000 cobblers, only about 50 were actually employed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Further, the rules say that 10 per cent of the total funds should be contributed by members of the society; 60 per cent should come from financial institutions and the state government should loan the remaining 30 per cent. However, according to the Accountant General's report, member contribution to the Rs 133-lakh Chakrayu project was just Rs 4.75 lakh. Of this, Rs 4.25 lakh was contributed by 200 members who were shown as "people of repute". Investigations reveal that they included Kripashankar, vice-president, MPCC and Ramdas Phutane, a Congress MLC,among others.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">With the cobblers being too poor to contribute even the token Rs 100 to join cooperatives, it is usually the Mahatma Phule Vikas Mahamandal which pays their membership fee. However, in the case of Chakrayu, the Mahamandal refused to give the funds. In 1992, Shinde, then state finance minister, got the government to sanction Rs 44.5 lakh for the society in three instalments. In a further flouting of rules, Shinde got the Maharashtra State Finance Corporation to sanction Rs 60 lakh. Once Chakrayu was formed, the cobblers' interests were given a back seat, say sources. Normally, every member of a cooperative society has equal voting rights, but Chakrayu modified the rule only members with a contribution of Rs 1,000 or more were entitled to vote. This virtually alienated the cobbler members of the society. The Congress involvement has given enough ammunition to the BJP and the Shiv Sena against the previous regime, although both parties cannot deny the involvement of some of their own members.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">For the moment, however, it is Pawar and his party men who are being accused of turning a blind eye to the looting of public money. Points out Kirit Somaiya, MLA and Mumbai city president of the BJP: "The previous government cannot be absolved of the responsibility of letting such activity flourish for over 10 years." Nor does that absolve the Shiv Sena-BJP government. The present deputy chief minister, Gopinath Munde, who held the finance portfolio for about three months and presented the '96-'97 budget, is also under the cloud of suspicion. Mrs.Maharuk Keravala, a friend of Tejani's wife and a prime suspect in the scam, has alleged that she, along with BJP MLA Sadashiv Lokh-ande and others, approached Munde to help them out. Munde obliged by raising the sales tax exemption limit to Rs 50 lakh and doing away with the need for societies to get a certification from the Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC).The KVIC had laid down in 1987 that only societies located in villages were entitled to benefits from it. By doing away with the need for certification, Munde made it possible for cooperatives located in Mumbai to enjoy the benefits of KVIC subsidies. As investigations continue, lesser known politicians are also being pulled into the net. Money to prime accused Sadruddin Daya was sanctioned by the chairman of Saraswat Cooperative Bank, Suresh Prabhu, who is now a Shiv Sena MP. Bomb blast accused Abu Azmi of the Samajwadi Party has also been found to have links with the scam-sters. The Economic Offence Wing has identified Shiv Sena legislator Baburao Mane among those who may have been aware of the scam. The BJP claims it is looking into the involvement of its members. The Sena has not been as categoric.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">But with the interrogation of the accused revealing names of leading lights in the political firmament, the cobbler scam is likely to have a fallout whose repercussions will be felt by all parties, be it the Congress, the BJP or the Shiv Sena.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">What treatment was given at the end of the scam?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•Based on the complaints of BMC, the police started investigations. The banks whose officials were involved in this scam are : Maharashtra State Finance Corporation, Citibank, Bank of Oman, Dena Bank, Development Credit Bank, Saraswat Co-operative Bank, and Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait were charge sheeted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">• Officials of Bank of Baroda, Saraswati Co-operative Bank and the Bombay Mercentile Co-operative Bank are also facing charges for fraudulent manipulation of government funds.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">• After the inquiry, Dawood, Metro, Milano, Citywalk and a host of other shoe shops were sealed. They opened only after a long battle.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">• At present, the shoe scam is in queue of cases waiting to be taken up by the court of the 19th additional chief metropolitan magistrate. All the accused are out on bail.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•Files on the multiple cases of the shoe scam are gathering dust on court shelves.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•The case is still waiting for a trial .</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai police filed seven charge-sheets against 28 accused in the Rs 1,600-crore cobbler scam at the 37th metropolitan court.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•Apart from Sadruddin Daya, the prime accused in the scam and former sheriff of Mumbai, his wife Shauheen, two international banks and five co-operative banks have also been charge sheeted under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The charge-sheets were filed before the additional chief metropolitan magistrate, Sharad N Chimade.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Surprisingly, Rafique Tejani of Metro Shoes, Kishore Signapurkar of Milano Shoes and Abu Asim Azmi of Citywalk Shoes have not been charge-sheeted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">India is a country riddled with corruption. The Cobbler Scam cost the government $600 million. The irony is that the money was hijacked from a scheme that should have benefited the poor of Mumbai. Instead it went into the pockets of the wealthy elite. The local government in Mumbai set up a scheme to provide low interest loans and tax concessions to the city's poorest – cobblers who work 16-hour days for less than $2. But not a cent ever got through to the cobblers. Instead various businessmen and politicians built luxury homes, bought luxury cars, boats and art. "For India's poor, the Great Cobbler Scam is just confirmation that fifty years after independence, little has changed." said Dominique Schwartz.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Cobbler Scam was extensively covered by the Indian media from 1995-2009 writing in detail about the several elites and politicians involved in the scam and the investigations being carried out. This scam had headlined leading newspapers like The Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, Business Standard, Mid Day and Outlook, the weekly magazine. It was a case that made front page headlines in 1995, managed to stay there for almost two years — before disappearing. Papers like The Indian Express and Hindustan Times continued to cover the Cobbler Scam and how it was handed over to the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in the year 2006 and how even almost a decade later the cobbler scam, which involved 40 politicians, bureaucrats and well-known shoe manufacturers in Mumbai is still waiting for a trial.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Times of India had even put forth the grievances of the people impacted by the scam. Indian Express informed how the shoe scam was exposed by three agencies after the BMC filed a complaint about raw materials being brought into the city on a large scale. The media did an excellent job in extensively covering the Cobbler scam and how another Cobbler scam was barred in 2006 where families had got recovery notices for loans taken by complete strangers. Political implications in the 1,000 crore cobbler scam was also elaborately mentioned in the Indian media.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">However, though the media high lightened all the aspects of the Cobbler Scam, the trial is yet pending in court and the accused out on bail; hence the media pressure on the Government to take quick action against those on the chargesheet was not as strong as it should have been. The investigation files now continue to gather dust while justice has yet not been delivered after more than a decade.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Tuesday, 2 November 2010 - 7:08pm IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: PTI</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Prabhu, a former Shiv Sena MP who is a member of the Adarsh Housing Society, said that he joined the Society as an MP but when the NDA was not in power.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Former Union minister Suresh Prabhu today washed his hands off the Adarsh scam, saying that he never gave any permission for the project during his tenure in the Union cabinet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"I never gave any permissions for this project during my tenure as the environment minister," Prabhu said from Singapore.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Prabhu, a former Shiv Sena MP who is a member of the Adarsh Housing Society, said that he joined the Society as an MP but when the NDA was not in power.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"So, there is no question of me influencing any allotment," he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"I was not the promoter nor the office-bearer of the Society. I borrowed money from a bank and all the documents were verified before granting me loan," he added.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Prabhu said that his application was scrutinised and verified by the Mumbai city collector. "I followed the same procedure which is a normal routine for applying for membership in such societies."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"If any irregularity regarding the land had been brought to my notice, I would never have become a member. If there is indeed any irregularity, I am a victim," he claimed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">14. More information and evidence in connection with the Petitioner's valid concerns regarding Mr Suresh Prabhu's unsuitability for appointment as Rail Minister were also emailed by the Petitioner to the President of India and to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. These are reproduced below:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">To the President Pranab Mukherjee, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I am writing with even more shocking information about the unsuitability of Mr Suresh Prabhu as Rail Minister and for any Government of India position.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Even a basic background search about Mr Suresh Prabhu and his family would have shown many red flags in connection with his suitability for a cabinet ministerial post or any government post.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">An internet search shows that Suresh Prabhu's son Ameya Prabhu and Suresh Prabhu's wife Uma Prabhu are promoter-directors in several companies whose names indicate operations in the business areas of finance, infrastructure, consultancy and energy. Mr Suresh Prabhu is not a business tycoon. Since 1995/1996, he claims to have been in politics. He has been an MP four times. He was a Chartered Accountant. His wife Uma Prabhu is supposed to be a journalist/ writer.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Then why are his son and wife promoters/ directors in the following companies.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">SURVALL GLOBAL PROJECTS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">GREENERGY WIND FARMS PRIVATE LIMITED </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">YELLOW MAPLE FINANCIAL ADVISORS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">INDO-AFRICA RESOURCES PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">INFRA POWER CONSULTING PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">ESSAY INFRA RESOURCES PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">GREENERGY PROJECT DEVELOPMENT COMPANY PRIVATE LIMI TED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">FORESIGHT 2020 PROJECT CONSULTANTS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">BLUE CRANE HOLDINGS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">CLEANTECH RENEWABLE ENERGY PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">ENERGY INDIA CORPORATION LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">GREENERGY RENEWABLES PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">MANAV SADHAN VIKAS SUSTAINABLE FOUNDATION</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">EDUWISE CONSULTANCY PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">DUES BERG BOSSON FINANCIAL SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITE D</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">This confirms that Suresh Prabhu, his wife and son have been involved in some very suspicious business/ financial dealings through these companies. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I also refer to the following statement from Ameya Prabhu's profile as posted on the website of his company Greenergy Renewables.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"He was involved in formulating a relationship with a leading European utility for co-developing a thermal power plant in Maharashtra, India and in tying up the coal linkage for the project".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">This statement shows that Ameya Prabhu basically acted as a middleman/ fixer/broker for this project. He also tied up the coal linkage. Was this part of the coal scam allottments?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The information on Suresh Prabhu's benami companies where his wife/son are directors is reproduced below.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">SURVALL GLOBAL PROJECTS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">7</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">SURVALL GLOBAL PROJECTS PRIVATE LIMITED is a private company registered on 14/03/2011. The company has an authorized capital of Rs 50,00,000.00 and paid-up capital of Rs 1,00,000.00.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Its registered office is situated at 809, Dalamal Towers,nariman Point, Free Press Marg,, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India-400021.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The status of company in the records of Registrar is active which means that it is actively doing all its filing with the Registrar.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Company has currently 2 director and falls under the jurisdiction of Registrar of Company-Mumbai.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">14/03/2011 Registering Authority</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Company limited by shares Company Type</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Indian Non-Government Company</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Rs. 50,00,000.00 Paid-up Capital</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Rs. 1,00,000.00</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Address 809, DALAMAL TOWERS,NARIMAN POINT, FREE PRESS MARG,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">City MUMBAI</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">State Maharashtra</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Pin 400021</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">AMEYA SURESH PRABHU 14/03/2011 Director</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">UMA SURESH PRABHU 21/03/2014 Additional Director</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(00629670) YELLOW MAPLE FINANCIAL ADVISORS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> ESSAY INFRA RESOURCES PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">15. The petitioner would like to present some further evidence on the issue of the unsuitability of Suresh Prabhu for the post of Rail Minister. The relevant news reports are reproduced below. To use an analogy, given his background and involvement in the Adarsh scam, Suresh Prabhu would never have passed the litmus test for consideration to a judicial post. How then could Prime Minister Narendra Modi consider Suresh Prabhu as a fit candidate for a position in his cabinet and that too in the Rail Ministry with the biggest corruption scandal time-bomb (this petition) ticking away?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">As the Kargil for Profit scam grows bigger, there is overwhelming evidence that politicians across political colour and creed bent over backwards in colluding with the scamsters. The finger of suspicion also pointing squarely at Suresh Prabhu, the then Union Minister of Environment and Forests and seems to have mysteriously vanished now. As the Kargil for Profit scam blows up too many instances seem to point to the Prabhu.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">In fact too many for them to be mere coincidences and that is why Prabhu needs to answer and answer now. He has steadfastly refused to speak on record either on camera or on the phone when TIMES NOW finally caught up with him. Asked him about his apartment in Adarsh Housing Society in Mumbai, Prabhu feigned ignorance and pretended to be surprised. Documents with TIMES NOW however prove otherwise, his name clearly present in the list of allottees.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Raising questions, how can Prabhu claim to not know about a flat he owns? Isn't it too much of a coincidence that he cleared the project and also owns a flat in the building? And most importantly, if he has nothing to hide then why has the high profile Prabhu suddenly gone underground? However these are questions that we have been trying to put to the former Union Minister and he has been doggedly avoiding them and it is this reluctance to answer questions that have been putting Prabhu's role in the scam in doubt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu had resigned from the board of agrochemicals company UPL Ltd, days before becoming the Railway Minister in the NDA government.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"Pawar is also believed to have played a significant role in getting Suresh Prabhu, his friend from the Sena on to the NDA bandwagon for a high profile ministry. This is just a page from the rules of Pawar for Indian politics." Writes Rana Ayub at http://www.ndtv.com/article/opinion/pawar-politics-has-a-separate-set-of-rules-620848</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Prabhu had been inducted into the Sena at a time it was suffering from an image crisis. The Sena-BJP had just come to power in Maharashtra in 1995 and Thackeray bahu Smita was running Sena chief minister Manohar Joshi's cabinet by proxy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Sena boss made sure the debutant won his Lok Sabha seat and sent him to Delhi to join the Atal Bihari Vajpayee cabinet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"He was intelligent and made the most of it. Pretending to be a disinterested politician, he projected himself as a scholar and a man of action, making friends in other parties, mainly among the BJP's leaders and young Turks."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Adarsh scam of 2010 dented Prabhu's "clean" image when it became clear he had received an out-of-turn allotment of a 1,076sqft apartment. Sources close to Prabhu said he was hurt that the Sena didn't come to his defence.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"He's a climber. We all knew it was just a matter of time before he joined the BJP," the Sena source said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"Meanwhile, the agency is preparing a SCN of the 27 flat owners who were found ineligible to buy a flat in the society. The SCN will be handed over to state Chief Secretary. "The list of 27 members include flats of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade and former Union Power Minister Suresh Prabhu," said the CBI official. Once the SCN on CBI findings is submitted, the state government can decide on the future course of action, he said. "The state can decide on whether or not to cancel their membership," said a CBI official.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">In another development to the Adarsh scandal, an activist on Friday alleged before the Bombay high court that the CBI had not filed charges against four main scam beneficiaries as accused, including relatives of Ashok Chavan.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Former scribe and activist Ketan Tirodkar filed a rejoinder before the division bench of Justice P.V. Hardas and Justice Anuja Prabhudesai claiming that Bhagwati Sharma and Madan Sharma, mother-in-law and brother-in-law of Mr Chavan; Devyani Khobragade, former Indian diplomat to US and daughter of former general manager of BEST Uttam Khobragade and former Union minister Suresh Prabhu acquired flats in Adarsh by fraudulent means but they were not made the accused in the case.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The two-member panel set up to probe the alleged Adarsh housing society scam was on Friday told by former Union minister Suresh Prabhu, IAS officer Seema Vyas as well Omkar Tiwari, son of former urban development secretary Ramanand Tiwari, that they had not checked the status of the controversial plot before applying for membership.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">While Seema Vyas deposed that her membership application form was filled by her husband Pradeep Vyas, the then collector of Mumbai, and that she took a loan from him to fund the purchase, Prabhu, who was the Union environmental minister representing the Shiv Sena at the time, said: "I did not verify the said clearances and I relied on the statements made to me by the society."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">When asked whether she had checked with her husband since the state revenue department was also under him, Seema Vyas said: "I never had any doubt about the status of the land, and I had discussed the proposal not just with my husband but with many friends and well-wishers. None of them raised any doubt on the status of the land," said Vyas.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"The discussion with my father was on whether I should apply for the membership, and whether I was eligible," he said, and added: "I knew the location of the land, and did not check with my father about its status."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Adarsh scam rocked the state government in late 2010 when a nexus of politicians, bureaucrats and army officials were alleged to have collided to grab apartments in the plush 31-storeyed building at Colaba.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Adarsh scam: How politicians, their kin and officials became members by flouting normsThe commission said they bypassed existing norms to become a member</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Politicians from ruling and opposition parties, bureaucrats and professionals flouted norms to become members in the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society (ACHS).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">A two-member commission, which probed the scam, had observed in its report that of 102 members, 25 were ineligible. It said the procedure followed by the ACHS for proposing names of beneficiaries was arbitrary and lacked transparency, giving scope for nepotism and favouritism. The Maharashtra cabinet, which was forced to review its earlier decision to reject the report, on Thursday decided to serve showcause notices to them through the Mumbai district collector and subsequently cancel their memberships.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The ineligible members include the kin of former Assembly speaker late Babasaheb Kupekar; diplomat Devyani Khobragade (in the news after her arrest in the US in connection with alleged fake visa case); former union power minister Suresh Prabhu; Sanjoy Shankaran, son of Maharashtra's former chief secretary D Shankaran; Ranjit Sangitrao, son of former bureaucrat C S Sangitrao; vice-admiral (retd) Madanjit Singh; Aditya Patil; Archana Tiwari; Dr S B Chavan; Seema Vinod Sharma; Girish Mehta; Dr Sanjay Radkar; Kailash Gidwani, an elder son of ACHS's co-promoter late Kanaiahlal Gidwani; Bhavesh Patel; Abhay Sancheti; Madanlal Sharma; Shivaji Kale; Rupali Raorane; Capt Praveenkumar; Bhagwati Sharma; Sumeela Sethi, Krishnarao Bhegede; Cdr John Mathes; Nivruti Bhosale and Dr Arun Dawle.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Babasaheb Kupekar had applied for membership in ACHS when he was owning a flat at Powai which was given to him under the chief minister's discretionary quota in 2001. Only after the authorities approved his name, Kupekar, in 2008, sought permission of the CM to allow him to sell his Powai flat. He was allowed to transfer the flat to his daughter.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The commission remarked that on the date of application (on August 5, 2005) and also on the date when Kupekar was granted membership (May 12, 2008), he was holding the Powai flat. This fact clearly makes him ineligible.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Khobragade, the daughter of former bureaucrat Uttam Khobragade, has been blamed by the judicial commission for breach of the eligibility condition. On behalf of Devyani, her father in his affidavit filed in February 2011 before the commission, informed that the application form for her membership was filled in and signed by him. Devyani has been allotted flat no 2301 (1076 sq ft in A wing). Her father did not mention the price of the flat in any of his affidavits. Both of them have failed to state the source of money for buying flat. The balance sheet annexed to the income tax return for April 2005 to March 2006 discloses that Devyani is a well-to-do person since she owns agricultural land, flats in New Delhi, Aurangabad, Thane, Pune and huge investments. No loan was obtained by her to buy the flat in the society.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Devyani, in her application dated August 29, 2004, said she was a member of the Meera CHS in Jogeshwari and would resign from the society after a flat was allotted in Adarsh society. The flat in Meera CHS was transferred on September 30, 2008 by Devyani to one Sidharth Basu for Rs 1.90 crore. According to the commission, Devyani's membership, though approved, was illegal.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu, Shiv Sena leader and former union power minister, had been allotted a flat of 1,076 sq ft. The commission observed he was not an A-Group government servant as per the 5th Pay Commission. After 2004, he has been a private person and did not come under "persons other than government servants". Though Prabhu was eligible to become a member of ACHS and his membership had been rightly approved by the state government, he was not entitled for a flat having more than 650 sq ft.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Seema Sharma, wife of Vinod M Sharma (brother-in-law of former CM Ashok Chavan); Madanlal Sharma (brother of Chavan's father-in-law); and late Bhagwati Sharma (mother-in-law of Chavan) got flats illegally. The trio had surrendered their flats after the scam surfaced.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Sanjoy Shankaran, a financial consultant, got a flat measuring 650 sq ft. The commission noted the monthly income of Sanjoy was, at the relevant time, more than Rs 20,000 and, therefore, was ineligible.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Ranjit Sangitrao, who had been allotted 650 sq ft flat, in his application had mentioned his occupation as a small businessman with an income of Rs 15,550. But he did not specify whether the salary was monthly or annual. In supporting affidavit he said it was monthly income.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Ranjit had told the commission he did not own any flat in Mumbai. However, his father C S Sangitrao, a retired bureaucrat, owns a flat in Bandra and his brother Vikram in Andheri. The commission observed that the figure of income showed by Ranjit was false and correct and his actual income exceeded far more than that. Ranjit was not a government servant and fell in the category of beneficiaries who are not government servants. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The maximum permissible limit of income for a beneficiary falling under this category is Rs 20,000 a month, but on his admission, Ranjit's income was more than that. Therefore, he was ineligible and the membership granted to Ranjit was not proper and correct, the commision ruled.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Maharashtra government has rejected the report of the judicial commission of inquiry on the Adarsh scam it tabled in the Legislative Assembly today which indicted several politicians including three former Chief Ministers for "blatant violations" of statutory provisions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The report of the 2-member commission headed by retired high court judge J A Patil came down heavily on those in authority describing the scam as a "bad precedent" which reflected "greed, nepotism and favouritism" by those associated with it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The panel found 25 of the society's 102 members ineligible and 22 cases of benami purchase of flats.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The report said Adarsh society enjoyed political patronage of former Chief Ministers, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Sushil Kumar Shinde and Ashok Chavan, former Revenue Minister Shivajirao Nlengekar Patil, former Minister for Urban Development Sunil Tatkare and former Minister of Urban Development Rajesh Tope.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Ashok Chavan was the only Chief Minister charge sheeted in the scam by the CBI but Governor K Sankaranarayanan had refused sanction to the investigative agency to prosecute him a few days ago.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The beneficiaries included politicians across the spectrum and their relatives.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Those found ineligible for ownership of flats included former Maharashtra Assembly speaker Babasaheb Kupekar of NCP, senior Indian diplomat in US Devyani Khobragade, former Shiv Sena MP Suresh Prabhu and three relatives of former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, who had to step down after the scam surfaced.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said the decision on rejection of the findings of the inquiry commission was taken by the Cabinet "in the interest of the people".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The much awaited report, which was submitted to the state government on April 18 this year was tabled in the House on the last day of the Winter Session today.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"Evidence clearly indicates that it is neither ideal (Adarsh) nor role model but a bad precedent. Adarsh is a saga of ideal co-operation but it is a shameless tale of blatant violations of statutory provisions, rule and regulations," the report said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">It expressed "deep regret" over the "greed, nepotism and favouritism" involved in the scam.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"It reflects greed, nepotism and favouritism on part of people who were in one way or the other associated with Adarsh. It is sad story of unscrupulous greed of some persons closely connected with the society.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"Some persons not satisfied with the allotment of one single flat have tried and succeeded in securing flats for their nears and dear ones. They went to the extent of benami transactions in violation of provisions. That such an episode should take place in Maharashtra is a matter of deep regret," it said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The judicial panel, however, acknowledged the state government's ownership of the land and said it did not belong to Ministry of Defence, defence personnel nor was it reserved for Kargil martyrs or war veterans.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Ashok Chavan, during whose tenure the scam surfaced, was among 13 people who were charge sheeted by CBI in connection with the case.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Chavan had challenged his inclusion in the charge sheet, saying no sanction for prosecution was taken from the Governor which was countered by CBI which argued since he was a former minister at the time of being charge-sheeted, there was no need for sanction.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The court had, however, directed the agency to get sanction for Chavan's prosecution which was denied, apparently leaving CBI with little choice but to close the case against him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">CBI had alleged in its charge sheet that Chavan had increased the floor space index of the controversial Adarsh society in return for flats for his relatives. Chavan had also asked the housing society to take 40 per cent members from civilian category, when it was originally meant only for war veterans, CBI had alleged, adding that Chavan played a key role in the scam.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Chavan's mother-in-law Bhagvati Sharma, sister-in-law Seema Sharma and father-in-law's brother Madanlal Sharma have flats in the society. All of them have been held ineligible by the judicial panel to own flats in the society.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">16. It was both the petitioner's duty and right as a citizen of this country to bring the above facts and concerns about Mr Suresh Prabhu to the attention of the President of India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. And the petitioner takes immense pride in her stand as whistle-blower in this case where she has risked her life for her moral and ethical values and where she refused to participate in or cover up corruption and forgery by General Electric executives. It cannot be emphasized enough that the petitioner, an advocate enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi, also complied with the professional rules of ethics prescribed by the Bar Council of India in refusing to allow her legal services to be used by a client (General Electric) to facilitate the commission of criminal offences, and illegal and unethical acts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">17. Accordingly the petitioner was stunned when during the hearing of this matter on 20 November 2014, when this matter was specifically listed for the Petitioner to make her submissions on the issue of the grave and imminent threat to her life as she is being poisoned, the counsel purporting to represent the Railway Ministry in this matter one Mr Om Prakash launched into an aggressive tirade against the Petitioner. Om Prakash refused to permit the petitioner to address the court, and he shouted down the petitioner whenever she opened her mouth to address the court or to respond to his tirade. Om Prakash's grievance against the petitioner was that she had dared to raise questions and concerns about Mr Suresh Prabhu's suitability for a Ministerial post and his appointment as Railway Minister and according to him the court ought to prevent the petitioner from making such complaints.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">18. Unfortunately on 20 November 2014, Judge Sistani and Judge Pathak did not restrain Om Prakash from attacking the petitioner and from preventing the petitioner to speak. The petitioner had been compelled to make complaints of judicial corruption against Judge Sistani and Judge Pathak and had on 20 November 2014 filed an application seeking recusal by these Judges. Judge Sistani and Judge Pathak permitted Om Prakash to shout at the Petitioner for about one hour.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">19. As a result the following order was passed in this matter on 20 November 2014. The petitioner submits that not only was she not permitted to address the court, but she was not allowed to make her submissions on the threat to her life. Neither was she permitted to make her submissions on her request for recusal by Judges Sistani and Pathak. Judge Sistani and Judge Pathak permitted Om Prakash to make false statements that the petitioner was at fault or responsible for recusal by 26 judges in this matter and then proceeded to record this in the order. The petitioner was only able to request that the Judges record that she was denying the submissions of Om Prakash.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">We may note that Mr.Om Prakash, learned counsel appearing on behalf</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> of Ministry of Railways, has raised a strong objection with regard to</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> circulation of emails by the petitioner concerning the Railway Minister.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Mr.Prakash submits that the platform of the High Court is being used by</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> the petitioner, which is evident upon reading of the first page of the </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> email, which refers to the present petition (W.P.(C)1280/2012), wherein she refers herself to be a whistleblower. Mr.Prakash next submits that</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> the petitioner should be restrained from making such scandalous emails</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> against the persons by referring to the writ petition, which is pending</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> and has become infructuous (which is disputed by Ms.Sapra). Mr.Prakash</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> also submits that as many as twenty six Judges have recused from hearing</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> the Judges have recused not because of her but for valid reasons.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> The submissions made by Mr.Om Prakash, counsel for the</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Ms.Sapra also informs the Court that she has filed an application</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> in the Registry, which is likely to be listed on 24.11.2014, in which she</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> has again requested this Bench to recuse from hearing this matter,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> besides the prayers of Z+ security and for safe housing, as she is a</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">21. As a result of the order dated 20 November 2014, the Petitioner is being compelled to file the present application.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">22. As the petitioner informed the court on 20 November 2014, she has simply as a concerned citizen and as a whistle-blower in this matter made a representation to the President and Prime Minister of India that Mr Suresh Prabhu (with his background of un-investigated allegations and evidence of corruption in the Cobbler scam the Dabhol scam and the Adarsh scam; with his benami companies in the renewable energy, finance and infrastructure space; with the real likelihood that he or his son's companies have had financial or other dealings with General Electric Company and/ or its affiliates; with his role favouring General Electric Company in the Dabhol Power Plant corruption (which incidentally led to his removal from the Vajpayee cabinet's power ministry in 2002); and with existing conflict of interest issues because of his benami companies) is not the appropriate choice for Railway Minister at this juncture when General Electric Company's corrupt dealings in the Madhepura and Marhowra Rail tenders are subjudice, un-investigated and unresolved.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">23. The Petitioner is a whistle-blower and witness in the complaints of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery, FCPA violations, illegal lobbying and tender tampering against General Electric Company in connection with the Projects and tenders for the proposed diesel locomotive factory at Marhowra and the proposed electric locomotive factory at Madhepura. The petitioner has been viciously targeted because of this since 2010. She has been and continues to be poisoned. Her left ankle/ foot has been deliberately destroyed as part of the conspiracy to eliminate her. The petitioner's life continues to be in danger as long as attempts to cover up this corruption continue.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">24. The petitioner's applications and rejoinders before the Court in this matter describe how the Railway Ministry has colluded with General Electric and has filed false and perjurious affidavits in attempts to sabotage this matter and to cover up the corruption complaints against General Electric. These false and evasive affidavits filed on behalf of the Railway Ministry have placed the petitioner's life in greater danger. The Railway Ministry should have stepped forward and acknowledged the Petitioner as a whistle-blower and ensured her protection as a witness-whistleblower. Instead the affidavits filed on behalf of the Rail Ministry have targeted the Petitioner. The Railway Ministry has attempted to mislead the Court. It has attempted to cover up the complaints made by the Petitioner. As such the petitioner has every right to voice her concerns publicly that Suresh Prabhu might have been appointed as Railway Minister under pressure from General Electric Company to further facilitate the cover-up of the petitioner's corruption complaints.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">25. It is revealing and unfortunate that alleged Railway Counsel Om Prakash has not objected to the fact that K R Radhakrishnan is impersonating as the authorised signatory of General Electric in this matter and that he has filed false affidavits and that a massive fraud on the court is being committed. Om Prakash has never objected to the fact that I a witness and a whistleblower am being targeted, am homeless for 2 and a half years and that I have been and am being poisoned. During all hearings, Om Prakash is seen whispering and taking instructions from AZB lawyers (Nanju Ganpathy and Manpreet Lamba) who are purporting to represent General Electric Company.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">26. Om Prakash is not Suresh Prabhu's lawyer and he has no right to object to my complaints of personal corruption against Suresh Prabhu and to my representations to the President and Prime Minister that Suresh Prabhu should not have been appointed Rail Minister and that given his background it is reasonable to be concerned that he might facilitate the cover-up of General Electric corruption.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">27. I am extremely offended by how Om Prakash shouted at me in Court on 20 November 2014 because of my emails about Suresh Prabhu and how the Judges failed to rein him in or to restrain him but permitted him to shout so that I could not speak. Advocate Om Prakash must apologise to me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">28. I do not subscribe to the mai-baap culture that Om Prakash's tirade exhibited. He stated that he had met the Director from the Railway Ministry that morning and he had received instructions to object to my emails about Suresh Prabhu. Om Prakash repeatedly stated that my emails were against the "boss" as if I had committed blasphemy. So what? Can a citizen not question a dubious ministerial appointment?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">29. Or is it that according to Om Prakash and the Director in the Railway Ministry instructing him, only elderly men like Ram Jethmalani and Subramaniam Swamy have the right and the privilege of making representations against corruption and corrupt acts of politicians and government officers in power? Why does Om Prakash have an objection when a woman whistle-blower like me speaks up to power? Do younger women have no right to engage in political discourse and political activity? Exposing corruption is a political act. In fact, the viciousness of the retaliation against me in India is a direct consequence of my gender. It is as if a woman daring to take on powerful persons must be crushed to set an example.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">30. What does the order dated 20 November 2014 mean when it states that Om Prakash submitted that I am using the platform of the High Court? My representation against Suresh Prabhu is linked to my writ petition and to the threat to my life if the ongoing attempts to cover up my corruption complaints continue. I am fully entitled to refer to my pending writ petition in my correspondence addressed to the President and Prime Minister. I am fully entitled to identify myself as a whistleblower in such correspondence. I am fully entitled to link my concerns about Suresh Prabhu to my corruption complaints given that Suresh Prabhu is now Rail Minister and given that his appointment appears to have been influenced by General Electric Company (apparently through Mr Sharad Pawar) and was intended to oust Sadanand Gowda who was considering scrapping the impugned Madhepura and Marhowra Projects. I am fully entitled to link my representation to the writ petition that I have filed. Who is Advocate Om Prakash to object to this? How can the Railway Ministry or some Director in the Railway Ministry who is briefing Om Prakash object to my representation to the President/ Prime Minister against Suresh Prabhu's appointment?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">31. Why is Om Prakash trying to cover up my complaints against Suresh Prabhu in his personal capacity and silence me on this subject? Who is Om Prakash to describe my complaints against Suresh Prabhu as "scandalous"? Does Om Prakash hold a brief for Suresh Prabhu in the latter's personal capacity? He does not.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">32. Om Prakash should be asked to declare who in the Railway Board is giving him instructions. He mentioned a Director level officer. How is a Director level officer instructing Om Prakash in a matter of such importance?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">33. During the Court hearing on 20 November 2014, I told the court that I was not asking the court to pass orders on my complaints against Suresh Prabhu and that I had made these representations to the President and Prime Minister and that I had merely filed a copy of the representation in this matter so that the Court was kept aware of developments in the Railway Ministry regarding this matter. However given Om Prakash's attack on me which appears to be instigated by Suresh Prabhu, I am constrained to file this application and seek relief on this issue.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">34. Om Prakash is also misleading the court that this matter is infructuous. This writ petition has not become infructuous merely because the 2010 Madhepura and Marhowra tenders have been cancelled. Such statements are being made without any hearing and also without reading pending court applications and court pleadings. Arguments on merits in this matter have still to commence before J Sistani and J Pathak. I also point out that complaints of corruption in a tender by a bidder do not get washed away simply by that tender being cancelled. Especially when the corruption pointed out, continues to plague and infect the subsequent retendering process as well. The writ petition includes a prayer for blacklisting GE for corruption. Legal consequences of corruption, fraud and forgery in a tender cannot be avoided by mere cancellation of the tender and by initiation of a fresh tender where the bidder who indulged in the corrupt dealings continues to enjoy the benefits of that corruption. Yet Om Prakash would like the Court to disregard corruption complaints and evidence before it, and ignore prayers for the reliefs of blacklisting, investigation and prosecution. Neither the PMO nor the Rail Ministry have contended on affidavit that the writ petition has become infructuous. This writ petition survives and must be decided on merits even though the 2010 tenders have been cancelled. The cancellation of the 2010 tenders was a direct result of this writ petition and provides further evidence of the corruption complaints in the writ petition. Evidence and averments on the court record establish that the cancellation of the tenders was at the instance of the very persons involved in the corruption, and was nothing but a malafide device to over-reach the court and an attempt to cover up the corruption complaints before the court and an attempt to avoid the due process of law and to avoid the adjudication of the writ petition on merits and the investigation of the corruption complaints and a malafide attempt to permit General Electric to continue to bid for the same Project despite evidence of General Electric's corruption. Om Prakash is fully aware that this matter is not infructuous and he should stop misleading the court and colluding with the lawyers who are claiming to represent General Electric without vakalatnamas. No railway affidavit has stated that this matter is infructuous.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">35. The petitioner once again reproduces the prayers in this writ petition:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">1. Summon the records of Respondent Nos. 2, 4 and 5 on the whistle-blower complaints made by the Petitioner and after examining the records and hearing the Respondents, issue a writ of mandamus to Respondent 4 directing that Respondent 7 be disqualified and Respondent Nos. 1, 6 and 7 be black-listed from the Diesel and Electric Locomotive Tenders (Global RFQ No. 2010/ ME (Proj)/ 4/ Marhoura/RFQ and RFQ No. 2010/ Elect. (Dev0 440/1(1)).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">2. Issue writs of mandamus to Respondent Nos. 2, 4 and 5 directing them to respond to and act upon the said whistle-blower complaints in accordance with law.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">3. Direct that Respondent No. 2 inquire into the commission of criminal offences (including forgery, bribery and public corruption) arising out of the Petitioner's whistle-blower complaints and direct prosecution of GE employees and government officials and public servants found involved and complicit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">4. Enforce and protect the right to life of the Petitioner and direct that the Petitioner be provided full protection and safety and be immediately relocated to a safe house."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">36. Om Prakash's shocking attack on me during the court hearing of 20 November 2014 only serves to lend credence to my complaints and apprehensions regarding Suresh Prabhu and his appointment as Rail Minister.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">37. It is a matter of public interest that the Government of India (through the PMO, respondent 5 herein) ascertain and declare if there is any conflict of interest regarding Suresh Prabhu and the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and tenders? Have Suresh Prabhu, his son or their companies had any dealings (financial or otherwise) with General Electric Company and/or its affiliates? Have Suresh Prabhu's extra-curricular activities at the global level and in the renewable energy policy sphere ever been directly or indirectly funded by General Electric Company and/ or its affiliates? Have Suresh Prabhu's extra-curricular activities at the global level and in the renewable energy policy sphere ever been directly or indirectly funded by the United States government which has also lobbied for the Marhowra and Madheoura Projects on behalf of General Electric Company?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">38. Has Mr Suresh Prabhu been made aware of this writ petition and of the evidence of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and illegal lobbying concerning the tenders for the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects that is on record?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">39. The petitioner points out that one Nihar Ranjan Dash might be the Director in the Railway Ministry instructing Om Prakash. Mr Nihar Ranjan Dash is too junior an officer to deal with this matter. Plus he appears to be part of the electric engineering directorate and not a part of the Railway Board.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">40. It is shocking that Suresh Prabhu misused a junior officer in the rail ministry (Nihar Ranjan Dash) to ask Om Prakash to protest against my representation against Suresh Prabhu. Who is Nihar Ranjan Dash to object to this representation? What legal authority does he have to do this? Such mai-baap culture of corruption and cover-up must end.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">41. Prime Minister Narendra Modi must give serious consideration to my representations about the unsuitability of Suresh Prabhu for a government position. Prime Minister Narendra Modi must also ensure that no one including Suresh Prabhu helps cover up my complaints of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery, FCPA violations and illegal lobbying against General Electric and Montek Singh Ahluwalia in connection with the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and tenders and that these complaints are investigated and prosecuted in accordance with law.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">42. This application is being made in the interest of justice.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">43. This application relies upon the entire court record of Writ Petition Civil 1280/2012 and also on the petitioner's complaints being emailed to authorities including to the Registrar General of the High Court.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">44. Copies of Suresh Prabhu's cv and his wife Uma Prabhu's CV are annexed hereto as Annexure P-1.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">45. It is pointed out that the previous scam-afflicted UPA Government under former PM Dr Manmohan Singh and his close aide Montek Singh Ahluwalia were not only complicit in the corruption that is the subject matter of this petition, but were master-minding the coverup of these complaints and the sabotage of this writ petition and the elimination of the petitioner-whistleblower-witness. Now that the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in power, and given that the election mandate to this government was to act against corruption, it is necessary that Prime Minister Narendra Modi intervene in this matter and personally ensure that the attempted cover-up of these corruption complaints by the Railway Ministry be stopped and that fresh affidavits be filed by the Railway Ministry which are truthful, and responsive and where the Railway Ministry faithfully discharges its obligation o this Court to ascertain the true and complete facts regarding the Petitioner's corruption complaints against General Electric and Montek Singh Ahluwalia.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">46. Advocate Om Prakash was brought into this matter by the previous UPA regime to cover up its own and General Electric's corruption. He has failed to assist the court properly. The new NDA government must remove Om Prakash as counsel for Railway Ministry (respondent 4) in this matter and must appoint a proper counsel who properly assists the court, who is respectful to the petitioner-whstleblower and who gives correct advice to his client and whose agenda is not to facilitate the cover-up of the corruption complaints and the sabotage of this petition. Mr Sanjay Jain ASG is supposed to represent the PMO (respondent 5) and respondent 4 (Railway Ministry) in this matter but for some reason he has failed to appear in this matter on a single date since his appointment. Earlier his predecessor Mr Rajiv Mehra appeared for respondents 4 and 5.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">47. It is important for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to recognise the influence of General Electric Company and the illegal nexus of Indian politicians it harbours. Please see the petitioner's email dated 15 October 2014 below titled</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">From: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:50 PM</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Subject: Some more truths about General Electric corruption in India from General Electric Company whistleblower - Seema Sapra - Writ Petition (Civil) 1280/ 2012 – in the matter of Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company and Others in the Delhi High Court</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Cc: gurmeharsistani@gmail.com, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@gmail.com>, Seema Sapra <seemasapra@hotmail.com></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I have added some content to some more truths about General Electric corruption in India. Meanwhile toxic chemicals have been released into my current accommodation through the day today and this evening. I am being poisoned as part of ongoing attempts to eliminate me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Please read below an interview by former GE India head Scott Bayman in 2007, who it has now emerged was acting as GE India head for 14 years in violation of Indian law. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">This interview and other material in the public domain raises several issues.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Interestingly Scott Bayman fled India when the Income Tax dept started investigating Permanent Establishment rule violations & Tax fraud by GE in India. Read about the Tax fraud by GE in India under Scott Bayman who fled India as a result http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/2014/10/fwd-message-to-prime-minister-narendra.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The corrupt links between GE, DLF, Montek, Sam Pitroda and the Congress Party run long and deep. So GE's Scott Bayman's closest adviser & friend in India was DLFs KP Singh who was simultaneously a fraudster as now established by the SEBI order banning DLF, KP Singh & cronies from the capital markets for IPO related fraud which KP Singh was engaged in contemporaneous to his association with Scott Bayman. See http://firstbiz.firstpost.com/corporate/housewives-of-dlf-how-the-spouse-factor-led-to-sebi-crackdown-104724.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(Note see http://www.vijayvaani.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?aid=3361 "One, have you heard of a Company that makes a financial commitment of Rs 55,000 crore for purchase of 111 aircraft on an equity base of Rs 145 crore and carry-forward losses of Rs 776 crore -- (Indian Airlines loss of Rs 957 crore less Air India profit reserves Rs 181 crs) as on March 31, 2006? ... Two, since loan funds were used to fund purchase of aircraft, was it confirmed that expected revenue and profits would enable timely repayment of debt! If there was indeed such a confirmation, the projections and underlying assumptions should be published to start a public debate.") - These were the AirIndia aircraft purchase orders that GE, Boeing and the US gov extracted from the UPA government.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Also read http://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/7ChDN1veCw60rEYtVhszoL/Air-India8217s-Boeing-buy-forced-CAG.html "Prashant Bhushan, a Supreme Court lawyer, who is pursuing a public interest litigation seeking a court-monitored investigation into the deal, said: "Clearly this needs investigation. Prima facie it's a thoroughly corrupt case as big as the 2G scam, involving huge kickbacks, politicians and bureaucrats. Here is a case where Air India, which was flying below capacity, was forced to buy aircraft, which were probably not required, at an exorbitant rate. We will press for a court -monitored investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India criticizing these AirIndia orders on Boeing and GE can be read at http://saiindia.gov.in/english/home/our_products/audit_report/government_wise/union_audit/recent_reports/union_performance/2011_2012/Civil_%20Performance_Audits/Report_18/chap3.pdf</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">These orders were clearly a result of corrupt dealings where bribes would have been paid by Boeing or GE or both.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Bayman is also proud of the fact that GE " was able to get back almost the entire $115 million it had invested" in the Dabhol project. Ratnagiri Power the rechristened Dabhol power project is still lying in the Doldrums, not operational, losing money, an unfeasible project that was the result of GE corruption involving Manmohan Singh, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, N K P Salve and Sharad Pawar among others. The CIA was involved in getting this deal through as well. The Indian government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi should consider declaring the Dabhol Power Plant as a museum to corruption.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The NDA government with Arun Jaitley as law minister and Soli Sorabjee as Attorney General also failed to protect national interest in the Enron litigation and enabled GE to recover all of its money invested in Dabhol, while Indian government Banks, and PSUs were financially bled. In Maharashtra, former Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati ensured that the States's interest was not protected.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">A law firm eventually renamed AZB Partners emerged as a result of Soli Sorabjee's corrupt dealings with General Electric in Dabhol. This firm was formed by Sorabjee's daughter Zia Mody tying up with Behram Vakil who was already involved in the Dabhol Project (from inception). GE became a marquee client of AZB ensuring large assured revenues. Vahanvati's son Goolamhussein Essaji Vahanvati joined the party at AZB later.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Note the conflict of interest issue here. Soli J Sorabjee was supposed to be safeguarding Indian governmental interests in the Dabhol litigation, while his daughter Zia Mody with Behram Vakil were representing potential buyers of Dabhol (first Tata then BP). These potential buys failed, and instead GE and Bechtel ended up buying the Enron stake in Dabhol at a discount and then selling it to the Government of India at a profit. Sometime during this process GE become a client of Zia Mody & Behram Vakil.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(Note: See http://www.firstpost.com/india/a-g-goolam-vahanvatis-son-in-law-fined-by-uk-regulator-1114503.html which states "The Delhi-based daily Millenium Post on 11 September quoted Dasgupta's three-page letter to the Prime Minister which alleged that Vahanvati had illegally maintained a foreign bank account in the Union Bank of Switzerland at its Singapore branch since 1997. The letter also provided details of the account number, secret code name and number and details of the beneficiary of the foreign bank account that was allegedly in the name of Vahanvati. The MP asked the Prime Minister to enquire and verify the information he had provided". Was this a bribe from GE/ Enron to Mr Vahanvati?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">This firspost reports also states this about Mr Goolam Vahanvati's son in law: "Incidentally, the name of Carrimjee, who is at the centre of this web of four alleged market manipulators, features in a list of holders of accounts in tax havens that was published earlier this year by the International Centre of Investigative Journalists. A search of the database of the Centre shows that Carrimjee operates an offshore company called Fast Tycoon Limited with a banking link in the British Virgin Islands.) Also read http://www.outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?288473</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Chidambaram/ Montek Singh Ahluwalia/ Manmohan Singh / UPA later negotiated a maintenance contract for Dabhol with GE, which has again only enriched GE, while the power plant being unfeasible has floundered. Vahanvati was Solicitor General /Attorney General at this time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">As he prepares to leave the business he set up 14 years ago, GE's India head reflects on his hits and misses and shares his plans to return soon.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">India was nowhere on Scott Bayman's radar screen. Having worked with General Electric for six years in the United States, he had indicated some time in 1993 that he would be game for an overseas stint, hoping to spend some time in Paris, London or Brussels. Instead, Jack Welch sent him to India for three years. Bayman stayed on for 14 years and will be retiring from the company at the end of this month.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"Jack had great instincts," says Bayman, dressed in a red T-shirt and looking relaxed. The bliss of a coming holiday is unmistakable in the body language. We are at San Gimignano at The Imperial in the capital. We had earlier agreed to meet at Daniell's Tavern over some spicy Indian food. But when I called to book a table, I was told the restaurant opened only for dinner. So Bayman settled for Italian fare.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Jack Welch first came to India in the late-1980s at the invitation of Kushal Pal Singh of DLF, who took him to meet Rajiv Gandhi, Sam Pitroda and Montek Singh Ahluwalia. He was impressed with what he saw, especially taken in by the skills of Indians. That is when he decided to invest in India. It was for Bayman to build a business from scratch in a country about which he knew nothing.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Help came from friends like Singh. "He remains my informal advisor, confidante and mentor," says Bayman, sipping a red wine of 1983 vintage. The dozen-odd GE companies operating in the country will end the year with a turnover of $2.8 billion.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Bayman admits that GE's business in India has picked up only in the last three-four years, before which it was stagnating at around $500 million per annum. By 2010, GE hopes its India business to improve to $8 billion - 16 per cent of the projected turnover of $50 billion from the emerging markets.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Be that as it may, I remind Bayman that at least one of his plans for India never took off - to have a bank in the country. Bayman says talks are still going on with the Reserve Bank of India. I leave it at that. On his part, Bayman ranks the failure of GE's joint venture with the Godrej family, Godrej GE Appliances, as his biggest failure in India.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"It was our mistake. While everybody in business knew about GE, the consumers didn't know the GE brand. The cost of building the brand didn't make sense. Our products were not suited for India," Bayman says. As he launches on his lettuce salad, the words of a common friend start ringing in my ears: "He is not a bullshitter and talks straight."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"It was the saddest day of my career," Bayman adds. What must have hurt more is that before coming to India, Bayman was in-charge for worldwide marketing and product management at GE Appliances.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">On the positive side, Bayman can take credit for starting the BPO movement in the country with Genpact (now Gecis) in 1997. "At that time, unemployment in the United States was zero. And we also got savings by starting operations in India," Bayman says, adding: "Had there been a BPO industry in India at that time, we wouldn't have started the company."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">GE subsequently sold 60 per cent in the venture to private equity investors once it realised it wasn't its core business. "It is good we sold to private equity; that way, the company has been able to preserve the GE culture," he says. When I ask him the obvious question, Bayman admits that he did have several offers from Indian businessmen to buy out the BPO outfit.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Bayman's biggest achievement in India, observers say, was to extricate GE from the Dabhol mess. GE had got the contract to supply turbines for Enron's ill-fated Dabhol project and had, therefore, taken a 10 per cent stake in the company. Once Enron imploded, GE's investments were in danger. But Bayman was able to get the money back, though after two years.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"This couldn't have happened in another country, we wouldn't have got a penny back," says Bayman, having moved on to a salami pizza, while I negotiate a baked fillet of fish served with mashed potatoes. GE, he adds, was able to get back almost the entire $115 million it had invested in the project.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Having come out of Dabhol unscathed, Bayman's reputation in the capital's power circles as an expert in government relations grew manifold. "Jack Welch sold India to the world. GE has been a good friend of India in Washington during tough times," he says.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">When I ask him to elaborate, he adds: "After the nuclear tests, we worked to get some sanctions against India lifted. We talked with Senators and Congressmen for the inclusion of India in the nuclear club. I am as much an insider as any expat."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">He lobbied successfully for Boeing to bag the multi-billion order for passenger aircraft from Air-India - GE makes the engines - and was working equally hard to bag the Indian Air Force order for 128 fighter jets for American firms.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Naturally, Indian companies want Bayman on their board. He has already joined the Crompton Greaves board and says he has a few more offers. "I will come to India four to five times every year to attend board meetings and play golf with my friends," he says.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I next draw Bayman's attention to GE CEO Jeff Immelt's recent statement that after GE Plastic's divestment to Sabic, no other business would be sold. Jack Welch had laid down the rule that GE should get out of any business in which it was not number one or number two. So, is "Neutron" Jack's imprint on GE over?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"We are less hung up about number one and number two now," Bayman says, adding: "What matters is that we are in businesses and countries that will provide double digit growth in the long run."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">And India is one of these countries. It is evident that India has left a deep impression on him - his eyes light up whenever he talks about the country and its people. "The sights and smells are boggling," he says, adding: "In contrast, the United States is generic and vanilla." Bayman has been spotted in crowded Delhi markets like Lajpat Nagar selecting curtains for his home.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">When he first came to India, Bayman says he found India to be self-centric. Now, he finds the country more outward looking. "But the core values of family and compassion are still there in the people," he says.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Still, Bayman leaves for the United States next month, where he will alternate between Chicago and Florida. "Go where the sun is: Chicago in summer and Florida in the winters," he lets out his retirement plans.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The ongoing whistleblower corruption against General Electric Company in India (Writ Petition (Civil) 1280/ 2012 – in the matter of Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company and Others) is next listed before the Delhi High Court on 10 November 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The full case record can be found at http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/2014/09/fwd-seema-sapra-general-electric_22.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Also read about how as part of attempted cover up GE is using unauthorised persons to impersonate it in the Delhi High Court in this matter http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/p/unauthorised-and-fraudulent.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Also read about massive tax fraud by General Electric in India - http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/2014/10/fwd-message-to-prime-minister-narendra.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Also read about General Electric's money laundering and how it used an NBCU subsidiary to transfer bribes through an India media company NDTV at http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/p/complaint-of-money-laundering-against.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">It is therefore most respectfully prayed that this Hon'ble Court may be pleased to:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(a) Direct the Government of India through the PMO (respondent 5 herein) to ascertain and declare the conflict of interest if any regarding Suresh Prabhu and this writ petition and/ or the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and tenders; to ascertain and declare any dealings (financial or otherwise) between Suresh Prabhu, his son or their companies and General Electric Company and/or its affiliates; and to ascertain and declare whether Mr Suresh Prabhu has been made aware of this writ petition and of the full evidence of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and illegal lobbying concerning the tenders for the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(b) Direct the Government of India through the PMO (respondent 5 herein) to ensure that Suresh Prabhu as Railway Minister does not act unlawfully in connection with the Marhowra and Madhepura locomotive factory Projects and that no attempt is made to cover up the complaints of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery, FCPA violations, tender manipulation, and illegal lobbying that are pending against General Electric Company in connection with the Projects and tenders for the proposed diesel and electric locomotive factories at Marhowra and Madhepura;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(c) Direct Advocate Om Prakash to disclose who instructed him to oppose the Petitioner's representations to the President and Prime Minister against Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(d) Issue notice of criminal contempt to Advocate Om Prakash for obstruction of court proceedings on 20 November 2014 when he prevented the petitioner from addressing the court by shouting at her and by shouting her down with the specific intent to prevent her from addressing the court and to prevent her from responding to his invalid objections;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(e) Direct the Railway Ministry to replace advocate Om Prakash with a lawyer who will not facilitate the cover-up of the corruption complaints against General Electric and who will not collude withGgeneral Electric Company's alleged lawyers to sabotage this writ petition;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(f) Direct that ASG Sanjay Jain who has been instructed to appear in this matter for respondents 4 and 5 (Railway Ministry and the PMO) start assisting the Hon'ble Court and not skip court hearings;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(g) Pass such other and further orders as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Writ Petition No. 1280 of 2012</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">IN THE MATTER OF:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Seema Sapra …Petitioner</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I, Seema Sapra, daughter of Late Shri A. R. Sapra, aged 43 years, previously resident of G 4, first floor, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi 110014 and rendered homeless on 30 May 2012 (because of and as a result of the whistleblower complaints of corruption, forgery, bribery, fraud and illegal activities made against General Electric, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Planning Commission, Railway Ministry and Ministry of Finance and as a result of the whistleblower corruption petition (W.P. (C ) 1280/ 2012) and because of my complaints of sexual harassment against Mr Soli J Sorabjee and Mr Raian Karanjawala) in contempt of this Hon'ble Court's order dated May 25, 2012 and presently homeless do hereby solemnly affirm and state as under:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">1. I am the Petitioner in the present Petition and am well aware of the facts of the case and am competent to file the present affidavit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">2. I state that the accompanying application under Section 151, Civil Procedure Code seeking directions that the Government of India through the PMO (respondent 5 herein) ascertain and declare the conflict of interest if any regarding Suresh Prabhu and this writ petition and/ or the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and tenders; any dealings (financial or otherwise) between Suresh Prabhu, his son or their companies and General Electric Company and/or its affiliates; and declare whether Mr Suresh Prabhu has been made aware of this writ petition and of the full evidence of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and illegal lobbying concerning the tenders for the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects; and directions to Advocate Om Prakash to disclose who instructed him to oppose the Petitioner's representations to the President and Prime Minister against Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister; and for issuance of notice of criminal contempt to Advocate Om Prakash for obstruction of court proceedings on 20 November 2014 when he prevented the petitioner from addressing the court by shouting at her and by shouting her down with the specific intent to prevent her from addressing the court and to prevent her from responding to his invalid objections; (along with affidavit) has been drafted by me and the facts stated therein are true and correct to my knowledge and nothing material has been concealed there-from and that all annexures to the application are true copies of their respective originals.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Verified at New Delhi on this 26th day of November 2014 that the contents of the above affidavit are true and correct to my knowledge and that nothing material has been concealed therefrom.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">In the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi at New Delhi</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Civil Writ Jurisdiction</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">C.M. Appl. No. of 2014</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Writ Petition No. 1280 of 2012</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">IN THE MATTER OF:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Seema Sapra …Petitioner</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">General Electric Co. and Others ….Respondents</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Urgent Application</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Application under Section 151, Civil Procedure Code seeking directions that the Government of India through the PMO (respondent 5 herein) ascertain and declare the conflict of interest if any regarding Suresh Prabhu and this writ petition and/ or the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and tenders; any dealings (financial or otherwise) between Suresh Prabhu, his son or their companies and General Electric Company and/or its affiliates; and declare whether Mr Suresh Prabhu has been made aware of this writ petition and of the full evidence of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and illegal lobbying concerning the tenders for the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects; and directions to Advocate Om Prakash to disclose who instructed him to oppose the Petitioner's representations to the President and Prime Minister against Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister; and for issuance of notice of criminal contempt to Advocate Om Prakash for obstruction of court proceedings on 20 November 2014 when he prevented the petitioner from addressing the court by shouting at her and by shouting her down with the specific intent to prevent her from addressing the court and to prevent her from responding to his invalid objections; (along with affidavit)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">3-66</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Annexure P-1 – True copies of Suresh Prabhu's cv and his wife Uma Prabhu's CV</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">67-80</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Place: New Delhi Petitioner in Person</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">26 November 2014 Seema Sapra</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Rendered homeless since May 30, 2012 as a result of corruption complaints against General Electric and as a result of this whistleblower corruption petition (W.P. (C) 1280/ 2012) and presently homeless</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">9582716748</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">seema.sapra@gmail.com</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Note: All 17 respondents have been served with an advance copy of this application by email dated 26 November 2014</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">All the prayers are inter-connected and flow from each other. Please list the application before court as it is. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">---------- Forwarded message ----------</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">From: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Date: Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 3:11 PM</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Subject: Suresh Prabhu appointed Rail Minister under influence of General Electric Company to cover up corruption in Marhowra and Madhepura loco Projects & tenders - Seema Sapra, General Electric whistle-blower - WP Civil 1280 of 2012, a corruption whistle-blower petition in the Delhi High Court (Seema Sapra v General Electric Company and Others)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Cc: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@gmail.com>, Seema Sapra <seemasapra@hotmail.com></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">To the President of India the Prime Minister of India, the Rail Minister of India and to ASG Sanjay Jain,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I am writing further to my representations against the recent appointment of Mr Suresh Prabhu as Railway Minister. This appointment has been influenced by General Electric Company using Mr Sharad Pawar as an intermediary with intent to cover up the corruption complaints and evidence against General Electric Company set out in Writ Petition Civil 1280/ 2012 pending before the Delhi High Court since February 2012.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I also point out that despite my status as witness-whistleblower-petitioner and despite the threat to my life, I have no protection and I am being poisoned.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I reproduce below an application and an affidavit filed by me on the issue of Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Railway Minister in WP Civil 1280/ 2012, which were sent to you earlier as well.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I draw your attention to some further facts in connection with Suresh Prabhu's role in facilitating and benefiting from the Adarsh scam.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu was involved in permitting the Adarsh building society to proceed with construction in violation of applicable environmental rules including the CRZ regulations.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu's modus operandi in facilitating this was very similar to Montek Singh Ahluwalia's facilitation of the Dabhol Project where the latter wrote letters which were interpreted as approval of the financial structure of the Dabhol Project including power pricing. Montek Singh Ahluwalia's modus operandi was to later retract and suggest that his letter was not an approval as he was not authorised to grant the approval.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Correspondence with the Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) in 2003 has been used by the Adarsh society promoters and even by the Maharastra State government to argue that environmental clearances including CRZ clearances were obtained from the MoEF in 2003. The MoEF has since denied that it issued any clearance. However, the letters issued by the MoEF which were relied upon as granting clearance which facilitated various Central and State regulatory authorities to assume that someone had granted clearance appear to have involved the hand of Suresh Prabhu.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I reproduce at the end some news reports on the issue of the environmental clearances for Adarsh. Of course, as is usual course in India, a mammoth cover-up of the Adarsh scam has been undertaken shielding many politicians involved. I do point out that such cover-ups are not without cost to the national interest as failure to apply the rule of law even when corruption is exposed contributes to and perpetuates the "sab chalta hai" culture that engenders, breeds and encourages corruption.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">But the questions to ask about Suresh Prabhu and the Adarsh scam are:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">There was some involvement of the MoEF in the Vajpayee Cabinet in facilitating the Adarsh society. Was Suresh Prabhu involved? Suresh Prabhu has stated that he was not Environment Minister in 2003 when the MoEF cleared the Adarsh structure. But there are several citations on the internet recording that Suresh Prabhu was environment minister in 2003. Plus Suresh Prabhu was environment minister in 1998- 1999 when the Adarsh proposal first came to the attention of the MoEF. Did Suresh Prabhu deal with the Adarsh file as environment minister in 1998-1999?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">By Keya Acharya, 5 May 2014</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">With the exception of some select fields, few other issues in India have raised as much passion as the inter-state sharing of river waters. And, stemming partly from this socio-political acrimony together with environmental and economic concerns, India's grandiose National River Linking Project (NRLP), has been on the potboiler ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in 2003 set up a Task Force on inter-linking of rivers, headed by then Environment Minister Suresh Prabhu.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Congress tried to put the blame on the Shiv Sena, as the proposal had first come to the state government when Narayan Rane, who was then with the Sena, was the chief minister in 1999. The party also accused Prabhu of giving the green clearance. Incidentally, Prabhu is a member of the Society and has been allotted a flat in the building.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu was no longer a government employee in 2004 when the Adarsh flat was allotted to him. He claims to have purchased the flat with a bank loan. First it has been established that the allotment to Suresh Prabhu was illegal. He could only have been allotted a flat as a private citizen if his income was less than Rs 20,000. Is it Suresh Prabhu's case that he fell within this category? Further, even if Suresh Prabhu fell within this category, he would have been entitled to a flat only half the size of what he was actually allotted. Why was he allotted a larger flat?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">More importantly, Suresh Prabhu claims that he did not examine the society documents and its legal compliances himself but merely accepted the position of the promoters and blindly obtained a bank loan and paid money to purchase the flat. Are we expected to believe this?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu is a chartered accountant, a former banker and a former Cabinet minister who boasts about his administrative skills and achievements on his bio and website. Are we to believe that with these qualifications, Suresh Prabhu decided to take out a loan and buy a flat without examining the sale papers and the legal status of the property he was buying? Did the bank not insist on a due diligence and on Suresh Prabhu representing that the proposed purchase had been vetted and was legitimate and genuine? Was the bank loan issued against a mortgage of the Adarsh flat? Did the bank not vet the property documents?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Even a common man will not purchase property without assuring himself that the building was authorised? And is Suresh Prabhu saying that being a chartered accountant he decided to purchase property without assuring himself that the construction was authorised and the proposed building had necessary approvals.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu was at some time the environment minister in the Vajpayee Cabinet in 2003. He was environment minister in 1998-1999. He was aware of the CRZ notification. He must have at some time as a minister dealt with a file on the Adarsh building, whether or not he himself approved a clearance. He is a Mumbai resident and would have known that the location of the Adarsh building raised issues of CRZ clearances.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">And we are expected to believe that despite his specialist knowledge, Suresh Prabhu decided to purchase the Adarsh flat with eyes and ears closed and with no due diligence?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu is one of the 32 illegal allottees in the Adarsh building and we are expected to assume that he is innocent and a victim?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu obtained a prized Colaba flat at a nominal undervalued price to which he was not legally entitled along with 31 other illegal allottees and he would have gotten away with it if the scam had not been exposed. And we are expected to believe that he was a victim. Why is it that no ordinary citizens were victimised by the Adarsh Society and allotted flats at nominal prices in Colaba? Why are all the illegal beneficiaries of the Adarsh scam powerful politicians and bureaucrats who were all connected in some manner to those public officials or ministries who/ which facilitated the usurpation of land and the illegal construction?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">How did Suresh Prabhu end up becoming a part of the Adarsh building society in 2004 if he had no connection to the scam or if he was not being rewarded for corrupt services rendered at some point (like in the Dabhol Project corruption cover-up)? Surely there were many potential buyers for such undervalued Colaba flats. Let Suresh Prabhu explain exactly how he got involved with Adarsh?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I am again requesting that Suresh Prabhu be removed from his position as Rail Minister as his background establishes his unsuitability for this or indeed any other government post.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Also please ensure that the corruption complaints and evidence against General Electric Company in connection with the Projects and tenders for the proposed diesel and electric locomotive factories at Marhowra and Madhepura are not covered up as was being done by the UPA government. General Electric Company must be blacklisted and cannot be permitted to participate in the 2013 tenders for these Projects which themselves deserve to be scrapped in public interest.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Please ensure that ASG Sanjay Jain is present for the court hearings for WP Civil 1280/ 2012. ASG Sanjay Jain also needs to ensure that this matter is taken away from the UPA (A S Chandhiok) appointed counsels Sapna Chauhan (for Respondent 5, the PMO) and (Om Prakash) for the Railways (respondent 4) who were both colluding in attempts to cover up the corruption complaints against General Electric Company and their co-conspirators including Montek Singh Ahluwalia and former PM Dr Manmohan Singh. This matter needs to be remarked by ASG Sanjay Jain to the new standing counsels appointed by the new NDA government.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Also since May 2014, no lawyer is appearing in this matter for the CBI. Since 2012, no authorised lawyer is appearing in this matter for the CVC. Both the CBI and CVC are parties and have been issued court notice.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The two-year marathon inquiry conducted by a judicial commission into the Adarsh scam has ended with the Maharashtra government said to have admitted for the first time that the controversial housing society did not have necessary environmental clearances.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The commission set up in January 2011 wrapped up its inquiry into the scam yesterday and is likely to submit its final report to the state government next month, sources in the panel told PTI.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Concluding his arguments, state government counsel A Y Sakhare is understood to have told the commission that the 31-storey plush Adarsh building in south Mumbai was constructed without Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance or nod from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The sources said it is for the first time that the government, which had consistently maintained that no rules were violated in granting permissions to the building, has admitted that the society did not have the required environmental clearance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The state is said to have supported the MoEF's claim that the March 2003 letter by the Urban Development Department to the society was misrepresented as environmental clearance by one of the accused P V Deshmukh, a former deputy secretary in the department.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The MoEF, in response to UDD's letter forwarding the society's proposal for construction, had said that state has a body- Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA)-to look into CRZ clearances. The MoEF's response was allegedly misconstrued by Deshmukh as a clearance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The state government in its final arguments is said to have noted that the society should not have constructed 31 floors as the Development Control Regulations (DCR), 1967, applicable to it, did not permit that. According to the state, the building situated in south Mumbai's upscale Colaba, could have been built only up to 46.5 m and not the present 100.7 m.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">According to the government, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) wrongly applied DCR 1991 which did not have height restrictions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The commission, headed by Justice (retired) J A Patil, has started dictating its findings in chamber and will submit its final report to the government by the end of next month.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Shiv Sena leader and former Union environment minister Suresh Prabhu said he would send a notice to Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society asking it to return the money he paid for a flat in the 31-storey tower. He also denied granting it any environmental clearance. The tower at Colaba was allegedly built in violation of environmental norms and on the promise that houses would be given to Kargil war veterans and widows. However, most of the flats were allotted to bureaucrats, politicians and army and navy commanders.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Congress had accused Prabhu of clearing the project while he was environment minister in the National Democratic Alliance government.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The plot on which the society stands is part of the Coastal Regulation Zone 1, the most eco-sensitive coastal area because it has mangroves and mudflats. In such zones projects costing more than R5 crore require clearance by the Union environment ministry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Prabhu said he is not a promoter or office-bearer of the society. "I got a flat that was part of a quota for MPs and because it was going at a concession. I took a home loan for it and the flat is still on mortgage," he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has denied that it has issued a No Objection Certificate (NOC) on March 11, 2003, to Adarsh Housing Cooperative Society, Mumbai, for construction of a residential building. The Navy has taken strong objection to grant of clearances to the building, citing violation of norms.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The society, with its high profile members, is in the eye of a storm for violating environmental and other norms and misusing the land granted to it. The MoEF issued a statement on Thursday giving the exact text of the letter dated March 11, 2003, which it had issued to P.V. Deshmukh, Deputy Secretary, Urban Development Department, government of Maharashtra.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The letter notes that "the proposed residential complex falls within the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) - II area. This Ministry has already delegated the powers to the State government for undertaking development in Coastal Regulation Zone -II. Accordingly, the proposed construction may be taken up as per the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 1991 (as amended from time to time) and the approved revised Coastal Zone Management Plan of Greater Mumbai."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Citing that the housing society received all necessary clearances and permissions, Adarsh society, in letter, stated that the building plan was approved by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority in stages as per rules. "CRZ [Coastal Regulatory Zone] clearance was obtained from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi vide letter NoF.No.J-17011/46/2002-IA III dated March 11, 2003." It also said that CRZ clearance had nothing to do with the height of the building.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">It claimed that the height of the building (103.4 meters) was approved by the High Rise Committee headed by Retired Chief Justice of Tamil Nadu. "The final Commencement Certificate was issued by the MMRDA on August 04, 2010 and, lastly, Occupation Certificate was also given on September 16, 2010."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The MoEF denied that this letter gave any permission, pointing out that in March 2003, all construction in the CRZ area, which was permissible under the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification and were in consonance with the approved Coastal Zone Management Plan of Mumbai, had to be considered by the Maharashtra State Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA). At that time, the approval authority was meant to be the State government; in the case of Maharashtra, it was the environment department. The society did not make any application to the environment department, it is learnt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Ministry had approved the revised Coastal Zone Management Plan of Mumbai on January 19, 2000. To obtain clearance under the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 1991, the project proponent needs to submit the proposal enclosing the details of construction, classification of Coastal Regulation Zone area in the requisite format to the concerned Coastal Zone Management Authority; in this case this proposal should have been submitted to the MCZMA.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The MCZMA was constituted in January, 2002, in compliance with a Supreme Court order. The statement said clearance under the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification 1991 by the MOEF was in a prescribed format. The clearance letter issued by the Ministry was always addressed to the Member Secretary, MCZMA, and copied to all concerned. The power to issue of Coastal Regulation Zone clearance was withdrawn on April 22, 2003, in respect of projects costing more than Rs. 5 crore.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">MUMBAI: Reiterating its stand on the Adarsh housing society, a former Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) official told a judicial panel that the building has to be demolished as it does not have environmental clearance.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Former MoEF director Bharat Bhushan told a two-member inquiry commission set up by the state government to probe into the scam, that the Adarsh building stands in the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) and hence environmental clearance is mandatory.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"The building has not obtained any clearance from the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA). The MCZMA has not sent any recommnedation to the MoEF regarding clearance to be given to Adarsh," he said.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">He said that when the Adarsh scam broke in October 2010, the MoEF had asked for a report from the secretary of the department of environment who is also the chairperson of the MCZMA.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The report stated that no clearance was obtained or given to the plush 31-storey Adarsh building in South Mumbai.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"The final order of Janury 14, 2011, passed by the MoEF for the building's demolition was based on details sent by the MCZMA chairperson, Maharashtra government, hearing of Adarsh representatives, as well as other documents," he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh loves publicity, more so if it comes free. It would, therefore, have been naïve not to expect him to issue a demolition notice to the Adarsh housing society which he has done now.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Do bask in glory, Mr Ramesh, but please answer a few questions. The first question is: Why this notice to the Adarsh society now? The 31-storey building that you think deserves to be completely demolished for "egregious violation" of environment laws, got the occupation certificate on September 16, 2010. Which means, the construction activities have already been completed for people to move in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Presumably, construction began after the Adarsh society applied for environment clearance from your ministry in 2003. Your ministry wrote back on March 11, 2003 saying the appropriate clearing authority under the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification of 1991 was the state government – rather the Maharashtra State Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">So, your ministry and MCZMA knew about the case way back in March 2003. Why did both of them go to sleep for the next seven years?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">MCZMA has, in its deposition before your ministry, said it had issued notice to the Adarsh society on lack of environment clearance on November 3, 2009. Why did it take six years for it to do so?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The second question, therefore, is: What action do you propose to take against your ministry officials and those of the MCZMA?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The third question pertains to the violation of the CRZ notification of 1991 vis-à-vis section 3(2)(v) of the Environment (Protection) Act of 1986 itself. As your communiqué mentions, this section "provides for 'restriction of areas' in which any industries, operations or process of class of industries, operations or processes shall not be carried out or shall be carried out subject to certain safeguards. Construction of buildings falls with the category of 'process' ".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Find us one more individual, Mr Ramesh, who agrees with this interpretation of "process". Why is the language so vague and prone to misinterpretation? Is this deliberate or do you expect us to believe that the literacy level of your officials is so poor? No wonder the Adarsh society is protesting, arguing that it didn't violate any the law as this section deals with industries, not housing societies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Adarsh society is also right in questioning the locus standi of MoEF, citing the ministry's March 11, 2003 letter, which said the state government was the clearing authority. To which, your communiqué mentions that your ministry has clarified that the CRZ notification was amended on April 22, 2003 (a month later) withdrawing that power from the state government because of "misutilisation" of power. But you are silent on whether this amendment was communicated to the Adarsh society at that time and what action was taken to ensure that the amendment was followed by other applicants.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Adarsh society is a fait accompli, Mr Ramesh, just as many other big-ticket projects that your ministry first cleared and then issued notices about violations of law when public outcry reached unmanageable levels - Lavasa project in Pune, Vedanta's smelting and refinery plants in Orissa, Jindals' thermal plants in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, Lafarge's mining in Meghalaya and so on. It would be naive again to expect that the Adarsh society would actually be demolished.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Get your act together, Mr Ramesh, and get right the vaguely worded laws, notifications and regulations and ask your men to act proactive, not reactive to public outcry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">- See more at: http://www.governancenow.com/news/regular-story/adopt-adarsh-policies-mr-ramesh-ad-hoc-ones-will-not-do#sthash.k3CdUkan.dpuf</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">New Delhi: Adding a new twist to the controversy surrounding Adarsh Housing Cooperative Society, the Colaba highrise in which a clutch of powerful politicians, bureaucrats and former Army chiefs have cornered flats, the Union ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) on Tuesday indicated that it has no records of the building obtaining the necessary environmental clearances. TOI had reported on October 26 how Adarsh Society had appropriated defence land in the name of building houses for war veterans and war widows, and indulged in a host of other violations along the way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Based on TOI reports, the MoEF on Tuesday issued a notice to the Maharashtra environment secretary, asking her to examine the project, clearances obtained and the action taken against the violations. The notice says there is a violation of the CRZ (Coastal Regulation Zone) rules and the EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) rules as well. When contacted, Union minister for environment & forests Jairam Ramesh confirmed that his ministry had written to the state government to find out if the building had obtained necessary clearances. The ministry has sought a reply by Monday.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> A day after the TOI report, when the state environment department conducted its own preliminary probe, it found that the urban development department and MMRDA had approved the proposal in blatant violation of CRZ rules in collaboration with the BMC. Although environment secretary Valsa Nair Singh refused to comment, a senior official on Tuesday confirmed that all the rules, particularly under CRZ, were completely ignored. (According to CRZ rules, any project of Rs 5 crore and above has to be approved by the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority and later by the ministry of environment & forests.) "We examined all the applications submitted to MCZMA. We were stunned to find that while the project was within the CRZ area, the society never submitted an application for approval,'' the official said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> MCZMA and MoEF were both in the dark on the first phase of Adarsh. However, the state environment department stepped in in 2007 when local residents lodged a complaint, saying there were blatant violations in Phase Two of the project. "We had issued a show cause notice to the promoters of the society and asked them to submit the approvals granted to them by MCZMA and MoEF. They failed to produce the documents — instead, they showed us the correspondence between MoEF and the urban development department,'' the official said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Vice-Admiral Sanjeev Bhasin, the flag officer commanding-In-chief of the Mumbai-based Western Naval Command, in his letter to the headquarters in July, had pointed out that under CRZ rules, the height of the building had to be restricted to 30 metres. The current height of the building is evidently 100 metres or more, with 31 floors and 124 flats.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Admiral Bhasin also quoted from a letter that the principal secretary, urban development department of Maharashtra, had written on August 19, 1999, seeking an NOC for the complex since it falls under the CRZ-1 plan. The letter, which was forwarded to naval headquarters, said the members of the society were officers who had "dedicated their lives to service of the Motherland and deserved all special consideration''. It added that several members were even today fighting at Kargil and in surrounding areas. Records show that none of the senior defence officers who own flats there fought in the Kargil conflict.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mumbai: Chief minister Ashokrao Chavan on Tuesday said that he has sought information on the row over the allotment of a prime piece of land to the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society in south Mumbai. "I have carefully read the report in the Times of India and I am seized of the matter. I have asked the concerned departments to submit a comprehensive report on the allegations. Once the information is received, we will decide on the course of action. So far, no decision has been taken,'' Chavan told TOI.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Meanwhile, Mumbai collector Chandrashekhar Oke has submitted a preliminary report to the revenue department on the controversy over the allotment of the land to the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society in 2004. The report also deals with ownership of the land.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Though Oke refused to comment on his report, a senior Mantralaya official confirmed that the land allotted to the cooperative housing society belonged to the revenue department. TNN AMONG THE ALLOTTEES</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">1. I, Seema Sapra, daughter of Late Shri A. R. Sapra, aged 43 years, previously resident of G 4, first floor, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi 110014 and rendered homeless on 30 May 2012 (because of and as a result of the whistleblower complaints of corruption, forgery, bribery, fraud and illegal activities made against General Electric, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Planning Commission, Railway Ministry and Ministry of Finance and as a result of the whistleblower corruption petition (W.P. (C ) 1280/ 2012) and because of my complaints of sexual harassment against Mr Soli J Sorabjee and Mr Raian Karanjawala) in contempt of this Hon'ble Court's order dated May 25, 2012 and presently homeless do hereby solemnly affirm and state as under.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">2. I am the Petitioner in the present Petition and am well aware of the facts of the case and am competent to file the present affidavit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">3. This affidavit is being filed to supplement the Petitioner's application (filing diary no. 234826/ 2014) on the issue of Mr Suresh Prabhu's dubious appointment as Rail Minister under influence from General Electric Company in this writ petition which is coming up for hearing before Court for the first time on 1 December 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">4. In this application the Petitioner has stated that on 9 November 2014, Mr Sadanand Gowda who was opposed to the Madhepura and Marhowra proposed locomotive factory Projects and tenders because these Projects and tenders were tainted with corrupt dealings was unceremoniously replaced as Railway Minister with Mr Suresh Prabhu by Prime Minister Narendra Modi under pressure from General Electric Company, respondent 1 in this whistleblower corruption case.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(a) Direct the Government of India through the PMO (respondent 5 herein) to ascertain and declare the conflict of interest if any regarding Suresh Prabhu and this writ petition and/ or the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and tenders; to ascertain and declare any dealings (financial or otherwise) between Suresh Prabhu, his son or their companies and General Electric Company and/or its affiliates; and to ascertain and declare whether Mr Suresh Prabhu has been made aware of this writ petition and of the full evidence of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and illegal lobbying concerning the tenders for the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(b) Direct the Government of India through the PMO (respondent 5 herein) to ensure that Suresh Prabhu as Railway Minister does not act unlawfully in connection with the Marhowra and Madhepura locomotive factory Projects and that no attempt is made to cover up the complaints of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery, FCPA violations, tender manipulation, and illegal lobbying that are pending against General Electric Company in connection with the Projects and tenders for the proposed diesel and electric locomotive factories at Marhowra and Madhepura;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(c) Direct Advocate Om Prakash to disclose who instructed him to oppose the Petitioner's representations to the President and Prime Minister against Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(d) Issue notice of criminal contempt to Advocate Om Prakash for obstruction of court proceedings on 20 November 2014 when he prevented the petitioner from addressing the court by shouting at her and by shouting her down with the specific intent to prevent her from addressing the court and to prevent her from responding to his invalid objections;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(e) Direct the Railway Ministry to replace advocate Om Prakash with a lawyer who will not facilitate the cover-up of the corruption complaints against General Electric and who will not collude with General Electric Company's alleged lawyers to sabotage this writ petition;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(f) Direct that ASG Sanjay Jain who has been instructed to appear in this matter for respondents 4 and 5 (Railway Ministry and the PMO) start assisting the Hon'ble Court and not skip court hearings;</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">6. Mr Suresh Prabhu has a history of covering up General Electric corruption and protecting General Electric interests while foregoing legitimate interests and rights of the Government of India which he exhibited while he was Power Minister in the Vajpayee Cabinet and dealing with the Enron-GE-Bechtel consortium's Dabhol Project.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">7. Mr Suresh Prabhu was rewarded for protecting General Electric Company's interests and for covering up the corruption in the Dabhol Project and subsequently became an entrepreneur cum self-professed policy-czar in the power, renewable energy, water, and infrastructure space. General Electric Company is one of the largest companies in these spaces especially in the area of renewable energy and it helped Suresh Prabhu set up as an entrepreneur and self-professed policy expert.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">8. Mr Sharad Pawar also has a long history of dealings with General Electric Company involving corrupt deals at the expense of the Indian exchequer. Some examples are again the Dabhol Project and the Air-India aircraft purchase orders from Boeing fitted with General Electric engines. The corruption inherent in what is now known as the Air India scam which has ended up bankrupting and destroying the national air carrier (a matter that of national shame that calls for introspection) has been the subject of a CAG report and involved then Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, appointed to the Manmohan Singh Cabinet as a nominee of Mr Sharad Pawar's party (NCP) and close to Mr Sharad Pawar.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">9. The recent legislative assembly elections in Maharashtra and the failure of the BJP to secure a complete majority and its resultant dependence on either the NCP (Mr Sharad Pawar's party) or the Shiv Sena afforded an opportunity for General Electric Company to again pressurise the BJP led Government of India.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">10. As part of the machinations involving government formation in Maharashtra, General Electric Company used Mr Sharad Pawar to pressurise Prime Minister Modi to induct Suresh Prabhu into his Cabinet as Rail Minister.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">11. The Petitioner has already raised serious concerns based upon facts and evidence about Mr Suresh Prabhu's suitability for appointment as Rail Minister in her application which will be listed on 1 December 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">12. The Petitioner's concerns that General Electric Company is behind Mr Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister and that Suresh Prabhu has been brought in to cover up corruption by General Electric Company in the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and tenders is further buttressed by an interview given by Mr John Rice, Vice Chairman of General Electric Company to an Indian media outlet on 19 November 2014 which is reproduced below. Through this interview cleverly moulded using pre-set questions with the help of the interviewing journalist, Mr John Rice acknowledges that Suresh Prabhu is amenable to General Electric's position, and Mr John Rice further lobbies for award of the Marhowra Project by stating: "I have been in talks with the government on rail modernization probably for the last 17-18 years. Some of my earliest trips to India involved rail modernization. We are ready, willing and able to go and we are quite hopeful that the new minister will move the tendering process forward."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Nov 19, 2014, 01.08 PM IST | Source: CNBC-TV18 New gas price at low end of expectation: GE On rail modernization, John Rice of GE says he has been in talks with the government for the last 17-18 years. He is hopeful that the new minister will move the tendering process.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">A: From everything I can tell, it is at the low end of expectations and whether it is enough to facilitate all the investment that needs to be made to create the gas supplies that this country needs, I don't know. I think most people would say it needs to be a little bit higher than it is but it is a start and so we are happy about that.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Q: Prime Minister Modi has been making the Make in India call. What does it mean for a foreign investor like you if it was for railway modernization, can we expect you to be setting up plants for manufacturing in India and also for other infrastructure projects?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">A: Absolutely. We understand clearly, not just in India that jobs have become the real global currency. It is not the US dollar, it is jobs. Job creation is important everywhere. You cannot have sustainable inclusive growth if you are not creating jobs. So the Indian government, Prime Minister Modi, clearly understands that and he is starting to take the steps necessary to create an environment for investors where companies like ours and others will create the jobs that need to fuel this economic growth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">What is the value of business that EMD gets from India?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The problem is we are not a separate reporting section within Caterpillar and we don't reveal the business we do with separate customers. In India, we have one customer — Indian Railways — so it would be difficult to share numbers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Which countries provide you business?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">North America is our largest market. After that it is India, Australia and Brazil.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Not China?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">We do some business in China, but it is not a large market for us. Several years ago, in 2005, we had a large order to provide 300 locomotives to China…But India is a consistent market for us.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">It had some. Some technology we transferred, some we didn't.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Was the transfer of technology agreement with China based on the number of locomotives or the number of years?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Good question, but I don't know the answer to that question. They (EMD) did that part before we (Progress Rail) acquired them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">What is the nature of customers for Progress Rail — primarily state-owned or private owned? Could you give us a break-up?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">North America is primarily private. But if you get outside North America, quite a bit is government-owned. Brazil is privatising rail roads, Australia has privatised rail roads. So, I would say it is more private than government. In India, it is government-owned, and so is the case in some other jurisdictions. But it would be difficult to give specific numbers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">You have the railway systems of so many countries as your customers. Which markets are still seeing good growth in orders in the backdrop of the current overall slowdown?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Even though the market is slowing down, worldwide, people are realising that transporting goods and services by rail is the most economical and environment-friendly way to move. Moving freight by rail is two-to-four times more fuel efficient than moving by truck. And when people move by rail they reduce carbon emissions. So, I would say, on a worldwide basis, people are adding more rail infrastructure and a lot of capacity.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Haven't you seen the incremental capacity addition slowing down in the last five-six years?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Well, it ebbs and flows depending on where you are. Obviously in 2009, everything was depressed. But overall, there is growth in rail movement.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">You discussed rail versus road competition. What about intra-rail – the diesel versus electric debate. With diesel prices going up, how will your customers get more value for money?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Caterpillar is our parent company. We are the largest high-horsepower engine manufacturer in the world. At EMD, we have the best engine technology available to our customers. So, for the customers that burn diesel we are making more fuel efficient engines.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">But one of the big initiatives we are working on with our customers is in the area of liquefied natural gas (LNG). We have demos at the end of this year in North America. Using gas rather than diesel-based engines offers customers substantial savings on current prices in the US now. Also, we are also discovering more and more gas (globally). We are definitely looking at alternative fuel plans.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Are you referring here to the BNSF project (a railroad where Warren Buffett is an investor)?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I won't name any customer. We are working with several customers on gas-based technology.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Indian Railways, too, has been talking about biodiesel- and LNG-based locomotives. Are you currently involved in any discussion in these areas?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Biodiesel, yes. We have told Indian Railways that 5 per cent blend is what we would be perfectly fine with. We are also willing to work with the RDSO (Indian Railway's Research Design and Standards Organisation) on how high we can go with the blend. We are also doing bio-fuel with vegetable oil.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">You are already supplying to Brazil, which does a lot of bio-fuel blending. But we have heard that customers who do bio-diesel blending face warranty issues from loco manufacturers…</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Bio-diesel is hydroscopic; it absorbs a lot of moisture. So, you have to be careful about how much you blend.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">About your business in China. You got the 300 locomotives order in 2005; why hasn't that moved forward?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Well, we worked with China Northern Locomotive and had a 300loco order that we sold them. They were 6000 HP locomotives. There are other opportunities in China that we are evaluating currently. But we see other markets in rail...(and they are) the ones that we are putting our resources in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Is it true that one of the firms you supplied to in China is today competing with you in the Indian Railways' loco tender now?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(With a laugh): You did say that, I did not. All I can say is we are focussing our resources on specific countries that I talked about earlier.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Have you previously executed public private partnership (PPP) contracts of the kind that you are evaluating now in India (the tender floated by the Railways involves setting up a locomotive project at Madhepura in Bihar through a joint venture)?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">PPP is a big word. We have done a lot of deals with governments to provide locomotives and sell them maintenance services. We would not comment about the ongoing tender.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Last time, (in 2008-09), the diesel loco tender got cancelled because EMD did not bid for the project, and Indian Railways was left with just one bidder — GE. You are most likely to be short-listed this time. If short-listed, will you bid?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">We have to pre-qualify. We have submitted the documents to pre-qualify. And other than that, when the request for qualification is in process, we don't comment.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">But your qualification is almost certain. So, if you qualify, will you bid financially?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">All I am trying to know is whether you will submit financial bids this time, given the last experience when you pre-qualified but still did not submit a financial bid?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">We are not going to comment on that. We are a publicly traded company.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Note: All 17 respondents have been served with an advance copy of this affidavit by email dated 27 November 2014</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> In the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi at New Delhi</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Writ Petition No. 1280 of 2012</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Seema Sapra …Petitioner</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">An Application under Section 151, Civil Procedure Code seeking directions that the Government of India through the PMO (respondent 5 herein) ascertain and declare the conflict of interest if any regarding Suresh Prabhu and this writ petition and/ or the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and tenders; any dealings (financial or otherwise) between Suresh Prabhu, his son or their companies and General Electric Company and/or its affiliates; and declare whether Mr Suresh Prabhu has been made aware of this writ petition and of the full evidence of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and illegal lobbying concerning the tenders for the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects; and directions to Advocate Om Prakash to disclose who instructed him to oppose the Petitioner's representations to the President and Prime Minister against Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister; and for issuance of notice of criminal contempt to Advocate Om Prakash for obstruction of court proceedings on 20 November 2014 when he prevented the petitioner from addressing the court by shouting at her and by shouting her down with the specific intent to prevent her from addressing the court and to prevent her from responding to his invalid objections</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> The Petitioner above named</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">1. This is an application placing on record the concerns of the Petitioner-whistle-blower regarding developments in the Railway Ministry, Respondent 4 herein, which have an impact on how the Government of India deals with the complaints of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and illegal lobbying that are before this Court in connection with the Projects and tenders for the proposed diesel locomotive factory at Marhowra and the proposed electric locomotive factory in Madhepura.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">2. The new NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed office after the General Elections in May 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed Mr Sadanand Gowda as the Railway Minister in May 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">4. On 9 November 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi suddenly replaced Mr Sadanand Gowda with Mr Suresh Prabhu as the Railway Minister.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">5. Since this petition was filed in February 2012 drawing attention to the biggest corruption scandal in the Railway Ministry to date involving public revenue to the tune of almost 20 Billion USD, the Railway Ministry has seen several rail ministers including Ms Mamata Bannerjee, Mr Dinesh Trivedi, Mr Pawan Bansal, Mr Kharge, Mr Sadanand Gowda, and now Mr Suresh Prabhu. Even former PM Mamohan Singh held charge of this Ministry for a short time. Out of this list, at least 2 rail ministers (Pavan Bansal and Sadanand Gowda) overseeing these projects have been subjected to phone taps. Both Pavan Bansal and Sadanand Gowda have faced criminal investigations involving close family members during their tenure as Rail Ministers. The Rail Minister is required to approve the award of the Marhowra and Madhepura Projects.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">6. It must be reiterated that General Electric Company is capable of influencing political leaders and of targeting Rail Ministers and Railway Board members in order to prevent them from discharging their official duties in connection with the complaints of corruption against General Electric.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">7. PM Narendra Modi met the CEO of General Electric Company (Jeffrey Immelt) during his September 2014 visit to the United States.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">8. In September 2014, the Financial Commissioner of the Railway Board had written to then Rail Minister Sadanand Gowda complaining about the corruption in the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and recommending that the 2013 tenders for these Projects should also be scrapped as these constitute debt traps for the Indian Railways. According to the Railway Board Financial Commissioner there was no necessity for the Railways to enter into such long term binding purchase orders with assured offtake for electric and diesel locomotives in such large numbers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">NEW DELHI: The financial commissioner of the Indian Railways has been removed a month after she came up with projections that the state-owned transport behemoth could be headed for an 'irreversible debt trap' if it went ahead with plans to set up new rolling stock manufacturing units. The official, Rashmi Kapoor, was removed on October 14 and replaced by Rajalakshmi Ravi Kumar.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The change took place when Kapoor, who was also holding post of Additional Member (Finance) in the Railway Board, was in Japan on an official trip. On September 5, Kapoor had sent a note to Railway Board chairman Arunendra Kumar, cautioning against setting up new rolling stock manufacturing units under Assured Offtake Agreements (AOT) on the ground that this would result in a financial commitment of Rs 1.65 lakh crore, which would plunge the Railways into a debt trap.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The September 5 letter was marked to the Railway minister. Kumar confirmed that the finance department had reservations about the wisdom of the locomotive manufacturing plans, but said the Railways would go ahead.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"In 2009 the finance department said yes, and in 2014 it says no, that is not acceptable. I must tell you that due diligence has been done, there is no question of debt trap. We are getting the best technology, these are high technology locomotives which our factories can't make. The locomotives are instant revenue earners, tracks won't give you money," Kumar told ET. An official from the finance department said its analysis indicated huge outflows on account of interest payments.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"We sensitised the new regime in July-August, and in September, recorded our objections on the files that there is no requirement of additional locomotives. And that the proposals to set up rolling stock manufacturing units under Assured Off-Take (AOT) agreements through PPP mode should be dropped."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">If financial commitments are affected, the annual lease charge serving liability of Indian Railways (IR) towards Indian Railways Finance Corporation (IRFC), from whom loans shall be raised, would exceed the annual borrowing," a senior Railway officer told ET on condition of anonymity.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"We had apprised the previous Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge also, but nothing happened. And now we decided, this is a national waste and can't be allowed," he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Further, locomotives and wagons, if needed, can be sourced from units belonging to the Railways. Besides, Dedicated Freight Corridors, once made operational, would permit high-speed freight trains, thereby reducing the additional rolling stock requirement, so there is a need to decongest the tracks, the finance department reportedly advised.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">However, the officials of Mechanical and Electrical wings of the Raiways, insists that the figures projected by the finance wing are theoretical and not applicable to field situations. They insist there is a requirement of additional wagons and locomotives, and commitments made in Parliament to set up these units must be honoured.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"We are short by 500-600 locos and we can't invest in inefficient loco units, where saturation has already reached. Also money generated through these new locos will be high. The two units at Madhepura and Marhowra would manufacture 1800 locos, these are revenue earners. The Cabinet has approved the financial bid document for these two projects. Under the AOT agreements, we have rigid performance parameters. And for 6000 HP and 12000 HP locos, the technology being offered is far superior, which our units at Chitaranjan and Varanasi can't manufacture," Kumar said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The two units proposed to be set up under AOT agreement are ELF Madhepura (for electric locomotive) and DLF Marhowra (HP Diesel Locomotives). In all, 15 rolling stock units are proposed to be set up under AOT agreements, through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode. According to official figures, in 2013-14, Railways borrowings were at Rs 11,790 crore, whereas lease charges (debt servicing) stood at Rs 13,180 crore, with a negative cash flow of Rs 1,390 crore.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"The total financial commitment between 2018- and 2029 is estimated to be Rs 1.65 lakh crore. These are all green field projects and railways shall have to pay for them by borrowing from IRFC. And if AOT commitments are affected, then average annual borrowing from IRFC would peak to Rs 38,000crore. Railways is not generating enough to pay service charges, which include dividend charges to government of India and lease charges to IRFC," disclosed a senior railway official, who has direct knowledge of the ongoing controversy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">9. News reports were subsequently published that Mr Sadanand Gowda was not inclined to proceed with the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">10. Therefore when Mr Sadanand Gowda was suddenly replaced on ( November 2014 by Mr Suresh Prabhu as Railway Minister, the Petitioner decided to look into Mr Suresh Prabhu's background.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">11. Based upon her research into Mr Suresh Prabhu's background, the Petitioner emailed her concerns about Mr Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister to the President of India and to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 17 November 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">12. These two emails of the Petitioner dated 17 November 2014 and titled "Suresh Prabhu's benami companies - further representation to PM Narendra Modi about unsuitability of Suresh Prabhu as Rail Minister from Seema Sapra, General Electric whistle-blower in WP Civil 1280 of 2012, a corruption whistleblower case (Seema Sapra v General Electric Company and Ors.)" totalling 23 pages have been filed by her in this matter on 19 November 2014 and are on the court record.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">13. These emails raise the following concerns about Mr Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I am concerned that Mr Suresh Prabhu as the new Railway Minister will assist General Electric Company and Montek Singh Ahluwalia in covering up the corruption, bribes, forgery, fraud, and illegal lobbying involved in the Projects and tenders for the diesel locomotive factory at Marhowra and the electric locomotive factory at Madhepura, which complaints are subjudice before the Delhi High Court in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 (Seema Sapra v General Electric Company & Others). The PMO, the Railway Ministry, the CVC, the CBI and the Delhi Police Commissioner are the State respondents who have all been issued notice by the Delhi High Court in this matter. General Electric Company, Bombardier, Siemens, Alstom, EMD (a Caterpillar subsidiary) and BHEL are all respondents in this matter who have been issued notice by the Delhi High Court.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I remind you of some aspects from Mr Suresh Prabhu's past and recent past.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Suresh Prabhu was involved in the multi-crore cobbler scam in Maharahtra in the mid-1990s when he was Chairman of Saraswat Bank.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Suresh Prabhu also played a dubious role in the Enron-GE-Dabhol scam when he was Power Minister in the Vajpayee led NDA government. It appears as if Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Power Minister was to facilitate the cover up of the corrupt dealings in the Dabhol Project.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu benefited from the Adarsh scam as a flat allottee, and with his links to power and politics in Maharashtra, his claim that he was unaware of the illegalities and was a mere "victim" is disingenuous.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I attach a copy of Mr Suresh Prabhu's CV. He claims to be active as an entrepreneur in the area of renewable energy. He is therefore bound to have past and ongoing ties to General Electric Company, one of the biggest corporates in the area of energy and renewable energy.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Suresh Prabhu is pursuing a PhD at the Freie University in Berlin, which is described on the internet as a CIA funded organization.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Suresh P. Prabhu is Chairperson of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, India.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu's son Ameya Prabhu is an entrepreneur and investor in energy portfolios and projects. His CV reads like that of a middleman for energy deals.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu and his son Ameya Prabhu appear to have been jointly working as a lobbying/fixer/facilitator team for corporate interests in the area of renewable energy and water policy and projects in India.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu and his son Ameya Prabhu must disclose their past and present dealings (including financial dealings) with General Electric Company and its affiliates.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Ameya Prabhu's business interests create a clear conflict of interest if Suresh Prabhu handles any energy/ renewable energy related policy/ projects for the Government of India. It is therefore a matter of grave concern that the present government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed Suresh Prabhu as the head of a high-level panel on power revamp — "Advisory Group for Integrated Development of Power, Coal and Renewable Energy."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I have earlier complained of conflict of interest concerns regarding Montek Singh Ahluwalia and his son Pawan Ahluwalia. Mr Suresh Prabhu and his son Ameya Prabhu are in the same boat and Mr Suresh Prabhu's recent appointments to positions in the Government of India raise serious concerns of conflict of interest.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Narendra Modi government came to power after an election campaign run on anti-corruption messaging and promises. That is why the appointment of Mr Suresh Prabhu to government positions and to the Railway Ministry despite his conflict of interest and past background of involvement in corruption and its cover-up is very disappointing. I urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi to correct course and to ensure that there is no cover up of the corruption, bribes, forgery, fraud, and illegal lobbying involved in the Projects and tenders for the diesel locomotive factory at Marhowra and the electric locomotive factory at Madhepura, which complaints are subjudice before the Delhi High Court in Writ Petition Civil No. 1280/2012 (Seema Sapra v General Electric Company & Others).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I have included below a brief dossier on Mr Suresh Prabhu and his son Ameya Prabhu.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Amerya Prabhu is the Deputy Managing Director of Greenergy Renewables Private Limited which describes itself as a Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer (IPP) and a Renewable Energy Services Company (RESCO). According to its website, Blue Crane Holdings Pvt. Ltd. (BCH) is the investor in Greenergy Renewables Pvt. Ltd. Ameya Prabhu is the nominee of Blue Crane in Greenergy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Greenergy's website contains the following profile for Ameya Prabhu:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"Mr. Ameya Prabhu - Deputy Managing Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Ameya Prabhu, in his capacity as Deputy Managing Director, is responsible for working closely with the Managing Director to lead the organization towards achievement of its goals. Mr Prabhu is involved extensively in devising a corporate strategy for Greenergy, and in raising funds for the company.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Prabhu is a nominee of Blue Crane Holdings on the Board of Directors of Greenergy Renewables. Blue Crane Holdings is a company focused on emerging business opportunities in the water and clean energy sectors. His areas of expertise include: finance, renewable energy, energy efficiency, power, foreign collaborations and partnerships.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Prabhu was previously a Director with Energy India Corporation and was involved in developing thermal and wind power projects in South Asia. He was involved in formulating a relationship with a leading European utility for co-developing a thermal power plant in Maharashtra, India and in tying up the coal linkage for the project. His earlier experience includes stints at IL&FS marine transport division, Enam Consultants, DSP Merill Lynch and ICICI Bank.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Prabhu holds a Masters in Financial Management from the IE Business School and is a CFA Level II Candidate. He has a B.Sc. in Economics, Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Blue Crane website at http://www.bluecraneholding.com/index01.htm contains no information about its officers or its investors. The only information on this website is some contact information which reads as under:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(Rope Walk Lane), Behind Rhythm House</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Ameya Prabhu is also shown as a Director in Essay Infra, and the company's website contains the following profile for Suresh Prabhu:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"Ameya Prabhu, Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">With a Bsc. in Economics, Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick and a Masters in Financial Management from the IE Business School in Madrid, Spain, he is actually positioned as a CFA Level II Candidate.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Previously a Director with Energy India Corporation, Mr. Prabhu was involved in developing thermal and wind power projects in South Asia. He was involved in formulating a relationship with a leading European utility for co-developing a thermal power plant in Maharashtra, India and in tying up the coal linkage for the project. His earlier experience includes stints at IL&FS marine transport division, Enam Consultants, DSP Merill Lynch and ICICI Bank.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr.Prabhu's areas of expertise include: finance, renewable energy, energy efficiency, power, foreign collaborations and partnerships. Currently he is actively working towards promoting closer integration between companies in India, China and Latin America."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Energy India Corporation has no functional website. This is where Ameya Prabhu claims to have worked earlier.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Essay Infra's website describes its business areas in the following terms:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Essay Infra has evolved its key areas of focus in synch with the India-development theme. With our focus on Solar Energy, Water, Infrastructure, Finance and Trading, Essay Infra is aligned to make most of the immense potential that lies ahead in the region.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">We have designed the interplay between our areas of focus and our global partnerships to embed speed and efficiency as we seek to focus on SWIFT in a swift manner."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr Suresh Prabhu also appeared to own a Finance Company at one time.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"AMEYA PRABHU FINANCE LIMITED</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">AMEYA PRABHU FINANCE LIMITED is a listed company registered on 31/03/1997. The company has an authorized capital of Rs 30,00,000.00 and paid-up capital of Rs 25,00,000.00.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Its registered office is situated at Unit No 1/2 & 3 Mid Townplaza Shivaji Nagarnear Punjab National Bank, Thane, Maharashtra, India-400604.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The status of company in the records of Registrar is strike off which means that it has closed its operations.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Company has currently 0 director and falls under the jurisdiction of Registrar of Company-Mumbai.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">31/03/1997</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Registrar of Company-Mumbai</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">106955</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Indian Non-Government Company</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Authorized Capital</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Rs. 30,00,000.00</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Rs. 25,00,000.00</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Address UNIT NO 1/2 & 3 MID TOWNPLAZA SHIVAJI NAGARNEAR PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">City THANE</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Published: July 2, 2014 01:58 IST | Updated: July 2, 2014 01:58 IST</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The National Democratic Alliance government has appointed the former Cabinet Minister, Suresh Prabhu, as the head of a high-level panel on power revamp — "Advisory Group for Integrated Development of Power, Coal and Renewable Energy."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr. Prabhu will draw on his experience as the initiator of reforms in the power sector during his tenure as Power Minister in the former NDA government when he had piloted the integrated electricity bill and the law for setting up a regulator, something that current Minister Piyush Goyal wants to do in the coal sector, sources said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr. Prabhu will be assisted by three former bureaucrats — Pratyush Sinha, Anil Baijal and Partha Bhattacharya.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The former Central Vigilance Commissioner, Pratyush Sinha, was earlier heading a committee overseeing distribution of Central officers of Andhra Pradesh cadre between the two successor States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in the previous government.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr. Baijal has extensive experience in the public and private sectors. A former Indian Airlines chief and former Union Home Secretary, he has also been associated with DLF, ITC and Bharti Groups post-retirement.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Mr. Bhattacharya is a former Coal India Limited chief who had piloted the country's largest IPO. He was also instrumental in turning around Bharat Coal that was incurring annual losses of Rs. 600 crore.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">National MAGAZINE | JAN 15, 1997</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Politicians are implicated in the Rs 1,000-crore cobbler scam</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">THE boot may well be on the other foot now. While it was former sheriff Sadruddin Daya of Dawood shoes, Rafique Tejani of Metro Shoes and Kishore Signapurkar of Milano Shoes who were held as the prime accused in the Rs 1,000-crore cobbler scam, fresh investigations have revealed the full-fledged compliance of Maharashtra politicians in the fraud.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Leaders from all three prominent parties—the Congress, the BJP and the Shiv Sena—appear to have been involved in the diabolical siphoning of public funds under the garb of setting up cooperative societies for poor cobblers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">While Congressman Shinde's Chakrayu society flouted rules with impunity, the Sena-BJP's Munde (right) helped by making it easy for Mumbai cooperatives to avail of KVIC subsidies. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">And in the coming weeks, investigators hope to unearth the names of the political beneficiaries of the embezzlement.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Meanwhile, allegations are flying thick and fast. Among the political links being investigated is that of former Maharashtra chief minister, Sharad Pawar. Though there is no direct evidence implicating the Congress leader, investigations have revealed Tejani to be a director of the Rs 500-crore Dynamix Dairy Products Pvt Ltd in which Pawar is believed to have a stake through the holdings of family members. According to sources, the sole milk supplier to Dynamix, the Baramati Milk Cooperative, is controlled by Pawar. Sources hint that a good amount of the money from the shoe scam may have been diverted to Dynamix. However, the Pawar link still remains tenuous.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">What is not tenuous, however, is that it was during Pawar's regime that Congressmen had a field day. It was at this time thistimethat Sushil Kumar Shinde, chief of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC), floated the Chakrayu society which flouted every rule in the book. It dealt in machine-made goods against the mandatory rule of handcrafted leatherwear. So while the project report guaranteed employment to 2,000 cobblers, only about 50 were actually employed. Further, the rules say that 10 per cent of the total funds should be contributed by members of the society; 60 per cent should come from financial institutions and the state government should loan the remaining 30 per cent. However, according to the Accountant General's report, member contribution to the Rs 133-lakh Chakrayu project was just Rs 4.75 lakh. Of this, Rs 4.25 lakh was contributed by 200 members who were shown as "people of repute". Investigations reveal that they included Kripashankar, vice-president, MPCC and Ramdas Phutane, a Congress MLC, among others.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">With the cobblers being too poor to contribute even the token Rs 100 to join cooperatives, it is usually the Mahatma Phule Vikas Mahamandal which pays their membership fee. However, in the case of Chakrayu, the Mahamandal refused to give the funds. In 1992, Shinde, then state finance minister, got the government to sanction Rs 44.5 lakh for the society in three instalments. In a further flouting of rules, Shinde got the Maharashtra State Finance Corporation to sanction Rs 60 lakh.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Once Chakrayu was formed, the cobblers' interests were given a back seat, say sources. Normally, every member of a cooperative society has equal voting rights, but Chakrayu modified the rule—only members with a contribution of Rs 1,000 or more were entitled to vote. This virtually alienated the cobbler members of the society.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Congress involvement has given enough ammunition to the BJP and the Shiv Sena against the previous regime, although both parties cannot deny the involvement of some of their own members. For the moment, however, it is Pawar and his partymen who are being accused of turning a blind eye to the looting of public money. Points out Kirit Somaiya, MLA and Mumbai city president of the BJP: "The previous government cannot be absolved of the responsibility of letting such activity flourish for over 10 years." Nor does that absolve the Shiv Sena-BJP government. The present deputy chief minister, Gopinath Munde, who held the finance portfolio for about three months and presented the '96-'97 budget, is also under the cloud of suspicion. Mrs Maharuk Keravala, a friend of Tejani's wife and a prime suspect in the scam, has alleged that she, along with BJP MLA Sadashiv Lokh-ande and others, approached Munde to help them out. Munde obliged by raising the sales tax exemption limit to Rs 50 lakh and doing away with the need for societies to get a certifi-cation from the Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC). The KVIC had laid down in 1987 that only societies located in villages were entitled to benefits from it. By doing away with the need for certification, Munde made it possible for cooperatives located in Mumbai to enjoy the bene-fits of KVIC subsidies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">As investigations continue, lesser known politicians are also being pulled into the net. Money to prime accused Sadruddin Daya was sanctioned by the chairman of Saraswat Cooperative Bank, Suresh Prabhu, who is now a Shiv Sena MP. Bomb blast accused Abu Azmi of the Samajwadi Party has also been found to have links with the scam-sters. The Economic Offence Wing has identified Shiv Sena legislator Baburao Mane among those who may have been aware of the scam.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The BJP claims it is looking into the involvement of its members. The Sena has not been as categoric. But with the interrogation of the accused revealing names of leading lights in the political firmament, the cobbler scam is likely to have a fallout whose repercussions will be felt by all parties, be it the Congress, the BJP or the Shiv Sena.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Great Indian Cobbler Scam</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">So, in my 5th semester I had to make a project and presentation on 'The Cobbler Scam' and while doing all my online research on this topic I realized there wasn't a wikipedia page dedicated to this scam so I thought I'd post my project on my blog for anyone who'd be interested in knowing more about it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Many of the details are going to shock you and for people who've never even heard about this scam,you might even find it amusing,initially. Most people haven't heard about the Great Indian Cobbler Scam because it happened only in Mumbai and was exposed in 1995 and ever since there have been SEVERAL scams that have been unearthed which were way bigger and significant than this one. Nevertheless, this scam involved a lot of money and many banks and prominent people as well. And we need to be aware of how rampant corruption in India is in every single field. No wonder India can be aptly called 'The land of Scams'.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">So here it is, The Great Indian Cobbler Scam</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> The Cobbler Scam is one of the biggest multi million dollars scam in Indian History, is nicknamed The Great Cobbler Scam. What really happened in this Great Cobbler Scam was that various businessman & politicians had siphoned around $600 million US dollars from a scheme that was floated by the Government of India meant to benefit the poor cobblers of Mumbai. Instead, it went into the pockets of the elites who used this money to built luxury homes for themselves and also brought luxury cars, boats, arts, etc. The money of the scheme was meant to provide low interest loans and tax concessions to the Mumbai's poorest – cobblers who work 16-hours a day for less than $2. Not a single penny reached these cobblers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The modus operandi of the mastermind was to float a cooperative society of cobblers to avail of soft government loans through various schemes. Several bogus societies of cobblers were formed only for the purpose of availing these soft government loans. The main heads Daya of Dawood Shoes, Rafique Tejani of Metro Shoes and Kishore Signapurkar of Milano Shoes created fictitious cooperative societies for cobblers. On behalf of these non existing cooperative societies they availed loans of crores of rupees from different banks. The accused created a fictitious cooperative society of cobblers to take advantage of government loans through various schemes. The banks involved in giving loans were also charge sheeted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The primary accused in the multi-crore shoe scam is Sohin Daya, son of former Sheriff of Mumbai. The people involved in this racket were Saddrudin Daya, former sheriff of Mumbai and owner of Dawood Shoes, Rafique Tejani, owner of Metro Shoes, Kishore Signapurkar, proprietor of Milano Shoes, and Abu Asim Azmi, president of Samajwadi Party's Mumbai unit and partner in Citywalk Shoes. Beside them various officials of banks and financial institutions were also involved in this multi million dollars scam.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Banks whose officials were involved in this scam are: Maharashtra State Finance Corporation, Citibank, Bank of Oman, Dena Bank, Development Credit Bank, Saraswat Co-operative Bank, and Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">This scam cost the Government of India around $600 million US dollars. This was one of the worst scam in India that cheated the poorest people of the society and benefited a lot of rich and elite people. This is one of the reasons why poverty in India is difficult to eliminate. The scam was exposed in 1995.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The following is an article by the Express News Service on how the Cobbler Scam was exposed:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">MUMBAI, June 1: The unearthing of the Rs 1600-crore cobbler's scam that closed in on bigwigs of the shoe industry was expected, caused as it was by three agencies working towards its exposure.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Officials of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's octroi department had lodged complaints about raw materials being brought into the city on a large scale. These materials had octroi concessions as they were brought in lieu of the cooperative societies. On the basis of the complaints, the police carried out its own investigations, and a diligent officer in the office of the Registrar of Cooperative Societies decided to do a complete survey of registered societies in Mumbai.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Immediately after taking charge in 1995, Sudhir Thakre, the joint registrar of the Cooperative Society for Mumbai division, ordered a survey of the registered societies. "Our officers, especially auditors of each of these societies complained that most of these societies did not exist at the registered addresses furnished to this office," Thakre said in an exclusive interview to Express Newsline, narrating the process of investigation into the big business' way to success through fictitious cobbler societies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Thakre decided to survey all the societies that had been formed. "Normally, since most of the cobblers were poor and illiterate, we did not like to harass them with too much inspection. "This leniency on the registrar's part was misused by the businessmen," he admitted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The BMC, meanwhile, complained to the police about huge consignments of raw materials (used for the purpose of shoe-making) being brought into Mumbai. Worth around two crores, these materials obtained octroi concessions. The police started making their own investigations, and both the agencies got suspicious when "all the cobblers' societies were found missing."A clearer picture emerged by January 1996 when flying squads with the registrar were given specific orders to follow a society to its very last. A report on prima facie evidence was made for the police by March 1996.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"My boys worked for five months, sometimes without the societies themselves realising it, and by August 1996, we got the complete picture," he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">DCP Sanjay Pandey, who had taken over the Economic Offences Wing then approached him asking for details, since he too was working on the case. "By September 9, a report of 80 to 90 pages was ready for the police. "Till then, we had completed 19 raids and 51 societies were being investigated." The rest, as they say, is history.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•The poor Cobblers of Mumbai are the one who are majorly affected by the Scam as they were not benefited by a single rupee of the Scheme which was meant only for them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•Government of India was also affected by the Scam as the scam cost the Government around 1200 crores Indian rupees.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•The Banks whose officials were involved in the scam like Maharashtra State Finance Corporation, Citibank, Bank of Oman, Dena Bank, Development Credit Bank, Saraswat Co-operative Bank, and Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait, spoiled their reputation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•Politicians, bureaucrats and top shoe manufacturers in Maharashtra were also affected as the Shoes manufacturers have to shut their shoe outlets and their business was lost.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Politicians Implicated in the Scam</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The boot may well be on the other foot now. While it was former sheriff Sadruddin Daya of Dawood shoes, Rafique Tejani of Metro Shoes and Kishore Signapurkar of Milano Shoes who were held as the prime accused in the Rs 1,000-crore cobbler scam, fresh investigations have revealed the full-fledged compliance of Maharashtra politicians in the fraud.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Leaders from all three prominent parties the Congress, the BJP and the Shiv Sena appear to have been involved in the diabolical siphoning of public funds under the garb of setting up cooperative societies for poor cobblers. Meanwhile, allegations are flying thick and fast. Among the political links being investigated is that of former Maharashtra chief minister, Sharad Pawar. Though there is no direct evidence implicating the Congress leader, investigations have revealed Tejani to be a director of the Rs500-crore Dynamix Dairy Products Pvt Ltd in which Pawar is believed to have a stake through the holdings of family members. According to sources, the sole milk supplier to Dynamix, the Baramati Milk Cooperative, is controlled by Pawar. Sources hint that a good amount of themoney from the shoe scam may have been diverted to Dynamix. However, the Pawar link still remains tenuous. What is not tenuous, however, is that it was during Pawar's regime that Congressmen had a field day. It was at this time that Sushil Kumar Shinde, chief of the Maharashtra Pradesh CongressCommittee (MPCC), floated the Chakrayu society which flouted every rule in the book. It dealt in machine-made goods against the mandatory rule of handcrafted leatherwear. So while the project report guaranteed employment to 2,000 cobblers, only about 50 were actually employed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Further, the rules say that 10 per cent of the total funds should be contributed by members of the society; 60 per cent should come from financial institutions and the state government should loan the remaining 30 per cent. However, according to the Accountant General's report, member contribution to the Rs 133-lakh Chakrayu project was just Rs 4.75 lakh. Of this, Rs 4.25 lakh was contributed by 200 members who were shown as "people of repute". Investigations reveal that they included Kripashankar, vice-president, MPCC and Ramdas Phutane, a Congress MLC,among others.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">With the cobblers being too poor to contribute even the token Rs 100 to join cooperatives, it is usually the Mahatma Phule Vikas Mahamandal which pays their membership fee. However, in the case of Chakrayu, the Mahamandal refused to give the funds. In 1992, Shinde, then state finance minister, got the government to sanction Rs 44.5 lakh for the society in three instalments. In a further flouting of rules, Shinde got the Maharashtra State Finance Corporation to sanction Rs 60 lakh. Once Chakrayu was formed, the cobblers' interests were given a back seat, say sources. Normally, every member of a cooperative society has equal voting rights, but Chakrayu modified the rule only members with a contribution of Rs 1,000 or more were entitled to vote. This virtually alienated the cobbler members of the society. The Congress involvement has given enough ammunition to the BJP and the Shiv Sena against the previous regime, although both parties cannot deny the involvement of some of their own members.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">For the moment, however, it is Pawar and his party men who are being accused of turning a blind eye to the looting of public money. Points out Kirit Somaiya, MLA and Mumbai city president of the BJP: "The previous government cannot be absolved of the responsibility of letting such activity flourish for over 10 years." Nor does that absolve the Shiv Sena-BJP government. The present deputy chief minister, Gopinath Munde, who held the finance portfolio for about three months and presented the '96-'97 budget, is also under the cloud of suspicion. Mrs.Maharuk Keravala, a friend of Tejani's wife and a prime suspect in the scam, has alleged that she, along with BJP MLA Sadashiv Lokh-ande and others, approached Munde to help them out. Munde obliged by raising the sales tax exemption limit to Rs 50 lakh and doing away with the need for societies to get a certification from the Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC).The KVIC had laid down in 1987 that only societies located in villages were entitled to benefits from it. By doing away with the need for certification, Munde made it possible for cooperatives located in Mumbai to enjoy the benefits of KVIC subsidies. As investigations continue, lesser known politicians are also being pulled into the net. Money to prime accused Sadruddin Daya was sanctioned by the chairman of Saraswat Cooperative Bank, Suresh Prabhu, who is now a Shiv Sena MP. Bomb blast accused Abu Azmi of the Samajwadi Party has also been found to have links with the scam-sters. The Economic Offence Wing has identified Shiv Sena legislator Baburao Mane among those who may have been aware of the scam. The BJP claims it is looking into the involvement of its members. The Sena has not been as categoric.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">But with the interrogation of the accused revealing names of leading lights in the political firmament, the cobbler scam is likely to have a fallout whose repercussions will be felt by all parties, be it the Congress, the BJP or the Shiv Sena.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">What treatment was given at the end of the scam?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•Based on the complaints of BMC, the police started investigations. The banks whose officials were involved in this scam are : Maharashtra State Finance Corporation, Citibank, Bank of Oman, Dena Bank, Development Credit Bank, Saraswat Co-operative Bank, and Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait were charge sheeted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">• Officials of Bank of Baroda, Saraswati Co-operative Bank and the Bombay Mercentile Co-operative Bank are also facing charges for fraudulent manipulation of government funds.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">• After the inquiry, Dawood, Metro, Milano, Citywalk and a host of other shoe shops were sealed. They opened only after a long battle.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">• At present, the shoe scam is in queue of cases waiting to be taken up by the court of the 19th additional chief metropolitan magistrate. All the accused are out on bail.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•Files on the multiple cases of the shoe scam are gathering dust on court shelves.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•The case is still waiting for a trial .</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai police filed seven charge-sheets against 28 accused in the Rs 1,600-crore cobbler scam at the 37th metropolitan court.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•Apart from Sadruddin Daya, the prime accused in the scam and former sheriff of Mumbai, his wife Shauheen, two international banks and five co-operative banks have also been charge sheeted under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The charge-sheets were filed before the additional chief metropolitan magistrate, Sharad N Chimade.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Surprisingly, Rafique Tejani of Metro Shoes, Kishore Signapurkar of Milano Shoes and Abu Asim Azmi of Citywalk Shoes have not been charge-sheeted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">EOW officials said the role of the three companies in the scam was still being investigated.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•Others who have been charge-sheeted are: Anwar Merchant, Salim Merchant, Abdul Memon, Bashir Inamdar, M Z Kerawala, V V Chandy, Arshad Wahedna, B.B Trivedi, R Krishnan, D K Sabawala, S Yogeshwaran and R V Bhatt, M GRamakrishnan, V P Khurana, S N Gokhale, T A Khan, Manohar Surve, Siddique, P K Sukhtankar, D J Raikar, N J Ghotage, D NKamath, P P Deshmukh,V N Dalal, J P Shah and SiddharthShirali.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•Special public prosecutor P R Namjoshi told the court that the EOW is preparing 26 sets of the charge-sheets to be given to the accused. He requested the magistrate to grant prosecution six weeks' time to furnish the same. His request was granted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">•The sections of IPC included in the charge-sheets cover criminal conspiracy, forgery, preparing and using duplicated documents for financial benefits, criminal breach of trust, cheating, jumping bail limits, fraudulently setting up fake co-operative societies and making money.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">India is a country riddled with corruption. The Cobbler Scam cost the government $600 million. The irony is that the money was hijacked from a scheme that should have benefited the poor of Mumbai. Instead it went into the pockets of the wealthy elite. The local government in Mumbai set up a scheme to provide low interest loans and tax concessions to the city's poorest – cobblers who work 16-hour days for less than $2. But not a cent ever got through to the cobblers. Instead various businessmen and politicians built luxury homes, bought luxury cars, boats and art. "For India's poor, the Great Cobbler Scam is just confirmation that fifty years after independence, little has changed." said Dominique Schwartz.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Cobbler Scam was extensively covered by the Indian media from 1995-2009 writing in detail about the several elites and politicians involved in the scam and the investigations being carried out. This scam had headlined leading newspapers like The Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, Business Standard, Mid Day and Outlook, the weekly magazine. It was a case that made front page headlines in 1995, managed to stay there for almost two years — before disappearing. Papers like The Indian Express and Hindustan Times continued to cover the Cobbler Scam and how it was handed over to the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in the year 2006 and how even almost a decade later the cobbler scam, which involved 40 politicians, bureaucrats and well-known shoe manufacturers in Mumbai is still waiting for a trial.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Times of India had even put forth the grievances of the people impacted by the scam. Indian Express informed how the shoe scam was exposed by three agencies after the BMC filed a complaint about raw materials being brought into the city on a large scale. The media did an excellent job in extensively covering the Cobbler scam and how another Cobbler scam was barred in 2006 where families had got recovery notices for loans taken by complete strangers. Political implications in the 1,000 crore cobbler scam was also elaborately mentioned in the Indian media.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">However, though the media high lightened all the aspects of the Cobbler Scam, the trial is yet pending in court and the accused out on bail; hence the media pressure on the Government to take quick action against those on the chargesheet was not as strong as it should have been. The investigation files now continue to gather dust while justice has yet not been delivered after more than a decade.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Tuesday, 2 November 2010 - 7:08pm IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: PTI</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Prabhu, a former Shiv Sena MP who is a member of the Adarsh Housing Society, said that he joined the Society as an MP but when the NDA was not in power.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Former Union minister Suresh Prabhu today washed his hands off the Adarsh scam, saying that he never gave any permission for the project during his tenure in the Union cabinet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"I never gave any permissions for this project during my tenure as the environment minister," Prabhu said from Singapore.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Prabhu, a former Shiv Sena MP who is a member of the Adarsh Housing Society, said that he joined the Society as an MP but when the NDA was not in power.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"So, there is no question of me influencing any allotment," he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"I was not the promoter nor the office-bearer of the Society. I borrowed money from a bank and all the documents were verified before granting me loan," he added.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Prabhu said that his application was scrutinised and verified by the Mumbai city collector. "I followed the same procedure which is a normal routine for applying for membership in such societies."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"If any irregularity regarding the land had been brought to my notice, I would never have become a member. If there is indeed any irregularity, I am a victim," he claimed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">14. More information and evidence in connection with the Petitioner's valid concerns regarding Mr Suresh Prabhu's unsuitability for appointment as Rail Minister were also emailed by the Petitioner to the President of India and to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. These are reproduced below:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">To the President Pranab Mukherjee, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I am writing with even more shocking information about the unsuitability of Mr Suresh Prabhu as Rail Minister and for any Government of India position.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Even a basic background search about Mr Suresh Prabhu and his family would have shown many red flags in connection with his suitability for a cabinet ministerial post or any government post.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">An internet search shows that Suresh Prabhu's son Ameya Prabhu and Suresh Prabhu's wife Uma Prabhu are promoter-directors in several companies whose names indicate operations in the business areas of finance, infrastructure, consultancy and energy. Mr Suresh Prabhu is not a business tycoon. Since 1995/1996, he claims to have been in politics. He has been an MP four times. He was a Chartered Accountant. His wife Uma Prabhu is supposed to be a journalist/ writer.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Then why are his son and wife promoters/ directors in the following companies.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">SURVALL GLOBAL PROJECTS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">GREENERGY WIND FARMS PRIVATE LIMITED </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">YELLOW MAPLE FINANCIAL ADVISORS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">INDO-AFRICA RESOURCES PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">INFRA POWER CONSULTING PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">ESSAY INFRA RESOURCES PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">GREENERGY PROJECT DEVELOPMENT COMPANY PRIVATE LIMI TED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">FORESIGHT 2020 PROJECT CONSULTANTS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">BLUE CRANE HOLDINGS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">ENERGY INDIA CORPORATION LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">GREENERGY RENEWABLES PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">MANAV SADHAN VIKAS SUSTAINABLE FOUNDATION</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">EDUWISE CONSULTANCY PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">DUES BERG BOSSON FINANCIAL SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITE D</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">This confirms that Suresh Prabhu, his wife and son have been involved in some very suspicious business/ financial dealings through these companies. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I also refer to the following statement from Ameya Prabhu's profile as posted on the website of his company Greenergy Renewables.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"He was involved in formulating a relationship with a leading European utility for co-developing a thermal power plant in Maharashtra, India and in tying up the coal linkage for the project".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">This statement shows that Ameya Prabhu basically acted as a middleman/ fixer/broker for this project. He also tied up the coal linkage. Was this part of the coal scam allottments?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The information on Suresh Prabhu's benami companies where his wife/son are directors is reproduced below.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">SURVALL GLOBAL PROJECTS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">SURVALL GLOBAL PROJECTS PRIVATE LIMITED is a private company registered on 14/03/2011. The company has an authorized capital of Rs 50,00,000.00 and paid-up capital of Rs 1,00,000.00.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Its registered office is situated at 809, Dalamal Towers,nariman Point, Free Press Marg,, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India-400021.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The status of company in the records of Registrar is active which means that it is actively doing all its filing with the Registrar.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Company has currently 2 director and falls under the jurisdiction of Registrar of Company-Mumbai.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">14/03/2011 Registering Authority</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">214752 Listing Type</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Company limited by shares Company Type</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Private</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Indian Non-Government Company</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Rs. 50,00,000.00 Paid-up Capital</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Rs. 1,00,000.00</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Address 809, DALAMAL TOWERS,NARIMAN POINT, FREE PRESS MARG,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">City MUMBAI</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">State Maharashtra</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Pin 400021</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Email Id ameyaprabhu@gmail.com</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">AMEYA SURESH PRABHU 14/03/2011 Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">01725272</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">UMA SURESH PRABHU 21/03/2014 Additional Director</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">AMEYA SURESH PRABHU</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(00629670) YELLOW MAPLE FINANCIAL ADVISORS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> INDO-AFRICA RESOURCES PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> INFRA POWER CONSULTING PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> GREENERGY PROJECT DEVELOPMENT COMPANY PRIVATE LIMI TED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> GREENERGY WIND FARMS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> FORESIGHT 2020 PROJECT CONSULTANTS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> BLUE CRANE HOLDINGS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> CLEANTECH RENEWABLE ENERGY PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> ENERGY INDIA CORPORATION LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> GREENERGY RENEWABLES PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> EDUWISE CONSULTANCY PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> DUES BERG BOSSON FINANCIAL SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITE D</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">UMA SURESH PRABHU</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(01725272) GREENERGY RENEWABLES PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> CLEANTECH RENEWABLE ENERGY PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> GREENERGY PROJECT DEVELOPMENT COMPANY PRIVATE LIMI TED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> GREENERGY WIND FARMS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> MANAV SADHAN VIKAS SUSTAINABLE FOUNDATION</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> BLUE CRANE HOLDINGS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> FORESIGHT 2020 PROJECT CONSULTANTS PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> EDUWISE CONSULTANCY PRIVATE LIMITED</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Director</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">15. The petitioner would like to present some further evidence on the issue of the unsuitability of Suresh Prabhu for the post of Rail Minister. The relevant news reports are reproduced below. To use an analogy, given his background and involvement in the Adarsh scam, Suresh Prabhu would never have passed the litmus test for consideration to a judicial post. How then could Prime Minister Narendra Modi consider Suresh Prabhu as a fit candidate for a position in his cabinet and that too in the Rail Ministry with the biggest corruption scandal time-bomb (this petition) ticking away?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">As the Kargil for Profit scam grows bigger, there is overwhelming evidence that politicians across political colour and creed bent over backwards in colluding with the scamsters. The finger of suspicion also pointing squarely at Suresh Prabhu, the then Union Minister of Environment and Forests and seems to have mysteriously vanished now. As the Kargil for Profit scam blows up too many instances seem to point to the Prabhu.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">In fact too many for them to be mere coincidences and that is why Prabhu needs to answer and answer now. He has steadfastly refused to speak on record either on camera or on the phone when TIMES NOW finally caught up with him. Asked him about his apartment in Adarsh Housing Society in Mumbai, Prabhu feigned ignorance and pretended to be surprised. Documents with TIMES NOW however prove otherwise, his name clearly present in the list of allottees.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Raising questions, how can Prabhu claim to not know about a flat he owns? Isn't it too much of a coincidence that he cleared the project and also owns a flat in the building? And most importantly, if he has nothing to hide then why has the high profile Prabhu suddenly gone underground? However these are questions that we have been trying to put to the former Union Minister and he has been doggedly avoiding them and it is this reluctance to answer questions that have been putting Prabhu's role in the scam in doubt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu had resigned from the board of agrochemicals company UPL Ltd, days before becoming the Railway Minister in the NDA government.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"Pawar is also believed to have played a significant role in getting Suresh Prabhu, his friend from the Sena on to the NDA bandwagon for a high profile ministry. This is just a page from the rules of Pawar for Indian politics." Writes Rana Ayub at http://www.ndtv.com/article/opinion/pawar-politics-has-a-separate-set-of-rules-620848</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The Sena boss made sure the debutant won his Lok Sabha seat and sent him to Delhi to join the Atal Bihari Vajpayee cabinet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">In another development to the Adarsh scandal, an activist on Friday alleged before the Bombay high court that the CBI had not filed charges against four main scam beneficiaries as accused, including relatives of Ashok Chavan.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Former scribe and activist Ketan Tirodkar filed a rejoinder before the division bench of Justice P.V. Hardas and Justice Anuja Prabhudesai claiming that Bhagwati Sharma and Madan Sharma, mother-in-law and brother-in-law of Mr Chavan; Devyani Khobragade, former Indian diplomat to US and daughter of former general manager of BEST Uttam Khobragade and former Union minister Suresh Prabhu acquired flats in Adarsh by fraudulent means but they were not made the accused in the case.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The two-member panel set up to probe the alleged Adarsh housing society scam was on Friday told by former Union minister Suresh Prabhu, IAS officer Seema Vyas as well Omkar Tiwari, son of former urban development secretary Ramanand Tiwari, that they had not checked the status of the controversial plot before applying for membership.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">While Seema Vyas deposed that her membership application form was filled by her husband Pradeep Vyas, the then collector of Mumbai, and that she took a loan from him to fund the purchase, Prabhu, who was the Union environmental minister representing the Shiv Sena at the time, said: "I did not verify the said clearances and I relied on the statements made to me by the society."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">When asked whether she had checked with her husband since the state revenue department was also under him, Seema Vyas said: "I never had any doubt about the status of the land, and I had discussed the proposal not just with my husband but with many friends and well-wishers. None of them raised any doubt on the status of the land," said Vyas.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"The discussion with my father was on whether I should apply for the membership, and whether I was eligible," he said, and added: "I knew the location of the land, and did not check with my father about its status."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">She also revealed the financial sources to fund her purchase, which include a loan from her husband. "I took a personal short-term interest-free loan of Rs14.1 lakh from my husband," she said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Politicians from ruling and opposition parties, bureaucrats and professionals flouted norms to become members in the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society (ACHS).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">A two-member commission, which probed the scam, had observed in its report that of 102 members, 25 were ineligible. It said the procedure followed by the ACHS for proposing names of beneficiaries was arbitrary and lacked transparency, giving scope for nepotism and favouritism. The Maharashtra cabinet, which was forced to review its earlier decision to reject the report, on Thursday decided to serve showcause notices to them through the Mumbai district collector and subsequently cancel their memberships.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Babasaheb Kupekar had applied for membership in ACHS when he was owning a flat at Powai which was given to him under the chief minister's discretionary quota in 2001. Only after the authorities approved his name, Kupekar, in 2008, sought permission of the CM to allow him to sell his Powai flat. He was allowed to transfer the flat to his daughter.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Khobragade, the daughter of former bureaucrat Uttam Khobragade, has been blamed by the judicial commission for breach of the eligibility condition. On behalf of Devyani, her father in his affidavit filed in February 2011 before the commission, informed that the application form for her membership was filled in and signed by him. Devyani has been allotted flat no 2301 (1076 sq ft in A wing). Her father did not mention the price of the flat in any of his affidavits. Both of them have failed to state the source of money for buying flat. The balance sheet annexed to the income tax return for April 2005 to March 2006 discloses that Devyani is a well-to-do person since she owns agricultural land, flats in New Delhi, Aurangabad, Thane, Pune and huge investments. No loan was obtained by her to buy the flat in the society.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Devyani, in her application dated August 29, 2004, said she was a member of the Meera CHS in Jogeshwari and would resign from the society after a flat was allotted in Adarsh society. The flat in Meera CHS was transferred on September 30, 2008 by Devyani to one Sidharth Basu for Rs 1.90 crore. According to the commission, Devyani's membership, though approved, was illegal.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Suresh Prabhu, Shiv Sena leader and former union power minister, had been allotted a flat of 1,076 sq ft. The commission observed he was not an A-Group government servant as per the 5th Pay Commission. After 2004, he has been a private person and did not come under "persons other than government servants". Though Prabhu was eligible to become a member of ACHS and his membership had been rightly approved by the state government, he was not entitled for a flat having more than 650 sq ft.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Seema Sharma, wife of Vinod M Sharma (brother-in-law of former CM Ashok Chavan); Madanlal Sharma (brother of Chavan's father-in-law); and late Bhagwati Sharma (mother-in-law of Chavan) got flats illegally. The trio had surrendered their flats after the scam surfaced.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Ranjit Sangitrao, who had been allotted 650 sq ft flat, in his application had mentioned his occupation as a small businessman with an income of Rs 15,550. But he did not specify whether the salary was monthly or annual. In supporting affidavit he said it was monthly income.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Ranjit had told the commission he did not own any flat in Mumbai. However, his father C S Sangitrao, a retired bureaucrat, owns a flat in Bandra and his brother Vikram in Andheri. The commission observed that the figure of income showed by Ranjit was false and correct and his actual income exceeded far more than that. Ranjit was not a government servant and fell in the category of beneficiaries who are not government servants. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The maximum permissible limit of income for a beneficiary falling under this category is Rs 20,000 a month, but on his admission, Ranjit's income was more than that. Therefore, he was ineligible and the membership granted to Ranjit was not proper and correct, the commision ruled.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Maha govt rejects Adarsh panel report indicting former CMs. PTI file image</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Maharashtra government has rejected the report of the judicial commission of inquiry on the Adarsh scam it tabled in the Legislative Assembly today which indicted several politicians including three former Chief Ministers for "blatant violations" of statutory provisions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The report of the 2-member commission headed by retired high court judge J A Patil came down heavily on those in authority describing the scam as a "bad precedent" which reflected "greed, nepotism and favouritism" by those associated with it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The panel found 25 of the society's 102 members ineligible and 22 cases of benami purchase of flats.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The report said Adarsh society enjoyed political patronage of former Chief Ministers, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Sushil Kumar Shinde and Ashok Chavan, former Revenue Minister Shivajirao Nlengekar Patil, former Minister for Urban Development Sunil Tatkare and former Minister of Urban Development Rajesh Tope.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Ashok Chavan was the only Chief Minister charge sheeted in the scam by the CBI but Governor K Sankaranarayanan had refused sanction to the investigative agency to prosecute him a few days ago.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The beneficiaries included politicians across the spectrum and their relatives.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Those found ineligible for ownership of flats included former Maharashtra Assembly speaker Babasaheb Kupekar of NCP, senior Indian diplomat in US Devyani Khobragade, former Shiv Sena MP Suresh Prabhu and three relatives of former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, who had to step down after the scam surfaced.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said the decision on rejection of the findings of the inquiry commission was taken by the Cabinet "in the interest of the people".</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">He, however, refused to elaborate on how the Cabinet's decision was in larger public interest.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The much awaited report, which was submitted to the state government on April 18 this year was tabled in the House on the last day of the Winter Session today.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"Evidence clearly indicates that it is neither ideal (Adarsh) nor role model but a bad precedent. Adarsh is a saga of ideal co-operation but it is a shameless tale of blatant violations of statutory provisions, rule and regulations," the report said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">It expressed "deep regret" over the "greed, nepotism and favouritism" involved in the scam.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"It reflects greed, nepotism and favouritism on part of people who were in one way or the other associated with Adarsh. It is sad story of unscrupulous greed of some persons closely connected with the society.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"Some persons not satisfied with the allotment of one single flat have tried and succeeded in securing flats for their nears and dear ones. They went to the extent of benami transactions in violation of provisions. That such an episode should take place in Maharashtra is a matter of deep regret," it said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The judicial panel, however, acknowledged the state government's ownership of the land and said it did not belong to Ministry of Defence, defence personnel nor was it reserved for Kargil martyrs or war veterans.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Ashok Chavan, during whose tenure the scam surfaced, was among 13 people who were charge sheeted by CBI in connection with the case.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Chavan had challenged his inclusion in the charge sheet, saying no sanction for prosecution was taken from the Governor which was countered by CBI which argued since he was a former minister at the time of being charge-sheeted, there was no need for sanction.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The court had, however, directed the agency to get sanction for Chavan's prosecution which was denied, apparently leaving CBI with little choice but to close the case against him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">CBI had alleged in its charge sheet that Chavan had increased the floor space index of the controversial Adarsh society in return for flats for his relatives. Chavan had also asked the housing society to take 40 per cent members from civilian category, when it was originally meant only for war veterans, CBI had alleged, adding that Chavan played a key role in the scam.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Chavan's mother-in-law Bhagvati Sharma, sister-in-law Seema Sharma and father-in-law's brother Madanlal Sharma have flats in the society. All of them have been held ineligible by the judicial panel to own flats in the society.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">16. It was both the petitioner's duty and right as a citizen of this country to bring the above facts and concerns about Mr Suresh Prabhu to the attention of the President of India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. And the petitioner takes immense pride in her stand as whistle-blower in this case where she has risked her life for her moral and ethical values and where she refused to participate in or cover up corruption and forgery by General Electric executives. It cannot be emphasized enough that the petitioner, an advocate enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi, also complied with the professional rules of ethics prescribed by the Bar Council of India in refusing to allow her legal services to be used by a client (General Electric) to facilitate the commission of criminal offences, and illegal and unethical acts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">17. Accordingly the petitioner was stunned when during the hearing of this matter on 20 November 2014, when this matter was specifically listed for the Petitioner to make her submissions on the issue of the grave and imminent threat to her life as she is being poisoned, the counsel purporting to represent the Railway Ministry in this matter one Mr Om Prakash launched into an aggressive tirade against the Petitioner. Om Prakash refused to permit the petitioner to address the court, and he shouted down the petitioner whenever she opened her mouth to address the court or to respond to his tirade. Om Prakash's grievance against the petitioner was that she had dared to raise questions and concerns about Mr Suresh Prabhu's suitability for a Ministerial post and his appointment as Railway Minister and according to him the court ought to prevent the petitioner from making such complaints.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">18. Unfortunately on 20 November 2014, Judge Sistani and Judge Pathak did not restrain Om Prakash from attacking the petitioner and from preventing the petitioner to speak. The petitioner had been compelled to make complaints of judicial corruption against Judge Sistani and Judge Pathak and had on 20 November 2014 filed an application seeking recusal by these Judges. Judge Sistani and Judge Pathak permitted Om Prakash to shout at the Petitioner for about one hour.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">19. As a result the following order was passed in this matter on 20 November 2014. The petitioner submits that not only was she not permitted to address the court, but she was not allowed to make her submissions on the threat to her life. Neither was she permitted to make her submissions on her request for recusal by Judges Sistani and Pathak. Judge Sistani and Judge Pathak permitted Om Prakash to make false statements that the petitioner was at fault or responsible for recusal by 26 judges in this matter and then proceeded to record this in the order. The petitioner was only able to request that the Judges record that she was denying the submissions of Om Prakash.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">20. The order dated 20 November 2014 is reproduced below:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">We may note that Mr.Om Prakash, learned counsel appearing on behalf</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> of Ministry of Railways, has raised a strong objection with regard to</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> circulation of emails by the petitioner concerning the Railway Minister.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Mr.Prakash submits that the platform of the High Court is being used by</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> the petitioner, which is evident upon reading of the first page of the </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> email, which refers to the present petition (W.P.(C)1280/2012), wherein she refers herself to be a whistleblower. Mr.Prakash next submits that</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> the petitioner should be restrained from making such scandalous emails</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> against the persons by referring to the writ petition, which is pending</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> and has become infructuous (which is disputed by Ms.Sapra). Mr.Prakash</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> also submits that as many as twenty six Judges have recused from hearing</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> addressed by the petitioner with respect to them. Ms.Sapra submits that</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> the Judges have recused not because of her but for valid reasons.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Ms.Sapra submits that as a citizen she has the right to make a</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> The submissions made by Mr.Om Prakash, counsel for the</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> respondent/Ministry of Railways, shall be considered on the next date of</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> Ms.Sapra also informs the Court that she has filed an application</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> in the Registry, which is likely to be listed on 24.11.2014, in which she</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> has again requested this Bench to recuse from hearing this matter,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> besides the prayers of Z+ security and for safe housing, as she is a</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> witness and a whistleblower.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> It may be noted that like all the previous orders this order has</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;"> also been read out to Ms.Sapra in Court in the presence of other counsel.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">21. As a result of the order dated 20 November 2014, the Petitioner is being compelled to file the present application.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">22. As the petitioner informed the court on 20 November 2014, she has simply as a concerned citizen and as a whistle-blower in this matter made a representation to the President and Prime Minister of India that Mr Suresh Prabhu (with his background of un-investigated allegations and evidence of corruption in the Cobbler scam the Dabhol scam and the Adarsh scam; with his benami companies in the renewable energy, finance and infrastructure space; with the real likelihood that he or his son's companies have had financial or other dealings with General Electric Company and/ or its affiliates; with his role favouring General Electric Company in the Dabhol Power Plant corruption (which incidentally led to his removal from the Vajpayee cabinet's power ministry in 2002); and with existing conflict of interest issues because of his benami companies) is not the appropriate choice for Railway Minister at this juncture when General Electric Company's corrupt dealings in the Madhepura and Marhowra Rail tenders are subjudice, un-investigated and unresolved.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">23. The Petitioner is a whistle-blower and witness in the complaints of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery, FCPA violations, illegal lobbying and tender tampering against General Electric Company in connection with the Projects and tenders for the proposed diesel locomotive factory at Marhowra and the proposed electric locomotive factory at Madhepura. The petitioner has been viciously targeted because of this since 2010. She has been and continues to be poisoned. Her left ankle/ foot has been deliberately destroyed as part of the conspiracy to eliminate her. The petitioner's life continues to be in danger as long as attempts to cover up this corruption continue.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">24. The petitioner's applications and rejoinders before the Court in this matter describe how the Railway Ministry has colluded with General Electric and has filed false and perjurious affidavits in attempts to sabotage this matter and to cover up the corruption complaints against General Electric. These false and evasive affidavits filed on behalf of the Railway Ministry have placed the petitioner's life in greater danger. The Railway Ministry should have stepped forward and acknowledged the Petitioner as a whistle-blower and ensured her protection as a witness-whistleblower. Instead the affidavits filed on behalf of the Rail Ministry have targeted the Petitioner. The Railway Ministry has attempted to mislead the Court. It has attempted to cover up the complaints made by the Petitioner. As such the petitioner has every right to voice her concerns publicly that Suresh Prabhu might have been appointed as Railway Minister under pressure from General Electric Company to further facilitate the cover-up of the petitioner's corruption complaints.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">25. It is revealing and unfortunate that alleged Railway Counsel Om Prakash has not objected to the fact that K R Radhakrishnan is impersonating as the authorised signatory of General Electric in this matter and that he has filed false affidavits and that a massive fraud on the court is being committed. Om Prakash has never objected to the fact that I a witness and a whistleblower am being targeted, am homeless for 2 and a half years and that I have been and am being poisoned. During all hearings, Om Prakash is seen whispering and taking instructions from AZB lawyers (Nanju Ganpathy and Manpreet Lamba) who are purporting to represent General Electric Company.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">26. Om Prakash is not Suresh Prabhu's lawyer and he has no right to object to my complaints of personal corruption against Suresh Prabhu and to my representations to the President and Prime Minister that Suresh Prabhu should not have been appointed Rail Minister and that given his background it is reasonable to be concerned that he might facilitate the cover-up of General Electric corruption.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">27. I am extremely offended by how Om Prakash shouted at me in Court on 20 November 2014 because of my emails about Suresh Prabhu and how the Judges failed to rein him in or to restrain him but permitted him to shout so that I could not speak. Advocate Om Prakash must apologise to me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">28. I do not subscribe to the mai-baap culture that Om Prakash's tirade exhibited. He stated that he had met the Director from the Railway Ministry that morning and he had received instructions to object to my emails about Suresh Prabhu. Om Prakash repeatedly stated that my emails were against the "boss" as if I had committed blasphemy. So what? Can a citizen not question a dubious ministerial appointment?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">29. Or is it that according to Om Prakash and the Director in the Railway Ministry instructing him, only elderly men like Ram Jethmalani and Subramaniam Swamy have the right and the privilege of making representations against corruption and corrupt acts of politicians and government officers in power? Why does Om Prakash have an objection when a woman whistle-blower like me speaks up to power? Do younger women have no right to engage in political discourse and political activity? Exposing corruption is a political act. In fact, the viciousness of the retaliation against me in India is a direct consequence of my gender. It is as if a woman daring to take on powerful persons must be crushed to set an example.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">30. What does the order dated 20 November 2014 mean when it states that Om Prakash submitted that I am using the platform of the High Court? My representation against Suresh Prabhu is linked to my writ petition and to the threat to my life if the ongoing attempts to cover up my corruption complaints continue. I am fully entitled to refer to my pending writ petition in my correspondence addressed to the President and Prime Minister. I am fully entitled to identify myself as a whistleblower in such correspondence. I am fully entitled to link my concerns about Suresh Prabhu to my corruption complaints given that Suresh Prabhu is now Rail Minister and given that his appointment appears to have been influenced by General Electric Company (apparently through Mr Sharad Pawar) and was intended to oust Sadanand Gowda who was considering scrapping the impugned Madhepura and Marhowra Projects. I am fully entitled to link my representation to the writ petition that I have filed. Who is Advocate Om Prakash to object to this? How can the Railway Ministry or some Director in the Railway Ministry who is briefing Om Prakash object to my representation to the President/ Prime Minister against Suresh Prabhu's appointment?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">31. Why is Om Prakash trying to cover up my complaints against Suresh Prabhu in his personal capacity and silence me on this subject? Who is Om Prakash to describe my complaints against Suresh Prabhu as "scandalous"? Does Om Prakash hold a brief for Suresh Prabhu in the latter's personal capacity? He does not.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">32. Om Prakash should be asked to declare who in the Railway Board is giving him instructions. He mentioned a Director level officer. How is a Director level officer instructing Om Prakash in a matter of such importance?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">33. During the Court hearing on 20 November 2014, I told the court that I was not asking the court to pass orders on my complaints against Suresh Prabhu and that I had made these representations to the President and Prime Minister and that I had merely filed a copy of the representation in this matter so that the Court was kept aware of developments in the Railway Ministry regarding this matter. However given Om Prakash's attack on me which appears to be instigated by Suresh Prabhu, I am constrained to file this application and seek relief on this issue.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">34. Om Prakash is also misleading the court that this matter is infructuous. This writ petition has not become infructuous merely because the 2010 Madhepura and Marhowra tenders have been cancelled. Such statements are being made without any hearing and also without reading pending court applications and court pleadings. Arguments on merits in this matter have still to commence before J Sistani and J Pathak. I also point out that complaints of corruption in a tender by a bidder do not get washed away simply by that tender being cancelled. Especially when the corruption pointed out, continues to plague and infect the subsequent retendering process as well. The writ petition includes a prayer for blacklisting GE for corruption. Legal consequences of corruption, fraud and forgery in a tender cannot be avoided by mere cancellation of the tender and by initiation of a fresh tender where the bidder who indulged in the corrupt dealings continues to enjoy the benefits of that corruption. Yet Om Prakash would like the Court to disregard corruption complaints and evidence before it, and ignore prayers for the reliefs of blacklisting, investigation and prosecution. Neither the PMO nor the Rail Ministry have contended on affidavit that the writ petition has become infructuous. This writ petition survives and must be decided on merits even though the 2010 tenders have been cancelled. The cancellation of the 2010 tenders was a direct result of this writ petition and provides further evidence of the corruption complaints in the writ petition. Evidence and averments on the court record establish that the cancellation of the tenders was at the instance of the very persons involved in the corruption, and was nothing but a malafide device to over-reach the court and an attempt to cover up the corruption complaints before the court and an attempt to avoid the due process of law and to avoid the adjudication of the writ petition on merits and the investigation of the corruption complaints and a malafide attempt to permit General Electric to continue to bid for the same Project despite evidence of General Electric's corruption. Om Prakash is fully aware that this matter is not infructuous and he should stop misleading the court and colluding with the lawyers who are claiming to represent General Electric without vakalatnamas. No railway affidavit has stated that this matter is infructuous.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">35. The petitioner once again reproduces the prayers in this writ petition:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">1. Summon the records of Respondent Nos. 2, 4 and 5 on the whistle-blower complaints made by the Petitioner and after examining the records and hearing the Respondents, issue a writ of mandamus to Respondent 4 directing that Respondent 7 be disqualified and Respondent Nos. 1, 6 and 7 be black-listed from the Diesel and Electric Locomotive Tenders (Global RFQ No. 2010/ ME (Proj)/ 4/ Marhoura/RFQ and RFQ No. 2010/ Elect. (Dev0 440/1(1)).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">2. Issue writs of mandamus to Respondent Nos. 2, 4 and 5 directing them to respond to and act upon the said whistle-blower complaints in accordance with law.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">3. Direct that Respondent No. 2 inquire into the commission of criminal offences (including forgery, bribery and public corruption) arising out of the Petitioner's whistle-blower complaints and direct prosecution of GE employees and government officials and public servants found involved and complicit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">4. Enforce and protect the right to life of the Petitioner and direct that the Petitioner be provided full protection and safety and be immediately relocated to a safe house."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">36. Om Prakash's shocking attack on me during the court hearing of 20 November 2014 only serves to lend credence to my complaints and apprehensions regarding Suresh Prabhu and his appointment as Rail Minister.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">37. It is a matter of public interest that the Government of India (through the PMO, respondent 5 herein) ascertain and declare if there is any conflict of interest regarding Suresh Prabhu and the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and tenders? Have Suresh Prabhu, his son or their companies had any dealings (financial or otherwise) with General Electric Company and/or its affiliates? Have Suresh Prabhu's extra-curricular activities at the global level and in the renewable energy policy sphere ever been directly or indirectly funded by General Electric Company and/ or its affiliates? Have Suresh Prabhu's extra-curricular activities at the global level and in the renewable energy policy sphere ever been directly or indirectly funded by the United States government which has also lobbied for the Marhowra and Madheoura Projects on behalf of General Electric Company?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">38. Has Mr Suresh Prabhu been made aware of this writ petition and of the evidence of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and illegal lobbying concerning the tenders for the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects that is on record?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">39. The petitioner points out that one Nihar Ranjan Dash might be the Director in the Railway Ministry instructing Om Prakash. Mr Nihar Ranjan Dash is too junior an officer to deal with this matter. Plus he appears to be part of the electric engineering directorate and not a part of the Railway Board.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">40. It is shocking that Suresh Prabhu misused a junior officer in the rail ministry (Nihar Ranjan Dash) to ask Om Prakash to protest against my representation against Suresh Prabhu. Who is Nihar Ranjan Dash to object to this representation? What legal authority does he have to do this? Such mai-baap culture of corruption and cover-up must end.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">41. Prime Minister Narendra Modi must give serious consideration to my representations about the unsuitability of Suresh Prabhu for a government position. Prime Minister Narendra Modi must also ensure that no one including Suresh Prabhu helps cover up my complaints of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery, FCPA violations and illegal lobbying against General Electric and Montek Singh Ahluwalia in connection with the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and tenders and that these complaints are investigated and prosecuted in accordance with law.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">42. This application is being made in the interest of justice.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">43. This application relies upon the entire court record of Writ Petition Civil 1280/2012 and also on the petitioner's complaints being emailed to authorities including to the Registrar General of the High Court.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">44. Copies of Suresh Prabhu's cv and his wife Uma Prabhu's CV are annexed hereto as Annexure P-1.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">45. It is pointed out that the previous scam-afflicted UPA Government under former PM Dr Manmohan Singh and his close aide Montek Singh Ahluwalia were not only complicit in the corruption that is the subject matter of this petition, but were master-minding the coverup of these complaints and the sabotage of this writ petition and the elimination of the petitioner-whistleblower-witness. Now that the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in power, and given that the election mandate to this government was to act against corruption, it is necessary that Prime Minister Narendra Modi intervene in this matter and personally ensure that the attempted cover-up of these corruption complaints by the Railway Ministry be stopped and that fresh affidavits be filed by the Railway Ministry which are truthful, and responsive and where the Railway Ministry faithfully discharges its obligation o this Court to ascertain the true and complete facts regarding the Petitioner's corruption complaints against General Electric and Montek Singh Ahluwalia.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">46. Advocate Om Prakash was brought into this matter by the previous UPA regime to cover up its own and General Electric's corruption. He has failed to assist the court properly. The new NDA government must remove Om Prakash as counsel for Railway Ministry (respondent 4) in this matter and must appoint a proper counsel who properly assists the court, who is respectful to the petitioner-whstleblower and who gives correct advice to his client and whose agenda is not to facilitate the cover-up of the corruption complaints and the sabotage of this petition. Mr Sanjay Jain ASG is supposed to represent the PMO (respondent 5) and respondent 4 (Railway Ministry) in this matter but for some reason he has failed to appear in this matter on a single date since his appointment. Earlier his predecessor Mr Rajiv Mehra appeared for respondents 4 and 5.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">47. It is important for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to recognise the influence of General Electric Company and the illegal nexus of Indian politicians it harbours. Please see the petitioner's email dated 15 October 2014 below titled</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">From: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:50 PM</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Subject: Some more truths about General Electric corruption in India from General Electric Company whistleblower - Seema Sapra - Writ Petition (Civil) 1280/ 2012 – in the matter of Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company and Others in the Delhi High Court</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I have added some content to some more truths about General Electric corruption in India. Meanwhile toxic chemicals have been released into my current accommodation through the day today and this evening. I am being poisoned as part of ongoing attempts to eliminate me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Please read below an interview by former GE India head Scott Bayman in 2007, who it has now emerged was acting as GE India head for 14 years in violation of Indian law. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">This interview and other material in the public domain raises several issues.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Interestingly Scott Bayman fled India when the Income Tax dept started investigating Permanent Establishment rule violations & Tax fraud by GE in India. Read about the Tax fraud by GE in India under Scott Bayman who fled India as a result http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/2014/10/fwd-message-to-prime-minister-narendra.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The corrupt links between GE, DLF, Montek, Sam Pitroda and the Congress Party run long and deep. So GE's Scott Bayman's closest adviser & friend in India was DLFs KP Singh who was simultaneously a fraudster as now established by the SEBI order banning DLF, KP Singh & cronies from the capital markets for IPO related fraud which KP Singh was engaged in contemporaneous to his association with Scott Bayman. See http://firstbiz.firstpost.com/corporate/housewives-of-dlf-how-the-spouse-factor-led-to-sebi-crackdown-104724.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">GE's Scott Bayman in 2007 on KP Singh "He remains my informal advisor, confidante and mentor,"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Bayman also admits that GE lobbied for Boeing to get AirIndia orders which then bankrupted & destroyed AirIndia. He also admits that he "was working equally hard to bag the Indian Air Force order for 128 fighter jets for American firms."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(Note see http://www.vijayvaani.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?aid=3361 "One, have you heard of a Company that makes a financial commitment of Rs 55,000 crore for purchase of 111 aircraft on an equity base of Rs 145 crore and carry-forward losses of Rs 776 crore -- (Indian Airlines loss of Rs 957 crore less Air India profit reserves Rs 181 crs) as on March 31, 2006? ... Two, since loan funds were used to fund purchase of aircraft, was it confirmed that expected revenue and profits would enable timely repayment of debt! If there was indeed such a confirmation, the projections and underlying assumptions should be published to start a public debate.") - These were the AirIndia aircraft purchase orders that GE, Boeing and the US gov extracted from the UPA government.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Also read http://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/7ChDN1veCw60rEYtVhszoL/Air-India8217s-Boeing-buy-forced-CAG.html "Prashant Bhushan, a Supreme Court lawyer, who is pursuing a public interest litigation seeking a court-monitored investigation into the deal, said: "Clearly this needs investigation. Prima facie it's a thoroughly corrupt case as big as the 2G scam, involving huge kickbacks, politicians and bureaucrats. Here is a case where Air India, which was flying below capacity, was forced to buy aircraft, which were probably not required, at an exorbitant rate. We will press for a court -monitored investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India criticizing these AirIndia orders on Boeing and GE can be read at http://saiindia.gov.in/english/home/our_products/audit_report/government_wise/union_audit/recent_reports/union_performance/2011_2012/Civil_%20Performance_Audits/Report_18/chap3.pdf</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">These orders were clearly a result of corrupt dealings where bribes would have been paid by Boeing or GE or both.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Bayman is also proud of the fact that GE " was able to get back almost the entire $115 million it had invested" in the Dabhol project. Ratnagiri Power the rechristened Dabhol power project is still lying in the Doldrums, not operational, losing money, an unfeasible project that was the result of GE corruption involving Manmohan Singh, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, N K P Salve and Sharad Pawar among others. The CIA was involved in getting this deal through as well. The Indian government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi should consider declaring the Dabhol Power Plant as a museum to corruption.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The NDA government with Arun Jaitley as law minister and Soli Sorabjee as Attorney General also failed to protect national interest in the Enron litigation and enabled GE to recover all of its money invested in Dabhol, while Indian government Banks, and PSUs were financially bled. In Maharashtra, former Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati ensured that the States's interest was not protected.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">This firspost reports also states this about Mr Goolam Vahanvati's son in law: "Incidentally, the name of Carrimjee, who is at the centre of this web of four alleged market manipulators, features in a list of holders of accounts in tax havens that was published earlier this year by the International Centre of Investigative Journalists. A search of the database of the Centre shows that Carrimjee operates an offshore company called Fast Tycoon Limited with a banking link in the British Virgin Islands.) Also read http://www.outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?288473</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Chidambaram/ Montek Singh Ahluwalia/ Manmohan Singh / UPA later negotiated a maintenance contract for Dabhol with GE, which has again only enriched GE, while the power plant being unfeasible has floundered. Vahanvati was Solicitor General /Attorney General at this time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">As he prepares to leave the business he set up 14 years ago, GE's India head reflects on his hits and misses and shares his plans to return soon.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">India was nowhere on Scott Bayman's radar screen. Having worked with General Electric for six years in the United States, he had indicated some time in 1993 that he would be game for an overseas stint, hoping to spend some time in Paris, London or Brussels. Instead, Jack Welch sent him to India for three years. Bayman stayed on for 14 years and will be retiring from the company at the end of this month.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"Jack had great instincts," says Bayman, dressed in a red T-shirt and looking relaxed. The bliss of a coming holiday is unmistakable in the body language. We are at San Gimignano at The Imperial in the capital. We had earlier agreed to meet at Daniell's Tavern over some spicy Indian food. But when I called to book a table, I was told the restaurant opened only for dinner. So Bayman settled for Italian fare.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Jack Welch first came to India in the late-1980s at the invitation of Kushal Pal Singh of DLF, who took him to meet Rajiv Gandhi, Sam Pitroda and Montek Singh Ahluwalia. He was impressed with what he saw, especially taken in by the skills of Indians. That is when he decided to invest in India. It was for Bayman to build a business from scratch in a country about which he knew nothing.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Help came from friends like Singh. "He remains my informal advisor, confidante and mentor," says Bayman, sipping a red wine of 1983 vintage. The dozen-odd GE companies operating in the country will end the year with a turnover of $2.8 billion.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Bayman admits that GE's business in India has picked up only in the last three-four years, before which it was stagnating at around $500 million per annum. By 2010, GE hopes its India business to improve to $8 billion - 16 per cent of the projected turnover of $50 billion from the emerging markets.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Be that as it may, I remind Bayman that at least one of his plans for India never took off - to have a bank in the country. Bayman says talks are still going on with the Reserve Bank of India. I leave it at that. On his part, Bayman ranks the failure of GE's joint venture with the Godrej family, Godrej GE Appliances, as his biggest failure in India.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"It was our mistake. While everybody in business knew about GE, the consumers didn't know the GE brand. The cost of building the brand didn't make sense. Our products were not suited for India," Bayman says. As he launches on his lettuce salad, the words of a common friend start ringing in my ears: "He is not a bullshitter and talks straight."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"It was the saddest day of my career," Bayman adds. What must have hurt more is that before coming to India, Bayman was in-charge for worldwide marketing and product management at GE Appliances.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">On the positive side, Bayman can take credit for starting the BPO movement in the country with Genpact (now Gecis) in 1997. "At that time, unemployment in the United States was zero. And we also got savings by starting operations in India," Bayman says, adding: "Had there been a BPO industry in India at that time, we wouldn't have started the company."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">GE subsequently sold 60 per cent in the venture to private equity investors once it realised it wasn't its core business. "It is good we sold to private equity; that way, the company has been able to preserve the GE culture," he says. When I ask him the obvious question, Bayman admits that he did have several offers from Indian businessmen to buy out the BPO outfit.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Bayman's biggest achievement in India, observers say, was to extricate GE from the Dabhol mess. GE had got the contract to supply turbines for Enron's ill-fated Dabhol project and had, therefore, taken a 10 per cent stake in the company. Once Enron imploded, GE's investments were in danger. But Bayman was able to get the money back, though after two years.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"This couldn't have happened in another country, we wouldn't have got a penny back," says Bayman, having moved on to a salami pizza, while I negotiate a baked fillet of fish served with mashed potatoes. GE, he adds, was able to get back almost the entire $115 million it had invested in the project.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Having come out of Dabhol unscathed, Bayman's reputation in the capital's power circles as an expert in government relations grew manifold. "Jack Welch sold India to the world. GE has been a good friend of India in Washington during tough times," he says.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">When I ask him to elaborate, he adds: "After the nuclear tests, we worked to get some sanctions against India lifted. We talked with Senators and Congressmen for the inclusion of India in the nuclear club. I am as much an insider as any expat."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">He lobbied successfully for Boeing to bag the multi-billion order for passenger aircraft from Air-India - GE makes the engines - and was working equally hard to bag the Indian Air Force order for 128 fighter jets for American firms.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Naturally, Indian companies want Bayman on their board. He has already joined the Crompton Greaves board and says he has a few more offers. "I will come to India four to five times every year to attend board meetings and play golf with my friends," he says.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I next draw Bayman's attention to GE CEO Jeff Immelt's recent statement that after GE Plastic's divestment to Sabic, no other business would be sold. Jack Welch had laid down the rule that GE should get out of any business in which it was not number one or number two. So, is "Neutron" Jack's imprint on GE over?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">"We are less hung up about number one and number two now," Bayman says, adding: "What matters is that we are in businesses and countries that will provide double digit growth in the long run."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">And India is one of these countries. It is evident that India has left a deep impression on him - his eyes light up whenever he talks about the country and its people. "The sights and smells are boggling," he says, adding: "In contrast, the United States is generic and vanilla." Bayman has been spotted in crowded Delhi markets like Lajpat Nagar selecting curtains for his home.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">When he first came to India, Bayman says he found India to be self-centric. Now, he finds the country more outward looking. "But the core values of family and compassion are still there in the people," he says.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Still, Bayman leaves for the United States next month, where he will alternate between Chicago and Florida. "Go where the sun is: Chicago in summer and Florida in the winters," he lets out his retirement plans.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The ongoing whistleblower corruption against General Electric Company in India (Writ Petition (Civil) 1280/ 2012 – in the matter of Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company and Others) is next listed before the Delhi High Court on 10 November 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">The full case record can be found at http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/2014/09/fwd-seema-sapra-general-electric_22.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Also read about how as part of attempted cover up GE is using unauthorised persons to impersonate it in the Delhi High Court in this matter http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/p/unauthorised-and-fraudulent.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Also read about massive tax fraud by General Electric in India - http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/2014/10/fwd-message-to-prime-minister-narendra.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Also read about General Electric's money laundering and how it used an NBCU subsidiary to transfer bribes through an India media company NDTV at http://seemasapra.blogspot.in/p/complaint-of-money-laundering-against.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">It is therefore most respectfully prayed that this Hon'ble Court may be pleased to:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(a) Direct the Government of India through the PMO (respondent 5 herein) to ascertain and declare the conflict of interest if any regarding Suresh Prabhu and this writ petition and/ or the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and tenders; to ascertain and declare any dealings (financial or otherwise) between Suresh Prabhu, his son or their companies and General Electric Company and/or its affiliates; and to ascertain and declare whether Mr Suresh Prabhu has been made aware of this writ petition and of the full evidence of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and illegal lobbying concerning the tenders for the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(b) Direct the Government of India through the PMO (respondent 5 herein) to ensure that Suresh Prabhu as Railway Minister does not act unlawfully in connection with the Marhowra and Madhepura locomotive factory Projects and that no attempt is made to cover up the complaints of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery, FCPA violations, tender manipulation, and illegal lobbying that are pending against General Electric Company in connection with the Projects and tenders for the proposed diesel and electric locomotive factories at Marhowra and Madhepura;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(c) Direct Advocate Om Prakash to disclose who instructed him to oppose the Petitioner's representations to the President and Prime Minister against Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(d) Issue notice of criminal contempt to Advocate Om Prakash for obstruction of court proceedings on 20 November 2014 when he prevented the petitioner from addressing the court by shouting at her and by shouting her down with the specific intent to prevent her from addressing the court and to prevent her from responding to his invalid objections;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(e) Direct the Railway Ministry to replace advocate Om Prakash with a lawyer who will not facilitate the cover-up of the corruption complaints against General Electric and who will not collude withGgeneral Electric Company's alleged lawyers to sabotage this writ petition;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(f) Direct that ASG Sanjay Jain who has been instructed to appear in this matter for respondents 4 and 5 (Railway Ministry and the PMO) start assisting the Hon'ble Court and not skip court hearings;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">(g) Pass such other and further orders as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">I, Seema Sapra, daughter of Late Shri A. R. Sapra, aged 43 years, previously resident of G 4, first floor, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi 110014 and rendered homeless on 30 May 2012 (because of and as a result of the whistleblower complaints of corruption, forgery, bribery, fraud and illegal activities made against General Electric, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Planning Commission, Railway Ministry and Ministry of Finance and as a result of the whistleblower corruption petition (W.P. (C ) 1280/ 2012) and because of my complaints of sexual harassment against Mr Soli J Sorabjee and Mr Raian Karanjawala) in contempt of this Hon'ble Court's order dated May 25, 2012 and presently homeless do hereby solemnly affirm and state as under:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">1. I am the Petitioner in the present Petition and am well aware of the facts of the case and am competent to file the present affidavit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">2. I state that the accompanying application under Section 151, Civil Procedure Code seeking directions that the Government of India through the PMO (respondent 5 herein) ascertain and declare the conflict of interest if any regarding Suresh Prabhu and this writ petition and/ or the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and tenders; any dealings (financial or otherwise) between Suresh Prabhu, his son or their companies and General Electric Company and/or its affiliates; and declare whether Mr Suresh Prabhu has been made aware of this writ petition and of the full evidence of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and illegal lobbying concerning the tenders for the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects; and directions to Advocate Om Prakash to disclose who instructed him to oppose the Petitioner's representations to the President and Prime Minister against Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister; and for issuance of notice of criminal contempt to Advocate Om Prakash for obstruction of court proceedings on 20 November 2014 when he prevented the petitioner from addressing the court by shouting at her and by shouting her down with the specific intent to prevent her from addressing the court and to prevent her from responding to his invalid objections; (along with affidavit) has been drafted by me and the facts stated therein are true and correct to my knowledge and nothing material has been concealed there-from and that all annexures to the application are true copies of their respective originals.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Verified at New Delhi on this 26th day of November 2014 that the contents of the above affidavit are true and correct to my knowledge and that nothing material has been concealed therefrom.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">In the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi at New Delhi</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Writ Petition No. 1280 of 2012</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Seema Sapra …Petitioner</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Urgent Application</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Application under Section 151, Civil Procedure Code seeking directions that the Government of India through the PMO (respondent 5 herein) ascertain and declare the conflict of interest if any regarding Suresh Prabhu and this writ petition and/ or the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects and tenders; any dealings (financial or otherwise) between Suresh Prabhu, his son or their companies and General Electric Company and/or its affiliates; and declare whether Mr Suresh Prabhu has been made aware of this writ petition and of the full evidence of corruption, fraud, forgery, bribery and illegal lobbying concerning the tenders for the Madhepura and Marhowra Projects; and directions to Advocate Om Prakash to disclose who instructed him to oppose the Petitioner's representations to the President and Prime Minister against Suresh Prabhu's appointment as Rail Minister; and for issuance of notice of criminal contempt to Advocate Om Prakash for obstruction of court proceedings on 20 November 2014 when he prevented the petitioner from addressing the court by shouting at her and by shouting her down with the specific intent to prevent her from addressing the court and to prevent her from responding to his invalid objections; (along with affidavit)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Annexure P-1 – True copies of Suresh Prabhu's cv and his wife Uma Prabhu's CV</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Place: New Delhi Petitioner in Person</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">26 November 2014 Seema Sapra</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Rendered homeless since May 30, 2012 as a result of corruption complaints against General Electric and as a result of this whistleblower corruption petition (W.P. (C) 1280/ 2012) and presently homeless</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">9582716748</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">seema.sapra@gmail.com</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">Note: All 17 respondents have been served with an advance copy of this application by email dated 26 November 2014</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 17.12px;">All the prayers are inter-connected and flow from each other. Please list the application before court as it is. </span></span><br />
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