FACING ALLEGATIONS
hand in glove' in trying to
being
save each other. "That was expected. (The)
country would be
Haryana clears Vadra;
surprised if it were otherwise. In
Haryana,
all
good
officers
are
shunted out. Those in key posi-
Gadkari firm faces probe
td
crawl when asked
tions
bend.
Now Congress will protect Gadkari and BJP will protect Vadra,"
PT! quoted him as saying.
ior BJP leaders, Gadkari may be
department start
looking into allegations
asked to resign as president to
give the party an upper hand in
the political battle against cor-
of dubious funding of
ruption.
Purti Power and Sugar
ANUJA, Liz MATHEW
By
temperature, the Congress-led Harygovernment
on Friday said
after a quick probe that it found
no irregularities in land purchas-
es by Robert Vadra,
Meanwhile,
(floG)
companies
come
gun
tax
the
registrar
and
he
of
in-
department have be-
looking
allegations
into
of
party's
the
Sangh
ideological
to'1e BIP's
top leaderson
The
JtSS said in a release on
Friday:
'We
are
deeply
sad-
holdings
director-gen-
consolidation
and
land
of
land
records
as
attempt to
shield Vadra was "apparent", the
well as inspector general of registhat
he was
alleged
tration,
NP's
transferred out of his position af-
the Congress'
contention was not entirely
he
began
enquiring
into
shareholding
into Vadra's déls on suspicion
Both
the
BIP
and
turned-politician Arvind
al
activistXejriw-
tenable.
and
funding,
ter
Vadra's land deals in the state.
Service,
tive
began
enquiring
he had bought land at prices
Against Corruption
which is a fit case for an enquiry
thW
criticised the Congress party for
by the corporate affairs ministry," he said, asking
not to be
lower than the govert2ment noti-
of India
the Haryana
sion
to
government's deci-
close
against Vadra,
investigations
accusing
thç rul-
party of double standards in
of cor-
were blackened, they decided to
malign us and accused our national
president
identified because
Nitin Gadkari.
of the sensi-
tivity
of the matter. "Having said
that
the Haryana government's
process
case)
(BJP), drawing charges that the
coming' under
of
eral
Khemka, an officer of the 199t
When Congress leaders' faces
BJP
un
corporate governance said that
expert
batch of the Indian Administra-
ruption.
saw the
the state's former
Mumbai-based
tors. In effect, there appears to
have been a manipulation of
stature."
Janata Party
pressure. According to two sen
The state government ordered
an enquiry after Ashok Khemka,
fictitious sliareltelders and direc-
tion of Sangh's
tin Gadkari, president of the op-
ii
in
in the insti-
ers", he said.
A
there
undervaluation
on an organtza-
cast aspersions
investigating allegations
The allegations against Gadka-
The
no
and Fatithat
name into these allegations and
ing
Congress-led Union government
is behind these investigations.
Mewat, Gurgaon
dabad—determined
"In Gadkari's case, the
charge is that his companies had
dened by the efforts to drag RSS'
dubious funding of Punt Power
Bharatiya
wal,
are all "responsible offic-
officials involved
while
and Sugar Lid, promoted by Niposition
govern-
gation
businessman
and son-in-law of Congress party president Sonia Gandhi.
ie state
Rashtriya Swayamsevak
a move that could further
the political
Alvi defended
Rashid
Vadra's land deals.
Saturday.
raise
of four districts in Haryana—Pal-
spokesman
chit was not an "eyewash".
parent, is expected to convey its
NEW DEIHI
said at a public meeting.
'S4ongress
was slated to meet late Friday
evening to discuss the issue. The
view
ana
BIP
conducted by the commissioners
was
The top brass of the
inquiries
that
him,' Bit' leader Sushma Swaraj
ment's report and said the clean
(RSS),
&
AMAN MALIK
In
reported
PTI
RoC and income tax
added.
of
enquiry (in the Vadra
was
itself improper,"
he
The income tax depart-
ment along
with the state's anti-
or the CUt
(Central Bureau of Investigation)
corruption
bureau
he did not sit at home, lie
faced the media alone and re-
should have carried out the in-
plied
both the Congress and the BIP of
But
to all charges made against
vestigation."
Kejriwal
accused
fled rates and then sold them to
private
developers
including
DLF Ltd at much higher prices.
One case relates to a 3.5 acre
plot of land in the Manesar
Shikhopur region of Haryana,
which was sold to Sky Light Hos-
a company promoted by
Vadra, for 7.5 crore in February
pitality,
2008, and subsequently
DLF for
sold
to
58 crore a few months
later.
[email protected]
Former Abbishek aide Allen's
statement recorded in US
ever, the details of the accounts
RAHUL TRIPATHI
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER26
the
ONFIRMING
role
be made available by the
US authorities in reply to a let-
onVemiaandhiswife.
ThesourcessaidAllenalso
conflimedthe money received
ter rogatory sent by the CI.
inaNewYorkbankaccountin
The agency had investigated
OFBscam in 2009 and had rec-
Allen's statements would
ot arms dealer
Abhishek
detence
will
deals,
Verma in
Edmond
C
Allen has recorded his statements before a joint team of
CBI-ED in the US. Allen has
also identified the MoD offi-
the name of Verma's Ganton
ommended blacklisting
USA.
chargesheetagainst Venna and
have authenticated the docu-
wife
Neacsu, said officials.
Anca
ments suppliedby him and the
e-mails seized from Verma's
defence firms to MoD.
Among the firms listed by
the CBiwas Switzerland-based
Allen, a former escrow
laptop during the CBI raids.
his
Romanian
fund manager
of Verma, had
sent mails addressed to IDe
associates to the
fenceMinisterAKMtony,the
ing the role of
sleuths nailVerma in the
CDI and
leakage of secret documents.
Vermais accused ofobtaining
secret defence documents
the ED in Januatythis
year. The CBI registered the
first case against Verma and bis
them
this year and arrested the duo. It has slapped
nearly half a dozen criminal
The 01-ED team which
cases against Verma which in-
returned after a 15-day-visitto
from MoD
and supplying
to private defence firms.
theUS kiso examined the bank
details in which
accounts
Verma receitd payments for
alleged defence deals. How
Ordnance
be used atthetimeomfilingof
Verma's
cials, bureaucrats and
volvement in 2009
Factory Board (OFB) case.
wife in June
Allen is
also learnt to
classified documents redefence procurement
in possession of Verma were
of six
Rheinmetall Air Defence AG
which had allegedly adopted Il-
The
legal means
lated to
tract of supply of 35 MM
also identified by Allen. He
provi4ed the e-mail trails of
these documents to the ED.
to obtain the conre-
volver gun system by OFB. Last
year, the Defence Ministry
blacklisted these firms including Rheinmetall Air Defence
In
his complaint, Allen al-
AG.
leged
that Verma deposited a
blacklistingwasunderproces.s,
huge sum of money with him
Verma allegedly got in touch
and an escrow account was
with representatives
clude forging the letters of the
then MoS (Home) Ajay
opened by Verma in which
Swiss finn
$410 million were deposited.
help by influencing govern-
Makçn and of one of its SPs.
During examination of the
ment
complaint, the CDI stumbled
process of blacklisting of
The ED
has
also slapped
charges of money laundering
upon
evidence
of Verma's in
"When this matter
of
of the
and assured them of
officials
to stall
the
the
company," said a CBI official.
HC asks ex-BJP
minister Rathore
U
"to surrender
SWETA DUTrA
DARASINGH
JAIPUR, OCrOBER 26
ThE Rajasthan High
Fridayasked former BJPminister and current party chief
whip in the Assembly Rajen-
dra Singh Rathore to surrender
ENCOUNTER
Court
before a trial court or the
claimed he
fired at them and
therefore had to be gunned
down. The police chased him
on foot and shot him near the
Kamla Nagar flyover.
BI at the earliest. Rathore,
main
accused
in the Dara
JusticeAjayßastogi,who
delivered the judgmenton Fri-
Singhfakk encountercase,was
day, said the CBI was allowed
discharged on May3l by the
to force Rathore to surrender if
District
he
and
Sessions Judgein
did not willingly do so. Ac-
Jaipuras the trial court could
cording
not find material evidence to
filed by the CBI, Dara Singh
framechargesagainst him.
Following revision peti-
tions filed by
to the chargesheet
was allegedly detained illegally
byofficialsoftheSpecialOper-
the CRI and Darn
ations Group, who took him to
Singh's wife, Sushila Dcvi, the
an isolated place near Athber
High Court set aside the lower
court's
order
and
killed him. Rathore,
who
asked
airs
was then Parliamentaiy Af
Rathore to surrender.
Dan Singh, a local liquor
smuggler, was killed in an al-
Minister, was arrested on April
5 this year for his alleged involvement in the killing.
leged fake
and
encounter inJaipur
Fourteen police
officials
on October23, 2006. The state
including ADO AX Jam
Special Operatidas Group that
IGPAponnuchan,i are injudi-
was
trying
to arrest
him
cialcusto4
and
Faridkot abduction: Parents seek
cBI probe, daughter's 'custody
PBD BUREAUIPTI
sent to Nan Niketan in
that it
FARIDROT, 0(126
Jalanidhar by a court
here last Monday after
on part of them to project the case in such a
she refused
the
a minute,
police official asked my
manner.
also
wife to leave the place,
he said.
He
claimed
their
The 15-year-old girl, who was abduct-
daughter has been kept
PARENTS of the minor
girl,
allegedly
napped
and
at
later
rescued
into
episode
tody
the
the par
Girls
improper
father
kid-
gunpoint
in
Goa, have sought a CBI
probe
to undergo
medical exam,
was
entire
besids
cus-
of their daughter
who was sent to shelter
ed from Faridkot on September 24
and taken to Goa by her alleged kidnapper Nishan Singh, was rescued by
police earlier this week
home by the court.
The
who
15-year-old girl,
was
abducted
from here on September
24 and taken to Goa by
her alleged kidnapper
Nishan Singh, was rescued
by police earlier
this week.
While
the girl was
brief
meeting
of
just
about
under a
ed
room
vigil
is
high1y guard-
where a
close
always
main-
tained on her activities.
The 15-year-old girl
was allegedly abducted
at gunpoint by Nishan
ents, who went to meet
alleged that they were
not given enough time
Singh, already facing 18
expressed desire that
their daughter be hand-
to meet their daughter.
from her house in pub-
ed over to them
came and took my wife
to meet my daughter.
yesterday,
her
They
the
also
criticised
authorities
for
pro-
police
A
When
jecting the case as one
mother
of elopement, and said
said
official
she
saw
her
she
wept
and
nothing. After a
different criminal cases,
lic
view on September
24.
have so far
of the total
17 identified accused in
Police
arrested
the case.
15
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surrender
HG order in Dara Singh
fake encounter case
JA1PUk In a major setback
judgment on Friday in a jam-
to the BJP, the Rajasthan
packed court room, also per
mitted the CBI to force
Rathore's surrender if he does
High Court on Friday asked
former VP minister Rajen-
dra
Singh Rathore to surren-
der in
Dara Singh fake encounter case before a trial
court, setting aside the low-
er court's order which had
discharged him in the case
sighting lack of evidence.
not willingly surrender before
court.
According to the charge
sheet filed by the CBI, Dan
Singh was allegedly
Operations Group (SOG),who
took him to an
Thèorder
came on separate
review petitions filed by the
CBI, whichis investigating the
case and Sushila Devi, wife of
DaraSingh,alocalbootlegger,
who was allegedly
killed
in a
detained
illegally by officials of a Special
near Amber
a fake
isolated place
avd Idlied him in
encou4ter. It
accused
Rathore as the main conspirator in the case.The CE! claimed
that the call details showed that
Rathore was in close commu-
fake encounter in 2006.
nication
The district and sessions
judge PC Jam here on May31
had discharged the former
SOG chief and was instrumen-
minister and party chief whip
in the Assembly in the case
where CBI had produced him
as the main accused and conspirator
encounter.
Rathorc was holding PWD
portfolio and Jam was not supposed to
report to him, the
agency asserted.
The CBI also claimed that
Rathorehad strong motive for
trial court had dis-
the crime due to his animosity
Rathore as it had not
found material evidence to
frame charges against himAllowing the petitions, the hight
court on Friday held that the
sessions judge had wronged in
appreciating evidence at the
stage of framing of charges,
which can be done only at the
trial of the case.
Rathore will now have to
face trial, after framing up of
charges against him if he is
not
charged
going to appeal in the higher
court against the ruling. Juslice
Aj ayRastogi,
the fake
then
fake en-
for staging the
counteit The
tal in
with AK Jam,
who delivered the
with Dara Singh as he was rehis patronage to the ri-
sisting
val liquor mafla.Rathore, who
was the parliamentaiy affairs
minister at the time of the incident;
was arrested on April 5
for his alleged involvement in
the fake encounter. About half
a dozen Rajasthan Police officials including IPS officers A
KJain and A Ponnuchamy are
facing trail in the caseAccording
to sources close to Rathore,
he may
file an appeal in
Supreme Court.
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business associate C Edmonds Allen has recorded his statement with a CBI-ED joint team, in which he is believed to
have corroborated the allegations against Verma.
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said Allen gave a lot of details, including Verma's receipt of
$5.3 lakh from a Swiss
arms firm to get it off the government
blacklist and violation of the Official Secrets Act. Verma's
lawyer said Men's statement can't be used against in any
court as evidenca
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next month against arms-dealer Abhishek Verma In four cases, including the alleged
$530,000 bribe taken from Swiss defence firm,
Rheinmetall Air Defence (RAD), for getting its
name cleared from the defence ministry's
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