Showing posts with label CBI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CBI. Show all posts

Friday, October 26, 2012

It’s a business deal

It’s a business deal. They have your asset (son) and you have the consideration (Rs.60 lakh)…

But Sanjay is bravely trying to pick up the pieces and move on. Speaking to B&E, a tormented Chawla turns philosophical and offers a few words of advice to fellow entrepreneurs and CEOs, “Law is technically reactive in nature, and it comes into picture, only after the crime is committed. Even the Government is trying to put in place a CISF security system for the corporates, but keeping in mind the population of India, it is practically impossible to assign a policemen or a security guard for everyone. Citizens need to be more proactive in nature...”

Given the dysfunctional nature of the law and order and police system in India, virtually every citizen is vulnerable to some kind of crime – from chain-snatching to car-jacking to rape and murder. But particularly vulnerable as ‘soft targets’ are CEOs like Anant Gupta and entrepreneurs like Sanjay Chawla and their near and dear ones. And almost everyone concerned with this “industry” agree that the danger will become even more potent and menacing in the months and years to come. “It’s a big business these days... and is constantly on the rise! And we can do little about it at the moment,” states V. M. Pandit, a former official of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) who runs his own private security outfit. A top cop of Haryana Police, who has been privy to information regarding scores of kidnapping cases and who doesn’t want to be named says, “The number of rich businessmen and senior corporate managers is growing manifold every year. It is but natural for criminals to target them. The problem is, many such potential victims are simply not just aware of the simple steps that they and their family members need to take to prevent such crimes. You have to be proactively careful too!” (See Infographics)

Virtually every security expert agrees that there are three things that a family must do when a kidnapping has happened and the ransom calls start coming in – do not lose your cool, do not succumb too easily or too fast to ransom demands and always seek the help of a ‘professional’ who understands the psyche of the criminals.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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Monday, October 15, 2012

The truth behind their tall claims

A B&E analysis of the various failings of the UPA and the truth behind their tall claims

As recently as March 2009, Manmohan Singh’s government has bludgeoned a government out of power in Meghalaya. Such brazen trampling of constitutional niceties is reason enough to believe that the Congress should never get a majority in the Lok Sabha.

The really sad thing is the manner in which investigative agencies have been used often in a crass and petty manner to settle scores. Jog your memory folks and recall how Amitabh Bachchan was hounded by the tax guys even when he was hospitalised. And do you remember how Jaya Bachchan was thrown out of the Rajya Sabha by petty Congress plotters who actually ended up embarrassing their own leader Sonia Gandhi? And look at how the CBI has been made to contradict itself case after case to suit the political ends of the UPA government. The CBI says that there is no case against Mayawati when the UPA is wooing it. It says there is no case against Mulayam Singh Yadav when it supports the government. First, the CBI is OK with Sanjay Dutt getting bail. Then it is vehemently opposed to the man being allowed to contest elections.

The tragedy is not that Manmohan Singh has allowed all this to happen. The tragedy is how he and UPA strategists expect you and me to believe that he is the ultimate Mr. Clean. Surely, even media pundits with short memories can’t be so naïve. The other and even more dangerous failure is the manner in which the UPA government has hopelessly entangled the problem of terror with the problems faced by Muslims in India. There has not been a single honest attempt to create opportunities for the Muslim community to leverage on education, healthcare and the rapidly growing economy to make a better life for their children. Rather, it has been a repeat of the monumental Shah Bano fiasco when the UPA government has tacitly encouraged Muslims to feel that they get a raw deal in India. It was grotesque and bizarre watching senior Congress leaders tacitly encouraging the theory that the Batla House encounter in which Inspector M.C Sharma was martyred was actually a staged and ‘fake’ encounter to kill innocent Muslims. Equally shameful was the manner in which the Malegaon bomb blasts were leveraged to ‘prove’ that Hindu terrorism is as much a problem as ‘Muslim’ terrorism. Ask yourself an honest question: why else would Manmohan Singh agree to nominate a tainted cricketer like Mohhamad Azharuddin to contest Lok Sabha elections from Moradabad in UP when the man has lived all his life in Hyderabad? 



Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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Friday, October 5, 2012

Make CBI a Constitutional Body

CBI has Recorded its Lowest Conviction Rate in 2009; What’s the Way Forward?

That the CBI is India’s top investigation agency is a fact beyond dispute. That it has clocked up the lowest conviction rate in its history in the year 2009, also similarly so. That approximately 1770 of the total 5900 staff of CBI has still not been recruited, equally so. And that there are 1,389 cases of CBI pending in courts more so. That 171 cases have been pending for eight years and more, 51 cases for 15 years and 39 cases for 20 years and above, the most undisputed of them all.

Evidently, the main reason for many of the cases getting elongated – and in some, even the chargesheet not getting filed (119 cases) – is political pressure. The noted Joginder Singh rights in the Daily Pioneer that as the CBI is not a Constitutional body (like the Election Commission is), it cannot “draw its own road map,” and would have to adhere to each and every political push as “the CBI cannot either investigate a case or function in any State without the consent of the State Government.” The logic in Joginder Singh’s argument is brilliant and perchance one that the forward looking Central government should immediately undertake, if it is really committed to maintaining a clean record, post the huge imbroglios of Commonwealth Games and telecom bidding.


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