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November 8, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Encounter eyewitness gets security RBI cracks whip on fund flow to Lashkar Udit lashes out at Togadia IPS trainees asked to
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Pant promises labour
reforms Conference to focus on Indian philosophy Efforts on to
refloat dock
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Encounter eyewitness gets security New Delhi, November 7 The notice was sent following various contradictory theories from the eyewitness that the two persons were actually brought and killed by the special cell sleuths at the Ansal Plaza’s basement and it was not an encounter. Mr Gupta in the letter to NHRC Director-General (Investigation) Y.N. Srivastava, said while the security had been provided to Dr H. Krishna, the eyewitness, the details of the encounter would be submitted to it with in a week. The commission, which received a complaint by Rajya Sabha MP Kuldip Nayyer and well-known journalist Praful Bidwai yesterday, had issued a notice to the police asking them to report on the recent encounter in Ansal Plaza and also directed the police to provide security to Dr Krishna, who claimed to be an eyewitness to the whole incident. According to Dr Krishna, “two men were unarmed and were shot dead by the police.” The police has claimed that it had shot dead two armed Pakistani Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists when they were proceeding to the shopping area to kill shoppers on the Divali eve. Citing news reports that quoted eyewitness saying that the two youths killed in the incident were “unarmed and were shot dead by the police. The men, in their 20s, were barely able to walk, come out of a car, Dr Krishna was quoted. “Being a doctor I could easily make out that either they had not slept for several days or they had taken a heavy dose of sleeping pills. The two men were shot in front of us and the policemen claim that the terrorist opened fire on them was false.” He had also said the youths were empty-handed and there was no bag of ammunition as claimed by the police. The police had fired 35 to 40 rounds which lasted one minute to kill the two boys, he had said and added that had it been an encounter about seven to eight persons present there would have been injured. As the news report had mentioned that plainclothes policemen had been deployed outside the residence of Dr Krishan who had also expressed fear that he may be “traced and silenced”, the NHRC had directed the police to provide him and his family full protection. Expressing concern about the report, the complainants said the entire episode had all the trappings of a “staged encounter,”, so the commission should institute a full inquiry into the matter and record the version of the said eyewitness. Significantly, the complainant have also sought tranfer of Mr Chand and Mr Singh, who were in charge of the special cell of the Delhi police that was behind the entire operation. Meanwhile, the police special cell today claimed that the SIM card which was used by the slain terrorists was brought from south Delhi and the terrorists had provided the identification papers from Jammu and Kashmir. The police said they were in the process of verifying the authenticity of the papers and the terrorists had allegedly made calls to three places in Pakistan, according to the records obtained by the police. The owner of the car, which was used by the terrorists has been identified as Mohammad Gulrez. Gulrez had bought the car in February, from a car bazar in Lucknow, and the police are now looking out for its original owner in Uttar Pradesh to ascertain the course of events. Since one of the terrorists had some contacts in Mumbai. |
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BJP defends Delhi
police New Delhi, November 7 “When important persons lend their names to discredit the security agencies, particularly when security agencies have succeeded in saving innocents from terrorists, they (petitioners) must be sure of their facts,” BJP chief spokesperson and former Law Minister Arun Jaitley told newspersons here. Stating that the police should furnish all details to the NHRC in the event of the commission issuing a notice on the issue, Mr Jaitley said, “If discrediting of the security forces is done by some so-called human rights activists, though there are some good human rights NGOs, without any basis, in that event, these activists would bring a bad name to the human rights cause itself.” Asserting that nowhere in the world were intelligence inputs shared with the media, the BJP leader said, “As much as the Delhi police is concerned, it has done an exemplary job. By liquidating the two terrorists without the loss of civilian life, it has come out clean in the eyes of the people.” In this context, Mr Jaitley also opined that if the police had to deliver, it would have to be empowered with legitimate powers to fight terrorism, while devising a proper mechanism to check human rights violations. |
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RBI cracks whip on fund flow to Lashkar Patna, November 7 As part of the global exercise post 9/11 attack on the WTO and NASA to choke the finances of terrorists, the RBI has asked the state government to bust fake and illegal accounts of terrorist, organisations in banks, cooperative societies and non-banking institutions. The RBI has handed over a list of 310 persons of foreign origin whose accounts may be traced in the state of Bihar alone. There has been an Intelligence tip off too that Bihar is being used as a safe corridor by the Al-Qaida and Lashkar terrorists who have made their bases in Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. An order by the RBI Chief General Manager, Mr S.Karuppaswamy, to the state government says that there could be 310 persons of Iranian, Afghan, Iraqi and Pakistani origin or the nationals of Gulf nations who might have their accounts in their names in one of the banks in Bihar, especially border areas. The list includes the name of former President of Afghanistan, Ghulam Mohammad Rabbani. The RBI has asked the state authorities to search for fake and hawala accounts of terrorists. Special mention has been made about ‘Day Afghanistan Monrtaz Bank’ and the state asked to report any case of transaction made with this bank. The RBI has also alerted about the possibility of some “non-governmental organisations receiving foreign funds on behalf of the terrorists”. Sources maintained that the RBI order has come in the wake of a United Nations Security Council resolution number 1390 that calls for global drive against financial lifelines of terrorists post 9/11. Dr NKP Sinha, Chief Commissioner of Customs, who is the first special appointee on a newly created post for supervising smuggling along the Indo-Nepal and Indo-Bangladesh border areas, said: “International terrorist organisations like Al-Qaida have plunged into smuggling and that is why the eastern Indian corridor comprising the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal have become sensitive”. |
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Udit lashes out at Togadia New Delhi, November 7 Addressing newspersons at a specially convened press conference, Mr Raj said the confederation would organise more conversion rallies, including one on December 6 in Chennai, which would give a “befitting reply to Ms Jayalalithaa for her anti-conversion law in Tamil Nadu”. “Five Dalits were killed for a cow in Jhajjar. When an animal (cow) is given more importance than human beings, Dalits have no reason to remain in Hindu religion,” he said. Vehemently denying Mr Togadia’s statement that he (Mr Raj) was on the payrolls of Christian organisations Mr Raj described the VHP leader as a “liar of the first order”. Mr Raj accused the Sangh Parivar of spreading communal hatred in the name of religion. “They behave as if all basic problems in the country like price rise, unemployment and development have been solved and the only problem is the so-called threats to Hindu religion,” he said. He indicated forming a political party in the near future, but refused to give details. About the coming Assembly elections in Gujarat, he said,”We will not contest the poll, but will try to influence the contest from outside”. Mr Raj refused to field queries on other Dalit leaders like UP Chief Minister Mayawati and Bahujan Samaj Party leader Kanshi Ram. |
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IPS trainees asked to
gain people’s trust New Delhi, November 7 Addressing the probationers undergoing training at the National Police Academy, Hyderabad, and currently in the Capital on an orientation course, Mr Sharma said a few instances in the past had besmirched the reputation of the police. “The young officers should be very careful so that the society does not adversely comment on the police, especially its leadership. A greater understanding between the police and the people is an imperative for the effective functioning of the police,” he said, according to a CBI press note received here. The CBI Director said the young police officers, coming from diverse backgrounds and academic qualifications, should have a focussed attention on imparting greater degree of professionalism to the police. Asking the probationers to “feel proud of their service and uniform,” Mr Sharma said only a few could get the opportunity to be selected for the elite police force and work with a greater zeal. “Today’s police force enjoys much more freedom than before as its personnel can express themselves freely. Besides, they have a greater exposure in terms of infrastructure and technology,” he said. There are four women probationers among the 33 trainees who are currently in the capital to have an interaction with officers of the CBI, CRPF and the
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Pant promises labour
reforms New Delhi, November 7 “It will be useful to frame a perspective plan for extension of coverage to all workers in India in 15 to 20 years,” Mr Pant while inaugurating a two-day seminar on the Unorganised Sector here said. Stating that a pension system was being firmed up for the unorganised workers, Mr Pant said such a broad-based system had to be self-sustaining. Earlier in presidential address, Labour Minister Sahib Singh Verma said the unorganised sector assumed utmost importance in terms of employment provision with over 90 per cent of the workforce in the sector and with a significant 63 per cent contribution to GDP. Stressing the need for rationalisation, simplification and consolidation of labour legislation, he said a uniform umbrella legislation would be introduced before the Budget Session of Parliament incorporating suggestions made in the Second National Labour Commission. |
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Conference to focus on Indian philosophy New Delhi, November 7 The project was initiated by the ICPR in 1981 and developed under the auspices of the Centre for Studies in Civilisations (CSC). ICPR Chairman, Prof Kireet Joshi told TNS that they plan to translate the volumes into regional languages and organise seminars for teachers and students all over the country. “We are also making efforts to organise original writing in various languages’’. CSC Chairman Prof D.P. Chattopadhyaya told mediapersons here on Thursday that for India as a whole, the project may be considered as an unprecedented account of the cultural development of the sub-continent. Its central focus is on philosophy, science, technology and various fields of culture. Prof Chattopadhyaya said the project was unprecedented as no project elsewhere had presented the history of a nation connecting the totality of culture with special emphasis on pursuit of knowledge and application of knowledge. |
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Efforts on to
refloat dock New Delhi, November 7 In a statement issued here, the Navy said the ballast system in the FDN-1, while undocking a ship yesterday, had uncontrolled flooding due to power failure in the computerised ballast control system. The ballast tanks are used for raising and lowering of the dock for taking in or out of ships for repair. The flooding could not be arrested with the help of emergency portable pumps. |
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