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Steve jobs took 18 seconds to think about his answer to this great question
Accurate.
Dear Vinesh, It is said that sport is a celebration of human will. I have known that to be true many times in my career but never has it resonated more than today. As I look around me, I see a nation and its people celebrate your unyielding resolve.
You are a fighter – on and off the mat. Through you, we are learning what it means to never lose the fight in us, even as a loss weighs heavily. You embody the true spirit of a warrior.
Not all victories look alike. Some end up as a glittering souvenir in a cabinet but the ones that matter more find their way into the stories we tell our children. And every child in this country will know the champion you are. Every child will grow up wanting to face life with the resilience you have displayed. I thank you for that.
Respect,
Abhinav Bindra
@phogat_vinesh
@_sayema Very well said!
Inspiring! Congratulations Vinesh
Raised her voice for justice at the peak of career against a predator, corrupt system, and pliable media.
Then winning a medal at the Olympics beating the best.
A slap for most of us who think there’s too much at stake if we raise our voices.
BJP Government : We stand with Palestine, We recognise Palestine, we mourn the loss of those killed in Rafah.
BJP IT cell : Boycott those supporting Rafah, we stand with Israel, memes mocking Rafah victims.
Shamelessness level : Max
Is Narendra Modi still mentally fit enough to be the prime minister of the country?
"...we didn't back down until they finally revealed the 2nd list. Our names were right there."
Amid voter suppression reports, a young Muslim educator from UP writes how officials claimed she & her sister couldn't vote because they were not on the list. https://t.co/A6fkfQQqjf
आज लोकतंत्र का गला घुटते अपनी आँखों से देखा है, मैं नेता नहीं कॉमेडियन हूँ ,फिर भी नामांकन दाखिल करने निकला, सोचा जो होगा देखा जाएगा, लेकिन ये जो हो रहा है ना तो सोचा था ना देखा जा रहा🙏🏽
प्रस्तावक भी थे, फॉर्म भी भरा हुआ था, बस कोई लेने को तैयार नहीं था, कल फिर कोशिश करेंगे
RT @sardesairajdeep: At every corner on the highway and across every town in Bihar , large hoardings of ‘Modi ki Guarantee’ tower above all…
A Nirbhaya united India at Rashtrapati Bhavan against the Congress in 2011
Today, 2800 women could not even make it to headlines on mainstream TV channels
India before 2014 was something else. #PrajwalRevanna
BIG BREAKING ⚡
Remember this man who had called out Narendra Modi's hate speech against Muslims on TV?
He has been arrested by Delhi Police today, for allegedly ‘disturbing the peace & harmony’.
He was District President of BJP Minority wing, but was suspended from BJP after his video went viral.
This is the real face of BJP & they won't spare their own ‘Modi Ka Parivar’ if they speak the truth.
This is exactly what #DhruvRathee talked about in his Dictatórship video.
Spread this so everyone can see the state of Mother of democracy.
#LokSabhaElections2024
#LokasabhaElection2024
In a recent Propaganda interview to ANI, PM @narendramodi says, It is because of these #ElectoralBonds, you are getting to know who gave the money and who received it.
But in the Supreme Court, Their Lawyer argued that “Citizens do not have the right to know the source of Political Parties' Funds".
The same questions were repeated when a Tamil Channel took his interview. Even in this interview, Smita says, Rahul Gandhi ne, Vipaksh ke netao har bhashan me kehte hai ke dhandali Hui hai..." She doesn't directly ask the question as a Journalist, Hides behind 'Vipaksh ke neta'.
It will take your 8 minutes but it will show the real face of BJP.
Watch it, share it, spread it
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This is Shweta Sanjiv Bhatt,
In an absolute travesty of justice, once again a politically motivated and blatantly vitiated trial was conducted in the lower sessions court Palanpur in a 28 year old case of 1996 … A case which was stayed by the Supreme Court in 2000, which was maliciously reopened by misleading the Gujarat High Court in 2018, a case to which we were never party to, a case of 1996 which was Sumersingh Rajpurohit (complainant) V/s State of Gujarat, which was maliciously and illegally turned to State of Gujarat V/s Sanjiv Bhatt in 2018 with the sole intention of framing and convicting Sanjiv Bhatt yet again for a crime he did not commit to silence his voice of truth.
Yet again, in blatant disregard for due process of law and in a gross travesty of justice, Sanjiv Bhatt was convicted for a crime he did not commit … His only crime that he refuses to back down and continues to stand up against this fascist regime.
Once again, we were subjected to a blatantly vitiated trial, where we were not allowed to call defence witnesses, where Sanjiv was not allowed to depose under oath and provide evidence in his defence, where once again the prosecution dropped vital witnesses and disregarded important documents and conducted a blatantly vitiated trial with the sole intention to falsely frame Sanjiv Bhatt and impose the highest quantum of imprisonment as expeditiously as possible so that he continues to languish in jail and his voice is silenced forever.
A trumped up/fabricated case of drug planting was maliciously made against Sanjiv Bhatt even though, Sanjiv Bhatt never conduct the said raid, never seized the opium from the room, was never involved with the case or was ever party to the FIR.
The Prosecutions fanciful fabricated tale of drug planting was concocted around two individuals, both of whom are dead and therefore cannot refute the prosecutions false narrative.
Even though the FIR of 1996, named I.B. Vyas and Justice R.R. Jain as primary accused, the Regime at the behest of their political masters, in order to achieve their malicious means, turned the main accused, I.B. Vyas into an approver and wrongfully framed Sanjiv Bhatt for the alleged crimes and acts of I.B. Vyas.
Despite Sanjiv Bhatt never having been part of the investigation on Sumersingh (complainant), despite Sanjiv Bhatt not having conducted the raid or having seized the opium, despite there not being any iota of evidence to corroborate the prosecution’s fiction and fanciful fabricated narrative … in a gross departure of justice, the lower sessions court Palanpur, today convicted Sanjiv Bhatt for a crime he did not commit.
Such is the threat Sanjiv’s truth continues to pose to this regime that all powers to be, are being used to subvert the system to silence Sanjiv Bhatt.
For all those people who will start opining without even knowing any details or facts of the case, please take a minute and read the facts. This would perhaps open your eyes to the miscarriage of justice being faced by a brave and diligent man for doing his duty with unwavering dedication.
BRIEF BACKGROUND & FACTS OF THE CASE:
1) In 1996 Sanjiv Bhatt was posted as the District Superintendent of Police (DSP), Banaskantha.
2) On 30th April 1996 the district control room Palanpur received an anonymous tip at 6:10 am indicating that one Sumersingh Rajpurohit was illegally doing business of Opium and that he had brought 5 kgs of Opium to Hotel Lajwanti in Palanpur with the intent to distribute.
3) This information was received by Police Inspector (PI) I.B. Vyas, who carried out a raid on Hotel Lajwanti and recovered 1 kg and 15 grams of Natural Opium from room no. 305, which had been booked under the name of Sumersingh Rajpurohit. Based on the raid conducted and the opium seized by I.B. Vyas, Prohibition Crime Register No. 216/1996 was registered at the Palanpur Police Station.
4) Once the FIR was registered by I.B. Vyas, as per protocol, Sanjiv Bhatt, who was then the District Superintendent of Police (DSP), Banaskantha was forwarded the report alongside numerous reports from the entire district.
5) The entire investigation was carried out by I.B. Vyas who was a Police Inspector at the Local Crime Branch.
6) The opium seized by I.B. Vyas from the hotel room was sent for forensic examination at the Forensic Scientific Laboratory, where after thorough investigation of the sample it was concluded that the seized opium was Natural Opium not Prepared or Commercial Opium.
7) Upon investigation by Mr I.B. Vyas, it was revealed that one Mr. Sumersingh Rajpurohit of Pali had checked in the said room where the Opium was found. However, at the time of search, Sumersingh was not found and, therefore, the police personnel of Palanpur Police Station under the supervision of Mr. I.B. Vyas (Principle Accused), PI, LCB travelled to Plai Rajasthan and pursuant to informing the Local Pali Police, and with their assistance, arrested Mr Sumersingh Rajpurohit from Pali and brought him to Palanpur to question him in the FIR registered earlier by I.B. Vyas, who then put Sumersingh Rajpurohit under arrest on 3.05.1996.
8) The very next day on 4.05.1996, Sumersingh was produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate who granted remand of Sumersingh to the Local Crime Branch till 10.05.1996. On 6.05.1996 a Test Identification Parade was carried out;however, the witnesses could not identify Sumersingh.
9) As soon as this information reached Mr Sanjiv Bhatt, he immediately ordered Sumersingh Rajpurohit to be released from the Local Crime Branch even though the court had granted his remand to Local Crime Branch till the 10th.
10) It was upon Sanjiv Bhatt’s instructions that Sumersingh was released. Upon being apprised about the raid, the arrest of Mr Rajpurohit by I.B. Vyas and the subsequent identification parade in which the hotel staff was unable to identify Mr Rajpurohit, Mr Sanjiv Bhatt immediately ordered the release of Mr Rajpurohit and as the D.S.P ordered in writing that Section 58(2) of the NDPS Act should be immediately added to the report and it should be thoroughly investigated as to who brought and planted the opium to frame Mr Sumersingh Rajpurohit. This shows Sanjiv Bhatt’s bonafide and good faith.
11) It is pertinent to note that at no point in time was Mr Sanjiv Bhatt involved with the conduction of the raid or seizing of the opium. The only person involved was I.B. Vyas, who received the tip. Conducted the raid and seized the opium.
12) The prosecutions fanciful fabricated story 28 years later, in 2018 has tried to frame Sanjiv Bhatt for planting drugs to frame Sumersingh, a man whom Mr Sanjiv Bhatt had never met.
Sanjiv Bhatt never conducted the raid, nor did he seize the opium from the room, nor was he part of the investigation against Sumersingh; In fact, it was Mr Sanjiv Bhatt who had sought for investigation in the matter of who had tried to frame Sumersingh Rajpurohit.
13) On 17.10.1996, 6 months after the incident, disgruntled Sumersingh Rajpurohit, being an influential person in Rajasthan filed a complaint against the State of Gujarat, Banaskantha Police, reporting against I.B Vyas and Justice R.R. Jain. It was Sumersingh’s contention that Justice R.R Jain had colluded with I.B. Vyas and had planted drugs in his name to pressure him to vacate the shop he was currently a tenant in which belonged to Justice R.R. Jain’s sister.
14) It is important to note that the FIR was, Sumersingh Rajpurohit vs State of Gujarat, Banaskantha Police all the way till 2018.
In 2018 in order to maliciously frame Sanjiv Bhatt and silence him by wrongfully convicting him under trumped up charges, the case was overnight turned from Sumersingh Rajpurohit V/s State of Gujarat to State of Gujarat V/s Sanjiv Bhatt.
15) It is also important to note that the FIR lodged was against Justice R.R. Jain and Mr I.B. Vyas as the primary accused. The name of the entire Banaskantha Police was later added as per procedure/protocol. Mr Sanjiv Bhatt’s name was also added to the FIR only because he was in-charge of the Gujarat Police, Banaskantha at the time as he was the D.S.P (Superintendent of Police/Head) of the Banaskantha District.
However, it is pertinent to note, the primary accused in the FIR were Justice R.R. Jain who is now deceased and I.B. Vyas who had conduced the raid and investigation against Sumersingh.
16) An inquiry was set up under the supervision of Mr. D.K. Dhagal, IPS. He conducted the inquiry and submitted a report to the State. The State of Gujarat diligently defended and protected the police personnel’s and filed a writ petition before the Hon’ble High Court of Rajasthan as well as preferred an Appeal in the Supreme Court of India to protect the police personnel of Gujarat.
17) The State of Gujarat, Home department and Legal Department passed various speaking/reasoned orders appointing Law Officers to defend the Police Officers in all proceedings arising out of this matter. The State had consistently held the position since 1996 that the officers of Gujarat Police were acting in good faith.
18) Furthermore I.B. Vyas as well as his team who had conducted the raid, seized the opium and had arrested Sumersingh were conferred with awards by the State of Gujarat for their diligent hard work. I.B. Vyas in numerous statements since 1996 has taken full credit for the raid and seizing of the opium as well as carrying out the investigation. No inquiry proceeding was ever initiated by the State of Gujarat against any of the members involved in the investigation/supervision of Palanpur Police Station 216/96. All the policeman and officers were granted timely promotions.
19) Pursuant to a thorough investigation by the CID/SIT, in 2000, an A-Summary Final report was submitted and the Supreme Court granted a stay on the matter and closed it on 13th May 2000.
20) In 2018 when Mrs Zakia Jafri appeal the Supreme Court to reinvestigate Modi’s role in the riots, the State machinery in order to silence and discredit Sanjiv Bhatt, who is the sole surviving witness to Modi’s complicity in orchestrating the Gujarat Riots, framed Sanjiv Bhatt in two nearly 30 year old cases fabricated cases to unlawfully detain him and persecute him for crimes he did not commit. His only crime that he stood up against Modi and spoke truth to power.
21) On 3rd September 2018, the Gujarat High Court was deliberately and maliciously misled by the State in believing that no investigation had ever taken place since 1996. The truth of the matter, that an investigation was carried out and an A-Final Summary report had been filed in 2000 was illegally and deliberately suppressed by the prosecution to maliciously mislead the court into re-opening a closed/stayed matter.
22) The fact that the case arising out of CR No.216/1996 of Palanpur Police Station was closed by filing an A-Summary report in 2000 under Section 173 of the Cr.P.C, was deliberately withheld and suppressed by the prosecution with the intention to mislead the Hon’ble Court into passing an order to investigate an already investigated and duly closed matter by the Supreme Court of India.
Overnight, the case which was Sumersingh Rajpurohit V/s State of Gujarat was maliciously and illegally turned into State of Gujarat V/s Sanjiv Bhatt
23) It is pertinent to note that the Prosecution/State of Gujarat deliberately suppressed the facts from the Court about the petitions preferred by the State of Gujarat before the various High Courts and the Supreme Court protecting and defending the police officers right up till 2018.
24) Section 59 of NDPS mandates that previous sanction of the Union Government is required to investigate or prosecute; however, without any sanction to prosecute, pursuant to the aforesaid order, the State of Gujarat formed a SIT and under the pretext of questioning Mr Sanjiv Bhatt in a 28-year-old duly investigated and closed case, barged into his home in the early morning of 5th September 2018, detained him and subsequently illegally arrested him.
25) It is pertinent to note that without a Sanction to Prosecute, the State cannot investigate let alone, conduct a trial or prosecute an officer as it is legally not permissible; thereby rendering the trial as well as conviction illegal.
26) Moreover, 161 of the Bombay Police Act mandates that any actions against a Union Public Service Commission I.P.S Officer, should be brought within a year and not thereafter for any action in colour of duty or excess thereof. The unlawful detention and conduction of a trial in a 28-year-old case is a gross violation of the 161 Bombay Police Act, which was establish precisely to protect officers from changing and vindictive political regimes.
27) It is pertinent to note that the case was suddenly and unlawfully re-opened, and the State of Gujarat became adverse to the police personnel only in 2018. Hence, after consistently protecting the police personnel from 1996 to 2018, suddenly the State
turned hostile against the very officers it was protecting since 1996 till 2018.
28) On 5th September 2018, the State barged into Sanjiv Bhatt’s home in the early hours of the morning and took him away under the pretext of questioning him in 28-year-old case and subsequently put him under arrest without any charge or cause. That was the last we saw Sanjiv Bhatt as a free man.
29) Mr Sanjiv Bhatt was maliciously framed and singled out and a fictional, fabricated case was set up for the first time after his arrest in 2018.
30) On 6th September 2018, the State sought for a 14 day remand of Sanjiv Bhatt. The 3rd Additional Civil Judge at JMFC Palanpur rejected the State’s demand for custody stating that no offence was made as the entire act of the State seemed to be politically motivated. It is important to note that the Add. Civil Judge was immediately transferred as punishment and the very next day prosecution maliciously acquired permission to take Sanjiv Bhatt into remand the very next day before even the opening of the court. While the State seized Sanjiv Bhatt in a 28-year-old case, they on the other hand, in his absence expeditiously conducted a blatantly vitiated trial and convicted him for life for a crime he did not commit.
31) Even though the main accused in this case was Mr I.B Vyas, the prosecution, to single out Mr Sanjiv Bhatt and wrongfully frame him, conveniently turned I.B. Vyas, the main accused into an approver despite the primary allegation being levied against Mr I.B. Vyas and the fact that Mr Sanjiv Bhatt was never part of the original complaint.
32) I.B. Vyas deposed against Mr Sanjiv Bhatt, parroting the prosecutions fanciful and fabricated narrative, which stands in stark contrast and contradiction to his own statements and depositions made since 1996 till 2018. As a reward for doing the prosecution’s dirty work, I.B. Vyas has been largely out of jail on multiple temporary bails from time to time.
33) Right up till 2018, all the sworn statements and testimonies of I.B. Vyas before the Investigating Officer (I.O.) of Pali Kotwali 403/96 as well as the questionnaire sent by CID (Crime) Rajasthan to the I.O, Mr I.B. Vyas all clearly stated, that that he (Mr I.B. Vyas) had led and conducted the raid and the subsequent investigation, and that Mr Sumersingh was never produced before Mr Sanjiv Bhatt nor did Mr Sanjiv Bhatt have any involvement in the case being handled by Mr I.B. Vyas. This fact was also mentioned and corroborated in the contemporaneous Case Diary of Palanpur City Police Station Cr No. 216/96.
34) However, in 2019, Mr I.B. Vyas, going against all his previous sworn statements, conveniently changed his narrative and parroted the concocted fictional story of the prosecution/State of Gujarat revolving around two deceased individuals, to exonerate himself and falsely frame Mr Sanjiv Bhatt.
35) Upon parroting the States concocted and fabricated story to frame Sanjiv Bhatt, Mr I.B. Vyas was immediately made an Approver by the Prosecution and was protected from undergoing a trial, despite the fact that Mr I.B. Vyas was the Principle Accused (Accused No.1) along with Justice R.R. Jain.
36) After 28 years a fanciful fictitious story was created by the Prosecution /State, wherein for the first time, in contradiction to all recorded testimonies since 1996, in 2018, the prosecution comes up with a concocted story to falsely frame Sanjiv Bhatt alleging that Mr Bhatt was a friend of Justice R.R. Jain, who is deceased and cannot corroborate the Prosecutions fanciful fiction. According to the prosecution, because of the friendship, Mr Bhatt helped Justice Jain to get the shop vacated from his tenant, Mr Sumersingh Rajpurohit.
37) The entire Prosecution’s case is conveniently based on fanciful fiction that Mr Sanjiv Bhatt procured a sample of opium through constable Malabhai Rabari, who died on 20/02/2018 and therefore cannot refute Prosecutions fictional fabricated story.
38) The prosecution has not been able to furnish any material evidence to substantiate their claims made in their fabricated story.
39) Fiction regarding the so-called criminal conspiracy is based entirely on fanciful conjectures and false statements induced from the other co-accused police officers who have been charge sheeted in Pali Kotwali Police Station CR No. 403/96. All these statements are contradictory to what they have stated before the investigating officer of Pali Kotwali CR No. 403/96
40) The entire prosecution case is based on the fiction that Sanjiv Bhatt procured a sample of opium from Agthada through Police Constable Malabhai Rabari (who died on 20/02/2018). This fiction was sought to be substantiated by the statement of then LCB PSI R.P Patel. The entire fanciful criminal conspiracy and procurement of Opium etc is sought to be established on the roles of Police constable Malabhai Rabari and Police inspector Nirmal Singh Gohil, both of whom are deceased. This has been done with deliberate malafide intent and has been entertained by the Officer of the Court.
41) The allegation of financing and procurement of narcotics were added to the charge sheet maliciously without the court’s permission.
42) Despite there being exhaustive Forensic and Chemical reports stating clearly that the sample seized was that of Natural Opium, the prosecution has blatantly tried to mislead the court into believing that the opium seized was prepared/opium derivate. This has been done with the malafide intent to unlawfully add section 21, which is not legally applicable in the present case.
43) Despite a clear court order disallowing the prosecution to add Sections 21 and 27A of the NDPS act to the charge sheet and despite it being unequivocally opined in the FSL (Forensic) report to Investigating Officer CID (crime) in 1996 that the opium seized was Natural Opium and not of opium derivate/prepared opium. The malicious addition of Section 21 and 27A of the NDPS act by disregarding a court order and misleading the court, were made by the prosecution with the deliberate intention to falsely frame Mr Sanjiv Bhatt for the highest quantum of punishment possible as well as to frustrate any bail application before the Supreme Court by wrongly bringing it under the purview of Section 37 of the NDPS act.
44) It is important to note the Judge who passed an order disallowing the wrongful addition of false charges against Mr Sanjiv Bhatt was unceremoniously and suddenly transferred out and overnight a new Judge was appointed in his stead.
45) The prosecution has not been able to provide evidence to substantiate or make out any of the sections wrongfully and maliciously added in the charge-sheet.
46) It was unlawfully ignored that the FIR dated 30/04/1996 was registered only for the commission of offences under section 17 of NDPS act, yet the prosecution unlawfully and falsely alleged commission of further offences which is legally not permissible.
47) It is important to note that the closure report was filed by the SIT on 20/02/2000 following which, the Supreme Court of India had closed the matter. In a blatant disregard for justice and in utter display of abuse of power, the court illegally tried the mater.
48) Despite the closure report being submitted by the SIT in 2000, it was only on 2nd October 2018, a month after Sanjiv was illegally taken from own home under the pretext of questioning him, that the SIT submitted a charge sheet narrating a fabricated and fanciful story unsubstantiated by any facts.
49) It is important to note that since 1996, the accused No. 1 in this case has been I.B. Vyas, against whom the FIR was filed in the first place and was the main accused.
50) It is pertinent to note that in 2019, the prosecution conveniently made the main accused, I.B. Vyas into an approver, using him to propagate their false narrative to falsely frame Sanjiv Bhatt for a crime which was committed by I.B. Vyas.
51) It is also important to note that none of the offences alleged by the prosecution have been prime facie made out against Sanjiv Bhatt nor has the prosecution been able to provide any material evidence to support any of the claims of their fabricated narrative. Despite there being absence of any substantial material evidence, the lower session court in absolute abuse of power and a gross departure from due process has convicted Sanjiv Bhatt, without any proof or evidence.
52) Despite the charge sheet being completely silent on the reasons for the alleged implication, a trial was conducted, which in itself is unlawful.
53) None of the assertions made in the A final report can constitute an offence u/s 19, 24, 27A of NDPS act as the quantity of Natural Opium recovered from hotel Lajwanti from the room booked by Sumersingh Rajpurohit was 1 kg and 15 grams, which is not commercial quantity and therefore, sections 19, 24, and 27A cannot be applied.
54) Moreover, the product seized was Natural Opium, which was confirmed and corroborated by the CFSL, Forensic examination and report dated 15.07.1996 and 23.09.1996. Therefore, Section 17 of the NDPS act is not applicable as it applies only to Prepared Opium and not Natural Opium, which is the product involved in the present case.
55) Moreover, Section 21 of NDPS is not applicable as it relates to manufacturing of drugs and there is no allegation nor is there any evidence for manufacturing of drugs.
56) Furthermore, Section 58 is not applicable as Sanjiv Bhatt never entered, searched, seized or arrested any person relating to this crime. The raid, seizing of the opium, arrest of the Sumersingh Rajpurohit as well as the subsequent investigation was carried out by I.B. Vyas, who was the main accused in this case, right up till 2019, when he was suddenly made approver and Sanjiv Bhatt, who was never party to the case was falsely framed using I.B. Vyas to parrot the prosecutions fabricated narrative.
57) Moreover, Section 116 is not applicable as there is no evidence to show that Sanjiv Bhatt gave I.B. Vyas any instructions. It is important to note that Sanjiv Bhatt is in-fact being framed and falsely prosecuted for the actions of I.B. Vyas who was conveniently turned approver by the State with malafide intent and did not face trail.
58) Furthermore, Section 167 of IPC is not applicable as Sanjiv Bhatt neither drafted the charge sheet neither the case diary, nor did he submit it as evidence in court which is prerequisite for constituting an offence under Section 167 of IPC.
59) Moreover, Section 204 of the IPC is not applicable as there was no allegation of destruction of any document made against Sanjiv Bhatt. In-fact the allegation of destruction of documents was made against I.B. Vyas, the main accused in the case, who was turned approver by the government to do their dirty work in framing Sanjiv for a crime he did not commit.
60) Moreover, offence u/s 465 and 471 of IPC cannot be made out as there is no evidence of preparation of any document by Sanjiv Bhatt which is necessary for constituting a offence under this section.
61) Therefore, as no material evidence to support section 465 and 471 IPC were produced by the prosecution, Section 120 B of IPC cannot be made out and the court cannot prosecute for offence of conspiracy.
62) The prosecution had intended to examine around 69 witnesses; however, only 19 witnesses were examined. Rest all the witnesses were dropped. This modus of objecting to the questions and recording answers as per the convenience of the Prosecution continued during the examination of 19 witnesses.
63) I.B. Vyas and other prosecution witnesses were openly and continuously tutored in open court by the Judge as well as the prosecution mid examination.
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Sonam Wangchuk is on his 18th Day of Fast
None of the Modi Govt Ministers have even said a word about him. For the record, Congress Govt agreed to Anna Hazare’s demands after 12th Day of his Fast.
Delhi CM Kejriwal was arrested yesterday by ED in the Liquor policy case.
Here's an Electoral Bond revelation. One of the main accused (Pinaka Sarath Chandra Reddy of Aurobindo Pharma) in the case, who turned approved gave Rs 62 crore via bonds of which Rs 44.5 crore went to the BJP.
1. On 10 Nov, 2022: Pinaka Sarath Chandra Reddy of Aurobindo Pharma was arrested by ED in the Liquor case.
2. 15 Nov 2022: Sarath's Aurobindo Pharma donates Electoral Bonds worth Rs 5 crore to BJP.
3. On 1 June, 2023: Sarath Chandra Reddy turned approver.
4. On 8th November 2023, Sarath's Aurobindo Pharma gave another Rs 35 crore to the BJP via ( Aurobindo Pharma + APL Healthcare).
5. Total donation by Aurobindo Pharma and APL Healthcare through electoral bonds after Sarath Chandra Reddy was arrested: 40 cr. #KejriwalArrested
All our bank accounts have been frozen. We cannot do our campaign work. We cannot support our workers and candidates. Our leaders cannot travel from one part of the country to the other. We're unable to put out our ads.
This is being done two months before the election campaign.
This is a criminal action against the Congress party, done by the PM and the Home Minister. It is being orchestrated to cripple us before the elections.
There are institutions in the country that are supposed to protect the democratic framework.
No court is saying anything, the Election Commission is silent, no other institution is saying anything, and the media is not saying anything.
There is no democracy in India today. The people of India are being robbed of their Constitution and democratic structure.
: Shri @RahulGandhi
#BJPFreezesIndianDemocracy
A very articulate response to anyone who says “where is the scam?”.
Good work by @TimesNow and young reporter @dharannniii #ElectoralBondCase
TIMES NOW EXCLUSIVE
Election Commission, Income Tax, and CBI have become the arms of the BJP. That itself is a big failure of democracy: Tamil Nadu Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan (@ptrmadurai) speaks exclusively to @dharannniii
Here’s a quick first analysis of the Electoral Bonds data disclosure that the SBI put up last night, after weeks of attempting to postpone it until after the election:
•Over 1,300 companies and individuals have donated electoral bonds, including over 6,000 crores to the BJP since 2019
So far, the electoral bonds data exposes at least 4 corrupt tactics of the BJP:
1)Quid Pro Quo:
There are many cases of companies that have donated electoral bonds, and immediately afterwards gotten huge benefits from the government:
a.Megha Engineering & Infra has given over Rs. 800 crores in EBs. In April 2023, they donated Rs. 140 crores, and just one month later, they were awarded the Rs. 14,400 crore Thane-Borivali Twin Tunnel Project.
b.Jindal Steel & Power gave Rs. 25 crores in EBs on 7 October 2022, and just 3 days later, they won the Gare Palma IV/6 coal mine, on 10th October 2022.
2)Hafta Vasooli:
The BJP’s Hafta Vasooli strategy is simple – raid a target through the ED/CBI/IT, and then seek hafta (“donations”) for the company’s protection. At least 14 of the top 30 donors have been raided.
a.Earlier this year an investigation found that after ED/CBI/IT raids, companies were forced to donate to the BJP via electoral trusts. Many of the same companies have donated through EBs, like Hetero Pharma and Yashoda Hospital.
b.The IT department raided Shirdi Sai Electricals in December 2023, and in January 2024, they donated Rs. 40 crores through Electoral Bonds.
c.Future Gaming & Hotels, has donated over Rs. 1200 crore, making it the largest donor in the data so far. Here is the chronology:
2nd April 2022: ED raids Future, and 5 days later (7th April) they donate Rs. 100 crores in EBs
October 2023: IT department raids Future, and the same month they donate Rs. 65 crores in EBs
3)Kickbacks
A pattern emerges from the data, where immediately after receiving some handouts from the Central government, companies have repaid the favour through electoral bonds.
a.Vedanta got the Radhikapur West private coal mine on 3rd March 2021, and then in April 2021, they donated Rs. 25 crore in Electoral Bonds.
b.Megha Engineering & Infra got the Rs. 4,500 crore Zojila tunnel project in August 2020, then donated Rs. 20 crore in Electoral Bonds in October 2020.
c.Megha got the BKC bullet train station contract in December 2022, and donated Rs. 56 crore the same month.
4)Money Laundering Through Shell Companies
One huge issue with the electoral bonds scheme is that it removed the restriction that only a small percentage of a company’s profits could be donated, paving the way for shell companies to donate black money. There are many such suspicious cases, such as the Rs. 410 crore that has been donated by Qwik Supply Chain Limited, a company whose entire share capital is just Rs. 130 crores according to MoCA filings.
Another major issue is missing data
•The data provided by SBI only begins in April 2019, but SBI sold the first tranche of bonds in March 2018. A total of Rs. 2,500 crores in bonds are missing from this data. Where is the data of these missing bonds, from March 2018 to April 2019? For instance, in the very first tranche of bonds, the BJP bagged 95% of the funds. Who is the BJP trying to protect?
As the analysis of the electoral bonds data continues, many more such cases of the BJP’s corruption will become clear. We also continue to demand unique bond ID numbers, so that we can precisely match donors to recipients.
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