Friday, April 21, 2023

We are not like that.

Right on cue, "Former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik has been summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for questioning on April 28 as a witness in a case of alleged corruption by Reliance General Insurance." NDTV. "Mr Malik had cancelled a contract by the company owned by industrialist Anil Ambani, in 2018 when he was Governor of Jammu and Kashmir." He had also "alleged corruption in giving the contract for civil work at Kiru hydroelectric power project." What has galvanised the CBI into action after 5 years? Is it because, "Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hid key facts from the public about the Pulwama terror attack that killed dozens of paramilitary troops in India-held Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in February 2019?" as Malik said in an interview with Karan Thapar last week. Dawn. On 14 February 2019, a massive car bomb driven by a suicide bomber killed 40 members of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at Pulwama in J&K. wikipedia. On 26 February, Indian Air Force planes bombed an alleged terrorist training camp at Balakot in Pakistan, wikipedia, which was used by Modi to win an absolute majority in the Lok Sabha in the general election in April-May 2019, wikipedia. Whether the bombing actually killed anyone, or even, whether there was any terrorist camp there at all, has been disputed. Malik said that the CRPF had asked for aircraft to ferry the soldiers but this was denied and when he told Modi about it he was told to keep quiet. The Wire. Families of the dead want to know the truth. They have the right to know if their sons died because of callous indifference. But then, Indian lives are cheap. "An Indian court has acquitted 68 people accused for the murder of 11 Muslims in the 2002 Gujarat riots." BBC. "Of 86 accused, 17 died and one was discharged since the hearing first began in 2009." Meanwhile, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been sentenced to 2 years in prison for defamation of the prime minister by a court in Gujarat. India Today. "Three men accused in the 2020 Hathras gang-rape-murder case, which sparked protests across the country, were acquitted by a court in Uttar Pradesh ( also ruled by the BJP)...while the main suspect was convicted of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, officials said." NDTV. Meanwhile, "Two months after the Income Tax (I-T) Department conducted 'survey operations' in a tax evasion case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a case against newscaster BBC India for foreign exchange violations." DH. This is in retaliation to a documentary on Modi by the BBC which was broadcast in the UK. Strangely, ED has been completely inactive on Mr Gautam Adani who was accused by the Financial Times of investments through a number of offshore shell companies controlled by members of his family. The Wire. This gives suspicion of 'round tripping'. The Financial Times stood by its article and refused to take it down. We Hindus are not rapists and murderers. But, the world may be thinking so. 

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