A Constable who turned his fortune and became one of the richest Chief Minister of poorest state of India...He is "Pawan Kumar Chamling" who is ruling Sikkim for 14 years is now under scrutiny from the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG).
Corruption within Chamling's government has cost Sikkim hundreds of crores. But fear kept people of sikkim quite regarding his corrupt practices...but CNN IBN Special Investigation team travelled to hills of Gangtok to expose "Pawan kumar Chamling"
Corruption in Chief Minister PK Chamling’s government, cost Sikkim 45 crore rupees last year says the state’s latest CAG report. The Food Security Department, the Human Resource Department, the Urban Development Department have all flouted laws, diverted funds and favored parties in government deals. But no action has been taken.
But the one of his MLA who agreed to answer our question has just one answer...
"The CAG has filed a report, now it will go to the PAC.this will go to the PAC.the PAC will look into this... I haven't read the CAG report"
Even inquiry commissions set up by Chamling, accuse him of corruption. The Sarala Rai Commission accused him of amassing 100 crore rupees, Koirala Commission - 87 crore rupees, and the P Wangdi Commission, 35 crore rupees
Since 1994, the Chief Minister's record of corruption has been confirmed, time and again, by these reports, from the Comptroller and Auditor General and various commissions of inquiry.but not once has any action been taken against him.
4-crore complex in Gangtok's Main Market is owned by Chamling's second wife, this 1-crore building in Namchi by brother in law Subhash Das Rai. Chamling's younger brother Rupen owns this building on M.G Road. And this palace in the hills of south Gangtok, worth over a crore, belongs to the chief Minister himself. Flats, buildings, showrooms, hotels… belonging to Chamling's relatives, are visible across Sikkim...
But the big question is where has the money come from, when we raised these question in front of Chamling's political opponents…this is what they have to say.
Narabahadur Bhandari: Sikkim Pradesh Congress Committee, President Collected reports all together more than 1,600cores this is within sikkim what about siliguri.uttarayan more than 300crores assets is there and his asset in even in Hyderabad.his asset is in Banglore.his asset upto Malasia
Anjan Upadhyay, State Sectary ((CPIM)): The kind of wealth Chamling has - no other Chief Minister in India has....the UPA and the NDA have sent funds, but they are not monitored...Chamling has become undemocratic.
HR Pradhan: Interesting thing is that he got property in his name of his first wife, second wife...himself and children.
But with 31 of Sikkim’s 32 MLAs supporting him, Chamling can afford to ignore both opponents and CAG reports…
We did try to confront CM with this CAG report and alleged corruption charges on him, but our repeated requests were turned down and CM did not answer any question.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
SIMI creeps in, strikes deep roots in UP
Tilkhana (Uttar Pradesh):Even as a red alert is declared in Uttar Pradesh because of heavy infiltration of terror cell, SIMI, a banned organisation — often accused of providing logistic support to terror groups — is alive and kicking in the state
Freshly painted invitations in Hindi and Urdu shouting 'Join SIMI' are a common sight in Tilkhana in UP, 12 km from the porous Nepal border.
A CNN-IBN Special Investigation Team visited the Al-Jamaitul-Islamia madrassa in Sidharthanagar district at Nepal border. Four people were picked up in 2001 for their alleged connection with SIMI.
The investigation went undercover to meet its new manager, Mushtaq Ahmed and Arbi teacher Akhtar Falahi. In 2001 Falahi and his colleague Abdul Avaal, were among those arrested.
“Aap log Tehelka se to nahi hain, jaise Gujarat mein hua tha. (I hope you are not the Tehelka people who went to Gujarat.)” Falahi said.
Falahi also said the police implicated them wrongly. “Farzi mukdma banakar ke giraftar kiya gaya. They framed us in a false case saying we were from SIMI and then arrested us.)
Today, Falahi and Avaal are back teaching at the madrassa and strangely, with them, the SIMI slogans too have re-appeared in Tilkhana.
“SIMI slogans are on the madrassa gates, on walls and even at the village square. The teachers with whom students were arrested then, they are still teaching there. A man may be arrested, but their ideology stays,” says Tilkhana resident Rehman.
Former manager of the madarssa Mohammed Rauf says he resigned as it turned into a den of SIMI activities.
CNN-IBN: Kin-Kin mastaro ka naam bataya? (Who were the teachers involved?)
Rauf: Ek master Abdul Avaal hai. Bataya gaya ki Abdul Avaal iske jimmedar hai aur kuch ladke hai. (Abdul Avval was one of the main people. Avval and some students as well.)
Members of the village community say they are scared of taking on the madrassa.
“We are also Muslims. But we are not powerful enough to resist them. But I know these are not good people,” says Tilkhana resident Akram (name changed).
There are over 600 mosques and madrassas along the Indo-Nepal border on the Indian side and over 400 on Nepal side.
Security expert suggest that many of these madrassas enjoy funding from financial institutions in Pakistan and west Asia.
“The most prominent names that comes to mind are the Habib bank of Pakistan, The Islamic Development Bank of Saudi-Arabia, the International Relief organization, the Al-Falah bank in Karachi there are five or six such organisations where they continue to flow funds to Radical and extremists Islamic organizations has been documented,” says Executive Director, Institute for Conflict Management, Ajai Sahani.
Funds for setting up madrassas and spreading extremists ideology continue to flow in despite warnings from intelligence agencies.
Freshly painted invitations in Hindi and Urdu shouting 'Join SIMI' are a common sight in Tilkhana in UP, 12 km from the porous Nepal border.
A CNN-IBN Special Investigation Team visited the Al-Jamaitul-Islamia madrassa in Sidharthanagar district at Nepal border. Four people were picked up in 2001 for their alleged connection with SIMI.
The investigation went undercover to meet its new manager, Mushtaq Ahmed and Arbi teacher Akhtar Falahi. In 2001 Falahi and his colleague Abdul Avaal, were among those arrested.
“Aap log Tehelka se to nahi hain, jaise Gujarat mein hua tha. (I hope you are not the Tehelka people who went to Gujarat.)” Falahi said.
Falahi also said the police implicated them wrongly. “Farzi mukdma banakar ke giraftar kiya gaya. They framed us in a false case saying we were from SIMI and then arrested us.)
Today, Falahi and Avaal are back teaching at the madrassa and strangely, with them, the SIMI slogans too have re-appeared in Tilkhana.
“SIMI slogans are on the madrassa gates, on walls and even at the village square. The teachers with whom students were arrested then, they are still teaching there. A man may be arrested, but their ideology stays,” says Tilkhana resident Rehman.
Former manager of the madarssa Mohammed Rauf says he resigned as it turned into a den of SIMI activities.
CNN-IBN: Kin-Kin mastaro ka naam bataya? (Who were the teachers involved?)
Rauf: Ek master Abdul Avaal hai. Bataya gaya ki Abdul Avaal iske jimmedar hai aur kuch ladke hai. (Abdul Avval was one of the main people. Avval and some students as well.)
Members of the village community say they are scared of taking on the madrassa.
“We are also Muslims. But we are not powerful enough to resist them. But I know these are not good people,” says Tilkhana resident Akram (name changed).
There are over 600 mosques and madrassas along the Indo-Nepal border on the Indian side and over 400 on Nepal side.
Security expert suggest that many of these madrassas enjoy funding from financial institutions in Pakistan and west Asia.
“The most prominent names that comes to mind are the Habib bank of Pakistan, The Islamic Development Bank of Saudi-Arabia, the International Relief organization, the Al-Falah bank in Karachi there are five or six such organisations where they continue to flow funds to Radical and extremists Islamic organizations has been documented,” says Executive Director, Institute for Conflict Management, Ajai Sahani.
Funds for setting up madrassas and spreading extremists ideology continue to flow in despite warnings from intelligence agencies.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
GO! DO YOUR P-2-C...!
Take one: This man Kamal is a paint brush….sorry! Sorry!
Take two: This man Kamal… a paint brush manufacturer has just been arrested…. 1000 brushes made of mongoose hair have been confisTIcated from him!
These hilarious takes are from my very first P2C! Only the situation wasn’t that comical. I was amidst a realtime-arrest scene …
The Year 1991
Conservationists realize that the India’s ‘Common Mongoose’ is not-so-common anymore. The reason – exposed! A nationwide hunting spree to kill the mongoose for its hair is rampant. This hair is used to make high-quality paint-brushes!
A sharp decline in its population makes mongoose a protected species under the wildlife Protection Act. The punishment to kill a mongoose is equivalent to that of killing a tiger now.
The Year 2007
I was already gasping to get my first by-line. On discussing with Bahar, I set out on a recce to check if the trade in mongoose-hair paint brushes was still prevalent in the capital…While waiting at the Indraprastha Metro station, I saw another creature waiting in the bushes as well. It was the common mongoose- which was peeping at me from the bushes! To me, it was a positive omen.
We were almost sure that after all these years, this trade must be non-existent by now…It was when I reached Nai sadak, the heart of Delhi, that our myth was shaken. It was at Janta Stationary Mart, that these mongoose-hair brushes were being sold openly. And what was disturbing was that the shop-owner and his assistants seemed to know that what they were dealing in was absolutely illegal!
I showed the brush samples to Bahar (with a hidden grin), and that is when I learnt my first lesson through her: The responsible role of a journalist. At that point of time, her only worry was to ensure that those were indeed mongoose hair brushes. Once the scientific verifications were done, I got the signal to proceed with my recce and that too with a spycam from that time on! We had ensured from our end that we were not after some innocent traders.
My first spy-cam shoot was no less dramatic. As I went undercover as an art-student at nai Sadak…I bumped into the most unexpected acquaintance of mine…My father! Thankfully, he managed to exchange just a few words from his moving vehicle. I was already scared to death on my first spy-cam shoot, but the SIT production team including Deepak kept the humour going. Soon, the conversations at the Janta Stationary shop were recorded on a hidden cam. So, we finally managed to locate this shop at Nai Sdak which offered to supply us a bulk order of more than a thousand brushes made of mongoose hair.
But this was not enough… We needed to locate another major lead of this trade. I was in a panic. With weeks more of unyielding research, I was told to start wrapping off the story…and just then, as the luck would have it…I received a call from a shop-keeper who gave me the contacts of Kamal -a mongoose-hair paint brush manufacturer! I was thrilled. And soon our SIT production team came into action. With cordless lapel and receiver covered with my sweater and shawl, I felt like a wired-up suicide bomber standing at the South-ex bus stand. What we had come for was accomplished. We had placed a bulk order of the brushes with Kamal on the hidden-cam. Inspite of knowing that it was a risky business, he promised to supply us our order within just 2-3days!
Once, everything was in place, Bahar and Sidhartha chalked out a smooth plan with the National wildlife Crime Bureau and the Delhi Forest Department to arrest both the men on the same day. (All I had on the back of mind was that I shouldn’t bump into my father again while on raid.) But one after the other, the plan kept on falling to place.
And so this is what we have…2 traders arrested on the same day itself from two different locations….2000 illegal brushes seized from the Capital….
The Impact: Both the accused have been denied bail – definitely a first in history…
Hope: I just hope that the mongooses stay safe for centuries to come.
Emotions: I was just lucky. It just happened.
The scariest Moment: To confront the accused men, after the arrest.
Experience: Man! I need to learn a lot. But, I also got the best opportunity to learn in the first
place itself.
from CNN IBN this is Juhi Chaudhary alias JMC alias Juhi Mongoose Chaudhary
Take two: This man Kamal… a paint brush manufacturer has just been arrested…. 1000 brushes made of mongoose hair have been confisTIcated from him!
These hilarious takes are from my very first P2C! Only the situation wasn’t that comical. I was amidst a realtime-arrest scene …
The Year 1991
Conservationists realize that the India’s ‘Common Mongoose’ is not-so-common anymore. The reason – exposed! A nationwide hunting spree to kill the mongoose for its hair is rampant. This hair is used to make high-quality paint-brushes!
A sharp decline in its population makes mongoose a protected species under the wildlife Protection Act. The punishment to kill a mongoose is equivalent to that of killing a tiger now.
The Year 2007
I was already gasping to get my first by-line. On discussing with Bahar, I set out on a recce to check if the trade in mongoose-hair paint brushes was still prevalent in the capital…While waiting at the Indraprastha Metro station, I saw another creature waiting in the bushes as well. It was the common mongoose- which was peeping at me from the bushes! To me, it was a positive omen.
We were almost sure that after all these years, this trade must be non-existent by now…It was when I reached Nai sadak, the heart of Delhi, that our myth was shaken. It was at Janta Stationary Mart, that these mongoose-hair brushes were being sold openly. And what was disturbing was that the shop-owner and his assistants seemed to know that what they were dealing in was absolutely illegal!
I showed the brush samples to Bahar (with a hidden grin), and that is when I learnt my first lesson through her: The responsible role of a journalist. At that point of time, her only worry was to ensure that those were indeed mongoose hair brushes. Once the scientific verifications were done, I got the signal to proceed with my recce and that too with a spycam from that time on! We had ensured from our end that we were not after some innocent traders.
My first spy-cam shoot was no less dramatic. As I went undercover as an art-student at nai Sadak…I bumped into the most unexpected acquaintance of mine…My father! Thankfully, he managed to exchange just a few words from his moving vehicle. I was already scared to death on my first spy-cam shoot, but the SIT production team including Deepak kept the humour going. Soon, the conversations at the Janta Stationary shop were recorded on a hidden cam. So, we finally managed to locate this shop at Nai Sdak which offered to supply us a bulk order of more than a thousand brushes made of mongoose hair.
But this was not enough… We needed to locate another major lead of this trade. I was in a panic. With weeks more of unyielding research, I was told to start wrapping off the story…and just then, as the luck would have it…I received a call from a shop-keeper who gave me the contacts of Kamal -a mongoose-hair paint brush manufacturer! I was thrilled. And soon our SIT production team came into action. With cordless lapel and receiver covered with my sweater and shawl, I felt like a wired-up suicide bomber standing at the South-ex bus stand. What we had come for was accomplished. We had placed a bulk order of the brushes with Kamal on the hidden-cam. Inspite of knowing that it was a risky business, he promised to supply us our order within just 2-3days!
Once, everything was in place, Bahar and Sidhartha chalked out a smooth plan with the National wildlife Crime Bureau and the Delhi Forest Department to arrest both the men on the same day. (All I had on the back of mind was that I shouldn’t bump into my father again while on raid.) But one after the other, the plan kept on falling to place.
And so this is what we have…2 traders arrested on the same day itself from two different locations….2000 illegal brushes seized from the Capital….
The Impact: Both the accused have been denied bail – definitely a first in history…
Hope: I just hope that the mongooses stay safe for centuries to come.
Emotions: I was just lucky. It just happened.
The scariest Moment: To confront the accused men, after the arrest.
Experience: Man! I need to learn a lot. But, I also got the best opportunity to learn in the first
place itself.
from CNN IBN this is Juhi Chaudhary alias JMC alias Juhi Mongoose Chaudhary
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