Indians are Hobbesian Problematique!!(culture of self interest)

Corruption in India is a cultural aspect.

Indians seem to think nothing peculiar about corruption .

It is everywhere.

Indians tolerate corrupt individuals rather than correct them.

No race can be congenitally corrupt.

But can a race be corrupted by its culture?

To know why Indians are corrupt ,

look at their patterns and practices .

First:

Religion is transactional in India . Indians give God cash and anticipate an out-of-turn reward.

Such a plea acknowledges that favours are needed for the undeserving.

In the world outside the temple walls,

such a transaction is named- “bribe”.

A wealthy Indian gives not cash to temples,

but gold crowns and such baubles.

His gifts can not feed the poor. His pay-off is for God. He thinks it will be wasted if it goes to a needy man.

In June 2009, The Hindu published a report of Karnataka minister G. Janardhan Reddy gifting a crown of gold and diamonds worth

Rs 45 crore to Tirupati.

India’s temples collect so much that

they don’t know what to do with it.

Billions are gathering dust in temple vaults.

When Europeans came to India they built schools. When Indians go to Europe & USA, they build temples.

Indians believe that if God accepts money for their favours, then nothing is wrong in doing the same thing. This is why Indians are so easily corruptible.

Indian culture accommodates such transactions morally.

There is no real stigma. An utterly corrupt Jaya Lalita can make a comeback, just unthinkable in the West.

Second -

Indian moral ambiguity towards corruption is visible in its history.

Indian history tells of the capture of cities and kingdoms after guards were paid off to open the gates, and commanders paid off to surrender.

This is unique to India .

Indians’ corrupt nature has meant limited warfare on the subcontinent. It is striking how little Indians have actually fought compared to ancient Greece and modern Europe .

The Turks’ battles with Nadir Shah were vicious and fought to the finish.

In India fighting wasn’t needed, bribing was enough to see off armies.

Any invader willing to spend cash could brush aside India ’s kings, no matter how many tens of thousands soldiers were in their infantry.

Little resistance was given by the Indians at the “ Battle ” of Plassey.

Clive paid off Mir Jaffar and all of Bengal folded to an army of 3,000.

There was always a financial exchange to taking Indian forts. Golconda was captured in 1687 after the secret back door was left open.

Mughals vanquished Marathas and Rajputs with nothing but bribes.

The Raja of Srinagar gave up Dara Shikoh’s son Sulaiman to Aurangzeb after receiving a bribe.

There are many cases where Indians participated

on a large scale in treason due to bribery.

Question is: Why Indians have a transactional culture while

other ‘civilized’ nations don’t?

Third -

Indians do not believe in the theory that they all can rise if each of them behaves morally, because that is not the message of their faith.

Their caste system separates them.

They don’t believe that all men are equal.

This resulted in their division and migration to other religions .

Many Hindus started their own faith like Sikh, Jain, Buddha and many converted to Christianity and Islam.

The result is that Indians don’t trust one another .

There are no Indians in India ,there are

Hindus ,Christians, Muslims and what not.

Indians forget that 400 years ago they all belonged to one faith.

This division evolved an unhealthy culture.

The inequality has resulted in a corrupt society,

In India every one is thus against everyone else, except God ­ and even he must be bribed.

Every day we read about 8% economic growth. 10% economic growth. Predictions are being made of a richer, brighter future. While in reality more than half of India doesn’t even have access to toilets. We must constitute 50% of the world’s population which defecates in the open.

Exposed, untreated excrement can kill by the million. One of the hardest-won UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is a 2015 target of halving the proportion of those without sustainable access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation. Even if achieved, the target would still leave some 500 million on the planet without this basic requirement for survival and dignity. As many as 79 per cent of rural and 46 per cent of urban Indians have no access to improved sanitation. Of the 40 per cent of global population (some 2.6 billion people) forced to defecate in the open, some 665 million are Indians.

Diarrhoea claims 5,000 children every day worldwide, most of them on this subcontinent. The loss in lives, work days and school attendance (particularly by girls) is estimated at $38 billion per year.

Water and sanitation are inextricably linked: without sanitation, safe water cannot remain safe. “Access” is a key word with a variety of interpretations. In planning circles, targets are set in terms of coverage. “Coverage” is normally measured by the number of latrines, hand-pumps, water pipes and sewerage systems installed. Whether these are functioning, properly used and well-maintained is quite another matter.

100,000 tons of human excrement that Indians leave each day in fields of potatoes, carrots and spinach, on banks that line rivers used for drinking and bathing and along roads jammed with scooters, trucks and pedestrians. 75 percent of the country’s surface water is contaminated by human and agricultural waste and industrial effluent.

My recent train trip in India was the six AM Shatabdi Express to Jaipur. The sun rose late on that December morning, illuminating hundreds of men squatting in the fields next to the tracks, mile after mile, their asses towards the train, pooping on the same ground hundreds of men had pooped on every single day before.

Men only. Modesty forces women to poop in the fields before sunrise, or to hold it until after the sun sets.

This is the practice across India and the sanitary ramifications are staggering. Poop is a vector for bacteria and viruses, and it attracts insects and rodents that are equally unhealthy. People poop faster than Mother Nature can degrade it, which means people who poop in the same place day after day will inevitably come into contact with festering feces. A speck of poop on a shoe gets touched by a hand that passes a glass of water to a two-year-old: that’s how disease spreads.

Why do people poop in the fields? For some, it’s because they’re ignorant of hygiene and bacteriology; for others, it’s because they’re too poor to have any other choice.

75 percent of the country’s surface water is contaminated by human and agricultural waste and industrial effluent. Everyone in Indian cities is at risk of consuming human feces, if they’re not already, the Ministry of Urban Development concluded in September. The toll on human health is grim. Every day, 1,000 children younger than 5 years old die in India from diarrhea, hepatitis- causing pathogens and other sanitation-related diseases, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund.

Too bad that there isn’t a Nobel prize in the Dirt and Filth category. India would have added one more to its pitifully small collection of Nobel prizes. Minister of the Gandhi realm, Jairam Ramesh, said at a recent public event,“Our cities are the dirtiest cities of the world. If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.”

One would be hard-pressed to disagree with the claim since India is indeed dirty and filthy beyond reason. It says something about the culture of the people.

For now, here’s another statistic that would not surprise anyone who has seen the real India. Any day of the week, any time of the day, you can see men urinating with their backs turned to the street.(What women do is beyond my imagination.) Look out of a train any morning and you have to avert your eyes from the hundreds of people defecating along the train tracks.

 A recent AFP news item reports that 665 million people lack toilets in India. That’s more than twice the size of the entire population of the US. In slum areas, where more than half of Mumbai lives, an average 81 people share a single toilet. In some places it rises to an eye-watering 273. Even the lowest average is still 58, according to local municipal authority figures. Unsurprisingly, it is still common to see people squatting by roads and railway tracks or along the coast, openly defecating in the city that drives India’s economy and where some of the world’s richest people live. 

Commuters from Mumbai’s suburbs, and in other parts of the country, routinely see hundreds of people squatting besides the train tracks to relieve themselves. Many of them are women, who often cover their heads with their saris, thus making themselves ‘invisible’ to onlookers through the inverse logic that if I can’t see you (because my head and eyes are covered) you can’t see me. Such ‘invisible’ women are India’s open and only too visible shame.  The humiliation and degradation does not – and ought not to – attach to  those who perforce must do what they have to do without the dignity of privacy. The shame is ours that over 60 years after independence from foreign rule we continue to be a society in which more than half the total population has no recourse but to relieve themselves in the open, like animals.

Till we can draw a veil of privacy and dignity across the sight of Bharat Mata squatting to do her business, India will continue to broadcast a literally crap image of itself to the world and to ourselves, despite all the credit we lay claim to for our social and economic progress.

In the end it adds up, precisely, to a load of shit.

Reflections on India By Sean Paul Kelley

Sean Paul Kelley is a travel writer, former radio host, and before that an asset manager for a Wall Street investment bank that is still (barely) alive. He recently left a fantastic job in Singapore working for Solar Winds, a software company based out of Austin to travel around the world for a year (or two). He founded The Agonist, in 2002, which is still considered the top international affairs, culture and news destination for progressives. He is also the Global Correspondent for The Young Turks, on satellite radio and Air America .

The government is notoriously uninterested in the problems of the commoners, too busy fleecing the rich, or trying to get rich themselves in some way shape or form. Take the trash for example, civil rubbish collection authorities are too busy taking kickbacks from the wealthy to keep their areas clean that they don’t have the time, manpower, money or interest in doing their job.

Rural hospitals are perennially understaffed as doctors pocket the fees the government pays them, never show up at the rural hospitals and practice in the cities instead.
I could go on for quite some time about my perception of India and its problems, but in all seriousness, I don’t think anyone in India really cares. And that, to me, is the biggest problem. India is too conservative a society to want to change in any way.

Mumbai, India ’s financial capital is about as filthy, polluted and poor as the worst city imaginable in Vietnam , or Indonesia –and being more polluted than Medan , in Sumatra is no easy task. The biggest rats I have ever seen were in Medan !

One would expect a certain amount of, yes, I am going to use this word, backwardness, in a country that hasn’t produced so many Nobel Laureates, nuclear physicists, eminent economists and entrepreneurs. But India has all these things and what have they brought back to India with them? Nothing.

The rich still have their servants, the lower castes are still there to do the dirty work and so the country remains in stasis. It’s a shame. Indians and India have many wonderful things to offer the world, but I’m far from sanguine that India will amount to much in my lifetime.

Now, have at it, call me a cultural imperialist, a spoiled child of the West and all that.  But remember, I’ve been there. I’ve done it. And I’ve seen 50 other countries on this planet and none, not even Ethiopia , have as long and gargantuan a laundry list of problems as India does.

And the bottom line is, I don’t think India really cares. Too complacent and too conservative.

Read for whatever its worth, cos as the writer says, I dont think we care (enough to change it). The collapse of our civil society has been the biggest loss. I’m sure that the Prime Minister sees all this filth all over the country, while being drived around in his motorcade.

Puja Mehta

Washington, Sep 14 (IANS) More than $125 billion worth of funds meant for the uplift of Indians were illegally siphoned out of the country by corrupt politicians and corporates between 2000 and 2008, hindering inclusive growth, says to a leading think tank here.

‘Much of the funds flowing out are generated at home within India and then sent illegally abroad,’ said an upcoming report from Global Financial Integrity (GFI).

‘So the growth of corruption and India’s underground economy contributes significantly to illicit financial flows from the country,’ said the research arm of the Centre for International Policy (CIP).

‘Corruption is rampant in India as it is in almost all developing countries. Both corrupt political and corporate officers manage to siphon off funds – intended to aid the people of India – off to political and private sector elite,’ it said.

‘Recent efforts in India to challenge this corrupt affront on humanity have been met with severe violence,’ junior GFI economist Karly Curcio said in a blog on the report on illicit financial flows from India and explaining its linkages with poverty, corruption, and crime.

‘As India develops economically and builds better infrastructure, one would think all Indian citizens would see an increased standard of living and that the income inequality levels would fall,’ says the blog post following a news report about recent violent crimes in India against whistleblowers.

‘However, the gini coefficient, which measures income inequality, has actually increased over the time period measured, 2000-2005, from 0.32 to 0.37 on a scale of 0 to 1, with 1 being the highest income inequality,’ Curcio wrote.

‘In India, as in other currently developing countries, as the economy grows, so do illicit flows,’ she wrote. ‘This positive correlation exhibits the increased incentives to conduct illicit flows, mostly because more money is flowing within the system to steal away and constant greed is tapping into that pool.’

India ranked 84 out of 180 countries in Transparency International’s 2009 Corruptions Perceptions Index ranking.

‘As corruption continues to plague both the country and its ability to develop free and fair institutions to monitor and charge corrupt officials, the majority of India’s economic growth will never make it to the people of India who desperately need it the most,’ Curcio warned.

India’s legislative efforts to protect whistleblowers and those who work to fight corruption is a step in the right direction, however more must be done, she says calling for global efforts to make it harder to move illicit funds around the world.

These efforts include increasing financial transparency, as well as stronger work by developed-country governments to crack down on their home banks accepting these laundered, illicit funds, Curcio said.

I was a MP not very long ago. I loved those six years. Everyone called me sir, not because of my age but because I was a MP. And even though I never travelled anywhere by train during those years, I revelled in the fact that I could have gone anywhere I liked, on any train, first class with a bogey reserved for my family. Whenever I flew, there were always people around to pick up my baggage, not because I was travelling business class but because I was a MP. And yes, whenever I wrote to any Government officer to help someone in need, it was done. No, not because I was a journalist but because I was a MP.

The job had many perquisites, apart from the tax free wage of Rs 4,000. Then the wages were suddenly quadrupled to Rs 16,000, with office expenses of Rs 20,000 and a constituency allowance of Rs 20,000 thrown in. I could borrow interest free money to buy a car, get my petrol paid, make as many free phone calls as I wanted. My home came free. So did the furniture, the electricity, the water, the gardeners, the plants. There were also allowances to wash curtains and sofa covers and a rather funny allowance of Rs 1,000 per day to attend Parliament, which I always thought was a MP’s job in the first place! And, O yes, we also got Rs 1 crore a year (now enhanced to Rs 2 crore) to spend on our constituencies. More enterprising MPs enjoyed many more perquisites best left to your imagination. While I was embarrassed being vastly overpaid for the job I was doing, they kept demanding more.

Today, out of 543 MPs in Lok Sabha, 315 are crorepatis. That’s 60%. 43 out of the 54 newly elected Rajya Sabha MPs are also millionaires. Their average declared assets are over Rs 25 crore each. That’s an awfully wealthy lot of people in whose hands we have vested out destiny. The assets of your average Lok Sabha MP have grown from Rs 1.86 crore in the last house to Rs 5.33 crore. That’s 200% more. And, as we all know, not all our MPs are known to always declare all their assets. Much of these exist in a colour not recognised by our tax laws. That’s fine, I guess. Being a MP gives you certain immunities, not all of them meant to be discussed in a public forum.

If you think it pays to be in the ruling party, you are dead right: 7 out of 10 MPs from the Congress are crorepatis. The BJP have 5. MPs from some of the smaller parties like SAD, TRS and JD (Secular) are all crorepatis while the NCP, DMK, RLD, BSP, Shiv Sena, National Conference and Samajwadi Party have more crorepatis than the 60% average. Only the CPM and the Trinamool, the two Bengal based parties, don’t field crorepatis. The CPM has 1crorepati out of 16 MPs; the Trinamool has 7 out of 19. This shows in the state-wise average. West Bengal and Kerala have few crorepati MPs while Punjab and Delhi have only crorepati MPs and Haryana narrowly misses out on this distinction with one MP, poor guy, who’s not a crorepati.

Do MPs become richer in office? Sure they do. Statistics show that the average assets of 304 MPs who contested in 2004 and then re-contested last year grew 300%. And, yes, we’re only talking about declared assets here. But then, we can’t complain. We are the ones who vote for the rich. Over 33% of those with assets above Rs 5 crore won the last elections while 99.5% of those with assets below Rs 10 lakhs lost! Apart from West Bengal and the North East, every other state voted for crorepati MPs. Haryana grabbed first place with its average MP worth Rs 18 crore. Andhra is not far behind at 16.

But no, this is not enough for our MPs. It’s not enough that they are rich, infinitely richer than those who they represent, and every term makes them even richer. It’s not enough that they openly perpetuate their families in power. It’s not enough that all their vulgar indulgences and more are paid for by you and me through back breaking taxes. It’s not enough that the number of days they actually work in Parliament are barely 60 in a year. The rest of the time goes in squabbling and ranting. Now they want a 500% pay hike and perquisites quadrupled. The Government, to buy peace, has already agreed to a 300% raise but that’s not good enough for our MPs. They want more, much more.

And no, I’m not even mentioning that 150 MPs elected last year have criminal cases against them, with 73 serious, very serious cases ranging from rape to murder. Do you really think these people deserve to earn 104 times what the average Indian earns? – Pritish Nandy, 22 August 2010, 10:01 AM IST

The story of Vijay Kumar Naidu, alias Kalki Bhagavan or Kalki Avatar, is actually not very recent, he has been in media many times, but it came up again in the series of showing different gurus in the media after so many scandals got public however there is allegedly a court case against them and they trust.
The first point to say about this married couple is of course the names that they chose for themselves. Hindus believe that there are four ‘yugas’, four different periods of time for humankind. At the moment we live in Kaliyug. Each of the three previous time periods had one great God, …, and this man is saying, he is ‘Kalki Bhagavan’, the God of Kaliyug, the God of this time. His wife then is Amma Bhagavan, Mother God. Both claim they are the tenth Avatars or incarnations of the God Vishnu and his wife.
He has been clerk at an insurance company and then administrator of a school before he obviously decided that being God would look good in his CV, too. And this is how this couple is giving initiations and darshan to thousands of people each year and each of those visitors is said to pay a very high sum just to have this honour. Swami Balendu has also written in his diary about this way of doing Deeksha and how their way of selling it abuses an old word.
It is said to be very expensive to meet these Gods – about 100 Dollar for a meeting in a group and about 1000 Dollar if you want to meet Kalki Bhagavan alone.
And there are more than just a few questions about where this money goes to… They own a trust which is said to be running several businesses and in this way cash donations allegedly flow into the pockets of the Godman and his wife as well as relatives and their son.
If you want to read more, just go on google, you will have many more sources of information.

My main source: http://www.fake-guru.com/recently-exposed/20-kalki-bhagavan-amma-bhagavan-%96-1000-dollar-meeting.html

Sinking ranges, flooded warm-up zones, leaking ceilings, burst water-pipes and seepage everywhere. These are features of some of the brand-new Commonwealth Games venues — the places that will showcase India before the world. With just about 75 days to go for the Games’s opening ceremony on October

Inaugurated two months ago by Sports Minister MS Gill, the range even hosted a test event for the Games but has now self-destructed after the rains in the first week of July

On July 8, CRPF DIG and Manager (sports), MC Panwar (the Range is built on CRPF land) wrote a desperate letter to top Sports Ministry officials. Hindustan Times has a copy.

“Due to the incessant rains on the night of July 4 and 7,” reads the letter, “the various embankments on the range (which will host two medal events during the Games), have collapsed and extensive damages (sic) have been caused. The grassy expanse of lawn overhead the first box culvert has been washed away along with the side foot-tracks.”

The bad news doesn’t end here. The “all-weather road” (as the letter puts it) obviously wasn’t fit for all kinds of weather. The letter continues: “…the all-weather road near culvert No. 2 is about to collapse as all the underlying sand fillings have been washed away. There are visible landslides on either side of the remaining box culverts.”

“The chain-linked fences have come down at various places and its footings (sic) are hanging free in the air. The windowpanes of the facility block are leaking badly. The CPWD (Elect) has made numerous holes on the rooftop for split ACs resulting in seepage inside and damage to the false ceiling,” the letter adds.

Former CRPF DIG and sports manager, TS Dhillon, on whose recommendation the range was built inside the CRPF complex, was unavailable for comment. He designed the range.

Rahul Bhatnagar, one of the two joint secretaries in charge of the Games, told HT that they had “referred the issue to the Central Public Works Department”. “There is no structural damage to the big culverts built underground, for rainwater to pass through without damaging the range. The mud has settled on the range,” said Bhatnagar.

What makes the situation even more embarrassing is that this is just one more in a long list of shortcomings of the proposed Games venues.

The “new” Dr SP Mukherjee Swimming Complex was inaugurated on Sunday despite the fact that parts of the complex are far from complete. Even as the inauguration was on, a water pipe malfunction sprayed water all around. Crucial aspects of the competing/non-competing areas like lap timers, wall plaster etc were either missing or already in dilapidated condition.

Or take the Talkatora Boxing Stadium. The holding and warm-up boxing areas, located in the basement, have major seepage problems — no one obviously factored the rains into any construction design. There was some flooding inside because of leakage while outside, there was more than a foot of water all around.

This all comes soon after the Yamuna Sports Complex episode, where the false ceiling collapsed and the wooden flooring got damaged because of waterlogging. Both will now have to be replaced.

Cash-strapped Air India had spent nearly Rs 41 crore in a year in maintaining its offices in 11 cities across globe even though it does not have any operations from these locations. The Air India in an RTI reply has accepted it has offices in Los Angles, Amsterdam, Milan, Vienna, Zurich, Moscow,
Cairo, Tehran, Nairobi, Sydney and Chittagong but does not have flight operations at these locations.

The state-owned airlines said it also has offline offices at Brussels, Copenhagen and Beirut which are in the process of being closed.

The aviation company said it had “never” operated any flight from six destinations including Milan, Vienna, Zurich, Copenhagen, Brussels and Chittagong but was maintaining its offices there. In the rest of the destinations, there are no flight operations currently but it had operated in the past.

In a question seeking reasons for maintaining these offices, Air India said it has “code sharing agreement with other Airlines in Los Angles, Vienna, Zurich and Moscow. Hence it is essential to be represented in these cities to sell and service the passengers who travel on code-shared flights.”

The aviation company, however, did not give any reasons for maintaining rest of the offices.

The RTI reply shows that in 2008-09, the highest amount was spent in Los Angles — nearly Rs 16 crore. The least expenditure was incurred on the office in Chittagong where nearly Rs two lakh were spent. The total expenditure in 2008-09 came to Rs 41.89 crore.

“A comprehensive review is carried out regarding continuation of offices. In general, the commercial viability of offices is reviewed and appropriate action is taken to close offices in cities where alternative arrangement can be made to ensure revenue generation,” the reply given to RTI applicant S C Agrawal said.

It’s not just the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) that is being investigated for financial irregularities. For the first time, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has named Commonwealth Games Federation president Mike Fennel and CEO Mike Hooper, besides OC chairman Suresh

Kalmadi, as party to a dubious selection process for consultants for international broadcasting rights.

This, the national auditor says in its internal report, led to a loss of R24.6 crore for the OC. It has also come across fresh cases of financial wrongdoings by the OC, resulting in a total loss of R66.49 crore.

Dubious appointment

The CAG report, based on a February-April audit, says the OC skipped a detailed technical evaluation of bidders before picking a consultant for international broadcast rights. “The OC executive board in principal approved M/s Fast Track Sales Ltd only on the basis of suggestions made by the CGF president and CEO and the OC chairman,” it says.

Not only did the OC pay Fast Track a higher commission than the other bidders, resulting in a loss of R5.20 crore, the firm’s failure to finalise a broadcasting rights agreement on time led to a further loss of R19 crore.

Hooper, however, told HT: “We recommended Fast Track on the basis of its record. They have also performed and brought revenue for the Games. OC was the agency that decided on the deal, not us. Fast Track also exceeded the revenue target. We stand by the decision.”

High commission to SMAM

The CAG found that the OC showed undue favour while appointing Australia-based Sports Marketing and Management (SMAM) to procure sponsorship and licensing rights. “Due diligence wasn’t observed by OC, which resulted in insufficient competition for selection of consultant for marketing of sponsorship and commercial rights,” the report states. The OC also agreed to pay SMAM an extra R 25.31 crore commission – even for sponsorships it didn’t garner.

R 5.55 cr wasted on old HQ

While the OC eventually shifted to a new address, it spent R 4.11 crore to renovate Indian Olympic Association Bhawan, where it was based earlier. Also, while at IOA Bhawan, it paid R 1.44 crore as rent and maintenance for the entire building though it occupied 34 per cent of the space.

Extravagant lawyer fees

The OC paid professional charges between R 5,000 and R 77,000 per hearing to lawyers, between R 5,000 and R 22,000 per conference and between R 25,000 and R 50,000 per drafting. It also paid a retainership fee of R 9,90,000 in 2008-09. This despite the law ministry fixing maximum fees of Rs 3,000 per case per day for hearings, Rs 750 for drafting and Rs 300 per conference.

R 3.11 cr rent for office space

The OC paid R 3.11 crore as rent for office space in Pallika Place occupied by various sports federations that are independent organizations responsible for their own expenses.

Non-recovery of R 20.46 lakh

Of the R 38.11 lakh the OC has to recover from various Commonwealth Games associations towards hotel and travel grants given to them during the Commonwealth Youth Games 2008 in Pune, it has recovered only R 17.65 lakh.

Dismissing the CAG charges as non-issue, OC secretary general Lalit Bhanot said: “They are just objections raised by CAG; these are old issues. We have replied to them. We have already terminated SMAM’s contract for non-performance.”

Ahmedabad: Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah threatened Ahmedabad-based builder brothers Raman Patel and Dashrat Patel to give statement against Sohrabuddin Shaikh, who was killed in a fake encounter by Gujarat Police on November 26, 2005, according to the chargesheet filed by the CBI.

Patel brothers were threatened by Amit Shah through IPS officer and DIG of Gujarat Police, DG Vanzara, to give a statement against Sohrabhuddin or face dire consequences under The Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (PASA).

CNN-IBN has exclusive details of the chargsheet against Amit Shah which shows that the Gujarat Minister received Rs 70 lakh as payment from Patels in 2006.

Patel brothers had four meetings with Shah’s middleman to decide about the payment to be made to Shah. The payment was made in three installments and collected by Shah’s close aide on his behalf. CBI conducted a sting operation of all the four meetings where the middleman is instructing the Patelbrothers on how to mislead CBI.

On behest of Shah, DCP Abhay Chudasama tried to influence Sohrabhuddin’s family members by offering Rs 50 lakh to them. Chudasama also threatened saying that the same political party was in power in MP as well and that Shah will get them eliminated.

Shah had also threatened Zahid Kadri to withdraw a petition in a magistrate court and also a writ petition in Gujarat High Court or face the same fate as Sohrabhuddin.

After the case was handed over to the CBI by the Supreme Court, Shah directed all his friends and confidantes including Ajay Patel and Yashpal Chudasama to conceal the truth from CBI.

Shah is also said to have conveyed a message to Patel brothers through Ajay Patel that a written statement will be provided to them by Abhay Chudasama and that they have to stick to that statement before the CBI.