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Muslims not the only culprits'
Sanjay Nirupam is the editor of the Shiv Sena mouthpiece,
Dopahar ka Saamna. He is also a Rajya Sabha MP. By virtue of his
double distinction one would imagine that he is a well–informed man. In the
popular weekly programme, ‘The Big Fight’, telecast by Star TV a few
weeks ago, Nirupam was the ‘big fighter’ on the Sena’s behalf in the debate over
whether the Maharashtra government should or should not act on the
recommendations of the Srikrishna Commission pertaining to the Mumbai riots.
Teesta Setalvad, on the other hand, argued strongly in support of the
implementation of the commission’s recommendations. During the programme, Nirupam repeatedly demanded to know why
people arrested in India for spying for Pakistan or acting as agents of the ISI
were all Indian Muslims. In raising this question, Nirupam was either lying or
furnishing proof of his utter ignorance on the subject. For Union home minister
LK Advani could any day remind him, if he so desired, that of the several
persons from his own ministry who were arrested on charges of passing on vital
information to Pakistan in the midst of the Lok Sabha polls last year, not one
was a Muslim. We would like to draw the ill–informed or communally
motivated Nirupam’s attention to the answer given by the IG Intelligence, BSF,
Vibhuti Rai to a question on ISI agents in India. (See Rai’s interview in this
issue). We challenge Nirupam to prevail upon Big Brother Advaniji to
release a full list of all those charged with acting as agents of Pakistan/ISI
since Independence. Meanwhile, to cite just a few instances, we reproduce below
excerpts from news reports published by different national newspapers in recent
years pointing out that non–Muslims, too, have been nabbed for acting against
the national interest. Arrested Pakistan militant is Hindu JAMMU, August 11: For the first time in the over a decade
long period of militancy, the Jammu police have arrested a Hindu youth who is a
dreaded Pakistan-Afghanistan militant. Four of his associates, including two
Hindus were also arrested. They were sent to Jammu by Major Irfan of
Inter–Services Intelligence (ISI) to disrupt the city on Independence Day. A huge quantity of arms and ammunition, two very powerful
explosive devices including a milk container IED and a tiffin–bomb (filled with
RDX) were recovered during the arrests. The arrested militant, who had joined Hizbul Mujahideen
sometime back after his differences with Harkat–ul Jehad Islami (HUJI) outfit,
has been identified as Bharat Kumar alias Bharat Singh alias Bharat Malhotra
alias Munna (code name Tariq), a resident of Jammu City’s outskirts. His four
associates include Harjit Singh alias Jeeta of Jammu, Sodagar Singh of RS Pura,
Sammi–ul–Rehman alias Sammi and Sheikh Mukhtiar, both residents of Jammu.
(Mid–Day, August 11, 2000). "The ISI is now luring Hindu youth from Jammu and Muslim boys
from Uttar Pradesh to act as couriers for them in an attempt to hoodwink the
security forces. (From the Intelligence report on ISI) ‘ISI presence in India is massive’ MUMBAI: Top state government officials yesterday said that
the access of Pakistan’s Inter–Services Intelligence (ISI) was not restricted to
Muslims here alone. "More than Muslims, ISI agents are said to be mingling on the
sly with members of the majority community and that makes our job of combing
these dangerous elements real difficult and challenging," these officials
admitted. They said there were more undercover ISI agents among the
Hindus than in the Muslim community. "And we suspect that ISI contacts in the
majority community are highly educated and influential people with connections
in politics," officials said. According to these sources, money, which was said to be
available aplenty with the ISI, was the single most factor that ‘brought’ the
dreaded outfit ‘sympathisers’ in the majority community. "It is a misnomer then that ISI men take shelter in Muslim
areas and mingle only with the minority community. The fact, ironically, is they
mostly mingle with the Hindus and may be operating from such localities where
you have the least suspicion of finding them," officials said. (Afternoon Despatch and Courier, July 15, 1998). Cop sacked for links with ISI Bombay, Oct. 22 (PTI) Police Commissioner A. S. Samra has
removed a police inspector from service in connection with his involvement in
the case of an Iranian national, suspected to be a spy of the Inter–Services
Intelligence of Pakistan, who was nabbed in the city. Inspector Prabhakar Ingle, attached to Pydhonie station in
South Bombay, was the chief investigating officer in the case involving the
Iranian national. The Commissioner served a notice to inspector Ingle on
Wednesday night terminating his services under Article 311 of the Constitution
of India under which the police chief has the powers to remove from service any
staff member if there is a prima facie case of his links with anti–social
elements. On similar grounds, Mr Samra had removed from service two
senior inspectors of police, Mr Vinayak Patil of Antop Hill police station and
Mr S. P. Kalankar of Oshiwara police station, in May and July last,
respectively. (The Hindustan Times, October 23, 1993) Another defence staff held for spying AHMEDNAGAR, AUG. 8. Close on the heels of arrest of a senior
officer of the Army’s Vehicle Research and Development Establishment (VRDE) here
on Monday, police apprehended another employee on charges of spying for
Pakistan’s Inter–Services Intelligence (ISI). Police sources told PTI here today that Achut Menon, a
technical assistant in VRDE, had allegedly supplied vital secret documents to
the ISI. The Additional Sessions Judge (First Class) here today
remanded Menon to police custody for 12 days, the sources added. Police had last
night arrested Sunil Kadanna Chinchane (40), who had stolen classified
information and allegedly sent it to Pakistan through the Internet. (The Hindu, August 9, 2000, news report) ISI infiltrated into Dalits, OBCs : Book NEW DELHI, DEC 26: The Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of
Pakistan has infiltrated into the Dalits and other backward classes to carry out
subversive activities against India, a new book on Kargil says. Pak Proxy War: A Story of ISI, Bin Laden and Kargil, by
Rajeev Sharma claims the ISI has been recruiting members of Dalit and the other
backward classes since the mid–90s with the help of the under-world in Mumbai,
Dubai and Nepal. The underworld funded the ISI’s design and promoted a nexus
among Muslims, Dalits and the backward classes at its bidding, it points out. It
goes on to add that the ISI also targeted members of renowned Muslim
organisations who did not buy their plan. (UNI, The Indian Express, December 27, 1999) ULFA informs ISI via Internet Darshan Balwally (Guwahati, June 25): The inscrutable Internet is proving a challenge to the
intelligence wing of the Indian Army in keeping track of the messages allegedly
passed on to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) wing of Pakistan by the
banned United Liberation Front of Asom. Faced with the Herculean task of
tracking down websites, allegedly established by the insurgents, the 4th Corps
of the Army, at Tezpur, has recently acquired specialists endowed with skills to
peep into suspicious websites. Speaking on condition of anonymity, an extremely
knowledgeable source in the Indian Army admitted recently that "we had
‘electronics experts’ flown in" some days ago. However, more sinister, according
to senior Army officials, is ULFA’s rapidly becoming hi–tech. Armed with
computers, the ULFA cadres/ sympathisers are suspected to be feeding information
to various sources within and outside the country through websites. (The Hindustan Times, June 26, 1999). "If a section of minority community is involved in anti—India
activity then so are the members of the majority community who have reportedly
joined the ISI for easy money. It is the majority community that dominates the
ULFA whose links with ISI have been confirmed". (From the Intelligence report on ISI) Meghalaya couple arrested On Sept 27 (From the Intelligence report on ISI) I am not an ISI agent, says Raja Bhaiyya …Mr Sandhu in an interview to India’s Most Wanted programme, telecast on Zee TV last week, had said that Mr Raghuraj Pratap Singh, also known as Raja Bhaiyya, was working as an ISI agent and supplying arms to the notorious Brijesh Singh gang of UP, besides harbouring criminals of the rival Mukhtar Ansari gang. UP minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh reacted by demanding a CBI enquiry against himself so that a verification of the IPS officer’s charges could be made at the earliest. According to the minister, relations between himself and the officer have been strained since the time the officer was posted as superintendent of police in Pratapgarh district. (The Asian Age, June 9, 1999) ISI–trained Sikh militants find haven in Bengal Calcutta: AT LEAST 200 Sikh extremists, all trained by the Pakistani secret agency Inter Service Intelligence, are now very much in West Bengal, Punjab director–general of police KPS Gill said. This has sent shivers down the spine of almost every sleuth engaged in intelligence activities, leave alone the highly tensed up higher officials. These extremists belong to the Khalistani Commando Force and the Babbar Khalsa group but there are half a dozen dreaded activists belonging to the Panjwa group and they carry a cash award of Rs 50 lakh if caught red–handed. If state police intelligence higher–ups are to be believed, a Gurdwara near Baranagar and another in south Calcutta shelter some of these extremists. (The Observer of Business and Politics, January 12, 1994). . |
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