SCAM/CORRUPTION – 2010 - Indian Social Institute

13, 2004. The two had alleged that hill transport subsidy bills for carrying PDS items to Arunachal from
warehouses in Assam's North Lakhimpur were claimed in fraudulent ways. They had also claimed that
the bills were cleared "without any financial concurrence" when Apang was the CM of the hill state. "The
state exchequer had suffered a loss of about Rs 1,000 crore due to such fraudulent claims of hill transport
subsidy bills," an official said. "Apang was arrested on the basis of material evidence produced against
him and statements given by other accused," Special Investigation Cell investigating officer M S Chauhan
said. "We had provided Apang with a set of questionnaires. Despite three summons issued earlier, he
appeared before the probe panel for the first time today, but denied any knowledge of facts or persons
involved in the scam," he said. "Since the charges brought against him were non-bailable, police had the
power to arrest him," Chauhan added. Apang's counsel Kardak Ete, however, said the former CM had
been "illegally detained". "We smell political foul play. The probe panel had called Apang as a witness.
There should not be any question of his arrest under any clause. But law will take its own course," Kardak
said. Soon after the news of Apang's arrest, an elated Tago said, "I'm happy that our claims about the
scam are vindicated." Arunachal police had earlier named 40 people, including Apang and two of his
office staff, an MLA each from Assam and Arunachal and three IAS officers, as accused in the transport
subsidy scam. Apang served as Congress CM from January 18, 1980, to January 19, 1999. In 1996, he
broke away from Congress and floated Arunachal Congress but retained the CM's post. Apang was about
to break Jyoti Basu's record as the country's longest-serving CM, but he lost a trust motion in the
Arunachal house in 1999. He was the lone Opposition member in the 60-member assembly. In 2003, he
merged his party with BJP and toppled the Mukut Mithi-led Congress government and made Arunachal
NE's first BJP-ruled state. Even as he was CM of the BJP government, he returned to Congress after the
fall of the NDA government at the Centre in 2004. The same year, Apang led Congress to victory in the
assembly elections and became CM again. He was finally shown the door by present CM Dorjee Khandu,
also from Congress. (TOI, 25/8/2010)
Man murders wife in front of their kids
KANPUR: In a shocking incident, a 45-year-old housewife was brutally done to death by her husband
right in front of her three children. The woman's only fault was that she had raised voice against her
husband's extra-marital affair. The accused, Chandrashekhar Dubey, a labour office employee and
resident of A E Block Baragadiyapur, Panki, was arrested on the initial statement of his 20-year-old son
Sumit and two minor children. The three accused their father of attacking their mother (Saroj) with a stone
slab. According to reports, Dubey, a native of Etawah, was having an affair with the wife of another man,
Shivji Gupta, who also lived in Panki (C Block). A few days ago, Saroj went to the woman's home and told
her to stay away from her husband. On Wednesday evening, Chandrashekhar Dubey returned home with
Shivji Gupta and his wife, and started beating up Saroj. The woman fainted and Dubey then hit her with
the stone slab till she died. He then escaped with the others. The police have arrested Dubey and Gupta
but Gupta's wife is at large. A senior police official said: "The woman was found in a pool of blood, with
her two minor children (12-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son) sitting beside her body and crying,
on early Wednesday morning." She was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead
upon arrival. (TOI, 26/8/2010)
CM Modi should file affidavit before riots probe panel, Teesta demands
AHMEDABAD: While an NGO, Jan Sangharsh Manch, has been trying hard for over a year to persuade
the Nanavati Mehta commission to summon chief minister Modi for questioning in connection with the
2002 riots, another NGO, Citizen for Justice and Peace ( CJP) on Thursday submitted before the probe
panel that Modi and 14 others should at least file affidavits explaining their roles during violence. CJP's
secretary Teesta Setalvad submitted that phone call records show that many accused persons like
Jaideep Patel and Maya Kodnani were in contact with the CMO. There were as many as 15 calls from
CMO to then city police commissioner PC Pande on February 28, 2008. "Therefore, Modi should, if not be
called, be compelled to file an affidavit before the commission, explaining his role during the post-Godhra
riots," she submitted. Setalvad also claimed that the police control room records of the time of riots had
been destroyed and sought an inquiry in the matter. Besides Modi, Setalvad sought the explanations from
Pande, then DGP K Chakravarti, joint police commissioner MK Tandon, DCP PB Gondia, former chief
secretary Subba Rao, former health minister Ashok Bhatt, former urban development minister IK Jadeja,
former home minister Gordhan Zadafiya, and other BJP leaders. Setalvad also asked for records of the
special telephone exchange of Ahmedabad police, specially manned by control room staff that had facility
of direct communications of senior officers with police stations and chowkies. Setalvad demanded setting
up of a special team for authentication of CDs containing phone records provided by IPS officer Rahul
Sharma. Following CJP's submission, the commission told the state government advocate T Nanavati
that he could file affidavit in answer to the submissions if the government wants. (TOI, 27/8/2010)