[Skullduggery is to be protected under the cover of "national security"! Documents which are already in the public domain cannot be discussed in the Court as it would endanger "national security"!
So, the loot of national treasury is to be recognised as an indispensable way of ensuring "national security"! Height of shamelessness and absurdity! <<Many of the allegations of wrongdoing are already known and quite obvious. For instance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi suddenly short-circuited the 126-fighter negotiation with Dassault and announced the 36-fighter deal without his own Defence minister knowing about it at the time, and without approval from the Defence Acquisition Council or the Cabinet Committee on Security; only 15 days before that, Dassault CEO Eric Trappier had stood with then IAF Chief Arup Raha and then HAL Chairman Suvarna Raju and said that HAL and Dassault had resolved all issues between them and he expected the final deal for 126 Rafale fighters to be signed soon; only two days before Modi’s announcement, then Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar said final negotiations were on between HAL, IAF and Dassault; the Defence minister has subsequently revealed that as far back as July 2014, HAL had written to the Defence Ministry that there was only one pending unresolved issue with Dassault. None of them knew what PM Modi had in mind. Suvarna Raju was part of the PM’s delegation to Paris, but when Modi went to meet French President Francois Hollande, Raju was left behind, it was Anil Ambani in the lead. Ambani had registered his defence company only weeks earlier, and had zero experience, people and even less money to undertake any defence business. But he had immediately upon registering his company travelled to Paris in late March 2015, just ahead of the PM’s visit, and had met French government and defence industry officials. He had, of course, bought the Pipavav shipyard from a fellow Gujarati businessman in January 2015, a few months after Modi came to power, and gotten into the naval defence business (it has since been blacklisted by the Indian Navy). Months later, as the contours of the deal became clearer, out of India’s original plan to buy 126 fighters and obtain technology, offsets and other benefits from the mega deal, only 36 fighters and the offsets remained. According to a retired Air Vice Marshal who was at Air Headquarters and on the Rafale files during these negotiations, the IAF had, in fact, told the Modi government that four squadrons, or 72 fighters, was the minimum the IAF needed because it wanted to base two squadrons each on the Northern and Western fronts. But the Modi government decided on two squadrons of Rafale fighters and gave up the option for two more squadrons. More on that later. The prime minister visited Paris in April 2015 and announced the 36-aircraft deal with Hollande, saying it would be in the same configuration as approved by the IAF under the UPA-era MMRCA tender process, but on better terms. An Indian Negotiating Team (INT) was appointed to hammer out the details of the better terms. What happened next?>>] The most conspicuous scam here is the way the requirement of 126 (7squadrons) was slashed, just out of the blue. to mere 36 (2 squadrons) without any input from any of the legitimate stakeholders. Even the Defence Minister would find himself quite at a loss for explanation. (Ref.: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2udl1EHdZ2s>, 0:18 - 0:26 mins. The keyword is "probably", also highly helpul is the way it was delivered, on April 14 (?) 2010, (four days) after the announcement.) May also look up: 'Modi Hai To Mumkin Hai! Daylight Robbery in Rafale Deal!? Yet Another Comment/Analysis' at < https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/greenyouth/BsMxDD7DI6Y>.] https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/what-all-can-the-court-overlook-in-the-rafale-matter-723110.html?fbclid=IwAR1VGp6VooWvqU69MYOfcbJXNl9pzSh_1wkF80l4AotJd1wrCkUEvn-KqOU How many things can the SC overlook in Rafale? S Raghotham, DH News Service, Bengaluru, MAR 14 2019, 00:55AM IST UPDATED: MAR 14 2019, 10:48AM IST Snipped -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
