On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Zainab Bawa bawazaina...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you point out where Arvind has made this statement? I am keen to know.
In an interview on one of the news channels i was surfing across,
which is still hearsay.
to PWC and the Bank's meddling in appointing PWC,
Dear .
Would be interests, etcg to know which cases these are.
Yes indeed. Atleast Kejriwal was honest enough to admit that he had
not expected the misuse of the Act nor the delays within the system.
Can you point out where Arvind has made this statement? I am keen to know.
Arvind himself
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
2009/4/28 Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com
5 bucks per day? No wonder they don't care. I am fairly certain they can
cover the fine and more with the kickbacks they earn. RTI fine is a joke.
Venkat, that is Rs 5 per day per pending application. It piles up
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
Agreed, it is Rs 5/day/application. If it was 10x it might make a
small difference. Rs 5 ia too paltry a sum for them to scare them to
action. They probably earn 1000x as cutbacks. Sorry, but my
As somebody who had to shell out Rs. 1.75 Lakhs in bribes just to get a
trade licence for his restaurant, trust me that Rs. 5 per day, even per
application, is peanuts. Now imagine the bribe amount multiplied by the
number of licences issued.
How many such licenses do get issued any way,
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Zainab Bawa bawazaina...@gmail.com wrote:
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circumstances. Also, lower level officers tend to get fined more often than
the higher level bureaucrats and this could mean a lot not only in monetary
terms, but also bringing them under the ire and fire of
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com
wrote:
. wrote:
5 bucks per day? No wonder they don't care. I am fairly certain they can
cover the fine and more with the kickbacks they earn. RTI
I also hear Zainab's statement a bout frivolous pleas and such. But
the act is a law and everyone has to abide by it or amend it.
That is the most interesting thing about laws. They have fantastic
unintended consequences, as do regulations. This does not mean that I am
advocating people
hah, the case would take years to be heard, another few years to get a
judgement, and so on... take the Mumbai 26/11 terrorism case where
despite the evidence, Kasab's lawyer is trying to pass him off as a
juvenile, Who is to blame for the frivolousness being indulged
in, while a
Badri Natarajan wrote:
Take it from me that it is not easy and is a vast amount of work - the
simplest and easiest sounding questions can be incredibly hard (and time
consuming) to answer.
If it is hard and time consuming, does it mean that we (or our elected
representatives) agreed to
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote:
What's the problem? It's the lawyer's duty to defend him to the best of
his/her ability (wasn't the woman who was initially appointed forced to
stand down because of a conflict?) within the law. She isn't allowed to
put
Badri Natarajan wrote:
Take it from me that it is not easy and is a vast amount of work - the
simplest and easiest sounding questions can be incredibly hard (and time
consuming) to answer.
If it is hard and time consuming, does it mean that we (or our elected
representatives) agreed to
. wrote, [on 4/29/2009 9:25 PM]:
What's the problem? It's the lawyer's duty to defend him to the best of
his/her ability (wasn't the woman who was initially appointed forced to
stand down because of a conflict?) within the law. She isn't allowed to
put forward arguments that she knows (note:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:25 PM, . svaks...@gmail.com wrote:
As for terrorist enjoys state hospitality at taxpayer expense, I don't
know where to begin.
Then dont !!
A rope and the nearest tree! Due process be damned!
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Badri Natarajan wrote:
I really don't know much about RTI in India, but I suspect that the issues
But you are sure that it is hard and time consuming?
are more around lack of funding and resources on the government and not so
much the provisions of the Act. I mean, just because it is hard
Badri Natarajan wrote:
jail shouting slogans - you'll probably draw enough people to create a mob
quite quickly and you can go in and take him out, along with the last
As opposed to the people from whom we are protecting him by assiging
extremely tight security?
shreds of the rule of law in
Badri Natarajan wrote:
I really don't know much about RTI in India, but I suspect that the
issues
But you are sure that it is hard and time consuming?
Oh yes. The discovery process in litigation basically involves each party
in the case sending requests like RTI requests to each other for
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
These laws are going to find him guilty and hang him. Maybe they will
find out some more about the terrorist network. But those chaps already
know he is in jail and if they are as good as planning a 9/11 and 26/11,
Badri Natarajan wrote:
jail shouting slogans - you'll probably draw enough people to create a
mob
quite quickly and you can go in and take him out, along with the last
As opposed to the people from whom we are protecting him by assiging
extremely tight security?
I genuinely don't
Badri Natarajan wrote:
I genuinely don't understand what you mean by this bit.
Apparently, there are people trying to kill him. And not just Indian
extremists.
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Perhaps you missed the second parenthetical bit that Badri wrote above?
No, I didnt. That our courts are a lot more tolerant towards those who
indulge in perjury is the disturbing part.
Do you have any evidence at all
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
No, I didnt. That our courts are a lot more tolerant towards those who
indulge in perjury is the disturbing part.
Er...you *are* aware that the definition of perjury hinges on know and
not suspect, yes?
Do you mean the
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote:
No, I didnt. That our courts are a lot more tolerant towards those who
indulge in perjury is the disturbing part.
Do you have any evidence at all to support this? Or if not, if you can
ad hominem? have you ever
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
No, I didnt. That our courts are a lot more tolerant towards those who
indulge in perjury is the disturbing part.
Er...you *are* aware that the definition of perjury hinges on know and
not suspect, yes?
Do you mean
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote:
No, I didnt. That our courts are a lot more tolerant towards those who
indulge in perjury is the disturbing part.
Do you have any evidence at all to support this? Or if not, if you can
ad hominem? have you ever
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 23:44, . svaks...@gmail.com wrote:
If his earlier confession[0] isn't invalid how is this not perjury? I'm
curious.
[0] http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=enart=15109
Swati Sathe, Jail superintendent said when he was admitted to the
prison, Kasab gave his age as 21
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote:
How is my question ad hominem? You made an unsupported assertion and I
Unsupported assertion? In the 26/11 case? I never said Kasab should
not get a lawyer or get a fair trial or that perjury was committed in
the 26/11
. wrote:
** iirc, Kejriwal said the IC is empowered to fine the officer 5 bucks
per day beyond the mandatory 30 days. In some cases this has turned
into a 3 year window.
5 bucks per day? No wonder they don't care. I am fairly certain they can
cover the fine and more with the kickbacks they
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
. wrote:
5 bucks per day? No wonder they don't care. I am fairly certain they can
cover the fine and more with the kickbacks they earn. RTI fine is a joke.
Most fines in our country ARE a joke; it's an added
In a recent interview I heard Arvind Kejriwal opine that the RTI has
too many backlog cases and the Information Commission which is
supposed to fine the officers does not bother to implement this
fine/action**, thereby pushing the RTI towards its slow and imminent
death.
The information
2009/4/28 Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com
5 bucks per day? No wonder they don't care. I am fairly certain they can
cover the fine and more with the kickbacks they earn. RTI fine is a joke.
Venkat, that is Rs 5 per day per pending application. It piles up quickly.
Agreed, it is Rs 5/day/application. If it was 10x it might make a
small difference. Rs 5 ia too paltry a sum for them to scare them to
action. They probably earn 1000x as cutbacks. Sorry, but my opinion is
not very high.
I also hear Zainab's statement a bout frivolous pleas and such. But
the act
Hello,
Does anybody know where I can find more resources that give copious,
reliable and accurate information about the development being taken in
all states. Something like the Outlook magazine's reports recently on
the development taken by each politician in their own constituency ?
Does anybody know where I can find more resources that give copious,
reliable and accurate information about the development being taken in
all states.
Outlook, or rather the Satark Nagarik Sanghatana (SNS), has provided
information about way in which each MP has spent the discretionary funds
Zainab,
Thanks for the quick information :-)
-- Bharat
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Zainab Bawa bawazaina...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anybody know where I can find more resources that give copious,
reliable and accurate information about the development being taken in
all states.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Bharat Shetty bharat.she...@gmail.comwrote:
Zainab,
Thanks for the quick information :-)
-- Bharat
The other means to find state assembly constituency development profiles is
to gather data from NSSO about population statistics, and about education
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Zainab Bawa bawazaina...@gmail.com wrote:
For similar information on MLAs, you have to file RTI applications with
In a recent interview I heard Arvind Kejriwal opine that the RTI has
too many backlog cases and the Information Commission which is
supposed to fine
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