On 1st August, Justice Sunil Gaur (who abruptly rejected P Chidambaram’s bail) set aside a trial court order which recommended prosecution of 3 senior Reliance officials for possessing secret documents of govt. cabinet meetings on economic affairs. (1/4)
The appeal was filed by Mukesh Ambani-controlled RIL & 3 accused officials - Group President V Balasubramanian, VP A N Sethuraman, and GM (corporate affairs) Shankar Adawal.
The trial court had ordered their prosecution in 2012 under the Official Secrets Act. (2/4)
Four secret/confidential cabinet meeting documents pertaining to govt. policies on subjects of interest to Reliance were recovered from the company's office & these officials in 1998.
As far as it’s known, the Modi govt. hasn’t appealed against this clean chit yet. (3/4)
Justice Sunil Gaur retired from the Delhi High Court earlier today. (4/4)
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How BJP is using proxy pages to run political ads worth CRORES targeting the Opposition & Facebook & ECI are openly allowing them.
Political advertising on social media has strict rules. However, this is how BJP is bypassing these rules using proxies 👇
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ECI rules require political parties to disclose expenditure on political ads. Also FB has rules around political ads & requires "transparency" on the sponsor.
But BJP is funding several proxy pages to run ads targeting the Opposition & spending CRORES
Here's examples...
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1. Meme Xpress
This is an FB page with ONLY 1700 followers
But, in JUST last 7 days, this page has spent 18 lacs on running pro-BJP filthy ads targeting the Opposition
The ads target TMC, INC, AAP, DMK, Shiv Sena & others & have been published with regional targeting
Why is Modi Govt compromising national security by favoring banned Chinese-govt-owned company?
Despite an alleged "ban", Modi Govt continues to give out tenders for equipment from Hikvision - a Chinese govt-owned firm.
And some of these tenders are for SENSITIVE PROJECTS
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First a background:
Hikvision is a company owned by the Chinese Govt that has been under the scanner & banned by several countries globally out of concerns of Chinese surveillance.
US, UK, Australia - all have banned CCTV equipment from Hikvision.
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Hikvision is also accused of being used for several human-rights-violating purposes such as by the Chinese govt for surveillance of Uyghur students and by the Israeli Govt for monitoring Palestinians.
Interestingly, India allegedly BANNED Hikvision in 2020
In response to my RTI, National Informatics Centre told me that PM CARES Fund has been allotted a govt website under "Guidelines for allocating website under the 3rd level"
NIC also said that the govt website domain was allotted on request of PMO