[Assam] Look What I Found!

Tue Jun 17 15:44:12 PDT 2008

Given the fact that the troublemakers are not going to go away, They shoul be nabbed. Some time back I think there was a report showing the Assam police is the most corrupt in India , so I would not set standards based  on their wisdom.

Umesh

uttam borthakur <uttamborthakur at yahoo.co.in> wrote: The ISI would foment trouble in India and the RAW would do the same in Pakistan. This is the game played by the States and is a part of the statecraft. What I find revolting is: the sight of the corpses of the Biharis ( some of them assimilated into the Oxomiya society and so the term is inapplicable) gunned down by ULFA cadres ( Madhrurya Gohain's name pops up here) and also the sight of Madhurya Gohain's corpse that lay like a slaughtered animal in the TV pictures. These are entirely unnecessary. We should not go out to see for whom the bell tolls, for it tolls for all of us. The politicians in question are neither less nor more than their do-alikes in any part of the world, be it Assam, be it India, be it the US. It is a big farce.

Uttam Kumar Borthakur

--- On Tue, 17/6/08, Chan Mahanta  wrote:

From: Chan Mahanta 
Subject: [Assam] Look What I Found!
To: assam at assamnet.org
Date: Tuesday, 17 June, 2008, 6:53 PM

Have been browsing the Assam papers. And the following was the 
leading story in the Sentinel yesterday.

After a spate of ISI sightings and 'ISI nabbings'  in Assam, duly 
reported for our benefit by a variety  of netters, including 
journalists, I asked a question of one of these journalists sometimes 
back what happens to these suspected ISI elements and what crimes 
they are  charged with.

The report below finally gives us a clue.

What I am curious about is the consternation of leading citizens 
reported. If I had to go by what I read it means:

 The 'suspected ISI agents ' are guilty, but were set free by 
the courts because the police
 and the state govt du-jour are inept and could not prove their case.

 I say du-jour ( of the day), because one of the complainers 
used to rule Assam for quite
 a number of years.

It raises some questions  in my mind:

A: If the concerned pillars-of-society are correct about the guilt of 
the 'suspected ISI agents', what do they know that the police did 
not? Should they have raised their voices and come out to testify ? 
Or at the very least tell the police what they knew. Was it not their 
patriotic duty?

B: What is the crime associated with being a 'suspected ISI agent'? 
Is there some Indian law  that prohibits someone from being an ISI 
agent, self-styled or so labeled by pillars-of-society or by anyone 
who is not an ISI agent?

It really boggles the mind.

C: Is police ineptitude something new, that they have been unaware 
of? If I am not mistaken, the complainers include an ex-CM, an 
ex-Chief Secy and an ex-Police Chief . Wouldn't people want to know 
what measures they took to improve the quality of policing?

Finally, I am of course relieved to notice that there have not been 
much IS sightings reported to assamnet in recent months. Perhaps they 
have all been 'nabbed' and Assam's scourge has been finally 
eradicated.

Or just re-habbed and released after years of  detention, raising the 
pillars-of-society's hackles.

What do netters think?

cm

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Government's role on release of suspected ISI agents severely criticized

By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, June 14: Former Asom Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, 
former Asom Chief Secretary JP Rajkhowa and former DGP HK Deka today 
expressed serious concern over the release of as many as ten 
suspected ISI agents by the court for the failure of the Assam Police 
to prove charges against them. They termed it as a total failure of 
the Government and a serious threat to the internal security of the 
country. Mahanta even said the incident has once again proved Chief 
Minister Tarun Gogoi's soft stand towards the ISI and Islamic 
fundamentalists. However, the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) 
preferred not to air any comment on the issue now.
Talking to The Sentinel, Mahanta said: "It was due to the bold stand 
taken by the then AGP Government that police could arrest as many as 
ten ISI agents on the basis of strong ground, but those ISI agents 
have been set free due to negligence on the part of the Tarun 
Gogoi-led Government. Either the police didn't investigate the case 
deeply or the prosecutor was not given the required briefing by the 
State Government or the State Government took a soft stand in the 
case. Whatever may be the case, it has proved once again that Chief 
Minister Tarun Gogoi is soft towards the ISI and fundamentalists. 
This is undoubtedly a serious threat to the internal security of the 
country."
It may be mentioned here that the 10 suspected ISI agents had been 
arrested during the tenure of Prafulla Kumar Mahanta as Chief 
Minister of the State.
Blaming it on the Assam Police, former Asom Chief Secretary JP 
Rajkhowa said since it is a serious matter and the Union Ministry of 
Home Affairs should step in. Talking to The Sentinel, Rajkhowa said : 
"If the ten are not ISI agents, the Assam Police is responsible for 
holding them so long on mere suspicion. After their arrest, did the 
Assam Police ever consult the RAW and IB, given the fact that the 
issue was so serious and a grave threat to the internal security of 
the country?"
Rajkhowa further said: "The Assam Police can still detain them as 
they are a threat to national security. They can still be arrested 
under the National Security Act (NSA) and their cases may be referred 
to an advisory committee headed by a retired judge of the High Court. 
The Assam Police is actually incompetent to handle such cases."
Former Asom DGP HK Deka was also surprised at the release of the 10 
suspected ISI agents. Talking to The Sentinel, Deka said: "It's not 
only an unfortunate incident, but also a threat to the internal 
security of the country. When the suspected ISI agents were arrested, 
sufficient incriminating documents were seized from their possession. 
Maybe, the police didn't investigate the case deeply and that led to 
its failure to prove the charges against the 10."
Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba-Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) general secretary 
Manoj Baruah said: "It's a total failure of the Government and the 
police. If the 10 are not ISI agents, what action will the Government 
take against those who detained them for nine years?"
AUDF working president HRA Choudhury, on the other hand, said: "This 
incident has proved that only judiciary can give justice to the 
people, not administration. The incident has also proved that there 
is a tendency to frame the people of a particular community as 
fundamentalists."
It is worth mentioning here that when the 10 suspected ISI agents had 
been arrested, including four from the Guwahati railway station, the 
police had claimed that it had seized various incriminating documents 
from their possession and claimed that it had been a big success.
What will Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi say now? It is still fresh in 
the minds of circles concerned that the Chief Minister, while 
replying to a question from Opposition leader Chandra Mohan Patowary 
on March 10 this year, told the Assam Assembly that ISI activities 
had been on the rise in the State and that his Government had 
arrested as many as nine ISI agents. Gogoi had also told the Assembly 
that his Government had enough evidence to prove that MULTA and HuM 
had links with the ISI.
This apart, at a meeting on internal security in New Delhi on 
December 20, 2007, Gogoi said: "The Northeast, of late, emerged as an 
important hub for espionage activity for agencies such as the ISI. 
But we are determined to root out that menace."
Does Gogoi realize the gravity of the situation?

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