THE GOOD WORD
Jun 28, 2021 - Week 28
Volume 7S-7| Pages 2
PM kick-starts Jammu-Kashmir
delimitation, election process
Jun 24, prime minister
Narendra Modi chaired
a 3 hour long meeting
with 14 Jammu and
Kashmir (J&K) political
leaders representing 8
parties, the state
lieutenant governor
Manoj Sinha, home
minister Amit Shah and
NSA Ajit Doval. It was
the first all party meet
since the abrogation of
article 370 and the
bifurcation of the state
into J&K and Ladakh, in
August 2019.
After the meeting the
home minister tweeted,
“We are committed to
ensure all round
development of J&K.
The future of J&K was
discussed and the
delimitation exercise
and peaceful elections
are important
milestones in restoring
statehood as promised
in parliament”. Omar
Abdullah asked for
statehood to be
granted before polls.
The Congress put up 5
demands, including the
rehabilitation of
displaced Hindus and
release of political
detainees.
Some J&K groups
question the 2011
census numbers which
will form the basis of
delimitation, claiming
Bharat First
2 drones attack Jammu Air Force Base
commander Abrar and a
Pakistani terrorist were
neutralized and their
links to the drone attack
are also being probed.
This shift in strategy
that renders high
perimeter walls
redundant calls for new
measures to thwart
attacks. Cost is the most
important aspect in
countering drones.
“Indian army’s ground-
based radars can detect
almost all types of
drones thereby allowing
a variety of weapons to
be used to neutralize
them.” claims Sarkar a
defense expert.
In 2005, the Bombay
HC had declared
mangroves are
protected forest. The
state since identified
170 sq km of such
mangroves on its
coasts. This year, it
took possession of 98
sq km and declared it
reserved forest under
Jun 23, a WSJ report
claimed US intelligence
believes Afghanistan
could fall to the Taliban
within a year of the
western troop
withdrawal set to
conclude by September.
The Taliban has captured
about 50 of the 370
districts in the country
and several across the 3
northern provinces of
Kunduz, Baghlan and
Balkh, at alarming speed
since May 1 when troop
departure began. These
gains mostly in rural
areas where Taliban
enjoy support, also
include a few supply
arteries and areas along
major provincial capital
cities. The US has said it
will show more flexibility
to support the Afghan
government which New
Delhi also backs.
More: ABCNew , CNN, SmartTraveller
Taliban looms
in Afghanistan
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ED arrests 2 aides of the former
Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh
metric tons in places. It
starved 12 other states of
the gas. The state was ill
prepared to assess or
audit its requirement. It
ran out of space to store
the supplied gas delaying
truck turnaround times.
On May 13 the demand
from Delhi was 4 times
the LMO calculated by
the central formula.
Some panelists differed
with the report’s
findings.
Delhi government had
created a hue and cry,
alleging foul play by the
centre and blaming other
states for holding up
Delhi’s oxygen. An SC
bench headed by justice
Chandrachud had
ordered the central
government to supply
700 MT LMO to Delhi
despite the latter’s
assertion that the
requirement was 415 MT.
In doing so, the SC had
set aside a Delhi High
Court order to initiate
criminal contempt
proceedings against
central government
officers for failing to
supply 700 MT to Delhi.
More: Telegraph, OpIndia
through Zodiac Dealcom
which shows a purchase
of a warehouse for the
amount in its balance
sheet. The ED
investigation comes on
the heels of a Bombay
HC ordered CBI probe
into allegations by
Parambir Singh, ex-
commissioner of police,
Mumbai, that Deshmukh
had asked Vaze to illegally
collect Rs 100 crore per
month from bars,
restaurants and other
outlets. Deshmukh who
has missed 2 ED
summons, has denied any
wrong doing.
More: Republic , EconomicTimes
Jun 25, the 5 member
SC appointed panel to
audit the oxygen
requirement of Delhi
during the pandemic
has indicted the state
government for
claiming excessive gas,
in a 23 page interim
report. The report also
ignites a debate about
judicial misadventures
into executive domain.
Headed by AIMS
director Randeep
Guleria, the report
states the claim for 700
MT of oxygen made on
April 30 was excessive.
The capital’s current
requirement ranges
from 290 to 400 MT of
liquid medical oxygen
(LMO). It
recommended 300 MT
of quota should be
made available daily. An
additional 100 MT could
be kept available at
plants for Delhi to lift by
4 pm each day, failing
which it should be
diverted to other states.
700 MT of LMO was
based on an off-
standard formula and
erroneous data which
mistook kiloliters for
Jun 27, early morning
1:40 am, two drones
dropped low intensity
IEDs over Jammu’s
Indian Airforce Base,
resulting in minor
damage and injury to
two personnel. This is
the first time Pakistan
based terrorists have
used small to medium,
unmanned aerial
vehicles to target an
Indian defense base.
Located 14 km from the
international border,
preliminary NIA
investigations indicate
the base was hit by IEDs
that contained RDX.
June 29, a top LeT
Jun 24, at the 44
th
RIL
AGM chairman Mukesh
Ambani unveiled a road
map to invest 75,000
crore in green energy
over the next 3 years.
Aiming for leadership in
solar and hydrogen fuel
energy he announced a
plan to build 4 giga-
factories, a solar
photovoltaic panel
manufacturing unit, a
battery factory, a green
hydrogen electrolyser
unit and a hydrogen fuel
cell factory. These will
manufacture and
integrate all
components needed for
the green ecosystem.
He reaffirmed the
intention to make RIL
net carbon zero by 2035.
RIL will provide 100GW
of solar energy by 2030.
Jamnagar which hosted
the company’s fossil fuel
business, will also cradle
its new energy venture.
An area of 5,000 acres
has been earmarked for
it. He also announced a
partnership with Google
to produce an ultra-
affordable smart phone.
More: FirstPost
RIL plans 75,000
crore mega foray
into green energy
Jun 26, ED secured
custody of 2 aides of the
former Maharashtra
HM, Anil Deshmukh till
July 1. Arrested at 2 am
on Saturday, after 9
hours of questioning,
the ED claimed that
Kundan Shinde and
Sanjeev Palande had
played conduits to
channel illegal
protection money
collected by Sachin Vaze
to Deshmukh and had
not cooperated with the
probe. Bars had
admitted to giving Vaze,
the imprisoned ex-
Crime Intelligence Unit
head, about 40 lacs per
shop to allow them to
keep open beyond 1
am. A total of about ₹5
crores collected by Vaze
was routed to
Deshmukh by Shinde.
An illegal sum of ₹20
crores, including the ₹5
crores via Shinde, was
being routed via a
charitable trust and
several Kolkata-based
shell companies, mostly
controlled by the
Deshmukh family. Of
this Rs 10 crores was
allegedly routed
that the count was
inflated on paper to
favour Kashmir.
Historically, between
1971 -2001, the average
population growth rate
in Jammu was 31 % to
Kashmir’s 29%.
However, in the decade
ending 2011 Jammu
reportedly grew only by
21% compared to
Kashmir’s 26%. Per the
2011 census, Kashmir
has a population of 69
lacs to Jammu’s 54 lacs.
These groups believe
Jammu’s population is
higher. An accurate
census is a prerequisite
for delimitation.
More at: StateTimes , OpIndia,
IndiaToday, CounterCurrents
Jun 24, the ED sent
attached assets worth
₹9,042 crores, belonging
to the 3 defaulters,
liquor baron Vijay Malya,
diamantaires Neerav
Modi and Mehul
Chowksi ,to public sector
banks that had lent them
money. ₹330 crore has
been confiscated taking
the total to ₹9,371. This
represents 40% of the
outstanding to the banks
of ₹22,586 crores. The
ED has attached assets
worth ₹18,170 crores or
80% of the total loss to
date.
The Fugitive Economic
Offenders Act, 2018
empowers authorities to
attach assets of
offenders who flee India
even without a
conviction and to attach
all the assets,
irrespective of whether
these are the proceeds
of crime or not. It covers
offences with a value of
₹100 crore or more.
More at: Financial Express
Jamming systems and
electronic warfare
weapons can locate
control sites and launch
locations. But greater
deployment and
readiness is needed.
Central security
agencies revealed over
300 drones were
sighted along the
Pakistan border post
the abrogation of
Article 370 in August
2019. Two drones were
found hovering over the
Ratnuchak military
areas today. Alert army
troops opened fire and
they flew away.
More at: TimesNow , IndiaToday
(image), FinancialExpress
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma
SC audit panel raps Delhi for claiming
excessive oxygen, depriving others
section 20 of the Forest
Act, after settling
claims. Till 2020 only 17
sq km had been
notified. So the pace
has picked up
significantly. The land
belonged to other
government agencies so
no compensation was
paid to acquire it.
More at: IndiaTimes
Shri Vaidyanath , Doctors’ Day image courtesy awesomepixel.blogspot.com
Maharashtra declares 98 sq km as
reserved mangrove forest in 1 year
UP to plant 30 crore saplings in 2021
after crossing 60 crore in last 4 years
Starting July, UP will
initiate a state
afforestation drive
under a Van Mahotsav
initiative to plant 30
crore saplings this
year. Earlier speaking
on the world
environment day, Yogi
Adityanath said that in
the last four years the
state had planted 63
crore saplings; 5, 11,
22 and 25 crores from
2017 to 2020.
1,700 state nurseries
have been asked to
ready 42 crore saplings
across 121 species for
the July initiative.
Additional saplings are
being prepared to offset
any loss during the
drive. 13 new species
have been added this
year with emphasis on
medicinal plants like
Giloy.
More: TheHitvada,
HindustanTimes
ED transfers
₹9,371 crores of
defaulters’
assets to banks
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How An Adidas Jacket, A Kashmiri Lover And A Damaged Mobile Nailed Pulwama Mastermind
Things began to
become clear
because of a
photograph, reveals a
new book by
journalist Rahul
Pandita who
interviewed
investigating officers
from the NIA and J&K
police.
Balwal tells Pandita
that it was seeing a
picture of two
terrorists killed in
March that he felt
that the well-
groomed baby face in
Adidas clothing was
no ordinary person.
The police said he
was called Idrees
bhai. Balwal was
informed about two
confiscated phones,
an iPhone and a
Samsung S-9 Plus,
that the police found
damaged and could
not get any
information from.
Convinced that the
phones could hold
some vital clues,
Balwal used the
occasion of the
Kashmir IG’s farewell
to appeal that the
phones be sent to the
Indian Computer
Emergency Response
Team (CERT-In). A
week later, Balwal’s
phone rang. It was an
expert from CERT-In.
‘Sir, we have hit a
jackpot,’ he said. And
jackpot it was. The
100 GB of data
included a selfie of
three men, one of
whom Balwal
recognised as the
man he’d been told
was Idrees bhai and
the other as the
Pulwama bomber Adil
Dar. “In another
photo in Idrees Bhai’s
phone, the NIA
investigators noticed
a package from
Amazon.
They sent the
consignment number
to the company,
which got back saying
it was sent to one
Waiz-ul-Islam, who
had in the last few
transactions bought
aluminium powder,
battery, chargers,
knives and a pair of
size 13 shoes.”
The book reveals that
Umar had been told
by Masood Azhar’s
brother Rouf Asghar,
the operational head
of the Jaish, to
destroy his phone
after the Pulwama
attack. But instead of
doing that, he sent
his uncle the picture
of another smashed
phone so he’d think
that he had followed
orders. Had Umar not
made that mistake, it
would have been very
difficult to establish
the Pulwama attack
conspiracy all the way
to Masood Azhar and
his brothers, says
Pandita.
But why did Umar not
destroy his phone?
The reason was Insha
Jan, 22, a resident of
Kashmir. Umar used
the phone to chat
with her and often
stayed at their home
as Insha’s father
being a Jaish
sympathiser. Her
photo was also on the
phone, posing with a
pistol and an assault
rifle. Little did Insha
know that the Jaish
commander or ‘The
Lover Boy from
Bahawalpur’ as the
book calls him, had
liaisons with several
other Kashmiri
women, including her
own cousin sister.
But despite the
phone cache, Balwal
was yet to make the
connection between
Idrees Bhai and
Umar, and it was
again the love affair
that clinched it. In
February last year,
the NIA picked up
Shakir Bashir who
sheltered the
terrorists and drove
Dar to the spot of the
attack. At the
interrogation, Balwal
realized that Bashir
wasn’t in it for the
money or adventure
but was committed to
the cause. He was
also puritanical. ‘Our
officer showed him
photos of Idrees Bhai
and Insha Jan
together. He was in
utter disbelief that a
man whom he
revered could be cozy
with women other
than his wife,’ a
senior official at the
NIA headquarters is
quoted as saying.
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It was six months
since the Pulwama
attack resulted in the
deaths of 40 CRPF
jawans on February
14, 2019, but Rakesh
Balwal, the Jammu
and Kashmir head of
the NIA, was not able
to follow up on any
leads. Intelligence
agencies did not
know that the
mastermind of the
attack, Masood
Azhar’s nephew
Umar Farooq, had
crossed into Kashmir
or was killed in an
encounter just a
month after the
attack. So what led to
NIA connecting the
dots? As per TNN,
interestingly, it was
Umar Farooq’s love
for two things —
sportswear, and a
Kashmiri woman.
The shock of betrayal
Bashir felt put the
last piece of the
puzzle in place. Soon
after, he told Balwal:
“Aapko kuch batana
hai” (I have
something to tell
you). “Idrees Bhai is
actually Umar Farooq
and he is Masood
Azhar’s nephew and
the son of one of the
hijackers of the IC-
814 plane. He is the
one who planned
Pulwama.” That was
what the NIA needed
to establish that
Idrees Bhai was none
other than Umar
Farooq, the Jaish
commander who had
planned the attack.
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Source:
IndiaTimes.com
Picture courtesy:
EconomicTimes
Our officer
showed him
photos of Idrees
Bhai and Insha
Jan together. He
was in utter
disbelief that a
man whom he
revered could be
cozy with women
other than his
wife,’