News has broken that the BSNL Server was hacked according to The Hacker News .
The hacked site had this message. ” Hacked by Anonymous India, support Aseem trivedi (cartoonist) and alok dixit on the hunger strike, remove IT Act 66a, databases of all 250 bsnl site has been deleted………….Do not think of BACKUP” with a images of Mr. Aseem while he was arrested by Police.
IAC is leading towards anarchy, as I have blogged often!
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BSNL Site Hacked.
The Homepage of BSNL ( Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited ) http://www.bsnl.co.in/ was hacked today morning by hacking group Anonymous. BSNL is an Indian state-owned telecommunications company, the largest provider of fixed telephony and fourth largest mobile telephony provider in India, and is also a provider of broadband services.
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What is Section 66A of IT Act ?
According to Indian Laws, Section 66A of IT Act is Punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service —
1.) any person who sends, by means of a computer resource or a communication device.
2.) any information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character or any information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred or ill will, persistently by making use of such computer resource or a communication device.
3.) any electronic mail or electronic mail message for the purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience or to deceive or to mislead the addressee or recipient about the origin of such message.
shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine.
Reason 1 : Last Month two girls – Shaheen Dhada and Rinu Shrinivasan – were arrested for posting comments made by them on Facebook against Maharashtra Navnirman ShivSena chief Raj Thackeray. This arrest was under Section 66A of IT Act.
Reason 2 : The Mumbai police arrested Mr Trivedi, a member of the India Against Corruption or IAC, he had put up banners mocking the Indian Constitution during an Anna Hazare rally in Mumbai. The arrest was carried out on the basis of a complaint filed by Amit Katarnayea, a legal advisor for a Mumbai-based NGO. Trivedi has been booked under IPC Section 124 A for sedition, Section 66 A of IT Act and under National Emblem Act, 1971. Here are some of the controversial cartoons posted by Trivedi, followed by a nation-wide protest.
Reason 3 : Its an old reason , Against Censorship ! Few days back The Web site of Communication and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal was also hacked by Anonymous India for same reason.
Member of IAC, an Industrialist from Puduchery has been called to the Police Station and is likely to be arrested.
Reason?
Chidambaram,Karthi Chidambaram.
He Tweeted on on Karthi Chidambaram’s Assets and ‘regretted, as a Tamilian‘ for electing Chidambaram!
Emergency in the offing?
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Beware before tweeting on any politician and their kins. Your tweet may send you to jail. An industrialist from Puducherry, S Ravi faced wrath of police on Wednesday, Oct 31 after beingarrested over his “offensive” tweet on P Chidambaram’s son Karti.
The 46-year-old industrialist has been accused of maligning Karti Chidambaram’s image on micro-blogging site Twitter while tweeting on Karti’s properties claiming that the Union Finance Minister’s son has “amassed” more wealth than Congress PresidentSonia Gandhi‘s son-in-law Robert Vadra.
In another tweet, the industrialist also claimed that being an Tamilian, he felt “bad to have sent P Chidambaram to national politics.”
Puducherry police summoned Ravi for questioning on Tuesday and arrested him a day after. Ravi has been an active supporter of India Against Corruption (IAC) in the region.
Defending their act of arresting Ravi, police informed that the accused was booked under Section 66(1) (hacking with computer system) of the Information Technology Act following a legal complaint lodged by Karti Chidambaram.
According to Section 66(1), police can take actions against a person who with the intent to cause wrongful loss or damage to the public or any person, destroys or deletes or alters any information residing in a computer resource or diminishes its value or utility or affects it injuriously by any means, commits hacking.
If one reads the information closely, the Pawar scam and the allocation of Coal Blocks to Jayaswal, the connection of Thackeray Group and the stunning silence of BJP on Gadkari scam and his connection to irrigation fraud, we can notice that all are in cahoots, irrespective of party affiliations.
Frauds are exposed only when one does not get an adequate share in the loot.
Follow for more exposes.
An RTI activist has alleged that key associate of Anna Hazare Mayank Gandhi misused his NGO to help builders, media reports said.
India Today reported on Thursday that RTI activist Kishanji Rao has alleged Mayank Gandhi’s NGO Remaking of Mumbai illegally helped his uncle Lalit Gandhi’s Lok Group. Rao alleges that Mayank Gandhi also helped Lalit and other builders in bagging land deals.
The Swindle Story:
An RTI activist has alleged that key associate of Anna Hazare Mayank Gandhi misused his NGO to help builders, media reports said.
India Today reported on Thursday that RTI activist Kishanji Rao has alleged Mayank Gandhi’s NGO Remaking of Mumbai illegally helped his uncle Lalit Gandhi’s Lok Group. Rao alleges that Mayank Gandhi also helped Lalit and other builders in bagging land deals.
Mayank Gandhi-who is He and his scam?
Mayank Gandhi.
‘Few days ago, the city observed builder Lalit Gandhi’s second death anniversary. Gandhi, co-founder of Lok Group, passed away on 23 March 2010.
He had seen visions of innovatively making money from the dilapidated ceased buildings of Chira Bazaar in South Mumbai. In 2006-07, he founded an NGO called Remaking of Mumbai Federation (ROMF).
This NGO was spearheaded by Mayank Gandhi, Shri Lalit Gandhi’s charismatic nephew (who went on to achieve national fame last year as a major architect of Anna Hazare’s India Against Corruption campaign).
By fudging the lines of demarcation between commercial interest, private interest and public interest, this NGO merged Lok Group’s commercial interest with the ambition of over 8000 tenants living in dilapidated buildings to have better homes.
By connecting with the Mumbaikar’s desire for a beautiful city, Remaking of Mumbai Federation (ROMF) became a media-darling and messiah of Chira Bazaar Cluster Development. It organized several events.
Around the core of these events, a publicity campaign consisting of systematic misinformation and name-dropping was built. Sri Sri Ravishankar, Justice P N Bhagwati, Narayan Murthy and Deepak Parekh,
Citispace are a small sample of the dignitaries whose names were exploited for creating brand-equity around ‘Remaking of Mumbai’. The credits-list of this newsletter is a good specimen of such name-dropping.
Contrary to the public perception that was created, there was nothing “inclusive” about Remaking of Mumbai Federation.
It was never a true federation of stakeholders, and it never gained the grassroots level support from landlords and tenants of Chira Bazar. The couple of tenants associations supposedly supporting ROMF were little more than letterheads.
To Lalit Gandhi’s Lok Group-the owner of this NGO-Chira Bazaar Cluster Development was a cash cow to be carved up into beef and sold to the highest bidder. Had things gone according to plan, Lok Group might have reaped bumper profits by selling it for at least Rs 37.5 crores, if not much more.
Under the heading, ‘Cancellation of earlier MOUs and Agreements’, this document refers to an earlier transaction worth Rs 37.5 crore in August 2010, in post-dated cheques dated from November 2010 till end-2013.
ROMF had claimed that it would deliver the Chira Bazaar cluster development project, tied up neatly, to Unity Developers. (Unity Infraprojects Limited (UIL) is the holding Company of Unity Realty & Developers Ltd – the buyer of this project.
The promoters of UIL- K K Avarsekar and his associates – are known to have the blessings of the Thackeray family; this may explain the eagerness of MCGM’s High Powered Committee to overlook the glaring shortcomings of this project.)
So, in effect, this present agreement, which scaled down the payment to Rs 10 crore, was an admission of ROMF’s inability to deliver as promised.
As per the present agreement made in Jan 2011, Lok Group and ROMF sold a 5 acre “pilot project” carved out of this 30-acre project to Unity Realty & Development Ltd (URDL) for down-payment of Rs 5 crore, plus Rs 5 crore linked to the project progress.
Under the heading, ‘Monetary Obligations & Considerations’. (Incidentally, this deal was transacted on stamp paper of Rs 100.
Stamp duty of 5% of value of immovable properties / land / development rights was not paid on this Development Agreement.
If we take the deal at its face value – Rs 10 crore – it amounts to stamp duty evasion of about Rs 50 lakh.
But some experts feel that the true value of this agreement is far beyond these figures; even under the scaled-down agreement, ROMF was delivering to Unity Realty an intangible asset worth hundreds of crores. One way or another, it is a huge evasion, and Maharashtra Stamp Duty department should estimate what its true value is!)
In this agreement, the seller is ROMHIF. So what is the connection of ROMHIF with ROMF?
This extract from Lok Housing & Constructions Ltd Directors Report 2010 explains it: “Remaking of Mumbai Housing Infrastructure & Finance Ltd” (ROMHIF) submits proposal for Chira Bazaar Cluster redevelopment in C Ward of Mumbai.
The High Powered Committee clears Chira Bazaar Cluster redevelopment proposal of ROMHIF to redevelop around 30 acres of land (362 buildings and over 8000 tenements).
ROMHIF has submitted its proposal to redevelop around 30 acres of land (362 buildings and over 8000 tenements) in the Kalbadevi-Chira Bazar area in C Ward. It proposes to demolish these old and dilapidated buildings and in their place construct high rise structure in the ear-marked plots.
Lok Housing Ltd has 49% stake in the shareholding of Remaking of Mumbai Development Ltd. (ROMD) which is the holding Company for ROMHIF”. As per the website of Registrar of Companies, the registered Addresses of both ROMD and ROMHIF is Lok Bhavan,
Andheri East, Mumbai. Paid up capital of ROMD and ROMHIF is Rs 40 lakh and Rs 5 crore respectively.
Since Lok Housing Ltd as per Directors Report has 49% stake in the holding company ROMD for ROMHIF, who owns the balance 51% stake?
Is it somebody in the government or civic administration?
We don’t know, but it will be interesting to find out.
The names of all companies start with Remaking of Mumbai.
Why? So that the brand equity of ‘Remaking of Mumbai’ can be effortlessly passed on to any buyer. The government approvals gotten by ROMF can also be transferred, with some help from pliant government officials, to another entity with the same name, namely Remaking of Mumbai Unity Developers Private Limited. In this crucial clause, the agreement recognizes that it is crucial to retain the ‘Remaking of Mumbai’ name at all times, even if the latter part of the name were changed in future i.e. if Unity Realty & Developers sold its stake to someone else. (Now that is like saying: Smita is married to Ramesh. It is crucial that any man desirous of sleeping with Smita must knock on the bedroom door and say, “Open the door, I am Ramesh.” Needless to say, the real Ramesh gets paid.)
Unfortunately for Lok Group and their buyer, Unity Realty, the state government questioned the fraudulent claims of Lok Group/ROMF – especially the claim that that it had written consent from 79.2% tenants. What it actually had was some letters from a small number of tenants, giving the project their best wishes without even knowing the particulars of the project – and of course, without knowing even which builder was going to undertake the massive redevelopment, and whether he had the capital and infrastructural capabilities to do so.
Arvind Kejriwal seems to be obsessed with playing to the gallery.
Kejriwal’s actions in exhorting people not to pay their electricity bills, and to reconnect disconnected meters is the expression of a frustrated man not knowing what to do.
It is normal to disturbed , as you and me are, at the rampant Corruption and mismanagement of the Country by elected thugs, good to be morally indignant , but it is down right criminal and irresponsible to resort to taking law into one’s own hands.
If Kejriwal can resort to these strong-arm tactics, when not in power, one shudders to think that he can ,heaven’s forbid, if he and his band of anarchists come to power!
The example of DMK during Anti –Hindi agitation and the Anti Brahmin movement in Tamil Nadu comes to my mind.
There were mistakes in Governance,though not so much in decisions, but in communicating them to people and Social injustice wrought upon a group of people, by , again a few, that made people go in for a ‘quick fix’
The people of Tamil Nadu handed over power to a set of hardened criminals, flotsam and jetsam that Tamil Nadu is yet to recover and worse, they do not know how and when!?
Kejriwal is heading this way.
Beware.
Kejriwal restoring Power, illegally!
“Two days after Arvind Kejriwal launched his attack against the city government by restoring power supply in some houses, BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd filed a police complaint against a man, whose connection was restored on Sunday by the activist-turned-politician.
During protests across Delhi as part of his ‘bijli-paani satyagraha’, Kejriwal had visited the house of a labourer on Sunday at Tigri Colony in south Delhi and reconnected the power line cut off by the discom.
BRPL on Tuesday filed the case against the labourer with Neb Sarai police station in south Delhi.
In the complaint against Banna Ram, the discom has invoked Section 138 of the Indian Electricity Act, which states that it is illegal to interfere and fiddle with the electricity network. The discom said unauthorised power connection is a punishable offence that may attract imprisonment up to three years. Ram got a power bill of Rs 15,000 last month, and since he was unable to pay it, the discom cut off electricity to this house.”
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