Govt woes mount after apex court rap - CVC Thomas case - MINT - Govt thinks all Indians are FOOLS

jan 29th, 2011

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From: Sanjeev Nayyar

Namaskar,

 

GOI says 'committee that took the decision to appoint P J Thomas as CVC did not know about the criminal case against him in Kerala'. Appalling the PM and Home Minister did not know about the case. Do they think Indians are fools to see thru this lie. Wonder how he was appointed Telecom Secretary in the first place and his role in the 2G scam. Wish someone investigated that as well. Rgds sanjeev

 

http://www.livemint.com/2011/01/27234406/Govt8217s-woes-mount-after.html

 

New Delhi: Twin blows in the Supreme Court on Thursday compounded the political problems facing the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance.

First, it was censured by the apex court for shoddy investigation into black money stashed away in European banks. Then, its legal representative conceded that the committee that took the controversial decision to appoint P.J. Thomas as the central vigilance commissioner (CVC) did not have information about a case against him in Kerala—a claim that was immediately rubbished by one of the three members on the committee—Sushma Swaraj, leader of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The other two members of the committee were Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and home minister P. Chidambaram.

An analyst described the government's stand in the court as either the "height of incompetence or duplicity" and said it would provide fresh political ammunition to an already aggressive BJP.

The court also issued notices to six economic and public agencies of the government for failing to ratify a 2003 UN Convention on Corruption, which would have made acquiring information on white-collar crime from various countries possible. It would also have made it mandatory for India to release information to other countries.

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