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PM gives Praful Patel clean chit in bribery case

Feb 15, 2012

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has cleared Union Minister Praful Patel of allegations that he took a kickback when he was the civil aviation minister from a Canadian businessman for an Air India contract for supply of security equipment.

In a letter to Patel, the Prime Minister is understood to have told him that the External Affairs Ministry had been asked to convey to Canada that the contract was never executed as it was not found to be cost–effective.

Patel had described as “baseless and preposterous” the allegations by the India–born Canadian Nazir Karigar that a close associate of the minister was paid $2.50 lakh to get the contract for a computerised passenger face recognition biometrics system for Air India approved.

Following this, Patel had written to the Prime Minister urging him to direct Air India to forward all relevant information and documents of the tender to PMO or to any agency nominated by him for a probe.

Patel had wanted that the “factual position” be conveyed to the authorities in Canada in order to avoid any embarrassment to the government or to him personally. The Prime Minister said that the Civil Aviation Ministry has clarified that the relevant tender was not pursued by Air India as it was not cost–effective and would lower its yield.

The ministry further clarified that all such acquisitions were within the purview of the airline itself and were not required to be referred to it.

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HAWK21M · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:00 pm Post subject:

Two things.....Was the cash collected by PP irrespective of the tender going through or not OR was someone collecting the same using the minister's name.
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ameya · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:31 pm Post subject:

Third thing : Has cash reached all the right offices ? Shocked

Manny · Member Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 292

I think they must have changed the definition of clean!

ediwardi · Member Joined: 21 Feb 2011 Posts: 25

this is called SMOKE SCREEN in a war.

The real juicy info lays with the TALWAR bloke from Nagpur who is INCIDENTALLY married into the NCP family, apparently he was the FRONT man for many of the MoCA deals...................obviously not this one.

G-BYGB · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 11:43 pm Post subject:

Another reason why action could not be taken because of the so called 'Coailation Dharma' which PM always likes to give it as an excuse to save his seat at the cost of Tax Payer's money.
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ediwardi · Member Joined: 21 Feb 2011 Posts: 25

HAWK21M · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:56 am Post subject:

How many politicians have been convicted in this country till date......Just a question .....This is not to say who is guilty or not.
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Spiderguy252 · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 1:27 pm Post subject:

Let's face it. What's the worst that's happened to a politician in this country? He's been hung out to dry by the media for a couple of days, then Tihared for a couple of weeks, and let out a couple of months later. How is that punishment?
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