Blue Cross of India is cleared by the Central Bureau of Investigation

[Guest guest]

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2007:

 

 

Blue Cross of India is cleared by the Central Bureau of Investigation

 

CHENNAI--Notified by telephone on November 12, 2007 that it

had been completely cleared of allegations of fiscal impropriety,

the Blue Cross of India on November 29 was still trying to retrieve

files taken on September 28 by inspectors from the Central Bureau of

Investigation.

The CBI raid on the Blue Cross followed a series of raids on

the offices of the Animal Welfare Board of India and the homes of

current and former AWBI staff. Blue Cross of India chief executive

Chinny Krishna had served on the Animal Welfare Board in the past,

but not since the board was reconstituted after the election of the

present Indian national government in mid-2004.

Informed sources told ANIMAL PEOPLE that " a case seems to

have been registered " against one former AWBI employee, " and some

cases seem on the anvil against others, " but no details have been

forthcoming beyond those reported in the October 2007 ANIMAL PEOPLE

investigative feature " Why did the Central Bureau of Investigation

raid the Animal Welfare Board of India? "

Assessed ANIMAL PEOPLE, " Disputes over the allocation of

grant money, partisan politics, and enforcement of laws governing

livestock transportation and slaughter have become involved. Yet

pursuit of public stature and vengeance for past frustrations and

humiliations appears to have most visibly motivated the persons whose

charges instigated " the CBI probe.

The most prominent complainants appeared to be then-Animal

Welfare Board member S.K. Mittal, who has not been reappointed;

Naresh Kadyan of PfA-Haryana, a sound-alike organization which is

not part of the national People for Animals network founded in 1984

by Maneka Gandhi; and Gouhar Azeez, founder of an organization

called Bharatiya Prani Mitra Sangh.

Mittal and Kadyan responded at length to the ANIMAL PEOPLE

coverage, chiefly reiterating statements which had already been

quoted or summarized.

Mittal objected to the description of himself as " a

first-time Animal Welfare Board appointee with relatively little

background in animal welfare, " claiming 15 years of service on the

board of a Mysore cow shelter.

Mittal also objected to another Animal Welfare Board member's

description of his political allies as a " gang of assorted meat

traders. "

" I am not an orthodox vegetarianism propagator, " Mittal

acknowledged, " though I am pure vegetarian and cannot eat even onion

& garlic. Certainly I am not one to force my eating habits on

others. "

ANIMAL PEOPLE summarized a November 2006 report by Puneet

Nicholas Yadav of the Mumbai Daily News & Analysis, who posed as a

go-between for former Indian national cricket team captain Mansoor

Ali Khan Pataudi and Pataudi's son, actor Saif Ali Khan, to

investigate an allegation that Kadyan was willing to withdraw

testimony against them in a poaching case, in exchange for

fundraising help. Yadav extensively quoted and paraphrased Kadyan's

statements, including his attempts to amend what he had said after

Yadav identified himself as a reporter.

Kadyan repeatedly e-mailed a one-line follow-up published

later by the Daily News & Analysis: " Reacting to the story carried

in DNA on Monday, saying 'Witness will help Pataudi, for a price',

Naresh Kadyan told DNA that he had been misinterpreted. "

Veterinarian John " Jose " Yohanan, who criticized Mittal's

role at a cattle race, e-mailed to ANIMAL PEOPLE that the race had

only been held for about 20 years, not the 120 years that the

organizers claim in trying to defend it as " traditional. "

PfA-Trivandrum chief executive Leela Latheef wrote that,

" The name of Avis Lyons' organisation in Trivandrum is Animal Rescue

Kerala, not Animal Rights Kerala. " Both PfA-Trivandrum and ARK have

had issues with Mittal as well as local officials. Lyons in

September 2006 trained 25 dogcatchers to help a municipal Animal

Birth Control program--but the program never started, the

dogcatchers became dog killers for hire throughout the region, and

Lyons was in February 2007 charged with assault after confronting

some who had captured a van-load of sterilized and vaccinated dogs.

Lyons as of November 20, 2007 was trying to bring media

pressure to bear to halt yet another dog massacre, this one in

Kallihoor Panchayath.

 

 

 

--

Merritt Clifton

Editor, ANIMAL PEOPLE

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[Guest guest]

The ANIMAL PEOPLE team / Merritt do some really first class work!

 

I do not agree with all of Merritt's posts but they certainly stimulate

my thinking - I thank Merritt very much for that & for this very good

news about " Blue Cross of India " .

 

Naresh Kadyan's " pseudo-event generating " activities / trouble making

days are numbered.

 

Kadyan may have currently enjoy " audience's " on Care2 & other e-Forums -

but they will evaporate very quickly.

 

Some Daniel J. Boorstin quotes -

 

" Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. "

 

" As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. "

 

" The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from

the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being

deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be

seduced. "

 

The " People-For-Themselves-Haryana " group is under serious investigation

now.

 

Excerpts -

 

> From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2007:

>

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> Blue Cross of India is cleared by the Central Bureau of Investigation

>

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> The most prominent complainants appeared to be then-Animal

> Welfare Board member S.K. Mittal, who has not been reappointed;

> Naresh Kadyan of PfA-Haryana, a sound-alike organization which is

> not part of the national People for Animals network founded in 1984

> by Maneka Gandhi; and Gouhar Azeez, founder of an organization

> called Bharatiya Prani Mitra Sangh.

>

>

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>

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> ANIMAL PEOPLE summarized a November 2006 report by Puneet

> Nicholas Yadav of the Mumbai Daily News & Analysis, who posed as a

> go-between for former Indian national cricket team captain Mansoor

> Ali Khan Pataudi and Pataudi's son, actor Saif Ali Khan, to

> investigate an allegation that Kadyan was willing to withdraw

> testimony against them in a poaching case, in exchange for

> fundraising help. Yadav extensively quoted and paraphrased Kadyan's

> statements, including his attempts to amend what he had said after

> Yadav identified himself as a reporter.

> Kadyan repeatedly e-mailed a one-line follow-up published

> later by the Daily News & Analysis: " Reacting to the story carried

> in DNA on Monday, saying 'Witness will help Pataudi, for a price',

> Naresh Kadyan told DNA that he had been misinterpreted. "

 

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" A pseudo-event is an event or activity that exists for the sole purpose

of garnering media publicity and serves little to no other function in

real life. Without the media, nothing meaningful actually occurs at the

event, so pseudo-events are considered " real " only after they

are viewed through news, advertisement, television or other types of

media. " - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-event

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-event>

 

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