NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) last week arrested three senior officials including. Former chairman cu managing director of the National Fertilizer Limited (NFL) in the multicore Kisan Urea import scandal. They were produced before the duty magistrate Archana Sinha at Patiala House last week. The court remanded them to seven days’ judicial custody and sent them to Tihar jail. The officials arrested by the anticorruption branch of the CBI are former NFL, CMD CK. Ramakrishanan, former executive director (marketing) D.S. Kanwar and M. Sambasiva Rao, a Delhi based director of a Turkish firm M/S Karsan CBI sources said that the taro were arrested following a series of raids conducted simultaneously at their residences in Delhi and Hyderabad. The investigating agency has also recovered several incriminating documents.

The interstate operation led the CBI to arrest Ramakrishanan and Kanwar from Delhi and Rao from Hyderabad. A case was registered under Section 120 (B), 409 and 420 under the Prevention of Corruption Act against these persons.

Accused in the Rs 133 crore urea scandal, Kanwar, the kingpin was absconding from his Shivalik at Alkane and an in South Delhi. Stators and Muslims marking they martyrdom of a grandson of the prophet Mohammed, Political activity will now move from! parliament to the back rooms of tic) UF as it seeks to form a policy program which earn accommodate its di) verse constituents.

‘The UF and the Congress Party of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimba Rao, which together hold a majority parliament, had announced during the debate they would yore against the BJP. Sharma appointed Vajpayee prime minister on May 16 after the BIP_ ended with the largest number of seats in the inconclusive general elections: held in April and May: ‘The BJP commands the support of 194 members in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament. The UF has 190 deputies, and the Congress 136. “I will need the cooperation of everybody,” he told reporters. “In addition to the front partners, I will also have rapport with the Congress president (Rao) on various issues.

Sources say the BJP planned more Protests across the western state of Maharashtra, of which Bombay is the capital, to dispute UF criticism of Vajpayee as the leader of a party allegedly biased against India. Estimated 110 million Muslims.

Article extracted from this publication >>  June 5, 1996