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RAW officer
exposes the agency, CBI goes after him now
WSN Network
New Delhi: India's top sleuthing agency, the RAW, is tying itself up
in knots over a book that was written by one of its former officers,
telling some of the gory inside details. On Friday, the CBI raided
the residence of former RAW Major-General (retd) V K Singh, and on
Saturday it searched the office of the publisher who brought out his
book highlighting irregularities in the functioning of the India's
external intelligence agency.
The RAW accounts are
never discussed, are shielded from the purview of the much hyped
Right to Information Act and the Parliament sanctions the budget
without discussion. The Sikh community has often blamed RAW for
being the agency behind many actions of human rights violations.
The CBI questioned
the owner of Manas Publications, Vivek Garg, at his Daryaganj office
and took into possession a printed version of Singh's book, its soft
copy on a compact disc and the agreement between the author and
publisher. Singh came under the agency's scanner for his alleged
''wrongful communication of information'' in his recently published
book, India's External Intelligence: Secrets of RAW. Though the book
did not reveal any ''explosive'' secrets, it carried some details
which might have ruffled feathers in RAW.
CBI has already
registered a case under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) against Singh
who worked in RAW during 2000-04.
Singh himself said
the book had come out nearly three months ago but no one from CBI
approached him before Friday. He maintained that he had noticed
gross irregularities in the functioning of RAW and he had determined
to bring these to the public notice. ''I feel that the Indian
taxpayer has a right to know how public money is spent. General
public may not be interested in details, but they would certainly
want an assurance that it is not being squandered or put to
illegitimate use,'' he said, adding there was a need to bring all
organs of the state under the supervision of Parliament, without
exception.
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September, 2007
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