Narain's letter to Chief Justice JS Verma

12th July 1997

Justice JS Verma
Hon’ble Chief Justice of India
Supreme Court of India
New Delhi

Your Lordship,

I am approaching you with great pain and anguish. When in July 1993 I started investigating the Hawala case, all my well-wishers advised me not to take such a big risk. A risk of antagonising 115 most powerful people in the country. I was not at the fag end of my career, where it would not have mattered. My sons were only 4 and 9 years old. Unlike the celebrity crusaders, I did not have the backing of a media house, a corporate house or a political party. My fight was against the entire system. I don’t think there is a parallel of Hawala case, where both the ruling and opposition parties are involved in a single scandal. That is why nobody wanted to take it up. Yet I dared to challenge the might of those who claim to be controlling the destiny of this nation.

2. There are only a few people who at different stages helped me with their limited resources and abilities but nobody has written about them. Much later, when I filed the PIL, three co-petitioners were thrust upon me by Mr. Ram Jethmalani. They did not contribute positively. Rather their actions have been damaging to the cause. Mr. Jethmalani also played dirty tricks. He even attempted to give me a huge sum of money so that he could help the Jains and other accused. Failing to do so he changed sides. I was shocked to see his immoral behaviour and lust money at this stage.

4. Your Lordship, I knocked at the door of the Supreme Court in Oct. 1993 with the complaint : “ That some powers sitting in Dubai and London are funding the militancy in Kashmir and are also distributing money to the prominent politicians and bureaucrats. The money is coming through clandestine Hawala channels. CBI has all the information and sufficient evidence to investigate and prosecute these people but is shamelessly sitting over the matter since 3rd May 1991.” I wanted the Hon’ble Judges of the Apex Court to ensure that the CBI and other agencies perform their obligatory duties and arrest / prosecute the guilty under the relevant sections of TADA, POC, FERA, Income Tax and COFEPOSA.

The CBI blatantly, under the scrutiny of the Hon’ble Court, did not make use of the statements u/s 15 of TADA available with them thereby surrendering the presumptive evidence u/s 21 of TADA.

7. The Income Tax and the FERA authorities have also not moved an inch in this case, although huge amount of foreign currency were seized. Hence, the presumptive provisions of FERA being ignored with impunity.

10. Your Lordship, why can’t CBI’s ‘case file’ related to the Hawala case numbering 3/5(S)/91-SIU-V- parts I to V, 2/1(A)/95-ACU-VI and 3/1(A)95-ACU-VI-parts I to V along with all the volumes is being brought to the Apex Court. If examined properly these files will help in fixing the responsibility in one week’s time. So that all the guilty officials can instead be charge-sheeted for offences u/s 120B-IPC r/w 218-IPC and see 13(d) r/w 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act for causing irreparable harm to the CBI. These officials have endangered the security of the nation by not doing their duty. Your Lordship! if the officials of other government departments would have done the same CBI sleuths would have arrested them by now. How can they be allowed to go scot-free for the same crime?

12. Your Lordship may I ask you, how is it that in the last 50 years not a single top politician or bureaucrat has been convicted for corruption? Although, corruption in India has crossed all limits of shame? Why Your Lordships why? We are under obligation to answer to the nation.

24. Once again I request you with folded hands, on behalf of millions of youth of this country please do not let this opportunity go out of our hands. Otherwise the future generations will not pardon us.

Thanking you

Yours faithfully

Vineet Narain
Editor,
Kalchakra investigative news
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New Delhi - 110 016
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