{"id":32355,"date":"2017-06-15T23:43:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T23:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2017\/06\/15\/ngos-demand-action-on-pillai-scam\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T23:43:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T23:43:27","slug":"ngos-demand-action-on-pillai-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2017\/06\/15\/ngos-demand-action-on-pillai-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"NGOs demand action on Pillai-scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

NPRAAF demands CBI probe<\/span>
\nNagaland Public Rights Awareness and Action Forum (NPRAAF) while welcoming the termination of service of M.K.R. Pillai as consultant to DGP Nagaland, however, said removal alone would not solve the larger issue of corruption. In a statement, NPRAAF I&P wing appealed to the chief minister to order CBI probe in order to unearth the entire corrupt nexus.
\nNPRAAF said there was no need for any \u2018Consultant\u2019 in the first place but if it was genuinely needed, then the government could have recruited from amongst the IPS and NPS officers through open competition instead of selecting a \u201ccorrupt former police constable.\u201d It described Pillai as \u201cMother of Corruption and King Broker of Nagaland\u201d who had allegedly jeopardised state police modernisation by siphoning huge amount of money through \u201cpercentage deduction\u201d in connivance with top politicians, bureaucrats and police officers.
\nNPRAAF said it was appalled that in spite of prima facie evidence established against Pillai, he was yet to be arrested. It therefore appealed to the chief minister to give the CBI a free hand in order to unearth the whole truth and to put those involve behind bars.
\nNPRAAF pointed out that despite receiving hundreds of crore rupees under Police Modernisation, the state police was still ill equipped to control riots. It said the state police also lacked arms and ammunition, tear gas, riot shield, vehicles, rubber bullets etc.
\nIt also maintained that among Non Plan Security Scheme, Nagaland received the highest central fund after Assam in the region. However, in terms of equipment and weaponry Nagaland was the worst equipped though its personnel were second to none, said NPRAAF.
\nFurther, NPRAAF said it will submit a representation to the union home minister, the Central Income Tax department and apprise them about the serious nature of the scam that was exposed in the police department.
\nNPRAAF said it viewed IT exemption as an encouragement to corruption as no one who was exempt could have assets evaluated that were disproportionate to known sources of income.
\nBAN seeks thorough probe, Gov\u2019s intervention <\/span>
\nBusiness Association of Nagas (BAN) has lauded the IT raids on firms owned by M.K.R. Pillai in Kerala and Karnataka some thousands of kilometres away from Nagaland and the level of efficiency involved but at the same time, questioned the IT department in Nagaland under whose nose, money was being siphoned off for decades.
\nBAN through its media cell took strong exception to the Police Headquarters (PHQ) \u201cstill being under the spell of Pillai\u201d, by citing statements made by DGP, L.L. Doungel who \u201cwas trying to shield PIllai by praising him as \u2018quite competent and helpful\u2019 etc. BAN slammed PHQ for being clueless about the Police truck found in Pillai\u2019s home in Kerala. It also said the suo moto case taken up by State Vigilance Commission (SVC) on appointment of Pillai as being \u201ctotally unsatisfactory\u201d and an \u201ceyewash\u201d because SVC ignored the entire gamut of Pillai\u2019s role in shady deals, contracts\/supplies awarded under table without NIT. <\/p>\n

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NPRAAF demands CBI probe Nagaland Public Rights Awareness and Action Forum (NPRAAF) while welcoming the termination of service of M.K.R. Pillai as consultant to DGP Nagaland, however, said removal alone would not solve the larger issue of corruption. In a statement, NPRAAF I&P wing appealed to the chief minister to order CBI probe in order […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}