Natgrid's CDACPUNE.IN illegal domain takedown

Sarbajit Roy of IAC reports Natgrid's CDACPUNE.IN illegal domain takedown to IT experts at India-Gii (India's pre-eminent IT tech list)

Dear Gii-ites,

A few years back Naavi had posted this [http://www.bloggernews.net/124423]

Are there any updates to this question.

The background is that an emerging political party (!) has recently decided to form various Cab Driver and Auto Chaalak sanghs nationwide. Their acronym is "CDAC" (Cab Driver Auto Chaalak). They initially booked an .IN domain name "CDACPUNE.IN" and intended to setup user sub-domains for user-blogs, like blogspot and tumblr etc. do.

On 2.Aug.2014 (when the domain got activated) I offered to test it out (during the 5 days "Add Grace Period" allowed for domain tasting by .IN Registry policy) by installing a stripped-down open-source highly SEO friendly tasting blog at "natgrid.cdacpune.in" using "TextPress" developed by an Indian coder in God's own country, which is viewable by simple DNS redirects to wherever the blogs are actually hosted, in this case to "natgrid-cdacindia.rhcloud.com", to see how search engines like Google index it. Google indexed it very fast and it was no.3 for "Natgrid" within 24 hours.

2-3 days later I got some phone calls from NATGRID that publication of any material about NATGRID is a violation of Official Secrets Act, and that nothing about Natgrid can be published in public domain since Natgrid is an exempted organisation under RTI Act etc. I disagreed with their interpretation as almost all the material is compiled from reliable 3rd party sources which are easily accessed online - such as DoPT's website, Rajya Sabha reply to questions, and former NATGRID CEO Raghu Raman's own blog in Livemint.

So the "Joint Secretary" Natgrid (which is under MHA) has apparently issued a letter, as did also C-DAC, to NIXI (which has been illegally operating the IN Registry since 2005 as I have established using RTI), and a FIR for impersonation of NATGRD has been filed in Pune by CDAC, and the domain has been shut down by NIXI by deleting its root domain records on 6 August 2014 while still under the AGP period.
No attempt was made to contact the Registrant (an auto chaalak) in this entire process, and the block was all done unilaterally and secretly. The Registrant has thereafter made several complaints to NIXI and CERT-IN but they are evading replying under which provision the domain is disabled or who authorised it or if it was done u/s 69 IT Act.

The blog is still accessible at natgrid-cdacindia.rhcloud.com and CDAC / India Against Corruption are planning to fight this one out and get C-DAC's own website taken down under IT Act and file our own IT Act complaints. The political wing shall probably take a .US domain name and also sue NATGRID and MHA in USA.

We infer that what has actually upset "NATGRID" is that we incidentally posted that the concerned JS is a "superannuated officer" who was last posted as JS in DoPT and also worked on the proposed Privacy Law there. Now Natgrid has apparently also been hiring and rehiring PSU people at astronomical salaries to "nobble" them. So I filed an online RTI using DoPT's portal for this at 1:53 PM on 6-Aug-2014 to MHA which was automatically forwarded to this officer. Within 5 hours he gets the blog shut down at NIXI level. Highly suspicious what ?

Sarbajit Roy

RTI filed on "corrupt" Natgrid CEO Raghu Raman

WWW.SFLC.IN and other human rights NGO's had accessed the text of an online RTI which was filed by India Against Corruption's National Convenor Sarbajit Roy on 6.August 2014 at around 1:53 PM IST. The NATGRID then illegally disabled the blog where the RTI text was uploaded by hacking the INNIC's NXDOMAIN servers using social engineering for root domain CDACPUNE.IN at 7:15 PM IST the very same day. A formal report against NATGRID's hacking has been immediately lodged with CERT-IN at 10:16 PM.

 

-------------------- to CPIO MHA ------------------

Sir

Kindly refer the news report titled as (IB report alleged misconduct by NATGRID chief, UPA ignored but NDA ended his tenure) published in Indian Express dated 20.Jun.2014 by Vijaita Singh. I am additionally given to understand that serious allegations of personal corruption and professional misconduct were made in the aforesaid IB report and elsewhere concerning contracts and assignments related to NATGRID (attached office of MHA) awarded during tenure of  Mr. Raghu Raman to foreign entities, numerous breaches of Official Secrets Act, crony hiring of known persons working in Mahindra, Satyam Computers, Govt of Bahrain etc.,  I am also reliably given to understand that all these crony persons were infiltrated into NATGRID by foreign Intelligence agencies and powers, and the entire NATGRID was effectively financed by the Indian tax-payers to carry out spying for the United States of America and the Congress Party against Indian citizens, including by intercepting emails, telephone calls, postal daks, profiling, hacking of AADHAR data base etc to create fake identities for foreign spy operatives etc. and so on.

Accordingly, since this pertains to massive human rights violation(s) and also allegations of corruption,  kindly provide me the following information

1) Certified copy of each and every official report, if any, alleging corruption in NATGRID or committed by its officers or contractual employees.

2) Certified copy of each and every official report, if any, alleging misconduct in NATGRID or committed by its officers or contractual employees since 01.01.2010 till date.

3) Certified copy of the compensation package(s) paid to CEO NATGRID and other contractual employees of NATGRID from 1.January.2010 till date .

4) Copy of the government order or notification whereby NATGRID was approved. 

5) Copy of the government order(s) or notification(s) whereby NATGRID was established and/or constituted.

6) Copy of  each and every DPR (Detailed Project Report)  relating to approval for NATGRID.

7) Copy of the Governments in principle approval of each and every DPR for NATGRID.

8) List of all foreign entities who have been awarded contracts or done works for NATGRID for payment, directly or indirectly.

9) List of disciplinary charge-sheet(s), if any, issued to employees of NATGRID since 1.January 2010.

10) Copy of each and every permission(s) / approval(s) / sanction(s) granted for facilitating NATGRID to access Information databases of State agencies or State instrumentalities.

11) Copy of each and every permission(s) / approval(s) / sanction(s) granted for facilitating NATGRID to transmit information accessed from State agencies or State instrumentalities over computer networks.

12) Copy of each and every permission(s) / approval(s) / sanction(s) granted for facilitating NATGRID to transmit information accessed from State agencies or State instrumentalities over wireless, radio or telegraph networks.

tag: Sarbajit Roy, India Against Corruption, NATGRID, 

Raghu Raman NATGRID, highly overpaid ex-CEO

Raghu Raman NATGRID,  highly overpaid ex-CEO

Natgrid chief Raghu Raman's pay is 10 times that of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

"He was appointed in the rank of secretary to the government and is essentially only availing of his salary which was decided at the time of his appointment," a source said. But additional clauses in his employment contract show that Raman has got himself a sweetheart deal and is in a position to virtually enjoy benefits from both the government and corporate sector.

Additionally, veteran NATGRID trackers like India Against Corruption's National Convenor Sarbajit Roy, believe that Natgrid CEO Raghu Raman and his team of private sector cronies was deliberately planted by Foreign Intelligence agency moles in the PMO and NSA to ensure that (a) NATGRID fails or is delayed, and (b) NATGRID misused its secret powers to spy on Indian citizens on their behalf.

 

 

Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/natgrid-chief-raghu-raman-pay-prime-minister-manmohan-singh/1/214290.html

Banking secrecy

N THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

Civil Appeal Nos. 6350-6374 of 1997 with C.A. 7079/2004 (Arising out of SLP (C) No. 11607/2001)

Decided On: 01.11.2004

Appellants: Distt. Registrar and Collector, Hyderabad and Anr.
Vs.
Respondent: Canara Bank Etc.

JUDGMENT

R.C. Lahoti, C.J.

1. Leave granted in SLP (C) No. 11607/2001.

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Once we have accepted in Govind and in latter cases that the right to privacy deals with 'persons and not places', the documents or copies of documents of the customer which are in Bank, must continue to remain confidential vis-`-vis the person, even if they are no longer at the customer's house and have been voluntarily sent to a Bank.

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Once that is so, then unless there is some probable or reasonable cause or reasonable basis or material before the Collector for reaching an opinion that the documents in the possession of the Bank tend, to secure any duty or to prove or to lead to the discovery of any fraud or omission in relation to any duty, the search or taking notes or extracts therefore, cannot be valid.

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In Smt. Maneka Gandhi Vs. Union of India & Anr., (1978) 1 SCC 248  a 7-Judges Bench decision, P.N. Bhagwati, J. (as His Lordship then was) held that the expression 'personal liberty' in Article 21 is of the widest amplitude and it covers a variety of rights which go to constitute the personal liberty of man and some of them have been raised to the status distinguishing as fundamental rights and give additional protection under Article 19 (emphasis supplied). Any law interfering with personal liberty of a person must satisfy a triple test: (i) it must prescribe a procedure; (ii) the procedure must withstand the test of one or more of the fundamental rights conferred under Article 19 which may be applicable in a given situation; and (iii) it must also be liable to be tested with reference to Article 14. As the test propounded by Article 14 pervades Article 21 as well, the law and procedure authorizing interference with personal liberty and right of privacy must also be right and just and fair and not arbitrary, fanciful or oppressive. If the procedure prescribed does not satisfy the requirement of Article 14 it would be no procedure at all within the meaning of Article 21.

MHA (CCTNS)Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems

MHA (CCTNS)Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems

Hon'ble Union Home Minister mentioned the role of NCRB and CCTNS during the IB Endowment lecture at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 23/12/2009 in the following words. "The police stations in the country are, today, virtually unconnected islands. Thanks to telephones and wireless, and especially thanks to mobile telephones, there is voice connectivity between the police station and senior police officers, but that is about all. There is no system of data storage, data sharing and accessing data. There is no system under which one police station can talk to another directly. There is no record of crimes or criminals that can be accessed by a Station House Officer, except the manual records relating to that police station. Realising the gross deficiency in connectivity, the Central government is implementing an ambitious scheme called "Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS)". The goals of the system are to facilitate collection, storage, retrieval, analysis, transfer and sharing of data and information at the police station and between the police station and the State Headquarters and the Central Police Organisations.

Review:
"SNOOPING, surveillance, tracking and constructing logs that help profile people is entering the routineness of state practice. The instrumentalities that are created to carry out these tasks invariably inhabit spaces where they are shielded from scrutiny, supervision, audit and accountability. Acronyms abound: NTRO, NCTC, CCTNS,  MAC, NIA, Natgrid, UID, PII."

NATGRID under RTI for corruption says CIC

NATGRID under RTI for corruption says CIC

Mr.Venkatesh Nayak vs Ministry Of Home Affairs on 8 February, 2012

Appeal No.CIC/SS/C/2011/000531

CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION

" .. This Court makes it clear that those notifications cannot apply retrospectively. Apart from that the same exemption does not cover allegations of corruption and human right violations. .."

To:

The CPIO, 

Ministry of Home Affairs, National

Intelligence Grid, 2nd Floor, Vijaya Building,  Barakhamba Road, New Delhi - 110 001

The CPIO & Director (IS.I), 

Ministry of Home Affairs, North Block, 

New Delhi - 110 001

RTI on NATGRID filed 11.May.2011

An RTI application on NATGRID was filed on the 11^th May 2011 by www.sflc.in

Reply received on 9.6.2011, is as follows:

S. No	Information Sought	Response
1	What is the legal framework under which the NATGRID is functioning. Is NATGRID duly constituted as an ‘Authority’ under the Government of India, if so, under which provision of law has NATGRID been constituted. Please provide a copy of the same.	NATGRID is established as an attached office of the Ministry of Home Affairs as per the decision of the Cabinet Committee on Security.
2	Has the approval of the Cabinet Committee on Security been granted? If yes , Kindly provide a copy of the same.	Yes, NATGRID has been constituted with the approval of Cabinet Committee on Security. Minutes of the Cabinet meeting being a secret document, it cannot be provided.
3	What is the designation of the Officer In charge of the NATGRID Project and who does the said Officer In charge report to?	The Chief Executive Officer In-charge of the Project.
4	What is the budgetary allocations for the NATGRID project.	An amount of Rs. 13 crore was utilized during the financial year 2010-2011.
5	What government and private databases will be linked to the NATGRID. If so under what order or rules. Please provide a copy of the same.	Security agencies can seek the details from NATGRID database. Data from Airline companies, Telecom Companies, etc. would be uploaded to NATGRID database.
6	What are the measures in place to prevent the misuse of NATGRID? If yes, please provide a photocopy of these guidelines/circulars	All possible measures are being taken to prevent misuse of NATGRID . For security reasons we are unable to provide the details/ orders.
7	What are the various Governmental agencies that will have an access to NATGRID?	All the Security agencies will have an access to NATGRID
8	Does this project have any policy favouring Free and Open Source Software(FOSS)?	‘ NO’