Date: 07/06/2011
Shri. A.P. Singh
Director,
Central Bureau of Investiagetion. (CBI)
Lodhi complex.
New Delhi.
Question 1: Does the behaviour of Mahesh & Rahul Bhatts directly and indirectly help Pakistan based terror to spread in India?
Question 2: Are the famous Mahesh & Rahul Bhatts easy conduits for conspirators and terror planners?
Dear Mr. Singh’;
In the Headlines Today TV debate on May 24 renowned Indian filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt was asked whether the Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) should be declared a terror organization following David Coleman Headley's startling revelation in a Chicago court that ISI had provided support to terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in carrying out the deadly 2008 Mumbai terror attack. Surprisingly Bhatt’s answer was a convoluted one which in essence meant that nothing should be done to ISI and should be given a chance . He refrained from giving a categorical answer to so obvious a question.
The evidence against ISI has been piling up rapidly and the world knows how dangerous the ISI has become. Yet a usually garrulous Bhatt refused to be drawn into giving a straight answer despite the fact that Headley had met even his son Rahul Bhatt while he was in Mumbai on a recce and Rahul is said to have hobnobbed with him freely. Rahul’s cell no was found in Headly’s hand written private diary in which nos of others important terrorist & ISI officials were mentioned.
Despite the father being evasive and seemingly going against the country’s interest in his open love for Pakistan, Rahul Bhatt in a statement published in Times of India, Ahmedabad on 26th May, said, "The son has to pay for his father's crime. That's the cost of being the son of Mahesh Bhatt, who is pro-Pakistan and has been promoting that country”.
What does Rahul mean by “his father’s crime?” The people of India must be taken into confidence and all links of Mahesh Bhatt needs to be probed thoroughly even whether he is working as an agent of Pakistan. His love for Pakistan has now become a legend and he has been blatantly promoting Pakistan artistes in India and one of them - Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was held at Delhi airport on February 13 for carrying undeclared amount of foreign currency. The ramifications are many and it is the duty of the CBI to probe the leads without any political hindrance.
It is insensitive and sinister of Rahul to say that Headley made him famous. "I became infamous first and famous later because of him. Today, if I am considered a celebrity fitness instructor, it is because of that case.'' Even after this damaging statement why is the CBI not taking up the inquiry suo moto?
In Rahat case too, Mahesh Bhatt was hooting for cultural exchanges with Pakistan to continue in the “larger interest of the people of the entire region.” To what purpose when Pakistan wants India dead? For reasons known to him, Bhatt has been promoting maximum Pakistani artistes in india and his relationship with Pakistanis is not something innocuous but goes beyond the call of film industry which requires a probe to rule out the chance that he is not acting as an enemy within? Or could he be working under the garb of Indian film industry as an agent of ISI?
Even Salman Rushdie after the Abbottabad incident when bin Laden was killed by the Americans said that Pakistan should be declared as a terror state. Then why is Mahesh Bhatt hiding behind false niceties? If anything, he seems to be more communal than anyone if his activities are anything to go by.
On 27 May 2011, Hindustan Times and other newspapers reported that Headley had cautioned Rahul Bhatt not to go to South Mumbai on 26/11. Why would he do that, if it was not to protect a friend? Headley has even said during enquiries that he had planned to take Rahul Bhatt to the tribal areas of Pakistan and recruit him as an agent of ISI in India. All these means that the bonhomie was thick and Rahul had vibed well for the initial angling of Headley in that direction. It is also possible that he had discussed these things with his father Mahesh Bhatt and had his moral support as the senior Bhatt has the distinction of being very sympathetic to the cause of Pakistan.
The nation has witnessed in the recent past that it has become an unfailing practice with celebrities caught in the act of illegal actions to dismiss the issue as one of the harassment by the Government & authorities. We have also seen enough of the brazen ways of the celebrities in collecting support to themselves amongst their ilk in order to pressurize, stun and numb the democratic course of law. Errant cricketers, film artists and cultural ambassadors have all trodden this path by which they attempt to overwhelm the process of justice with their fame, name, riches & public aura. If this were to be in the USA, Bhatts would have been under custody by now, answering tough questions on their thoughts and roles in directly or indirectly promoting terrorist actions.
In matters as sensitive as these, the celebrities have to show caution in their words and actions. But due to the blatant failure of caution from their side, the agents of ISI and divisive forces from Pakistan have taken advantage under their celebrity shadow.
I appeal to you to kindly see this issue in its proper prospective. I appeal to you to strengthen the moral standing of the people in the enforcement agencies & to come down heavily on those who indulge themselves in unpatriotic chauvinism. I also appeal to you through this letter/notice to recognize the seriousness of this matter & investigate the whole issue in the larger national interest to unearth the conspiracy, if any.
Your goodself will agree that Bhatts owe an answer to the nation through CBI or under a PIL that could be filed in the Supreme Court, if, no tangible action is taken to unmask these people.
V K Saxena
President
National Council for Civil Liberties
Ahmedabad - 380 009
web: www.ncclindia.org
e-mail: nccl27@hotmail.com
BLOG: vksaxena-nationfirst.blogspot.com
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