Purulia armsdrop case: 'Indian Government involved' @ The Times of India

Purulia armsdrop case: 'Indian Government involved'

28 Apr 2011, 1255 hrs IST, AGENCIES

 

It's the second stunning disclosure in the 1995 Purulia arms drop case. Peter Bleach, a British citizen who served a sentence for his role in the arms drop has spoken to TIMES NOW. Bleach not only confirms that Indian politicians were involved, but also makes more startling revelations about what happened in the wee hours of December 18 1995.

TIMES NOW: First question is why are you speaking out now?

PETER BLEACH: Well because after so many years I thought this was all finished and done and I wasn’t happy about the outcome. But suddenly, out of the blue, India seems to want Neils Christien Neilsen or Kim Davy or Neils Holck or whatever his true name is, they seem to want him back in India. So all of a sudden, this has come back and my life has been disrupted yet again. It is high time the truth was told.

TIMES NOW: How will your life get disrupted if Kim Davy is extradited to India?

PETER BLEACH: Well good example ..Were talking together now and instead of me being at work, Im talking to you on Skype about this. It is a thing that doesn’t get left alone by the Press. You know, there is not a country in the world that hasn’t printed my photograph with a label of terrorist underneath it. Now I have never been a terrorist. Most people don’t believe that. So time has come to clear my name. It is not a funny label to have against you after the events of 9/11 and things like that.

TIMES NOW: What was your role in the Purulia arms drop?

PETER BLEACH: I was approached as a businessman. It is common knowledge that I was in the defence industry. I was approached to sell somebody some arms and ammunition and when I discovered this was an illegal deal, this was supporting a terrorist group in India, I immediately reported that to the British Government. And I was interviewed by the MI5 who passed all the information back to India. I was told that the Indian Government wanted the guns delivered into India so they could arrest the people concerned and find out who the guns were for.

TIMES NOW: SO you’re saying you told the local police, they informed the MI5, which is the British intelligence agency. In other words, the British Government knew about it and yet you came along with this plane. And you’re saying this was some sort of sting operation that you were trying to carry out, that you would come on the plane and help authorities catch the other people red handed. Now that’s a fairly long winded explanation Mr. Bleach.

PETER BLEACH: Well, you might say so. I have to say that it was never part of the plan that I would have been on that aircraft. That was due to circumstances beyond anybody’s control much later on. But I’ve got a copy of all the notes taken by the MI5 officer and the special branch officer who visited me and it contains the full details they passed to India. SO whether or not I ended up on the place is one aspect. Of course I wish I hadn’t been, but I couldn’t do anything about that. But that doesn’t alter the fact that the Indian Government had absolute full and detailed knowledge of every part of this. And my understanding is, in fact, the Indian Government actually supported the whole thing. It was an Indian Government job.

TIMES NOW: If it was an Indian Government job and the Indian Government supported it, why would anyone in the Indian government allow the dropping of such a large cache of arms in Indian Territory in such an illegal manner? Whats the motive?

PETER BLEACH: To understand that you have to stop thinking of Indian territory. This wasn’t dropped so much in Indian territory as in Bengali territory. The target here was the Government of West Bengal. At that time, Jyoti Basu was the Chief Minister and the CPIM Government was in power. The whole objective, my understanding was to destabilize the Government of West Bengal so that Presidents rule could be declared in terms of the Constitution and the state would have been ruled directly from Delhi. That could have disposed the CPIM Government and that was the entire purpose of the job as I understand it now. I didnt understand it at that time and I have to stress that.

Purulia probe had almost come to a standstill @ The Times of India

Purulia probe had almost come to a standstill

28 Apr 2011, 1421 hrs IST, TIMES NOW

JK Dutt, the former Deputy Director of CBI, has reacted to the TIMES NOW expose on the 1995 Purulia arms drop case, saying that Peter Bleach, a British citizen, who served a sentence for his role in the arms drop, did not have the opportunity to make a statement before the judge. TIMES NOW: You were seen at the Mumbai airport, Sahara Airport immediately after Peter Bleach and his crew were caught there. At that point the case was with CID West Bengal, what was CBI doing there? JK DUTT: I think you are refering to the Purulia arms drop case. The case had been registered by the CID of West Bengal at that time and the Director CBI had asked me to proceed to Mumbai just to oversee the investigations that were taking place over there, because this case was expected to be handed over to the CBI. And we wanted to make sure that was nothing was missed out in the initial stages. So only to make sure that CID did a comprehensive job and no line of investigation or evidence was missed out at that stage, so that is why I was in Mumbai. TIMES NOW: Peter Bleach during the investigation gave a written statement that ran into pages, more than 30 pages in all. Why was it not part of the Chargesheet, when CBI filed it? JK DUTT: When an accused person is examined, he can be examined at different times to help the investigation progess further. In this particular case, between Peter Bleach's apprehension in Mumbai and he was taken to Kolkata, produced in a court in Purulia and brought back and taken into custody, during that period he had given about 6 statements. These statements were studied very seriously by investigating officers in the CBI because the case by then had been handed over to the organization. We found that there were some very important leads that could only be done by coordinating certain facts. From one of the information that he has revealed in his statement, when we worked on that it was almost like the investigation had come to a stand still. Apart from that we sent Letter Rogatories to Latvia and UK in connection with Peter Bleach. But beyond that we still didn't know who the other people involved in the case were. Peter Bleach's statement helped us with our investigation and we were able to get Satyanarayan Gouda who was an Anandmargi. And the investigation then from Kolkata and Purulia had moved to B'lore where he had bought his passport. So these statements are recorded and if the statements of the accused are to be produced in court, then they will be. He made these statements to an investigating officer, it is not a confession, it is not an admission of anything. The admission may be to the police, but in the court itself, Peter Bleach did have an opportunity to make a statement before the judge. TIMES NOW: How did you get hold of Kim Davy's photograph. You had not details, no idea of a location? JK DUTT: Peter Bleach told us that Kim Davy did not allow himself to be photographed. And when i was in Kolkata, I realised there were a number of cameras and film rolls lying. So I asked the officer in Bombay to get hold of all the camera rolls and have those films developed. Out of the 1200 photographs, we had 30 rolls, there was only one picture of Kim Davy in which he has put his hand up asking the photographer not to click, but the photo had been taken. That is the only pic of Kim Davy that existed with any of the investigating agencies. And that is the pic that was put in the RCN and was on our records. If we had not developed those films we wouldn’t have got that picture. In a stunning disclosure in the 1995 Purulia arms drop case, Peter Bleach, has spoken to TIMES NOW. Bleach not only confirms that Indian politicians were involved, but also makes more startling revelations about what happened in the wee hours of December 18 1995.

Purulia: Pappu Yadav helped Kim Davy get away?

Purulia: Pappu Yadav helped Kim Davy get away?

29 Apr 2011, 0851 hrs IST

Who let Kim Davy escape from India?, this is the buig question on everyones mind after yesterday's expose by TIMES NOW on the Purulia arms drop incident. Last night Davy himself revealed the name of the politician who guided him out of India, who made special arrangements for his travel and security and also allowed him to use his official car. That MP according to Kim Davy was the jailed Bihar politician Pappu Yadav. On the night of December 26th 1995 as a car crossed over into Nepal and India lost the chance to nail the man behind the Purulia Arms drop Kim Davy or did India deliberately loose that oppourtunity? When asked about his escape from India on December 26, 1995, Davy said, "When the plane landed at the Mumbai airport at that time we were not surrounded by anybody, we were quite free. So since I was a bit nervous about what was going to happen, I slipped in the background and when I saw that the police started coming I slipped away from the airport. From there I went to Pune. "I stayed a night in Pune. From Pune I was told through my contacts with the MP that I should fly as soon as possible to Delhi and when I arrived at Delhi airport I was received in the MPs personal car and put in the backseat and driven to his official residence within the sight of the President's residential dome." "And at his home, at Pappu Yadav's home Mr J K Dutt arrived shortly afterwards and arranged for the transport by train that evening from Delhi to a very small train station that I could not see because I was packed in blankets. There another diplomatic or what should I say an official car was waiting, plus two other cars with AK-47 guards who then drove me directly from the platform of the station over the border into Nepal and dropped me at the bus depot on the Nepali side from where I escaped back to Denmark." Now for the first time Kim Davy revealed the name of the MP who helped him escape. Pappu Yadav named by Davy as the then MP who helped him get away. According to Kim Davy he was guided from Mumbai to Delhi, put on a train and escorted over the border into Nepal. While Kim Davy escaped, the man who helped him, Pappu Yadav is currently in jail serving a life sentence for murder. But who gave him the go ahead to provide Davy safe passage still remains a mystery.

Purulia Expose: India's best kept secret

Purulia Expose: India's best kept secret @ The Times of India

In the wee hours of December 18 1995 a mysterious weapon consignment was dropped from the sky over Joupur Jhalda area under Purulia district of West Bengal. The consignment was discovered the next morning. Until now nobody knew what really happened. Today Kim Davy the seventh man and the leader of the operation reveals everything to TIMES NOW.  

My first question to you Niels Christian Nielsen, alias Kim Davy, Why are you choosing to speak out now?  

Davy: I am under the danger of being extradited to India as a terrorist, I don't feel I am a terrorist; I have not done anything to harm anyone. On the contrary I have done things to protect people from Communist terror, state sponsored terror and I kept my silence in all those years, 15 years. But now political forces in India are coming out to reach me again as they did 15 years ago and I feel its time to set the record straight.  

I will call you Kim Davy because you are known as Kim Davy across the country. Tell me who were these arms meant for and for what purpose, who commissioned this armsdrop?  

Davy: The arms were meant for self-protection. It is my complete conviction that if I was tried in a court of law about the legality of dropping arms to protect people against state sponsored Communist terror, I would clear my name because it was legal defence against decades of murder, torture, rape by the CPI(M) in West Bengal. I have seen friends being butchered in front of my eyes for so many years and all I did was to work for the betterment of the rural people of West Bengal. For 15 years, I worked to better the circumstances of the poorest of the poor in West Bengal, but the atrocities committed by the Communist simply became too much when too many friends were tortured to death so we had to defend ourselves against these attacks and that was the whole background of the Purulia arms drop.  

Well I don't know if everyone is going to buy that argument but tell me who sent you? My question to you was who commissioned this arms drop and were there any Indians involved?  

Davy: Of course there were Indians involved. There were political forces at the centre. There have been for years MPs who had seen the atrocities committed against the people of Purulia district and 24 MPs had signed the petition to the President to intervene to try to protect these people, nothing happened. And finally central government saw and approved the plans to arm the defence of these innocent people.  

Name the people, can you name the people?  

Davy: I can tell you as much as RAW was informed by external forces and approved of the arms drop months in advance of the arms drop.  

Which external forces?  

Davy: The communication was between the British intelligence MI5 and RAW. There was a British ex-intelligence officer on board the plane. The Indian authorities knew the flight plan, the people on board, the cargo, the drop zone -- everything was known well in advance and approved well in advance.

You are saying that the Indian government knew and authorised these arms drop over Indian territory by you?  

Davy: I am saying that there were political forces in the centre in Delhi who saw it as an opportune way to further their political agenda. You must remember that we are talking ancient history here, but in 1988 centre introduced Presidential rule in Tripura after engaging in supplying arms to different rebel groups there. The same strategy was announced publicly in the beginning of the 90's that there was a decision to introduce Presidential rule in West Bengal and therefore it was seen as a furthering of this agenda that arms were procured to protect local people.  

What was your role? You were working with the British and American intelligence officials, were there American intelligence officials also involved or only British?  

Davy: To my knowledge there were no Americans involved.  

So these were British MI5 which was involved in this and you are saying they told the India's external intelligence agency RAW about it?  

Davy: No I am not telling that. This is a well published fact -- go to their webpage and you will see the exact date when MI5 conferred this whole matter to RAW. It is a matter of public knowledge that this coordination was taking place.  

This is the reason you are saying that you were able to slip in that night, in 1995? You flew into Indian territory, you are saying you were allowed to fly in, the movement was facilitated and you are saying the Indian government was told about it?  

Davy: Well look at the zest of this. It is a matter of public record that RAW was informed on three defined dates by MI5 about the arms drop, the people on board the plane, the drop zone everything was informed. This is a matter of public record. I don't know who in their right mind would fly a plane from the arch enemy of Pakistan into Indian airspace with a load of clandestine weapons without having it cleared by with the Indian authorities. It is unthinkable to do that.  

So tell me what happened after that? If you managed to come in, tell me about that flight, where you took it from, how you got the clearances, what assurances you had if you are saying you had some assurances from the Indian side? Who were those assurances coming from?  

Davy: That was a lot of questions, can we take them one at a time  

Sure, where were the assurances coming from?  

Davy: You were saying how did the flight happen, how did I get away afterwards, what did you ask?  

No tell me about the first part on how the flight happened, who gave you the assurances that you would be allowed to come in?  

Davy: Well, I was in direct contact with an MP who told me that he was in further contact with the Prime Minister's office and on the 16th of December I was called in Karachi by these people who told me that I had to finish the job within 48 hours otherwise the window that they had opened for me would be closed down again. So it was very clear that the communication was on time and clearly it was also defined. It was proven in the court case that the radar station concerned, the Military radar that could have detected this was turned off, was switched off and the order for this came from RAW. So don't take my word for it is what I am saying  

Can you name the Member of Parliament. Please?  

Davy: We will do that live  

Why should we not believe that this is a tall claim?  

Davy: Well, I can only repeat that, please verify the facts that I am putting forward for you. Please verify that these contacts between MI5 and RAW did take place, please verify the fact that the radar was turned off, please verify all these external facts and you will see that what I am saying is the only logical explanation of what happened that time  

Neils, you just said that you had been called in by some people in Karachi and set about finishing this job in 48 hours. Who are these people? When you mention these people, who are these people?  

Davy: Well I can only say to you that immediately after the arms drop went wrong and crew and Peter Bleach was caught, there was an investigation going into a Bihari political connection into the arms drop. And that line of investigation was curiously enough, closed down very shortly afterwards and throughout these 15 years that has passed since, three Parliamentary Commissions in India have been commissioned. Nobody has ever seen the result of those. Though it is a matter of public record outside India that there was this communication between MI5 and RAW it has never been discussed in the Indian public, so everytime that the real story has tried to sneak its way forward in this, it has been clamped down and stopped. For obvious reasons because in the Central government in India it is only to turn a couple of pages and one will know who was behind and why, it is a matter of knowledge, it is not a matter of guesswork.  


What about you leaving? In what circumstances did you leave the country? There have been different reports about that, can you elaborate a little bit on that please?  

Davy: Well, first I was helped out of the airport in Mumbai and after that I was smuggled out of India to Nepal on the backseat of an MP's car. I can give you the full details and the latest dates when we talk again but it was very clear that those forces that had approved the arms drop did not want me to be interrogated by the CBI or anybody because the story that I can tell, would not have been convenient. Obviously today there must be political forces in India who see it as an opportune time for me to tell the full story and that's why I think the extradition is now on the table.  

Neils...in this period when you were, before you disappeared, you vanished from Mumbai airport from what we know, in this period when you were held, were you in touch with the people , like you mentioned the Member of Parliament, were you in touch with those people in this period?  

Davy: Before leaving the country you mean?  

Yes  

Davy: Yes, I was in their care  

Where  

Davy: First in Delhi, Mumbai, Delhi and then over the border, land border to Nepal  

And you were taken in an MP's car into Nepal through the land route  

Davy- Right  

And there were officials with you?  

Davy: I don't know what officials they were. But there was a car in front, a car behind with AK-47 holding guard, the whole way. I obviously did not ask people's name and what there duty was but it was obvious to me that I was being whisked out of the country by people who had the power and the ability to do it  


What is your link with the Anandmarg?  

Davy- Well, you see for 15 years I worked with development work in Africa, in Central America and especially in India. I worked with the Catholic Church, I worked with Anandmarg. I worked with Greenpeace, with different organizations through these 15 years. The project in Purulia was reference project for all NGO's around the world that I worked with. Everybody referred to the development project of Purulia as the light and the way to do things. To develop grassroots up with local resources with local people. So this project caught the imagination of not only me, but thousands around the world and when we continuously got these reports of people, even an Australian women who was almost killed by the Communist goondas, her name was Patricia. When we saw our volunteers ending up like you see in these pictures here, butchered by the Communists. This made an enormous impression, you must remember that I as a young 19 year old came to Kolkata for the first time, coming from one of the most affluent corners of the world and I saw the suffering in Kolkata and it moved my heart to do something. I had to work tirelessly for 15 years.

Times Now Expose interviews Kim Davy and Peter

Times Now Expose interviews Kim Davy and Peter
Understand Purulia Arms Drop Case in Depth
Now in short I will again tell what happened –

Suggested Reading –
Part One –
Understand Purulia Arms Drop Case in Depth Time Line – Enemy inside India – Kim Davy and Peter the arm drop accused expose Times Nowhttp://realityviews.blogspot.com/2011/04/understand-purulia-arms-drop-case-in.html

Who were the seven members’s who dropped illegal arms in India in Purulia District.
Below are the names of accused that dropped illegal arms in India in Purulia District.


1.
Kim Davy – Danish Citizen

2.
Peter Bleach - British citizen

3.
Alexander klichine, - Latvian citizen

4.
Oleg gaidash – Latvian citizen

5.
Igor moskvitine - Latvian citizen

6.
Igor timmerman - Latvian citizen

7.
Evgueni antimenko - Latvian citizen

Seven persons brought the arms and ammunition in India and dropped them in Purulia.

British Government or British Spy Agency or British authorities before this incident already informed the Indian Government.

But sill the arms Consignment was dropped.

And criminals flew away and again they came into India and they got arrested.
But this time also mastermind Kim Davy the Danish citizen ran away by paying bribe to officials.

After this case later all the criminals total six criminals were arrested and convicted and given life imprisonment. Kim Davy ran away thus he was not punished in this case.

Indian Government tried to bring him from Denmark but still the proceedings are going on.

But later they were released using the loopholes which our Indian law system got.

This created lot of questions unanswered.

Now Times Now has brought Peter and Kim davy.

Kim Davy revealed about the arms drop and everything to Times Now interview

In this interview Kim Davy Said following –

1. I have not done anything wrong. Indian Government is trying to get me so I am here to and I feel its time to set the record straight.

2. Kim said that British Agency MI5 Inform about this to the Raw it is mentioned on their website.

3. The arms were meant for self-protection. It is my complete conviction that if I was tried in a court of law about the legality of dropping arms to protect people against state sponsored Communist terror, I would clear my name because it was legal defense against decades of murder, torture, rape by the CPI (M) in West Bengal.

4. Davy: Of course there were Indians involved. There were political forces at the centre. There have been for years MPs who had seen the atrocities committed against the people of Purulia district and 24 MPs had signed the petition to the President to intervene to try to protect these people, nothing happened. And finally central government saw and approved the plans to arm the defense of these innocent people.

5. Davy: The communication was between the British intelligence MI5 and RAW. There was a British ex-intelligence officer on board the plane. The Indian authorities knew the flight plan, the people on board, the cargo, the drop zone -- everything was known well in advance and approved well in advance.

6. It is a matter of public record that RAW was informed on three defined dates by MI5 about the arms drop, the people on board the plane, the drop zone everything was informed. This is a matter of public record. I don't know who in their right mind would fly a plane from the arch enemy of Pakistan into Indian airspace with a load of clandestine weapons without having it cleared by with the Indian authorities. It is unthinkable to do that.

7. Davy: Well, I was in direct contact with an MP who told me that he was in further contact with the Prime Minister's office and on the 16th of December I was called in Karachi by these people who told me that I had to finish the job within 48 hours otherwise the window that they had opened for me would be closed down again. So it was very clear that the communication was on time and clearly it was also defined. It was proven in the court case that the radar station concerned, the Military radar that could have detected this was turned off, was switched off and the order for this came from RAW. So don't take my word for it is what I am saying

8. these 15 years that has passed since, three Parliamentary Commissions in India have been commissioned regarding this but Nobody has ever seen the result of those.

9. Kim Davy - Davy: Well, first I was helped out of the airport in Mumbai and after that I was smuggled out of India to Nepal on the backseat of an MP's car. I can give you the full details and the latest dates when we talk again there was a car in front, a car behind with AK-47 holding guard, the whole way.

Now the Government of India has to answer all the questions which this interview has created.

Who was the Member of Parliament who helped Kim Davy?
What Government did in these 15 years?
What happened in this case?
For whom Kim Davy brought the arms in India?

When Kim Davy will be brought to India to punish him for his crime?

Like this every Indian has many questions.


But without this interview also we Indians in Heart know the truth and how it works.

Source -

Understand Purulia Arms Drop Case in Depth Time Line – Enemy inside India – Kim Davy and Peter the arm drop accused expose Times Nowhttp://realityviews.blogspot.com/2011/04/understand-purulia-arms-drop-case-in.html

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Purulia-Expos-Indias-best-kept-secret/articleshow/8106795.cms

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