Tuesday, April 24, 2007

"And then layin' in the Bombay alley next day..."

India - In a month-long sting operation,
Tehelka (a local newspaper)
caught Sawla (a local builder)

on a spycam saying Pasricha (the Director General of Properties)
was his ‘guardian’ and had been helping soft-pedal the on-going investigation against him.
Tehelka has Sawla’s cellphone records since January 1, 2007, but even this three-month record shows Sawla to have been calling up Pasricha almost every week, sometimes twice a day. ... In 2004, when Pasricha was chief of the Anti-Corruption Bureau he had booked an entire floor of a residential tower being constructed by Sawla under a slum rehabilitation project in the posh Juhu area of Mumbai. (more)