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LUTHRA DONATIONS!
Uncategorized December 12, 2025THE BJP government will not dare take strict action against the Luthra brothers in the Arpora club burning deaths case as they gave the BJP a big donation via the recently struck down Electoral Bonds Scheme.
A magisterial inquiry is just an eyewash to placate the mostly politically dumb public. There should be a judicial inquiry by a sitting or retired SC/HC judge and the findings published in the international press, as there is no confidence in the spineless Indian media or the government authorities. There will be a Maje Club Bachao Scheme on the lines of the Maje Ghar Bachao Scheme.
— Vladimir De Monte Furtado, Panjim
INDIGO FLIGHT & TRAUMA AT GOA-KARNATAKA BORDER
I AM a proud tax-paying, law-abiding Indian citizen. My grandfather, the late KR Sundar Rajan, a freedom fighter, was jailed during the Indian Emergency for sharing his strong views against the then Indira Gandhi government.
I recently had a very disturbing experience which I would like to bring to your readers attention. My wife and I work for an NGO in Goa. We were scheduled to travel to Bangalore to meet our family in Mysore on December 5, but due to the ongoing national Indigo crisis our flight was canceled and other airlines had hiked up prices. So we had to opt for a train – the Belgaum-Mysore Express on December 6.
We took a taxi from Goa to Londa, Karnataka. At the Karnataka check-post the police opened our bags, confiscated all the alcohol we had bought in keeping with airline rules (5 liters/person), threatened to imprison me and my wife. The officers took us to a small cabin where they threatened us with dire consequences.
We had bought some bottles of alcohol to gift our family and friends. As we had already purchased these before the Indigo crisis happened, we had no choice but to carry it with us as they were only for personal consumption. As we had never been in a situation like this we panicked. The three officers then said we could avoid being imprisoned if we let them take all our all our alcohol bottles and pay a bribe of Rs10,000. I told them I don’t want to give this bribe and that they could seize the alcohol and let us go. O hearing this the three officers became very aggressive and threatened us even more. One officer even manhandled me.
They showed me some pictures on their phones of simple, poor people being imprisoned and their photos being circulated for carrying small amounts of alcohol across borders.
We had no option but to give this Rs10,000 bribe and leave the scene.
This experience has left a very bitter taste. It has shaken us up on how law enforces are misusing their powers and troubling public at large. There were around 50 cars at the check-point while we were there and these officers were harassing all of them. There seems to be some nexus wherein the officers are selling the alcohol bottles back to the retail wine shops and pocketing the profit.
As this is a money-making racket, the number of officers at the check-point were far too many. There only aim is to rob people who are crossing the state border.
As a general citizen I urge you to please look into this matter to ensure nobody else has to go through what we did.
— Anirudha Mohan Rajan, Bangalore














