Senior consultant raises inquiries on the ad which required sanctions versus the Finance Minister, Enforcement Directorate chief and Supreme Court judges in Devas case Senior advisor raises inquiries on the ad which required sanctions versus the Finance Minister, Enforcement Directorate chief and Supreme Court judges in Devas case The federal government responded highly on Saturday to an ad in U.S. paper Wall Street Journal by a U.S. group requiring sanctions versus Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Supreme court judges and Enforcement Directorate and other authorities in the Devas-Antrix case, calling it an “attack on Indian sovereignty”. The ad which appeared on October 13 in the paper appeared to have actually been timed with Ms. Sitharaman’s see to Washington, in an effort to accentuate the case on behalf of Devas co-founder, U.S. resident Ramachandra Vishwanathan. Mr. Vishwanathan who has, in addition to a Washington-based NGO “Frontiers of Freedom” attracted the U.S. State Department to use “Magnitsky Act” sanctions on the called eleven Indian federal government authorities for what he called a defective examination, an “unjust” trial and federal government relocate to state him a criminal and connect his home which he stated totaled up to “denying” him of his “liberty and security”. In Delhi, a senior federal government consultant called it a “shockingly repellent” ad that had actually targeted India and its Government. “This is not a project versus [the] Modi Government alone. It’s a project versus [the] judiciary. It’s a project versus India’s sovereignty,” stated Kanchan Gupta, Senior Adviser, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, in a set of tweets where he likewise criticised the Wall Street Journal for enabling the “disgraceful weaponisation of American media by scammers”. Mr. Gupta stated that the ad had actually been secured on behalf of Mr. Vishwanathan who is a “stated fugitive financial transgressor” implicated of corruption. While the initial case included a conflict in between Bangalore-based Devas Multimedia and Antrix Corp, the industrial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation over a 2005 offer to run satellites
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Attack on Indian sovereignty, states Centre on Wall Street Journal ad
