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THE HINDU FRAUDGATE
BACK STORY – PART – I
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ABC FRAUDGATE IN THE HINDU A GAME CHANGER OF A WHISTLEBLOWER NOTE
From 18.07.2016 MURALI KRISHNAN CHENNAI To MR. HORMUZD MASANI SECRETARY GENERAL, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS WAKEFIELD HOUSE, 4
TH FLOOR,
SPROTT ROAD, BALLARD ESTATE, MUMBAI – 400 001. PHONE : 022 – 2261 1812 / 2261 9072 Dear Mr. Masani,
AGAINST ALL ODDS AND OBSTACLES An Epic 12 Year Relentless Crusade Battle of An Internal Whistleblower
For TRUTH, JUSTICE and FAIRPLAY Further to My Open Letter E-mail dated 11
th July 2016 Sent to All Stakeholder
Members of ABC, I am Sending along with The Confirmatory Hard Copy Volume of My 13MBE-mail dated 11
th July 2016 for purpose of The Rapporteur Investigation
Probe and Secretariat Records. SATYAMEVA JAYETE Regards Murali Krishnan Employee No.3814 Aggrieved Whistleblower Appellant Deposed Regional Manager The Hindu Kochi
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An Internal Whistleblower's TELL ALL Exp(l)osive Revelations On "WILFUL FRAUD"
Within THE HINDU GROUP .
An Open Letter E Mail To All Stakeholder Members Of ABC's , Council Of Management,
Member Publishers , Advertising Agencies , Advertisers , Empanelled Auditors , News Agencies,
and other allied Organisations & Government Publicity Departments .
Dear ABC Member ,
I Present to you The Final Chapter Of A 12 Year lone Crusade for Truth and
Justice against One of the Most Distinguished Newspaper Groups of India , Exposing Woeful
Wrongdoings in THE HINDU GROUP .
I recommend that you step back far enough to see the big picture . It is my intention and has
been for the last 12 years , To Expose The Woeful Wrongdoings of A Highly Distinguished and
Venerable Institution grossly taking advantage of the esteem it has been vested with , and one of
the final judges are you in whose hands I deliver the responsibility of ensuring the true nature of
that what was once A Clarion of Our Lands and People .
Let It Be Understood that Playing Whistleblower to An Institution I Once Revered is One Of
The Most Painful Experiences Yet . However Truth Must Prevail and I Have Set The Ball
Rolling .
I Am Presenting This Whistleblower Story , Involving Unheard Of Gross Misuse And Abuse Of
Privileged Constitutional Powers Towards Criminal And Corrupt Ends , In 3 Parts For You
To Have A Better Understanding Of The Issue :
1) PROLOGUE , 2) The Core Crux Of The 12 Year Case 3) EPILOGUE .
Satyameva Jayete
Regards
Murali Krishnan
Employee No. 3814
Aggrieved Whistleblower Appellant
Deposed Regional Manager
The Hindu Kochi
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ABC FRAUD IN THE HINDU – Since 2004 A 12 YEAR MASTERMIND WEB OF DECEIT, LIES , DECEPTION AND CHEATING
A SHOCKING INTERNAL WHISTLEBLOWER’S “TELL ALL”
FIRST HAND WITNESS ACCOUNT DEPOSITION
PROLOGUE
11.07.2016
An Open Letter to All Stakeholder Members of ABC’s , Council Of
Management, Publishers, Advertising Agencies, Advertisers, Empanelled Auditors,
News Agencies, and allied Organisation & Government Publicity Depts .
Dear ABC Member,
THE MOTHER OF ALL FRAUDS – “WILFUL FRAUD”
As You Are About To Start Your ABC Audit Process For ABC 2016
1st Half, I An Internal Whistleblower Am Raising A Very Sensitive But Serious
Industry Impacting Issue Of FRAUD Of The SFO Order, The Expose Deposition Of
Which Could “Set the Cat among the Pigeons”, On A Frankenstein Monster Of An
Industry Impacting Issue ,Which Will Need to be Immediately Addressed By ABC as a
Regulatory Body, On Something Which Is Fundamentally WRONGDOING -
Procedurally, Ethically, Morally, Legally – Which Has Been Transpiring and
Conspiring Within The Hindu, Since As Way Back as 2004, Which Can Only Be
Termed “WILFUL FRAUD”.
Oxford English Dictionary Defines The word WILFULAs :
1) Of a bad or harmful action done deliberately although the person doing it knows
it is wrong, Something which has been done on purpose, which is Premeditated,
Planned, Calculated.
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2) Determined to do what you want not caring about what people want, Headstrong,
Self-Willed, With a will of One’s Own, Determined To Have One’s Own Way,
Obstinate, Stubborn, Bull Headed, Refractory, Recalcitrant, Intractable,
Obstreperous, Contrary, Perverse, Wayward, Defiant, Disobedient,
Ungovernable, Unmanageable, Rebellious, Mutinous, Insubordinate,
Contumacious, Pervicacious.
Welcome to “ THE SATYAM FRAUD OF THE HINDU ” Where It would
be shocking to know that , India’s Most Respected and Reputed Newspaper
Groups THE HINDU, A Temple Of Values Turned Den of The Underworld
Criminal Values, Have for the last 12 Years, Been Contemptuously
CHEATING In the Sly, Involved In The Most Reprehensible , Disgusting
And Disgraceful “Fly By Night And Fraudulent Practices”, Where They
Have Not only Breached The Lakshman Rekha’s Between Acceptable And
Unacceptable, But Impudently and With Impunity, Broken The Law Of The
Land, In A Mad Obsessive Rat Race Of Deceit, Deception and Downright
Fraud, “TO PRESENT” The Circulation They So Want, At Whatever Cost,
Through Whatever Means, Stooping To Whatever Levels, Whatever It
Takes, Including, Faking Circulation, Fudging, Falsifying, Forgery,
Cheating, Counterfeiting, Cooking Up The Statutory ABC Documents, To
CLAIM CERTIFICATION For The Circulation They So Will and Want, In
A Diabolical Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy , Amounting to “An
Organised Crime” and “An Organised Fraud Scam” Racket, ALL Towards
“Fast Tracking” READER, READERSHIP, REVENUE Numbers - The
RADHI and RACKETEERING Route -, Where MEANS, METHODS,
MORALS Did not seem to Matter AT ALL, In A Mad Obsession For
ONEUPMANSHIP, And To Be ONE UP On COMPETITION – The
FAKING And FRAUD Way .
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Welcome To The Hindu IPL T20 “CIRCULATION LAUNDERING” Fixers
League Scam Racket . Welcome To “The Hindu’s Satyam Fraud” ,
Welcome To The Hindu’s CIRCULATION GATE.
HOW THE PLOT DEVELOPED –THE UNFOLDING FACTS OF THE
12 YEAR MULTI DIMENSIONAL CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY CASE .
I, Murali Krishnan, The Whistleblower , Wish to introduce myself as a Veteran
Circulation Foot soldier, Who grew Up the Ranks In Circulation Department Of THE
HINDU right From the Grass root Level in The Early 80’s, Who Learnt The
Circulation Ropes In The Market Place, As “A Hands On” CIRCULATION
FOOTSOLDIER Selling And Studying The Hindu And Customer Behavior, Growing
From A Sales Representative To The Top Leadership Position Of Regional Manager
And Printer Head Of Kochi Edition Of The Hindu Through sheer HARD And
HONEST WORK, Having Grown Up The Circulation Ranks over A Lifetime
25+Years Of “SELLING THE HINDU” The SUBSCRIPTION Way, BELIEVING
That CIRCULATION, At Its Very CORE BASICS , Is About READER And
READERSHIP, Where To Me An Insightful Reader Of The Game And Business,
FUNDAMENTALLY Once Your CORE FUNDAMENTALS Are Strong, Long Term
Success And Stability, Brand Building, Revenues And Runaway Profits For The
Publishing Group Are Bound To Follow , With Long Term Prosperity
GUARANTEED For The Publishing Group Built Around Strong FUNDAMENTALS
And FOUNDATION Of “READER ORIENTED CIRCULATION”.
As AN INSIGHTFUL “STUDENT” Of CIRCULATION, Who Has Been
SEARCHING And RESEARCHING “ CIRCULATION For A Lifetime 25+ Years,
I Proved This FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH , With My PATH BREAKING Experiment
And Experience As Regional Head Of Kochi Edition And Printing Unit Of The Hindu
From 1997 To 2005, That FUNDAMENTALLY If We Focus On Subscriber And
Service To Subscriber, Reader And Readership , And Work Steadfastly Towards
READER ORIENTED CIRCULATION, Then REVENUES In Crores And Crores,
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Are Bound To Follow, Where As A PRINCIPLE , I Never Believed In “RADHI And
RACKETEERING”, Simply Because It Is Against “THE TRUE SPIRIT” Of
CIRCULATION , And Good Old CIRCULATION VALUES Of The 20th
Century .
To Me A HARDCORE “CIRCULATION MAN”, Circulation Is Not About
RADHI And RACKETEERING, As FUNDAMENTALLY When THE HINDU
Newspaper Which Should Reach THE READER Reaches The Doorstep Of “THE
RADHI WASTEPAPER MERCHANT” Before The Crack Of Dawn, It Is Downright
CHEATING, Amounting To WILFUL FRAUD, Where At Its Core You Are
CHEATING, Not Just Your Readers, Revenue Generating Advertisers, And Regulators
By MISREPRESENTING FACTS AND FIGURES, But We Ourselves, As An
Individual, Institution And Industry , Where We Fail To Be Worthy Of Being Called
HUMAN BEINGS . Simply Put It Is DISGRACEFUL And SHAMEFUL .
WATCHDOGS TURNED WOEFUL WRONGDOERS – RADHI AND
RACKETEERING .
To Me As A Human Being Driven By Conscience, This Is An Inhuman
Treachery And A Fundamental Breach Of Trust, Where We Fail To Be Human
Beings, Forget About Being Called “Professionals”, Where We Need To Hang Our
Heads In SHAME, If We Are To Turn WHOLESALE WASTEPAPER
MERCHENTS - Going Against The Soul And Spirit of CIRCULATION , Which Is
What “THE 12 YEAR HINDU CIRCULATION SCAM RACKET” Is All About.
For Over A Century THE HINDU GROUP Was Known And Renowned For Its
STRONG FUNDAMENTALS Of a Massive READER , READERSHIP And
REVENUE BASE Model, Strong Enough For The Hindu Group To Pay upto50%
Bonus To Their Gigantic Work Force. Consequently The Mighty Hindu Group Enjoyed
Unquestionable Market And Monopoly Leadership And Readership In The English
Newspaper Business Till The End Of The 20th Century.
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THE BEGINNING OF THE END
The Whole Problem Started With Major Competition And Challenges Setting
In The 21st Century, Where, While The Hindu Groups Balance Sheet And Bottom line
Came Under Pressure With The Company Slipping Into Losses in 2002 For The First
Time In Its 123 Year History, (Largely Due To MISMANAGEMENT And
MISPLACED PRIORITIES), In 2004 The ABC Certification Norms Became Very
Stringent With Them Demanding 100% Execution Of ABC Documentation Of Bill
Confirmatory Copy Statements And Payment Covering Notes As A Statutory Condition
To Certify The Claimed Circulation With The Obvious Intent “To Separate The Wheat
From The Chaff”, Genuine From The Fake Circulation.
Conventional Wisdom And Saying Is That “ When The Going Gets Tough The
Tough Gets Going ”.
For Me As An Insightful Insider Of The Hindu Of 25+ Years, It Was
SHOCKING DISBELIEF To See in The Hindu, Post 2003, A New MAFIA Face, Of
“When The Going Gets Tough In Circulation Department Of The Hindu”, Cheats,
Crooks, Cooks, Cons, Even Concubines, Counterfeiters, Criminal Fraudsters, Fixing,
Faking, Forgery, Fudging, Falsifying Documents and Numbers, Down To stage
managing “Fake Encounters” GET GOING In The Hindu Of
The 21st Century, Where MEDIA Turns MAFIA.
Welcome To THE DARK UNDERBELLY Of The Hindu. Welcome To THE
UNDERWORLD Of The Hindu, Where You are Liquidated MAFIA STYLE IF
You Fail To “Toe The Criminal Line”.
Simply Put, For Murky Reasons, Not Hard To Visualise or See Through The
Diabolic Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy Plot, UNDER PRESSURE, A
SPINELESS And SUSPECT LEADERSHIP In The Radicalised Hindu Of
The 21st Century, Buckled Under Pressure Of A Paranoid Fear Of Losing Their Century
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Old, Market And Monopoly Leadership Status To LOOMING COMPETITION of The
Impending Launch Of Chennai Edition Of The Times Of India and Deccan Chronicle,
Where They PANICKED And Took To Immoral And Illegal Means And Mafia
Methods TO MAKE And FAKE The Circulation They Want, Brazenly And Blatantly
FAKING Through The ABC Statutory Documentation And Certification Process, In A
CORPORATE FRAUD One Of Its Kind , In Broad Daylight , Where They abominably
MISUSED And ABUSED FAITH , TRUST , EXPECTATION , BELIEF , And THE
HINDU”S LEGACY VALUES Towards CRIMINAL And CORRUPT ENDS .
Taking To MAFIA Means And Methods ,They Stooped To Shameful Levels In
Dealing With Competition , Down To Trying To Sabotage Competition By Organising
and Orchestrating “Bundles Of Competitor Dailies Being Stolen From City
Distribution Points in The Dead Of The Night In A Heist So That Competitor Dailies
Cannot Reach Their Subscriber Reader. To Me Who Sweared By BUSINESS ETHICS
The Whole Thing Was Simply DISGUSTING And DISGRACEFUL , Where You Are
Not Just UNETHICAL But UNLAWFUL.
Honestly Speaking, To Me A Die Hard Patriot Employee Loyal To Cause,
Commitment, Circulation , Customer, Company, Country And Civil Society At Large,
Who Grew Up Upholding Human And The Hindu’s Legacy Values For
A Lifetime 25+ Years, To See This New UNDERWORLD And DARK
UNDERBELLY Side Of The Hindu Was “ A CULTURE SHOCK”, Where I as A
Human Being Who Grew Up Believing In Being Always True To My Conscience,
Honestly Did Not Know How To Deal With A Radicalised and Talibanised System In
The Hindu Of The 21st Century , Which Expected And Demanded By Cold Blooded
Unspoken and Unwritten Edicts And Threats From THE TOP “D-COMPANY” Of
AN UNDERWORLD LEADERSHIP In The Hindu Of The 21st Century That You
Cheat And Commit Fraud In Circulation Department Of The Hindu, Otherwise Be
Prepared To Be Executed – Execution Style, Mafia Style.
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Welcome To The Taliban And Mafia Land Of The Hindu, Where Your Choice
As A Circulation Man In THE HINDU Is, To Either Toe The Criminal Line Or Be
Prepared To Be Executed – Execution Style.
As A Person Who Grew Up Practicing The Hindu’s LEGACY VALUES And
ETHICAL PRACTICES, Honestly It Felt As though The 125 Year Old
THE HINDU Had Been HIJACKED By A CRIMINAL SYNDICATE In My
25thSilver Jubilee Year Of Service in The Hindu, Where We Had Criminals Who
Behaved like Terrorists, Who Ruled By Terrorising. To Think That Behind This Whole
Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy Is A HIDDEN AGENDA To Perpetrate ,
Protect And Perpetuate “THE HINDU ABC FRAUD RACKET”.
A Midlife Crisis Of Sorts For A Die Hard Circulation Foot Soldier .
Joining The Hindu When I Was Just 20 Fresh Out Of University, After 25+
Years Of Honest Service to CIRCULATION in The Hindu , In 2004/ 2005 I Was
Caught In A Very Difficult Choice At The Difficult Age Of 45 Years In A Mid-Sea,
Mid Career and Midlife Crisis Of Sorts, Where The “Cold Blooded” Choice Given To
Me In The RADICALISED Hindu Of The 21st Century , Was Between “Toeing The
Criminal Line” And Facing The Threat Of losing My Cherished Job Of 25 Years,
With Shore To Retirement Age A Distant 15 Years Away.
Honestly Speaking, For An Uncompromising HUMAN BEING PROFESSIONAL, It
Felt Literally like “Being Asked To Walk The Plank – Mid Sea”.
Finally As A Person Who Fears His Conscience , I Chose To Listen To My
Heart, Head And Conscience And Continue Taking The Straight and Sensible Path,
Doing What My KARMA And DHARMA Told Me Do As A KARMAYOGI.
On 21st August 2005, I , Murali Krishnan, After A Lifetime 25+ Years Of
Special And Selfless Service To The Hindu As An Institution, Was SUMMARILY And
ARBITRARILY SACKED From My Regional Managers Position In
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The Hindu, EXECUTED – Execution Style By THE CIRCULATION MAFIA In A
Diabolic FAKE ENCOUNTER KILLING, Without A Case, Without A Crime, Without
a Charge or Even A Charge Sheet, Without Any Credible Trial Process, Without Even
Being Heard, And Worst Of All ,With No Right To Appeal, Where My Only Crime
Was That I Chose To Listen To My Conscience , Rather Than Toe The Criminal Line
Of The Hindu Of The 21st Century .
Welcome To The Talibanisation Of The Hindu. Welcome To The Guantanamo Bay Of
The Hindu, ABOVE ACCOUNTABILITY, ABOVE REGULATION And ABOVE
THE LAW, Where They , THE LAW BREAKERS , Are “THE LAW”.
As An Employee You Feel Like A PAWN In A GAME Of
GRANDMASTER SKULDUGGERY, With ONE MEGALOMANIAC
“MASTERMIND” N Murali Overcome By PSYCHOTIC DISEASE Of THE
SEVEN DEADLY SINS Of Hubristic Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Anger
And Sloth, This IS A Huge “Organised Crime” Multi Dimensional Criminal
Conspiracy Of A Scam Racket, Of Unimaginable Proportions, ALL Towards
“PROFITEERING”, By Artificially And Fraudulently PRESENTING The Pre
Targeted Circulation Numbers That He Wants, With Particular Focus Agenda On
Targeting Major Advertisement Oriented Markets, Centering around Major
Towns And Major Cities, Markets That Matter Most, ALL To Boost REVENUES
And PROFITS The Fake And Fraudulent Way, With MACHIAVELLIAN,
MACHINATION, MERCENERY, MAMMON And MAFIA Means And
Methods, Where MAN Becomes A MONSTER. This Was A Multi Dimensional
Criminal Conspiracy.
To Me A Law Abiding Citizen Employee Driven By Customer ,Character,
Conscience And Credibility, This Criminal And Corrupt Approach To CIRCULATION
NUMBERS In The Hindu The FAKE And THE FRAUDULENT Way Is Unethical,
Unbecoming, Unacceptable, Unlawful And Untenable, Which I Refused To Be Party
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Of, For Which I was Summarily Sacked – Execution Style on
21st August 2006 For no rhyme Or reason. It Was Simply COLD BLOODED
MURDER.
It Defies Logic And Explanation, How In The World Can Being
A Conscientious Law Abiding Citizen Employee Upholding The Spirit Of
The Law, Be Perceived and Presented As An Act Of Insubordination And Indiscipline,
To Be Worthy Of Being SUMMARILY SACKED, After 25 + Years Of Special And
Spotless Service To Institution And Institutional Legacy Values.
This Was ,Not MISCARRAIGE OF JUSTICE, But Simply MURDER OF
JUSTICE .
LEGALLY SPEAKING, This Is A Clear Legal Case Of “GROSS
MISTREATMENT” And “WRONGFUL DISMISSAL” In Gross Violation Of
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS Of A Law Abiding Citizen Employee, Worthy Of The
Hindu Group Being Sued In A Court Of Law And The Human Rights Commission.
In A Clear Case Of VICIOUS TARGETTING And VENDETTA WITCH
HUNTING With A DEFINITE AGENDA, After Being “WRONGFULLY
DISMISSED” From The Regional Managers Position, To Add Salt To Injury, To My
UTTER DISBELIEF I Was Handed A DOUBLE DEMOTION And Asked To Do A
Menial “POSTAL ASSISTANT” Job In The Corporate Office, Where It was Clear
That Some Nervous People Involved In The Organised Fraud Racket, Fearing That I
Will “Spill The Beans”, Desperately Wanted To Hound Me OUT Of THE HINDU.
Clearly I Was “PERSONA NON GRATA” For Being PATRIOTIC, Where A
Honest Upright Human Being, Has No Place In “The Mafia World” Of
The Hindu Of The 21st Century, After A Lifetime 25+ Years Of Outstanding And
Spotless Service To Institution And Industry.
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Determined To Get To The Bottom Of THE TRUTH, THE SCAM,
THE MAFIA And The Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy, To Have A First Hand
Witness “Inside Look” at The Whole Criminal Operation And Expose The Fraud And
The Fraudsters I Took Up The “Postal Assistant” Job At Corporate Office in 2005 And
Quietly Looked And Logged The Inside Happenings In
“The Den Of The Underworld”, For 1 Full Year, What Exactly Is Conspiring And
Transpiring Within Criminal Circulation Department Of The Hindu, In The Corporate
Office Of The Hindu , And Who All are The Key Conspirators .
I Was Simply STUNNED At What I Was First Hand Witness To, On
The Sheer Size And Scale Of “The Organised Circulation Scam Racket” In The Hindu,
And Seeing Who Are All “The Unseen Faces” Behind The Scam, Who Operate, By
Sleight Of Hand and Skullduggery, From The Dark Shadows, In The Shady, The
Shadowy, The Scamy, The Seamy And The Sleazy , Where There Is also A Sex angle
under current Twist To “This Circulation Scam” .
“THE BIG FIVE” Of The Hindu ABC Fraud Racket
If And When There Is A SUPREME COURT MONITORED CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATION By CBI or CB-CID, With Forensic Support Of FORENSIC
EXPERTS From The Department Of Forensic Sciences, The Contextual Hot Trail
Of FORENSIC FACTS And EVIDENCE Of The 12 Year Trail Of Underworld
Events Will Prove That, If Mr. M R Sivakumar Vice President-Circulation Was
THE KINGPIN, Mr.N.Murali The Hindu’s Then Managing Director and The
Present Co Chairman Was The Shadowy MASTERMIND Behind This Whole
Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy Who “Remote Controlled” The Whole
Criminal Operation From The Dark Shadows (I As A Whistleblower Have made
no bones in Telling This “In Your Face” In My 36 Whistle Blower Petitions To
The Hindu Board Members), Where Mr R Varadamani The Associate Vice
President-Circulation, Who Officially Headed ABC Operations In The Hindu For
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12 Years, Was The OPERATIONS HEAD Of The Hindu ABC Fraud Operations
For 12 Years, Where He Was ably Assisted In This Criminal Underworld
Operation By His Cherry Picked Henchman “D Gang” Assistant
Mr. K.S.Raghavan, Who Thanks To His Excellent Work In Successfully
Executing The ABC Fraud Operations, In Successfully “Hoodwinking” ABC And
ABC’s Audit Team For 12 Years, Saw Him Zoom From “An Assistant” Post
About A Decade Back To The Present Position Of Sr.Assistant General Manager-
Circulation Accounts And ABC Operations. Beyond This We Have
Mr.N.Krishnan, The Chennai Circulation Head, Who MISUSED His Times Of
India Experience In THE UNDERWORLD PLOT In The Hindu To Play
A DOUBLE DEALER Role.
These Are The Key 5 Players Who Conceptualized And Coordinated
The Whole ABC Fraud Criminal Operation During The Course Of The Last
12 Years Who Have With Machiavellian And Machination , Mastered The Art Of
ABC FRAUD Through Half Lies ,Deceit And Deception, Where Today As
INSIDERS Who Are Familiar With The Inside Workings Of ABC, How The
System Works, How To Take Them For A Ride, Where Notably, Mastermind
N.Murali was In The Inner Circles Of ABC Council Of Management In The 80’s
And 90’s, Where Together, They Know The Inside And Insides, The Loopholes,
The Leeways And The Legalities Of ABC Audit Work And How To
DECEITFULLY And DECEPTIVELY Beat The ABC Audit Rules , Guidelines
And Procedures By WHEELING And DEALING, Through MACHIAVELLIAN
And MACHINATION MEANS And METHODS Of MASTER
SKULLDUGGERY, Where YOU PRESENT Yourselves To Be POLITICALLY
CORRECT, When PRINCIPALLY You Are CRIMINALLY WRONG- Guilty Of
WOEFUL WRONGDOING.
TOGETHER “The BIG FIVE” Have Master Plotted And Hoodwinked The ABC
For 12 Years, So Far.
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For A NEWSPAPER GROUP, That Too Of The Stature And Standing Of The
Hindu Group, It is Criminal Breach Of TRUST To MISUSE And ABUSE Privileged
CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS Of FREEDOM OF PRESS And RIGHT TO SELF
REGULATION Towards CRIMINAL And CORRUPT ENDS, Raising The
Fundamental Question As To Whether In Crime And Criminality, Is The Hindu And Its
Criminal Leadership ABOVE ACCOUNTABILITY, ABOVE ABC AUDIT, And
ABOVE THE LAW OF THE LAND.
Going By This FARCE And FRAUD In Broad Daylight , Natural Doubt Which Arises
Is , Does The Hindu Enjoy RIGHT TO CRIME And RIGHT TO COMMIT ABC
FRAUD, Which Is What Seems To Be So, Given That They Have Been Brazenly
Doing This For 12 Years , UNCHECKED And UN CHECKED.
To Cut This Epic Saga Of A 12 Year Crusade of A Story Short, With The
Managing Directors Position “Compromised in The Hindu” , I Murali Krishnan As A
Hapless Employee Caught In The Midst A Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy
Plot Was Under Constant And Continuous Pressure From THE TOP LEADERSHIP
To Quit The Hindu, Where After 25+ Years Of Loyal Service, For The Crime Of
Refusing To Toe The Criminal Line I Became PERSONA NON GRATA In The
Hindu Of The 21st Century, Where Harassed, Humiliated And Hounded I was Driven
Into A FORCED RESIGNATION On 16th September 2006, By Which Time My TELL
ALL 357 Page WHISTLEBLOWER BOOK Of Explosive TELL ALL Revelations On
THE HINDU ABC FRAUDGATE, Was Ready.
While I Could Have Turned Whistleblower Outside The Hindu, LOYALTY To
An Institution I Selflessly Served For 25+ Years With Uncompromising INTEGRITY,
HONESTY And HARD WORK Drove Me To Be Patient, Where
I Thought It My Moral Duty and Obligation To Report THE FACTS And
THE FRAUD To THE HINDU’S GOVERNING COUNCIL – THE HINDU BOARD,
Where, Immediately After I Received My RELIEVING ORDER Dated
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18thSeptember 2006, I Sent My 357 Page TELL ALL Whistleblower Petition
“Tome Of A Book” Dated 18th September 2006 To All Board Members Of
The Hindu (By Registered Post-AD), Including The Mastermind N.Murali “The Two
Timing” Managing Director Of The Hindu Who Given His DUBIOUS PRACTICES
Appeared To Be A DOUBLE AGENT Playing A DOUBLEGAME, Involved In
DOUBLE CROSS, As The Man Lead “A DOUBLE LIFE”.
LEGALLY SPEAKING, NOTABLY , My “Whistleblower Book No1”
Titled THE UNHOLY GRAIL Sent Full 10 Years Back To The Hindu Board on
18th
September 2006 (The First In A Massive Series Of A Record
36 Whistleblower Petitions Sent to The Hindu Board Members During The Last
10 Years ) Began With The Very First Chapter Titled “ABC FRAUD In The
Hindu”, Where I As The Whistleblower, Devoted As Many As 27 Pages To Give A
BLOW BY BLOW “First Hand Witness Testimony Account Deposition ” On
THE WHO, HOW, WHY, WHAT, WHEN And WHERE, Of How The
Headquarter Of The Hindu, Has Become The Headquarter For CORPORATE
FRAUD, And How The ABC Fraud Works In The Hindu , Where I Beseeched
The Hindu Board For Immediate INTERVENTION And INDEPENDENT “Third
Party” INVESTIGATION Into The Whole Multi Dimensional Criminal
Conspiracy Centered Around THE HINDU ABC FRAUD Racket .
SHAME, SHAMEFULL And THE SHAMELESS –“THE HINDU’S COSY CLUB”
Now It Is Full 10 Years Past Since I An INTERNAL WHISTLEBLOWER
Turned WHISTLEBLOWER On “THE HINDU ABC FRAUD GATE”, At The Hindu
Board Level, A Board Which Had 9 Board Members In 2006 Where Today They Have
15 Esteemed Board Members Including The WHO’S WHO, From Mr.N.Ram,
Mr.N.Murali, Mr.N.Ravi, Ms.Malini Parthasarathy, Mrs.Nirmala Lakshman,
Dr.Nalini Krishnan, Mr.K.Balaji, Mr.K.Venugopal, Mrs.Lakshmi Srinath, Mr.Ramesh
Rangarajan, Mrs.Vijaya Arun, Mrs.Akila Vijay Iyengar, Down To A “So Called
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Professional” CEO In Mr.Rajiv C Lochan, And “So Called Independent Directors”
Ms.Vinita Bali of Brittannia Fame And Mr.S.Mahalingam Of TCS Fame, Where
Every Single Of Whom Are Today CULPABLE, Guilty of Being Considered
COMPLICIT In THE HINDU CIRCULATION GATE, Worthy Of Being Charged And
Chargesheeted, In The Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy, As Being Guilty Of
STONEWALLING THE SCAM And An INDEPENDENT “ Third Party”
INVESTIGATION For A Mindboggling 10 Years, Where They Turned A NELSONS
EYE, As They Did AN OSTRICH ACT To An Insider Whistleblower Revelations Of
FRAUD , Burying Their Head, The 12 Year Scam, The Truth, The Fraud Racket, And
The Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy, Under The Hindu Sand .
Fundamental Prosecution Question Which Naturally Arises Is , WHY ARE THEY
SCARED OF AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION IF THEY HAVE
NOTHING TO HIDE , UNLESS THEY WANT TO SHIELD “THE SCAM” AND
“THE MASTERMIND N MURALI” , DUE TO CONFLICT OF INTERESTS
AND VESTED INTEREST AGENDAS .
It Would Be Shocking To Know That During The Course Of The Last
10 Years, Since 2006 I The Aggrieved Whistleblower Appellant Have Sent As Many
As A Mind Blowing 36 Whistleblower Petitions To All The Hindu Board Members,
The Who’s Who Of The Hindu, Seeking Immediate INTERVENTION And
INDEPENDENT “Third Party” INVESTIGATION Into My Whistleblower Expose
Revelations Towards CLEAN UP, COURSE CORRECTION And CLOSURE
JUSTICE, Only To Be Met With A STONEWALL OF SILENCE For 10 Years,
Raising More Questions Than Answers To A Whole Lot Of MURKY UNANSWERED
QUESTIONS Which Demand ANSWERS And ACCOUNTABILITY.
After 10 Years Of Stonewalling THE TRUTH – An Inconvenient Truth, Today
Much Water Has Flowed Under The Bridge , Where The Kingpin Mr.M.R.Sivakumar
Is Dead After A Massive Cardiac Arrest ( Some Say He Committed Suicide In Shock
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And Shame Following A Circulation Insider Turning Whistleblower To His Blueprint
For ABC FRAUD), Leaving “His Partner And Patron” Mastermind N.Murali To
Today Face The Music And The Law.
NOTABLY In spite Of All My Whistleblower Revelations On The Hindu ABC
FRAUD, As A Prosecution Point Towards Reinforcing My Point That This Is A Clear
Case Of “WILFUL FRAUD”, Mr.R.Varadamani And Mr.K.S.Raghavan who Headed
ABC FRAUD OPERATIONS Since 2004 When It All Began, Even Today , After 12
Years Of My Whistleblower Expose Revelations In 36 Whistleblower Petitions At The
Hindu Board Level , NONCHALANTLY , CONTINUE Heading ABC FRAUD
OPERATIONS , 10 Years After All My TELL ALL Whistleblower Revelations.
Which All Goes To Prove The Brazenness And Blatant Nature Of THE
CIRCULATION MAFIA SYNDICATE (Of Which The Hindu Board Seems To Be
Part Of ) Who Have DISDAINFUL DISREGARD For ABC And
ACCOUNTABILITY, And Believe That They Are ABOVE ACCOUNTABILITY And
ABOVE THE LAW – A LAW UNTO THEMSELVES.
What Takes The Cake Of It All, Is That Criminal Fraudster R.Varadamani Who
Recently Reached Retirement Age of 60 Years On 31st May 2016 Has Now Been Given
An Extension (In A First Of Its Kind In The Hindu Circulation History)As
CONSULTANT For Circulation By The “So Called” Professional CEO Mr.Rajiv. C
Lochan, At The Obvious Behest Of The Remote Control Operator Mastermind
N.Murali, Which Beyond Anything And Everything Indicates The Kind Of
DISDAINFUL DISREGARD They Have To Rule Of Law And Regulatory Bodies,
Where They Nonchalantly PERCEIVE THEMSELVES As Being A Law Unto
Themselves In A Rat Race To Fast Track READERS, READERSHIP And REVENUE
NUMBERS The QUICKFIX WAY - The Fake And The Fraudulent Way.
Its Absolute Mockery Of A Farce And A Fraud Whatever Has Been Transpiring
And Conspiring In The Hindu For The Last 12 Years , Since 2004 .
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Compounding The Mockery Of A Farce And Fraud , Fraudster R.Varadamani
Who Was Officially Anointed As “THE BHEESHMAPITAMAH” Of Circulation
(ABC FRAUD) in 2014 , Was Later On In November 2015 HONOURED (By The
Present CEO Mr.Rajiv C Lochan ) At The All India Sales Conference With “A
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD” Obviously As An Award For A Lifetime Of
ABC FRAUD, Where He Successfully Hoodwinked ABC And Its AUDIT For 12
Years.
Notably , All This Farce Happened , After All My Whistleblower Revelations In
My 36 Whistleblower Petitions To The Hindu Board On The Wrongdoings , Naming
The Wrongdoers .
Obviously The Ring Leader MASTERMIND N.Murali is The Key And King To
This Whole Diabolic Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy Plot –The Villain Of The
Piece-, Where If He Is Grilled under Intense Interrogation, Made To Undergo The
Polygraph Test, The Narco Analysis Test, The Lie Detector Test By CBI Or CB-CID
,The Whole Truth Behind The Diabolic Criminal Conspiracy Will Come Out, And he
Will “Sing Like A Canary” On A Diabolical Scam Plot Which Has Shades Of The
Shady, The Shadowy, The Seamy and The Sleazy.
SHOOTING THE MESSENGER
To My Utter Disbelief ,The Only Response I Got From The Hindu Board to My
Whistleblower Petition No.1 Dated 18th
September 2006, Was A Brazen attempt, In
Broad Daylight, To “Shoot The Messenger”, Where The Mafia Managing Director Of
The Hindu Sent Me Two Threatening Intimidating Letters Dated 19th October 2006
and 9th
November 2006 “ Warning Me , Mafia Style , Of Serious Consequences”
If I Dare “Spill The Beans”, By Diabolically Plotting
“A FAKE CASE ” against Me The Whistleblower , With GIVEAWAY , HOLLOW,
BASELESS ALLEGATIONS Which Will Be RIPPED And STRIPPED APART,
Point By Point, DURING Prosecution Cross Examination, In A Court Of Law Or “A
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Truth Commission” Enquiry Probe , To Prove My Point That This Is A Multi
Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy Of Shocking Proportions .
As They Say In FORENSIC INVESTIGATION , Every Criminal Does
Something Stupid Where He Makes One Mistake Which Leads To His UNDOING
Doom And Downfall ,Something Which The Accused Ramkumar Did In The
Recent Swathi Murder Case In Chennai . Like Every Criminal, Mastermind
N.Murali Too , Did Something Stupid In A Fit Of Extreme Emotion In A Moment
Of Weakness , Where He Made One Fatal Mistake Which He Will Live To Regret
, Which Could Lead To His UNDOING Doom And Downfall In A Court Of Law .
These Two ALL IMPORTANT Letters, A Lollypop for The Prosecution,
Was Obviously Written In A Fit Of Anger By A Maniac Person On Panic Mode,
Who Was Obviously Upset At Me, As a CIRCULATION INSIDER Having
SPILLED THE UNHOLY BEANS, Which The Criminal Syndicate Expected Me
“To Maintain Confidentiality” About “The Cabal” And The Criminal
Underworld Operation In Circulation Department Of The Hindu . This DEAD
GIVEAWAY LETTERS Will Prove To Be The Critical And Clinching Legal
Evidence To Prove My Prosecution Case Of WILFUL FRAUD . I Can Provide A
Copy Of These Two All Important Letters To ABC Council If You Desire.
A Mere Cursory Reading Of These Two All Important Letters By Even
The Uninformed And The Uninitiated, ( These Damning Implicating And
Incriminating Letters Which Will Be Presented In A Court Of Law As
Prosecution Evidence), Will Prove Beyond Several Things , Complicit Collusion
Of N Murali A Rogue Regulator Turned Collaborator, A Lawmaker Turned
Lawbreaker Cum Blackmailer, A Symbol and Sentinel Of TRUST Turned
Treacherous TRAITOR Of Individual, Institution And Industry , As The Man
Leads “A DOUBLE LIFE” , In A Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde With
Shades Of Black , White and Grey , Unknown To The World Outside The Hindu ,
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On Who Is N Murali Beyond The Farce And Façade He Puts Up , In a Game and
Guile Of Deceit And Deception .
Rubbing Salt To Injury , What Was Shocking, Was That The Mafia
Managing Director Of The Hindu Had The Gall To UNLAWFULLY DENY ME,
A Whistleblower Employee, MY FINAL SETTLEMENT After I Was
LAWFULLY RELIEVED With A Relieving Order Dated 18th
September 2006.
My Key Prosecution Point Is That Till 18th
September 2006 There Was No Case
Or Charges Whatsoever Against Me Considering That The Company Had Issued
Me A Relieving Order – Ironically Signed By The Very Same Managing Director
N.Murali. But After I Turned Whistleblower On The Hindu ABC FRAUDGATE
at The Hindu Board Level, Overnight, Over The Night I Become Guilty Of
“Serious Misconduct”. Its Not A JOKE But A SICK JOKE Of A SICK
PSYCHOTIC MIND. This Was a Straightforward Case Of BLACKMAILING A
Whistleblower, By Saying YOU COOPERATE And You Will Get Your
Settlement. In Effect ,What THE MASTERMIND Was Seeking Was A QUID
PRO QUO TRADE OFF.
Legally Speaking , It Was Clear As A Whistle That Rather Than “Reading
The Message” The Hindu’s Mafia Managing Director, And The Hindu Board By
Themselves, Was Trying To “ Shoot The Messenger” Where They Feared That I
Will Turn A Whistleblower On The Hindu ABC FRAUDGATE Outside The
Hindu, So The Blackmailer Managing Director Of The Hindu, In GROSS
VIOLATION Of All My FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS Uses My FINAL
SETTLEMENT To Arm Twist Me To Come To A tacit QUID PRO QUO Trade
Off , That I Will Not Speak Out The Truth – The Forbidden Truth, On His
MAFIA SYNDICATE .
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THE GREAT HINDU ROBBERY
What Is MOST BIZARRE , Perhaps Unheard And Unprecedented Of In Civil Or
Corporate History, Is That I An Employee Who Was Legitimately Relieved By The
Hindu on 18th September 2006, Full 10 Years Later, Am Still To Get MY FINAL
SETTLEMENT From The Hindu(Which I Should Have Legitimately Got In October
2006), All For The Crime Of Turning Whistleblower At The Hindu Board Level and
Reporting WOEFUL WRONGDOINGS Of THE HINDU’S CIRCULATION MAFIA
To The Hindu Board.
This Is UNLAWFUL, UNETHICAL, UNBECOMING, UNPROFESSIONAL,
UNCIVILISED And UNTENABLE In Gross Criminal Violation Of A Citizen
Employees FUNDAMENTAL Human, Labour And Legal RIGHTS, Worthy Of Being
Classified Under “Human Rights Abuse Of The War Time Crimes Order” Demanding
Installation Of A TRUTH COMMISSION PROBE To Probe The Atrocities And The
Abuses Perpetrated On A Law Abiding Citizen Employee .
I As A Honest Hard Working Human Being Still Cannot Fathom WHY WAS I
SO “HORRIBLY MISTREATED IN THE HINDU” To Be Worthy Of Such
INHUMAN TORTURE For 12 Years , Where I Became A Victim Of “WRONGFUL
DISMISSAL” And “WOEFUL MISTREATMENT” ?
RAREST OF RARE CRIME- TO BE HONEST AND UPRIGHT
After All What Was The Grave Crime Committed By Me, To Be Worthy Of A
Capital Punishment, When Criminals And Fraudsters, Wrongdoers And Womanisers ,
Are Having A Field Day And A Free Run In Criminal Circulation Department Of The
Hindu Even Today In 2016 , UNCHECKED And UN CHECKED .
Can You Think Of Any Company In A Civilised World Which
INCENTIVISES Illegalities And Immoralities, Corruption And Cheating,
Wrongdoing And Womanising, Faking And Forgery, Pimping and Prostitution,
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Where Higher Your Illegal And Immoral Index In The Hindu’s Dubious
Performance Appraisal Process , Faster Will Be Your Rise To The Top Echelon
Leadership Of The Hindu.
It Happens In The Hindu , Even Today In 2016 . Suffice To Say We Have
What I Would Call “PAID FRAUD” In The Hindu , Where Known
FRAUDSTERS Are Promoted, One Time Payment Jackpot Bonuses Doled Out
Like FREEBIES To FRAUDSTERS, Given Multiple Increments , All To Commit
FRAUD With Greater Machiavellian FAKING Skills To Hoodwink The ABC
Audit Process And Auditors , ALL Done Through “Opaque Performance
Appraisals” With No TRANSPARENCY Or ACCOUNTABILITY Whatsoever ,
Where BOTTOMLINE MAFIA MESSAGE Is In The Hindu Of The 21st Century
Its RADHI And RACKETEERING That Matters In CIRCULATION , Not
READER And READERSHIP .
In A Classic Case Of MEDIA Turned MAFIA , It Is Clear That THE
CRIMINAL SYNDICATE In The Hindu Wants To Protect And Perpetuate The
Hindu ABC FRAUD To Perpetuity, At Whatever Cost, Stooping To Whatever
Levels, Stooping down To Stage Managing Fake Encounter Killings, Whatever It
Takes.
This Is An EXTREME BEHAVIOR Which Is Best Explained, By Disgraced B
Ramalinga Raju’s Now Infamous Quote On His “Satyam Fraud” .
“Its Like Riding A Tiger, Not Knowing, How To Get Off, Without Being Eaten”.
A DOMINO EFFECT OF “A FUNDAMENTAL MISTAKE” MADE BY Mr. N
MURALI AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE , In 2004
FUNDAMENTALLY, It Was A Fatal Mistake That Role Model Turned
“Ring Leader” Mr N Murali Made In 2004, Which He Is Today Living To Regret
As “THE MISTAKE OF HIS LIFE” Of Taking The FAKING And
FRAUDULENT PATH To “WHEEL AND DEAL” His Way Towards
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FASTTRACKING The Hindu’s READER, READERSHIP And REVENUE
Numbers – The Quick Fix Way .
Then To Cap This WRONGDOING , He Made THE BIGGER MISTAKE
Of TARGETTING A Known Honest Hard Working Employee And STAGE
MANAGING A FAKE ENCOUNTER KILLING, ALL DONE Abominably
MISUSING His Managing Director Position And Media Powers Of Freedom Of
Press And Right To Self Regulation Towards Criminal And Mafia Ends .
Today After 12 Of SYSTEMIC LYING and CHEATING He Has Ended Up
Getting Caught In THE WEB He Himself Created, Ending In Dragging Himself
And The Hindu Into A Big BLACK HOLE, For Which He Could End Up , Going
To Jail .
Frankly , In What Way Is N Murali Different From a B Ramalinga Raju Or
a Vijay Mallya Or an R K Pachauri Who All Betrayed TRUST as They Turned
From PROTECTER To PERPETRATOR.
NOWHERE TO RUN NOWHERE TO HIDE
Its GAME OVER And END GAME For N Murali (Who Has “ Lost The
Plot ” ) And “THE 12 YEAR HINDU ABC FRAUDGATE”.
A Clarion Call To ABC Council Of Management For INTERVENTION And
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION PROBE – Time For DAMAGE CONTROL .
Now That Law Makers Of The Institution in Question THE HINDU Have Failed
In Their Duty Of Responsibility, As A Horribly Wronged Victim Of
The Hindu ABC FRAUDGATE, I The Aggrieved Appellant am Now Approaching
You Law Makers Of The Industry – The ABC – To Address and Redress This
Highly Sensitive But Serious Industry Impacting Issue, As I Try To Avoid
Precipitating A Crisis Taking This Watertight Case To Law Makers In A Court
Of Law, To Avoid Washing Some Serious Institution And Industry Impacting
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Ugly Dirty Linen In Public Which Could Irreparably Damage REPUTATIONS
Of Industry For Wrongdoing Of A Individual Institution Of The Industry.
All I As An Aggrieved Appellant Employee am seeking Is REDEMPTION
JUSTICE And RIGHTFUL SETTLEMENT For Grave Wrongs Done To Me
Centered Around ABC FRAUDGATE, Which Is THE GROUND ZERO To This
Whole DIABOLIC PLOT.
My Objective Is CLOSURE JUSTICE And Not CLOSURE OF THE
HINDU Like “The News of The World” In 2011.
TIME FOR SOUL SEARCHING , CLEAN UP And COURSE CORRECTION.
Towards This I, Murali Krishnan, The Internal Whistleblower Of THE
HINDU ABC FRAUDGATE Seek From ABC As A Statutory Regulatory Body Of
Circulation, A Thorough Fact Finding Independent “Third Party” Investigation
Probe Of THE TRUTH COMMISSION ORDER, On The Goings And
Happenings In THE HINDU ABC FRAUDGATE Since 2004, When The Whole
Rot And Spiral Began, Get To The Bottom Of The Truth, The Scam Racket And
The Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy To Which An Honest, Upright
CIRCULATION FOOTSOLDIER Became A Horrible Victim Of, Ensuring
JUSTICE Is Not Just Done, But Seen To Be Done To A Horribly Wronged Victim
Of WOEFUL MISTREATMENT And WRONGFUL DISMISSAL, Where
Beyond Anything And Everything The CREDIBILITY And REPUTATION Of
ABC As A Regulatory Body Is At Peril Stake.
I Am Prepared To Stand Approver Witness And Depose Against The Woeful
Wrongdoings And Wrongdoers Of THE 12 YEAR HINDU CIRCULATION
GATE Wherever Required, In A Court Of Enquiry Or A Court Of Law.
One Of The Fundamental Fountainhead Principles Of Law And Justice Is
That Even A Guilty Is Considered Innocent, Unless And Until Proven Guilty.
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Sadly In The Talibanic Justice System Of The Hindu, An Innocent Is Considered
Guilty , Unless And Until Proven Innocent By The Guilty.
Today I Am Touching 57 Years, Where I Have So Far Lost 12 Years Of My
Life And Career For No Fault Or Failure Of Mine, Where Once I Get Justice
And My Rightful Final Settlement For “Wrongful Dismissal” And Woeful Wrongs
Perpetrated On Me At The Prime Of My Life And Career, I Would Like To
Quietly Move Forward To The Sunset Of My Life, To Lead A Quiet Life Of
Dignity And Self Respect- With Human Values.
Today All Eyes , Internally And Externally, Will Be On How ABC As A
Statutory Regulatory Body Deals With This Individual, Institution And Industry
Impacting Issue.
THE CROSSROADS MOMENT FOR ABC AS A REGULATORY BODY .
Fact Is, This Is An Embarrassing And Serious Aberration By An Industry
Member In The Critical Area Of CIRCULATION Which Needs To Be
Immediately Addressed And Corrected, “Righting The Wrongs” INTERNALLY
Within The Industry To Avoid Collateral Damage Disaster To Institution And
Industry At Large Which Involves FAITH Of Customers, Clients, Constitution
And Civil Society At Large.
I Hope And Pray Truth, Justice And Fair Play Will Finally Prevail In The
Larger Interests Of Individual, Institution and Industry, After 12 Years Of
OUTRAGEOUS INJUSTICE In THE HINDU, Ensuring That Justice Is Not Just
Done , But Seen To Be Done , To A Horribly MISTREATED Citizen Employee Of
The Institution And Industry, Where Beyond Anything And Everything The
CREDIBILITY And REPUTATION Of ABC As A Regulatory Body Will Be
Seriously UNDERMINED If It Fails To Act With PROPRIETY And PROBITY,
Without Fear Or Favour, Affection Or Ill Will, Bias Or Exception, To Give The
Loud Message That No One, Including The Self Righteous The Hindu Group Or
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ABC Ex Member Of Council Of Management Mr.N.Murali, Is Above
ACCOUNTABILITY Or ABOVE THE LAW, So That This Will Be A Loud
Lesson To One And Everyone in The Industry, Not To Breach
LAKSHMANREKHA’s Let Alone BREAK THE LAW In The Mad RAT RACE
For READER, READERSHIP And REVENUES.
This Is A WAKE UP CALL For The Industry, As Beyond READER,
READERSHIP And REVENUES There Is Something Called REPUTATION,
RESPECT And RESPONSIBILITY Which Cannot Be Compromised , At ANY
COST – Otherwise We Fail To Be HUMAN BEINGS .
I End This Whistleblower Note With An Immortal Quote Of RBI Governor
Raghuram Rajan :
“No One Wants To Go After The Well Connected WRONGDOER, Which
Means They Get Away With Even More. If We Are To Have Strong Sustainable
Growth, THIS CULTURE OF IMPUNITY , SHOULD STOP ”.
SATYAMEVA JAYETE
Regards
MURALI KRISHNAN
Employee No.3814
Aggrieved Whistleblower Appellant
Deposed Regional Manager
The Hindu Kochi
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“LICENSED” CORPORATE FRAUDIN THE HINDU – Since 2004
AN ORGANISED CRIME RACKET SYNDICATE CHRONOLOGY OF A SHOCKING “COLLUSION AND COVER UP” BY THE HINDU KSL BOARD IN AN EPIC SAGA OF A MULTI
DIMENSIONAL CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY CASE, CENTERED AROUND SEX, SLEAZE, SCAM, SKULLDUGGERY AND SPIRITS, WHICH ALL BEGAN IN 2004 – A HOT TRAIL LEADING TO THE TOP
A SYSTEMIC FAILURE
(Gross Misconduct, Impropriety and Conflict of Interest in The Rogue Hindu KSL Board with Board
Members Guilty of aiding and abetting Gross Corrupt Practices, And Far Worse, A Pervert Concubine
Culture in a “Quid Pro Quo Racket”)
A Victimised Whistleblowers Epic Relentless “No Holds Barred” Crusade for Truth, Justice, FairPlay and His “Unlawfully Withheld”
Final Settlement, Firing as many as 36 Whistleblower Petitions in a Barrage
(By Registered Post-A/D) to The Hindu Board Members during the course of the last 10 Years.
The Skeleton Ghost Trail of The Past – The Complete Chain of Events of The 12 Year Murky Case Pet.No. Subject Remarks
2004 Crime, Criminality and Criminal Fraud Sets into
The Hindu is A Big Way – Through Circulation
Department of The Hindu.
With Corruption setting in The Hindu in 2004, My
trouble starts in 2004, Where Overnight, Over The
Night, I Murali Krishnan become a Horrible Victim of A
Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy in The Hindu,
After 25 Years of Outstanding Service and Results
Delivered to Institution.
2005 A Honest Upright Officer with a Lifetime 25 Years of
patriotic service, After he refused to be Party to
“Licensed” Crime, Criminality, Concupiscence,
Criminal Fraud in The Hindu, Becomes the Target of
vicious Victimisation, Only to be Summarily Sacked –
For STANDING UP to TRUTH.
Arbitrarily sacked from position of from Regional
Manager and Regional Head of Kochi printing unit In A
Larger Multi Dimensional Criminal “Quid Pro Quo”
Conspiracy involving A Criminal Fraudster
M.R. Sivakumar and A “Compromised” Managing
Director Mr. N. Murali.
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Pet.No. Whistleblower
Petition Dt. Subject of Letter / Book
No of Pages
Remarks
1. 18.09.2006 The Unholy Grail – The Inside Story of A Whistleblower
357
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition sent to All Members of The KSL Board of Directors + Then Chairman Late Sri. S. Rangarajan + The Institution’s Mentor Late Sri G.Kasturi.
2. 19.11.2007 An Appeal 5
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Addressed to The Managing Director, Copy to All Members of The KSL Board of Directors +Mr. G. Kasturi
3. 31.12.2007 A Clarion Call – Will I Get Justice in The Hindu ? 16
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Addressed to The Managing Director, Copy to All Members of The KSL Board of Directors +Mr. G. Kasturi
4. 24.01.2008 The Moment of Truth 32
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Addressed to The Managing Director, Copy to All Members of The Board of Directors +Mr. G. Kasturi
5. 01.01.2009 Little Drops of Shame 128
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition sent to All Members of The KSL Board of Directors +Mr. G. Kasturi.
6. 24.06.2009 An Inconvenient Truth – The Good, The Bad and ... The Ugly 127
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Addressed to The Managing Director, Copy to All Members to The KSL Board of Directors +Mr. G. Kasturi.
7. 30.12.2009 Watergate in The Hindu – The Hindu’s Hall of Shame Exposed 144
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Addressed to The Managing Director, Copy to All Members to The KSL Board of Directors +Mr. G. Kasturi.
8. 20.08.2010 What Lies Beneath – Time for Answers and Damage Control
61 A Confidential Whistleblower Letter Addressed to Mr. K. Balaji, After he took Over as Managing Director.
9. 18.02.2011 Murder of Justice – Talibanisation of The Hindu 68
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Addressed to The Senior Managing Director, Copy to All Members of The KSL Board of Directors +Mr. G. Kasturi.
10. 18.02.2011 A Shocking Insidious Inside Story 27
A Confidential Whistleblower Note Addressed to Mr. N. Ram, Chairman of Hindu KSL
11. 31.10.2011 Exposed A Circulation Scam Cover Up
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An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Addressed to
The KSL Board of Directors of The Hindu
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Pet.No. Whistleblower
Petition Dt. Subject of Letter / Book
No of Pages
Remarks
12. 31.08.2012 Satyameva Jayate – Truth and Justice Will Prevail Eventually
33 An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Addressed to The KSL Board of Directors of The Hindu
13. 31.12.2012 Shame, Shameful and The Shameless – Indictment of Men of Dishonour
35 An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Addressed to The KSL Board of Directors of The Hindu
14. 28.02.2013 Media Turned Mafia 28
A Confidential Whistleblower Note Addressed to Director Mrs. Vijaya Arun.
15. 27.06.2013 Untenable Fraud – The Hindu IPL Circulation Scam Racket
161 An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Addressed to KSL Board of Directors of The Hindu
16. 31.08.2013 HUBRIS Waiting to Happen – The Hindu’s Biggest and Worst Credibility Crisis
91 An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Addressed to KSL Board of Directors of The Hindu
17. 01.11.2013 An Appeal – Save The Hindu
16
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Message to The Hindu KSL Board Cautioning on the Collateral Consequence to come through A Petition sent Addressed to The Hindu Employee Unions President E. Gopal and General Secretary M. Kamalanathan
18. 10.04.2014 High Time for CLOSURE – On the Edge of A Precipice 14
A Reminder Whistleblower Note Message for The Hindu Board, sent Addressed to The Hindu Employees Union Leaders.
19. 27.05.2014 Impending Hubris – Law of The Jungle in The Hindu 6
A Confidential Whistleblower Note Addressed to Mr. N. Ram Chairman of Hindu KSL.
20. 04.06.2014 Vinaash Kaale, Vipreeth Buddhi 9
A Reminder Whistleblower Note to Mr. N. Ram Chairman of Hindu KSL
21. 09.07.2014 Corporate Fraud in The Hindu – A Decade of Decadence From 2004.
104
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Addressed to 11 of the 12 Directors of The Hindu KSL Board of the Period 2004 – 2013 (Excepting the Culprit Regulator turned Collaborator in Criminal Fraud Mr. N. Murali)
22. 07.08.2014 The Hindu’s Circulation Gate-Impending Waterloo Hubris 36
A Confidential Whistleblower Letter Addressed to Mr. Rajiv C Lochan CEO & Managing Director The Hindu KSL.
23. 12.09.2014 The Hindu’s Watergate 15
A Confidential Whistleblower Email Reminder to Mr. Rajiv C Lochan CEO &M.D of The Hindu KSL.
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Pet.No. Whistleblower
Petition Dt. Subject of Letter / Book
No of Pages
Remarks
24. 10.12.2014 The HinduGate – A COVER UP Worse Than Watergate
42
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Addressed to 15 Board Members of The Hindu KSL, Including the 2 Independent Directors Ms. Vinita Bali and Mr. S. Mahalingam
25. 31.12.2014 Commemorating – The 25th Whistleblower Petition to The Hindu KSL Board on The Corporate Fraud Within The Hindu, Since 2004
31
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Addressed to 15 Board Members of The Hindu KSL, Including the 2 Independent Directors Ms. Vinita Bali and Mr. S. Mahalingam
26. 07.01.2015 The Hindu’s Watergate – HUBRIS Waiting to Happen
9
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition E-mail sent to 21 Directors of The Hindu KSL, Including 2 Independent Directors Ms.Vinita Bali and Mr. S. Mahalingam, And 6 Next Gen. Directors of The Hindu Family.
27. 09.01.2015 The Hindu’s Watergate – A Game Changing Note Demanding Game Changing Decisions.
3
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition E-mail sent to 21 Directors of The Hindu KSL, Including 2 Independent Directors Ms.Vinita Bali and Mr. S. Mahalingam, And 6 Next Gen. Directors of The Hindu Family.
28. 15.01.2015 The Hindu’s Watergate - The Moment of Truth
6
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition E-mail sent to 21 Directors of The Hindu KSL, Including 2 Independent Directors Ms.Vinita Bali and Mr. S. Mahalingam, And 6 Next Gen. Directors of The Hindu Family.
29. 16.02.2015 The Hindu’s Circulation Gate’s Domino Effect
20
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition E-mail to 21 Directors of The Hindu KSL, Copied to 2237 Employees of The Hindu, Where for Perhaps The First Time Ever in Whistleblower And Corporate History, The Suspect Board Members of The Company and Their Untenable Practices come “Under Scrutiny” of The Stakeholder Employees of The Company, With A Copy of this Damning Mail Sent to 2237 Employees of The Hindu In and Across The Hindu, on each Employees Personal E-mail-ID.
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Pet.No. Whistleblower
Petition Dt. Subject of Letter / Book
No of Pages
Remarks
30. 09.03.2015 Corporate Fraud in The Hindu (ENDGAME – GAME OVER)
14
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition E-mail to 21 Director’s of The Hindu KSL, Warning The Directors that it is “ENDGAME” for The 10 Years Running “Corporate Fraud in The Hindu”. A Rattled Unnerved The Hindu Board, Fearing the Far Reaching Consequences of An Internal Whistleblower Internally Exposing their Untenable Woeful Wrongdoings of 10 Years, At the Level of 2237 Employees In and Across The Hindu, Shockingly and Scandalously Blocks E-mail Access to the Whistleblowers Mail’s at “The Hindu Server Level”, In A Vain Attempt to “Gag The Truth”. And Cover Up The Snowballing Scam Scandal, Where Board Members were being Lynched, Lambasted and Lampooned by A livid Victimised Whistleblower with Damning Embarrassing Incriminating Facts, Where Board Members Position was increasingly becoming Untenable.
31. 26.06.2015 The Hindu Circulation ABC FraudGate – Naming and Shaming
27 In A Public Trial and Dressing Down of sorts, Naming and Shaming Criminal Fraudsters, and Collaborators Responsible for Criminalization of The Hindu Group for the last 12 years, Since 2004, Embarrassing Members of The Hindu KSL Board for Untenable Impropriety and Inaction, Scaling Up the Pitch of A No Holds barred Crusade of A Campaign, A Copy of An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Bomb of An E-mail to 21 Directors of The Hindu KSL was copied to 2237 Employees of The Hindu on their official E-mail Id, Where ratcheting up things further, A copy of the Embarrassing Public Dressing Down E-mail was mailed to 203 Personal E-mail IDs on Gmail and Yahoo Address spread across the country, All just to ensure that THE TRUTH is Exposed and Corruption, Criminalisation and Concupiscence is ROOTED OUT of The Hindu – Once for All, With ZERO TOLERANCE.
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Pet.No. Whistleblower
Petition Dt. Subject of Letter / Book
No of Pages
Remarks
32. 16.09.2015 12 Year Corporate Fraud in The Hindu – Time for The
Untenable CEO, The CHAIRMAN and The CO-
CHAIRMAN of The Hindu KSL “To Step Down” –
Directors Under Damning Public and Prosecution
Scrutiny.
31 Putting The Hindu Board to Extreme Embarrassment,
Demanded that the Untenable CEO, The Chairman and
The Co-Chairman of The Hindu KSL Must Immediately
Step Down for Untenable Impropriety, Where A Copy of
An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition E-mail to
21 Directors of The Hindu KSL was simultaneously
copied to 2237 Employees of The Hindu KSL on their
official E-mail ID’s, Where Besides, A copy of the E-
mail was mailed to 257 Personal E-mail ID’s on G-mail
and Yahoo Address spread across the country.
33. 31.12.2015 A Snowballing Crisis - The Writing on The Wall as The
12 Year Hindu Scam Sandal Racket GOES PUBLIC in
2016.
19 An Ultimatum of An Open Letter Whistleblower Petition
Note to 15 Directors of The Hindu KSL Board, Warning
of the Impending Ominous Collateral Damage
Consequences of The 12 Year Hindu Scam GOING
PUBLIC.
34. 24.02.2016 DISGRACEFUL-The Hindu is Committing
INSTITUTIONAL SUICIDE.
59 LAST CALL Open Letter Whistleblower Petition Note to
15 Board Members of The Hindu’s Governing Council
to ACT in DAMAGE CONTROL to avoid
INSTITUTIONAL SUICIDE.
35. 23.04.2016 Satyam Fraud in The Hindu – GOING PUBLIC, Call
For “A TRUTH COMMISSION PROBE”
44 GOING PUBLIC, An Aggrieved Victimized
Whistleblower Employee’s Open Letter to 15 Board
Members of The Hindu’s Governing Council, Posted on
Social Networking Sites.
36. 11.05.2016 The Writing on the Wall – Disaster, Waiting to Happen 12 An “EPILOGUE” of An Open Letter Note to 15 Board
Members of The Hindu’s Governing Council.
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ABC FRAUD IN THE HINDU – SINCE 2004 A SATYAM FRAUD IN THE HINDU
23.04.2016
WHISTLEBLOWER PETITION NO. 35
GOING PUBLIC, An Internal Whistleblower Employee’s “ GAME
CHANGER ” Of “AN OPEN LETTER” Note to 15 Board Members of The
Hindu’s Governing Council, Posted on Social Networking Sites on Twitter and
Facebook, Seeking Answers and Accountability on Why No Action was Taken For
10 Years On 34 Whistleblower Petitions Sent To The Hindu Board Members,
Exposing Woeful Wrongdoings in The Hindu, Involving “ Willful Fraud” And
Gross Abuse of Power.
Dear Director Of The Hindu KSL ,
A Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy Outraged Cry of A Victimized Whistleblower Employee for
REDEMPTION, TRUTH and JUSTICE To Prevail.
After becoming A Victim of Outrageous Injustice (Amounting to Murder of
Justice) in A Diabolic Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy of ABC FRAUD in The
Hindu in 2005, I The Aggrieved Whistleblower Employee of The Hindu,
A Veteran of 25 Lifetime Years of Service to Institution, Sent As Many As
34 Whistleblower Petitions to Board Members of The Hindu’s Governing Council
(Which for Posterity and Prosecution Probe is Chronologically Listed in The Excel
Sheet Sent along with) Seeking A Full Scale, All Encompassing, Independent “Third
Party” Investigation Probe into “The 12 Year ABC FRAUD Criminal Conspiracy in
The Hindu Since 2004”, When it all Began.
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Fundamental Question is, Why was No Action taken by The Hindu’s Governing
Board For Full 10 Years to get to The Bottom of The Truth, The Rot, The Fraud Scam
and The Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy, Involving
A Deadly Concoction of Sex, Sleaze, Scam, Skullduggery And A Syndicate.
Why is The Hindu Board Scared to get to the Bottom of The FRAUD bordering
on The Murky and The Mysterious ?
Untenable Inaction and Silence for 10 years Raises the Natural Suspicion and
Conclusion that FRAUD Has been INSTITUTIONALIZED in The Hindu, Where
Board Members of The Hindu’s Governing Council Are All, Without Exception,
Complicit in Collusion in “A COVER UP” of “THE SATYAM FRAUD IN THE
HINDU”.
While Silence amounts to Admissal of Guilt, A Stonewall of Silence for
10 Years Suggests FEAR of Complicit Involvement Of The Hindu Board Members
being involved in THE CORPORATE FRAUD.
Question is, In Woeful Wrongdoings of the SERIOUS FRAUD order, Is The
Hindu And The Hindu Board Members ABOVE ACCOUNTABILITY and ABOVE
THE LAW of The Land ?
A Clarion Call to Civil Society, Constitutional Authorities and Court of Law
Does Privileged Constitutional Powers of FREEDOM OF PRESS and RIGHT
TO SELF REGULATION give The Hindu Leadership The Sovereign Right to Misuse
and Abuse Constitutional Powers and Privileges towards Criminal and Corrupt Ends ?
Does Privileged Constitutional Powers Given to The Press, Give
The Hindu Leadership The Sovereign Right to become Extra Constitutional
Authorities, To Commit LICENCED FRAUD and Orchestrate EXTRA JUDICIAL
KILLINGS of Citizens they Perceive as a threat to their CRIMINAL SYNDICATE ?
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Does Privileged Constitutional Powers of FREEDOM OF PRESS and RIGHT
TO SELF REGULATION give The Hindu Leadership The Constitutional Right to be
“Their Own Judge in their Woeful Wrongdoings Within The Hindu”, Since 2004 ?
MEDIA Turned MAFIA in Something Serious, Which Undermines and Subverts
The Constitution, And FAITH of Citizens, Which Calls for PUBLIC DEBATE in Civil
Society, By Citizens, Constitutional Authorities and Courts of Law of The Country, As
This, In A Summary Encapsulates This 12 Year Diabolical Multi Dimensional Criminal
Conspiracy in The Hindu Since 2004, Where in A Travesty “A Watchdog has Turned
Woeful Wrongdoer”, Misusing and Abusing Privileged Constitutional Powers towards
Criminal and Corrupt Ends, For Which The Wrongdoers Must Be Brought to
ACCOUNTABILITY, As Fundamental Question is, Where does A Law Abiding
Citizen go for Justice if Law Makers themselves become Law Breakers, Protectors
Turned Perpetrators and Predators, Watchdogs Turn Wrongdoers.
Fundamentally Where Are We Heading for As A Civilization, As Mankind,
When Symbols of TRUST Turn TRAITORS ?
This is A Shocking Story and Case Study for Civil Society To Draw Serious
Lessons From.
THE BACK STORY – THE BACKGROUND OF A MURKY CASE
N.Murali – “The B RamalingaRajuOf The Hindu’s 12 Year Satyam Fraud”.
THE GROUND ZERO - At THE CRITICAL “CROSSROADS MOMENT OF The
Hindu” And History, Its Time You Guys In The Hindu’s Governing Council
Understand The Fundamental Truth That , This Is A FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER
Produced, Procreated, Protected, Perpetuated And Promoted Since January 2004,
Fundamentally Centered Around FAKE CIRCULATION And FAKING THE
STATUTORY ABC AUDIT PROCESS And STATUTORY DOCUMENTS, Where
While Late Vice President (Cir) Mr. M.R. Sivakumar was The Kingpin, The Hindu’s
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Then Managing Director Mr. N. Murali was The Mastermind, In A Sad Case of
A Regulator turned Complicit Collaborator, In A Multi Dimensional Criminal Fraud
Conspiracy Of “A SATYAM FRAUD In THE HINDU” .
What Was Most Sad And Unfortunate Is That, The Present Managing Director & CEO
Mr Professional Rajiv C Lochan , Who Could Have Become The Transformational
Change Which The Company Wishes To See , Given His QUESTIONABLE
PRACTICES of The Last 22 Months When His Practices Were Under Close and
Continous Scrutiny ,Was A Terrible Let Down ,Where Facts Indicate He Has Wilfully
Chosen To TOE The N Murali Criminal Line By Going In For A COVER UP Instead
Of Going In For A CLEAN UP , Which Explains In Context Why The 12 Year
CORRUPTION ROT In Criminal Circulation Department Of The Hindu Continues
UNOBSTRUCTED With NO ONE WHOSOEVER Brought To ACCOUNTABILITY
Though It Is Almost 2 Years Past Since He Mr Rajiv C Lochan Took Charge ,
Suggesting That FRAUD Has Been INSTITUTIONALISED In The Hindu Of The 21st
Century .
THE PLOT
“THE GROUND ZERO” of The Whole Criminal Conspiracy – Questions that
Demand Answers And Accountability.
Are You Guys in The Hindu’s Board Aware That In A Larger Criminal
Conspiracy, Today The Hindu – English Edition Is Sitting Over 20%
UNDISTRIBUTED COPIES In Chennai City Alone, Where In An Obnoxiously
Scandalous Scam, UNOPENED BUNDLES , Without Even The Plastic Wrapping
Being Opened , Are “ Fresh From The Oven ” Straightaway Diverted – Rather
“Carted” To The RADHI Wholesale Market - For Recycling Newsprint - To The
Neighborhood WHOLESALE WASTEPAPER MERCHANT, Mind You At 6.00AM
In The Morning, (When Logically And Legitimately It Has To Be sent To The
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READER For READERSHIP PURPOSE And Not THE RADHI MARKET For
RADHI PURPOSE), Which Is To Say In As Many Words , That THE HINDU
GROUP Is CHEATING READER, READERSHIP, REVENUE GENERATING
ADVERTISERS And REGULATORY BODIES with RADHI MEANS And
METHODS, And A ROTTEN LEADERSHIP, Where The Hindu’s Net Paid
Circulation, (Wrongfully Got Certified By ABC Using Unethical And Unlawful
Means And Methods, By Hook Or By Crook), Is INFLATED And FAKED By A
MINDBOGGLING 50000 Copies In CHENNAI CITY ALONE, Which Explains
In Context, The Raging DISENCHANTMENT Among CHENNAI CITY
AGENTS Today In The Hindu’s Bastion Market, Where SHOCKINGLY No
One In The Industry in Chennai Today Wants To Be Associated With The Hindu
News Agency Business, Which Also Explains In Context THE HUGE
DEBILITATING CIRCULATION OUTSTANDING Running To CRORES
Which News Agents are Refusing To Pay, Attributing It To KILLING
UNSOLDS, Where Today Even THE RADHI SCAM of The Hindu Has Become
Unviable, With Decrease In Paper Gauge, Weight And Radhi Rate To Rs.9/Per
Kg, Where The Entire HOUSE OF CARDS is Threatening To Come CRASHING
DOWN Under The Weight Of A PILE UP of THE HINDU “RADHI SCAM” Of
12 Years, From January 2004, In A DOMINO EFFECT Of Sorts, Where Sad
Truth Is That, “THE FAKE GROWTH” COOKED UP During The Last 12
Years, Is All HOT AIR And GAS.
Imagine THE COMPANY Spending CRORES To Promote And Perpetuate
FAKE CIRCULATION.
My Dear Learned?? Directors, This Explains In Context The MASSIVE
AND EXTENSIVE FAKING, FUDGING, FALSIFYING, FORGERY,
CHEATING, COUNTERFEITING, COOKING UP THE BOOKS,
DOCUMENTS And CIRCULATION NUMBERS, You Name It, Where
SYSTEMICALLY, Whether The Hindu Sales Force Know Or Do Their Sales Job,
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They Are SYSTEMATICALLY Trained, “INDOCTRINATED” To Be adroit In
ILLEGALLY COUNTERFEITING and FAKING Signatures Of News Agents,
Who Simply Refused To Sign The Statutory ABC Documents, Unless Full Credit
Is Given For All The KILLING UNSOLDS Suffered Due To WHOLESALE
WANTON DUMPING OF COPIES To PROP UP The Company’s CERTIFIED
CIRCULATION To PRE-TARGETTED LEVELS , The FAKE And FAKING
Way.
Needless To Say Everyone From Rogue Regional General Managers like
N. Krishnan and co To Regional Sales And Operation Staff Are All In A Chain,
HAND IN GLOVE In PULLING THE WOOL OVER YOUR EYES, Deceiving You
By Projecting FAKE GROWTH IN SALES, And Far Worse Getting It
FRAUDULENTLY CERTIFIED By ABC AUDITORS By FAKING STATUTORY
DOCUMENTS (Where, Since January 2004 ABC Statutorily Demands 100%
Execution of Statutory Documents to Certify the Claimed Circulation) AND NEWS
AGENTS SIGNATURES – EN MASSE, In A FORGERY CRIME , One Of Its Kind In
Corporate History, In Which FRAUDSTER Associate Vice President R.Varadamani
And His FIXER Assistant Henchman Mr.K.S.Raghavan Play A Critical Collaborative
Role In What Can Only Be Best Described As THE SATYAM FRAUD SCAM OF
THE HINDU, Where Once This Criminal Conspiracy SCAM Case Gets Exposed –
GOD FORBID – This Will Become NATIONAL SHAME, Where A Whole Lot Of
People Including The Mastermind N Murali Will Have To Go To JAIL Like B
Ramalinga Raju and Company, Once There Is A Forensic Criminal Investigation By
CBI Or CB-CID, Where The Hindu , Which Should Be Making News, Will Become
The News.
The Hindu CIRCULATION MAFIA’S Dictum Seems To Be That , If You
Cannot Make It , Then Simply FAKE IT , Least Bothered That Their MERCENARY
MISDEEDS Could Ominously Lead To INSTITUTIONAL SUICIDE Of The 137 Year
Old Hindu Group .
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INDIA’S BIGGEST FRAUD OPERATION “AN ORGANISED CRIME” RACKET
It Would Be Shocking To Know That As Much As 60 To 70 % Of
The Statutory ABC Documents Submitted By THE HINDU As An
INSTITUTION, During the Biannual STATUTORY ABC AUDIT Is FAKE,
Where In A FRAUD And FORGERY One Of Its Kind In Corporate History, 60
To 70 % Of News Agents Signatures In Statutory ABC Documents Demanded By
ABC To CERTIFY CLAIMED CIRCULATION Are “Officially”
COUNTERFEITED Within Our Regional Offices, At The Express Behest Of THE
SUSPECT LEADERSHIP In Corporate Office of The Hindu, WHERE Using
INTIMIDATORY TACTICS, Branch Offices Are COERCED To Achieve 100%
Documentation, Overnight, Over The Night, By Hook or by Crook, Whatever It
Takes, Stooping To Whatever Levels, At Whatever Cost, THE QUICKFIX WAY,
Where Rogue Associate Vice President Of The Hindu Mr. R.Varadamani And His
Hoodlum Henchman K.S.Raghavan, SYSTEMATICALLY And
SYSTEMICALLY, INDOCTRINATE And INTIMIDATE Branch Staff For
QUICKFIX 100% RESULTS, When They Are Just Not Able To Get The
Signatures From The News Agents, Due To “A LARGER MALAISE” Of
WHOLESALE DUMPING Of Unwanted Copies For Which Aggrieved News
Agents Demanded CREDIT And REBATE On UNSOLD SUFFERED, Where
With Aggrieved News Agents Refusing To Sign The Statutory Document, Caught
Literally Between “The Devil And The Deep Blue Seas”, It Has Driven
THE ENTIRE SALES FORCE Of The Circulation Department Of The Hindu, To
THEMSELVES Illegally COUNTERFEITING News Agents Signatures, Right
Under The Supervision Of Regional Managers And Corporate Managers Of The
Hindu In What Can Only Be Defined As “LICENSED FRAUD”. Committing
FORGERY And COUNTERFEITING In Mass Numbers – En Masse For 12
Years, Since 2004, Which Have Made The Hindu Sales Force MASTER
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FORGERERS And COUNTERFEITERS, Where Today If the Situation
Demands, They Can Even Counterfeit The Hindu Directors Signatures.
How Gargantuan Is This “ORGANISED CRIME And FRAUD” Of
A SYNDICATE of The Hindu Can best be Judged From The Fact That , In
Branch Offices Sales Force Are OFFICIALLY Provided With A Set Of Pens In
Various Colours To Make A Perfect FAKING Job, Down To Even News Agents
Rubber Stamp Seals Being DUPLICATED, “MANUFACTURED”, FAKED In
The Branch Offices, All Done Without The Knowledge Of The News Agent And
ABC Authorities In Mumbai , Which If And When Gets EXPOSED , Can Mean “
The Game Is Up ” And An FIR Complaint And Criminal Proceedings Against The
Hindu And The Forgerers, In What Is A Non Bailable Criminal Case Of FRAUD
– CORPORATE FRAUD.
Just Imagine For A Moment What Would Be The Catastrophic
Consequences If Our Competitors Come To Know About This HINDU SCAM
RACKET Where The Self Proclaimed RIGHTEOUS Hindu Group Is Involved In
RACKETEERING. It Would Be Disaster And Curtains For The Hindu Group .
Welcome To India’s Biggest Faking And Fraud Operation, Where FRAUD
Has Been INSTITUTIONALISED In The Hindu.
A SYSTEMIC FAILURE AND FRAUD
A Forensic Criminal Investigation By CBI or CB-CID , With Technical
Forensic Support Of Forensic Experts From The Department Of Forensic
Sciences, Will Expose, The Trail And The Sheer Magnitude Of FRAUD IN THE
HINDU, Involving Huge Logistics, Of CRIME, CRIMINALITY, CHEATING,
COUNTERFEITING, CORRUPT PRACTICES, COOKING UP The Books,
Statutory Documents And Circulation Numbers in “THE SATYAM FRAUD OF
THE HINDU” Since 2004, Who Is The Mastermind, Who Are All The State And
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Non State Actors Who Are Involved Behind This Huge, Well Coordinated And
Collaborated “ORGANIZED CRIME” Racket Operation Involving
MINDBOGGLING LOGISTICS Behind This Frankenstein Monster Of
A MASSIVE FRAUD In India’s Most Respected And Reputed Newspaper Group,
A Living Symbol Of TRUTH And TRUST, Who In A FRAUD By Itself MISUSED
PRIVILEGED CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS of FREEDOM OF PRESS and
RIGHT TO SELF REGULTION Towards CRIMINAL ENDS, And FAR
WORSE, Used- Rather Misused- A Temple Of Values As A PRETEXT To Protect
and Perpetuate Criminal Improprieties, Illegalities And Immoralities, All Done
Within The Sanctum Sanctorum Of The Hindu Office.
To get to the Bottom of FACTS and The FRAUD, In this Inquest
Investigation All Clinical and Circumstantial Evidence must be taken into
Account, Where Even Retired and Resigned Staff of The Hindu Circulation
Department Post January 2004 may be asked and allowed to depose to A Sworn
Testimony as Prosecution Witness before “THE TRUTH COMMISSION
PROBE”.
I Call And Consider The Hindu’s CORPORATE FRAUD As The Biggest
Fraud In Post Independence India, Simply Because, Here Is A Case Where What Is
Looked Up To By Civil Society and Corporate India As A Living Symbol Of Human
and Corporate Values, Blinded By MAMMON, Where MEANS, METHODS Or
MORALS Don’t Seem To Matter AT ALL, Have UNBECOMINGLY Succumbed To
Temptations, Where Instead Of Being A ROLE MODEL In Keeping With ICONIC
INSTITUTIONAL LEGACY VALUES Of 125 Years Till 2003 , Has “In The Sly”
Joined THE ROGUE MODEL Bandwagon, Betraying TRUST Of Civil Society Who
Look Up To Them As THE SYMBOL And SENTINEL Of Civil Society, Betraying
FAITH Of A Vulnerable Younger Generation Who Looked Up To The Hindu As A
Beacon Of Hope In An Increasingly CORRUPT SOCIETY, Who Are Desperately
Looking For MENTORS , Only To See The Hindu Turn Into A MONSTER . Has
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Anyone Introspected On What sort Of A Message And Legacy The Criminal
Leadership In The Hindu Was Sending To The Younger Generation and Subordinate
Employees Of The Hindu ? What is the Kind of Legacy being left behind for The Next
Generation, Where Citizen Employees are being Trained and Turned to Be
COUNTERFEITERS, FORGERERS, CRIMINAL FRAUDSTERS in the ABC
FRAUD ?
It Would Not Be Out Of Place To Mention That I Murali Krishnan,
A Veteran Employee of 25+ Years, Had in Good FAITH Conscientiously Turned
INTERNAL WHISTLEBLOWER To Report These Woeful Wrongdoings At
The Hindu’s Governing Council Level IN WRITING Full 10 Years Back In 2006 With
A Tell All 357 Page First Hand Witness Whistleblower Account tome like Volume of
Institution Impacting Revelations on the Woeful Wrongdoings Within The System in
The Hindu, Which was followed by As Many as 34 Reminder Whistleblower Petitions
to All Board Members of The Hindu’s Governing Council during the Last 10 Years,
About This MONSTROUS FRANKENSTEIN OF A MONSTER But Sadly Board
Members Turned A Stone Deaf Ears, Turned A Blind Eye To This TERMINAL
CANCER For 10 Years, On Something Which Demanded URGENT SURGICAL
INTERVENTION, To Save The afflicted Patient Which The Hindu Was, Which
Unaddressed For An Untenable 10 Years Has Today Come Back To Destroy Its
CREATOR Managing Director N.Murali, And THE COMPANY - THE HINDU
Which Fostered the Terminal Cancer For 10 Years , Which Could Take The Hindu As
An Institution To The HOSPICE .
SHOCKING As It May Seem, I As Regional Head Of A Major Printing Unit At
Kochi Was SUMMARILY SACKED By THE ROGUE MANAGING DIRECTOR Of
The Hindu Mr. N. Murali On 21st August 2005 For The Crime Of Being
CONSCIENTIOUS And Choosing To Be True To MY CONSCIENCE And True To
The LEGACY VALUES Of The Hindu Group Of The 20th Century, For REFUSING
To Toe THE CRIMINAL LINE, For Refusing To Be Part Of The Hindu’s FAKING
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OPERATION, Where I Found FAKING, FUDGING And FORGERY Abhorrent,
Simply Because It was Against My Core VALUES As A Human Being.
I Want To Ask Civil Society And A Court Of Law, If Being Law Abiding Is A
Crime. If Yes, Then I Am Prepared To Go To The Gallows.
This was Simply MURDER OF JUSTICE.
This was A Clear Case of “WRONGFUL DISMISSAL” Where After
A Lifetime 25+Years of Well Acknowledged and Rewarded Outstanding Service
to Institution, I was SUMMARILY given The Capital Punishment on 21st August
2005, Arbitrarily Sacking me, Without Even A Case, Without A Crime, Without A
Charge Sheet, Without A Credible Trial Process, Without A Right or Opportunity
to Defend Myself, Without the Right to be Heard, Where What was Shocking,
The Supreme Court of The Hindu Stonewalled My 34 Whistleblower APPEAL
PETITIONS made to The Hindu Board JUST REFUSING TO HEAR MY
APPEAL PETITION , Raising More Questions Than Answers.
In A Travesty of TRUTH and JUSTICE, This was A One Sided Judgment,
Where An Innocent was being Hanged, Even before He was Heard, Or Tried.
Legally Speaking, It would be Shocking to know that During the Last
10 Years I the Aggrieved Appellant Victim and Whistleblower Complainant
HAVE NOT BEEN HEARD EVEN ONCE Despite As many As 34 Written
Appeal Petitions made in The Supreme Court of The Hindu.
Where Law of Natural Justice States that Even A Guilty is considered Innocent,
Unless and Until Proven Guilty, For The Rogue Justice System in
The Hindu they consider An Innocent as Guilty Unless and Until Proven Innocent by
The Criminals.
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WHATEVER Transpired And CONSPIRED Behind My SUMMARY
SACKING Where I Was “WRONGFULLY DISMISSED” EXECUTION STYLE In
Gross Contravention Of All CONVENTIONS Of CIVIL or CORPORATE
BEHAVIOR And In Criminal Violation Of All My Fundamental Human, Legal And
Labour Rights By The Hindu and The Suspect Hindu Board is INHUMAN,
UNCIVILIZED MISTREATMENT.
Fundamentally From The Beginning Of MANKIND, HUMAN
RELATIONSHIP, Including Employer / Employee Relationship Is Built Around
TRUST.
It Is That Solemn TRUST That The Rogue Managing Director Of The Hindu Mr.
N.Murali and The Hindu Board By Itself, TREACHEROUSLY BETRAYED, While I
Was In My Line Of DUTY To INSTITUTION.
Its Sad To Note That MENTOR LEADERS Of The Hindu Of 20th Century, Who
Should Have Provided MENTOR LEADERSHIP To A Vulnerable NEW
GENERATION Of The Hindu, Have Blinded By MAMMON, Turned MONSTERS,
Where Today TRUTH – An Inconvenient Truth – Is that The Hindu As An Institution
Is Left HIGH AND DRY, ORPHANED With No One WHOSOEVER To Provide
VALUE BASED LEADERSHIP To This 137 Year Old HINDU GROUP, Leading To
The Present COLLATERAL DAMAGE DISASTER.
The Situation Calls For DEEP INTROSPECTION And SOUL SEARCHING At
The Crossroads Moment Of The Hindu.
Ladies And Gentlemen, Welcome To The Hindu IPL “CIRCULATION
LAUNDERING”FIXERS T20 League SCAM RACKET Which Has All The Makings
Of BCCI’s IPL, Where Fixing, Womanising, Pimping, Prostitution and Perpetrating
Gross Violation of Human Rights Are The Natural Corollary Of INSTANT CRICKET
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And QUICKFIX “REALITY SHOW” RESULTS, Where MEANS AND METHODS
And MORALS Don’t Seem to Matter AT ALL in The Hindu of The 21st Century.
ALL That Matters Is MAMMON, MACHIAVELLIAN And MACHINATION.
What I Have Quoted above About Chennai City FAKE And FAKING
OPERATION, Is Just “The Proverbial Tip Of The Iceberg”, Today Rampant Across
The Hindu Which Has Insidiously Spread To Epidemic And Pandemic Proportions
Across the Country Like Plague In The Hindu, Where ABC FRAUDSTERS Associate
Vice President R.Varadamani And His FIXER Assistant K.S.Raghavan Coordinate
THE ENTIRE ABC FRAUD OPERATION.
Hence One Can Visualise What A Dangerous, Suicidal Path
“INSTITUTIONALLY” We HAVE CHOSEN TO TAKE, All To FAKE
CIRCULATION The QUICKFIX WAY, Little Realising We Are Heading Towards
HUBRIS and INSTITUTIONAL SUICIDE.
It Is Not Without Reason That Mr.N.Murali Is So Intimately Close To Roguester
R.Varadamani, Who In “A FARCE” Was On 5th November 2015 ,
In What Was Clearly A QUID PRO QUO For Toeing The Fraudulent Line for 12
Years, Honoured With A LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD For
A LIFETIME OF CORPORATE FRAUD, Ironically And Notably, Honoured By The
New Age CEO Mr.Rajiv C Lochan, Who In Effect Was LICENSING And
LEGITIMIZING “THE ILLEGAL”, Where in November 2015 We Had A Soap Opera
Farce, One Of Its Kind, ON STAGE in Front Of Over A 100 Delegates In An All India
Sales Conference Of The Hindu, When We Had THE TOP LEADERSHIP Of The
Hindu , Including The so called Professional CEO Mr Rajiv C Lochan , Literally
Competing To Fall At The Feet Of “THE BHEESHMA PITAMAH” Of
CORPORATE FRAUD in The Hindu, To Touch His UNHOLY FEET, To SEEK HIS
BLESSINGS.
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To Think that There Is Now A Proposal Before The Hindu Board to take
The Rogue Fraudster R. Varadamani As “A Consultant” (For Corporate Fraud) From
1st June 2016, To Obviously Protect and Perpetuate The 12 Year Corporate Fraud.
O LORD What’s Happening In The Hindu????????
Rather than going in for “A CLEAN UP” it appears The Hindu’s Governing
Council to its Poor Wisdom have Chosen to go for “A COVER UP”, Denying
The Undeniable And The Indefensible.
Today After 12 Years Of Unobstructed FAKE CIRCULATION And FAKING
Of THE ABC AUDIT PROCESS And Statutory Documents,
THE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER, The Brainchild Of The Hindu’s Regulator Turned
Collaborator, Managing Director N.Murali, Is Coming Back To Destroy Its Creator,
And The Company Which Is Today Drowned In A DOUBLE WHAMMY, Of
DEBILITATING LOSSES And GROWTH HARD TO COME BY.
Why Did Such “ A Domino Effect “ Happen ?
Honestly, When Was It We Last Spoke About Marketing Strategies, Market
Share, Market Competition, Market Dynamics Etc Etc, When We Had Healthy BRAIN
STORM SESSIONS In Board Room And Department Conference Rooms.
For The Last 12 Years, There Has Been Practically No GENUINE
PROMOTION WORK In The Hindu, Which Was The CORE FUNDAMENTAL Of
The Huge MONOPOLY BASE The Hindu Group Had, Till 2003 –
The 125th
Anniversary Year Of The Hindu Group .
After That , INSTITUTIONALLY Blinded By THE MONOPOLY POWER We
Enjoyed Till The Turn Of The Century , We Seem To Have COMPLETELY LOST
OUR Bearings , Our Sense Of Balance And Direction , Where Instead Of Working
Hard Towards CONSOLIDATION , Taking Our MONOPOLY POWER For Granted,
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Our ROTTEN ROGUE LEADERSHIP Hijacking The 125 Year Iconic Institution
Took To SUICIDAL QUICKFIX Means And Methods , Where The Hindu Group Has
Ended Up, Losing The Plot And The Race, Towards INSTITUTIONAL SUICIDE .
Since 2004, Did Anyone Either In The Board Room Or Team Meetings Have
The Time For GENUINE PROMOTION WORK, To CONSOLIDATE On The Strong
“SUBSCRIPTION” BASE And FOUNDATION We Enjoyed For Over A Century,
Bogged Down As One And Everyone Was In Gross Individual Vested Interests,
Infighting, Improprieties, Illegalities And Immoralities, Where Nobody Whosoever
Right From The Managing Director Down To The Bottom Of The Pyramid of The
Hindu, Had The Time Nor Felt The Need To Think About As Basic An Issue, As Door
To Door SUBSCRIPTION PROMOTION , Service To Subscriber Etc Etc, Where
Nobody WHOSOEVER Cared A Damn “TO LOOK WITHIN” On Our Pathetic
FALLACIES And FAILURES And FALLING READER And READERSHIP BASE,
Which Was Our BIGGEST STRENGTH, Till 2003, After Which began THE
DOWNWARD SPIRAL.
During the Last 12 Years we have lost Heavy Ground Not Just in Circulation but
also in Readership, As was Self Confessed by The “Two Timing” Managing Director
Mr. N. Murali Who in An Emotional Outburst Interview to The Times of India Last
Year Certified that “The Times of India has Gained Ground in Chennai and Tamil
Nadu, While our Market Share has come down”.
With ABC Figures Showing A Decreasing Trend For The Hindu Group of
Publications, The Next Litmus Test For The Hindu Group will be When NRS Figures
are released Early Next Year.
It Could be A Shocker.
Where Was The Time For Anyone “To Look Within” For SELF ANALYSIS,
For SELF INTROSPECTION Over Our Misdeed Mistakes, Where No One Whosoever
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in The Hindu Leadership Cared to Acknowledge, Let Alone Address, Institution
Impacting Mistakes and Issues.
Honestly, When At All Have We INSTITUTIONALLY Done Honest STOCK
TAKING And SOUL SEARCHING ?
VINAASH KAALE VIPREETH BUDDHI
Fact Is That MONOPOLY POWER Went To The Swollen Heads Of Our Spoilt
Rotten Leadership, Where They Made THE FATAL MISTAKE Of Taking Things and
TRUST For Granted, Where They took Our Customers, Our News Agents, Our
Advertisers , Our Regulators For Granted.
Never Have I Ever Seen Any Of Our Self Righteous Headstrong Directors
Admitting Mistakes Made, Saying Sorry And Working Towards Correcting Their
Mistakes, Which Can Only Lead To HUBRIS.
Picture this against the Humble Leadership of The Founding Father Director of
Infosys Mr.N.R. Narayana Murthy Who was Not only A GOOD LEADER But
A GOOD LISTENER, Who Lead Infosys As An Institution BY SELF EXAMPLE,
Who When Confronted With TOUGH TIMES During A Difficult Decade from 2005 -
2014 Steadfastly Refused to Compromise on the CORE VALUES of Infosys. Today
Thanks to Mr. N.R. Narayana Murthy’s Wisdom LEADERSHIP Infosys is Enjoying
BOOM TIMES In A TURNAROUND OF SORTS.
I HAVE A DREAM , To Meet My ROLE MODEL And INSPIRATION FORCE
Mr N R Narayana Murthy , Some Day , Some Place , Before I Leave This World ,
Which To Me is Something Sacred And Very Special , Something akin to A Once In
A Lifetime Pilgrimage Visit To Kasi or Mecca or Rome For A Pilgrim Of WORK ,
WORK ETHICS And WISDOM THINKING, Simply Because
Mr. Narayana Murthy Was The Lighthouse And Guiding Force Behind The Person
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And Professional I Am Today In What Has Truly Been A FULFILLING
EXPERIENCE . It Is An Extraordinary Coincidence That I Started My Professional
Journey In The Hindu Fresh Out Of University in 1981 When The Journey Of N R
Narayana Murthy And His Brainchild Infosys Began In 1981.
LEADERSHIP Starts From THE TOP, Where A Team Or A Company Is As
Good As THE LEADER And LEADERSHIP, Where If Leaders Themselves Show The
Wrong Direction and Attitude, It Can Only Lead To COLLATERAL DOOM and
DISASTER, To End Up in THE DUSTBIN of History.
Fact Was, That POWER Went To The Swollen Heads Of Our LAW UNTO
THEMSELVES Leadership, Where WE Made THE FUNDAMENTAL MISTAKE Of
Taking OUR MONOPOLY And MIGHT For Granted .
HUBRIS Is What Lead To Our MIGHTY FALL And DOWNFALL, During One
Single DECADE OF DECADENCE.
Oxford Dictionary defines The Word DECADENCE as “Behavior,
Attitudes, etc. which show A Fall in Standards, Especially Moral Ones, And An
Interest in Pleasure and Enjoyment, Rather than more Serious Things”.
Its GAME OVER And ENDGAME For THE HINDU’S SATYAM FRAUD SCAM
The Popular Saying Is That “What Goes Around Comes Around”. Rogue
Managing Director Mr.N.Murali, (Who was A One Time Board Member of ABC’s
Governing Council in the Nineties), UNBECOMINGLY Succumbing To Temptations
He Should Never Have As Chief Executive of The Hindu, Is FULLY And SQUARELY
RESPONSIBLE For This TSUNAMI CATASTROPHE Involving UNBECOMING
GROSS MISCONDUCT For Which He Must Be Brought To ACCOUNTABILITY,
Because Whatever CONSPIRED Within The Hindu For12 Years Since 2004 Is NON
BAILABLE CRIMINAL And CULPABLE FRAUD , To Be Put BEHIND BARS –
IN JAIL .
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This Is“THE WATERGATE OF THE HINDU”.
SHOCKING As It May Seem, I, Murali Krishnan, The Uncompromising,
Upright Regional Manager Of A Thriving Kochi Printing Unit, Was “WRONGFULLY
DISMISSED” By The TWO TIMING Managing Director N.Murali, Simply Because,
I Refused “TO COOPERATE” In TOEING“HIS CRIMINAL LINE”, Where I Found
The Whole Thing OBNOXIOUS And OBJECTIONABLE, DISGUSTING And
DISGRACEFUL.
It Was A TRAVESTY And MURDER OF JUSTICE Where The Managing
Director Of The Hindu Involved In UNBECOMING And UNTENABLE
WRONGDOINGS, abominably MISUSED His CHIEF EXECUTIVE POWERS
Towards CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY And CORRUPT ENDS.
I Murali Krishnan As Regional Manager Of Kochi Printing Unit Was
A Outstanding Regional Head, The Result Of 8 Years Of UNCOMPROMISING
BACK BREAKING HONEST HARD WORK , Where I Slogged Night And Day For
15 Hours On An Average, Every Single Day, Without Sundays, Holidays, Without
Socialising For 8 Years, Forgetting and Forsaking Family, Friends For A Larger Noble
Cause Of Commitment, Where I Was More Aware Of My RESPONSIBILITIES than
my RIGHTS, Where There Was So Much To Achieve in An Aspiration Dream To
Deliver CUSTOMER DELIGHT, That 24 Hours Was Just Not Sufficient, Where I
Subsisted on 4 Hours Sleep A Day, Where I Was Not The Typical 9 To 5 Man , Where
I Started The Day At 3.00 AM Ending My Day At 10.00 PM Late In The Night And
Strived To LEAD By SELF EXAMPLE, Where I DREAMED And ASPIRED, Day In
Day Out, For A DREAM SYSTEM Where Every STAKEHOLDER Of The Hindu
Kochi, News Agents, Advertisers, etc, Down To We Ourselves In The Branch Beyond
Designations and Departments Are Happy And Contribute Individually And
Collectively, Towards INSTITUTIONAL EXCELLENCE with A Sense of SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY.
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In This Aspirational Endeavour I Was Inspired By My Greatest Inspiration and
Driving Force Mr. N.R.Narayana Murthy and His Brainchild INFOSYS, Where I
Dreamed Of The Hindu Group, One Day Becoming “A BELLWETHER OF MEDIA”
To Achieve GLOBAL STANDARDS Of “AN INSTITUTION OF EXCELLENCE”,
To Role Model Standards In BEST PRACTICES, Like INFOSYS.
I Was an Ordinary Human Being With Extraordinary DREAMS And
ASPIRATIONS “FOR MY COMPANY”, So That We Could Be Good ROLE
MODELS, For The World To Follow, For Vulnerable Future Generations To Take
THE RIGHT PATH, In A World Where We Are Seeing A Rapid DEGRADATION IN
HUMAN VALUES.
To Me As A Leader “THE FUTURE” Of MY INSTITUTION Is More
Important Than MY TODAY. This Is A Simple Thumb Rule Which Kept Me
GROUNDED 24 x 7 x 365 for 25 Years, Where At All Times I Constantly And
Continuously INTROSPECTED Over My Institutional Decisions and ASKED
MYSELF How My Decision Will Impact “The Future” Of My Institution, Where
I Was Patriotic To CAUSE, COMMITMENT, CONSCIENCE, CIRCULATION ,
CUSTOMER, COMPANY, CLIENTS And CIVIL SOCIETY At Large.
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY was My CSR.
With Such A (W)holistic Approach I Could Prove to be An OUTSTANDING
Regional Manager, Who Achieved A Rare Distinction Of UNPRECEDENTED
EXCELLENCE In GROWTH, COLLECTIONS And CASH SECURITY Levels,
Where I Won As Many As 17 All India Awards Of Excellence in 8 Years, Where I
DELIVERED Average 15% GROWTH In Circulation Every Year For 8 Years - Not
Through ARTIFICIAL, RADHI Sponsorship and Bulk Orders - But By Pushing Up
THE BASE CIRCULATION – THE SUBSCRIPTION BASE - of Our Group Of
Publications Through DOOR TO DOOR SUBSCRIPTION PROMOTION , Where
Besides, Achieved The UNPRECEDENTED DISTINCTION Of DELIVERING A
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MINDBOGGLING FEAT Of 100% CIRCULATION COLLECTIONS, With A
NEVER BEFORE Achievement Of “ZERO OUTSTANDING” In The Area Of
CIRCULATION COLLECTIONS For 6 Years, And Was Successful In Achieving
And Maintaining CASH SECURITY To Optimum Levels Of Providing 75 Days
Security Cover In Every News Agents Account, Even In The Face Of Rapid Increase In
Circulation Which We Were Generating, In A Market Where CIRCULATION
COLLECTIONS Was By Itself A Himalayan Task, Considering That Prior To My
Taking Over As Regional Head Of Kochi Region, CIRCULATION OUTSTANDING
In The Region Was A Mind Boggling 60% Of MONTHLY BILLING When My
Predecessor Was In Command, Which Almost Lead To Shut Down Of The Sick Unit.
RISING FROM THE ASHES - A TURNAROUND OF SORTS
This was A Classic Case Of Turning HUGE CHALLENGES To HUGE
OPPORTUNITIES, Making The Impossible Made Possible – The Ethical Way
WITH VALUES, Where, In A Blaze Of UNPRECEDENTED GROWTH And
GLORY, We Became A Subject Of CASE STUDY In Kerala Media.
In A Small Way We Became “THE BELLWETHER OF MEDIA”
In Kerala.
Against This PATH BREAKING, TRAIL BLAZING Track Record Background,
My Being SUMMARILY SACKED On 21st August 2005 At My Pinnacle of Success,
For Doing My Duty And Upholding The Law And INSTITUTIONAL LEGACY
VALUES As A Law Abiding Citizen Employee, DEFIES LOGIC OR
EXPLANATION, Where, Once This Shocking Case Goes To A COURT OF
LAW And Civil Society At Large , Can Mean CURTAINS For
The Hindu And The Hindu’s 12 Year SATYAM FRAUD, As the Case could Open A
Huge Pandora’s Box Where Ugly Dark and Dirty Skeletons come Tumbling Out Of
The Closet, Which could Stir “A Hornets Nest”.
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I Feel OUTRAGED And ENRAGED, As , What Did I Get For All My
SELFLESS “ROLE MODEL” SERVICE To THE HINDU For 25 Silver Jubilee
Years? A SUMMARY SACKING Order From “The Two Timing” N Murali –
The COMPROMISED Managing Director Of The Hindu , Who Everyone Knows Is
Leading A DOUBLE LIFE .
TIME FOR DENOUEMENT AND DAMAGE CONTROL
My Dear Board Members Of The Hindu’s Governing Council, Though
10 Years Late, Better Late Than Never, ACT NOW, Before It Becomes Too Late.
This Is My IMPASSIONED PLEA To Avoid INSTITUTIONAL SUICIDE.
If You Guys Have any semblance of Sense, Shame, Sensibility Or Self
Respect remaining In You, WISDOM Is To Quickly And Quietly Get Off Your
High Horses, Stop Living In Ivory Towers, Stop Clutching at Straws, Stop
Hoodwinking, Stop Hiding Behind Half Truth Lies and Legalities, Pray For
INSTITUTION SAKE Throw Your Individual Feudal Ego’s Into The Dustbin,
And Quickly And Quietly MOVE INTO DAMAGE CONTROL Like TERI’s
Governing Council did Recently In The R K Pachauri Case , ADMIT MISTAKES
MADE, And Work Towards CORRECTING THE MISTAKES AND
“RIGHTING THE WRONGS DONE”, Bring CLOSURE To This SHAMEFUL
SCANDALOUS 10 Year Old Skeleton Of A Case, Besides Working Towards A
COMPLETE CLEAN UP Of Criminal Circulation Department Of The Hindu
Group, To Prevent INSTITUTIONAL SUICIDE.
As An Aggrieved Complainant Whistleblower Of AMulti Dimensional
Criminal Conspiracy, My Fundamental Question To Board Members Of
The Hindu’s Governing Body Is,
1) Is It A Crime, Being ASPIRATIONAL FOR COMPANY In
The Hindu, Worthy Of Being SUMMARILY SACKED ?
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2) Is It A Crime To Turn INTERNAL WHISTLEBLOWER At
The Hindu Board Level, To Report Woeful Wrongdoings Within THE
SYSTEM in The Hindu, To The Levels Of The Managing Director Of The
Hindu Mr.N.Murali UNLAWFULLY Withholding A Lawfully Relieved
Employee’s FINAL SETTLEMENT, Which In A TRAVESTY, Remains
Unsettled Even Today, Full 10 Years After I was Relieved By The
Company?
3) Is It A Crime To Be Clean, Non Corrupt , Honest , Hard Working, Being
INSTITUTION DRIVEN, Not Playing To Individual Agenda’s, Working
With A Conscience with A Sense of Social Responsibility, Not Being
Involved In Sexual Harassment, Not Being A Pimp, Prostitute Or
A Womaniser In The Hindu ?
I Demand ANSWERS And ACCOUNTABILITY From The Hindu’s
Governing Council To These Three Straight And Simple UNANSWERED
QUESTIONS, Questions To Which You Have Failed To Give ANSWERS For An
UNTENABLE 10 Years, Despite As Many As 34 Whistleblower Appeal Petitions
Sent To The Hindu Board, Where In This RELENTLESS WHISTLEBLOWER
CRUSADE I Went One Step Further Than Internationally Renowned
Whistleblowers Julian Assange and Edward Snowden , In Exposing Woeful
Wrongdoings Within The System In The Hindu Since 2004, Where MEDIA
Turned MAFIA. This was An Epic Saga of A Relentless Crusade of An
INTERNAL WHISTLEBLOWER, Running Over An Epic 10 Years.
If I May Ask, Why Are You Guys So Scared To Face me or The Truth or
The Scam That You RAN AWAY From The INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE
For 10 Years ? Why are You LAW MAKERS Of The Hindu Behaving Like
COWARDS When You Need To Be (Wo)Men Of CHARACTER ? Why Are You
So Scared To Look Into THE MIRROR Which I Have Placed Before You, In
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Good Faith and Intention, Where You Need To Take A Hard Look in The
Mirror, Reflect and Decide Whether or Not You Are The Best Example Of What
You Would Like To reflect for those who call you their Leader .
IN DENIAL Of THE UNDENIABLE and THE INDEFENSIBLE, It Gives
The Obvious Suspicion And Conclusion That INSTITUTIONALLY, The Hindu
Has “A Rogue Governing Council” To Protect And Perpetuate The 12 Year
CORPORATE FRAUD In The Hindu. All I Can Say Is “Ceaser’s Wife Must Be
Above Suspicion”.
If You Guys dare Deny Or Defend What I Have Cried Hoarse For
10 Years over 34 Whistleblower Petitions, I Dare You To Call For An All
Encompassing Independent “Third Party” TRUTH COMMISSION Investigation
Probe Into The Whole FRAUD SCAM Racket In The Hindu Since 2004, And The
Mysterious And Murky Relationship Between The Then Rogue Managing
Director Of The Hindu N.Murali And The Multi Dimensional SCAM And SEX
Racket Criminal Conspiracy In Circulation Department Of The Hindu , Where
Mysteriously And Murkily , He Has Been FIERCELY Shielding And Sheltering,
Protecting, Perpetuating And Promoting The PREDATORS And The
PERPETRATORS, With PROMOTIONS And PAY OFFs (in What Appears To
Be “Pay Out” QUID PRO QUO Bribes so that they will not cause you trouble Or
To make them Keep A Secret Of A Privy Pandora’s Box) Right From 2004, When
They Should Have Been PUNISHED And PROSECUTED.
It Would Not Be Out Of Place To Mention That ROGUE LEADERS In
Circulation Department are Today Enjoying Perhaps THE HIGHEST
MONTHLY PAY PACKET In The Hindu Running in Lakhs Due To “THE
LARGESSE”, With Huge Annual Increments And Incentives Doled Out
Obviously AS BRIBES During The Last 12 Years Right From The Time
CORPORATE FRAUD Set Into Circulation Department of The Hindu In 2004 At
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A Point When READER BASED CIRCULATION And READERSHIP Saw
A Rapid DECREASING TREND While RADHI BASED CIRCULATION,
GROSS CORRUPT PRACTICES And CIRCULATION OUTSTANDING
Rapidly INCREASED, Raising Huge Questions WHY, HOW And On WHAT
Basis, Incompetents, Non Performers, Criminals , Corrupt And Concubines
Were REWARDED with LARGESSE.
An Employee Wise Enquiry Audit Probe Of Salaries, Promotions,
Increments DOLED OUT In Circulation Department – vis a vis Results Delivered
/ Not Delivered During The Last15 Years Since 2000, Will Revealingly Expose A
DISTINCT PATTERN. I Don’t Wish To Say Anything Further At This Stage,
Where The Key Question To Be Probed Into Is, Who Authorised The Pay Off/
Promotion , On What Tangible Grounds , Where There Is A Hot Trail Leading To
THE DOORSTEP Of The Two Timing MD Of The Hindu Mr N Murali , Leading
As He Is A Double Life.
Lavish Expenditure On LIQUOR (When The Company Is Struggling To
Survive) And 5 Star Entertainment Expenses On Conferences, Team Meetings,
Awards DOLED OUT In 5 Star Settings, In The Face Of Decreasing Reader And
Readership And Increasing Corrupt Practices, Also Needs To Be Audited And
Probed Into, As They All Form Part and Parcel Of QUID PRO QUO “ BRIBES”.
Also To Be Audit Probed Into Is Circulation T A Bills And Circulation
Imprest Expenses From 2000 Where “Murky” Expenses were Stealthily Pushed
Through (Bypassing set Audit Process and Procedures) Under
The Broad Head “ Entertainment Expenses” .
Also To Be Audit Probed Into From 2000, Is Supplementary Special Bills
Raised By Circulation Clients / Agencies Under “Murky and Questionable”
Extraordinary Expenses, Which were got Approved by CCM
“The Bypass Route” Directly by the M.D of The Company, Bypassing Accounts
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Department , Which Raises Huge Questions on PROFESSIONALISM,
TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY , QUID PRO QUO and VESTED
INTEREST AGENDAS .
This Is A HUGE PANDORA’S BOX Where The More You Dig Deep Into
THE ROT, More Dirt and Worms Will Come Out Of The Can Of Worms, Like
The Indrani and Peter Mukerjea Case, Where it would Raise Prosecution
Questions Even on “The Chairman N Ram’s Casting Vote of 21st October 2013
Under Dubious Circumstance”, Perjury Committed in getting
A Favorable CLB Judgment of December 2010 etc etc , All Pointing Towards
QUID PRO QUO , CONFLICT OF INTERESTS And VESTED INTEREST
AGENDAS , Even In And Across THE HINDU BOARD ROOM .
A COSY CLUB SYNDICATE – A MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETY IN
THE HINDU, LIKE BCCI
Why does such A BLOODY FARCE Happen in The Hindu ?
Simply because “THE SYSTEM” in The Hindu IS ONE BIG “COSY CLUB”.
Not Only Do We Have “A Cosy Club” Within THE CIRCULATION MAFIA, But we
also have “A Cosy Club” At The Hindu Board Level, Where The System Thrives “IN
QUID PRO QUO” Where CRIMINALS Thrive In Quid Pro Quo WITH
COLLABORATOR REGULATOR DIRECTORS, Where The Hindu Board Thrives In
Quid Pro Quo, Where MEN OF CHARACTER Who Dare To Question the
Questionable, Or Disturb The Status Quo, Are Simply ELIMINATED – EXECUTION
STYLE By THE MAFIA SYNDICATE.
I Murali Krishnan who Dared “To Question The Questionable” Was
A Victim of This Cosy Club Criminal Syndicate – A Mutual Benefit Society of The
Hindu.
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GAME OVER - NOWHERE TO RUN , NOWHERE TO HIDE
Today The Hindu and The Hindu’s Governing Council Is In Deep Trouble,
In Hot Waters, Where With “A Forensic Footprint Trail” of
34 Whistleblower Petitions Over The Last 10 Years (From A Victim of
abominable Abuse in A Case Involving Gross Human Rights Violations) It Will
Implicatingly Prove(With The Complainant willing To Turn Approver
Prosecution Witness To Stand Testimony In A Court Of Law) A Hot Trail
Leading To The Top Of The Hindu, Right Into THE BOARDROOM Of The
Hindu, Where, As A Much Aggrieved And Abused Appellant Victim I Will
PUBLICLY Seek A Supreme Court Monitored Independent Investigation Of The
Justice Mudgal Committee Order (Which Lead To The Undoing And Uncovering
Of The Woeful Wrongdoings Of BCCI And Its President N.Srinivasan) Into The
Woeful Wrongdoings In The Hindu During The Last 12 Years Since 2004 Where
“MEDIA TURNED MAFIA”, Where, As A Horrible Victim Of Abuse Of
Fundamental Rights of A Law Abiding Citizen, I Will Vociferously Urge
Constitutional Authorities, Court Of Law And Civil Society At Large, TO
RETHINK, On Giving Blanket Constitutional Powers Of Freedom Of Press and
Right To Self Regulation To Media, In The Changed Circumstances Where
“MEDIA Turned MAFIA”, Too Has Become CORRUPT And CRIMINAL In
Intent And Interests, To A New Low Today, Where Even The Hallowed Hindu
Group, Living Symbol Of TRUTH And TRUST, Too Has Joined The Criminal
Bandwagon, Become The Hotbed Of Crime And Corruption, Illegalities And
Immoralities, To A New Low Where They Are A Serious Threat To FAITH Of
Law Abiding Citizens And Civil Society At Large.
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AT THE END OF THE TETHERS
When Push Comes To Shove, Pushed To The Wall, A Day Is Not Far Off, When
A Die Hard Loyalist Of The Hindu Says ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, Throws LOYALTY
And RESTRAINT To The Winds , And Says “To Hell With The Bloody Hindu Group”
And Turns Approver Whistleblower And Prosecution Witness To Stand Testimony
Against The Woeful Wrongdoings In The Hindu Group since 2004,In A Court Of
Enquiry Or A Court Of Law, Where I Am DETERMINED To Take This 12 Year Multi
Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy Case To Its Logical Conclusion And Get
REDEMPTION JUSTICE, Where The Choice Before The Hindu’s Governing Council
At THE CROSSROADS MOMENT OF THE HINDU GROUP When it is Today
“Under Public and Prosecution Scrutiny”, Is, Between Going For AN OUT OF
COURT SETTLEMENT OR End Up Being INDICTED In A Court Of Law Where
The Hindu Will End Up Committing INSTITUTIONAL SUICIDE, With
INSTITUTIONAL CREDIBILITY Lost For Ever ,And Mr. N. Murali Meeting His
Waterloo Nemesis And Going To Jail .
This Is Not About READER , READERSHIP Or REVENUES But About
A ROTTEN LEADERSHIP At The Helm Of Affairs In The Hindu Since 2004 Who
Hijacked The Institution, Who In GREED To FAST TRACK NUMBERS The FAKE
And FRAUDULENT WAY, Have Tragically Lead THE HINDU GROUP On A
Suicidal Path of, Not Only Breaching LAKSMANREKHA’S , But Far Worse
BREAKING THE LAW , Where The Hindu Is Heading Towards INSTITUTIONAL
SUICIDE .
In What Is A Concerted Crusade Of A Campaign Of An Aggrieved Complainant
Employee DETERMINED To Get CLOSURE JUSTICE , In 2015, If One may Look
Back Carefully and Recall, I, Murali Krishnan An Aggrieved Complainant Employee,
A Veteran Employee Who Served The Institution With Distinction And Dedicated
Loyalty For A Lifetime 25+Years, In Perhaps An Unprecedented Development In
WHISTLEBLOWER Or CORPORATE HISTORY, SHAMED And SLAMMED The
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Dubious Hindu’s Governing Council IN PUBLIC “WITHIN THE HINDU ” When
I A Whistleblower Gave Untenable Hindu Board Members A PUBLIC DRESSING
DOWN, NAMING AND SHAMING Implicating Issues And Individuals IN PUBLIC
(When The Institution Impacting Issue Should Have Been Resolved Within The
Hindu’s Boardroom) By Taking My Battle To 2237 Employees Of The Hindu Group,
Through 2237 Individual E Mails, Ironically Sent Through The Server Of The Hindu,
Where Bang At Noon on16th
February 2015, A Monday, When Every Employee Of
The Hindu, Including Editorial Staff, Beginning A New Week, Were In The Beehive
Of Activity To Promote Business Of The Hindu Group , BANG Lands An
E BOMB on Their Computer Screen, (An Explosive 32 Page E Bomb With
Voluminous Incriminating And Embarrassing Attachments), Titled CORPORATE
FRAUD IN THE HINDU.
Just Imagine From An Employees Perspective in The Hindu, How It Would
Have Felt Like, A Bolt from the Blue, A Thunderbolt, To Receive An Email On
Corporate Fraud, Criminal And Concubine Values In A TEMPLE OF VALUES,
Which ROCKED and SHOCKED The Daylight Out Of One And Everyone,
In And Across The Hindu.
It Stunned Hindu Employees In And Across The Country And Even Abroad,
With My Cluster Bomb of An Email going To As Far Corners As Washington , London
, Singapore , Ontario Canada , Beijing Etc Etc, Which Destroyed THE CREDIBILITY
Of Criminal Circulation Department Of The Hindu And Damaged REPUTATION Of
The Hindu And Its Dubious Board Members (Who Are Today Under Employee
Scrutiny where They Are Keenly Watching What The Hindu’s Governing Council
Does To CLEAN UP The Rot) In The Eyes Of Their Own Employees, Where Furious
At Being Unlawfully DENIED JUSTICE (And My FINAL SETTLEMENT) For A
Shocking 10 Years in Gross Violations of A Citizen Employees FUNDAMENTAL
RIGHTS, I Was BOLD And BLUNT In Calling SPADE A SPADE, Where I Did Not
Mince Words Or Thoughts In SPEAKING MY MIND, As I Went HAMMER And
TONGS, All Guns Blazing, In SPEAKING OUT About AN INCONVENIENT
TRUTH Within The Hindu, As I TORE INTO The Untenable Hindu Board IN
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PUBLIC , On The Dark And Dirty Side Of “THE DARK UNDERBELLY OF THE
HINDU”, Which Left THE CRIMINAL WRONGDOERS And The Untenable
BOARD MEMBERS Of The Hindu STUNNED , SHELL SHOCKED And
SQUIRMING In Shock And Shame. It Was For The First Time In The Hindu’s 137
Year History That An Employee Was Taking On An UNTENABLE BOARD , Head
On , In Public .
GOING IN FOR THE KILL
My Dear Board Members Of The Hindu’s Governing Council, WHILE In 2015,
I Murali Krishnan, The Aggrieved Complainant Of 10 Years, Have Only
EMBARRASSED The Hindu’s Dubious Governing Council, In 2016, As A Part Of
My Relentless Crusade Campaign, Where I Realise That PUBLICITY And PUBLIC
OUTRAGE Is The Key To My Finally Getting CLOSURE JUSTICE In This 10 Year
Old Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy, I Intend EXPOSING The Hindu’s
Dubious Governing Council For Its DUPLICITY and DECEIT, By GOING PUBLIC
Today (23rd
April 2016, Saturday), To Social Networking Sites By Uploading This
Shocking Story On Twitter and Facebook, Taking My 10 Year Battle “OUTSIDE THE
HINDU”, Which could Potently and Potentially Lead to PILs And PUBLIC
PROSECUTION, Where I am DETERMINED To Take This Criminal Conspiracy
Case To Its Logical Conclusion, Come What May, HELL Or HIGH WATER.
It Was PUBLICITY And PUBLIC OUTRAGE On The Predator
R.K.Pachauri Sleaze Scandal, Where A PROTECTOR Turned PERPETRATOR,
Which Lead To TERI And Its Governing Council Being Lambasted And Lampooned In
Print And Social Media With The Issue Being Raised Even in Parliament, Where It
Made National And International Headlines, For The Wrong Reasons, Where they lost
their CREDIBILITY And REPUTATION, Not Just Outside The Institution, But Also
Within The Institution .
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THE MOMENT OF TRUTH
The Fundamental Question Which One and Everyone, Including
The Court of Law, Will be asking is, Why did the Mastermind N. Murali or For
that Matter The Hindu’s Governing Council Fail to Act in Damage Control in this
10 Year Whistleblower Case Exposing “The 12 Year Satyam Fraud in The
Hindu”?
The Answer is Straight and Simple, Which is Best Explained by Disgraced
B. Ramalinga Raju’s Now Famous “Infamous Quote” on
The Satyam Fraud. “Its like Riding A Tiger, Not Knowing How to Get Off,
Without being Eaten”.
This Infamous Quote of A Fraudster, Sums it All, Where The Hindu is
Today Caught in “A Quagmire Quicksand of A, N. Murali Made Mess” Where it
would be very difficult for The Hindu As An Institution to Explain or Extricate
itself Out of This “Man Made Mess”, An Intricate Intertwined “Web of A Mess”
Where there are Too Many Critical Elements involved, Which could precipitate A
Chain Reaction In “A House Of Cards”.
This Is “THE” Moment Of Truth For The 137 Year Old Hindu And
The Hindu’s Governing Council, A Choice Between Bringing CLOSURE To This
10 Year Ghost Skeleton Of A Case, Or Face CLOSURE Of The Hindu, Like “The
News of The World” in U.K. in 2011.
As An AGGRIEVED COMPLAINANT EMPLOYEE All I Can Say Is That
We Have An R.K.Pachauri In THE HINDU.
Today Mr. N. Murali’s Position is As Untenable As Disgraced
R.K. Pachauri in the TERI Case, Who has “Today been asked To Leave
The Organization” By An Embattled TERI’s Governing Council, After
Stonewalling An Inconvenient Truth For More Than A Year.
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In A WORST CASE SCENARIO, I Murali Krishnan A Veteran Insider
Witness Whistleblower Employee Who Is Also An Aggrieved Appellant
Complainant In This Case, Am Prepared To Turn APPROVER And Become
PROSECUTION WITNESS To Depose And Stand Testimony In A Court Of Law
on The Woeful Wrongdoings in The Hindu Since 2004, Which Can Only Lead To
INSTITUTIONAL SUICIDE Of The Hindu, Besides Sending Quite A Few Of The
Rogue Leaders Of The Hindu To Jail.
Enough Damage Has Already Been Done, Where , As Board Members Of
The Hindu’s Governing Council, Your Individual Credibility, Credentials And
Character Are In Serious Scrutiny Question Today.
In A Choice Between SAVING The 137 Year Hindu Group, And
The Hindu Committing INSTITUTIONAL SUICIDE, It Is Time For
The Hindu’s Governing Council To Immediately Convene An Urgent EGM Board
Meeting, Like TERI’s Governing Council Which Went Into FIREFIGHTING
DAMAGE CONTROL in The Face Of A SNOWBALLING CRISIS, And Besides
Asking Untenable N Murali To Leave, (The Man Is Touching His 70s) Ensure
that “Justice Is Not Just Done But Seen To Be Done” In This 10 Year Ghost
Skeleton Of A Case (Where An Innocent Victim on Death Row For A Traumatic
10 Years, Has Been Waiting , Waiting , For JUSTICE For 10 Years), To Prevent
A FIRESTORM Of PUBLIC OUTRAGE, After All It Is SHAMEFUL And
SHOCKING ABUSE OF POWER To Send An Innocent To The Gallows For
CAPITAL CRIMES Committed By Someone Else, In What can only be called A
FAKE ENCOUNTER KILLING of A Law Abiding, Citizen Employee of The
Hindu.
In this Context, Its Sad to note that Ms. Malini Parthasarthy, Where She
Vociferously Questions on The Israt Jahan Case As A Fake Encounter Killing on
her Twitter Page, She has been INHUMANLY INSENSITIVE to The Fake
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Encounter Killing of A Company Employee Murali Krishnan Perpetrated Within
Her Own House in The Hindu in 2005, With No Case,
No Crime, No Charge Sheet, No Credible Trial Process, In What can only be
termed “Murder in Broad Daylight”.
Ms. Malini Parthasarthy’s Tweets on the Israt Jahan Case reads:
1. How does it redeem Israt’s Murder in A Fake Encounter ?
2. The Rule of Law and Due Process must be followed when identifying a
person as a Terrorist.
3. But Core Point, Basic Justice was Denied – Presumed Innocent till Proven
Guilty – Remains Ignored.
While Vociferously Questioning the Killing of Suspect Terrorist Israt Jahan,
This very same Ms. Malini Parthasarathy has NEVER RAISED These Very
Questions in The Hindu Board Room during the Last 10 Years Despite
34 Appeal Petitions sent to her by A Victim of A Fake Encounter Killing in The
Hindu in 2005.
Fundamental Question is, Where did Ms. Malini Parthasarathy’s
Conviction of Conscience go in the Murali Krishnan Fake Encounter Killing Case
Perpetrated in The Hindu in 2005 ?
Isn’t this HYPOCRISY, DOUBLE SPEAK and Case of Having DOUBLE
STANDARDS, Where Rule of Law and Due Process was not
followed when Identifying Murali Krishnan as A Terrorist. Never did
Ms. Malini Parthasarathy Raise her voice of conscience in The Hindu Board
Room and take A Principled Stand For 10 Years, Where Basic Justice was Denied
– presumed Innocent Till Proven Guilty – Remains Ignored.
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Question to Ms.Malini Parthasarathy is, Isn’t this MURDER of
Murali Krishnan in Broad Daylight ?
Its Time For Ms.Malini Parthasarathy to Introspect and do some Soul
Searching Whether she has been Fair and Consistent, And Try to Correct her
Mistake At Least Now – Better Late than Never.
PUBLICITY SEEKING Chairman Mr. N. Ram Who Seems to be driven
more by Photo Ops rather than by Principles, Hypocritically Harps on Twitter
“Read Mukul Kesavan on the Sacking of Harsha Bhogle”, When the Man has Not
Cared to read Whistleblower Murali Krishnan’s 34 Whistleblower Petitions on
Arbitrary Sacking of Murali Krishnan, For 10 Years.
Its Sad that UTTERLY INSENSITIVE and INHUMAN Directors of The
Hindu Board , Are Behaving like “Page 3 Socialite Directors” Rather Than
“Serious and Socially Sensitive Directors”, Where Fundamentally there is No
Consistency WHATSOEVER between Their PREACHINGS and PRACTICES ,
With Some HYPOCRITES who Preach Communist Values But Practice CRONY
CAPITALISM , Protecting and Perpetuating CRONY CORRUPTION .
All I Can Say In Conclusion Is That People Who Don’t Have
The COURAGE or The CHARACTER To Own Up Their Mistakes, Can Only Be
Called COWARDS.
It Will Require POLITICAL WILL, And Not PRETENDING To Be
POLITICALLY CORRECT When Things Are PRINCIPALLY ALL WRONG In
The Hindu , To CLEAN UP and Do COURSE CORRECTION.
It’s For One And Everyone In THE HINDU’s GOVERNING COUNCIL To
INTROSPECT And Do Some SOUL SEARCHING Over Something A Diehard
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Loyalist Well Wisher Of The Hindu Group Honestly Feels Concerned About, At
THE CROSSROADS MOMENT OF THE HINDU GROUP, To MAKE
HISTORY Or BECOME HISTORY, Learning To Work To Our TRADITIONAL
STRENGTHS Rather Than To THE WEAKNESSES OF OUR COMPETITORS.
Can The Hindu Governing Council Turn Things Around on Its Head,
And Turn Huge INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES To INSTITUTIONAL
OPPORTUNITIES, Making THE SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE Made
POSSIBLE? Will The Hindu Group Rise “Like The Proverbial Phoenix From
The Ashes” ???
That’s A Million Dollar Question To Which The Answer Lies In
THE HINDU BOARD ROOM, Where I Have Now Put The Ball And
The Case In The Court Of The Hindu’s Governing Council.
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH GET GOING
I Have Proved It In My Kochi Experience And Experiment, That It Is
Possible To TURN THINGS AROUND , Make The SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE
MADE POSSIBLE , Turn HUGE CHALLENGES To HUGE OPPORTUNITIES ,
And RISE UP From THE ASHES Like The PROVERBIAL PHOENIX , When A
LOSS MAKING REGION Became A RUNAWAY MONEY SPINNER , Where
THE WORST REGION In The Country Became THE BEST REGION In The
Country, Where We Were UNITED IN PURPOSE While Being
UNCOMPROMISING IN PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES .
Towards CLEAN UP Of THE ROT, It Is Crucial And Critical, For An In
depth Insight And Investigation, That The Hindu Has A No Nonsense
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT To Head The Independent Investigation Audit
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Probe ,As There Are GROSS FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES And
IMPROPRIETIES Involved, Where Sadly The Two Timing Managing Director
Of The Hindu Mr.N.Murali Had MISUSED His CA Qualification Towards
Woeful Wrongdoing Ends, Where The Murky and Dirty TRUTH will Come Out
in the Open Once there is A Criminal Investigation by A Supreme Court
Monitored Probe.
It needs Particular Mention That The TERI’s Governing Council Has
Deepak Parekh, A Chartered Accountant Of Impeccable Reputation, As An
Independent Board Member, The Very Same Deepak Parekh Who Chaired
“The CLEAN UP Of The Satyam Fraud Scam” In 2009. It Appears
The Hindu’s Governing Council Will Need An UPRIGHT NO NONSENSE
Independent Director Like Deepak Parekh, TO CHAIR “The CLEAN UP Of The
12 Year SATYAM FRAUD In The Hindu”.
With Indian Banking Sector Being In A Terrible MANMADE MESS
Today, With Huge NPAs Of Over Rs6 Lakh Crores, The Government Of India Is
Looking To Rope In CREDIBLE INDUSTRY STALWARTS, Such As Ratan
Tata, N.R.Narayana Murthy, Deepak Parekh And NainaLal Kidwai For Its Bank
Board Bureau (BBB) Towards CLEAN UP Of THE ROT in Banking Sector And
Bringing In Good Corporate Governance Practices.
It Will Require Something DECISIVE, And DRASTIC, To CLEAN UP The
Rot, And SAVE The Hindu Group, Drowned In NPAs (Circulation And Collection
Manmade Mess) And NPLs (Non Performing And Corrupt Employees) From
COLLATERAL DAMAGE DISASTER, Where The Company Needs To At Least
Now Have ZERO TOLERANCE To WRONGDOING Or CORRUPTION Of
ANY ORDER where You Cannot Have A CALIBRATED Rating On A Scale Of 1
To 10 For CORRUPTION And CORRUPT PRACTICES , Where, To Put The
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FEAR OF THE DEVIL In One And Everyone Within The Hindu , Including The
CEO, There Needs To Be A WHISTLEBLOWER ACT And CELL In The Hindu ,
Besides Appointing AN EXTERNAL OMBUDSMAN To Address, Redress And
Act On Wrongdoing Complaints Of Any Order, So That No Employee Suffers The
Way I Did, Having Lost A Thriving Career And 12 Years Of My Life, Due To
Lack Of INTERNAL CHECKS And BALANCES Within THE HINDU.
Time For CEO Rajiv C Lochan To Move Into DAMAGE LIMITATION
Redeem his LOST REPUTATION And Prove That He Is Indeed
“A PROFESSIONAL”, And Not “A MERCENARY” Where He Has Committed
Some SERIOUS FUNDAMENTAL MISTAKES During The Last 22 Months
,Where To Him, Given His DUBIOUS PRACTICES Of The Past
22 Months, It Appears MAMMON ENDS Matter More Than MEANS,
METHODS And MORALS As The Newly Appointed Managing Director & CEO
Of The Hindu, Which Raises SERIOUS QUESTIONS On His INTENT And
INTEGRITY TO INSTITUTION WELL BEING Of This 137 Year Old Iconic
Group, Where What He Needs To Understand is That He Is AS ACCOUNTABLE
For The WOEFUL WRONGDOINGS In The Hindu As Anyone Else At The Helm
Of Affairs Of The Hindu Today. In GREED For QUICKFIX BUCKS And
BUSINESS, He Mr. Rajiv C Lochan Seems To Have COMPLETELY LOST
SIGHT OF “THE BIGGER PICTURE And OBJECTIVE”, As If There No
Tomorrow, Which Can Only Lead TO INSTITUTIONAL SUICIDE. Its Nothing
Short Of HARA-KIRI Of A 137 Year Iconic INSTITUTION. If Mr. Rajiv
C. Lochan Fails To Move DECISIVELY Into DAMAGE CONTROL And Do
COURSE CORRECTION, CORRECTING THE WRONGS And
WRONGDOINGS , He Will Have Only Himself To Blame For The
COLLATERAL DAMAGE CONSEQUENCES To Come.
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For Chairman N.Ram Who has been Chairing over This CORPORATE
FRAUD For The Last 10 Years Afflicted By CONFLICT OF INTEREST And
CONFLICT OF LOYALTY To An Untenable Sibling ,All I Can Say Is That, He
Needs To Draw Signals From Ex Chairman B.V.Sreekantan Nair Of TERI’s
Governing Council, Who Chose To STEP DOWN Taking MORAL
RESPONSIBILITY.
The 2 Independent Directors Ms Vinita Bali of The Britannia Legacy And
Mr.S.Mahalingam of The TCS Legacy, With Their REPUTATION Tarnished
during The Last 20 Months, Need To INTROSPECT And Ask Their
CONSCIENCE, How True They Have Been To CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
And CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY During Their 20 Month
Innings As Independent Directors In The Hindu’s Governing Council Since
September 2014, And Ask Themselves, Heart Of Heart, Whether They Were As
FAIR And FIRM As Luminary INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS Like Deepak
Parekh, Naina Lal Kidwai And Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Of TERI’s Governing
Council . As INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS It Is For Them To ENFORCE The
GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Otherwise STEP DOWN From The
DUBIOUS HINDU BOARD .
It’s For Untenable N.Murali To Draw Signals And Take The Wise Decision
To Prevent INDIVIDUAL And INSTITUTIONAL SUICIDE .
ALL I Seek From The Hindu’s Governing Council In DAMAGE
CONTROL Is To Give Me A “WOEFULLY MISTREATED” Veteran Employee
of The Hindu My Right To A HONOURABLE DISCHARGE, After All There Is
Nothing More Important Than HONOUR For A Sensitive Self Respecting Human
Being Who Cherishes His Self Esteem The Most, For A Person Who Throughout
Has Worked with A Sense of Social Responsibility, For A Person Who Has Lived
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And Lead By SELF EXAMPLE. After All I Have Served This Institution With
Uncompromising Devotion, Dedication And Distinction For A Lifetime 25 Years
Of LOYALTY And INTEGRITY.
Looking Back, During My 25+ Year Innings In The Hindu, I Set Such High
Standards In Leadership And Excellence, Principles And Practices , Growth And
Values, That It Will Be Difficult, If Not Impossible, For Anyone To Dream Of
Touching The Everest Heights I Touched, Let Alone Deliver, Where
Fundamentally I PRACTICED WHAT I PREACHED AND MADE SURE I
PREACHED ONLY WHAT I PRACTICED .
I Have No Regret Whatsoever For Any Of My Well Considered Decisions
In The Hindu During The Last 36 Years Since 1981 , Where If History Were To
Repeat Itself Today In Similar Circumstances
I WOULD DO EXACTLY THE SAME, ALL OVER AGAIN, Where To Me
Bottom line, Beyond Being A Good Professional, IS TO BE A GOOD HUMAN
BEING .
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TOWARDS CLOSURE
(My Expectations)
Though A Horribly Wronged “Victim of Outrageous Injustice and Gross
Human Rights Abuse” Of “The War Times Crimes Order” Where No Money Can
Ever Compensate What All I have Lost during the last 12 Years of Unspeakable
Trauma, Torture, Humiliation and Suffering, Better Late Than Never, I Seek
CLOSURE JUSTICE.
Today at the Sunset of My Life, When I am Touching 57 Years, Towards
Bringing In Some Sense Of CLOSURE To This Whole Shockingly Scandalous and
Shameful Saga, Where To Me Institution is Larger than Individuals, I Have Only
One Expectation– CLOSURE JUSTICE, Towards VINDICATION, To Get My
Fair Name Cleared of Fake Charges in A Fake Case.
Towards CLOSURE , My Expectations From The Hindu Management at
this Distant Stage , Where Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied – Meaning If Timely
Justice is not Provided To The Sufferer , It Loses Its Importance And Violates
Human Rights , Are The Following :
1. A Honorable Discharge duly taking into account My 25+Years of
Outstanding Service to The Hindu, And Also Taking Into Account My
Remaining 15 Years to Superannuation which would have enabled me to
Complete A Rare 40 Years Of Lifetime Service To One Single Institution –
The Hindu.
2. A Just and Fair Compensation Settlement for the Outrageous Injustice done
to me and all that I and my family have Suffered for Last 12 Years since
2004, When Cheating, Corruption and Criminal Fraud set into Circulation
Department of The Hindu, Besides taking into Account the Rs.8 Lakhs + I
have so far spent in this 10 Year Relentless Crusade Battle for Justice.
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3. A Letter from the Leadership in The Hindu Withdrawing
The Baseless Defamatory Charges In The Company’s Letter dated
9th November 2006, And Acknowledging My Honest Service of
25+Years To Institution .
4. Pay me My Long Overdue Salary and Perks for Sept. 2006, Cash
Compensation for 30 Days Unavailed Earned Leave, My Bonus / Incentive
for 2006, Everything Which Was Unlawfully Withheld by
The Two Timing Managing Director Mr. N. Murali, At The Obvious
“Blackmail” Behest of His “Partner in Woeful Wrongdoings” CCM, Which
Shockingly Remains Unsettled to this Day Even 10 Years After Being
Relieved , In Perhaps An Unprecedented and Unheard of Abuse of Power in
the annals of Corporate or Civil History.
5. Bestow me My Long Overdue Service Recognition Award for
25 Years of Completed Service, In The Next Annual Day Function
Something which to me Means The World, As it will Prove Validation and
Vindication to me, To Get My Name Cleared of All the Faked Up Case and
Charges.
6. Provide Me With A Copy of The Hindu Kochi Edition (or at least a facsimile
copy) with My Name in the Imprint of Kochi Edition of
The Hindu of One of The Dates During the period when I was
The Printer of Kochi Edition of The Hindu from 10th Sept. 2000 to
30th August 2005, As My Final Lasting Memory of My Association With
The Hindu.
7. Permission to Officially Visit Circulation Department of The Hindu and
Kochi Office of The Hindu to bid One Final Goodbye,
To Something Which to me was Oxygen, And Home, And My First Wife,
For 25+ Years, So That We Can Move Forward, Our Own Ways, Quietly
Leaving The Past Behind.
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8. Restore my Last Designation of Regional Manager (which I had earned
through Honest, Back Breaking Hard Work of 17 Years) From The
Humiliating Double Demotion Post of Sr. Circulation Executive Imposed On
Me during the Course of the Inhuman Abuse Perpetrated On Me in 2005,
Which will Restore My Lost Reputation and Self Esteem, and Heal My
Wounds of 12 Traumatic Years to Some Extent.
I am Sure This Is Not Asking For Too Much for A CLOSURE, So That A
Traumatized Outraged and Enraged Soul Can Finally Rest In Peace, as
I try to Avoid Precipitating A Huge Manmade Internal Crises Of Sorts in
The Hindu Towards Institutional Suicide.
Having Put these Facts before you, I leave it to the Wisdom of
The Hindu’s Governing Council to Quickly take Matters Forward To
A CLOSURE.
All I can Caution in conclusion is that, GOING PUBLIC The Scam Scandal
is Now, Out in the Open, Trending , Where the more you Delay
TO ACT Decisively in Damage Control in Settling this Institutional Impaction
Issue, More Serious would be the Damage and the Consequences for Institution
and Individuals
Looking Forward to An Early Settlement.
SATYAMEVAJAYETE – TRUTH AND JUSTICE WILL TRIUMPH.
Regards
MURALI KRISHNAN
Employee No. 3814 (1981 – 2006)
Aggrieved Whistleblower Appellant
Deposed Regional Manager
The Hindu Kochi
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Awards of Excellence Won As Regional Head of The Hindu Kochi During the Period 1998 – 2005
Year Award Won
1998 1. The Hindu All 12 Months Sales Achievement Award – 1998
1999 1. Overall Best Performance Award
2. The Hindu All India Best Sales Achievement Award 1999 – All India Runner up.
3. Business line All India Best Sales Achievement Award 1999 – All India Winner.
4. Circulation Collections All India Lowest Outstanding Award 1999
– All India Winner.
2000 1. The Hindu All 12 Months Target Achievement Award – 2000
2001 1. The Hindu All India Best Sales Achievement Award 2001 – All India Runner up.
2. Circulation Collection All India Lowest Outstanding Award 2001
– All India Winner.
2002 1. The Hindu All India Best Sales Achievement Award 2002 – All India Winner.
2. Business line All India Best Sales Achievement Award 2002
– All India Runner up.
3. Circulation Collection All India Lowest Outstanding Award 2002
– All India Winner.
2003 1. The Hindu All 12 Months Target Achievement Award 2003.
2. Circulation Collection All India Lowest Outstanding Award 2003
– All India Winner.
2004 1. The Hindu and Business Line All 12 Months Target Achievement Award – 2004
2. Circulation Collection All India Lowest Outstanding Award 2004
– All India Winner.
2005 1. The Hindu and Business Line All 12 Months Target Achievement Award – 2005
2. Circulation Collection All India Lowest Outstanding Award 2005
– All India Runner up.
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POST SCRIPT : In An Outrageous Travesty, As A Reward for The Above
Outstanding work done SUMMARILY SACKED from The Regional Manager’s
Position in August 2005, In A Blatant Case of “WRONGFUL DISMISSAL”
Amounting to MURDER OF JUSTICE.
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EVEREST VISION OF A VISIONARY REGIONAL HEAD
AIM FOR THE STARS
Passion to Excel as Regional Head of The Hindu Group at Kochi (1998 – 2005)
Let Your Dreams Fly
Keep, Pushing The Limits
Our Dreams Reality Check
No 1 Region in Growth Achieved
No 1 Region in Collections Achieved
No 1 Region in Growth and Collections in 1 Sales year Achieved
No 1 Region in Circulation among English Dailies in Kochi,
The Business Capital of Kerala and the Last Bastion of Indian
Express
Achieved
No 1 Readership among English dailies in Central Kerala Achieved
No 1 Readership among English dailies in Kochi, The No 1
Advertisement Market of Kerala.
Achieved
No 1 Newspaper Market for The Hindu and Business Line,
Overhauling Trivandrum, The State Capital
Achieved
No 1 Ranking in Circulation for Business Line, After Kochi
Edition of Economic Times was Launched
Achieved
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EPILOGUE
“WILFULFRAUD IN THE HINDU”
Why Is This Such A Serious Issue – A Pernicious Issue With Potential Far
Reaching Implications And Collateral Damage Consequences To Come .
Whatever Transpired And Conspired In The Hindu Circulation Operations Since
2004 Was WRONGDOING Of The Worst Order – Procedurally, Legally, Ethically,
Which Is Something Like Saying If You Want Quick Money- Go Rob The Bank. This
Is WILFUL FRAUD Perpetrated In Broad Daylight MISUSING, TRUST Of A
Century Of LEGACY VALUES Of Pre Eminence And Pre Independence Of A Once
Iconic Institution, And PRIVILEGED CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS Of Freedom Of
Press And Right To Self Regulation (Which Is Essentially An Editorial Right
MISUSED In The Hindu Towards Furthering The Newspaper Groups BUSINESS
INTERESTS – The Fake and Fraudulent Way) Towards QUICK FIX Bucks And
Business, With The MISPLACED BELIEF That It Is Okay To CHEAT, To COMMIT
FRAUD And To Indulge In CORRUPT PRACTICES In A Mercenary Society Of
The 21st Century World Where Crime , Cheating , Criminal Fraud And Corruption Is
Rampant In Civil Society And The Corporate World .
Ranbaxy Did It, So Did Volkswagen And BP, And Long Before Them, Enron
And WorldCom, Mitsubishi Motor Corp, General Motors, Ford, Honda, Shell, Exxon
Mobil, Chevron, Roche, HSBC, Royal Bank Of Scotland,
JP Morgan Chase And Co, Citigroup Inc., UBS AG, And Bank Of America, Not
Forgetting Satyam And Saradha, ALL CAUGHT CHEATING, Manipulating Data
And Numbers, LYING To Customers, Regulators And Shareholders With Frauds, Half-
Lies, Price Fixing, Bribes, Where “Found” Is A New Operative Word, Where Foul
Becomes A Crime Only When It is Spotted, Where Till Then This Is Just “Business
Smarts”.
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COMPANIES LIE , Obviously to protect their carefully nurtured Corporate
Reputation, And Of course “To Enhance Performance”, Like Sportspersons use
Steroids To Boost Results. These are understandable, though Not Condonable Reasons.
Far More Insidious and Ultimately Much More Dangerous are Instances of
CORPORATE LYING That Stem From “The Egos Of Corporate Leaders”.
The CEO Who thunders “ I Don’t Care How , But I Want 20% Growth In Sales, Where
He Says To Hell With The Reputation, Find Me A way to Beat The Regulator. This
Machismo-Driven LYING Is Today Far More Prevalent Within Companies
Than Is Believed, But It Is Lethal In Terms Of The Collateral Damage
Consequences.
The Problem Is, Such CEOs Move On, Leaving Behind Doomed Organisations.
The Scrap Heap Of Business History Is Filled With The Debris Of Companies
Whose FOUNDATIONS were Corroded By FRAUD And LYING.
It Is Against This Background Context That One Needs To Look At
Whatever FRAUD Has Been Transpiring And Conspiring In The Hindu For
The Last 12 Years Of CORPORATE FRAUD , Since 2004, Which Can Only
Come Under The Defines And Definition Of WILFUL FRAUD Of The SFO -
SERIOUS FRAUD ORDER.
A SYSTEMIC FRAUD
I , Murali Krishnan ,The Internal Whistleblower Employee Had Warned The
Hindu Board Full 10 Years Back, In My Very 1st Whistleblower Book Of My Epic 36
Book Series, Sent On 18th September 2006 To All Hindu Board Members By
Registered Post-A/D, That, Fundamentally It Is THE GREATEST FRAUD For A
Newspaper, That Too of The Hindu’s Legacy, Stature And Standing, Being Involved In
The Criminal Act Of COUNTERFEITING SIGNATURES On A Mass Scale, Of
Students, School Heads, News Agents, Running To Tens Of Thousands, In A
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SYSTEMIC FORGERY One Of Its Kind, All To Create FAKE DOCUMENTS, Which
Is Done, Day In Day Out, For Months Together, Twice A Year, Every Year, Every
ABC Audit, All To PUSH THROUGH FAKE CIRCULATION Making A Mockery
Farce Of ABC AUDIT. Student Subscription Scheme (SSS ) By Itself Was A Huge
Scam Racket In The Hindu, Where Subsidised Copies Of The Hindu Meant For
Students And Schools Were Surreptitiously Sold WHOLESALE At Premium, On
Profit, OUTSIDESCHOOLS In A RACKET By Itself And In WASTEPAPER
MARKETAs RADHI, After It Was MISREPESENTATINGLY Billed And
CLAIMED For Inclusion In ABC CERTIFIED COPIES, Where It Appeared RADHI
And RACKETEERING Mattered More, Than READER And READERSHIP, In The
Radicalised Hindu Of The 21st Century.
The Dark Underbelly Of The Hindu – A Cloak And Dagger Operation,
DECRIMINALISING FRAUD.
Just Imagine A Rogue Corporation Of A Company, Officially Having Standard
Operating Procedures SOP’s On Ways And Means To CHEAT And To HOODWINK
ABC Audit And Auditors, By TRAINING Indoctrinated Circulation Staff To Cheat
With Caution, While Maintaining Complete Confidentiality,
By Having Periodic H R Training Sessions in Corporate Office Of The Hindu, Where
“Cherry Picked” Pliable People From All Regional Offices Are ORALLY Given
Training By ABC Operation Heads R Varadamani And K S Raghavan In A CLOSED
ROOM, Where Nothing Said, Is Ever Put In Writing Or Mail, Or Discussed Outside,
Where Regional Sales Staff Are Officially Provided With A Set Of Multi Coloured
Pens, Where News Agents Rubber Stamps Are OFFICIALLY” MANUFACTURED,
DUPLICATED And FAKED “Within The Regional Offices Of The Hindu,
Besides Being Provided A Set Of Guidelines On Do’s And Don’ts As An SOP To Do
A Perfect Faking Job To Become MASTER FORGERERS, Where News Agency
Stamped Agreements Are Being Systematically SCANNED And Sent To Regional
Offices To Do A Perfect Counterfeiting and Forgery Job, Where In A Major Corporate
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Decision Last Year in April 2015, ABC FRAUD Was Officially
DECENTRALISED, Where Masquerading In The Name Of Bringing In
Professionalism And Devolution Of Powers In The New Professionalised “SET UP”,
ABC FRAUD Was Officially DECENTRALISED From Corporate Office Of The
Hindu, Where In , ALL CORPORATE FRAUD Trail LEADS, All News Agency
Files, Stamped Agreements, Accounts And System Management Were “Bag And
Baggage” Hastily Bundled And Shunted Out Of The Head Office Of ABC FRAUD,
To All Regional Offices In A Hush Hush Operation , Not Because Circulation
Department Had Suddenly Become Professional In Their Circulation Work, But Simply
Because THE TOP LEADERSHIP Of The Multi Dimensional Conspiracy Of A Scam
Racket At CORPORATE OFICE Of The Hindu Felt That Things Were Getting Too
Hot For Comfort With An Internal Whistleblower Hot On Their Heels , Where
Essentially, This Was “A Red Herring” Of A DIVERSIONARY TACTIC To Take
The FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER Trail Of The Hindu ABC FRAUDGATE, Off The
Trail And Tracks Of Corporate Office Of The Hindu, Where It All Began 12 Years
Back, In 2004 , When The Corporate Office Of The Hindu Turned To The Corporate
Office Of FRAUD – ABC FRAUD.
To Think All “THIS ORGANISED FRAUD” Escaped The Scrutiny Of
ABC Audit , For 24 ABC Audits, Where In ABC 2016 Ist Half Audit, THE
HINDU ABC FRAUD Will Be Celebrating The 25th
Silver Jubilee Anniversary Of
HOODWINKING ABC, In A WHITE COLLAR CRIME One Of Its Kind. A
Silver Jubilee Of Sorts To Celebrate .
UNCHECKED And UN CHECKED For Full 12 Years This JUGGERNAUT
Of A FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER Which Was Sadly and Ironically, Conceived And
Conceptualized By “ An Ex ABC INSIDER” Mr.N.Murali, Law Maker Turned Law
Breaker, Who Was In The ABC Inner Circle Council Of Management In The 80’s And
90’s ,Who Knows The Ins And Outs, Inside And Insides Of ABC and How The System
In ABC Functions , The Loopholes , The Leeway , The Lacunas, The Legalities On
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How To Be POLITICALLY CORRECT And How To Insidiously HOODWINK ABC
And Its AUDIT Taking Advantage Of The Weaknesses And Limitations Of ABC As A
Regulatory Body And Get Away With WRONGDOING , A Calculative Chartered
Accountant That He Is, Where Suffice To Say He Has Taken The ABC For Granted
Given The WOEFUL WRONGDOINGS Perpetrated , Protected And Perpetuated In
The Hindu Since 2004 In ABC FRAUD .
Today THE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER Of 2004 Is Coming Back To Destroy
Its Creator And The Company, As, In 12 Years THIS MONSTER Of 2004 Has Taken
MONSTROUS PROPORTIONS, To Levels That The New CEO Of KSL Mr. Rajiv C
Lochan’s DUBIOUS PRACTICES Of Two Years Which Is SUSPECT And
SELECTIVE In INTENT , Indicate That He Is In A SMOOTH TRANSITION,
Conniving, “Carrying Forward” The N.Murali Subversive Agenda Operation, Where
He Is “HAND IN GLOVE”, Where Today, Essentially, Mr.Rajiv C Lochan is Best
Described As Nothing But “Old N Murali Wine In A New Bottle – In A New
Professional Glitzy Packaging”, Where Effectively ABC FRAUD Operation Has Got
Professionalised In The Hindu . He Is More A Prop Proxy Front Of N.Murali, Carrying
Forward N.Murali’s Hidden Agenda, Where Sadly An Individual, One Individual
,Mr.N.Murali , Has Become Larger Than The Institution. It’s A SYSTEMIC ROT And
SYSTEMIC FAILURE In The Hindu Towards Sure shot SUICIDE And SELF
DESTRUCTION As The 137 Year Old Institution Torpedoes Towards DISASTER.
MACHIAVELLIAN MACHINATION
Against This Whole Murky Background Of A 12 Year History Of SYSTEMIC
FAKING And FRAUD, Obviously It Raises Huge Scrutiny Questions And
Suspicions, On The CREDIBILITY And “CLAIM” Of The Hindu In May/June
2016 On The Pages Of The Hindu Newspaper, And On Facebook, Trivializing
and Taunting Other Newspaper Publications, About An Overnight, Over An
Audit Period, “Striking Gold” Jackpot 20% Growth, In Circulation Of The
Hindu In ABC 2015-II HALF, Like Manna From Heaven.
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It Defies Logic And Explanation, How Does Say, A Vijayawada Region And
Edition Of The Hindu Generate An Unbelievable ABC Growth Of 65.71% In Just 6
Months In ABC2015-II HALF , Generating A Gigantic Leap Of
A Growth, Of Almost 23000 Copies In Just 6 Months, Mind You On a Mere 34967
Copy Circulation Base(ABC 2015-Ist Half), Where Essentially You Are CLAIMING
Your Circulation Has Almost Doubled IN JUST 6 MONTHS.
In An Extraordinary SEQUENCE CHAIN OF EVENTS Last Month, In
What Seems SUSPECT And CAREFULLY “ORCHESTRATED” Towards A
LARGER HIDDEN AGENDA, Look At The Suspect Sequence Of Events In What
Seems “Synchronised” And “Choreographed” To A “Pre Scripted” Pattern. On
31st May 2016 The Hindu Comes Out With A News Story ANNOUNCING “An All
India 20 % Growth In Circulation Of The Hindu Over A Six Month Period In
ABC 2015 – IInd HALF.
Next On 5th
June 2016 The Hindu Comes Out With The Following
Facebook Post (Posted On The Facebook Page Of RGM Apollo Raj Kumar ) With
A “Meaningful” Comparative Analysis Of Growth Trend Of Various Major
Newspapers In ABC 2015-IInd HALF, Meaningfully Titled FASTER, HIGHER,
STRONGER ,Where Among Several Suggestions, The Hindu Is Projected As The
Fasting Growing Newspaper With All India Growth Of 20.32% Where The
Times Of India Is Presented As The Newspaper With The Lowest All India
Growth Of A Minuscule 00.25%, Where For The Hindu Vijayawada (+65.71%),
Bangalore +36.13% - Miscalculated as +31.13% In The Post), Hyderabad
(+33.52%), Kolkatta (+23.28%), Trichy (21.85%) And Kochi (+19.76% -
Miscalculated as + 18.76%) Are PROJECTED As The 6 FASTEST GROWING
MARKETS Of The Hindu, (Something Which Saw Ex Editor Ms Malini
Parthasarathy Indulge In “Jingoism” on Twitter , Saying BRAVO, And While
Claiming Self Credit For The Dubious 20% Growth That It Happened During
Her Tenure As Editor , She Vociferously CHEERED Vijayawada With A
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“Claimed” 66% Growth, To GO, GO, GO, Not Knowing THE UNHOLY
TRUTH That She Was LEGITIMISING The ILLEGITIMATE ), WHERE What
Is To Be Particularly Noted In THIS WHOLE STAGE MANAGED “DRAMA”
Is That , These 6 Markets Are ALL MAJOR ADVERTISEMENT REVENUE
GENERATING MARKETS, With HUGE ADVERTISEMENT REVENUE
GENERATING POTENTIAL IN YEARS TO COME.
In The Continuing SUSPECT SEQUENCE Of CHAIN OF EVENTS,
NOTABLY, On 9th
June 2016 The Government Of India Comes Out With Their
New DAVP Ad Policy For Print Media With The I& B Ministry Announcing That
Henceforth DAVP Advertisement Volumes Will Be Decided Based On A Marking
And Ranking System Based On REPUTATION And ABC CERTIFIED
Circulation Figures.
Against This Background Context One Needs To Look At The Suspect
Sequence Of Events OF The Hindu Pompously Announcing To The World And
Advertisers In Issue Dated 31st May 2016 About A RECORD 20% Growth in ABC
2015-II HALF, Followed Closely By The Following AGENDA DRIVEN Facebook
Post On 5th
June 2016 .
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Link The Whole Scripted Thing Together And You Will See
The Pattern And The Big Picture .
FACT And INTENT Are Clear. That The Hindu Had Advance Inside
Intelligence Information Of The Coming New DAVP Ad Policy announcement By
I & B Ministry On 9th
June 2016 , Where The News Story Of 31st May 2015
announcing 20% Growth Of The Hindu in ABC 2015- IInd HALF, Followed By
The Hindu’s MEANINGFUL Facebook Post On 5th
June 2016 Was
CHOREOGRAPHED To Perfection To A LARGER HIDDEN AGENDA.
A Record 66% Growth In Just 6 Months In Vijayawada - Hard To Believe
As An Insightful HINDU INSIDER And Circulation Veteran Of 25+ Years ,Who Was
Regional Head Of A Major Printing Unit And Region Of The Hindu For Almost A
Decade, There Is SURELY Something Murky More Than It Meets
The Eye, WHERE, With A NEW EDITION It Took Me, Full 6 Years, To Double The
Circulation Of The Hindu In Kochi Region And Printing Unit Through Sustained
Subscription Promotion Work Towards SUSTAINABLE GROWTH, The Straight
Way, What Today A Vijayawada Is PROJECTED As Doing It In 6 MONTHS FLAT,
In What Can Only Be Described As The T20 QUICK FIX Way – The RADHI And
RACKETEERING Route.
ABC Needs To Dig Deeper And Investigate On HOW, Through WHAT Means
And From WHERE Exactly The CLAIMED 66% Growth In
6 Months Was Achieved in Vijayawada During 2015 ABC-II HALF, To Get Some
INSIGHT Into The Whole Plot For It To Move Into CLEAN UP And COURSE
CORRECTION Mode , Besides Understanding WHERE Exactly ABC As A
Regulatory Body Is Failing , Being Taken On A Ride. ABC Also Needs To Do A
FORENSIC INVESTIGATION Into The Entire ABC Statutory Documentation
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Submitted By The Hindu For Certification Of This 66% Growth In Vijayawada
To Understand WHERE Exactly ABC AUDIT Is Being UNDERMINED And
Made To Look REDUNDANT , Besides UNDERSTANDING What This 12 Year
ABC FRAUD Racket In The Hindu Is All About.
This Could Be An Excellent CASE STUDY As A Starting Point Towards
GAME CHANGING STRUCTURAL And SYSTEMIC CHANGES In ABC
AUDIT To Make It Meaningful To INDUSTRY At Large.
This Is Truly A WAKE UP CALL For ABC As A REGULATORY BODY.
This Is THE MOMENT OF TRUTH For ABC. ITS NOW OR NEVER.
It’s a MOCKERY Of A FARCE And A FRAUD CLAIMING Such A Kind Of
Hard To Believe Insane Percentages Of Growth In 6 Months, All Done
HOODWINKING ABC And Its AUDIT, Considering The 12 Year History Of
FAKING And FORGERY In The Hindu, Since 2004.
It Looks Like The Hindu Group Is Out To “PRESENT ITSELF” As THE
NO.1 NEWSPAPER GROUP In South India , Targeting Major Revenue
Generating Markets With FAKE And FRAUDULENT PRACTICES , Including
Stage Managing FAKE ENCOUNTER KILLINGS Of Anyone Who Tries To Stop
Them On This MERCENERIC MISSION , WHILE “INCENTIVISING ABC
FRAUD” In Circulation Department Of The Hindu.
In A Notable Related Development This Year , This Very Month In
July2016 , Large Scale PROMOTIONS And LIBERAL “JACKPOT” ANNUAL
INCREMENTS And OTP INCENTIVES Were DOLED OUT To Practically One
And Everyone In And Across CRIMINAL CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Of
The Hindu , Including Known , Notorious , Well Proven WRONGDOERS , Where
All This Indicates “PAID FRAUD” In The Hindu ( In Another Dimension Of
PAID NEWS) ALL SUGGESTING That , “SOMETHING IS COOKING”
Towards “A LARGER HIDDEN AGENDA”, Where Only Time Will Tell What It
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Is , As THE JUGGERNAUT Of LICENSED ABC FRAUD Rolls On ,
UNCHECKED And UNOBSRUCTED , In A FARCE , Where CRIME Seems To
Have Become A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT In The Hindu , Where They Consider
Themselves ABOVE ACCOUNTABILITY And ABOVE THE LAW OF THE
LAND . A LAW UNTO THEMSELVES , EXTRA JUDICIAL AUTHORITY
With Right To Orchestrate EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLINGS .
To Think That I Lost My Job Of 25+ Years At A Very Difficult Age Of
45 Years, As The Capital Price For Taking THE STRAIGHT PATH and Being
Steadfast To Human And The Hindus Legacy Values where I was SUMMARILY
ELIMINATED – Execution Style , Mafia Style On 21st August 2005.
Honestly Anyone Else In My Place, Considering What Circulation And My Job
In The Hindu Meant To Me with A Lifetime Of Doctoral kind Of Research Of Minute
Detail And Diligence, Where It Was not A Profession But A Passion, Would Have
Either Committed, Suicide Or Simply Murder. I Did Neither, Instead Decided To
FIGHT BACK, In A LASHBACK And BACKLASH One Of Its Kind, With SINGLE
MINDEDNESS Where I Trained Myself, Physically, Mentally, Emotionally And
Spiritually, To Run, This, “THE MARATHON OF MY LIFE”. To Get To The Bottom
Of THE TRUTH , THE SCAM RACKET And THE MULTI DIMENSIONAL
CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY Towards EXPOSING The WRONGDOINGS And The
WRONGDOERS In THE HINDU, With What I Call “THE SIMON WEISENTHAL
SPIRIT”.
THE SIMON WEISENTHAL OF THE HINDU
This Is An Extra Ordinary Story Of SINGLE MINDEDNESS Of An Ordinary
Human Being, Who Worked With An Extra Ordinary Spirit, Grit and Determination,
With The Single Mindedness Of “A Simon Weisenthal” The Holocaust Survivor Who
Was Known For His Work as A Nazi Hunter, Where He Dedicated His Life To
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Tracking Down, Gathering Information And “Hunting Down” Fugitive War Criminals
To Build Cases Solid Enough To Stand In A Court of Law.
Simon Weisenthal Was Known As A Person “Who Culls Every Pertinent
Document And Record He Can Get, With an Architects structural Acumen,
A Talmudists Thoroughness And A Brilliant Talent For Investigative Thinking, He
Pieces Together The Most Obscure, Incomplete And Apparently Irrelevant and
Unconnected Data To Build Cases Solid Enough To Stand up In A Court of Law”. The
Dossiers were Then Presented to “The Appropriate Authorities”, Where, When They
Failed To Take Action, Simon Weisenthal Went to The Press and Other Media, For
Experience Had Taught Him, That PUBLICITY And AN OUTRAGED PUBLIC
OPINION Are POWERFUL WEAPONS.
Known As A Prolific Writer, Simon Weisenthal had a facility to put Into Words,
The Difficult Truths Of The Holocaust, Where He Penned His Book Of Memoirs Titled
“THE MURDERERS AMONG US”.
Mine was a Similar “Single Minded” Herculean Effort In A Himalayan Mission
as Simon Weisenthal, Where I Was Determined To Move Mountains, On An Everest
Mission To Hunt Down “ THE MARAUDERERS AND MURDERERS AMONG US ”
THIS MISSION DEMANDED ,SINGLEMINDEDNESS AND SACRIFICE,
Where Its Not About INDIVIDUALS , But About INSTITUTION And INDUSTRY.
This is A Rare INSIDER First Hand Account Of “AN INSIDER” Witness And
Victim, Who Lived And Breathed The Hindu For A Lifetime 25+ Years, Who Was An
Astute OBSERVER, Quietly OBSERVING, For 25+ Years, Not Just What was
Happening Outside The Hindu, But Also What was Happening Within The Hindu,
Which I Would Succinctly Put As, Encompassing The Shady,
The Shadowy, The Seamy, The Sleazy And The Scamy.
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This Relentless Crusade Of A FIGHT FOR JUSTICE, Running Over An Epic 12
Year Period was An Extraordinary Single Minded Pursuit Of Truth And Justice, Where
I was DETERMINED To Bring To Book And Accountability, To Face JUSTICE,
Those Responsible For The Gross Injustice And The Inhuman HUMAN RIGHTS
Abuse Perpetrated On Me Within The Sanctum Sanctorum Of
The Hindu, Where I Worked assiduously With Passion, Vision, and Foresight
Anticipating The Unexpected, DETERMINED “To Hunt Down” The Criminals And
Their Collaborators, Whosoever Was Involved In This Multi Dimensional Criminal
Conspiracy, Directly Or Indirectly, Till They Are Exposed And Brought To Book , To
Face ACCOUNTABILITY And JUSTICE.
This Was An Extraordinary Journey Involving Huge Sacrifices, Where In This
SINGLE MINDED Mission, I Had To Blank And Put Aside My Family, My Friends,
My Health, My Happiness ,My Career, Where All That Mattered Was JUSTICE. I Was
Not A VIGILANTE, But Who Kept A Close And Continuous VIGIL On WOEFUL
WRONGDOINGS And WRONGDOERS In The Hindu .
I A HORRIBLE VICTIM Of UNSPEAKABLE SUFFERING Wouldn’t Want
Anyone To Go Through What Inhuman ABUSES I Suffered During The Last 12
Years, In The Underworld Underbelly Of “The ISIS Hindu”.
I Was A RATIONALIST Who Was Brutally SHOT DOWN By
FUNDAMENTALISTS Of The Hindu Of The 21st Century For Daring To Question
The Questionable, What Does Not Make Sense To Me, What To Me Is Fundamentally
Wrong, Where I Met The Same Fate As Rationalist Narendra Achyut Dabholkar Who
Was SHOT DOWN POINT BLANK In Pune In 2013.
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HUBRIS WAITING TO HAPPEN
This Is A SNOWBALLING CASE Which Calls For Some Serious Introspection
And Forensic Investigation By ABC As A Regulatory Body As FUNDAMENTALLY
Had Their Systems And Circulation Audit Procedures Been Foolproof To Deal With
FRAUD AND FRAUDSTERS Of The Hindu , Such A Calamitous Tragedy Wouldn’t
Have Taken Place In The Life Of a Honest Hard Working Human Being.
LIKE IT OR NOT, ACCEPT IT OR NOT, ABC As A Regulatory Body Is
MORALLY RESPONSIBLE For This Whole Tragedy, Which, Better Late Than
Never, Calls For CLEAN UP, COURSE CORRECTION And BRINGING CLOSURE
To This SHOCKING 12 Year Case Of GROSS MISUSE AND ABUSE OF POWER
AND TRUST, Ensuring JUSTICE IS NOT JUST DONE, BUT SEEN TO BE DONE.
ABC AT THE CROSSROADS – A WAKE UP CALL To Move Into DAMAGE
CONTROL
There Is Clearly A RAT RACE For CERTIFICATION Of CLAIMED
CIRCULATION Towards REVENUES And RANKING, To Hoodwink READERS,
READERSHIP, REVENUE Generating Advertisers And REGULATORY Authorities.
This Is To Be Today Particularly Viewed In The Context Of The I & B Ministry’s
New Print Media Policy Where “Marking System” Has Been Introduced to Incentivise
Newspapers which Have Better Professional Standing And Get Their Certification
Verified By Audit Bureau Of Circulations (ABC) Or Registrar Of Newspapers For
India (RNI). Which is To say That , What Matters In This RAT RACE For
REVENUES Is What Circulation You PRESENT, And How You Are PERCEIVED,
And Not What You PRACTICE , Where A ROGUE CORPORATION Like THE
HINDU CAN PRESENT ITSELF As Having Better REPUTATION AND RANKING
When It Has Been Involved In The REPREHENSIBLE For The Last 12 Years Since
2004. As The Saying Goes “You Can’t Judge A Book By Its Cover”. Calls For Deep
Introspection By Industry And I & B Ministry.
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ABC AT THE CROSSROADS “Bite Off More Than You Can Chew?”
ABC Is Today At The Crossroads Of History, In Every Sense Of The Term And
Terminology, Where, When It Has Certain “Major Serious Pressing Issues” To Be
Addressed In Print Media Audit, It Is Now Foraying Into Audit Measurement Of
Digital Media Properties from The Third Quarter Of 2016. It Is Critically Important
That ABC Needs To Set Its House In Order In Its Primary Job Of Print Media Audit ,
Before Venturing Into Audit Measurement Of Digital Media Properties , Otherwise It
Could Spell Serious Trouble .
At The Crisis Crossroads Moment Of ABC As The Key Lynchpin ,
THE GROUND ZERO , To This Whole UNFORTUNATE HAPPENINGS In
The Hindu, It is For All Members Of ABC To Individually, And Collectively, Do
Some SOUL SEARCHING, On Something Serious Which Raises Huge
Fundamental Questions On Institutional And Industry CREDIBILITY And
REPUTATION , Where The Industry Could End Up Being Painted Or Tarred
With The Same Brush For An Individual Institutions WRONGDOING .
This is The Time For ABC As A REGULATORY BODY To STEP IN And
ENFORCE Its Statutory Authority , Ensuring ZERO TOLERANCE To
WRONGDOING Of Any Order In The Industry , With A Loud Message That
Anyone Found Breaching The ABC Guidelines , Which Has To Be Adhered To In
Letter And Spirit , Will Be PENALISED And PUNISHED . A TOUGH
MESSAGE Is THE NEED OF THE HOUR As A DETERRENT.
This Is A Huge Football Of A Scam Which Is Today AN OPEN SECRET
Within The Hindu , In And Across Circulation Department Of The Hindu , And
INTERNALLY Is A Subject Of Hot Debate , Discussion And Ridicule Among
Circulation Staff Of The Hindu In And Across The Country . My Insightful Circulation
Colleagues Who Are In The Know Of The INSIDIOUS INSIDE Facts And Fraudulent
Practices Within Circulation Department Of The Hindu Are Simply Amazed How This
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Has Been Escaping ABC Scrutiny And Its Audit Process For 12 Years.
BOTTOM LINE Is , The REPUTATION And CREDIBILITY Of ABC As A
Regulatory Body Is In Serious Question Even Within The Hindu , Where Today
Cheating And Committing Fraud Has Become A Way Of Life In Circulation
Department Of The Hindu.
FUNDAMENTALLY , Essentially There Are Two Dimensions To
The Whole 12 Year ABC CIRCULATION FRAUD RACKET In The Hindu :
1) Tunneling And Funneling Of Copies Required To Be Used For READER
And READERSHIP Purpose To The RADHI WASTEPAPER Market
(A Sacrilege And Scam Of Sorts) In An Act Of “PERVERT” DECEPTION,
CHEATING Reader, Readership And statutory Regulatory Authorities
Through FRAUDULENT Means And Methods Of Machiavellian And
Machination.
2) In The Second Dimension Is , RACKETEERING , Amounting To WILFUL
FRAUD, FAKING And FORGING Statutory ABC Documents By MASS
COUNTERFEITING Fake Signatures With “MANUFACTURED” LIES,
SIGNATURES And RUBBER STAMPS.
If This Is Not FRAUD , Then What Is ?
If A Common Man Does This FRAUD Will He Not Face CRIMINAL
PROSECUTION And Be Put BEHIND BARS- Sent To JAIL ?
Going By The Same Yardstick Shouldn’t The WRONGDOINGS And
WRONGDOERS In The Hindu Be CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED And
PUNISHED To Be Put Behind Bars ?
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If I May Ask, In What Way Is THE FRAUD In The Hindu Different From
THE SATYAM FRAUD, Where A ROLE MODEL Turned Out To Be A
ROGUE MODEL, LYING And CHEATING In The Sly?
Going Further , In What Way Is The Wrongdoing Of N Murali Different
From The Wrongdoing Of B Ramalinga Raju ?
Its Needs To Be Mentioned That In The Satyam Fraud, “THE
AUDITORS” Of PWC Too Came In For Scrutiny And Severe Strictures
From The Courts And Ended Up Facing “Life Time Bans” On Charges Of
“ENABLING” The Satyam Fraud Masterminded By B Ramalinga Raju.
Today ABC AUDIT Could Face The Same SCRUTINY QUESTIONS
On “The 12 Year Satyam Fraud In THE HINDU” Masterminded By
N.Murali”.
SCRUTINY QUESTIONS WHICH DEMAND ANSWERS AND
ACCOUNTABILITY
The Basic And Biggest, Foremost And Fundamental Question To Me As
A First Hand Witness And Victim Of “The Hindu CirculationGate” Is, How In The
World Did The Hindu Circulation Scam Racket – “A Football Of A Scam” Which
Cannot Escape Attention Of Even The Blind - Escape Audit Scrutiny Of ABC Auditors
For 12 Years, For 24 Audit Periods. Its Mindboggling And Bizarre.
All I Can Say Is, There Is Something Seriously Wrong, Somewhere, Something
More Than It Meets The Eye. It Raises Similar Kind Of Scrutiny Questions As The
Audit And Auditors In THE SATYAM FRAUD Of 2008 Faced, Once The Scam Got
Exposed In Public Domain, On How Did “THE SATYAM FRAUD OF THE HINDU”
(Where N.Murali’s Practices Were As Dubious as B.Ramalinga Raju ‘s) Escape Audit
Scrutiny For 12 Years ????
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In A Telling Development , THIS OBNOXIOUS 12 YEAR FRAUD, Saw
Practically The Entire Core Circulation Department Of The Hindu WALK OUT
Of The Hindu Last Year, In Utter Disgust. The Moment
“A VRS Offer” Was Made By The Company Last Year on 16th
March 2015,
Where It Saw CIRCULATION STAFF Of The Hindu Leaving The Company “In
Droves” To Get Out Of THE HELL HOLE , Where Fact Is That No SELF
RESPECTING Person Today Wants To Work In Criminal Circulation
Department Of The Hindu , To Be Involved In The Immoral And The Illegal.
A REFERENDUM Or A TRUTH COMMISSION PROBE Will Revealingly
Reveal What Honest Circulation Foot Soldiers Feels About The 12 Year
Fraudulent System In Circulation Department Of The Hindu Where Honest
People Are COERCED To Do CRIMINAL WRONGDOINGS, Under
INTIMIDATION, Which People Dread To Speak About In The Hindu, Fearing
THE DREADED CIRCULATION MAFIA Of The Hindu.
After THE PURGE Last Year In Circulation Department Of
The Hindu Following The VRS OFFER, Today Only “Pliant Dishonest People”
Remain In Criminal Circulation Department Of The Hindu, Where Their Single
Minded Objective And Brief Today, Rather Than Honest Hard Work, Is To Work
On Ways And Means To HOODWINK ABC AUDIT And AUDITORS as The
JUGGERNAUT Of ABC FRAUD Rolls On – Unchecked And Unobstructed.
In The Context Of The 12 Year Hindu Circulation Scam, As Is Natural,
Naturally It Raises Suspicion On the TRUE INDEPENDENCE and INTEGRITY Of
ABC as A Regulatory Body, As To Whether IN PRACTICE & PRACTICES The
ABC Audit Is Done, Without Fear or Favour, Without Affection Or Ill Will, Without
Bias Or Exception, With Principles , Without Being Influenced By Personalities Like
Roguester N.Murali, In THE TRUE SPIRIT Of Upholding The Constitution And The
Law, As, To Me, It Amazes Me How In The World The Hindu Circulation Scam
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Racket Escaped ABC Audit Scrutiny, For 12 Years, Where It Gives a Feeling That
Either People Are Blind Or They Chose To Turn
A Nelson’s Eye, With A Superficial Audit, Rather Than A Stringent Audit, Ignoring
What Is “Under The Surface”, Not Caring Or Wanting To DIG DEEPER.
I, Murali Krishnan, As A Witness And Victimised Whistleblower Of
The Hindu ABC FRAUDGATE, Am Extremely Upset About This Whole Farce And
Fraud, As, I, A Honest Hard Working Human Being With Aspirational Dreams, Lost
15 Years Of My Life And Career, And My REPUTATION Of A Lifetime 25+ Years
Of BACK BREAKING Hard Labour Work , Working 15 To 16 Hours A Day on An
Average, Every Day, Ignoring Sundays And Holidays, For 25+Years Searching And
Researching CIRCULATION And CUSTOMER READER, SIMPLY Because There
were NO CHECKS AND BALANCES, Either INTERNALLY Or EXTERNALLY,
To CHECK FRAUD, To Stem And Stop THE SYSTEMIC ROT, And The Hydra
Headed, FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER Of RADHI And RACKETEERING In
Criminal Circulation Department Of The Hindu.
HONESTLY, I Literally Felt Left High And Dry, Where I Had To Fight
A Long Lone Dogged Battle In The Hindu Board Room For 12 Years, Fighting The
Battle Of My Life. It Was One Man Up Against A System, In A David against Goliath
12 Year Epic Battle For JUSTICE , Where The WRONGDOERS Of The Hindu
Perceived Me As A Thorn In Their Flesh For Which They Simply Eliminated Me –
Execution Style , By Orchestrating A Stage Managed Fake Encounter . To Me This Is
UNACCEPTABLE.
I Have So Far Spent Over A Traumatic Eight Lakhs Of My Lifetime Hard
Earned Earnings On This Relentless Crusade Of A Battle For REDEMPTION
JUSTICE and My Right To RIGHTFUL FINAL SETTLEMENT (Duly Taking Into
Account THE CONTEXTUAL FACTS Of The Case ).
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This Is Something To Do Some Soul Searching Over And Do Some Deep
Introspection For ABC On , On Why Should A Person Go To Such Levels , Sacrificing
12 Years Of His Life , His Career , Eight Lakhs Of His Hard Earned Retirement
Savings , Staking His Everything On This BATTLE FOR JUSTICE Unless He Is
GENUINELY AGGRIEVED And Has A Strong Case .
TIME FOR ABC INTERVENTION AND INVESTIGATION
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, BEFORE IT BECOMES TOO LATE, It
Is Time For ABC As The Regulatory Body To STEP IN, INTERVENE And
INDEPENDENTLY INVESTIGATE Into The Whole FARCE And FRAUD In
The Hindu Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy, Since 2004, By Installing An
Independent “TRUTH COMMISSION” Probe Into The Entire WRONGS And
WRONGDOINGS Chain Of Events That Transpired And Conspired In The
Hindu Circulation Department Since 2004.
To Ensure That This Investigation Is Not Compromised Or Influenced in
Any Manner THE BIG FIVE Of The Hindu’s 12 Year Satyam Fraud (Of Which
One Is Dead) May Be BLACKLISTED , Namely Mr.N.Murali,
Mr.R.Varadamani, Mr.K.S.Raghavan And Mr.N.Krishnan, Not Forgetting Rajiv
C Lochan, So That A Just And Fair Investigation Probe Can Be Made, Without
Fear Or Favour, Without Affection Or Ill Will, Without Bias Or Exception,
Without Being Intimidated Or Influenced, UPHOLDING The Constitution And
The Law, And The Human Rights Of A Victim Of Inhuman Abuse.
Towards CLEAN UP , COURSE CORRECTION And CLOSURE
The Foremost And Fundamental Forensic And Prosecution Question To Ask Is,
Why At All Should The Hindu FAKE And FORGE Circulation Audit Statutory
Documents, Books Of Accounts.
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Obviously Because They Are Involved In Some SERIOUS WRONGDOING,
Where They Are Involved In Something Unlawful And Unethical In Contravention To
The Civil Values They Are Known To Hypocritically Preach From The Moral High
Ground, Where It Is Paradoxical That When The Hindu Presents Itself As “The Self
Appointed Moral Policeman” Against PAID NEWS , It Is Involved In What I Would
Call “Self PAID NEWS Paper”, Where By Sleight Of Hand And Skullduggery, They
Are DESPERATE To PUSH THROUGH “Pre Targeted Circulation Numbers” With
DESPERADO SOLUTIONS, By Hook Or By Crook, Where They Brazenly Believe
That Everything Is Fair In Marketing War, As Long As You PRESENT YOURSELF
To Be POLITICALLY CORRECT, ALL To TURBO BOOST Reader, Readership And
Revenue Numbers, The Fake And The Fraudulent Way – The Satyam Fraud Way -
Where Fundamentally, Bottom Line Truth Is That You Don’t Have The Circulation
That You Claim For Certification. This Is What I Have Bluntly Termed As
“CIRCULATION LAUNDERING” Where You Use ABC As A Tool Means, To
LICENSE And LEGITIMISE Your ILLEGALITIES, To Turn What I Would Call
BLACK Into WHITE.
Besides Carrying Out A Thorough FORENSIC INVESTIGATION
“TRUTH COMMISSION” PROBE, Into The Whole Happenings In the Hindu
Since 2004, Where Basically If The Signatures Of All ABC Documents Submitted
By The Hindu Are Cross Checked With Mother Documents And News Agents
Themselves And All Other Parties Concerned, IN STRICT CONFIDENCE, It
Would Be GAME OVER And ENDGAME Where “Chickens Come Home To
Roost”, Opening A Can Of Worms Where The Ugly Skeletons of 12 Years Will
Come Tumbling Out Of The Hindu’s Closet, Enough To Stir A Hornets Nest,
Enough To Send A Few To Jail.
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I Am Sure Circulation Colleagues Who Retired Or Resigned From The
Hindu Post 2003, Will Have Lot To Depose On THE HIDDEN TRUTH .
The Foremost And Fundamental Prosecution Question N.Murali, And
The Hindu Board By Itself, Will Have To Answer Is, Why In The World Did They
Fail To Call For An Independent “Third Party” Investigation Into The Explosive
Expose Revelations Of An Internal Whistleblower, For Full 10 Years, Despite As
Many as A Mind Boggling 36 Whistleblower Petitions Sent To All Hindu Board
Members (Under Acknowledgement), Unless They Have Something To Hide,
Unless They Have Something To Fear, Unless They Have Something To COVER
UP, Unless They Know About The Wrongdoings, And Are All, Criminals And
Regulator Collaborators, Collusively Complicit In The Criminal Conspiracy.
Taking The Prosecution Case Further, Why Did N.Murali, And
The Hindu Board By Itself, UNLAWFULLY WITHHOLD A Whistleblower
Employee’s Right To Final Settlement Which Legitimately Should Have Been
Settled In October 2006, After He Was Lawfully Relieved By The Company on
18th
September 2006, After He Turned Whistleblower On 18th
September 2006,
Giving A Clear Indication That N.Murali, And The Hindu Board By Itself,
Wanted To Arm Twist And Blackmail A Whistleblower Employee, To Gag Him
From Speaking THE TRUTH – The Unholy Truth , On Something ILLEGAL
And IMMORAL They Wanted To Hide From The Outside World.
Shockingly And Scandalously I Am Yet To Receive My Final Settlement
Even Today, Even After 10 Years Of Being Relieved By The Company On
18th
September 2006 .
And Most Important, Why Was A Veteran Employee Of The Hindu, With A
Outstanding And Spotless 25 Year Career Record TARGETTED, And
WRONGFULLY DISMISSED From The Regional Managers Position On 21st
August 2005, Without A Case, Without A Crime, Without A Charge Sheet,
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Without Being Heard, Without A Credible Trail Process, Without The Right To
Appeal Against The Unfair And Unjust Capital Punishment Judgment, Making
The Hindu JUSTICE SYSTEM Appear Like A Taliban Or ISIS Justice System ?
Why Did The Supreme Court Of The Hindu REFUSE To Hear 36 Appeal
Petitions Made By The Aggrieved Appellant Petitioner In Their Court, Literally
“Sitting Over The Case” For An Untenable 10 Years?
The Hindu ABC FRAUD Case Is Truly A Game Changing Case For ABC
As A Statutory Regulatory Body Whom I Today Look At As “An Appellate
Court”, With The Hope And Expectation That This Scandalous “Pandora’s Box
Of A Case” Worthy Of Going Into The Hall Of Shame, Is Addressed And
Adjudicated “Within The Industry” As The REPUTATION And CREDIBILITY
Of INDIVIDUALS, INSTITUTION And INDUSTRY Are At Peril Stake
Involving THE FAITH And TRUST Of Civil Society On MEDIA, Where Sadly
One Rogue Institution Has Turned MEDIA INTO A MAFIA.
Now That The Hindu ABC FRAUD Scam Racket, Is Out In The Open
Forum, Which I Have Placed Before One And Every ABC MEMBER, Council Of
Management, Publisher, Advertiser, Advertising Agency, Empanelled Auditors
And Allied Governmental Agencies Located Across The Country, Where The
Hindu Scam Racket Criminal Conspiracy Is Out In The Open Within The
Industry, This Is THE MOMENT OF TEST Of CHARACTER And
CREDIBILITY Of ABC As A Regulatory Body, Particularly When There Is A
Suspicion On The INDEPENDENCE And INTEGRITY Of ABC As A Regulatory
Body, To Prove That ABC Is Not “A Cosy Club”, Where If You Fail TO ACT
With PROPRIETY And PROBITY And PROFESSIONALISM in This ACID
TEST CASE ,Then The REPUTATION And CREDIBILITY Of ABC As A
Regulatory Body Will Be UNDERMINED And Made REDUNDANT.
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I Urge ABC As A Governing Body To Look Into THE MIRROR I Have
Placed Before You , Something Which No One Has Perhaps Shown You In
ABC’s 68 Year History , Where You Need To Take A Hard Look In THE
MIRROR , REFLECT ON And DECIDE Whether Or Not You are The Best
Example Of What You Would Like To reflect for those who call you
A REGULATOR .
This Is A WAKE UP CALL For The ABC As A Regulatory Body, For
CLEAN UP, COURSE CORRECTION, BESIDES Bringing CLOSURE To This
12 Year Case Of Gross Misuse Of Privileged Powers Involving Inhuman Human
Rights Violation Abuse , Perpetrated Towards The Hindu Circulation ABC
FRAUD Ends.
Its Now Or Never For ABC To Restore FAITH On Its Regulatory Role And
Audit Process, Otherwise It Will Be Sending The Wrong Signals To Institutions
And Industry Members, That It Is Okay TO CHEAT And COMMIT FRAUD, As
Long As You Are Not Caught.
It Is Time For CLEAN UP And COURSE CORRECTION To RESTORE
FAITH Of Reader , Readership And Revenue Generating Advertisers Where
There Is Urgent Need To RESTORE FAITH In ABC As A Regulatory Body .
For INDUSTRY’S CREDIBILITY And REPUTATION Sake , There Is
Need To BRING CLOSURE To This SNOWBALLING CASE .
It Is Time For ABC To STEP IN, INTERVENE And INVESTIGATE Into
The 12 Year ABC Scam Racket In The Hindu, ACT Firmly And Fairly, Without
Fear or Favour, Without Affection Or Ill Will, Without Bias Or Exception,
Without Being Influenced Or Intimidated By Personalities Like N.Murali The
Ex-Insider Of The ABC Council Of Management, Without Sparing Anyone
Whosoever Guilty, In The TRUE SPIRIT Of A Regulatory Body, Upholding
TRUTH , JUSTICE, FAIRPLAY And RULE OF LAW.
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Like It Or Not, Accept It Or Not, Mr.N.Murali And The Hindu, Have
Brought DISREPUTE To CIRCULATION And ABC AUDIT With Their
BRAZEN Fraudulent Deeds For 12 Years, For Which They Must Be Brought To
ACCOUNTABILITY As A Loud Message And Deterrent To Others That Is Not
Wise To Cheat, To Commit Fraud.
Suzuki Did It, Volkswagen Did It, Toshiba Did It, Olympus Did It Where
In All These Cases The CEO / Chairman Had To Step Down, And Now The
Hindu Has Done “A Satyam” For Which The CEO, The Chairman / Co Chairman
Must Be Brought To ACCOUNTABILITY And MORAL RESPONSIBILITY.
Isn’t It The Worst Form Of HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE For An Individual
And Institution, To INTIMIDATE And INDOCTRINATE Subordinate
Employees Of The Hindu Into The Illegal And The Immoral ?
What Sort Of CSR Is This, But CORPORATE SLEAZE
RESPONSIBILITY?
Does A Conscientious Employee Refusing To Be Involved In The Illegal And
The Immoral Amount To Indiscipline And Insubordination To Be Worthy Of
Being Summarily Sacked ? Is It A Rarest Of Rare Crime To Be Honest &
Upright?
The Hindu’s Gross Unethical And Unlawful Practices, Call For It To Be
Blacklisted and Suspended For A Certain Period, As A Loud Lesson To All Likely
Future Wrongdoers, That You Should Not Breach The Lakshman Rekha’s, Let
Alone Break The Law, Learning To Respect These Sacred Dividing Lines In
Letter And Spirit.
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THE MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR ABC AS A REGULATORY BODY.
The Situation Demands For ABC To Immediately Convene An
Extraordinary General Body Meeting To Address This Serious Industry
Impacting Issue Of The Hindu ABC Fraud Racket, At The Critical
CROSSROADS MOMENT OF ABC.
WHAT THE SITUATION DEMANDS FROM ABC
Institute A TRUTH COMMISSION To Make A Thorough Probe Into
The Whole Fraud And Whatever Wrongs And Wrongdoings That Transpired In
The Hindu Circulation ABC Fraud Gate Since 2004 .
The Whole Scam Needs To Be Thoroughly Investigated Into By Making A
Forensic And Field Investigation By An Independent Investigating Team To
Understand How High The Rot And The Racket Goes In The Hindu ABC FRAUD
Scam Racket.
To Get To The Bottom Of FACTS And THE FRAUD , In This INQUEST
INVESTIGATION , All Clinical And Circumstantial Evidence Must Be Taken
Into Account , Where Even Retired And Resigned Staff Of The Hindu’s
Circulation Department Post January 2004 , IN TOTAL CONFIDENCE , May Be
Asked And Allowed TO DEPOSE To A SWORN TESTIMONY As
PROSECUTION WITNESS Before THE TRUTH COMMISSION PROBE ,
Specifically Questioning Them On The Compelling Circumstances Under Which
They Left The Hindu And What Was The GROUND REALITIES In Circulation
Department Of The Hindu Post January 2004 .
To Get To The Bottom Of The Scam Racket , ABC Needs To Do A Thorough
Forensic Investigation By CROSS CHECKING Signatures In Statutory
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Documents Submitted By The Hindu For Certification – Namely Bill Statements
And Payment Covering Notes etc etc – With News Agents, Stamped Agreements,
Meeting All Major And Medium Level News Agents, Focusing Particularly On
Chennai And Tamil Nadu And “The Top 6 Fastest Growing Markets Of The
Hindu” Where They Claim Record Breaking Growth In Circulation In 2015-ABC
IInd Half , To Understand , Where Exactly, In What Segment, And How They
Generated 66% Growth In Vijayawada And Extra Ordinary High Double Digit
Growth In 6 Listed Markets, To Have Some INSIGHTS On How The Hindu Has
Generated The Record Breaking Growth, Through What Means, Making A Copy
Wise Audit Probe On Supply Received In Major Distribution Points To Check On
Where Exactly Copies Are Going , Whether It Is Going To The Reader Or The
RADHI MEANS and METHODS, PROBING Deeper Into Related Issues Like
Supply, Unsold Levels, Undistributed Copies, Settlement Of Bills, Circulation
Outstanding, Adjustment Entries By Way Of Rebate On Unsold, Debit/Credit
Entries In The Agents Statement Of Account , Under What Head , etc etc .
All In All The 12 Year Hindu ABC Fraud Racket Needs To Be Extensively
Investigated Into To Get To The Bottom Of THE TRUTH, THE SCAM, And THE
MULTI DIMENSIONAL CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY Where It Calls For A
Thorough Investigation Audit Probe ENCOMPASSING Among Several Things,
1) Make A Thorough and Complete Forensic Audit Of All The Statutory
Documents – Namely Bill Statements, Payment Covering Notes Of At Least
The Last 3 ABC Audits From 2015 Ist Half To 2016 Ist Half.
2) Make Surprise “Fact Finding” Inspection Visits To The Hindu Distribution
Points , Particularly In All Major And Medium Towns And Cities In And
Across Chennai And Tamil Nadu , And Crosscheck GROUND REALITIES
And The Murky Facts.
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3) Audit Check All Account Adjustments By Way Of Debit/Credit In ABC
Months Of June And December, Cross Checking Fly By Night And
Fraudulent Adjustments “Made In The Sly” At The Last Minute To
Circumvent And Hoodwink ABC And Its Audit Norms.
4) Investigate, Where There Was A Steady Decrease In ABC Circulation Of
The Hindu Over The Last Few Years , WHY , HOW And Under WHAT
Circumstances Was There A SUDDEN SPIKE In Circulation Of The Hindu
In 2015-ABC IInd Half, That Too Selectively And With A Skewed Pattern
In Certain Printing Units, That Too In Major Advertisement Revenue
Generating Potential Markets. Was THE SPIKE In Circulation Through
READER And READERSHIP Or RADHI And RACKETEERING ?
5) The Role Of Mr.N.Murali Then Managing Director And Present Co
Chairman In The Hindu ABC Fraud Criminal Conspiracy Is Suspect And
Needs Scrutiny Investigation. Why And Under What Compelling
Circumstances Did The CEO Turn Chief Conspirator Turned Blackmailer ?
6) What Is The Link Between Mr.N.Murali And The Scandalous Scam And
Sex Racket In Circulation Department Of The Hindu ?
7) Why Did Mr.N.Murali In His Role As Managing Director And Co
Chairman Of The Hindu Fail To Carry Out An Independent Investigation
Into The Whistleblower Revelations Of An Internal Whistleblower For 10
Years ? Fact Was That Accused N Murali OBSTRUCTED An Independent
Investigation Misusing His Managing Director And Co Chairman Position
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So That THE ABC FRAUD RACKET Could Continue UNOBSTRUCTED
And UNCHECKED In Perpetuity Forever .
8) Why Did N Murali Obstruct THE PROCESS For An Aggrieved Appellant
Murali Krishnan From Getting JUSTICE After OUTRAGEOUS
INJUSTICE Was Done To Him in 2005? What Is His HIDDEN AGENDA?
INCONVENIENT TRUTH Is Straight And Simple . It Was One Person, A
Single Person , Who Stood In The Way Of This Whole Juggernaut Of A
Machiavellian Plot . It Was One Person Who Blew THE WHISTLE And
Blew N Murali’s Whole Web Of A Plot, For Which He Wanted That The
Whistleblower Must Be BROUGHT DOWN At Whatever Cost , Through
Whatever Means , Stooping To Whatever Levels , Whatever It Takes , To
Bury The Truth And The Whistleblower .
9) Why And Under What Compelling Circumstances Did The Hindu
Board INSTITUTIONALLY “Utterly Fail To Act” For 10 Years, On
36 Whistleblower Petitions Sent To All Board Members, Beseeching
Intervention And Independent “Third Party” Investigation ? Why
The Murky Stonewall Of Silence For 10 Years ?
Beyond This Why Did The Esteemed Independent Directors Ms Vinita Bali
Of Britannia Fame And Mr S Mahalingam Of TCS Fame “PLAY ALONG”
With The Hindu ABC Fraud Despite As Many As 13 Whistleblower
Petitions Sent To Them Beseeching Intervention And Independent
Investigation ?.
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10) Why And Under What Compelling Circumstances ,Was A Honest Hard
Working Employee With An Outstanding And Spotless Track Record
SUDDENLY TARGETED In 2005, WRONGFULLY DISMISSED From
The Regional Managers Position And Witch Hunted Out Of The Hindu
After 25+ Years Of Recorded Outstanding Service And Results Delivered ?
11) Why And Under What Credible Circumstances Was An Employees Final
Settlement Unlawfully Detained And Denied, After He Was Lawfully
Relieved vide Relieving Letter Dated 18th
September 2006, And Notably
After He Turned Whistleblower To The Hindu ABC Fraud Scam Racket At
The Hindu Board Level ?
12) Why In The World Has The Hindu As An Institution Still Failed To Make
The Final Settlement Even After 10 Years Of An Employee Being Relieved?
13) Why, And At Whose Behest, Did The Hindu Board Bury The Hindu ABC
Scam Racket, After The Whistleblower Expose Revelations, When They
Should Have Got To The Bottom Of The Scam, The Truth And The
Criminal Conspiracy ?
14) Why Has Not A Single Wrongdoer Named By The Whistleblower On
The Hindu ABC Fraud Scam Racket Been Punished And Brought To
Accountability ? Isn’t it A Shameful Mockery Of A Farce To Promote
Known Wrongdoers In The Hindu ? Why Is N Murali, And The Hindu
Board By Themselves, Shielding The Wrongdoers, Unless They Are
Complicit In The Wrongdoing And Colluding With The Wrongdoers ?
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15) While As A Whistleblower I Had Sent 36 Whistleblower Petitions To
The Hindu Board Members IN WRITING , Why Has There Been No
Response To The Petitions From The Company IN WRITING ? Doesn’t It
amount To Admission Of Guilt And Fear Of A Complicit Wrongdoer,
Where You Are Scared To Put Anything IN WRITING ? Doesn’t This By
Itself Conclusively Prove Who Is Guilty And Who Is Innocent For Which
You Don’t Need To Be A Sherlock Holmes ?
16) Targeting A Whistleblower, Doesn’t It Amount To Law Makers Trying To
“Shoot The Messenger”?
17) An Employee Wise Enquiry Probe Of Salaries, Promotions, Increments,
OTP Incentive Doled Out In Circulation Department Of The Hindu During
The Last 12 Years Will Reveal LIBERAL And LARGE “PAY OFFS ” As
Quid Pro Quo BRIBES Made Annually And Arbitrarily During The Last
12 Years, In A PAY OUT, So That They Do Not Cause Trouble And To
Wean Them TO COOPERATE To THE SYSTEMIC ABC FRAUD Within
Circulation Department Of The Hindu, And Also As A Price To Gag Them
From Speaking Out About The Insidious ABC SCAM RACKET, Where
The Stakes Are Too High To Take The Risk Of It Getting Exposed , Where
The Hindu May Lose In Lakhs As BRIBES ,But Earn In Crores Through
WRONGDOINGS. The Rotten Leadership In The Hindu Are Up To Their
DIRTY TRICKS , Where They Don’t Have Any Ethics , Values Or Decency.
This Is PAID FRAUD That We Have In Circulation Department Of
The Hindu Where ABC FRAUDSTERS Are Liberally Rewarded With
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Promotions, Increments, OTP Incentives To Commit ABC FRAUD With
Bigger Intensity Towards Greater Heights In LYING, CHEATING And
COMMITTING ABC FRAUD.
Isn’t It A Mockery Of A FARCE , Of FRAUD Getting INCENTIVISED In
The Hindu. ?
18) KILLING CIRCULATION OUTSTANDINGS Being SURREPTITIOUSLY,
In The Sly, Being Adjusted Using Machiavellian And Machination Means
And Methods On 30th June And 31st December On The Last Day Of Every
Audit Period, Without The Knowledge Or Consent Letter Of The News
Agents, All Just To HOODWINK ABC Circulation Outstanding Guidelines,
To Avoid ABC Deduction Of Copies For Failing To Adhere To ABC
Collection Norms, Is a Big Scam In Itself.
19) Rebate On Unsolds Selectively Given Under Several Unknown Heads After
They Are Billed To Be Included In The Copies To Be Included For Claiming
CERTIFICATION, Is A Racket In Itself .
20) There Is Absolute Need To Include All Major Ex News Agents Who Quit
The Hindu News Agency Business Post 2003 ( Particularly Those News
Agents Who Showed Large Circulation Outstanding In Their Ex Agency
Account At The End Of The Audit Period ) In This FACT FINDING
PROBE Which Will Be A HUGE EYE OPENER On What Is Transpiring
And Conspiring In The Hindu ABC FRAUD Since 2004 And What
Compelling Circumstances Forced Them To Leave An Agency They Most
Cherished ? This Is Extremely Critical And Most Important Part For The
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Investigation Probe , As This Single Prosecution Point Could Prove GAME
OVER And ENDGAME To Expose The Full Contours And Layers Of The
Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy Behind The Hindu ABC FRAUD
Since 2004 And NAIL DOWN The WRONGDOING And The
WRONGDOERS . In This Sense This Is An INQUEST INVESTIGATION ,
Digging Out BURIED SKELETONS Of The Past Which Could Be A
MINEFIELD Of Information Enough To Bury The WRONGDOERS Of
The Hindu.
21) ABC Investigating Team Needs To Check Whether News Agents Letters
Are There For All Increases Made To News Agents As Mandated By ABC
Standing Guidelines , Considering The Whole Lot Of Arbitrary And Ad
Hoc Increases Made By The Company Without The Request Or Consent Of
The News Agent Towards RADHI And RACKETEERING.
22) Also To Be Investigated Into Is A Distinct Pattern On The Hindu’s Monthly
ABC Circulation Average In All Editions SPIKING On The LAST MONTH
Of Every ABC Audit Period , Namely Months Of June And December . This
Could Be Insightfull Eye Opener On The INTENT And Extreme Practices
And ARTIFICIAL STEROID Means And Methods Used To ENHANCE
PERFORMANCE.
Today There Seems To Be A HIDDEN AGENDA Behind The All Out
Ongoing Drive To Boost Circulation Of The Hindu Tamil Edition , Through
Whatever Means , Going To Whatever Levels , Whatever It Takes ,
Including Offering 50% Discount On Subscription Offers ?
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23) The ABC Investigation Team Must Make Particular Note TO CROSS
CHECK With News Agents If There Was Any Attempt By The Wrongdoers
In The Hindu To APPROACH THEM , POST 11th
July 2016 When I
Turned Whistleblower At ABC , To INFLUENCE THEM “ TO
COOPERATE” In COVER UP Of THE HINDU ABC FRAUDGATE ,
Making Particular Note To Check If Any Attempt Was Made To TUTOR or
THREATEN Them What To Say , Or Any Attempt Was Made To Get
Their Signatures On ABC Documents Post 15th
July 2016 .
24) It Is Important That The Hindu , Given Its Infamous Past , Needs To Be
Under The Scanner , Under Close And Continuous ABC Scrutiny , Under
The Magnifying Glass From Now On , To Ensure They Don’t Take Things
And ABC For Granted From Now On .
As ROGUES Who Have Mastered The Art Of DECEIT And DECEPTION,
LYING And CHEATING , Through Sleight Of Hand And Skullduggery,
Who Know The Art Of HOODWINKING The ABC AUDIT Process And
AUDITORS, Who Have Studied The Mind And Methods Of How The
System Works In ABC, Who Have Studied Every LEEWAY,
LOOPHOLES And LEGALITIES Of ABC AUDITING, They Know How
To Get Away With LYING, CHEATING And COMMITTING ABC
FRAUD, Where In A Mockery Of A FARCE And FRAUD, They PRETEND
And PRESENT Themselves To Be POLITICALLY CORRECT, When
PRINCIPALLY, They Are CRIMINALLY And MORALLY WRONG .
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Truly THE HINDU Has Turned THE MEDIA Into A MAFIA .
I Urge ABC Working Towards Ensuring This SCAMDALOUS CASE Is
Redressed And Resolved INTERNALLY Within The Industry, Something Which
Should Have Been Addressed And Redressed “Within The Institution The Hindu
10 Years Back, Towards CLEAN UP, COURSE CORRECTION, Besides
BRINGING CLOSURE To This 12 Year Scandalous Case, Out Of The Glare Of
Civil Society And A Court Of Law, On A Highly Sensitive Pandora’s Box Of A
Issue Which Could Prove To Be A Can Of Worms With Some Ugly Skeletons
Hidden In The Closet, Which When And If Opened, Could Stir A Huge Hornets
Nest In Civil Society And A Court Of Law, Leading To A Supreme Court
Monitored Probe Of The Justice Mudgal Committee Order which Was Done In
The BCCI Scamdal , Where I Am Determined To Take This 12 Year Fight For
Justice To Its Logical Conclusion, Till I Get JUSTICE .
As A HORRIBLE VICTIM Of A Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy
Centered Around THE HINDU ABC FRAUD GATE, I Murali Krishnan, The
Aggrieved Whistleblower Appellant Seek Immediate Intervention And
Investigation By ABC As The statutory Regulatory Body Of Circulation And
Ensure That I Finally Get CLOSURE JUSTICE And My RIGHTFUL FINAL
SETTLEMENT (Duly Keeping In Mind The Criminal Conspiracy Context)
Which Has Been Unlawfully Denied To Me For 10 Years.
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JUSTICE FOR MURALI KRISHNAN
A Record 36 Whistleblower Petitions Have Been Sent To The Hindu Board
Members In 10 Years, Where I Chose To Be PATIENT But PERSISTENT In The
Face Of All PROVOCATIONS And PREVARICATIONS , Keeping Institution
And Industry Interest Above My Individual Interest, As It Involves The HOPE,
FAITH, BELIEF, EXPECTATIONS And ASPIRATIONS Of Civil Society On
THE MEDIA – As The Watchdog Of Democracy And Democracy Values.
HOPE, FAITH And BELIEF Is What Kept Me Going For
12 Traumatic Years, With The BELIEF That, One Day, For Sure, TRUTH And
JUSTICE Will Prevail in This Case Of OUTRAGEOUS INJUSTICE And
WRONGDOINGS, Where Justice Will Not Just Be Done , But Seen To Be Done,
And I Will Get The CLOSURE JUSTICE And My RIGHTFUL FINAL
SETTLEMENT Which Was Inhumanly Denied To Me For 10 Long Years, To
Bring To An End The Most Sordid And Shameful Chapter In Civil Or Corporate
History.
Beyond Anything And Everything ABC Needs To Get To The Bottom Of
This Whole Thing , To RESTORE FAITH In HONEST CIRCULATION WORK
And “GOOD OLD CIRCULATION VALUES” Of READER And READERSHIP
– And Not RADHI And RACKETEERING, Only Then Will The REVENUE
GENERATING ADVERTISER Have FAITH In CERTIFIED CIRCULATION.
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Time For ABC To Do A REALITY CHECK And Introduce EFFECTIVE
Checks And Balances To Checkmate WRONGDOING Of Any Order In The
Industry .
I Am Sure The Rogue Mafia Syndicate Of A Leadership In The Hindu ,
Who Have Been LIVING IN DENIAL Of The UNDENIABLE And The
INDEFENSIBLE For The Last 12 Years Of SYSTEMIC FRAUD Of
ORGANISED FRAUD Order , Where One And Everyone From The CEO , The
Co Chairman , The Chairman And The Criminal Leadership In Circulation
Department , Who Are All HAND IN GLOVE , TOGETHER Form THE
CIRCULATION MAFIA , Will Try Their Utmost To MANIPULATE And
MUSCLE Their Way Out Of Their CRIMINALITY And CULPABILITY In
What Is A Watertight Case , Where They Will Do Their Utmost To SUBVERT
And OBSTRUCT An Investigation Into Their WRONGDOINGS , Where We Can
Expect A GAG ORDER Being Passed In Circulation Department Of The Hindu
Not To Dare Speak The Truth , Where A GOONDA Raj Of A Leadership Will
Try To Browbeat and Brazen Their Way To SABOTAGE Their Way Through ,
As Is Their wont , And Try To Wish Away Whatever I Have Exposed In My 10
Year Volume Of INSIDER WHISTLEBLOWER REVELATIONS . It Is For
ABC To INDEPENDENTLY PROBE Into “L,affaire The Hindu ABC Fraud” ,
With An Independent And Extensive Forensic Investigation ,To Get To The
Bottom Of The Truth , The Scam And The Multi Dimensional Criminal
Conspiracy, Ensuring CLEAN UP , COURSE CORRECTION And Bringing
CLOSURE To This 12 Year Skeleton Of A Snowballing Case .
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This Is The Defining Moment For ABC As “ A WATCHDOG OF
WATCHDOGS ” To UPHOLD PROFESSIONAL PRINCIPLES &PRACTISES ,
Without Exception Or Compromise . After All There Is Something Sacred , A
Lakshman Rekha Called WORK ETHICS And BUSINESS ETHICS , Which
Sadly Was Thrown To The Winds By The ROGUE PRACTICES Of The Hindu
Group Since 2004 .
This Is Truly THE WAKE UP CALL For ABC As A Regulatory Body.
ITS NOW Or NEVER.
SATYAMEVA JAYETE
Regards
MURALI KRISHNAN
Employee No 3814
Aggrieved Whistleblower Appellant
Deposed Regional Manager
The Hindu Kochi
Mobile No. 098841 01304
E-Mail: [email protected] Next Page...
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Post Script: A POINT OF VIEW – A Few Honest Opinion Suggestions For ABC
From A Humble Circulation Foot Soldier Who Breathed And Lived Circulation,
Researching And Introspecting, Endlessly On An Exalting And Exhilarating
Voyage Of A Spiritual Journey Towards Circulation Excellence And
CUSTOMER DELIGHT.
To Me CIRCULATION Was Not A Profession, But A PASSION I Lived, Ate,
Slept, With Aspirational Dreams For A Life Time 25+ Years, Searching And
Researching Reader Behavior And Expectations , Till I Was SHOT DOWN In
A FAKE ENCOUNTER KILLING On 21st August 2005.
1) Quoting NRR Is Fundamentally Wrong :It Is My Honest Opinion That ABC
As A Regulatory Body For Circulation, Themselves Fixing RADHI Rates (NRR)
Every 6 Months Before Every Audit Period, For The 4 Zones, Is Not A Right
Augury, To Deal With The Frankenstein Monster Of RADHI And
RACKETEERING, Where To Me The Solution Seems To Be Worse Than The
Disease, Which Is What Has Fundamentally Lead To This
12 Year Circulation Scam Racket In The Hindu.
This Is A Frankenstein Monster Of A Problem Issue, Fully Capitalised By The
Hindu, Which Needs To Be Addressed On A War Footing, Which If Left
Unaddressed Could Lead To A FREE FOR ALL Situation In The Industry
Leading To Authority, Credibility And Reputation Of ABC Being Undermined
And Made Redundant , Where ABC Could End Up Certifying FRAUD And
FAKE Circulation.
I Still Cannot Understand , Why ABC “Watered Down” It Stringent Audit
Norms, Where Earlier ABC Auditing Was Based On “A Cap On Discount”
Which Largely Ensured That Only GENUINE READER ORIENTED COPIES
Were CERTIFIED.
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Further Earlier ABC CERTIFICATE SUMMARY, Publication Wise Was
Provided, Transparently Giving Split Up Of How The Certified Figure Was
Arrived At, WHERE , Sponsorship/ Bulk Orders, Student Subscription And
Other Subscription Schemes, Institutional Orders etc etc Were Clearly Listed
And Separated From News Agency Generated Regular Subscription Copies, To
Ensure Quality Over Quantity Of Certified Copies. Now ABC Certificate Is
Silent On This Critically Important Issue.
I Think ABC Needs To Seriously RETHINK On This Critically Important Issue
To Ensure TRANSPARENCY And ACCOUNTABILITY , Which Should
Ideally Be DISCOUNT ORIENTED And Not RADHI RATE ORIENTED As It
Is Today.
2) Need To Ban Sponsorship And Bulk Order Concept :Honestly, I Think It Is
Time ABC Bans SPONSORSHIP, BULK ORDERS In ABC CERTIFICATION
Norms, As This Is Fundamentally The Root Of The CANCEROUS Rot Which
Has Beset and Besieged The Industry , Reducing CIRCULATION To A MAD
RAT RACE.
You May Ask Why ? You Will Get The Answer To My Question, When You
Probe Deeper Into The Multi Dimensional Hindu Scam Racket, Where Exactly ,
And Through What Machiavellian And Machination Means And Methods The
Hindu Has Reduced SPONSORSHIP , BULK ORDERS And INSTITUTIONAL
ORDERS To Today Running To Tens Of Lakhs Every Month, Where These
SO CALLED Sponsored Copies Are Distributed In Temples, Churches,
Pilgrimage Centers, You Name It, Distributing Sponsored Copies Left, Right,
Centre, Like HAND OUTS, Like Leaflets, Reducing The Hindu (English And
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Tamil) To Pamphleteering, Where Copies Are Doled Out To The Masses In
Mass Numbers, Irrespective Of Whether You Know The Language Or Not,
Irrespective Of Whether You Read It, Or Use It As RADHI To Pack Groundnut
And Grocery. To Put It In One Single Word It Is PREPOSTEROUS. This Must
Be Stopped To Bring Some SANCTITY To ABC CERTIFICATION.
It’s A BLOODY FARCE That The Core Focus And Strength Of The
Hindu Which Was Subscriptions, Subscriptions, Subscriptions And Nothing But
Subscriptions, Till The Turn Of The Century, Is Today Sponsorship,
Sponsorship, Sponsorship And Nothing But Sponsorship, Where
SUBSCRIPTION Has Been Completely Forgotten And Given The Go By, As
Sponsorship Is A One Stop QUICK FIX Solution For VOLUMES Where
VALUES Don’t Matter At All, Where For The MAMMON And MERCENARY
“Dividend” Driven Hindu And Hindu Board Of The 21st Century Its Only
ENDS That Matter Not MEANS, METHODS Or MORALS.
Honestly, Its Not A Farce But A Fraud Where We Are CHEATING
Ourselves More Than Our CLIENTS , In Not Being True To OUR CORE
FUNDAMENTAL VALUES.I Would Advise ABC To Give Some Serious
Thought To This Industry Impacting Issue Which Could Be An Excellent CASE
STUDY As An EYE OPENER On What Not To Do .
3) RECHECK AUDITS : So Long RECHECK AUDITS Have Been
Conventionally Done, Restricted To Auditing The Books Of accounts WITHIN
The Publishers Office And Press.
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With Some Publishers Becoming STREET-SMART, It Is Time ABC Expand
Their Audit Methodology To Making Surprise RECHECK AUDIT RAIDS In
Distribution Points, Cross Checking Facts And Ground Realities With News
Agents To Know What’s Happening On And Under Ground Realities With
Unannounced FIELD INSPECTION VISITS. This Is Required Today
Particularly In The Context Of Whatever NONSENSE Has Been Transpiring
And Conspiring In The Law Unto Themselves Hindu Since 2004, Where there Is
A World Of A Difference Between What Is Being PERCEIVED And What Is
Being PRACTICED, In The Sly.
Towards This End, It Is Critically Important That ABC As A Regulatory Body
Has A Small Team Of CIRCULATION OFFICERS, Like RNI Who Have Circulation
Officers Posted In Their Headquarters And All Regional Offices To Cross Check Facts
Of Registered Newspapers, To Cross Check Disconcerting Facts And Figures Before
Conclusions Are Drawn And ABC Certification Is Given For Claimed Copies , In A
World Where There Is An Attempt “To Beat The System” Rather Than Respecting
Lakshman Rekhas And The Law. This Will Also Act as A Deterrent To Those Who
Try To Beat The ABC Audit System, Particularly In The Context Of The New I & B
Ministry Guidelines For DAVP ADS, Where Some May Stoop To Any Levels,
Whatever It Takes To Take The Cake Of Advertisement Share In A Game Of ONE-
UPMANSHIP To Be ONE UP On Competitor ,By Hook Or By Crook , At Whatever
Cost , Through Whatever Means , Stooping To Whatever Levels , Whatever It Takes
,Including a Publisher Becoming A WHOLESALE WASTEPAPER MERCHANT.
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ABC Needs To Take PRE- EMPTIVE And PREVENTIVE MEASURES , To Be
One Step Ahead Of WRONGDOERS Like The Hindu Group .
Last But Most Important , It Is Necessary That ABC As A Regulatory Audit
Body , Ensures That There Is No “Conflict Of Interest” among ABC Members , Of Any
Kind , At Any Level , To Ensure That Audit Obligations Are Not Compromised Due
To “Conflict Of Interest”, Where The 12 Year HINDU ABC FRAUD Scam Clearly
Indicates There Is Conflict Of Interest , Somewhere , At Some Level . That’s For ABC
To Investigate And Fix RESPONSIBILITY And ACCOUNTABILITY And Bring In
CHECKS And BALANCES , So As To Ensure That Will Never Be Another Murali
Krishnan Who Becomes A Victim Of AN ABC FRAUD SCAM In The Industry.
CLOSING NOTE : What I Feel Sad Is That With A Lifetime 25+ Years Of
Worldly And Wisdom “Hands On” Experience In CIRCULATION RESEARCH
I Could Not Share My Lifetime “Wealth Of Experience In Circulation” Towards
Institutional And Industry Well Being Beyond My 45Th
Year When I Was SHOT
DOWN By The Hindu CIRCULATION MAFIA on 21st August 2005 . It’s Not My
Loss But The Institution’s Loss And The Industry’s Loss, Where To Me , More Than
WINNING , It Is WISDOM That Matters To Be A Better Human Being Beyond Being
A Good Professional , Where MEANS , METHODS And MORALS Matter Most .
What Rogues In The Hindu Badly Need Today Is Not Management Lessons,
But Moral Science Lessons .
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THE HINDU FORGOTTEN LEGACY VALUES
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THE WRITING ON THE WALL
ENDGAME 11.05.2016
WHISTLEBLOWER PETITION NO.36
An “EPILOGUE” of An Open Letter Note to 15 Board Members of
The Hindu’s Governing Council.
Dear Director,
FRAUD IN THE HINDU – SINCE 2004
DISASTER, WAITING TO HAPPEN
On 23rd April 2016 (Saturday) In Perhaps A First Time in Whistleblowers
History, I as An Internal Whistleblower have Uploaded An Open Letter Note
dated 23rd April 2016 to The Hindu Board Members on Facebook and Twitter,
MAKING PUBLIC, What has so long for 10 Years been A Private Confidential
Conversation Restricted to “The Hindu Board Room”, On The Shockingly
Scandalous 13 Year CORPORATE FRAUD in The Hindu, Since 2004.
MISSION EXPOSURE
If You may Recollect, In 2015 As A First Step Towards EXPOSURE of Woeful
Wrongdoings in The Hindu Since 2004, On 16th February 2015 (Monday) I had
INTERALLY EXPOSED The 13 Year CORPORATE FRAUD Within the Hindu, By
Taking My 13 Year Epic Crusade of A Battle to 2237 Employees of The Hindu,
Through 2237 Explosive E-mails, Sent Individually to All Employees of The Hindu
Across The Country , And Even Abroad – Ironically sent through The Server of The
Hindu – With Voluminous Incriminating and Implicating Attachment Files, Exposing A
Shockingly Reprehensible And Repulsive Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy,
Within India’s Most Respected and Reputed Newspaper Group.
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NAMING AND SHAMING – A PUBLIC DRESSING DOWN
Internally Within The Hindu, This Explosive E-mail Destroyed The Credibility
and Reputation of Not Just THE CIRCULATION MAFIA in Criminal Circulation
Department of The Hindu, But Also The Credibility and Reputation of The Hindu
Board Members, In A Shocking Case of Regulators Turned Collaborators in Woeful
Wrongdoings Within The Company.
This Internal Whistleblower Expose Within The Hindu in 2015, Only
EMBARASSED The Criminal Wrongdoers and The Complicit Hindu Board Members,
Where they lost their Credibility and Reputation Within The Institution.
THE MOTHER OF ALL “EXPOSURE”
As A Next Logical Step, Toward Taking this 12 Year Criminal Conspiracy
Case to its Logical Conclusion, Now I am Working on Something BIGGER and
“BALLISTIC” (Of The Edward Snowden Order) than What
I did Last Year “Within The Hindu”, Where Now ESCALATING THINGS
I Intend Taking My “Missive Of A Missile” to A Larger And More Potent “Target
Audience” Outside The Hindu.
For The Last 4 Months I have been Working on “A Massive E-mail
Database”, Bigger than What I Worked On Last Year in My Whistleblower
Campaign “Within The Hindu”, Which could Prove ENDGAME to the
13 Year Scandalous Scam in The Hindu, Something Which could Potently and
Potentially Destroy and Decimate the Reputation and Credibility of Individuals
and Sink The Hindu As An Institution.
Needless to say I will not go into The Specifics of This Mission, Which You will
get to Know only when it Hits You, Hard, Hurting You, Where It Hurts You the Most.
All I can say is that This Is A Massive E-mail Database of “Movers and
Shakers” Located Across the Country, People Who Matter Most, To Bring Some
FINALITY to This 13 Year Shockingly Scandalous Case.
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All I can say is that it was Wrong for You to Mistake Decency as
A Weakness, Where though having A Watertight Case Where I could have Sued
The Hindu and “Spilled The Beans” In 2005 Itself, I gave you A Long Rope, Taking
into Account Your Stature and Standing in Society, Reputation and Credibility of The
Hindu As An Institution.
Waiting, Waiting As I An Aggrieved Victim of “Wrongful Dismissal” and “Gross
Mistreatment” have been for Truth, Justice and Final Settlement for
10 Years, Today I am very Angry, Livid, Furious at The Feudal Justice System in
The Hindu, Which given its Dubious Practices, Appear to be Extolling Criminal
Values and Seems For Criminals, By Criminals, To Criminals, In A Democracy of
Sorts.
On The Cusp of Becoming History
Disappointed and Disgusted, As “I Burn My Bridges” to The Hindu, Where My
Loyalty to The Hindu of 36 Years comes to An Apocalyptic End, As I GO PUBLIC in
My EXPOSURE and DISCLOSURE, As I Stand At Edge of
The Hindu and History, Where The Hindu Stands at the Edge of A Precipice,
I Thought I must give You A Piece of My Mind, SPEAKING OUT On What I Honestly
Feel About Issues And The Hindu As An Institution.
A Parting Shot
I Chose to be Patient and Restrained For 13 Years, Considering the
Seriousness and Sensitivity of the Scandalous Scam Racket, And Status and
Standing of The Hindu Board Members, Who Seem to be Driven More by
EXPEDIENCY than PRINCIPLES.
In A Civil Society there is Something Called GRATITUDE Where You Express
“BEING THANKFUL” and HONOUR Those UNSUNG HEROES, Those PATRIOTIC
FOOTSOLDIERS Who have Selflessly Served A Cause or Company For A Lifetime.
Its Sad and Shocking that in The Hindu They Honour A Lifetime of Honesty,
Loyalty and Integrity to Cause, Commitment, Customer, Company and Civil Society
At Large, With INGRATITUDE and DISHONOUR.
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Today After A Lifetime of Integrity to Institution, My Heart Bleeds, Eyes Wells
And My Blood Boils with Anger (After A Lifetime of Blood, Sweat, Toil and Tears
Towards Institutional Well Being), That I was so “HORRIBLY MISTREATED” in The
Hindu, All for the Crime of Conscientiously Choosing to be Steadfast to Human and
Institutional Values.
Looking At The Farce and The Fraud of the Last 13 Years, The Hindu Board
and its Ritualistic Board Meetings have been Reduced to A JOKE Where Hindu
Board Members Appear like A Bunch of JOKERS , Rather Than JUDGES .
SHAME ON YOU
All I say is, Shame On You Who are Worthy of being called Shame, Shameful
and The Utterly Shameless, Where You and The Hindu As An Institution are A
Shame to Civil Society, Who Make MAN loose FAITH in MAN And MANKIND.
Today I Hang My Head in Shame to think or say I was Associated with
this Institution – The Hindu – For Over 25 Years.
CONSCIENCE KEEPERS WITHOUT A CONSCIENCE
This Sensitive Institution Impacting Issue of 13 Years has Reached
“The Tipping Point”, Where At Its Core, Fundamentally it Boils Down to Your EGO
Vs My ESTEEM – Self Esteem, Something Which Demanded The Issue be
Addressed with EQUANIMITY.
As Human Beings, Decency Demands that When You Make A Mistake, You
First Admit, Apologize, Address the Mistake and Move Forward, Which Sadly You
Failed to do for An Untenable 13 Years, All because of Your FEUDAL EGO.
What ails THE SYSTEM in The Hindu is SWOLLEN EGO of INDIVIDUALS,
Where MAN Becomes MEGALOMANIAC, Where INDIVIDUALS Become Larger
than INSTITUTION.
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Mr. N. Murali, Mr. N. Ram Epitomise BLOATED EGO, Who have A False
Sense of Pride Even to Admit Mistakes in their BLUNDERS, Where their
Stubbornness, Arrogance, Petulance, Intransigence is What is OBSTRUCTING
JUSTICE and CLOSURE in this, What is An Open and Shut Watertight Case, And
Leading The Hindu Towards INSTITUTIONAL DOWNFALL And INDIVIDUAL
HUBRIS.
This Stubborn INTRANSIGENCE is, Today Driving Me A Loyal Patriot of
The Hindu, To Depose Against The Hindu and The Hindu Board Members, Where
Everyone, Without Exception, From Mr. N. Ram, Mr. N. Murali, Mr. N. Ravi,
Ms.Malini Parathasarathy, Mrs. Nirmala Lakshman, Dr. Nalini Krishnan,
Mr. K. Balaji, Mr. K. Venugopal, Mrs. Lakshmi Srinath, Mr. Ramesh Rangarajan, Mrs.
Vijaya Arun, Mrs. Akila Vijay Iyengar, Down to Mr. Rajiv C Lochan,
Ms. Vinita Bali and Mr. S. Mahalingam – The Who’s Who of The Hindu – Will
become Accountable, In Action or Inaction, In this Murky 13 Year Scam Case, Which
they will Find Hard to Explain, Deny or Defend, As to Why in the World,
Did they Fail to INTERVENE and INDEPENDENTLY INVESTIGATE
THE UNTENABLE for A Decade, Despite A Mind Boggling 36 Whistleblower
Petitions of An Internal Whistleblower.
Legally Speaking, Doesn’t it Naturally raise the Suspicion that Even
Independent Directors like Ms. Vinita Bali and Mr. S. Mahalingam are suspected of
being Complicit in the Wrongdoings, That they are afflicted by “Conflict of Interest”
and “Vested Interest Agenda’s”. Any “No Nonsense” Independent Director in Their
Place would have Simply Resigned From Their Position, If they are Unable to
Enforce Good Corporate Governance Practices Within The Hindu and Bring about
“The Change Which This 137 Year Old Iconic Institution
The Hindu Desperately Wishes to See”.
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POWER BLINDNESS – A CASE STUDY WORTH STUDYING
As A Passionate Student and Astute Observer of Human Minds and Human
Behaviour, Where I love Studying and Researching To Get “Into The Heads and
Minds” of Not Just Role Models, But Also Rogue Models, The One Thing Which has
Kept me Thinking for Quite Some Time, Leaving Me Wondering and Pondering
Mystified, Is, What is it that Drives Esteemed People like you in
The Hindu Board, Who have Everything Man or Woman can Aspire or Aim for In Life
and Profession - Name and Fame, Respect and Reputation, Education and
Experience, Wealth and Wisdom - But Still Behave So IRRATIONALLY and
INSENSIBLY, So UNBECOMINGLY and UNTENABLY, Be Involved in Gross
IMPROPRIETY, ILLEGALITIES, IMMORALITIES Which can only Lead to Individual
and Institutional Suicide and Self Destruction.
Truly, Something is Fundamentally Wrong with MAN As Mankind And
Civilisation, Where MAN Fails to be - A Human Being.
All I can Tell Ms. MaliniParthasarathy Is That, I Too am A Concerned Citizen
of Not Just India & The World, But The Hindu.
This is A Landmark Case in Civil and Corporate History, With Potential Far
Reaching Consequences, Where it could Open A Huge Pandora’s Box, A Huge Can
of Worms, Bringing Ugly Dark and Dirty Skeletons Tumbling out of the Closet of Not
Just The Hindu, But The System As A Whole, Enough to Stir
A Hornets Nest in Civil Society And A Court of Law.
To Think, This Is All Because of, 3 Alphabets – EGO.
THE HINDU GROUP
HEADING TOWARDS INSTITUTIONAL SUICIDE
GRAVE COMPROMISES MADE
As A Veteran Seasoned Campaigner, Who Breathed and Researched
The Hindu, Day in Day Out (Honestly, The Only Thing I Know as A Foot Soldier
Professional is to Sell The Hindu) Studying Human Minds and Customer Behavior
from A Reader Perspective, A News Agents Perspective, A Customer Perspective
For A Lifetime 36 Years, 24 x 7 x 365, MARK MY WORDS, The Hindu Group, With
FAKE And FLAWED FUNDAMENTALS is Today Sitting On “A Ticking Time
Bomb of A BUBBLE”, A BUBBLE Which Will BURST in the Not Too Distant
Future, And The 137 Year Old Company Will Go BUST – Like Kingfisher
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Airlines and Satyam (All Because of Greed, Corruption and Fraud) To be
Thrown into The Dustbin of History.
My Dear Learned Directors, I don’t Need to Study in IIT, MIT, Harvard or
Columbia University to Tell You What is Pure COMMON SENSE, A COMMON
SENSE Where You REFUSED To See “THE WRITING ON THE WALL”,
A Common Sense, Which You Guys Either Don’t Have , Or Chose To Willfully Ignore
Towards SUICIDE and SELF DESTRUCTION.
All Goes to Prove that EDUCATION has got Nothing to do with Being
CIVILISED and CULTURED.
LESSONS NOT LEARNT SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION
Casino Gambling
The Iconic American Multinational Investment Banks GOLDMAN SACHS
And LEHMAN BROS. , With Over A Century Of Towering Reputation, Literally
Collapsed Overnight, Over The Night, One Fine Day in 2008, When THE
BUBBLE BURST And The Company Went BUST, Following The 2008 Economic
And Mortgage Crisis, Where A Once Most VIED FOR Institution Ended Up
Being VILIFIED Facing The vent Of Public Rage And Outrage, As The Iconic
Century Old Institution Of Pre Eminence Plunged Into A Precipitous Fall
Towards Downfall, From Grace To Disgrace, From The Hall Of Fame To The
Hall Of Shame , All Due To MANS GREED, Following GRAVE COMPROMISES
Made by some of THE BRIGHTEST MINDS Who GAMBLED with RISK, Only to
Fail and Fall Towards INSTITUTIONAL DOWNFALL.
THE HINDU ON THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE
The 137 Year Old Once Iconic Hindu Group with FAKE FUNDAMENTALS
and SERIOUS STRUCTURAL DAMAGE Is Heading The Same SUICIDAL Way As
GOLDMAN SACHS, KINGFISHER AIRLINES , SATYAM , SAHARA And
SARADHA , Towards INSTITUTIONAL SUICIDE, Where You don’t need “A
CONSULTANT”, Paying CRORES, To Tell You What is PURE COMMON SENSE.
It is For The Hindu Board Members to Stop and Ponder For
A Moment, Whether they would like to Join The Rogue’s Gallery Hall of Shame
of B. Ramalinga Raju, Vijay Mallya et al.
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“THE” CROSSROADS MOMENT OF THE HINDU
This is Truly The Crossroads Moment of The Hindu Where You
15 Wise Men and Women of The Hindu’s Governing Council, May Choose to
Heed or Not. It is Your Choice to Close Your Eye and Continue Turning
A Blind Eye, A Stone Deaf Ear to A Whistleblowers Clarion Call of Reason and
Rational to see “The Writing On The Wall”.
From Now On, Its A Different Ball Game, Where The World (And
Watchdogs) Outside The Hindu will get to Read my Tell All Whistleblower
Revelations, Where If I Fail to get CLOSURE by 31st May 2016, I will be
Uploading The Entire Scandalous Case File On Facebook and Twitter, Besides
Sending it as An Attachment to My Impending E-mail Exposure To All “Movers
and Shakers” Across The Country.
The Choice Before You is to Either STEP IN or STEP ASIDE, And Let
There be A Free and Fair, Full Fledged Fact Finding Independent
“Third Party” Investigation, To get to The Bottom of The Truth, The Rot, The
Scam and The Multi Dimensional Criminal Conspiracy, Involving Shameful
Misuse of Constitutional Powers Towards Criminal Ends And Gross Abuse of
Fundamental Human Rights.
“Two Faced” Hypocrite Directors of The Hindu Board Can No More
“Brazen it Out” And Simply “Brush A 13 Year Skeleton of A Case Under
The Hindu Carpet”, In A Vain To Bury The Ghost of An Inconvenient Truth of
13 Years.
Your Choice is To Either, “CLEAN UP YOUR ACT”, Or BE PREPARED
TO FACE Impending “COLLATERAL DISASTER CONSEQUENCES” To Come.
As A Human Being in A Civil Society, As Mankind, At Test is
A Fundamental Question of Civil Liberty and Civil Rights, As To Which is
Supreme, FREEDOM of PRESS in its Criminalities and Illegalities OR
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF A CITIZEN Victim of Gross Abuse, In
A System of The Hindu, Which Can Only Be Best Described “A Stalinist and A
Pol Pot Regime”.
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TOWARDS CLOSURE
All I can say in Conclusion is that, If I fail to get CLOSURE JUSTICE and
My RIGHTFUL FINAL SETTLEMENT by 31st May 2016 I Will Be Proceeding
Further Towards ENDGAME, To Take This Case To Its Logical Conclusion.
Pray Good, Better and Saner Sense Prevails To See “The Writing on
The Wall”, Before, It Becomes Too Late.
I would Advise You to Carefully Go Through The Contents Of My
Enclosed Whistleblower Book No.35 Which has been Uploaded on Facebook
and Twitter On 23rd April 2016, Duly Understanding the Inconvenient Truth,
That Today You are All, “Under Public Scrutiny” Heading Towards
“Prosecution Scrutiny”
SATYAMEVA JAYETE - TRUTH AND JUSTICE WILL TRIUMPH.
Regards
MURALI KRISHNAN
Employee No.3814
Aggrieved Whistleblower Appellant
Deposed Regional Manager
The Hindu Kochi.
