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Jagan
Rare Aero have asked me if you would contact me with a PM sending me your e mail address. Hopefully, it will be possible to liase with you in order to take forward actions that might well result in this matter being resolved to the satisfaction of all concerned. Lets hope all can work together with this aim in sight.
Meanwhile, Rare Aero have also asked me to make known some of the efforts they have thus far taken with the Indian authorities, and individuals, to resolve matters. The following are some of the letters that have been sent by Rare Aero:
To Mr. Kamalesh Sharma, High Commissioner from Rare Aero, September 2006, asking for clarification on ownership and enclosing copies of defamatory news articles etc. No response.
March 2007 a chase up letter, again no response or acknowledgement.
Another letter was later sent (date not to hand!) to the same person. This time Rare Aero enclosed details of the man who had evidently made the initial complaint to Indian Police and Rare Aero passed on information as to how much this person had asked for “to clear the matter up”. The person concerned was one X.X.Xxxxx (an ex-minister of education) and he had asked for £5,000.00. Rare Aero also gave them details of another Indian who went to Jersey to seek out Rare Aero and who again, for a ‘small’ fee, could make the problem ‘disappear’. He was Mr. N***** P****, a councillor from South London. He also purported to act for a newspaper in India. Again, no response was received from the High Commission.
Rare Aero wish to make the point that they have been forthright, open and transparent with the Indian authorities in trying to resolve this. However, the matter always seems to stall with the only developments having been no official responses and various Indian nationals wanting sums of money to help finally to “resolve” matters. Meanwhile, the rumour mill with questions about Rare Aero’s actions grinds ever onwards – fed by internet discussions and the Indian press.
Might seem a daft Idea but its a bit like some dealings I had with some Arab gentlemen.I ended up going through the British trade department as it was then and being on a semi official level got responses as the people at the other end did not seem to think I was important enough to deserve a response but a government department was a different thing.Got results.
May be worth them trying unless they have already ?.