US Justice department's comment on convicted Indian businessman Partha Sarathi is detrimental to bilateral relation

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Dr. Biplab Pal, Editor Fosaac.TV, 18 June, 2008

 

Our belief system about United States of America is strongly rooted around concept of a lawful state. Domain and practice of law belong to paradigm of science or empiricism which leaves it open to interpretation or else no lawyer will be employed and USA will be a theocratic state.

 

As a Indian and above all as a human being, I am deeply worried. US District judge Ricardo Urbina compared crime of an Indian businessman Partha Sarathi with Nuclear blackmarket kingpin A Q Khan. Partha Sarathi s upplied a handful of micro-processors to Indian public sector companies from 1997 to 2003 during the era of sanction. His recipients includes Indian space research organization and some hardware companies who are allegedly vendor of DRDO.

 

What crime did he commit to deserve 35 month of imprisonment? Did he espionage any footprints of weapon?

 

 Was his supply mission critical? Report says supplied microprocessors are cheap commercial processors that anybody can buy in open market or from a website.

 

 Can anybody build a nuclear weapon from electronics chips available in public market?

 

 To what extent, one has to be ignorant to bring equivalence between Partha Sarathi's supply of electronics chip with AQ Khan's nuclear blackmarket?

 

 Can a public domain technology be proliferated? What is left there to be proliferated?

 

 Non-Americans hate arrogance of United States. Will United State understand that kind of silly comments by a United State judge will increase anti-Americanism in India which is already forcing American business out from India? Does not he know, one of the main opposition against USA is its God fatherly attitude?

 

 Parthasarathi has broken laws of United States. Which we understand. So punish him according to the law--but passing a high-handed comment that his crime is equivalent to A Q Khan's nuclear proliferation is unwarranted and detrimental to US-India bilateral relationship.