Foreign mercenaries ran a drone-warfare training corridor through Indian soil; crossed a Protected Area without permits, smuggled military-grade drones into an active conflict zone on our border; and this government's NIA couldn't file a complete chargesheet in 180 days. So the court handed them default bail. Then handed them their passports. Then gave them permission to leave the country. And now, hearing by hearing, it keeps extending their stay abroad; because the NIA still isn't ready. Meanwhile, this is the same government that invokes UAPA against journalists within 72 hours. The same NIA that files 1,000-page chargesheets against student activists before the ink on the FIR is dry. Seven Western nationals. Drones. A restricted Northeast corridor. An active insurgency nexus. And Modi's national security apparatus needed more than 6 months; and still came up empty. This isn't investigative delay. This is institutional surrender to diplomatic pressure dressed up as due process. When the accused are Western passport holders, suddenly the NIA develops patience it never showed any Indian citizen. The question that nobody in this government will answer: did the NIA fail, or was it told to?

🚨 This RTI is the blueprint of Vote Chori laid bare. Maneesh Garg, posted to the ECI directly by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet in Sept 2024; first removed the officer through whom the IT Director General was routing files, then took over those files himself. The two ECs flagged it as a direct violation of established norms. The DG of IT, Seema Khanna, whose department had built the safeguard preventing EROs from arbitrarily adding or deleting voter names; her files landed on Garg's desk. When Sandhu and Joshi wrote to the Cabinet Secretary, the Secretariat acknowledged the letters, forwarded copies straight to the CEC's office; the very man whose subordinate was the subject of the complaint; and then declined action, citing "constitutional independence." Read that again. The government installed the officer. The officer seized control of IT oversight. The two ECs who raised the alarm were told their complaints were "individual" not "official." The Cabinet Secretariat briefed the CEC. Nobody acted. This is not a bureaucratic turf war. This is a chain of custody over India's voter rolls being handed, link by link, to a single officer with no collective Commission oversight; ahead of elections. If Garg's moves were procedurally sound, why did the ECI initially lie and say the IT file transfer "was never actually implemented"?