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In an exclusive interview to rediff.com, Pillai, who is retiring on Thursday after 39 years of service, said, "At the moment they are scattered, they are very few. I would say, if we talk about so-called armed people, there will be fewer than 100 Hindu radicals in a country of our size. It's not the major problem. It's more out of retaliation for what happened."
He also said that although India got independence much before Goa became free, people of the country could not enjoy at that time as they felt uneasy thinking that one part was the country was still under foreign rule.
Pillai had over 20 years' experience in the consumer goods and retail sector, the last 15 with RPG Retail, the Future Group and Reliance Retail, where he was board member and chief executive.
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The Gujarat government on Monday informed the high court that they have issued a notification for the formation of a new Special Investigation Team to probe the encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others. A division bench of Justices A M Kapadia and B N Mehta, after the submission of the government pleader, disposed of the contempt of court petition filed by one Gopinath Pillai.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday gave a clean chit to former Gujarat Home Minister and Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah in the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others, saying it did not have sufficient evidence to charge sheet him.
Indian Home Secretary GK Pillai's comments ahead of External Affairs Minister SM Krishna's trip to Islamabad on Wednesday on Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI's pro-active role in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks came as a surprise to the Pakistani Foreign Office establishment.
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A one-man inquiry panel of the home ministry, probing the missing files related to the case of alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan, has been asked to expedite its work.
'All we are asking is that the Forest Rights Act be fully implemented. It is there in the Constitution of India. For this we have been regularly called anti-national,' says Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai, who was debarred from flying overseas on Sunday.
A special CBI court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday discharged police officers G L Singhal, Tarun Barot and Anaju Chaudhary in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case.
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After the Director General of Military Operations, Delhi Area Commander Lt Gen V K Pillai, another close aide of former Army Chief Gen V K Singh, is to be moved out from the capital by the Army Headquarters.
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