Correspondence with the Legal Attaché, US Embassy in New Delhi regarding my complaint of threat to life from General Electric
I am an attorney in India who has made whistle-blower complaints against GE, see this post. There is a threat to my life from GE Officers and GE lawyers and from senior Indian government officials like Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia on account of these complaints. I have appealed to the United States government for help.
I am completely healthy at present and have recovered from any damage caused to me last year. I am in good health right now. However for the last three days, I am again being exposed to toxic substances/gas/ fumes that are being introduced into my house. I have repeatedly complained to the Police and no action has been taken.
I am a witness to and victim of crimes committed in the United States that are punishable under US federal law. I am entitled to protection from the US government. There is a threat to my life and it originates from powerful persons (GE officers and lawyers) in the United States whom I have made made complaints against.
I request that the United States government and law enforcement agencies including the FBI provide me with protection against further threats and harm.
Please read below for my appeal to the Legal Attache in the United States Embassy in New Delhi:
16 January 2012
Dear Mr. Daniel Clegg,
Here is a rough note with some more detail regarding my complaints about threat to life from GE and the assaults committed against me over the last year and a half. I am sending you an incomplete note as I am still adding to it.
I was drugged while at GE after the forged document was submitted on 12 July 2010 and until the first week of September 2010. I consumed cut fresh fruit and coffee served at GE during this time. At that time, I also had two women working for me at home. One of them was cooking my meals. It would appear that whatever I was being given to disorient/ drug/ poison me during this period was either being added to what I consumed in the GE office or at home. I fired both the women working in my house sometime in August 2010.
September to December 2010:
I was repeatedly drugged thereafter. It could have been through food that I was ordering on the phone from local restaurants. I had no one working for me at home at this time. It could have been through food I ate at restaurants.
Last week of December 2010 till third week of January 2011:
I was in an enclosed space at home with all doors and windows shut. During this time, I remember being in a daze. One day in January I had difficulty breathing. I then started coughing and the coughing lasted for about 6 weeks. I coughed up a lot of mucus/ phlegm. It appears at this time some gas/ fumes were being introduced into my house. Also, I was not cooking at home but ordering in food daily so that could be another source of poisoning. A third possibility would be the water. For about 10 days over the holidays I was alone in the building and the other residents were away. The downstairs gardener and driver had access to the house and the water supply tanks on the terrace while the owner was away.
From February to June 2011, I was being drugged by a Nepali maid working for me called Maya. She was helping out in the kitchen by cutting fruit and vegetables, seasoning vegetables, making chappatis, serving me meals etc. I fired her in July 2011.
In April 2011, I was informed by the lady living downstairs that my water supply would now be separate from hers. She confirmed to me in August 2011 that changes to this effect had been made in April 2011. Since I was regularly drinking this water until August 2011, this could be another source of poisoning/ drugging.
My split air-conditioner was tampered with in May 2011. I complained to the Police about a suspicious response to an AC servicing request.
In May 2001, I ordered medicine on the phone. After it was delivered I noticed the seal look tampered with so I did not consume that. I complained to the Police about this as well.
In May 2011, the hard-drive of my laptop was intentionally destroyed by the service centre. I made a complaint.
Throughout May and June 2011, I was harassed by dogs being made to bark outside my house at night for hours. I recorded and published these disturbances on facebook and youtube.
All this time that I was being drugged I was driving and was living alone. On at least two occasions, I bumped my car. Once was on reversing and I damaged the bumper which had to be replaced. On at least 5-6 occasions, I left something on the gas-stove to cook and forgot about it with the pan getting badly burnt.
I became suspicious of the AC because of unusual smells and stopped using it in July 2011.
I am certain my house has been bugged with spying devices.
In July upon returning home I found that my front door was unlocked on 2-3 occasions even though I was sure I had locked it. I returned home once and noticed that a screw was loose in the front door lock and the only way for this to happen would be if someone tampered with it. I complained to the Police.
Soon thereafter in late July 2011, I returned home one night at around 10.30 pm and smelt a sweet smelling gas throughout my house even though the glass windows were open. I felt my eyes sting and I felt sleepy. I switched on the fans and went to sleep. I noticed the same smell the next night as well.
I noticed a lump in my throat, a metallic taste and nausea. I complained to the Police that I had smelt a gas and left the house. A medical examination and X-ray after I complained and left the house confirmed exposure to some gaseous irritant.
I moved out to a friend’s house. I was drugged by her maid (called Susheri) while I was there. (Susheri was called home by her uncle to visit without prior notice the second night I was at my friend’s house. She returned the next day.) She made breakfast for me on a day I was scheduled to drive to Noida from Gurgaon for a meeting with Prashant Bhushan. I felt sleepy (despite sleeping well the night before) and kept wanting to close my eyes on the drive to Noida. After that I was careful. I threw away a packed lunch she made for me. Susheri was made to call me on my birthday about 10 days later. Where did she get my phone-number from?
I returned home after 6 days and continued to smell the sweet smelling gas again on numerous occasions. Usually it was noticeable in the evenings. I had my AC indoor unit removed but the gas smell continued.
From late July to August 2011, various other toxic chemicals/ gases were introduced into my house. I could smell chemicals in my house, on my clothes, on my duvets, on my bed-linen and in my car. I found chemical stains and chemical damage on the inside of a rolled up exercise mat kept in its box. I developed other symptoms of poisoning. This is when I noticed weakness in my legs, tingling and numbness in my hands and feet. I became weak. There were other symptoms as well,
It is clear that my house at Jangpura has been rigged to facilitate the introduction of toxic substances.
In August 2011, another laptop was damaged by tampering with the power supply.
At this time I also discovered that because of tampering with the power supply to my house, all ceiling fans were damaged. All the fans were heating up. I tried to replace the fans but the new fans immediately developed the same heating complaint. This led me to abandon the house in September 2011. I believe that I might also have been exposed to carbon-monoxide during this time by its being introduced into my house or because of the appliances being damaged by intentional tampering with the power supply.
In August 2011, my car was tampered with. The brakes became loose. The bonnet was becoming very hot. I suspected that the car might have been tampered with to allow the exhaust to enter the cabin. I took it to a workshop but they would not fix my car. I complained to the Police.
I moved into Habitat Centre in September and was there for about 8 days. I was drugged even while I was there. I ordered room service on the first night. But the interaction with staff made me suspicious and I stopped eating there. However I still had coffee everyday and I am certain that I was being drugged. I can identify the employees who were involved.
I then moved to a rented place in Defence Colony where I originally planned to stay for 6 months or less as a temporary arrangement. However I was intentionally terrorized there as well. Plus I was again drugged. The food in my kitchen and fridge there was accessible to the maid and guard. The locks were very insecure and keys were available to the staff. I can provide more details.
I moved in with my family in Gurgaon. However, I noticed that they were trying to add something to my food, tea etc. I accused them of trying to drug/ poison me. I asked if they even knew what they were adding to my food. I then heard my sister accuse my mother in an argument over me that “you are the one who went and met Ajay Singh”. I confronted them about who this man was and how they were involved. I believe that this man was blackmailing them over a domestic violence complaint and a child custody dispute and my family was “persuaded” to cooperate in some manner in the operation against me possibly without being fully aware of the threat to my life. It appears my mother was asked to suggest to me in January 2011 that I re-hire a particular maid. My mother also had a spare set of keys to my house which might have been copied. I became very cautious of what I consumed even while staying with my family. I suspect that my family attempted to add corticosteroids to my food. My family members also threatened me.
I returned to my rented home in Jangpura in November 2011. For about 6 weeks I did not notice any unusual smells or chemicals. I restarted going to the gym. But I was being followed and gang-stalked. My downstairs neighbour attempted to intimidate me and threatened me. A “supposed” friend was used to intimidate me. A security guard was used to threaten me. Motorcycle gangs were used to intimidate me.
Since around 20 December 2011, the intimidation has increased. I have been stalked and followed. Thugs have been used to intimidate me. Now once again toxic substances and gases/ fumes are being introduced into my house and car. My neighbours have been used to intimidate me. Threatening emails have been sent. Threatening phone-calls have been made.
I am under surveillance.
This is not complete but just a broad description of how I have been targeted.
Coming to the Doctors:
Experience at Apollo
On two occasions, I was directed towards doctors (Dr Alok Aggarwal and Dr. Hariharan) who were not on duty at that time. It appears there was some noting in their booking system against my name.
Dr, Alok Aggarwal – I consulted him because of a visibly swollen lymph-node in June 2011. He was very aggressive. He prescribed double the normal dosage for a sedating anti-histamine. I was alerted to the over-dosage by the Apollo pharmacist. I went back to Dr. Alok Aggarwal to check. He insisted this was the dosage he usually prescribed. I never followed that prescription. Instead I took Allegra and the swelling subsided.
Dr. Hariharan – I consulted him because of a squeezing sensation in my heart. This was after I had smelt the nitrous oxide and other chemicals in my house. I gave him the full background of the threat to life and poisoning complaints. He saw all my reports including all Xrays, all ECGs (including those from the preventative check up I had got done at Max) and blood reports. He asked me to undergo some diagnostic procedures. He saw these new reports as well. My pulse was over 90 at that time but he did not point out that this was higher than normal. He sent me to Dr. Nalin Nag.
Dr. Nalin Nag – I met him twice. The first time was right after I met Dr. Hariharan. He was very polite on that occasion. He asked me to bring all my reports the next day. The next day he was very obnoxious and aggressive. He lied to me and said my pulse rate (which was over 90 at that time) was lower than what is considered normal. I confronted him with misleading me in a phone call later in the week.
I met Dr. Hariharan again without an appointment as a follow-up after seeing Nalin Nag. I complained about Dr. Nag to Dr. Hariharan. I told Dr. Hariharan that I had noted down my symptoms which note I had shown Dr. Nag. Dr. Hariharan read that note. He then told me that if I wanted to write down my symptoms then I would keep on writing. This was a clear threat. He told me there was nothing wrong with me and I should see him after a week. He kept asking me if I was an idealist.
Two days after meeting Hariharan and Nag, I again felt a squeezing in my heart. I went to Max Emergency and was admitted there. My pulse was as high as 110. I was being treated by one doctor but after I gave my details for admission paperwork, another doctor took over. He wanted to discharge me as soon as possible. I was discharged even though my pulse was 110 and higher. I was prescribed no medicines.
Experience at Max:
I first went to Max in the week that I smelt the sweet smelling gas and moved out to a friend’s house. I had a sore throat, lump in my throat, nausea, weakness, cough and mucus.
I asked to see any doctor in the OPD for internal medicine. I was given an appointment with Dr, Shushum Sharma. Someone had already spoken to him about me. He had been told to expect that I would be alone but he was surprised that I was accompanied by a friend. I told him the GE background and that I was sure my maid was poisoning/ drugging me. I told him I had made a complaint to the police. I told him that I had smelt a gas, and it had stung my eyes and made me sleepy. In the normal course Dr. Sharma should have treated me in the manner a patient who reports poisoning should be treated. However he had a long general conversation with me and spent only about 5% of the meeting on examining me and my symptoms.
He said he used to work in the Railways and that if the matter involved the Railways and GE then there was sure to be corruption. He said exploitation by the powerful was natural and to be expected. He gave some example of his old mother being exploited by a rickshaw puller at the Lucknow or Allahabad railway station. He told me that GE could never do this, i.e., poison someone. He said I was young and I should enjoy life. He said he could talk to GE for me. He said he knew John Flannery, Wanchoo and Anish Shah who were all his patients. He told me about the time John Flannery had come to see him with his wife on account of mosquito bites.
He told me about chronic poisoning by arsenic in the case of Arafat. He talked about poisoning by gas. He said that usually did not happen in India.
He examined me and did not tell me my tonsils were swollen which a doctor I consulted later confirmed. He said nothing was wrong with me but that I should go for a preventative health check up at Max, he recommended Max Panchsheel. He prescribed no tests. Under the circumstances, his professional interaction with me was unethical.
I went for a preventative health check up at Max shortly thereafter. However instead of going to Max Panchsheel, I went to Max, Gurgaon. After I had registered I saw Dr, Shushum Sharma in the corridor. We looked at each other, he recognized me but did not say anything. It appears that he spoke to people regarding my tests that day. The doctor performing the abdominal ultra-sound received a call right before she examined me. Before the procedure she asked if I had had an abdominal ultra-sound before. She made an unusual statement after the procedure. She remarked on her own that there was no fluid in the abdomen. My heart and ECG and lung tests were not performed by a doctor as for everyone else but by a technician. I was being prevented from seeing an ENT doctor even though that consultation was included in the health check-up. I had to insist upon seeing an ENT doctor. I was not made to see the physician on duty like everyone else who had their check-up that day. This would have been their physician for follow-up. Instead I was told that since I had already seen Dr, Shushum Sharma, I did not need a physician consultation that day and that my follow-up would be with Dr. Shushum Sharma. I completed my health check-up and left.
However since I was concerned about Dr. Shushum Sharma’s strange behaviour and the obvious interference in my check-up, I went back to Max and told them I wanted my test reports and I did not want a follow-up with Dr, Shushum Sharma but with another doctor. I was first told that my reports could not be given to me unless they were first reviewed by Dr. Shushum Sharma. I insisted on getting my reports and told the staff that I had made a threat to life complaint. They agreed to show me the reports. I was handed over the reports and the chest x-ray. I took the chest x-ray to the physician on duty – Dr. Anuradha. She told me it showed congestion. (This is the July X-ray. A January 2011 chest X-ray from Apollo was totally clear with no congestion).
I then became concerned and insisted on getting the records so that I could consult a doctor ASAP. I was finally given my reports. The report of the lung x-ray recorded no congestion and this was contrary to what Dr. Anuradha told me.
I then went to Artemis Hospital the same day and saw a pulmonologist. I gave him the full background of the threat, the history with the maid and the gas I had inhaled. He examined me and noted tonsil hypertrophy. He also prescribed me anti-histamines for the lung irritation.
I did not return to Max because of Dr. Shushum Sharma.
However I did go back to Max Saket Emergency around 11 August 2011 (about 2 weeks later) when I felt squeezing in my heart two days after my meeting with Dr. Hariharan in Apollo.
After that I decided to get another chest x-ray and ECG in Max Saket on my own without a doctor referral. The chest X-ray technician received a call before my x-ray. The Xray was not taken correctly. I believe the technician was instructed to do so during the phone-call he received. This is the August X-ray. This was done on 15 August. Since it was a holiday I was given the film but the report was provided 2-3 days later.
I showed the new x-ray to doctors in the Max emergency on 15 August because I had not received a radiologist report. They told me the July and August x-rays showed congestion.
Later and still before a report was given to me on the August Xray, I showed the July and August Xrays to another radiologist (Dr. Manoj Sharma) at Max. He confirmed congestion.
I spoke to the Head of Radiology (Dr. Debjyoti Chaudhari) and told him that I had spoken with this other Radiologist (Dr. Manoj Sharma) who had indicated congestion. The next day I got a report that said there was no congestion in the August Xray. It was supposedly issued by this other radiologist (Dr. Manoj Sharma) but was signed by someone else on his behalf. I protested and was then given a report with Dr. Manoj Sharma’s signature.
I smelt a gas in the corridor outside the ultrasound room at Max. It reminded me of the sweet smelling gas I had smelt in my house which made me sleepy. When I was in the ultrasound room a day or two later I saw that there was a pipe for nitrous oxide. This is how I identified the gas. I then googled this and found that my symptoms matched.
I consulted a doctor elsewhere under an assumed name. She saw the swollen lymph-node and prescribed antibiotics. I did not tell her the full background about the threat and the gas. She also noted congestion.
I then consulted another cardiologist at Max. She was quite alarmed by my treadmill ECG during the preventative health check up. This ECG was done right after my complaint of smelling gas which I believe was nitrous oxide. She said my pulse was high and told me that if I felt squeezing in my heart again I should take two disprins and go to a hospital emergency room. And I saw another internal medicine doctor who prescribed antibiotics (and multi-vitamins) because I had a swollen lymph-node.
I then asked to see a lung doctor in OPD. The roster said the Head of Deapartment was on duty. I was told he was not available. I was then told a doctor would see me. I asked to pay first as per hospital practice but I was told I could pay later.[1] I went to the room and a doctor was present. This was a junior doctor (Dr. Tarun) who I believe does not have OPD duties. I did not know that then. I showed this doctor all the x-rays and other reports. He spent almost 45-60 minutes with me. He then told me to wait outside. I then saw another doctor rush into the room. I went in and saw both Dr. Tarun and Dr. Ashish Jain going over my reports which Dr. Tarun had asked me to leave behind when he sent me out of the room earlier. I was told both doctors would see me and the earlier doctor had been filling in for the other doctor who arrived later. After five minutes the Doctor who came in later (Dr. Ashish Jain) asked the junior doctor to leave (Dr. Tarun) and he left despite my objection that I had spent so much time with him and he had expressed no opinion. Dr. Ashish Jain was not on OPD duty when I asked for an appointment. It seemed as if he was not even present in the hospital. He was especially summoned just to see me. The almost one hour spent with the other junior doctor was just a ploy to engage me until Dr. Ashish Jain could reach the hospital or get free from wherever he was. He had been spoken to about me before the consultation. This was a planned conspiracy to cover up my symptoms. He spent a further 45 minutes or more with me. He then covered up my symptoms and said the July and August X-rays showed no congestion whereas they did. He attempted to create a false medical record and attempted to discredit me. I filed a formal complaint against him the same day with the Max hospital Superintendent. A copy of this complaint has been supplied by me to you.
I met the Head of Radiology (Dr. Debjyoti Chaudhari) who also lied and said the Xrays showed no congestion. Another pulmonologist Nevin Kishore whom I consulted for a second opinion kept telling me I could not prove any thing and that this would not hold as evidence. I told him I was not looking for evidence but I wanted to be treated if there was some congestion. He also covered up the congestion. While he verbally told me there was no congestion at all, in writing he used the ambiguous words X-rays normal. I told him I was drinking tulsi tea. He verbally recommended that I try steam inhalation as well. He told me that I could get a CT scan. I declined as I realised this was unnecessary and part of a cover-up. Plus my experience with Dr, Debjyoti and the technician on the Chest Xray (when they insisted on incorrect positioning) alarmed me.
I also saw the head of internal medicine at Max, Dr. Sandeep Budhiraja. He too covered up my symptoms. I gave him the full background about the police complaint of threat to life and that I suspected poisoning. Again he did not handle me as a patient complaining of poisoning is required to be handled. (Both Dr. Hariharan and Dr. Nalin Nag at Apollo as well as every doctor I saw at Max including during the Emergency visit was informed by me that my complaint was of poisoning by inhalation and through oral consumption. None of them handled me as a patient ordinarily complaining of poisoning would be handled in a hospital).
Once again at Max like at Apollo it appeared that there was some note against my name in the patient ID system. This was evident when I went to the Max emergency and the doctor attending to me was changed after I gave my details. The doctor (Dr, Sunil Chaudhary) who was sent to replace the other doctor (Dr. Ashish James) was not on duty in emergency that time. All papers recording symptoms and examination were signed by a junior lady doctor and not by the doctor who was especially summoned to attend to me (Dr. Sunil Chaudhary). The discharge was by yet another doctor who came on morning duty.
When I first asked for an appointment with Dr. Sandeep Budhiraja, the receptionist told me that there were no free appointments with him. She gave me an appointment with some other doctor. When I went in for the appointment and asked to pay for it, I was told by the receptionist at the payment counter that my appointment was now with Dr. Sandeep Budhjiraja. This was done without my having requested a change.[2]
After I made a formal complaint against Dr. Ashish Jain to Max, I found out from Dr. Varun Katyal that GE was a corporate client of Max Hospitals. I told Dr Katyal that it appeared that there was some noting in the hospital system against my name. This was based upon how my interactions with hospital staff changed after I gave my patient id. After this an unusual thing happened. On my next visit the receptionist could not find my patient record using my phone number. When she located me by name, all details (like phone number and address were missing from my listing). This was inexplicable because I was receiving text messages on my phone for all my appointments. It appears this was an attempt to cover-up my complaint that there was a noting against my listing in Max’s patient database.
I asked for another chest Xray because I was told by Dr. Nevin Kishore and Dr. Debjyoti Chaudhari that the August X ray did not show the full lung fields. I believe the technician intentionally took a wrong Xray after he received a phone-call.
The Head of Radiology (Dr. Debjyoti Chaudhari) assured me the new Xray would be taken correctly. He called in a technician to take a new Xray. This technician received a call while we were in the billing line. He asked me to stand in position for the Xray. He then suddenly moved the film tray higher so that my chin was no longer on the place where it should rest and my neck and part of my face was also getting included. I objected that this was an incorrect position.. He insisted that we do it his way. He then called the Head of Radiology, Dr. Debjyoti Chaudhari who came to the Xray room and insisted that I go along with the position the technician wanted because he was the expert. I refused the Xray.
Later when I complained, a lady in the radiology dept. offered to do my X-ray herself. She placed me in the correct position but also did not take the X ray correctly and the full lung was still not visible. The Head of Radiology lied to me that the full lung was visible. He told me he could count all the ribs.
The head of internal medicine, Dr. Sandeep Budhiraja, kept denying I had swollen lymph nodes even though they were visibly swollen. He told me it was a swollen muscle. (And two doctors had already prescribed antibiotics after seeing them.) He recommended an ultra-sound of the neck for these. He refused to diagnose anemia even though the blood reports indicated that.
I went for this ultrasound. Before the procedure I told the doctor that the lymph nodes were swollen visibly. The ultrasound report tried to cover up the swollen lymph nodes by claiming that they were not serious. An ultrasound is incapable of such a determination. Instead the report overplayed a nodule apparently found in the thyroid. The report described this as serious. An ultrasound cannot reach this conclusion. I asked the Head of Radiology about the report on the supposed nodule. He tried to alarm me. I then asked to speak to the doctor who signed the report. The Head of Radiology was very agitated about my asking to speak to her alone. I asked her if an ultrasound could tell what had been noted on the report and she said no.
I protested that the thyroid ultrasound had been done without authorisation. I have confirmed through a subsequent ultrasound elsewhere that there is no such nodule. This report was made up to divert me from the real symptoms I developed in August and September 2011 from the exposure to nitrous oxide and other toxic substances at GE’s behest. And such nodules are very common and are no cause for alarm. The doctors were trying to cover up my real symptoms and divert me onto a different track.
I resolved not to return to Max after that.
I did go back to Max in mid-September 2011 and saw the Head of Internal Medicine Dr. Sandeep Budhiraja again. At this time I was again being drugged. I had tried to withdraw my complaints hoping that GE would not harm me anymore. I went back to Max just to see what this doctor would say. I had had a number of blood tests he had ordered which I had not followed-up on. He prescribed vitamin D and Calcium. I still had swollen lymph-nodes which he ignored. He told me they would go when I lost all the fat on my neck. I did not have fat on my neck. The lymph nodes were visibly swollen. I still had anaemia which he refused to diagnose.
During my interactions with doctors at Apollo and Max described above, I minutely described detailed symptoms to them. However they consistently did not record these symptoms in their hand written prescriptions. I have contemporaneous reports lodged with the Police with official receipt stamps that describe my symptoms in August and September in detail.
In July and August 2011, I made numerous complaints to the Police in writing. I first made complaints with the in-charge of the local police post, Ashish Dalal. I later wrote to the Commissioner Police. I was asked to meet Mr. Amulya Patnaik, Joint Commissioner. I met him. I was sent to meet Mr. Ajay Chaudhary, Additional Commissioner, SE Delhi. I also met the Assistant Commisioner, Datta Ram and the SHO, Ram Kumar. They did not do anything on my complaints. Instead I was insulted, refused permission to meet them, and intimidated and terrorized with their assistance. In August 2011, I went to ITO police headquarters and after getting no help from Amulya Patnaik’s office, I tried to meet the Commissioner and then went to the Police Control Room there. I was told to go up to the Police Command Room. I was asked to wait. After about 2 hours, someone in plain clothes was sent to remove me from the premises. He insisted that I accompany him to the IP Extension Police Station where he told me my complaints would be looked into. I refused and stated that I was there asking for police help. I said my home was unsafe, there was a threat to my life and I was seeking police protection. I made the senior police officers present read the complaints I had made in writing to Amulya Patnaik and Ajay Chaudhary. With the entire team present in the Police Command Room watching, I was physically dragged by women constables to remove me from the premises. I was then taken to IP extension Police station where an attempt was made to drug me. I was then led to believe that a woman constable would stay with me in my house if I went home. I agreed to go back home on this condition. When we reached my house, the woman constable told me she had received orders from the SHO that she could not stay with me. I then went to the local Nizamuddin Police Station after midnight. I waited there for 1 hour but no one helped me or did anything. The constables accompanying me fell asleep. Thugs were brought into the police station in order to intimidate me. I then had no alternative but to return to my house even though I was being harmed there by the introduction of toxic gases and chemicals.
I was terrorized on account of my experiences with the Police and doctors at Apollo and Max in July and August 2011. I thought that withdrawing my complaints against GE might help save me from harm. I attempted to withdraw my complaints at the end of August 2011. However, as described above, the attempts on my life and attempts to harm, intimidate and terrorize me did not cease. I realised that I was in even greater danger.
Seema Sapra
[1] This must be because Dr, Ashish Jain was not supposed to be on OPD duty at that time. In fact, I made no payment for the two hour consultation with Dr. Tarun, the junior doctor and Dr, Ashish Jain combined. Usually consultations are for 10 minutes or so.
[2] It looks as if Dr Sandeep Budhiraja and Dr. Shushum Sharma have both been promoted at Max since my interactions with them.
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Mr. Daniel Clegg,
As I have pointed out below, It appears that I have received two emails from the email account sharmam1@state.gov which appear to have been faked.
Who is Mr. Manu Sharma?
I have tried contacting you at the US Embassy again in the afternoon of 19 January and today morning (January 20, 2012). My calls are being transferred to someone who claims to be an operator who is not identifying themselves and is telling me not to call.
Please contact me at 99588 69955.
Thank you,
Seema Sapra
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Please pass on this message to Mr. Daniel Clegg, Legal Attache, United States Embassy, New Delhi.
Mr. Daniel Clegg,
It appears as if both emails that I have received from the email account sharmam1@state.gov on January 3 and January 14, 2012 are faked emails.
When someone sends an email from their Blackberry in India using Airtel services, the message that appears at the bottom is "Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel".
I have extracted both emails received by me from Mr. Manu Sharma’s email account below, and the message reads:
"Sent on my BlackBerry® from Airtel"
It appears that these emails have been faked to appear as if they were sent using a Blackberry. It appears that the attempt here has been to send me an email without retaining an official record of such email either on the email servers of @state.gov or the servers of the US Embassy or in the sent messages of the account of Mr. Manu Sharma.
Regards,
Seema Sapra
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com> wrote:
Dear Mr. Daniel Clegg,
I wish to protest and complain about our interaction in response to my contacting you and bringing to your attention my complaints against General Electric about compliance violations amounting to United States federal offences. I have also brought to your attention my complaint that I face a threat to my life from those General Electric Officers and Attorneys who have either committed the offences I have complained about or have engaged in criminal activity by covering up those offences.
I have made out a case based upon documentary evidence that I am a witness to and victim of United States federal offences committed by American citizens on US soil. I thus fall within the legal definition of a US federal crime victim under US federal law.
I first called the phone number for the US embassy here in New Delhi on 30 December 2011. I asked to be connected to the local office of the FBI. I was told there was no such office. I insisted that I was sure there was local FBI representation at the US embassy in New Delhi. Upon my insistence and after repeated requests the operators put me through to someone who first refused to identify himself. I later learnt his name was Manu Sharma from one of the operators. Mr. Manu Sharma tried his level best to dissuade me from contacting the FBI office in New Delhi. He tried to talk me out of approaching the FBI for a good 15 minutes. He also mis-directed me to an online internet crime reporting service. I told him my complaints were about corruption and not internet crime. He refused to tell me his name or his designation or the name of the head of the local FBI office. He told me that he could do for me whatever the head of the FBI office here could do for me. I called back and again was told there was no local FBI office. When I told the reporter that I had just spoken to someone called Manu Sharma who claimed to work for the FBI, I was then connected to Mr. Manu Sharma (I believe on his mobile) with the explanation that the operator had not previously understood my request. Mr. Manu Sharma asked for my mobile number which I provided. He then gave me what he said was a direct fax number for the Delhi FBI office and told me to fax my complaint. He said I might not receive a reply. He did not identify himself or tell me what his job was.
Instead of following Mr. Manu Sharma’s advice who I got the impression was trying to mislead me, I emailed the Embassy with a request that my message be forwarded to you. I managed to discover your name and job here in Delhi from the internet.
Please correct if I have the date wrong but I recollect and my phone records confirm that I called and spoke with you on January 3, 2012. On that occasion, you asked me a few questions about the compliance complaints and I answered those. I told you that I wanted to forward to you documentary evidence and correspondence with GE on these complaints. You told me that these were two separate issues – the compliance complaints and the complaint of threat to life. You did say that while you (i.e., the FBI) could look into the compliance complaints, I should approach the local police on the threat to life complaint. I replied that I had and the Police had been corrupted and had refused to come to my help. I also pointed out that in my opinion I was entitled in my case to protection and support from US law enforcement agencies since I qualified as a US federal crime victim. (I remember you had earlier on in the conversation mentioned that GE India was an Indian entity and that therefore there might be jurisdictional hurdles for the US authorities to intervene.) I informed you that I wanted to send you documents and asked for your email. You declined to provide me with your email and gave me Mr. Manu Sharma’s email and suggested that I forward the documents to that email. I did object and tell you that on my earlier interaction with him, Mr. Manu Sharma had attempted to dissuade me from contacting you and had misdirected me to the online internet crime reporting service. However, you replied that I should use Mr. Manu Sharma’s email which you said you practically used as your inbox. You stated that you received hundreds of emails and that you preferred that I use Mr. Manu Sharma’s email to forward you my documents. Not wishing to argue with you on this point, I agreed.
I then forwarded several documents and emails to you using the general embassy email (NDwebmail@state.gov) and Mr. Manu Sharma’s email (sharmam1@state.gov). These documents establish that my complaints about compliance violations by GE are supported by evidence. I even received an acknowledgement from Mr. Manu Sharma that I have extracted below:
“On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Sharma, Manu<SharmaM1@state.gov> wrote:
Got it. Thanks
Manu Sharma
Office of the Legal Attaché
United States Embassy
New Delhi
India
Sent on my BlackBerry® from Airtel”
I did not reply to Mr. Manu Sharma. Instead I continued to send you my documents.
I called your office on January 6, 2012 and was put through to your office manager. She told me that you had received my emails but that you were travelling and would be back the following week.
I called your office on January 12, 2012 and spoke with you. You asked me several questions about my complaint of forgery and my complaint about Aartech Consultants and FCPA violations. It did not appear that you had read what documents I had forwarded to you. You were not inclined to discuss my complaint about obstruction of justice and evidence tampering by GE officers and attorneys in connection with the GE investor lawsuits filed before the Court of the Hon’ble Judge Richard J. Holwell. I tried to discuss this complaint with you and all you answered was that “everyone makes mistakes”. You then said you had to go and our call ended.
On this call, you asked me some questions about my complaint about threat to life. I answered those. This part of the conversation was perfunctory and brief. I told you that doctors at Max Hospital had covered up my complaints. I very perfunctorily mentioned my first interaction with Dr. Shushum Sharma. I also told you of my formal complaint to Max Hospital against a pulmonologist who covered up lung congestion visible on two X-rays and attempted to create a false record. I told you he had attempted to mis-describe me as an “Occ. Alcoholic” in his prescription when I told him in reply to his question if I drank alcohol that I did occasionally in social settings. I also told you that as part of his attempt to cover-up the physical symptoms and to discredit me and my complaint he wrote in his prescription that I consider seeing a psychiatrist. Right before that he also recommended (in the same prescription) in writing that I go to the Toxicology department at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) because as he told me verbally more than once Max was not equipped to deal with a case of poisoning like mine.
(I have in my detailed note sent to you on January 16, 2012 and in my emails to you sent on Jan 13, 2012 at 3:10 PM and on Jan 17, 2012 at 3:03 PM described to you in detail what my experience was like with the doctors at both Apollo Hospital and at Max Hospital. All the facts stated therein are supported by evidence.)
After our phone conversation on January 12, 2012, I sent you the following email:
“From: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Subject: For Legal Attache, Mr. Daniel Clegg, US Embassy, New Delhi – Complaints about US federal law violations by GE and the resultant threat to my life
To: NDwebmail@state.gov, sharmam1@state.gov
Please forward this email to Legal Attache, Mr. Daniel Clegg, US Embassy, New Delhi.
Dear Mr. Clegg,
Thank you for taking time out today to discuss the matter of my compliance complaints against General Electric and my complaint of a threat to life from GE Officers and lawyers who live and work in the United States. I maintain that my complaints and evidence prima facie establish the commission of crimes under US federal laws, both in respect of compliance violations and the illegal assaults and attempts on my life and person over the last year and a half (including drugging and exposure to toxic materials/ chemicals [including toxic gases] with the intent to cause physical and biological damage).
I will provide you with a further detailed account in writing on the US federal law violations and the evidence that calls for an investigation and prosecution by US federal agencies. Further, as I fall within the definition of a complainant/ witness to and victim of US federal crimes (despite my Indian citizenship and residence in India), I am entitled to protection from the United States government and US law enforcement agencies against a threat to life and harm that is a direct result of these crimes. Under US law, the term ‘crime victim’ means a person directly and proximately harmed as a result of the commission of a federal offense and I fall within this definition.
It was useful to be able to discuss some of my concerns and the reasons therefor over the phone, but in the interest of assisting you in appreciating my complaints and their basis, I will set down details in writing and send them to you.
I request that the United States government and the FBI provide me protection from any further physical or other harm and threats.
With Regards,
Seema Sapra
–
Seema Sapra “
I followed that up with another email sent to you the same day that I have extracted below:
“From: Seema Sapra<seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:45 PM
Subject: Message for Mr. Daniel Clegg, Legal Attache, US Embassy, New Delhi -threat to life from General Electric
To: NDwebmail@state.gov, sharmam1@state.gov
Please forward this message to Mr. Daniel Clegg, Legal Attache, New Delhi.
Dear Mr. Clegg,
I am forwarding below my communications with Mr. Brackett Denniston dated January 2010 on the subject of risks to my safety on account of the compliance complaints I had made. I also draw your attention to my statement below to Mr. Denniston that I was relying upon GE being an American company and upon my interacting with US attorneys.
Little did I realize at the time, that I was already being harmed.
Regards,
Seema Sapra”
I once again emailed you on the morning of January 13, 2012 requesting an in-person meeting with you. This email is set out below:
“From: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Subject: Message for Mr. Daniel Clegg, Legal Attache, US Embassy, New Delhi -threat to life from General Electric
To: NDwebmail@state.gov, sharmam1@state.gov
Please forward this message to Mr. Daniel Clegg, Legal Attache, New Delhi.
Dear Mr. Clegg,
I would like to meet you in person and therefore would like an appointment. Thanks.
Regards,
Seema Sapra
–
Seema Sapra“
Thereafter, I received an email from Mr. Manu Sharma’s email account and sent from his blackberry and purporting to be from you and with content that surprised me. I have set it out below:
"From: Sharma, Manu <SharmaM1@state.gov>
Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:58 PM
Subject: GE
To: seema.sapra@googlemail.com
Ms. Sapra :
Thank you for calling me with your concerns. I have thoroughly reviewed you complaint, written and oral, in which you allege that General Electric (GE) is threatening your life. Unfortunately, the information you have provided in insufficient to predicate a U.S. criminal investigation. I’ve included notes from our telephone conversation on January 12, 2012:
· You are a lawyer by trade and were previously employed by GE in India.
· You possess insider information regarding GE’s lack of compliance regarding documentation related to a government tender and believe this is why GE is threatening your life.
· Since leaving GE you have felt physically ill and believe GE’s top managers are “drugging” you because of your efforts to expose the company.
· You recently noticed a sweet odor in your house that you believe is nitrous oxide. Your symptoms appear to be similar to those of nitrous oxide poisoning per your research on the internet.
· The landlord is making suspicious repairs on the roof of your flat and may be complicit in poisoning you because the nitrous oxide could be introduced through the air conditioning system.
· You believe your maid is poisoning your food. The maid was referred to you by your immediate family through a suspicious individual named Ajay Singh who you don’t know. Your family distanced themselves from you shortly after you hired the maid.
· The landlord is making suspicious repairs on the roof of your flat and may be complicit in poisoning you because the nitrous oxide could be introduced through the air conditioning system.
· The doctors that treated you at MAX hospital know your prior GE managers and may also be complicit with GE. They listed you as an “alcoholic” in their medical reports and referred you to a psychiatrist.
The FBI does not have law enforcement authority outside the U.S. so I recommend you refer your safety concerns to the appropriate government of India authorities for action.
Thanks,
Dan
Manu Sharma
Office of the Legal Attaché
United States Embassy
New Delhi
India
Sent on my BlackBerry® from Airtel"
I immediately sent the following email to you in reply:
“From: Seema Sapra<seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: GE
To: "Sharma, Manu" <SharmaM1@state.gov>
Dear Mr. Clegg,
I am afraid your notes are a misrepresentation and parody of our conversation. I will prepare a detailed reply.
In the meantime I am forwarding to you the complaint that I made to Max.
Regards,
Seema Sapra”
I followed that with yet another email to you that I have copied below:
“From: Seema Sapra<seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:10 PM
Subject: For Mr. Daniel Clegg, Legal Attache, New Delhi
To: "Sharma, Manu" <sharmam1@state.gov>
Dear Mr. Clegg,
Here is one of my complaints against Max. I am preparing a detailed note on the attempts to harm me over the past year. Your note to me earlier today sent from this email is premature. I have not communicated the detailed facts to you. Therefore, your earlier email does not reflect the basis of my complaints.
I am putting detailed facts together and will forward them to you.
I request that you keep this forwarded communication confidential (to the extent possible) in so far as it concerns my medical history.
Regards,
Seema Sapra”
I then called you on the phone immediately and we spoke in the afternoon of January 13, 2012 at 3.11 pm. In this conversation I told you that your email to me sent from Mr. Manu Sharma’s blackberry (and from his email account) at Jan 13, 2012 at 2:58 PM did not reflect my complaint and that I needed time to describe in detail the basis of my complaint regarding threat to life from GE. I said I would send it to you in writing and point out the errors in your email to me (which I sketchily also pointed out during this conversation). I again pointed out that I would send a detailed written note describing in detail the facts and evidence on which basis I feared for my life and had made my complaint. You asked me during this conversation how and when I thought GE had tried to kill me. I gave instances of this. You asked me if I did not think that GE would have succeeded in killing me if they wanted that. I replied that the operation against me was obviously covert and it was clear that I was being harmed deliberately and the attempt was to make it appear otherwise. You asked me if I thought trained professionals had been hired to harm me and I agreed. You told me that if someone wanted me dead, I could be shot dead over the duration of the phone-call. I replied that since GE had already had my house rigged and had managed to introduce nitrous oxide they could very well gas me to death in a matter of seconds and pass it off as heart-failure. Towards the end of our conversation, I mentioned that I had contacted Judge Richard J. Holwell’s Court the previous night (Indian time which was the forenoon of January 12, 2012 EST) and spoken with his Deputy and the Court Clerk assigned to the General Electric case. I also mentioned that I had just then (on January 13) found out on the internet that Judge Richard J. Holwell had pronounced his decision on GE’s motion to defend on Thursday itself and that GE had lost that motion and the lawsuit would now proceed. I mentioned that my complaint still remained relevant and that I planned on contacting the Judge. You then ended the conversation because you needed to go.
I recorded the gist of our conversation in the following email that I sent to you:
“From: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: GE
To: "Sharma, Manu" <SharmaM1@state.gov>
Dear Mr. Clegg,
I would like to confirm that as I indicated when we spoke a little while ago, I will prepare a detailed note on my threat to life complaint and send it to you. I would like to describe in detail the events that have occurred over the last year and a half. I will describe in detail the multiple occasions on which I have been drugged, and the attempts on my life and other relevant information.
I will need some time to put this note together as there is a lot of information to share.
Regards,
Seema Sapra”
Later that evening on January 13, 2012, I contacted Judge Richard J. Holwell’s Court on phone and then sent emails to his staff bringing to the attention of the Judge my complaints against GE including that of obstruction of justice and the complaint of threat to life. After I made these calls and sent these emails, I noticed a strong and unpleasant chemical smell in my home. My eyes began to sting and my head started to ache. I realised that some toxic substance was again being introduced into my house. I emailed you and Mr. Manu Sharma about it.
The next morning I complained to the Police. I also tried contacting the US embassy and requesting if I could get contact details for either you or Mr. Manu Sharma. The staff who took my calls did say that it was a holiday. Upon my insistent requests to speak with someone on emergency duty I was informed that since I was not a US citizen I could not be given access to staff on emergency duty. I must admit I insisted that I be allowed to speak with someone. However, after the first 3-4 calls I made, the staff who answered the phone started to act strange. First someone told me that he would complain to the Police. Another man who spoke in Hindi and was trying to intimidate me told me (when I asked him to give me Mr. Manu Sharma’s phone number) that I could have his number instead. Another attempt to speak with someone in charge was met by a response from a man who kept drawling “hello” repeatedly in an obnoxious manner so as to suggest he was drunk or dangerous. I recorded this last phone-call and I sent an email to Mr. Manu Sharma about these threatening responses. I also forwarded the call recording to him. I asked Mr. Manu Sharma to contact me because of the on-going introduction of toxic substances into my house. I received no response from Mr. Manu Sharma. I later emailed Mr. Manu Sharma asking him to let me know his official designation. He has not replied.
As I had said I would, I have sent you two emails on January 16, 2012 with a detailed (but still incomplete and not exhaustive note) setting out the facts and basis for my complaint that there is a threat to my life because of my whistle-blower complaints against General Electric.
I repeatedly complained to the Police with copies marked to you throughout the weekend and on January 16 and 17, 2012 as well that toxic substances were being introduced into my home since the night of January 13, 2011. There has been no response from the Police. This introduction of toxic substances into my house is on-going at present and I have again intermittently smelt some gas or chemical in my house today.
I attempted to contact you on January 17, 2012 and spoke with your office manager but she refused to put my call through to you. I thereafter sent another request on email to meet you in person.
I emailed you yet again on 17 January 2012 and sent you the following note:
“From: Seema Sapra<seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:03 PM
Subject: Message for Mr. Daniel Clegg, Legal Attache, US Embassy, New Delhi
To: NDwebmail@state.gov, cleggd1@state.gov
Dear Mr. Daniel Clegg,
Here is one of my complaints against Max Hospital. This one was against Dr. Ashish Jain a pulmonologist at Max Saket who covered up the lung congestion that my chest X-rays from July and August 2011 showed. I have sent you a detailed note on the attempts to harm me over the past year. Your note to me on 13 January 2012 sent from this email (sharmam1@state.gov) was as I stated below premature. I had not communicated the detailed facts to you. Therefore, your earlier email does not reflect the basis of my complaints. There is more detail on additional attempts to drug me as well as additional evidence which I am able to provide beyond what I have put down in my note.
I request that you keep this forwarded communication confidential (to the extent possible) in so far as it concerns my medical history. Also, as I informed you when we spoke, Dr. Ashish Jain from Max in this very prescription that I complained about below recommended in writing that I go to the toxicology department of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He repeatedly told me during my consultation with him that Max Hospital was not able to handle cases of poisoning like in my case.
In my detailed note sent to you on January 16, 2011, I have provided further detail about my interaction with Dr. Ashish Jain and other doctors at Max.
I had also told you when we spoke on January 13, 2012 that your email to me dated 13 January 2012 sent from Mr. Manu Sharma’s email account did not accurately reflect what I was complaining about and that I needed an opportunity to provide details to you about attempts and attacks on my life and person. I have already sent you a detailed note. I will also take the opportunity to point out corrections to your preliminary notes that you sent to me from Mr. Manu Sharma’s email account on 13 January 2012.
Best Regards,
Seema Sapra”
I followed this up with this email to you also sent on January 17, 2012:
“From: Seema Sapra<seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:02 PM
Subject: Please forward this message to Mr. Daniel Clegg, Legal Attache, United States Embassy, New Delhi
To: NDwebmail@state.gov, cleggd1@state.gov
Dear Mr. Daniel Clegg,
I was just going to send an email with detailed point by point notes from my end on this email below. But I just realised that perhaps you might not even have sent this email.
This is from Mr. Manu Sharma’s email account and sent from his blackberry. I do not know what he does at the Embassy. I have asked him for his designation on email but he has not replied. A few days ago when I first tried to speak with your office, the call was sent to him and he attempted to discourage me from contacting your office. He told me he could do for me whatever the Legal Attache could do.
I have sent a number of emails forwarding my correspondence with GE on the compliance violation issues for you and have copied Mr. Manu Sharma. However I am not sure if you have received those emails.
Could you please confirm that this email below was actually sent by you.
Thank you.
Best Regards,
Seema Sapra”
I have not received a response from you.
I called the US embassy again on January 17, 2012 and today (January 18, 2012) and asked to speak to the staff of the US Ambassador whom I have also appealed to for help and also asked to speak with you. My calls were not put through by the operators who answered the phone. I was told not to call again. It appears that my calls are being answered by someone other than the regular operators who respond to calls.
Since our conversation on January 13, 2012, I have also sent other emails to you including emails that I sent to Judge Richard J. Holwell and which I have copied you on.
I have also sent you emails on this address – Cleggd1@state.gov, hoping that they might reach you. Yet another strange occurrence has been that while some of my emails have been delivered to you at your email (Cleggd1@state.gov), I have on other occasions received a notification from postmaster@state.govthat my email was not delivered.
I am not sure if emails that I sent for you on Mr. Manu Sharma’s email account have been forwarded to you or not. My limited interaction with Mr. Manu Sharma over my complaints has been very unsatisfactory and suspicious.
I once again request a personal meeting with you. I am sending this request to all these emails in the hope that it will reach you.
With Regards,
Seema Sapra
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