Indian Police Foundation (IPF) a foreign-funded non-governmental organization (NGO) with direct and indirect links to Islamic terrorist organizations and Pakistan’s ISI has been sitting right under the nose of the Central government and infiltrating the Indian bureaucracy.
The entity with its name coming across as a legitimate government body has been registered under the name of Police Foundation & Institute India and has been allowed to function from the official headquarters of Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D), a division of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
The NGO came to spotlight after the controversy erupted over ‘UPSC Jihad’, a feature story of Sudarshan News that sought to expose the candidates with links to Zakat Foundation of India, an organization linked to rabid Islamist preacher Zakir Naik. Instead of probing into the facts of the matter, the IPF shot the messenger by resorting to defending the Zakat Foundation of India. The IPF had tweeted against Sudarshan News’ story saying it amounted to ‘dangerous bigotry’ and ‘pure venom’.
Going down the rabbit hole concerning this, the facts that were uncovered were quite shocking. The NGO in question is actually one that has been started by several retired as well as some serving police officers and senior bureaucrats. It is worthy to mention here that this kind of fraudulent use of “Indian” by an NGO is an offence under Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950. It is legally a crime to use the term when it doesn’t actually pertain to a government-run body.
The IPF describes itself as ‘a multi-disciplinary think tank dedicated to work for police reform and the improvement of policing through research, capacity building and policy advocacy’. It was registered as a society with the name “Police Foundation & Institute India” under Registrar of Societies in 2014. Its Registration Number is S/ND/490/2014 and the registered address is at a flat in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi.
Furthermore, the IPF is inherently problematic in its existence because it is present on the pretext of posing as a government organization while actually being run by private entities seeking capitalistic gains and serious repercussions.
Questionable institutions and individuals involved: George Soros at play
The funding sources of IPF are opaque as a blackhole. There is a stoic silence on income and expenditure. The statement filed by IPF in the Darpan portal notes that for the financial years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017, expenses were met through contributions made by members. However, no information regarding its funding has been provided for subsequent years. There is a website called www.givingtuesdayindia.org which mentions an annual expenditure of ₹10.9 lakhs but doesn’t give details.
The IPF is associated with questionable individuals and institutions. Maja Daruwala, Director of Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) who is associated with another US-based advocacy organization called Namati, is also on the board of Open Society Justice Initiative, a brain child of George Soros. Namati had received USD 1.4 million from Foundation to Promote Open Society established by George Soros.
George Soros is known for his blatant declaration to work against nationalistic forces in India. In his speech at Davos in February 2020, he said:
Nationalism, far from being reversed, made further headway. The biggest and most frightening setback occurred in India where a democratically elected Narendra Modi is creating a Hindu nationalist state, imposing punitive measures on Kashmir, a semi-autonomous Muslim region, and threatening to deprive millions of Muslims of their citizenship.
Soros has publicly pledged a billion dollars to a university to contain and sabotage nationalism across the world. He had used his clout with the Democratic Party in the US to expand into India through ‘civil societies’ (read problematic NGOs), academicians, activists, leftists, etc.
CHRI is another foreign-funded NGO spearheading ‘police reforms’ and can be seen organizing events in association with IPF. The Chief Functionary of CHRI is Retired IAS officer and former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah. He is known to have cozy relations with Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and other separatist groups. The CHRI received around ₹53 crores from abroad during 2015-19 period, the most notable being from Ford Foundation and George Soros’ Open Society Foundation. Maju Daruwala along with likes of Romila Thapar had filed a petition in the Supreme Court to release the Maoists accused on inciting violence in the Elgar Parishad case.
Ford Foundation is linked to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) which have been documented in countless articles and research papers.
In a 2001 article titled ‘The Ford Foundation and the CIA’, James Petras, a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghampton University, New York, wrote:
The CIA uses philanthropic foundations as the most effective conduit to channel large sums of money to Agency projects without alerting the recipients to their source. From the early 1950s to the present the CIA’s intrusion into the foundation field was and is huge. A US Congressional investigation in 1976 revealed that nearly 50% of the 700 grants in the field of international activities by the principal foundations were funded by the CIA (Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders, Granta Books, 1999, pp. 134-135).” .
The CIA considers foundations such as Ford “The best and most plausible kind of funding cover” (Ibid, p. 135). The collaboration of respectable and prestigious foundations, according to one former CIA operative, allowed the Agency to fund “a seemingly limitless range of covert action programs affecting youth groups, labor unions, universities, publishing houses and other private institutions” (p. 135). The latter included “human rights” groups beginning in the 1950s to the present. One of the most important “private foundations” collaborating with the CIA over a significant span of time in major projects in the cultural Cold War is the Ford Foundation. …
The Ford Foundation was also involved in spinning the narrative around the Gujarat Riots that happened in 2002 through its coterie of NGOs, activists and academicians.
This NGO has many serving and retired bureaucrats in leadership positions including from the Comptroller and Auditor General Department, Central Vigilance Commission, paramilitary forces, intelligence agencies, criminal investigation agencies and leaderships of state law enforcement agencies. It also has roped in few big names from the corporate sector and industry, notable among them being Deepak Parekh, Raghav Raman. All these facts raise serious questions about its relationship to the BPR&D and the home ministry.
In addition to these three, several IPF individuals have been working closely with the above to ensure that there is a widespread propagation of the fake narrative regarding “Hindu Terror”. This includes the once famed cop, Julio Ribeiro, G K Pillai, a member of the IPF board, Prakash Singh, Jacob Punoose, and so on.
Involvement of the Zakir Naik’s Zakat Foundation
It is important to note that the kingpins of this particular scam are the ones that hold top positions in the IPF. The Zakat Foundation of India plus the antecedents of all the ZFI funded parties have trained candidates who are being selected by means of influence by the members of the IPF into top positions like IPS and IAS.
This foundation’s involvement is subject to have serious consequences because it has direct as well as indirect links to ISI of Pakistan and several globally networked terrorist organizations, including Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation and Lashkar-E-Taiba.
The Commune has far and wide exposed the hypocrisy and the anti-Hindu cries that have been conveniently launched by Muslim preacher Zakir Naik. Thanks to the IPF, he is now giving trained Muslims with secret ties to the ISS a backdoor entry into top positions in the country’s police force. This, in addition to posing a national security threat, also causes a severe degradation of the Freedom of Speech that the media has in this country. The various attacks on journalists in various parts of the country over the last decade is testament to their infiltration into the country’s defence workings and how deep-rooted the damage is. Surprisingly enough, several IPS officers, both serving and retired—connected with the Indian Police Foundation, have jumped in to defend Zakat Foundation of India and attacked the whistle blowers.
The recent news program conducted by Sudarshan News saw the presence of several eminent personalities from the journalism industry, that repeatedly emphasized need for the government to take appropriate action on this issue because of Zakat Foundation of India’s terror links and its general orientation of coming out in support of terrorists of J&K and elsewhere, including those involved in attack on the Indian Parliament. What is not so shocking is that within a few episodes of its airing, a stay order was granted by the Supreme Court to the applicants who belonged to the IPF against the airing of this program.
It is high time that the Union Home Ministry orders a full fledged investigation into the finances and the members associated with the organization seems to be in bed with radical Islamists and other people working against India.
This is based on the open letter written by Madhu Purnima Kishwar which was published in Manushi. You can read the original story here: “Open Letter to HM Amit Shah: Dangerous to Oursource Police Reforms to Foreign Funded NGOs“