BJP Leader Sangeet Som's Link With Meat Export Firms Exposed by Documents

By Dilip -
NEW DELHI:  When controversial BJP lawmaker Sangeet Som visited Uttar Pradesh's Dadri last week after a man was lynched there allegedly over beef rumours, he had accused Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's government of rescuing "cow killers." Condemning cow slaughter, he had also claimed that it was leading to riots in the state.

NDTV has now accessed documents that show Mr Som was associated with not just one but two meat processing and export companies. The Registrar of Companies' documents show that Mr Som was a Director at the Al Dua Food Processing Private Limited from 2005 to 2008. On its website, Al Dua claims to be a "leading producer and exporter of halal meat from India." Documents also show that he was an Associate Director of another meat processing company, Al Anam, from February 2008 till June 2008.

Though documents show Mr Som was a Director and held 33% stakes in Al Dua between 2005 and 2008, when NDTV asked him about this yesterday, he said he had only invested in land owned by the company in 2008 and sold it within six months. "My friend Yogesh Rawat approached me in 2008 and asked me to help buy some land for a friend of his, Moinuddin Qureshi, who was a farmer. They couldn't come up with the capital, so he needed some help. I contributed around six to seven lakh rupees in buying that land. That was my only involvement. Then within few months, I sold that land and my shares in the company."

Mr Som also claimed that he "had no idea" that Al Dua was a meat processing company. "At the time when I bought the land, it was the only asset that the company owned. A company can do thousand things. How do I know what the company did? As far as I know, the company was not doing anything," he said.

Al Anam has been registered as a food processing company since 1999, and Mohammed Kamil, a prominent meat exporter, is its Director. Mr Kamil is the owner of MK Overseas, one of the biggest meat exporters in the country. Interestingly, it was Mohammed Kamil who bought the shares of Al Dua after Sangeet Som and two of its other owners, Yogesh Rawat and Moinuddin Qureshi, gave up their shares in 2008. Now MK Overseas owns 95% of shares in Al Dua.

Sangeet Som has been charged with making inflammatory speeches ahead of the 2013 riots in UP's Muzaffarnagar that killed more than 60 and left hundreds of thousands homeless. He is out on bail.
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see also
Mukul Kesavan - Why Modi Is Still Silent On Dadri
Mukul Kesavan - The BJP's Alibis For the Lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq
The emperor's masks: 'apolitical' RSS calls the shots in Modi sarkar
Ayodhya sadhus condemn Dadri lynching
"Saare Jahan Se Accha Hindustan Hamara": Son of Murdered Dadri Resident Appeals For Peace
Six Outrageous Things BJP Leaders Have Said About Dadri Murder
NAUJAWAN BHARAT SABHA reports on systematic attempts of 'Sangh Parivar' to foment communal tension in Delhi // Beef murder bid to stir hatred ahead of polls? // SIDDHARTH VARADARAJAN: The fight is now over your right to not be killed for what you eat
The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: Inquiry Commission Report (1969)
The Abolition of truth
RSS tradition of manufacturing facts to suit their ideology
Siddharth Varadarajan: Yakub Memon, Maya Kodnani and the ‘Chain of Action and Reaction’
Mukul Kesavan: Intimations of evil - The Vyapam deaths
Public Appeal - Resist degradation of Indian criminal justice system

After Professor Kalburgi Murder, Exhibit A is Police Inertia
Govind Pansare consigned to flames ...
Days after being shot at, Pansare dies ...
Memorial to A Warrior for Socialism: Comrade Govind Pansare
Kolhapur: Senior CPI leader Govind Pansare, wife shot at by
Smruti Koppikar - Maharashtra CM has no will to pursue my father’s murder
Petition in Supreme Court Accuses NIA of Soft-Pedaling Hindutva Terror Cases
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Two Protests - On 2nd Anniversary of Dr Dabholkar murder
KUMAR KETKAR - Narendra Dabholkar: The Relentless Rationalist
Mahmud Rahman - Bangladesh: Unbelief in an age of death squads
Anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar shot dead in ...
"Remember Gandhi. Remember what we did to him
Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti
Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism in India
Rationalist under threat of arrest for exposing the “miracle”
India's god laws fail the test of reason
India's new theocracy
Voice of rationality silenced by two bullets, shot point-blank
The BJP is afraid of saffron terror probes because they point to the RSS
Purushottam Agrawal: Why does the RSS hate the idea of India ?
RSS Declared Unlawful: Text of GOI communique February 4, 1948
Sanjiv Chaturvedi: zero tolerance for honesty in the Narendra Modi government
R K Misra on corruption and the Modi government. Forked Tongue & Flexible Factsheet
RAKESH DIXIT - M.P. Government Turns on Vyapam Whistleblower Anand Rai
Billionaire at Heart of Vyapam Scam Funded BJP, RSS Leaders: Tax Report
Barkha Dutt - How Namrata Damor's murder was cloaked as suicide
Vyapam troubles loom for RSS: probe threatens to drag in Sangh Parivar elders
Patriotic hooligans on the rampage ...
Borking Gopal Subramanium
The Broken Middle - my essay on the 30th anniversary of 1984
The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: Inquiry Commission Report (1969)
The Abolition of truth - For the Hindi version of this essay click here: सत्य की हत्या
RSS tradition of manufacturing facts to suit their ideology
Communist Party of India's Homage to Gandhiji October 2, 1947 // Communist Party's Appeal to the People of Pakistan August 15, 1947
V.D. Savarkar and Gandhi’s murder
Madhu Limaye's (senior socialist leader) observations on the RSS (1979)
A Hard Rain Falling (on private armies and political violence in India) (EPW, July 2012)
THE DELHI DECLARATION OF JANUARY 18, 1948
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