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by imran patel on Sep 16, 2007 03:22 PM
Fraud scientist takes RSS for a ride down Lord Ram%u2019s bridge
Shishir Gupta
Posted online: Sunday, June 17, 2007 at 0000 hrs IST
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
The %u201Cspace scientist%u201D who, for two years, helped the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) formulate its opposition to the Sethusamudram project has turned out to be just like the Sangh%u2019s argument %u2014 a fraud.
The RSS said today that it would %u201Cremove%u201D him as pracharak after an investigation by The Sunday Express showed that Puneesh Taneja, who is said to have access right up to Sarsanghchalak K S Sudershan, allegedly forged his credentials.
He passed himself off as %u201CDr%u201D Puneesh Taneja and flaunted visiting cards and stationery identifying himself as %u201CSenior Research Scientist/Additional Secretary, Department of Space, Prime Minister%u2019s Office, South Block, New Delhi.%u201D
These cards, obtained by The Sunday Express, are embossed with the logo of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
Sources said Taneja told the RSS that he was on a two-year leave from the Government and that he was with ISRO. There are red faces in the saffron brotherhood because many within the RSS were taken in by these cards and even saw Taneja as a %u201Clinkman%u201D between the RSS and the UPA Government.
So much so that he was made a fulltime pracharak in 2005 and began operating from an RSS flat in Noida.
