Copie to : By mail : Président of India presidentofindia@rb.nic.in ; Madras High Court : hcourt@tn.nic.in ; Chief Minister Dr. Kalaignar M Karunanidhi : cmcell@tn.gov.in ; Governor : governor@tn.nic.in ; Secretary to the Government : ctsec@tn.gov.in ; District Collector Collectorate, Villupuram collrvpm@tn.nic.in ; Tamil Nadu Legislative assembly secretariat assemblysecretary@tn.gov.in and tnasmbly@tn.nic.in ; Directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption dvac@tn.nic.in ; CBI sp1acchn@cbi.gov.in ; villupuram2day@yahoo.com ; Le Monde, the first French national newspaper (Monnot Caroline monnot@lemonde.fr ; French consulat of Puducherry:consul@consulfrance-pondichery.org ; French embassy in Delhi webmaster@france-in-india.org ; two French MP in Pondicherry M. Vajoumouny Shankar shankar_vajou@yahoo.fr and v.shankar@assemblee-afe.fr and M. Ramatchandirane Tirou r.tirou@assemblée-afe.fr, By post : Coalition Against Corruption. Transparency International India Chennai ; Superintendant and Commisionner of police in Villupuram. Asian Development Bank under the Tsunami Emergency Assistant Project (TEAP). Rotary Club. In a few days : all the Indian national and Tamil newspapers and all the political parties, the French President Sarkozy, the Minister of foreign office in France. Hostage of a group of villains with the police's complicity. We could also title: prisoner in India ! Our history is simple to understand. 10 years ago, in July 2000, we bought a small piece of land and a house in ruin in a village of fishers. The panchayat of the village told us that the land belonged to him and that it sold it to us. We asked if the document was in order, he affirmed us that yes. We were un confidence with them. Four years later, in 2004, with this document and the certificate of the V.A.O. (village adminstration organisation) that had allowed us to get the electricity on which appeared our survey number (pata in Tamil)131/11 - 0.14.5, we registered our land in Registered land office in Vanur, he was wrote by the State document writer, M. Sachitanandam (phone 94432256520). M. Sachitanandam said you are the single owner of this place, you can live here or sell, the document of panchayat had no value, only the document of the government of India I gave you had a value. I incite you to call him for confirmation. So, our land is recorded legally. Five years later, in 2009, we decided to sell our place because I had one fourth operation of heart (2 steel valves prosthesis in heart) and we need money to return in France... This time the panchayat of this village said that we don't have the right to sell our place, after they asked us 15 lacks rupees, and at the end they threaten to kill us. Our problem is that we need the document concerning this survey number because the two French parties ready to purchase our place asked us. We are going to V.A.O. office (village organisation) , but the officer was corrupted by the panchayat, he refused to give us this document, we asked his Chief, the Dasildar of Vanur to give us this document, he didn't want, we ask the Talaivar of Kottakuppam and police to help us, but in fact they are all corrupted and accomplices ! In our last letter you could read that we are in presence of a group of villains, their chief even bragged before us in the police station about to have killed several people (foreigners) already and to want to kill us. Facing this threat of murder we were anxious to make know this story while hoping that someone is willing to help us and to make respect the law in this country. It's the single way to protect our life and interests, you must understand that. The June 30, 2009, we sent a registered letter to the civil servant of the VAO offfice Kottakuppam with a copy for the Dasildar of Vanur, as well as for collector of Villupuram, while informing them that we will lodge complaint officially in the court for corruption in one week if we didn't get this document. The 1st July, we received a telephone call from the Consule of France in Ponducherry to which we addressed all our documents, letters and complaints, he will give us an appointment for the 2rd July morning. He told us that he was going to see in what measure he could intervene by the Indian authorities. One week later, our lawyer sent a legal notice to the Collector of villupuram. The 11th August, nobody reply to our letters ! It's not a surprise. Now we perfectly understood the situation : The district of Kottakuppam is directed by a member of the DMK, M. Jayamurthy, in fact it is his wife who has been elected to this function, him he is nothing, as he doesn't have either the capacities for occcuper this function, it is his father whom actually directs this district, M. Chanmugan that directed this district during long years. We met it, he refused to help us. You will understand why immediatly. We don't make a politics and that it is this party or another doesn't have any interest here. Then, among the members of the DMK in Kottakuppam district, there is the chief of our village, the villain named V. Mani. All his criminal acts are covered by the police, sub-inspector Govindan told to me once: "it would not be necessary that the DMK has some problems because of this history", the most astonishing, that is that sub-inspector Govindan and sub-inspector Gopal have the phone number of Mani in their mobil phone numbers ! Now you can understand why when we call the police because the group of villains of Mani threatens to kill us, the police doesn't move : the policemen call Mani to ask him for what happens and what they must do, it is as if they were to his orders. Then, when we meet the policemen, they are necessarily against us ! We shall inform Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Dr. Kalaignar M Karunanidhi, about this situation, we shall ask him if he is supporting such criminal acts who can tarnish the picture of the DMK in the mind of citizen. We dare to hope that he will condemn severely this kind of acts. At the time of the last elections in May 2009, the DMK lost in Kottakuppam district, there is a link maybe with the behavior of the members of this party in Kottakuppam, notably the villain Mani. With our best regards. Tardieu Magueswary and Jean-claude (French husband from 20 years)