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Radio Humsafar is a radio network providing South Asian programming to over 2 million listeners in several major cities around the world. Radio Humsafar's programming is broadcast in the United States, Canada, India, Australia and over the internet worldwide. It was launched in Montreal in July, 2000 and is currently heard on radio stations across Canada, India, Australia and the United States. The station broadcasts family oriented programming with a mix of news, music, current issues, comedy shows, kids programs and talk shows 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The evening talk show hosted by Jasvir Sandhu is currently its most popular program.

Radio Humsafar can also be heard via satellite in North America using a DVB receiver: Satellite: Telesat Anik F1, Position: 107.3 degrés W (ITU region II)

Radio Humsafar Defaruded Gurinder Singh and Rishi Bhandal for $125,000. Owner of Radio Humsafar Jasvir Singh Sandhu cheated Gurinder Singh and Rishi Bhandal with the help of his younger brother Avtar Singh Sandhu and his California Based cousin Manjit Singh Sandhu. Now there are Arrest worrents againt Manjit Sandhu and Avtar Singh Sandhu.

Radio Humsafar: Hearing of criminal case against two persons of Radio Humsafar in the case of Radio Humsafar Defraud.

November 15, 2006

Gurinder Singh 6060 Sunrise Vista Dr Citrus Heights, CA 95610 To Ms Diane Rheaume Secretary General CRTC Ottawa, ON K1A0N2

Subject: Complaint Regarding Application No. 2006-0214-5 of Radio Humsafar, Montreal.

Dear Madam

Solicitation of Investment Funds for Radio Humsafar Expansion: Avtar Singh Sandhu, Jasvir Singh Sandhu and Manjit Singh Sandhu (Owners of Radio Humsafar) asked for investment of money for expansion of Radio Humsafar in California Central Valley. For this solicitation they all three lied that they own Radio Humsafar AM 1200 but latter on I fund out that they are just leasing this station. They took US$125,000 and promised us to open 5 additional Radio Stations in Central California. Instead of opening these side band radio stations they rather took our hard earned money and first they refused to return our money back but later on gave us checks of $75000.00 and $50,000.00 one bounced and one stopped. After that they issued other two check of $25,000.00 each and they both bounced. Then Avtar Sandhu deposited another check of $10,000.00 that bounced as well. Then they completely refused to return our money back. (Please see enclosed Copies of checks and copies of documents proving this statement)

For thorough detail please read letters of Beverly M. Hoey (Attorney at Law) to Fremont Police Department and Federal Communication Commission.

Illegal Activities of Radio Humsafar in California, USA

1. Radio Humsafar Bypassed Immigration Requirement of Expansion of Radio Humsafar from Montreal to California. *Instead of expanding under NAFTA agreement, Radio Humsafar opened this Radio Humsafar in San Francisco Bay Area under Their Cousin Manjit Singh Sandhu’s name. They opened AVR Media Inc and DBA Radio Humsafar. * Jasvir Singh Sandhu Appointed his Brother Avatar Singh Sandhu as Station Director. (For proof please see Attached Copy of Avtar Singh Sandhu Business Card Stating as Station Director). As per NAFTA agreement any Canadian Citizen doing business in USA needs L-1 Visa which he does not showed us any time during our dealing with Avtar Singh Sandhu * Jasvir Singh Sandhu and Avtar Singh Sandhu hired all most all the employee those had no legal work authorization in USA. My preliminary investigation with Board of Equalization, California, informed me that they have no record of any employee and their employee tax paid. (It is a public information and verifiable with California Board of Equalization) *We may further add that they hardly pay any salary legally to their existing staff. They normally show them as volunteers. Most of the people who work with them take social welfare and they pay them in cash a meager amount no way comparable to industry standards. CRTC must ask them their last five years accounts and facts will be crystal clear. *Dick Ferante of Q2 Media, who introduce Radio Humsafar to peoples’ Radio Inc. in California. He informed my Attorney that Avtar Singh Sandhu also took $200,000.00 form some one other in the San Francisco and never returned.

I Gurinder Singh and my Business partner Rishi Bhandal Filed Police Report against Radio Humsafar on July 25,2006 in Fremont Police Department in California At that time first they considered this as Civil matter. But later on when we gave all the five bounced checks to the Fremont Police on September 27, 2007. Since that police took it as criminal matter and investigation is going. Please see below for Police Investigations name and phone #.

I came to know that they allegedly solicited money from few other East India people in Canada as well. I will disclose the name of those people during my testimony to CRTC.

Radio Humsafar and its owners have been involved in various fraudulent activities in Canada and USA. They have robbed us $125, 000.00 and robbed other community people by false promises. Their Frauds have been widely published in new papers (Amritsar Times September 13 -19, 2006, Punjab Times, Saturday, October 21, 2006 and American Punjabi Tribune, October 20, 2006) Fremont Police and District Attorney of Fremont are investigating this Radio Humsafar Fraud.

Important contacts and phone Numbers:

For further verification please contact following people: Police Report # 060725056.

Lisa Faria (District Attorney’s Office) 510-795-2514

Scott Sanders (Fremont Police Officer for this file) 510-790-6800 Bach #2830

Mr. Quimson (Fremont Police Investigator for case) 510-790-6900 Bach #2527 or 510-790-6800

Beverly M. Hoey (Attorney At Law for this case) 925-846-1321

Det. Bill Veteran (Special Investigator to Chief of Police and is helping Investigator Quimson in this case.) 510-790-6972

These are the important people to contact for this Fraud done by Radio Humsafar.

Please see enclosed, faxed, email and mailed documents to prove Radio Humsafar’s activities against their own community. Instead of helping the Indian Community rather they have adopted the pattern behavior of defrauding others.

1. Copy of handwritten promissory note by Avtar Singh Sandhu for returning our money of $125,000 by July 28, 2006. (This promise never kept that promise) Page 1

2. Police report to Fremont Police against Radio Humsafar and Avtar Singh Sandhu (Brother of Jasvir Singh Sandhu) #of pages 4

3. Copies of Bounced checks (check #1631, 1632, 1650, 1651, 1656 of AVR Media Inc. DBA Radio Humsafar) #of pages 3

4 Copy of receipt Issued by Fremont Police (all the checks are with Fremont Police Dept for investigation)

5. Copy of Letter to Fremont Police (by Attorney Beverly M. Hoey) #of pages 3

6. Copy of Letter to Federal Communication Commission, Media Bureau (by Attorney Beverley M. Hoey) # of pages 4.

7. Copy of letter to Joe C. Rosa (owner of AM 1200 and he leased this station to Radio Humsafar) # of pages 2

8. Copy of Avtar Singh Sandhu’s Business Card proving him as Station Director.

9. Copy of Deposit Slip of $75,000 ( this check #1631 was deposited by Avatar Singh Sandhu in to our Checking account and he lied to us that he transferred the money to our account but he deposited bad check in out account )

10. Copy of AVR Media Inc. filed on July 28, 2005. This day Radio Humsafar Started Business in USA.

11. Copies of News Papers cuttings (Amritsar Times, Punjab Times, American Punjabi Tribune) # of pages 6.

12. Contact information of Radio Humsafar (for please visit www.radiohumsafar.com as well.

I am sending these important documents which are authentic and can be independently verified as these are police records and published newspaper reports. These are important documents for CRTC and for the well fare of the community as a whole. Please consider these documents before you take any decision on this application for Radio Humsafar who have defrauded us with conspiracy.

I admit this statement and if necessary I will produce myself in front of CRTC along with original documents.

If further information is needed, please feel free to contact us. @ 916- 833-9218 [email protected].

Sincerely Yours

Gurinder Singh Rishi Bhandal (Victims of Radio Humsafar Fraud)

Copy to this is faxed to Radio Humsafar @ fax # 1-450-963-7229

April 30, 2007

Gurinder Singh (Victim of Radio Humsafar Fraud) 8164 Anastasia Way, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

Reference: Application by Radio Humsafar Inc. - 2006-0214-5

Marc-Andre Bujold,

Thanks for inviting us at Public Hearing.

We had provided the following documents in the intervention.

I sent Cover letter of four pages summarizing the fraudulent activities of Radio Humsafar in USA and Canada along with following documents.

1. Copy of handwritten promissory note by Avtar Singh Sandhu for returning our money of $125,000 by July 28, 2006. (This promise never kept that promise) Page 1

2. Police report to Fremont Police against Radio Humsafar and Avtar Singh Sandhu (Brother of Jasvir Singh Sandhu) #of pages 4

3. Copies of Bounced checks (check #1631, 1632, 1650, 1651, 1656 of AVR Media Inc. DBA Radio Humsafar) #of pages 3

4 Copy of receipt Issued by Fremont Police (all the checks are with Fremont Police Dept for investigation)

5. Copy of Letter to Fremont Police (by Attorney Beverly M. Hoey) #of pages 3

6. Copy of Letter to Federal Communication Commission, Media Bureau (by Attorney Beverley M. Hoey) # of pages 4.

7. Copy of letter to Joe C. Rosa (owner of AM 1200 and he leased this station to Radio Humsafar) # of pages 2

8. Copy of Avtar Singh Sandhu’s Business Card proving him as Station Director.

9. Copy of Deposit Slip of $75,000 ( this check #1631 was deposited by Avatar Singh Sandhu in to our Checking account and he lied to us that he transferred the money to our account but he deposited bad check in out account )

10. Copy of AVR Media Inc. filed on July 28, 2005. This day Radio Humsafar Started Business in USA.

11. Copies of News Papers cuttings (Amritsar Times, Punjab Times, American Punjabi Tribune) # of pages 6.

12. Contact information of Radio Humsafar (for please visit www.radiohumsafar.com as well.

Since that there are following updates for their fraudulent activities and their consequences.

1. Police investigation Report of 5 pages. Under this police investigation of Radio Humsafar Fraud, Avtar Singh Sandhu and Manjit Singh Sandhu, owner of Radio Humsafar in California and Business partners and Siblings of Jasvir Singh Sandhu have been recommended to be charged under PC476a. Manjit Sandhu and Avtar Sandhu willfully, with intent to defraud, delivered four checks, for the payment of the money, knowing at the time of such delivering that the maker or the corporation does not have sufficient funds in the account to cover the checks.

2. Copies of Arrest Warrants of Manjit Singh Sandhu and Avtar Singh Sandhu. On February 05, 2007 California Supreme Court , Judge Grimmer and District Attorney Colton Carmine issued arrest warrants for Manjit Singh Sandhu and Avtar Singh Sandhu for $30,000 bail for each. Manjit Singh Sandhu bailed him out on March 19,2007 but Avtar Singh Sandhu is still absconding.

3. Copies of “Amritsar Times” and “World Sikh News” Copies of news coverage of their arrest warrants and follow-up.

November 22, 2006

Gurinder Singh and Rishi Bhandal 916-833-9218 510-331-2460

Ms. Diane Rheaume Secretary General CRTC Ottawa, ON K1A0N2

Subject: Humble Request to Investigate Existing Radio Humsafar in 7655 Cordner, Lasalle Quebec, H8N 2X2, Canada and Request to stop approving their Application #2006-0214-5 and NPH 2006-11 until CRTC investigate Radio Humsafar’s Activities.

Dear Diane Rheaume

As I have mentioned in earlier requests and interventions against Radio Humsafar, in this letter I am giving you more facts regarding Radio Humsafar’s fraudulent activities.

Radio Humsafar has defrauded following persons in Canada and USA which are in my knowledge:

1. Satvir Pabla 2. Parmjit Saini 3. Tara Chand Bhati These three people from different parts of Canada have been defrauded by Jasvir Singh Sandhu and his younger brother Avtar Singh Sandhu in “Ottawa Radio Station CHUO 8901 FM Scam.” In that Scam first of all Radio Humsafar made a very unethical agreement to bring them into their grip and took $110,000.00 from them under the table (illegal means). For this please see enclosed, faxed, mailed and emailed to CRTC and Radio Humsafar. They voided all written and verbal agreements with Aryun Media Productions of Parmjit Saini and Tara Chand and Radio Humsafar has thrown into ever ending financial troubles. For further information please contact Mr. Pabla @780-722-6711 or [email protected]

4. Daljit Singh Kalkat Daljit Singh Kalkat is more of the Radio Humsafar’s Victims as well. I was shocked to hear his dealings with Radio Humsafar. He landed $50,000 to Jasvir Singh Sandhu of Radio Humsafar on good faith. But end up getting run around the way we are getting. Far further detail please contact Daljit Singh Kalkat @ 514-963-4602 or [email protected] Victims of USA (We have more than 100 pages of documents to prove the Fraud of Radio Humsafar) 1. Gurinder Singh (myself) 916-833-9218 or [email protected] 2 Rishi Bhandal (my Business Partner) or 510-331-2460 I have already provided all the information to CRTC and Radio Humsafar via email, mail and fax. Over 35 pages. If needed, I will be happy to provide again.

These are the few of the unending list of Victims of Radio Humsafar in USA and Canada.

But now day by day I am getting to know more and more victims of Radio Humsafar’s fraudulent activities.

We all together have to come forward to bring them to justice through legal Civil and Criminal law suits in Canada and USA. At the same time we all request CRTC to help us out to investigate and take appropriate actions against Radio Humsafar.

I request all those who so ever will be reading this letter, please first enquire about the real truth from Radio Humsafar and the Victims of Radio Humsafar. Then if you realize that how Radio Humsafar has robbed their own community people who have come to these western countries all the way form India (approximately 20 thousand miles away) then all of you will be very sad as we are. And if after in enquiring all this even if a single person will feel that we are just trying to let them down., I will gladly accept that and will publicly feel my apology to not only all of you but all human being on the face of the Mother Earth. I have No more words. I understand that few people will consider this nonsense but these are my feeling from deep down my heat and I want to express them. Even If I will not get justice from the community and it regulating bodies still I am firm Believer of God. GOD BLESSES ALL. (Including Radio Humsafar and it employees and Allies)

Gurinder Singh 916-833-9218 [email protected]

Fremont/ Satnam Singh Khalsa/ Amritsar Times

The hearing in the case regarding the duping of two real estate businessmen with alleged promise of making them partners in Radio Humsafar Manjit Singh Sandhu and Avtar Singh Sandhu, both kin has started. The two Sandhus connected to AVR Media, Inc had last year promised to make the two realtors partners in Radio Humsafar stations in Sacramento and other cities but did nothing of sort. The Amritsar Times Group had published detailed stories about the episode: ________________and brought the truth up front. The case against Manjit Singh Sandhu and Avtar Singh Sandhu is concerned with bouncing of checks issued by them. Senior Deputy District Attorney Colton Carmine has maintained that a suit was maintainable under Penal Code Laws 1054.5(v). Manjit Singh Sandhu appeared along with his consul in front of Judge Danne Grimmer of Superior Court of California on March 19, 2007 in Court Room # 606 at 9.00 am. Next hearing has been scheduled for April 10,2007. Warrants have been reportedly issued for Avtar Singh Sandhu, who is the younger brother of Canada resident and the man responsible for running Radio Humsafar’s Montreal Office, Jasvir Singh Sandhu, but he is

Translation of Handwritten statement of Tara Chand Bhatti. Radio Humsafar Sold its Ottawa Radio station on 24th August 2004 to Aryan Media Production. Tara Chand Bhatti and Parmjit Saini paid the amount through cheques and cash in Montreal, California and India. Even after six months Aryan Media was owner in name only. From frequency to internet connection everything was in the name of Jasvir Sandhu and Avtar Sandhu. Ottawa station was taken on the condition that till it comes to breakeven expenses will be born by Jasvir Sandhu. But expenses were put on Aryan Media from day one except for frequency. Frequency was to be transferred in the name of Aryan Media but was not done till the last day. Set up expenses of Ottawa station were to be paid by Montreal station which was not paid. License has to be transferred in Aryan Media’s name in CRTC records which was not done. Even after paying one hundred ten thousands dollars Aryan Media was servant only. After six month frequency rent was not paid and station was off air for one month. Ass rent was not paid for July, August, September and October 2005 so the frequency was closed and station was closed also. Mr.Satvir Pabla one of administrator went to India in November 2005. During the period Jasvir Sandhu without any one’s permission took all the stuff from station to Montreal. Aryan media was robbed to the tune of $110,000 and if we add all the expenses the total loss is to the tune of $225,000.Directors of Aryan Media 1. Tara Chand Bhatti 2. Parmjit Saini (Original Signatures of both)