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3 workers arrested on bribery charges in ARTO office Sopore disengaged

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Srinagar, Apr 26 : The authorities on Wednesday disengaged three consolidated workers, who were arrested by the Anti Corruption Bureau in Assistant Regional Transport Office Sopore for accepting bribe.
According to an order, a copy of which lies with KNO the consolidated workers were disengaged on the recommendations of ARTO Baramulla.
“In view of the recommendations made by the ARTO Baramulla conveyed by the RTO Kashmir, the workers Aijaz Ahmed Mir, Mohammad Ashraf Dar and Farooq Ahmed Wagay are hereby disengaged with immediate effect,” reads the order.
The trio was arrested by a team of ACB while demanding and accepting bribe in ARTO office Sopore this month—(KNO)
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April 26, 2023
Three ARTO Employees Disengaged From Services On Corruption Charges

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SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday ordered disengagement of three employees of ARTO Sopore on charges of corruption.
An order issued by the Transport commissioner, read that In view of the recommendations made by the ARTO Baramulla conveyed by the RTO Kashmir vide No. RTOK/Estt/615-17dated 19-04-2023, the following consolidated workers are hereby disengaged with immediate effect.
The employees were identified as Aijaz Ahmed Mir, Farooq Ahmed Wagay and Mohammad Ashraf Dar.
Notably,three employees (consolidated) at ARTO office Sopore were arrested for taking bribe from the public visiting the office for obtaining Driving License, NOC, Registration of vehicles.

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April 26, 2023
NIA officer suspended on corruption charges

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Delhi: Ministry of Home Affairs has suspended a superintendent of police rank officer of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on charges of corruption, sources said on Tuesday.
The officer has been identified as Vishal Garg, who is deputed at the Delhi headquarters of the NIA.
This is the second time since 2019 that Garg was placed under suspension on charges of corruption.
In 2019, Garg along with two other NIA officials– Nishant and Mithilesh– was placed under suspension for allegedly demanding Rs 2 crore from a Delhi-based businessman for not naming him in a terrorism funding case involving Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed. Nishant and Mithilesh were then posted with NIA’s intelligence and operations wing.

In 2020, the MHA reinstated Garg and gave a clean chit to two juniors. Garg was then transferred to New Delhi from Lucknow and made incharge of training with “immediate effect”.
As per sources, the fresh suspension of Garg is linked to another charge of corruption.
The MHA’s action followed an examination of Garg’s probe report. MHA is the cadre controlling authority for IPS and NIA officers.
Garg was earlier the chief investigation officer of the 2007 Samjhauta and Ajmer blast cases that resulted in the acquittals of Swami Assemanand and others.
The train blast in February 2007 had led to the death of 68 people, mostly Pakistanis.
Garg, from the Border Security Force, was among the first officers to be permanently inducted in the NIA, which was set up in the aftermath of the 26/11 attack.

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April 25, 2023
Georgia DA: Any charges against Trump and allies will be announced this summer

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District Attorney Fani Willis told the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office to prepare for “heightened security” in the event that her announcement provokes “a significant public reaction.” | Brynn Anderson/AP Photo
Atlanta-area District Attorney Fani Willis will announce this summer whether or not former President Donald Trump and his allies will be charged with crimes in relation to the investigation into their efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Willis said Monday, according to The Associated Press. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was the first to report on the announcement.
Willis told the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office to prepare for “heightened security” in the event that her announcement provokes “a significant public reaction.” She said she would announce charging decisions, including possible criminal indictments of Trump and his allies, between July 11 and Sept. 1.
“Please accept this correspondence as notice to allow you sufficient time to prepare the Sheriff’s Office and coordinate with local, state and federal agencies to ensure that our law enforcement community is ready to protect the public,” Willis wrote in the hand-delivered letter addressed to Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat.
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April 25, 2023
Delhi Police seek probe report on sexual harassment charges against WFI chief

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Delhi: Delhi Police has sought a report from the probe committee set up by the Ministry of Sports to investigate the sexual harassment allegations against WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a senior officer said on Monday.
The officer said that so far seven complaints have been received against the Wrestling Federation of India President and all of them are being investigated. An FIR will be registered after concrete evidence comes to light, he said.
“As part of inquiry, we have sought a report from the probe committee set up by Sports Ministry to look into the allegations of sexual harassment allegations levelled against WFI chief,” he said.

Several national award winning wrestlers have been protesting at Jantar Mantar demanding the government to make public the findings of the oversight panel that investigated the sexual harassment allegations against Singh.
Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur had announced the five-member oversight committee, headed by legendary boxer M C Mary Kom, to look into allegations against Singh, a BJP leader and a muscleman with criminal history.
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April 24, 2023
Congress expels woman who levelled harassment charges against Assam leader

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New Delhi: Assam Youth Congress president Angkita Dutta was suspended from the primary membership of the Congress for six years on Saturday for anti-party activities.
Dutta had accused Indian Youth Congress chief Srinivas B V of causing mental agony to her after she levelled sexual harassment charges against former IYC president Keshav Kumar.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) slammed the Congress over the move, saying this is its model of women empowerment and its slogan of “ladki hoon, lad sakti hoon” (I am a woman and I can fight) is hollow.

“Congress president has expelled Dr Angkita Dutta, president, Assam Pradesh Youth Congress, from the primary membership of the party, for six years for her anti-party activities with immediate effect,” Tariq Anwar, member-secretary of the Disciplinary Action Committee of the Congress, said in an order.
Hitting out at the Congress, BJP’s IT cell head Amit Malviya tweeted: “This is Congress’s model of women empowerment!”
“Sack the woman who alleged harassment instead of providing a platform to hear her grievances. The manner in which Angkita Dutta has been removed from the Congress is uninspiring for women,” he said.
Malviya also said, “Ladki hoon, lad sakti hoon is a hollow slogan.”
The Congress had come up with the slogan in the run-up to last year’s Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.

Dutta had tweeted: “When previous IYC president Keshav Kumar had sexually harassed and because of #MeToo came out. He was compelled to remove. Now despite being mentally harassed and discriminated by B V Srinivas for 6 months. I have been told to keep mum and no enquiry is initiated.”
“Honestly I am aware this could lead to an end of my political career. If this is the price I have to pay, so be it. About me meeting some BJP leader, one is welcome to check CCTV footage of home and office where you will probably see me reading trolls my colleagues are spreading,” she tweeted on Friday.
Dutta was issued a show-cause notice by the Assam Congress, asking her to explain why action should not be taken against her for her alleged antiparty activities.
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April 22, 2023
Pak court sends Chinese man to 14-day remand on blasphemy charges

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Peshawar: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has sent a Chinese national to jail on a 14-day judicial remand on blasphemy charges in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after he was arrested on Monday, according to media reports on Tuesday.
The police arrested the Chinese national identified as Tian on Sunday and on Monday he was shifted to Abbottabad via an Army helicopter due to security concerns as the police feared local people could harm him.
Tian was booked on blasphemy charges and sent to prison on a 14-day judicial remand by an Abbottabad anti-terrorism court on Monday, the Dawn newspaper reported.

The Chinese citizen, a manager at the Dasu Hydropower Project, the biggest hydropower project in Pakistan, in the Upper Kohistan district of the province, allegedly made blasphemous remarks on Friday when the workers were going to perform the weekly prayer.
According to local people, the Chinese manager complained to workers at the dam that “precious time” was being lost due to prayer breaks.
The Dasu Hydropower Project is a major venture under the USD 60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CEPC).
“We have arrested the foreigner suspect under blasphemy and terrorism charges and airlifted him from here to present him before the anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Abbottabad,” District Police Officer (DPO) Upper Kohistan, Mohammad Khalid, was quoted as saying in the report.
The suspect was later produced before the ATC amid strict security measures. The DPO said the Chinese national was moved to Islamabad onboard a helicopter on Monday evening, the report said.

The police registered a first information report (FIR) against Tian at the Dasu police station on Monday, hours after hundreds of residents and labourers working on the dam project blocked a key highway and rallied, demanding his arrest.
Under Pakistan’s tough blasphemy laws, the offence carries the death penalty.
According to the officer, police swung into action after getting reports on Sunday night that a local mob tried to break into a Chinese camp near the project site.
The mob was controlled, but they assembled again on Monday and blocked the Karakoram Highway, which links Pakistan with China, in a protest that lasted for over six to seven hours, demanding the Chinese national’s arrest.
The blocked highway was later reopened to traffic, and work resumed at the Dasu Dam after Tian’s arrest.
In Beijing, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said the embassy in Islamabad was looking into the incident.
“The Chinese government has always asked Chinese citizens overseas to abide by the laws and regulations of their host countries and respect local customs and traditions,” Wang told reporters at a regular news briefing.
Meanwhile, in a bid to defuse the situation, a team of Ulema from nearby towns and villages have set up a committee to examine the situation.
The meeting was attended, among others, by Upper Kohistan Deputy Commissioner Irfanullah Mehsood and District Police Officer Mohammad Khalid.
The participants urged the agitators not to take the law into their hands as police and the district administration were “handling the matter admirably”.
Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Pakistan. On December 3, 2021, a Sri Lankan national working in a factory in Sialkot was lynched by a mob after workers accused him of blasphemy.
The Dasu Hydropower Project site was hit by a suicide bus blast in July 2021, in which 13 people, including nine Chinese nationals, were killed.
Nine Chinese nationals and two Frontier Corps soldiers were among those killed when the bus carrying Chinese engineers and workers to the site of the under-construction Dasu Dam exploded.
The Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), in a report in January 2022, stated that as many as 89 citizens were killed in 1,415 accusations and cases of blasphemy in the country since independence.
The report said that from 1947 to 2021, 18 women and 71 men were extra-judicially killed over blasphemy accusations. The allegations were made against 107 women and 1,308 men.
A large number of Chinese nationals have been working in Pakistan on various projects being undertaken under the CEPC.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 18, 2023
Alleged Pentagon leaker hit with 2 federal charges

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Teixeira was arrested by heavily armed tactical agents on Thursday following a weeklong criminal investigation into the disclosure of the government records, a breach that exposed to the world unvarnished secret assessments on the war in Ukraine, the capabilities and geopolitical interests of other nations and other national security issues.
He appeared in court Friday in tan jail clothes for a brief proceeding at which U.S. Magistrate Judge David Hennessy ordered him held pending a hearing next Wednesday.
Investigators believe Teixeira was the leader of a small group on the social media platform Discord where he wrote about classified information that was paraphrased from documents.
He posted photographs of printouts of sensitive documents that were folded and then smoothed out. These documents were marked “Top Secret,” about the war in Ukraine and other geopolitical topics such as China, Iran and the Russian paramilitary group, Wagner.
The Biden administration began looking into the leak last week. The Justice Department is leading the investigation.
President Joe Biden on Friday commended “the rapid action taken by law enforcement to investigate and respond to the recent dissemination of classified U.S. government documents.”
“While we are still determining the validity of those documents, I have directed our military and intelligence community to take steps to further secure and limit distribution of sensitive information, and our national security team is closely coordinating with our partners and allies,” Biden said in a statement.
At an unrelated press conference Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the leak of the classified documents is “not just about taking home documents” but rather about “both the unlawful retention and the transmission of the documents.”

“People who sign agreements to be able to receive classified documents acknowledge the importance to the national security of not disclosing those documents,” Garland said, “and we intend to send that message, how important it is to our national security.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

April 14, 2023
British man pleads guilty to ISIS related terror charges in UK

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London: A British man arrested at Heathrow Airport over a year ago when he flew back from Pakistan pleaded guilty on Friday to travelling to Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist network.
Shabazz Suleman, who grew up in the High Wycombe area of Buckinghamshire in south-east England, was due to study international relations at university when he vanished while on a family holiday to Turkey in 2014, aged 19.
He was arrested after returning to the UK via Pakistan in October 2021 and charged with a string of terror offences and was due to face trial at the Old Bailey court in London next month. He has now pleaded guilty to preparing acts of terrorism by travelling from the UK to Turkey in order to join ISIS in Syria in August 2014.

Now aged 27, Suleman was also charged with being a member of ISIS, a proscribed organisation, between 2014 and 2017, and receiving training in the use of firearms. Judge Mark Lucraft remanded him in custody until sentencing on May 26.
In an interview with Sky News’ in 2017, Suleman had claimed he spent most of his three years in terrorist territory playing PlayStation and riding his bike.
He spoke about how he’d gone into hiding to try to avoid fighting, sitting in various houses in Raqqa playing Grand Theft Auto or Metal Gear Solid on a PlayStation and having “a normal life in IS territory”.
In Syria, he is said to have assumed the name Abu Shamil al-Britani and is alleged to have carried out guard duty and patrols for ISIS. By June 2015 he had reportedly become disillusioned, saying, “I never thought I was being brainwashed until I saw the way they treat other Sunnis”.
Speaking after leaving ISIS, Suleman told Sky News’: “I take responsibility. I was with ISIS, I was with a terrorist organisation. But I didn’t kill anyone, I hope I didn’t oppress anyone.

“I did have Kalashnikov and a military uniform, but I didn’t hit anyone, I didn’t oppress anyone, if you understand. I was there with military police but like I said, I was in the office.”
Suleman is believed to be among hundreds of British nationals who travelled to the Middle East to join the ranks of ISIS and other terror networks in Syria and Iraq over the years.
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April 14, 2023
Guitarist arrested on attempt to rape charges in Hyderabad

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Hyderabad: A guitarist was arrested by the Jubilee Hills police on charges of attempting to rape a woman in Hyderabad on Friday.
Lalit Sehgal, 30 is a musician who plays the guitar for a popular pub in the area.
Police claimed that the accused was friends with the victim in the past. Differences arose between them with time and both separated ways.

Lalit allegedly trespassed into the woman’s house and made sexual advances but the woman resisted his attempts and escaped.
She later approached the Jubilee Hills police and complained against Lalit.
Police booked a case and arrested Sehgal who was produced before the court and remanded in judicial custody.
Cops have sent the woman for a medical examination and psychological support.

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April 14, 2023