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Delhi excise scam case: Kavitha, others gave bribes worth Rs 100 cr to AAP leaders, ED alleges

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Hyderabad: BRS MLC Kavitha Kalvakuntla and others who the Enforcement Directorate called the ‘South Group’ gave kickbacks to the AAP leaders to the tune of Rs 100 crore, the 400 page chargesheet filed by the agency said.
“Sh Vijay Nair, on behalf of leaders of AAP has received kickbacks to the tune of Rs. 100 Cr from a group, for convenience, we may call it the South Group (as termed in the statements of various persons recorded during the investigation), whose prominent persons are Sh Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, Sh Raghav Magunta, Sh Sarath Reddy and Ms K Kavitha. The South Group was represented by Sh Abhishek Boinpally, Sh Arun Pillai and Sh Buchi Babu. Sh Abhishek Boinpalli facilitated the transfer of Rs. 100 Cr kickback in connivance and conspiracy with Sh Vijay Nair and his associate Sh Dinesh Arora,” the ED chargesheet read.
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February 2, 2023
DHFL bank fraud: Delhi court denies bail to bizman Ajay Nawandar

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New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday denied bail to businessman Ajay Ramesh Nawandar in a Rs 34,615-crore bank fraud case involving Dewan Housing Finance Limited (DHFL), and also cancelled the interim bail granted to him earlier.
Special Judge Ashwani Kumar Sarpal noted that the accused had manipulated the medical record in procuring interim bail in the case, and said that the chances of tampering of evidence and influencing public witnesses by the accused were greater.
“After considering the above facts and circumstances, I am of the view that allegations against accused Ajay Nawandar are somehow serious in nature and he being known to the main accused, former DHFL CMD Kapil Wadhawan and former director of the company Dheeraj Wadhawan, intentionally conspired with them for the purpose of concealment, diversion and disposal of the funds of the company and properties purchased from the same which ultimately belonged to banks,” the judge said.
The court said that the accused and his family did not have financial constraints and simple fact that he was having wife behind to be looked into did not create any ground to release him on bail.
“No ground exists to grant bail to this accused and accordingly bail application on merits is rejected. His interim bail granted on August 31, 2022 which was extended from time to time is hereby cancelled,” the judge said.
The judge noted that the accused allegedly entered into conspiracy with main accused Wadhawan brothers in order to dispose of and conceal the proceeds of embezzled funds.
The CBI had conducted searches at Nawandar’s premises and recovered a large collection of uber-luxury watches worth crores of rupees, including Rolex Oyster Perpetual, Cartier, Omega and Hublot Michael Kors, and two paintings worth Rs 33 crore.
The agency said that these valuable items belonged to Kapil Wadhawan and Dheeraj Wadhawan, who allegedly defrauded banks to the tune of Rs 34,615 crore, making it the biggest such case probed by the agency.

These were allegedly purchased using the proceeds of the scam and kept at Nawandar’s premises to evade recovery and seizure by enforcement agencies, the CBI said.
The CBI said that Nawandar was acting as a conspirator aiding and abetting Wadhawans to hide the proceeds of the crime and he was in the process to dispose these items of when he was arrested by the agency.
“During the investigation, it was found that the (DHFL) promoters had allegedly diverted the funds and made investments in various entities. It was also alleged that the promoters had acquired expensive paintings and sculptures worth about Rs 55 crore (approximately) using the diverted funds,” the CBI had said.
The CBI had acted on a complaint from the Union Bank of India (UBI), the leader of a 17-member lender consortium that had extended credit facilities to DHFL to the tune of Rs 42,871 crore between 2010 and 2018.
The bank has alleged that Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan, in a criminal conspiracy with others, misrepresented and concealed facts, committed criminal breach of trust and abused public funds to cheat the consortium to the tune of Rs 34,615 crore by defaulting on loan repayments from May 2019 onwards.
An audit of DHFL’s account books showed that the company allegedly committed financial irregularities, diverted funds, fabricated books and round-tripped funds to “create assets for Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan”, using public money.
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February 1, 2023
254 Posts AIIMS Delhi Recruitment 2022 Exam Date Announced

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February 1, 2023
Education needs to be priority for govt, political leaders: Delhi Dy CM

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New Delhi: Youth must be inspired and provided with opportunities to become life-long learners, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Tuesday, asserting that education needs to be the priority for government as well as political leaders.
He was speaking at a conference — ‘Prayaas – Young Minds, New Possibilities’ — organised by Udhyam Learning Foundation with an aim to unlock the potential of India’s youth, a statement said.
“Indian youth holds the key to the nation’s advancement. Youth must be inspired and provided with opportunities to become life-long learners. Hear them and trust them as they will become the innovators who will change the world in the future.
“We as enablers, need to be more experimental in our approach and keep testing new models for educational transformation and bring them to scale for our country at large. Education needs to be a priority for policy, government and political leaders,” Sisodia, who is also the education minister, said.
Mekin Maheshwari, founder, ULF, said ‘Prayaas’ is an effort to unite like-minded people and organizations who care deeply about the lack of opportunities and pathways for India’s youth to realise their potential.
“The goal is to build a thriving and supportive ecosystem, where every individual feels empowered to define their own path,” Maheshwari said.
The statement said it said ‘Prayaas’ aimed to stimulate a “cohesive and collective” understanding of the current issues and instil a “sense of urgency” towards building new pathways for the youth of our country.
Change-makers, practitioners and leaders from over 120 of India’s top organisations including Delhi government school students, teachers and other independent people, took part in the event.

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January 31, 2023
2020 Delhi riots: Court acquits nine accused

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New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday acquitted nine persons accused of rioting, arson and other offences during the 2020 Delhi riots, granting the benefit of doubt, which includes delay by the police in recording vital information related to the accused’s involvement.
They are accused of setting a shop and house on fire during the riots and police charge-sheeted them for committing offences punishable under Sections 147-149, 188, 427 and 436 of the Indian Penal Code.
Additional Sessions Judge, Karkardooma Court, Pulastya Pramachala, said: “I hold that sole testimony of Head Constable Vipin cannot be sufficient to assume the presence of accused persons in the mob, which set ablaze property of the complainant in Chaman Vihar. In such a situation, accused persons are given benefit of the doubt.”
The acquitted persons are Mohd. Shahnawaz alias Shanu, Shahrukh, Mohd. Shoaib alias Chhutwa, Azad, Md. Faisal, Rashid alias Raja, Ashraf Ali, Parvej and Rashid alias Monu.
Pramachala added that even though Vipin attended the briefing at the police station everyday with Investigation officers (IOs), he did not formally record it anywhere.
The Additional Sessions Judge said: “In his cross-examination, Vipin conceded that there had been a briefing at the police station everyday, which was attended by him as well as IOs. Still, the knowledge about the involvement of the accused persons was not formally recorded anywhere, till April 7, 2020.”
The court, however, noted that Vipin had stated that he had orally informed his senior officers about information with him, after about a week or 15 days of riots.
“No explanation has been offered for such delay in passing on such crucial information to senior officers by this witness,” the court noted.

The court said: “If actually such information was given to the senior officers, then why didn’t senior officers get such information recorded in a formal manner.”
Pramachala added: “Keeping in view such delay in disclosure of vital information being recorded, I find it desirable to apply the test of consistent testimony of more than one witness, in the present case also.”
Giving relief to the accused persons by granting them benefit of doubt, Additional Sessions Judge said: “Applying that test, I hold that sole testimony of PW9 cannot be sufficient to assume the presence of accused persons herein in the mob, which set ablaze property of the complainant in Chaman Vihar. In such a situation, accused persons are given the benefit of the doubt.”
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January 31, 2023
2020 Delhi riots: Man accused of selling pistol to Shahrukh Pathan discharged by court

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New Delhi: A court here on Monday discharged a man accused of selling a pistol to Shahrukh Pathan who had absconded after allegedly pointing the weapon at a policeman during the northeast Delhi riots in 2020.
The court said the case against the accused, Babu Wasim, is “essentially based on surmises and conjectures rather than actual material or evidence” and the “disclosure” statement of Pathan was not admissible under law.
Pathan had allegedly aimed a pistol at Delhi Police Head Constable Deepak Dahiya with the intention to kill him on February 24, 2020, according to the police.
After the photographs of this incident went viral on social media, Pathan absconded and was nabbed from a bus stand in Shamli district in Uttar Pradesh on March 3, 2020.
Pathan disclosed that he had purchased a pistol and 20 rounds from Babu Wasim by paying Rs 35,000 in December 2019, the prosecution had said.
“The case against accused Babu Wasim is essentially based on surmises and conjectures rather than actual material or evidence and there is no ground to presume that the accused committed an offence under Section 25 Arms Act. He is accordingly discharged for the said offence,” Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat said on Monday.
The court noted that the prosecution’s case against Wasim was that he provided a pistol and the rounds to Pathan on December 6, 2019, and the weapon was then used for firing and also for the attempt on the life of head constable Deepak Dahiya by accused Pathan on February 24, 2020.
Thus, for possessing the weapons and transferring or selling them to Pathan, Section 25 of the Arms Act was invoked against Wasim, the court noted.

The court said the first incriminating material was the disclosure statements of both accused Pathan and Wasim, but disclosure statements, by themselves, were not admissible in law.
Also, there were no witnesses on record to show that accused Babu Wasim provided the said pistol to accused Shahrukh Pathan on December 6, 2019, at the Brahampuri area of Shahdara here or that he possessed the said firearm before December 6, the court said.
“The contention that accused Shahrukh Pathan made four successive calls to accused Babu Wasim on December 6 at night with location chart of mobile phones of both accused persons showing that they were at the same place, at best, shows that they were at the same spot at the same time or met with each other,” the court said.
The prosecution, instead, had to prove that Wasim possessed the said pistol before December 6 and delivered the weapon to Pathan on a particular day at a particular time, and the pistol was then used in riots.
There was no material to substantiate this allegation and even the sanction order under the relevant section of the Arms Act from the deputy commissioner of police concerned was without proper appreciation of material on record or evidence collected by the investigating officer, the court said.
The court, however, charged Wasim under Section 174 A (non-appearance in response to a proclamation) of the Indian Penal Code as he had absconded and was declared a proclaimed offender.
“As far as Section 174 A of the IPC is concerned, it is a standalone offence and all the necessary legal requirements for proceedings were completed and no infirmity has been found or even shown in the order dated July 18, 2020… declaring the accused Babu Wasim a proclaimed offender,” the court said.
The Jafrabad police station had filed a charge sheet against Wasim under the relevant sections of the IPC and the Arms Act.
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January 30, 2023
S P K Gupta, the quintessential Agency Journalist, passes away in Delhi

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If Dr Yellapragada SubbaRow, the unsung hero of modern medicine, described by some as the ‘miracle man of miracle drugs’, largely ignored by the West is at least known to India, a sizeable share of the credit should go to S P K Gupta, a veteran journalist and chronicler of Science history.
For over 50 years, he relentlessly strived to bring to light the extraordinary contributions of the Indian origin scientist, Dr SubbaRow who worked wonders with Pharma companies in the UK and US during the early 1900s. Gupta wrote books titled ‘In quest of panacea”, Wizard of Wonderdrugs; Dr Yellapragada SubbaRow. Gupta wrote: He lived so that we may live longer.
Ironically, while a feature film is underway capturing the life of Dr SubbaRow for the celluloid and the OTT platforms, the 92-year-old, Sikharam Prasanna Kumar Gupta, a former PTI foreign desk editor, passed away in New Delhi on Sunday night at AIIMS after a brief illness.
He is survived by his wife Devi and two sons, who are both in the US. Incidentally, his father-in-law, Panikkar, was the Manager of the PTI in Kurnool during the 1950s, when it was the capital of the Andhra State and later in Hyderabad.
Born in Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, Gupta worked for the Press Trust of India (PTI) in various roles for 38 years including a long stint as the Moscow correspondent. Beginning his career in 1952, he served as the news agency’s bureau chief and as its foreign editor in New Delhi.
During a long and illustrious career, Gupta covered many historic events including the rise and fall of the Soviet Union; he was the first Indian journalist to interview Mikhail Gorbachev, the Russian Premier; the historic flight of Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma from Baikanour in 1984; the Bangladesh War; the 1969 Congress split and; the Allahabad High Court judgement on Indira Gandhi that was followed by imposition of Emergency etc.
Post his retirement from PTI in 1990, Gupta took to writing books. Among the notable ones In Quest of Panacea; A Wreath for Doctor Ramayya, and The Rise and Eclipse of the Soviet Civilisation. At the time of his death, he was working on two more books, one of which was the biography of Homi Bhabha.
Though well settled in Gulmohar Park in New Delhi, he kept himself busy in writing and chronicling Indian science, biographies and promoting Dr SubbaRow. His ‘Ellas Cottage’, home was overflowing with books, papers, manuscripts and rare material.
In recent years, he has been donating them for public archives, says Dr Dinesh Sharma, well known Science Journalist and author, who has been interacting with him over the years.
Always curious, hardworking and encouraging young journalists, Gupta was active in the Indian Science Writers Association (ISWA) and science popularisation. During the mid 1990s when I was the Secretary and Dr K S Jayaraman, Science Editor, PTI was President, I recall his his unstinted support in organising events.
I recall his several visits to Hyderabad to convince the State government to accord recognition to Dr Yellapragada SubbaRow, who also hailed from Bhimavaram in coastal Andhra Pradesh. His efforts succeeded partially when the bust of the great medical researcher was installed in the Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences ( NIMS) and an exhibition was held at the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN).
Dr SubbaRow discovered the antibiotic aureomycin, invented the phosphate estimation method, the anti cancer and anti rheumatoid methotrexate, drug for elephantiasis and many other drugs. The pioneering biochemist, died in 1948 at the young age of 53.
“ SPK Gupta was a no nonsense man. He helped me in my style of reporting and we were close family friends” recalled, N V R Swami, another PTI veteran, who covered the African continent extensively for over a decade as the foreign correspondent based in Harare.
“S P K Gupta’s death is a big loss to science, journalism and especially history of science, not only for India but for the whole world,” said Prof. Raghuram from the School of Biotechnology at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi.
The faculty of biotechnology at the University held a condolence meeting on Gupta today. He was a regular visitor to this university, as it celebrated Yellapgrada SubbaRow’s birthday every January for over 20 years through a memorial lecture by a leading scientist and a documentary film and a poster exhibition on his life and works prepared by Gupta.

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January 30, 2023
Russia’s Lavrov to participate in G20 foreign ministers meeting in New Delhi

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Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will participate in the meeting of G20 foreign ministers in New Delhi on March 1-2, his deputy said on Monday.
India officially assumed the G20 presidency on December 1.
“Our foreign minister will take part in the meeting of G20 foreign ministers in New Delhi on March 1-2,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko told reporters.
As part of the group’s activities, India intends to hold more than 200 meetings in 55 different locations across the country to showcase its cultural heritage, culminating in the annual G20 summit scheduled for September 9-10 in the capital, New Delhi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has previously said his country’s G20 presidency will be inclusive, ambitious, decisive and action-oriented.
The G20 or Group of 20 is an intergovernmental forum of the world’s major developed and developing economies.
It comprises Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, the US, and the European Union (EU).
Collectively, the G20 accounts for 85 per cent of the global GDP, 75 per cent of international trade, and two-thirds of the world population, making it the premier forum for international economic cooperation.

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January 30, 2023
Air India urination case: Delhi court reserves order on accused Shankar Mishra’s bail plea

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New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday reserved for January 31 its order on the bail application of Shankar Mishra, accused of urinating on a woman on board an Air India flight from New York to New Delhi.
Police have opposed the bail application, saying India has been defamed internationally because of the incident.
“It may be disgusting but that is another matter, let’s not get into that. Let’s go into how the law deals with it,” the judge said.
The judge also observed that the witnesses named by the prosecution “are not deposing in your (police) favor”.
Police have also alleged that the accused threatened the complainant.
Mishra had sought bail, saying initially, the bail had been declined by a magisterial court because the investigation was pending.
“Now that’s done and they have examined other crew members and witnesses. Also, they asked for reimbursement of the ticket and sought no action against me,” the counsel said.

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January 30, 2023
‘Final report almost ready’, Delhi Police to SC in hate speech case

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New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Monday informed the Supreme Court that its final report into the alleged hate speech made at a religious assembly in the national capital in 2021, is “almost ready”. The top court told the Delhi Police to inform it about the preventive steps taken against the accused in the case.
A bench headed by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and comprising Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala gave three weeks’ time to the police to inform them about the preventive steps taken.
Additional Solicitor General K M Nataraj, representing the Delhi Police, submitted that the investigation is substantially completed and the final report is almost ready. “It has been sent for vetting and we will be filing the final report in the shortest time,” he added.
Advocate Shadan Farasat, representing petitioner Tushar Gandhi, contended that Delhi Police should clarify certain additional aspects and pointed out that as per the police affidavit, they have fixed some date in March for collecting the voice sample of Sudarshan News chairman cum managing director and editor-in-chief Suresh Chavhanke.
Farasat said it should be done expeditiously and cannot take so long, and secondly, what are the preventive steps as regards these people? What steps have they taken so that these types of incidents are not repeated by these persons again?
The bench asked the Delhi Police counsel to look into the petitioner’s counsel contention.
Delhi Police investigating officer, in an affidavit, said that Delhi BJP spokesperson Vikram Bidhuri, who was one of the participants has been examined, and Sudarshan News editor-in-chief Suresh Chavhanke was examined in the case on November 1, 2022 and “he was bound down u/s 41A CrPC”.
The affidavit added that the alleged hate speech video has been examined and the transcript has been prepared.

“Forensic Science Laboratory, Delhi has fixed March 17 for recording of a voice sample of Suresh Chavanke. Thereafter his specimen voice recording will be compared with the video/audio downloaded from YouTube…effort is being made to obtain the details of the video of the speech made during the event and uploaded on YouTube, through the process of MLAT,” it said.
“That investigation of the case is being conducted fairly and without any bias,” said the affidavit.
The police filed this affidavit in compliance with the January 13 order passed by the apex court directing the investigating officer to place on record the steps which have been taken to pursue the investigation since the incident took place on December 19, 2021. The police have also requested Google Inc to trace the login-logout IP addresses of the video on YouTube from where the alleged video was uploaded.
“That in response to notice u/s 91 Cr.P.C., a reply dated November 18, 2022 was received on email from Google, LLC, Legal Investigations Support, informing that no records from the Google account holders, specified in the request, have been found,” added the affidavit.
The police have told the apex court that it has examined Hindu Yuva Vahini Delhi chief Rajiv Kumar, who booked the auditorium, General Secretary Sachin Vasisht, who organised the event, and Ashutosh Sharma who attended the meeting and uploaded the video on YouTube in the channel named as ‘Hishant Media’, besides several others.
“Some other participants who had attended the event have been identified and are yet to be examined.
“A draft ‘final report’ has been prepared and was sent to the prosecution branch for scrutiny. However, some points have been raised by the public prosecutor and investigation on those points is being conducted, “added the affidavit.
On January 13, the Supreme Court had pulled up the Delhi Police for registering FIR on the alleged hate speeches made at Dharam Sansad in Govindpuri in December 2021 after a lapse of five months and not making an arrest or filing a charge sheet till date. It had told the police that there was no palpable progress made in the investigation in the case.
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January 30, 2023