Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s statement about MLAs taking money from Union Home Minister Amit Shah has triggered a political controversy in the state.
A political backlash has started over Gehlot’s statement advising the MLAs of former deputy CM Sachin Pilot’s camp to return the money taken from Amit Shah.
Leader of Opposition Rajendra Singh Rathore targeted Gehlot and said, “Why the MLAs whom the Chief Minister accuses have been made ministers, the public understands all equations. If your MLAs took money then why are you not taking action against them?”
Rathore said “CM Ashok Gehlot is reciting the old drama again. His MLAs who went to Manesar took money, he lodged an FIR at that time and on the instructions of the Chief Minister, who is also the Home Minister, an FR was also lodged. When he is fully aware which of his MLAs took how much money and where it was used, then why is the Chief Minister seeing such a big crime happening as the Home Minister? Why doesn’t he register an FIR? The people of Rajasthan are seeing the difference between words and actions very well with their own eyes,” he added.
Two years have passed, why are you not releasing the list of MLAs who were sold, Rathore said adding, “The MLAs who were traitors in your eyes are sitting in the cabinet. ACB and SOG registered cases in the phone tapping case, FIR No. 47, 48, 49, 129 was also lodged on your instructions and now you are making allegations. The MLA who was a cheater in your eyes is sitting in the cabinet today.”
Gehlot on Sunday had said our MLAs should return the money taken from Amit Shah. Gehlot had said that Amit Shah, Dharmendra Pradhan and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat conspired together to topple our government. Money was distributed to the MLAs in Rajasthan. These people are not taking the money back. I am worried, why are they not taking the money back? I even told our MLAs that those who have taken 10 crores, 20 crores, have spent some of it, then I will give that spent portion, I will get it from AICC. You give the money back to Amit Shah. Don’t keep his money, if you keep his money then there will always be pressure on you.
Online Fraud: Man Loses Rs 1.3 Crore While Trying to Earn Money by Liking YouTube Clips
People are losing millions of rupees after trusting strangers and making internet payments. Various scams have been reported in recent months, despite officials warning people to be cautious before making any kind of online payment.
In another case, a Mumbai resident was reportedly tricked out of Rs 1.3 crore by fraudsters who claimed to pay for liking YouTube videos. The fraudsters allegedly promised the victim Rs 5,000 to 7,000 every day. The victim, who is 47 years old, works for a marketing firm.
According to media reports, the cyber frauds enticed the victim by offering large payments for viewing and like YouTube videos, and persuaded her to deposit money into 25 different bank accounts between January and March of this year.
A cop who is probing the matter said that the complainant had got a WhatsApp message asking him if he was interested in a part time job that could earn him between Rs 5,000 to Rs 7,000 per day. During the conversation, the message sender explained that he would send YouTube videos, and his job would be to watch, like, and screenshot them before sending them to the same WhatsApp number.
The victim was asked to pay Rs 5,000 as registration and other fees. He then received a link of a YouTube video and followed instructions. He also received Rs 10,000 in his account. The victim was then requested to join a Telegram channel, and the accused promised him that he would be assigned various jobs that would earn him a large sum of money. The complaint was persuaded and joined the Telegram group.
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“He was asked to put money down as an investment and was given various tasks to complete. The accused told him he’d make a lot of money once he finished the tasks,” the police stated.
It was only when that the complainant demanded return of his invested money and profit he got to know that he has been duped. The fraudster claimed that he had not done his job properly and demanded more money. This is when the complainant lodged an FIR.
Cops said that the complainant had sent money in 25 different bank accounts. The accounts were opened in the name of fake companies. Further investigation into the incident is underway.
(Agencies)
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Chief minister of Rajasthan, Ashok Gehlot. (Photo: IANS)
Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday promised there would be no shortage of resources to run the public welfare schemes and protect the common man against inflation.
Gehlot was addressing the people who had come to an inflation relief camp set up in Ganeshgarh of Sriganganagar.
During his address, he also interacted with the beneficiaries and informed them about the state public schemes.
He said that with an initiative like Chief Minister Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme, which freed the common man from the worry of expensive treatment, Rajasthan has emerged as a leading state in the field of health.
Gehlot said 1.35 crore women of Rajasthan will be given smartphones in a phased manner with three years of internet data free of cost. In the first phase, starting from Raksha Bandhan this year, 40 lakh women will be given these phones.
Former Minister of State for Education and Congress State President Govind Singh Dotasra said that the government has fulfilled about 92 per cent of its budget announcements.
Former deputy chief minister of Punjab and state party in-charge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa also claimed that the state schemes are providing a great relief to those in need.
India has become the world’s most populous country, according to the United Nations’ latest projections, knocking China off the top spot for the first time since the UN began keeping records.
Both countries are facing significant demographic challenges, be it dealing with the legacy of a disastrous one-child policy and ageing population or working out how to take advantage of a booming youth cohort while managing huge disparities in the growth rates of different states.
We asked two 25-year-olds – one from each country – about their lives and aspirations.
‘I don’t have time for myself’
Xue Pengyu, 25, Anyang, China
For Xue Pengyu, his life is his work. As a teaching assistant at an arts college in his home city of Anyang, a small city in Henan, a poor, northern province, he lives on campus alongside his students, who aren’t much younger than himself.
When 25-year-old Xue left high school seven years ago, he moved to Tianjin to study graphic design. The city’s population is more than double the size of Anyang’s, and it is only around 30 minutes by high-speed train from Beijing. After graduating from university Xue stayed in Tianjin and got a job working in a preschool. He hoped to stay there, or move to another big city, but the disruption of the pandemic forced him to return home.
Arts college worker Xue Pengyu, 25, lives in Anyang, China Photograph: Xue Pengyu
His living situation makes it hard to find a girlfriend. He doesn’t want to date a colleague and the job itself is all consuming. “The kids are in their rebellious period, so I need to take care of their emotions, monitor their behaviour and arrange study tasks for them,” he says. “Basically, I don’t have time for myself except for eating and sleeping.”
Xue’s income also limits his options. Although Anyang is a relatively cheap city, and his accommodation is provided by his school, his salary of about 3,000 yuan (£349.78) a month is “enough for myself” but “not enough to support having a family”. But he is sanguine about the future: the job has the potential for promotion, and he thinks it will keep him satisfied for at least the next three years.
And Xue reckons he is better off than his friends who moved to big cities such as Guangzhou and Shenzhen in the south, or Shanghai on the east coast. “The salaries there are still not enough to build a family. For them, the distance to starting a family is even further.”
For now, Xue isn’t thinking about having children. He is relaxed about his lifestyle, but having a child would be a “big burden … and I like to do whatever I want. I don’t want to be confined at home and having to look after a child. I would get annoyed by it.
“When I worked in preschool education, some of the kids were really cute, and I kind of wanted my own child. However my desire to have a child went down after I considered reality.”
‘I’m growing and developing but it’s slow’
Ranjan Kujur, 25, Jharkhand, India
Ranjan Kujur’s biggest break in life came when his aunt recognised that he was a bright boy, but would have little opportunity in his small village of Raintoli in Jharkhand state. Kujur’s father was unemployed, his mother had had no education, the village school was a shed.
He went to stay with his aunt in the city of Ranchi when he was six years old and attended the local school. The move spared him from rural poverty. The local school gave him a decent grounding and city life provided him with exposure to a more vibrant world.
Kujur became interested in dancing. After working odd jobs for a year, he plucked up the courage to join a dance class. The coach found him so talented that he waived the fees. “I feel free when I dance. It’s my life and I love it,” Kujur says.
Ranjan Kujur, a 25-year-old dancer, was born in Jharkhand state, India. Photograph: Ranjan Kujur
With his eyes set firmly on Bollywood he wants to do a three-year dance diploma in Mumbai but it costs around £500 a month, far beyond his means. His average monthly income is 16,000 rupees (£160) and while it’s enough for his daily needs (his aunt does not ask him to pay rent), it is not enough for college.
“I’m growing and developing but it’s slow. I have to focus on working even harder and saving the money for this diploma which will open up all sorts of opportunities for me.”
Until he has finished the diploma, he refuses to think of marriage or starting a family – “I’m still young!” he says. He says he doesn’t have time for a girlfriend either right now.
“Of course I will get married one day but only when I’m settled. There is a lot of competition in dancing so I need to be really, really good to get anywhere.”
Kujur spends most of his time practising for video clips that YouTube dance channels commission from him occasionally, teaching classes and going to homes to provide tuition, mostly Bollywood or hip hop. His day rarely ends before 8pm.
“My parents never thought there would be a dancer in the family and it’s not the work they had in mind but I don’t ask them for money. They can see how hard I’m working to make something of myself,” he says.
Additional research by Chi Hui Lin
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Rep George Santos had just $25,000 cash on hand at the end of the quarter. That figure came despite having made not a single reported campaign expense during the quarter. | Alex Wong/Getty Images
Rep. George Santos’s (R-N.Y.) congressional campaign officially lost money during the first quarter of 2023 after it reported having to issue refunds in excess of the contributions it received.
The New York Republican, who has been beleaguered from before he was sworn in after it was revealed he’d fabricated major portions of his biography, raised a scant $5,333.26 during the first three months of the year. But his campaign also refunded $8,352; meaning that he actually took in less than $3,000 than he paid out.
Only one person gave enough to Santos to require that their name be listed on his FEC form. That individual, Sacha Basin, gave $245.95. There was no clear online history for an individual with that name nor is there a record of them previously giving more than $200 to any candidate in the FEC database.
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New Delhi: Jailed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Satyender Jain on Tuesday asked a Delhi court to transfer two cases related to alleged corruption and money laundering brought against him by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to another judge.
During the hearing, the former Delhi Minister informed Special Judge Vikas Dhull, who is overseeing both cases, that he had filed transfer applications with the Principal District and Sessions Judge.
The proceedings in the CBI corruption case have been temporarily halted by the Principal District Judge until May 4, when arguments on Jain’s transfer application will be heard. Meanwhile, a similar application in the ED’s money laundering case is set to be heard on April 13.
Jain has requested that Special Judge Dhull postpone the matter “to see the outcome of said transfer applications”.
In response to a court inquiry, the ED’s Special Public Prosecutor confirmed that he had received an advance copy of Jain’s application related to the money laundering case.
The court subsequently adjourned the proceedings.
Jain was placed under arrest on May 30, 2022, by the central agency under Section 19 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.
The ED had initiated a money laundering investigation on the basis of the FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation in 2017 under Sections 13(2) read with 13(1)(e) of the PC Act, 1988 against Jain, his wife Poonam Jain, and Ajit Prasad Jain, Sunil Kumar Jain, Vaibhav Jain, and Ankush Jain.
A charge sheet was filed by the CBI on December 3, 2018, against Jain, his wife Poonam Jain, and other accused.
Earlier, the ED had provisionally attached immovable properties worth Rs 4.81 crore belonging to companies beneficially owned and controlled by Jain on March 31, 2022.
New York: The next in-person hearing in a criminal case against former president Donald Trump in New York City has been set for December 4, roughly two months before the official start of the 2024 Republican presidential primary calendar.
Trump, the first former US President to be criminally charged, has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records at his arraignment in a Manhattan court on charges relating to hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.
At the December in-person court appearance, State Supreme Court Justice Juan M Merchan will decide on the expected motions to dismiss the case.
Following Trump’s arraignment, prosecutors said they expect to produce the bulk of the discovery in the next 65 days, CNN reported.
Trump’s team has until August 8 to file any motions and the prosecution will respond by September 19. Judge Merchan said he will rule on the motions at the next in-person hearing on December 4.
Trump’s attorney Jim Trusty said Tuesday he expects “robust” motions to challenge the case and hopes they can succeed in stopping the case.
If not, Trusty said he expects Trump’s attorneys will “figure out if there’s a way to try to push this earlier” than the December 4 hearing.
Trump, 76, has already announced that he will seek the Republican Party’s nomination in the 2024 presidential election.
The Iowa Republican caucuses will be held on February 5, 2024, marking the start of the party’s primary season.
That underscores how Trump’s legal troubles could shadow him into the period when voters are picking a candidate to nominate for president, The Hill newspaper reported.
The New Hampshire primary, the first one on the Republican calendar, is scheduled for February 13.
Trump is expected to use the charges against him to try and rally support among Republican voters, arguing he is a victim of a politically motivated prosecution. A Saint Anselm College poll released Tuesday showed Trump with 42 per cent support among likely Republican primary voters, well ahead of Florida Gov Ron DeSantis, who garnered 29 per cent support, the newspaper said.
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday continued till further orders an interim stay on show-cause notice and penalty demand issued to industrialist Anil Ambani by the Income Tax department under the Black Money Act.
A division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Neela Gokhale posted Ambani’s petition challenging the notice and penalty demand for hearing on April 28, and gave time to the IT department to file its reply.
The HC had in September 2022 granted an interim stay to the show-cause notice pending hearing.
In March this year, Ambani’s lawyer Rafique Dada informed the court that the department later also issued a penalty demand notice to his client.
The court then granted interim stay to the demand notice too.
On Wednesday, when the petition came up for hearing, advocate Akhileshwar Sharma, appearing for the IT department, sought two weeks to file a “comprehensive affidavit” in response to the amended petition.
“The petition has been amended adding some more IT officials as respondents and (the petitioner) has also annexed certain new documents. The department wants time to file a comprehensive affidavit,” Sharma said.
The court directed that the affidavit be filed by April 21.
“The petition shall be listed for hearing on April 28. The interim orders passed earlier — stay on the show-cause notice and the penalty demand — shall continue till further orders,” the bench said.
The IT department issued a notice to Anil Ambani on August 8, 2022, for allegedly evading Rs 420 crore in taxes on undisclosed funds of more than Rs 814 crore held in two Swiss bank accounts.
The industrialist was liable to be prosecuted under Sections 50 and 51 of the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) Imposition of Tax Act of 2015 which prescribes a maximum sentence of 10 years with fine, the IT notice said.
The department charged Ambani with “wilful” evasion, saying he “intentionally” did not disclose his foreign bank account details and financial interests.
Ambani in his petition claimed that the Black Money Act was enacted in 2015 and the alleged transactions were of assessment years 2006-2007 and 2010-2011.
The provisions of the Act cannot have retrospective effect, he argued.
According to the IT department’s notice, Ambani was an “economic contributor as well as beneficial owner” of Bahamas-based “Diamond Trust” and British Virgin Islands-incorporated Northern Atlantic Trading Unlimited (NATU).
He “failed to disclose” these foreign assets in his income tax return (ITR) filings and hence violated the Black Money Act, it said. The act was brought in by the Narendra Modi government soon after it came to power in 2014.
IT officials assessed the total value of undisclosed funds in the two Swiss Bank accounts at Rs 8,14,27,95,784 (Rs 814 crore) and tax payable on this amount at Rs 4,20,29,04,040 (Rs 420 crore).
New Delhi: A person was arrested for blackmailing his friend to pay Rs 4 lakh, the Delhi Police informed on Saturday.
As per the police, the accused hatched a conspiracy to lure the victim into removing his clothes and then record the video to blackmail him for money.
“Police arrested an accused for sextortion of Rs 4 lakhs from a victim. The victim was receiving objectionable video calls from a number that lured him to remove clothes, which was later recorded and used for blackmailing him by his friend,” the Delhi Police said in a statement.
The complaint named Bablu (28 years) had alleged that he received a message on WhatsApp from a number who disclosed her identity as ‘Ankita Sharma’.
“She started vulgar chatting with the complainant and also made a video recording of the same. She asked the complainant to get nude saying that she too is also nude on the other side. However, when the complainant took off his clothes, the call got disconnected. He then received a video recording of him without clothes. The accused threatened him of making his obscene video viral and demanded money from him. The victim paid Rs 4 lakh,” the complaint stated.
Subsequently, a case vide FIR No 30/2023 was registered dated March 29 at Cyber North Police Station and an investigation was taken up.
His complaint was later forwarded by MHA Cyber Crime Reporting Portal to Cyber Police Station, the police said.
A dedicated team was handed over the task to identify accused persons and arrest the culprits, after which a detailed technical analysis of Call Detail Records and Money Trail was carried out. Details obtained from UPI IDs and concerned beneficiary banks were also analysed.
The victim was arrested by the police. He was identified as Shivam Kumar, who also happened to be a close friend of the victim.
On sustained interrogation, the accused revealed that he came in contact with the victim Bablu, as they stayed in the same locality after which they became close friends.
Bablu told the accused that he was chatting with a girl on WhatsApp who asked for nude video of him and is now blackmailing him for money. He initially asked Bablu to ignore her messages, but later out of greed, decided to himself pretend as a fraudster.
He brought a new SIM card and started blackmailing the victim using the new number. After that, pretending to help the victim in transferring the money, he took Rs 4 lakh from him.
The accused also told the police that he has already spent all the money on luxury items.
