Archives for April 2019

The I-T officers were arrested in Koramangala in the city’s upscale southwest suburb on a complaint from a private firm’s Managing Director.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested two Income Tax (I-T) officials in an alleged Rs 14 lakh bribery case and recovered Rs 1.65 crore in cash from them, the premier probe agency said on Thursday.

“The I-T officers were arrested in Koramangala in the city’s upscale southwest suburb on a complaint from a private firm’s Managing Director after a case was registered against them under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Prevention of Corruption Act,” said a CBI statement.

The agency, however, did not disclose the names of the accused tax officials, the Managing Director or his company.

“When we received the complaint that the accused demanded Rs 14 lakh as bribe for favourably settling an issue pertaining to an I-T survey conducted at the office of the complainant on March 6, we laid a trap to nab the accused by asking them to deliver the amount in cash on Wednesday (April 3) at their office,” said the statement.

“One of the officials was caught red-handed while accepting the bribe from the complainant,” said the statement.

In the ensuing search, many incriminating documents were found from the premises of the accused. 

“Besides Rs 1.65 crore in cash, we recovered $1,450 in foreign currency from the locker of the accused besides incriminating documents pertaining to the case, mobile phones and pen drives,” added the statement.

The accused were produced before the competent court in the city for remand and interrogation.

Agencies

Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Thursday expressed displeasure over the repeated checking which takes place under the model code of conduct.

KARWAR: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Thursday expressed displeasure over repeated checking of his vehicle at check-posts. In the last 20 days after the model code of conduct came into effect, his vehicle was subjected to numerous checking at various places acrosss the state.

On Thursday, his vehicle was checked twice between Gokarna and Karwar while he was heading to Karwar city to attend the nomination filing of JD(S) candidate Anand Asnotikar. When asked about frequent checking, Kumaraswamy said the officials have cited an order from the Election Commission as reason for the same.

“On Thursday, after I left having my breakfast, my vehicle was checked twice. What are they trying to prove?” he asked. “We are in the middle of the model code of conduct and we are seeing regular transfers,” he noted. 

On Wednesday, photos of the CM’s vehicle being checked at a check-post in Hassan district had gone viral. 

He expressed anguish over the IT Department for conducting raids allegedly targeting JD(S) and Congress. “It’s low-level politics by the BJP, which is using IT officials to threaten the JD(S) in this election by conducting raids,” he said.

Agencies

Jammu, Apr 5 : Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will address three election rallies in Jammu region on April 8, party sources said on Friday.
Mr Singh will address public rallies in Marh and Suchetgarh to support BJP MP Jugal Kishore Sharma, contesting from Jammu-Poonch Lok Sabha seat and he will also address a rally in Bhaderwah area of Doda in support of Union Minister of State in Prime Minister’s Office Dr Jitendra Singh.
According to the party sources, “The Union Minister will arrive in Jammu on Monday morning and fly to Bhaderwah town,” adding that in the afternoon, Mr Singh will address two rallies at Marh and Suchatghar of Jammu district and return to Delhi on the same day.
Mr Singh is the third top BJP leader, who will be joining the campaign after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party’s national president Amit Shah.
Pertinent to mention here that Mr Modi will also be addressing a rally on April 11 in Kathua district to support Dr Jitendra Singh.
The polls for Jammu-Poonch seat will be held in the first phase on April 11 and for Doda-Kathua-Udhampur seat on April 18 in the second phase.
With National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party not fielding candidates on two seats, the region will see a direct clash between the BJP and Congress.

Secular Democratic Congress will support  Mr Prakash Raj who is  contesting from Bangalore Central in the forth coming Lok sabha Election – 2019.

Mr R.A Janab president of  SDC and General Secretary  Mr Ahmad Shali met Mr Prakash Raj and gave him letter of support of SDC party and they said they will whole heartly  support  for Mr Prakash Raj

Mr Janab said that today we need person like  Mr Prakash Raj win the parliament election, who can fight for rights of people  and also represent  and  support minorities

Mr Janab said Mr Prakash Raj is honest and sincer person who is non  corrupt and who will work for the people of the state and who will be the voice of common man in the parliament . We wish Prakash Raj all the success.  

Mandya, Karnataka, Apr 4 : The resemblance of Systematic Voters Educational Electoral Participation (SVEEP) logo with that of an Independent Candidate Sumalatha Ambareesh who is contesting for Mandya Lok Sabha seat has led to confusion in the minds of voters in this part.
The State Election Commission has translated the message into Kannada, which has a picture of a person blowing a trumpet even as Sumalatha was allotted that as her election symbol by CEC to seek votes. She had sought farmer blowing a trumpet, which was approved by the Election Commission. But, before allotting the symbol, the Commission had failed to observe the logo, due to ‘oversight’.
Deputy Commissioner and Election officer N Manjushri said the matter came to their notice only on Wednesday. ?I have spoken to the ZP CEO, who is in charge of SVEEP. A report will be submitted to the Election Commission.
All the cutouts, banners and handbills will be removed and stopped. It will be completed by night,? she added.
ZP CEO Avinash Menon Rajendran said the SVEEP activity will not be stopped. All the old publicity materials will be removed and new will be got printed.

Srinagar, Apr 4 : Two Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel were killed and as many injured in a road accident in south Kashmir district of Pulwam in the wee hours of Thursday, official sources said.

They said a vehicle of IAF turned turtle at Malangpora, near the Awantipora Air Force station, in Pulwama at 0300 hrs resulting in injuries to four personnel. The injured were rushed to hospital where two of them succumbed, they said.

Identification of IAF personnel and other details about the accident are being ascertained, they said.