Nasheman

India's largest selling Urdu weekly, now also in English

You are here: Home / 2021 / Archives for June 2021

Archives for June 2021

Bengaluru :Reporting within the ‘Golden Hour’ helped retired Army Veteran get 45 Lakh money back

by

Parmesh jain

An Army veteran who almost lost Rs.45 lakh of life savings to cyber fraudsters managed to get back within two hours within golden hour by quick thinking and action with the help of bank officials and the police.

Happy about the quick response to help,NK Manchanda,retired Major General wrote to the Director General of police,Praveen Sood,and Commissioner of police,Kamal Pant, appreciating the police for the quick response to save his hard earned savings.

NK Manchanda who was staying in Yelahanka after his retirement in 2004 having a savings bank account in SBI.

Mr.Manchanda received a call on his mobile from a conman posing as executive of the bank asking him to update the KYC since its expiring on Tuesday.

Retired Army Veteran thought it is a call from bank so i followed their instructions and did as they said.

He even said that the conman also sent a link to update the details and as soon as,Mr.Manchanda provided the details,Rs.45 lakh was transferred.

Shocked by this Mr.Manchanda rushed to the nearest Hennur branch and complained to the manager about the incident.

The Manager immediately stopped the payment and asked him to file a complaint with the Cyber crime police immediately .

He later approached Northeast cyber crime police,where Assistant Sub Inspector,Ramesh Ram and PSI,Deepak VR,swung into action and spoke to the manager of Indiranagar SBI to complete the formality and revert the money back to the account.

With collective efforts within the golden hour (two hours of the incident) the money was reverted to Mr.Machanda’ account said Senior officer.

This is the second incident in the last one month where the cyber crime police managed to get back the fraudulent transaction amounts to the victim’s account.

DG-IGP,Praveen Sood,tweeted by appreciating the timely action by the Northeast CEN police personnel, The newly introduced concept of GOLDEN HOUR in cyber crime prevention through CIR system by @CPBlr is doing a great service to the citizens he tweeted.

A message of gratitude to the @BlrCityPolice from an Army Veteran & Major General NK Manchanda (Retd).Highly appreciate the timely & prompt response by SI Deepak and ASI Ramesh of Cybercrime @yelahankaps in preventing a fraudulent transfer from Mr. Manchanda’s bank account.👏👏, Commissioner of police Kamal Pant tweeted.

Finally, Director General and Inspector General of Police, Praveen Sood,has appreciated Bengaluru City Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,has appreciated,Northeast CEN police personnel as,PSI,VR Deepak and ASI,Ramesh Ram and bank officials for their timely action and helped the Army Veteran to get the money back in the Golden hour and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

FIR filed against Directors of Sri Vasishtha Credit Souharda Sahakari Bank for allegedly cheating investors

by

Pramesh Jain

The South Division police of Hanumanthanagar police registered an FIR against Sri Vasishta Credit Souharda Sahakari Limited in Bengaluru for allegedly cheating investors.

Based on a complaint filed by Arun BN,the police booked Venakata Narayana KN,Krishna Prasad and other directors for cheating,forgery, misappropriation and criminal breach of trust.

The police have issued a notice to the accused for questioning.

Arun,in his complaint,said that he had made fixed deposit of Rs.99 lakh on behalf of his father Nagaraj BT, 78 year old.

The bank was giving interest till November 2020 before stopping abruptly.When contacted,the bank cited the COVID-19 pandemic and asked to him to wait for a few days.

But when there was no response till June 2021, Arun approached the bank.Despite repeated attempts,there was no response,and later the bank stopped withdrawal of deposits too,he alleged.

Many other investors have approached the jurisdictional DCP arun said.

The bank officials reportedly tried to reason that they have made investments and given loans to many customers but could not collect the profit from the investments or loan repayments due to the Covid -19 pandemic.

Senior officer told reporters,We have registered a FIR and booked the directors and we have sought the details of the investments and issued notice to directors to appear for questioning further investigation is on he added.

Rehabilitation Centre Superintendent arrested for sexually harassment in Bengaluru

by

Pramesh Jain

The West Division police of Kamakshipalya police,on Friday,booked the superintendent of beggars rehabilitation centre on the charge of sexually harassing a group D employee.

The accused has been identified as Chandrappa,52, year old.

Senior officer told reporters,The victim,in her complaint,said Chandrappa used to sexually harass her while she was at work at the PHC situated on the centre’s premises.

Unable to bear the harassment from the last three months,the victim approached the police and filed a complaint against Chandrappa,52.

Based on the complaint The kamakshipalya police registered an FIR against Chandrappa and arrested him under section 354 (a) (physical contact and advances involving unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures or demand or request for sexual favours) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC and arrested him.

Abandoned suitcase creates tension for some time among walkers in Malleswaram 18th cross

by

Pramesh Jain

Tension gripped among the residents when they noticed a suitcase abandoned on the footpath of 18th main Malleshwaram on Monday.

The police rushed to the spot and cordoned the area before alerting the Bomb detection and disposal squad .

Senior officer said,The Malleshwaram police with team reached the spot and after conducting the SOP drill for verification it was found that it was a normal suitcase contained clothes and there were no substances found .

The police have taken the suitcase into custody and are trying to find out the owner and to know why he abondoned the suitcase in suspicious way further investigation is on.

Hurricane Enrique aims for brush with Mexico’s Pacific coast

by

MEXICO CITY: The first hurricane of the eastern Pacific season headed for a possible close brush with Mexico’s southwestern shoulder on Sunday night, and forecasters warned that heavy rains could cause dangerous flash floods or mudslides on shore.

Earlier forecasts had said Enrique might reach Category 2 strength.

The storm’s core was predicted to stay at sea but it could pass close to Cabo Corrientes — the bulge on the coast south of Puerto Vallarta — Sunday night and into Monday, the centre said.

Enrique was forecast to keep moving parallel to the coast over the next several days, before beginning to weaken after reaching cooler waters in a few days.

Enrique was centred late Saturday about 215 miles (345 km) south of Cabo Corrientes and it was moving to the west-northwest at 5 mph (7 kph).

The Hurricane Centre said Enrique could drop 6 to 12 inches (15 to 30 cm) of rain, with isolated maximums of 18 inches (45 cm), in coastal areas of Mexico’s Colima, Michoacan and Jalisco states.

A tropical storm warning was in effect from Punta San Telmo to Punta Mita.

A hurricane watch was posted for the coast from Cabo Corrientes to Manzanillo.

Mexico’s Defence Department said it was sending troops to aid civilians in advance of the storm.

After slight dip, Karnataka reports over 4k Covid cases

by

BENGALURU: In what could be a clear indication of people not following Covid-appropriate behaviour, Karnataka on Saturday reported about 1,000 cases more than what it recorded on Friday. While, 3,310 cases were recorded on Friday, the figure was 4,272 on Saturday.

Dr CN Manjunath, Covid-19 state task force committee member and Director of Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research said, “Firstly,  daily testing has increased in the state going up to 1.7 lakh. Another reason is that people have started travelling both inter-state and inter-district. We are right now in the last phase of the second wave. We had seen three digit numbers during the end of the first wave. We are yet to reach there,” he said. 

The state recorded 115 deaths with an increase in the mortality rate (1.22%), on Saturday.  Most of the deaths reported were from Bengaluru Urban (16), Mysuru (22) and Dakshin Kannada (14).  Meanwhile, Bengaluru too saw an increase in the number of cases on Saturday compared to the previous day. The city saw 955 fresh cases on Saturday compared to 614 reported on Friday. “People have started to move around and most of them are not following Covid norms. One should not take it lightly as we are still in the second wave,” said a doctor from KC General Hospital in the city.

India records 50,040 new COVID-19 cases, 1,258 deaths in a day

by

NEW DELHI: A single-day rise of 50,040 fresh COVID-19 infections took India’s tally to 3,02,33,183 while the number of active cases reduced to 5,86,403, according to Union Health Ministry data on Sunday.

The death toll climbed to 3,95,751 with 1,258 more people succumbing to the viral disease in a day.

The number of active cases has further declined to 5,86,403 and now comprises 1.94 per cent of the total infections, the data updated at 8 am showed.

Recoveries outnumbered daily new cases of COVID-19 for the 45th consecutive day with the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surging to 2,92,51,029.

The case fatality rate stood at 1.31 per cent.

While the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 96.75 per cent, the weekly case positivity rate has come down to 2.91 per cent.

According to the Health Ministry data, the daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.82 per cent.

It has been less than 5 per cent for 20 consecutive days.

India administered 64.25 lakh vaccine doses in a day, taking the cumulative number of jabs given so far under the nationwide inoculation drive to 32.17 crore, according to immunisation data published at 7 am.

Also, 17,45,809 tests were conducted on Friday for the detection of COVID-19, taking the total number of tests conducted so far in the country to 40,18,11,892.

India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7 last year, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.

It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.

The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore total COVID-19 cases on May 4 this year and three crore on June 23.

Four years of GST: The good, bad and ugly

by

NEW DELHI: On Friday, Tamil Nadu Finance Minister P Thiaga Rajan sparked a controversy, when he said that the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was faulty and that there is a need to 
re-tool and restructure it.“Sensible people may agree or disagree on a design or system or platform, but logic says you keep re-evaluating based on the outcomes. Have you achieved the goals you wanted? Have you avoided the failures you feared? If the  answer to both those is ‘no,’ logical people would  say ‘re-tool, re-structure’,” Rajan said while addressing a virtual meeting organised by IIM-B’s Alumni Association, Chennai Chapter on ‘Tamil Nadu: The Road Ahead’. The criticism may sound “strongly worded” but as the GST regime is set to complete four years this week, even its strongest supporters agree that the GST regime is still a work in progress and there is a need for many structural changes for a more stable and hassle-free system.

Good intent, but marred by tech glitches & design flaws

Introduced as one of the biggest economic reforms by the BJP-led Modi government, the GST kicked off with the promise to streamline taxation and compliance burden. Experts also claimed that in many ways, it has streamlined the process. “Based on the one nation one tax ideology, GST has helped in reducing the cascading effect of tax considerably. Also, multiplicity of compliances under various indirect taxes has been reduced. Hence, introduction of GST in India has brought in efficiencies in indirect tax compliance, incidence and reduced the number of indirect tax authorities that a taxpayer needed to interact with,” said Saloni Roy, senior director, Deloitte India.

Another positive is the concept of e-invoicing which seeks to ensure greater transparency in supplier-receiver transactions. The introduction of e-way bill coupled with the crackdown on fake invoicing has helped in bringing in a substantial portion of GST revenues, which were either being evaded or under-reported, in order. 

However, the technical glitches, difficulty in claiming input tax credit and ever changing rules make compliance a cumbersome business.“Input Tax Credit (ITC) is an area which has certain limitations that need to be addressed. The GST regime sought to have a seamless flow of ITC, however,  conditions for availing ITC being stringent, many taxpayers lost out on ITC. Also, taxpayers lose their ITC due to non-reporting or mistakes by their suppliers,” Roy said.

That apart, taxpayers are also complaining about the imposing an arbitrary monetary limit on availing input tax credit through Rule 36(4) and mandating that a certain percentage of GST has to be paid in cash. These laws are making life difficult for even the most honest taxpayers.In the initial years of GST rollout, former finance minister Arun Jaitley had promised to reduce the tax slabs to three by merging 12 per cent and 18 per cent slabs. However, it remains a distant reality after so many years. Falling revenue amid disruptions causued by the Covid-19 pandemic has continuously delayed the reform, leaving a large number of items in high tax slabs. Lack of clarity on many rules is also leading to various litigation and different interpretations (of the same laws) by Advanced Ruling Authorities in different states.

“The government needs to establish GST Tribunals to reduce litigation timelines and the pressure on courts. The state authorities for Advance Ruling should ideally also have an independent jurist member, apart from a representative from the tax department,” Roy suggests. Centre Vs States When the states had agreed to the GST implementation, they knew they had to let go of some share of their taxes. But the Centre promised to compensate the state with revenue foregone for the first five years after implementation of GST.

Meanwhile, the meetings of the GST Council are not as frequent as they were earlier, if the recent incidents are anything to go by, and it often end up with disagreement, fight and strong letters and statements. States have also accused the Centre of cornering a substantial portion of tax in forms of cess. Last year, the GST Council had borrowed `1.1 lakh crore to pay the states in order to make up for the shortfall. Still, `63,000 crore is pending which the Centre intends to pay this year.

Road ahead As the GST council is likely to meet soon to decide on this year’s compensation, the opposition-ruled state governments are likely to seek an extension of GST compensation on their revenues beyond June 2022, when the five-year window ends. The Fifteenth finance commission, in its latest report, has addressed many issues including large shortfall in collections as compared to original forecast, high volatility in collections, accumulation of large integrated GST credit, glitches in invoice and input tax matching, and delay in refunds. The Commission also observed that the continuing dependence of states on compensation from the central government for making up for the shortfall in revenue is a concern. While at the same time it suggested that the structural implications of GST for low consumption states need to be considered. 

Five held including kingpin of chemical expert arrested,Alprazolam manufacturing Unit and trafficking network busted by NCB Bangalore,seizes contraband worth Rs 2 crore

by

Parmesh jain

Five held including kingpin of chemical expert arrested,Alprazolam manufacturing Unit and trafficking network busted by NCB Bangalore,seizes contraband worth Rs 2 crore

The Bangalore and Hyderabad units of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Friday jointly cracked down on an Alprazolam manufacturing and trafficking network spanning Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and recovered contraband worth Rs 2 crore and cash Rs.62 lakhs .

Amit Ghawate,(Zonal Director,NCB Bangalore),said,Based on specific intelligence inputs developed from monitoring the racket, officers of NCB, Bangalore Zonal and Hyderabad sub-zonal unit on Friday succeeded in intercepting a mini-truck used in trafficking Alprazolam at Kolar Industrial area in Karnataka’ Bidar, and seized 91.5 kg of Alprazolam from it.

Immediately thereafter,the factory where the contraband was manufactured was raided under the banner-Indu Drugs Pvt Ltd,Bidar,Karnataka, was searched.

During the search,remnants of Alprazolam powder were found in the factory manufacturing equipments and confirmed that the said consignment was manufactured in this unit.

Simultaneously,searches were conducted by the officers at the house of NV Reddy,in Hyderabad, who was illegally running The Alprazolam factory, which lead to recovery of 62 lakhs of Rupees, believed to be proceeds of drugs.

The kingpin of the syndicate,S Bhaskara and the chemical expert YV Reddy,who had manufactured the drug at Indu Drugs,tried to flee the spot and were apprehended after a high-speed chase by NCB team.

A total of five persons namely S Bhaskar,YV Reddy,S Meenon,Amruth and NV Reddy,all residents of Telangana were apprehended in this connection.

The investigation revealed that the Alprazolam was meant for sale in Telangana.Further investigation is under process.

Illegal manufacturing and trafficking of Alprazolam in Telangana is a cause of
concern for law enforcement agencies. Alprazolam is a psychotropic substance
belonging to the benzodiazepines class,which are anti-depressants.

However, the same is largely trafficked illegally for recreational usage worldwide.

In the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, Alprazolam is widely used as a cutting agent for illicit toddy.

Alprazolam laced toddy is very dangerous and it causes serious health complications,including death,Mr.Amit Ghawate, said.

Finally NCB acknowledges the dedicated efforts of,Amit Ghawate,IRS (Zonal Director,NCB Bangalore)and other officers associated to the case at NCB, Bangalore Zonal Unit and NCB, Hyderabad Sub Zonal Unit.

KNOW US

GET INVOLVED

PROMOTE

Archives