A 35-year-old Bangladeshi man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for circulating photoshopped images of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and other politicians including former Indian premier Manmohan Singh, amid criticism that her government is using tough internet laws to silence dissent.

Monir Hossain from Tangail was jailed by Bangladesh Cyber Tribunal judge Mohammad As-Shams Joglul Hossain on Wednesday.

Monir had been on bail and appeared in court for the verdict, bdnews24.com reported.

Alamgir Hossain and Subrata Shil — two others accused in the case started under the the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act — were acquitted as charges against them were not proved, the report said.

Monir used to run his ‘Monir Telecom’ shop at Tangail’s Nagarpur. He had sent doctored images of Hasina, late president Zillur Rahman and former Indian premier Singh to mobile phones of users in 2013, said the verdict.

Saturia Police arrested Alamgir after finding out that he was showing around the vulgur ‘photoshopped images’ on his phone.

Following his arrest, Alamgir told police he got the images from Monir Telecom.

Rights groups have criticised the government for using the the ICT laws to silence criticism. Critics have lashed out at the government for cracking down on free speech and an increasingly authoritarian rule. Some the recent strengthening of defamation laws with a new Digital Security Act (DSA) has spread a climate of fear.

The DSA also penalises obtaining papers, information, or pictures from government offices without official consent.

Bangalore: A team of ACB officials conducted searches at Puttur Shetty’s office on Tuesday in connection with the bribe money traced in the corridor of the Vidhana Soudha. Meanwhile, employee typist SJ Mohan Kumar, who was earlier involved with a bag with a bag worth Rs 25.76 lakh, had been arrested in the past five ministers.

“In the past, Mohan Kumar said in a statement to the Vidyasudha police,” In the past, we have worked at Roshanbagh, Umashree, CC Patil, CT Ravi and Chennigappa’s offices. The inquiry has revealed that he has been working in ministries since 2006, not new to the legislature. In the case, Mohan also said that the minister’s office staff, Krishnamurthy, was also present in the case.

Electrical work was done on contract basis at Bannerghatta National Park. Then in 2006, I was working on a five-member office on OOD basis for the Legislative Council. He is currently working as a Kannada typing in the backward classes of the welfare department minister Puttarangashetti. He said he would work as an electrical subcontractor after five hours of office hours.

An FIR has been lodged against Mohan Kumar, Ananthu, Nanda, Srinidhi, Krishna Murthy, Manju and others under Section 7 and 8 of the Prevention of Corruption Act (ACB) under the Prevention of Corruption Act by the Inspector of Police .

The mystery is on the cell phone 
The accused, Mohan Kumar’s mobile, debit card and credit card have already been seized. Did anyone indicate that he had been receiving money from other accused who had received Mohan Kumar for the purpose of unregistered money? Other information should be accompanied by the background of the remaining accused. A senior official said that further information would be made after the information on telephone (CDR) calls were verified.

The ACB officials are investigating the case and they have been investigated by the minister in Puttur Shetty’s office in Vidhana Soudha on Tuesday afternoon. Besides, the CCTV cameras were detained near the MLA’s Mohan Kumar’s money mines, MLAs Bhavan Gate and Metro Station. Mohan Kumar should be informed by the office staff about the incident. Additionally, two operators who work on OOD in the same office need to be investigated. A senior official said that the notice was issued to the inquiry.

Minister Puttur’s statement brought to fruition 
It is said that Minister Putturangasetty is likely to be distressed by the statement of Mohan’s confession. “On January 3, at an affidavit of Rs 3.60 lakh, Getting into office. 
15.9 lakh on Nanda near Gate of MLA on January 4 . Received. The friend of Manju is from his relative Srinivashi at the front metro station of the High Court for Rs 2 lakh. Given that. Krishna Murthy spent Rs 4.26 lakh on the corridor of the room number 339. The money was packaged in 3 bundles and bagged a 
green greetings card and a cash bag that was sent to the police when they were taken to the minister to motivate Putturangi Shetty to work for the contractor’s work.
It was Mohan’s statement.

We are not interfering with Minister Putturanga Shetty. The case 
was handed over to the ACB . The ACB will conduct an impartial investigation. The BJP is blaming. However, the investigation will be transparent. 
● M.B. Patil, Home Minister

PTI

Nasheman News : Police in Australia were on Wednesday investigating several suspicious packages sent to the Indian consulate and several other missions in Melbourne.

“The packages are being examined by attending emergency services. The circumstances surrounding the incidents are being investigated,” the Australian Federal Police said in a statement.

The packages were delivered on Wednesday, Efe news quoted the statement as saying.

Besides India, video footage showed emergency services workers attending the consulates of the US, Greece, France, Italy, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Korea and Switzerland.

Manuela Erb, the honourary consul of the Consulate of Switzerland told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the office had received a suspicious package that’s “believed to be non-hazardous, however they’re treating it as hazardous”.

On Monday, the authorities removed a suspicious package from the Argentine consulate in Sydney which was later found to be non-toxic.

In all, 20 people, including six Indians, have been penalised in the first three days of the tournament.

Nasheman News : The latest edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) kicked off on January 5 and on Tuesday, a mobile court fined as many as five Indian citizens for indulging in illegal betting through their mobile phones during matches of the tournament at Dhaka’s Sher-E-Bangla National Stadium. An inter-ministerial meeting a year ago empowered the local administration in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet to operate mobile courts during cricket games to tackle illegal betting when the last edition of BPL was on. The same is being followed this year as well.

The mobile court of executive magistrate Imrul Hasan said the five Indians were penalised 4,000 Bangladeshi Taka each and were also expelled from the venue. Recently, a top anti-corruption official at the International Cricket Council said that with the spread of franchise-based cricket, the scope of corruption has also increased in the world of cricket.

“They were involved in betting with mobile phones. We imposed a fine of Tk 4,000 for each and expelled them from the ground. They will not be allowed to watch any more BPL game this season,” Hasan was quoted by Cricbuzz as saying. Three of the five Indians – Deepak, Sanjeeb Kumar and Sunil Kumar – hailed from the state of Haryana, said the magistrate.

Hasan also said that another Indian too was handed a similar punishment on Sunday. In all, 20 people, including six Indians, have been penalised in the first three days of the tournament, which will continue till February 5, he said. Even a Bangladeshi national was said to be jailed for entering the ground without a valid ticket and even threatening officials of the Bangladesh Cricket Board. He was identified as Sajeeb Ahmed from Madaripur.

Six games were completed in the current edition of the BPL till Tuesday with three-time champions Dhaka Dynamites (twice as Dhaka Gladiators) topping the list with four points from two games. Current champions Rangpur Riders also have four points though from three matches. Sylhet Sixers, Khulna Titans and Rajshahi Kings are yet to win their first game in this season’s tournament.

Undisclosed assets totalling Rs 6,000 crore have been detected under the foreign black money law enacted by the government in 2015, Parliament was informed on Tuesday.

Further, as on October 31, 2018, 34 prosecution complaints have been filed under the foreign black money law.

“As an outcome of the actions taken by the Income-tax Department under the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015′ (The Black Money Act), as on October 31, 2018, undisclosed foreign assets and income valued at over Rs 6,000 crore have been detected,” Minister of State for Finance Shiv Pratap Shukla said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.

Under the Act, a one-time compliance opportunity for a limited period was provided to those persons who have any foreign assets which have hitherto not been disclosed for the purposes of Income-tax.

In this compliance window, which closed on September 30, 2015, 648 declarations involving undisclosed foreign assets worth over Rs 4,100 crore were made. An amount of over Rs 2,470 crore has been collected by way of tax and penalty in such cases.

“Suitable action against the persons who have undisclosed foreign assets and income is taken under the Act. Such actions include enquiries, assessment of income, levy of taxes, penalties and filing of prosecution complaints in criminal courts, wherever applicable,” Shukla added.

PTI

A 32-year-old rowdy sheeter from Bengaluru was found dead in a pool of blood in Tumakuru district on Tuesday, two months after he had eloped with Pallavi, the niece of Kiran Gopalaiah, a JD(S) MLA from Bengaluru. A special team has been formed to arrest the perpetrators, district police said.

“He may have been killed at night. It appeared he was attacked with lethal weapons, including machetes, at the spot where the body was found,” a police officer was quoted by The Times of India, as saying.

The deceased Manu R was working as a driver with the Mahalakshmi Layout MLA’s brother Guli Basava alias Basavaraju C (Pallavi’s father) and also ran a DVD shop on the side. According to The New Indian Express, a total of eight of Basavaraju’s men had allegedly kidnapped Manu and took him to the empty area in Jetti Agrahara village. The gang had allegedly forced Manu to consume alcohol and tied his arms and legs before killing him with sharp weapons.

Basavaraju had initially approached the police stating that Pallavi had gone missing on October 22 and it was later found out that Manu had also gone missing on the same day.

“We learnt Manu had married Pallavi and we tried to trace him. We couldn’t trace them and we still don’t know where Pallavi is staying,” said police.

Manu had posted several videos on Facebook speaking about death threats from Basavaraju and his son Kiran. In one of the videos, Manu was reportedly heard saying that police were hunting him for kidnapping Pallavi but the couple clarified that they had married each other out of their free will.

Police say the whereabouts of Pallavi are unknown.

According to police, Manu had more than 10 cases against him in Bengaluru, Ramanagara, Bengaluru Rural and Tumkur districts and is survived by his mother who lives in Ballagere village in Tumakuru.

Agencies

Nasheman News : Six tribal youths, agitating against the NDA government’s controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, were injured in police firing in Tripura on Tuesday, police said.

“Some tribal youths while demonstrating against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill turned violent at Madhab Bari in western Tripura. CRPF troopers after being unable to control the mob opened fire injuring six tribal youths, two of them seriously,” said a police officer.

A jawan of the Central Reserve Police Force was also injured following an attack by agitators, who also burnt down at least 22 shops in the area.

The police said the CRPF and Tripura State Rifles jawans resorted to lathicharge and burst teargas shells to bring the situation under control before the firing.

Two tribal parties — Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura and Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura strongly opposing the Citizenship Bill — are yet to confirm the identity of the injured youths.

Two critically injured tribal youths shifted to the government-run Gobinda Ballav Panth Medical College and Hospital here.

Senior police officer along with large contingent of security forces are camping in the areas, 20 km north of Agartala.

Para-Military Assam Rifles had held a flag march in the mixed populated areas.

Police climed that the situation was under control.

Ruling BJP’s ally IPFT’s Assistant General Secretary Mangal Debbarma told IANS that they have extended moral support to the NESO’s shutdown in the northeastern region comprising seven states, excluding Sikkim.

“We did not organise any movement on Tuesday as part of the opposition to the Citizenship Bill,” said Debbarma, also the IPFT’s chief spokesman.

The IPFT is also a member of Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance NEDA (North East Democratic Alliance), convener of which is BJP-led Assam government’s powerful minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

Tripura’s oldest tribal-based party INPT also strongly opposing the Citizenship Bill claimed that the proposed legislation can result in changing the demography of several northeastern states.

Amid strong opposition by various political parties, including Congress, Left and Trinamool Congress, the Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 that seeks to grant citizenship to migrants from six minority groups from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Nasheman News : An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in West Bengal found himself in the eye of a storm on Monday after a video grab showing him and his wife mercilessly beating up a youth at a police station for making “lewd” comments on social media went viral.

Nikhil Nirmal, the District Magistrate of Alipurduar, was also seen threatening to kill the youth and claiming “nobody speaks against me in my district”, as police officers helplessly watched.

Taking a serious view of the incident, the state government has asked Nirmal to go on 10 days’ leave. 

The young man, Vinod Kumar Sarkar, was brought to the Falakata Police Station on Sunday night after his Facebook post, which the DM and his wife found objectionable.

Nirmal stormed into the station soon after, and slapped and punched the youth 10 times. The IAS officer’s wife Nandini Krishnan was also seen in the video kicking the victim and asking him to spell out who had asked him to write the post.

An enraged Nirmal was heard saying: “If I can bring you to the police station in half an hour, then I can enter your house and kill you too.”

Sarkar, who was later arrested, bade forgiveness, but to no avail.

Towards the end of the video, a policeman was seen taking the youth away.

When asked about his version of the chain of events, he said: “Nandini madam had asked some questions on Facebook. I said ‘you don’t have any other identity. Your identity is that of your husband’.

“She then added me in a group, and abused me. I abused back,” he said.

His family members and human rights groups have raised their voice against the treatment meted out to Sarkar.

“Why did the DM and his wife beat up my son? I want the DM to be punished. If anything happens to my son, the DM should be held responsible,” said the youth’s mother Kalpana Sarkar.

Human rights activist Ranjit Sur said: “The DM has taken the law into his own hands. The police officers were mere spectators. The DM entered the police station with his wife and beat up the victim. The DM behaved like a mafia don. He is unsuitable for such a post. He must be given punishment. He should be placed under suspension immediately.”

Bangalore: The city police opened fire on 33 convicts who were involved in illegal activities including gangsters, murderers and raiders last year, police said on Friday. Arrested Ok

Tabrez alias Billwar, 27, of Vinoba, was arrested. The victim was injured and his body was injured and he was undergoing treatment, police said.

Nandini Layout, Bommanahalli, KR Puram, Kodigehahalli, Banaswadi and Gangamangudi against the Roudyshtar Tabriz, KG Halli, have recorded more than 22 crime cases in different stations of the city. Also, court warrants were issued. The police said that he was hiding in some cases.

His uprising was at the KG Halli range recently. The police were searching for his arrest. Meanwhile, Inspector Pradeep, who was arrested by the police at the forest office of HGB’s forest office at KGhalli, had been arrested on Monday afternoon at around 12.30 pm with his staff.

The accused tried to sack him and tried to escape. Inspector Pradeep suggested that he shoot a shot in the air and surrender. But Tabrez tried to run away.

Immediately headcountable Shivakumar is behind Tabriz. The accused then attacked Sivakumar with his knife and one of the two bullets fired by the inspector for self-defense, a tabreach right arm and a shotgun. Police said the injured had been admitted to Bowring Hospital for treatment.

Nasheman News :  A father and son were arrested for smuggling 6kg sandalwood in Bengaluru, police said on Saturday.

“Syed Riyaz, 49, and Syed Sher Ali, 28, were arrested after 6kg of sandalwood was recovered from their residence in Kattigenahalli on the city outskirts during a raid,” Inspector at central Bengaluru’s Cubbon Park Police Station B. Iyyanna Reddy told IANS.

The police have booked the two under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 379 (punishment for theft) and under various provisions of the Karnataka Forest Act, 1963.

“We have also recovered a few stolen automobiles and unaccounted cash of Rs 35 lakh from them,” the police officer said.

Under the Karnataka Forest Act, 1963, possession and storage of sandalwood and its related products is an offence.

As one of the most expensive woods in the world, sandalwood, which grows in Mysuru region, is used in fragrances, handicrafts and for health benefits.