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In connection with the development of roads in 110 villages,the restoration of the roads where the pipeline and the UGD works have been completed by BWSSB should be done quickly.

Delaying in road repair works will lead to action against the concerned officials,the Chief Commissioner,Gaurav Gupta has strictly warned the officials.

Addressing a virtual meeting,today,on the restoration of the roads in 110 villages,he said that,the state government had released a grant of 1,078 crores for the restoration of the roads in 110 villages and the road restoration works should be completed by the end of May to enable the smooth vehicular movement. .

The Chief Commissioner instructed the officials to finish off the road restoration works quickly.

No complaints on spoiled roads,from anywhere in the city, should come,Road restoration works should be of good quality.

The concerned officials should monitor the works.Other than that,the restoration works should be done on arterial and sub-arterial roads immediately,he said.

Among the 110 villages,the road of 794.98 km has been taken up for the restoration work under 74 packages,of which,the restoration of 289.69 km is completed.505.29 km is pending.

All roads should get restored by the end of May, the Chief Commissioner instructed the officials.

All the zonal Chief Engineers,Chief Engineers (road infrastructure),Divisional Executive Engineers,Assistant Engineers,and the other concerned officials were present.

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A special meeting with the people’s representatives,Advocate General and officials would be convened in the first week of May to address the legal issues related to the Forest department,Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.

Addressing a media conference in Shivamogga he said,the problems related to Malnad and semi-Malnad regions comprising Shivamogga, Chikkamagaluru,Dakshina Kannada,Uttara Kannada,Udupi,Kodagu districts need a clarity.

A few legal changes are needed.A few issues need the approval of the Union government. Efforts would be made to get the clearances from the Supreme Court and the Union government.

There are two important projects in Shivamogga–the airport project and Smart City Project.

I am inspecting both the projects today. Administrative approval has been granted for comprehensive development of Jog falls.

Shivamogga would be developed into an international tourist destination,Bommai said.

Industrialisation of Shivamogga

Industrialisation of Shivamogga would get a special focus. It has huge potential to draw investments under the Beyond Bengaluru programme.

A special drive would be launched in this regard. A vigorous effort would be made at the Tech Summit to be held in Bengaluru next month to convince the IT BT majors participating in the event to consider Shivamogga as a destination under the Beyond Bengaluru programme.

Efforts would be made to bring IT companies here by utilising the land reserved for the IT sector in Shivamoggai, Bommai said.

The budget programmes are being implemented in a time bound manner. Work orders have already been issued for about 75% of the budget programmes and the remaining would be issued before the end of this month, he said.

Excluding rural areas from Land Grab Prohibition Courts

Replying to a question about problems being faced by farmers in connection with implementation of Karnataka Land Grab Prohibition Act, Bommai said, “it has come to our notice.

The State government will soon take a decision to restrict the jurisdiction of the Act to just Bengaluru and other Metropolitan cities, exclude rural areas and small towns from the jurisdiction of the special courts set up under the Act.”

The Chief Minister expressed his happiness on the resource mobilisation front as the Commercial Taxes collection has exceeded the target by Rs.11,000 cr. It is a record.

A total of Rs.15,000 cr has been mobilised above the target in the State,he said.

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The Halasurugate police are on the lookout for a man who deposited five fake currency notes of Rs 500 denominations into Cash deposit machine at the Narayana Hrudayalaya hospital premises along with Rs 1.04 lakh into a bank account .

The fraud came to light when the back officials recovered the cash from ATM on last Wednesday and tried to deposit along with other currency notes to RBI.

The officials detected the notes and alerted the bank seeking explanations.

Following the verification it was found that the man had deposited the fake currency notes along with the other currency notes total of Rs 1.04 lakh to a saving bank account with a private bank.

Based on the instructions by RBI,the bank officials rushed to Halasurugate police and filed a complaint seeking legal action against the accused on tuesday .

The Halasurgate police have taken up a case against the unknown person charging him under section 489 c ( Possession of forged or counterfeit currency-notes or bank-notes.) of IPC and sought details of the bank account where the money was transferred,for further investigations.

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The Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) has detected a huge evasion of GST (Goods and Services Tax) after its probe revealed that a cartel of units in Kerala’s steel industry issued invoices valued at about Rs 400 crore to ultimate beneficiaries.

It is suspected that Kairali Steels & Alloys,a leading supplier of steel bars in Kerala with factories in Palakkad and Salem,is the major beneficiary of the racket,a release by the DGGI said here on Wednesday.

The DGGI said through the evasion, the cartel passed on fake input tax credit of GST amounting to Rs 43 crore.

The Kochi Zonal Unit of Central GST Intelligence also arrested Humayoon Kalliyath,executive director of Kairali Steels & Alloys (P) Ltd.

Humayoon Kalliyath,proprietor of Humayoon & Associates,who is the mastermind of the scam is also the executive director of Kairali Steels & Alloys (P) Ltd.,

Palakkad,and it is suspected that Kairali Steels & Alloys is the major beneficiary of the racket,” said the release issued by Mathew M Jolly, principal additional director general,Directorate General of GST Intelligence, Kochi zonal unit.

“Officers of the DGGI units at Thiruvananthapuram,Kochi and Kozhikode conducted simultaneous search operations at various premises in different parts of Kerala and recovered a number of incriminating documents.

Preliminary investigations reveal that the cartel issued fake invoices valued at about Rs 400 crore to ultimate beneficiaries thereby passing on fake input tax credit of GST amounting to about Rs 43 crore,” the DGGI release said.

Humayoon Kalliyath was arrested by Jijo Francis, intelligence officer,DGGI Thiruvananthapuram Regional Unit under Section 69 of CGST Act, 2017. “

The offences committed by him are punishable under Section 132 of the CGST Act, 2017,and are cognizable and non-bailable.

He was produced before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate,Thiruvananthapuram,and remanded to judicial custody for 14 days.

The investigation team includes senior intelligence officers Hareendran K, Shahul Hameed A, Balagopal G, Kurian P Mathew, intelligence officers Vaishak R, Vaishakan Ashok Kumar Datti, Manju Krishnadas and Jinu.

The investigation was supervised by Krishnenthu Mintoo Raja, deputy director, DGGI (TRU) under the guidance of Additional Director Nasser Khan.

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The JP Nagar police are on the lookout for a gang who rented a house in the building for two months to loot a jewel shop in JP Nagar on Sunday.

It was a meticulous plan by the accused who rented a house situated in the third floor of the building where Priyadarshini Jewellery shop was situated .

The accused submitted fake Aadhar card to the owner of the house with Delhi address and kept a watch on the activities of the shop for two months before striking.

After the shop was shut on Sunday night,the accused used drilling machine and gas high tech equipment to drill hole into the wall of the shop to gain entry and made away with five kgs of gold total worth Rs.2.5 crore.

The incident came to light on Monday morning when the staff came to open the shop and found the shop was ransacked and valuables missing .

The police rushed to the spot along with dog squad and FSL team for spot investigations and realized that the accused tenants have vanished .

The police tried to check the Aadhar details of Delhi and found to be fake .

The JP police have obtained the physical descriptions of the accused and verifying the cctv footages from in and around to track down the accused .

Mumbai:The Koregaon-Bhima Inquiry Commission has directed NCP chief Sharad Pawar to appear before it on May 5 and 6 to record his statement in connection with the January 2018 violence at a war memorial in Pune district of Maharashtra.

The panel had earlier summoned Pawar in 2020, but he could not appear before it due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown. Later, another summons was issued to Pawar for appearing before the commission on February 23 and 24 this year, but the senior politician had sought a fresh date, saying he wanted to file an additional affidavit before recording his testimony.

The affidavit was recently submitted.

Following this, the commission on Wednesday issued another summons to Pawar, said the panel’s advocate, Ashish Satpute.

The NCP chief has been asked to appear before the inquiry commission on May 5 and 6, Satpute added.

Pawar had previously also filed an affidavit before the commission on October 8, 2018.

In February 2020, social group Vivek Vichar Manch member Sagar Shinde filed an application before the commission, seeking the summoning of Pawar in view of certain statements made by him in the media about the 2018 caste violence.

The two-member probe commission comprises the Calcutta High Court’s retired Chief Justice J N Patel and former Maharashtra chief secretary Sumit Mullick.

According to the Pune police, violence had broken out on January 1, 2018 between caste groups near the war memorial in Pune district during the bicentennial anniversary of the 1818 battle of Koregaon-Bhima.

One person had died and several others, including 10 police personnel, were injured in the incident.

The Pune police had alleged that provocative speeches at the ‘Elgar Parishad conclave’, held on December 31, 2017, in Pune, triggered the violence near Koregaon-Bhima.

The police claimed the Elgar Parishad conclave organisers had links with Maoists.

Mumbai: All eyes were on Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Umran Malik, but all they could see was a blur. But still, Gujarat Titans had the last laugh as they prised out a five-wicket win in their thrilling IPL match here on Wednesday.

Introduced into the attack as late as the eighth over, as Kane Williamson’s last resort, the young pace sensation delivered what was expected of him, grabbing five wickets with devastatingly quick deliveries to scythe through the Gujarat Titans top-order and almost propel Sunrisers Hyderabad to their sixth successive win in the ongoing edition of the lucrative league.

But Rahul Tewatia (40 not out off 21 balls) and Rashid Khan (31 not out off 11) had other ideas as GT, needing 56 from the last 24 overs after Umran had completed his quota of four overs, knocked off the required runs, with the star from Afghanistan finishing the game with a six over fine leg.

The BCCI, nevertheless, will have again taken serious note of the man from Jammu, who, in one of the best ever exhibitions of fast bowling, finished with incredible figures of 5/25, four of which were bowled.

Opener Abhishek Sharma and Aiden Markram struck sparkling half-centuries as Sunrisers Hyderabad posted 195 for six after being asked to bat first.

In pursuit of a stiff target, the Titans were off to a flyer with Wriddhiman Saha (68) blazing his way to a flurry of boundaries while putting on 69 runs for the first wicket with a subdued Shubman Gill (22), who played the second fiddle.

After the others have tried and failed, Umran succeeded in getting the first breakthrough, when he disturbed Gill’s off stump in the innings’ eighth and his very first over.

Having got himself two fours, GT skipper Hardik Pandya was done in by Umran’s bounce as he top-edged one to the third man.

Meanwhile, playing one of his great IPL knocks, Saha raced to his fifty in 28 balls with a single to long-on.

Luck too was on Saha’s side as Washington Sundar could not hold on to what would have been an unbelievable catch at mid-on, only for the ball ball to race to the boundary.

The show then belonged to Umran before the duo of Tewatia and Rashid swung the match in GT’s favour with their astonishing hitting.

Earlier, Abhishek blazed away to 65 off 42 deliveries, while Markram made a 40-ball 56 during a third-wicket stand of 96 runs.

Then, Shashank Singh (25 off 6 balls) smashed Lockie Ferguson (0/52 in 4 overs) for three successive sixes to score 25 runs in the innings’ final over.

To start with, SRH were helped by Mohammed Shami’s (3/39 in 4 overs) 11-run opening over in which a first-ball beauty was followed by five leg-side wides, not once but twice.

Yash Dayal too conceded 11 runs, thanks to two boundaries by Abhishek Sharma on the off side, as SRH raced to 22 for no loss in two overs.

Kane Williamson clipped Shami over square leg for his first boundary but that’s all the SRH skipper could do with the bat as, three balls later, the seasoned India pacer went through the gate with a lovely seaming delivery to dismiss the Kiwi and give his team the match’s first breakthrough.

Having got a life at point even before he could open his account, Rahul Tripathi smashed Shami for 6, 4, 4 before a review found that the batter was trapped in front of the wicket in an eventful fifth over, which went for 14 runs.

Unperturbed by the fall of two wickets, Abhishek collected two successive fours off Alzarri Joseph — first he lofted over the infield and then found the gap through a packed off-side — to help SRH score 53 runs in the six power play overs at the Wankhede Stadium.

SRH needed a partnership at that stage and the duo of Abhishek and Markram not just provided them that but also kept the scoreboard moving at a very good rate by regularly finding the boundaries.

While Markram dealt with the likes of pacers such as Alzarri, Abhishek went after Rashid Khan, hitting the Afghanistan spin ace for his third six to reach his half-century in style.