Goel slams AAP govt over claims of tax rebate to family property

Union minister Vijay Goel attacked the AAP government on Thursday over the issue of waiving property tax for his heritage property on Thursday. Goel clarified that the North Delhi Municipal Corporation has exempted all the heritage properties from tax and not just the one belonging to his family.

He said the initiative was taken after the notification of the Delhi government, last year. “The decision was taken by the Shahjahanabad Redevelopment Corporation which is headed by Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia. While the list of heritage sites was approved by a committee comprising of members from Archaeological Survey of India, Urban development ministry and others. In simple words, the BJP has nothing to do with the issue and AAP leaders are giving illogical statements,” he said.

On Wednesday, Sisodia supported chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s announcement to waive off the house tax if AAP wins elections and stated that if the municipal bodies can waive the tax for a Union minister, it can provide the same benefit to common citizens as well.

“Last year the North MCD had waived off the residential house tax of a haveli owned by Union Minister Vijay Goel. The decision was taken under rule 177 of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act (1957). The act allows municipal bodies to exempt any tax that the MCDs decide does not need to be levied,” Sisodia had said.

Goel also blamed the AAP government for misleading public by announcing rebates ahead of elections. HTC

The body of a woman her in mid-twenties, with her throat slit and multiple stab injuries, was found near Rajghat in central Delhi on Thursday morning.

The woman could not be identified till late evening. A case of murder was registered at the Darya Ganj police station.

Investigators said the woman could have been murdered somewhere and her body dumped at the secluded spot to mislead the police. The body has been preserved in the mortuary of Lok Nayak Hospital, said police.

Mandeep Singh Randhawa, deputy commissioner of police (central), said that the crime came to light after a passerby found the body behind the bushes and called the police control room. HTC