Threeyearold girl reunited with mother after two days
A three-year-old girl, who had got separated from her mother on Saturday at a hospital here, was reunited with her after two days by the efforts of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW).
The girl had accompanied her mother to G B Pant hospital and got separated from her mother while playing on its premises, a DCW official said.
The girl was found by the staff of the hospital who tried searching for her mother in the hospital but when they couldn’t trace her they contacted the DCW for assistance.
The DCW team reached the hospital and made announcements at the hospital and a nearby mosque in order to search for her mother but was unable to find her.
The team then took the girl to the IP Estate police station and got a missing report registered, the official said.
Meanwhile, the mother, while searching for her daughter, reached the same police station where the DCW team had registered a missing complaint in the evening.
The police then called the DCW team to the police station who reached the station with the girl without delay.
Although the girl recognised her mother, she was not handed over to her as she had no identity proof, the official said.
The woman explained that she had been staying at the hospital for the past one week for her sister’s treatment. She said everyone in the hospital could identify that she was the little girl’s mother.
The official said that the DCW team took the little girl and her mother to the hospital along with a team of the police.
The guard at the hospital and a nurse were able to identify the woman as the girl’s mother.
“Next day the woman brought her identity card to the Child Welfare Committee where DCW had kept the little girl. The CWC after checking the identity of the mother handed over the girl to her mother,” the official added.
“The government wants to stop me from writing, as it has tried to do with leaders of opposition parties, journalists, columnists, NGOs and civil society members.” Chidambaram writes a weekly column in a prominent English daily.
Finance minister Arun Jaitley defended the CBI action, saying investigating agencies don’t act unless there is evasion or a crime.
“Now, people in high positions acquiring assets through shell companies is not a small matter and, I think, the day of reckoning has come for many, they will all be held accountable,” Jaitley said.
Tuesday’s raids stem from litigation brought by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy who says Chidambaram abused his office to circumvent rules and approve a ₹600 crore investment deal between telecom players Aircel and the Malaysia-headquartered Maxis group in 2006.
“FIPB approval is granted in hundreds of cases. The five secretaries who constitute the FIPB (foreign investment promotion board), the officials of the FIPB secretariat and the competent authority in each case are the public officials,” Chidambaram said.
“There is no allegation against any of them. There is no allegation against me.”
In April, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which investigates financial crimes, told the Supreme Court in a confidential status report that it had found evidence of Advantage Strategic, a company allegedly owned by Karti, receiving “consultation fee” worth ₹1.16 crore from Aircel and other companies. Top ED sources shared the information with HT.
Citing ED documents, HT reported last year that according to the terms of a will deed recovered from the Chennai office of Advantage Strategic, a company allegedly owned by Karti, 60% of the controversial company was owned by Karti’s family. The remaining was owned by Ausbridge Holdings — once 95% owned by Karti — which was later transferred at a discount to Mohanan Rajesh, an alleged associate of his.
These wills were among a cache of documents recovered by a joint Income Tax-Enforcement Directorate investigation into Karti’s businesses involving estates, sports academies, hotels and apartments in 22 countries.
Other documents recovered from Karti’s office and Advantage Strategic allegedly show the latter received consultancy fees from companies that had applied to the Foreign Investment Promotion Board with Chidambaram as its chief.
One bank account of Advantage Strategic with Development Credit Bank (A/c 06020100003711) revealed the scale of its operations: Transactions worth ₹151.31 crore since 2005-06.
“People and businessmen connected to the land deal involving Lalu Prasad and his family are being searched. There are allegations of benami deals worth about ~1,000 crore and subsequent tax evasion,” a senior tax official said.
Former Bihar chief minister Prasad reacted sharply to the raids, saying he won’t be cowed down “by the BJP’s political vendetta”.
“BJP ko naye alliance partners mubarak ho. Lalu Prasad jhukne aur darne wala nahin. Jab tak aakhri saans hain fashiwaadi takhto ke saath lartha rahunga,” he tweeted.
(Congratulations to BJP on its new alliance partners. Lalu will continue to fight fascist forces till the last breath.)
His remarks on the alliance are viewed as a possibility of severing ties with chief minister Nitish Kumar of the JD(U), which was earlier a BJP partner.
The RJD and Congress are part of the Kumar-led grand alliance that defeated the BJP in 2015.
Lalu’s two sons – Tej Pratap and Tejaswi – are ministers in the government.
The RJD clarified later that Prasad was referring to the income tax department and CBI as the BJP’s new partners.
Finance minister Arun Jaitley defended the raids, saying the department and the CBI don’t act unless there is a “substantial basis and a reason to suspect” that there is a tax evasion or a crime has been committed.
Jaitley’s colleague in the ministry, Ravi Shankar Prasad, alleged the benami transactions were a case of “quid pro quo” as they date back to the period when the RJD chief was railway minister.
Several suspect land deals took place in Bihar, he said, and the RJD leader’s official residence was the address of owners of firms allegedly floated by his family members.
“The politics of Lalu Prasad has become politics of loot. Land worth crores of rupees was grabbed for a pittance,” he said.
One such land deal involving Prasad and his family is in Bijwasan in Delhi, the BJP minister alleged.
Bihar’s biggest shopping mall spread over 7.5 lakh square feet is coming up in Patna as part of such dubious transactions, he said.
Prasad is facing a barrage of corruption charges of late. Last week, the Supreme Court revived criminal conspiracy charges against him in one of the five pending cases in the fodder scam, one of the biggest scams in Bihar.
The court ruling is seen as a setback for the regional leader who was disqualified from Parliament and banned from contesting elections after he was convicted of corruption in 2013 in the fodder scam.
Several Muslim women have told the court the custom was biased and against gender justice. The Centre backs the petitioners, saying the practice was unconstitutional and against equality.
Sibal’s argument was in contrast to Centre’s submission made a day earlier, asserting the court must test the validity of triple talaq on the touchstone of constitutional morality.
Sibal argued that Sharia is personal law and not subject to fundamental rights. He rubbished the Centre’s argument that marriage, divorce and succession among Muslims was not a part of personal law because it was codified in 1937 as the Sharia Act.
“The act was not meant to codify. The purpose of the act was different and not what Centre said,” Sibal said.
“If I have faith that Lord Ram was born at Ayodhya, then it’s a matter of faith and there is no question of constitutional morality.”
Sibal told the multi-faith bench led by chief justice JS Khehar that the source of triple talaq could be found in Hadith and that it came into being after the time of Prophet Muhammad. He objected to the manner in which the top court is hearing the matter, saying billions of words have been written on triple talaq and “the court wanted digest it in a span of six days.”
On Sibal’s argument that at the time of nikah a bride could include a clause prohibiting a man to divorce her through triple talaq, the court said: “This means it’s not sacrosanct or sacred.”
The Centre had told the court on Monday that it would bring a new law to fill a legal vacuum should it strike down triple talaq, the lone controversial way Sunni Muslim men in India can get a divorce.
It allows a man to end a marriage by uttering the word talaq thrice in quick succession.
Next day the woman brought her identity card to the Child Welfare Committee where DCW had kept the little girl. The CWC after checking the identity of the mother handed over the girl to her mother.
In the electoral college of 11 lakh votes, the Trinamool Congress with 64,000 votes is the third-largest after the BJP and the Congress in the election for the country’s top post.
The Trinamool Congress chief didn’t publicly reveal her choices even as she slammed the Modi government for “pursuing vendetta politics”.
“Some political vendetta is going on. Whatever is happening today is the same thing. Sometimes they (government) do with Akhilesh (Yadav), sometimes with (Odisha chief minister) Naveen Patnaik, sometimes with Laluji, Chidambaram or (Delhi chief minister) Arvind Kejriwal,” Banerjee said.