Real estate firm denies links with Delhi minister

A company, facing income tax proceedings for its alleged association with Delhi minister Satyender Jain, told the Delhi High Court on Monday that it did not have any link with the AAP leader.

A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Chander Shekhar, however, refused to entertain the plea and asked the real-estate company to approach the assessing officer to raise the grievances. The company, Akinchan Developers Pvt Ltd, in its plea had challenged an income tax notice of February issued to the firm for assessment years 2011-12 and 2012-13.

The IT department had refused to close the reassessment proceedings initiated against the company as it felt that Jain also had some role to play in it affairs, the plea, filed through advocate Saket Sikri, said.

The company had told the department that it had duly declared all its income and Jain had nothing to do with it. Its directors had also paid ₹3.72 crore in tax. However, the department had not agreed with the company and passed an order to attach its property.

The incident had deepened the army-civilian divide and sparked violent protests in the militancy-hit valley.

The force and the government had defended the action ordered by Major Leetul Gogoi from Assam. Army officials had earlier said the troops were forced to take the extreme step to save themselves from stone-pelting, which has become one of the most common and frequent forms of protest in Kashmir since the killing of militant commander Burhan Wani.

The government also backed the army, with the country’s top law officer saying in April that the officer-in-charge “did a smart thing and defused a nasty situation”.

Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi had said the major was summoned by officials to a poll booth since they were surrounded by hundreds of suspected stone-pelters.

“The poll booth is symbolic of democracy. He (the major) should not be criticised. The army should be applauded. They are guarding our northern and north-eastern frontiers admirably,” Rohatgi had said in a statement.

According to sources, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a concall with officials of the J&K government on Wednesday.

Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh said Major Gogoi’s commendation would have a positive impact on the morale of soldiers. media to influence youth to join militancy, Bhat used the medium to project a hardened stand against local police and their so-called informers.

“Evoking Islam, jihad, Caliphate is not new to militant outfits in Kashmir. Insurgency here is also shaped by local realities such as shelter, funding, a network of informers,” the security official said.

Agencies are keeping a close watch on the situation.

Yudhveer, a student of the VN Senior Secondary School, wants to become a pilot.

The parents of neither Sakshi nor Anjali were available for comment. However, Sakshi said she would get her answer sheet reevaluated.

This is not the first instance of a technical glitch causing embarrassment to the board. Last year, it failed to declare the results on the pre-announced date due to a software issue, leaving many Class 12 students in the lurch.

The tenure of Congress’ Shantaram Naik an RS member from Goa ends on July 28, while his party colleague Ahmed Patel, Dilipbhai Pandya and Irani from the BJP - all from Gujarat - will end their term on August 18.

The tenure of RS members from West Bengal - Derek O’Brien and his party colleagues Dola Sen, Shukhendu Shekhar Roy and Debabrata Bandhopadhyay, Pradip Bhattacharya of the Congress and Sitaram Yechury of the CPM also ends on August 18.