Two businessmen robbed in separate incidents in city
A 40-year-old man working as a manager in a media company was allegedly abducted and then robbed by three men in east Delhi’s Mayur Vihar area.
The man alleged that he was returning home in his Honda City car, when three men in an Audi stopped him near Mayur Vihar metro station. He alleged that the three men pushed him to the rear seat and took control of the car. “He said the men took his gold chain, his wallet and cash. They took him to an ATM in Noida Sector 20 and forced him to withdraw ₹20,000 from his debit card,” a police officer said.
According to the police, the man alleged that the men drove him around for another half an hour before dropping him off at the same location in Mayur Vihar, where they had abducted him. “He stated that the men left his car and drove off in their Audi,” a police officer said.
The man then returned home and two days later, reported the matter to the police.
In a separate case, another businessman alleged that three men, who posed as police personnel, drove off with 17 kilogram of silver worth ₹40 lakh that he was transporting from Mathura on Friday.
The complainant Saurabh Khandelwal alleged that he was driving towards Chandni Chowk from Mathura, along with his uncle and servant, when three men in police uniform stopped his car at a Noida checkpost. Khandelwal alleged that the men asked him and others to get down from the car for checking. “He alleged that the men entered the car and drove off with the silver,” a police officer said.
He brought the incident to the notice of his superiors but they denied the army was involved.
He spoke to the then brigadier, general staff, Abhay Krishna, who “denied any involvement and asked me as to how do (did) I know that 3 CISU (the Intelligence Unit) had done such a thing? I was shocked by the reaction”.
The intelligence unit was under Krishna’s command. Bikram Singh was the eastern army commander and Dalbir Singh the 3 Corps commander. Krishna took charge of the southwestern command this January.
The intelligence unit raid caused an uproar and the then army chief Gen VK Singh, who is now a minister at the Centre, issued a showcause notice to Dalbir Singh, who was in line to be the army chief in 2014.
It threatened Dalbir Singh’s chances to lead the army. In an affidavit to the Supreme Court, he accused VK Singh of victimising him “with the sole purpose of denying promotion to the appointment of army commander”.
When he took over as the chief in May 2012, Gen Bikram Singh reversed VK Singh’s decision to bar Dalbir Singh from heading the Eastern Command, clearing his way to the force’s top job.
Similar allegations have now been made against Gen Dalbir Singh.“I learnt that directions were issued to my initiating officer to fix Col SS Shekhawat. This vindictive attitude continued when General Dalbir took over as army commander,” the letter says.
As the chief, Gen Dalbir Singh even got him dropped as the leader of an Indian Army expedition to Mount Everest in 2016. An avid mountaineer, Colonel Shekhawat has conquered the Everest thrice.
A part of the Indian Army’s elite special forces, Shekhawat has three gallantry awards to his name — Kirti Chakra, Shaurya Chakra and Sena Medal — and a Vishisht Sena Medal for distinguished service. counter-insurgency operations intensify.
Saturday’s meeting also came a day after the home minister briefed top opposition leaders on the situation in the valley and steps taken to ensure better security for the Amarnath pilgrims.
The opposition has slammed the government for failing to ensure security of Amarnath Yatris.
The home ministry in consultation with the state government has decided to erect 21 more security pickets on the Amarnath route to check whether any vehicle carrying pilgrims is moving beyond the deadline of 7pm in the Valley. The ill-fated bus that came under attack in the state’s Anantnag district had violated the deadline.
Fraser, who thought it would be a “laugh to sit down and do the paper,” solved it.
Trouble began when he posted that he had “breezed through it (paper). I did it in about a third of the allowed time, and with 100% correct answers.”
The Oxford student also made it clear that he was a third year physics student and the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) was a school-level paper taken by 17-year-olds who had not spent three years at university studying physics.
Despite the explanation, his claim was “not well received”. Fraser was abused, called a liar and a scum.
What was more worrying,was that people not only trolled him on Quora, they also found his Facebook account and soon targeted his family’s accounts, sending obscene pictures to his mother and death threats to his brother.“It was really rather traumatic,” Fraser said. “My Mum still refers to it as ‘The time that guy had such low self esteem that he considered me seeing his penis to be the worst insult imaginable’.”
Since then Fraser has deleted the answer and the question was deleted by moderation. Facebook too made sure “the stuff went away,” he wrote.
He has since said he is not answering questions on JEE and also has a response for those who flooded his inbox apologising for these people (abusers) asserting that not all Indians do it: “No need” Fraser could not be reached because his Quora inbox has been temporarily suspended. charted accountants understand them better than government officials entrusted with the task of training them,” he said.
Ashok Batra, a faculty member at VG Learning Destination, said many chartered accountants attending GST certification courses have no previous experience in handling cases concerning indirect taxes.
“But now they will be expected by their clients – who used to hire three different professionals for excise, service tax and VAT issues earlier – to deal with GST compliance,” he added.
Institute director Vinod Gupta said that while 7,000 people took their 36-hour GST Made Simple course, only 60% managed to clear it. VG Learning Destination also offers a shorter six-hour programme – GST Ki Pathshala – that caters to businessmen.
Besides certification courses, the country has also seen a glut of GST-related study books emerging in the last two months. “We have tried to convey various concepts of the new tax regime in a language that traders and businessmen can understand,” said Deepak Rao, a charted accountant who has co-authored ‘India GST for Beginners’.
Rao believes courses and books on GST will remain in vogue at least for the next year or two, until people gain a fair understanding of the concepts that govern the tax regime.
The first time he was stopped was two years ago when he was waiting for a train to Jammu. “A boy approached me to click a picture. There were army personnel around and they jostled with each other to pose for pictures with me. The picture frenzy ended up delaying the train’s departure by nearly 20 minutes. I also heard chants of Modiji zindabad,” he recalled.
Incidentally, Ramachandran is not the only Modi doppelganger. Vikas Mahante from Mumbai’s Malad locality too hit the headlines for his uncanny resemblance to the PM. Another who sees himself as a Modi lookalike, Abhinandan Pathak, even jumped into the poll fray from Varanasi — incidentally, against the BJP. Yet another Modi lookalike in Nagpur cut a cake on the PM’s 66th birthday this year and participated in a road cleaning drive to spread the message of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. homes and other properties last week. The alleged scam is from Prasad’s stint as railway minister from 2004 to 2009.
The two parties rule Bihar with the Congress after the alliance defeated the BJP in the 2015 state elections. Chief minister Nitish Kumar of the JD(U) maintains a clean, incorruptible image and his party is under pressure to stick to its avowed “no-compromise” policy on corruption after the alleged RJD scam surfaced.
The Congress tried to broker peace, but its partners remained defiant. “Assets of Lalu’s family are all in public domain. And, we need not explain it or give any clarification to people. Isn’t it the job of the investigating agencies to inquire who has what assets and how they acquired these?” said a party leader who didn’t wish to be named.
“If CBI or ED seeks an explanation, Lalu’s family would give it to them. Even RJD chief has underlined this,” he said.
For its part, the JD(U) insisted it will not dilute its stand on corruption and take a decision at the right time. “Lalu Prasad deserves respect but I would say he is old, reason why he is speaking variously,” said party general secretary Shyam Razak.
Prasad rejected on Friday the demand for his son’s resignation, though he said his party won’t break the alliance.
“What clarifications are they asking for? I have already issued rebuttals on the CBI FIR. And, as to explanation of source or property, it’s all there in public domain,” he said.