CGST’S AntiEvasion Wing busts Rs 241 cr GST fraud racket Row breaks out over Cong-leader sponsored Christ statue in Karnataka

GWALIOR/BHOPAL: A section of students and the opposition BJP protested in Madhya Pradesh on Friday after a Master of Arts question in Gwalior's Jiwaji University described some freedom fighters as "revolutionary terrorists".

The MP government ordered an inquiry and promised action against the guilty.

The question, in Wednesday's examination paper of 'Political Philosophy-iii; Modern Indian Political Thought' for M.A. Political Science students (Third Semester), read "Describe the activities of revolutionary terrorist. What is the difference between extremists and revolutionary terrorists?"

Later on Friday evening, a state public relations department official said MP Minister of Higher Education Jitu Patwari had ordered an inquiry into the matter.

Patwari has directed the principal secretary of the Higher Education department to have a committee probe the incident within three days, the official added.

Earlier, members of All India Democratic Student Organisation (AIDSO) staged a protest in the University's campus, with its district president Mitali Shukla demanding to know from the varsity if the country's revolutionaries were "terrorists".

They submitted a memorandum to Jiwaji University's Deputy Registrar Rajiv Mishra.

"This question is sending a wrong message among the students as revolutionaries are being termed as terrorists.

The country's revolutionaries are our ideals. We demand action against the professor who set this question paper," Shukla said.

Deputy Registrar Rajiv Mishra said, "The examination department of the University is seeking clarification from the professor who set the question paper. The examination committee will take a suitable decision after it gets a reply from the concerned professor."

Meanwhile, ex-chief Minister and BJP national vice president Shivraj Singh Chouhan demanded action and called the issue "embarrassing as well as painful".

"How can anyone call them terrorists? Because of their sacrifices, we are able to breathe freely. My demand to the Madhya Pradesh government is to take strict action against such irresponsible people."

NEW DELHI: The Anti-evasion wing of the Central GST Delhi South Commissionerate has busted a racket of fake invoicing and GST fraud of hundreds of crores and arrested a key accused in the case, officials here said, adding that the racket was involved in fake invoicing worth Rs 1,600 crore and tax evasion of Rs 241 crore. Officials here said that this racket had led to the discovery of a new modus operandi used in defrauding the exchequer by exploiting the facility of refunds given for inverted duty structure. The CGST Commissionerate has said that so far 120 entities involved in the racket have come to light.

The investigation in the case has unearthed a well-organised racket of creating bogus firms, issuing fake invoices and bogus e-way bills to generate and encash tax credits, the agency said in the statement.

Officials here added that the main culprit was arrested on Thursday and produced before a judicial magistrate, who then remanded him to 10 days in judicial custody.

BENGALURU: A row broke out in Karnataka on Friday over senior Congress leader D K Shivakumar sponsoring construction of a 114-foot statue of Jesus Christ with the ruling BJP terming it as an appeasement policy and the state government seeking a report from authorities on the status of the

land earmarked for the project. According to state Revenue Minister R Ashoka, the land, said to have been purchased for constructing the statue, is not owned by Shivakumar and it is a government 'gomala' land (pasture land for community use).

The proposed 101-foot statue atop a 13-foot pedestal is coming up at Kapalibetta in Harobele village, a predominantly Christian locality in Kanakapura, the assembly constituency of Shivakumar, about 80 km from here.

The office of Shivakumar has said utilising his own funds he had purchased 10 acres of

land at Kapalibetta from the government for the trust that is constructing the statue and claimed it would become the tallest monolithic statue of

Jesus in the world.

On December 25, Shivakumar had laid the foundation at a prayer meet and handed over the title deed for the project.

Speaking on the ownership of the land Ashoka said "....

it is not Shivakumar's property, it is government gomala land, I don't know in what sense he (Shivakumar) has said he has purchased and given it... no one can donate it to any one. I have sought a report from the District Deputy Commissioner of Ramanagara."

Amid references in the social media to Kapalibetta as "Yesubetta", the Minister said: "For thousands of years it has been known as Kapalibetta, and for no reason we will allow its name to be changed," he said adding the land was given for the sake of development and not to hand over it to others.