Agnivesh, Medha held on way to Mandsaur
Civil activists Swami Agnivesh, Medha Patkar, Yogendra Yadav and many other activists were arrested in Ratlam when they were on their way to Mandsaur on Sunday to meet the members of the aggrieved families of five members who were killed in a police firing in Mandsaur on Tuesday last.
“In police custody for crime not known, while those who killed farmers roam free. Rule of law?”, tweeted Yogendra Yadav after his arrest.
Later, founder member of Swaraj Abhiyan Avik Saha tweeted, “Delegates illegally stopped at Jaora border by MP Police and admin, not allowed to visit #Mandsaur, arrested and detained.”
According to sources, the police arrested the civil activists at a toll plaza late in the afternoon. They were being taken to Jaora in Ratlam by the police.
When contacted, DIG police of Ratlam range, Avinash Sharma said around 35-40 people had been arrested as they didn’t listen to the police’s request to not
Police have claimed that Kanhaiya Lal Patidar, one of the five farmers shot dead in the district, was booked for drug trafficking four times and was absconding in one case.
SP Manoj Singh told reporters on Saturday that Patidar had been booked under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) several times. PTI
visit Mandsaur as prohibitory orders were issued under Section 144.
However, DIG Avinash Sharma said, “We cannot allow anybody to enter the district as their single word or action can lead to a law and order problem. Things are getting better by the day as far as law and order situation is concerned.”
As many as 10.52 lakh “bogus” PAN cards of individual income tax assesses, which is around 0.4% of the total such documents, cannot be termed a “minuscule” number to harm the country’s economy, the Supreme Court has said.
The apex court said that it has come on record that 11.35 lakh duplicate or fraudulent permanent account numbers have been detected and out of these, 10.52 lakh cases pertain to individual assesses.
It made the observations in a 157-page judgement while upholding the validity of section 139AA of the Income Tax Act making Aadhaar mandatory for allotment of PAN cards and filing of tax returns.
The court, however, put a partial stay on its implementation till its Constitution Bench addressed the larger issue of right to privacy related to Aadhaar.
Section 139AA of the Act provides for mandatory quoting of Aadhaar or enrolment ID of Aadhaar application form for filing of income tax returns and making application for allotment of PAN with effect from July 1 this year.
“It was sought to be argued (by the petitioners) that persons found with duplicate/bogus PAN cards are hardly 0.4 per cent and, therefore, there was no need to have such a provision,” a bench headed by Justice AK Sikri said on Friday.
“We cannot go by percentage figures. The absolute number of such cases is 10.52 lakh, which figure, by no means, can be termed as minuscule to harm the economy and create adverse effect on the nation,” the bench, also comprising Justice Ashok Bhushan, said.
Dealing with the submissions advanced by Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi that duplicate PANs were used to divert funds to shell companies, the bench said, “The fact remains that companies are after all floated by individuals and these individuals have to produce documents to show their identity.”
I’ve been thinking of the slow but sure death of the sharing economy in urban India, at a time when we need it the most.
Slicing up a watermelon in the kitchen, I want to give away one half, but it’s awkward to call a neighbour and ask if one can send over half a watermelon, because I can only finish half before the giant fruit goes bad.
So instead, I don’t buy a large size fruit even though it is usually sweeter.
But I do know, that if I need to buy my own mini-idli steamer which I use only a few times a month, instead of borrowing it, then we are all doing something wrong. We are burying the sharing economy.