During a joint rally of the INDI bloc, Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP and Lok Sabha candidate for Wayanad and Raebareli responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent ‘deal with Ambani-Adani’ remark and claimed that Modi mentioned the names of his two friends out of fear of losing the elections. Gandhi pointed out that Modi had given thousands of speeches over the past decade but never mentioned Adani and Ambani. According to Gandhi, Modi took their names because he believed they could save him. He even knows how Adani sends money in a tempo, which is a personal experience for him. Gandhi warned the audience that the BJP would attempt to divert their attention in the coming days but urged them to stay focused on the central issue of the General Elections in India, the Constitution of India.
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10 DCPs paid Rs 40 crore to Deshmukh, Parab to reverse transfer order: Sachin Waze to ED
By PTI
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Transport Minister Anil Parab and his then cabinet colleague Anil Deshmukh allegedly received Rs 40 crore from 10 DCPs in Mumbai to reverse the order of their transfer issued by the then city police commissioner Param Bir Singh, dismissed police officer Sachin Waze has claimed in his statement to the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
This statement is part of charge sheet filed recently by the ED against Deshmukh’s former personal secretary Sanjeev Palande and personal assistant Kundan Shinde in connection with a money laundering case.
In July 2020, Param Bir Singh had issued an order of transfer of 10 DCPs in Mumbai.
Waze, in his statement claimed that Deshmukh, who was then the home minister, and Parab were not happy with the transfer order issued by Singh.
“Later I came to know that a sum of Rs 40 crore was collected from the police officers listed in the transfer order.
Out of that Rs 20 crore each were given to Anil Deshmukh and Anil Parab,” Waze claimed.
Besides the arrested duo – Palande and Shinde – the charge-sheet filed in the money laundering case also names Waze as an accused.
However, neither Deshmukh, an NCP leader, nor his family members were named as accused in the charge sheet.
Palande and Shinde are currently in judicial custody in the case.
Waze, an assistant police inspector in Mumbai, was arrested in March this year in connection with the explosives-SUV found parked near industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s south Mumbai residence and the murder of Thane businessman Mansukh Hiran.
The charge-sheet says that Palande and Shinde had played a key role in the money laundering case.
The central agency said its probe has revealed that Deshmukh used to call Waze about handing over money collected from bars and restaurants.
For instance, between January and February 2021, Waze handed over 16 bags containing Rs 4.
6 crore to Shinde, while Palande was instrumental in passing on the instructions of the NCP leader to Waze.
The ED launched a probe against Deshmukh and his associates after the CBI filed an FIR against the NCP leader on April 21 following allegations of corruption made by Param Bir Singh.
Singh was shunted out as Mumbai police commissioner in March this year, while Deshmukh resigned as a minister in April.
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Will hang myself publicly if any corruption allegation is proved: Abhishek Banerjee
By PTI
KOLKATA: Senior Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee Sunday said that he would get himself hanged if any central agency can bring to the fore his involvement in any illegal transaction.
Speaking to reporters at the Kolkata airport on his way to New Delhi to attend a summons by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with an alleged coal scam case, Banerjee accused the BJP of indulging in political vendetta having lost the state assembly elections.
“I reiterate what I had said in November at public meetings that if any central agency can prove my involvement in any illegal transaction of even 10 paise, there will be no need to hold any CBI or ED probe, I will walk up the podium and get myself hanged publicly,” he said.
He has been summoned to appear before the investigating officer of the case in New Delhi on September 6 for questioning in a money laundering case linked to the alleged coal scam in West Bengal.
“I am ready to face any and every kind of investigation,” Banerjee said, adding that despite it being a case of Kolkata, he was summoned to New Delhi.
“Having lost the elections and failing to tackle Trinamool Congress politically, they (BJP) are now seeking revenge,” he claimed.
The BJP has no other job than to use the investigating agencies to fulfil their political interests, he alleged.
Banerjee said that he would like to invite any BJP leader to sit face to face with him and discuss what the central agencies have done in the last five years and the fate of the country in the seven-year-rule of the Narendra Modi government.
“You (BJP) decide the date, time and venue and I will go; if I cannot expose them then I will not put my feet in the political arena anymore,” he asserted.