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  • We have recording of BJP’s offer to Sisodia, will release it when time comes: AAP sources 

    Earlier, Sisodia claimed that he was “offered the CM's post” by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and closure of all cases against him if he quit the AAP and joined the saffron party.

  • On day NYT prints his photo praising Delhi education model, CIB raids Sisodia’s house: Kejriwal

    By Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s residence being raided by the CBI in connection with the ongoing probe into the alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy on Friday morning prompted a series of backlash from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) with Sisodia initially saying they investigative agency is “welcome” to do so. At the same time, the BJP has been protesting against the policy levelled corruption charges against the AAP-led government. 

    “We welcome CBI. Will give full cooperation in the investigation so that the truth can come out soon. Till now, many cases have been filed against me, but nothing has come out. Nothing will come out of it either. My work for a good education in the country cannot be stopped,” Sisodia said in a tweet in Hindi. 

    He added, “It is very unfortunate that those who do good work in our country are harassed like this. That is why our country has not yet become No 1.” 

    Incidentally, the raid happened on a day when the New York Times published on the front page of its international edition of the overhaul of government schools in Delhi by the AAP government. 

    Delhi has made India proud. Delhi model is on the front page of the biggest newspaper of US. Manish Sisodia is the best education minister of independent India. pic.twitter.com/6erXmLB2be
    — Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) August 19, 2022
    Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal reacting to the CBI raid tweeted: “On a day when the Delhi education model is praised and Manish Sisodia’s picture is printed on the front page of America’s largest newspaper, NYT, the Centre sends CBI to his house.” 

    He further said that the good work being done by the Delhi government will not stop despite these hurdles being created by the Central government to halt this development works in the capital. 

    Outside Sisodia’s residence at Mathura Road, a beeline of press reporters, television channel vans and cabs could be seen right from the morning, as the news broke. 

    Also, Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann pitched in to describe Sisodia as the best education minister of Independent India and that this CBI raid was a reward for the AAP government’s good governance receiving accolades across the globe.  

    “Manish Sisodia is the best education minister of Independent India. Today the largest US newspaper NYT printed his photo on the front page. And today Modi ji sent CBI to his house. How will India progress like this?” Mann said in a tweet in Hindi.

    सीबीआई आई है. उनका स्वागत है. हम कट्टर ईमानदार हैं . लाखों बच्चों का भविष्य बना रहे हैं.बहुत ही दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण है कि हमारे देश में जो अच्छा काम करता है उसे इसी तरह परेशान किया जाता है. इसीलिए हमारा देश अभी तक नम्बर-1 नहीं बन पाया.
    — Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) August 19, 2022
    Meanwhile, the BJP and the Congress alleging big-time corruption in the liquor policy slammed the AAP for making”false” claims of honesty. 

    Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor in a statement said Aam Aadmi Party should stop diverting the issue and tell Delhi why it had to withdraw its Excise Policy if it was clean.?

    “AAP government has made thousands of crores through Excise Policy and now when time has come to rely on it Arvind Kejriwal & Company is trying to feign ignorance. Time has come for Manish Sisodia to share a room with Satyendra Jain in Tihar,” said Kapoor.

    Delhi Congress chief Anil Chaudhary said that the CBI has registered a case against Delhi deputy CM Sisodia in the liquor scam. “The Congress had fought from the road to the investigating agency to prevent Delhi from becoming a drug capital,” he said. 

    NEW DELHI: Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s residence being raided by the CBI in connection with the ongoing probe into the alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy on Friday morning prompted a series of backlash from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) with Sisodia initially saying they investigative agency is “welcome” to do so. At the same time, the BJP has been protesting against the policy levelled corruption charges against the AAP-led government. 

    “We welcome CBI. Will give full cooperation in the investigation so that the truth can come out soon. Till now, many cases have been filed against me, but nothing has come out. Nothing will come out of it either. My work for a good education in the country cannot be stopped,” Sisodia said in a tweet in Hindi. 

    He added, “It is very unfortunate that those who do good work in our country are harassed like this. That is why our country has not yet become No 1.” 

    Incidentally, the raid happened on a day when the New York Times published on the front page of its international edition of the overhaul of government schools in Delhi by the AAP government. 

    Delhi has made India proud. Delhi model is on the front page of the biggest newspaper of US. Manish Sisodia is the best education minister of independent India. pic.twitter.com/6erXmLB2be
    — Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) August 19, 2022
    Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal reacting to the CBI raid tweeted: “On a day when the Delhi education model is praised and Manish Sisodia’s picture is printed on the front page of America’s largest newspaper, NYT, the Centre sends CBI to his house.” 

    He further said that the good work being done by the Delhi government will not stop despite these hurdles being created by the Central government to halt this development works in the capital. 

    Outside Sisodia’s residence at Mathura Road, a beeline of press reporters, television channel vans and cabs could be seen right from the morning, as the news broke. 

    Also, Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann pitched in to describe Sisodia as the best education minister of Independent India and that this CBI raid was a reward for the AAP government’s good governance receiving accolades across the globe.  

    “Manish Sisodia is the best education minister of Independent India. Today the largest US newspaper NYT printed his photo on the front page. And today Modi ji sent CBI to his house. How will India progress like this?” Mann said in a tweet in Hindi.

    सीबीआई आई है. उनका स्वागत है. हम कट्टर ईमानदार हैं . लाखों बच्चों का भविष्य बना रहे हैं.
    बहुत ही दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण है कि हमारे देश में जो अच्छा काम करता है उसे इसी तरह परेशान किया जाता है. इसीलिए हमारा देश अभी तक नम्बर-1 नहीं बन पाया.
    — Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) August 19, 2022
    Meanwhile, the BJP and the Congress alleging big-time corruption in the liquor policy slammed the AAP for making”false” claims of honesty. 

    Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor in a statement said Aam Aadmi Party should stop diverting the issue and tell Delhi why it had to withdraw its Excise Policy if it was clean.?

    “AAP government has made thousands of crores through Excise Policy and now when time has come to rely on it Arvind Kejriwal & Company is trying to feign ignorance. Time has come for Manish Sisodia to share a room with Satyendra Jain in Tihar,” said Kapoor.

    Delhi Congress chief Anil Chaudhary said that the CBI has registered a case against Delhi deputy CM Sisodia in the liquor scam. “The Congress had fought from the road to the investigating agency to prevent Delhi from becoming a drug capital,” he said. 

  • CBI raided Sisodia’s houses the day NYT praised him for Delhi education model: Kejriwal

    By Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s residence being raided by the CBI in connection with the ongoing probe into the alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy on Friday morning prompted a series of backlash from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) with Sisodia initially saying the investigative agency is “welcome” to do so. At the same time, the BJP has been protesting against the policy levelled corruption charges against the AAP-led government. 

    “We welcome CBI. Will give full cooperation in the investigation so that the truth can come out soon. Till now, many cases have been filed against me, but nothing has come out. Nothing will come out of it either. My work for a good education in the country cannot be stopped,” Sisodia said in a tweet in Hindi. 

    He added, “It is very unfortunate that those who do good work in our country are harassed like this. That is why our country has not yet become No 1.” 

    Incidentally, the raid happened on a day when the New York Times published on the front page of its international edition of the overhaul of government schools in Delhi by the AAP government. 

    Delhi has made India proud. Delhi model is on the front page of the biggest newspaper of US. Manish Sisodia is the best education minister of independent India. pic.twitter.com/6erXmLB2be
    — Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) August 19, 2022
    Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal reacting to the CBI raid tweeted: “On a day when the Delhi education model is praised and Manish Sisodia’s picture is printed on the front page of America’s largest newspaper, NYT, the Centre sends CBI to his house.” 

    He further said that the good work being done by the Delhi government will not stop despite these hurdles being created by the Central government to halt this development works in the capital. 

    Outside Sisodia’s residence at Mathura Road, a beeline of press reporters, television channel vans and cabs could be seen right from the morning, as the news broke. 

    Also, Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann pitched in to describe Sisodia as the best education minister of Independent India and that this CBI raid was a reward for the AAP government’s good governance receiving accolades across the globe.  

    “Manish Sisodia is the best education minister of Independent India. Today the largest US newspaper NYT printed his photo on the front page. And today Modi ji sent CBI to his house. How will India progress like this?” Mann said in a tweet in Hindi.

    सीबीआई आई है. उनका स्वागत है. हम कट्टर ईमानदार हैं . लाखों बच्चों का भविष्य बना रहे हैं.बहुत ही दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण है कि हमारे देश में जो अच्छा काम करता है उसे इसी तरह परेशान किया जाता है. इसीलिए हमारा देश अभी तक नम्बर-1 नहीं बन पाया.
    — Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) August 19, 2022
    Meanwhile, the BJP and the Congress alleging big-time corruption in the liquor policy slammed the AAP for making”false” claims of honesty. 

    Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor in a statement said Aam Aadmi Party should stop diverting the issue and tell Delhi why it had to withdraw its Excise Policy if it was clean.?

    “AAP government has made thousands of crores through Excise Policy and now when time has come to rely on it Arvind Kejriwal & Company is trying to feign ignorance. Time has come for Manish Sisodia to share a room with Satyendra Jain in Tihar,” said Kapoor.

    Delhi Congress chief Anil Chaudhary said that the CBI has registered a case against Delhi deputy CM Sisodia in the liquor scam. “The Congress had fought from the road to the investigating agency to prevent Delhi from becoming a drug capital,” he said. 

    NEW DELHI: Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s residence being raided by the CBI in connection with the ongoing probe into the alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy on Friday morning prompted a series of backlash from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) with Sisodia initially saying the investigative agency is “welcome” to do so. At the same time, the BJP has been protesting against the policy levelled corruption charges against the AAP-led government. 

    “We welcome CBI. Will give full cooperation in the investigation so that the truth can come out soon. Till now, many cases have been filed against me, but nothing has come out. Nothing will come out of it either. My work for a good education in the country cannot be stopped,” Sisodia said in a tweet in Hindi. 

    He added, “It is very unfortunate that those who do good work in our country are harassed like this. That is why our country has not yet become No 1.” 

    Incidentally, the raid happened on a day when the New York Times published on the front page of its international edition of the overhaul of government schools in Delhi by the AAP government. 

    Delhi has made India proud. Delhi model is on the front page of the biggest newspaper of US. Manish Sisodia is the best education minister of independent India. pic.twitter.com/6erXmLB2be
    — Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) August 19, 2022
    Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal reacting to the CBI raid tweeted: “On a day when the Delhi education model is praised and Manish Sisodia’s picture is printed on the front page of America’s largest newspaper, NYT, the Centre sends CBI to his house.” 

    He further said that the good work being done by the Delhi government will not stop despite these hurdles being created by the Central government to halt this development works in the capital. 

    Outside Sisodia’s residence at Mathura Road, a beeline of press reporters, television channel vans and cabs could be seen right from the morning, as the news broke. 

    Also, Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann pitched in to describe Sisodia as the best education minister of Independent India and that this CBI raid was a reward for the AAP government’s good governance receiving accolades across the globe.  

    “Manish Sisodia is the best education minister of Independent India. Today the largest US newspaper NYT printed his photo on the front page. And today Modi ji sent CBI to his house. How will India progress like this?” Mann said in a tweet in Hindi.

    सीबीआई आई है. उनका स्वागत है. हम कट्टर ईमानदार हैं . लाखों बच्चों का भविष्य बना रहे हैं.
    बहुत ही दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण है कि हमारे देश में जो अच्छा काम करता है उसे इसी तरह परेशान किया जाता है. इसीलिए हमारा देश अभी तक नम्बर-1 नहीं बन पाया.
    — Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) August 19, 2022
    Meanwhile, the BJP and the Congress alleging big-time corruption in the liquor policy slammed the AAP for making”false” claims of honesty. 

    Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor in a statement said Aam Aadmi Party should stop diverting the issue and tell Delhi why it had to withdraw its Excise Policy if it was clean.?

    “AAP government has made thousands of crores through Excise Policy and now when time has come to rely on it Arvind Kejriwal & Company is trying to feign ignorance. Time has come for Manish Sisodia to share a room with Satyendra Jain in Tihar,” said Kapoor.

    Delhi Congress chief Anil Chaudhary said that the CBI has registered a case against Delhi deputy CM Sisodia in the liquor scam. “The Congress had fought from the road to the investigating agency to prevent Delhi from becoming a drug capital,” he said. 

  • CBI searches Karti Chidambaram’s Chennai house in Chinese visa case

    By IANS

    NEW DELHI: In the latest development in the Chinese visa case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday conducted searches at the residence of Congress MP Karti Chidambaram in Chennai and recovered some incriminating documents from there.

    A CBI source said that when the probe agency conducted searches at the residence of Karti Chidambaram in May, a portion of the house had to be sealed as the keys were with the Congress MP’s wife, who was reportedly out of the country then.

    “Today, Karti Chidambaram’s wife joined the probe and we opened this portion of the house. We have recovered some incriminating evidence and documents,” said the source.

    According to the CBI FIR, in 2011, a Mansa (Punjab) based private firm, Talwandi Sabo Power Limited, took the help of a middleman and allegedly paid Rs 50 lakh to get visas issued to Chinse nationals to help get a project completed before the deadline.

    “The private firm was in the process of establishing a 1,980 MW thermal power plant which was outsourced to a Chinese company. The project was running behind its schedule. In order to avoid penal actions for the delay, the said private company was trying to bring more and more Chinese professionals to its site in Mansa district. For this it needed project visas over and above the ceiling imposed by the Ministry of Home Affairs,” said a CBI official.

    The official said that for the said purpose, the representative of the private firm approached a person in Chennai through his close associate and thereafter they devised a back-door ploy to get permission to re-use 263 project visas allotted to the said Chinese company’s officials.

    In pursuance of the same, the said representative of the Mansa-based company submitted a letter to the Ministry of Home Affairs seeking approval to re-use the project visas allotted to the company, which was approved within a month and permission was issued to the firm.

    “A bribe of Rs 50 lakh was allegedly demanded by the said private person based in Chennai through his close associate which was paid by the Mansa-based company. The payment of the said bribe was routed from Mansa to the person in Chennai and his close associate through a Mumbai-based company, reportedly controlled by Karti Chidambaram, as payment of false invoice raised for consultancy and out-of-pocket expenses for Chinese visa-related works,” said the CBI official.

    Karti Chidambaram’s father P. Chidambaram was the Union Home Minister then.

  • Top Vivo executives may have fled India amid ED’s money laundering probe

    By IANS

    NEW DELHI: Chinese smartphone company Vivo’s top executives, Directors Zhengshen Ou and Zhang Jie, likely fled India on Wednesday after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids at its offices in connection with a prevention of money laundering case.

    Sources said that Zhengshen and Zhang may have fled the country via the Nepal route amid fears that they may be arrested. Vivo did not comment on the development.

    The raids were conducted at nearly 44 locations in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and in southern states, on Tuesday in connection with the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.

    Sources said the office of Vivo and the premises of a few other Chinese firms were raided. The CBI has also been probing the case and lodged a separate first information report.

    In a statement to IANS, Vivo had said that it is cooperating with the authorities to provide them with all required information. “As a responsible corporate, we are committed to be fully compliant with laws,” a company spokesperson said.

    In April, the ED seized Rs 5,551.27 crore of Xiaomi Technology India Private Ltd lying in the bank accounts under the provisions of Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) connection with the illegal outward remittances made by the company.

  • IT department detects Rs 200 crore black money after raids on dry fruits traders

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Income Tax Department has detected unaccounted income of over Rs 200 crore after it recently raided people engaged in dry fruits trade located in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said on Friday.

    The searches, it said in a statement, were carried out on October 28. The group has been “inflating” purchases of dry fruits exorbitantly over the years.

    “Seized evidence also supports the fact that unaccounted cash has been received back by the directors of the group against payment made for such purchases.

    “one of the assessees was maintaining a parallel set of books of accounts and there was a huge difference between the sales and purchases recorded in both the sets of books of accounts,” the statement said.

    One of the groups, the policy-making body for the tax department alleged in the statement, also indulged in unaccounted purchases and sales of dry fruits. “Excess stock to the tune of Rs 40 crore has been found. The analysis of seized material and evidence collected reveals that one of the groups is also running a benami proprietary concern,” it claimed.

    In both the groups, the claim of deduction under section 80IB (deduction in respect of profits and gains from certain industrial undertakings) of the Income Tax Act has been found to be “not genuine” and is estimated to be around Rs 30 crore, it claimed.

    “The search action has resulted in the seizure of unaccounted cash of Rs 63 lakh and jewellery of Rs 2 crore and detection of unaccounted income exceeding Rs 200 crore,” it said. Fourteen bank lockers were put “under restraint”, it added.

  • IT department detects Rs 200 crore unaccounted income after raids on dry fruits traders

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Income Tax Department has detected unaccounted income of over Rs 200 crore after it recently raided people engaged in dry fruits trade located in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said on Friday.

    The searches, it said in a statement, were carried out on October 28. The group has been “inflating” purchases of dry fruits exorbitantly over the years.

    “Seized evidence also supports the fact that unaccounted cash has been received back by the directors of the group against payment made for such purchases.

    “one of the assessees was maintaining a parallel set of books of accounts and there was a huge difference between the sales and purchases recorded in both the sets of books of accounts,” the statement said.

    One of the groups, the policy-making body for the tax department alleged in the statement, also indulged in unaccounted purchases and sales of dry fruits. “Excess stock to the tune of Rs 40 crore has been found. The analysis of seized material and evidence collected reveals that one of the groups is also running a benami proprietary concern,” it claimed.

    In both the groups, the claim of deduction under section 80IB (deduction in respect of profits and gains from certain industrial undertakings) of the Income Tax Act has been found to be “not genuine” and is estimated to be around Rs 30 crore, it claimed.

    “The search action has resulted in the seizure of unaccounted cash of Rs 63 lakh and jewellery of Rs 2 crore and detection of unaccounted income exceeding Rs 200 crore,” it said. Fourteen bank lockers were put “under restraint”, it added.

  • Income department raids multiple premises of media group Dainik Bhaskar

    By Express News Service
    BHOPAL: Extensive searches have begun at multiple premises of the country’s prominent media house, the Dainik Bhaskar Group at multiple locations in at least four states.

    Big breaking: Income Tax Dept raids underway at multiple locations of a major media house across the country, including its main base in Bhopal. @NewIndianXpress @TheMornStandard @khogensingh1 @gsvasu_TNIE
    — Anuraag Singh (@anuraag_niebpl) July 22, 2021

    The searches which started at residential premises and offices of the premier media group are happening in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra.

    According to informed sources, the searches are underway in MP, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Delhi-NCR. @NewIndianXpress @TheMornStandard @khogensingh1 @gsvasu_TNIE

    According to informed sources, the raids are underway at multiple locations in Bhopal and Indore (MP), including residential premises of the owners/promoters of the Group in Bhopal, besides its main offices and press in the Press Complexes of Bhopal and Indore.

    — Anuraag Singh (@anuraag_niebpl) July 22, 2021

    Searches are also underway at group’s premises in Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Mumbai among other locations.Sources added that the searches are happening based on specific inputs of tax evasion by the media group, which not only has around 60 editions of its flagship Dainik Bhaskar newspaper brand across multiple states of Central, West, East and Northern India, but also has major investments in power, real estate and education sector.

  • Mobile phones, SIM cards seized from inmates in Jammu’s high-security Kotbalwal Jail

    By PTI
    JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir police have seized mobile phones and SIM cards from some inmates of the high-security Kot Bhalwal Central Jail here during a surprise search operation on Thursday, officials said.

    The raid was conducted by a team of police and CID wing this morning after specific inputs were received that mobile phones were being used by terrorists lodged in the jail.

    Twelve mobile phones and SIM cards have been seized from them, they said.

    Some more items have been recovered as well, reports said.

    The team are conducting further searches and questioning inmates and jail staff about how mobiles and SIM cards reached inside the complex, they said.