‘Delhi Excise Policy was made by top AAP leaders’

New Delhi (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) in its chargesheet stated that the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) investigation done so far has revealed that, the Delhi Excise Policy, 2021-22 was created by the top leaders of the AAP to continuously generate and channel illegal funds for themselves.

ED further states that the extent of involvement and abatement of the criminal activities by the leaders of the AAP covered in the subject, Prosecution Complaint further substantiates their design and scheme of the scam.

The policy promoted cartel formations through back door awarding an exorbitant wholesale profit margin of 12 per cent and a huge retail profit margin of 185 per cent and incentivized other illegal activities on account of criminal conspiracy by the top leaders of AAP to extract kick-

Ebacks from the businesses, stated the ED.

ED revealed that it is disclosed by C Arvind, DANICS, Secretary to Manish Sisodia, in his statement dated December 7, 2022, the draft GoM report was given to him in the mid of March 2021 when C Arvind was called by Manish Sisodia to the residence of Arvind Kejriwal, CM (where Satyender Jain was also pre- sent). The conspiracy of the GoM to give wholesale business to private entities and fix a 12 per cent margin (to get a 6 per cent kickback out from the same) is clear from the statement of C. Arvind wherein he disclosed that there was neither any discussion in the GoM meetings about giving wholesale to private entities nor fixing 12 per cent profit margin for them.

CRPF sets up camp in Maoist stronghold after 17 years

New Delhi: The 165 Battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Chhattisgarh police have set up a Forward Operating Base (FOB) at Bedre in Sukma district, a highly Maoist-affected area of the state, after 17 years, said a CRPF official.

New Delhi (PTI): A 25-year-old man was arrested and a juvenile apprehended for allegedly killing an acquaintance who could not pay for a sound system he had rented from the accused in north Delhi’s Sabzi Mandi area, police said on Thursday. The alleged crime took place around on January 29 around 11 PM.

Assam Police Seizes Drugs

WORTH `7 CRORE; THREE HELD

Guwahati: In two separate operations, police have seized contraband worth Rs 6-7 crore from the Karbi Anglong district of Assam, officials said on Thursday. A senior police officer of the district informed that they received specific inputs and conducted the operations on Wednesday. A total of three persons were held on the charges of drug peddlin John Das, a sub-divisional police officer of Bokajan, said that police set up a checkpoint at the Laharijan area of the district and intercepted a vehicle. “Upon searching the vehicle, security personnel recovered 306 grams of narcotic substances from soup cases hidden inside it.

INDIAN-AMERICAN LAWMAKERS AS MEMBERS OF KEY US HOUSE PANELS

4 BOOKED IN GUJ FOR FRAUD IN CONSTRUCTION OF TOILETS

While the FOB will effectively help in reopening the old trade route connecting Imli Bazar in Jagargunda with the district headquarters Bijapur and Dantewa- da, it will also close the transit corridor used by the Maoists to travel between West and South

ATS arrest another accused in GPSSB paper leak case

Gujarat (ANI): Gujarat

Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested one more accused, Sarojkumar Seemanchal Malu of Odisha on Thursday in the Gujarat Panchayat Junior clerk paper leak case.

The ATS confirmed that in total 17 accused have been arrested in the paper leak case. The Gujarat Panchayat Service Selection Board (GPSSB) recruitment exam that was being held for the position of Junior clerk on Sunday was cancelled.

Earlier with the ar- rest of Jeet Naik, Gujarat ATS Superintendent of Police Sunil Joshi announced that all the accused had been arrested in the Panchayat Junior clerk recruitment paper leak case with the total number of accused arrested being 15.

Jeet Naik, the accused who was held on Monday belonged to Hyderabad & was in charge of printing the question paper, said the ATS.

Bastar, an official said. A FOB was established in Kunder, located at a distance of 5 km from the FOBs at Bedre, Silger & 10 km from Jagargunda FOB.

As per data, till the emergence of the Maoist threat in 2006, the Jagargunda area used to be a trading centre for tamarind & other forest produce.

The CRPF said that with this camp, the administration would be able to decisively restore the trade route and pave the way for the economic development of area.

Icg Celebrates 47th Raising Day

BY CRPF

Indian Coast Guard during a the occasion of the 47th Raising Day of Indian Coast Guard, off Mangaluru coast, on Thursday. The President of India, Prime Minister and Defence Minister congratulated the Indian Coast Guard. —PHOTOS BY PTI