Regd. No. MH/MR/South-160/2012-14 RNI Regn. No. 43675/1985 MUMBAI TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2013 32 PAGES `3 Website: www.afternoondc.in
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By Yatin Ingle
Suspended principal withdraws Rs.12 lakh from college account, takes away teachers’ attendance muster, denies wrongdoing
On June 24, the People Education Society, which runs the Siddharth College of Commerce, suspended Principal Dr. Krishna Patil. This was after Vitthal Basu Chavan, a SY Bcom student of the college, registered a case against Patil for taking additional fees from the students. Chavan has registered a case in the High Court as well as with the Students’ Grievance Committee of the Mumbai University. On July 8, the Joint Director of Education, Mumbai slapped a charged of capitation of fees against Dr. Patil. The Grievance Committee of the varsity had sent a show-cause notice to the principal demanding justification of the additional fees of Rs.1,000 as attendance deposits
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r. Krishna Patil, former principal of Siddharth College, who has been suspended by the State Education Department of Maharashtra for charging extra fees to students, continued to withdraw college money for his personal purposes. The suspended principal has also allegedly taken the teachers’ muster into his custody. Even though the college, under section IPC 49, is out of bounds for everyone except college staff and students, Patil continues to enter the college premises to sit inside his office. Despite tight police security, students and teachers of the college claim that no support has been provided by the police force in order to take action against the principal. Dr. Krishna Patil, former principal, Siddharth College of Commerce, Fort.
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FACELESS FACEBOOK CHEAT Relax, societies! Minor duped of Rs.8 lakh by ‘friend’ from social networking site
By Zuber Ansari
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he police have been repeatedly warning that accepting unknown friend requests on online portals have dangerous repercussions, especially when the victims are children. In the latest of many incidents, a minor from Kurla fell into a trap and was robbed of Rs.8 lakh by a ‘friend’ who had uploaded a fictitious profile under the name of RN Joshi on Facebook. The victim and the ‘friend’ remained in constant touch for the past four months, and the accused exchanged pictures with the 16year-old Kurla resident to establish his genuineness. After being con-
vinced that the accused was a sincere person, the girl chose to divulge information about her family, even providing details about the financial background and where valuables were stored at her home. Having come to know about her well-to-do financial status, the accused hatched a plan to rob the girl and while chatting, told her that his
father was lying in a critical state in a well-known hospital in the city. He expressed helplessness at not being able to arrange money for the treatment and being in desperate need of immediate funds. On hearing this, the girl offered to help by getting him the gold from her residence. The accused then gave her details on how to go about the entire plan. Incidentally, the two had never met in their four months of friendship, but had chatted twice a day for two hours on ‘Facebook.’ The accused never displayed any intention of either meeting her or calling her
Potholes: State’s high-ranking officials to answer in court today
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No supervised election process for CHS with less than 100 members By Prashant Hamine
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ooperative societies, especially Cooperative Housing Societies (CHS) having less than 100 members, can now heave a sigh of relief in respect of guidelines for holding elections to managing committees. A senior official from the Cooperation department, while speaking to the ADC on condition of anonymity yesterday, clarified that those CHS with less than 100 members can hold elections to constitute new managing committees on their own provided that there are no objections raised over the
election process. If there are any objections raised, the elections will have to be conducted by secret ballot and by the State Continued on pg 8 «