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Chidambaram gets another day’s protection from arrest by ED; CBI custody stays till Aug 30

The Supreme Court today (Tuesday, August 27) extended the protection from arrest granted to former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case till tomorrow.
The SC bench of Justices R Banumathi and AS Bopanna would hear the arguments of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Chidambaram’s two petitions, including the challenge to remand orders, on Wednesday, reported PTI.
Yesterday as well Chidambaram’s protection from arrest in case being probed by ED had been extended by a day. In the case being probed by the CBI and being heard in trial court, however, the agency got to keep him in custody for further interrogation for another five days and he will be produced in the court on Aug 30. The CBI said he was confronted with one of the co-accused with a file containing email exchanging with respect to INX Media Scam is undertaken. “So we need more time to unravel the larger conspiracy,” Solicitor General Tushar Mehta had argued.
In the Supreme Court today, as hearing in the case being probed by ED resumed today, Chidambaram’s counsel senior advocate Kapil Sibal filed a rejoinder to the ED affidavit which lists countries where he and “his co-conspirators” allegedly had bank accounts and properties.
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Sibal said the ED cannot place documents in the court randomly and “behind the back” for seeking custody of the accused.
He also sought transcripts of the interrogation conducted by the ED on three dates in the INX Media money laundering case.
Chidambaram was questioned in the INX Media case on three occasions. He has challenged the agency’s decision to arrest him, contending that he has answered to all their questions and the transcripts will prove that.
Sibal asked a bench of Justices R Banumathi and AS Bopanna to order the agency to produce the transcripts of the questioning conducted on December 19 last year, January 1 and 21 this year.
The agencies, he said, “are just producing documents at random and saying this is part of the case diary… They cannot place the documents behind the back and seek custody of accused”.
Abhishek Manu Singhvi, also part of Chidambaram’s legal team, said the case has been incorrect since beginning.The section on conspiracy in the PMLA Act (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) didn’t exist for the time when the alleged offences took place.
He told the Supreme Court that ED had charged the former minister for an alleged action in 2007-2008 under provisions of the money laundering law that were notified as an offence only in 2009.
“The Sections charged in the FIR were declared offences only in June 2009 through notification of amendment of the Prevention of Money laundering Act, one year after the alleged acts took place,” Singhvi said.
Constitutional law states that a person cannot be charged with a crime that was not an offence at the time of its alleged commission. Nor can he be given greater punishment than prescribed at the time of commission of the offence, Singhvi said.
A person is being “painted as a kingpin” of an alleged offence which did not exist as an offence at the time it was committed, said Singhvi, a reference to the Delhi High Court order that rejected Chidambaram’s request for pre-arrest bail. In this order that has been assailed by Chidambaram’s team, the judge had termed the former minister the kingpin of the scandal.
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Further, Singhvi said a person being questioned by the agencies is “not obliged to give the answers the agencies want to hear”, he said, adding that it was sufficient if a person gives an answer to the questions put to him.
Chidambaram said he doesn’t have a bank account abroad and that his son Karti Chidambaram has a foreign account with the permission of the Reserve Bank. The agency’s move to arrest him and keep him in custody amounts to extraction of confession, he said. The accusation has been denied by the Enforcement Directorate.
During yesterday’s hearing, Chidambaram accused the Enforcement Directorate of leaking its document on charges against him to the media and blindsiding him with the allegations.
Chidambaram has been accused of facilitating a huge infusion of foreign funds into the media company INX Media in 2007, when he was Finance Minister, at the instance of his son Karti Chidambaram, who allegedly received kickbacks for his role.
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WATCH: Man tries to approach PM Modi at rally in Karnataka’s Davangere, detained
Reports said the man in question was hiding inside the premises of GMIT college and was detained by SPG.

A man tried to approach PM Narendra Modi by jumping the barricade during an election road show in Karnataka’s Davangere on Saturday.
The video of the incident was caught on camera. The man hails from the Koppal district and is being interrogated by the police. Reports said senior police officer Alok Kumar ran towards him and stopped him from intruding into the convoy.
Watch the viral video here:
Reports further said the man in question was hiding inside the premises of GMIT college and the Special Protection Group detained the person and handed him over to the police.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today carried out a mega roadshow in Karnataka’s Davangere ahead of the Assembly Polls. Modi also inaugurated the Whitefield to Krishnarajapura metro line along with Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in Bengaluru.
This is the second time when the Prime Minister’s security got compromised during a rally in the poll-bound state. A similar incident took place in January when PM Modi was rallying in Karnataka’s Hubballi. A boy had jumped on the road and was whisked away by the SPG.
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Odisha students fail to appear for annual exam as primary school found locked
Reports said the incident took place in the Koraput district of the state at Turli primary school under Narayanpatna block on Friday.

More than 30 class 1 to 5 students of a primary school in Odisha failed to write their annual exams as the school premise was found locked.
Reports said the incident took place in the Koraput district of the state at Turli primary school under Narayanpatna block on Friday. The school time is 7 am to 9:30 am and the students waited for almost two hours.
Block Education Officer Raghunath Pangi promised strict action against the teachers of the primary school and also launched an investigation into the matter. The primary school is located about 120 kilometers from the district headquarters town. According to the villagers, the school remains mostly locked as teachers do not come.
Reports further said academic activities are also not conducted in the school anymore and as a result most of the students cannot even write their named in Odia. Over 30 students are admitted in the school which has two teachers including a principal.
The villagers reached out to the authorities over the matter, however, no action was taken or implemented.
Meanwhile, a 7-year-old was found dead inside the hostel of a residential school in Bihar’s Saharsa district.
The victim has been identified Aditya Yadav who was brutally beaten up by the teacher with a wooden school for not completing his homework, reports said.
Yadav was a student of KG class and his body was found in a swollen state by his friend. Reports further stated that the accused, Sujeet Kumar asked the students to leave the victim’s body at a hospital and subsequently informed his parents that Yadav fainted in the school.
Upon reaching the hospital, Yadav was declared dead by the hospital.
The accused is absconding as the victim’s father filed a police case against him. Speaking to the local media, he informed that Yadav was taken to a local doctor who referred him to a Saharsa hospital. The boy then scumbed to his injuries during the treatment.
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Video of men attacking Muslim jaggery vendor with sticks, stones in Uttar Pradesh goes viral, police nab accused | WATCH
After the video went viral, the authorities tweeted that Nandgram police nabbed 6 accused in the matter. According to the Police’s statements, the incident transpired on the morning of March 24. The police also added and said that the accused are local vendors of the area. The victim has also been identified as Danish.

A video has come to light from Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad where a group of men can be charging at a Muslim man with sticks and bricks. It was reported that a jaggery vendor in the area was attacked by a group of men, following which police rushed to the incident and filed a complaint.
In the video, 3 men with sticks and bricks can be seen charging at the vendor as he tries to flee. However, failing to do so, the jaggery vendor gets ruthlessly beaten up by the group of men.
The video also shows the jaggery vendor imploring and screeching after being struck by the sticks. The man, after struggling, can be seen fleeing away from the grips of the men assaulting him. The men can also be seen chasing after him as the man runs from the group of men.
Watch video here:
Police’s action
After the video went viral, the authorities tweeted that Nandgram police nabbed 6 accused in the matter. According to the Police’s statements, the incident transpired on the morning of March 24. The police also added and said that the accused are local vendors of the area. The victim has also been identified as Danish.
The accused have been identified as Ashutosh, Ashish Kaushik, Pravesh Kaushik, Anupam Kaushik, Sonu, and Titu who are residents of the same area. The police are probing the case further, said reports.
Twitter reactions
After the video of the incident went viral, many users came forward to add their take on the incident. One user wrote termed the incident as shameful. The user also praised the Police authorities for putting the accused behind bars for their gooney actions.
One user also wrote and urged the administration to bulldoze the property of the accused in the matter as a way to reprimand them.
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