Follow us on: RNI No. TELENG/2018/76469 @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer Established 1864 Published From ANALYSIS 9 TOLLYWOOD 13 SPORTS 16 HYDERABAD DELHI LUCKNOW THE SOCIOLOGY SHARWAA GIVES PRECEDENCE NEHWAL RETURNS BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH OF BANKING TO CHANDOO MONDETI WITH EASY WIN RANCHI BHUBANESWAR DEHRADUN VIJAYAWADA *LATE CITY VOL. 1 ISSUE 298 HYDERABAD, THURSDAY AUGUST 1, 2019; PAGES 16 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable MLA SLAMS DEEPIKA, SHAHID FOR ‘DRUGGED STATE’ AT KJO PARTY { Page 11 } www.dailypioneer.com CJI allows CBI inquiry against I-T unearths Hyd company Will save discoms from HC judge NEW DELHI: Chief Justice financial crisis: CM KCR Ranjan Gogoi has permitted link to VVIP choppers scam the Central Bureau of L VENKAT RAM REDDY Investigation (CBI) to regis- PNS n NEW DELHI n HYDERABAD ter a case against S.N. Shukla, While the CBDT a judge of the Allahabad High The Income Tax Department Chief Minister K Court, for his alleged role in has unearthed fresh evidence statement did not Chandrasekhar Rao has assured a medical admission scam. in the VVIP choppers scam identify the company that the state government would Justice Shukla has become case after raiding a Hyderabad- provide the necessary financial the first sitting High Court based group, which purport- or its promoter, official support to power generation and judge to be investigated -- edly had dealings with Rajiv sources named the distribution companies in after a gap of nearly 28 years. Saxena, who has been arrested Hyderabad-based firm Telangana. He maintained that Justice Shukla has been in the case, the Central Board all the required measures will be Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao presiding over a high-level meeting on accused of extending favours of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said as AlphaGeo and its taken to prevent electricity power sector at Pragathi Bhavan in Hyderabad on Wednesday to a private medical college by on Wednesday. promoter and CMD as organisations from suffering allowing it to extend its dead- It said in a statement that tax any financial crisis, as they have line to admit students, which sleuths searched the premises Dinesh Alla already proved their mettle in was considered against the of a business group on July 24, generation, distribution and Discoms avert power existing rules and a violation which is engaged in conduct- supply of power. They have of the Supreme Court order. ing seismic data analysis. It International in St Kitts even stood as role models to oth- In 1991, the top court, in found four undisclosed foreign (Caribbean islands). ers in the country. crisis for a week the case of K. Veeraswamy, bank accounts, three un- Moreover, three undisclosed "Since the state's develop- PNS n HYDERABAD period of one month by did not allow any investigat- reported companies based in companies of the promoter in ment is dependent on the work- depositing Rs 1,017 crore in ing agency to register a FIR tax havens, unexplained cash of an accused in a VVIP chopper inating evidence including tax havens like British Virgin ing of electricity organisations, The Telangana power dis- banks. But they are already against any sitting Supreme Rs 45 lakh and jewellery worth scam." email and mobile conversa- Islands, Island of Nevis and the government would protect tribution companies (dis- reeling under severe financial Court or High Court judge Rs 3.1 crore. The sources identified the tions were found between the Singapore were also detected, them," the Chief Minister coms) have averted an crisis and unable to deposit without sharing the infor- While the statement did accused as Rajiv Saxena, main director of the searched it said. assured. impending power crisis in such a huge amount. The dis- mation on the nature of evi- not identify the company or deported to India from Dubai company and the Dubai-based The unexplained cash He said his government's the state for a week. coms had sought the help of dence with the Chief Justice. its promoter, official sources early this year in connection operator (Saxena), pertaining amounting to Rs 45 lakh has motto is "no power breakdown The two discoms (TSSPD- state government to come to named the Hyderabad-based with the Rs 3,600-crore to over-invoicing of imports," been seized and the jewellery even for the wink of an eye, no CL and TSNPDCL) on their rescue last week. firm as AlphaGeo and its AgustaWestland VVIP chop- it said. with an estimated worth of Rs financial trouble for the elec- Wednesday opened Letters of However, there has been no promoter and CMD as pers scam case. When confronted, the state- 3.1 crore is being verified, the tricity organisations". He Credit (LoCs) in various banks response from the state gov- CBI books Dinesh Alla. Attempts were On his deportation, the ment said, the persons con- statement added. announced that a stringent for a short duration of one ernment till today noon. made to contact the compa- Enforcement Directorate cerned admitted to over- On January 1, 2014, India method would be put in place, week to meet the Centre's With this, TS discoms Sengar, ny but it did not respond to arrested Saxena and he is now invoicing. scrapped the contract with so that government institutions, August 1 deadline on 'pay first decided to open one-week neither an email nor phone in judicial custody. The raid, conducted by the Finmeccanica's British sub- departments and local bodies and get power" from power duration LoC with whatever calls. CBDT said the surplus funds Delhi investigation wing of sidiary AgustaWestland for paid their power dues on time. generating companies (gen- little funds available with them. Minister's kin The Central Board of Direct generated by the Hyderabad- the department, led to detec- supplying 12 AW-101 VVIP Chandrasekhar announced that cos). As per a directive of the Incidentally, the Centre has LUCKNOW: The CBI has Taxes, which frames policy based firm through alleged tion of at least four additional choppers to the Indian Air a "power week" will be observed Centre, power supply for dis- permitted discoms to open filed a FIR charging BJP for the tax department, alleged over-invoicing totalled USD 6 undisclosed foreign bank Force over alleged breach of shortly in all the villages and coms would otherwise have even one-day duration LoC MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the statement the group million and it was parked in accounts in UBS Bank in contractual obligations and towns in the state to settle all been stopped. based on their financial con- and nine others, including the "indulged in large scale over- Dubai-based accounts of Switzerland, OCBC Bank in charges of paying kickbacks to power-related problems and The TS discoms were sup- dition. kin of an Uttar Pradesh invoicing of imports through a Saxena. Singapore, Citizens Bank in the the tune of Rs 423 crore by it issues. posed to open the LoC for a Continued on Page 4 Minister, with murder over Dubai-based operator who is "During the search, incrim- US and Bank of Nevis to secure the deal. Continued on Page 4 the road-truck accident which left the Unnao girl who had accused the MLA of rape in a critical condition. Leopard spotted The Central Bureau of Top naxal leader Linganna Opposition has no issue to Investigation (CBI) has also in Kukatpally registered a FIR against 20 other unknown persons. PNS n HYDERABAD The FIR against all of them killed in ‘encounter’ with police take on TRS: KTR has been filed under various PNS n HYDERABAD A leopard has been spotted in sections of the Indian Penal PV KONDAL RAO the vicinity of Pragati Nagar in Code including murder n KHAMMAM When police tried to shift the dead body of the slain Telangana Rashtra Samithi Kukatpally in the wee hours of (302), attempt to murder working president KT Rama Wednesday. Inhabitants of the (307), criminal intimidation In a fierce encounter between naxalite, villagers in the forest belt resisted terming Rao said on Wednesday that colony even captured the (506) and criminal conspir- Bhadradri Kothagudem police the encounter a fake one. Police open fire in air to the Congress was not able to image of the big cat near the acy (120B). and naxalites of the CPI ML find any issue to take on the rocky terrain located between New Democracy group, top disperse villagers before taking away the body ruling party. The grand old Pragati Nagar and naxalite leader Linganna was party was at a loss to determine Gajularamaram forest area. killed and certain other nax- what step it should take next, This has led to a panic Doctors extract alites injured on Wednesday. he commented, while talking among the residents, who The encounter between the to media persons at TRS head- have alerted wildlife officials, 526 teeth from police and naxalites took place quarters here. following which a team lead within the Rollagadda KTR pointed out how TRS working president K T Ramarao being felicitated at the party headquarters in by Forest Range Officer 7-year-old Devallagudem forests. Congress leaders had made tall Hyderabad Sridevi investigated the area On coming to know of the claims in the past and even and found no clues. "Not CHENNAI: Doctors have incident, villagers of vowed not to shave their Sharing details of the party's ance benefits, he said. The even pug marks, because the extracted an astounding 526 Devallagudem tried to prevent beards if they failed to vote the membership drive, KTR said United India Assurance terrain is rocky," said Deputy teeth from the mouth of a the police from taking away party to power.