India Gets First Tranche of Swiss Bank Account Details
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PAGE 3 ...PAGE 10 Crusade against black money Don't cut anymore India gets first tranche of trees, says SC on Ex-Uttarakhand Mumbai's Aarey CM Harish Rawat AGENCY Swiss bank account details NEW DELHI, OCT 7 hospitalised DEHRADUN: Former Uttarak- The Supreme Court on Monday hand chief minister and senior AGENCY tries do not yet meet the interna- restrained authorities from cutting Congress leader Harish Rawat NEW DELHI/BERNE, OCT 7 tional requirements on confiden- anymore trees in Mumbai's Aarey was hospitalised here early on tiality and data security (Belize, to set up a Metro car shed. Monday after he complained of India has got first tranche of Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Cura?ao, A special bench comprising dizziness. swiss bank account details of its Montserrat, Romania, Saint Vin- justices Arun Mishra and Ashok Rawat was admitted to the Max nationals under a new automatic cent and the Grenadines, Bhushan said it will have to exam- hospital here in the wee hours, information exchange pact, a Cyprus) or because they chose ine the entire thing and posted the his chief spokesperson Surendra major milestone in the govern- not to receive data (Bermuda, matter for hearing on October 21 Kumar said. "Routine check-ups have been ment's fight against black money British Virgin Islands, Cayman before its forest bench. conducted and all his reports are stashed abroad Islands, Turks and Caicos Is- "Don't cut anything now," the normal. There is nothing to wor- India is among 75 countries lands) The data was collected by bench said. ry," Kumar said, adding that with which Switzerland's Feder- the FTAfrom around 7,500 insti- The felling of trees is being felling of of trees was illegal. Rawat would be discharged al Tax Administration (FTA) has tutions including banks, trusts opposed by green activists and lo- However, after perusing the soon. exchanged information on finan- and insurers "The largest ex- cal residents. notification issued by the Maha- cial accounts within the frame- change was with Germany, as The apex court directed that if rashtra government, the bench work of global standards on was the case in the previous year. anybody is still under arrest for said, Aarey area is a no develop- 4 of family AEOI, an FTA spokesperson The FTA cannot provide any in- protesting the cutting of trees, they ment zone and not a eco-sensitive told a news agency. formation on the amount of fi- should be released forthwith on zone as claimed by the petitioner. posing for selfie The next exchange would specific details on the number of financial information. These in- nancial assets," the statement furnishing of personal bonds. The apex court decided on take place in September 2020, accounts or about the quantum clude name, address, state of res- added Asked about specific de- During the hearing the Maha- Sunday to register as PIL a letter fall into dam, die the spokesperson added of financial assets associated idence and tax identification tails relating to India, the FTA rashtra Government told the bench addressed to Chief Justice of India KRISHNAGIRI : Posing for a This is the first time that In- with the Indian clients of Swiss number, as well information spokesperson said, "the commu- that all those arrested for protest- Ranjan Gogoi by law student selfie proved fatal for four of a dia has received details from banks concerning the financial institu- nication of statistical data is sub- ing against cutting of trees in Rishav Ranjan seeking a stay on family, including three women, Swiss authorities under the However, the AEOI only re- tion, account balance and capital ject to the confidentiality clauses Aarey have been released. cutting of trees. who accidentally fell into the AEOI framework, which pro- lates to accounts that are official- income as well." Solicitor General Tushar A notice was posted on the Pambaru Dam at Marampatti in vides for exchange of informa- ly in the name of Indians and Separately, the Swiss gov- To another query on the next Mehta, appearing for the Maha- Supreme Court website about the district, police said on Sun- tion on financial accounts, cur- they might include those used ernment said in a statement that exchange of information with In- rashtra Government, submitted holding the urgent hearing by con- day. rently active as well as those ac- for business and other genuine the number of countries with dia, the spokesperson said,"ac- that he was not aware of all records stituting a special bench. The Newly married couple Prabhu counts that were closed during purposes which the AEOI (Automatic Ex- cording to the international and assured the bench that nothing Bombay High Court had on Octo- and Niveditha, and their relatives 2018, the year in which the Overall, the FTA has sent in- change of Information) has tak- agreement in place, the ex- will be cut in Aarey till the case is ber 4 refused to declare Aarey - Kanitha, Sneha, Uvarani and framework agreement became formation on around 3.1 million en place this year is 75, out of changes have to take place with- decided. Colony a forest and declined to Santhosh - were posing for the effective. financial accounts to the partner which there was reciprocity with in nine months after the end of The PIL petitioners told the quash the Mumbai municipal cor- selfie on Saturday when five peo- However, the information states and received information 63 countries In the case of 12 the respective calendar year. bench that Aarey forest was poration's decision to allow felling ple except Prabhu fell into the waters, the police said. exchange is governed by strict on around 2.4 million from them countries, Switzerland received This means the exchange takes deemed as an "unclassified forest" of over 2,600 trees in the green Prabhu, who was taking the pic- confidentiality clauses, and the The exchanged details in- information but did not provide place in September, except for by the state government and zone to set up a metro car shed. ture, jumped into the water and FTA officials refused to disclose clude identification, account and any, either because those coun- corrections." saved Uvarani, while the rest got drowned, they said. Later, the bodies were recovered and sent for a postmortem, the police said. Afghan Taliban 'releases' 3 Indian A case was registered and inves- tigation is on, they added. engineers held hostage for a year Police find Rs 1.5 lakh AGENCY thorities or US forces in Afghanistan, mained unknown. in coins, FD of over Rs ISLAMABAD, OCTOBER 7 The Express Tribune reported. The identities of the released However, the Associated Press re- hostages were not disclosed by the mili- 8 lakh from deceased The Afghan Taliban said it had freed ported that the 11 militants were released tant group, the paper cited an RFE/RL re- beggar's home three Indian engineers held hostage for from Afghan jails. port. The officials said the freed Taliban MUMBAI: Police on Saturday over a year in an exchange for securing The prisoner swap happened on Sun- leaders included Sheikh Abdur Rahim recovered a fixed deposit of Rs the release of 11 of its members, includ- day, the paper quoted the Taliban offi- and Mawlawi Abdur Rashid, who had 8.77 lakh and cash around Rs ing some high-ranking officials of the cials as saying, but it did not disclose the served as the insurgent group’s gover- 1.50 lakh from the residence of a militant group, according to media re- location. nors of Kunar and Nimroz provinces re- deceased beggar in Govandi. ports on Monday. Seven Indian engineers working for spectively, during the Taliban adminis- "A beggar Birju Chandra Azad Speaking on condition of anonymity, a power plant in Afghanistan’s northern tration before it was deposed by the US- died in an accident while tres- two Taliban officials refused to say who Baghlan province were kidnapped in led forces in 2001. The Taliban officials passing the railway track be- the militant group exchanged the prison- May 2018. provided a photo and footage of what tween Govandi and Mankhurd ers with and whether the freed Taliban One of the hostages was released in they said was the freed militants being station on October 4," Nand Ku- Adbee portrait gallery members were being held by Afghan au- March, but the fate of the others re- greeted after their release. mar Saste, Senior Police Inspec- tor at Vashi GRP said. When a police team tried to find out details about the beggar and launched in P’kula searched his house in a slum in NRC should be seen as constitutional Govandi, they were shocked to BUREAU applauded by large number of people. find documents of fixed deposit PANCHKULA, OCT 7 This is the first gallery of its type in tric- in a bank to the tune of Rs 8.77 exercise, not political: Amit Shah lakh and also a huge amount of ity. While speaking on the occasion Dr coins which amounted to Rs In an impressive ceremony eminent in- Goswami and Mr Khullar highlighted 1.50 lakh. ternational art critic Dr B N Goswami the role of urdu poets in the national lit- NEW DELHI, OCT 7 as well.