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NO.: DL(S)-01/3420/2018-20 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 13, ISSUE 38 | Wednesday, 7 February 2018 | New Delhi | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS qNIFTY 10,498.25 (-168.30) qSENSEX 34,195.94 (-561.22) qDOW JONES 24345.75 (-1,175.21) qNASDAQ 6,967.53 (-273.42) qRUPEE/DOLLAR 64.24 (-0.17) pRUPEE/EURO 79.3610 (+0.05) pGOLD/10GM 31,600 (+330.00) qSILVER/K 40,000 (-500.00) 33 HOMELESS FOUND OPPN BOYCOTTS UK COURT REFUSES NOW MANIKARNIKA DEAD IN DELHI IN RS, CLAIMS TO REVERSE FACES ALLEGATIONS FIRST WEEK OF JAN: VOICE BEING ASSANGE ARREST OF DISTORTING CENTRE PG3 MUZZLED PG5 WARRANT PG11 HISTORY PG16 ‘No notice to taxpayers for A FIVE-JUDGE CONSTITUTION BENCH IS HEARING THE CASE OPEN FIRE IN SRINAGAR HOSPITAL minor filing mismatch’ Two officers killed as LeT MPOST BUREAU Can’t strike down Aadhaar law terrorists free Pak prisoner NEW DELHI: MPOST BUREAU From now on, the taxman will due to fear of misuse: SC judge SRINAGAR: Two policemen not issue demand were killed in a daring attack by notice to taxpayers Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) opera- in case there is a minor mismatch between their MPOST BUREAU tives to free a Pakistani terrorist income tax return (ITR) and the corresponding being transported to a hospital tax credit data collected by the department from NEW DELHI: A law cannot be declared uncon- in Srinagar on Tuesday. banks and other financial institutions. stitutional just because it could be misused, a The gunmen opened fire The measure, introduced in the latest Finan- Supreme Court judge said on Tuesday during the inside the SMHS hospital com- cial Bill, is aimed to provide relief to the small hearing in the crucial Aadhaar case. A five-judge plex in a high-security area of and salaried class of taxpayers and aims to ease constitution bench is hearing the contentious Jammu and Kashmir’s sum- issues of small discrepancies that sometimes petition challenging the validity of Aadhaar, the mer capital to help LeT terror- crop up between the information on Form-16 12-digit biometric data-based Unique Identifica- ist Mohammed Naveed Jutt Shri Maharaja Hari Singh, the (provided by the employer) and Form-26AS (tax tion number that has been made mandatory by escape. last ruler of the princely state of credit statement received by the tax department). the government for welfare schemes and finan- Six prisoners, including Jammu and Kashmir, is strate- “A policy decision has been made not to issue cial institutions. Jutt, were taken to the hospital gically located on the banks of tax demand notices in case of minor mismatch Justice DY Chandrachud, who is one of the five for medical checkup. Naveed a tributary of the river Jehlum, in these instances. We trust the taxpayer and judges, said, there was a long line of judgments of was escorted by three consta- with uptown Karan Nagar on the step is aimed to make easy the processing the Supreme Court that “mere possibility of mis- bles. Two pheran-clad terror- one side and Nawab Bazaar of income tax returns,” CBDT Chairman Sushil use will not lead to striking down a legislation”. UIDAI cautions against using plastic, ists who were lying wait in the in downtown Srinagar on the Chandra said. He said the policy measure will be Kapil Sibal, who was appearing for one of the hospital parking lot fired at the other. enforced in respect of any return furnished for petitioners, argued that the Aadhaar law is an policemen accompanying Nav- Jhutt, a school dropout the upcoming assessment year (2018- 19) com- exception to these rulings of the top court because laminated Aadhaar cards eed as soon as the party got off from Borevella district of Mul- mencing from April 1. the law was already being misused or abused. “It NEW DELHI: The UIDAI on Tuesday cau- “...the plastic or PVC Aadhaar smart cards the vehicle. tan in the Pakistan Punjab, is These demand notices, as per the existing is happening every day”, Sibal said. Head Constable Mushtaq believed to be involved in mul- tioned the public against going for plastic are often not usable as the QR code procedure, were issued by the I-T Department’s But the judge wasn’t convinced. Ahmad was killed on the spot, tiple attacks. These include an central processing centre (CPC) located in Ben- “The power of misuse is no ground to declare or laminated Aadhaar smart cards saying (Quick Response Code) commonly be- while Constable Babar Ahmad, attack on the Army in Hyder- galuru. It is the repository to process the ITRs a law unconstitutional. Striking down a legisla- their unauthorised printing could render comes dysfunctional during such unauthor- was critically wounded. The pora in the city, an attack on and match the data provided by the taxpayer tion is a problem for us,” Justice Chandrachud the QR code dysfunctional or even expose ised printing at some vendor/shop,” UIDAI third policeman did not retali- the Silver Star hotel along the through their Form-16 and the Form-26AS shot back. For the court to strike down a law, “you personal data without an individual’s said in a statement. It further said: “Also, ate. Still in handcuffs, Naveed national highway outside Sri- received by the department from multiple bank- must say (establish) that it is a colourable legisla- informed consent. there could be a possibility of sharing ran out of the hospital and fled nagar and three attacks on ing and financial institutions. tion”, he said. The Unique Identification Authority of India Aadhaar details (personal sensitive de- on a motorcycle along with the police and CRPF camps in Chandra, however, said in cases where the A colourable legislation is one where the leg- (UIDAI) asserted that the Aadhaar letter, mographic information) without informed other assailants. south Kashmir. mismatch amount is high or gives rise to any islature has enacted a law which it wasn’t really its cutaway portion, downloaded versions consent with some devious elements”. According to eyewitness He was arrested on August sort of suspicion of tax evasion, such a case will competent to enact but yet deals with it, indirectly. of Aadhaar on ordinary paper or mAad- UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey said accounts, the militants opened 26, 2014. be taken up for a detailed scrutiny. To the many points about the risks that Aad- haar are “perfectly valid”. the plastic Aadhaar Smart card is totally fire as soon as Jhutt, along The militant had obtained A senior I-T official explained that the Cen- haar law would continue to pose, the judge won- Moreover, unauthorised printing of Aad- “unnecessary and a waste” as the down- with five other prisoners and sophisticated training and was tral Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the policy- dered if the law itself was expected to provide the the police team, got off the good at handling equipment loaded Aadhaar card printed on ordinary making body for the tax department, proposed level of risk. “In the absence of technologically haar smart cards could cost between Rs vehicle outside the Out Patient like a compass, GPS, wire- the move to the Finance Ministry as hundreds assured safe environment what level of risk is 50-300, or even more, a payment that is paper or mAadhaar is valid for all kind Department of the 70-year-old less sets and mobile phones of such cases were stuck for final processing as acceptable and what level of risk not acceptable. completely unnecessary, it said. of uses. hospital. installed with Skype software, communication between the taxpayer and the How can this court determine?” he said. The hospital, named after an official said. taxman was ongoing. Taiwan hotel collapses after quake Rahul alleges ‘scam’ ONE OF THE CRIMINALS WAS SHOT DEAD WHILE TWO OTHERS INJURED TAIPEI: A hotel on the east coast of Taiwan col- Kidnapped Delhi schoolboy rescued after shootout lapsed after a 6.4-mag- nitude earthquake, the in French Rafale deal ZAFAR ABBAS family on WhatsApp. government said. Citing Crime branch while investi- the national fire agency, PRESS TRUST OF INDIA NEW DELHI: This was like gating got leads that the kidnap- Taiwan’s cabinet said a scene straight out of a Bolly- pers were holed up in Shalimar another hotel had also been damaged. Local wood movie. City, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad media reported a number of buildings had been NEW DELHI: Congress president Twelve days after a five-year- along with the kidnapped child. toppled with around 30 people trapped in the Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday attacked old boy was kidnapped from his A crime branch team in collapsed hotel. AFP the government for not making pub- school bus, Delhi Police’s crime plain clothes was deployed lic the prices of Rafale fighter aircraft, branch rescued the child after a around the apartment and the and charged that there was a “scam” fierce gunbattle with kidnappers movements of the suspects Why should I quit BJP, in the deal. at around 1 am on Tuesday in were monitored for days. The “For the first time, the defence Ghaziabad. One of the criminals cops were patient enough not let the party throw me out minister is saying that we will not was shot dead while two others to touch the kidnappers till the YASHWANT SINHA share details of money spent on buy- were injured in the shootout, the school van driver while flee- kidnapper spoke with the fam- child’s safety was ensured.