Sitharaman Rebuts Rahul Charge of Stealing RBI Money
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PAGE 3 ...PAGE 12 No arrest for PC in INX money Sitharaman rebuts laundering case till today Rahul charge of Country’s first stealing RBI money woman DGP Kanchan AGENCY Family challenges govt AGENCY Chaudhary dies NEW DELHI, AUGUST 27 PUNE, AUGUST 27 MUMBAI: Kanchan Chaudhary to produce evidence Bhattacharya, the country’s first The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended NEW DELHI: The family of P Chidambaram Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman woman Director General of Po- till tomorrow protection from arrest granted who is currently in CBI's custody in connec- Tuesday strongly reacted to the Con- lice (DGP), died at a hospital to former finance minister P Chidambaram tion with INX Media case, on Tuesday chal- gress' allegation of "stealing RBI's re- here after prolonged illness, an in the INX Media money laundering case. lenged the Central government to produce serves", saying she does not care about official said on Tuesday. A Bench of Justices R Banumathi and A evidence to support their claim that he pos- such charges and the opposition leader She was 72. S Bopanna said it would hear the arguments sess a bank account, property or shell com- should have spoken to the finance minis- Chaudhary breathed her last late of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on pany anywhere in the world. ters from his party before hurling such Monday night at a private hospi- Chidambaram's two petitions, including the Karti Chidambaram, who is also an accused charges. tal in Mumbai, an official said, challenge to remand orders, on Wednesday. in the case, took to Twitter to issue state- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi earli- adding that she is survived by Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing ments on behalf of his family. Exuding confi- er in the day hit out at the government her husband and two daughters. for Chidambaram, filed an application seek- dence in Chidambaram, they asserted that over the record cash transfer from the She was undergoing medical ing direction to the ED to produce the tran- referred to the constitutional and legal pro- the truth will prevail. "We are a family pos- RBI, saying the prime minister and the fi- treatment for prolonged illness scripts of the questioning conducted on De- visions and said that fundamental right of sessed of enough wealth. We are all income nance minister are "clueless" about solv- "Any suggestion on the credibility of since last few months, Uttarak- cember 19 last year and January 1 and Jan- citizens under Article 21 (right to life and tax accesses. We do not crave for money ing the "self-created economic disaster" RBI seems a bit outlandish considering hand Police said in a tweet. uary 21 this year in the case. personal liberty) cannot be suspended. and have no need to seek money in unlawful and accused them of "stealing money" the committee was appointed by the RBI They also remembered Chaud- ways," read the statement. The former Union Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, ap- Singhvi argued that the Prevention of finance minister's family commended him for from the central bank. itself," she said, adding the government hary, a 1973-batch Indian Police pearing for ED, said he would like to reply Money Laundering Act (PMLA) was "The Congress should have consult- has not decided how to use the windfall Service (IPS) officer, as the first his "impeccable honesty, work and contribu- woman DGP of any state in the to the fresh application during the course of amended in 2009 whereas the allegations in tion" and added that it cannot be wiped out ed its finance minister and seniors before from the RBI. According to some ex- country. his arguments. the case are of 2007-2008. by a "campaign of vilification". There are making these allegations regarding the perts, government has accounted for Rs The transcripts will show whether Chi- “You try and paint a person as a kingpin chapters plucked out of the ghost stories, RBI. Yet, they have become consummate 90,000 crore surplus from RBI in the Aircraft crashes in dambaram was evasive during his question- when these alleged offences did not exist at one day these ghosts will be buried, it stated. in making such allegations of stealing budget and the money can be used to ing, as alleged by the ED, Sibal said. that time,” he told the court during the ar- Earlier today, the Supreme Court extended and I do not want to pay much heed to prop up the sagging growth. At the time Aligarh: 6 make He also told the bench that the ED can- guments, which will continue in the post- the protection from arrest granted to Chi- this," she said told on the sidelines of of the constitution of the Jalan panel, for- not place documents in the court randomly lunch session. The apex court had on Mon- dambaram till tomorrow in a money launder- GST meeting. The remarks come a day mer chief economic advisor Arvind Sub- miraculous escape and "behind the back" for seeking Chi- day extended till Tuesday the protection ing case filed by the Enforcement Direc- after RBI decided to transfer Rs 1.76 tril- ramanian had said the money should be ALIGARH: Six people, including dambaram's custody. from arrest given to Chidambaram in the torate in the alleged INX media scam. lion of surpluses to a fund-starved gov- used for specific purposes like bank re- two pilots of a chartered plane, “They are just producing documents at INX Media money laundering case lodged ernment. Sitharaman also said question- capitalisation. The excess capital was had a miraculous escape when random and saying this is part of the case by the ED. Chidambaram was the Union (FIPB) clearance granted to the INX Media ing the credibility of the RBI, which had one of the key issues which had led to the their aircraft crash landed at diary,” Sibal said, adding, “They cannot minister for finance as also home during the group for receiving overseas funds of Rs constituted the Bimal Jalan committee on resignation of former governor Urjit Pa- Dhanipur air strip in the city on place the documents behind the back and UPA-I and UPA-II government from 2004 305 crore in 2007 during Chidambaram's determining the excess capital, is a "wor- tel in December, and his deputy Viral Tuesday morning. According to seek custody of accused.” to 2014. The CBI had registered an FIR on tenure as the finance minister. rying" sign. The committee had eminent Acharya in last month, had voiced con- police sources here, the aircraft Senior advocate Abhishek Manu May 15, 2017, alleging irregularities in the Thereafter, the ED lodged a money people on it and making any allegations cerns on the government raiding the bal- VT-AVV is reported to have hit Singhvi, also appearing for Chidambaram, Foreign Investment Promotion Board laundering case against him in 2017. like this is "outlandish", Sitharaman said. ance sheet of the central bank. an electric wire while landing be- fore crashing on the airstrip. The entire aircraft was burnt even as fire brigade tried to douse the flames. The incident occurred when the IT attaches Benami hotel worth HC rejects Ram Rahim’s parole plea aircraft, coming from New Delhi, touched some wire before land- ing on airstrip, confirmed city The plea was filed by his tenced to imprisonment for two terms of Rs 150cr of Kuldeep Bishnoi 10 years in the rape case and life impris- magistrate Vineet Kumar Singh. The two pilots-- Kishore and Di- wife Harjeet Kaur, seeking onment in the murder case. pak-- along with engineers Ram- AGENCY three-week parole to look In her petition, Kaur submitted that prakash Gupta, Prabhat Trivedi, NEW DELHI, AUG 27 Ram Rahim had been sentenced to im- Anand Kumar and Kartik suf- after his ailing mother prisonment for two terms of 10 years by fered minor injuries. The Delhi Benami Prohibition Unit a Panchkula special judge. He has also The aircraft was carrying engi- (BPU) of the Income Tax department has AGENCY been sentenced to undergo life imprison- neers for repairing aircraft of avi- attached Benami asset worth over Rs 150 CHANDIGARH, AUG 27 ment in a murder case and was presently ation company. crore allegedly belonging to Kuldeep lodged in Sunariya jail in Rohtak district. Bishnoi and Chander Mohan, who are the Punjab and Haryana High Court on She added that his mother, Naseeb Hawala racket sons of late former Haryana chief minis- Tuesday rejected the parole plea of self Kaur, 85, was suffering from a heart ail- ter Bhajan Lal, sources said on Tuesday. style godman Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh, ment and needed to undergo an angiog- busted, Rs. 5 According to the sources, the Bristol convicted for rape and murder. raphy. The petition said the mother was crore seized Hotel in Haryana's Gurugram has been The plea was filed by his wife Har- “old and weak” and had expressed “de- attached by the I-T department. The asset and operated inter alia from United Arab jeet Kaur, seeking three-week parole to said the mother had expressed desire that sire that her only son” Gurmeet Ram HYDERABAD: Hyderabad po- is owned in the name of a company Emirates (UAE), said the sources.