Follow us on: facebook.com/dailypioneer RNI No.2016/1957, REGD NO. SSP/LW/NP-34/2019-21 @TheDailyPioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Established 1864 OPINION 8 WORLD 12 SPORT 15 Published From DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL THE TRUMP H-1B HOLDERS GET POOR SERENA, DJOKOVIC BHUBANESWAR RANCHI RAIPUR POSSIBILITY WORKING CONDITIONS IN US ADVANCE IN AUS OPEN CHANDIGARH DEHRADUN Late City Vol. 155 Issue 17 LUCKNOW, FRIDAY JANUARY 18, 2019; PAGES 16 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable ALIA BHATT SUPPORTS HER MOTHER’S} FILM} 14 VIVACITY www.dailypioneer.com Taxmen raid India to raise its own SEALs many hospitals Armed Forces Special Operations 2Named Armed Forces Special Operations Division, the unit Division to start op in November will be on the line of the US Special Operations Command across state RAHUL DATTA n NEW DELHI oritisation across different 2It will start functioning from branches of the armed forces. November first week this year ndia will soon have an elite The IDS will also oversee the initially with a small team of PNS n LUCKNOW Iunit of commandos drawn setting up of the proposed commandos selected from the Raids were from the three Services to con- Space Agency to be headed by Special Forces of the Army, n a crackdown on Thursday conducted duct special missions of strate- an IAF officer for space-based Marine Commandos of the Imorning, the sleuths of gic interest to the country. missions. Navy, and Garud commando Income Tax Department raid- simultaneously Named Armed Forces Special The Naresh Chandra force of the IAF ed over a dozen residences and in Lucknow, Operations Division, the unit Committee in 2012 had rec- 2The special division having private hospitals of renowned Meerut, will be on the line of the US ommended setting up three 3,000 commandos will be doctors across Uttar Pradesh. Special Operations Command, commands, namely Special headed by a Major General Sources said the raids were Moradabad, which was responsible for tak- Operations, Cyber, and Space 2 conducted simultaneously in ing out Osama Bin Laden. to deal with new challenges fac- On the lines of the Commando Lucknow, Meerut, Moradabad, Kanpur, Noida The Armed Forces Special ing national security. The com- Division, Cyber Agency will Kanpur, Noida and Hapur. and Hapur. Operations Division will start mittee was asked by the have experts from the three The raids were carried out functioning from November Government to give recom- Services to fight the fast following intelligence inputs Hapur. first week this year initially with mendations on fine-tuning emerging threat of cyber regarding bogus operations, It may be mentioned that a small team of commandos higher defence management to warfare irregularities in accounts and on November 30 last year, the selected from the Special Forces enable the armed forces to 2Both the specialised units will undisclosed financial invest- IT teams had carried out raids of the Army, Marine fight in a fast changing warfare function under the Integrated ments. The I-T sleuths seized at the premises of two doctor Commandos (MARCOS) of scenario. Defence Staff responsible for several documents related to brothers in Kanpur and the Navy, and Garud com- As regards the Special enhancing coordination and undeclared assets of the doc- unearthed unaccounted money mando force of the Indian Air Operations Division, officials enabling prioritisation across tors. The entire search opera- and ornaments and seized Forces(IAF). said here on Thursday that different branches of the tion was completed under tight banned currency notes of Rs The special division having besides having commandos armed forces security. 500 and Rs 1000 denomina- 3,000 commandos will be from the three Services with rorists and cripple the war three forces. At present, the capabilities and a combined Raids were also conducted tions in large quantity. headed by a Major General. the Army playing an eminent fighting capabilities of the Special Forces of the Army, command of commandos of ed and therefore there was a at the residence of Dr Mahesh Sources said that in the The Government recently gave role as it has the most experi- enemy. The missions no doubt MARCOS and Garuds func- three Services should be need to bring under one Chandra Sharma of SPM raids on Thursday the I-T the clearance for the setting up enced professionals for such will be high risk given tion separately. formed to conduct sensitive umbrella for covert operations Hospital & Trauma Centre, teams seized gold and other of the squad along with cre- missions, the unit will have its the strategic importance, Once the Division comes missions within and outside the and anti-terrorist missions, Kanpur and SIPS in Lucknow. costly gems, unaccounted cash ation of a Cyber Agency to be own dedicated helicopters, sources said. into being, the special talents boundaries of the country, offi- they said. Raids were also conducted receipts, documents relating headed by a Navy officer of the transport planes and spe- Once the Division becomes and assets of the three Services cials said. Incidentally, the at the residences and other to unaccounted investments equivalent rank. On the lines of cialised weaponry besides sur- functional in November, plans will be pooled. The Naresh Chandra panel Government in the last few establishments of Dr Ratan and evidence of manipulation the Commando Division, the veillance equipment for carry- are already in place to bring The idea to have such a had also recommended form- months has cleared some pro- Kumar Singh, owner of of accounts. Cyber Agency will also have ing out strategic missions. together the commandos from Division, which was earlier to ing of Special Operations posals for procurement of spe- Charak Hospital in Lucknow; The team members, how- experts from the three Services Elaborating upon the the three Services to a central be known as Special Command as India needs to cialised weaponry for the com- Dr Prem Kumar Khanna, ever, refused to reveal any to fight the fast emerging threat nature of the proposed place or station for joint train- Operations Command, was enhance its unconventional and mando forces of three Services. owner of JPMC Hospital & details saying they would first of cyber warfare, officials said Division, they said the spe- ing to conduct special missions mooted by the Naresh Chandra special warfare capabilities to They include sniper rifles, Path Lab in Moradabad; Dr look into all the documents here on Thursday. cialised teams will be respon- during peacetime and war, committee and several military execute politico-military and midget submarines, special Bhupendra Chaudhury, neu- before going ahead with legal Both the specialised units sible for conducting missions they said. officials after the US Special connected operations to meet communication systems, ther- rophysician in Meerut; Dr Rajiv action against the tax evaders. will function under the within and outside the country. Explaining the objective Operations Command carried unconventional challenges. mal sights and ammunition. Motiani and Dr Gulab Gupta’s The bank lockers of the Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) The missions include targeting of the Division, officials said out the raid to kill Osama Bin The panel also felt at pre- These items will be procured Neo Hospital in Noida; and Dr doctors have been sealed and responsible for enhancing strategic installations, high the stress is on synergising Laden. Officials said that the sent the full potential of the from Israel, Germany, Sweden, Ankit Sharma of GS Medical would be opened later on for coordination and enabling pri- value targets in terms of ter- special operations amongst the Indian forces too have similar Special Forces was not exploit- Russia and Finland. College & Hospital, Pilakhua in further verification. CBI tenure of State can’t exercise Navy divers find body, skeletons Asthana, three SC lowers bar for dance social control with its own notion of in Meghalaya rat-hole coal mine others clipped licence in Maharashtra morality, says court PNS n NEW DELHI PTI n NEW DELHI PNS n NEW DELHI\SHILLONG he Government on TThursday curtailed the tandards of morality in a eeks after 15 miners got tenure of CBI Special Director Ssociety changes with time, Wtrapped in a flooded rat- Rakesh Asthana, who was ear- the Supreme Court said on hole coal mine in Jaintia Hills lier sent on forced leave, with Thursday while setting aside district of Meghalaya, the Navy immediate effect, according to certain provisions of a 2016 divers, engaged in rescue mis- an official order issued on Maharashtra law which sion, on Thursday found the Thursday. restricted licensing and func- body of one of the miners. The tenures of three more tioning of dance bars. The miners were trapped IPS officers in the CBI — Joint The SC, which paved the in the illegal mine on Director Arun Kumar Sharma, way for grant of licences and re- December 13 last year after Deputy Inspector General opening of dance bars in water flooded it. The State Manish Kumar Sinha and Maharashtra, said the State can Government then launched a Superintendent of Police Jayant neither exercise “social control” multi-agency rescue effort. J Naiknavare — have been with its own “notion of moral- “The Navy divers detected curtailed, reads the order. ity” nor take exception to stag- the body using underwater Naval divers look at the captured pictures of one of the 15 miners trapped in illegal The development comes ing dance performances per se. remotely operated vehicles rat mines since Dec 13, in Ksan area of East Jaintia Hills on Thursday PTI days after Alok Verma was “It needs to be borne in (ROV) at a depth of approxi- shunted out of the post of CBI mind that there may be certain mately 160 feet and 210 feet down due to the conditions in on December 25, has deployed Director and appointed activities which the society inside the rat-hole mine,” Navy the mine.