Nobody Wants India To Become "Industry Of Renting Womb": Delhi High Court On Surrogacy

The Delhi High Court Friday said the law regulating the procedure of surrogacy is intended to curb the exploitation of surrogates and no one wants India to become an "industry of renting a womb".

The court made the observation while hearing a plea by an Indian-origin couple living in Canada challenging the March 14 notification issued by the Centre amending the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act to ban donor surrogacy by altering Form 2 under Rule 7 of the Surrogacy Rules, 2022.

"This reproductive outsourcing was supposed to be curbed by the legislature and that too at the instance of the Supreme Court and we cannot go beyond it," a bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Mini Pushkarna said.

"This is a beneficial act and it is primarily intended to curb the exploitation of surrogates. India is still a developing country and it's not a fully developed country. Because of economic reasons many people may be swayed towards this and CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) in one of its reports is supposed to have stated that India at one point in time was a 2.3 billion dollar industry," the bench said. The counsel for the petitioners said they were Indian citizens and residing in Canada only for work purposes, responding to which the bench said they could undertake the surrogacy facility in that country itself.

"They are coming to India for a certain reason, because of the economic disparity over here that people can rent a womb. No one wants this country to become an industry of renting a womb. That's not the industry we want to promote. The legislature has taken a call on it," the bench said.

It further asked the petitioners what was the harm in going through this procedure in Canada and why they were coming to India for surrogacy when they were settled there.

To this, the petitioners' lawyer said their extended family is in India and that they have genuine medical issues.

As the bench said the availing of the facility has to go beyond commercialisation, the lawyer maintained that there was no commercial transaction being entered into by the couple for surrogacy.

However, Justice Manmohan responded, "Why will any third person do it? There does not stand any reason." The bench said the option of adopting a child is also available to people and if there are some good couples who are willing to adopt those kids their lives will be changed.

The lawyer, who agreed that adoption should be encouraged, however, added that in the case of adoption, there is no biological connection of the child with the couple.

To this, the court said, "...The mindset that adoption should not take place is very wrong. Adoption needs to be encouraged in a country like India." It said there is some intent behind it which is why the executive and legislature have restricted surrogacy and it cannot be said to be arbitrary or irrational or violative of fundamental rights.

"The fact that there is abuse by this industry is rampant and we have seen it. According to CII, it became a 2.3 billion dollar industry in India at one point in time..." "The same thing is with organ donation. If we allow organ donation in this country half of the poor people will lose their organs, that is why the state has prohibited it. You are not understanding the social dimension of it. You cannot see it only from the prism of your clients, you have to look at it from a larger perspective," the bench said.

The counsel representing the authorities told the court that as of now, no surrogacy procedure involving the couple has begun and that it was a premature petition.

The bench said the petition was filed at a premature stage as the procedure for surrogacy of the couple has still not begun.

The petitioners said they are Indian nationals who got legally married according to Hindu rites and ceremonies and are permanent residents of India. They added that they are a childless couple and have a medical condition that necessitated gestational surrogacy through which they intended to become parents.

It said the couple was granted a certificate of medical indication for surrogacy with a donor oocyte in December 2022, stating that they can undergo a surrogacy procedure as an advanced treatment for infertility.

However, on March 14, 2023, the Centre issued a notification amending the surrogacy regulations and banning donor surrogacy.

As the bench was not inclined to entertain the plea, the petitioner's lawyer later withdrew it with the liberty to file afresh in case the need arises.

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12-Year-Old Babysitter In US Arrested After Attacking 3-Year-Old With Belt, Smashing Him Into Wall

A 3-year-old boy in the United States is fighting for his life after allegedly being beaten by his 12-year-old babysitter. According to Fox 59, Noah Brown is currently on life support in Indiana after being attacked with a belt and smashed into a wall. He is currently at the Riley Children's Hospital, where he has suffered multiple seizures as a result of the November 29 beatdown at his father's home in Indianapolis. In an online petition, Noah's mother Michelle Lane said that the babysitter was her ex-husband's stepson, who was supposed to care for the 3-year-old and his 5-year-old brother. 

According to Fox 59, the 12-year-old, whose name hasn't been revealed, was arrested by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department over the incident. He has been charged with aggravated assault, two counts of serious bodily injury to a person under the age of 14 and possession of personal weapons.

Speaking to the outlet, Noah's family described the 3-year-old as a very active child. "He's energetic. He's a happy little three-year-old. He wouldn't harm nobody, and nothing keeps that kid down," the family said. 

Further, revealing the horrifying details of the incident, Noah's grandmother Candy King said that the 12-year-old boy has anger issues, so when Noah started crying, the babysitter couldn't handle it. "He beat him with a belt and threw him towards the bed and his head hit the bed frame of the bunk bed," Ms King said. She further revealed that the 12-year-old also rammed Noah's head into a wall, following which he collapsed under the bed after trying to get away. 

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"He has had to be placed in life support and has had a part of his skull removed due to the intensity of his injuries," Noah's mother said in an online petition. "The 12-year-old boy told his biological father that my son was being 'annoying' while crying so he hit him with a belt, hit his head on the bunk bed frame and rammed him at a wall," she wrote.

Ms Lane stated that her 3-year-old suffered multiple seizures. "He has a long road to recovery. It's not guaranteed what his quality of life is going to be but we're praying and hoping for the best that he comes out just fine," she told the outlet. She also revealed that the little boy had Covid at the time of the attack which means that he has a really long road to recovery ahead of him. 

"It's not guaranteed what his quality of life is going to be but we're praying and hoping for the best that he comes out just fine," the mother said. 

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पाकिस्तान सेमीफाइनल में उलटफेर का शिकार, भारत भी एशिया कप से बाहर

अरिफुल इस्लाम की आक्रामक बल्लेबाजी और बायें हाथ के तेज गेंदबाज मारूफ मृधा की शानदार गेंदबाजी से बांग्लादेश ने भारत को हराकर टूर्नामेंट से बाहर कर दिया. शुक्रवार को एसीसी अंडर-19 एशिया कप के सेमीफाइनल में भारत पर चार विकेट की आसान जीत के साथ फाइनल का टिकट कटाया.

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Israel's Elbit Systems Takes 44% Stake In Adani Defence Arm Atharva Advanced Systems

Israel's defence and homeland security company Elbit Systems Ltd has taken a 44 per cent stake in Atharva Advanced Systems and Technologies Ltd, an arm of Adani Defence Systems and Technologies Ltd, the Indian conglomerate said in a regulatory filing.

Adani Defence, and Elbit Systems had signed an agreement on November 20 for the Israeli firm to take the 44 per cent stake in Atharva Advanced Systems.

Adani Defence now holds 56 per cent stake in its arm Atharva Advanced Systems, which was incorporation on August 9 this year.

Elbit Systems Ltd (ESL) is based in Israel's Haifa, and is engaged in the business of research, design, development, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, sale, and maintenance of systems and products to the defence market.

Adani Defence has set up India's first unmanned aerial vehicles manufacturing facility, is the country's first private sector small arms manufacturing facility, and is currently in the process of setting up India's first comprehensive aircraft MRO (maintenance, repaid and overhaul) facility in Nagpur.

The company on its website says that with the emerging threat of rogue drones, it has taken an initiative of implementing counter-drone systems for both defence and civil applications.

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Taylor Swift's Eras Tour Breaks World Record, Becomes Highest-Grossing Tour Ever

Taylor Swift has been making headlines ever since she began much-talked about Eras Tour. The tour is now officially the highest-grossing music tour ever, becoming the first to surpass $1 billion in revenue, as per the Guinness World Record .

Eras Tour began in March this year and is set to conclude in December 2024 after a total of 151 shows across the globe. According to Pollstar, the ongoing concert tour has earned $1.04 billion. This surpasses the record set by Elton John's farewell tour, which ran for five years and brought in $939 million across 328 performances before concluding earlier this year. 

The "Lover" singer described her shows as a trip through all of her musical "eras," spanning more than 3.5 hours and consisting of a set list of 44 songs split into 10 segments. Swifties, her ardent fan following, have flocked in great numbers to see their idol, overwhelming websites with ticket sales, packing hotels to capacity, and even creating seismic activity similar to earthquakes during some of her gigs, as seen in July in Seattle. With an average attendance of 72,000 people and ticket prices of about $238, the tour is making over $17 million every performance.

Meanwhile, the US Federal Reserve report published in July also attributed Eras Tour due to its significant economic impact on the country. The US Federal Reserve recently in its Beige Book, or the Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions which is published eight times a year stated that hotel bookings in Philadelphia had risen to their highest level since the beginning of the pandemic. The report attributed this growth to Ms Swift's concert dates in the city.

"Despite the slowing recovery in tourism in the region overall, one contact highlighted that May was the strongest month for hotel revenue in Philadelphia since the onset of the pandemic, in large part due to an influx of guests for the Taylor Swift concerts in the city," the report read at that time.

The Grammy Award winner was also named 'Person of the Year' by Time Magazine. They call the musical force of nature the "hero of her own story."Taylor Swift found a way to transcend borders and be a source of light... Swift is the rare person who is both the writer and hero of her own story," Time editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs wrote in a statement.

"Much of what Swift accomplished in 2023 exists beyond measurement. She mapped her journey and shared the results with the world: She committed to validating the dreams, feelings, and experiences of people, especially women, who felt overlooked and regularly underestimated."
 

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Supreme Court Transfers Over 40 FIRs Linked To Bitcoin Scam To CBI

In a significant development, the Supreme Court Wednesday ordered transfer of over 40 FIRs related to the Bitcoin cryptocurrency scam to the CBI for further investigation and shifted the trial to a Delhi court.

Observing that the accused, who are on anticipatory bail, cannot be allowed to "stultify" the ongoing probe, the top court vacated its August 30, 2019 order granting them the relief of pre-arrest bail.

A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said now the accused, if not granted regular bail by other courts, will have to seek the relief from the Delhi High Court.

It said the trial of cases wherein the FIRs have been registered will now be conducted at a special CBI court at Rouse Avenue in New Delhi.

The FIRs were lodged by several agencies, including the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate, besides the local police of Maharashtra, West Bengal, Delhi, Chandigarh, Punjab, Karnataka and Jammu and Kashmir.

Dismissing as many as 32 petitions filed by the accused, the bench said, "We are of the view that allegations levelled in the FIRs merit investigation. The exercise of jurisdiction under Art 32 is not warranted." "We are of the view that all the FIRs in question be transferred for further investigation to the CBI. The amount (of Rs 1 crore) deposited before this court pursuant to the interim order shall stand transferred to the special CBI Court at Rouse Avenue, New Delhi," the bench said.

Article 32 of the Constitution allows Indian citizens to seek constitutional remedy directly from the Supreme Court if they are deprived of their fundamental rights.

While taking back the relief of anticipatory bail granted earlier, the bench said, " We cannot allow you to stultify the investigation by not cooperating with the probe agency".

Senior advocate Siddharth Dave, appearing for the accused, said the legal status of Bitcoin is completely a "grey area" and the accused are made to run from one part of the country to another to face the probe agencies and courts.

Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the ED, said she was not opposed to the transfer of the probe to the CBI and the trial to a single court in Delhi. "But the interim protection of anticipatory bail must go," the law officer said.

"We are not entertaining the petition under Article 32...We will permit the petitioners to surrender and apply for regular bail before an appropriate court," the CJI observed orally.

The court said the amount of Rs 1 crore deposited with the apex court registry by the accused as a precondition for grant of anticipatory bail will have to be transferred to the trial court in Delhi.

Earlier, the top court was irked over non-compliance of its prior order by Amit Bhardwaj, the key accused who later died. He had allegedly not shared his username/passwords with the Enforcement Directorate.

"Why have you not shared your username and password when it was recorded in our earlier order? We will dismiss your writ petition if there is non-compliance. The Supreme Court is not some district court, where you can play with the orders. You yourself had made the statement that you will share the username and passwords and now there is non-compliance. This is not a Tis Hazari Court," the bench had said.

On March 28 last year, the top court had asked Bharadwaj to disclose the username and password of his Bitcoin wallet to the ED and cooperate with the investigation in the money laundering case against him.

The top court was dealing with cases related to the quashing of multiple FIRs registered against Amit Bhardwaj and others for allegedly cheating investors across India by inducing them to trade in Bitcoin after promising them high returns.

The Enforcement Directorate had said around 47 FIRs were registered against the accused for allegedly duping people across the country. The cases involved trading of 87,000 Bitcoins worth Rs 20,000 crore.

Amit Bhardwaj, his two brothers and their father are accused in the case.

The allegation against Bhardwaj was that he along with other co-accused, who are mostly his family members, had induced unsuspecting people to invest in Bitcoin through a "multi-level marketing scheme" on the false promise of securing for them 10 per cent assured monthly returns for 18 months, a cumulative profit of 180 per cent.

It was alleged that due to the inducement, customers invested their Bitcoins in the scheme but did not get the assured returns.

The FIRs also said in order to escape inevitable punishment under the law, Bhardwaj and other accused collectively, in a dishonest manner, and with the deliberate intention of destroying the evidence, shut down the fake 'gainbitcoin' website through which investments were made.

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12-Year-Old Girl Threatens Teacher With Knife During Class At French School

A 12-year-old schoolgirl threatened a teacher with a knife at a school in northern France on Wednesday, the latest in a growing number of incidents that have raised tensions in the French education system.

No-one was injured in the incident in the northwestern city of Rennes but prosecutors said that they have opened a criminal investigation.

"This morning, a pupil threatened a teacher with a knife during a lesson. The pupils, shocked, were immediately moved to safety," the local education authority said in a statement.

Born in 2011, the schoolgirl "came to class armed with a large knife with the apparent intention of killing her English teacher," said Rennes prosecutor Rennes Philippe Astruc.

"During the lesson, in class, she brandished the knife at the victim who fled running" before she was "disarmed by the staff of the establishment" of the Hautes Ourmes junior high school, he added.

There have been growing tensions in schools in France, which has large Muslim and Jewish communities, sometimes linked to the war between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

In October, a radicalised Islamist stabbed his former teacher Dominique Bernard to death in the northern town of Arras.

Earlier this week teachers at a school outside Paris refused to work after a group of pupils objected to the showing in class of a painting by Renaissance master Giuseppe Cesari containing several nude women.

Meanwhile, a French court last week convicted six teenagers for their role in the 2020 killing of teacher Samuel Paty outside his secondary school near Paris by a radicalised Islamist.

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अरसे बाद घर पर टेस्ट मैच खेलेगी भारतीय महिला टीम, इंग्लैंड का जश्न होगा फीका!

India Women vs England Women: भारतीय महिला टीम गुरुवार, 14 सितंबर से इंग्लैंड के साथ टेस्ट मैच खेलेगी. मुंबई में खेला जाने वाला यह टेस्ट मैच कई मायनों में ऐतिहासिक है. यह 9 साल में पहला मौका है, जब भारत, महिला टेस्ट मैच की मेजबानी करेगा.

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IND vs SA Playing XI: शुभमन के सामने ऋतुराज हुए किनारे, जडेजा की हुई वापसी

IND vs SA 2nd T20: साउथ अफ्रीका के खिलाफ दूसरे टी20 के लिए भारतीय टीम तैयार है. वर्ल्ड कप के बाद इस सीरीज में 3 प्लेयर्स की वापसी हुई है. तीनों खिलाड़ी प्लेइंग इलेवन का हिस्सा हैं. ऑस्ट्रेलिया के खिलाफ सीरीज के आखिरी मैच से देखें तो प्लेइंग इलेवन में बड़े बदलाव देखने को मिले हैं.

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A "Russian Roulette": Israeli Hostage Recalls 52 Days In Hamas Captivity

Israeli Sharon Alony-Cunio survived 52 days as a hostage in Gaza with her two little girls before she was released in an Israel-Hamas swap deal. But she fears for the life of her husband who is still captive in the bombarded Palestinian enclave.

Now back home with her twin three-year-olds, Julie and Emma, she pleads for the remaining 137 hostages to be freed. "Every minute is critical. The conditions there are not good and the days go on for ever," she told Reuters in her first interview.

"It's a Russian roulette. You don't know whether tomorrow morning they'll keep you alive or kill you, just because they want to or just because their backs are against the wall," said Ms Alony-Cunio, 34.

Ms Alony-Cunio was one of 240 people taken hostage on Oct. 7 by Hamas gunmen who burst through the border with Israel and killed around 1,200 people.

The operatives who took over her kibbutz, Nir Oz, which lies a little over a mile from Gaza, set fire to her house and took her away at gunpoint after she climbed out the window.

She was taken across the border with her husband David and one of their twins, she said. Their second daughter was held separately in Gaza for 10 days before they were reunited in captivity with 12 other hostages under conditions she said were tough, particularly for children.

"Everyone gave up food for them (the girls). You don't know if in the evening there will be a pita (bread) so in the morning you save some for the evening. Everything is very calculated, a quarter of a pita, half a pita to keep for the next morning."

Sometimes they were fed dates and cheese and sometimes they would split meat rice and rations for six among the 12 of them.

Waiting to be allowed to go to the toilet was a problem for the girls, she said, so they had to use a sink and a rubbish bin. "Sometimes when there was a power cut, they let us open the door, they drew the curtain and then we would whisper. How do you keep a child together for 12 hours with whispers only?"

Her group of hostages was held above ground and moved a few times, she said, but with memories still raw and with her husband still inside, Ms Alony-Cunio was reluctant to give more details of her capture and time as a hostage.

But one of the biggest hardships, she said, was simply not knowing what was being done to get them out.

"Every day there is crying, frustration and anxiety. How long are we going to be here? Have they forgotten about us? Have they given up on us?"

A seven-day truce saw more than 100 hostages released. The rest are still being held incommunicado as Israel bombards Gaza vowing to take out Hamas. More than 18,000 people have been killed in Gaza, according to local health authorities.

Many families of the 137 hostages still in Gaza, whose names and photos on posters line the streets of Israel, are scared.

"My children are torn," Ms Alony-Cunio said. "I am torn without my second half, the love of my life, the father of my daughters who ask me every day, where is daddy?"

David was separated from them three days before their release on Nov. 27, before fighting resumed. Getting the remaining hostages out should be top priority, she said.

"I am petrified I will get bad news that he is no longer alive," Ms Alony-Cunio said.

"We are not just names on a poster. We are human beings, flesh and blood. The father of my girls is there, my partner, and many other fathers, children, mothers, brothers."

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Court Allows AAP's Sanjay Singh To Appear Before Privileges Committee

A Delhi court on Monday allowed AAP's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, arrested in a money laundering case related to alleged Delhi excise policy scam, to appear before a parliamentary committee to file his submissions in a breach of privilege case.

Special Judge M K Nagpal granted permission to Mr Singh on an application moved by his lawyer, who claimed that being a parliamentarian, the accused was required to attend the proceedings.

The judge directed the jail superintendent to take the accused to the Parliament on any working day when Parliament is in session to file his submissions before the Rajya Sabha's Privileges Committee.

The judge, however, said that Mr Singh will not be permitted to meet his colleagues, supporters and media persons.

The judge, meanwhile, adjourned the order on whether to take cognisance of a charge sheet against Mr Singh in the case, noting that the ED's application seeking protection of a witness is pending before another court.

The court is scheduled to hear on Tuesday the bail application of Mr Singh, who is currently in judicial custody. The ED had arrested Mr Singh on October 4.

The anti-money laundering agency has alleged that Mr Singh played a key role in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped excise policy, which benefited certain liquor manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, for monetary considerations.

The senior AAP leader has refuted the allegations.

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Mumbai's Air Quality Has Improved But Not Satisfactory: High Court

The air quality index (AQI) in Mumbai has improved but continues to be moderate and not satisfactory, the Bombay High Court said on Monday, while asking the Maharashtra government to come up with a comprehensive plan to find a final solution to the issue.

A division bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice G S Kulkarni asked the government to take the issue seriously, as lakhs of people continue to suffer because of the air pollution in the city.

The court took note of a news report which stated that seven project sites - road concretisation at suburban Bandra and Khar, the bullet train site at BKC, Versova-Bandra sea link project, Mumbai Metro-III, Mumbai Coastal Road and the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link - were generating a lot of dust adding to the worsening air quality.

The court noted that large mounds of construction material and rubble are reportedly left open at these sites.

The bench directed the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to conduct a joint inspection at these seven sites and immediately take requisite steps, pass orders and ensure that all the norms are followed.

"We also direct that in case the stakeholders at these sites are found to be not following or deviating from the norms, legal action may be taken by the MCGM and MPCB," the court said.

The court noted that the AQI in the city continues to be at moderate levels, which indicates that such air quality will continue to cause breathing problems for people with heart and lung ailments, children and older adults.

"The satisfactory level of AQI is 51 to 100. And therefore, a collective effort is required to be taken to bring the AQI to below 50 in the entire city," the court said.

"Anything beyond 50 is not good...it has to be brought down to below 50," it said.

The bench said a statutory body needs to be set up to address the issue regularly.

"We need to have a comprehensive plan for the entire city of Mumbai. Ultimately, you need to find a final solution or mechanism so that every six months we need not intervene," the court said, asking the government to at least start the process.

Advocate General Birendra Saraf, appearing for the government, said senior government officials were busy with the Nagpur winter assembly.

The bench then said the government should take this issue seriously.

"Are you wondering if there could be a situation more serious than this? Lakhs of people are suffering daily. Be serious now. Last eight to ten days, there is this fog.. but it is not fog," Justice Kulkarni said.

The court said the state government should consider framing some legislation mechanism along the lines of the central legislation - The Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Act of 2021.

The court said Saraf would take up the matter with the government and some appropriate decision be taken.

The bench also directed the MPCB and the Central Pollution Control Board to file affidavits stating how air quality is measured and if the machines are adequate.

The court said the expert committee set up by it last month will continue to monitor the situation and submit its periodical reports.

The state government will consider the suggestions made by the committee and take an appropriate decision, it said.

The court was hearing a bunch of petitions along with one it had taken up on its own regarding the rising air pollution in the city.

The court said it would hear the matter further on February 6, 2024.

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T20 WC से पहले भारत के पास बचे कितने मुकाबले, द्रविड़ को मिलेगा कितना मौका?

टीम इंडिया के पास आईसीसी टी20 विश्व कप 2024 से पहले गिनती के मुकाबले बचे हैं. इसी के आधार पर कोच राहुल द्रविड़ को खिलाड़ियों की फाइनल लिस्ट तैयार करनी है. चयनकर्ताओं के सामने चयन का आधार अब इंडियन प्रीमियर लीग में दावेदार खिलाड़ियों का प्रदर्शन हो सकता है.

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Congress MP's 2022 Post On Black Money Is Viral. Crores Seized From Him

A seemingly harmless 2022 post on X about rampant corruption and the extensive circulation of black money is being shared widely on social media and is now viral. In an ironic twist, the post was written by Congress Rajya Sabha MP Dheeraj Sahu - at the centre of a massive cash haul upwards of Rs 290 crore - last year.

Mr Sahu's post from August 12, 2022, read: "Even after demonetization, my heart is saddened to see so much black money and corruption in the country. I don't understand from where people are accumulating so much black money. If anyone can root out corruption from this country, it is only the Congress."

Dhiraj Prasad Sahu has a dark sense of humour. ?#CorruptionKiDukan pic.twitter.com/2esDCyip1O

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Sharing a screenshot of the post, BJP's IT Cell chief Amit Malviya wrote Mr Sahu has a "dark sense of humour" with the hashtag "corruption ki dukaan".

At least Rs 290 crore was seized in cash during raids on the offices of an Odisha-based distillery and entities linked to it in the state, Jharkhand, and Bengal. The distillery is linked to Dheeraj Sahu, officials said.

The Income Tax raids on the premises of Boudh Distilleries Private Limited entered its fifth day today. More cash counting machines were brought into the premises of Boudh Distilleries linked to Dheeraj Sahu today. Earlier, officials had swooped in on the MP's residences in Jharkhand.

Facing massive flak over the whopping amounts of hard cash recovered in what is touted as one of India's biggest cash hauls, the Congress on Saturday distanced itself from its MP and said that it is not connected with the businesses in any way and that the MP should explain the cash and its source.

The BJP launched an all-out attack on the Congress over the recovery, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading the party's charge against the Congress. On X, the PM wrote: "The people of the country should look atthese piles of currency notes and then listen to the honest 'speeches' of their leaders... Whatever has been looted from the public, every penny will have to be returned. This is Modi's guarantee."

Union Minister Smriti Irani questioned the Congress and said that the Gandhi family must reveal the name of the leader for whom the Rajya Sabha MP was working as an "ATM".

The BJP's Odisha unit has demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation and sought clarification from the ruling BJD. Party spokesperson Manoj Mohapatra showed photos of a woman minister from the state sharing stage with one of the liquor traders covered in the raids.

This tax evasion could not have been possible without the active support and patronage of local leaders and the state government, he said.

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पाकिस्तान से हार के बाद भारत हो सकता है बाहर, बिगड़ा U-19 एशिया कप का समीकरण

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