Arrested Tamil Nadu Minister To Be Shifted To Private Hospital

The Madras High Court today ordered arrested Tamil Nadu minister Senthil Balaji to be shifted to a private hospital at his own cost. Mr Balaji was arrested in a money laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate yesterday.

He was advised a bypass surgery by doctors at a government hospital in Chennai after an angiogram revealed a triple-vessel disease during his medical check-up.

The high court has permitted ED-appointed doctors to visit him at Kauvery Hospital, the private hospital where he will be shifted.

The central agency has sought two-week judicial custody of the minister, opposing his bail on the grounds that he could tamper or destroy evidence. Mr Balaji's bail request in pending in another court.

The money laundering case pertains to the alleged cash-for-jobs scam when Mr Balaji was the transport minister in former chief minister J Jayalalithaa's (AIADMK) cabinet in 2015.

The minister faces charges of having received kickbacks from many people whom he had promised government jobs. A case was registered following complaints from the alleged victims.

No significant action was taken against him till AIADMK was in power till 2021. He struck a deal with the victims when he switched to the DMK and became a minister in the MK Stalin government.

The Madras High Court had earlier stayed proceedings in the case but the Supreme Court overturned it and ordered probe into the corruption charges, allowing the ED to continue its proceedings.

Chief Minister MK Stalin called the 18-hour search and interrogation in a 10-year-old case "an unannounced emergency" that "triggered a heart disease" for Mr Balaji.

"Don't provoke us. If you provoke the DMK cadre, you'll not be able to bear it. This is not intimidation, but a word of caution. The BJP should stop its dictatorial action and understand its responsibility to govern the union," added Mr Stalin.

State BJP chief K Annamalai denied the charges said the minister was arrested as per the Supreme Court's directive. "This ought to have happened many years ago," he added.

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Facebook Will Be Shut Down Karnataka High Court Warns Over Investigation: Report

The High Court of Karnataka has orally warned Facebook (Meta) that it may order its operations in India to be shut down if it does not cooperate with police investigation over a fake profile.

An Indian national from Mangaluru, Shailesh Kumar, is in prison in Saudi Arabia allegedly over a derogatory Facebook post against the king of that nation and Islam. His wife Kavitha has complained to the local police that it was a fake profile of her husband on which the derogatory message was posted.

The police have failed to complete the investigation on the fake profile prompting Ms Kavitha to approach the high court. Her petition, originally filed in 2021, was heard by Justice Krishna S Dixit on Wednesday.

Earlier on June 12, the high court had ordered: "The Commissioner of Police, Mangalore (Mangaluru), is directed to study the case papers and be present before the Court to answer as to why there has been arguably enormous delay in accomplishing the investigation of the matter when a citizen of this country is languishing in a jail of a foreign country after trial and conviction when his specific stand was that his Facebook account was hacked."

Mangaluru city police commissioner Kuldeep Kumar Jain and the investigating officer in the case were present in the high court on Wednesday.

Ms Kavitha's complaint to the police stated that Shailesh has been working in Saudi Arabia for the past 25 years. He had put up a post in support of the Indian Government's Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizenship (NRC) move. He allegedly received a threat call over this post following which he deleted his account.

Subsequently, some miscreants created a fake account in his name and uploaded a derogatory post against the Saudi king and Islam, she said. Following this post, Shailesh was arrested in Saudi Arabia, tried and sentenced to 15 years in jail. Based on the information he provided, his wife filed the police complaint about the fake profile in her husband's name.

The police commissioner informed the high court on Wednesday that the investigation has been delayed as Facebook has not cooperated with the police.

When the high court questioned the counsel for Facebook, the counsel informed the court that he had no information about the exact location of the incident. This prompted the high court to issue the warning that the operations of Facebook would have to be ordered to shut down if it did not cooperate with the investigation, reported Press Trust of India.

The counsel sought a week's time to submit the details required. The high court adjourned the hearing to June 22 directing Facebook to submit a detailed report on the incident and relevant information.

Meta, Facebook's parent company, was arraigned as a party to the petition on May 29, 2023.

The high court also directed the Union government to detail the steps taken to secure the Indian national who has been jailed in a foreign prison in a fake case.

"Union Government should also make a statement based upon records to be given in a sealed cover as to what happened to the concerned citizen; whether he was given lawyer's assistance on a foreign soil; whether apparently trial proceedings were held with fairness standards as obtaining in the international criminal law," the high court's June 12 order read.

The high court also warned the Union government that "if the details as sought are not furnished, the concerned secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs may be summoned personally before the Court."
 

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Indian-Origin Woman In Singapore Jail For Abusing Maid Faces More Charges

A 64-year-old Indian-origin woman in Singapore, serving a jail term for fatally abusing her daughter's Myanmarese maid, admitted in court on Thursday of asking her son-in-law to remove a CCTV that held evidence of the crimes.

Prema S Naraynasamy is currently serving a 14-year sentence for her role in the abuse of 24-year-old Myanmar national Piang Ngaih Don, who died of a brain injury with severe blunt trauma to her neck in 2016 after 14 months of repeated abuse, The Straits Times newspaper reported.

Prema's daughter, Gaiyathiri, was sentenced to 30 years in jail in 2021 for her involvement in the maid abuse and death.

Prema pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of instigating her policeman son-in-law, 44-year-old Kevin Chelvam, to cause evidence of the offences to disappear by removing the recorder.

The prosecution said Prema knew that her and Gaiyathiri's actions were captured by closed-circuit television recorder (CCTV) cameras in the house and directed Chelvam to dismantle the recorder from its power source to dispose of it as she did not want police to get hold of the footage.

Chelvam, initially reluctant to do so, allegedly proceeded on Prema's insistence and handed the device to her, and upon being asked by a police officer to produce the CCTV footage, lied that there was no footage, the prosecution said.

Prema slipped the CCTV recorder into her daughter-in-law's bag, who came while the police were still at the premises, and told her in Tamil, "I have kept something in your bag, do something with it," the report said.

The daughter-in-law gave Prema's son the recorder, who then asked a friend to keep it. His friend agreed and took the CCTV recorder from him, not knowing what its relevance to police investigations was.

The recorder was recovered when police officers went to Prema's son and daughter-in-law's home asking for it, and the son got his friend to return the item.

The prosecution has asked for at least three years in jail for Prema, while the defence lawyer asked for between 18 and 24 months in jail instead.

The judge said she needed more time to consider the sentencing and adjourned the case to a later date, the report said.

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US Man Charged After Accidentally Shooting Himself During Dream About Burglary

A man in the US' Illinois is facing firearms charges after he accidentally shot himself in the leg in his sleep while dreaming about a burglary, NBC News reported.

The incident happened on April 10, when deputies said they responded to a report of a Lake Barrington resident with a gunshot wound. When deputies arrived at the home, they found 62-year-old Mark Dicara with a gunshot wound to the leg, the Lake County Sheriff's Office said in a release.

A tourniquet was quickly applied to Mr. Dicara's leg, as he was losing a significant amount of blood.  

When cops questioned him, they found that Mr. Dicara had a dream about someone breaking into his home. In his dream, he retrieved his .357 Magnum Revolver and shot at the intruder.

When he fired, he shot himself instead and apparently woke up from the dream, the release stated. He was taken to an area hospital for treatment of his gunshot wound and later released.

''The round discharged from the firearm went through Dicara's leg and lodged itself into Dicara's bedding. Fortunately, the round did not travel through a shared wall with Dicara's neighbors,'' the release stated.

Authorities also confirmed during the probe that an attempted burglary did not happen at Mr. Dicara's residence, and there was no intruder on his property.

The man was arrested on a warrant Monday and is free after he posted a $150,000 bond, the sheriff's office said. He was charged with possessing a firearm with a revoked Firearm Owners Identification, and reckless discharge of a firearm, the sheriff's office said in a statement.

In Illinois, gun owners are required to have a Firearm Owners Identification card to legally possess firearms or ammunition, according to state police.

He is next expected to appear in court on June 29.

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IndiGo Plane Suffers Tail Strike At Ahmedabad Airport Probe Ordered

An IndiGo aircraft operating its Bengaluru-Ahmedabad flight suffered a tail strike while landing at Ahmedabad airport on Thursday -- second such incident in the last five days, a DGCA official said.

The Directorate General Civil Aviation has ordered the grounding of pilots of the mishap-hit aircraft, the official said.

"A tail strike has been reported. The DGCA has ordered off rostering of pilots," the official said.

The DGCA has also ordered a probe into the incident, he added.

IndiGo, in a statement, confirmed the incident and said the aircraft has been grounded for inspection.

"IndiGo flight 6E6595 operating from Bengaluru to Ahmedabad experienced a tail strike while landing in Ahmedabad. The aircraft was declared grounded at Ahmedabad airport for necessary assessment and repairs. The incident is under investigation by relevant authorities," the airline said in the statement.

On June 11 also, an IndiGo Airbus A321 aircraft suffered a tail strike on its arrival at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport from Kolkata.

Following this incident, IndiGo was ordered by the DGCA to take off the cockpit crew of the flight.

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Boy Steals Money To Buy iPhone Dies By Suicide After Father Scolds Him

A 17-year-old boy allegedly committed suicide at Kalyan in the district after being scolded for stealing money from home to buy an iPhone, police said on Wednesday.

The deceased, who hailed from Gajipur in Uttar Pradesh, lived with his uncle in Mira Road area here where he did his schooling, said an official.

The boy was found to have hanged himself from a tree near the railway tracks in Kalyan on Monday, said inspector Ashok Honmane of Mahatma Phule police station.

Probe revealed that the boy, who recently passed Class 12 exam with 45 per cent marks, had gone to visit his father in UP and while returning, he stole more than Rs 1 lakh which his father had saved for the elder daughter's marriage. He then bought an iPhone with the money.

When his father found this out, he chided him and asked him to return home, the police officer said.

The boy decided to return home but then apparently changed his mind and took the extreme step, he said, adding that further probe was on. 

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Antony Blinken To "Responsibly Manage" Ties On Rare China Visit Says US

The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will urge open communication to "responsibly manage" high tensions with China when he pays a rare visit to Beijing this weekend, US officials said.

The State Department confirmed that Mr Blinken will travel this weekend to Beijing on the first trip by a top US diplomat in nearly five years, rescheduling a visit that was scrapped in February as the United States detected what it said was a Chinese spy balloon.

Ahead of the trip, Mr Blinken spoke by telephone to Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and said he would "raise areas of concern as well as areas of potential cooperation."

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Mr. Blinken had stressed "the importance of maintaining open lines of communication to responsibly manage the US-PRC relationship to avoid miscalculation and conflict".

Relations between the world's two largest economies have tanked in recent years over Taiwan, trade and human rights, among a litany of other issues.

A Beijing readout of the call struck a more confrontational tone, reporting that Mr Qin had warned that relations between the two countries had faced "new difficulties and challenges" since the beginning of the year.

"It's clear who is responsible," Foreign Minister Qin Gang said, according to the Chinese foreign ministry.

"China has always viewed and managed China-US relations in accordance with the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation put forward by President Xi Jinping," he added.

Another chance for dialogue 

Presidents Joe Biden and Xi met in Bali in November and agreed to try to prevent tensions from soaring out of control, including by sending Blinken to Beijing.

But Mr Blinken abruptly cancelled a trip scheduled in early February after the United States said it detected and later shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon flying over the US mainland.

The two sides have more recently looked again to keep tensions in check, including with an extensive, closed-door meeting between Joe Biden's national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, and senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi in Vienna last month.

President Biden has sought limited areas for cooperation with China, such as climate change, in contrast with the more fully adversarial position adopted at the end of the administration of his predecessor Donald Trump.

But two countries remain at deeply at odds over many issues.

The White House last week accused China of operating an intelligence unit in Cuba for years and upgrading it in 2019 in an effort to enhance its presence on the Caribbean island.

A base in Cuba, which lies 90 miles (150 kilometers) off Florida's southern tip, would be viewed in Washington as a direct challenge to the continental United States.

Asked about the base, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said he was "unaware of the situation" before criticising US policy on Cuba.

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'Reason For Rahul Gandhi Ban': Congress Leader On Twitter Ex-CEO's Claim

Reacting to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's claim that there was 'pressure' from India to block accounts covering the farmers' protests, Congress leader KC Venugopal said today that the government wants to suppress the opposition's voice and that is why they banned Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account.

In an interview with the YouTube channel 'Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar' on Monday, Mr Dorsey, who stepped down from Twitter's board last year, alleged that the Indian government had put pressure on Twitter and said that it will shut down the company in India and raid the houses of its employees.

"The statement of the Twitter CEO is totally alarming and shocking for all of us. The entire government machinery is pressuring the Twitter CEO to suppress and shut the opposition's voice. That is why they banned Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account," Mr Venugopal said.

"Where is the freedom of expression, freedom of media? They do this to suppress failure. We will raise the issue not only in Parliament, but we will also raise the issue throughout the country," he said.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Nana Patole also supported Mr Dorsey's claim that there was 'pressure' from India to block accounts covering the farmers' protests and said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) must have made such attempts.

"What the (former) Twitter CEO said is totally correct. When BJP came into power, media was not given the power to show the truth. Earlier also, the BBC launched a short film on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the central agency raided them. Yes, the government must have warned Twitter saying that if they report against us, we will raid departments of Twitter in India".

"We know that the BJP uses central agencies. Twitter is not lying but this government is telling lies and they must have used the central agencies against them (Twitter, BBC)," he added. 

In the interview, Mr Dorsey said, "India is one of the countries which had many requests around farmers' protests, around particular journalists who were critical of the government and it manifested in ways such as we will shut Twitter down in India."

"India is a big marketplace for us. We would raid the homes of your employees, which they did and we will shut down your offices if you don't follow suit and this is India, a democratic country," Mr Dorsey added. 

In November 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the repeal of the three Central farm laws. In his address to the nation, PM Modi had said, "Today I want to tell everyone that we have decided to repeal all three farm laws." 

Farmers had staged a protest in large numbers against the government's three farm laws since the Centre passed the laws in 2020.

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Delhi To Bring One-Time Settlement Plan For Consumers With Water Bill Dues

The Delhi government will bring a one-time settlement scheme for the water bills of 11.7 lakh domestic consumers who have arrears, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Tuesday.

Addressing a press conference at the Delhi Secretariat, Mr Kejriwal said the government plans to implement the scheme from August 1 and the consumers will receive the corrected bills after that.

"There has been a severe accumulation of water bills. During the COVID-19 pandemic, meter readings could not be taken. Meter readers filed false readings and therefore, people received the wrong bills. There are 27.6 lakh domestic meters in Delhi and of these, 11.7 lakh bills have arrears and have not been submitted. The arrears are to the tune of Rs 5,737 crore," he said.

Explaining the scheme, the chief minister said it will be divided into two sub-heads -- one will cover those who have two or more correct readings and the other will cover those who have one or no correct meter reading.

"Had we gone about correcting every bill, it would have taken us more than 100 years to rectify those. Through this scheme, we will settle the bills of 11.7 lakh consumers. In fact, of these 11.7 lakh consumers, seven lakh will get zero bills following the implementation of the scheme," he said.

Mr Kejriwal said the scheme has been approved by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) and will come to the cabinet soon. After the implementation of the scheme, the consumers will be given three months to pay the bills.

"If they fail to pay the bills within the three months, they will have to pay the bills with arrears," Mr Kejriwal said.

He added that the government is taking steps to stop wrong meter readings.

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