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Chennai: The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed three chargesheets in the court of additional chief metropolitan magistrate Chennai against industrialist AC Muthiah and Farouk Irani the then chaiman and managing director of First Leasing Company of India (FLCIL) a private leasing company in three cheating cases regarding a Rs 665 crore scam. Three banks were allegedly cheated by the accused to the tune of approximately Rs 665 crore. The CBI alleged that the directors/promoters/managing director and key officials of FLCIL hatched a criminal conspiracy with the statutory and internal auditors of the company and unidentified persons with malafide intentions to cheat IDBI bank and had availed credit facilities from the bank on the basis of forged financial reports. The money was siphoned away for extraneous or personal purposes which caused wrongful loss of nearly Rs 273.99 crore to the bank. Similarly the accused had availed credit facilities from UCO Bank in the form of working capital limit and short-term loans in the name of the company based in Chennai by furnishing false and fabricated financial statements and siphoned away the money causing the bank an estimated loss of Rs 142.94 crore to the bank. The accused also had availed of various credit facilities from the State Bank of India in the name of a private company based in Chennai by furnishing inflated income and assets in the financial statements which was done by creating unsubstantiated entries in the books of accounts since 1998. The total money siphoned off was Rs 248.46 crore CBI said. https://cgcookie.com/u/maketrip/projects/makemytrip-discounts-to-this-vacation CBI investigators say that along with seven satellite or shell companies banks were cheated to the tune of Rs 665 crore. Their investigation has also disclosed that the promoter-directors had misappropriated the assets of the company entrusted to them by using such loaned money to donate annually to a Trust run by the main accused. The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to trace the founder of Adhyatmik Vishwa Vidyalaya an institution in North Delhi s Rohini area where children and young women were allegedly being sexually assaulted and illegally confined. The bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar asked Virender Dev Dixit to be present before it on January 4 reported PTI. If he has done nothing wrong there is no difficulty in him joining the investigation the bench said according to The Hindu. It added that failing this a warrant would be issued against Dikshit. The court asked for a list of all eight ashrams headed by Dikshit reported ANI. It also asked for details of the ashram s finances and source of funds.On Wednesday the High Court had asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to inspect the ashram. The order came after NGO Foundation for Social Empowerment and the parents of three girls moved the court claiming many young women were raped at the Adhyatmik Vishwa Vidyalaya and several had committed suicide but no case was ever registered. A court-appointed committee which included Delhi Commission for Women s chief Swati Maliwal and the police had inspected the facility on Wednesday. Over 100 girls were housed in animal-like conditions with no privacy advocate Nandita Rao told the court. She also said that many who were confined there appeared to be under the influence of narcotics. The inmates were kept in close confinement in dark spaces with no sunlight and metal grill with nowhere to exit. The sleeping area is also monitored and the girls have no privacy. GURUGRAM: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday opposed the bail application of class XI student of the Ryan International School Bhondsi suspect for murdering class 2 student Pradhyumn Thakur of the same school. CBI argued that investigation is at a crucial stage and they have yet not recorded statements of some witnesses. They also said that the Juvenile if granted bail can tamper with evidence influence and intimidate the witnesses. The juvenile was produced before child sessions court of additional sessions Judge JS Kundu for the first time after the Juvenile Justice Board s decision to try child in conflict with law as adult. Court extended the judicial custody of the child till January 3 and scheduled next hearing on bail application on January 6. Juvenile s counsel Sandeep Aneja said they had moved bail application under rule 10(5) of Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection of Children) Model Rules 2016. Under the rule agency should have completed the investigation in one month from the date of detention or arrest of child and submit their chargesheet. As CBI has failed to complete the investigation in the given time the child should be given benefit of default bail said Aneja adding that they filed two more appeals - one to challenge the JJ board order allowing CBI to take fingerprint of juvenile and second to appeal to challenge the legality of custody of the child given to CBI from November 8-11. Hearing on all these appeals will take place on January 6. Opposing the bail appeal CBI argued that rule 10(5) of Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection of Children) Model Rules 2016 nowhere speaks about completion of investigation within one month. As per the said rule in cases of heinous crime alleged to have committed by child who has not completed the age of 16 years child welfare police has to produce the statements of witness and documents prepared during investigation to the board within a period of one month from the date of first production of child said CBI in its reply. In the present case CBI has produced the records case diaries of the case before JJ Board at the time of taking custody of child on November 8 and at the time of sending him to observation home on November 11 mentioned CBI reply filed in the court. Seeking extension of the judicial custody of child CBI argued that investigation in the case is still pending and is at crucial state. Certain witnesses are yet to be examined. He may temper with the evidence influence and intimidate the witnesses. He may abscond which may hamper the course of investigation CBI reply. CBI mentioned that JJ board order to try child in conflict with law as adult assumes great significance as it speaks about the mental status of apprehended child and heinous nature of the crime committed by him. Sushil Tekriwal counsel for Pradhyumn s father Barun Thakur said CBI argued that contention made by child is not tenable and offence committed by him is heinous and punishable with not less than 10 years. Hence the benefit of default bail can be given to child only after completion of 90 days since his arrest in the case which is going to expire on February 4 2018. Quoting the order of JJ Board passed while rejecting the bail appeal of juvenile CBI mentioned that under the rule investigation agency shall produce statements of witnesses recorded by them and other documents prepared during the period of one of month the first production of child before board. It is nowhere mentioned in the rule 10(5) the investigation has to be completed within one month in the case of heinous offences. Tekriwal said earlier case was shifted from special women and child court to child sessions court. With this issues related to jurisdiction of the case has settled to great extent. Now CBI will file the chargesheet related to child in the child session court Gurgaon which will conduct the trial of the case said Tekriwal. Mumbai: Ashok Chavan former Chief Minister of Maharashtra will not be prosecuted in the Adarsh housing scam in Mumbai the High Court said today setting aside the governor s sanction to act against the Congress leader. This is the second setback in two days for the CBI which was yesterday told by a special court that it had failed to prove the 2G scam .Mr Chavan 59 had to quit as chief minister in 2010 over charges that he brazenly flouted rules to help Adarsh Society in exchange for apartments. Have full faith in the judiciary Truth has prevailed said Mr Chavan after the court order adding that The (Adarsh) issue was politically used by other parties. Three flats were allocated to members of Mr Chavan s family in the building when he was Revenue Minister between 1999 and 2004.The Adarsh Housing Society in Colaba one of the most expensive areas of Mumbai was on paper meant to house war veterans and widows - a category error according to the judge who studied the property because the land belonged to the government and not the army.Mr Chavan had challenged the decision of Governor C Vidyasagar Rao to allow the CBI to prosecute him. The sanction came in 2015 three years after the governor s predecessor had refused the request. At the time the Congress was governing Maharashtra and the move was seen as a blatant attempt by a party-appointed governor to protect Mr Chavan.Mr Vidyasagar Rao had based his decision on the advice of the council of ministers who had relied on the report of a judicial commission that investigated the Adarsh scandal. Mr Chavan currently a Congress parliamentarian from Nanded and also the party s chief in Maharashtra had testified before the commission. His family had too.The Adarsh building became one of the symbols of deep corruption associated with the Congress-led national coalition government of UPA. Months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept to power in 2014 Maharashtra chose his party the BJP to replace the Congress in the state election as well.This is another reprieve for the Congress in a high-profile corruption case since yesterday.A special CBI court on Thursday acquitted former telecom minister A Raja and all other accused in the 2G scam saying that investigators had failed miserably in proving allegations of corruption in the grant of second generation or 2G licences in 2007-8 when the Congress-led Manmohan Singh government was in power with A Raja as telecom minister. The verdict in the second of six cases in Bihar s fodder scam is expected on Saturday. A special Central Bureau of Investigation court will pronounce the verdict in which Rashtriya Janata Dal chief and former chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav is an accused. This case is connected with the alleged fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 84.5 lakh from the Deoghar district treasury between 1994 and 1996 when Yadav was Bihar s chief minister. The scam exposed in 1996 involved the embezzlement of around Rs 1 000 crore from the state exchequer for the purchase of fictitious medicines and fodder for cattle between 1990 and 1997 when Yadav was chief minister.Yadav has said that he is not worried about his party since his son Tejashwi is there NDTV reported. I do hope that I will get justice as in the 2G spectrum case he told the media at Ranchi airport on Saturday. I have full faith in the judiciary but whatever verdict will come I will abide by it. He did however claim the case was concocted by his political opponents. It is the BJP the RSS and Nitish Kumar who are behind all this they want me to be sent to jail so that they will have no political opponent but they don t know that every worker of the RJD is a Lalu Yadav The Hindu reported him as saying.Yadav s hope seems to be fuelled by the judiciary s recent decisions to acquit all those accused in the 2G scam and in Mumbai s Adarsh housing scam. Yadav was in jail for a few months in 2013 after a CBI court had convicted him in the first of the fodder scam cases. He got bail in December 2013 three months after he had been convicted. In May this year the Supreme Court had reinstated criminal conspiracy charges against him in another fodder scam case.Here is a timeline of the scam. Ranchi: The fate of two former chief ministers of Bihar Lalu Prasad and Jagannath Mishra will be decided on Saturday in a fodder scam case.Lalu Prasad also the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief reached Ranchi on Friday evening along with his son Tejashwi Yadav to hear the verdict.Speaking to reporters he said that he was innocent and that he had full faith in the judiciary .File image of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav with wife Rabri Devi son Tejaswi Yadav and Tej Pratap. PTISaturday is the last working day of this year. The courts will remain closed until 1 January 2018.According to a lawyer hearing in the multi-million fodder scam case which relates to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 84.5 lakh from Deoghar district treasury was completed on 13 December in a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court of Ranchi.Special CBI judge Shivapal Singh fixed 23 December for pronouncing the judgment and asked all the accused to remain present in the court on that day.In all there were 34 accused in the case out of which 11 died during the course of the trial while one turned CBI approver and admitted the crime.Lalu Prasad and Jagannath Mishra have already been convicted in another fodder scam case and they are out on bail.The trial in two other cases is going on in the special CBI court.The trial in three cases of Lalu Prasad and Jagannath Mishra gained momentum in May this year after the Supreme Court directed the special court to complete the trial in nine months. ALSO READ CWC to clear Rahul Gandhi s elevation schedule on Monday CWC meet tomorrow: Rahul Gandhi likely to become Cong prez before Guj polls Rahul Gandhi becomes Congress chief slams Modi for medieval politics Rahul Gandhi Cong s new prez says BJP crushes voices: Top 10 developments Rahul Gandhi s journey from a reluctant leader to Congress president span.p-content div id =div-gpt line-height: 0px; font-size: 0px; Rahul Gandhi is likely to chair the first Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting as the party president on Friday. The CWC will discuss the current political situation including the consequences of the Congress s strong performance in the Gujarat Assembly elections for the party in future. The 2G spectrum allocation case verdict delivered yesterday by a Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court acquitting all the accused will also be discussed. Rahul succeeded his mother Sonia Gandhi and took over as the Congress president on December 16. He was officially declared the party president in a ceremony held at the party s 24 Akbar Road headquarters here. New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi will chair a meeting of the Congress Working Committee on Friday his first as Congress president.The CWC will accord a warm welcome to the new president and likely discuss the current political situation including the ramifications of the Congress s strong performance in the Gujarat Assembly election for the party in future.File image of Congress president Rahul Gandhi filing his nomination. PTIParty sources said the 2G spectrum case judgment acquitting all the accused is also likely to be discussed. The BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had used the alleged scam to the hilt while mounting a fierce campaign against the Congress in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.Alleged corruption under UPA II was widely believed to have led to the defeat of the Manmohan Singh government.The Congress sources said wants to take the 2G issue to the people for which it is likely to formalise a plan soon. The CWC the party s highest decision-making body is also likely to adopt a resolution to this effect.AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said the CWC meeting will commence at 10:30 am.The agenda for the meeting was however not officially disclosed.Though Rahul Gandhi has chaired CWC meetings in the past in the absence of his mother Sonia Gandhi it will be for the first time that he will preside over it as Congress president.Rahul was elected unopposed as Congress chief on 11 December and assumed the party s reins on 16 December. NEW DELHI: The new Magenta Line of the Delhi Metro a good way to directly join Kalkaji in south Delhi to Noida has many firsts to its credit score which include platform display screen doorways (PSDs) and a hello-tech signalling era for motion of trains officials stated on Friday. The 12.64-km segment a part of the imminent Botanical Garden (Noida)-Janakpuri West (Delhi) corridor has nine stations and is about to be inaugurated with the aid of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 25. This Line may have many firsts to its credit. For the primary time in India trains will run unattended. The platform screen doorways (PSDs) are being used here for the primary time DMRC chief spokesperson Anuj Dayal said. PSDs are glass-made displays mounted close to the brink of systems that open simplest when a educate arrives and close after it departs. They are mounted to decorate commuter safety. Besides a brand new-age generation Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) signalling era could be used which can facilitate motion of trains with a frequency of 90 to one hundred seconds will also be pressed into service Dayal said. He become interacting with newshounds after a preview of the hall beforehand of its mega launch on Christmas. Initially trains will function with the frequency of five mins and 14 seconds in this segment the DMRC said. After the brand new segment of the Delhi Metro is opened commuters might be able to journey without delay to Kalkaji Mandir Metro Station from Botanical Garden in 19 minutes. The travel time Blue and Violet lines of the metro takes fifty two mins with interchange factor at Mandi House station. The new line could be officially launched with the aid of the Hon ble Prime Minister in the afternoon at the newly-constructed Kalkaji Metro Station of the Magenta Line. From 5PM it'd be open to the general public Dayal stated. Dayal and different DMRC officials also stated that the current twist of fate on the Kalindi Kunj metro depot became in basic terms a human blunders at some http://fantasy-faction.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;area=summary;u=42888 stage in upkeep and there was no reason to worry. Metro s new generation trains that may run with out drivers will run on this section aided by using the CBTC signalling era. The trains might essentially be driverless however there could be roving attendants. We might keep this mechanism say for a 12 months or two. We could get passengers remarks on this and as soon as we recognise that we have the humans s confidence we can remove the ones attendants to cause them to completely driverless the chief spokesperson stated. A senior DMRC reliable who turned into gift on the interaction stated passengers safety is our utmost issue and it's been looked after in this line . While Kalkaji Mandir station falls in Delhi Botanical Garden station is placed in Noida. The vintage Kalkaji Mandir station is part of the Violet Line  (Kashmere Gate-Escorts Mujesar) and the old Botanical Garden is part of the Blue Line (Dwarka-Noida City Centre). The Botanical Garden has been advanced as the metro s first-ever interchange station out of doors the limits of Delhi. Dayal said the brand new line would additionally show cost-efficient for commuters except saving time. The 28-km stretch among Kalkaji Mandir and Botanical Garden charges Rs 50. Now with direct connectivity the trip has been decreased to 12 km costing Rs 30 he said. The DMRC authorities stated that 10 trains would perform in this new line while could be kept on reserve. The coaches walking on this line have LED information show electricity charging capacity together with at once via USB ports and colorful seats of different sunglasses. The new stations had been tastefully embellished reflecting issues of nature Yoga and cultural landmarks. At the new Kalkaji Mandir station ceramic work of art of Lotus Temple ISKCON Temple and nature-themed artistic endeavors and artwork displaying birds have been displayed. Seven stations of the road are in Delhi -- Kalindi Kunj Jasola Vihar Shaheen Bagh Okhla Vihar Jamia Millia Islamia Sukhdev Vihar Okhla NSIC and Kalkaji Mandir. Two stations are in Noida -- Botanical Garden Metro station and Okhla Birds Sanctuary. Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has decided to disregard superstition and visit Noida on 25 December to receive high minister Narendra Modi for inauguration of the Noida-Kalkaji Metro line.Officials confirmed to IANS that the chief minister has given his go beforehand for the programme and has avoided recommendation for no longer doing so as lots of his predecessors had seemingly lost their chair after traveling Noida.File photo of Yogi Adityanath. ReutersHis immediately predecessor Akhilesh Yadav by no means visited Noida in his 5 12 months tenure and inaugurated projects and roads by using far flung manipulate from his reliable Kalidas Marg house in Lucknow.Barring Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati who visited Noida 4 times and by the way misplaced energy too no leader minister of Uttar http://maketrip.beep.com/ Pradesh has visited Noida in 29 years.Chief Minister Veer Bahadur Singh visited Noida in 1988 and was ousted of electricity soon after. A similar destiny awaited his successor Narayan Dutt Tiwari of the Congress in 1989 Mulayam Singh Yadav in 1995 Kalyan Singh in 1999 and Mayawati in 2012.Senior police officials of Noida showed that the very last programme of Adityanath has been obtained by means of the district government. A spokesman of the ruling BJP Chandramohan said whilst the chief minister turned into a deeply religious man he did now not enroll in superstitions and he became most effective inspired by way of development and welfare of the human beings of Uttar Pradesh.