Provide bank account details by April 10 to avail fee refund: KEA issues notification
Bengaluru: The Karnataka Examination Authority has directed candidates who have not received their refund of the caution deposit/excess fees paid during the admission process to various professional courses, including medical and engineering, to furnish their bank account details through the KEA website within April 10. Executive Director of KEA, S. Ramya, issued an official notification on Monday, April 1.
According to the notification, candidates who have paid more than the prescribed fee for various courses and have subsequently canceled their seats at different stages are eligible for fee refunds as per the established rules. Refunds have already been directly transferred to the accounts of those candidates whose bank account details were accurate. However, approximately 1500 individuals have not received their refunds due to incorrect bank account details.
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A list of candidates with incorrect bank account details has been published on the authority's website. Despite this, many candidates have yet to provide their correct bank account details. Ramya explained that such candidates have been instructed to log in with their user ID and password and upload their bank account details online by April 10.
Furthermore, graduate and postgraduate candidates are also eligible to receive refunds for excess fees. For engineering courses, 579 students from 2022 and 857 students from 2023 have pending payments. They are required to pay the outstanding amounts ranging from Rs. 750 to Rs. 96,000. Additionally, a total of Rs. 3.75 crore is owed to 300 students for the year 2023 for medical degree courses. Furthermore, Rs. 59.54 lakhs must be paid to 24 students enrolled in postgraduate medical courses.
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'Godman' Kharat held in 8th sexual exploitation case; court denies police remand, sends him to jail
Nashik (PTI): Police took custody of self-proclaimed godman-cum-astrologer Ashok Kharat in an eighth case related to sexual exploitation of women and produced him before a Nashik district court which sent him to jail till May 12 after rejecting the plea for his police remand on Thursday.
On April 29, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Nashik police in north Maharashtra filed a request application in the court demanding Kharat's custody in the eighth case.
After the court granted them the necessary permission, the SIT took custody of Kharat, who was in jail in connection with the seventh case of sexual exploitation registered against him.
The 'godman', named in a dozen FIRs related to rape and financial fraud, was produced before Chief Judicial Magistrate B N Ichpurani in the eighth case through video conferencing due to security reasons.
The eighth case related to Kharat allegedly sexually exploiting a woman who had approached him in search of solutions to her family problems, according to police.
During the hearing, the prosecution demanded police custody of the accused in the latest case.
However, the defence strongly opposed the demand and argued that the SIT was giving same reasons for police custody every time and there was no strong reason for accepting their plea.
The court accepted the argument put forth by the defence and remanded Kharat to judicial custody till May 12 in the eighth case.
The SIT will produce Kharat in the court on Friday again and seek his police custody in the ninth case. As the self-styled godman has been granted judicial custody in the eighth case, he will be sent to Nashik Road Central Jail and the SIT will take his custody from there.
Meanwhile, Kharat's judicial custody in the fourth case ended on Thursday. On April 18, the accused was remanded to judicial custody till April 30 in the fourth case of sexual exploitation of women.
In a related development, the SIT conducted a search at Kharat's office in the 'Canada Corner' area of Nashik city on Wednesday. A 'panchnama' (record of search and seizure proceedings) was conducted and the office was locked and sealed again.
Kharat, a well-heeled man with political connections, was arrested for the first time on March 18 after a woman alleged he had repeatedly raped her for three years.
He is accused of sexually exploiting several women by claiming to have divine powers and knowledge of black magic, and also committing large-scale financial fraud.
The SIT is conducting a probe into 12 cases of sexual exploitation and financial fraud registered against the astrologer in Nashik and Ahilyanagar districts.
