Farmers, families end lives - Is this 'Achhe Din'? : Shiv Sena asks Modi
Mumbai, June 25 : Referring to suicides in Maharashtra by farmers and others, the Shiv Sena on Monday pointedly asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi: "Is this your promised 'Achhe Din'?"
Blaming the BJP-led governments at the centre and in Maharashtra, the Sena said that all these people took the extreme step of ending their lives due to poverty, lack of resources to survive and financial burdens resulting from the government's economic policies.
"The reality is that Maharashtra is in the grip of a severe crisis, people are going hungry, unable to make ends meet and entire families are resorting to suicides, not only in mofussil areas but even in Mumbai," the Sena said in editorials in the party mouthpieces 'Saamana' and 'Dopahar Ka Saamana'.
It cited the suicide of Mumbai couple Pravin Patel and Reena and their 11-year son. The family had taken huge loans for the cancer treatment of their 14-year old daughter who died recently and they could not afford to repay the loans, driving them to suicide.
The Sena said Mumbai was again stunned last week by the suicide of a government employee, Rajesh Bhingare, who ended his life along with his wife and two children as they couldn't afford their own home in Mumbai for years.
In Pandharpur in Solapur district, a 21-year-old engineering student, Alisha Navate, committed suicide as she was pained to see her parents struggling to pay for her education.
A poor farmer of Ahmednagar district's Pokhri-Baleshwar village, Santuji Fatangre throttled his two minor daughters and then committed suicide as he could no longer earn enough to feed the family.
"Until now, we heard only of debt-ridden farmers of Vidarbha killing themselves, but now suicide reports are coming from all over the state including Mumbai. People are despairing under poverty and hunger and choosing the last option - suicide," the Sena said.
Attacking the Prime Minister as well as Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, the Sena said both travel abroad frequently and upon return make tall claims of bringing huge development and prosperity which it said was visible nowhere.
"If there's any impression left that PM Modi will do something for the poor, we have to come out of it. There is only talk of all-round 'vikas', increase in GDP, but the poor continue to suffer, their lives have no value," it pointed out.
Referring to the recent 'Sampark to Samarthan' initiative launched by the BJP, the Sena said they are "in touch with Madhuri Dixit, Salman Khan, Tatas, Birla," but have lost their "contact with the poor in the country" and fail to understand the burning problems confronting the masses.
"The government is bringing forth expensive projects like Bullet Train, Metro Rail and Hyper Cities for the rich but if it cannot stop the poor people from committing suicides. Then burn these big ticket projects," the Sena demanded.
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ED team attacked in Delhi during raids in cyber crime case
New Delhi (PTI): An Enforcement Directorate team undertaking searches in a cyber fraud linked money laundering case was allegedly attacked here on Thursday, officials said.
The agency has registered a police FIR about the incident that took place at a farmhouse that was raided by ED officials in the Bijwasan area of the national capital that falls under the Kapashera police station in southwest Delhi.
An Enforcement Officer (EO) suffered minor injuries during the attack. He is continuing with the searches after he was given first aid, officials said.
The probe pertains to a case against the PYYPL app.
The alleged accused in the case, including Ashok Sharma and his brother, allegedly attacked the ED team. The situation is under control and searches are going on, the sources said.
The search operations, according to sources, has been launched after the ED got inputs from the I4C and the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) about cyber crimes like phishing, QR code cheating, part time job fraud leading to fraud with many people.
It was found that money earned through this cyber fraud was being layered through as many as 15,000 'mule' accounts and withdrawn using debit and credit cards.
Using these cards, it was found, money was remitted to top up virtual accounts on UAE-based Pyypl payment aggregator and subsequently funds were used from Pyypl to buy crypto currency.
The network was being run by some Chartered Accountants (CAs), the sources claimed.
