Clashes between Sangh Parivar leaders case: 7 including Chaitra Kundapur get judicial custody
Sullia: Seven people, including Chaitra Kundapur, have been sent to 14-day judicial custody in connection with the clashes between Sangh Parivar leaders in Subrahmanya.
Chaitra Kundapur and the group have been charged with the judicial custody for allegedly assaulting Hindu Jagarana Vedike taluk secretary Guruprasad Panja and team.
The police presented Chaitra and her associates to the Sullia court on Thursday evening in connection with the case. The court remanded Chitra Kundapur, Sudhin, Vinay, Manikanta, Nikhil, Harish, Kharvi and Harish Nayak in judicial custody.
Guruprasad had registered a complaint with Subrahmanya police saying that he and his team have been assaulted by Chaitra Kundapur and others.
The injured Guruprasad is now being treated at a hospital in Mangaluru.
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ED gets MHA sanction to prosecute Arvind Kejriwal in excise policy case
New Delhi (PTI): The Union Home Ministry has granted sanction to the Enforcement Directorate to prosecute former Delhi chief minister and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy linked money laundering case, officials said.
The federal agency has filed a chargesheet against the 56-year-old politician before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court here last year after arresting him in March.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has recently granted the required sanction to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for prosecuting Kejriwal under the anti-money laundering law in the Delhi excise policy case, officials said.
The development comes ahead of the Delhi Assembly on February 5.
Kejriwal has been made made an accused in his personal capacity as well as in the capacity of being the national convenor of his political party AAP.
The former chief minister was called the "kingpin and key conspirator" of the Delhi excise "scam" by the ED.
It was alleged that he acted in collusion with Delhi government minister, the AAP leaders and others.
The ED had earlier claimed that AAP, being a political party, is defined as an association or a body of individual citizens of India under the Representation of the People Act and hence it can be categorised as a "company" as contemplated under Section 70 of the PMLA.
As Kejriwal was "in-charge of and responsible" for the said company i.e. AAP during the time of offence, he and his party "shall be deemed guilty" of offences mentioned under the anti-money laundering law and liable to be prosecuted and punished, it had said.
The excise case pertains to alleged corruption and money laundering in formulating and executing the Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22, which was later scrapped.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena had recommended a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities. Subsequently, the ED registered a case under the PMLA.
Taking cognisance of a CBI FIR lodged on August 17, 2022, the ED filed its money laundering case on August 22, 2022 to probe the alleged irregularities.
