Gauri murder case accused one of two Kalburgi killers?
Bengaluru, June 07: A 37-year-old Pune man currently under investigation for his suspected links to the Gauri Lankesh murder was allegedly one of the two men who knocked on the doors of scholar MM Kalburgi’s residence in Dharwad before they gunned him down on August 30, 2015, reports timesofidia.indiatimes.com.
Two unidentified men had gone to Kalburgi’s Kalyan Nagar residence. The visitors struck up a conversation with the scholar and his wife Umadevi went inside as she thought they were his students. The visitors fled after one of them shot Kalburgi dead. One of the visitors is suspected to be Amol Kale, the Pune man, now being questioned by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Gauri killing.
“A close family member of Kalburgi has identified Kale as one of the visitors. However, we need more evidence to establish the claim. We’ll soon contact sleuths of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) which did the initial investigation into the Kalburgi killing.” SIT sources said TOI.
Kale is a realtor and lives with his widowed mother and wife in Akshay Plaza Apartments at Manek Colony, Chinchwad near Pune. Kale, Manohar Yadave (from Vijayapura), Amit Degvekar (from Sindhudurg, Maharashtra) and Sujit Kumar alias Praveen from Mangaluru were first arrested for conspiring to kill Mysuru rationalist KS Bhagawan. The SIT took them into custody after it emerged that they had links with the Gauri killing too.
Kale’s absconding accomplice, Nihal alias Dada, is a suspected to have played a significant role in the Gauri murder, SIT sources said. We have launched a manhunt for him,” sources said TOI.
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BharatPe fraud case: Delhi HC quashes lookout circular against Ashneer Grover, wife
New Delhi, Nov 12: The Delhi High Court has ordered cancellation of a lookout circular (LOC) issued against Ashneer Grover, the former MD of payment app BharatPe, and his wife Madhuri Jain Grover, noting that the FIR lodged against them over allegations of cheating and forgery has already been quashed.
Justice Sanjeev Narula passed the order on Monday after the court was informed that another bench of the high court quashed the FIR on the same day.
The FIR was quashed by Justice Chandra Dhari Singh after considering a plea moved by the Grovers stating that they have arrived at a settlement with the fintech company.
In his order, Justice Narula said, "Although the copy of the order (quashing the FIR) is not available as of now, the aforenoted fact is not disputed by the counsel for the parties.
"In light of the fact that the underlying FIR has been quashed, the LOC issued by respondent No. 3 (Bureau of Immigration), in the opinion of the court, will not survive."
The LOC was issued by the Bureau of Immigration at the instance of Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in view of the investigation against the Grovers in the cheating and forgery FIR.
The court was hearing a plea moved by Grover and his wife Madhuri Jain Grover seeking quashing of the LOC issued against them in connection with the investigation into the cheating and forgery case.
"Accordingly, the present petitions are disposed of with a direction to the respondents to cancel the LOC against the petitioners in their records," the court noted.
Earlier, the Grovers claimed that they were informed about the LOC for the first time when they were detained at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here on November 16, 2023, while they were scheduled to travel to the US.
After being detained, they were informed that the LOC was operational from November 6, 2023.
In May last year, the EOW filed an FIR against Grover, his wife Madhuri, and others under eight sections of the Indian Penal Code, including 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating and dishonesty), 467 and 468 (forgery), and 471 (using forged documents as genuine) for an alleged Rs 81 crore fraud after a complaint was lodged by BhartPe, the fintech unicorn.
In its complaint, BharatPe alleged that Grover and his family caused damages to the tune of Rs 81.3 crore through illegitimate payments to bogus human resource consultants, inflated and undue payments through pass-through vendors connected to the accused, sham transactions in input tax credit and payment of penalty to GST authorities, illegal payment to travel agencies, forged invoices by Madhuri, and destruction of evidence.
Madhuri was the head of controls at BharatPe before she was fired in 2022 after a forensic audit revealed several irregularities.
Subsequently, Grover resigned as the chief executive officer of the fintech firm in March 2022.
