CMO instructs top cop to take appropriate action on B'luru businessman's complaint
Businessman had alleged fraud, extortion from his brother cum working partner
Bengaluru: The Karnataka Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) has instructed the Bengaluru Police Commissioner to look into the matter and take appropriate action in a complaint filed by a city-based businessman alleging cheating, blackmailing, extortion, and forcibly obtaining signatures on blank papers by his brother.
According to the complainant Mohammed Fahim, he has been distributing Cigarettes and other products by the name M/s M.A Associates for over 16 years. He has further added that he was the sole investor of the business while his brother Basheer was a working partner. Fahim’s wife Farheen was reportedly conducting business on behalf of her husband.
Fahim has further alleged that Basheer, breached his trust suppressed the accounts for the financial year 2020-21 and swindled away all the profits, and told his partner Farheen, his brother’s wife that the company has incurred a heavy loss of several crore rupees and made her sign a balance sheet and other documents without showing originals.
The documents he had created were prepared by Chartered accountant Mr. Mylar of M/s Nagesh and Mylar Associates, the complaint added.
When Farheen asked for the original balance sheets and other documents, Basheer allegedly threatened her and began harassing Fahim and Farheen. Fahim had also reportedly attempted suicide due to the harassment of Basheer and was admitted to a private hospital from 19.03.2022 to 30.05.2022.
The complainant said that even when he was in Hospital, Basheer colluded with Chartered Account Mr. Mylar viz., M/s Nagesh and Mylar associates, misused his cheques by forging his signature without his knowledge, and committed fraud by transferring about Rs.3.6 crore rupees. Even after his discharge, the harassment continued as he issued his life threat, and took the signatures of Fahim and Farheen forcibly on blank papers, blank cash vouchers, and e-stamp papers.
The complainant has further said that when he was asked to pay the profit which he had refused earlier, he instead demanded an amount of Rs.1,50,00,000/-. He also threatened Farheen of implicating in false cases and managed to extort money with help of some antisocial elements Rs.12,50,000/- by way of cash and Rs.12,50,000/- by way of cheque on 15.06.2022 with help of a person named Imran Khan Jagirdar proprietor of Hi-tech Engineering, Kormangala.
A complaint in this regard was filed before the police against Basheer and a copy of the complaint was also sent to the CMO. The CMO has now instructed the commissioner of police to take appropriate action, and an FIR has been registered at Ashok Nagar Police Station. Basheer, Imran Khan, and Mailar have been named as the accused in the FIR by the police.
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump's sweeping tariffs, upending central plank of economic agenda
Washington (AP): The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda.
The 6-3 decision centres on tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law, including the sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs he levied on nearly every other country.
It's the first major piece of Trump's broad agenda to come squarely before the nation's highest court, which he helped shape with the appointments of three conservative jurists in his first term.
The majority found that the Constitution “very clearly” gives Congress the power to impose taxes, which include tariffs. “The Framers did not vest any part of the taxing power in the Executive Branch,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote.
Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh dissented.
“The tariffs at issue here may or may not be wise policy. But as a matter of text, history, and precedent, they are clearly lawful,” Kavanaugh wrote in the dissent.
The majority did not address whether companies could get refunded for the billions they have collectively paid in tariffs. Many companies, including the big-box warehouse chain Costco, have already lined up for refunds in court, and Kavanaugh noted the process could be complicated.
“The Court says nothing today about whether, and if so how, the Government should go about returning the billions of dollars that it has collected from importers. But that process is likely to be a mess,' as was acknowledged at oral argument,” he wrote.
The tariffs decision doesn't stop Trump from imposing duties under other laws. While those have more limitations on the speed and severity of Trump's actions, top administration officials have said they expect to keep the tariff framework in place under other authorities.
The Supreme Court ruling comes despite a series of short-term wins on the court's emergency docket that have allowed Trump to push ahead with extraordinary flexes of executive power on issues ranging from high-profile firings to major federal funding cuts.
The Republican president has been vocal about the case, calling it one of the most important in US history and saying a ruling against him would be an economic body blow to the country. But legal opposition crossed the political spectrum, including libertarian and pro-business groups that are typically aligned with the GOP. Polling has found tariffs aren't broadly popular with the public, amid wider voter concern about affordability.
The Constitution gives Congress the power to levy tariffs. But the Trump administration argued that a 1977 law allowing the president to regulate importation during emergencies also allows him to set tariffs. Other presidents have used the law dozens of times, often to impose sanctions, but Trump was the first president to invoke it for import taxes.
Trump set what he called "reciprocal" tariffs on most countries in April 2025 to address trade deficits that he declared a national emergency. Those came after he imposed duties on Canada, China and Mexico, ostensibly to address a drug trafficking emergency.
A series of lawsuits followed, including a case from a dozen largely Democratic-leaning states and others from small businesses selling everything from plumbing supplies to educational toys to women's cycling apparel.
The challengers argued the emergency powers law doesn't even mention tariffs and Trump's use of it fails several legal tests, including one that doomed then-President Joe Biden's USD 500 billion student loan forgiveness program.
The economic impact of Trump's tariffs has been estimated at some USD 3 trillion over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The Treasury has collected more than USD 133 billion from the import taxes the president has imposed under the emergency powers law, federal data from December shows.
