Fake marksheet racket busted

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MOHALI: The police busted a fake marksheet racket, with the arrest of one person on Monday. Ashwani Kumar operated the alleged racket from his private academy at Lohgarh in Zirakpur.

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Zirakpur SHO inspector Pawan Kumar said the accused has been sent in two-day police remand.

According to police, a complaint was filed by Nitesh Mohan, a Sangrur resident, alleging Ashwani has issued a fake marksheet for clearing Class XII examination of ICSE. When he checked the certificate online, he found it to be fake. Kumar said, “We learnt he had been operating through his academy from where he issued marksheets for classes X and XII. We will interrogate him to find out the number of certificates issued by him.”

Police said Mohan, in his complaint, alleged that he came to know that the academy makes students clear Class XII examinations despite them failing. He approached the academy and Ashwani demanded Rs 1.5 lakh for getting him to clear Class XII without appearing in the examinations.

Mohan alleged he had paid Rs 80,000 for the deal and Ashwani in return gave him the marksheet showing as “passed Class XII”.

Sources said the accused during preliminary interrogation claimed he has issued more than three dozen such fake marksheets to various students. Police said they suspect that Ashwani has links with other touts in different states.

Sant Nagar “house of horror”

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  • Two diaries found at the Sant Nagar “house of horror” have helped police make some sense of the bizarre “mass suicides”.
  • Lalit had been hallucinating that his father was giving instructions to the family through him, said an officer.

NEW DELHI: Two diaries found at the Sant Nagar “house of horror” have helped police make some sense of the bizarre “mass suicides”. A day after TOI reported the diaries’ contents, a special team in crime branch minutely studied them and is preparing a report.

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According to sources, it appeared that Lalit, Narayani Bhatia’s youngest son, had been making notes on someone’s “directions” – possibly his father, Gopal Das Bhatia, who died 10 years ago. “It appears that Lalit had been hallucinating that his father was giving instructions to the family through him,” said an officer who studied the diaries.
Cops said it was evident that the family was blindly following all these “directions”. One of the last notings reads that that the mother would feed rotis to everyone (ma sabko roti khilayegi). This has been corroborated as the family ordered 20 rotis from a nearby shop for which it paid Rs 200. They didn’t order any vegetables. The police have found the restaurant bill in the house. The food was delivered around 10.40pm.
As TOI reported on Monday, the police confirmed that the diaries gave a step-by-step account of what happened on that night. It had detailed instructions for “mass salvation”, including how the hangings should be conreducted.

The Bhatias, who ran a shop in the area, seemed to have followed the instructions, some of which may have been written months ago. They conducted a “havan” hours before the suicides.
A senior police officer said: “Right from asking them to stand on stools, to the mother lying on a separate bed in the other room, and Pratibha, the widowed sister of Lalit, to hang near the temple’s chaukhat — everything is mentioned in detail in the notings.” He added: “The first entry in the diary is of 2015.

For a few months, there are no entries… then it starts again… There is a gap between most entries… In all, there are around 40-50 pages.” Sources confirmed that the entries in the registers had become more frequent after January this year, indicating that Lalit’s condition may have worsened.

Census 2021 to be stored electronically, Any tampering with info will be punished under IT Act

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Any tampering with info will be punished under IT Act

The data collected during the 2021 Census will be stored electronically, the first time since the decennial exercise was conducted in 1951 in Independent India.

According to an amended rule notified by the Registrar General of India (RGI) on June 19, “The schedules and other connected papers shall be disposed of totally or in part by the Director of Census Operations, after creating an electronic record of such documents.”

Electronic format

A Home Ministry spokesperson said till now the “schedules” (a tabular form containing details of individuals), carried by enumerators to households, were being stored in a physical form at the government’s storehouse in Delhi. It is based on these schedules that the relevant statistical information on population, language, and occupation are sorted and published.

“The records running into crores of pages were occupying space in government office and it has now been decided that they will be stored in an electronic format. Any tampering with the data will invite punishment under the Information Technology Act, 2000,” said the spokesperson.

The RGI issued the notification as the process for the 2021 Census kicks in.

The spokesperson said enumerators will start “house listing” in 2020 and the headcount will begin from February 2021 onwards. “An individual’s household data is not published by the RGI. They are published in the form of tables on the Census website. The data is preserved for 10 years and then it is destroyed. From now on it can be stored forever in electronic format,” he said.

“Fight Fake News” Rijiju Alerts States

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Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said on Monday that “rumours and fake news” had become a big menace, amid reports that around 20 people had been lynched in different parts of the country in the past one month following child-lifting rumours spread primarily through WhatsApp.

“State governments and all government agencies, along with NGOs, need to come together and create better awareness,” he said. “Rumours and fake news are posing a danger to innocent lives.”

Though the Union Home Ministry has not issued any advisory, several States had taken initiatives to inform and educate the public. “Our social media team is active at the State and district levels,” said O.P. Singh, Uttar Pradesh DGP. “The moment we get such information, we immediately scotch the rumour… We respond and react.”

Rajasthan police has started an intensive drive on Twitter to check rumours. A message posted on its official Twitter handle said: “There are many types of #FakeNews. One such type is #ClickBait — Stories that are deliberately fabricated to gain more website visitors & increase advertising revenue for websites.”

“One of the commonest forms of #FakeNews is people using sensational videos and distorting its context,” said another message posted on June 27. “We had exposed one such fraudster @omshantiom1231 who had used a gory video from Brazil & claimed it to be from #Rajasthan,” the tweet said.

The latest incident was reported from Dhule in Maharashtra on Sunday when a mob attacked five men who had come to a village begging for money and shelter. They were killed on suspicion that they were child traffickers based on WhatsApp rumours.

On June 28, a man identified as Sukanta Chakraborty, hired by the Tripura government to dispel rumours about child-lifters on social media, was lynched in Kalacherra Bazaar. The incident came hours after Zaheer Khan, a trader from Uttar Pradesh, was beaten to death in West Tripura’s Mohanpur district on suspicion of being a child kidnapper.

Cyber law expert Pawan Duggal said service providers like WhatsApp have been given a long rope and the government must make them accountable. “There has been a lack of political will in enforcing the provisions of the law against these service providers… Lack of deterrence or any conviction in social media-related cyber crimes emboldens cyber criminals. It also erodes people’s confidence in the ability of the system to deliver and, therefore, mob justice or mob rule prevails without any fear of legal ramifications. So the onus is back on the government,” he said.

Mr. Duggal said the government could exercise its powers under Section 87 of the IT Act and specify parameters of due diligence to be followed by intermediaries and service providers.

An analysis by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data by Child Rights and You (CRY) revealed that kidnapping and abduction accounted for almost half of the total crimes against children in the country. There were 52,253 cases of kidnapping and abduction among the 1,06,958 crimes against children in 2016.

The next biggest category is rape, amounting to more than 18 per cent of all crimes against children.

 

Admiral JG Nadkarni PVSM AVSM NM VSM (Retd.) passes away.

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Admiral JG Nadkarni PVSM AVSM NM VSM (Retd.) 5 December 1931 – 2 July 2018

 

Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni (5 December 1931 – 2 July 2018) was an In Indian Navy admiral who served as the 14th Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy from 1 December 1987 to 30 November 1990.

Nadkarni was born on 5 December 1931. Admiral Nadkarni died on 2 July 2018 at the age of 86

Nadkarni completed training at TS Dufferin and joined the The Royal Indian Navy in March 1949. He received his basic training at Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, on the training cruiser HMS Devonshire(39)  and at other establishments of the Royal Navy. He specialized in navigation and direction.

He served as the commanding officer of INS Talwar(1959) and INS Delhi (1959). Later, he was appointed the Flag Officer Commanding, Western Fleet (FOCWF).

His commands ashore included Chief Instructor of the Navy at the National Defence College and as the Chief of Personnel at Naval Headquarters (NHQ).

He also served as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-IN-C), Eastern Naval Command before being appointed the Vice Chief of the Naval Staff (VCNS).

On 1 December 1987 he took command as the Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) until his retirement on 30 November 1990.

Nadkarni is a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and the Naval War College.

Awards

Nadkarni is a recipient of the Param Vishisht Seva Medal, Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, Nausena Medal and the Vishisht Seva Medal for his distinguished service.

The district hospitals of Himachal Pradesh would be made e-Hospital

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Union Electronics, Information and Technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday announced, all the district hospitals of Himachal Pradesh would be made e-Hospital so that people could be benefitted.

Speaking on the occasion of laying foundation stone of Incubation Centre of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), he directed the NIC to immediately start work in this direction.

He also announced that National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology would be established in Mandi at the earliest and said 50 villages of the state would be made Digital Villages.

“The stupendous growth in exports by the STPI units from Rs 52 crore in 1992-93 to more than Rs 3,50,680 crore in 2016-17 shows that STPI has played a key role in creating Brand India and transforming the country as the most preffered IT destination,” he said.

Prasad said it has also played a phenomenal role in promoting Tier-II/Tier-III cities of the country.

He said that Prime Minister has a vision of Inclusive Digital India. “31 crore bank accounts were opened under Jan Dhan Yojana and started providing Direct Benefit Transfer to the poor directly to their accounts,” he said.

The government has saved Rs 90,000 crore during the last three years by way of direct benefit transfer and 91 BPOs have been established in smaller towns of the country during the last four years.

This has helped the youth in getting employment opportunities nearer to their homes, he said. He also announced that more BPO would be opened in HP.

He said when the present Union government assumed office there were only two mobile factories in the country and now there are over 120 mobile manufacturing factories in the country.

He said that the climate of the state was suited well for the electronics and it could be developed as a major electronic manufacturing hub of the country.

The Union Minister said that STPI additional Incubation facility at Shimla would act as a resource centre for IT/ITES/ESDM units by offering general infrastructural facilities like ready to use Incubation space, High Speed Data Communication with uninterrupted data connectivity and other amenities required for export of software and services which would help to create direct and indirect employment opportunities to IT educated youth of the region.

He said that this would also help in promoting the region as one of the preferred Information Technology destination of the country.

Odisha Congress released a letter seeking appointment from PM

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The Congress MLAs of Odisha and the lone MP have sought an appointment with PM Narendra Modi to remind him of his unfulfilled promise of establishing a super specialty hospital at Rourkela and also present a cheque of Rs 21 lakh as a token contribution towards the “promised “ project.

Clearly aiming to embarrass the PM and the BJP, the Congress leader of opposition in the Odisha assembly Mr Narasingha Mishra, MP Mr Ranjib Biswal, party chief whip Taraprasad Bahinipati held a press conference on Monday and released their letter to the PM seeking an appointment.

If a common man of Rourkela Mr M Biswal walked over 1300 km to reach New Delhi and remind the PM of his unkept promise made in April 2015, it is only proper for us to take up the issue, said Mishra.

He pointed out that Biswal, a youth who has no political links had walked all the way to Delhi to meet the PM and remind him of his promise. He even sought help from a union minister who spurned him. Finally he sat on dharna but was denied permission by Delhi police.

Mishra said the BJP led government at the centre cares two hoots to democracy and democratic forms of protest. They ( the BJP) indulges in empty rhetoric and falsehood but when a PM with all his oratory makes false promises, people have a right to remind and show him to mirror, charged Mishra.

The Congress noted that even BJP MLA of Rourekla Dilip Ray had repeatedly expressed his anguish over the fact that promised projects like the hospital and second bridge over Brahamni river have not been fulfilled. It was Ray who had raised the matter after his repeated tireless efforts by meeting the PM and other central ministers failed to get things moving, stated Mishra.

Mishra rubbed it further in by pointing out that PM Modi did not give an appointment to the a committee of the Odisha assembly headed by the Speaker to raise farmer related issues.

The assembly wrote several letters but there was no reply from the PM, he charged.

Such behavior is nothing short of an insult to the people of Odisha, contended Mishra. The utter disregard for democracy, institutions and norms is evident, he remarked.

Replying to questions, Mishra dared those in the BJP who claim that Rs 200 crore has been provided for the super speciality hospital project to furnish relevant documents. Who sanctioned the funds and to whom, he questioned while adding that this was another bluff by the BJP.

In another statement OPCC chief Niranjan Patnaik denounced the BJP led NDA government for having failed on sevral counts. Modi government promised power supply to every village and every household. But a week ago , a joint secretary in Power Ministry, made it clear that govt. is only responsible for infrastructure, it can not guarantee uninterrupted power supply.

The BJP government in Chhattisgarh constructed unauthorised barrage over river Mahanadi and Odisha remained dry in summer. Now they are constructing barrage on river Tel, the major tributary of Mahanadi.

The Govt at centre is helping Chhattisgarh to do so, he alleged. Demonetisation was imposed to flush out black money and now it is revealed that after demonetisation Rs 7000 crores have been deposited in Swiss Bank.

The BJP has realised that its bluff has been called in states where it is in power and hence it is trying to focus on states like Odisha where it has never been in power on its own and party president Amit Saha is frequenting states like Odisha, West Bengal. Apparently, the BJP feels it is easier to take people for a ride in states for the first time, chided the OPCC chief.

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