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  • Arrested for tweeting percent of Shah with jailed IAS officer, filmmaker Avinash Das will get bail

    Through PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Filmmaker Avinash Das, arrested via Gujarat Police in a case associated with sharing on Twitter a photograph of Union House Minister Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal, was once launched on bail via a court docket right here on Thursday.

    Metropolitan Justice of the Peace M V Chauhan granted bail to Das at the situation that he shall stay provide prior to the Ahmedabad Crime Department right through the primary week of each and every month till the rate sheet is filed.

    The crime department had arrested Das on Wednesday after selecting him up from his Mumbai place of abode an afternoon prior to.

    The filmmaker had additionally been booked for ‘insulting nationwide honour’ via sharing on Instagram and Fb a photograph of a portray of a girl draped within the nationwide flag.

    The court docket had remanded him within the crime department custody for someday.

    When he was once produced prior to the court docket once more on Thursday, Das’s legal professional sought bail for him.

    The filmmaker didn’t proportion on social media any morphed or pretend pictures, argued recommend Uvesh Malik.

    The portray of a girl dressed in the tricolor was once the unique advent of Canada-based artist Nimisha Bhanot and it have been placed on show right through a seminar in Canada about Indian tradition and ladies, he stated.

    Das had simply shared the unique portray (its photograph) in 2017 which failed to quantity to any crime since the piece of artwork was once no longer morphed or distorted, recommend Malik argued.

    As to the photograph of Shah and Singhal, Malik argued that it have been taken right through a public serve as and it had already long past viral when Das tweeted it.

    Even the crime department, within the FIR, admitted that the photograph was once no longer pretend, he stated.

    Sharing unique artwork and already printed photograph was once no crime, Malik argued.

    After listening to the arguments, the Justice of the Peace granted bail to Das on a private bond of Rs 10,000.

    Director pal #AvinashDas @avinashonly was once arrested lately morning via crime department of Gujarat Police . His anticipatory bail utility is pending in Preferrred Court docket . #ISTANDWITHAVINASHDAS percent.twitter.com/qlDw1wVQ9N

    — DHOOPASHWINI (@DhoopAshwini) July 19, 2022

    Das had directed the 2017 movie “Anaarkali of Aarah”, starring Swara Bhaskar, Sanjay Mishra and Pankaj Tripathi, and the 2021 film “Raat Baaki Hai”.

    He had additionally helmed the Netflix collection “She”.

    The Ahmedabad Crime Department registered a First Knowledge Record towards the filmmaker beneath segment 469 (forgery) of the Indian Penal Code in addition to provisions of the Prevention of Insults to Nationwide Honour Act and Knowledge Generation Act over his social media posts.

    The FIR towards 46-year-old Das was once registered in June after he shared a photograph appearing Singhal, who have been arrested via the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case, chatting with Shah.

    As according to the FIR, within the caption with the photograph Das claimed the image was once taken a couple of days prior to Singhal’s arrest, whilst it was once in reality from 2017.

    This was once performed as a way to tarnish Shah’s symbol, the police alleged.

    AHMEDABAD: Filmmaker Avinash Das, arrested via Gujarat Police in a case associated with sharing on Twitter a photograph of Union House Minister Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal, was once launched on bail via a court docket right here on Thursday.

    Metropolitan Justice of the Peace M V Chauhan granted bail to Das at the situation that he shall stay provide prior to the Ahmedabad Crime Department right through the primary week of each and every month till the rate sheet is filed.

    The crime department had arrested Das on Wednesday after selecting him up from his Mumbai place of abode an afternoon prior to.

    The filmmaker had additionally been booked for ‘insulting nationwide honour’ via sharing on Instagram and Fb a photograph of a portray of a girl draped within the nationwide flag.

    The court docket had remanded him within the crime department custody for someday.

    When he was once produced prior to the court docket once more on Thursday, Das’s legal professional sought bail for him.

    The filmmaker didn’t proportion on social media any morphed or pretend pictures, argued recommend Uvesh Malik.

    The portray of a girl dressed in the tricolor was once the unique advent of Canada-based artist Nimisha Bhanot and it have been placed on show right through a seminar in Canada about Indian tradition and ladies, he stated.

    Das had simply shared the unique portray (its photograph) in 2017 which failed to quantity to any crime since the piece of artwork was once no longer morphed or distorted, recommend Malik argued.

    As to the photograph of Shah and Singhal, Malik argued that it have been taken right through a public serve as and it had already long past viral when Das tweeted it.

    Even the crime department, within the FIR, admitted that the photograph was once no longer pretend, he stated.

    Sharing unique artwork and already printed photograph was once no crime, Malik argued.

    After listening to the arguments, the Justice of the Peace granted bail to Das on a private bond of Rs 10,000.

    Director pal #AvinashDas @avinashonly was once arrested lately morning via crime department of Gujarat Police . His anticipatory bail utility is pending in Preferrred Court docket . #ISTANDWITHAVINASHDAS percent.twitter.com/qlDw1wVQ9N— DHOOPASHWINI (@DhoopAshwini) July 19, 2022 Das had directed the 2017 movie “Anaarkali of Aarah”, starring Swara Bhaskar, Sanjay Mishra and Pankaj Tripathi, and the 2021 film “Raat Baaki Hai”.

    He had additionally helmed the Netflix collection “She”.

    The Ahmedabad Crime Department registered a First Knowledge Record towards the filmmaker beneath segment 469 (forgery) of the Indian Penal Code in addition to provisions of the Prevention of Insults to Nationwide Honour Act and Knowledge Generation Act over his social media posts.

    The FIR towards 46-year-old Das was once registered in June after he shared a photograph appearing Singhal, who have been arrested via the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case, chatting with Shah.

    As according to the FIR, within the caption with the photograph Das claimed the image was once taken a couple of days prior to Singhal’s arrest, whilst it was once in reality from 2017.

    This was once performed as a way to tarnish Shah’s symbol, the police alleged.

  • Jharkhand IAS officer Pooja Singhal despatched to judicial custody until June 8 in cash laundering case 

    Through PTI

    RANCHI: A distinct PMLA courtroom on Wednesday despatched Pooja Singhal, the suspended IAS officer from Jharkhand, to judicial custody until June 8 in reference to a cash laundering case connected to alleged embezzlement of MGNREGA finances, stated a attorney of the Enforcement Directorate which is investigating it.

    The bureaucrat used to be within the ED custody for 14 days.

    After being produced prior to the particular PMLA courtroom of Prbhat Kumar Sharma via the ED, Singhal used to be despatched to Birsa Munda Central Prison at Hotwar in Ranchi.

    “Singhal on finishing touch of 14 days in ED custody used to be produced lately prior to the particular PMLA courtroom and used to be remanded to judicial custody until June 8 as consistent with courtroom orders. She used to be despatched to Hotwar Prison,” particular prosecutor of the ED, BMP Singh, informed PTI.

    Singhal shall be produced prior to the courtroom of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) on June 8 by the use of video conferencing.

    The ED asked the courtroom to grant permission to its sleuths to interrogate her in prison on every occasion required.

    “I argued that this is a higher conspiracy and we need to interrogate her once more. There’s a prison provision that we (ED) can not get her in ED custody for greater than 14 days. So we submitted a prayer to the courtroom to reserve the prison superintendent that on every occasion required we will query her. The courtroom requested us to report a separate petition when such requirement arises,” Singh stated.

    At the request of Singhal’s recommend for her clinical check-up, the courtroom stated this may also be carried out via a prison physician, Singh claimed.

    “We can search the courtroom’s permission to interrogate her in prison as it sort of feels that there’s a higher conspiracy. Exam of the virtual gadgets of the officer is being carried out. The investigation is in a an important level with the emergence of latest proof within the case,” the ED recommend stated.

    Singhal’s chartered accountant Suman Kumar used to be previous despatched to judicial custody via the courtroom of PMLA in reference to the cash laundering case.

    Kumar used to be additionally within the custody of the Enforcement Directorate for 13 days.

    The 44-year-old IAS officer used to be suspended via the Jharkhand govt on Might 12 as a part of the process undertaken, in case of a central authority servant being arrested in a prison case, inside 24 hours of the receipt of data.

    Singhal, who served because the state mining division secretary, used to be arrested on the day past via the ED.

    The company had produced her prior to the particular PMLA courtroom which remanded her within the ED custody for 5 days from Might 12, and later prolonged two times until Wednesday.

    In accordance with the “incriminating fabrics” seized right through searches, a number of suspected individuals, together with district mining officials, had been known as for wondering.

    Previous, the company had knowledgeable the courtroom that the virtual gadgets of each Singhal and her CA, that have been seized, have been despatched to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory.

    ED may be inspecting all main points associated with Pulse Medical institution, allegedly owned via the bureaucrat and her circle of relatives, the development of the power, acquire of kit as it’s suspected that the clinical facility used to be used to “launder” cash.

    She used to be arrested within the cash laundering case connected to alleged embezzlement of MGNREGA finances and a few different suspicious monetary transactions after the ED raided her premises on Might 6 along side that of her businessman husband Abhishek Jha, the chartered accountant and others.

    The Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Rural Employment Ensure Act 2005 (MGNREGA) is geared toward improving the livelihood safety of families in rural spaces of the rustic via offering a minimum of 100 days of assured salary employment in a monetary 12 months.

    Suman Kumar used to be arrested following the seizure of greater than Rs 17.79 crore in money allegedly from his residential and administrative center premises.

  • Jharkhand cash laundering probe: Remand of IAS Pooja Singhal, CA Suman Kumar prolonged for 4 days

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    RANCHI: The Particular PMLA Courtroom has prolonged the remand of suspended IAS Pooja Singhal and CA Suman Kumar for different four-days. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had prayed for extending the remand of 9 and 5 days respectively for Singhal and Kumar, however granted handiest 4 day remand for each and every of them.

    The Enforcement Directorate, after interrogation for over 15 hours, had arrested mining secretary Pooja Singhal on Wednesday in a cash laundering case related to alleged embezzlement of MGNREGA finances and different fees whilst Chartered accountant Suman Kumar, related to Singhal, had already been arrested 3 days again. An afternoon after his arresting, the State Executive suspended Singhal on Would possibly 12.

    ED was once previous given five-day remand for Pooja Singhal which ended on Monday.

    “Each had been produced prior to the Courtroom via ED in search of nine-day remand for Singhal and five-day remand for Kumar, however they granted four-day remand for each and every of them,” mentioned ED Recommend BMP Singh.  

    They’re going to be faced from the virtual tool received from their ownership, he added.

    In the meantime, District Mining Officials (DMO) of Pakur and Dumka grew to become up on the zonal place of job of the Enforcement Directorate in Ranchi for interrogation whilst the Sahibganj DMO has sought some extra time as he’s busy with the wedding of his daughter and he’s on go away until Would possibly 20.

    ED may be mentioned to have written to Apple India in search of cell main points of mining secretary Pooja Singhal. WhatsApp has additionally been contacted for her chat main points.

    The 2000-batch Indian Administrative Provider (IAS) officer has been taken into ED custody below the related sections of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA). 

    Singhal was once arrested on 2nd day of the wondering being accomplished via the ED officers after her replies to the questions requested via ED throughout wondering weren’t enough and her replies had been evasive.

    In line with the tips supplied to the court docket via ED previous after arresting of CA Suman Kumar, Rs 1.43 crore greater than the recognized resources of her source of revenue had been recovered from the financial institution accounts of Pooja Singhal whilst she was once Deputy Commissioner in Khunti, Palamu and Chatra. 

    The ED additionally claimed that Singhal bought as many as 13 insurance coverage insurance policies via paying a top rate of Rs 80.81 lakh and closed them prior to of entirety in their tenure and were given Rs 84.64 lakh towards it.

    Significantly, the ED on Would possibly 6 carried out raids at a number of places, together with that of Pooja Singhal, in reference to a cash laundering case related to alleged embezzlement of over Rs 18 crore MGNREGA finances in Khunti district throughout 2008-2011.

    The raids had been carried out at a complete of 18 places together with Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana, NCR in addition to Ranchi, Khunti and Dhanbad in Jharkhand.