A special CBI court in Delhi on Wednesday reserved its order on the sentencing of former union minister Dilip Ray and others in a coal scam case pertaining to the alleged irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999.
Special Judge Bharat Parashar, who is hearing the coal scam cases, reserved his order on the quantum of sentence for October 26 after concluding the arguments.
The lawyers representing the convicts argued for less punishment and cited various grounds of health, age, and family responsibilities. They also submitted that the convicts have no previous criminal background. Whereas, the counsel of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) submitted that the convicts should be awarded the maximum punishments.
The special court had recently convicted Dilip Ray, two then senior officials of the Ministry of Coal (MoC) — Pradip Kumar Banerjee and Nitya Nand Gautam, Castron Technologies Ltd (CTL), its director Mahendra Kumar Agarwalla and Castron Mining Ltd (CML) in the case for charges dealing with criminal conspiracy and other offences.
Ray was a former Minister of State for the Ministry of Coal during the then National Democratic Alliance government.
The CBI, in its chargesheet, had booked these accused under Section 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating), and 409 (criminal breach of trust) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The case pertains to the allocation of the Brahmadiha coal block in Giridih of Jharkhand to CTL in 1999.
Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena which recently announced that the party will contest for 50 seats in the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, reportedly disclose candidates’ name that would campaign for the same. On Tuesday, the chief spokesperson of the party Sanjay Raut said that Shiv Sena is all set to contest on 40-50 seats in the Bihar Assembly elections, but no final decision has been taken on pre-poll alliance yet.
The party leader also said that talks are ongoing with local parties for an alliance in the state and he will be visiting Patna shortly.
On October 11, Shiv Sena filed the names of the candidates for Bihar election which includes Subhash Desai, Sanjay Raut, Anil Desai, Vinayak Raut, Arvind Sawant, Priyanka Chaturvedi, Rahul Shewale, and Krupal Tumane.
While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, the Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP informed, “Shiv Sena will contest 40-50 seats, there is no talk about alliance with anyone till now. I’ll go to Patna next week. Local parties, including that of Pappu Yadav, want to talk to us.”
Raut however refused to comment anything about talks with its pre-existing ally in the Maharashtra government, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), in Bihar.
While the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) led Mahagathbandhan comprises Congress and Left parties, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has the Janata Dal-United (JDU) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), among others, in the state.
Reportedly, the late politician Ram Vilas Paswan led Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) has decided to go solo in this election. However, some reports suggest that the current party president of LJP Chirag Paswan likely to enter into a post-poll alliance with the BJP.
Elections for the 243-member Bihar Assembly will be held in three phases on October 28, November 3, and November 7 respectively, and the counting of votes will take place on November 10.
A participant in traditional costume wearing a mask featuring “COVID-19 warriors” as he attends a rehearsal for Garba, a folk dance, ahead of Navratri, a festival during which devotees worship the Hindu goddess Durga and youths dance in traditional costumes, amidst the coronavirus disease outbreak / Photo: Reuters
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government has requested people to celebrate the upcoming Navratri and Dussehra festivals in a low-key manner due to the COVID-19 outbreak. With a few days left for Navratri to begin, the state government advised cancellation of garba, dandiya and cultural programmes. In a 16-point circular issued ahead of Navratri, Durga Puja and Dusshera, the state home department said the festivals need to be celebrated in a “simple manner”. This year, Navratri starts on October 17, with Dusshera falling on October 25.
Instead of hosting cultural events that could attract crowds, the government has advised mandals to host health-related events or camps, such as blood donation drives. The government’s ‘Majhe Kutumb Majhi Jajbabdari (My Family My Responsibility)’ initiative should be publicised, apart from promoting precautionary measures that need to be taken against Covid-19, malaria and dengue, said the standard operating procedure. Keeping up with its efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, the state government has announced that there will be no garba, dandiya or any cultural events involving mass participation this year.
The nine-day long festival will start from October 17.In the guidelines issued by the state home department, festivals organisers and mandals have been asked to spread awareness on COVID-19, malaria, and dengue among other diseases. The mandals will also have to take permission from the civic body in advance. Along the lines of the restrictions imposed for Ganeshotsav, the height of the Durga idol has been capped at four ft for public pandals and two ft for private celebrations. The government has also urged the people to immerse idols either at homes or in artificial ponds created by housing societies or the civic body. Immersion at public places shall not be allowed in the view of maintaining social distancing. This year, not more than five people have been allowed inside the pandal. The state has also mandated that instead of idols made of plaster of Paris (PoP), organisers should opt for either clay or permanent idols.
“The traditional Dussehra event of burning the effigy of Raavan should be held observing social distancing norms, without spectators, and in a symbolic manner. Spectators should not be invited. Instead, organisers should arrange for live broadcast through social media platforms like Facebook,” the guidelines mention. On the ban on garba events, the organiser of Kora Kendra Dandiya, Ganesh Naidu, said: “We are ready to follow guidelines, but it would have been better had the government taken us into confidence. Just like IPL (Indian Premier League), we would have proposed broadcast of performances from the ground. At least it would have helped artists. But the current guidelines are not clear on that aspect.”
For Navratri and Durga Puja, the government has suggested worship of metal-based idols instead of the traditional ones made of Plaster of Paris or clay. In cases where metal-based idols are not used, residents have been urged to worship eco-friendly idols, which can be dissolved at home or artificial immersion tanks. The height of the idol has been capped at 4 feet for mandals and 2 feet for home worship. No procession should be held for either the arrival or visarjan of the idol. In containment zones, visarjan may not be allowed, the circular stated. The government stressed on avoiding crowding for bhajan, aarti and kirtan events. Wherever possible, using online means and cable networks to broadcast ‘Devi Darshan’ and other events has been recommended. For hosting public Navratri gatherings, mandals will be required to take permission from local administration or Municipal Corporation, said the circular. It added a mandap should be erected as per the policy formulated by the civic body or the local administration and orders issued by the Bombay High Court. For mandals, sanitisation and thermal screening has been made compulsory. They will also not be allowed to provide the services of food or drinks. At a time, no more than five volunteers should remain present in the mandal, the circular said.
Participants in traditional costumes wearing face masks perform during rehearsals for Garba, a folk dance, ahead of Navratri, a festival during which devotees worship the Hindu goddess Durga and youths dance in traditional costumes, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Ahmedabad on Saturday. / Photo: ANI
Navratri brings along a heady invention of backless cholis, late night revelry, drugs, alcohol and a strong undercurrent of sexual intimacy. It is in the air of the smoky yet starlit city sky; it is in the music and the attires; it is in the sensuous dance, as the Raas – a form of Garba performed only by the unity of ying-yangs. From teenage girls who bank on Navratri for escapades with boyfriends to some young girls who make a quick buck out of the mood to middle-age married women willing to pay a bomb for teenage escorts – the forbidden fruit is omnipresent and basks in the glory of the nine festive nights of Navratri. On the other hand, those strugglers in the film and modelling industry get lured in flesh trade; they become contractual partners for outsiders who land up in glossy cities to spend their celebration nights. While none of this is new, this year the Navratri won’t be much visible. This year, people have to control all their thrill cravings and get in a private event zone. Public events would follow the guidelines of Maharashtra Government and that won’t be much fascinating.
Many middle-aged women get young men to escort them for the night at private parties. Lockdown and unemployment in the modeling and film industry guided many strugglers to escorting business. While this happens around the year under wraps, during Navratri, this clan gets the gusto to wear their ‘able-bodied’ acquisitions on their sleeve and flaunt them. These models are paid 500 to 50000 depending on their body, fame and performance. And unabashed fun is not limited to the elderly. For the young ones, Garbha provides a good excuse to sneak out and have fun. But sadly, they have to control their cravings this year.
Whereas the glamour industry is concerned, many aspiring actresses, struggling models and side dances have pushed themselves to flesh trading. Many have joined those friendship clubs where the choices are picked for one-night stands in the name of friendship. Navratri used to be the earning event for these girls and guys, because they were hired by rich celebrities and business tycoons to escort them. This year even the wedding season was a low key affair, so the business of attending weddings as paid hosts was also a remote chance. Well, the narrative of dark side won’t stop here, but many models and small-time artists have got in sex rackets and flesh trading, they catch all those strugglers who are in rush to earn money, this industry has too many stories of human trading and compromises. It’s not for the first time but in the recent past Mumbai police have rescued Bollywood strugglers lured in sex racket by the Models themselves. Film industry has its glitter but the story also has a very different, dark side. Earlier Bollywood was a completely male dominated industry and Women were given trivial or insignificant roles in the movies, but were also underpaid. With the changing time heroin centric movies have proven that the films can very well fetch market without a Hero, Vidya Balan is one great example. She has worked in many films that were Heroin oriented and Hero had very minor roles to do. Young men hardly have anything in hand; apart from a few web series they hardly have anything to their kitty.
These youngsters walk in to Bollywood and its colourful fringes — being clueless. They knock various doors; some get some work, some get some role and maximum land up doing what they never thought of, because returning becomes a dilemma. Young boys and girls with starry dreams arrive by the dozens every day. Only 3% of these strugglers ever make it to the glitzy side of the real Bollywood, but this depressing statistic never affects the surge of hopefuls who finally don’t even care if they make it in film as long as they find some way of earning. In the struggle for perceived stardom and the mirage of megabucks, ethics and so-called societal values have no place. They call themselves aspiring models or aspiring actors as soon as they disembark in Mumbai. Bollywood’s sordid underside is not news anymore and is a matter of great concern.
Those who genuinely want a career in film and those who want to use their looks to make money. Most of the youngsters come here to make more money than the career. The struggle for the ‘strugglers’ begins right at the beginning — finding a roof in Mumbai to feed them and commute three big challenges. Their needs increase as the pockets get stretched, to fill this gap they force themselves to work in all those zones where money can be earned. Given this parallel industry, for the genuine ones, it is often a struggle to ensure that one is not taken for a ride. Such as routine fake auditions, there are coordinators who come to offer help but with ulterior motives, auditions are sometimes euphemisms for ‘pleasure sessions’. Many moneyed people check out young, good-looking men and women through such auditions. Many strugglers are called often for parties and pleasure by some so-called socialists and film financers. It is not easy to break into big-time Bollywood if you are not born into a powerful and influential star family. Therefore, aspiring starlets feel the need to develop connections and get themselves a ‘sugar daddy’ in the business that will smoothen their ride to the top. With desperate aspirants willing to almost throw themselves at their mercy, Bollywood bigwigs are not shy of exploiting the scenario of these junior artistes. According to insiders, things have only become more rampant of late because of the willingness of starlets to give in. One has to seriously think about this on-going trend that has lured many youngsters in flesh trade for the extra perks.
The Indian media has played a major role in revealing instances of the casting couch in B-town, flesh trade and prostitution in the garb of fashion and celebration to maintain high standards of life. In a sensational sting operation in 2005, India TV trapped famous Bollywood baddie Shakti Kapoor and TV star Aman Verma. They were caught on tape making advances to a starlet planted by the channel. Starlet Preeti Jain created a sensation in 2004 when she accused ace director Madhur Bhandarkar of raping her for many years after making false promises of giving her a film role. The case dragged on for years and finally in 2012 the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Bhandarkar and rejected the rape charge. Actress Payal Rohatgi was in the thick of controversy in 2011 when she accused director Dibakar Banerjee of trying to sexually exploit her in exchange for a movie role. Banerjee’s friend, noted filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, jumped into the fray to defend his pal and dismissed Payal as being ‘mentally unstable’. In heartless B-town, it seems even established stars cannot escape persecution and male ones at that.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said a special interest-free 50-year loan will be issued to states by the Centre for Rs 12,000 crore capital expenditure. Addressing a press conference Sitharaman said, “Capital expenditure — money spent on infrastructure and asset creation — has a multiplier effect on the economy, it not only improves current GDP but also future GDP, we want to give a new thrust to capital expenditure of both states and Centre.”
“We are issuing a special interest-free 50-year loan to states for Rs 12,000 crore capital expenditure. It will be issued in three parts. In Part 1, Rs 200 crore each for eight North-East states and Rs 450 crore each for Uttarakhand, Himachal. In Part 2, Rs 7,500 crore for remaining states, as per 15th finance commission devolution. In Part 3, Rs 2,000 crore for the state which meets at least 3 out of 4 reforms given in Aatma Nirbhar fiscal deficit package,” she added. Both Part 1 and Part 2 of interest-free loans given to states are meant to be spent by March 31, 2021, in which 50 per cent will be given initially, remaining upon utilisation of first 50 per cent, Finance Minister said.
The Finance Minister was addressing at a time when the country’s GDP had contracted 23.9 per cent during the April-June quarter. This quarter took the hardest hit of coronavirus-induced lockdown across the country. The Reserve Bank of India has predicted that the whole financial year’s GDP would shrink 9.5 per cent in the current fiscal. The Finance Minister also announced an additional budget of Rs 25,000 crore (in addition to Rs 4.13 lakh crore given in Budget 2020) will be provided for capital expenditure of the Centre on roads, defence, infrastructure, water supply, urban development, and domestically produced capital equipment.
“We estimate that the measures announced today, for boosting consumer spending and capital expenditure, will boost demand by Rs 73,000 crore, to be spent by March 31, 2021. Given that private sector spending through LTC tax benefit would be at least Rs 28,000 crore, we estimate the total demand boost due to today’s measures to be more than Rs 1 lakh crore,” she said. “Today’s solution should not cause tomorrow’s problem. The central government has kept in mind that measures to stimulate demand must not burden the citizen with future inflation or put government debt on an unsustainable path. If demand goes up based on the stimulus measures announced today, it will have an impact on those people who have been affected by COVID-19 and are desperately looking for demand to keep their business going,” she added.
Maharashtra Energy Minister Nitin Raut on Monday said the power supply in Mumbai and Thane will be restored in the next one hour. The electricity supply was interrupted during maintenance and repair work at circuit one of 400 KV GIS centre, he said.
“Repair and maintenance work was underway at Circuit 1 of 400 KV GIS centre and the entire load was put on Circuit 2. However, sudden technical failure in circuit 2 resulted in power being affected in most of the parts of Mumbai and Thane,” Raut said.
महापारेषणच्या कळवा- पडघा GIS केंद्रात अचानक तांत्रिक बिघाड झाल्याने ठाणे, कल्याण, पालघर व नवी मुंबई मधील वीज खंडीत झाली.याचा cascading effect मुळे मुंबई व मुंबई उपनगरातील वीज देखील खंडीत झाली आहे. महापारेषण कॅपनीचे अधिकारी-कर्मचारी युद्धपातळीवर काम करत आहेत .
The minister said Mahavitran staffers are working on a war footing basis to address the problem and power supply will be restored in the next one hour.
Taking to Twitter, Raut said the Kalwa-Padgha transmission line got tripped, leading to power outages in Thane, Palghar, and Navi Mumbai.
“Consequently, cascading the power failure to Mumbai-Thane & Mumbai suburban city. It will be restored in approximately an hour,” he tweeted.
The Shiv Sena is going to contest around 50 seats in the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls. The Sena leaders who would campaign in Bihar include Subhash Desai, Sanjay Raut, Anil Desai, Vinayak Raut, Arvind Sawant, Priyanka Chaturvedi, Rahul Shewale, and Krupal Tumane.
Elections for the 243-member Bihar Assembly will be held in three phases on October 28, November 3, and November 7, and the counting of votes will take place on November 10.
Talking to the reporters, Anil Desai said the Shiv Sena does not have an alliance with any party for polls in the eastern state.
“The Shiv Sena is contesting around 50 seats. We have fielded our candidates in constituencies where we have our cadre involved in public work,” the Rajya Sabha member said.
He also said the Shiv Sena”s election symbol for Bihar polls will be a “man blowing tura” (trumpet). The Election Commission had earlier disallowed the Shiv Sena from using its party symbol ”bow and arrow” in the Bihar Assembly polls over similarity with the ”arrow” symbol of the JD(U).
Asked about the schedule of Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray for campaigning in Bihar, Desai said the details would be provided by the party and the CM himself.
The Shiv Sena on Thursday released a list of 22 leaders who will campaign in Bihar. Besides Uddhav Thackeray, his son and Maharashtra tourism minister Aaditya Thackeray also figures in the list of campaigners.
Since 2014, the Indian media evidently got divided into parts. There are battalions of journalists and mainstream media houses that are hell-bent on proving how Modi is the only appropriate Prime minister of India and how there is no other choice if not he. On the other hand, there is an opposite brigade of Media, which has strained all the guns to expose and attack Modi and his government.
Apart from these two categories, there are some rare journalists, who are no supporters of any political party but they make Modi and his ministers accountable for all those things they promised, they expose the government for all that wrong they did and they equally stand by the ruling government when worth appreciating things happening. They are the media people who follow no ideology; a party of political person or propaganda, their simple agendas are media, news, and ethical journalism. These rare species in the media are not liked by many or hated by much. They are always in silence and not much regarded for their neutrality because they speak against everyone and they stand by all when it’s worth it. So, this media has no buyer or taker. The other two could grab a lot of fan following and attention due to their attacks on each other’s side.
Well, there has been a lot of propaganda spread around by the Media and a peculiar influential people’s group. Some media houses have a pro stance on Modi and his work while others never fail to criticize him. Also, the 2002 Riots in Gujarat and the Hindutva Tag attached to BJP has made people feel that BJP and Modi are anti-minority, especially Muslims. The opposition takes advantage of this to create that fear among the minority. Also, the appeasement by the previous governments towards the minority has largely affected the perception of the minorities towards BJP.
But if you look at recent elections, BJP was on toes to please minorities and Congress President Rahul Gandhi was visiting all temples by telling his “Gotra” and displaying his sacred thread. When BJP realized, Hindu sentiments may get hurt they announced a ten percent reservation to the economically poor upper-class community. While political parties were playing their vote games, the Media was playing for TRP. They were going with their pre-set agendas, of fame or defame their counterparts. I strongly believe that Indian media is divided into Pro Modi and Anti Modi groups. The pro-Modi groups leave no chance to abuse the people who criticize Modi based on his work and that is indeed a sad state. The anti-Modi groups on the other hand leave no chance to criticize Modi even though he has done some really good deeds as a Prime Minister of India.
Some Indian media groups served the news in a way that was less news and more of their opinion towards BJP and Modi. For example- in some state, someone killed its opponent in a personal land dispute, but just because the one who got killed was Muslim and the one who murdered was Hindu, the media and social media bigots gave it a shape as minority hate supported by BJP government, just because Modi did not comment on the subject.
On the other hand, if we have to give an example, some Hindu men get accused of illicit activities and victims are also Hindu (for example, their self-declared Godmen), immediately social media groups and Right-wing media publish it as an attack on Hindutva and Hindu saints. There are many such examples, but the point is that news should be a report based on facts but not the fantasy that comes to your mind. Journalists can’t resist making the breaking news out of any shit. If there is no news, they create propaganda against Modi/ for Modi. He once said that even if a puppy is hurt, I feel bad let alone be human beings! Media showed that Modi compared Muslims with puppies. This is how news is baked these days. But if we look at the broader facet of it, the Modi government or its supporters have not tolerated the anti-Modi media brigade, rather not even those who make constructive criticism, because BJP and its supporters cannot handle criticism. To counter such audiences, voices, and viewers there were new additions to the ever-growing Indian media.
The launch of the much-talked Republic TV channel anchored by Arnab Goswami in May 2017 is assigned to shut opinions, till today he is doing his job as a loyal combatant to BJP. Over screaming Arnab plays his role as BJP and PM’s mouthpiece. To beat Arnab, other prime time television anchors of Indian mainstream media are following his footsteps. Meanwhile, on the other side, these additions to the existing avalanche of channels, newspapers, and online portals in the country will witness the return of several so-called high profiles and established journalists like Barkha Dutt, Karan Thapar, Punya Prasun Bajpai Abhisar Sharma, and many others who are familiar to the television viewers. What has heightened the interest in the media and political circles about these new additions to the mushrooming Indian media is that politicians are backing many of these ventures for their own motives. These both side channels have become mouthpieces keeping the journalism at bay.
Considering that the general elections are around the corner in just a few months it is not surprising these new entrants are being launched at this juncture to make the most of the charged atmosphere and the political drama that is expected to unfold. Scandalous journalist Barkha Dutt is making a grand comeback to the electronic media as its prime anchor along with Karan Thapar, another known name in Indian journalism through Harvest TV a 24-hour English news channel. High-profile Congress politician Kapil Sibal is funding the channel.
Barkha Dutt who served NDTV for over two decades quit the channel under controversial circumstances in January last year. Other prominent television journalists such as Seemi Pasha and Vineet Malhotra, former India Today and former Times Now respectively, are also said to be part of the new channel and will vie for the viewer’s attention. A Hindi channel will soon follow after the launch of the English Channel. The channel is owned by Veecon Media, which has secured licenses for English, Hindi, and regional language channels. The channel has promised to ‘provide space for an alternative narrative without being jingoistic’.
Arnab Goswami’s Republic launched with a big bang and landed in the TRP rigging scandal. Arnab is known for his incomparable style of anchoring in his Republic channel with the decibel levels reaching feverish pitch often and the channel has its own band of followers. It remains to be seen whether the channel is going to continue with a similar style of anchoring in the Hindi channels also. With the entry of the Republic Hindi TV, the Hindi television media, which is presently dominated by the likes of Aaj Tak, Zee News, and India TV, there is going to be a real media battle for supremacy. Hemanth Sharma, another known face in Hindi television who was part of India TV, is also said to be launching a Hindi channel for the TV9 group with the support of other television journalists like Vinod Kapri and Ajit Anjum. Hemanth Sharma who quit India TV following differences with Rajat Sharma.
The print media is not left behind either. Media conglomerate Network 18, the promoters of CNN News18 and the promoters of the web portal Firstpost, launched its first weekly newspaper with the same name on the Republic Day with Praveen Swamy as editor. Well, 2020’s Bihar and West Bengal elections are all about the media, but remember you the voters may not be in power but hold controls and ask questions to the government and they are obligated to answer us.
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The Crime Branch of Mumbai grilled Vikas Khanchandani the chief executive of Republic TV in the TRP rigging case. The source of the crime branch told Afternoon Voice that the CEO of Republic was not cooperating with cops. Police said there will be no mercy shown to the culprits. efficient offices of the crime branch are investigating the case.
The channel’s CFO Shiva Subramaniyam Sundaram was also summoned but he asked that it be rescheduled. The owners of two TV channels — Fakt Marathi and Box Cinema — are among the four people arrested in the case. Sundaram has said the channel had filed a petition with the Supreme Court challenging the police summons, which is likely to be listed soon. In a statement on Saturday, he requested the police “not to proceed with any further investigation in so far as Republic TV and its employees are concerned”.
Data indicated that the three channels were tweaking ratings to get high advertising rates, a procedure that amounts to fraud. Around 20,000 households are monitored by Hansa — an agency that placed the rating metres — and it emerged that a section of them were being bribed to run the specific channels concerned, the police said. Each family was receiving ₹ 400 to ₹ 500 a month. That data was being manipulated became clear when it emerged that non-English speaking poor households were watching English news channels. It was Hansa that filed a complaint and the investigation started thereafter, the police said.
Investigations into the television rating points (TRP) manipulation scam have shown that one of the four arrested accused, Bomapallirao Mistry, had in the last one year received a total of more than Rs 1 crore in his bank account from four-five people, the Mumbai police said.
Mistry (45), who has had no steady source of income for the past 1.5 years, through his aides paid households to watch three TV channels, police said. They have seized Rs 8.5 lakh found in Mistry’s bank locker and have also frozen his bank account, which, they say, had a balance of Rs 20 lakh. “We found that since November last year, more than Rs 1 crore came into his account. These transfers happened after a gap of every two months and each time an amount ranging from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 25 lakh was deposited. We have noticed five to six such money transfers in his account,” said a crime branch officer.
‘Forensic audit of transactions by 3 channels’, there are allegations that the arrested accused paid money to households, where people meters were installed, to watch these channels to increase their TRPs Mistry, a Versova resident, was responsible for distributing money to his protégé and another arrested accused, Vishal Bhandari, a former Hansa Research Group employee, a police officer said.
“Money came from four to five people. We are now probing them to ascertain why they transferred money to Mistry,” said the officer.
Advocate Satish Maneshinde had said that once Rhea Chakraborty is out on bail they will start going after the people who defamed and tried to destroy Rhea’s life and morale for a 2-minute glory on Electronic Media carrying Fake News.
One such person was Dimple Thawani, a neighbor of Rhea who claims she is an SSR fan and believes she is his soulmate due to a past life connection. She claims that someone told her that SSR dropped Rhea home on the 13th.
It’s a baseless rumor by a fan who is part of the media circus and wants to share the limelight with others who claim to know SSR.
“Her statement was recorded by CBI today and you will all be glad to know what she said to CBI in her statement. I would request all honest Journalists to go to her now and record what she has to say. Satyamev Jayate”, said Advocate Satish Maneshinde.
He further said, “The CBI had gone to Rhea’s building to collect mobile numbers of Rhea’s family members to be in contact, the CBI also questioned Dimple Thawani who was present in the building premises.”
Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena which recently announced that the party will contest for 50 seats in the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, reportedly disclose candidates’ name that would campaign for the same. On Tuesday, the chief spokesperson of the party Sanjay Raut said that Shiv Sena is all set to contest on 40-50 seats in the Bihar Assembly elections, but no final decision has been taken on pre-poll alliance yet.
Advocate Satish Maneshinde had said that once Rhea Chakraborty is out on bail they will start going after the people who defamed and tried to destroy Rhea’s life and morale for a 2-minute glory on Electronic Media carrying Fake News.