Two quakes nudge Delhi; parts of north India
New Delhi, June 2 (PTI): Two medium intensity quakes today hit Haryana, tremors of which were felt in Delhi and other parts of northern India. The epicenter of the first quake, measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale, was Rohtak district in Haryana, said the Center for Seismology under the India Meteorological Department. The depth of the quake was 22 km and it occurred at 4:25 AM. The second tremor of 3.2 intensity was also felt in Rohtak at 8:13 AM at a depth of 10 kms. There were no immediate reports of any loss of lives or damage to property.
Four trampled to death by elephant in city outskirts
Coimbatore, June 2 (PTI): Four persons, including a minor girl, were trampled to death and two others injured by an elephant at Vellalore area in the outskirts of the city today. The 12-year-old girl was sleeping in the veranda of her house when the elephant, which strayed into human habitations some days ago from nearby Madukkarai forests, trampled her to death at around 3.30 AM, police said. The pachyderm then moved away from the area and attacked and grievously injured three more persons, including two women. The injured persons have been hospitalised.
Man sacrifices 7-month-old baby
Jamshedpur, June 2 (PTI): A man with the help of a tantrik allegedly sacrificed a seven-month-old baby to appease God, so that he and his wife could have a child in Jharkhand’s Seraikela-Kharswan district, police said today. Bhadoi Kalindi and a tantrik, Karmu Kalindi were arrested by police yesterday from Chaida village under Tiruldih police station, said Sub-Divisional Police Officer (Chandil), Sandeep Bhagat. On the night of May 26, Bhadoi and Karmu abducted the baby girl, who was the daughter of Karmu s neighbour Subhash Gope, in her sleep and sacrificed her at a cremation ghat near a river at Tiruldih, Bhagat said. Both of them have confessed to the crime during interrogation on Thursday, the SDPO said.
Ahmedabad cops to use mobile app to penalise traffic violators
Ahmedabad, June 2 (PTI): In a bid to bring transparency in the collection of fine from traffic offenders, the city police have decided to do away with the system of collecting on-the-spot cash penalty and instead use a mobile app to issue e-challans. The project will be implemented on a pilot basis for a month starting tomorrow. The police are required to take photos of the traffic offenders and upload them on the app. The ATP (Ahmedabad Traffic Police) mobile application is directly connected with the police control room, which would then generate an e-challan to that offender.
PWD scam: ACB files three FIRs
New Delhi, June 2 (PTI): The Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) today informed a Delhi court that it has lodged three separate FIRs on a criminal complaint filed against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and others in an alleged PWD scam. Metropolitan Magistrate Abhilash Malhotra also directed the Assistant Commissioner of ACB to assess the threat perception on the complainant Rahul Sharma once again after he informed the court that two unknown bikers recently fired gunshots at him. The court said that the FIR lodged in relation to the recent attack shows that there were serious threat to the security of the complainant and directed the ACB to file a status report on June 8 in this regard.
IT major Wipro today said it has reinforced security measures at all its office locations after receiving a second threat email, but there was no impact on the company’s operations. However, Wipro did not specify the nature of the threat. Additional Commissioner of Police Hemant Nimbalkar confirmed reports that someone for the second time had sent an e-mail demanding Rs 500 crore in bitcoin and threatened a bio-attack on employees. Earlier last month, Wipro had said it had received a threatening mail from an unidentified source and filed a complaint with the local law enforcement authorities. After that threat mail, the company had augmented security at all its office locations.
The Income Tax Department on Friday warned of a 100 per cent penalty against receiver of cash of Rs 2 lakh or above. Section 269ST has been inserted in the Act with effect from April 1 to restrict acceptance of cash of Rs 2 lakh or more by any person. It disallows cash transaction of Rs 2 lakh or more by a person in a day in respect of a single transaction or in respect of transactions relating to one event or occasion from a person, otherwise than by an account payee cheque or account payee bank draft or use of electronic clearing system through a bank account. The restriction shall not apply to any receipt by the government or any receipt by or from any banking company, post office savings bank or cooperative bank. The Income Tax Department also asked people to send any information on black money, ‘benami’ (proxy) or such cash transaction through email at blackmoneyinfo@incometax.gov.in.
