For close to two years, 60-year-old Bhagaval Singh, a traditional healer from Elanthoor in Pathanamthitta, spent hours online, interacting with a profile with the handle “Sreedeviâ€. Unbeknownst to Singh, the “Sreedevi†was a 52-year-old man accused of eight crimes in 15 years, including assault and rape.
The Supreme Court bench, headed by justice SA Nazeer, also asked the government to keep ready the confidential files relating to the exercise that was conducted before Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his government’s demonetisation drive on November 8, 2016.
“Various factors unique to the army’s employability, remote locations of employment and operational commitments were considered to arrive at a definite time-bound road map for inducting EVs,†said one of the army officers, asking not to be named.
Director general of the Asia department of China’s foreign ministry, Liu said more than 1,300 Indian students had been granted visas, while nearly 300 businessmen, in two batches, took charter flights operated by Chinese airlines to Yiwu city in Zhejiang province.
Slender Lorises are small nocturnal animals, which are classified as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and are listed under the Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act of India, 1972.
The focus in the last three days has shifted from the actual case of fraud and money laundering against Nirav Modi to a test of whether it would be appropriate to have him extradited to India in view of his fragile mental health.
The move is in line with the electoral laws in the rest of the country, where only ordinary residence is enough to obtain a voter card, not permanent residence that was earlier required in Jammu & Kashmir before its special status was scrapped three years ago.
Police have arrested three people – 60-year-old Bhagaval Singh, his 52-year-old wife Laila, and 52-year-old Mohammad Shafi – who allegedly tied and hacked to death two people over four months and buried them in the couple’s backyard in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district.
Announcing the decision after the Cabinet meeting, Union information and broadcasting minister Anurag Thakur said the one-time grant to the three oil marketing companies (OMCs) is to offset their losses on selling liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) between June 2020 and June 2022.