UP e-rickshaw driver gets ₹3.47cr tax notice

UP e-rickshaw driver gets ₹3.47cr tax notice

Anuja.Jaiswal@timesgroup.com

Agra:26.10.2021

A 40-year-old e-rickshaw driver in Mathura has received a notice from the income tax department directing him to pay tax of ₹3.47 crore for his annual turnover of ₹43.44 crore in 2018-19 financial year. Pratap Singh lodged a police complaint on Sunday but no FIR has not been registered so far.

Superintendent of police (SP), city, MP Singh told TOI that during investigation, police found a Delhibased firm is registered against Pratap Singh’s PAN number. Further investigation is on and an FIR will be registered on the basis of evidence gathered during investigation, the SP said.

In his police complaint, Pratap Singh stated that someone might have stolen his identity as he doesn’t have even a fraction of such a huge turnover. “I have been driving an e-rickshaw for the past four years and earn ₹400-₹500 a day, which is barely sufficient to feed five family members, including our three children. I can’t even think of such a huge amount in my wildest of dreams,” said a shocked Singh to TOI.

Full report on www.toi-.in

IDENTITY STOLEN: Pratap Singh, 40, from Mathura earns around ₹400-₹500 a day

HC not to interfere with medical panel decision

HC not to interfere with medical panel decision

Student not allowed to take FMGE

26/10/2021

Legal Correspondent CHENNAI

The Madras High Court has refused to interfere with a decision taken by the National Medical Commission (NMC) not to allow a student who had pursued medical education in China to write the screening test, Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) required to be cleared before commencing practice here, because she had not studied English as a separate subject during her higher secondary classes.

Justice N. Anand Venkatesh dismissed a writ petition filed by a woman candidate on the ground that court could not sit in judgment over the stipulations prescribed by an expert body. Though it was argued that the petitioner had studied higher secondary in English medium and she also has 7.5 out of 9 in International English Language Testing System (IELTS), the judge refused to allow her plea.

“The individual opinion of a judge cannot come in the way while deciding cases of this nature and this court has to necessarily satisfy itself as to whether a candidate fulfils the qualification prescribed in the regulation. The law on this issue is well settled. In the result, there is no ground to interfere with the impugned communication dated June 14, 2021 issued by NMC,” the judge wrote.

It was brought to the notice of the court that the petitioner was an overseas citizen of India. She had studied under Central Board of Secondary Education stream here up to Class X in Kodaikanal and then pursued her higher secondary course in Sri Lanka after her family moved there.

However, the NMC refused to issue an eligibility certificate to her to appear for FMGE conducted by National Testing Agency on the sole ground that she had not studied English as a separate subject during higher secondary education.

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Teacher booked for touching ex-student inappropriately

Teacher booked for touching ex-student inappropriately

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Jaipur:25.10.2021

A former student of a private school in city’s CScheme area has registered an FIR against a teacher for touching her inappropriately.

This incident is second of its kind to be reported from the school in the last few days.

A case has been registered against the accused under Section 354 (using criminal force to any woman, intending to outrage or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

The SHO of Ashok Nagar police station, Vikram Singh Rathore, said, "The girl had written to the DCP South office and we registered the FIR. The girl is a 2019-20 batch pass out. She was in Class 12, when the teacher took such steps. She did not complain then as her session was about to end. However, when another teacher was arrested on the similar charges, she gathered courage to speak up."

"We are investigating the matter and will talk to the girl soon," he said.

As per the FIR, the girl is 21 years old. When she had informed her parents about the harassment by the teacher earlier, they decided not to proceed with the matter.

Sanyukt Abhibhavak Sangh spokesperson Abhishek Jain said, “This is such a shameful matter that two teachers from the same reputed school are now under scanner for molesting girl students. Our children are not safe in schools even after we pay such hefty fees. The government must take action against the teachers."

Earlier, a girl had lodged an FIR against teacher Nikhil Jose, who was later on arrested and later released on bail.

42 yrs later, man acquitted for ₹40 theft

42 yrs later, man acquitted for ₹40 theft

Vaibhav.Ganjapure@timesgroup.com

Nagpur:25.10.2021

Over 42 years after a man allegedly stole Rs 40 by injuring a person, the sessions court here has acquitted him from the charges of robbery recently. During pendency of the over four-decades-old case, his three accomplices as well as the complainant and four of the seven witnesses died.

The accused, Bhimrao Nitnaware, who turned 65 years old this year, along with co-accused — Ramesh Meshram, Madhukar Patil and Hiraman Dhoke – had allegedly attacked complainant Motiram around midnight on January 13, 1978. After injuring Motiram, they allegedly robbed him of Rs.40 which he had earned after selling milk.

After Motiram lodged a complaint with MIDC police station, Meshram was arrested but the other three accused remained absconding for many years. The police had filed a chargesheet against all the four accused under Section 394 of IPC for dacoity. Subsequently, the trial started before the judicial magistrate first class (JMFC). It was later realized that the accused had also attacked the complainant with a knife and, therefore, the charges were reframed under Section 398 of IPC which is for attempting to commit robbery armed with a deadly weapon.

Revision of creamy layer criteria delayed by over 1 yr

Revision of creamy layer criteria delayed by over 1 yr

Subodh.Ghildiyal@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:25.10.2021

In continuing disappointment for the other backward classes (OBCs), the scheduled revision of the income ceiling for ‘creamy layer’ has overshot by more than one year.

The delay is affecting the ‘Mandal castes’ who are being judged by a lower income bar than they should be for being declared as economically better off and ineligible for reservations.

The income ceiling is the eligibility criteria for OBCs to avail reservations in central government jobs and educational institutions. Candidates from families earning more than the ceiling amount are dubbed ‘creamy layer’ who are not entitled to avail opportunities under the 27% quota.

The income ceiling is to be revised every three years and was last hiked from Rs 6 lakh to Rs 8 lakh in September 2017. The bar was up for upward review in September 2020 but is still hanging fire. The social justice ministry has proposed a hike from Rs 8 lakh to Rs 12 lakh. But the revision is stuck because the government has clubbed the routine hike with the plan to redefine the criteria for ‘creamy layer’, with both the proposals placed in the same cabinet note which was circulated in February, 2020.

While it was expected to sail through, roadblocks came up because the second point about the revision of criteria drew objections from the National Commission for Backward Classes.

The ministry has proposed to include ‘salary’ of an OBC household in its ‘gross annual income’ which is the cut-off mark for creamy layer. This is contrary to the 1993 office memorandum of DoPT which says that ‘salary’ and ‘agriculture income’ are not part of ‘income’ to determine ‘creamy layer’. If the move goes through, it will lower the bar and make it easier for an OBC to be identified as ‘creamy layer’ — thereby ineligible for quotas.

Health insurers see huge surge in non-Covid claims

Health insurers see huge surge in non-Covid claims

Dengue, Cardiac Among Top Cases

Both Amt, Volume Rise

Mayur Shetty & Sumitra Deb Roy TNN

Mumbai:25.10.2021

Even as Covid hospitalisations have dropped from peak levels, insurance companies are witnessing a massive surge in non-Covid claims. While there is a lag in capturing trends, insurers say that there has been a significant jump from September in non-Covid hospitalisations.

“We are seeing an increase in hospitalisations due to dengue, respiratory diseases and other non-Covid claims. The size of these claims has also gone up, perhaps due to the additional protection that has to be taken by hospitals. We will watch this to see whether the increase is temporal or structural,” said ICICI Lombard General Insurance MD & CEO Bhargav Dasgupta, following the company’s results.

Policybazaar, one of the largest distributors of individual health covers, has been seeing an increase in the number of non-Covid calls. The calls are for infectious diseases, dengue and other viral fever. “We are also seeing an increase in accidental injuries,” said Amit Chabra, chief of health business at Policybazaar.

According to Dr Dev Pahlajani, head of interventional cardiology at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, incidences of acute coronary syndrome, sudden heart attacks and cardiac arrest have gone up 40% in the last six to eight months. “There is a surge in circulatory conditions which warrants a close evaluation,” he said. He added that even patients who have been stable for years are coming in with acute heart emergencies. The trend is visible in most cardiac departments, he said.

According to Niva Bupa Health Insurance director (underwriting, products & claims) Bhabatosh Mishra, Covid brought down health claims last year as people were locked in, avoided hospitalisation and delayed elective surgeries. “There is no major change in the number of emergency procedures like appendicitis, but cases like gall bladder surgeries, which can be delayed, are going up,” said Mishra. He added that given the higher than usual monsoon in places, there has been a spike in dengue including Bengaluru and Hyderabad, in addition to Mumbai and Delhi.

“People have lost jobs, their source of income and probably sat idle at home for months. Those factors combined with lack of exercise can build up the stress levels, putting them at risk of heart conditions,” said Dr Pahlajani. He added that people have been missing out on routine checks on sugar and blood pressure levels due to the pandemic. Covid survivors too may see symptoms of inflammation after months. In Mumbai, hospital beds are largely occupied by dengue, malaria and chikungunya cases and not Covid at present, said Dr Gautam Bhansali of Bombay Hospital.

Mishra expects cases to remain elevated as the monsoon is not over yet. Also, many of the elective surgeries are usually scheduled for winter as, given India’s weather, surgical wounds heal better and risk of monsoon infections are lower.