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Teesta Setalvad gets interim bail in misappropriation of funds case

January 11, 2014

Teesta_SetalvadMumbai, Jan 11: Justice Mridula Bhatkar of Bombay high court granted interim bail to Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand on Friday in connection with a criminal case lodged by Ahmedabad police last week. The judge said the social activist was provided similar relief in the past too when she was allegedly falsely implicated.

Setalvad and Anand sought pre-arrest protection after Gujarat cops filed an FIR on January 4 in an alleged case of breach of trust and misappropriation of funds. The FIR said both in the guise of collecting funds for Sabrang Trust to set up a museum for 2002 Gujarat riots victims had allegedly misappropriated the funds. The FIR invoked Section 72A of the Information Technology Act for disclosure in breach of lawful contract.

Setalvad and Anand pleaded that the FIR filed by the Crime Branch of Ahmedabad police was filed with mala fide intent. "The FIR is a mala fide action of the Crime Branch, Ahmedabad, to intimidate a human rights defender. This is the fifth time that a false criminal case has been lodged since 2004 because of me and my organization's consistent legal support to the victims of 2002 riots," the bail application stated. It said "Gulbarga cooperative housing society had been totally burnt down by politically motivated anti-social elements and 68 people had lost their lives in the massacre."

The applicants alleged that the FIR was the latest effort of intimidation by the "powerful forces in Gujarat who wish(ed) to stymie the appeal in the Zakia Jafri case".

The HC granted interim bail of three weeks.

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The number of active coronavirus cases stands at 89,987 while 71,105 people have been cured or recovered and one patient has migrated, it said. The death toll due to the infection has reached 4,706 in the country.

Maharashtra is the worst affected state with 59,546 cases. Tamil Nadu has recorded as many as 19,372 cases while Gujarat and Delhi have recorded 15,562 and 16,281 coronavirus cases respectively.

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February 11,2020

New Delhi, Feb 11: Cheaper lending rates in the country along with the government's booster via tax cuts seem to have had little effect on vehicle sales in January, with car sales decreasing by over 14,531 units, or slightly over 8 per cent, compared to January last year.

According to Rajan Wadhera, President of industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), which gives out the auto sales numbers, the overall slump in vehicle sales in India was due to the "rising cost of vehicle ownership and slower growth in GDP".

Barring three-wheelers, all other segments showed de-growth.

Vehicle sales across segments have been declining for over a year now. SIAM sales data last month compared with that of January 2019 showed that domestic passenger vehicle sales slipped 6.2 per cent to 262,714 units. The decline in car sales stood at 8.1 per cent, and two-wheelers 16.06 per cent.

Sales of commercial vehicles, an indicator of industrial health in the economy, slipped by 14.04 per cent to 75,289 units last month, while the vehicle sales across categories registered a de-growth of 13.83 per cent to 17,39,975 units from 20,19,253 units in January 2019, SIAM said.

However, Wadhera said, they were hopeful that recent government announcements on infrastructure and rural economy would support growth of vehicle sales, especially in the commercial and two-wheeler segments.

"We are looking forward to the early announcement of an incentive-based scrappage policy in the context of the recent assurances by the government," Wadhera said.

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Of this little less than 1,400 cases, there are 1,238 active while 124 cured. The total figure also includes 35 fatalities.

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