QBenglauru: CCD Owner Admits to Rs 650 Cr Undisclosed Income

CCD owner admits to undisclosed income, Techie held for stalking colleague, and more from Bengaluru

1) CCD Founder Admits to Rs 650 Crore Undisclosed Income: I-T Dept

Income Tax Department, in an official statement said that following the raids on VG Siddartha, owner of Cafe Coffee Day and son-in-law of former External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, which ended on Sunday, he admitted to having more than Rs 650 crores of undisclosed income.

“The searches in a group – involved in coffee, tourism, information technology and other areas – concluded with an admission of previously concealed income exceeding Rs 650 crore. The detection of undisclosed income is expected to be a much higher figure,” read an official communication from Income Tax Department.

(Source: The Quint)

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2) Techie arrested for stalking, threatening ex-colleague

A Chennai-based techie was remanded in judicial custody for harassing his former colleague and threatening her with a knife. Ameeth Kumar Kudignur, who is from Vijayapura, had been harassing a 38-year-old woman he had worked with earlier, and on Thursday landed up at her residence in Doddanekundi in east Bengaluru.

She told police Kudignur threatened her with a knife and she managed to escape. He had been forcing her to marry him, police said. "She put up a fight and he fled after the knife fell to the floor. The woman, who hails from Kerala, lives with her 14-year-old daughter," police said, adding they arrested Kudignur who works with a firm in Chennai.

(Source: The Times of India)

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3) Apartments Not the Major Polluter of Bellandur Lake, Govt Tells NGT

A State government report on the clean-up of Bengaluru’s two beleaguered lakes — Varthur and Bellandur — to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) showed that sewage from apartments form a minuscule part of the total sewage entering Bellandur lake.

The report, signed by six government agencies, states that while 480 million litres of sewage was entering Bellandur lake daily, the contribution from apartments was 66.87 MLD.

(Source: The Hindu)

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4) HD Kumaraswamy Stable After Surgery

The condition of former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, who underwent a valve replacement surgery at a private hospital on Saturday, is stable.

A team of cardiac surgeons, led by Satyaki P Nambala at Apollo Hospitals, Bannerghatta Road, conducted the three-and-a-half-hour surgery. He was admitted to the hospital on Saturday.

(Source: The Hindu)

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5) Man Claiming to be Aadhaar Official Held

A man pretending to be a senior executive of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which issues Aadhaar cards, was arrested by the police for duping numerous people with the promise of giving them houses under government schemes.

Rajkumar, 45, a resident of Jayanagar III Block, was arrested on Saturday following a complaint filed by one of his victims, said the HAL police. According to the police, Rajkumar would approach persons from economically backward communities in Aadhaar enrolment centres and promise them that he would get Aadhaar cards done for them. He would also claim that for a fee, he could get them houses under various government schemes.

(Source: The Hindu)

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6) Government Asks ACB to Probe Garbage Scam

The Urban Development Department (UDD) has asked the Anti-Corruption Bureau to probe the financial scam by BBMP garbage contractors, in the name of 6,600 fictitious pourakarmikas.

The contractors are said to have cheated the Palike of Rs 934 crore for paying employees who exist only on paper.

According to the UDD, 83 contractors had cheated the civic body of Rs 550 crore for paying salaries to the fictitious pourakarmikas. These contractors had also not remitted provident fund and ESI contributions, which come to Rs 384 crore.

(Source: Deccan Herald)

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