The Catch Up: Corporate houses big donors electoral trusts (22 Dec)

The headlines of the day by The Indian Express

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is the catch upon three things by the Indian
Express and I'm Ichasharma today is it twenty tewod of
December and here today's headlines. Starting with major news, the
Delhi High Court today sought the response of Rahul Gandhi's
Sonya Gandhi and others in the Enforcement Directorates plea challenging

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a trial court's judgment last week where it refused to
take cognizance of the agency's charge sheet accusing the Congress
leaders and others of money laundering in the National Herald case.
The High Court issued notice to all the respondents, including
Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, former Congress chief Sonya Gandhi,
director of Missus Young Indian Suman Dube, Sam Petroda, Missus

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Dottek's Merchandise Private Limited and Sunil Bhandari. The court will
hear the case next in March twenty twenty six. Meanwhile,
in other major news making lines, Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh,
Prane Arma visited Dhaka's Visa office and Jermano Future Park
today to review the visa services, though the visa application

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center at Chattogram remained temporarily suspended. Following a mob attack
at the entrance of the Assistant High Commission of India
on eighteenth of December. Earlier, the central leader of the
National Citizens Party or NCP workers Organization, Mohammad mattalib Sikandar,
was shot in Kulna today. According to protom Elo, Sikhandas
serves as the Kulna divisional chief of the NCP and

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a central organizer of MCP. Shamik Shahti reportedly his party
was set to hold a divisional labor rally in Kunaine
a few days and he was working on that. Former
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has blamed the Mohammad Unis
led in terrem government for failing to maintain law and
order following the killing of student leader Sharif O Smanhadi.

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She added that this tragic killing reflects the lawlessness that
approoited the government and has multiplied under units. She further said,
quote violence has become the norm wild interim government either
denies it or is powerless to stop it unquote. In

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other major headlines, just seven big corporate houses, including Tata's
OPI General Group, LNT, Megha Engineering a show Cleveland DLF Mahindra,
with a presence in sectors such as construction, real estate,
manufacturing and power, accounted for more than half the contributions
received by electoral trusts this year. According to contribution reports

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submitted by different electoral trusts to the Election Commission of India,
around three thousand, eight hundred krow rupees was donated to
political parties. In the last financial year. The seven groups
had contributed twenty one hundred krow rupees and made up
to fifty five percent of the corpus of the trusts.
The top three trusts Prudent Electoral Trust, Progressive Electoral Trust

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and New Democratic Total Trust accounted for ninety eight percent
of all contributions. And now we shift our focus to
news from Panjab. Former Panjab Pilice Inspector General Amu Singh
chahl And, accused in the twenty fifteen Kodkapura firing case,
is in critical condition after allegedly shooting himself with the

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security guard's revolver after reportedly losing crows of repeas in
an online scamp. According to the patiala police Chehel, who
retired as an IG, sustained a chest wound and is
under treatment. They said. Police teams rushed to his house
and admitted him to the Park Paris Hospital, where his
condition is said to be critical. Wharon Sharma, senior supertendent

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of Police Patiala, confirmed that teams arrived immediately after reports
of the gunshot and recovered a note from Jehell's home
and in the end. In news making global headlines, police
documents released today have revealed new details in the investigation
into the Bondai shooting, including claims that the attackers brought

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improvised explosives to the scene and recorded a video manifesto
inspired by Islamic state. The Guardian reported, according to court documents,
Navi Dakram, the twenty four year old, is accused of
killing fifteen people and injuring dozens during an attack at
a Hanuker celebration on fourteenth of December. His father, Sarja Takram,
who police say was also involved, died at the scene.

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A police fact sheet alleges that three pipe bombs and
a tennis ball bomb were thrown towards the crowd before
the shooting began. The devices did not explode, but police
said they were viable improvised explosive devices and with that
This was all for today. This was the catch up

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on three things by the Indian Express.