Vol. 65 No. 317 | WEDNESDAY | MAY 11, 2022 | 17 Pages | EQUITY MFS INFLOWS PLUNGE 44% IN APRIL TO RS 16K CR AS VOLATILITY BITES Settle, or will attach assets 2-month HC ultimatum to builder on flat buyers’ complaints URVI MAHAJANI MUMBAI Irked by the laxity on the part of the authorities in executing an order of the MahaRERA in favour of the flat purchasers, the Bombay high court has directed the attachment and sale of a builder’s property within 15 days, if settlement talks fail. A division bench of Justices S V Gangapurwala and M G Sewlikar recently asked the developer to reach a settlement with the flat purchasers in a project at Malad within two months, failing which the court has directed the tehsildar/ competent revenue authority to attach and sell the . builder’s property “If within a period of two months’ settlement between Petitioner and Respondent Nos. 5 to 8 is not arrived at then immediately within 15 days, the Tahasildar/Competent Revenue Authority shall execute the recovery warrant as per the provisions of Maharashtra Land Revenue Code by attaching and selling the property of the Respondents,” said the HC. The court further observed: “There shall not be laxity on the part of the Authority in executing the said recovery certificates in terms of the orders passed by the Member and Adjudicating Officer, MahaRERA, Mumbai.” CONTD. ON NATION PAGE EDITIONS: MUMBAI*, Pune, Indore, Bhopal, Konkan, E-paper EDIT TOTAL REGIME CHANGE, A MUST IN SRI LANKA MAJOR WAS A BIG RESPONSIBILITY, SAYS TELUGU SUPERSTAR MAHESH BABU RAJAPAKSA ON THE RUN FPJ NEWS SERVICE COLOMBO Protestors have also laid siege to the airport in Colombo to prevent the former Sri Lankan PM and his loyalists from escaping. Hounded by Sri Lankans livid at the economic chaos, former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has taken refuge in a naval base, even as a series of attacks on his supporters left at least eight people dead. On , Monday amid mounting anger, a mob had burnt down the ancestral home belonging to the . ruling Rajapaksa family Throughout the night on , Monday the police fired teargas shells to quell mobs trying to enter the Temple Trees residence of the former prime minister. In the ensuing melee, ABHITASH SINGH THANE Thane Police Commissioner Jai Jeet Singh received a letter from a complainant, Shaikh Ibrahim Pasha, on April 25, 2022, that police officers from Mumbra Police extorted Rs 6 crore of the Rs 30 crore seized from a toy , dealer at Bombay Colony Mumbra, under the garb of a Thane CP says inquiry underway raid. The Thane police chief has said that the matter is being investigated. The complaint letter has gone viral. Although the complaint was lodged with the commissioner of police, the application does not have the signature and seal of the police. However, a senior police officer from Thane OUR BUREAU / NEW DELHI (PHOTO BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE) LAST WORD police station, speaking on , the condition of anonymity has said that such an incident had indeed taken place. According to the letter sent by the complainant to the Thane police chief and Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil on April 25, 2022, it says that on April 12, 2022, CONTD. ON NATION PAGE BETWEEN T THE LINES TRUMP BAN REVERSAL esla Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday he would reverse Twitter's ban on former US President Donald Trump. The decision to ban Trump from Twitter did not silence the former president's voice, but rather amplified his views among people on the political right, Musk said, calling the ban "morally wrong and flat-out stupid." Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter shortly after the January 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol. T FOREX FUNDING HEAT en people, including five government officials, have been detained for taking bribe on behalf of NGOs for allegedly facilitating violations of rules in receiving foreign donations, CBI sources said after a nationwide crackdown. T RUCKUS AT QUTAB MINAR he Delhi Police on Tuesday detained 44 right wing activists from outside Qutab Minar in the national capital after they tried reciting the 'Hanuman Chalisa' outside the monument. The origins of Qutab Minar are shrouded in controversy. Some right wing outfits believe that the minaret is actually Vishnu Stambh. T SINGAPORE BANS ‘K’ FILES he Kashmir Files, a controversial film on the exodus of Hindus from the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s, has been banned by Singapore, which has cited concerns over its "potential to cause enmity between different communities". The film has been assessed to be "beyond" Singapore's film classification guidelines, news agency PTI has reported. "The film will be refused classification for its provocative and one-sided portrayal of Muslims and the depictions of Hindus being persecuted in the ongoing conflict in Kashmir," the Singapore government said in a statement on Monday. The Supreme Court on Tuesday put three posers to the Centre while agreeing to its request to defer the hearing on the Sedition law under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) till it reconsiders the provision. Its posers are: Will it complete reconsideration of the British era law in three-four months? Will the law be kept in abeyance until the reconsideration? And, will all old cases under Section 124A be kept on hold until the reconsideration. The Bench, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) N V Ramana, fixed another hearing on Wednesday to elicit the response of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on the posers, after he sought one day’s time to take instrucCONTD. ON NATION PAGE tions from the govt. The Santoor gently weeps FPJ NEWS SERVICE / MUMBAI Santoor virtuoso Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma, who took the stringed instrument to the global stage and successfully straddled the worlds of classical and film music, died at his Pali Hill residence on Tuesday following a heart attack. He Mahinda Rajapaksa sneaked out with his family in the dead of the night and was escorted the to Army the by Trincomalee Naval Base. As word spread about Mahinda's arrival in the ‘safe house’, a crowd converged near the key . military facility According to sources, the Rajapaksa family is planning to scoot and flee to a ‘friendly country’ which will offer him a . sanctuary Anticipating some such desperate move, anti-government protesters have set up a checkpoint on the road leading to the Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE Mumbra cops extorted ‘Red alert’ Rs 6 cr from toy dealer? for pricey tomatoes SC POSERS ON SEDITION LAW: REPLY TODAY LOOKING FOR MOORINGS: Fishing boats in the sea off Colaba 320c. 290c. was 83. A Padma Vibhushan recipient, Sharma was born in Jammu in 1938 and is believed to be the first musician to have played Indian classical music on the santoor, a folk instrument from Jammu and Kashmir. Until about sixty or seventy years ago, the santoor was hardly known to anyone connected with Indian classical music, even though musicologists trace its origin to centuries ago when a string instrument called the 'shatatantriveena', or veena with hundred strings, was in existence. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE AMIT SRIVASTAVA MUMBAI On the tomato front, the outlook is far from abundantly , . rosy With a dip in supply prices of this kitchen staple have risen sharply in the last 10 days. Traders at the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) say that there will be no respite for buyers in the days to come, as farmers will start planting afresh just before the monsoon. In the last 10 days, both retail and wholesale prices of tomatoes have tripled. Currently, it is retailing at Rs 60 to Rs 70 per kg while the average buying price at the APMC for premium quality produce is Rs 45 per kg. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE Sunrise: 06:06 am Sunset : 07:04 pm BJP OBC ploy boomerangs SANJAY JOG MUMBAI The Bharatiya Janata Party’s strategy to corner the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government on the scrapping of 27 per cent quota for OBCs in local bodies backfired, after the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled there would be no OBC quota in the pending local body polls in the BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh. Last week, after the apex court had directed the State Election Commission to declare a pre-poll process for elections to the civic and local bodies in Maharashtra, the BJP had stepped up its attack on the MVA government, terming it ‘killers’ of the OBC quota. Leader of the Opposition Devendra Fadnavis was at the forefront of the attack, blaming the state government for having wasted two years in the compilation of empirical data of OBCs, which was part of the triple test the state had to pass. He had also accused the MVA government of being ‘dishonest’ about protecting the OBC quota. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE Party cuts sorry figure as SC rules there will be no quota in local body polls in Madhya Pradesh, for non-completion of triple test; Bhujbal, Patole blame Fadnavis & BJP for the OBCs’ losing the political quota