Vol. 65 No. 330 | FRIDAY | MAY 27, 2022 | 17 Pages | BETWEEN THE LINES SHIVLING A RUMOUR?: The Muslim petitioners on Thursday questioned the maintainability of the Hindu side’s plea in the Gyanvapi dispute case. The lawyer for the Muslim side said that rumours of a ‘Shivling’ being found inside the mosque were being deliberately floated to create confusion. He contended that the discovery of the ‘Shivling’ had not yet been established by court and the latter should scotch such rumours. Meanwhile, the lawyer for the Hindu petitioners told reporters outside the court that holes had been drilled into the ‘Shivling’ to make it look like a fountain. The hearing will continue in the case on Monday. SIDHU DIET: Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, who is serving a one-year sentence in jail, will be on a special diet that is tailor made for a spa. The diet chart includes sautéed veggies, pecan nuts, avocado, lactosefree milk and beetroot juice. BMC OLD AGE HOME: Loneliness and the absence of a care giver in old age hurt senior citizens the most. The BMC has taken an initiative to support and take care of such elderly people by constructing old age homes in the city. The civic body has recently invited a tender to build an old age home on a reserved plot in Goregaon East. The estimated cost of the project is Rs.13.38 crores. See Mumbai An 8-page supplement is being released with this edition. Kindly collect it from your vendor. MOODY’S SLASHES INDIA’S ECONOMY GROWTH OUTLOOK TO 8.8% FOR 2022 EDITIONS: MUMBAI*, Pune, Indore, Bhopal, Konkan, E-paper EDIT AYUSHMANN KHURRANA SAYS I HAVE FACED DISCRIMINATION OUTSIDE INDIA ED swoops on Anil Parab Trader loses `2.25L in minutes FOOTLOOSE SIBAL OUT OF THE CONGRESS Sachin Vaze to turn approver STAFF REPORTER/ MUMBAI SOMENDRA SHARMA/ MUMBAI A team of Enforcement Directorate officers carried out searches at the official residence of State Transport Minister and Shiv Sena leader Anil Parab and others on Thursday in connec, tion with a fresh case of money laundering registered by the agency Several other places in . Mumbai, Pune and Dapoli were also searched. According to ED sources in Mumbai, the minister was reportedly at home when the ED came calling. The searches, claimed agency sources, were also connected with the alleged irregularities related to Parab’s resort in Dapoli, Ratnagiri. BJP leader Kirit Somaiya had alleged that Parab had constructed a resort at Dapoli in violation of the Coastal Regulation Zone rules. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE ‘NO LINK’ SANJAY JOG / MUMBAI The Central Bureau of Investigation has consented, albeit with conditions, to the plea filed by dismissed cop Sachin Vaze to turn approver against other accused, including former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, in an alleged corruption case. Vaze had filed an application on Tuesday through advocate Rounak Naik before the special CBI court, stating that he had cooperated with the investigating agency before and after his arrest, following which his statement was recorded under section 164 of the CrPC. It was also submitted that his statement had aided the CBI in getting to the true facts of the case. He has sought pardon under section 306 of the CrPC to be declared an approver and depose as a witness in the case. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE Unfazed by the ED raids, Transport Minister Anil Parab said that he has been saying from day one that he has no connection with the Sai resort in Dapoli and its owner is Sadanand Kadam. “ED raided my house, official bungalow, and my associates today. The ED alleged that Sai Resort in Dapoli, which has not even started operations, releases its sewerage water into the sea," he said. “I’ve been saying from the 1st day that I’ve no connection with the resort and its owner is Sadanand Kadam. They’ve registered a case at Dapoli Police Station. Since this was a scheduled offence, ED took action. We’ll see how to legally take it forward but I answered very question.” FPJ NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI An IAS officer, who was pompous enough to appropriate a sports complex for personal use, so that he could take his dog for a stroll on the tracks meant for athletes, has been transferred to Ladakh. The move came on the heels of a newspaper’s exposé that the Delhi government-run Thyagraj Stadium – on the diktat of the IAS officer -- would slam its doors on sportspersons after 7 pm, so that the bureaucrat could play fetch with his Sunrise: 06:01 am Sunset : 07:11 pm SCAMSTER SPINS A YARN, CHEATS COTTON DEALER FROM MALABAR HILL SOMENDRA SHARMA MUMBAI A 57-year-old businessman from Malabar Hill lost Rs 2.25 lakh from his bank account within minutes in 14 transactions after a person at a bus stop, claiming to be an executive from a telecom company, talked him into a ‘lucrative’ CBI ferried DHFL bosses without nod STAFF REPORTER MUMBAI The special court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) had sought a report from the Taloja Jail authorities on why Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan, the promoters of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL) and accused in the DHFLYes Bank scam, were taken to Lucknow via train without permission from the court. Accordingly, the Taloja authorities submitted a report before the court on Thursday which was taken on record. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE IAS officer is in the Ladakh doghouse LAST WORD 340c. 270c. pet. With media lapping up the incident, which was trending all day, the Home Ministry sought a report from Delhi Chief Secretary on the misuse of facilities at the stadium by Sanjay Khirwar and his wife Rinku Dugga. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE scheme. The accused asked the victim to make a payment of Re 1 on his number for verification; no sooner was this done than money began to be debited from the victim’s bank account, police said. According to the Marine Drive police, the complainant in the case is a cotton trader. On March 7, around 5pm, when he was waiting at a bus stop on R N Goenka Marg at Nariman Point, a man wearing a telecom company Tshirt approached him and introduced himself as an executive of that company and also showed his ID card to the trader. He told him about a lucrative scheme being offered by his company and Pune bizman is arrested by CBI YES BANK-DHFL FRAUD CASE SOMENDRA SHARMA MUMBAI The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Pune businessman Avinash Bhosale in connection with the Yes Bank-DHFL fraud case. Confirming the arrest, a CBI officer from Delhi stated that Bhosale would be produced before the court on Friday to , seek his custodial remand. On April 30, the CBI had carried out searches at eight locations in Mumbai and Pune at premises linked to builders Shahid Balwa, Vinod Goenka and Avinash Bhosale. The CBI had, last month, arrested builder and MD of the Radius Group, Sanjay Chhabria, in connection with the said case. As per CBI officers, in June 2018, the DHFL appraised and sanctioned loans of Rs 1,100 crore and CONTD. ON NATION PAGE asked for the victim’s mobile number. “The scamster asked the victim to make an online transfer of Re 1, claiming that this was in order to verify the victim’s mobile number. Once the victim transferred the money, the accused told the victim that his number had been verified. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE TAILPIECE GO HOME, COOK M FPJ DESK/MUMBAI aharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil put his foot in his mouth by his sexist and tactless comments asking NCP MP Supriya Sule to “go home and cook, '' instead of wasting her time in politics, drawing sharp reactions from her party and ally Shiv Sena. Sule’s husband Sadanand Sule also took to twitter and defended his wife’s role as a mother, homemaker and a successful politician. NCP’s Vidya Chavan had the perfect riposte: Patil should be making rotis. See Page 2 KCR & PM banter, back & forth FPJ NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has an uncanny knack of ‘disappearing’ when PM Modi is in the state. In February PM Modi was , in the state to unveil a statue of saint Ramanujacharya, but Rao could not receive the former as he was ‘unwell'. Likewise, on Thursday Rao was , away in Bengaluru, ostensibly to meet former Prime Minister and JD(S) supremo HD Deve Gowda. In fact, this is the second time in the last four months that KCR has done the Houdini Act and avoided meeting PM Modi during his visit to Hyderabad. PM Modi, too, on arrival in Hyderabad to participate in the 20th year celebrations of the Indian School of Business, could not resist responding to charge of the CM playing truant and had a dig at “family-run parties” describing them as “enemies of the country .” CONTD. ON NATION PAGE