PMC fraud: Court rejects Viva Group MD, directorâs plea for home food
A sessions court on Friday denied home food claimed on medical grounds by Viva Group MD Mehul Thakur and Director Madan Chaturvedi in custody in the Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank fraud.
Thakur in his plea said that he suffered from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with anxiety and mild depression and needed counselling on alternate days with medication. Chaturvedi stated he had Blood Pressure and Cholesterol.
The court while dealing with Thakurâs application said that the fact regarding his medical issues was not brought to its attention either by the prosecution or the defence during prolonged remand hearings. It said that however, the right of the accused to get medical treatment cannot be overlooked and directed jail authority to provide medical aid from an expert doctor on their panel with prescribed medicines. It also allowed him to purchase these if not available in jail or that the
Viva Group money-laundering probe: Enforcement Directorate takes Rana Kapoor into custody
YES Bank co-founder remanded to custody until January 30. ED to grill him on loans given to HDIL for renovation of a newly constructed building in a Mumbai suburb
Rana Kapoor
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) took Rana Kapoor, co-founder of YES Bank, into custody on Wednesday in connection with a money laundering investigation into Maharashtra MLA Hitendra Thakur s Viva Group.
Kapoor had been arrested in the Yes Bank fraud case on March 8 and was in judicial custody.
On Wednesday, the special PMLA court remanded Kapoor to ED custody until January 30. The Directorate has been waiting to grill Kapoor about a YES Bank loan to real estate developer HDIL, embroiled in the PMC Bank scam, for renovation of a newly constructed building in Andheri, a Mumbai suburb.
Mumbai City Latest Updates: CM Uddhav Thackeray inaugurates Balasaheb Thackeray s statue
Mumbai City Latest Updates: CM Uddhav Thackeray inaugurates Balasaheb Thackeray s statue
As Mumbai’s coronavirus vaccination drive marked its fourth day, a total of 3,539 health workers received the jab out of the targetted 3,852 beneficiaries at the designated centres on Friday. The BMC has also eased the earlier rule that healthcare workers could only get vaccinated at the hospital-centre assigned to them by the Co-WIN software. They can now walk into any of the hospitals offering Covid-19 vaccines for their shots. Mumbai reported 482 fresh coronavirus cases and the city s cumulative total climbed to 3,05,131. Both Dadar and Dharavi reported 0 new cases in the last 48 hours. Meanwhile, the Mumbai Traffic Police have issued restrictions on the movement of vehicles on Saturday as the statue of Shiv Sena s late supremo Balasaheb Thackeray will be unveiled in South Mumbai.Follow all the latest