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Indian carriers
share

Gulf carriers
share

1.27cr or
30%

INCLUSIVE OF

Flyers in and out

of India in 2014

4.3 crore
NEWS DIGEST

Govt to sell own

brand of cheap
drugs from July
From July 1, the Centre is set to
launch its own brand Jan
Aushadhi to sell low-cost
generic medicines from chemists. It will procure 504 essential medicines in bulk, rebrand
them and sell them at a lower
prices than branded ones. P 10

China and Russia on Monday

decided to back India for moving a proposal at the UN that
goes against Pakistan on the
issue of sheltering and financing terror outfits. P 10

91 inmates flee Meerut

juvenile home: Ninety-one
inmates of a juvenile home in
Meerut escaped on Monday
after using an improvised rope
made of blankets and bed
sheets. Cops claimed to have
nabbed 42 of them later. P 10

Mfg sector growth

moderates in Jan: Factory
activity slowed marginally in
January and core sector
growth moderated to a threemonth low, raising concerns
about industrial recovery. P 19

SC allows SIT probe

against Bhujbal, P 10
Order rly tickets online,
pay cash on delivery, P 10
Netball player drowns
during Natl Games, P 24
4 armymen survive
chopper crash, P 11
Pak arms teachers to
combat terror, P 18

WEATHER
Max 23.8C(+2)/Min 10.4C(+2)
Moonrise: Tuesday 5.41pm
Moonset: Wednesday 7am
Sunrise: Wednesday 7.08am
Sunset: Tuesday 6.02pm
Partly cloudy sky. Light rain likely.
Maximum & minimum temperatures on
Tuesday will be around 22C & 11C.

TIMESOFINDIA.COM

EPAPER.TIMESOFINDIA.COM

Source: DGCA

TOP 10 AIRLINES FOR PASSENGERS TO AND FROM INDIA IN 2014 (IN LAKH)

55.6

Jet

49.8

AI

48.3

18.5
23.1

Emirates

16.4
Qatar
Airways

AI Express

14.9
Air
Arabia

14.9
Saudi
Arabian

12.3
Indigo

Oman
Airlines

12
Singapore
Airlines

Report P12

AAPs breakaway group exposes Vandals break in,

flee
with
chalice
dodgy donations, alleges laundering from VK church
`2 Cr In A Day, Party
Says Got It By Cheque
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

India gets China, Russia

to back anti-Pak UN pact:

DELHI TIMES AND TATA BOLT |

1.5cr or
36%

New Delhi: The Delhi election campaign got uglier on

Monday with Aam Aadmi
Partys breakaway volunteer
group AVAM (AAP Volunteer
Action Manch) accusing the
party of money laundering.
Basing its charge on details of donations listed by
AAP on its website, AVAM alleged donations worth Rs 2
crore were shown from firms

AAP: Form SIT to

probe party funding

eacting to allegations of
money laundering, Aam
Aadmi Party called for the
setting up of a special
investigation team under the
Supreme Court to look into the
funding of all political parties.
Last week, Arvind Kejriwal had
warned that mud slinging will
be carried out against AAP. This
is exactly what is happening,
said party member Yogendra
Yadav, adding that AAP would
not have put fund details online
if it had anything to hide. P 5

which have no resources to

make such donations.
The controversy, five days
before the assembly election
on February 7, had rival BJP at
AAPs throat, accusing it of hypocrisy regarding its transparent mode of funding. Congress, too, attacked AAP for its
alleged double-speak and demanded an immediate probe .
Refusing to react directly
to the charge, senior AAP
members said the party has

accepted every payment by

cheque and asked for the donors PAN card details. Beyond that, they said, they
didnt have the wherewithal to
check the source of money.
They added that AAPs accounts have been inspected
twice by the home ministry
and nothing wrong has been
found with them. AAP said it
was open to a probe by a Supreme Court-monitored SIT.
Still, it seemed odd that as
much as Rs 2 crore came into
its kitty in one day nine
months ago, and AAP leaders,
including Arvind Kejriwal,
who is a former IRS officer,
didnt wake up to the sudden
flood of money. At the same

4 FIRMS WITH NO INCOME GAVE 50 LAKH EACH

WHATS THE CHARGE?
4 companies, allegedly without any known
income, donated 50 lakh each to AAP on the
same day, same time April 5, 2014, 12am
AVAM, a breakaway AAP group, made the
disclosure and alleged this was a case of
money laundering. It claimed there were
31 more such dubious entities in the AAP
donor list and it would make fresh disclosures
One Hem Prakash Sharma is director in
3 of the 4 companies. He has been director or
additional director of 56
companies in recent years.
No default associated with
any of his companies

If AAP used shell

companies to
launder money,
why should it put these
amounts on its website
voluntarily and that too
4 donations of 50 lakh
each, made at the same
time, raising suspicion?

PAGES 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6

More donations, P 5

The directors were not found to be residing

at addresses mentioned in the ling with
RoC. Companies also dont operate from
the addresses led with RoC
The rms seem to be in breach of the law,
which says a company ought to have been
protable for three years before it can donate
to a party. They also appear to have violated
the stipulation that political donations
cant exceed 7.5% of a companys average
prot in the previous 3 years

SOME UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

Danceof Democracy
time, it might be argued that if
AAP indeed had something to
hide, why would it put it out in
the open on the internet?
Making the sensational
disclosure at a press meet,
AVAMs Gopal Goel said, We
have four transaction IDs under which donations of Rs 50
lakh each were made by four
companies at 12 am on April 5,
2014. The firms have fake addresses, a common set of directors and no business at all.
They dont buy or sell anything. They make no money
and only pay auditors. Theres
never been more than Rs 25,000
in their accounts at any point
of time. This is a case of organized money laundering.

All the four companies existed even

before AAP was formed. At least three of
them have paid-up capital of 1 crore

Why didnt AAP wake up

to Rs 2 crore ooding its
account, when it says
that every donation over
10 lakh is approved by its
Public Accounts Committee?
AAP has nancially literate
leaders, and Kejriwal himself
is an ex-IRS ofcer

Did an AAP
rival put in this
money to make
it seem amenable to
corrupt practices?
If so, why didnt
the rival seek to
embarrass AAP prior
to the LS polls?

Dictatorial Bedis
aide quits, returns

Kejriwal goes to EC
over casteist ad

AAP will get 35

seats, BJP 29: Poll

JP campaign committee
member Narendra Tandon
quit the party on Monday
morning saying it had become
difficult to work with CM
candidate Kiran Bedi because
of her dictatorial attitude,
but later withdrew his
resignation after meeting
party president Amit Shah. In
his resignation letter, Tandon
claimed Bedis staff had
insulted him several times. He
later said: There were some
issues, but now it is all
settled. However, he may no
longer remain part of the
campaign committee, said
BJP sources. P 2

war of words broke out

between AAP and BJP over
an advertisement that the
latter got published in
newspapers on Monday,
reports Neha Lalchandani.
The ad caricatures Arvind
Kejriwal, saying he belongs to
a gotra (sub-caste) of
upadravi (rowdy) people.
Kejriwal, whose actual gotra
is Agarwal, demanded an
apology from BJP for having
insulted the entire
community. He later lodged a
complaint with the EC against
BJP, which filed a countercase saying AAP had given a
casteist colour to the ad. P 2

AP will emerge as the

single largest party with
35 seats, just one short of
majority, according to an
opinion poll conducted by
ABP News-Nielsen. BJP is
projected to get 29 seats
while Congress will get just
six in the 70-member House,
according to the poll. AAP
chief Arvind Kejriwal emerges
as the most preferred chief
ministerial candidate among
48% of those polled, followed
by BJPs Kiran Bedi with 42%.
AAP is tipped to be the largest
party with 37% vote share
ahead of BJP (33%) and
Congress (18%). P 6

Somreet.Bhattacharya
@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: Targeting yet another Christian place of worship in the capital, vandals
broke into St Alphonsa
Church in south Delhi early
Monday morning and fled
with a chalice kept on the altar after scattering its holy
contents on the ground.
Although police termed it
a case of burglary, church officials said it was an act of
vandalism as many costly
items, including the donation box, were left untouched.
This is the fifth alleged attack
on a church in two months,
starting with the burning of
St Sebastians Church in east
Delhi on December 1.
Police have registered a
case of theft and defiling a
place of worship. The inci-

Anindya Chattopadhyay

A forensic expert looks for

evidence inside the St Alphonsa
Church in Vasant Kunj

dent was reported around

6am by priests of the Catholic church, located at Green
Avenue in Vasant Kunj.
The Union home ministry has sought a detailed report from Delhi Police on the
incident within two days.
Donations untouched, P 6

RIL-SBI in race to set

up payments bank
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Mumbai: Indias largest

corporate house, Reliance
Industries Ltd, has managed
to rope in the countrys
largest lender, State Bank of
India, as its minority partner to head the list of applicants seeking a licence to set
up a specialized bank.
According to central
banking sources, over 70
applicants including the
Aditya Birla Group, Vodafone and Airtel have
shown interest in setting
up either a payments
bank or a small finance

bank. Monday was the

last date for applications.
Specialized banks are expected to change the banking
landscape by promoting digital payments, for money transfers and payments. Though
digital payment products are
available, new entrants are
expected to speed up adoption by making them available to low-value customers on
the mobile platform. Specialized payment banks and
small finance banks are the
brainchild of RBI governor
Raghuram Rajan.
Idea, SKS in fray, P 20