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Case registered against Rahul Gandhi for derogatory claims against Veer Savarkar, complaints filed, including one by Ranjit Savarkar: What happened

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Case registered against Rahul Gandhi for derogatory claims against Veer Savarkar, complaints filed, including one by Ranjit Savarkar: What happened

On Thursday (November 17), a case was registered against Rahul Gandhi for mocking the contribution of Indian freedom fighter, Veer Savarkar to the Independence Movement during his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra.’

As per reports, a complaint was filed by Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena leader, Vandana Dongre, with the Thane police station against the Congress scion. A First Information Report (FIR) was registered against Gandhi under non-cognisable offences.

The Congress leader was booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 500 (Punishment for defamation) and 501 (Printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory).

While speaking about the development to ANI, Vandana Dongre remarked, “Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra made a statement defaming the freedom fighter Savarkar and due to this the sentiments of the local citizens have been hurt.

She continued, “We will not tolerate the defamation of our great men in the soil of Maharashtra.” The Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena members also took out a demonstration against the objectionable remarks of the Congress scion.

Demands for the arrest of Rahul Gandhi are being made from several quarters, including Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena leader Naresh Mhaske.

Complaint filed against Congress leader by Ranjit Savarkar

Another complaint was filed with the Shivaji Park police station by Ranjit Savarkar, the grandson of Veer Savarkar, against Rahul Gandhi for insulting the legacy of the Indian freedom fighter. He also named Maharashtra Congress President, Nana Patole, in his complaint.

While speaking about the matter, he told ANI, “I’ve come here to file a complaint against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for insulting Veer Savarkar in a public meeting in Maharashtra. Rahul Gandhi said, Veer Savarkar took pension & worked for Britishers & also he worked against the country.”

As per reports, the police have not registered an FIR in the case so far.

Derogatory comments of Rahul Gandhi against Veer Savarkar

The Congress scion had gone on a vitriolic tirade against Veer Savarkar during the Maharashtra leg of his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra.’ On Tuesday (November 15), Rahul Gandhi claimed that the freedom fighter took a pension from the British government to work against the Indian National Congress (INC).

Again on Thursday (November 17), he reiterated that Veer Savarkar helped the British government and wrote mercy petitions “out of fear”. Rahul Gandhi accused the Indian freedom fighter of betraying the likes of Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel and Mahatma Gandhi in the Akola district of Maharashtra.

He alleged, “Veer Savarkar, in a letter written to the British, said – Sir, I beg to remain your most obedient servant” & signed on it. Savarkar helped the British. He betrayed leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru & Sardar Patel by signing the letter out of fear.”


He continued, “While he was lodged in Andaman jail, Savarkar wrote a letter to the British pleading with them that he be pardoned and released. He took a pension from the British and worked against Congress.”

“After coming out of jail, he accepted the British proposal and joined their force. The difference between Savarkar and Birsa Munda is that he died fighting against the British when he was just 24 years old,” Rahul Gandhi further claimed.

Elon Musk gives ultimatum to Twitter employees to work hard, hundreds quit: Details

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Elon Musk gives ultimatum to Twitter employees to work hard, hundreds quit: Details

On November 17 (local time), another round of Twitter exodus occurred as hundreds of employees reportedly resigned from the social media platform following Elon Musk’s mid-night ultimatum demanding an ‘extremely hardcore’ work culture. In his email, Musk asked the employees to reply to the email by 5 PM ET and agree to conditions including ‘long working hours’ to build Twitter 2.0.

Notably, when Musk took over Twitter in a $44 billion deal, he immediately laid off around 3,700 employees. Since then, a few others got fired for different reasons, either on social media or the company’s Slack channels.

As soon as the deadline imposed in the recent email by Musk hit, hundreds of employees started posting farewell messages on the company’s Slack channels and/or Twitter. Before the current exodus, there were around 2,900 employees left at Twitter. It is unclear how many employees have resigned from the company in the present layoff.

Verge’s report suggested that the critical team of engineers at Twitter has either entirely or near-completely resigned from the company. Musk has reportedly started working on bringing a paradigm shift in the work culture at Twitter since the day he took over. In a recent email, he wrote, “Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”

Strict action against managers for an underperforming team

As per CNBC, in recent communications with the Twitter team, Elon Musk said it would be the manager’s responsibility that those who work remotely contribute exceptionally to the company. The email read, “Regarding remote work, all required for approval is that your manager takes responsibility for ensuring that you are making an excellent contribution. It is also expected that you have in-person meetings with your colleagues on a reasonable cadence, ideally weekly, but not less than once per month.”

Furthermore, any manager doing false reporting about the employees’ performance will face termination. The email read, “At the risk of stating the obvious, any manager who falsely claims that someone reporting to them is doing excellent work or that a given role is essential, whether remote or not, will be exited from the company.”

Recruitment started at Twitter

Furthermore, as per the reports, Twitter has already started reaching out to the engineers as part of the new recruitment drive. The Verge accessed a message to one recruit that asked the person if they wanted to join “Twitter 2.0 – an Elon company”.

Kamal Nath cuts a temple-shaped cake with image of Lord Hanuman and a saffron flag on his birthday, Foundation that brought the cake apologises

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Kamal Nath cuts a temple-shaped cake with image of Lord Hanuman and a saffron flag on his birthday, Foundation that brought the cake apologises

On Thursday (November 17), Social worker and director of KKF Foundation, Kirti Sudhanshu apologised over for bringing a temple-shaped cake at the birthday celebration of veteran Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath.

“I want to apologise for what happened, our intention was not wrong, however, we made a mistake while making the cake. Kamal Nath Ji had nothing to do with this, dragging his name in the controversy is wrong,” Kirti Sudhanshu said during a press conference. However, there has been no apology from Kamal Nath for cutting a temple-shaped cake with Lord Hanuman sitting atop with a saffron flag.

Notably, on November 16, 2022, Kamal Nath sparked controversy after he cut a ‘temple-shaped’ cake during his birthday celebrations. 

The video of Kamal Nath cutting a four-tier cake with an image of Lord Hanuman and a saffron flag on top went viral on social media drawing strong reactions online as well as from several political leaders. 

Reacting to the controversy, MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan slammed the Congress party over their hypocrisy. He said that the Congress party which opposed the construction of Ram Mandir now remembers Hanuman Ji for votes. “These people have nothing to do with God’s Bhakti, this (Congress) is the same party that opposed the construction of Ram Mandir. Now when they saw that due to this they lose votes, they started remembering Hanuman Ji. Who draws Hanuman Ji on a cake, and then cuts it? Isn’t this an insult to the Sanatan traditions? This is an insult of Hindu Dharma and it is unacceptable,” CM Chouhan said. 

BJP leader Amit Malviya also chastised Kamal Nath saying that during elections Kamal Nath claimed to be a Hanuman bhakt (devotee of Lord Hanuman) and is now insulting Hindus and their deity. 

“Former MP CM and senior Congress leader Kamalnath, runs a knife through a four-tiered, temple-shaped cake, with a saffron flag and image of lord Hanuman on top. During elections he had claimed to be Hanuman bhakt and is now insulting crores of Hindus by denigrating their deity…,” Malviya tweeted.

Notably, supporters of Kamal Nath decided to celebrate his birthday, which falls on November 18, in advance during his three-day visit to his hometown Chhindwara. On Tuesday evening, a celebration was held at the former chief minister’s residence where the cake-cutting took place. 

Centre files a review petition challenging the Supreme Court order to release Rajiv Gandhi’s killers

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Centre files a review petition challenging the Supreme Court order to release Rajiv Gandhi’s killers

On 17th November 2022, in opposition to the Supreme Court’s decision to release all convicts in the killing of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the Center filed a review petition with the top court. On November 11, the court released Nalini Sriharan and the five other remaining prisoners who had been serving life sentences for almost thirty years, stating that the previous decision freeing AG Perarivalan also applied to them.

It is notable that, on May 18, a panel of Justices B R Gavai and B V Nagarathna, exercising its exceptional authority under Article 142 of the Constitution, ruled in favor of Perarivalan, who had spent more than 30 years in prison.

The center has asked for this review petition on grounds that the center wasn’t heard on the matter by the Supreme Court despite this being the case of the murder of a former Prime Minister of India. The center is contending as to why it was not made a party in this case when its top office bearer was the victim in this incident that took place on 21st May 1991.

The Supreme Court of India on Friday ordered the release of Nalini Sriharan and R P Ravichandran, convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, who were serving life sentences. A bench of Justices BR Gavai and BV Nagarathna accepted the petitions of the jailed convicts saying that their conduct in the prison has been found satisfactory, and they have been in prison for a long time

Along with the two, the court also ordered the premature release of four other prisoners convicted in the case. They are Murugan, Santhan, Jayakumar, and Robert Payas. Another jailed convict AG Perarivalan was released from jail earlier this year. All of them have spent over three decades in jail after their arrests in 1991.

Along with former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi, 14 others also died in the explosion apart from the suicide bomber Thenmozhi Rajaratnam aka Dhanu.

Shraddha murder case: Delhi Court gives clearance for Narco test on Aftab Amin; 100 lawyers protest outside the court demanding death penalty

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Shraddha murder case: Delhi Court gives clearance for Narco test on Aftab Amin; 100 lawyers protest outside the court demanding death penalty

A Delhi Court on Thursday gave a green signal to conduct a narco-analysis test, for lie detection, on Aftab Amin, accused of mercilessly strangulating and butchering his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar. As per reports, Aftab has also given consent for the Narco test.

Following various contradictions in Aftab’s statement in connection with Shraddha’s murder, the Delhi Police opted to conduct the narco test and approached the court for permission for the same.

According to sources, Aaftab Amin Poonawalla would not only be subjected to a narco test, but Delhi Police is also considering polygraph (lie detector) and brain-mapping tests on him. The results of these tests will not be admissible as evidence in court, but police will be allowed to use them to gain clarity on certain aspects of the case if they feel the accused is hiding something or lying.

Delhi court extends Aftab’s police custody by five days

Meanwhile, during the hearing, the court also extended Aftab’s police custody by five days. His five-day police detention ended on Thursday, after which the police requested an extension from the court. The cops reportedly told the court that certain important evidence was still missing and that Aftab needed to be remanded for a few more days. According to the reports, authorities are yet to locate the knife used by Aftab to execute the crime and Shradha Walkar’s mobile phone.

The police are now planning to take Aftab to Himachal Pradesh’s Parvati Valley, where the couple vacationed before moving to Delhi in May, for further investigation.

Speaking about the Delhi Police’s decision to conduct a narco test on the accused, the deceased Shraddha Walkar’s father Vikas Madan said that Delhi Police realised that Aftab sometimes lies and sometimes speaks the truth. So, they applied for the narco test. “I feel I’m about to get justice. If he has done the crime, he should be hanged. I always felt he was lying, I had told Mumbai and Delhi Police,” added Walkar.

The victim’s father further stated, “Aftab is clever and has erased the evidence in the last 5-6 months. So, Police will face a little difficulty in bringing out the truth. I won’t rest until Aftab is given a death sentence.”

Over 100 lawyers protest outside the court, demand death penalty for Shraddha Walkar’s murderer Aftab Amin

Aftab reportedly appeared before the Saket court via a video link at 4 PM. When it was revealed that the accused would be brought before Metropolitan Magistrate Aviral Shukla, as many as 100 lawyers from Saket district courts gathered outside the court at around 3 PM and shouted slogans like “hang him, hang him”, “hang the killer of Shraddha”, and “hang such Love jihadis”, demanding the death penalty for the accused.

On November 15, Delhi Police went to Mehrauli forests with Aftab to collect evidence. During interrogation, he informed the police that after killing Shraddha on May 18, 2022, he chopped the dead body into 35 pieces and threw them one by one in the forest. It took him around 18 days to complete the task.

During Aftab’s police interrogation so far, police have learned that he chopped Shraddha’s dead body into 35 pieces and then threw those body parts around Delhi over the next 18 days. Aftab also revealed that he burnt his live-in partner Shraddha’s face after chopping her body into pieces, in order to hide her identity. 

Self-proclaimed saint Shraddhanand, serving life term without parole for killing his wife, pleads for his release like Rajiv Gandhi’s killers

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Self-proclaimed saint Shraddhanand, serving life term without parole for killing his wife, pleads for his release like Rajiv Gandhi’s killers

80-year-old Swami Shraddhananda, who has been in jail for the last 29 years for killing his wife for money, has approached the Supreme Court seeking his release. The killers of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi have recently been released from jail. Therefore, Swami Shraddhananda has filed a petition in court to similarly release him from jail. Through his counsel, Shraddhanand filed the petition before a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice Hima Kohli.

Swami Shraddhananda has been serving a jail term since March 1994 in connection with the murder of his wife Shakira. Shakira was the granddaughter of Sir Mirza Ismail, the Diwan of Mysore. Shakira was married to Akbar Khalili, who served as India’s ambassador to Australia and Iran. In 1985, Akbar Khalili and Shakira’s marriage broke up. The very next year, Shakira got married to Shraddhananda.

Advocate Varun Thakur, appearing for Shradhanand, argued before a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justices Hima Kohli and J B Pardiwala that the convict was sentenced to life imprisonment. There is also no parole for the murder he has committed. He had already spent 29 years in jail without meeting anyone. Now that Rajiv Gandhi’s killers have been released from jail, the same benefit should also be granted to Swami Shraddhananda, the counsel pleaded.

Advocate Varun Thakur said, “He has already been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder. He has already spent 29 years in jail. He said he did not get parole even for a single day during this period. The convicts in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi have been released after 30 years in jail. This is a violation of the right to equality.”

After hearing the arguments of the lawyers, the court said it would hear Shraddhananda’s plea. Shraddhananda is now over 80 years old. Thakur said that Shraddhananda has been in jail since March 1994. Originally he was awarded the death sentence, but later it was commuted to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court. The lawyer said despite his death sentence, he was kept in solitary confinement in Belagavi jail for three years. He also claimed that he was suffering from many ailments.

In 1991, Swami Shraddhananda drugged Shakira at her bungalow on Richmond Road in Bengaluru in order to rob her of assets worth an estimated Rs 600 crore. He had buried her alive while she was still under the influence of alcohol. Following a court order, the police dug up the ground and pulled out Shakira’s body. Shraddhanand was arrested in the case on April 30, 1994.

In 2000, a trial court in Bengaluru convicted him and sentenced him to death. In 2005, the Karnataka High Court also upheld the death sentence, but in 2008, on an appeal by Shraddhanand, the Supreme Court commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment without any remedies. The court had said that no person shall meet him in jail and a parole application cannot be filed.

It is interesting to note that while Shraddhananda has been jailed without the facility of parole, the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case were granted paroles regularly. Six convicts serving jail terms, Nalini Sriharan, her Sri Lankan husband Murugan Sriharan, three other Lankan convicts Santhan, Robert Payas and Jayakumar, and an Indian national Ravichandran were released from 4 different jails on 12 November, after the Supreme Court ordered their release. Ravichandran was already out on parole, therefore he went to jail for formalities and came out a free man.

Punjab: Three persons including two shooters accused of killing sacrilege-accused Pradeep Singh arrested

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Punjab: Three persons including two shooters accused of killing sacrilege-accused Pradeep Singh arrested

A week after Pradeep Singh, a Dera Sacha Sauda adherent charged in the 2015 Bargari sacrilege charges, was shot dead by six assailants, Punjab Police made three arrests of those allegedly responsible for the shooting. Two of the three arrested accused are shooters. The Punjab police arrested the accused on 17th November 2022.

In a shocking incident on Thursday, 10th November 2022, Pradeep Singh was shot dead in Punjab’s Faridkot by six unidentified attackers in Kotkapura town of Faridkot district. The incident occurred while Pardeep was opening his shop in Kotkapura, police said, adding that Pradeep Singh’s gunman was injured in the incident.

Manpreet Singh Manni and Bhupinder Singh Goldy, two shooters, were taken into custody by the Punjab Police on Thursday 17th November 2022 in Hoshiarpur. Baljit Singh, alias Manna, the third suspect, was detained for giving logistical assistance to three gunmen from the gang’s Haryana arm.

With the arrest of the shooters from the Faridkot district, five of the six accused have been apprehended, and the hunt for the sixth continues. While the three shooters of the Haryana module, including two minors, were captured in Patiala by the Delhi Police special cell less than 24 hours after the murder on November 10, Manni and Goldy are members of the Punjab-based module of the Canadian Goldy Brar’s gang.

Punjab’s director general of police (DGP), Gaurav Yadav, tweeted on Thursday to share the news. He said in the video, “Pradeep Singh’s targetted killing took place on November 10. Today Punjab police achieved a big success in arresting Manpreet Singh Manni and Bhupinder Singh Goldy. Both these shooters have been arrested as a result of an intelligence-based operation. They were arrested from Hoshiarpur in an operation conducted jointly by the Faridkot and Hoshiarpur police teams along with counter-intelligence (CI) members of Jalandhar police. Faridkot police have also arrested Baljit Singh, alias Manna, for providing logistic support to three shooters from the Haryana module.”

Goldy Brar, an associate of fugitive Harvinder Singh, alias Rinda, and incarcerated mobster Lawrence Bishnoi, according to Yadav, is the mastermind of the crime. Police sources said that Goldy Brar was managing the modules on his own.

It is notable that, in 2015, Pardeep Singh was accused of stealing a ‘bir’ (copy) of the Guru Granth Sahib in Faridkot. He was out on bail. Protests erupted in Faridkot following ‘sacrilege’ incidents in 2015. In October 2015, police opened fire on protesters in Behbal Kalan, killing two people and injuring several others in Kotkapura, Faridkot.

Madhya Pradesh: Minors converted to Islam at children’s home during lockdown sent home, NCPCR launches probe against the home operator Haseen Parvez

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Madhya Pradesh: Minors converted to Islam at children’s home during lockdown sent home, NCPCR launches probe against the home operator Haseen Parvez

On November 17, Thursday, NCPCR chief Priyank Kanoongo shared that three minor inmates of a care centre in Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district who were allegedly converted to Islam by the centre’s operator, Haseen Parvez, have been handed over to their father. The NCPCR investigation into the matter assisted the children in reuniting with their family, over two years after they were separated during the lockdown amidst the Corona epidemic in 2020.

NCPCR chief Priyank Kanoongo took to Twitter to share the news report on the same. “Update! These three children have returned to Damoh with their father,” tweeted the NCPCR chief..

According to media reports, the incident occurred in the Gauharganj area in Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district. The three siblings who were converted to Islam are all minors, aged 4, 6, and 8. The converted minors involved two girls and one boy. These children are said to be from Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh district and belong to a Hindu family under the OBC category.

Notably, on Saturday (November 12), National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) chairman Priyank Kanoongo informed that a case of religious conversion of three children in a children’s home has come to the notice of NCPCR during a recent investigation in Madhya Pradesh. 

Kanoongo took to Twitter to inform about the incident and wrote, “During an inspection of a child welfare centre in Raisen, Madhya Pradesh, a case was found where the operator was changing the names and religion of three children,” he tweeted.

OpIndia had reported how Haseen Parvez, the operator of the centre, changed the religion of the three children to Islam, changed their names to Muslim ones and got their Aadhar cards made. He also claimed himself to be the guardian of the children and put his name on their Aadhaar cards.

The matter came to light during an inspection of the centre by NCPCR chairman Priyank Kanoongo after receiving an oral complaint. When he talked to the children, they said that their original names were different which have been changed at the centre. After that, Kanoongo ordered a probe and asked for the confiscation of the records.

An FIR had been filed against the centre’s operator Haseen Parvez. This child centre is a government-funded private entity. Kanoongo stated that the operator will be restricted from operating a similar facility in the future.

Big Basket flaunts how thousands of Indians have ‘BigBasket’ as their password, only to realise it’s not something to be proud of. Read why

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Big Basket flaunts how thousands of Indians have ‘BigBasket’ as their password, only to realise it’s not something to be proud of. Read why

On November 15, Mint published a story based on NordPass’s report on passwords used by internet users around the world. In country-specific information, the report suggested that “password” was the most common password used, with over 3.4 million usages. “123456” was the second most used password. Surprisingly, “bigbasket” stood in the fourth position. Signifying the popularity of the online grocery store, the report claimed that it is the fourth most common password in India.

Nordpass report on most common used passwords. Source: NordPass

Big Basket assumed it was a PR worthy of info

Without going into the details of how NordPass generated the list, Big Basket flaunted the Mint’s report on its official Twitter handle, thinking this was something to be proud of. However, things were not in their favour as the information used in the report was based on data leak incidents.

In a now-deleted tweet, BigBasket wrote, “Keeping your partner’s name as the password (X). Keeping our name as the password (✔)”. However, as soon as they realised that it was nothing to be proud of and the list meant their servers were not robust and secure, the tweet was deleted.

Understanding NordPass’s report on common passwords

A Twitter user Ravi Handa published a detailed thread on the issue. Handa contacted NordPass to understand how they came up with the report on the most used passwords. In email communication, Handa asked NordPass about the source of the data.

In a reply, NordPass confirmed that they compiled the list in association with the independent researchers who evaluated 3-TB worth of data.

Interestingly, they clearly pointed out that the independent researchers they partnered with were experts in cybersecurity incidents. Furthermore, when asked where the 3-TB data came from, NordPass said they could not disclose the source as they had signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with the source(s). NordPass also mentioned they had no access to the database of any company or server to collect the said information, which makes it clear that the password list came from the leaked data.

Furthermore, even the Mint report clearly suggested that the passwords were compiled based on the data analysed by data security experts. NordPass noted that 73% of the 200 most commonly used passwords this year were the same as last year. Around 83% of the passwords mentioned in the list by NordPass were easy to crack under a second, that include ‘password’ and ‘123456’. Hackers would take approximately five minutes to crack passwords in case of users using ‘bigbasket’ as their password, the report suggested.

The data security incident of 2020

Big Basket has been under the scanner for a data breach in October 2020. As per reports, data of around 20 million users was allegedly leaked then. In April 2021, a hacker group identified as ShinyHunters allegedly released the data for free on a hacker forum. The hacker wrote that the data file contains email, password (hashed), name, phone number, address, order details and other information of the users. It is believed that the data is from the infamous October 2020 breach. The information security firm Cyble Inc. had identified the breach and published a post on November 7 on its website.

As per a detailed report published by global threat intelligence SaaS provider Cyble, the alleged data breach happened on October 14, 2020. Cyble detected the breach on October 30 during its routine Dark Web Monitoring. The data was available for $40,000. Cyble validated the data, and on November 1, they informed BigBasket about the breach. The company urged them not to disclose the breach. Cyble advised them to let the customers know as they have the right to know about the breach.

On November 2, Cyble started informing the customers about the breach. VP-Engineering, Big Basket, approached Cyble for support and service, but Cyble refused, stating it was a high-risk engagement. However, later Cyble agreed to provide free/non-obligatory services. Big Basket was supposed to disclose the agreement between Cyble and Big Basket, but nothing happened from Big Basket’s end.

On November 7, Cyble made a public disclosure about the breach. On November 9, Big Basket acknowledged that the data was leaked. It must be noted that not only Big Basket’s data but other companies’ data were also compromised. Cyble later discovered that the infamous hacker group ShinyHunters was behind the breach. On November 12, it was revealed that a threat actor identified as The Polaris had paid ShinyHunters $40,000 for the data.

It is probable that the leaked data used to compile the common password list included data leaked from BigBasket, as there is a high probability that most people who used BigBasket as passwords are subscribers of the online store, and most probably they used it for their BigBasket accounts.

Disclosure by Big Basket

On November 10, Big Basket made a disclosure statement on social media platforms and said that as the company has been using OTP for login, there was no need to change the password. However, the company did not say anything about the other information like name, address, phone number etc., getting leaked.

Update:

OpIndia had contacted NordPass for details on the common password list, and they said that ‘bigbasket’ appeared as the 4th most common password in breaches that happened in late 2021 and 2022. This indicates that this data didn’t come from the breach of BigBasket user data that took place in 2020.

NordPass told OpIndia that the database used for the report is based on leaked data published on the Dark Web from data breaches that took place in 2022 around the world, along with some breaches in late 2021. The company said that they didn’t have access to raw data, they received already compiled lists of common passwords.

Delhi Court dismisses bail plea of AAP minister Satyendar Jain and two others in the money laundering case

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Delhi Court dismisses bail plea of AAP minister Satyendar Jain and two others in the money laundering case

On November 17, Thursday, the Delhi Rouse Avenue Court denied bail to AAP minister Satyendar Jain in connection with the money laundering case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The bench of special judge Vikas Dhull also rejected the bail of Vaibhav and Ankush Jain, co-accused in the case. Satyendar Jain was sent to judicial custody on June 13 on completion of his ED custody in connection with a money laundering case filed against him by CBI in August 2017.

Special judge Vikas Dhull was supposed to issue the order yesterday. However, the matter was postponed for today since the order was not ready.

The AAP leader had urged the court to grant him bail, claiming that keeping him in detention would serve no purpose any longer. The Delhi Court’s Special Judge Vikas Dhull, however, reserved his order on the bail plea on November 17.

Notably, prior to this, the Delhi Court’s Special Judge Geetanjali Goel had also reserved her order on Jain’s bail plea on June 14. That time, AAP leader Satyendar Jain’s counsel, senior advocate N Hariharan had stated before the Delhi court that the Delhi minister has ‘sleep apnea’ and that he should be granted bail on medical grounds. 

Jain’s counsel also told the court that he has cooperated with the agency at every stage and no more custody is required. He submitted that the AAP leader meets the triple test for bail as he is not a flight risk and also the evidence is mostly documentary in nature and cannot be tampered with. Jain’s counsel also told the court that witnesses have never raised the allegation of threat.

Interestingly, prior to this, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had notified the trial court on Tuesday, June 14, that during questioning, Delhi minister and AAP leader Satyendar Jain claimed that he lost his memory due to the effects of Covid.

AAP leader Satyendar Jain charged with money laundering

On May 30, the ED arrested Satyendar Jain under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. On May 31, the trial court remanded him to the custody of ED. The agency raided the residence and other places associated with Satyendar Jain on June 6 and 7. Following the raid, the agency confiscated Rs. 2.85 crores in cash and 133 gold coins weighing 1.80 kg in total.

The Health Minister of Aam Aadmi Party’s Delhi government was charged with money laundering in August 2017 by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Based on the FIR made by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the ED initiated a criminal case against Jain, alleging that he could not explain the source of income received by four firms in which he was a stakeholder. From 2010 to 2014, the firms allegedly laundered Rs 16.39 crores in cash.

The Home Ministry authorised the prosecution of Delhi minister Satyendar Jain in these matters, including disproportionate assets and money laundering, in November 2019. Under the PMLA, 2002, the Enforcement Directorate temporarily attached immovable assets worth Rs. 4.81 crores owned by Akinchan Developers Pvt. Ltd, Indo Metal Impex Pvt Ltd, and others in April of this year. This step was taken in connection with the case filed against AAP minister Satyendar Jain, his wife Poonam Jain, and others for disproportionate assets and money laundering.

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