SRINAGAR: The Economic Offence Wing of Crime Branch Kashmir produced a challan against three accused persons for producing a fake death certificate to extract insurance money fraudulently.

According to a statement challan was produced in case FIR No. 15/2008 U/S 420, 467,468,471,201,120B RPC before the court of Forest Magistrate Srinagar against Taveen Hussain Shah, Late Gul Fatima and Late Sakhi Shah—all residents of Kupwara.

The statement reads the instant case had been registered upon a receipt of a written complaint from one Jatinder Pal Singh, Area Manager, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India, wherein it was alleged that Taveen Ahmad Shah had opted for life insurance policies twice with ICICI Prudential Life Insurance and had fraudulently extracted the huge amount by showing himself as dead.

It reads accordingly a case FIR No. 15/2008 had been registered and investigation into the matter was set in motion.

“During the course of investigation, it has surfaced that accused Taveen Shah had hatched a criminal Conspiracy in league with his mother and father and misrepresented the actual facts before the ICICI insurance Company and illegally and fraudulently extracted an amount of Rs 4.27 lacs as insurance claim of one of his policies by producing his fake death certificate,” it reads.

It further reads after receiving one insurance claim, the accused executed another two policies for Rs. 52 Lacs and produced another death certificate of Road Traffic Accident in Banihal.

“During the course of investigation, it was established that the accused had not died in the road accident anywhere and has managed fake death certificates to avail the insurance amount and has shown him as dead twice, but the fact is that the accused Taveen Hussain Shah is still alive,” it added. It reads the offences were proved against him and the challan was produced in the court of law.

New Delhi, Dec 7: The Supreme Court on Wednesday launched android version 2.0 of its mobile application, which will give access to law officers and nodal officers of various union ministries to watch court proceedings real time.
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said the mobile application can be downloaded from Google Play store while the iOS version will be available in a week’s time.
“Android version 2.0 is available while iOS will be available in a week’s time. Besides lawyers and advocates on-record, the application will give exclusive real time access to all law officers and nodal officers of various ministries of the Central government. They can watch the court proceedings by logging in through this application”, the CJI said.
He made the announcement before the start of the day’s work.
“The law officers and nodal officers of the union ministries can watch in real time the status of their case filed, order, judgements, and pendency of their cases”, CJI Chandrachud said.
The mobile application, which was earlier in existence, granted access to lawyers and advocate on-records to watch court proceedings.It also showed the status of the cases, orders and judgements.
During the pandemic, then Chief Justice NV Ramana had granted access to few media persons to enable them to watch court proceedings virtually. (Agencies)

Mumbai, Dec 7: The Reserve Bank on Wednesday marginally lowered the country’s GDP growth projection for the current fiscal at 6.8 per cent from its earlier estimate of 7 per cent.
However, despite the downward revision in the economic growth projection, India will remain among the fastest growing major economies in the world, said RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das while announcing the latest bi-monthly monetary policy.
He said the Indian economy remains resilient and is a bright spot in a gloomy world.
It is to be noted that the RBI had also pared its growth projection in September as well.
The World Bank on Tuesday revised upwards its GDP growth forecast for India to 6.9 per cent for 2022-23 from its earlier estimate of 6.5 per cent, saying the economy was showing higher resilience to global shocks. (Agencies)

NEW DELHI, Dec 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged leaders of all parties to make collective efforts to make Parliament’s winter session more productive.
Speaking to media ahead of the session’s start, he said Parliamentarians, including from the opposition, have told him that disruption and adjournment in Parliament is not good and this also denies younger MPs an opportunity to learn.
The Prime Minister urged all political parties to give first time MPs a chance to participate in debates for their bright future and also for preparing the next generation in democracy.
He also said that India hosting the G20 summit, which will be held next year, is not merely a diplomatic event but also a chance to showcase the country’s capabilities before the world.
The Prime Minister said he had a cordial discussion with leaders of different parties recently at an all-party meeting on G20 and expressed hope that it will be reflected in Parliament as well. (Agencies)

New Delhi, Dec 7: India recorded 166 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases declined to 4,255, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday.
The total tally of Covid cases stands at 4.46 crore (4,46,73,949).
The death toll climbed to 5,30,638 with five fatalities which includes three deaths reconciled by Kerala. One death each has been reported from Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh in the last 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate increased to 98.80 per cent, the ministry said.
A decrease of 90 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,41,39,056 while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent. According to the ministry’s website, 219.94 crore doses of Covid vaccine have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide vaccination drive. India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year. It crossed the four-crore mark on January 25 this year. (AGENCIES)