Let's talk about Indians

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Why are Indians detested?
Because of the culture in India that they came from.

A culture of cheating and lying which they bring over when they come to Singapore.
Cheating and lying manifested in fake education credentials, fake covid-19 test results, fake vaccination certificates.

A culture of self-centeredness and every man for himself.
An ethnocentric and clannish culture in which an Indian will hire his fellow Indian from his village, his home town.

A caste system that perpetuates class discrimination and gives rise to elites with a displaced sense of entitlement.
Which they bring over when they come to Singapore: they think they are better than the locals and talk down to them.

This culture and behaviour are incongruous with the culture and values in Singapore.
Singapore has prospered because of a culture of integrity, honesty, good manners and community spirit assimilated from the colonial British.

Can't blame Singaporeans when the behaviour of Indians rankle them.
And do not brand Singaporeans' reactions and responses towards Indians as racist in nature.
It is not racism. It is a dislike, and every person is entitled to his likes and dislikes.

A culture of self-centeredness and every man for himself.
An ethnocentric and clannish culture in which an Indian will hire his fellow Indian from his village, his home town.

This is similar to Hakka Leegime hire the whole family tree... and lead to collapse of the whole country....

 

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Fake Vaccine Certs is Reportedly Now an Industry in India With 1 Costing Less than $100​

Written ByTan Shi Hui

October 24, 2021
With photocopy machines and masterminds in the fraudulent industry, there are bound to be fake documents floating around and this time, they produced fake vaccination certificates.

Fake Vaccine Certs is Reportedly Now an Industry in India With 1 Costing Less than $100​

In India, you are able to get a fake vaccination certificate for S$98.85 (Rs 5,500). These certificates are sold on Darknet and Telegram, and they have already gained hundreds of thousands of followers from these online groups.

As there are many sellers doing the same business, the prices are rather competitive, but they mostly ranged around S$98.85.
These certificates are for unvaccinated individuals who refused to get vaccinated but wants the perks of vaccinated individuals. Here in Singapore, one of those perks may be going to work and dining out, but of course, so far in Singapore, there are tests to be made before the vaccine is verified so, thankfully, we shouldn’t be facing this problem.
One of the perks of being a vaccinated individual in India is to undertake inter-state travel by road or air.
However, you don’t necessarily have to be vaccinated to be allowed to travel. You can also show your negative COVID-19 test result.
So naturally, the black-market industry produced a fake negative COVID-19 test result too.

Fake COVID-19 Test Results​

Aside from these certificates, you can also get fraudulent test results as well. These test results costs around S$33.70 (US$25) each.
The black market has also expanded to 29 countries. Some of the countries include Australia, Thailand and even Singapore.

Over 5,000 Telegram Groups Selling Fake Documents​

Israel-based Check Point Research (CPR) has spotted over 5,000 Telegram groups selling fake documents such as COVID-19 vaccination cards and COVID-19 negative test results.
A quick search on Telegram shows that these groups are still active to date and that the sellers believe that they are protecting the buyers by saving them from the “poisonous vaccine”.

Telegram vowed to Take Action​

With so many people spreading misinformation and the black market industry growing faster than ever, Telegram said they will be taking action against the groups that are selling these fraudulent items.

 

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There is an open court hearing this afternoon, ah neh's appeal against death penalty.

 

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Indian financiers don't play by the rules, they want to get rich by various means

Rajat Gupta guilty of insider trading​

By Grant McCool and
Basil Katz
June 15, 2012
NEW YORK — Rajat Gupta, a consummate business insider who once sat on the board of Goldman Sachs Group, was convicted Friday of leaking secrets about the investment bank at the height of the financial crisis, a major victory for prosecutors seeking to root out illicit trading on Wall Street.
A Manhattan federal court jury delivered the verdict on its second day of deliberations, finding that Gupta fed stock tips to his hedge-fund manager friend Raj Rajaratnam gleaned from confidential Goldman board meetings. Gupta was found guilty of four of six criminal counts and could face a prison term of up to 25 years.
The conviction burnishes the record of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, which has spent the past several years aggressively prosecuting insider trading. More than 60 people have pleaded guilty or have been convicted in cases brought by the FBI and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney in the past four years.
In its case against Gupta, who headed elite business consultancy McKinsey & Co for nine years and is the most prominent person charged in the insider-trading crackdown, the government faced a challenge. There was no evidence that he traded on any of the information he allegedly leaked, and the government did not have the trove of FBI wiretaps that helped win a conviction last year of Rajaratnam, who is serving 11 years in prison.
Jury foreman Rick Lepkowski told reporters after the verdict: “On the counts we convicted, we felt there was enough circumstantial evidence.” He said wiretaps in which Rajaratnam was heard telling two of his traders about the board information “didn’t tip the balance.”

The verdict capped a four-week trial that featured Goldman chief executive Lloyd Blankfein as a star government witness. All of the counts Gupta was convicted of involved tips and trades in Goldman stock in September and October 2008, including passing inside information on a crucial $5 billion investment by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.
As the verdict was read in court by the jury foreman, there was a gasp when Gupta was pronounced “not guilty” on the first count of securities fraud. It involved whether Gupta told Rajaratnam about Goldman’s quarterly earnings after a March 12, 2007 board meeting. He was then declared guilty on three other securities fraud counts and a count of conspiracy.
Gupta, 63, also was found not guilty of divulging the quarterly earnings in January 2009 of Procter & Gamble, where he also served as a board member.
After the verdict, an ashen-faced Gupta glanced grimly back at his wife and daughters. Later, the family stood together hugging in the courtroom as Gupta tried to console his distraught, sobbing daughters and wife.
“This is only round one,” his defense attorney, Gary Naftalis, told reporters. “We will be moving to set aside the verdict and will, if necessary, appeal the conviction.”
Gupta, who lives in Westport, Conn., is also a former director at American Airlines and had ties to a prominent business school in his native India. Well known in philanthropic circles, he advised groups such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries.
Gupta “achieved remarkable success and stature, but he threw it all away” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement after the verdict.

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff scheduled a tentative sentencing date of Oct. 18. The maximum sentence for securities fraud is 20 years and the maximum sentence for conspiracy is five years, although it seems unlikely that Gupta would receive such a heavy punishment. - Reuters

 

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Raj Rajaratnam, hedge fund billionaire, gets 11-year sentence for insider trading​

By David S. Hilzenrath
October 13, 2011

Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund billionaire at the center of one of the largest insider trading cases in history, was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison.
It was the longest prison term ever for insider trading, according to the Justice Department, and was the culmination of a years-long federal probe of cheating in the stock market.
But it was also substantially less than what the prosecution had sought against the man it called “a billion-dollar force of deception and corruption on Wall Street.”
The 54-year-old Rajaratnam, who headed Galleon Management, was convicted in May on 14 counts of conspiracy and securities fraud for illegally using inside information to trade in stocks such as Goldman Sachs, Google, Hilton and Intel. The trading generated profits or avoided losses of $72 million, the government estimated.
The case pulled back the curtain on illicit trafficking in corporate secrets that involved people at the highest echelons of the financial world and gave hedge funds a competitive edge. The 11-year sentence reflects a trend toward tougher treatment of insider-trading convicts, said former federal prosecutor Robert W. Ray.

Less than a decade ago, it would have been unusual for a defendant in a major insider trading case to get more than two years, Ray said.
Rajaratnam’s crimes “reflect a virus in our business culture that needs to be eradicated,” U.S. District Judge Richard J. Holwell said at the sentencing in New York.
“It is a sad conclusion to what once seemed to be a glittering story,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a news release.
Bharara said he hoped the case served as a wake-up call.
“Privileged professionals do not get a free pass to pursue profit through corrupt means,” he said.
Rajaratnam was ordered to forfeit $53.4 million and pay a fine of $10 million. Out on $100 million bail, he is scheduled to report for prison on Nov. 28.
The Justice Department opposed allowing Rajaratnam to stay out of prison while he appeals, saying he might flee to his native Sri Lanka or some other country.He “would have access to tens of millions of dollars by the mere touch of a keystroke,” the government said in a court filing.

Rajaratnam will appeal his conviction, Kathryn Holmes Johnson, a spokeswoman for his legal team, said by e-mail.
The Associated Press reported from New York that defense lawyers asked that Rajaratnam be allowed to go to the medical facility at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina, where Bernard Madoff is serving his 150-year sentence for running a Ponzi scheme that cheated thousands of people out of billions of dollars.
Though Rajaratnam did not testify at his trial, the prosecution made extensive use of wiretaps of his conversations with associates.
According to the government, Rajaratnam gathered inside information about pending corporate deals and earnings announcements from an array of tipsters, including a Goldman Sachs board member, a senior partner at the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. and an insider at the Moody’s credit rating agency.
To pay for inside information, Rajaratnam wired money to offshore accounts in phony names, the government said. He lied under oath when called in for questioning by the Securities and Exchange Commission, told others to use prepaid cellphones and created false e-mails as cover stories to disguise the basis for his trades, the government said.
The Justice Department had urged the court to sentence Rajaratnam to at least 19 years and seven months and as much as 24 years and five months. Such a term was warranted to “provide just and fair punishment for perhaps the worst insider trading offender” caught to date “and deter others,” the Justice Department wrote.
Defense lawyers had countered that the sentence the government sought “would ensure Mr. Rajaratnam’s death in prison — a fate ordinarily reserved only for offenders who have caused the most grave, irreversible, and demonstrable harm to others.”
Rajaratnam “suffers from a constellation of serious and degenerative illnesses which require intensive ongoing medical attention and which even under the best of circumstances will almost certainly shorten his life considerably,” they said in a court filing.
In determining the sentence, Holwell cited Rajaratnam’s need for a kidney transplant and his advanced diabetes, the AP reported. The judge also credited Rajaratnam’s charity work, which he called “the defendant’s responsiveness to and care for the less privileged.”
Asked if he wished to speak, Rajaratnam said only, “No, thank you, your honor,” according to AP.
The insider trading case was the most prominent of its kind since Ivan Boesky was convicted a generation ago.
Rajaratnam will join a list of high-profile white-collar financial figures sent to prison, including former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling, former WorldCom executive Bernard Ebbers and Ponzi scheme mastermind Madoff .
The federal system offers no possibility of parole and only limited credit for good behavior, so it is likely that Rajaratnam will be locked up for at least nine years, said Douglas A. Berman, a law professor at Ohio State University who specializes in criminal sentencing.
Berman said he was surprised that Rajaratnam’s sentence “was as low as it was.” As a deterrent, “there’s reasons to worry this isn’t going to move the needle much,” Berman said.
Sentences for insider trading tend to be significantly lighter than the punishments meted out in major accounting frauds, said Michael Perino, a professor at the St. John’s University School of Law. That might be because the economic impact of insider trading is more diffuse and impersonal than the fallout from accounting frauds such as Enron’s, in which employees lost jobs and particular investors lost huge sums of money, Perino said.
WorldCom’s Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years. Enron’s Skilling was originally sentenced to 24 years but is awaiting resentencing based on an appeal.

 

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Indian-Origin Partner At McKinsey Firm Arrested On Insider-Trading Charges​

Puneet Dikshit, a partner at a global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, has been charged with "illegally trading in advance of a corporate acquisition by one of the firm's clients in September."

Indians Abroad
Press Trust of India
Updated: November 11, 2021

The accused was arrested and charged with two counts of securities fraud. (Representational)

New York:
Puneet Dikshit, a 40-year-old Indian-origin partner at management consulting giant, McKinsey & Company, has been arrested and charged with insider-trading and making illegal profits totalling over $450,000 in the US.
Puneet Dikshit, a partner at a global management consulting firm, has been charged with "illegally trading in advance of a corporate acquisition by one of the firm's clients in September," the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said in a statement on Wednesday.
He was arrested on Wednesday and charged with two counts of securities fraud - violating Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder - and faces up to 20 years in prison on each count, the Department of Justice said in a press release.
Representing McKinsey as partner, Puneet Dikshit learned highly confidential information concerning The Goldman Sachs Group's impending acquisition of the consumer loan fintech platform GreenSky Inc, the SEC statement said.
The SEC's complaint, filed in Federal District Court of Manhattan, alleged that in the days leading up to the acquisition announcement on September 15, 2021, Puneet Dikshit used inside information to purchase out-of-the-money GreenSky call options that were set to expire just days after the announcement. Following the takeover, GreenSky share prices jumped 44 per cent, CNBC reported.
The SEC's complaint further alleged that Dikshit violated his firm's policies by failing to pre-clear these options purchases, which he sold on the morning of the acquisition announcement for illicit profits totalling over $450,000.
US Attorney Damian Williams said, "As alleged, Puneet Dikshit, a consulting firm partner, exploited his access to material nonpublic information about a pending acquisition of GreenSky, Inc., to trade in GreenSky call options. This breach of duties to his firm and its investment bank client - and violation of the law - allegedly reaped the defendant nearly half a million dollars in illegal profits. Now Puneet Dikshit has been charged with serious felonies for his alleged conduct."

"As alleged, Dikshit exploited his access to material nonpublic information regarding the acquisition of Green Sky to profit from trades he made in options markets," FBI Assistant Director Michael J. Driscoll said in a statement.
"Actions like those we allege serve to undermine the public's confidence in the integrity of financial markets, and, as we have demonstrated time and again, the FBI and our partners are committed to ensuring a level playing field for all investors," Driscoll said, adding that Dikshit now faces significant federal charges, which should serve as a warning to others considering similar conduct.
Puneet Dikshit's lawyers at Kramer Levin did not immediately respond to requests for comment, CNBC reported.
"We have terminated the employment of a partner for a gross violation of our policies and code of conduct. We have zero tolerance for the appalling behavior described in the complaint, and we will continue cooperating with the authorities," McKinsey told CNBC news outlet.

"We allege that Dikshit breached duties to his employer and his client by misusing their confidential information for his own financial gain. Thanks to our trading analysis tools, we were able to move swiftly to hold him accountable for his actions and protect the fairness of our securities markets," Joseph G Sansone, chief of the SEC's Market Abuse Unit, said in a statement.

 

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Former candidate sues Progress Singapore Party over dismissal, 'violation of due process rights'​

Ms Kala Manickam first opened proceedings in July against the Progress Singapore Party.

PHOTO: PROGRESS SINGAPORE PARTY

Justin Ong
Political Correspondent

Nov 18, 2021


SINGAPORE - The Progress Singapore Party (PSP) is being sued by a former member after a bitter falling-out first made public in January but that court documents now show date back to the general election in July last year.
Ms Kala Manickam, who contested the polls as part of the PSP's losing slate in Nee Soon GRC, first opened proceedings in July against the faction founded by former ruling People's Action Party parliamentarian Tan Cheng Bock.
She wants the PSP to declare that the termination of her membership in December 2020 was wrongful and invalid.
Ms Kala, 54, believes her issues with the PSP took root when they cut off resources and support to her at the height of the hustings.
The party, in countering her lawsuit, has rejected this and accused her instead of being a disruptive and uncooperative figure during and after the elections.
Ms Kala, an adult educator and former army officer, is further seeking a $10,000 refund which she says she contributed towards election expenses such as printing flyers and pamphlets.


Her lawyers told The Straits Times: "Our client desires to have vindication as regards the alleged violation of her due process rights at general law and under the party constitution. At this stage, she sees little point in being reinstated as a party member."
The last known precedent of such action was in 1993, when opposition veteran Chiam See Tong successfully sued the Singapore Democratic Party for illegally expelling him. His expulsion was reversed, though Mr Chiam later left of his own accord to join the Singapore People's Party.
The PSP's first electoral showing last year yielded two Non-Constituency MP seats, though it has since weathered a spate of controversies, infighting rumours and high-ranking departures.
With both sides disputing the facts laid out in statements made by each other, Ms Kala has also applied for the case to be heard in an open court, which could include witness evidence.

Escalating events​

In one of seven affidavits filed by PSP members, party chief Francis Yuen said there was no basis for Ms Kala's $10,000 claim, which is collected from each election candidate. He pointed out that her own election expenses had run up to $33,267, with the Party paying for the balance of $23,627.
He added that it made no sense for the PSP to "intentionally sabotage" their own candidate's chances at the polls.
Separately, Ms Kala's fellow Nee Soon GRC candidate Damien Tay described her as putting her self-interests ahead of the team, during the run-up to the elections. He and another candidate Taufik Supan cited how she "went about doing her own things" like going on solo walkabouts, skipping team meetings and amassing a volunteer pool for herself.
These alleged events led to a petition signed in August by 17 party members - including Ms Kala's own election agent - and one volunteer, calling on the party leadership to remove her from the Nee Soon team.
In Ms Kala's affidavit, she highlighted various incidents from August to December that escalated to the point of her membership being terminated.
These included Dr Tan asking if a quote she shared in a group chat was meant to challenge his leadership; Mr Yuen informing her of complaints about her from the rest of the Nee Soon team; her "abrupt" removal from constituency-related work including WhatsApp group chats; and Dr Tan first telling her to "move away" from Nee Soon activities before deciding, together with the central executive committee (CEC), that she should resign and leave the party altogether.
At one point, said Ms Kala, Dr Tan told her that no other constituencies or committees would have her.
But Dr Tan, in his affidavit, said he had offered Ms Kala the option to work with other teams in the party.
It was her "uncompromising" attitude that ultimately left the party no choice, he said. Dr Tan pointed to a November meeting where she was "confrontational", as if "raring for a fight"; and "aggressively questioned… proof of her wrongdoings by shouting: 'WHAT PROOF? WHAT PROOF?'".

Ms Kala's letter of termination, dated Dec 24, cited breaches of party discipline, disrespectful conduct and insubordination among other reasons for dismissal.
In her affidavit, she argued that the party's constitution allows for a special party conference to be convened for member disputes, and a special CEC meeting for suspension and termination matters. No such conference took place, and she was not asked to appear before any CEC meeting, said Ms Kala.
She appealed the termination decision twice - in December and February - but was rejected by the CEC the first time, and by 55 out of 66 voting cadres on her second try.

'Public spectacle'​

In December, Ms Kala also feuded publicly with fellow Nee Soon candidate Brad Bowyer - who has since resigned - over Covid-19 pandemic measures.
The next month, the public came to know of Ms Kala's split with the party when she posted on Facebook that her membership had "lapsed", while claiming "several glaring lapses and shortcomings" in the PSP. She did not mention the termination letter.
When a party conference was held on March 28 to elect a new CEC, Ms Kala said that she decided - "as a last resort" - to turn up at its headquarters at Bukit Timah Shopping Centre to try and present her case. She was denied entry.
She added in her affidavit that discussions and deliberations around her fate in the party were entirely opaque to her; that she was not given the chance to speak for herself; and that in conclusion, she had not been treated fairly.
In response to her application for the case to be heard in open court, Mr Yuen said in an affidavit that Ms Kala was hankering after a "public spectacle" and "media attention", and also accused her of abusing court process.
Ms Kala replied in another affidavit that she had first engaged her lawyers to write to the PSP in May to try and resolve the matter amicably. It was only after four letters and around two months of correspondence that she was compelled to commence court proceedings in July, she added.
Ms Kala's lawsuit comes on the heels of key figures quitting the party, with treasurer Kayla Low most recently departing in October.
Reports of internal strife also surfaced in July, with some members perceiving a nativist and racist slant to the PSP's position on Singapore's free trade agreement with India.
Prior to this year, the most prominent exits from the PSP were those of vice-chairman Michelle Lee and Mr Ravi Philemon, who both went on to form the Red Dot United party in May last year.

 

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Boh cheng hu

Police looking into religious procession in Toh Guan industrial building​

Syarafana Shafeeq

Jan 21, 2022

SINGAPORE - The police are looking into an incident involving a large group of people that appear to be taking part in a religious procession in an industrial estate.
In response to queries, the police in a statement on Friday (Jan 21) said they are also aware of video clips and photos of the incident circulating online on social media.
The police added that they are working with the relevant authorities to look into the "alleged conduct of a religious procession within an industrial building located at Toh Guan Road East", which is near Jurong.
In the video clips and photos, people can be seen dancing, singing and playing the drums. At least one person can be seen carrying a kavadi.
People of different races can also be seen not wearing masks in the videos while chanting and singing as they walk up a spiral driveway.
In another video clip, a man can be seen pulling a decorated float with ropes attached to his body.
There is also footage of a man carrying a kavadi and dancing in front of what appears to be a makeshift shrine.

Last Tuesday (Jan 18), about 14,000 devotees thronged the Sri Thendayuthapani Temple in Tank Road to participate in Thaipusam festivities that adhered strictly to safe distancing rules amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
For instance, for the second year in a row, kavadis - wooden or metal structures adorned with milk offerings and religious decorations - were not allowed.
Ceremonial piercings and the traditional fanfare and music accompanying the foot procession from Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple in Serangoon Road to Tank Road were also scrapped.
Only those who were fully vaccinated were allowed to take part in Thaipusam this year.

 

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Gold bars worth $1.2m seized from Singaporean woman by British authorities​

The woman was allowed to continue on her journey after the gold was initially seized. PHOTO: NATIONAL CRIME AGENCY

Kok Yufeng
Transport Correspondent

Jan 28, 2022

SINGAPORE - Gold bars worth £650,000 (S$1.2 million) that were found in a Singaporean woman's hand luggage have been formally seized by British authorities in a case that has been linked to international money laundering.
The woman was transiting through London's Heathrow Airport in March 2020 after arriving from Singapore.
She then tried to take the 15 gold bars onto her next flight to Chennai, India.
But she was stopped by British Border Force officers, who found the gold bars in her hand luggage and seized them as suspected criminal proceeds.
On Wednesday (Jan 26), Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) was granted forfeiture of the gold bars after a two-day hearing at the Uxbridge Magistrates' Court in West London.
The woman, who was not named, was allowed to continue on her journey after the gold was initially seized. She was not arrested or prosecuted.
An NCA spokesman told The Straits Times that the gold was seized under Britain's Proceeds of Crime Act, which allows the bars to be detained while the NCA looked into their origins. The matter then goes before the courts, where there is an opportunity to contest the seizure.

As further investigations needed to be done, there were no reasonable grounds for pursuing criminal proceedings.
The woman had initially told NCA investigators that she was taking the gold bars from a jeweller in Singapore to another jeweller in Chennai.
She had no explanation for her strange routing via London, NCA noted.
Further enquiries revealed that invoices the woman was carrying for the gold bars were fake, and the Chennai jeweller did not exist.
Investigations point to the gold bars belonging to a criminal money laundering network that is active in Europe and Asia.
NCA Branch Commander Andy Noyes said in a statement: "Gold is an attractive commodity for criminals to use to move money because relatively small amounts can have a high value...
"We think they were attempting to move them through London to try and disguise their routing, and avoid the attentions of Indian law enforcement upon arrival there."

 

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11 arrested after Delhi woman 'gang-raped, paraded in streets'​

Jan 28, 2022

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Eleven people including several women have been arrested after a young mother was allegedly abducted, gang-raped and then paraded through the lanes of Delhi in broad daylight, Indian police said on Friday (Jan 28).
The incident, the latest to spotlight sexual violence in India, drew widespread condemnation including from the Delhi Commission for Women and Delhi's chief minister, who called it "shameful".
Footage on social media, which could not be independently verified, showed the victim - her face blackened with ink and her hair chopped off - being pushed and heckled by several women as onlookers cheered and filmed with their phones.
Mr R. Sathiyasundaram, deputy commissioner of police, said the incident in the Shahdara district of east Delhi on Wednesday was a result of "previous enmity" among neighbours.
He gave no further details but media reports said a 16-year-old relative of the perpetrators had killed himself by jumping in front of a train after the married 21-year-old woman rejected his advances.
"All 11 arrested including two minors, who can't be tried as adults, belong to a single family and the videos clearly show that the women were at the forefront," Sathiyasundaram told AFP.
The victim told police that she was abducted by members of the family before being raped by several men and minors - egged on by the women - and then beaten with sticks and paraded outside.


"We are examining the videos to identify others who were involved and there will be more arrests," Mr Chinmay Biswal, additional commissioner of Delhi police, told AFP.
The woman, who has a two-year-old child, is now receiving counselling after the incident, which reportedly took place barely 50 metres from a police booth that was unmanned at the time.
India's rape laws were overhauled after a notorious 2012 gang rape in New Delhi but the number of offences remains high, with more than 28,000 rapes reported in 2020.
Many more are thought to go unreported and police have long been accused of not doing enough to prevent violent crime and failing to bring sexual assault cases to court.

 

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Two rape trials stir controversy in south Indian state of Kerala​

Former bishop Franco Mulakkal, who is alleged to have raped a nun 13 times, outside a crime branch office on Sept 21, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

Rohini Mohan
India Correspondent


JAN 20, 2022


BANGALORE - Two rape trials - one involving a movie star and the other, a former Catholic bishop - have led to deep divisions among the public in the south Indian state of Kerala.
Actor and producer Dileep, 55, is accused of arranging the abduction and sexual assault of an actress in 2017, while Franco Mulakkal, 57, the former bishop of the Jalandhar diocese in the northern state of Punjab, is at the centre of allegations that he raped a nun 13 times.
The alleged victim in the first case is an actress who worked in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. She was abducted in Kochi and assaulted in her car for two hours on Feb 17, 2017. Some of the 10 people subsequently accused of being connected with the case recorded the assault on video.
A few months later, Mr Dileep was arrested for allegedly paying off those involved in the assault and for the video recording. He was detained for three months in July 2017 and is now out on bail.
In the other case, the nun, aged around 45, filed a police complaint in June 2018 that the former bishop raped her repeatedly between 2014 to 2016 when he visited her Missionaries of Jesus congregation in Kottayam city in Kerala, which is part of his diocese.
But Father Mulakkal and the diocese accused the nun of "seeking revenge" for ordering an inquiry into a complaint against her.
Father Mulakkal was arrested and removed temporarily from his post by the Vatican after the allegations.

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The Association of Malayalam Movie Artists has backed Mr Dileep, while the Catholic church in India backed Father Mulakkal.
Both alleged victims had few allies - mostly close female colleagues - but the public mood shifted last week.
The actress' case came under the spotlight in recent weeks after prominent director Balachandra Kumar, a former friend of the accused, released incriminating audio clips that might prove witness tampering.


On Jan 10, the alleged victim spoke in public for the first time using her Instagram handle. "Even though I am not the one who committed the crime, there have been attempts to humiliate, silence and isolate me," she wrote.
Over 200 actors, directors and producers shared her post. Public outrage over the case has now led to prominent actors such as Mammootty and Mohanlal, who had earlier supported the accused, to tweet that they now stand with the alleged victim.
Meanwhile, the trial involving the nun, which began in Nov 2019, came to what many in Kerala described as a "shocking" end last week. On Jan 15, the former bishop was acquitted by a lower court for want of evidence.
In the 289-page verdict, the judge rejected the nun's testimony because she did not mention the exact details of the rape at all times, omitted the name of a nun she had disclosed the incidents to, and occasionally used milder phrases than rape to describe the forced encounters.
A visibly relieved Father Mulakkal hugged his lawyers, and his supporters outside the court distributed sweets amid loud chants of "Praise the Lord". The Jalandhar diocese issued a statement in Malayalam thanking those who believed in his innocence.
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The nun's lawyer said she would lodge an appeal.
The unexpected verdict sparked a wave of condemnation, bringing supporters of both cases together and enraging many others.
Delhi-based senior lawyer Vrinda Grover said: "This search for the ideal rape victim by the Indian courts continues to give injustice." She added that the verdict is flawed as it assassinates the victim's character by going into her "fabricated past sexual history".
The nun had to go through two breast examinations to disprove the defence team's allegations that she had had other "illicit relations".
Former Kottayam Superintendent of Police S. Harishankar who led the probe into the case called the not-guilty verdict "unbelievable" and "very disappointing". He said that unlike many other sexual harassment cases, all witnesses had turned up, and insisted that there was ample medical and corroborative evidence.
In a Jan 19 social media campaign, hundreds of women posted handwritten letters of support with the hashtag #WithTheNuns and #Avalkoppam or "with her" in Malayalam.
Actress Parvathy Thiruvothu wrote: "We are here to walk this thorny path with you, holding space for you, fighting for you and breathing with you. In a world that has gotten used to treat us as dispensable nothings, it is a revolution to stay right here and breathe."


Ms Thiruvothu, a long-time supporter of the actress who accused Mr Dilip, is a member of the Women in Cinema Collective that was formed after many women in the industry were ostracised for asking that he be investigated. Supporters of both alleged victims have faced sexist abuse, lost career opportunities and been labelled troublemakers.
The nuns who staged unprecedented protests to get the Vatican to respond to their colleague's petitions allege that they were penalised, given disciplinary warnings, slapped with transfer notices, and even expelled from the congregation.
According to national crime statistics between 2018 and 2020, Kerala recorded the second-highest number of rape cases in India, after Rajasthan, and that in 98 per cent of the cases, the victims knew their assailants.

 

[blackmondy]

A good bet it's a tiongbu turned shittyzen. Apparently the Brits doesn't want to upset the CCPee now while the Olympics is on its way.

 

[syed putra]

Fake Vaccine Certs is Reportedly Now an Industry in India With 1 Costing Less than $100​

Written ByTan Shi Hui

October 24, 2021
With photocopy machines and masterminds in the fraudulent industry, there are bound to be fake documents floating around and this time, they produced fake vaccination certificates.

Fake Vaccine Certs is Reportedly Now an Industry in India With 1 Costing Less than $100​

In India, you are able to get a fake vaccination certificate for S$98.85 (Rs 5,500). These certificates are sold on Darknet and Telegram, and they have already gained hundreds of thousands of followers from these online groups.

As there are many sellers doing the same business, the prices are rather competitive, but they mostly ranged around S$98.85.
These certificates are for unvaccinated individuals who refused to get vaccinated but wants the perks of vaccinated individuals. Here in Singapore, one of those perks may be going to work and dining out, but of course, so far in Singapore, there are tests to be made before the vaccine is verified so, thankfully, we shouldn’t be facing this problem.
One of the perks of being a vaccinated individual in India is to undertake inter-state travel by road or air.
However, you don’t necessarily have to be vaccinated to be allowed to travel. You can also show your negative COVID-19 test result.
So naturally, the black-market industry produced a fake negative COVID-19 test result too.

Fake COVID-19 Test Results​

Aside from these certificates, you can also get fraudulent test results as well. These test results costs around S$33.70 (US$25) each.
The black market has also expanded to 29 countries. Some of the countries include Australia, Thailand and even Singapore.

Over 5,000 Telegram Groups Selling Fake Documents​

Israel-based Check Point Research (CPR) has spotted over 5,000 Telegram groups selling fake documents such as COVID-19 vaccination cards and COVID-19 negative test results.
A quick search on Telegram shows that these groups are still active to date and that the sellers believe that they are protecting the buyers by saving them from the “poisonous vaccine”.

Telegram vowed to Take Action​

With so many people spreading misinformation and the black market industry growing faster than ever, Telegram said they will be taking action against the groups that are selling these fraudulent items.

No need to worry if you have faith in the vaccines. Are you saying vaccines does not work?

 

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Entitled Indian

 

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Temasek-backed Zilingo’s CEO suspended pending investigation, board confirms​

CEO Ankiti Bose has disputed allegations of wrongdoing. PHOTO: ZILINGO

Choo Yun Ting
Business Correspondent

Apr 13, 2022

SINGAPORE - Temasek-backed e-commerce start-up Zilingo has suspended its chief executive Ankiti Bose pending an investigation.
In a media statement on Wednesday (April 13), the Zilingo board said the major investors of the company had authorised it to suspend Ms Bose while an investigation is conducted into matters that surfaced in March.
The statement did not mention what the matters of concern are.
“In March 2022, shareholders of Zilingo and members of the board received information which required investigation. The major investors of the company authorised the board to put the CEO, Ankiti Bose, on suspension pending an investigation of the matters raised,” the statement said.
Bloomberg had earlier reported that Ms Bose was suspended after new funding efforts led to questions about the company’s accounting.
The concerns centred on the way that Singapore-headquartered Zilingo had accounted for transactions and revenue across a platform spanning thousands of small merchants, according to Bloomberg’s sources.
Zilingo had been trying to raise US$150 million (S$205 million) to US$200 million with help from Goldman Sachs Group, and the funding round was expected to lift its valuation above US$1 billion.

Besides Singapore state investment firm Temasek, Zilingo also counts venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Burda Principal, as well as Singapore's Economic Development Board’s investment arm EDBI, among its investors.
The Zilingo board said the company’s major investors have hired an independent firm to investigate the matter, and Zilingo is working closely with the investors and the independent firm for the probe.

“Proper due process has been and will be followed. The board is committed to protecting the interests of all stakeholders in a just manner while fulfilling its fiduciary obligations,” it added.
“Apart from the above, the specific details of these investigations – and the affairs of the company – are strictly confidential.”

Temasek declined to comment when contacted.
Bloomberg reported that Ms Bose has disputed allegations of wrongdoing and contends her suspension was due in part to her complaints about harassment.She has also called the investigation a “witch hunt”, the news agency reported.
The Straits Times has contacted Ms Bose’s lawyer for more information.
Regulatory checks show that Zilingo’s last financial statement was filed in March 2019.
The start-up, which provides technology solutions to support the fashion supply chain, was set up by Ms Bose and co-founder Dhruv Kapoor in 2015.

The suspension of Zilingo CEO Ankiti Bose, seen here in 2017, is scheduled to run until May 5. PHOTO: BT FILE
Commenting on the suspension, National University of Singapore Business School Professor Mak Yuen Teen noted that it is normal for investors to require due diligence when a start-up looks to raise more funds.
There have been situations, such as for co-working firm WeWork, where such due diligence has uncovered issues with accounting and other matters, such as conflict of interest, he added.
“As start-ups are often valued based on revenue or gross merchandise value (GMV), rather than profits, how revenues or GMV are computed is clearly an area of significant risk from an accounting and reporting standpoint,” Prof Mak explained.
He said the board does have the power to order an investigation and to put the CEO on leave or suspend the executive in such situations, but there has to be due process and natural justice, which includes fairness to the accused party.
“It is generally not appropriate for the CEO to still be running the business during the period of the investigation. It is not an easy situation to handle,” Prof Mak added.

The company made an aggressive pitch in its latest effort to raise fresh capital. Late last year, it forecast that core net revenue would rise from about US$40 million in fiscal 2021 to roughly US$60 million in fiscal 2022 and US$100 million the year after, according to presentation documents reviewed by Bloomberg News.
Zilingo said it anticipated breaking even on core Ebitda - or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation - in fiscal 2023 and then reaching almost US$200 million in fiscal 2026.
On March 31, Ms Bose was called to a meeting with three board members and told about "serious" complaints about discrepancies in accounts and mismanagement, according to the correspondence reviewed by Bloomberg.
She was later questioned by two people from Kroll, the investigations firm.
Her suspension is scheduled to run until May 5.
Ms Bose, through her lawyer, has argued that the directors did not follow proper procedures during the process and questioned their right to suspend her, according to the correspondence from her attorney to Zilingo.
"We are of the view that our client's suspension has been procured by invalid and defective means; that the investigation commenced into her is unfair and lacking in due process; and that she has been suspended without proper and reasonable cause," her attorney wrote.

About Zilingo’s Ankiti Bose​

Zilingo’s suspended chief executive Ankiti Bose co-founded the Singapore-based e-commerce start-up with Mr Dhruv Kapoor in 2015, when she was just 23.
The Indian national, who is a Singapore permanent resident, was inspired to set up the technology platform after visiting Thailand’s Chatuchak weekend market several years ago.
The visit seeded the idea for the start-up, which initially sought to provide an avenue for small business owners to market their products online.
It has since broadened its focus across the fashion supply chain, providing procurement, distribution and trade services as well.
Before setting up Zilingo, Ms Bose was an investment analyst at venture capital firm Sequoia Capital in India, where she was immersed in Asia’s fast-growing tech scene.
Her achievements as a young female entrepreneur have been widely celebrated, and she has spoken in media interviews about inspiring other young women to start their own businesses and chase their dreams.
Ms Bose and Mr Kapoor were named on Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2018, and she was featured in the Singapore 100 Women in Tech List in 2020.
She has also been a speaker at several global and regional conferences, including the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore last year (2021).

 

[ilovechinesegal]

Say Chinese yellow skin is okay. When say keling black skin they bei song and claim racism. Lol so if their skin not black then is call what? Rich fermented hot chocolate skin?

 

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4 Men Arrested For Sexually Assaulting Monitor Lizard In India, Face Up To 7 Years’ Jail​

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A video recording of the act was found on a suspect's phone.
By Rachel Fong - 17 Apr 2022, 2:56 pm

4 Men Arrested For Allegedly Gang-Raping Monitor Lizard In India Tiger Reserve​

Forest reserves are supposed to be a safe haven for animals – especially endangered ones – and keep them from the threat of hunters and loss of habitat.
Sadly, this was far from the case for a monitor lizard that was gang-raped by four men in a forest reserve in India.

Source: Pexels. For illustration purposes only
The four suspects were taken into custody after a recording of them in the act was found one on of their phones.
If found guilty, they could face up to 7 years of jail time.

Trespassed tiger reserve in India & sexually abused monitor lizard​

According to Yahoo News, they had trespassed the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra, India to commit the act.
CCTV footage from the Maharashtra Forest Department showed the men on the reserve’s grounds, which enabled forest officials to track them down.
Forest officials also found numerous photos of hunting hare, mouse-deers, porcupines, and pangolins on one of the accused’s phones.
Besides that, authorities have also seized a poaching gun, two motorcycles, and a battery.
Three of the accused had evaded capture at first until they were later found in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra.
Investigations revealed they had entered the reserve to hunt.

Men granted bail, authorities seeking maximum punishment​

The four suspects were held in custody for seven days before a local court granted them bail on 8 Apr, The Times of India reported.

Forest officials have brought up the case to the Indian Penal Court (IPC) to seek maximum punishment for the suspects.
Following this, a date will be set for the suspects to appear in court and await sentencing.
If they are charged under the Wildlife Protection Act, they could be imprisoned for up to seven years.
At the same time, authorities are also considering charging him under IPC section 377 (Unnatural Offences).
This law accounts for voluntary ‘carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman, or animal’, and those convicted may be imprisoned for life or for a term of up to 10 years and be fined.

May justice be served​

Animals deserve nothing less than our love and respect, and while we do not condone any form of animal abuse, seeing a crime like this being committed leaves us more speechless than ever.

If the accused are indeed found guilty, they should be granted psychiatric counselling on top of any length of imprisonment they may be given.
After all, an act of such a nature cannot possibly be done by someone of sound mind.
More importantly, we hope the reserve’s caretakers step up efforts to keep future trespassers out.

 

[myfoot123]

The local chinese are not used to be out smart, beaten, less competitive to ceca's. Ch8nese used to say malays are lazy. But these ceca newcomers are saying same thing about local chinese.

What did CECA said about Chinese? Those who said already lost their jobs, publicly shamed or get kicked out of Sinkieland and later came back apologising for saying the wrong thing.

 

[syed putra]

Say Chinese yellow skin is okay. When say keling black skin they bei song and claim racism. Lol so if their skin not black then is call what? Rich fermented hot chocolate skin?

I think the norm now in this forum is shit skin whoch is not very polite.