> Bank withdrawal is chargeable.
> ATM withdrawal is chargeable
> Cheque withdrawal is chargeable
> And now UPI is also chargeable.
You have to pay a share of your money for using your own hard earned money because they need to fund some ladli behna and chatori chachi yojna.
The SC/ST Atrocities Act, by its very design, encourages misuse rather than genuine grievance redressal.
1. In a country where people kill each other over few hundred rupees, offering 1,00,000 rupees simply for filing a case under this Act, for offenses as minor as verbal abuse, creates a obvious perverse incentive. Up to 50% of this amount is disbursed upon the filing of the FIR alone, requiring no prior investigation. Another 25% is paid when the chargesheet is filed. The best part is, if the case is later proven false, the compensation is not automatically recovered. How could this setup not encourage misuse?
2. There is no requirement for a preliminary inquiry. Someone makes a complaint, and you are arrested, that's it. With anticipatory bail explicitly barred, you are left entirely at the mercy of the legal system. Depending on your financial resources, getting bail can take anywhere from a few days to many years; a man in UP spent 20 years in jail before being acquitted of false charges. While defenders of the law argue that the innocent will eventually be freed, the process itself becomes the punishment. Why should innocent individuals endure humiliation and severe mental, physical, financial, and social hardship in the name of skewed social justice?
3. There are virtually no consequences for deliberate false accusations. A complainant can fabricate allegations, land an innocent person in prison, collect govt compensation, be exposed as a liar in court, and still face zero accountability. Instead, they can simply play the victim, claiming that the justice system fails the marginalized.
This framework has spawned a lucrative extortion ecosystem. Syndicates exploit the threat of non-bailable arrest to blackmail citizens, business owners, and public officials. When unverified cash payouts, absolute immunity, and guaranteed incarceration align, a law designed to shield the vulnerable inevitably becomes a tool for institutionalized extortion.
тАЬLook at the taxes we pay, look at the roads we get, and we lose our children too.тАЭ
A grieving Sandeep Patole whose 10-year-old son Rishabh was run over by a truck after his fatherтАЩs bike hit a pothole in Pune. On my show last night ЁЯТФ
"What does EP in EPFO stand for?" he asked.
"Employees' Pension. But why only EP? Don't you want to know what FO stands for?"
"HeheтАж wo to sabko pata hai!"
*throws kulhad in the bin*
Dainik Bhaskar journalist went undercover as a laborer in a flour mill in UP and exposed a rotten system that's playing with people's health.
Operators in mills across Agra, Firozabad are mixing stone powder from Rajasthan into atta, increasing their earnings by 70тАУ80 paise per kg i.e. 7k-8k extra per day. These adulterated flour, sold under brands like Maharaja Bhog Atta, is even reaching school mid-day meals. These calcium carbonate can clog intestines and damage the liver and kidneys.
Being in the D2C industry, I'm aware of many brands who do these kinds of things just to save margins and make more money. We keep calling them out, but this looks much bigger.
Government and FSSAI need to act and take control. Consumer health should never be compromised for profit.
@Riteshk95050394 For us, sisters are not property to be handed over to anyone to prove a point. They are individuals with their own choices, and preferences. They alone have the right to decide whom they marry.
Corruption is like a cancer for this country. It has been embedded in the DNA of a drought-coded, resource starved nation.
It grows & consumes a ruling govt, then a new govt comes in, fresh, vowing to root out previous corruption, people get hopeful, time passes, corruption creeps up again, but this time it feeds on the ego of the incumbent.
To accept it has come back, will belie the promises the new govt made, of ending all prev corruption. And hence it consumes again
ItтАЩs like a virus, a parasite that needs a host, like a mosquito or a bat. The hosts are usually caste, religion, language politics. Corruption grows covertly as its host gets stronger. And one day it kills it. Until a new host emerges.
The cycle continues.
While the whole country is debating petrol-ethanol, the bros from Madhya Pradesh have already pulled off what is arguably India's first major ethanol scam, not counting you know who.
There is a govt policy that surplus rice in govt warehouses can be sold to ethanol manufacturers at subsidised rates to prevent it from rotting.
According to a Dainik Bhaskar report, the scam began when some officials allegedly (willingly?) ignored the rules and allocated "newly procured" fortified rice (not even regular rice, but fortified rice) for ethanol production. The rice, bought at a high price (тВ╣4,000 per quintal), was sold at a throwaway price (тВ╣2,320 per quintal) to ethanol plants.
The ethanol plant operators allegedly knew it was fortified rice, so instead of using it to make ethanol, they sold it to rice millers at тВ╣2,800 per quintal, and instead bought cheap broken rice (тВ╣2,100 per quintal) from the open market for ethanol production, making an overall profit of тВ╣700 per quintal.
The rice millers allegedly repacked the fortified rice in new gunny bags and supplied it back to the govt as freshly milled rice. The govt paid them milling charges, while the govt supplied paddy they were actually supposed to mill was allegedly sold in the open market for another round of profit.
So the same bag of rice allegedly kept changing hands: govt warehouse to ethanol plant to rice mill to back to govt warehouse. Everyone in the chain allegedly made money.
The MP govt formed an SIT. So far, four people have been arrested and 12 trucks seized. Investigators suspect that up to 50 lakh quintals of govt rice, worth around тВ╣1,160 crore, may have been diverted through this alleged racket.
If a corporator thinks itтАЩs okay to beat up a doctor, then the next time thereтАЩs a pothole in a road in his area, is it okay to beat him?
Asking for several friends
Look at how human traffickers operate in plain sight, without any fear of the law or a shred of humanity:
On June 18, a minor girl in Sriganganagar boarded an e-rickshaw from her friend's house to her home. The driver, who was on the payroll of human traffickers, was tasked with identifying, manipulating, and earning the trust of vulnerable girls among his passengers. He would then deliver them to specific hotels designated by the traffickers in exchange for money. The traffickers would subsequently sell these girls to clients as part of an organized prostitution syndicate.
This e-rickshaw driver, Rambabu, delivered the girl to Hotel Joy Inn, trapping her in a horrific, multi-day criminal network. Over the following five days, the hotel owners repeatedly handed the minor over to different individuals, forcing her to endure horrific rape by up to six men daily. This totaled an estimated 32 perpetrators, who drugged her with alcohol to suppress her cries.
Though police initially suppressed the case to shield high-profile suspects, leaking details sparked massive public protests. Under pressure, authorities arrested 12 individuals, including hotel managers, and exposed over 150 illegal, unregistered hotels operating district-wide.
150 hotels doing this in just one city! Just one small city! Horrific to even think whats happening nationwide in this country.
(Kindly don't post girl's video from the hospital bed in replies without blurring the face. It's against the law to post minor rape victims pictures and videos).