Arpit Mehta

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

As the buzz around the Jantar Mantar protest dies down, Madhya Pradesh is back in the news.

SDM Ram Niwas of Panna district ordered two mobile covers worth ₹120 from Flipkart.

When the delivery boy arrived with the sealed package, the SDM opened it and found only one mobile cover instead of two. Rather than raising a complaint with Flipkart, he allegedly abused the delivery boy and demanded an immediate refund.

The delivery boy dared to tell His Lordship that that's not how e-commerce works. He explained that the parcel was sealed, that it was likely a packing or logistics error, and that the proper course was to raise a complaint with Flipkart, which would handle the resolution through its return process.

His Lordship took offense at being told how the process worked. He allegedly called the police, and the delivery boy was reportedly arrested under Section 151 of the BNSS.

(Source: Aaj Tak)

[menaka doshi @menakadoshi]

Who is the developer? What is the punishment?

[Kush Katakia @kushkatakia]

This ladla/ladli culture has metastasised into a national disaster — and if it continues unchecked, it will grind India to a halt. Politicians recognise the danger, yet they’re trapped in an atrocious, self‑perpetuating system of freebies. Imagine a PSU head denouncing it on TV.

[News Arena India @NewsArenaIndia]

“Get out, you are causing traffic jam.”

- Woman berates BJP Minister Girish Mahajan at Mumbai rally over reservation bill

[Raghav Wadhwa @raghavwadhwa]

A Gmail ID was used to impersonate a Central PSU. Nobody questioned it. And ₹20,000 crore in govt tenders got rigged.

Let me tell you the story of India's most absurd corruption case.

Jal Jeevan Mission, PM Modi's flagship scheme to give tap water to every rural home. Rajasthan alone got ₹10,180 crore from the Centre in FY22 and ₹13,328 crore in FY23. Almost 23% of the entire national JJM budget went to one state.

Two tubewell companies wanted these tenders. Problem? They had zero experience. Solution? They forged experience certificates of IRCON, a Railways PSU. Fake letterheads, fictitious officer names. And for verification, they created a Gmail ID pretending to be IRCON officials.

A Central govt PSU under Ministry of Railways. Replying from @ gmail. com. Not .gov.in. Not .nic.in. Gmail. And nobody in the entire PHED department found this suspicious. Not one officer. Combined, these two firms filed 230+ tenders using these forged documents.

But the real Bollywood moment? PHED sent an engineer to Kerala to "physically verify" IRCON's work. The contractors and a forger reached Kochi ONE DAY before him. Checked into Hotel Woodlark. The forger was introduced to the engineer as "Vijay Shankar, CEO, IRCON International." Random photos of pumphouses were submitted as proof. The contractor left his personal phone in Jaipur and used an employee's SIM card to avoid GPS tracking. The engineer came back and submitted a "positive verification report."

Now here's the part that makes your blood boil.

In June 2023, IRCON's own Vigilance Department wrote DIRECTLY to the Addl Chief Secretary Subodh Agarwal — "These certificates are fake and fabricated." What happened? The warning emails were deleted. Compliant engineers were handpicked to give false positive reports. Three separate legal notices were sent to the department. All ignored.

But the scam wasn't just about fake certificates. That was just ₹960 crore. The bigger game was ₹20,000 crore.

Agarwal introduced a rule — "Site Visit Certificates" mandatory for tenders above ₹50 crore. Sounds like transparency, right? It actually exposed which companies were bidding BEFORE tender opening. Once everyone knows who else is bidding, you form cartels. You fix prices. Tender premiums were inflated 30-40% across the board.

The numbers:

₹20,000 crore in tenders rigged 30-40% inflated premiums, 4% bribery formula ₹47 crore seized by ED so far — 0.2% of the scam

The fraud ran from 2021 to 2023 under the Congress govt in Rajasthan. IRCON warned in 2023. CBI filed an FIR in 2024. ED arrested the minister in 2025. Agarwal was finally caught this week — after being on the run for 2 months, evading 40+ ACB teams across 100 locations in 21 cities.

JJM 2.0 just got approved. Budget: ₹8.69 lakh crore. The real question — has the system that enabled this actually changed? Or are we just funding the next scam on a bigger scale

[Ghar Ke Kalesh @gharkekalesh]

Mumbai local shocker: Guy tosses gutka wrapper out the window, then defends it saying “I pay maintenance, so I can litter.” Peak entitlement

[Chronocivilis @Chronocivilis]

@4biddnKnowledge News about it: https://t.co/g1BlN9uMeP

[Arpit Mehta @mehtaarpit]

@MTPHereToHelp @mybmc
Multiple cement mixes parked on the road outside Adani site, Link Road, Andheri West

Why doesn’t the traffic department take action?

@AndheriLOCA @mumbaimatterz @RoadsOfMumbai @PotholeWarriors

[Dr Ranjan @DocRGM]

Maharashtra Minister and his Convoy drove on a one-way, creating a massive traffic jam.

Who Will Punish Them?

Kudos to the Individual who recorded and SHAMED him without fear.

[Arpit Mehta @mehtaarpit]

@MumbaiPolice Goregaon west. Imperial height building

[Arpit Mehta @mehtaarpit]

@MTPHereToHelp @CPMumbaiPolice @GoregaonPS

Loudspeakers blaring near imperial Height, kindly send officers to stop the menace.

[Arpit Mehta @mehtaarpit]

Deafening noise from the society next door. Kindly send a police vehicle to stop the nuisance.

Location - Imperial Heights, Goregaon West

@CPMumbaiPolice @MTPHereToHelp @OshiwaraPS @GoregaonPS

[Shivam Vahia @ShivamVahia]

.@PMOIndia please release three days from your busy schedule and do a full Mumbai Darshan Yatra covering every major road.

For your safety and SPG protocol, we'll voluntarily hide in our homes with a total curfew like covid. We'll even bang thalis as celebration from our windows.

Please just do it. There will be no traffic and BMC will be free to act on an Emergency scale.

It is a win win. Ek din toh nai, lekin teen din me aap Mumbai ke Nayak. Sincere request sir. 🙏

[Arpit Mehta @mehtaarpit]

@menakadoshi We should invite them to Bandra and Andheri too

[Dr Nimo Yadav 2.0 @DrNimoYadav]

Rani Kumari called Meerut Police.

She introduced herself as a nanny.

She said that the child of a rich businessman had fallen into a drain.

police arrived and began searching.

They called in another team.

All of them went inside the drain.

Rani Kumari told them there is heavy clogging and that if it is cleared, child will be found.

police cleaned the drain thoroughly.
Still, they did not find any child.

They then came out of the drain.

Later, it was found that no one had fallen into the drain.

drain was near Rani Kumari’s house.

She had been trying for three years to get the drain cleaned by the municipal office.

After receiving no help from the municipality, she made a hoax call and executed this plan.

W Rani Kumari 🫡

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

Dear @ICC,

It is with a heavy heart that we now announce our unavailability to replace Pakistan in the upcoming T20 World Cup. Regardless of whether they now withdraw, the short timescales ensure it is impossible for our squad to prepare in the professional manner necessary to compete effectively in this global cricketing spectacle. We are not like Scotland and able to turn up on a whim, with no kit sponsor.

Our players are from all walks of life and cannot simply drop their occupations to fly halfway around the world to experience temperatures only normally felt in Finnish saunas. Our captain, a professional baker, needs to attend to his oven, our ship captain needs to steer his vessel, and our bankers need to go bankrupt (again). This is the harsh reality of cricket at the amateur level of the game.

This news will be extremely disappointing to our fans. Despite being the most peaceful nation on Earth, we maintain an army of online followers, and are the world's 14th most followed national board on X. We were ready to give the Dutch the biggest shock they have experienced since William of Orange lost the Battle of Landen in 1693. And the Americans were looking forward to taking on Greenland, or so their orange-dyed leader thought.

Our loss is likely Uganda's gain. We wish them well. Their kits cannot be missed unless you have epilepsy, in which case they are probably best avoided.

The future is always ice, until it isn't.

Yours sincerely,

Icelandic Cricket Association

[Pappu Ram Mundru Sikar @PRMundru]

इसीलिए 15 अगस्त ओर 26 जनवरी को ठेका बंद रहते हैं, 👇😜

[Dr Nimo Yadav 2.0 @DrNimoYadav]

An African man has been teaching football to Indian kids in a park in Delhi for the last 12 years

BJP councillor Renu Chaudhary went to the park and gave him an ultimatum, if he doesn’t learn Hindi within the next one month, he must leave India

New India

[Arpit Mehta @mehtaarpit]

@MTPHereToHelp @mybmc there is already a sinkhole at DN Nagar & work going on opp fun republic. Too add to chaos there’s a lane blocked by heavy vehicles. Take strict action against the builder @AndheriLOCA @RoadsOfMumbai @mid_day @TOIMumbai

[ANDHERI LOKHANDWALA OSHIWARA CITIZEN'S ASSOCIATION @AndheriLOCA]

Shri Hari society opp Kokilaben Ambani Hospital @my_bmc need STRICTEST action for flouting rules of demolition & dust control
AQI is already worst
Need to issue stop work notice & fine developer

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