While hearing the case about funds received by Ayyub via crowdfunding for Covid relief, the court said there is “serious factual dispute” over places where offence was committed.
The agency said more than Rs 2 crore funds raised online for slum dwellers, Covid 19 victims among others, were received in Ayyub's family's accounts & only Rs 29 lakh was used for relief work.
Ayyub claims she received ED summons ‘very curiously’ only after she was stopped at Mumbai airport. Look-out circular was issued due to alleged ‘non-compliance’ of summons.
Ayyub said she had to deliver a speech on intimidation of journalists at an International Center for Journalists event. ED wants to question her in a money laundering case against her.
India's permanent mission in Geneva says advancing 'misleading narrative' only 'tarnishes' UN mission's reputation. 'Note verbale' might follow, say sources in New Delhi.
Full page support statement issued Sunday comes after Enforcement Directorate attached attached funds worth Rs 1.77 crore in Ayyub's name, in alleged money laundering case.
Agency alleges the journalist transferred money raised for charity into the accounts of her sister and father. She denies allegations, saying all funds are accounted for.
Ayyub is being probed by the Enforcement Directorate based on an FIR filed by the Ghaziabad police in September last year for 'misusing' funds raised for relief.
In her complaint Wednesday, Ayyub said she had been the subject of 27,000 hate tweets and Facebook posts due to fake news spread against her by a website ‘The Scoop Beats’.
Ghaziabad police had filed FIR against Ayyub on 7 Sept, on complaint by Hindu IT Cell founder, for misusing funds raised for relief. The journalist said she has not violated any law.
BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.
The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.
Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.
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