a top story. The enforcement directorate has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court regarding Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kal's arrest this after a aw party had challenged Kal's arrest in the Supreme Court. ED, in its affidavit, has said that the chief minister was constantly avoiding questioning and that and now the APP has in fact hit out at ED over its affidavit, saying the agency is only spreading lies and has no evidence against KJ in the Delhi liquor policy case. E, in the top court has now in fact, said that Kal's argument that his arrest before the election is against the principle of free and fair elections is totally not correct. You know what they continue to say is that any person, no matter how big his political influence be if he's arrested due to sufficient evidence, it will you know, certainly that is done to not spoil the election process. They say that the independence or impartiality is not affected, and that is why that has to be done now. The ed also says that in this you know, alleged liquor policy case, there was evidence, you know, that was destroyed on a large scale They also want to say that Arvin Kesal and the other accused who were involved in this case, you know, were responsible for destroying the evidence. They also say that during this period, 170 phones belonging to 36 people were either replaced or destroyed. They also say in fact, you know, that was in fact, a shoot someone nine times. But he did not appear for questioning. He tried to avoid investigation. This is what the enforcement directorate has said in the top court, to which now the arm adni party has replied. Now what they in fact allege, is that is, you know, only spreading lies. That is the statement that has now come from the armed party. Armed Party also alleges that is working like a political wing of the BJP. They also allege that does not have a single piece of evidence over the allegations that they are making. So certainly we are again seeing you know that the enforcement directorate versus armed party war of words, you know, it certainly continues to intensify. Now The Delhi police team has joined the Salman Khan firing case investigation and they have in fact travelled to Mumbai and questioned the accused who have been arrested in this case. In fact, Delhi police is specifically looking at the Lawrence Bishnu gangs link to this particular case. And, uh, as per sources, the accused duo who have been arrested met Bishnu gang members in Haryana. My colleague Mukesh has more or uh uh, political updates now, and a massive political row has erupted over Congress' Sam Petro's comments on inheritance tax. The B JP that was targeting the Congress over distribution of wealth immediately latched on to this comment and launched a scathing attack which was led by the prime minister. The Congress distanced itself from the remarks, saying it's nowhere in their manifesto and that the B JP is resorting to lies in the supercharged electoral atmosphere. This comment from Congress advisor Sam Pitroda seemed to be a self goal In America. There is an inheritance tax, so if let's say one has $100 million worth of wealth and when he dies, he can only transfer probably 45% to his Children. 55% is grabbed by government. Now that's an interesting law. It says You, in your generation made wealth. You are living now. You must leave your wealth for public. Not all of it. Half of it, Which to me sounds fair in India. You don't have that. If somebody is worth 10 billion and he dies, his Children get 10 billion. Probably get nothing in large heads. You get half of it. Probably gets half of it. So these are the kind of issues people will have to debate. Discuss? I don't know what the conclusion would be at the end of the day, but when we talk about redistributing wealth, we are talking about new policies, new programmes that are in the interest of the people and not in the interest of super rich only Sure enough, the BJP top leadership came down on him hard Abdul a man say Hey WB Nahi Mile Balki Congress Kara Panjabi Chile Yani Cona mantra con ra ba Congress Come ma dess S Janaki niji sama Survey ker niji Sampo Sarka Kaja Dalk Joone UPAK sasan kitty Prior kadan aar minority or us may be Muslim logo. I think the gin has come out of the bottle. Hidden agenda is out and it clearly shows even after your death, they will keep on bustling. The congress quickly moved into firefighting and counterattack mode. So I, with some the I a cha for the there is a constitution and we are not in. We don't have any intention why you are putting, uh, his ideas in our mouth. Why you are propagating. He is just for words. He's playing all this game in. But despite the Congress's firefighting attempts, this is already a political inferno and not even Sam Petro's statement clarifying but not withdrawing. His comments seem to have doused the fire firefighting After Sam Petro's remarks, the Congress Party has sought to try to clarify and make it clear that it has never contemplated before or in future the inheritance tax to quell the narrative that is being built by the BJP in the 2024 elections, with camera person suing Rati Sunil Prabhu and the TV. Now Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accused the Congress of reducing the quota for OB CS in Karnataka by putting Muslim caste in the same category and claimed that it plans to replicate this process across the country. Calling the Congress the biggest enemy of the OB, CS Rahul Gandhi hit back saying he's not interested in caste, but only in social justice. Congress GO BC say Una ha Congress names Nike Congress Sambi Dhani Bako Poker Poe Cone Baba sapa Gora of Raj NTI M Yeah, I bought some Alicia for it for it. Life mission Live like Mission Man or large Raj Nati or Life Bishak Kolkata, Right? Me Man Raj may compromise life missionary compromise Now the Samajwadi Party has confirmed that Achilles A will be fighting the local elections from Kano. He will file his nominations on Thursday. The B JP had earlier taunted the India bloc, saying both Akil and Rahul Gandhi were too scared to fight the elections. From up first list of the Samajwadi Party came out that Ak shad. There was speculation that AK Shadab might contest from. But you know, just a couple of days back the day before yesterday, with Pav's name coming in the Samajwadi Party list that he will be contesting from KJ. All the speculations were put to rest. But you know after that, of course, the local Carter, the local unit of Kano, was not very happy with the decision. And of course, then you know, a of course was thinking, contemplated the decision and then finally today by the official handle of Samajwadi Party. It was announced that a A will be contesting from KJ and will be fighting his nomination filing his nomination at around 12 p.m. tomorrow. So very interesting because, you know, in fact, we spoke to the BJP candidate also, who defeated Dimple Yadav in 2019 by a margin of around 12 to 14,000 votes, very narrow margin in the constituency of around 18 to 19 lakh voters. He said that he also wants AK Shad to contest from KJ because the poll battle will be interesting. So, you know, of course, now AK shad, entering the poll for himself will of course, make things interesting. We'll slip into a short break at this point. More news and more news and updates on the other side. Stay tuned. Welcome back now ground report from Bihar Sim Manjal, where the beleaguered farmers only care about what they care about is the best price for their crop. Whoever assures them the minimum support price has their vote fields of corn, the lifeline of lacks of families in the Sachal region of Bihar, while the whole country discusses which party and candidate to vote for. All these farmers care about is the best price for their crop. Whoever shows them that has their vote, but with no MSP. These farmers are at the mercy of wholesale dealers and the prices they offer are not enough to pay their education and for their health care. Forced to work as labourers, most farmers are disenchanted with all politicians. Corn and fox nuts are two cash crops of the region and if the farmers here get a good price, the corning of the Kosi and Sim region of Bihar could turn around. But for that the government will have to step in and deliver more than empty promises in Punia Prabhakar Kumar for ND TV. Now the Reserve Bank of India has directed Kotak Mahindra Bank to seize and desist the issue of fresh credit cards and the on boarding of new customers through its online and mobile banking channels. The bank had been found lacking in IT risk and information security governance for two consecutive years. Kotak Mahindra Bank has now in fact issued a statement saying that they're adopting new technology to strengthen their IT systems and that they are assuring existing customers of their services and have said that new customers are welcome at their branches. First off, with regard to what the RBI has done, they've barred Kotak Bank from issuing new credit cards. So on existing credit cards on existing customers. No impact whatsoever. You can continue to swipe your credit card no problem whatsoever. But with regard to new credit cards, Kotak Bank cannot issue them. So that's the first restriction or embargo place. The second one is the bigger one. They've stopped Kotak Ma bank from on boarding new customers on its online platform. So when it comes to Kotak 811, when it comes to online banking, that's where Kotak Mahira Bank has been stopped from bringing on new customers again. Existing customers absolutely freely allowed to use the Kotak 811, as well as the Kotak platform. That's essentially what the RB has done in terms of restrictions. This impacts Kotak mind the bank, of course, because new customers cannot be on boarded and they cannot issue new credit cards and lend. The reason given by the RBI is that they have done an audit of the 2022 and 2023 audit of the IT systems of Kotak Bank and found them deficient under various under various nuances, and the deficiencies have been pointed out. They have engaged with Kotak Bank, but nonetheless they haven't been repaired, and that's the problem that has faced and which is why they have placed these two embargoes Now, in a significant consumer friendly move, the Biden administration has issued final rules to require airlines to automatically issue cash refunds for issues like delayed flights and to better disclose fees for baggage or cancelling a reservation. The US Transportation department said that airlines will be required to provide automatic cash refunds within a few days for cancelled flights and significant delays now. The current regulations US airlines were now deciding were deciding how long a delay must last before triggering refunds. The administration is removing that wiggle room by defining a significant delay as that which lasts at least three hours for domestic flights and six hours for international flights. The airlines will still be allowed to offer another flight or a travel credit instead, but the consumers or the passengers in this case can reject that offer
