ADVISORY ON "BLUE WHALE CHALLENGE GAME"

ADVISORY ON "BLUE WHALE CHALLENGE GAME"

Blue whale game (The suicide game) is abetment to suicide. It is understood through various internet reports that it is shared among secretive groups on social media networks. The creators seek out their players/victims who are in depression and send them an invitation to join. The basis of the challenge is that an anonymous “group administrator,” otherwise known as “the curator,” hands out 50 tasks to selected “players” that must be completed, documented and posted during a 50-day period. Players of the challenge can’t stop playing once they’ve started; they are blackmailed and cyber bullied into completing the “game”.

Look out for following Signs and symptoms:

Becoming withdrawn from friends and familyPersistent low mood and unhappinessChild seems to be worried that stops him from carrying out day to day tasksSudden outbursts of anger directed at themselves or othersLoss of interest in activities that they used to enjoyVisible marks like deep cuts or wounds on any part of the body of the child.

How to protect your child from this game:

Check in with your child, ask how things are going. Ask if there have been things stressing them, or anything that has them worried. If your child is talking about any level of distress, do not hesitate to ask them about changes in mental health.Unless there is reason to believe your child already knows of or has played the game, don't discuss about the Blue Whale game. By doing so, you increase the chance that your child will search for it on their own.Monitor your children's online and social media activity to ensure they are not engaging with this game.Keep your eyes open for:Unusually secretive behaviour, mostly related to their online activityA sudden increase in the time they spend online, especially social mediaThey seem to change screens on their device when approachedThey become withdrawn or angry, after using the internet or sending text messagesTheir device suddenly has many new phone numbers and email contactsInstall a good cyber/mobile parenting software which helps them in monitoring your children.Parents should take reports from child counsellor present in the school at regular intervals.If you fear your child may be at risk, get professional help right away.Remind your child that you are there and will support them as they face life challenges.

For further information, You may visit the following URLs :

(a) http://ncpcr.gov.in/showfile.php?lang=1&level=1&sublinkid=1267&lid=1499(link is external)

(b) http://infosecawareness.in/Know-About-Blue-Whale-Suicide-Game(link is external)

(c) http://unicef.in/Uploads/Publications/Resources/pub_doc148.pdf0 bytes

(d) http://goapolice.gov.in/documents/adv.pdf0 bytes

(e) http://meghalaya.gov.in/megcms/sites/default/files/press_release/Press%20Release_0.pdf0 bytes

 

 
Dated. 12-09-2017

Source:- http://meity.gov.in/advisory-blue-whale-challenge-game

12 Companies on the threshold of Insolvency

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) last month asked creditor banks to begin insolvency proceedings against 12 of the country's biggest loan defaulters, and subsequently mandated that the banks would need to make provision for up to 50 percent of the amount of soured loans.

The 12 companies account for 1.78 trillion rupees ($27.7 billion) in non-performing bank loans, according to RBI data.

Banks had total non-performing loans of about 7.29 trillion rupees, or 5 percent of the gross domestic product, as of end-March.

India Ratings, an affiliate of Fitch Ratings, estimated the current average provisioning towards those 12 accounts at 42 percent, adding the extra provisioning needed would reduce the profits of creditor banks by about a quarter in the financial year to March 2018, and will need to make additional provisioning of at least 180 billion rupees ($2.8 billion).

Source - http://www.firstpost.com/business/banks-need-at-least-2-8-billion-extra-provisioning-for-bankruptcy-cases-india-ratings-3826585.html/amp

2011: Productive year for Delhi High Court - India - DNA

2011: Productive year for Delhi High Court - India - DNA: 

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DMK MP Kanimozhi's bail successful hearing along with that of other high profile accused in the 2G case and upholding of jail term given to Sukhram in the 1996 telecom scam kept the Delhi High Court in the limelight. Delhi HC also questioned the basis of the cash-for-vote matter and granted bail to six accused.

The court's other significant orders and decisions included its refusal to grant interim stay on minority status accorded to Jamia Milia Islamia University, acquittal of sacked IPS officer RK Sharma in journalist Shivani Bhatnagar case and staying imminent deportation of 151 Pakistani Hindus, overstaying here on pilgrimage visa. Amidst all this, terror hit the High Court which claimed 17 lives at its doorstep on September 7. A powerful suitcase bomb ripped through the crowded reception area injuring 90 persons.

However, cases involving politicians and corporates kept the court busy. Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi, daughter of veteran Dravidian leader M Karunanidhi, Kalaignar TV CEO Sharad Kumar, Bollywood producer Karim Morani and two others got bail in the 2G case on the ground of parity after the apex court granted bail to five corporate honchos, saying "bail is rule and jail is exception." However, former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura, who is left in jail along with A Raja since their arrest on February 2, was not so lucky as the court allowed CBI's plea that role of public servants be put to "stricter" scrutiny as they are expected to be different from other accused. The court said Behura was the "perpetrator" of the illegal design of Raja and cannot claim benefit of parity with 10 others released on bail.

The trial court's verdict awarding life imprisonment to dismissed IPS officer Ravi Kant Sharma, who once served as the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the PMO, in the Shivani Bhatnagar case could not withstand scrutiny of the High Court which reversed the judgement. Sharma walked free after spending 10 years in jail. The court, in its judgement, itself raised questions as to who were behind the killing and what was the motive for it. It upheld conviction of Pradeep Sharma, one of the four persons, found guilty by the lower court, while setting free Sri Bhawgan and Satya Praksh besides RK Sharma giving them the benefit of doubt.

In a closely contested paternity suit, 85-year-old Congress leader N D Tiwari successfully avoided giving blood sample for the DNA test to ascertain the plea of 31-year-old Rohit Shekhar that he was his (Tiwari) biological son. A single judge bench of the court, which had earlier asked Tiwari to give blood sample, later reversed its own order and allowed the plea of the leader that he cannot be forced to give evidence against himself that too in a civil case. Rohit Shekhar has now challenged the order in a division bench, saying that it would be difficult to get justice unless Tiwari is forced to undergo the test.

Unlike Tiwari, his former party colleague and ex-Telecom Minister Sukh Ram, 86, was caught on the wrong side of the law with the high court upholding lower court's verdict awarding three year jail term to him in in the 1993 telecom equipment purchase deal to benefit a Hyderabad-based company. It also upheld conviction of Runu Ghosh, then Director in Department of Telecommunications, P Rama Rao, MD of Advanced Radio Masts (ARM) Pvt Ltd and asked them to surrender on January 5 to serve jail terms. Rao will have to undergo three years jail term while Ghosh would be in jail for two years. Sukh Ram was earlier awarded five years jail in another graft case and had to spend 10 days in jail before the High Court granted bail and stayed the trial court's verdict.

Former BJP President Bangaru Laxaman could not get any relief from the court in a case lodged after he was allegedly caught on May 13, 2001 taking bribe from undercover scribes of Tehelka portal for recommending to the Defence Ministry the purchase of their wares for the Army.

Arun Jaitley, leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, however, won a legal battle against US-based Portfolio Brains LLC which was asked to pay a fine of Rs5 lakh to him for harassing him by running a website www.arunjaitley.com and refusing to transfer the domain name to him.

In a relief to Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling, the High Court dismissed a plea of a BJP leader seeking to declare him as a Nepalese citizen. The court said the complaint of BJP leader Padam Prasad Sharma was made to "gain political mileage".

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati also got relief as the court dismissed the Centre's appeal against the 2007 order of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) that her birthday gifts were exempted from taxation under the IT Act. The Income Tax department had challenged the ITAT ruling exempting Mayawati from paying tax on the gifts worth nearly Rs 65 lakhs received by her from supporters in the form of two houses in Inderpuri in West Delhi and two cheques worth Rs one lakh each. The gifts were received on her birthday in 2004.

Delhi Police invited the ire of the court for lax handling of the case of extradited gangster Abu Salem following the revocation of his extradition by a Portuguese High Court on the ground that the terms of extradition agreement, entered into between India and Portugal, have been breached. The Portuguese court had taken note of invoking of MCOCA against Salem as it provided life term as maximum sentence which was in contravention of an assurance given by the then NDA government that he will neither be tried under any special law and nor be handed down jail term in excess of 25 years. Salem, extradited in 2005, was booked under MCOCA for allegedly making extortion calls to a Delhi-based businessman Ashok Gupta in 2002 demanding Rs5 crore as protection money.

In another case, the court dismissed the plea of Haseena Ibrahim Parker, sister of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, filed against Centre's decision that she will not be issued a fresh passport. The External Affairs ministry had said that Parker cannot be issued a fresh passport as she might "misuse" it to help her brother's criminal activities.

In 2011, the court reserved its order on the prosecution of 19 witnesses including model-turned-actor Shyan Munshi on charge of perjury for turning hostile during the trial of the Jessica Lall murder case. Earlier, the court had issued notices to 19 witnesses and had raised questions as to how they all turned hostile. Lall was shot dead in April 1999 by Manu Sharma, son of Haryana Congress leader Venod Sharma, after she refused to serve a drink to him in a party at restaurant Tamarind Court in South Delhi. Sharma is serving life term in the case after the apex court upheld the HC's judgement.

The court took a sympathetic view of plight of 151 Pak Hindus and asked the Centre not to deport them back till it decides their plea seeking asylum or Indian citizenship. The Pakistanis, who fear for their lives in their homeland, face the danger of deportation as their pilgrimage visas have expired.

'Better late than never' is the phrase which could console Australian swimmer Susan Leigh Beer, who was awarded Rs 1.82 crore compensation by the court nearly 33 years after she slipped in a pool of an ITDC-run hotel here and became paralysed. Susan, 17, suffered from Quadriplegic, paralysis of all four limbs -- both arms and both legs-- after receiving head and spinal chord injuries during the fall in the pool of Akbar Hotel on the evening of May 5, 1978.

In a similar case, the High Court awarded a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to Nina Pillai, wife of Singapore-based Chairman of Britannia Group Rajan Pillai who died inside Tihar nearly 16 years ago. It held the state liable for lapses in providing medical care to Pillai, who was suffering from various ailments including alcoholic liver cirrhosis and died at a hospital here on July 7, 1995. He fled from Singapore to avoid a jail term in a criminal case there.

The court also upheld the conviction and award of life term to political activist Hari Singh for hijacking an Indian Airlines flight in March 1993. Singh, who has been on bail since July 18, 2003, was told to surrender before the lower court to undergo the sentence.

Karnataka CID chargesheets Sharad Pawar’s nephew in mining scam - Mumbai - DNA

Karnataka CID chargesheets Sharad Pawar’s nephew in mining scam - Mumbai - DNA:

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The crime investigation department (CID) of the Karnataka police on Thursday chargesheeted Pune-based Metachem Manufacturing Pvt Ltd (MMPL), which is stated to be owned by Jayant Pawar, nephew of Union minister, Sharad Pawar.

The 10,000-page chargesheet alleges that Metachem had stored its iron ore in the jetty belonging to Adani Mining, at Belikeri port in Dakshina Kannada district. Lok Ayukta sleuths, who raided the port in March 2010, had attached the stockpiles in that jetty.

When the company claimed ownership of the stockpile, the Lok Ayukta had asked the company to produce passes, permits and other documents to claim ownership.

Instead, the company sold the stockpile to a certain DB Group based in Belgaum, the chargesheet claims.

Lok Ayukta officials from Udupi had confiscated 8.05 lakh tonnes of iron ore belonging to MMPL, which sold 7,312 tonnes to Belgaum-based DB Brothers, for which the buyer deposited Rs3.79 crore in the Saraswat Co-operative Society account of MMPL in Sangamwadi, Pune.

According to records available with the Lok Ayukta police, Jayant Pawar was issued notices twice by the Lok Ayukta police, but he had not reacted. In response to notices issued to 53 other companies, they had all assigned an official each and secured anticipatory bail from a court.

Sources in the CID told DNA they have chargesheeted 24 companies in an Ankola court, out of a total of 53 firms that are facing charges of theft of ore and its illegal export

Chargesheet against Adani Enterprises

A CID team headed by SP Bhemaiah and DySP Muddumahadevaiah submitted a charge-sheet containing 75 files against Adani Enterprises at JMFC Court at Ankola on Friday. The charge-sheet was submitted in connection with missing iron ore fine which was seized earlier by the forest department at Belekeri port in June last year. The charge-sheets were also filed against 26 companies dealing with Adani Enterprises.

Since JMFC of Ankola was on leave, the CID team took the permission of JMFC, Kumta to file the charge sheet at Ankola Court.

It may be recalled that the CID had already filed charge-sheets against Salgaonkars and the Rajmahal Company in the court on similar charges. With this only Mallikarjun Shipping, which was operating at Belekeri, remains to be charge sheeted by the CID.

It may also be noted that earlier the CID had filed charge-sheets against all the four companies in the court. However, the court had rejected them on the grounds that they were incomplete.

Headway in iron ore theft case

The CID filed a revised charge sheet in Ankola JMFC court in connection with the iron ore theft case in Belekeri port of Uttara Kannada district.

The team led by CID SP K P Bheemaih and Dy SP Muddumahadevayya, filed the revised charge sheet of 8,150 pages, against Salgoankar and other four export companies. The court had rejected the previous charge sheet filed against these companies for technical reasons and unclear information.

The court had directed the CID to file a new charge sheet with all details. CID sources said the charge sheet against other companies will be filed soon.

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