log on to thegoan.net @thegoaneveryday MONDAY AUGUST 1, 2022 GOA 12 pages PRICE ` 6 Land grabbing case: B’luru women held PANAJI: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the land grabbing case in Assagao has arrested a 41-yearold Bangalore resident Anjum Shaikh. Anjum is wife of Mohammad Sohail Shafi who is allegedly the mastermind in the Assagao case. Mohammed was arrested by SIT in June this year. Positivity rate @7.19%, 76 new cases reported PANAJI: Goa recorded positivity rate of 7.19 per cent with 76 of the 1057 samples testing positive for Covid in the last 24 hours. With 66 recoveries, the active Covid count in the State stands at 726. 5G auction: Bids cross `1.50 lakh cr NEW DELHI: The auction of 5G spectrum capable of offering ultra-high-speed internet received bids worth Rs 1,50,130 crore until Sunday amid pick-up in demand for radiowaves in the UP East circle, pushing the bidding to seventh day on Monday. Racism not a factor, says Rishi Sunak LONDON: Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak said on Sunday that racism is not a factor in the Conservative Party membership’s decision to vote for the next party leader and successor of Boris Johnson as British Prime Minister.   >> See pg 7 India, Oman military drill begins today NEW DELHI: India and Oman will carry out a nearly twoweek military exercise beginning Monday, with a focus on counter-terror cooperation. The exercise, ‘’AL NAJAH-IV’’, will take place in the Mahajan field firing ranges in Rajasthan from August 1 to 13. ISIS crackdown: Raids held across 6 States NEW DELHI: National Investigation Agency conducted raids at 13 locations of suspects across six States in the case linked to activities of ISIS. The agency said the raids were underway in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Bihar, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. Cong claims BJP offering `10 cr to Jharkhand MLAs >> See pg 6  WEATHER >> Max: 31 C Min: 25C Humidity: 91% TIDES Low: High: 06.41 01.22 19.20 ---- The Goan (Playstore) PANAJI MARGAO GOA VOLUME VIII, NO. 45 GOA RNI: GOAENG/2015/65729 INFO Information on MLAs’ training spend at starred hotel denied Amazing benefits of nettle leaves for skin and hair SPORTS Nunez scores as Liverpool beat Man City to win Community Shield ACCUSED HAD MCOCA, MURDER CASES AGAINST HIM IN MUMBAI THE GOAN I NETWORK PANAJI In a late night joint operation involving the Goa and Mumbai Police, a notorious and habitual criminal of Mumbai Vikrant Deshmukh alias Vicky was nabbed near a casino in Panaji. Speaking to reporters at Panaji, on Sunday, North Goa SP Shobit Saxena informed that they received specific inputs from Navi Mumbai police based on which several traps were set up around the Panaji police station area, specially near the casinos. “From the information and the traps setup, we were able to identify the accused. When we tried to arrest him, he tried to run but was apprehended by a staff after a short chase. A live firearm was also found in his possession with five live rounds and it was seized,” Will not allow Goa to be a safe haven for criminals: SP Saxena PANAJI: Sending out a stern message to the criminals seeking to make Goa their hideout, North Goa SP Shobit Saxena said that such criminals should get rid of such misconception as Goa Police is sincere in its efforts to ensure peace in Goa. “Whoever wants to come and seek refuge in Goa, or seeks to go undetected is being caught. And I want to inform everyone that the criminals, who are under the misconception that they can come and stay safely in Goa, need to get rid of this misconception because Goa Police is sincere in its efforts to ensure peace and security in Goa,” Saxena said.  >> See pg 3  Saxena stated adding the accused has been nabbed after being on the run for four years. “It is after four years that the accused has been arrested. He is wanted in a MCOCA case in Mumbai as well as a case of murder. He has 33 cases registered against him and Ban ends, but trawlers face manpower crunch for Ops NO OFFICIALS AT JETTIES TO ENFORCE HC ORDER THE GOAN I NETWORK PANAJI/MARGAO The seasonal two-month ban may have ended but fishing operations of mechanised trawlers may not kick off full throttle on Monday as the labour force, mostly migrant, has still not returned in numbers. Only a handful of boats are ready to venture out into the sea on Monday, officials of the fishermen’s cooperative manning the jetty at Malim have said. “Four to five of the smaller boats will sail on Monday from Malim. The labourers have not yet come,” said Sitaram Parab, who is one of the directors of the Mandovi Fishermen’s Marketing Co-operative Society, which manages the Malim jetty. Parab said boats at Malim also face navigational issues due to the sand bar formations off Miramar and the Aguada Bay and have to carefully set sail during high tide. He said, only a few boats are prepared and will set sail to begin operations on Monday, the first day after the long two-month ban, to net and cash-in on the seasonal ‘solar’ shrimp. At Cutbona jetty, many a fishing vessel was getting A priest blesses a fishing trawler ahead of the new season on Sunday. Santosh Mirajkar ON PAGE 2 Hustle & bustle at Cutbona on eve of new fishing season Health officials are yet to screen migrants for malaria and dengue Navigational woes continue at mouth of river Sal ready to start the season, though many boat owners pointed out the migrant manpower is yet to hit the jetties. Totally dependent on the workers hailing from the eastern coast of Odisha, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, boat owners said delay in the arrival of the workforce could delay the start of the new season. Boat owners say more than 50 per cent of the migrant workers have reported at the fishing jetties. Sources said compared to vessels for fishing, the purse seine boats required huge manpower -- 30-35 workers per vessel. ‘Unless, all the required manpower hits the jetties, it will not be possible for all the big vessels to venture out”, informed a boat owner. He, however, said that small fishing boats, which are >Continued on P5 Modi exhorts Indians to use National Flag as profile pic N PTI PTI gust 13 and 15. He urged people to hoist or display the national flag at their homes during the campaign. “Let us further this movement by hoisting the National Flag at our homes,” he said. Modi also urged people to put from August 2-15 tricolour he was in jail for 10 years and further investigations are in progress”, he said. He also said, “upon preliminary interrogation, it has been found that he was in Goa for a short stay for recreation. The accused admitted that he was in Goa only for recreational purpose but we are going to investigate deeper to ascertain whether he was involved in any sort of conspiracy in Goa to ensure that no crime linked to this criminal in the State goes undetected,” Saxena added. “He was staying in Calangute and yesterday evening he had come to visit a casino in Panaji. It is suspected that he had one more associate. We are interrogating him to identify the associate so that we can apprehend him. The Mumbai Police team, led by senior PI of Navi Mumbai Crime Branch Bhonsle, came Kerala youth dies with symptoms like monkeypox PTI KOCHI Kerala health minister Veena George initiated a high-level inquiry into the death of a youth, after he died with monkeypox-like symptoms. The youth hailed from Chavakkad Kuranjiyur in Thrissur district and tested positive in a foreign country. “The result of the test conducted in the foreign country was positive. He sought treatment in Thrissur due to severe fatigue and encephalitis and Monkeypox is not a fatal disease,” said George. She said that delay in seeking treatment will be investigated. The health department called a meeting in Punnayur. Meanwhile, a contact list and route map of the deceased youth has been prepared. Contact persons are advised to undergo isolation. Notably, India has reported five cases of monkeypox so far, of which three cases are from Kerala, one is from Delhi and one from Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur. Following this, the central government is on an alert even as the count of infections in some other countries has risen. NITI Aayog’s member (health) Dr VK Paul said that there is absolutely no need for any panic as the government has taken significant measures to keep the disease in check. last night and assisted in the operation,” he informed adding that a case has been registered under Arms Act against the accused at the Panaji police station. The SP heaped praises on Goa Police, particularly the Panaji PI for the outstanding effort in nabbing the accused. “It was an excellent preventive action by Goa Police. Since the past few months, we are carrying out intensive general patrolling in North Goa wherein every Saturday the police officers carry out thorough checks of all criminals of North Goa. It was during one of these drives that we received this information which helped prevent crime in Goa,” Saxena informed and said that the Goa Police will ensure that there is no disturbance to peace and law and order in North Goa. Panel hints at some outdated provisions in Goa’s civil code PTI NEW DELHI A parliamentary panel has reviewed Goa’s uniform civil code and some of its members feel that there are some peculiar and outdated provisions related to matrimony in it, sources said on Sunday. The Goa Civil Code, a set of civil laws that governs all residents of the State irrespective of their religion and ethnicity, has come under focus amid a call for the implementation of a uniform civil code (UCC) across the country. Citing various positives of the Goa Civil Code, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had said earlier that it could be a model for implementing the UCC across the country. With several BJP-ruled States such as Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh expressing their intention to implement the UCC, members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Personnel chaired by BJP MP Su- JEREMY GIVES INDIA 2ND GOLD Jeremy Lalrinnunga endured excruciating pain on his way to a sensational gold medal winning performance at the Commonwealth Games 12 According to the Committee, there were some peculiar clauses in the law related to matrimony and division of property which were outdated and not based on principle of equality shil Kumar Modi visited Goa in June to study and review its uniform civil code. The committee had a few queries regarding the civil code and how it is being implemented in Goa, sources said, adding that senior State officials responded to the questions. It was observed that a majority of the State’s people are “quite happy and content with it”, the sources said. There were, however, some peculiar clauses in the law related to matrimony and division of property, which were outdated and not based on the principle of equality, they said. Sena leader Raut in trouble, ED seizes `11.5L in raid at house NEW GAMES RECORD The reigning Youth Olympic champion first bettered the snatch mark with a successful 140kg attempt and then lifted 160kg in clean and jerk setting a new Games record 1 The Enforcement Directorate officials on Sunday seized Rs 11.50 lakh unaccounted cash from the residence of Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut. The ED probing a money laundering case conducted a search at his residence in suburban Bhandup for nine hours and questioned him before shifting him to the agency’s office in south Mumbai in the evening, sources said. Raut claimed he was being framed based on “false evidence” but won’t bow down and quit the party, shortly before being herded into the south Mumbai office of the ED. They are going to arrest me. I am going to be arrested, Raut said outside ED office. >> See pg 6 2 THE ROAD AHEAD The real journey for Jeremy will start now as he makes a transition to the Olympic weight category of 73kg INDIA’S TALLY: 5 MEDALS Jeremy’s gold was India’s fifth medal from the weightlifting. Earlier Mirabai Chanu (gold), Sanket Sargar (silver), Bidyarani Devi (silver) and Gururaj Poojary (bronze) had earned podium finishes >> See report on pg 12 3 4 Over 50 lakh file ITR on last day as deadline ends AHEAD OF INDEPENDENCE DAY… NEW DELHI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the ‘’Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’’ is turning into a mass movement and urged people to put ‘’tiranga’’ as profile picture of their social media accounts between August 2 and 15. In his Mann Ki Baat radio broadcast, Modi noted that under the ‘’Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’’ programme to mark the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence, a special campaign ‘’Har Ghar Tiranga’’ is being organised between Au- Instagram.com/thegoaneveryday 3 2 10 Wanted criminal from Mumbai nabbed in Panaji, arms seized P’yat polls: Margao police keep vigil on bars for code violations IN SHORT >> Facebook.com/thegoaneveryday as the profile picture of their accounts on social media platforms, noting that August 2 is the birth anniversary of Pingali Venkayya who had designed the flag. The prime minister said he was happy that the Mahotsav is taking the form of a mass movement, with people from all walks of life and from every section of society participating in different programmes across the country. “When India completes 75 years of Independence, all of us are going to witness splendid and historic moment,” he said referring to August 15. NEW DELHI early 54 lakh income tax returns were filed till 8 pm on the last day of filing ITR for 2021-22 fiscal by salaried individuals, the I-T department said on Sunday. The deadline for filing I-T returns, by those taxpayers who do not have to get their accounts audited for the fiscal ended on March 31, 2022, is Sunday. Till July 30, more than 5.10 crore tax returns had been filed. Giving statistics of Income Tax Returns (ITR) filed on Sunday, the I-T department tweeted: “53,98,348 #ITRs have been filed up to 2000 hours today & 4,95,505 #ITRs filed in the last 1hr.” Last fiscal (2020- HERE’S WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU FAILED TO FILE YOUR TAX RETURNS „„Taxpayers who missed July 31 date will still be able to file their ITR by December 31 but there’s a catch „„Any delay beyond July 31 can attract interest on the tax due „„Late fee for taxpayers whose annual income is up to Rs 5 lakh is Rs 1,000 „„If your annual income is more than Rs 5 lakh the late fine is Rs 5,000 „„However, you will not be liable to pay a penalty if your gross total income does not exceed the basic exemption limit 21), about 5.89 crore ITRs were filed by the extended due date of December 31, 2021. Over the month, the I-T department has been nudging taxpayers to file their ITRs for 2021-22 fiscal to avoid levy of late fees. The I-T department also asked taxpayers to seek assistance regarding ITR filing by emailing to orm@cpc.incometax.gov.in’’ or calling help desk numbers 1800 103 0025 and 1800 419 0025. Meanwhile, many users complained about technical glitches on the e-filing website. However, the centre has made it clear that there is no plan to extend the ITR filing due dates this year. The hashtag “#Extend_ Due_Date_Immediately” was trending on Twitter, with widespread requests for an immediate extension. The income tax regime determines the basic exemption threshold you select. For taxpayers under 60, the basic tax exemption ceiling under the older regime is Rs 2.5 lakh. The basic exemption threshold for those aged 60 to 80 is Rs 3 lakh. The exemption threshold for those over 80 is set at Rs 5 lakh. Under the new concessional income tax regime, the basic tax exemption limit stands at Rs 2.5 lakh, irrespective of the age of the taxpayers. Gross total income is the amount before any deductions allowed by Sec 80C through 80U of the Income Tax Act. Missing deadlines have several consequences in addition to the late fees. If you miss the deadline, you will have to pay interest on late tax payment. “There could be some tax payable while filing ITR, for example, interest and dividend. TDS is deducted at 10 per cent, but you are in, say, 20 per cent or 30 per cent tax slab; hence the differential amount of tax is to be paid with interest as per Section 234 A at the rate of 1 per cent per month,” said Sudhir Kaushik, Co-Founder and CEO, TaxSpanner said.