| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
The anchor opines that India's system treats a peon taking leftover biscuits as a graver crime than big players who loot banks of thousands of crores and flee abroad.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
In Bokaro, Jharkhand, contract peon Ranjit Kumar Himanshu — employed since 2005 on a ₹9,950 salary — was dismissed in 2022 for taking leftover biscuits and tea leaves after officials' meetings, and the Jharkhand High Court has now quashed the dismissal, ordering reinstatement with 50% back wages.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
Cigarette and tobacco products attract the highest 40% tax, and in September 2025 Delhi enforcement teams themselves reported that buses leaving Majnu ka Tila, Akshardham, Kashmiri Gate and Anand Vihar smuggle goods to evade GST.
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
After the Modi government came to power in 2014, special attention was paid to these old issues concerning Kashmiri Pandits.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
A contract peon in Bokaro, Jharkhand, earning ₹9,950 a month since 2005, was sacked in 2022 for taking leftover biscuits and tea leaves after officials' meetings; the Jharkhand High Court division bench has now quashed the dismissal, ordering reinstatement with 50% back wages.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
People are able to commit dishonesty because our system lets them do it.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
Tax evasion is more common with cigarette and tobacco products because they attract the highest tax rate of 40%.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
The full truth is that dishonesty (corruption) is what burned these eight people to death — a dishonesty that has become like termites in society.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
This case is proof of the system's double standard: it swoops down on small people like a hawk but becomes meek before big offenders.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
Ranjit Himanshu will get his job back.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
Senior officials swallow crores of rupees in the name of 'chai-pani' (bribes) under the table, and the system keeps its eyes closed to it.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
The court also said that since a mistake had occurred he would not get a full clean chit, but that dismissing him from his job was outright injustice.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
The court quashed peon Ranjit Himanshu's dismissal and ordered his reinstatement along with payment of 50% of his back wages.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
The case reached the courts, and a division bench of the Jharkhand High Court rebuked the administration, saying the punishment was excessively harsh and entirely wrong.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
His salary was Rs 9,950, and he worked on that salary for 17 years.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
Two months after the show-cause notice, he was dismissed from his job over the alleged theft of a few biscuits.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
A show-cause notice was issued to him in March 2022, which described the offence as 'private use of government material' rather than naming the tea leaves and biscuits.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
He was accused of private use of government property, which consisted of a few leftover biscuits and a small amount of tea leaves from an officials' meeting.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
Ranjit Kumar Himanshu had been working as a contract peon at the District Rural Development Agency in Bokaro, Jharkhand, since 2005.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
In Jharkhand, a peon lost his 17-year-old job because he picked up some leftover biscuits after an officials' meeting.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
People who defraud banks of thousands of crores and flee abroad face cases that drag on for years because the system does not treat elite financial crimes as serious offences.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
A contract peon in Bokaro, Jharkhand — Ranjit Kumar Himanshu, employed since 2005 on a ₹9,950 salary — was dismissed in 2022 for taking leftover biscuits and tea leaves after officials' meetings; the Jharkhand High Court division bench quashed the dismissal and ordered his reinstatement with 50% back pay.
peon dismissal case
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
In September 2025, Delhi enforcement teams themselves reported that buses leaving Majnu ka Tila, Akshardham, Kashmiri Gate, and Anand Vihar for other states covertly carry goods on which GST is evaded.
GST evasion via buses
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
The bus's storage boxes were filled with cartons of cigarettes being smuggled to evade GST, which intensified the fire; cigarette and tobacco products attract the highest tax of 40%, making them common targets of such evasion.
cigarette GST smuggling
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| Gaurav Sawant |
2026-07-01 |
India's new army chief is General (Dhiraj) Seth, a four-star general whose father was a three-star general and whose brother is a serving Rear Admiral in the Indian Navy.
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95.0% |