Jaipur Oct 28 PTI A total of 35 Rajasthan Administrative Service officials including several sub-divisional officers were transferred on Thursday night Additional District Collector Jaipur-II Girish Parashar was transferred to the Public Works Department as its joint secretary while Sanskrit University Registrar Rajendra Singh Charan was made the additional district collector Jaipur-II Rajasthan Public Service Commissions Deputy Secretary Neetu Yadav was transferred to Ajmer Municipal Corporation as its deputy commissioner the Department of Personnel said in its transfer order PTI SDA RAX RAX

Jaipur Oct 28 PTI The voting for bypolls to Vallabhnagar and Dhariawad assembly seats in Rajasthan will be held on October 30 amid tight security arrangements a senior official saidChief Electoral Officer Praveen Gupta said that 16 candidates are in the fray in the two constituencies and a total of 638 polling booths have been set upA total of 511455 voters -- 253831 in Vallabhnagar and 257624 in Dhariawad -- are eligible to exercise their franchise he saidGupta said that 4468 security personnel have been deployed in both constituencies to ensure free fair and peaceful votingThe voting will be conducted according to the COVID-19 guidelines he addedThe counting of votes will take place on November 2The bypolls were necessitated after Congress MLA from Vallabhnagar Gajendra Singh Shaktawat and BJP legislator from Dhariyavad Gautam Lal Meena died due to COVID-19 on January 20 and May 19 respectively PTI SDA DIV DIV

Jaipur Oct 28 PTI A 24-year-old man was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday by a court in Rajasthans Rajsamand district for raping a 10-year-old girlThe chargesheet in the case was filed within seven days and the trial was completed in 21 days according to Director General of Police DGP M L LatherHe said the girl was returning home from school on September 27 when Santosh Bheel abducted her took her to an isolated area and raped herBheel was arrested within 48 hours and the chargesheet in the case was filed on October 4 the DGP saidStation House Officer SHO Kankroli Yogendra Vyas said the judge of the POCSO court in Rajsamand Mamta Vyas convicted Bheel for the crime and sentenced him to life imprisonmentThe court also slapped a fine of Rs 50000 on the convict PTI SDA RC

Jaipur Oct 28 PTI Two men were arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau ACB of Rajasthan on Thursday for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 50000 on behalf of an Assistant Sub Inspector posted with Dhorimanna police station in Barmer district The accused had demanded the bribe for getting the name of the complainants nephew dropped from a case registered with the police station ASI Magan Khan is investigating the case an ACB official said After verification of the complaint a trap was laid and the accused Tara Ram and Birbal were arrested while accepting the bribe amount in the name of the ASI The role of the ASI is being probed the official said PTI SDA HDA

Jaipur Oct 25 PTI Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has restored the provision for giving jobs on compassionate grounds to one of the dependents of the people who died or went permanently missing in the 2013 Uttarakhand tragedy triggered by torrential rains In the horrific natural calamity that occurred in June 2013 many residents of Rajasthan visiting Uttarakhand had died and many others went missing After the Uttarakhand tragedy Chief Minister Gehlot during his earlier tenure had visited Uttarakhand and taken stock of the situation On his return he had announced on July 29 2013 a relief package to support the families of the victims an official statement said The package included an ex gratia amount and a job to one of the dependents of each victim After the formation of the new government in December 2013 the provision for giving the job on compassionate ground to the dependents of the Uttarakhand tragedy victims was abolished Even the services of the people who had got the job on compassionate grounds were terminated the statement said In order to provide relief to these families the Gehlot government has now decided to restore the 2013 Uttarakhand tragedy relief package PTI AG RAX RAX

Jaipur Oct 25 PTI The Rajasthan government has decided to declare 3704 villages in seven districts as rain-affected and provide aid to farmers from the State Disaster Relief Fund officials said MondayAccording to a statement Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has approved a proposal in this regardFollowing complaints about crop damage due to excessive monsoon rainfall the revenue department had issued instructions on August 6 2021 to conduct special assessment in all districts of the stateBased in the assessment report 33 per cent or more damage has been reported in Kharif crops in 3704 villages of Dholpur Tonk Sawai Madhopur Jhalawar Bundi Kota and Baran districtsOf these 1236 villages in Baran 469 in Bundi 72 in Dholpur 1177 in Jhalawar 485 in Kota 41 in Sawai Madhopur and 224 villages in Tonk have reported 33 percent or more crop damage PTI AG TIR TIR

Jaipur Oct 25 PTI Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot called on Governor Kalraj Mishra at Raj Bhawan here on Monday A Raj Bhawan spokesperson described the meeting as a courtesy call by Chief Minister Gehlot to Governor Mishra PTI SDA RAX RAX

Jaipur Oct 25 PTI Expressing concern over cases of a sublineage of SARS CoV2s delta variant Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot asked the central government on Monday to prepare and issue standard operating procedures SOPs for its prevention In a tweet he said many cases of Delta Plus AY42 a new mutated form of coronavirus that has killed thousands of people in several countries like Russia and the UK have been found in India The central government should prepare and issue SOPs for its prevention on the basis of the experience of other countries Gehlot tweeted in Hindi Initially there were only a few cases of the delta variant but it did not take time to spread across the country he said The chief minister added that the government should learn from previous experiences and make full preparations to deal with the new variant PTI SDA SNE

Jaipur Oct 25 PTI A 32-year-old married woman was allegedly killed by her jilted lover at a work site in Rajasthans Jalore district police said Monday The incident took place at MGNREGA site in the Thanwala area that falls under Ahore police station area when Shanti Devi was working Ganesharam 22 reached the site and attacked her with a sharp-edged weapon leaving her dead on the spot they said adding that he then clung to her body after that Police rushed to the spot separated him from the body and took him into custody After the postmortem the body was handed over to her family members A case under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code IPC has been registered The slain woman whose husband works in Maharashtra was the mother of two sons According to primary inquiry Ganesharam wanted to have a relationship with her but she turned down his proposal police said PTI SDA MGA MGA

Jaipur Oct 24 PTI The police on Sunday arrested a private coaching institute owner for allegedly selling fake question papers to aspirants of Patwari recruitment exam and held a government school clerk on the charge of impersonating as a candidate of the examThe two-day exam for recruitment of village-level revenue officers concluded on Sunday Mobile Internet services were suspended for two days to curb cheating in the examJaipur Rural SP Shankar Dutt Sharma said Praveen Gurjar who ran a coaching institute in the Chandwaji area of Jaipur district had promised to provide some aspirants question papers of the exam in advance for Rs 10 lakh eachGurjar had taken Rs 4 lakh advance from the candidates and also their documents the police officer said adding the question paper provided by Gurjar was fakeHe has been arrested and a case registered under relevant sections of the IPC Sharma saidMeanwhile Sunil Godara a lower division clerk of a government school was arrested for appearing in the examination as a dummy candidate He had also appeared as a dummy candidate in Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers-2021 DCP Harendra Mahawar saidHe appeared in the exam on behalf of Bhupendra Kumar Meena of Dausa district police said The Patwari recruitment exam was held to fill over 5300 posts As many as 1562 lakh candidates have registered to appear for exam held at 1170 centres in 23 districts PTI AG NSD NSD