Bhopal Jan 20 PTI An employee of the Housing Board was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 4000 on Thursday to issue a no-objection certificate NOC for construction of a house in Madhya Pradeshs Bhopal a Lokayukta official said The accused employee Prahlad Shrivastava allegedly tried to injure himself with a knife when Lokayukta officials tried to nab him at his office Lokayukta superintendent of police Manu Vyas said A policeman from the raiding team sustained an injury while trying to prevent the accused from harming himself he said Based on a complaint lodged by one Gopal Singh Rathore a trap was laid and Shrivastava was caught red-handed while accepting the bribe amount at his office the official said Shrivastava had allegedly demanded Rs 10000 from the complainant for issuing an NOC to construct a permanent house in place of a temporary one he said A case under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against Shrivastava and further investigations in the matter are underway he said A separate case was also registered against the accused official in TT Nagar police station for taking out a knife from a drawer and injuring himself the SP added PTI MAS ARU ARU
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Bhopal Dec 20 PTI A senior IAS officer attached to the horticulture department who recently initiated a probe into scam allegations in onion seed purchase was shifted to the state secretariat without any new department being assigned to her The transfer order of horticulture department principal secretary and 1992 batch Indian Administrative Service official Kalpana Shrivastava which was issued on December 18 a holiday has given rise to speculation here that the shift may be linked to her initiating a probe into alleged irregularities in onion seed purchases The departments charge has been given to Additional Chief Secretary JN Kansotia who also has charge of the animal husbandry department Horticulture commissioner Manoj Kumar Agrawal a 1993 batch Indian Forest Service IFoS official has been sent back to the forest department as well they said Department sources told PTI the MP Economic Offences Wing has started a probe into the onion seed matter The Kisan Ekta Manch in a letter to MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had alleged that the purchase of onions by the department was a Rs 2 crore scam and it had demanded that a criminal case be filed in the matter Udyaniki Adhikari Karmachari Sanghs horticultute department working president Mahesh Pratap Singh Bundela had also written a letter to the CM as well as Shrivastava and the EOW demanding a probe and registration of a criminal case Bundela in his complaint letter had claimed that the department bought onion seeds at Rs 2300 per kilogram against a prevailing rate of Rs 1100 per kg Sources said Shrivastava as principal secretary of the department had initiated a probe based on the complaints and had directed the commissioner on October 18 to take legal action against those responsible for violating rules in the purchase Payments had also been stopped in the matter these sources said PTI MAS BNM BNM BNM
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government today suspended former Mumbai Police Commissioner Parambir Singh on the allegation of extortion. Orders have been sent to the DGP of Maharashtra to serve the suspension on Parambir and another DCP rank officer.
After returning from a three-week hospitalization, Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray cleared the file for the suspension of Singh.
Singh is facing a slew of FIRs in Mumbai and the satellite towns after the seizure of explosives outside Antilia and the murder of Thane businessman Mansukh Hiren.
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