Army Engineer, five others held in bribery case; CBI raids 20 places
Kochi, July 2: The CBI has arrested an Army Engineer and five others in a Rs 1.21 crore bribery case, the agency said on Monday.
Separate Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) teams on Monday conducted searches at 20 premises connected to the accused, including in Delhi, Kochi, Ajmer, Kolkata, Hisar and Rohtak.
Chief Engineer (Naval Works) Rakesh Kumar Garg, Military Engineer Services, Naval Base, was held on Sunday on a tip-off along with five others, a CBI official said.
"Our team seized the bribe money of Rs 1.21 crore when Garg was arrested. In further raids, the CBI team seized Rs 3.97 crore and six kg gold biscuits from the possession of the accused," the official said.
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Missing Kerala class 10 student found dead near Chandradrona hills
Chikkamagaluru (Karnataka) (PTI): Three days after a class 10 student from Kerala went missing during a family trip to Manikyadhara Falls in the Chandradrona hill range, she was found dead on Friday, police said.
The deceased, identified as Kumari Shrinanda, had been missing since Tuesday evening after she went trekking in the Chandradrona hills, they said.
"The body has been traced, and the clothes she was wearing are intact. The body will be sent for a post-mortem, and further procedures are underway," Chikkamagaluru Superintendent of Police Jitendra Kumar Dayama told PTI.
The girl was part of a group of around 40 relatives who had travelled from Palakkad, police added.
According to police, she went missing at around 5.30 pm on Tuesday while at the falls with her family. The family searched for her until about 8 pm before informing the authorities.
After receiving the report, police and forest department personnel launched a search operation in the area. Thermal drones were deployed to locate the girl.
Disaster management teams also joined the operation.
In a separate incident in Kodagu district recently, a 36-year-old woman from Kerala went missing while trekking in the Tadiandamol hills and was later traced and reunited with her family.
