Sub-inspector on duty at EVM strong room in Rae Bareli dies
Rae Bareli (UP), May 31: A 58-year-old police sub-inspector deployed for the security of a strong room in Raebareli district died on Friday after his health conditions suddenly deteriorated, a police official said.
Additional Superintendent of Police Naveen Singh said the cause of the death would be known after the post-mortem report comes.
Polling was held for Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat in the fifth phase of elections on May 20 and a set of Electronic Voting Machines were kept at the strong room set up at the Industrial Training Institute at Gora Bazar here.
Heavy police force has been deployed at the strong room for its security.
A police official said that sub-inspector Harishankar (58), who was posted with the Mill Area police station, was also put on the strong room security duty.
His health condition suddenly deteriorated and the police personnel deployed with him rushed him to the district hospital, where he died during treatment, the official said.
Mill Area police station SHO Sanjay Kumar said SI Harishankar was a resident of Bhadohi and was posted with the police station for about a year.
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CBI books IRS officer for demanding 250 gm of gold coins in bribe
New Delhi (PTI): The CBI has booked a deputy commissioner of customs for allegedly seeking a bribe in the form of 250 grams of gold coins to de-freeze bank accounts of a businessman's jewellery company, officials said Monday.
In the FIR, the CBI has named 2014-batch IRS officer Vikas Pal, then posted in Chennai, and his alleged accomplice Mohammed Sabahuddin in the case.
The CBI took action on a complaint filed by S Shreeganth, the director of Aalaya Jewel Industry Pvt. Ltd, in 2021 which he alleged that Pal, currently posted as Deputy Commissioner, Central GST Noida (Appeals), allegedly demanded gold coins through his representative Sabahuddin, "in lieu of de-freezing of the bank accounts of his company".
A query e-mailed to Pal seeking his reaction remained unanswered.
Sabahuddin, who himself was a GST defaulter, allegedly called Shreeganth thrice regarding the fulfilment of said illegal demand of gold coins, according to the FIR.
The Directorate General of Vigilance (DGoV) Customs referred the matter to the CBI after concluding that there is sufficient corroborative evidence to support the
allegations.
The DGoV also said Pal took undue financial favour from Sabahuddin, who was an offender of GST by getting flight tickets booked, hotel bookings and cab bookings through him.
