ACB carries out raids at 17 places including Mangaluru: Homes, offices of 5 officers inspected
Bengaluru, Dec 28: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), on Friday morning, conducted raids at 17 places in the state, including Mangaluru. The sleuths inspected property documents at the houses and offices of five officials accused of corruption.
The ACB conducted the raids at Bengaluru, Chintamani, Mysuru, Hunasuru, Udupi, Davangere, Chikkamagaluru, Mangaluru and Karwar.
The raids were carried out on Mangaluru's Reader of Government College of Teacher Education D. Manjunath, Davanagere's Deputy Director of Department of Agriculture Hansveni, Bengaluru's Additional Controller of Co-operative Societies R. Shridhar, Bengaluru's Assistant Director of Urban Planning Beesetappa, and Mysuru MUDA's Junior Engineer K. Mani.
The ACB, who gathered the authentic information that these officials are possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income, have filed a disproportinate assets case against them. In addition to this, the ACB sleuths began searching in 17 locations related to them.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
