ACB conducts State-wide Raids in 28 places on Tuesday: Homes, Offices of 9 Officers under scrutiny
Bengaluru: In a series of raids that began on Tuesday morning, under the supervision of Range SPs, ACB conducted a state-wide crackdown related to possession of disproportionate assets in 28 places against 9 officers in 11 districts by several teams of ACB officers and staff.
In the raid that began early Tuesday morning, ACB revealed that they were investigating the legality of the paperwork recovered from the homes and offices of the accused officers.
The raids were carried out at Bengaluru, Mysuru, Davangere, Belagavi, Chikkaballapura, Yadagiri, Kolar, Udupi, Mandya, Karwar, and Kanakpur.
List of Officers under Scrutiny
1. Team of officers and staff headed by SP. Central range, IPS Kala Krishnamurthy conducted the raid against Krishnegowda, Project Director at Nirmitikendra in Chikkaballapur. The AGO'S house in Kolar taluk and Chikkaballapur, AGO'S office in Chikkaballapur, and AGO'S brother's house in Kolar taluk are being investigated.
2. Team of officers and staff headed by SP. Northern range, KSPS. Nemagowda carried a search against the Deputy Chief electrical inspector Hanamantha Shivappa Chikkannanavara of Belagavi circle. His flat at Channammanagar, Angola, Belagavi, his office at Belagavi circle, and his native place in Golambhavi village, Jamakhandi taluk, another flat in Shanthinatha Homes apartment, Kitturrani Chennammanagar at Belagavi was targeted by the ACB.
3. Team of officers and staff headed by SP. The southern range, KSPS. Bopaiah conducted the raid against Subramanya K Vaddar, the Joint director for the town and country planning at Mysore. His residence at Udupi, his mother's house at Karwar town, along with his rented house at Mysuru and office are under the ACB scrutiny.
4. Team of officers and staff headed by SP. The southern range, IPS. Arunangshu Giri carried a search against CHESCOM’s superintendent Engineer, Munigopal Raju. The superintendent engineer’s CHESCOM office in Kuvempunagar, Mysuru, his residence at Gokulum Mysuru, and his native place at Kanakpur town in Ramnagar are being searched by the ACB.
5. Team of officers and staff headed by SP. The southern range, IPS. Arunangshu Giri conducted the raid against Channaveerappa, FDA in the RTO office, Mysore south, Lakshmipurum. His residence at Kuvempunagar, native place at Halakere village in Mandya, and his RTO office at Lakshmipurum, Mysuru are being searched by the ACB.
6. Team of officers and staff headed by SP. North Eastern range, KSPS. Mahesh Meghannanavar conducted the raid against Raju Pattar, GESCOM’s Account officer at Yadagiri. His residence and office at Yadagiri are being searched.
7. Team of officers and staff headed by SP. Bengaluru City Division, IPS. Kuldeep Kumar R. Jain conducted the raid against BMTF Police Inspector Victor Simon and searched his residence at Kasavanahalli Bengaluru, while his father’s and father-in-law’s houses at Mysuru and BMTF office at Bengaluru were also included in the search.
8. Headed by SP. Bengaluru City Division, IPS. Kuldeep Kumar R. Jain, ACB conducted a raid against, Junior Engineer K Subramanyam, who is the Asst. Director at the BBMP’s Town Planning Office, for the Yelahanka Zone at Bengaluru City. His residence at Sahakaranagara and Town Planning office at Yelahanka, Bengaluru are under scrutiny.
9. Team of officers and staff headed by SP. Eastern Range, KSPS. Jaiprakash conducted a raid against Factories and Boilers’ Deputy Director K M Pratham of the Davangere Division. His Bengaluru residence at Nagashetti Halli, his brother's house at Sanjay Nagar, and office at Davangere are under the scrutiny of the ACB.
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Ruckus outside counting centre in Mamata's constituency, TMC claims entry of car with BJP flag
Kolkata (PTI): The counting centre at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Bhabanipur assembly constituency witnessed a ruckus a day ahead of the counting of votes, with TMC workers alleging two cars bearing the BJP's flag were allowed entry to the compound where EVMs are kept.
The incident comes close on the heels of a four-hour-long sit-in by Banerjee in front of the same counting centre at the Sakhawat Memorial Girls School on Thursday night, alleging unauthorised entry of persons into the strongroom.
With the polling now over, the wrangling for power in West Bengal has turned into a battle of nerves between the incumbent TMC and the BJP. Workers and leaders of both parties have been keeping a steely gaze on the security of strongrooms across the state where the electoral fate of the candidates is sealed.
Despite expressing her confidence in a "landslide victory", Banerjee has repeatedly aired her apprehensions of "counting malpractice and EVM tampering ahead of the day of results".
On Sunday morning, TMC workers camping 100 metres from the counting centre alleged that two cars with BJP flags entered the premises and went near the strongroom.
"The CAPF personnel at the spot are not allowing any vehicle or person to enter the premises of the counting centre without valid identity proof. Then how come this car, which we have not seen in the past few days, was allowed entry? Once we protested, the central forces asked us to move 100 metres away," a TMC activist said.
The TMC claimed that while the police personnel posted there promised the vehicle would be removed from the spot, it remained there for some time.
A senior Election Commission official said the car was passing by the Harish Mukherjee Road, and after checking by security forces and police, it was allowed to leave as nothing objectionable was found in it.
On Thursday night, two counting centres, including one at Sakhawat Memorial Girls School in the city, witnessed high drama after TMC leaders alleged a lack of transparency and possible malpractice at the strongrooms housing sealed EVMs of the assembly polls, which concluded on April 29.
TMC leaders and candidates, Sashi Panja and Kunal Ghosh, held a sit-in outside the Khudiram Anushilan Kendra counting centre on Thursday evening, alleging unauthorised activities inside the strongroom amid the absence of TMC agents
In Howrah, TMC protested renovation work by the public works department at a place adjacent to the strongroom, and the EC stopped the work temporarily.
On Saturday, the ruling party filed a complaint with the poll panel, alleging unauthorised sorting of postal ballot covers at the EVM strongroom in Khudiram Anushilan Kendra.
Similar scenes were witnessed on Saturday outside the strongrooms at Asansol College in Paschim Bardhaman and the Barasat Government College in North 24 Parganas districts, where TMC workers held protests, alleging that CCTV cameras were switched off for several minutes.
The EC turned down all allegations, saying the surveillance cameras were working in an uninterrupted manner.
BJP spokesperson Sajal Ghosh told reporters that the people of Bengal were finding it "hilarious" that the TMC, "which used to win elections through unfair means and strongarm tactics" were now coming up with all sorts of "frivolous charges".
"Are they scared of losing?" he posed.
