Many questions linger over BBMP Deputy Mayor’s death
Bengaluru, Oct 06: Many doubts have arisen over the death of Ramila Umashankar(44), who died on Friday after getting elected as the deputy mayor of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) a few days ago, reports the Newindianexpress.com.
The hospital, where Ramila was taken after she complained of breathlessness, has reportedly claimed that she was ‘brought dead.’ But, doctors were unable to establish the cause of death though she was there for a few hours, said the report.
However, another doctor who was not associated with that hospital certified it as a natural death due to cardiac arrest.
The New Indian Express has also reported that Ramila, the first-time councillor from Kaveripura ward in Govindaraja Nagar assembly constituency, was initially taken to a nearby hospital at around 12.50 am where the hospital authorities said she was ‘brought dead.’
The report also mentioned that the hospital was unable to certify the death as being caused due to cardiac arrest while informing the Basaveshwara Nagar police about the deputy mayor’s death. It also said no post-mortem was conducted to establish the cause of death. The certification of the cause of death was, instead, issued by a different doctor known to the family.
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Chhattisgarh coal levy scam: Rs 4 crore assets of suspended IAS officer attached
Raipur (PTI): The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has attached properties of Rs 4 crore belonging to suspended IAS officer Sameer Vishnoi, an accused in a coal levy scam, for allegedly amassing assets beyond his known sources of income, officials said.
The EOW had registered a disproportionate assets case against Vishnoi in July 2024, an official release said on Saturday.
During the investigation, the agency identified nine immovable properties, valued at around Rs 4 crore, allegedly acquired through illicit means in the names of Vishnoi’s family members and associated firms, it said.
“An application seeking attachment of these properties was filed before the Special Court under the Prevention of Corruption Act in Raipur. Following a hearing on April 17, the court ordered attachment of all such properties,” the statement said.
Accordingly, the Anti-Corruption Bureau/Economic Offences Wing attached the properties. The attached properties cannot be sold or transferred, it said.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had earlier provisionally attached five immovable properties linked to Vishnoi in connection with the coal levy scam, it added.
Proceedings are also underway in cases involving other public servants, including action taken in September last year against properties linked to Saumya Chaurasia, who was deputy secretary in the chief minister’s office during the Congress government, the statement said.
Vishnoi, a 2009-batch Indian Administrative Service officer, was first arrested in 2022 by the ED in connection with the alleged coal levy scam. He was among several accused who were granted bail last year by the Supreme Court.
The case refers to an alleged Rs 540 crore racket between July 2020 and June 2022, when an illegal levy of Rs 25 per tonne was being extorted by a cartel involving senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen for every tonne of coal transported in the state.
