Chhattisgarh Ranji team captain booked in cheating case
Raipur(PTI): An offence has been registered against the captain of Chhattisgarh's Ranji Trophy team for allegedly getting a job in the office of principal accountant general audit here by submitting bogus documents, police said on Thursday.
The Vidhan Sabha police have registered a case against Harpreet Singh Bhatia (31), a resident of Balod district, for allegedly getting the job of auditor/accountant in the Indian Audit Accounts Department Office of the Principal Accountant General Audit with the help of a bogus marksheet, an official said.
In 2014, the department had invited applications from the cricket cadre for recruitment to the post of auditor/accountant, he said.
After preliminary verification of the attested documents submitted by the cricketer, he was called for field trials and based on his performance, Bhatia was selected in the probable list of candidates, the official said.
The cricketer had submitted a BCom degree certificate from Bundelkhand University Jhansi, and to verify the authenticity of the degree, the department had contacted the university and learnt that no such marksheet had been issued, following which a complaint was lodged with the Vidhan Sabha police station, he said.
A case under sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery) and other relevant provisions of the IPC has been registered in this regard and the matter is being probed, the official said.
Bhatia was the member of the Indian squad in the 2010 ICC Under-19 cricket World Cup and was picked up by the Pune Warriors India in the 2011 Indian Premier League. Later, he was signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2017.
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Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Jammu (PTI): A portion of a small bridge collapsed in the Bantalab area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Friday, trapping at least three to four labourers under the debris, while one injured worker was rescued, official sources said.
Authorities have closed the road link following the collapse of the portion of the bridge.
The incident occurred when labourers were carrying out repair work on a retaining wall near the bridge that was damaged in last year's flash floods, the sources said.
According to the sources, a section of the bridge suddenly gave way, burying workers engaged at the site under the rubble.
Police, Army and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams launched rescue operations to extricate those buried under the debris. They pulled out one injured labourer and shifted him to a hospital, the sources said.
Family members of the labourers present at the site said around six workers engaged at the site at the time of the incident came under the debris when the structure collapsed. The family members said while two of the labourers managed to escape, four got trapped.
The sources said those trapped included the husband of a woman labourer, a mason, an unmarried labourer and a relative of the contractor.
There was no official confirmation on the exact number of persons trapped under the debris till the filing of this report.
The rescue operations are ongoing.
