UP advocate pleading sister's divorce case kidnapped, killed; Brother-in-law arrested
Basti: A 50-year-old advocate, Chandrashekhar Yadav, was allegedly kidnapped, assaulted, and crushed to death using a vehicle in Basti district, police reported on Sunday. Yadav was representing his sister in her divorce case.
According to officials, Yadav was abducted on Saturday while returning home on his bike from a 'Thana Samadhan Diwas' event in Kaptanganj. The accused intercepted him near Narayanpur village in a Scorpio vehicle.
Superintendent of Police Abhinandan stated that the advocate’s estranged brother-in-law, Ranjeet Yadav, and his brother Sandeep Yadav, orchestrated the crime due to a financial dispute in the divorce settlement. After assaulting the advocate, they threw him onto the road in Walterganj and ran over him before fleeing the scene.
Ranjeet Yadav, the primary accused, has been arrested, and efforts are underway to apprehend other suspects. The incident prompted protests by local advocates demanding immediate justice.
In another incident in Basti, Sub-Inspector Hari Narayan Mishra, 57, died, and Head Constable Ram Kumar Dubey sustained injuries after their car collided with a stationary truck on the Harraiya-Babhanan road on January 18. Mishra was travelling to the Pakolia police station when the accident occurred.
Police investigations are ongoing in both cases.
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ED undertakes raids in Jharkhand Ayushman Bharat 'fraud' case
Ranchi, Apr 4 (PTI): The Enforcement Directorate on Friday conducted multi-state searches, including at the premises of the private secretary of former Jharkhand health minister Banna Gupta, as part of a money laundering probe into alleged irregularities in the Centre's Ayushman Bharat scheme, official sources said.
The officials of the federal probe agency raided 21 locations in Jharkhand, Delhi and West Bengal under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the sources said.
Premises linked to Om Prakash Singh, Gupta, apart from that of "key suspects", including consultants and former executives of associated firms, were raided early morning. A security team of central paramilitary personnel accompanied the officials of the federal probe agency.
Locations of officials linked to the Jharkhand State Arogya Society (JSAS), employees and offices of Third-Party Administrators (TPAs) like MD India, Safeway, Medi Assist and their associates were also raided, they said.
There was no immediate response to the ED action by Gupta or his PS.
ED teams raided a house in Mango locality and a nursing home along NH-33 in Jamshedpur city apart from locations in Ashok Nagar and Bariyatu in state capital Ranchi.
In Kolkata, the offices of some "entry operators" or hawala dealers are being raided, the sources said.
The ED, agency sources said, suspects that "proceeds of crime" were generated through systematic "fraud" within the Ayushman Bharat scheme through "manipulation" of hospital empanelment and processing of "fake" claims facilitated by a "nexus" demanding commissions and kickbacks.
Ayushman Bharat is a flagship scheme of the Union government which aims to achieve universal health coverage for citizens.
