Four held for attempting to assault cops
Case against 10 persons including Vittla town panchayat member
Bantwala, July 08: Vittla police on Sunday arrested four persons on charges of obstructing the police from discharging their duty and attempting to assault them.
The arrested are identified as Praveen, Ganesh, Aneesh and Akshath. Based on a complaint by police station employee Prasanna Kumar, the police booked a case against ten members including Vittle town panchayat member Srikrishna and his brother Srihari.
About the incident
When police personnel S Ashok, Prasanna Kumar and Jayanth were on their night duty at around 12.30 am, a team of ten members including Srikrishna were making merry at old bus stand and creating nuisance in an inebriated condition. When the police asked them to leave the place as it was a public place, one among ten persons threatened the police and spit the cigarette smoke on their face. At this time, another person in the group snatched the mobile phone of Ashok who was recording the incident and stopped him from doing his duty. The police said that they even had tried to assault them.
As soon as the police summoned more force from the police station, the accused fled the scene leaving the mobile phone behind. A case was registered at Vittla police station.
One among the accused is town panchayat member backed by BJP. Now, four accused were arrested, said SP Ravikanthe Gowda.
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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.
