Kasaragod: Security guard in Uppala allegedly stabbed over trivial issue, dies in hospital
Kasaragod: A 45-year-old security guard in Uppala town of the district who was allegedly stabbed with a knife late Tuesday night died in a hospital in Mangaluru at around midnight.
The guard, Suresh, was a resident of Payyannur. He was reportedly killed by Sawad, who is a resident of Uppala.
Manjeshwar Police have registered a case and are investigating the incident.
They have said that primary investigation shows that Suresh, who worked as security guard of an apartment in Uppala, had an argument with Sawad over a trivial issue. The argument aggravated into a fight and ended with Sawad stabbing Suresh with a knife at around 10 pm on Tuesday. A seriously injured Suresh was taken to a hospital in Mangaluru immediately, but he succumbed to his injuries at around midnight, the officers added.
The murder accused, Sawad, is absconding and Manjeshwar Police are searching for him.
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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.
