Mangaluru: Naushad Kashimji murder probe handed over to CCB
Mangaluru: Eleven years after the murder of noted Criminal Lawyer of the city, Naushad Kashimji, the investigation of the case has now been handed over to Bengaluru CCB. A team of CCB sleuths from Bengaluru has reportedly arrived in the city in this backdrop.
Hailing from Bhatkal, Naushad Kashimji was shot dead in the basement of his apartment in April 2009. The investigation into the case had revealed that underworld don Ravi Pujari had threatened Naushad for life days before his murder.
Ravi Pujari who was arrested earlier last year is now under the custody of Bengaluru CCB and reports added that the case was handed over to the CCB to investigate his role in the murder case.
Naushad was pleading in court for Abdul Rasheed Hassan aka Rasheed Malabari and it is said that Ravi Poojary had plotted Naushad’s murder in connection with this case.
Reports added that the CCB team had taken over the case and has begun the investigation of the case.
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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.
