Monsoon takes first life in Dakshina Kannada; 52-year old man dies as compound wall collapses
Mangaluru: The compound wall of a house in the city collapsed due to heavy rainfall on Friday, causing the death of a resident here.
Narayana Nayak (52), died as a result of the wall collapsed on Friday evening at Mathadagudde in Gurupura on the outskirts of the city.
The heavy rain on Friday forced Nayak to dig a trench for the rainwater to flow out of his compound. He was busy at this work at 1.30 pm, when the laterite stone wall, which had been drenched in the rain, collapsed on Nayak.
Bleeding heavily, he was rushed and admitted to the hospital but was declared dead on arrival.
Nayak, who was a private bus transport agent, had got the house constructed recently. He was residing there with his wife and two children. Well-known artiste V J Madhuraj is his son.
House damaged
A part of a house in Alive, Mangaluru Bengre, was damaged late Thursday night when a coconut tree fell on it.
The house belonged to Sharada Angara Mendon.
The authorities have visited the area and inspected the damage to take further action.
The Meteorological Department has given a forecast of four days of heavy rainfall in Dakshina Kannada till June 14.
On Friday, it rained heavily all over the district, as had been forecasted.
From Thursday morning to Friday morning, the district received an average of 26.1 mm rain, with Bantwal taluk getting 26.3 mm rain, Belthangady taluk 17.9 mm, Mangaluru taluk 30.3 mm, Puttur taluk 31.3 mm and Sullia taluk getting 24.6 mm rain.
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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.
