Sangh Parivar activists thrash man while transporting cattle in Mangaluru
Mangaluru: A man who was transporting his buffaloes to a slaughter house was assaulted by members of the Sangh Parivar in the city on Sunday.
The victim has been identified as Abdul Rahman, 34, a resident of Jokatte in the city.
The incident took place on Sunday morning, when Rahman put the four buffaloes he owned in a vehicle and was traveling to the city. The members of the Sangh Parivar intercepted the vehicle near the Infosys office in Urwa, pulled Rahman out of the vehicle, tied him and thrashed him, read the complaint filed by Abdul Rahman.
On learning of the incident, the police arrived at the spot and led Rahman and the animals away. They took Rahman to a hospital and made him undergo a health checkup. The police also got Rahman tested for Corona infection.
Sources said that Rahman would be presented before court. Urwa police have registered a case and counter case.
Trader produces documents related to buffaloes:
Rahman said that he had purchased 10 buffaloes at the agricultural market in Ranebennur in Haveri district. He had already sold six of them and had been taking the remaining four to Kudroli in Mangaluru city on Sunday to sell them, when the incident occurred.
It is learnt that Rahman was not transporting any cow in his vehicle. He has also presented before the police all the documents of purchase of the buffaloes that he had been transporting, the sources added.
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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.
