Six arrested for assault on cattle transporter in Mangaluru; released on bail
Mangaluru: Six people have been arrested for assaulting a cattle transporter who was taking buffaloes from Jokatte to Kudroli in the city on Sunday.
Preetham (29), Srinath Devadiga (21) and Ashith (24) from Katipalla and Bhavith Shetty (22) and Jayaprashanth (26) from Shakthinagara and Sachin (26) from Surathkal were arrested and released on bail, said Mohammad Sharief, inspector of the Urwa police station, where the case was registered.
Mohammad Haneef, 34, was transporting four buffaloes from his house in Jokatte to the city, when he was stopped on the way, tied to his vehicle and thrashed by Sangh Parivar members.
The police registered a case against Haneef and took him to the hospital for a health checkup and a Covid test. The transporter was also produced before the court and released on bail to prevent spread of coronavirus. He was instructed to appear before court on June 19, said the police.
Haneef has said that he had bought 10 buffaloes at the agricultural market in Ranebennur, Haveri district, on June 13. “I had also taken a certificate on the health of the cattle from the medical officer there. I had already transported six of them and returned to Jokatte at 4 am on Sunday with the remaining four buffaloes in my brother's vehicle. I was traveling to Mangaluru at 5 am, when I was attacked,” said Haneef.
“I have produced all the documents of purchase before the police, yet they have registered a case against me,” he complained.
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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.
