Two sons stab father to death after quarrel over minor issue in Belthangady
Belthangady: In a disturbing turn of events, two sons stabbed their father to death over minor and petty reasons in the wee hours on Monday here at Karaya village in Belthangady.
The deceased has been identified as Dharnappa Poojary (65) a local resident. The accused sons have been identified as Monappa and Naveen. Both of them have been arrested by Uppinangady Police.
According to the reports, Dharnappa used to sell coconuts and tender coconuts grown at trees at home, and his sons would have quarrels with him frequently over the issue.
On Sunday late night, the sons and the father quarreled over the same issue after which Naveen and Monappa injured their father critically by stabbing him with knives. Dharnappa succumbed to his injuries on the spot, the police said.
A case has been registered at Uppinangady Police Station and further investigations are underway.
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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.
