Udupi: No institutional quarantine for Maha returnees, 14-day home quarantine with homes sealed down
Udupi: Karnataka Health Minister, B Sriramalu on Tuesday said people arriving from Maharashtra will not be sent to institutional quarantine and instead will be sent to 14-day home quarantine with their homes sealed down by the authorities.
The minister also said that those violating the norms and coming out of their houses will face stringent legal actions against them by the administration. He added that the decision will be implemented across the state.
He was speaking at a press conference in the city on Tuesday when he informed about the new decision of the government. He also said the Deputy Commissioner will have complete authority over the District.
“Once the person is sent to quarantine and his home will be locked down, they will not be able to come out, we will deploy police personnel, ASHA workers will also keep vigil over the houses and if the concerned person is seen violating regulations, they will face action” he said adding that if the person stays in apartments, whole building will not be sealed down and only the flat of the particular person will be sealed down.
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
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.
