Youth in Dakshina Kannada dies of coronavirus; eighth death in district
Mangaluru: A 26-year-old youth, who was suffering from kidney problem, has died of Covid-19. This is the eighth case of Covid-19 deaths in the district.
The youth had come to Mangaluru from Mumbai recently and had been placed under quarantine of the district administration on May 28 and 29.
He had been suffering from kidney disorder for a long time. The authorities had kept him in home quarantine till June 10 since he was under special category.
On the night of June 12, the patient developed health disorder. He was being taken to a private hospital in the city, but died on the way. His throat swab was collected for a test. The medical officer has confirmed that the patient was infected with coronavirus.
Sources have said that the district administration instructed the youth to take Allopathy treatment, but the youth preferred to be treated by a Ayurvedic doctor. He had been aware that he suffered from kidney problem while in Mumbai and had returned to Mangaluru for treatment under an Ayurvedic doctor, the sources said.
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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.
