8 IAS officers transferred
Bengaluru, June 27: For administrative purpose, the state government has transferred eight IAS officers.
Additional Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister MD Lakshminarayana was transferred as Additional Chief Secretary of Social Welfare Department, while Revenue Department Principal Secretary Dr EV Ramana Reddy was transferred as Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister besides, entrusting the incharge of Revenue department principal secretary position.
Housing department Principal Secretary Kapil Mohan was transferred as General Director of Administrative Training Institute of Mysuru, while Tourism Department Secretary TK Anil Kumar was transferred as Secretary to the Housing Department.
Excise department Commissioner Mounish Moudgil was appointed as Commissioner of Survey and Land Records Department of Bengaluru, Chief Minister’s Additional Secretary BS Shekarappa was appointed as CADA director. BBMP Special Commissioner (Projects) BM Vijay Bhaskar was appointed as Bengaluru Urban Deputy Commissioner, while BBMP Joint Commissioner (South Zone) Nitesh Patil was appointed as Additional Commissioner of Commercial Tax Department. In the same way, BBMP Additional Commissioner (Administration) Nalin Atul was appointed as State Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation (KUIDFC) Joint Managing Director.
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Three company directors held in Rs 100-crore investment fraud in Kochi
Kochi (Kerala) (PTI): Police on Sunday arrested three directors of a firm accused of cheating hundreds of investors of over Rs 100 crore through a fake investment scheme linked to agricultural tourism here, officials said.
The accused were identified as Muraleedharan, Ashik Murali and Akhil Murali, all natives of Thrissur.
The arrests were made by the Kalamassery police in connection with a fraud involving ATCOS (Agri Tourism Cooperative Society), a firm headquartered at Pathadipalam here.
Police said the company had promised high returns by collecting investments from the public in the agricultural tourism sector, but allegedly cheated hundreds of people and fled with the money.
ATCOS was registered under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act and operated 13 branches across various districts in Kerala, besides a branch in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, officials said.
When investors failed to receive their promised returns or the invested amount, complaints were filed with the police.
Officials said around 54 cases have been registered against the firm in 32 police stations across the state, including 29 cases at the Kalamassery police station alone.
Following instructions from Kochi City Police Commissioner K S Mahesh Kumar, a special investigation team was formed under the supervision of Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Shehensha and Thrikkakara ACP Manoj Kumar.
The team traced the accused to an apartment in Amala Nagar in Thrissur, where they had been hiding after secretly renting the flat, officials said.
The bank accounts of the accused have been frozen, and steps have been initiated to trace their assets, officials said.
Police also conducted a raid at the company’s office at Pathadipalam and seized several documents related to the case.
The accused were produced before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Kalamassery, which remanded them to judicial custody and sent them to Kakkanad jail.
Police said they would seek the custody of the accused for further interrogation as the investigation continues.
