Agumbe ghat is open for movement of mini lorries
Order from Shivamogga district administration
Shivamogga, November 18: The district administration has relaxed the restriction imposed on the movement of heavy goods vehicles on Agumbe ghat road in Thirthahalli taluk and allowed the mini lorries to ply on the road.
Deputy Commissioner K.A. Dayanand issued an order to this effect. As a result, the mini lorries were plying on the ghat section from Sunday morning. Mini Lorry Owners Association welcomed the decision of the district administration.
Memorandum submitted
After allowing the lorries in Charmadi Ghats, there was a demand for the movement of lorries on Agumbe Ghat section. Recently, the Lorry Owners Association has submitted a memorandum to the district administration and it was also decided to stage a protest on the Agumbe ghat road on Monday. As the district administration allowed the mini lorries on the road, the association has called off the proposed protest.
Movement suspended
Agumbe region has received heavy rains in this season due to which, landslides occurred on either side of the road. in the last week July, the district administration banned the movement of heavy vehicles and trucks except the buses and passenger vehicles. Since the rain receded in the region, the Mini Lorry Owners and Drivers Association demanded the district administration to allow the movement of mini lorries on the road. Based on this, the deputy commissioner has asked the opinion of National Highway Authority, Shivamogga RTO regional commissioner and Sringeri assistant commissioner of RTO.
As the retention walls were constructed on the places where the landslides occurred and the rains receded, the authorities have given the report to the district administration to allow the vehicles of 4 tonne capacity. Based on the report, the Deputy Commissioner allowed the movement of the mini lorries.
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ED gets MHA sanction to prosecute Arvind Kejriwal in excise policy case
New Delhi (PTI): The Union Home Ministry has granted sanction to the Enforcement Directorate to prosecute former Delhi chief minister and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy linked money laundering case, officials said.
The federal agency has filed a chargesheet against the 56-year-old politician before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court here last year after arresting him in March.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has recently granted the required sanction to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for prosecuting Kejriwal under the anti-money laundering law in the Delhi excise policy case, officials said.
The development comes ahead of the Delhi Assembly on February 5.
Kejriwal has been made made an accused in his personal capacity as well as in the capacity of being the national convenor of his political party AAP.
The former chief minister was called the "kingpin and key conspirator" of the Delhi excise "scam" by the ED.
It was alleged that he acted in collusion with Delhi government minister, the AAP leaders and others.
The ED had earlier claimed that AAP, being a political party, is defined as an association or a body of individual citizens of India under the Representation of the People Act and hence it can be categorised as a "company" as contemplated under Section 70 of the PMLA.
As Kejriwal was "in-charge of and responsible" for the said company i.e. AAP during the time of offence, he and his party "shall be deemed guilty" of offences mentioned under the anti-money laundering law and liable to be prosecuted and punished, it had said.
The excise case pertains to alleged corruption and money laundering in formulating and executing the Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22, which was later scrapped.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena had recommended a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities. Subsequently, the ED registered a case under the PMLA.
Taking cognisance of a CBI FIR lodged on August 17, 2022, the ED filed its money laundering case on August 22, 2022 to probe the alleged irregularities.
