Gadag police raid illegal money lenders, seize cash and documents
Gadag (Karnataka), Feb 9 (PTI): The Gadag police on Sunday raided many houses and other places based on complaints about the illegal money lending business and pestering people for not paying the principal and interest.
A police officer said that they have been receiving complaints about some individuals pestering people by charging excessive interest on the loan they provided to them illegally.
"Today we formed teams and raided at 12 places in the morning. We seized unaccounted cash, blank cheques and bonds and register. Accordingly, we are taking legal action against them. We have also taken action against those who were threatening the borrowers to recover money. A detailed verification is on," the officer told reporters.
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He said Rs 26.57 lakh was recovered from a money lender, Sangamesh Doddannavar, along with blank cheques and bonds and registers.
Action was taken against money lenders Yuvaraj Yellappa Karavur, Ravi Kauchageri and Manjunath from whom cash, blank cheques, bonds, register and bank passbooks were found, the officer said.
A similar action was taken by the Uttara Kannada police. They booked 39 people in nine cases of torture by the staff of the micro-finance companies. Maximum arrests were made in Mundagod town in connection with the case.
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Bangladesh court sentences Sheikh Hasina to 10 years in jail in corruption cases
Dhaka (PTI): A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 10 years in jail in two separate corruption cases related to alleged irregularities in allocations of land in a government housing project.
Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-4 Judge Rabiul Alam handed down the verdicts, sentencing Hasina to a total of 10 years’ imprisonment — five years in each case, state-run BSS news agency reported.
The court sentenced 78-year-old Hasina, her nephew Radwan Mujib Siddiq, and her nieces, Tulip Rizwana Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq, and others in the cases over alleged irregularities in the allocation of plots under the Rajuk New Town Project in Purbachol.
The judgment was pronounced at around 12.30 pm.
Tulip Siddiq was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment — two years in each case — while Radwan Mujib Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq were each sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment in both cases.
Rajuk member Mohammad Khurshid Alam, the only accused to surrender before the court, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in each case, totalling two years.
The court also fined all convicted persons Tk1 lakh each and ordered them to serve an additional six months in prison in default of payment.
Hasina has been living in India since she fled Bangladesh on August 5 last year in the face of the massive protests. She was earlier declared a fugitive by the court.
The cases were filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over alleged abuse of power in the allocation of two 10-katha plots.
According to the prosecution, the accused manipulated the allocation process and violated existing rules and regulations of the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk).
