Karnataka: KAS Officers caught red-handed by Lokayukta whilst returning bribe money
Bengaluru: The Lokayukta Police on Wednesday arrested two KAS officers reportedly when they were returning the bribe money that they had taken from an individual for issuing a No Objection Letter (NOC) for land acquisition.
The arrested officers have been identified as Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board’s (KIADB) Special Land Acquisition Officer A.B Vijay Kumar and land surveyor Raghunath.
An individual had reportedly submitted a petition seeking NOC concerning 0.30 cents land of the ancient Duggalamma temple at Laggere. However, the KIADB’s Special Land Acquisition Officer A.B Vijay Kumar and land surveyor Raghunath are said to have received a bribe of 2.50 lakhs to provide the NOC. They received the bribe and later provided the NOC.
Following this, the petitioner complained to the KIADB Deputy Commissioner, it is learned.
While the senior officers were just preparing to begin an investigation into the matter, it is said that the KAS officers who received the bribe contacted the complainant/petitioner and requested that the complaint be withdrawn.
The accused officers were in the process of returning the 2.50 lakhs of bribe money in addition to an extra 50 thousand to salvage the situation, making a total of 3 lakh rupees when the Lokayukta police arrested both the officer, the Lokayukta press release detailed.
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Sharad Pawar praised RSS after seeing how it burst fake narrative balloon of LS polls: Fadnavis
Nagpur, Jan 10: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar praised the RSS after realising how the outfit managed to overcome the fake narrative spread by the opposition in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The opposition had claimed BJP wanted to win 400 seats to change the Constitution and end reservations, a narrative which BJP leaders later claimed hit the party hard.
On Pawar praising the RSS recently, the CM said the MVA was successful in creating a fake narrative during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
"When assembly polls were approaching, many people from diverse fields who are inspired by the RSS played their role and burst the balloon of this fake narrative. Sharad Pawar saheb is very intelligent. He would have certainly studied this aspect. He realised that this (RSS) is not a regular political power but a nationalist power. In any competition it is good to praise others," he added.
That is why Pawar may have praised the RSS, Fadnavis said.
Speaking at an interaction with senior editor Vivek Ghalsasi at Late Vilasji Fadnis Jivhala programme here, Fadnavis also said he had asked for organisational work when Eknath Shinde was made chief minister in June 2022, but senior leaders asked him to join the government.
He also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked him not to behave like an extra-constitutional authority in the government.
He said the decision to become deputy chief minister on the command of the party leadership earned him a lot of praise from the cadre.
After the massive mandate the ruling alliance received in the 2024 assembly polls, Fadnavis said people and party workers would not have been happy if the CM was not from the BJP.
Shinde himself agreed within minutes that the CM must be from the BJP, which itself got 132 seats and was close to a majority of its own in the 288-member assembly, he added.
On Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray meeting him during the winter sessions of the legislature in Nagpur, Fadnavis said he had announced he would not indulge in politics of revenge after becoming CM and all leaders responded positively to it.
On chances of the NCP (SP) and NCP coming closer or reuniting, Fadnavis said, "If you see the developments that took place from 2019 to 2024, I realised never say never and anything can happen. Uddhav Thackeray goes to some other party and Ajit Pawar comes to us. In politics anything can happen though I am not saying this should happen."
He praised BJP leader Arun Gujarati from whom he learnt patience, which he claimed was an important quality in politics along with the ability to take criticism.
In a lighter vein, he said, "I only get angry when I am hungry. If you see me angry then give me something to eat and my anger will go away."
