Dubai: Former South Africa skipper and RCB batsman AB de Villiers on Thursday reacted to Virat Kohli’s century knock against Afghanistan at Dubai stadium.

Taking to Twitter after Kohli scored his first century in almost three years, Ab de Villiers who is known to be one of the closest friend of Virat Kohli, said he knew something was brewing when he spoke to Kohli yesterday.

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“When I spoke to him yesterday I knew something was brewing. Well played my friend.” AB tweeted.

AB and Virat Kohli played together for the RCB in IPL for several years before AB pulled out of the IPL and retired from all forms of cricket ahead of IPL 2022.

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Ballia (UP) (PTI): Police registered separate cases against a village development officer and an assistant accountant for showing an elderly dead and disposing of a file related to documents of staff, respectively, an official said on Thursday.

In the first case, an FIR has been lodged at Bhimpura police station against the then village development officer (secretary), Savita, on charges of falsely showing an elderly man as dead during a verification, leading to the stoppage of his old-age pension.

According to police, a case was registered on Wednesday, based on the complaint of Assistant Development Officer Siyar block, Manoj Kumar Singh, under Section 198 (public servant disobeying law with intent to cause injury to any person) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

The complainant alleged that Umashankar, a resident of Govindpur Dubauli village, was shown dead despite being alive, resulting in the discontinuation of his pension.

District Magistrate Mangala Prasad Singh ordered the registration of a case against the verification officer, police said.

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Police are probing the matter, Rasra Circle Officer Alok Gupta said.

In a separate incident, an FIR has been registered at Ballia city Kotwali against Manish Kumar Ojha, assistant accountant at Kasturba Gandhi Residential Girls’ School, Belhari, under Section 316(4) (criminal breach of trust) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

The case was registered based on the complaint of the District Basic Education Officer Manish Kumar Singh, police said.

According to the complainant, the assistant accountant had allegedly made files related to discrepancies in PAN cards of some teachers and staff working in government-run council schools in the district go missing.

Police officials said investigations are underway in both cases.