PBKS captain Shreyas Iyer fined Rs 12 lakh for slow over-rate against CSK
Chennai, May 1 (PTI): Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer has been fined Rs12 lakh for maintaining a slow-over rate during his team's win over Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League here.
"As this was his team’s first offence of the season under Article 2.22 of the IPL Code of Conduct, which pertains to minimum over-rate offences, Shreyas Iyer was fined Rs 12 Lakh," an IPL media advisory stated on Thursday.
Iyer and Prabhsimran Singh scored fluent fifties after Yuzvendra Chahal's hat-trick as Punjab Kings defeated Chennai Super Kings by four wickets to eliminate the five-time champions from the play-off race here on Wednesday.
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IRS officer booked in rape case in Odisha
Bhubaneswar (PTI): An Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer was booked in Bhubaneswar for allegedly raping a woman, police said on Sunday.
The case was lodged under BNS Section 64 on the basis of a complaint filed at the Saheednagar police station of the city, they said.
The alleged incident took place on January 15 at the officer's official residence in the city, where the woman had gone along with a friend, they added.
The FIR was registered on February 20 after a preliminary inquiry established prima facie evidence, officials said.
The woman, who is married, alleged that the accused officer had threatened to circulate her intimate photographs on social media.
Police Commissioner S Dev Datta Singh said an investigation is underway.
