engineer’s property to be confiscated
Indore: A special court here on Friday directed the authorities to confiscate movable and immovable properties worth over Rs 2 crore of a Sub-Engineer of Rural Engineering Services Department, and used them in public interest. Santosh Arya, an engineer, was found to in possession of properties and valuables worth over Rs 2.40 crore, highly disproportionate to his known sources of income. Special Judge Avnindra Kumar Singh ordered forefeiture of the property, Assistant Public Prosecution Officer, Ashish Khare told reporters. This includes 4.25 hectares of agricultural land, five houses, five flats, a plot, bank deposits and gold and silver ornaments. Economic Offences Wing had raided his properties in 2011. After completing the investigations, EOW filed a petition in the court that since Arya had earned these assts through corrupt means, they should be confiscated under the Madhya Pradesh Special Courts Act, 2011.
HC grants bail to jailed IAS woman officer
Jabalpur: In a major relief to jailed woman IAS officer Shashi Karnawat, the Madhya Pradesh High Court granted her conditional bail on Friday, by directing her to deposit Rs 15 lakh of the total fine imposed on her by the lower court and also submit a bond of Rs 2 lakh. The bail petition was filed on the grounds that “she is a woman” and also that she would not misuse it’s provisions, after which she was granted conditional bail. The bail was granted by a division bench of Justice Ajit Singh and Justice B D Rathi, after a plea filed by Karnwat, against whom the Madhya Pradesh government issued suspension orders today, after she was convicted in a corruption case.
On September 27, a Mandla town special court awarded her a five-year sentence and imposed a fine of Rs 50 lakh under the Prevention of Corruption Act as well as other relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), after which she was jailed. The sentence was awarded to her in a stationary purchase scam worth Rs 34 lakh, which occurred between 1999 and 2000, when she was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mandla District Panchayat, after the Madhya Pradesh Economic Offences Wing (EOW) submitted a chargesheet against her.
Shankar to lay stone for Sainik Kalyan Bhavan
Bhopal: Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta will lay foundation stone for constructing a building of Sainik Kalyan Bhavan of Bhopal district here on October 5 at 12 noon. Sainik Kalyan Bhavan building will be constructed at Noor Bagh Camp, Jahangirabad.
Gupta lays foundation stone for CC road
Bhopal: Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta laid the foundation stones for construction of CC road at Nutan Market in Tulsi Nagar and Mangal Bhawan at Baba Ramdev Basti here on Friday. A sum of Rs 4 lakh for Mangal Bhavan and Rs 5 lakh for CC road has been sanctioned from MlA’s fund. Home Minister directed officials concerned to complete the works within time-limit. He informed people about Government’s public welfare schemes. Gupta said that it was the wish of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan that every citizen got 2 square meals daily, house and employment.
National lok Adalats on November 23
Bhopal: As per orders of Madhya Pradesh’s Chief Justice and Patron-in-Chief of State legal Service Authority, Jabalpur, National lok Adalats will be held at district and tehsil levels on November 23. Maximum number of criminal, civil, Electricity Act, labour, motor accident claim, pre-litigation cases, cheque bounce cases under Negotiable Instruments Act, consumer forum, family court, village court, revenue court and other cases will be redressed at the National lok Adalat. Efforts will be made to settle maximum number of pending and pre-litigation cases through mutual consent and agreement at the National lok Adalat.
HUDCO to construct houses for police
Bhopal: Houses will be constructed for constables, head constables under HUDCO’s “Rent-to-Own” scheme. Concerned constables and head constables will become house owners after payment of instalments. Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta informed that Madhya Pradesh Police Housing Corporation will construct houses for constables and head constables after availing loan from HUDCO. Soft loans for 25 years will be provided to constables and head constables for these houses. House rent will be payable separately. After recovery of loan, ownership rights of house will be given to constables and head constables. In the first phase, 1000 houses are planned to be constructed at Indore.
lED screen to be installed
Gwalior: A lED screen would be installed in the meeting of national vice president of Congress to be held on 17 October in Mela Ground so that maximum number of people could see and listen. In addition to that a special attention would be paid to the arrangement of parking, water supply and traffic. The Congress office bearers would ponder over these preparations on Friday.Rahul Gandhi has been provided Z+ security so only senior leaders and selected office bearers would remain near the stage i.e. the Congress office bearers are going to install lED screens. Instruction would also be given to the workers coming from outside. The capacity of Mela Ground is about five lakh and a target of collecting three lacks workers has been kept. A special stage would be prepared for Rahul Gandhi. It would contain all the physical resources to avoid any problem. The stage would be kept under security ring and the place from which Rahul Gandhi would speak would be kept bullet proff. The president of meeting convener committee Prakash Khandelwal said a meeting of preparing a blue print for the meeting of Rahul Gandhi has been organised.