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3 held for extorting money from bank employee

Bhopal: Three persons including two women were nabbed by Habibganj police for extorting money from a 58-year-old bank employee threatening of making his video public; accused were nabbed at Janta Quarters where they came to collect money. According to the police, the victim Shivprasad Saini was threatened by his domestic help laxmi Bai and her accomplices Santosh Bai and Chandas Das to make his video public which the accused took when the victim was in an inebriated State. Chandas took a video of the victim with laxmi Bai and later tried to blackmail him. The accused took his mobile phone and Rs 10,000 cash and demanded more to keep the secret. The victim told that he would provide money on Saturday and later informed his son and when the accused came along with Chetan, five person caught them and handed over to the police. Police have also booked the victim, Abhay, Ganesh, Hitesh and Praveen for beating the three accused.

pickpocket mails wallet to its owner from delhi

Hoshangabad: Moved after seeing a picture of a mother in a wallet he had stolen, a pickpocketer in Delhi sent the wallet back to its owner in Madhya Pradesh — albeit without the money. Mohammed Aslam, a local resident, was astonished when a courier delivered him his lost wallet a few days ago. The wallet was picked in Matkewali Gali on July 25 when Aslam was visiting Delhi for his wife's treatment. He reported the theft to the Sadar Bazar police. It contained Rs 1,200, a PAN card, driving license, Aadhar card and some other important documents. "I received the wallet through a courier last week. The pickpocket returned everything except Rs 1,200. He also sent a slip with his phone number on it," he said. "When I called the number, the person on the other side said he kept Rs 1,200 as he was in need of money, but returned everything else. When asked why he returned the wallet, he said he was moved by the picture of my mother I had kept in the wallet," Aslam said. "The pickpocket told me he also loves his mother and felt Rs your (Aslam's) mother must be loving you a lot,” Aslam told reporters.

gupta digs pit for toilet on Pm’s birthday

Bhopal: On the occasion of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Birthday, Minister for Revenue, Science and Technology Umashankar Gupta dug pit for construction of toilet at the residence of Kamal Singh Uikey, a resident of Sewania Goun ward 26. There was no toilet at the residence of Uikey as he was not in possession of land for toilet construction. land has been given by the corporator Santosh Singh Uikey for toilet construction. Gupta said that community toilets will be constructed for people where toilets could not be constructed in their houses. He mentioned that everyone must use toilets. A total of 1,164 toilets have been constructed in Sewania Goun. An amount of Rs 13,600 has been sanctioned for each toilet.

3 sdm’s vacant post worries indore dist admin

Indore: The Indore district administration is facing problems with the vacancy of three Sub Divisional Magistrates (SDMs) against 11 posts. In absence of three officials, the officers of adjoining areas are forced to look after the works in the jurisdiction of vacant positions. The SDM posting points of Indore district are Central Kotwali, Sanyogitaganj, Juni Indore, Malaharganj, Rau, Khudail, Vijaynagar, Mhow, Sanwer, Depalpur and Hatod. Recently chief secretary Basant Pratap Singh has also reviewed the administration going on in 8 districts of Indore division and in which he suspended three SDMs of State Administrative Service (SAS) of Indore district for poor administration and since then, these positions are lying vacant. 

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