Rs 500 cr paddy diversion scam unearthed in T, 50 rice mills under lens Hyderabad: A statewide crackdown by the vigilance and enforcement (V&E) department has uncovered the alleged diversion of govt-procured paddy worth nearly ₹500 crore by rice millers, triggering criminal action and a large-scale recovery drive.Investigators say thousands of tonnes of paddy entrusted…
Chennai: Courts exercising their discretion to enhance interest on belated pension settlements will open a Pandora’s Box as many pensioners would line up to claim higher interest and cause loss to the state exchequer, said the Madras high court.“ The rule 45A of the Tamil Nadu Pension Rules, 1978, in clear terms stipulates that a…
Bhubaneswar: Nearly a month after school education department stumbled upon 1,678 errors in textbooks for classes 1 to VIII, the crime branch on Tuesday took into custody Manoj Kumar Padhy (57), former director of Teacher Education & State Council of Educational Research and Training (TE & SCERT), the first such arrest in the case that…
Patna: Amid the ongoing interrogation of alleged tender scam accused Rishu Shri, the Special Vigilance Unit (SVU) on Friday carried out searches at multiple locations in Patna, including the residences of suspended IAS officers Yogesh Kumar Sagar and Abhilasha Kumari Sharma, as well as the premises of a private contractor linked to the case.The action…
Kolkata: Abhijit Das, known as Bobby, who had contested the Lok Sabha polls from Diamond Harbour against Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has lodged a fresh FIR alleging that senior Trinamool functionaries had run an illegal soil excavation and smuggling racket worth over Rs 300 crore in the Bishnupur-Bakrahat region.The complaint, filed late on…
Jaipur: Three employees of a private diagnostic laboratory were arrested Friday in connection with the Rajasthan Govt Health Scheme (RGHS) scam being investigated by the Special Operations Group (SOG), which alleges that fake consultations, fabricated diagnostic tests and fraudulent claims caused losses worth crores of rupees to the state exchequer.Additional director general of police (SOG)…
Jaipur: A special court dealing with Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) cases Monday rejected the bail application of former Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) of Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Subodh Agarwal, in connection with the alleged multi-crore Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) tender scam. The court observed that the allegations against the accused were serious and involved alleged…
JAIPUR: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has alleged that tenders worth more than Rs 979 crore under the Jal Jeevan Mission were secured using forged documents and fabricated work-completion certificates, according to a chargesheet filed on Thursday against retired IAS officer and former additional chief secretary of the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Subodh Agrawal.The 17,500-page…
Haveri: Karnataka govt has uncovered widespread irregularities and inflated costing in development projects worth nearly Rs 600 crore under the department of minority welfare, Haj, and Wakf, triggering an administrative shake-up over the alleged assignment of a key technical oversight role to an unqualified official.The discrepancies surfaced during the review of detailed project reports (DPRs)…
