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  • Rajasthan Meeting’s Funds consultation starts, BJP calls for CBI probe into REET paper leak

    Via PTI

    JAIPUR: The Funds consultation of the Rajasthan Meeting started on Wednesday with Governor Kalraj Mishra highlighting the state executive’s achievements in his deal with within the Space and the opposition BJP hard a CBI probe into the REET paper leak scandal.

    In spite of the governor asking them to sit down down, the BJP contributors, who wore black bands on their fingers, stored status of their puts as a mark of protest. 3 Rashtriya Loktantrik Celebration (RLP) MLAs additionally entered the neatly of the Space over the REET paper leak factor and staged a walkout.

    On the other hand, there was once no disruption and the governor finished his deal with in just about an hour. Mishra lauded the state executive for its control of the COVID-19 pandemic and mentioned it had emerged as a “position type”.

    Right through the pandemic, 33 lakh deficient households got monetary help of Rs 5,500 each and every with general spending of Rs 1,815 crore, he mentioned. He added that the state additionally advanced the capability to habits 1.45 lakh RT-PCR assessments and the well being infrastructure was once reinforced.

    The governor mentioned the state executive waived farmers’ loans value Rs 8,181 crore from cooperative banks. With the exception of this, the federal government settled an excellent cost of Rs 6,000 crore of the former executive.

    With this, the federal government has waived farmers’ loans value greater than Rs 14,000 crore in all. At the state executive’s ‘I Am Shakti Yojana’ to distribute unfastened sanitary napkins to ladies, Mishra mentioned it’s the starting of a metamorphosis.

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    Previous, there was once hesitation in society in speaking about menstruation and menstrual hygiene, which led to ladies contracting severe illnesses. Now, with this scheme, ladies will do away with such issues, he mentioned.

    Because of the obligatory registration of FIRs within the state, Mishra mentioned, ladies and the weaker sections were inspired to return ahead to check in police court cases.

    In 2017, just about 33.4 in keeping with cent of rape circumstances have been registered thru courts. This has now come right down to 16 in keeping with cent, he mentioned. In a similar fashion, the common time for the investigation of rape circumstances has come down from 274 in 2017-18 to 79 days now, he added.

    The governor highlighted quite a lot of different executive schemes and programmes like ‘Mukhya Mantri Chiranjeevi Swasthya Bima Yojana’ and transgender welfare fund, and so forth.

    The Space reassembled after Mishra left. Newly elected Congress MLAs Preeti Shaktawat (Vallabhnagar) and Nagraj Meena (Dhariawad) took oath. They received bye-elections in November remaining yr.

    Later, Speaker CP Joshi made obituary references and the Space paid tributes to mythical singer Lata Mangeshkar; nation’s first Leader of Defence Team of workers Normal Bipin Rawat; former Rajya Sabha MP Jamna Devi; former Lok Sabha MPs Gangaram Koli, Shyam Sundar Somani, Brijraj Singh and DN Patodiya; former MLAs Jainarayan Poonia, Mahipal Maderna, Mohan Lal Chauhan, Kamal Ram Koli, Jeetmal Jain, Ramkaran Chaudhary, Heeralal Khant, Goverdhan Singh and Surajmal.

    The Space additionally paid tributes to these killed in a highway coincidence on the Jodhpur-Balotra highway on November 11 remaining yr and within the Guwahati-Bikaner educate coincidence on January 13 this yr. After the obituary references, the Space was once adjourned for the day.

  • Two Union secretaries would possibly quickly be repatriated to UP over position in Rs 2,268 crore PF rip-off

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    The Union energy secretary Alok Kumar and agriculture secretary Sanjay Agarwal would possibly quickly be repatriated to their cadre state Uttar Pradesh the place the CBI has sought sanction to analyze them in a Rs 2,268 crore PF rip-off.

    Resources stated that the order for his or her repatriation would possibly come “any time” because the Union govt does now not need to face the embarrassment of getting its best officials investigated for corruption. The federal government, due to this fact, desires to shift the motion to the state.

    The CBI has sought the sanction to probe the 2 officials in a case in the case of illegally making an investment the provident fund of Uttar Pradesh Energy Company Ltd (UPPCL) staff in a non-public corporate Dewan Housing Finance Ltd (DHFL), which was once later accused of siphoning off Rs 31,000 crore of financial institution loans thru a internet of shell corporations. The UPPCL invested a complete of Rs 4,122 crore in temporary fastened deposit schemes of DHFL, out of which Rs 1,854 crore was once won on maturation of FDs, however Rs 2,268 crore continues to be now not recovered.

    Mr Sanjay Agarwal was once UPPCL chairman from 2013 to the center of 2017, and a part of the UPPCL staff’ PF cash was once invested in DHFL all through this era. The funding in DHFL was once in violation of presidency tips that expressly stated that PF cash must now not be invested in a monetary establishment that isn’t a scheduled financial institution. Mr Agarwal was once succeeded in UPPCL by way of Mr Alok Kumar, who persisted making an investment in DHFL. Mr Kumar remained on the helm of UPPCL for just about two years.

    The case was once passed over to the CBI by way of the Yogi Adityanath govt in March 2020. Prior to that, the subject was once investigated by way of the industrial offences wing of Uttar Pradesh police. A few dozen other folks, together with former managing director A P Mishra and different best officers, had been arrested up to now.

    But even so Mr Alok Kumar and Mr Sanjay Agarwal, the CBI has sought sanction from the Uttar Pradesh govt to analyze any other IAS officer Aparna U, who’s at the moment serving as secretary within the govt of Uttar Pradesh. Ms Aparna had succeeded Mr Alok Kumar because the MD, UPPCL.

    As in line with contemporary adjustments made by way of the Centre in the usual running process for investigating public servants, the investigating company is needed to first check {that a} case is made out in opposition to a central authority servant earlier than in search of sanction for continuing in opposition to him. The CBI is, due to this fact, satisfied those officials are prima facie concerned within the PF rip-off.

    DHFL promoters Wadhawan brothers – Dheeraj and Kapil – are already in CBI custody within the Sure Financial institution case.

  • CBI adjustments crew probing loss of life of Dhanbad pass judgement on Uttam Anand

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has modified the crew probing the loss of life of Dhanbad pass judgement on Uttam Anand, officers mentioned on Saturday.

    The advance got here after the Jharkhand Prime Court docket not too long ago slammed the company for its “laxity” in probing the homicide, and seen that it appeared that the CBI used to be seeking to surrender the investigation or even give protection to the accused.

    The officers mentioned the crew will now be headed by means of Superintendent of Police (SP) Vikas Kumar, posted at company’s Particular Crime Unit in Delhi.

    He has already taken over from VK Shukla.

    The brand new crew has already reached Dhanbad the place they sought the court docket’s permission to query two accused, Lakhan Verma and Rahul Verma, who’ve been chargesheeted and are being held within the district jail, they mentioned.

    The top court docket had ordered the CBI to provide stories of the narco check carried out at the arrested two accused.

    There’s a better conspiracy and that are supposed to be unearthed, it had mentioned.

    The CBI had filed its fee sheet in October final 12 months in opposition to auto-rickshaw motive force Lakhan Verma and his associate Rahul Verma below IPC sections associated with homicide (302) and destruction of proof (201) but even so not unusual purpose (34), the officers mentioned.

    The central company had saved the probe open within the case, they mentioned.

    The 49-year-old pass judgement on used to be allegedly mowed down by means of the autorickshaw whilst he used to be on morning jog on July 28, 2021 in Dhanbad.

    CCTV digital camera pictures confirmed that Anand used to be jogging on one facet of a moderately broad highway at Randhir Verma Chowk in Dhanbad when the auto-rickshaw veered against him, hit him from at the back of and fled the scene, killing him.

    The case used to be passed over to the CBI by means of the Jharkhand executive.

    The company had taken over two extra FIRs — associated with robbery of cellphones and auto rickshaw used within the crime — from Jharkhand police so as to resolve alleged conspiracy within the homicide of the pass judgement on, they mentioned.

  • ISRO espionage case: SC to listen to CBI’s plea in opposition to anticipatory bail granted to former officers on February 25

    Through ANI

    NEW DELHI: The Ideally suited Court docket has posted for February 25 the listening to of the plea of CBI difficult the Kerala Prime Court docket order granting anticipatory bail to 4 individuals in reference to the 1994 ISRO espionage case in terms of the alleged framing of scientist Nambi Narayanan.

    A Bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and CT Ravikumar adjourned the subject after the investigating company sought 4 weeks’ time to report the affidavit.

    Previous, the apex court docket had issued notices to the accused at the petition of CBI.

    The Kerala Prime Court docket on August 13 final yr had granted anticipatory bail to 4 accused — the previous Gujarat Director-Basic of Police (DGP) RB Sreekumar, two former law enforcement officials of Kerala S Vijayan and Thampi S Durga Dutt, and retired intelligence legit PS Jayaprakash — in reference to the case.Looking for cancellation of anticipatory bail granted them, the CBI had mentioned the grant of anticipatory bail would possibly derail the investigation within the case.

    Further Solicitor Basic AS Raju, showing for CBI, had advised the apex court docket that CBI has present in its probe that some scientists had been tortured and framed within the subject because of which construction of the cryogenic engine used to be hit and this resulted in India’s area programme going again by way of nearly one or 20 years.

    Opposing the bail granted to the accused, Raju had mentioned it is a “very severe subject” and there could also be a bigger conspiracy on the behest of overseas palms which is being investigated.

    The CBI had alleged that there used to be a transparent indication that the accused had been a part of a crew, which had ulterior motives to torpedo the makes an attempt of the Indian House Analysis Organisation (ISRO) for production the cryogenic engine.

    It had registered a case in opposition to 18 individuals for more than a few offences, together with legal conspiracy, in reference to the arrest and detention of former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan, who used to be accused of spying in 1994.

    The case pertains to allegations of switch of positive confidential paperwork on India’s area programme to overseas nations by way of two scientists and 4 others, together with two Maldivian ladies.

    CBI had previous given a blank chit to Narayanan and mentioned that the Kerala police had “fabricated” the case. The investigating company said that the era ex-scientist used to be accused to have stolen and offered within the 1994 case didn’t even exist at the moment after which best police officers in Kerala had been answerable for his unlawful arrest.

    On September 14, 2018, the highest court docket had appointed a three-member committee and directed the Kerala executive to present Rs 50 lakh repayment to Narayanan for compelling him to go through immense humiliation.

    Terming the police motion in opposition to Narayanan as a “psycho-pathological remedy”, the highest court docket had additionally mentioned that his liberty and dignity, fundamental to his human rights, had been jeopardised as he used to be taken into custody and, in the end, regardless of the entire glory of the previous, used to be forced to stand “cynical abhorrence”. (ANI)

  • CBI botches up probe into 1996 cryptography apparatus import case, accused acquitted

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: In a significant embarrassment to the CBI, a distinct court docket has acquitted businessman Harish Gupta who used to be accused of making an attempt to import an encryption gadget from Siemens in Germany in 1995 at the foundation of cast certificates of the Nationwide Safety Guard (NSG), calling it a “botched up probe”.

    In a sequence of terse remarks, the court docket identified that the subject concerned “critical danger to the security and safety of the country” which wanted “deeper investigation”, however apparently that the investigation officer (IO) “didn’t make even a shallow investigation”.

    “It sounds as if that IO has purposefully now not made an investigation both on his personal or on the behest of a few higher-up and thus, the chance can’t be dominated out that some of these had been executed to avoid wasting the outside of the true perpetrator or possibly of the current accused, if in any respect he used to be concerned,” Particular Pass judgement on Harish Kumar mentioned, acquitting Gupta from the fees of forgery.

    On a heat April afternoon in 1996 when the rustic used to be in the midst of parliamentary elections, NSG Squadron Commander Vimal Satyarthi won a letter from the Belgium Embassy asking him to reissue the top person certificates for the import of encryption apparatus from Siemens NV, Germany.

    The apparatus used to be most effective offered to legislation enforcement businesses of a rustic and Satyarthi had now not issued any finish person certificates for interception apparatus which he used to be being requested to re-issue.

    The letter despatched alarm bells ringing within the safety established order because the Belgium Embassy communication intended that any individual used to be making an attempt to import the apparatus with the assistance of cast finish person certificates, dated December 18, 1995, purportedly issued through Satyarthi.

    The NSG performed an inside enquiry following which its then Director Normal AK Tandon wrote to the Ministry of House Affairs (MHA) flagging the subject on Might 9, 1996.

    Then-Joint Secretary in Union House Ministry UK Sinha enclosed the reproduction of letters from Tandon, that of the Embassy of Belgium with finish person certificates, and passed over the probe to the CBI on Might 28, 1996 to adopt “thorough enquiry in view of its seriousness and destructive ramification”.

    The CBI began a initial enquiry just about two months later which used to be adopted through an FIR on October 12, 1996.

    Throughout the probe, Satyarthi advised the CBI that the NSG had won a letter from the then Joint Secretary within the Exterior Affairs Ministry ESL Narsimhan, who later become Governor of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, addressed to the Intelligence Bureau with a duplicate marked to the MHA and NSG, that one Harish Gupta of Safe Telecom Pvt.Ltd. had if truth be told attempted to import the apparatus the use of a cast certificates and this apparatus is also utilized by the nationwide safety businesses of various governments.

    The CBI claimed that Gupta used to be dealing in import of counter-surveillance apparatus together with his clientele involving executive businesses like Narcotics Keep watch over Bureau, Enforcement Directorate, NSG, and many others.

    The CBI alleged Gupta had tried to import two encryption methods — T1285 CA together with Key Technology Program CGP 2002 and Crypto Fill Tool CED 2001 — from Siemens, for which finish person certificates from a central authority legislation enforcement company used to be wanted.

    In step with the CBI payment sheet filed on September 1998, Gupta allegedly cast the certificates to turn it used to be purportedly issued through Satyarthi of the NSG and submitted it to Siemens.

    Throughout the trial, 11 witnesses had been produced through the CBI, together with Narsimhan when he used to be the Governor of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, then Joint Secretary in MHA UK Sinha and senior officials of the NSG.

    Just about 22 years after submitting of the payment sheet, the trial court docket acquitted Gupta from fees of dishonest (420 IPC) however convicted him of forgery (468 IPC) on December 22, 2021 and sentenced him to go through sentence of 3 years with a fantastic of Rs 10,000.

    Gupta filed an attraction earlier than the particular CBI pass judgement on who acquitted him from the remainder payment of forgery and put aside his conviction.

    Acquitting Gupta, the particular court docket famous that the CBI investigation officer, Akhil Kaushik, had now not recorded remark of any of the witnesses of the CBI below Phase 161 of the CrPC, except for for that of Satyarthi.

    On how the title of Gupta cropped up, the court docket famous that except for from a letter from Narsimhan having “rumour reference” about Gupta the use of a cast finish person certificates, there used to be not anything on report to turn how the CBI concluded that the forgery used to be executed through the businessman.

    The investigation officer didn’t make any investigation both from the Embassy of Belgium or from Siemens and didn’t even meet and report remark of Narsimhan whose letter had rumour reference concerning the involvement of Gupta, it mentioned.

    “But even so rumour reference within the letter…, there’s not anything on report appearing how IO based totally his conclusion that it used to be Harish Gupta who tried to import the above two methods and within the procedure cast finish person certificates and despatched them to Siemens NV,” it mentioned.

    The pass judgement on marked a duplicate of the judgment to the CBI Director “to begin suitable motion as consistent with laws if he in his knowledge imagine important, now not most effective in opposition to the erring investigating officer but additionally in opposition to the then forwarding officer who forwarded the charge-sheet, if each or any of them remains to be in carrier; and likewise for taking steps to strengthen the standard of investigation through CBI’s legitimate if wanted through imparting good enough coaching”.

  • Practice tips to acquire paperwork from CBI in corruption instances: CVC to executive departments, banks

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Central Vigilance Fee (CVC) on Wednesday requested central executive departments, public sector banks and insurance coverage corporations to practice present tips for acquiring related paperwork from the CBI for starting up and well timed crowning glory of departmental motion in opposition to corrupt staff.

    The transfer comes after it spotted that departmental inquiries in a couple of cases have been held up or bogged down because of non-availability of indexed paperwork or lengthen in shopping/generating them all the way through the process inquiry.

    One of the vital causes said for lengthen in generating paperwork all the way through inquiry lawsuits, is that during instances investigated through CBI, the unique paperwork stay within the custody of the probe company, it mentioned.

    The CVC in its order referred to its previous directive that claims “it will have to be ensured that the indexed paperwork are received from the CBI sooner than issuing the chargesheet and, the place parallel lawsuits are to be initiated, a suite of indexed paperwork, dully qualified, is received from the CBI”.

    Additional, in Para 6.9 (d) of Vigilance Guide 2021, it’s been clarified that during admire of paperwork, that are taken in custody through CBI, “the departmental government would possibly stay attested copies of the data for assembly pressing departmental wishes or for casting off any motion that can be pending at the a part of the dep.”, the Fee mentioned.

    Additionally, in para 6.9 (n) and six.9 (o) of Vigilance Guide 2021, the process for acquiring paperwork from CBI, for the aim of starting up departmental motion has been obviously outlined and enlisted, it mentioned in an order issued to secretaries of all central executive departments, leader executives of public sector banks and insurance coverage corporations.

    “The Fee has directed that the above tips will have to be stored in thoughts for acquiring required paperwork from CBI, in order that the inquiry lawsuits don’t endure lengthen in this account,” it mentioned, looking for strict compliance of its order.