Executive engineer arrested while taking bribe of Rs 5 lakh in Rajasthan's Baran district
Jaipur, Apr 28 (PTI) A team of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested the executive engineer of the Public Works Department in Rajasthan's Baran district allegedly red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from the complainant, an official said.
Bureau's Director General Dr Ravi Prakash Meharda said that Executive Engineer Ajay Singh was allegedly harassing the complainant by demanding a bribe of Rs 20 lakh for passing the pending bills of road widening and culvert construction work of the complainant.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
India Today
18 minutes ago
- India Today
Land worth Rs 150 crore gifted to Shinde Sena MP's driver, police launch probe
Descendants of Diwans of the Hyderabad Nizam in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar gifted land worth Rs 150 crores to the driver of a Shiv Sena MP and MLA, triggering a preliminary investigation by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the local 3-acre prime property was transferred to Jawed Rasul Shaikh, a driver who has been working with Shiv Sena MP Sandipan Bhumre and his son, Paithan MLA Vilas Bhumre, for the past thirteen years. Boards installed on the property now name Shaikh as the EOW initiated the probe after receiving a complaint from Advocate Mujahid Khan. According to the complaint, the land was gifted to Shaikh through a Hibanama (gift deed) by Mir Mahmood Ali Mazhar Ali Khan and five other descendants of the Salar Jung family, who served as Diwans or Prime Ministers during the Nizam era. Shaikh reportedly told the police that he was closely acquainted with the family, which led them to gift him the land. "He knew the family members closely so they had gifted him the land parcel through Hibanama," he allegedly Khan raised serious doubts about the legitimacy of the gift, highlighting that the Salar Jung descendants had been engaged in a prolonged legal battle over the land, which was finally resolved in their favour in questioned the motive behind gifting such high-value land to someone with no blood relation. 'Why, after such a long legal battle for the land, would the family of Salar Jung give away the land to Shaikh as a gift?' the complaint police officials from Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar confirmed that a preliminary inquiry is underway and that summons have been issued to the concerned parties, including members of the Salar Jung family who signed the Vilas Bhumre acknowledged police contact regarding the matter. 'I received a call from the police who asked me on how many years Shaikh had been working with the family,' he said. When asked about the land transfer from the erstwhile royal family, Bhumre responded, 'I don't have complete details about it.'The EOW is scrutinising the land transfer documents and the nature of the relationship between the driver and the royal descendants.- EndsMust Watch IN THIS STORY#Maharashtra
Time of India
25 minutes ago
- Time of India
DGP gives cheque to deceased cops kin
UP DGP Rajeev Krishna on Friday handed over cheques to the bereaved families of four deceased police personnel. The family of constable Jitendra Pal received Rs 1.95 crore, while those of head constable Durgesh Kumar Singh, constable Virendra Kumar Saroj, and follower Brajesh Kumar received Rs 1.7 crore each. The personnel had died in line of duty.
New Indian Express
37 minutes ago
- New Indian Express
Pump and dump scam: Sebi says has raided many shell companies
The raids primarily involved 15-20 shell companies which were allegedly created by promoters of some listed companies to pump and dump their own shares. At least two listed agro-tech companies along with their promoters are said to be at the helm of the alleged network, sources had said. 'Sebi has seized several documents including company documents, rubber stamps. Preliminary assessment suggests the scam was at least Rs 300 crore, however more details would emerge once the seized documents are analysed,' a source was quoted by one such report. Generally, in cases of pump and dump schemes, Sebi issues an order against the entities. In in very few cases, Sebi also uses its search and seizure powers against the entities like in the current case. The pump and dump scam works in the following manner: promoters create shell companies and register them as proprietary traders which will buy and sell the company stocks later. In the past, there have many instances where Sebi has gone after promoters of small and mid-cap companies for manipulating their stocks. In a pump and dump scheme, entities related to the scamsters first start buying shares of own companies in large numbers to drive up the stock price and once the price has gone up significantly, it catches the attention of retail investors and the manipulators then exit the stock at a profit by selling the shares to gullible retail investors. In one such case the Sebi investigators have found that the stock price of a little known company rose from below Re 1 to Rs 40 in a span of less than a year and then the stock again fell back to about Rs 2-3. This happened despite there being any change in terms of business of the company or its earnings, clearly indicating a fraudulent scheme. The Sebi is also said to be monitoring some Telegram channels where these stocks are being advertised by non-Sebi registered analysts and is looking at whether these Telegram groups are also part of the manipulation scheme.
