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Time of India
6 days ago
- General
- Time of India
Ex-BJP office-bearer held on sex racket charges, expelled from party
Jabalpur: A hotel owner in Jabalpur has been arrested for allegedly running a prostitution ring in Jabalpur's Gadha Bazar. The accused, Atul Chaurasia, is a former BJP division president. Local police station in charge Prasanna Sharma said that the complaint was filed by a 25-year-old Assamese woman. She told police that she came to Jabalpur three years ago and came in contact with Chaurasia and a woman, both of whom allegedly pushed her into the flesh trade. On Sunday night, Gadha police filed an FIR against Chaurasia and his alleged accomplice. A police team raided the hotel and arrested Chaurasia, who was remanded in police custody for a day. Police are looking for the other accused. On the instructions of BJP state president VD Sharma, Jabalpur district president Ratnesh Sonkar expelled Chaurasia from primary membership of BJP. Sonkar released a letter stating that the involvement of former division president Atul Chaurasia in criminal activities and the registration of a criminal case have tarnished the party's image, hence the organisation has expelled him from the party.
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Business Standard
31-05-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
SC interim bail for 3 bureaucrats, 3 others in Chhattisgarh coal-levy scam
Two days after being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court in the Chhattisgarh coal-levy scam case, two suspended IAS officers and a former deputy secretary in the chief minister's office walked out of jail on Saturday. Defence counsel Faizal Rizvi told reporters that Sameer Vishnoi and Ranu Sahu, both IAS officers, and Saumya Chaurasia, a deputy secretary in the CMO during the previous Bhupesh Baghel government, and three others were released from Raipur central jail. The SC has granted interim bail to eight persons, of whom two individuals Suryakant Tiwari and Nikhil Chandrakar have not been released (due to other pending cases), he said. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which has been probing the money laundering angle in the alleged coal-levy scam since 2022, had arrested Vishnoi in October 2022 and Chaurasia in December the same year. The central agency had taken Sahu into custody in July 2023. Rizvi said the bureaucrat trio has been granted interim bail in the two cases related to the alleged coal-levy scam, one each registered by the ED and the state's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). A Supreme Court bench of Justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta on Thursday imposed several conditions on the accused while granting them interim bail and asked the state government to generate confidence among the witnesses and ensure their protection. The SC has directed Sahu, Vishnoi and Chaurasia not to stay in Chhattisgarh till further orders, except when they are required to be present before the investigating agency or the trial court. They are also directed to furnish the addresses of their stay outside the state of Chhattisgarh to the jurisdictional police station within one week of their release, the bench has ordered. According to investigative agencies, an illegal levy of Rs 25 per tonne was being extorted for every tonne of coal transported in the state by a cartel involving senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen (during the previous Congress government). A syndicate comprising private individuals like Tiwari and state government functionaries, including Chaurasia, Vishnoi and mining officers, with political backing, allegedly made policy changes concerning mineral transportation. As per hand diaries, Rs 540 crore was extorted in cash by the coal cartel between July 2020 and June 2022. (Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
New Indian Express
27-05-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Chhattisgarh EOW files charge-sheet against ex-CM deputy secretary, former collector in DMF scam
RAIPUR: The Chhattisgarh State Bureau for Investigation of Economic Offences (EOW) on Tuesday filed a 6,000-page charge-sheet before the Special Court (Anti-Corruption), Raipur, against Saumya Chaurasia, former deputy secretary to ex-Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel; the then Korba collector, Ranu Sahu; and several others in connection with the multi-crore District Mineral Fund (DMF) scam. Besides Chaurasia and Sahu, businessman Suryakant Tiwari, Maya Varriar, Manoj Dwivedi, Bhuneswar Singh Raj, Barosa Ram Thakur and Virendra Rathore have also been named in the charge-sheet. They have been accused of direct involvement in corruption and financial embezzlement by manipulating the tender process to benefit favoured proprietors and suppliers. They allegedly collected illegal commissions amounting to around Rs 75 crore in the DMF scam in Korba district. According to investigators, these substantial bribes were paid in exchange for securing DMF tenders. The state EOW stated that an FIR had been registered against all the accused under Sections 7 and 12 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, in addition to Sections 120-B, 420, 467, 468 and 491 of the Indian Penal Code. The accused named in the charge-sheet are currently lodged in Raipur Central Jail under judicial remand. Chaurasia, during her tenure as a deputy secretary in the then Chief Minister's Office, allegedly misused her official position and exercised undue administrative influence to facilitate the receipt of illegal commissions in return for awarding DMF tenders in Korba. In May this year, the Chhattisgarh High Court rejected the bail plea of the accused in the DMF scam.
Scroll.in
27-05-2025
- Politics
- Scroll.in
Delhi court questions police's ‘lackadaisical' probe into Kapil Mishra's social media posts in 2020
A Delhi court on Monday noted that the police had shown a 'lackadaisical approach' in investigating a case against Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kapil Mishra for allegedly making inflammatory statements ahead of the 2020 Assembly election, The Indian Express reported. A first information report was filed against Mishra, who is now Delhi's law minister, in January 2020 for allegedly promoting enmity between groups through social media posts under the Representation of the People Act section 125. In one of the social media posts, Mishra had said that there would be an 'India versus Pakistan contest' in Delhi on February 8, 2020, the day when the Assembly elections were held. He also alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party and Congress had created a 'mini-Pakistan' at Shaheen Bagh, a key site of protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act. In another social media post, Mishra alleged that Pakistan had 'made its entry' at Shaheen Bagh, and that many 'mini-Pakistans' had been formed in Delhi. During a previous hearing of the case, the deputy commissioner of police (northwest) told the court that a request had been sent to microblogging site X for data related to Mishra's posts, the Hindustan Times reported. The official had said that a response from X was awaited. However, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Vaibhav Chaurasia said on Monday that there had been little progress in the investigation despite the prosecution giving assurances of a thorough and efficient inquiry. 'Before commenting on the lackadaisical conduct of the prosecution, this court is constrained to bring to the notice of the commissioner of Delhi Police the state of affairs and the inadequate explanation on the part of the investigating agency,' the judge said, according to the Hindustan Times. Chaurasia said that no one was present on behalf of the investigating agency to follow up on the directives to carry out further inquiry. He said the police's explanation was inadequate and that the prosecution had adopted a casual approach with respect to the case, The Indian Express reported. 'It is suggested that if any help from any other ministry is required, this court is of the opinion that the Delhi Police is well equipped to take recourse to the same,' the court was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times. The magistrate attached two previous orders with the directive on Monday, and said that the documents should be sent to the commissioner of police and the joint commissioner of police (northern range). The case will be heard next on July 7. The magistrate told the police to file a status report by then. In 2020, a man named Mohammed Ilyas had also filed a complaint against Mishra for his alleged involvement in the violence that broke out in the city in February 2020. Fifty-three people died in violence that erupted in Delhi at the time. The majority of them were Muslims. Chaurasia, the additional chief judicial magistrate, had on April 1 directed the police to carry out further investigation into the allegations against the BJP leader. However, Additional Sessions Judge Kaweri Baweja stayed the order eight days later.
Time of India
24-04-2025
- Time of India
Accident accused Chaurasia's bail plea rejected
Vadodara: The sessions court here on Thursday rejected the bail application of Rakshit Chaurasia , whose speeding car killed a woman and injured seven people in the city last month. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The accident shocked the city as Chaurasia, a law student at M S University , rammed the car into three two-wheelers in Karelibaug area. While opposing his bail, the police stated that Chaurasia was driving at a speed of 140km/hour when the accident occurred. Police sent the car's event data recorder (EDR) to the automobile company in Germany to ascertain the speed at which Chaurasia was driving before the crash. The EDR report revealed that the car's speed was 140km/hour, which was above the permissible limit of 40km to 50km per hour on the road. "We argued that Chaurasia was high on drugs and knew he was passing through a residential area on a crowded road. Still, he drove rashly and caused the accident. The court accepted our arguments and rejected Chaurasia's bail application," said advocate Anil Desai, public prosecutor. The prosecution also argued that Chaurasia is a native of Uttar Pradesh and hence would not turn up for the trial and would not cooperate with the police in the investigations. Police opposed the bail application by arguing that Chaurasia might try to destroy the evidence and threaten the witnesses if released on bail. Chaurasia killed a woman and injured seven people while driving his friend Pranshu Chauhan's car in the city on the night of March 13. Both Chaurasia and Chauhan, who was sitting next to him in the car, were high on drugs. After the accident, Chauhan fled the spot, but Chaurasia came out of the car and started yelling 'another round' along with a girl's name. Passers-by caught hold of Chaurasia and thrashed him before handing him over to police. Mobile and CCTV footage of the accident went viral across the country, and many demanded strict action against Chaurasia.
