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Time of India
a day ago
- Time of India
Plea against Chauhan's release rejected
Vadodara: The revision application filed by police in connection with the release of accident case co-accused Pranshu Chauhan by the judicial magistrate first class (JMFC) was rejected by the sessions court on Tuesday. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now "The sessions court rejected the revision application filed by police," said Hitesh Gupta, who represents Chauhan. Chauhan was in the passenger's seat when Rakshit Chaurasia drove the car into several vehicles, killing one person and injuring eight, on March 13. Police filed the revision application in April and argued that Section 105 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita invoked against Chauhan carries a punishment of 10 years or life imprisonment. Police had arrested Chauhan on April 5, after his name was added to the original FIR as a co-accused along with that of Chaurasia, who was driving the car. Police booked Chaurasia and Chauhan for culpable homicide. Chauhan's advocate, Hitesh Gupta, argued that the same offence cannot be registered against Chauhan, who was merely sitting next to Chaurasia in the car. Gupta argued that Chauhan was arrested by Karelibaug police, but they didn't inform his family in writing about the reasons for his arrest. Gupta also said that the section of the NDPS Act applied against Chauhan in the FIR of the drugs case was wrong. The JMFC ordered the release of Chauhan on April 6, terming his arrest illegal after Gupta argued how police flouted the rules during his arrest.
Time of India
a day ago
- Business
- Time of India
32 private companies participate in job fair
1 2 Patna: A one-day employment fair, 'Niyojan Mela', was held on Tuesday at Miller High School grounds by the Regional Employment Exchange under the department of labour resources. According to an official release, 32 private companies participated, including HDFC Life, SBI Life, Shiv Shakti Agriculture Ltd., SIS Securities, Leader Autosales Pvt. Ltd., Urmila International Service Pvt. Ltd., Taj City Centre (Patna), Swiggy (Patna) and Flipkart. This was the first job fair of the 2025-26 financial year with the next tentatively scheduled in two months. Companies conducted both on-the-spot selections and follow-up interviews. Several candidates received appointment letters at the venue while 605 were shortlisted for further interviews. In total, 1,946 CVs were submitted. Running from 10am to 4pm, the fair saw around 3,248 job seekers engage with various employers. Four govt helpdesks were also set up where 798 unemployed youth received career guidance. MLA Sanjeev Chaurasia distributed certificates among 12 beneficiaries of the Kushal Yuva Programme (KYP). The selected candidates from this event will be placed in the private sector. The fair was inaugurated by Chaurasia along with employment officers and staff from the Regional Employment Exchange.
Time of India
03-06-2025
- 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.
