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  • Assam civil servant found to have properties worth over Rs 100 crore, arrested

    Express News Service

    GUWAHATI: An officer of Assam Civil Service was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly acquiring assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.

    During an inquiry, the Chief Minister’s Special Vigilance Cell found that 89 landed properties were registered either in the name of the officer, Saibur Rahman, or one of his two wives. The market value of the properties was estimated to be over Rs 100 crore.

    Rahman alone was found to be in possession of assets, both moveable and immoveable, of over Rs 6.38 crore, 95% of which was disproportionate to his known sources of income.

    The vigilance cell had received a complaint that while Rahman was serving as the Additional District Magistrate of Dhubri, he had acquired huge properties by illegal and corrupt means. Accordingly a probe was initiated on the orders of the Chief Minister’s Office.

    “For the purpose of calculating income, assets and expenditure and to work out the value of disproportionate assets and the flow of acquisition of properties in possession of the suspect officer, the check period was taken from 23-6-2002 to 30-4-2021,” an official statement said.

    It also said that Rahman was arrested based on sufficient documentary and material evidences against him and for intentionally enriching himself illicitly and committing criminal misconduct during the period of his office.

    “…He owned assets that are out of sync with his legal sources of income…He was also unable to satisfactorily account for how he could amass the pecuniary resources/assets or properties disproportionate to his known sources of income,” the statement added. 

  • Chhattisgarh govt moves SC, files caveats against IPS officer booked under sedition law in graft case

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: The Chhattisgarh government has moved the Supreme Court by filing caveats against G P Singh, an IPS officer suspended earlier this week in a disproportionate assets case and later booked for sedition.

    The Chhattisgarh Police have booked Singh in the disproportionate assets case following raids at his premises by the state’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and Economic Offences Wing (EOW).

    According to police, the documents recovered during the raids revealed that Singh was allegedly involved in promoting enmity and hatching a conspiracy against the established government and public representatives and was booked under sedition charges.

    The state government has filed two caveats through its standing counsel Sumeer Sodhi seeking to be heard before any order is passed by the court in a case related to suspension of the officer and in the disproportionate assets case.

    Singh was booked under IPC sections 124-A (sedition) and 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc) of the IPC at Raipur’s City Kotwali Police Station late on Thursday night.

    On Friday, the officer approached the high court seeking a stay on the probe of the state ACB and EOW in the disproportionate assets case lodged against him last week.

    The officer, in his petition before the high court, contended that action was taken against him with prejudice.

    Singh has also sought that the case be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or other independent agencies to ensure a fair probe.

    An Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) rank officer of the 1994 IPS batch, Singh, who was posted as director of the state police academy, was suspended on July 5 after the ACB/EOW, on June 29, registered an FIR under the Prevention of Corruption Act in connection with the disproportionate assets he had allegedly amassed.

    The ACB/EOW, which carried a three-day search at around 15 locations linked to Singh from July 1 to 3, claimed to have discovered movable and immovable assets worth around Rs 10 crore.

    During the raid at the official residence of Singh, torn pieces of paper were found from the backyard of the house.

    When the pieces were rearranged, serious and sensitive contents were found to be written and typed on it, the FIR said.

    “These papers contained objectionable comments against leaders of reputed political parties along with detailed plans of conspiracy.

    Besides, secret assessments related to representatives and candidates of different assembly constituencies along with comments on serious issues of the concerned area were also written on it.

    The papers also contained critical comments on several government schemes, policies, social and religious issues”, it said.

    Similarly, the raid at Singh’s associate Mani Bhushan’s house here, unearthed a five-page document, in which comments were written in English against public representatives, officials, government schemes and policies, it added.

    The seized documents contain provocative contents that can promote hatred and dissatisfaction against the government, the FIR said.

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  • Sedition case filed against suspended IPS officer Gurjinder Pal Singh in Chhattisgarh

    Express News Service
    RAIPUR: The city police have registered a sedition case against ADG-rank officer Gurjinder Pal Singh based on a written complaint filed by the anti-corruption bureau (ACB). The anti-graft body reportedly seized alleged documents from Singh that were suggestive of a conspiracy against the government. 

    The Kotwali police station has registered the case under Sections 124-A, 153-A (that deals with sedition and treason) of the IPC against the 1994-batch IPS officer who was earlier suspended by the state government on July 5.

    ACB sleuths carried out raids for three days at 15 premises and properties linked to the IPS officer following complains over disproportionate assets.

    After the registering of the case, Singh has been missing from his Raipur home. “We came to know that he has left for Bilaspur but we are verifying the same. His location cannot be traced at the moment,” said an ACB officer.