Tag: GP Singh

  • Chhattisgarh IPS officer GP Singh​ suspended after ACB raids at his premises

    By PTI
    RAIPUR: The Chhattisgarh government on Monday suspended senior IPS officer GP Singh, whose premises were raided by the Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Economic Offences Wing in a disproportionate assets case, officials said.

    The ACB/EOW, which carried out a three-day search at around 15 locations linked to Singh, an Additional Director General (ADG)-rank officer, from July 1 to July 3 claimed to have discovered movable and immovable assets worth over Rs 10 crore allegedly belonging to him.

    The state’s Home Department issued his suspension order late in the evening.

    The 1994-batch officer, who was earlier ADG of the ACB and EOW, was currently serving as director of the state police academy.

    “After preliminary probe into complaints against Singh for allegedly amassing disproportionate assets during his service period, the EOW registered a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988. He seems to be involved in activities which are not expected from a government official.

    “Singh’s such alleged act is against the All India Services (Conduct) Rules 1968. Therefore, disciplinary action should be taken against him,” the order said.

    The state government has suspended Singh with immediate effect.

    During his suspension period, he will report to the police headquarters in Raipur, it said.

    The ACB had earlier said documents found during searches at Singh’s premises established that he had allegedly amassed assets disproportionate to his known source of income and indulged in “massive exchange of money”.

    “Singh had also allegedly tried to commit money laundering by investing in shell companies (entities engaged in unlawful activities). He had allegedly amassed disproportionate assets in Raipur, Bhilai, Rajnandgaon (of Chhattisgarh) and Odisha,” the anti-graft agency had said in a statement.

  • Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal directs officials to rescue kidnapped ONGC employees

    By PTI
    GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday condemned the kidnapping of three Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) employees by suspected ULFA(I) militants and directed the chief secretary and the DGP to take all steps to rescue them.

    In a series of tweets, Sonowal denounced the abduction of ONGC employees Mohini Mohan Gogoi, Alakesh Saikia and Ritul Saikia from an oilfield in Sivasagar district. “I have asked CS Shri Jishnu Barua and @DGPAssamPolice Shri Bhaskarjyoti Mahanta to take all possible measures for their release,” he added.

    Special DGP, L&O Shri @gpsinghassam is at Lakuwa and investigation regarding the abduction is underway.
    — Sarbananda Sonowal (@sarbanandsonwal) April 21, 2021

    Sonowal also said that Special DGP (Law and Order) Gyanendra Pratap Singh has rushed to the spot and is monitoring the investigation on the abduction.

    The public sector unit said in a statement that the three employees were abducted by “unknown armed miscreants” in the early hours of Wednesday from a rig site of the ONGC in Lakwa oilfield near the Assam-Nagaland border.

    A senior official of Sivasagar district administration said that suspected ULFA(I) militants are behind this kidnapping and they fled through Nagaland. No demand for ransom or anything else has been received so far.

    During the first week of April, two employees of the Quippo Oil and Gas Infrastructure, a New Delhi-based private firm, were released by ULFA(I) insurgents who had kidnapped them three-and-a-half months ago on December 21 last year.

    The two were abducted from Kumchaikha hydrocarbon drilling site in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh and the ULFA(I) demanded a ransom of Rs 20 crore.