Chhattisgarh inspector owns assets worth Rs.5 crore

October 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A team from the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) Wednesday questioned a Delhi Police inspector over charges of amassing assets worth around Rs.20 crore (Rs.200 million), police said. The ACB Tuesday had conducted raids at properties allegedly owned by Inspector Roshan Lal, the station house officer of the Kalyanpuri police station in east Delhi.

October 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Anti corruption sleuths Tuesday searched the office and residence of a Delhi Police inspector following allegations that he had amassed assets of over Rs.200 million -- well beyond his known income. Raids were conducted against Inspector Roshan Lal, also station house officer of the Kalyanpuri police station in east Delhi.

October 5th, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh has embarked on a plan to become a leading power producer in India, signing 61 deals with independent power producers (IPPs) to generate about 50,000 MW of electricity, an official said Monday. The coal-fired power projects will come up in northern Chhattisgarh, a coal-rich belt, on a total investment of around Rs.250,000 crore.

September 24th, 2009 LUCKNOW - An antique idol of Lord Buddha weighing 25 kg and costing Rs.25 crore in the international market has been recovered by police in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur district, officials said Thursday Pretending to be customers, personnel of the special operations group (SOG) approached three people in Sultanpur -- who are now under arrest -- and struck a deal with them, said Inspector Dhirendra Shukla of the SOG. The idol, estimated to be about 300 years old, is made of ashta dhatu (eight metals).

September 19th, 2009 RANCHI - A Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) legislator and his brother own undeclared assets worth more than Rs.10 crore (Rs.100 million), an official of the Income Tax (IT) department said Saturday. According to the official, JMM legislator from Giridih district Munna Lal owns undeclared assets worth Rs.10.20 crore in his name and in the names of his relatives.

August 23rd, 2009 RAIPUR - The state food department has seized pulses worth Rs.100 million (Rs.10 crore) during overnight raids in this Chhattisgarh capital, an official said Sunday. In a drive against hoarders, raids were conducted in four locations in Raipur district Saturday night.

July 2nd, 2009 RANCHI - Officials of the vigilance department Thursday raided the homes of two former Jharkahnd ministers Enos Ekka and Harinarayan Rai to arrest them on corruption charges. But neither was at home.

June 26th, 2009 RAIPUR - The Chhattisgarh government Friday disbursed Rs.114.7 crore to local urban bodies for infrastructure development. Urban Administration Minister Rajesh Munat told newsmen the state government had approved Rs.

April 24th, 2009 RAIPUR - Raids by the Economic Offence Wing (EOW) Friday on the premises of a sub-engineer with Chhattisgarh Rural Engineering Service revealed assets worth at least Rs.10 crore (Rs.100 million), including a small steel plant and a chemical factory, an official said. Four separate teams of the EOW, led by Deputy Superintendent of Police U.R.

April 11th, 2009 RAIPUR - As many as nine candidates in Chhattisgarh have criminals cases pending against them and seven have assets worth over Rs.1 crore (Rs.10 million), a NGO said here Saturday. 'There are nine candidates with criminal cases pending against them contesting Lok Sabha polls in Chhattisgarh,' Gautam Kumar Bandyopadhyay, coordinator of Chhattisgarh Election Watch, told IANS.

March 27th, 2009 RAIPUR - The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) carried out simultaneous raids Friday at the office and residences of a forest ranger in Chhattisgarh and found assets worth over Rs.2.5 crore (Rs.25 million), officials said. Six squads of the EOW began searches at the offices, residences and farm houses of a district forest ranger, R.L.

February 23rd, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh provided employment of just 35 days per household on an average in fiscal 2007-08 under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) that ensures 100 days of employment in a financial year to any registered rural household. 'Employment is to be provided within 15 days of demand under the NREGS.

February 22nd, 2009 RAIPUR - The Chhattisgarh government suffered a revenue loss of over Rs.1.85 billion (Rs.185 crore)) during 2007-08 because of 'undue benefits' provided to various companies, a report by India's audit watchdog said. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India in its report on Chhattisgarh said: 'The state government stood to lose revenue of Rs.185.71 crore due to undue benefits to the allottees such as allotment of land at reduced rates.' The report has widely criticised Chhattisgarh State Industries Development Corp (CSIDC) for its its inadequate monitoring of the implementation of several state-sponsored projects.

February 1st, 2009 RAIPUR - The Chhattisgarh police Monday sealed off the border with Maharashtra, where Maoist radicals ambushed a police search squad in Gadchiroli district Sunday, killing 15 state police personnel, officials said. 'The Sunday attack took place very close to Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district border in Maharashtra and we sealed off the forested border because Maoists may sneak into Chhattisgarh following stepped up drive by the police from the other side of the border,' Pawan Deo, deputy inspector general of police, said here.

January 12th, 2009 RAIPUR - Deer and leopard skins worth Rs.2 million were seized from two Chhattisgarh tribesman Tuesday, a police official said. Crime branch official Pradeep Sori said the police on a tip-off raided a village in Dhamtari district and arrested the two tribesman along with the contraband animal skins.