A youth from Durgapur, Pranavananda Mondal, was arrested by the Maharashtra Police today. He is accused of defrauding people of Rs 16 crore by promising to erect wireless internet towers on their land in Nagpur.
Officials said that the driver told the police that the accident took place after a tyre burst, causing the bus to overturn.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Friday that it has attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs 4.09 crore belonging to Deepak Kumar, Ramesh Kadel, his relatives and his associates in a PMLA case lodged against Mumbai-based firm Yogeshwar Diamonds and others.
During interrogation, the drug peddler said that he had sourced the drugs from Manali, Himachal Pradesh.
A team of senior police officers met Rane and later completed the arrest formalities even as a large number of his supporters and a huge posse of police were present.
Taking serious note of the CBI allegations, a division bench of Justice S.S. Shinde and Justice N.J. Jamdar issued notice to the state government and asked it to strictly follow the directions of the court, failing which the court would be compelled to take action against the state's officers.
The channel strongly slammed the move for "parading the editor of a top Indian news channel like a criminal, pulled by the hair, threatened, not allowed to drink water" after 20-30 policemen barged there.
"We welcome the Supreme Court judgement. We shall extend whatever help is needed to the CBI. We will examine the (verdict's) Para 34 and think about it (parallel probe)," Home Minister Anil Deshmukh told media persons late in the evening.
With the next state elections barely two months away and the Election Commission having already started the poll preparations despite the corona pandemic, the political class has been only too busy to keep the issue alive as they view it as a major political opportunity
Experts say making demand for a CBI probe is just a ploy to keep the issue lingering for long.
