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UPSIDA: Suspended engineer of multi-crore scam arrested in Uttar Pradesh.

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Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Authority (UPSIDA) suspended chief engineer, Arun Mishra was arrested by Kanpur police in an eight-year-old corruption case worth Rs 2.11 crore.

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Satyajeet Gupta said that Arun Kumar Mishra, was arrested from Ramadevi in the Chakeri area on Tuesday.

 

Ten days ago, the state government had sanctioned the prosecution of Mishra and several others, including the then assistant engineer Nagendra Singh and junior engineer S.K. Verma.

The charge sheet in the case has not yet been filed, he added.

The other accused had approached the Allahabad High Court which has stayed their arrest.

In 2009, UPSIDA, formerly known as UPSIDC, had constructed a three-km road from Prayagraj National Highway to Chakeri industrial area via Pali village.

The 1,940-metre road ahead of it was built by the Public Works Department (PWD), but the officers of UPSIDA, including Mishra had shown the PWD portion of the road also in their construction project.

The then executive engineer Ajit Singh of UPSIDA, assistant engineer Nagendra Singh and junior engineer S.K. Verma were involved in issuance of Rs 2.11 crore in January 2009, stating that the road was constructed by Karthik Enterprises firm.

This amount was paid in two instalments from UPSIDA.

When the case came to light, Mohammad Iftekharuddin, the then managing director of UPSIDA, got an FIR registered in 2012 at the Chakeri police station against Mishra and others.

Arun Mishra, who has acquired assets worth crores of rupees, has also been involved in Noida’s Tronica City scam. He was found guilty of building several roads on paper, and siphoning off crores of rupees. He has also been accused of manipulating his engineering degree.

Mishra has been suspended multiple times, but reinstated because of his political clout.

Source: IANS

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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