Gang posing as Police ’seize’ ₹18.50 lakh from Hyderabad businessman
The Hindu
Gang posing as police officials seized ₹18.50 lakh cash from businessman in Hyderabad's Panjagutta. Police registered complaint and launched probe to nab unidentified persons. Model Code of Conduct in force in Telangana used to their advantage.
Taking advantage of Model Code of Conduct in force in Telangana, a gang posing as police officials conducted vehicle checks and made away with ₹18.50 lakh cash from a businessman in Hyderabad’s Panjagutta. The police have recorded a complaint from the businessman.
Inspector of Panjagutta police, B. Durga Rao, said that the businessman, a clothing merchant from Begum Bazaar, was heading home around 10 p.m. on Thursday night with his driver when the “police” stopped them. “They were stopped near Khairatabad RTO junction by two men. They claimed that the men identified themselves as police and found ₹18..50 lakh cash with them,” said the official.
The cash was then seized by the men in the name of unaccounted cash being circulated during the Telangana Assembly elections.
Following a complaint, a case was booked against the unidentified persons and a probe was launched to nab them.
The Madras High Court on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, rejected a plea by former special Director General of Police (DGP) Rajesh Das to restore the electricity service connection to a bungalow in Thaiyur near Kelambakkam in Chengalpattu district, and to restrain Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) officials from disturbing the power supply in future.
The Madras High Court on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, permitted Anna University to deposit, in three monthly instalments, an amount of ₹73.23 lakh before the Central Government Industrial Tribunal (CGIT) as a condition to hear a statutory appeal preferred by the varsity against the Coimbatore Regional Provident Fund (RPF) Commissioner’s order to pay dues to the tune of ₹2.44 crore to contract employees.