Bhopal: Former IAS couple Arvind Joshi and Tinoo Joshi have been sent to prison in connection with a money laundering case after they surrendered before a court here.
Judge Alok Awasthi of the special court for Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) sent the Joshis in judicial custody friday evening.
The court granted bail to Arvind Joshi’s parents–Nirmala Joshi (88) and H M Joshi (92)–against a surety of Rs 50,000 each in view of their old age, said an Enforcement Directorate (ED) official.
Joshi’s parents are co-accused in the case.
The court had issued a warrant against the accused on July 19 in connection with a case filed by the ED under the PMLA.
Arvind and Tinoo, both IAS officers, were dismissed from service in 2014 for allegedly amassing wealth disproportionate to their known sources of income.
During a raid at their house in Bhopal in 2010, the Income Tax officials allegedly found Rs 3.03 crore in cash. The Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta Police also filed a separate case against the couple for allegedly amassing assets worth a whopping Rs 41.87 crore.
The couple has not been convicted in these cases yet.
The ED, in its charge sheet, has accused them of laundering some of the ill-gotten wealth through dubious transactions.(PTI)
In a major reshuffle in senior police cadres, the Odisha government on Saturday appointed Satyajit Mohanty as the new commissioner of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Police Commissionerate.
A 1988 batch- IPS officer, Mohanty, who is now serving as the Additional DGP (Provisioning) will now replace YB Khurania as the new police commissioner of Twin City.
Outgoing commissioner, Khurania, a 1990-batch IPS officer, has been appointed Additional DGP (Provisioning).
Similarly, 1994-batch IPS officer Sanjeeb Panda, who is currently serving as IG of Police, Special Armed Police (SAP), has been posted as Transport Commissioner.
As many as four Superintendants of Police (SP) have been transferred. SP, CID, Crime Branch Pandit Rajesh Uttamrao has been transferred and posted as Bhadrak SP while Battula Gangadhar, a 2011-batch IPS and present SP of Bhadrak has been appointed Kalahandi SP.
Madkar Sandeep Sampat, a 2012-batch IPS and SP Kalahandi has been appointed as the new SP, CID, Crime Branch.
Furthermore, Debi Prasad Dash, Additional SP of Bonai, Rourkela has been transferred and posted as Sonepur SP while
Additional DCP (Commissionerate Police-Bhubaneswar) Sashi Bhusan Satapathy has been posted as the new SP in-charge of Nayagarh dstrict.
The Rajasthan goverment on Thursday late night transferred 4 IAS officers.
The names of the officers and their postings are as follows :
1. Manoj Sharma : Special Secretary, Tribal Area Development Department, Jaipur.
2. Lakshminarayan Meena : Divisional Commissioner, Ajmer.
3. Rajesh Sharma : Commissioner, School education.
4. Ravi Jain : Commissioner, Department of Information and Public Relations.
In yet another rejig, the Rajasthan goverment on Thursday late night transferred 34 IPS officers. It is the second transfer list of IPS officers within a week as earlier 75 officers were transferred.
The names of the officers and their postings are as follows :
Amberish Barman (IDAS:2005) has been selected for the appintment of Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defence, under Central Staffing Scheme for a period of four years. He is presently posted as Addl IFA, Navy in New Delhi and will be relieved on July 31, 2018.
Venugopal K Nair (Retd IPS:1979:KL) has been appointed as Independent External Monitor (IEM) Nalco Bhawan, Bhubaneswar for a period of three years w.e.f. 01 August 2018 to oversee the smooth implementation of Integrity Pact Program of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC).
Nair retired in 2012 as ADG (Administration), Govt of Kerala.
The central deputation tenure of Amit Katoch (IP&TA&FS:1998) as Director in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has been extended for a period of three months beyond 07.08.2018.
The central deputation tenure of Ms. Anuja Bapat (ISS:1998) as Director in the Ministry of Labour & Employment has been extended for a period of three months beyond 02.09.2018.