�������������� � FREE PRESS �������� ������������������� ������ OVERHEARD Shot to hide dishonour �������������������������������� n Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) whose video Awith a woman went viral has reached an under- standing with her to hush up his ignominy. Immediate- ly after the incident, he was shifted from the important department he was heading then. The ACS, too, went on leave. For the ACS, the problem was that, the woman, ����������������������������� whom he had been seen with, threatened to lodge an FIR against him. The ACS was trying to find out a way to get ������������������� dent of Police Shailendra ture science research insti- handed over to the Gwalior rid of the dishonour. The ACS has reached a compro- �������������������� Singh Chouhan said that tute". They attract the peo- police. Sharma's son Pra- mise with the woman following mediation by some peo- the accused identified as ple towards their website. full could not be arrested as ple. After that, the woman has decided to keep off from ����������������������� Manoj Sharma (52), wife The accused makes people he was not there at house taking action against him. Behind the lady, who was ���������������� Varsha (48), daughter Sak- to invest money in Metal when police reached to ar- found with the ACS, there was another woman of ill re- shi (28) and son Prafull and Mineral companies by rest the accused. He is be- pute. She is associated with a political party for a long were booked for fraud with predicting a profit in their ing searched by the police. time and hatched a conspiracy to hem the ACS in. Some ������������������ many people in Gwalior horoscope. She also made The Gwalior police have other people were also behind that scheme. ������ and were on the run since people to invest lakhs of ru- been informed about the from 2011. pees in Sandalwood oil and arrest of the accused. The Proving loyalty Three members including Acting on a tip off police Kesar business. The ac- accused will be handed senior IAS officer is out to attest his loyalty to the two women of a family, who nabbed them from Dream cused collected money over to Gwalior police pos- Agovernment. To get an important position, he is were absconding in connec- City Colony on Sunday. from the people by suggest- sibly on Monday. working his socks off to please the higher-ups in the gov- tion with fraud of lakhs of They were staying here in ing them their own Police came to know that ernment. He wants to show that he has nothing to do rupees for last few years, the rented house for two scammed companies and the accused were staying in with the BJP leaders any more. Close as he has been to were arrested by the police months in order to evade made them deposit money the rented house without the RSS, he is making dossiers against the organisation. from their rented accom- arrest. in their bank account. informing police so the The Sahib has been given an important project. Never- modation in Lasudia area Police said that the ac- ASP Chouhan added that house owner will also be theless, while working on the project, he is making ways on Sunday. cused have developed a the main accused Manoj booked for not informing for action against the Sangh. As he is at home with law, Additional Superinten- website named "India fu- Sharma and others will be police about them. he may cause trouble to them. The way the officer has changed his tune with the change of government has startled many senior leaders of the RSS. The officer’s name has been proposed for posting to some important Rtd Rly staffer departments, but certain unknown reasons have driven Digvijaya running govt from behind the those positions further than his reach. The officer has killed by kin impressed a powerful minister who is trying to get him posted to a significant department. curtain, claims Kamal Nath minister over property Protest leave ������������������ and former chief minister ������������������ secretary-level IAS officer has gone on leave to vent ������ Digvijaya Singh’s letter ������ Ahis spleen at the government for his posting to a de- that he had written to all partment that is outside his choice. The department he In a statement which ministers had recently A 77-year-old man was al- has been posted to is considered important, but he does might not go down well gone viral on social media legedly killed by his rela- not want to work there. There are whispers in the corri- with the party organisa- platforms. Singh has writ- tives on Sunday after- dors of power that he was also pulling out all the stops tion, forest minister ten that he had earlier writ- noon over a property dis- to get out of the department. As his efforts fell through, Umang Singhar on Sun- ten letter to ministers for pute. Jahangirabad po- he took leave. There are speculations among officers in day said Digvijaya Singh transfers and some other lice said the deceased the department over the reasons for his going on leave. was running the govern- works. None of the minis- John James, a resident of The employees of the department have become unhappy ment from behind the cur- ters have responded to the Michal Ka Baada was a after the joining of another officer in place of the earli- tain and the fact is known including the Congress letter. He asked the minis- retired railway employ- er one. As this officer was previously posted to the de- to everybody including workers. Does he need to ters, through his letter, to ee. He had one of his legs partment, employees are acquainted with his style of Congress workers.The write letter to get his work inform him about status of amputated and lived functioning. This apart, the officer has the charge of an- minister has said on done,’ said Singhar re- his work done or not done. alone, Hos family lived other department, so it is likely that, he will soon be record what others of his sponding to media queries Digvijay Singh also in Katni. shifted from there. The department has hogged the lime- ilk hesitated to say till on letter that Digvijaya sought time from minis- SI RK Singh said on light, though for some wrong reasons. For this depart- now. had sent to ministers re- ters to know status of Sunday around 2 pm, the ment’s malfunctioning, the government, too, has faced ‘Digvijaya Singh is run- cently. Forest minister was works recommended by man had gone to under criticism. Ergo, the squabbling among officials may ning the government from visiting his constituency him. Forest minister Sing- construction house cause further harm to the department. behind the curtain and on Sunday. har had responded in the where the three accused everybody knows this fact Senior Congress leader same context. also reached. The ac- Fair weather friend cused, Peter, James and he links of an IAS officer with some powerful Con- Stanley, were his Tgress leaders have startled many a bureaucrat in the nephew. state. The officer was close to the former chief minister They were involved in before the change of government. When the new gov- All efforts to increase admissions various crimes in the ernment came to power, it was thought that the officer past. The between them would lose his importance. After the officer was shifted dispute broke out over from an important position, it was believed that, he in state colleges turn futile property and the trio would never return to the mainstream of administra- stabbed him and fled tion. Contrary to that, immediately after his shifting, the Now in open round of admissions, appli- from the spot leaving the officer was posted to an important department. Now, he �������������������������� cants can apply for admission from 3-12 elderly man in a pool of is heading a more important department than the one he ������������� September in any college private or gov- blood. On being alerted, was previously doing. Nobody has understood the rea- ernment. The colleges can now give ad- a team of police then son behind his posting to such an important depart- ������������������ missions and verify the documents by rushed the man to hospi- ment. There are whispers that the officer has been close ������� themselves. Applicants can choose col- tal where he was de- to a powerful Congress leader who is now backing him. lege of their choice and apply directly. clared brought dead. Ac- Besides that, the links, which he has developed with The higher education department that This year total admissions have reached cused have been booked powerful people during his tenure as head of different decided to increase seats in colleges and 4.40 lakh. Total number of admissions in and hunt is on to nab departments, have become useful for him. The officer universities by 10% owing to reservation Undergraduate courses is 3.53 lakh while them. has been shifted to an area from where comes a power- for economically weaker sections stu- in Postgraduate courses it was 82,298. ful Congress leader. For getting his posting there, the of- dents has been unable to fill its existing Last year higher education department PANCHANG 2.9.2019 ficer has wooed two factions of the Congress. But it may seats. had registered total 5.04 lakh admissions (DAKSHINAYAN) cause trouble to him in coming days. After conducting exercise for three including 4.11 lakh admissions in under- months and several rounds of online ad- graduate courses and 90,000 admissions ��������� ����������� Lure of lucre missions large number of seats still re- in postgraduate courses.