NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL THE SHADOW 5 JAMMU, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 2021 ED raids premises of former Maharashtra ‘My crime, I fought for breath of 2 crore people’, says Kejriwal on report HM Deshmukh in Nagpur, aides in Mumbai on Delhi’s ‘exaggerated’ Oxygen need NEW DELHI, JUNE 25 Thackeray. duties by the officials, it claims for allocation of 700 MT of oxygen The Enforcement The CBI booked claimed. on April 30 using a “wrong formula”. Directorate (ED) on Friday Deshmukh and others under After registering the FIR After the report came to light, the BJP conducted searches at the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on April 21, the CBI had accused Kejriwal of “heinous crime” and premises of former sections related to criminal also carried out searches in “criminal negligence”. Maharashtra home minister conspiracy and section of Mumbai and Nagpur at In reply to the allegation, Kejriwal took Anil Deshmukh in Nagpur Prevention of Corruption premises linked to the for- to Twitter to say, “My crime—I fought for and his associates in Act for "attempt to obtain mer minister who resigned the breath of my two crore people. When Mumbai as part of a money- undue advantage for after the high court had you were doing an election rally, I was laundering probe against the improper and dishonest per- ordered a CBI probe against awake all night arranging for oxygen. I politician on Rs 100 crore formance of public duty". him in connection with this fought, pleaded to get oxygen for people.” bribery charges, officials followed by filing a regular that illicit funds were gener- "The preliminary case. NEW DELHI, JUNE 25 “People have lost their loved ones due to said. case on the orders of the ated in the transfer, posting enquiry prima facie ‘Targeting opponents’ In face of the BJP’s accusation of “crim- lack of oxygen. Don’t call them liars, they They said the raids are Bombay High Court that of police personnel in revealed that a cognisable The NCP on Friday inal negligence” citing a report that the are feeling so bad,” he said in a tweet in being carried out under pro- asked it to look into the alle- Maharashtra and if illegal offence is made out in the slammed the BJP, saying Delhi government “exaggerated” oxygen Hindi. visions of the Prevention of gations of bribery made extortion was done by the matter, wherein the then that it has the “habit” of requirement during Covid-19 second wave, BJP leaders, including East Delhi MP Money Laundering Act against Deshmukh by for- cops as claimed by Singh in home minister of using the investigative Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday Gautam Gambhir and former Delhi minister (PMLA) and the locations mer Mumbai Police his complaint. Maharashtra, Shri Anil agencies and “targeting” the said his only “crime” was that he “fought Kapil Mishra have slammed the Delhi gov- include Deshmukh's resi- Commissioner Param Bir The ED has powers to Deshmukh and unknown political rivals. for the breath of two crore people”. ernment over the issue and demanded an dence at GPO Chowk in Singh. attach assets of the accused others have attempted to Talking to reporters at He also said that those who lost their apology over what they call is “criminal Nagpur and that of his per- Officials said the search during the investigation obtain undue advantage for Osmanabad, NCP’s loved ones due to the shortage of oxygen negligence”. sonal secretary Sanjeev teams are looking for addi- stage and later file charge improper and dishonest per- Maharashtra unit chief should not be called “liars”. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra termed it Palande and personal assis- tional evidence that can be sheets against them before a formance of their public Jayant Patil said: “The BJP A sub-group constituted by the Supreme a “heinous crime”. tant Kundan Shinde in important for their probe. PMLA court for trial. duty," the CBI FIR had has the habit of using the Court to audit oxygen consumption in the “Imagine the amount of criminality. This Mumbai. The teams are trying to Singh was shunted out alleged. investigative agencies and national capital’s hospitals has said that the is a heinous crime by Arvind Kejriwal. This Deshmukh (71), sources gather evidence and record from the post after the role The CBI enquiry found its leaders are now passing Delhi government “exaggerated” consump- is criminal negligence as the panel says he told PTI, is in Mumbai and statements to substantiate of policeman Sachin Vaze Vaze, assistant inspector of resolutions in their state tion of the life-saving gas. sought four times more oxygen than the agency is expected to the claims made by about 10 surfaced during investiga- Mumbai Police, had been body meetings regarding The five-member panel, headed by required. The report has exposed the politics question him there. bar owners to the ED that tion of the explosive-laden reinstated into the police inquiries. They have no AIIMS director Randeep Guleria, said that he did to shift blame from his incompetence Palande was brought by they paid about Rs 4 crore SUV that was found parked force after being out of ser- work left now”. during the second wave of COVID-19infec- and failure to deal with COVID-19,” Patra the sleuths to the ED office "bribe" in cash that was near industrialist Mukesh vice for more than 15 years. “The BJP is now very tions, the Delhi government had made said. in Ballard Estate area of allegedly handed over to the Ambani's house in Mumbai. Vaze was entrusted with much in the habit of using Maharashtra's capital city former home minister. In his letter to Chief some of the most sensation- investigative agencies, like UP woman calls off marriage at last for questioning around Official sources said Minister Uddhav Thackeray al and important cases of CBI and others. So much so noon, they said. these claims have been after he was removed from Mumbai city and that the Maharashtra body moment as groom fails to read The central probe agency recorded by the agency the Police Commissioner's Deshmukh was in knowl- of their party is passing res- had registered a criminal under the PMLA and it is post, Singh had alleged that edge of the said fact, the olutions to seek inquiry,” he newspaper without glasses on case under the anti-money trying to corroborate it with Deshmukh had asked Vaze CBI FIR alleged. said after holding a meeting CHANDIGARH, JUNE laundering law against additional evidence. to extort over Rs 100 crore a It alleged that Deshmukh to review the irrigation pro- 25 Deshmukh and others last Deshmukh, who had to month from bars and restau- "and others" exercised jects in Osmanabad district. A month after a groom month after studying a CBI resign from his post in April rants of Mumbai. undue influence over the Patil asked why BJP was rejected for flunking a FIR. following the allegations, Deshmukh, a leader of transfer and posting of offi- leaders don’t speak about simple 'maths test', another The ED case came about has denied any wrongdoing. the NCP, was the home min- cials and thereby exercising the issues like Covid-19 or marriage in Uttar Pradesh after the CBI first carried The agency's probe is ister of the state in the MVA undue influence over the the development of the was called off at the last out a preliminary inquiry focused on the allegation government headed by performance of government state. moment as the groom was unable to read a newspaper 5 men jump off after without his glasses on, earli- Kerala High Court grants er this week. boarding wrong train All was going well and the marriage was about to in UP's Jhansi; 1 dead anticip atory bail to A yesha take place . The groom, all decked up, was about to reach the wedding hall with Sulthana in sedition case his 'baraat' when the bride out his glasses, and on A police case was later and her family noticed the KOCHI, JUNE 25 knowing this, the bride registered by the bride’s boy wearing spectacles the refused to marry him, family against the groom The Kerala High Court whole time. on Friday granted anticipa- reported News18.com. and his relatives and they The bride was not keen The incident was report- also asked them to return tory bail to Lakshadweep on marrying someone who filmmaker Ayesha Sulthana ed from Auraiya district of the gifts including motorcy- had poor eyesight. Uttar Pradesh. According to cle. in a sedition case registered The women’s family against her by the Kavaratti the report, When the boy’s side then asked the groom to ‘Shagun’ was also per- refused to return the gifts, police. read a Hindi newspaper A case was registered on formed before the wedding an FIR was lodged at a without his glasses on. The and a motorcycle was also police station in Auraiya June 9 under Sections 124- groom could not see with- A (sedition) and 153-B gifted to the groom. Kotwali. JHANSI, JUNE 25 (hate speech) of the IPC on One man died when five passengers jumped off a train in the basis of a petition Snake worth Rs 2.5 crore used for black Jhansi after realizing that they had boarded the wrong train. lodged by a political leader The deceased, identified as Ajay Kumar, 33, came under from Kavaratti. anticipatory bail for a week, remarks later and tendered while reserving orders on an apology for making the magic rescued from 4 persons in Bihar the wheels of the train, while four others, including his two Granting bail, Justice District forest officer, Balrampur, siblings, were injured in the incident.