Abhishek Singh suspended in UP

his custody. Malhotra’s liquor manufacturing and distribution business is spread across Punjab and some other regions like Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, officials said. The federal probe agency had raided premises linked to Malhotra’s group last year in Punjab’s Faridkot and some other locations.

The excise policy 202122 was scrapped in August last year and the Delhi lieutenant governor later asked the CBI to probe the alleged irregularities. The ED’s money laundering probe stems from the CBI FIR.

Flight skids off during take-off

New Delhi: A flight training aircraft for student pilots overturned at the Thiruvananthapuram international airport on Wednesday. The pilot is safe, the official said.

The incident when the training aircraft of the Rajiv Gandhi Academy for Aviation Technology, while taking off on a solo flight veered off from the runway.

Dr Ahtesham Siddiqui

Lucknow: IAS officer Abhishek Singh who was absent without information has been suspended on the instruction of chief minister Yogi Adityanath. Singh, an officer of the 2011 batch, will be attached to the UP revenue department during the suspension period. Also, he will have to seek permission before leaving the headquarters.

It is the second time that this officer has been suspended. Earlier, in 2014, he was suspended for indecent behavior with a Dalit teacher.

Singh’s wife Durga Shakti Nagpal is also an IAS officer and was posted as special secretary of medical education in the UP government. Singh was sent to Gujarat as the election observer but after a controversy over getting a photo clicked in front of the vehicle and posting it on social media, he was removed by the Election Commission of India.