2 revenue dept staffers held for embezzling `22.87 crore

Latur (PTI): Police have arrested two employees of the local revenue department for the alleged embezzlement of Rs22.87 crore from a nationalized bank in Latur district, an official said.

According to tehsildar Mahesh Parandekar, who is the complainant in the case, an order was issued to distribute funds under the government's Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan, a water conservation project, a police official said.

Accordingly, two demand drafts were given to water conservation officers to disburse the amounts of Rs12,27,297 and Rs41,06,610 through RTGS (Real Time Gross Settlement).

When relevant documents were submitted to the bank, it was found that the balance in the account was only Rs96,559, police inspector Sanjivan Mirkale said. An audit

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A post-mortem of four of the seven bodies—which were found 200-300m away from each other in the Bheema riverbed near Pargaon bridge in Duand tehsil of Pune district between January 18 and January 24—identified drowning as the cause of the death, officials had earlier said.

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Thane: A special court here has acquitted seven persons who had been charged with attempt to murder under the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA), observing that the prosecution had failed to prove the charges and that the accused.

The witnesses appeared to have had some sort of settlement outside the court, special (MCOCA) Judge Amit M Shete observed in his order passed on January 18, a copy of which was made available on Tuesday.

According to court documents, the accused had attacked the complaint with swords over past enmity at Kashimira in the district back in February 2016.

The alleged attackers, including five in their 20s, were booked under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Arms Act and the stringent MCOCA.

In his order, Special Judge Shete held that the prosecution had failed to prove the charges against the alleged accused “who need to be acquitted” of all charges.

“The prosecution witnesses failed to establish any offence against the accused persons. The evi - dence which is admitted by the accused as well as produced by the prosecution is not reliable and not that much trustworthy so as to say that the prosecution succeeded to prove any charge,” the judge said in his order.