High-profile Udhampur LS seat records around 70 pc polling
The Udhampur constituency sprawls from the plains of Kathua touching Punjab to the mountainous regions of Kishtwar and Doda.
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BANGALORE, 5 JUNE: CBI probing the alleged multi-crore iron ore scam today arrested former Commerce and Industries Principal Secretary Viswanathan and three others for their reported role in it. The other two arrested are the CEO of Deccan Mining Syndicate Private Limited, its Managing Director and former Sandur Circle Inspector, a Delhi-based CBI official told PTI.
All of them would be produced before the CBI Special Court tomorrow, the official said. The official, however, refused to give further details.
On May 27, former Karnataka Minister and mining baron G Janardhan Reddy and six others were chargesheeted by CBI in a court in connection with alleged illegal mining of iron ore from Bellary district and surrounding areas in 2009-10, which caused ‘wrongful loss’ of Rs 198 crore to the exchequer. CBI had booked Reddy, his personal assistant M Ali Khan, the then Deputy Conservator of Forest, Bellary, S Muthiah, among others, for alleged criminal conspiracy. CBI has taken up the investigation on the directives of the Supreme Court.
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