Dhananjay Deshmukh, the younger brother of murdered Massajog village Sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh withdrew his recent petition on Tuesday, which he had filed at the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court earlier, even as the Deshmukh family is scheduled to meet Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday night in Mumbai
The Sarpanch was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 on behalf of an Exemptee Sub Inspector (ESI).
The aspirant identified as Sushant Kumar Chhatria from Bileisarda village under Puintala block reportedly promised to pay a donation of Rs 44,000 towards further progress of the partially built Lord Jagannath temple in the Gram Panchayat.
Incidentally, Hema Nayak (60) was elected unopposed as sarpanch of the reserved (SC) Badapalli gram panchayat under Khallikote block of the district in 2017. If reports are to be believed, she visits the panchayat office on compulsion.
Covid cases on decline, recovery is high, low mortality rates.
Ajay Pandit, sarpanch of the Larkipora area in Anantnag district and a member of the Congress party, was shot at by terrorists at his native village around 6pm on Monday
The NIA produced him before a special court in Jammu that remanded him to six days in the agency's custody after.
Nomination papers of a POK resident for contesting an election were rejected by the district administration of Poonch few years ago too.
A day after releasing the schedule for election to urban local bodies, the state election commission on Sunday declared elections for panchayats that will be held in nine phases from 17 November to 11 December.
The development of villages is essential for the overall progress of the country and to have smart cities, said woman…
