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04 uttarpradesh hindustantimes HINDUSTAN TIMES, LUCKNOW
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 05, 2019
AZAMGARH: Sixteen students were injured after their school bus hit a divider near Atraulia town on Tejpur highway here on Monday morning. Immediately after receiving the information, the police reached the spot and all the injured students were taken to the nearby district hospital for treatment. Dinesh Kumar Mishra, deputy district magistrate of Budhanpur said: “Pandit Ram Awadh Bal Vidya Mandir School bus with a total 53 students and 10 staff were returning from a Varanasi tour when the driver fell asleep and crashed into a divider around 4 am. No one was critically injured.”
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16 STUDENTS HURT AFTER SCHOOL BUS HITS DIVIDER
UP Cong chief should apologise or face criminal defamation suit: Minister
LUCKNOW : Uttar Pradesh energy minister Shrikant Sharma on Monday threatened UP Congress Committee president Ajay Kumar Lallu with a criminal defamation suit for targeting him over the investment of Rs 2,600 crore of the state employees’ provident fund in the unsecured Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd (DHFCL).
“The allegations against meby Congress leader Ajay Kumar Lallu are concocted and false. He must tender an apology for the baseless charges or else be ready to face a criminal defama-tion case,” Sharma warned.Lallu had on Sunday questioned the role of the energy minister in the investment of the state power employees’ provident PF in the unsecured private com-pany with questionable creden-tials. “Lallu concocted charges only to stay in the news,” the minister said, adding, “He also is behaving like Rahul Gandhi who had levelled many baseless allegations against our leaders for which he is facing litigation in various courts.” HTC
Priyanka seeks more info, UP Cong chief puts questions to minister
LUCKNOW : The Congress on Monday accused the Yogi govern-ment of misleading the people on the power employees PF issue.
For her part, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra presided over a meeting of senior party leaders in New Delhi on Monday and sought more information from them on the issue, a party insider said. UPCC president Ajay Kumar Lallu, who attended the meeting in New Delhi, later circulated questions that he said minister for energy Shrikant Sharma should answer if he was clean on the issue. Lallu, in his first poser to Sharma, said the minister should give specific dates when the funds were transferred to the DHFCL from March 2017 to December 31, 2018.He said the state government should make all the correspond-ence with DHFCL public and clarify why the PF funds of power employees were given to a private company. Earlier, the Congress held a demonstration to protest the scam. HTC
Power employee call for two-day work boycott from November 18
LUCKNOW : The state’s power employees will resort to a 48-hour work boycott from Novem-ber 18 morning in response to a call by Uttar Pradesh Karmvhari Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti to press various demands and protest the PF scam.
As a buildup, prior to thatthey will hold demonstrations at all the district headquarters, power projects at Shakti Bhawan here on November5 between 3pm and 5pm.
Giving this information here, employees’ leader Shailendra Dubey said the decision on the boycott was taken after their meeting with the UPPCL manage-ment with regard to their de-mands failed at Shakti Bhawan here on Monday. The proposed agitation is being seen as a pressure tactics to get their old demands like wages correction, regularisation of services of contract staff, recruitment to fill vacant posts etc met at a time when the UPPCL management is defensive over the PF scam. HTC
Jitendra Sarinn [email protected]
PRAYAGRAJ: Former BSP MP Kapil
Muni Karwariya, his brothers
Uday Bhan Karwariya and Suraj
Bhan Karwariya and one Ram
Chandra Tripathi were awarded
life term by the Allahabad ses-
sions court here on Monday in the
sensational murder case of then
sitting SP MLA Jawahar Yadav
in 1996. Uday Bhan is a former
BJP MLA.
The court also imposed a fine of
Rs 1 lakh on each of them.
On October 31, all the four
were convicted on charges under
sections 302 (committing mur-
der), section 307 (attempt to com-
mit murder), section 149 (unlaw-
ful assembly) and other sections
of Indian Penal Code.
After awarding life term to all
of them, additional sessions judge
(ASJ), Allahabad, Badri Vishal
Pandey, closed the trial.
Earlier, the court had reserved
its judgment on October 18 after
concluding trial in the case,
which lasted for nearly two dec-
ades. According to district gov-
ernment counsel (criminal)
Gulab Chandra Agrahri, 18 wit-
nesses were produced by the
prosecution to prove the charges
against the accused persons.
On the other hand, on the side
of defence, the Karwariya broth-
ers produced as many as 156 wit-
nesses to prove their innocence.
During trial, testimonies of all
witnesses were recorded and
they were cross-examined, as
well. Jawahar Yadav was killed
on August 13, 1996, in Civil Lines
area of Allahabad. The incident
rocked the city as AK-47 assault
rifle was used for the first time in
the city in a crime. Besides Jawa-
har, his driver Gulab Yadav
and passerby Kamal Kumar
Dixit were also killed in the fir-
ing.
Subsequently, on the same
day an FIR was lodged at Civil
Lines police station by Sulaki
Yadav, brother of Jawahar
Yadav.
As per the first information
report, Jawahar Yadav had
enmity with Kapil Muni and his
other family members, who alleg-
edly killed him.
In the 224-page judgment, the
judge observed that the prosecu-
tion had been successful in prov-
ing its case, hence all the four
accused were convicted.
JAWA H A R YA D AV M U R D E R
23 yrs on, Karwariya brothers sentenced to life in prison
PRAYAGRAJ: Vijma Yadav,
former MLA and widow
of slain SP MLA Jawa-
har Yadav said that
though she was happy
with the verdict which
came after a tough
struggle of 23 years, she
feared for her life and
the lives of her three
children, daughters
Jyoti and Jyotsna and
her only son, Virendra
Yadav. She said that the
judgment and the sen-
tencing has come just
weeks before the mar-
riage of her daughter,
Jyoti, set to take place
on November 21. Jyoti is
a former Block Pram-
ukh of Phulpur. Vijma
Yadav said that if the
Karwariya brothers
move high court against
the judgment, she was
ready to continue her
fight for justice. She
said Monday’s judg-
ment has strengthened
her faith in the judicial
system. HTC
HAPPY BUT FEAR FOR MYCHILDREN: VIJMA YADAV
n Karwariyas’ supporters and onlookers on district court premises in Prayagraj. ANIL KUMAR MAURYA/HT
Brajendra K Parasharn [email protected]
LUCKNOW : The illegal investment
of Uttar Pradesh power employ-
ees’ provident fund contribution
in a Mumbai-based unsecured
private housing finance com-
pany DHFCL, now a declared
defaulter, appears to be a clear
case of multi-level lapses result-
ing in continuance of the scam
for two-and-a-half years, people
associated with the state’s power
sector alleged.
Right from the employees and
pensioners’ representatives,
who were part of the Power Sec-
tor Employees’ Trust that
invested the fund, to the internal
auditors, who prepared and
audited the Trust’s balance
sheets, all failed to detect and
point out the investment being
done in utter violation of the
Central government’s guide-
lines, they added.
It was only after UP Power
Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) chair-
man-cum principal secretary
Alok Kumar, who is also the
Trust chairman, received an
anonymous complaint on July 10
that he got the matter investi-
gated only to find that it was too
late by then. The Trust invested
around Rs 2,600 crore from the
employees’ PF in DHFCL
between March 17, 2017 and till a
few months ago.
The DHFCL’s bank accounts
presently stand frozen on a
Mumbai high court order after
many investors approached the
court when the company started
defaulting.
As much as Rs 2,260 crore of
the over Rs 2,600 crore remains
unrecoverable. The Centre’s
guidelines forbid any such
investment in an unsafe venture.
“Although the internal audi-
tors verified the UP Power Sector
Employees Trust’s balance
sheets up to the year 2016-17, in
March this year, they never
detected or pointed out the irreg-
ularities,” Alok Kumar said,
adding, “We are taking up this
issue with the auditors.”
According to sources, the last
meeting of the board of trustees
was held on March 24, 2017.
Employees did not get their con-
tributory provident fund (CPF)
slip (it shows status of their PF
deposit) for the last three years,
the sources alleged.
“Neither employees nor their
leaders or any of employees and
pensioners’ representatives,
working as trustees to watch the
staff’s interests, ever raised their
voice against why the meeting
was not being convened or why
employees were not getting their
CPF slips,” the sources said.
“Despite all their good inten-
tions, the energy sector officials,
who are also on the Trust’s board
of directors, appear to have some
have supervisory lapses on their
part,” UP Rajya Vidyut
Upbhokta Parishad chairman
Awadhesh Kumar Verma said.
PUTTING ALL EGGS IN
ONE BASKET
The Trust also appeared to have
ignored the basic principles of
financial investment and chose
to put all eggs in one basket, max-
imising the risk.
It has been discovered that the
accused invested the Trust’s 99%
fund in three housing finance
companies and more than 65%
was put in the controversial
HFCL) only. “This was against
the basic financial prudence that
says investment should always
be diversified and all eggs should
never be put in one basket to
minimise the risk of losing the
money,” a senior official said.
P O W E R E M P L O Y E E S ’ P F S C A M
‘Multiple lapses led to investment in unsecured firm going undetected’
›Despite all their goodintentions, the energy
sector officials, who are also on the Trust’s board of directors, appear to have some have supervisory lapses on their partAWADHESH KUMAR VERMA, UP Rajya Vidyut Upbhokta Parishad chairman
HT Correspondentn [email protected]
LUCKNOW : The Economic
Offences Wing (EOW) of UP
Police on Monday seized 15
sets of documents from the
State Power Sector Employ-
ees’ Trust office in Shakti
Bhawan here in connection
with the PF investment scam
case and planned to book the
two accused, who have been
arrested, under provisions of
the Prevention of Corruption
Act as well, an official said.
Director-general, EOW,
Rajinder Pal Singh said, “Five
sets of documents were seized
in the presence of two-three
(UP Power Sector Employ-
ees’) Trust members.”
He also said, “We have
decided to add the provision
of the Prevention of Corrup-
tion Act (to the case) after the
investigation.” In view of the
condition that the investiga-
tion agency has to seek a nod
from the appointing author-
ity, he said, “We will write a
letter to the government
tomorrow (Tuesday) and
hopeful of the approval soon.”
The state government had
earlier announced it was for-
warding its proposal for a CBI
probe to the Centre and asked
the EOW to investigate the
case till then. Deputy inspec-
tor general of police, EOW,
Heera Lal, along with a team
of officials, seized the docu-
ments related to the case from
the Trust office. EOW officials
went Lucknow jail to record
the statements of two
accused--UP State Power Sec-
tor Employees Trust secre-
tary Praveen Kumar Gupta
and director of finance
Sudhanshu Dwivedi. “This
was a legal requirement,”
said Singh.
The Economic Offences
Wingh has also filed an appli-
cation, seeking seven days’
police custody of both the
accused in order to interro-
gate them about the case,
especially after they seized
the related documents. “The
application will be taken up
by the court tomorrow (Tues-
day),” he added.
After a complaint by the
Trust, the police on Novem-
ber 2 registered a case against
these officials. Both were
arrested the same day. The
FIR was lodged in Hazratganj
police station.
EOW SEIZES PAPERS FROM TRUST OFFICE
2 SIS PUNISHED FORNOT SALUTING MLABIJNOR: Two sub-inspectors of UP police were sent to the police lines on Sunday after local BJP MLA Kamlesh Saini complained about their behaviour. The lawmaker was at a public function in Bijnor’s Chandpur area two days ago where Gajendra Singh and Jaiveer Maan, S-Is, Chandpur police station, were deployed. They neither stood up from their chairs nor saluted the MLA when she arrived at the venue, after which she lodged a complaint with the SP Sanjeev Tyagi. SP City Laxmi Nivas Misra confirmed the incident. AGENCY
MLAS TAKE OATHLUCKNOW: SP MP Moham-mad Azam Khan’s wife Tazeen Fatima (Rampur) took oath as MLA here on Monday. Speaker Hridaya Narayan Dikshit administered oath to the new MLAs.
Others given oath on Monday include Rajkumar Sahyogi (Iglas, Aligarh), Surendra Maithani (Govind Nagar, Kanpur), and Vijay Kumar Rajbhar (Ghosi). Dikshit gave a copy of the Constitution, rules for proceedings of assembly to the new members along with a copy of “Hind Swaraj Ka Punarpath” written by him.