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A special court has awarded one year sentence and a fine of Rupees 1.75 lakhs to the former Women and Child Welfare Officer, Sumitra Dongre for accumulating wealth disproportionate to her known sources of income.
Official sources said a tip-off Special Police Establishment had registered a case against the officer on April 1, 1995. Property worth of lakhs of ruoees was seized in a raid at her private houses in Indore and Ujjain. A challan was presented in the special court against her on August 24, 2004.
Dongare will have to undergo six months more imprisonment in case she failed to deposit the fine.
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The Election Commission team that visited Bhopal to supervise the preparations for the second phase of polls in the State, praised the State authorities for peaceful conduct of the first phase. Voting for second phase would be held tomorrow in remaining 16 constituencies of state.
The team addressed a meeting of administrative officers here on Sunday. Election Commissioners S.Y. Quraishi and V.S. Sampath instructed the authorities to seal inter-State borders before the commencement of the second phase polls in the State’s 16 Lok Sabha constituencies.
They also called for border sealing of constituencies where polls had already been conducted in the first phase.
Regarding the controversy over photographs of BJP leader Sushma Swaraj and Sadhana Singh, wife of CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan, casting their votes, Mr. Quraishi said the complaints in this regard were being monitored and any action could be taken only after obtaining sufficient evidence.
The State as well as national media carried pictures of the two casting their votes, which is a gross breach of poll confidentiality and the secret ballot system.
Unlike other States with a naxal presence, Madhya Pradesh did not witness naxal violence during the first phase polls.
The State has several districts with considerable Naxal presence, including Balaghat, Dindori, Mandla and Umariya. |
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Temprature rose for straight seventh day today, touching 43 degrees celsius during early afternoon on Tuesday. This is 2 degrees above normal, engulfing whole city under tremendous heat. A major decrease in traffic could be clearly felt in city's streets during the day time, most of which are giving deserting look. Temprature is expected to further rise during the week.
Sudden rise in temprature caused lot of discomfort to common man on Akshya Tritya festival. |
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Water crisis in several parts of Bhopal city has further deteriorated. The majorly affected areas include complete North and South T.T. Nagar, Tulsi Nagar, Shivaji Nagar, Nehru Nagar, Kotra, Harshvardhan, In the BHEL surroundings, Indrapuri and Subhash Nagar including their surroundings are also facing severe shortage. Shahjahanbad and Kazi Camp area in the old city are also getting short supply.
Bhopal Municipal Corporation takes around 3.40 lakh gallon water from Kolar Dam daily which is still not enough to feed the 1.5 million poplutation of entire city during summer. Most of the places are now getting water for only 15-20 min every alternate day and that too with low pressure.
The crisis is expected to further deteriorate in coming days. |
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