The Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh has busted a job racket and has arrested three persons, including two government employees. The fourth accused is said to be absconding.
According to STF spokesman, they received information that an equipment technician at the Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University, identified as Maheshwari Prasad Choudhury, had duped several candidates of lakhs of rupees by assuring them of jobs. The STF set up electronic surveillance of Choudhury’s mobile phone and came to know that Chaudhary, along with Sandeep Kumar Singh, Neeraj Verma and R.K. Yadav had taken lakhs of rupees from job aspirants.
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Indus water Treaty loss to be assessed
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SRINAGAR
The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to hire reputed consultants for formally assessing the losses suffered by the state in sequel to the 1960 Indus Water Treaty (IWT) between India and Pakistan, chief minister Omar Abdullah announced here on Friday.
“Time has come to formally assess all the losses which the Jammu and Kashmir state has suffered in sequel to Indus-Water Treaty, by utilising the services of reputed consultants so that the authentic figure of such losses is projected at relevant meetings for compensation whatever becomes due,” he told a meeting of the board of directors meeting of JKPDC.