44 criminals externed from Varanasi
VARANASI : The court of commissioner of police, Varanasi has externed 44 criminals from limits of Varanasi police commissionerate area in the last one month. Commissioner of police A Satish Ganesh externed six criminals, additional CP (headquarters and crime) Subhash Chandra Dubey externed 21 criminals and additional CP (law and order) Anil Singh externed 17 criminals. The action was taken for effective control of crime.
Dubey has instructed station officers of various police stations to ensure that the criminals, who were externed, didn’t enter the limit of Varanasi police commissionerate area during the said period.
Cops conduct security check at banks
VARANASI: Police teams carried out a massive checking drive in banks in different parts of the city. The cops checked CCTV cameras, alarm systems and weapons of the guards on duty at the banks. They also interrogated persons who were roaming around the banks. The police team led by assistant commissioner of police Dashashwamedh, Awadhesh Pandey conducted security checks of banks in Lahurabir, Maidagini, Godaulia, Girijaghar, Sigra and other areas.
Man, son assaulted, their house set ablaze
PRAYAGRAJ: A man and his son were admitted to a hospital after being attacked and injured by miscreants at an orchard under Manjhanpur police station of Kaushambi district on Sunday night. The assailants also set their house on fire.
The injured have been admitted to the hospital and some suspects have been detained for questioning, police said.
Police said, Makhanlal, a resident of Chak village and his son Rajendra were guarding their orchard on Sunday night when some miscreants arrived in a SUV, assaulted both Rajendra and Makhanlal. The miscreants also allegedly stabbed
Rajendra in the neck before setting their house on fire. Nara police outpost in-charge Shailendra Pamdey claimed the attack was a sequel to a road accident around a month back.
ED lodges FIR against bank branch manager
PRAYAGRAJ: Enforcement Directorate has registered a case of money laundering against a bank manager and some other staff. The bank manager posted at a private bank branch in Kotwali area, has opened bank account in name of another person which he used for making transactions worth Rs 53 crores. ED has registered the case on the basis of an FIR lodged in Mirzapur district earlier.
Resident of Mirzapur, Jai Prakash Kesri had lodged an FIR at Mirzapur Kotwali police station in July last year against bank manager Ashish Singh and other bank staff. Kesri claimed that Ashish was his friend who got job in the bank in 2012. Few years later Ashish met him and said that he has been given target of opening bank accounts. Kesri gave his documents for opening the account but Ashish later said that now there is no need to open the account. Ashish was later transferred to bank’s branch in Kotwali area of Prayagraj.
On May 17, 2021 Kesri recieved a notice from income tax department for making transactions worth Rs 53 crores in his bank account in Prayagraj. Kesri immediately approached police and lodged an FIR against Ashish for fraud. ED officials said that a case has been lodged on the basis of earlier FIR lodged against the accused at Mirzapur.