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Who is IAS Pooja Singhal? Everything you need to know about the MNREGA funds fraud case
Pooja Singhal is a 2000 batch IAS officer of the Jharkhand cadre.

The Enforcement Directorate on Friday raided the residences of two close aides of Jharkhand IAS officer Pooja Singhal. Reportedly, the ED seized a total of Rs 19.31 crore cash in total, out of which, Rs 17 crore was recovered from the residence of Pooja Singhal’s chartered accountant, Suman Kumar in Ranchi.
Pictures and videos of the ED officials counting notes during the raid are doing rounds on the internet. Reports said that the whopping amount was recovered during the probe launched by the ED in connection with a case related to corruption and misappropriation of the Mahatma Gandhi, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme in Jharkhand.
Reports also said that the raids were conducted at 6 am under the leadership of a joint director spread to Mumbai, Gurugram, Delhi, Jaipur, Faridabad, Muzaffarpur, Ranchi, and other cities.
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Who is IAS Pooja Singhal?
The IAS officer in question is a 2000 batch IAS officer of the Jharkhand cadre. She also served as the Agriculture Secretary in the previous BJP government. She was earlier posted in Chatra, Khunti and Palamu.
Earlier, as the Deputy Commissioner of Palamu, Singhal was accused of transferring nearly 83 acres of land to a private company for mining. As per reports, Singhal’s second husband Abhishek Jha is the managing director of Pulse Sanjeevani Healthcare Private Hospital. The ED is also raiding the Pulse Hospital in Ranchi and 20 other places in the country.
Her first husband is a 1999 batch IAS officer in Jharkhand.
Reports said the case is related to a case registered under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act by the Enforcement Directorate in 2020 against Jharkhand junior engineer Ram Binod Prasad Sinha.
Sinha was arrested by the ED on June 17, 2020, in the 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. ED had taken cognizance of 16 FIRs and a charge sheet filed by the Jharkhand Vigilance Bureau against Sinha which said that he was accused of misappropriating government funds worth Rs 18.06 crore.
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Patna: Bulldozers knock down 70 houses in Rajiv Nagar, clash between police and public
In Rajiv Nagar, 70 houses were demolished by bulldozers. The local people clashed with the police administration due to the order of demolishing 70 illegal houses.

In Rajiv Nagar, 70 houses were demolished by bulldozers. The local people clashed with the police administration due to the order of demolishing 70 illegal houses.
According to the reports, when police and anti-riot force started moving bulldozers on the houses, the residents and the local people also stood up with bricks and stones in their hands.
The reason for the displeasure of the local people is that the CO and government employees of the area took no action when the houses were being built and the area was being settled.
One of the locals said, “when the houses are already built, then why the bulldozer is being run by the administration to remove them.”
It has been clearly said by the Minister of Revenue and Land Reform, Ramsurat Rai that the government is not in a mood to be soft on the encroachers. So, on June 3, the administration reached Rajiv Nagar with about one and a half dozen JCB machines to demolish the illegal constructions in Rajiv Nagar of Patna (Bihar).
The local people were seen clashing with the administration to save the shelter. They also attacked the police and the anti-riot force with bricks and stones.
During this, the condition of the people, whose houses were broken, was deteriorated. People who had built houses with hard-earned money were seen getting helpless.
Bihar news
Bihar: Fire breaks out at train in Bhelwa Railway Station, video goes viral
A fire broke out at a train in Bhelwa Railway Station in Bihar which was heading to Narkatiaganj from Raxual.

A fire broke out at a train in Bhelwa Railway Station in Bihar in the wee hours of Sunday. The fire reportedly erupted in the engine of the DMU train, which was heading to Narkatiaganj from Raxual. According to the reports, all passengers who were on the train were evacuated safely.
A news agency uploaded a video on its Twitter account which shows black smoke swirling out of the train. As soon as the people there noticed the smoke, they informed the on-duty officials. And soon after fire officials reached the spot. Firefighters are seen extinguishing the fire in the video as a crowd of onlookers watches from nearby.
All passengers are safe because the fire from the engine did not spread to other compartments of the train. A firefighting operation is underway.
However, the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. No casualties have been reported so far.
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After Mohammed Zubair’s arrest, Alt News founder Pratik Sinha’s old tweet on Lord Ganesha triggers social media outrage
The tweet is viral on the internet and a section of social media is slamming Sinha for mocking Lord Ganesha and hurting religious sentiments.

Days after Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair got arrested by the Delhi police over allegedly hurting religious sentiments in a 2008 tweet, Pratik Sinha’s old tweet on Lord Ganesha on Lord Ganesha is doing rounds on the internet.
Why #ArrestPratikSinha is trending?
Pratik Sinha, the founder of the fack checker news website Alt News, in an old tweet dated September 19, 2015, wrote, “See many people posting pictures of Ganesha. You guys really believe a man had an elephant’s head?”
The tweet is viral on the internet and a section of social media is slamming Sinha for mocking Lord Ganesha and hurting religious sentiments. #ArrestPratikSinha is trending on Twitter.
Reacting to Pratik Sinha’s tweet, one user demanded strict action against Sinha for hurting religious beliefs. Another user wrote hurting others’ beliefs is not free-thinking. Yet another user wrote Sinha deserves to be arrested for his deeds.
Have a look at Twitter reactions to Pratik Sinha’s old tweet here:
Meanwhile, the Delhi police on Saturday charged Mohammed Zubair with fresh charges of destruction of evidence and receiving funds from foreign entities.
Reports say Delhi Police have invoked sections 201(causing disappearance of evidence), 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and section 35 of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) for allegedly receiving foreign donations.
On June 27, Mohammed Zubair was arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly hurting religious sentiments in one of his old tweets. He was sent to one-day police custody by the trial court on the same day.
The fact-checker was charged under sections 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot) and 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) of the IPC.
He was then charged under sections 120B, 201 of the IPC and 35 FCRA through which the Enforcement Directorate c can lodge a case against Zubair.
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