Billionaire industrialist Naveen Jindal reportedly received an extortion threat from an inmate lodged in a jail in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh, reports said.

According to the police, the letter was sent to the Raigarh-based steel plant of the former Congress MP Naveen Jindal carrying a demand of Rs.50 crore.

The letter, delivered last week by post at Jindal’s Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) factory in Patrapali village, threatened him of dire consequences for Naveen Jindal if the sum of Rs 50 crore was not paid within 48 hours.

Reports quoting police officials said investigations discovered that the letter was penned by an inmate of Bilaspur central jail. They said the inmate was on Monday booked under Indian Penal Code Sections 386 (extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) by the Kotra Road police.

They said the matter will be thoroughly investigated.

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Iran and India on Wednesday held a meeting to exchange the ideas for a wide range of trades, connectivity, and counter-terror cooperation amid the ongoing controversy over the derogatory remark on Prophet Mohammad by the ruling BJP party’s leader Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal, who have been removed from the party and described as fringe elements.

The meeting has been attended by top Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the first big leader who visited India after the Prophet Mohammad controversy. During the meeting, he raised questions about the controversial remark on Prophet, which has been already criticised by the top Gulf countries including Qatar, Kuwait, and UAE among others with National Security Adviser Ajit Doval.

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The report said the National Security Advisor Doval told the Iranian minister that the offenders who have used the bad remark for Prophet Mohammad will be dealt with in such a way that others will take a lesson from it. However, there is no official response from the Indian government side on the details of the Iranian statement.

Reports also revealed that the Iranian minister also praised India’s diverse culture, people, and the government for respect for Prophet Muhammad and others religions equally in the country.

While tweeting about the meeting with India, Abdollahian wrote he is pleased to meet PM Modi, FM Jaishankar and other Indian officials to advance their bilateral strategic dialogue. Tehran & New Delhi agree on the need to respect divine religions & Islamic sanctities & to avoid divisive statements. Determined to bring relations to new heights,” the minister tweeted last night.

Meanwhile, the ruling party BJP on Sunday suspended Nupur Sharma and expelled the party’s Delhi unit media head Naveen Jindal over the derogatory remark on Prophet Mohammad, after getting criticized by the several countries, including United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Indonesia, Maldives, Bahrain, Oman, Malaysia, Libya, Iraq denounced the remark on Prophet.

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]BJD chief Naveen Patnaik today took oath as Odisha CM for the fifth time t the IDCO exhibition ground in Bhubaneswar. It is the first time Naveen Patnaik has taken oath in an open public ground. In 2000, 2004, 2009 and 2014, he was sworn in at the Raj Bhavan.

His team of ministers also administered the oath of the office.  Twenty ministers including 11 cabinet ministers and nine ministers of state were also administered the oath of office and secrecy.

The cabinet ministers are Ranendra Pratap Swain, Bikram Keshari Arukh, Prafulla Kumar Mallick, Niranjan Pujari, Padmanabh Behera, Pratap Jena, Arun Kumar Sahoo, Sudam Marndi, Susant Singh, Naba Kishore Das and Tukuni Sahu.

The ministers of state are Ashok Chandra Panda, Samir Ranjan Dash, Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi, Dibya Shankar Mishra, Premananda Nayak, Raghunandan Das, Padmini Dian, Tusharkanti Behera and Jagannath Saraka.

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Naveen Patnaik had invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the swearing-in ceremony. PM Modi did not attend the function. However, he congratulated Naveen Patnaik on the swearing-in, promising cooperation from the Centre, “Congratulations to Naveen Patnaik ji on taking oath as Odisha’s chief minister. Best wishes to him and his team in fulfilling the people’s aspirations. 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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Jindal, a former Congress MP, has been formally charged by the CBI for discrepancies in allocating coal blocks when the UPA was in power.

 Industrialist Naveen Jindal has been summoned by a Delhi special court on Tuesday in connection with a coal scam.

The 47-year-old Jindal, a former Congress MP, has been formally charged by the CBI for discrepancies in allocating coal blocks when the Congress-led UPA was in power.

The court has summoned three more persons and the Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) Company and asked them to appear before the court on September 4.

Besides Jindal, the others summoned are the company its former director Sushil Maroo, former Deputy MD Anand Goyal and CEO Vikrant Gujral for cheating and conspiracy in the allocation of Urtan North coal block in Madhya Pradesh.

The hearing is on the case of allocation of Jharkhand’s Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block to Jindal Steel and Gagan Sponge.

The agency has alleged that the company in connivance with then Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao influenced the screening committee which had allotted coal blocks.

The court’s summons came a day after three former coal officials including former coal secretary HC Gupta were sentenced to two years in prison by a special CBI court. Last week, the court observed that these allocations were signed without the knowledge of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who held the coal ministry.

It has also said Singh was unknown of the illegal aspects of the deal, and he was “kept in the dark” by senior bureaucrats.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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