According to the sleuths, they received information that a staff member from an oxygen plant in Peenya was selling oxygen cylinders for Rs 3,000 per 47 litre cylinder.
BBMP to reinstate Muslim youths targeted by Tejasvi Surya, BJP MLAs
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CCB did not find any evidence of their involvement in alleged bed-blocking scam
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CCB did not find any evidence of their involvement in alleged bed-blocking scam
The 17 Muslim youths who were asked to stay away from work after they had been targeted by BJP MP Tejasvi Surya in the alleged bed-blocking scam will be reposted for duty in the coming week, multiple sources said.
Tulasi Madineni, Special Commissioner, BBMP, South Zone, said they would get their jobs back, but it was left to the agency they work for to decide where they would be reposted for duty. However, when contacted, the agency, Crystal Infosystems and Services, which is contracted by the BBMP to provide personnel, refused to comment on the issue.
1 held for overcharging oxygen cylinder in Bengaluru ANI | Updated: May 08, 2021 10:29 IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 8 (ANI): The Central Crime Branch (CCB), Bengaluru has arrested one person for allegedly selling the oxygen cylinder at a higher rate as compared to the price fixed by the government.
The accused identified as Ravi Kumar,36, a branch in charge of Siga gases pvt ltd., was caught red-handed during a raid while selling the life-saving gas for worth Rs 3,000 per 47 litres in Peenya Industrial area of the city.
The government has capped the rate of oxygen cylinder at Rs 300 per 47 litres. The accused branch in charge of Siga gases was caught red-handed when he was selling two oxygen cylinders of 47 Litres for worth Rs 6,000. He has been booked under various sections of Indian Penal Court (IPC), DPCO 2013 and others at Peenya Police Station, Sandeep Patil, Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime said in a statement.
They prioritise allotment of beds based on severity of COVID-19 infection
Sleuths from the Central Crime Branch (CCB) police probing the alleged bed allotment scam have begun an audit of all beds allotted through the city’s civic body in April 2021.
With more than 10,000 beds allotted by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike during in April, a senior police official said the process was time-consuming.
“We have already identified at least 12 cases where beds were blocked in a person’s name only to be manually changed and allotted to someone else. But manual change cannot be concluded as bed-blocking. We are investigating these cases. However, families of patients who may have paid a bribe are not forthcoming, and we are hitting a dead end there,” the officer explained.
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Congress wants CCB to check call records of people working in war rooms
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MP Tejasvi Surya with MLAs Satish Reddy, Uday Garudachar and Ravi Subramanya at the South zone war room.
Congress wants CCB to check call records of people working in war rooms
Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D.K. Shivakumar alleged that several BJP leaders, including MLA Satish Reddy –one of the four elected representatives who exposed the bed-blocking scam in the South zone war room – are involved in the racket. He called for the Central Crime Branch (CCB) to investigate Call Detail Records (CDR) of all those working in the war rooms and ‘see how many BJP leaders called and blocked beds’.