FREE PRESS - VOL. 12 NO. 172 | BHOPAL | SATURDAY | DECEMBER 3, 2022 | PAGES 16 WWW.FREEPRESSJOURNAL.IN Lokayukta’s anger weighs heavily, DG shifted News Brief Will back Modi during G20 Presidency: Biden Describing India as a strong partner of the US, President Joe Biden on Friday said he was looking forward to supporting his "friend" Prime Minister Narendra Modi during India's G20 presidency. FBI to handover Goldy Brar to India soon Canada-based Gangster Goldy Brar will soon be handed over by the FBI of the US to Indian law enforcement agencies, sources said. Goldy Brar was the alleged mastermind in the coldblooded murder of Punjabi singer, popularly known as Sidhu Moosawala. OUR STAFF REPORTER BHOPAL The state government transferred director general of police of Special Establishment Kailesh Makwana and additional director general KT Wifey because of certain issues between them and the Lokayukta. Makwana has been transferred to Police Housing Corporation as its chairman. Officer on special duty at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat Yogesh Chaudhary has been sent to the Special Police Establishment as its additional director general. On the other hand, Wifey has been posted as additional director general to the department of Cooperative Fraud and Public RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 EDITIONS: INDORE, BHOPAL, UJJAIN, MUMBAI, PUNE FOR 24X7 UPDATES MAKWANA IS CHAIRMAN POLICE HOUSING CORP; CHAUDHARY ADG SPE Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2021-2023; Service Guarantee. Similarly, inspector general of police (anti-Naxal campaign) Sajid Farid Shapoo has been transferred as inspector general of Special Armed Forces. Only six months have passed since Makwana was transferred to Special PoEstablishment of lice Lokayukta. Sources said that he was not on good terms with so the Lokayukta, Lokayukta used his powers to get him transferred from the department. After Makwana had been transferred to Lokayukta office, action against graft cases intensified. During the tenure of Makwana, one or two corrupt people were caught almost daily . informed Makwana everyone about his transfer through a tweet. He also tweeted a senior officer had written to him that in six months he became a terror to corrupt officials, which did not happen in the past 30 years. NATION CONG ABSORBED SLAVE MENTALITY BY WORKING WITH BRITISH: MODI GERMANY BOSS FLICK BEMOANS INEFFICIENCY AFTER WORLD CUP EXIT Pg-14 EVERY SINGLE PROMISE MADE TO US UNFULFILLED: GAS correct figures of dead, injured in SC' VICTIMS' BODIES 'IN 12 YRS, govt could not even present 38 YEARS OF BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY SMITA city.bhopal@fpj.co.in After the Supreme Court, in 2011, turning down the plea to revisit its judgement of 1996, diluting the charges against the officials of the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), the state government had promised that it would pursue a curative petition filed in the SC, seeking to correct the number of casualties and fatalities in the gas tragedy . The chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had even promised that he would himself lead a delegation of gas victims to meet the (then) Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to get their issues resolved. Twelve years down the line, the curative petition is still pending and the promised meeting with the Prime Minister is yet to materialise. In fact, representatives of the survivors of Bhopal gas tragedy say that not only these two but all the other promises made by the Madhya Pradesh Government from time to time over the past 12 years have remained unfulfilled. The BMHRC is still handicapped, the lethal chemical waste on UCC premises still remains there and the UCC functionaries are still unpunished. Not a single promise or announcement has been fulfilled," Sadhna Karnik from Bhopal Gas Peedit Sangharsh Sahyog Samiti told Free Press. But the biggest complaint of the gas victims is that the government is yet to present correct figures of the dead and the injured in the Supreme Court, where a curative petition seeking enhancement of compensation has been pending since 2010. In 1989, the UCC (Union Carbide Corporation) had agreed to pay a compensation of 470 million dollars for the gas victims on the basis of the casualty figures presented by the state government, according to which 3000 persons had died and 1,02,000 had suffered injuries in the disaster. The gas survivor organisations, however, argued that the actual figures were much higher - the number of deaths was 15,274 and the number of injured was 5.73 lakhs. In 2010, a curative petition was filed in the Supreme Court by the government seeking enhancement of compensation. But despite repeated pleas by the gas victim bodies, neither the state nor the Central government has cared to correct the figures of the dead and injured in the petition, says Rashida Bi from Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila StaKarmachari tionery Sangh. CONTD. ON P6 `3 QUALITY AT VALUE WEATHER 26.90c. 12.20c Sunrise : 06.51 Sunset : 05.41 Existing collegium system should not be derailed, says SC AGENCIES New Delhi The Supreme Court said on Friday the existing collegium system should not be derailed on the bastatements of sis of "some busybody", asserting the top court is one of the most transparent institutions. Amid divisions within the judiciary and its festering dispute with the government over the system under which existing judges appoint judges to constitutional courts, it said it does not want to comment on what a few former apex court judges, who were once members of the Supreme Court collegium, are now saying about the mechanism. A bench of Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar said, "Nowadays, it has become a fashion to comment upon earlier decisions (of the collegium) made when they (former judges) were part of the collegium. We don't want to say anything on their comments". CONTD. ON P6 Video of alleged officer’s kin seeking bribe under Ayushman goes viral; govt orders probe PMLA case: ED arrests Chh’garh CM's deputy secy OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in A video clip of a man posing as a relative of former executive officer of Niramaya Ayusman Bharat Yojna, Sapna Lowanshi and demanding money to arrange for early payment of hospital bills, went viral on social media on Thursday evening. The officer, however, said that the facts had been fabricated and that she denied her involvement in the case on Friday The state govern. ment set up an inquiry committee headed by health OFFICER DENIES CHARGES Sapna Lowanshi has termed the issue as fabrication. She is posted in Indore. She said, “All these things have happened since she was posted to the department a month back.” CONTD. ON P6 CHAUDHARY SHIFTED Director of health services Anurag Chaudhary was removed after the video came to light. He has been sent to department of animal husbandry as its deputy secretary. CONTD. ON P6 commissioner Sudam Khade to probe the case. Meanwhile, vice president of the Aam Admi Party’s (AAP) district unit Pradeep Khandelwal said he had come to know about corruption going in footing the NAYBY bills. CONTD. ON P6 RAIPUR: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday arrested Saumya Chaurasia, a deputy secretary posted in Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel's office, in connection with an alleged coal levy scam in the state. A special court for cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Raipur district subsequently sent her in the custody of the ED for four days. The officer was produced before Additional District and Sessions Judge Ajay Singh Rajput in the evening after her arrest, said Chaurasia's lawyer Faizal Rizvi. The ED sought her 14-day custody but the special court granted only four days' custody after hearing the arguments, he added. CONTD. ON P6