Chandigarh, July 3 (IANS) Amid speculation about the reinstatement of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) constable Kulwinder Kaur, who allegedly slapped actor-turned-politician and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut at the Chandigarh Airport last month, media reports quoting the CISF said on Wednesday that she has been transferred to Bengaluru but “remains under suspension”.

“Constable Kulwinder Kaur is still suspended and a department inquiry is underway,” the reports quoting a CISF statement said.

Kulwinder Kaur’s brother, Sher Singh Mahiwal, also told the media that his sister and brother-in-law have been transferred to Bangalore and the inquiry “is still underway”.

Kulwinder Kaur’s husband, also a CISF jawan posted at Chandigarh Airport, has also been transferred to Bengaluru, sources said.

After the incident at the Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport near Chandigarh on June 6, Kulwinder Kaur was suspended and booked under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), and 341 (wrongful restraint) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

The CISF constable was initially detained and later suspended after Kangana told CISF officials on her arrival at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi that she was slapped and abused by a woman constable at the Chandigarh Airport before she boarded the flight to Delhi.

The constable, who was on duty at the Chandigarh airport for the past two-and-a-half years, was caught on camera saying she was upset because of the kind of statements made by Ranaut during the farmers’ agitation.

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Gurugram, July 3 (IANS) A team from the cyber cell of the Gurugram police has arrested a SBI official for allegedly providing bank accounts for cyber fraud, the police said.

Priyanshu Diwan, Assistant Commissioner of Police (cybercrime), said that the accused has been identified as Rahul, a resident of Sector-77 in Gurugram.

According to the police, a man filed a complaint at the Cyber Crime Police Station East on February 15, 2024, that he was duped of Rs 52.14 lakh in the name of investing in the stock market.

Inspector Savit Kumar, SHO of the police station, arrested the suspect on Wednesday. He was later taken on police remand.

During interrogation, the accused disclosed that he was an employee of SBI bank and he kept in touch with the cyber thugs and provided bank accounts.

“The accused had provided bank accounts to cyber crooks based on fake documents. In return the accused transferred Rs 9 lakh to his account,” Diwan said.

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Bengaluru, July 3 (IANS) The 42nd Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) court on Wednesday remanded former Prime Minister, HD Deve Gowda’s grandson and JD(S) MLC Suraj Revanna to judicial custody till July 18.

Suraj Revanna is facing charges of indulging in forceful unnatural sex with JD(S) workers.

Suraj was investigated by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) after the victims registered cases against him in Holenarasipura Rural police station.

He was arrested on June 22 after being summoned for questioning.

The government had later handed over the case to the special wing of the CID.

Earlier, JD(S) MLA HD Revanna, whose two sons have been arrested in different cases of sexual assault, asserted, “I have faith that Suraj will come out clean soon. I won’t speak about any other matter as all is before the court. Let everything get over, I will explain everything.”

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Chandigarh, July 3 (IANS) Pro-Khalistani separatist and MP-elect Amritpal Singh, who is detained under the National Security Act (NSA) in Assam’s Dibrugarh jail, has been granted parole and will take oath as a member of Parliament on July 5, the day another jailed MP-elect, Engineer Rashid, will also be sworn in.

Faridkot MP Sarabjit Singh Khalsa told the media on Wednesday that he met Speaker Om Birla at his residence in Delhi on Wednesday morning and he agreed to administer the oath to Amritpal Singh at his chamber in the Parliament.

Both Amritpal Singh and Khalsa won the Lok Sabha polls as Independents.

The Khadoor Sahib MP-elect was given parole for four days by the Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar from July 5.

“The parole will be allowed only for oath-taking. The parole of up to four days is given to make sure that he can be flown in on any of these four days if the weather does not allow his transit,” an official source said.

The Punjab Home Secretary had written to the Lok Sabha Speaker, forwarding Amritpal Singh’s plea that he should be allowed to take oath.

Official sources said the decision to grant permission to Amritpal Singh to take oath comes a day after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) gave its consent to jailed Kashmiri leader Sheikh Abdul Rashid, known as Engineer Rashid, to take oath as a Lok Sabha member on July 5.

Engineer Rashid is lodged in Tihar Jail in Delhi in connection with a 2017 terror funding case. A Delhi court on Tuesday granted custody parole for two hours to him to take the oath as an MP.

Rashid won the Lok Sabha elections as an Independent candidate from the Baramulla constituency in Jammu and Kashmir by defeating his nearest rival and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah by a margin of more than 2 lakh votes.

Sikh radical Amritpal Singh, head of ‘Waris Punjab De’ and currently locked up in an Assam jail won the Khadoor Sahib seat by 197,120 votes over his nearest rival, Congress candidate Kulbir Singh Zira. In the Faridkot (reserved) seat, Khalsa, the son of one of the assassins of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, won by 70,053 votes over his nearest rival, Karamjit Singh Anmol of the AAP.

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Bengaluru, July 3 (IANS) Karnataka JD (S) MLA H.D. Revanna visited his son, prime accused in the sex video scandal, Prajwal Revanna in the central prison on the outskirts of Bengaluru on Wednesday. Prajwal is a former JD (S) MP and grandson of former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda. This was Revanna’s first visit to prison to see his younger son since his arrest.

H. D. Revanna became angry at media persons while his vehicle was entering the prison road and did not react to questions. Prajwal is being kept in the quarantine centre of the jail. His mother Bhavani Revanna had visited him in the prison on Tuesday.

Prajwal’s father had stated on Tuesday that he won’t go to meet his son in prison. Speaking to reporters in Mysuru, HD Revanna had stated, “I won’t go to meet Prajwal Revanna in prison. If I go to meet him, people will say that I have conveyed something to him. In this backdrop, I won’t go.”

However, contrary to his statement he visited Prajwal the very next day.

Revanna had also stated that, “Only God is there for us now. Who else is there? On Monday my wife went to prison to meet Prajwal. I don’t know what mother and son spoke about. I didn’t even ask,” he had stated.

Prajwal Revanna is charged with repeated rape, kidnapping, and threats, videographing sexual acts and is the prime accused in the sex videos case.

His elder brother, JD (S) MLC Suraj Revanna is facing charges of forcing unnatural sex on JD(S) workers. Suraj Revanna was arrested and is being investigated by a Special Investigation Team.

–IANS

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