RAIPUR: Former Minister in the Congress government, Mohammad Akbar has been booked in a case of alleged abetment of suicide of a government school teacher. The police have registered a case against Akbar and three others after it purportedly recovered a suicide note from the deceased.
According to the details of the case, Devendra Thakur, a government school teacher in Odgaon of Balod district who found hanging at his residence on September 3, has left behind a suicide note alleging four individuals including the former congress minister for not returning the money allegedly taken by them for arranging jobs in the forest department.
In the suicide note left by Thakur, he has claimed that four individual namely “Harendra Netam, Pradeep Thakur, Madaar Khan alias Salim and Mohammad Akbar are responsible for his death, who had collected money in lieu of providing jobs but are now refusing to return it”. Thakur in the note has further asked one Lila Korram to make efforts to take back the money after his death.
On the basis of Thakur’s suicide note, the police have now launched an investigation by lodging an FIR against all the four individuals under section 108 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) at the Dondi police station on Sunday, September 8.
Briefing about the development, Alok Kumar Joshi, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Balod informed that “A teacher identified as Devendra Thakur had committed suicide on September 3, after autopsy a suicide note was recovered in which the deceased has named four people. A case has been registered on the basis of the note and is being investigated.
Meanwhile a separate FIR in connection with the alleged duping against three of the aforesaid individual was also lodged on Sunday. Harendra Netam, Pradip Thakur and Madar Khan have been booked for allegedly duping people on the pretext of providing them with jobs in forest department.
According to the details of the FIR, the complainant Chandar Singh has claimed that he gave Rs 4.70 lakh to the trio through the deceased teacher Devendra Thakur for getting recruited as a forest guard. The complaint further talks about 70 other people who cumulatively provided Rs 3.70 crore to the accused for the jobs promised by them.
It has been further mentioned that Madar Khan had presented himself as a relative of Akbar, the then minister for forest under the Bhupesh Baghel led government to the people who gave money for their placement in the forest department, however when the same was not materialise the job seekers requested their money to be returned which was denied allegedly.
Mohammad Akbar however has denied the allegation labelled against him by terming it fabricated. He further has stated that he has been wrongfully implicated in the case as a previous complaint pertaining to the case did not include his name. The congress leader has also refuted the allegation of Madar Khan being a relative of his, claiming that he neither knows those who gave money nor he has any connection with those who promised them job.
Meanwhile reacting to the complaint lodged against the former Congress minister, CM Vishnu Deo Sai said that the previous regime of Congress party has many allegations of corruption, this includes the custom milling scam, liquor scam, Mahadev app scam etc. Many people are already in jail while a few are hanging on the line, the country now knows how corrupt was the Congress government.
