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Bhatia moves HC against BongirwarMumbai: The controversial IAS officer Arun Bhatia, who was recently moved to State Archives, on Friday u...

Bhatia moves HC against Bongirwar
Mumbai: The controversial IAS officer Arun Bhatia, who was recently moved to State Archives, on Friday urged Bombay High Court to direct CBI or Pune police to register an FIR on alleged irregularities committed by Arun Bongirwar, Chief Secretary to the State Government, during the latter8217;s tenure as Pune Municipal Commissioner.

The petition, filed through Advocate Amit Bhowmick, would come up for hearing before Justice N J Pandya and Justice S S Parkar on August 2 next. Notices have already been served upon the respondents.

Meanwhile, a bunch of Public Interest Litigations PIL challenging Bhatia8217;s transfer from the post of Pune Municipal Commissioner to State Archives, has been filed before the bench headed by Chief Justice Y K Sabrahwal which would hear them in regular course next week.

While a PIL moved by lawyer J S Jadhav alleged that the transfer of Bhatia was 8220;malafide8221; act on part of Chief Minister Narayan Rane, the other filed by Pune residents led by N G Paranjpe questioned powers of councillors to pass a resolution urging for recall of Bhatia or his removal.

Yet another PIL has been filed by social activist Avinash Dharmadhikari who alleged that Bhatia8217;s transfer was malafide action of the State Government.The PILs have alleged that Bhatia was transferred only to safeguard the interest of corporators.

Kumar takes over
Anoop Kumar took over as the new additional district collector on Thursday. He is an Indian Administrative Services officer of the 1990 batch.

Earlier, Kumar served with Yashada where he was an associate professor. He also headed the People8217;s representative from Rural areas training programme. PMF rail roko n An emergency meeting of the Pune Malayalee Federation PMF on Thursday resolved to launch a massive agitation against railways to protest against the proposed Pune-Ernakulam train.

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The central committee members of the PMF condemned the attitude of the Railway authorities, and decided to go on a morcha to the railway station on July 29, which will be followed by satyagrahas and rail roko agitations.