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BJP Announces Lucknow Seat, Aparna Yadav And Rita Bahugunaโ€™s Son Left Out

Lucknow: BJP today announced candidates for all nine Lucknow seats after a long discussion. High profile hopefuls from the capital Lucknow, Aparna Yadav, the daughter-in-law of Samajwadi Party patriarch and former chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, and BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshiโ€™s son Mayank Joshi, were both not on the list.

Former Enforcement Directorate officer Rajeshwar Singh, whose voluntary retirement was today accepted by the union government has been given the party ticket from the Sarojini Nagar assembly seat. Swati Singh, stateโ€™s minister of state for woman welfare, and her husband Dayashankar Singh were both eyeing the seat.

The high-profile Lucknow Cantonment seat, where both Ms Yadav and Mr Joshi were hoping to be nominated, has been given to state minister Brijesh Pathak. This is considered a safe seat for The party. Rita Bahuguna Joshi had defeated Aparna Yadav on this seat in the last elections.

The BJP had won eight out of the nine seats in Lucknow in the last state elections.

Ashutosh Tandon, another state minister, has been given the ticket from Lucknow East.

Rajneesh Gupta has been announced the candidate from Lucknow Central.

Elections will be held in the state in seven phases from February 10 to March 7.

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CBI Case Against Mumbai Ex Commissioner Sanjay Pandey Over Alleged Phone-Tapping

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The CBI is conducting searches at properties linked to Sanjay Pandey at 18 locations in five states in connection with the case.

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation, or CBI, has filed a fresh case against former Mumbai police commissioner  Sanjay Pandey and former National Stock Exchange (NSE) Chief Executive Chitra Ramkrishna for the alleged illegal phone tapping of stock market employees by the formerโ€™s Information Technology company. Ravi Narain, NSE Ex CEO, has also been named in the case, according to officials.

The central probe agency filed the case following a complaint from the Union Home Ministry, news agency PTI reported quoting officials.

The CBI is conducting searches at properties linked to Sanjay Pandey at 18 locations in five states in connection with the case.

The probe agency has alleged that iSec Securities Pvt. Ltd, the firm set up by Sanjay Pandey, had illegally tapped the phones of the Stock Exchangesโ€™ employees during 2009-17.

The company reportedly conducted the security audit around the time the co-location irregularities are alleged to have taken place.

The company was founded by Sanjay Pandey in March 2001 after he resigned from service. He quit as its director in May 2006 after which his son and mother took charge of the firm.

His resignation was not accepted by the state government and he rejoined but was not immediately given a posting.

He was made Mumbai Police Commissioner in the government headed by former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.

Mr Pandey retired from service on 1st July 2022, he was replaced by Senior IPS officer Vivek Phansalkar.

Phansalkar had also served Maharashtra Police in various key capacities including Thane commissioner of police and Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad chief.

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