It rained money from the 15th floor office of an engineering company on Jawaharlal Nehru Road on Wednesday evening. Bundles of Rs500, 100 and 50, adding up to Rs3.82 lakh, say the Kolkata police. Employees of an engineering company thought better of throwing away the unaccounted money than being confronted by income tax (I-T) men during a raid.

Pedestrians were taken by surprise seeing all that money rain on them. But even before the possibly greedy ones could think of touching it, a police team reached the spot and collected the money.

Kolkata police deputy commissioner (detective department) Javed Shamim, confirmed that his sleuths collected Rs 3.82 lakh from the streets and handed them over to the I-T department.

Maytas Infra has filed a criminal case against Vedanta Aluminium and eight of its employees in a city court.

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A team of CBI officials from Delhi arrested Vinod Sharma, DIG of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), from his Gomtinagar residence here on Wednesday. Though the CBI officials were tight-lipped about the operation, police sources said the DIG had been nabbed in connection with a recruitment scam.

The CBI team had nabbed a CBI constable Brij Bhushan in the same case shortly after arriving here on Tuesday. Sources said Rs1.5 lakh was recovered from the constable's house. Soon, the CBI team raided the DIG's house on the CRPF campus here. Sources said a number of incriminating documents and unaccounted for cash was recovered from the DIG's house. Vinod Sharma was present during the search operation. He was detained but not taken into custody.

Operation drug

The city police have launched an operation to detect possible heroin peddling in the city. This is following the haul of heroin by the Customs on Friday night. The officers had seized 2.5 kg of heroin estimated at Rs8 crore from a Nigerian and his partner, a girl from Imphal.

"Until now, we had no information about heroin and cocaine making the rounds in the narcotic distribution circles within the city. We have been asked to look out for any possible peddlers in these narcotics by our seniors," assistant commissioner of police Omkariah (Women and Narcotics Squad) of Central Crime Branch of the city police, said.

She is accused of submitting false caste records and educational certificates

Bowing to opposition demand in the legislative council, the state government, on Wednesday, sacked Dr S Malini, assistant director of the Forensic Science Laboratory here, on charges of submitting fake documents that furnished wrong information about her caste, and educational qualification for joining the service.

Janata Dal (Seculer) leader MC Nanaiah, who raised the issue in the council, demanded the government to immediately sack Dr Malini from service.

He stated that Malini had not only submitted false caste records, but also fake certificates of educational qualification, including SSLC marks card.