{"id":322008,"date":"2020-04-10T05:40:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T05:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322008"},"modified":"2020-04-10T05:59:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T05:59:42","slug":"senior-maharashtra-govt-officer-sent-on-compulsory-leave-over-dhfl-promoters-travel-amid-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/senior-maharashtra-govt-officer-sent-on-compulsory-leave-over-dhfl-promoters-travel-amid-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Maharashtra Govt officer sent on compulsory leave over DHFL promoters travel amid lockdown\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-322009 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kapil-wadhawan-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/kapil-wadhawan-1.jpg 469w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/kapil-wadhawan-1-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/kapil-wadhawan-1-462x420.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/>Maharashtra government on Friday sent a senior government officer on compulsory leave for helping DHFL promoters Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan to travel to their farmhouse in Mahabaleshwar despite the COVID-19 lockdown, Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAs per discussion with CM (Uddhav Thackeray), Amitabh Gupta, Principal Secretary (special), has been sent on compulsory leave with immediate effect, till the pending of enquiry, which will be initiated against him,\u201d Deshmukh tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The permission to travel was issued by Amitabh Gupta. He had issued a letter exempting the Wadhawans from the lockdown norms citing a family emergency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the Wadhawan family along with others had travelled from Khandala to Mahabaleshwar in their cars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">They were detained at their farmhouse in Mahabaleshwar on Thursday for violating prohibitory orders amid lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An official said, there were total 23 people including members of the Wadhawan family at their farmhouse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An FIR has been registered against all of them, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis earlier in a tweet said, \u201cNo lockdowns for mighty &amp; rich in Maharashtra? One can spend holidays in Mahabaleshwar with official permission from police. It is not possible that a senior IPS officer would do such gross mistake knowing the consequences on his own.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maharashtra government on Friday sent a senior government officer on compulsory leave for helping DHFL promoters Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan to travel to their farmhouse in Mahabaleshwar despite the COVID-19 lockdown, Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said. \u201cAs per discussion with CM (Uddhav Thackeray), Amitabh Gupta, Principal Secretary (special), has been sent on compulsory leave with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":322009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[12868,12869,1467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322012,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322008\/revisions\/322012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}