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MHA official placed under suspension

Anand Joshi, an under secretary in the ministry, has been suspended by the MHA with immediate effect, official sources said.

Joshi, who had disappeared last week from his Ghaziabad home, was picked up from Tilak Nagar area of West Delhi on Sunday and taken to the CBI headquarters for questioning. Subsequently, he was arrested by the agency.

The case was slapped against Joshi and some other unnamed persons for allegedly indulging in corrupt practices and arbitrarily issuing notices to several NGOs, registered under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), which were receiving foreign contributions, including activist Teesta Setalvad’s Sabrang Trust.

Joshi has rejected the charge and instead accused his senior, additional secretary BK Prasad, of pressuring him to give a clean chit to NGOs. Prasad, however, denied the charges.
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