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Bedanti Saran

Bedanti Saran is Special Correspondent in Jharkhand and has been handling legal beats, CBI, ED, Income Tax and other investigation wings for over a decade

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Jharkhand’s Covid-19 tally breaches 100,000-mark

According to the health department’s bulletin released on October 28, the state capital, Ranchi, which has been hit hardest by the pandemic, topped the list, recording 92 fresh cases

Currently, Ranchi has 1,765 active cases, 23,396 recoveries and 174 deaths.(ANI File)

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Published on Oct 29, 2020 02:28 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran

Villagers in Jharkhand allegedly behead 3 of family for practising witchcraft

Police have arrested three of the nine suspects from the same village from where the trio went missing on October 7 .

The beheaded bodies were recovered from a pit near Raba rivulet in a nearby forested area.(Representative Phot/Getty Images)

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Published on Oct 29, 2020 12:57 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran

Fodder scam case: Jharkhand HC grants bail to Lalu Yadav

Convicted in four fodder scam cases, the ex-Bihar CM will not be released from jail as he has been serving term in another fodder scam case in which he was sentenced to 14 years in prison

The bench granted bail to RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on the condition that he would furnish two sureties of Rs 50,000 each and deposit Rs 2 lakh of Rs 10 lakh fine amount slapped on him along with the sentence.(File photo)

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Updated on Oct 09, 2020 04:21 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran

For first time in 30 years, Lalu Prasad to miss Bihar polls

The mercurial former Union minister is currently in jail in Ranchi on corruption charges. He was convicted in December 2017 in three separate fodder scam cases.

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Updated on Oct 08, 2020 07:44 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran

Ranchi’s Covid-19 count crosses 20K-mark, district records 23% of state’s tally

Ranchi and East Singhbhum together yielded 34,612 cases and 430 deaths, which account for over 40% of the total count and 58% of the overall casualties.

The daily detection of Covid-19 cases in the state is on the decline as Jharkhand, after a hiatus of more than one month, has been reporting less than 1,000 cases for the last two days.(HT PHOTO.)

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Updated on Oct 04, 2020 09:55 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran

‘Have no knowledge about sexual harassment case lodged against me in 2013’: Jharkhand CM

Godda parliamentarian, Nishi Kant Dubey, in a series of tweets between July 27-29, had levelled sexual assault allegations against Soren.

File photo: Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren.(Diwakar Prasad/ Hindustan Times)

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Updated on Oct 02, 2020 07:23 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran | Edited by Sparshita Saxena

Jharkhand HRD minister tests positive for Covid-19, state tally to cross 80k

The minister was moved to Ranchi’s Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) for treatment after he complained of health complications.

A health worker checks vitals of a Covid-19 patient.(Sanjeev Verma/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Sep 28, 2020 05:59 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran | Edited by Sparshita Saxena

Jharkhand’s Covid-19 tally close to 70,000-mark, over 20% caseload in Ranchi

Ranchi reported a maximum of 284 new cases taking the district’s tally to 15,239 cases, which accounts for nearly 22% of the state’s total caseload.

The state capital Ranchi, which is hardest hit by the pandemic and placed at the top of the list of Covid-19 cases, crossed the 15,000-mark on Saturday.(ANI PHOTO.)

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Updated on Sep 21, 2020 01:02 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran

CBI uses new section to oppose Lalu Prasad’s bail

The agency said Prasad’s conviction falls under Section 427(1), which refers to a case when a person’s sentence runs after one ends. This would effectively lengthen the period of sentence.

Prasad, while currently out on bail, has been convicted in six cases related to misappropriation of public funds, each of which have varying sentences.(PTI file photo)

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Published on Sep 20, 2020 03:40 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran

CBI’s new salvo to oppose Lalu Prasad Yadav’s bail may spell trouble for others

According to the CBI, the court had never ordered that the sentences awarded to Prasad in four separate fodder scam cases would run concurrently. Hence, his custody in subsequent cases would start only after the completion of the sentence in previous cases.

Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav(PTI)

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Updated on Sep 19, 2020 09:54 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran | Edited by Sparshita Saxena

RIMS medical superintendent tests positive for Covid-19, suffers cardiac arrest

Dr Vivek Kashyap has undergone angioplasty and is, reportedly, in a stable condition.

File photo: Private security guards at emergency at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi, Jharkhand.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Sep 19, 2020 07:48 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran | Edited by Sparshita Saxena

Covid-19: Jharkhand reports record 78% recovery rate

The state, where the pandemic has claimed 590 lives, has so far reported 67,100 cases

Jharkhand has been reporting a steady surge in Covid-19 cases since early July as the state has ramped up testing.(HT Photo)

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Published on Sep 18, 2020 11:33 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran

20% of Jharkhand MLAs have tested Covid +ve, Cong MLA latest victim

Jharkhand’s Covid 19 cases are concentrated largely in urban cities in line with the trend seen nationally.

Jharkhand’s coronavirus tally has reached close to 65,000.(ANI Photo)

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Updated on Sep 16, 2020 12:38 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran | Edited by Abhinav Sahay

Jharkhand’s 75% Covid deaths among patients aged 50 and above

Ranchi and East Singhbhum districts in Jharkhand have reported high number of Covid 19 cases and deaths.

Co-morbidities have been identified as a major cause of deaths among Covid-19 patients in Jharkhand(HT Photo)

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Updated on Sep 13, 2020 06:25 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran | Posted by Abhinav Sahay

‘27 days remain for Lalu Yadav to complete half sentence in fodder scam case’: HC

Opposing Lalu Yadav’s bail plea, the CBI has said that sentences awarded to him in different fodder scam cases were not running concurrently.

File photo: RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav.(Arvind Yadav / Hindustan Times)

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Updated on Sep 11, 2020 07:37 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran | Edited by Sparshita Saxena

Doctor alleges parents missing after newborn girl tests Covid-19 positive

This has left the doctors in a quandary as the newborn is suffering from a devastating disease and they need consent of the parents before they can perform the operation.

The parents might have presumed that they would now be tested for Covid and might be sent to quarantine, said the doctor. (Photo by Rahul Raut/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Sep 06, 2020 12:03 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran

PIL in Jharkhand high court seeks to move Lalu Prasad back to jail

Lalu Prasad was shifted to hospital in the middle of March 2018 and hasn’t returned to jail since then.

Lalu Prasad Yadav is currently staying in the bungalow of the driector of the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) inRanchi where he is being treated.(HT FILE PHOTO)

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Published on Aug 31, 2020 10:44 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran| Edited by Sabir Hussain

HC adjourns hearing on Lalu Yadav’s bail plea for September 11

The bench comprising justice Aparesh Kumar Singh adjourned the hearing and fixed next date on September 11 after the CBI informed that its counsel assistant solicitor general Rajiv Sinha was unwell.

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Updated on Aug 28, 2020 07:10 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran | Edited by Sparshita Saxena

Lalu Yadav’s bail plea adjourned; Jharkhand high court to hear it on Sept 11

The HC bench fixed the next date for hearing after the CBI informed that its counsel was absent since he was unwell

The former Bihar CM suffered a jolt in the case in 2013 when a trial court in Ranchi had held him guilty in the first of the six cases against him.(Arvind Yadav / HT photo)

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Published on Aug 28, 2020 02:32 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran

JMM chief Shibu Soren shifted to Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital for further treatment

The former Jharkhand chief minister tested positive for Covid-19 on August 21. He was shifted to Ranchi’s Medanta Hospital on August 24 after having breathing problems.

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren during his transit by a special medical ambulance to Bokaro Railway station from where he was taken to Gurugram's Medanta Hospital for further treatment of COVID-19 on Tuesday.(PTI PHOTO.)

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Updated on Aug 25, 2020 09:53 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran

JMM chief Shibu Soren, wife Roopi Soren test positive for Covid-19

Samples of the former chief minister Shibu Soren and his wife Roopi Soren were collected on Friday and their test reports came late evening.

File photo of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Shibu Soren and his wife Roopi Soren. (Photo @ShibuSorenJMM)

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Updated on Aug 22, 2020 11:39 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran

Jharkhand reports highest one-day jump of 1,242 Covid-19 cases, tally over 22,000

With these new cases, Jharkhand total Covid-19 case count has touched 22,192 including 8,156 active cases, 13,811 recovered cases and 225 deaths.

A health worker collects swabs for rapid testing in Hindpirhi locality in Ranchi, Jharkhand.(Diwakar Prasad/HT File Photo)

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Updated on Aug 15, 2020 04:42 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran

Jharkhand registers 1,084 new Covid-19 cases, 40 security staff of CM’s residence test positive

Nearly 40 security personnel deployed at chief minister Hemant Soren’s residence, 73 inmates of Ranchi’s Birsa Munda Central Jail (BMCJ) and 41 police personnel in Giridih district were among the 1,084 new patients detected on Saturday.

According to the health department’s bulletin released on August 8 night, Ranchi topped the list after detecting a maximum of 412 cases, the highest ever single-day spike of any district.(HT PHOTO.)

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Updated on Aug 09, 2020 03:00 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran | Edited by Sohini Sarkar

Ranchi municipality shut for 5 days as official, 3 workers test positive for Covid-19

The infected RMC official had monitored sanitization and other works at the CM’s house recently.

Office of the Ranchi Municipal Corporation in Ranchi.(Diwakar Prasad/HT Photos)

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Updated on Aug 09, 2020 11:33 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran

Jharkhand govt to declare all jails as containment zones

The government would take strict measures to seclude the large number of inmates and staff from outside exposure.

As many as 54 people, including 32 inmates and 22 staff of BMCJ, were found infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus on August 3. Among the infected inmates, two are politicians.(HT File)

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Updated on Aug 06, 2020 02:02 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran

Record 978 new cases in a day push Jharkhand’s Covid-19 tally to over 15,000

Ranchi recorded second-highest number of cases after discovering 141 new patients, including 22 staff of chief minister’s residence.

Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren being tested for the second time for Covid-19 after finding positive staff members working at his residence, in Ranchi on Tuesday.(ANI Photo)

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Updated on Aug 06, 2020 01:06 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran | Edited by: Amit Chaturvedi

Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren tested again for Covid-19, found negative

Nineteen staffers of Jharkhand CM’s office and residence including some cooks and security guards were found to be Covid-19 positive last week.

Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren (in photo) has been tested twice for Covid-19 in a month.(Photo Credit: Hemant Soren / Twitter)

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Updated on Aug 04, 2020 07:19 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran | Edited by Anubha Rohatgi

Jharkhand’s Covid curve takes a turn for the worse, active cases surpass recoveries

Health experts, however, opine that the increased testing in the state is the real cause of such reversal.

A health worker takes swab sample for Covid-19 test at Sadar Hospital in Ranchi, Jharkhand, on Sunday, July 19, 2020.(ANI)

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Updated on Jul 21, 2020 12:18 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran, Ranchi

41% of Jharkhand’s total Covid cases reported in first two weeks of July

July’s second week, however, has felt the maximum turmoil as the number of cases detected was double the cases discovered in the first week.

Jharkhand, July 14 (ANI): Health Workers wearing PPE Kit taking police personnel who found corona virus-positive to the COVID centre from Police Club and Police Association in Ranchi on Tuesday. (ANI Photo)(ANI)

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Updated on Jul 16, 2020 02:21 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran

Jharkhand’s Covid-19 tally rises to 3,663, death toll at 24

While the maximum 21 cases were reported from Garhwa district, 15 cases were detected in Ranchi. Besides, East Singhbhum and Koderma recorded 13 cases each, Chatra reported 12 cases and Ramgarh registered 10 cases.

Jharkhand reported 145 new Covid-19 cases on July 11, 2020.(ANI File)

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Updated on Jul 11, 2020 11:47 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran | Edited by Anubha Rohatgi

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Bedanti Saran

Bedanti Saran is Special Correspondent in Jharkhand and has been handling legal beats, CBI, ED, Income Tax and other investigation wings for over a decade

According to the health department’s bulletin released on October 28, the state capital, Ranchi, which has been hit hardest by the pandemic, topped the list, recording 92 fresh cases

Police have arrested three of the nine suspects from the same village from where the trio went missing on October 7 .

Convicted in four fodder scam cases, the ex-Bihar CM will not be released from jail as he has been serving term in another fodder scam case in which he was sentenced to 14 years in prison

The mercurial former Union minister is currently in jail in Ranchi on corruption charges. He was convicted in December 2017 in three separate fodder scam cases.

Ranchi and East Singhbhum together yielded 34,612 cases and 430 deaths, which account for over 40% of the total count and 58% of the overall casualties.

Godda parliamentarian, Nishi Kant Dubey, in a series of tweets between July 27-29, had levelled sexual assault allegations against Soren.

The minister was moved to Ranchi’s Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) for treatment after he complained of health complications.

Ranchi reported a maximum of 284 new cases taking the district’s tally to 15,239 cases, which accounts for nearly 22% of the state’s total caseload.

The agency said Prasad’s conviction falls under Section 427(1), which refers to a case when a person’s sentence runs after one ends. This would effectively lengthen the period of sentence.

According to the CBI, the court had never ordered that the sentences awarded to Prasad in four separate fodder scam cases would run concurrently. Hence, his custody in subsequent cases would start only after the completion of the sentence in previous cases.

Dr Vivek Kashyap has undergone angioplasty and is, reportedly, in a stable condition.

The state, where the pandemic has claimed 590 lives, has so far reported 67,100 cases

Jharkhand’s Covid 19 cases are concentrated largely in urban cities in line with the trend seen nationally.

Ranchi and East Singhbhum districts in Jharkhand have reported high number of Covid 19 cases and deaths.

Opposing Lalu Yadav’s bail plea, the CBI has said that sentences awarded to him in different fodder scam cases were not running concurrently.

This has left the doctors in a quandary as the newborn is suffering from a devastating disease and they need consent of the parents before they can perform the operation.

Lalu Prasad was shifted to hospital in the middle of March 2018 and hasn’t returned to jail since then.

The bench comprising justice Aparesh Kumar Singh adjourned the hearing and fixed next date on September 11 after the CBI informed that its counsel assistant solicitor general Rajiv Sinha was unwell.

The HC bench fixed the next date for hearing after the CBI informed that its counsel was absent since he was unwell

The former Jharkhand chief minister tested positive for Covid-19 on August 21. He was shifted to Ranchi’s Medanta Hospital on August 24 after having breathing problems.

Samples of the former chief minister Shibu Soren and his wife Roopi Soren were collected on Friday and their test reports came late evening.

With these new cases, Jharkhand total Covid-19 case count has touched 22,192 including 8,156 active cases, 13,811 recovered cases and 225 deaths.

Nearly 40 security personnel deployed at chief minister Hemant Soren’s residence, 73 inmates of Ranchi’s Birsa Munda Central Jail (BMCJ) and 41 police personnel in Giridih district were among the 1,084 new patients detected on Saturday.

The infected RMC official had monitored sanitization and other works at the CM’s house recently.

The government would take strict measures to seclude the large number of inmates and staff from outside exposure.

Ranchi recorded second-highest number of cases after discovering 141 new patients, including 22 staff of chief minister’s residence.

Nineteen staffers of Jharkhand CM’s office and residence including some cooks and security guards were found to be Covid-19 positive last week.

Health experts, however, opine that the increased testing in the state is the real cause of such reversal.

July’s second week, however, has felt the maximum turmoil as the number of cases detected was double the cases discovered in the first week.

While the maximum 21 cases were reported from Garhwa district, 15 cases were detected in Ranchi. Besides, East Singhbhum and Koderma recorded 13 cases each, Chatra reported 12 cases and Ramgarh registered 10 cases.

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