Overview
- The council of ministers adopted the decisions at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Yadav at the State Secretariat in Bhopal.
- Ankit Sharma, the younger brother of Inspector Ashish Sharma, will receive a compassionate appointment as a Sub-Inspector in the district police force.
- Inspector Ashish Sharma, a Hawk Force officer from Balaghat, was killed on November 19 during a joint operation with Chhattisgarh Police against Naxalites in Rajnandgaon.
- Reports say the joint team was ambushed around 7 am near Kauhapani under the Bortalab police station limits in dense forest.
- The cabinet also cleared tabling a bill to restore direct elections for chairpersons of Nagar Palika and Nagar Parishad.