Bhopal, April 15 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bhopal Zonal Office, has filed a prosecution complaint before a special court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, in connection with a bank fraud case involving M/s Excel Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. and its directors, officials said on Wednesday.According to the ED, the complaint was filed on April 13 before the Special Court (PMLA) in Bhopal. Following the issuance of notice, the accused persons appeared before the court…
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Ranchi, March 27 (IANS) The ED filed a chargesheet against a former SBI Branch Manager and his wife in a Special PMLA Court here in connection with a Rs 5.40 crore fraud involving manipulation of 440 customer accounts, an official said on Friday.The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Ranchi Zonal Office, filed the chargesheet against Manoj Kumar, former Branch Manager (Scale-II Officer), State Bank of India, and his wife Nitu Kumari alias Nitu Devi on March 26, the ED said in a statement, adding t…
Bhopal, March 27 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bhopal Zonal Office, has provisionally attached immovable properties valued at approximately Rs 12.62 crore under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. The action is linked to a bank fraud case involving M/s Excel Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. and its directors, Manju Garg and Rishabh Garg. The attached assets include an agricultural land and a commercial plot located in Tehsil Kolar, district Bhopal. The ED’s move follows an inv…
Bhopal, March 27 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bhopal Zonal Office, has provisionally attached movable and immovable properties valued at approximately Rs 83.24 lakh under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. The action comes in connection with a disproportionate assets case against Prabhakar Shukla, Assistant Manager (Survey) at South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL), Korba, Chhattisgarh, a press release said on Friday. The investigation was initiated following an…
Ranchi, March 25 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Ranchi Zonal Office, has filed a chargesheet under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, against six persons in connection with the alleged misappropriation of government funds at the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) State Office in Ranchi.The prosecution complaint was filed on March 24, 2026, before the Special Judge, CBI-cum-Special Judge under the PMLA, Ranchi, against Sunil Kumar (then Executive, KVIC R…
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) Amid the crucial two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal next month, huge amounts of cash have been recovered by the state police in two locations in the state during the last 12 hours, said the police on Thursday.One of the two locations is Baruipur in the South 24 Parganas district in South Bengal, and the other is the tribal-dominated Alipurduar district.Sensing use of illegal cash in the forthcoming polls to allure voters, the Election Commission of India (ECI) h…
Bhopal, Feb 6 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bhopal Zonal Office, has provisionally attached two residential flats and 22 movable properties, including fixed deposits and bank balances, totalling approximately Rs 1.58 crore.The assets belong to the late Ved Prakash Shrivastava, former Divisional Engineer of Western Railways, Rajkot Division in Gujarat, and his wife Vibha Shrivastava.The attachment was carried out on February 5, 2026, under the provisions of the Prevention of Money L…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has upheld the conviction of a Delhi Police Sub-Inspector in a 30-year-old bribery case, holding that the prosecution had successfully established the demand and acceptance of illegal gratification.Dismissing the criminal appeal, a single-judge Bench of Justice Chandrasekharan Sudha refused to interfere with the 2003 judgment of the trial court, which had found Sub-Inspector Manoj Kumar guilty under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of t…
Bhopal, Jan 20 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Bhopal Zonal Office, has filed a chargesheet against Shailendra Pasari, a former Senior Manager (Civil) at Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL), under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. The chargesheet was submitted before the Special PMLA Court in Jabalpur on January 9, 2026, and a notice for pre-cognisance hearing has been issued to the accused, the investigation agency said.The ED’s action stems from two FIRs registered by…
New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has acquitted a former Section Officer in the Directorate General of Audit in a 33-year-old bribery case, holding that the prosecution failed to prove the essential ingredient of “demand” for illegal gratification under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Allowing the criminal appeal, a single-judge Bench of Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri set aside the conviction and sentence awarded by a special court in 2002, observing that the case had “suffered deat…