Latest Anti-Corruption Branch News & Updates

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…