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…
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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…