Vijayawada, April 13 (IANS) A city court has sent a suspended Assistant Commissioner in the Endowments Department to police custody for two days in a disproportionate assets case. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court allowed questioning of Kalingiri Shanti on April 15 and 16.Shanti, arrested on April 7 after simultaneous raids at premises linked to her, is currently lodged in Vijayawada district jail. She filed a petition seeking permission to meet her two-and-a-half-year-old son. After …
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Vijayawada, April 12 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh government has suspended an Assistant Commissioner in the Endowments Department following her arrest in a disproportionate assets case.The orders for Kalingiri Shanti’s suspension were issued by Commissioner K. Ramchandramohan, official sources said on Sunday.The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) had arrested Shanti on April 7 after simultaneous raids at premises linked to her. She was found to have amassed assets worth Rs 1.37 crore, disproportionate …
Jaipur, April 10 (IANS) Former IAS officer Subodh Agarwal, arrested in connection with the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) scam, was on Friday remanded to three days of custody by the ACB Court. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) had sought a five-day remand for further interrogation.During the hearing, ACB officials informed the court that the case involves large-scale fraud and serious financial irregularities. They argued that custodial interrogation was necessary to thoroughly investigate the alleged…
Jaipur, April 9 (IANS) The Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), on Thursday, arrested former IAS officer Subodh Agarwal (Retired Rajasthan Additional Chief Secretary) in connection with a large-scale corruption case under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM). In relation to a case, registered at the ACB headquarters, Agarwal was taken into custody in Delhi on Thursday and subsequently arrested.Further investigation in the matter is ongoing.The investigation h…
Jaipur, April 9 (IANS) Former IAS officer Subodh Agarwal, who had been absconding in connection with the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) scam in Rajasthan, has been arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), officials said on Thursday. The ACB team brought Agarwal from Delhi to Jaipur, where he was questioned at the ACB headquarters by Deputy Inspector General of Police Om Prakash Meena. An arrest warrant had earlier been issued against Agarwal in the JJM scam.In the same case, nine officials of the…
Ahmedabad, April 9 (IANS) A Deputy Mamlatdar posted in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district has been booked by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, with investigators stating that the excess wealth is over Rs 1.22 crore, or 56.89 per cent above his legitimate earnings. In an official statement issued on Wednesday, the ACB said that Chandrasinh Mori, a Class-3 officer in the Collector’s office in Surendranagar, has been …
Vijayawada, April 8 (IANS) A city court on Wednesday sent an Andhra Pradesh Endowments Department official to judicial custody in a disproportionate assets case.Kalingiri Shanti, Assistant Commissioner in the endowments department, was produced before the ACB court, which sent her to judicial custody till April 21. She was subsequently shifted to the Vijayawada district jail.The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Shanti after simultaneous raids at premises linked to her on Tuesday.The anti-gr…
Ranchi, April 8 (IANS) In a key development in the multi-crore tender commission and money laundering case linked to Jharkhand’s Rural Development Department, retired Engineer-in-Chief Rajiv Lochan and retired Executive Engineer Anil Kumar surrendered before the Special PMLA Court in Ranchi on Wednesday.The court subsequently granted them conditional bail upon furnishing personal bonds of Rs 1 lakh each. As part of the bail conditions, both accused have been directed to surrender their passpor…
Hyderabad, April 3 (IANS) Telangana’s Anti-Corruption Bureau recovered over Rs 24 lakh cash, gold and silver ornaments, and fixed deposits worth Rs 30 lakh during searches at the houses of two officers of the Sub-Registrar’s Office, Warangal, an agency statement said on Friday.The ACB officials conducted a surprise check at the Sub-Registrar Office, Warangal, in Hanumakonda district, which revealed several irregularities.The anti-graft agency said in its release that during the searches conducte…
Jaipur, April 2 (IANS) The Anti-Corruption Bureau, Rajasthan, on Thursday arrested Randhir Singh, Additional Secretary of the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC), Sikar, who was also holding additional charge as Secretary of APMC Neem-ka-Thana, for accepting a bribe of ₹40,000.Acting on directives from the Anti-Corruption Bureau Headquarters, the Sikar unit carried out a trap operation and caught the Additional Secretary of the Agricultural Produce Market Committee red-handed while ac…