Chandigarh, April 27 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday carried out search operations in a corruption case linked to suspended Punjab Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Harcharan Singh Bhullar and others under Section 17 of PMLA, 2002, sources said. This comes after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Chandigarh’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) registered predicate offences, relating to allegations of demanding illegal gratification through a middleman for the settlement of a …
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Kolkata, April 25 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the election rally in Hooghly district’s Uttarpara. Launching a scathing attack on both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Chief Minister Banerjee claimed the former sent the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to Nandigram to loot votes.She also alleged that the BJP has brought outsiders to the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in buses on Fr…
New Delhi/Hazaribagh, April 25 (IANS) The CBI conducted searches at the home of a Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) manager arrested in a corruption case in Hazaribagh, recovering Rs 21 lakh cash, jewellery, property papers and other digital evidence, an official said on Saturday. Ravi Ranjan Kumar, arrested on Thursday for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh, was produced in a Special CBI Court in Ranchi that remanded him to judicial custody, the CBI said in a statement.The CBI said th…
Chandigarh, April 24 (IANS) Punjab Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) General Secretary Baltej Pannu on Friday blamed Union Home Minister Amit Shah for a coordinated attempt to weaken the party by misusing Central agencies and engineering defections of its seven Members of Parliament. “Amit Shah is actively working to weaken AAP by engineering defections and using Raghav Chadha as a tool to execute this plan. There are credible reports within the party that Amit Shah offered Raghav Chadha a Union ministeri…
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) In a setback to the Jharkhand government, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the Jharkhand High Court’s order transferring the probe into an FIR against Enforcement Directorate officials in Ranchi to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).A bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and N. Kotiswar Singh dismissed the state government’s plea, which had challenged the High Court’s decision and sought a halt to the CBI investigation.Senior advocate Meenakshi Arora, …
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) A Delhi court on Friday sent Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) official Mudavath Devula and private company executive Bharat Mathur to judicial custody till May 6 in connection with a bribery case involving alleged payment of Rs 2.5 lakh for regulatory approvals.The order was passed by the Rouse Avenue Court after the accused were produced before it upon the expiry of their Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody.Devula, serving as Deputy Director Gene…
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the conviction and life sentence of Amit Jogi in the 2003 murder case of NCP leader Ram Avtar Jaggi, granting interim relief on his plea against the Chhattisgarh High Court verdict. A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and Vijay Bishnoi passed the order while hearing Jogi’s special leave petition (SLP) challenging the decision of the Chhattisgarh High Court, which had reversed his acquittal and directed him to surrender….
Hyderabad, April 22 (IANS) Telangana’s Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said on Wednesday that the High Court has not given a clean chit to anyone in its verdict on the report of Justice P.C. Ghose Commission, which probed the alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram project.Reacting to the High Court order on the petitions of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) President and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), former minister T. Harish Rao and two others, Uttam Kumar Reddy said …
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday orally remarked that the alleged interference by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in an ongoing Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation had the effect of putting democracy “in peril”, observing that such actions cannot be brushed aside as a mere dispute between the state and the Union government.A bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice N. V. Anjaria was hearing petitions filed by the ED seeking registration of a C…
Bengaluru, April 22 (IANS) In a significant development in the high-profile gold smuggling case, Kannada actress Ranya Rao is set to be released from jail on Wednesday after completing one year under preventive detention, officials said.Ranya Rao, who is currently lodged at Bengaluru Central Prison, was arrested in connection with an alleged gold smuggling racket involving gold worth Rs 102 crore. The case had drawn widespread attention due to her links to the Kannada film industry and the polic…