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…
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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…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a supplementary charge sheet before a Special Court (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) in the national capital against Sachin Dev Duggal, a United Kingdom resident, for his alleged involvement in the multi-crore Videocon money laundering case, officials said on Wednesday.The complaint has been filed in continuation of the original charge sheet submitted on December 18, 2024, against Venugopal Dhoot and 12 others. The Special PML…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) A Delhi court on Wednesday extended the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) official Mudavath Devula and private company executive Bharat Mathur by two days in connection with a bribery case involving alleged payment of Rs 2.5 lakh for regulatory approvals. The accused were produced before the Rouse Avenue Court upon completion of their earlier three-day CBI remand.The probe agency had sought five days of furthe…
Mumbai, April 21 (IANS) Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday dared the Bharatiya Janata Party to set aside the Enforcement Directorate and Central Bureau of Investigation and face the party in a fair fight. He called the current administration “cowardly” for harassing women through agencies and urged the Marathi people to stand united against the “anarchy” currently facing the nation.Targeting Bharatiya Janata Party leadership, he lamented the lack of leaders of Arun Jaitley…
Hyderabad, April 21 (IANS) Union minister of state for home affairs, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, on Tuesday accused Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of making every possible effort to cover up the alleged corruption by the family of former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR). He said during the 2023 elections Revanth Reddy had alleged that corruption worth Rs 1 lakh crore had occurred in the Kaleshwaram project built by the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government but after becoming the Ch…
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Monday stressed the urgent need for a transition towards real-time enforcement mechanisms to effectively combat the rapidly evolving threat of cybercrime in the country.Delivering the 22nd D.P. Kohli Memorial Lecture at Bharat Mandapam, the CJI said that traditional enforcement approaches are proving increasingly inadequate in the face of cyber offences that are “transnational, fast-paced and anonymous” in nature.The lectu…