Kolkata, July 11 (IANS) A trial court in Kolkata on Saturday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe allegations by the parents of the R.G. Kar rape and murder victim about tampering with viscera specimens of the victim, thus manipulating her final viscera report. The additional judicial magistrate of the lower court at Sealdah in South Kolkata directed the CBI to initiate the investigation in the matter immediately and also submit a preliminary report to the same court by Ju…
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Dehradun, July 10 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed a chargesheet in a Special Court here against 18 accused in the Rs 400 crore Loni Urban Multi State Credit and Thrift Co-operative Society (LUCC) chit fund scam. Those named in the chargesheet include Sameer Agrawal, Shadab Husain, Uttam Kumar Singh Rajpoot, Sania Agrawal w/o Sameer Agrawal, Maya Singh Rajpoot w/o Uttam Kumar Singh Rajpoot, Jitendra Singh Niranjan, Dinesh Singh, Girish Chand Singh Bisht, Urmila Bi…
Guwahati, July 10 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached movable and immovable assets worth around Rs 5.54 crore in connection with an alleged multi-crore Ponzi scam involving the Jeevan Suraksha Group of Companies, officials said on Friday. The attachment was made under Section 5(1) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.According to the ED, the attached assets include credit balances of about Rs 1.42 crore lying in 48 bank accounts and 22 immovabl…
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court is slated to hear, on Monday, a batch of public interest litigations (PILs) seeking a court-monitored probe into the alleged financial irregularities in the handling of donations and offerings received by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust in Ayodhya. As per the causelist published on the apex court’s official website, a Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana is scheduled to take up the pe…
Karur, July 10 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay on Friday handed over compassionate appointment orders to the members of families who lost their loved ones in the Karur stampede, describing the tragedy as an “unhealed wound” that continues to weigh heavily on his heart.The stampede occurred on September 27 last year, on the eve of the Tamil Nadu Assembly election, during a TVK election campaign rally in Karur.Forty-one people were killed in the incident. A Central Bureau of I…
Chandigarh, July 9 (IANS) Amid the controversy over Diljit Dosanjh’s film ‘Satluj’, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab on Thursday dismissed allegations that the state government had signed any file related to the premature release of convicts in the 1995 abduction and murder of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra. Presenting a chronology, the party’s media in-charge, Baltej Pannu, said here that the proposal for premature release was first sent during the Congress government, while the …
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has dealt a major blow to India’s largest illegal online betting syndicate by filing 11 fresh charge sheets in the high-profile Mahadev App gambling case. The development marks a significant escalation in the probe into the multi-crore racket allegedly run from abroad.In one set of cases, the CBI filed six charge sheets against six accused, Ashim Das, Rohit Gulati, Vikas Chhaparia, Anil Dhammani, Vishal Ahuja, and Dheeraj Ahuja, …
Bengaluru, July 8 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested two employees of the Postal Department in connection with the alleged misappropriation of approximately Rs 1.3 crore from the Post Office Savings Accounts of 44 account holders at Saragur Post Office in Mysuru district in Karnataka, an official statement said on Wednesday. The arrested accused are a Postal Assistant and a Postman, both posted at the Saragur Post Office. They were arrested following an investigation i…
Chandigarh, July 8 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested two officials of the Haryana Labour Welfare Board (HLWB) in connection with the alleged misappropriation of government funds from the Board’s account maintained with the Sector-32 branch of IDFC First Bank in Chandigarh, an official statement said on Wednesday.The arrested officials have been identified as Accounts Officer Jugal Kishor and contractual Accountant Amit Kumar.The case was taken over by the CBI on a ref…
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted search operations on Tuesday at the premises of M/s E-Complex Private Limited and the residential premises of one of its directors, which resulted in the detection and seizure of evidence pertaining to suspicious transactions and assets beneficially owned or controlled by Reliance Anil Ambani Group, according to an official statement issued on Wednesday. During the search operations, several incriminating documents, records rel…