Mumbai, Feb 22 (IANS) Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said the state government has recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the plane crash that claimed the life of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on January 28, following demands for a transparent and comprehensive investigation.Speaking to reporters after the customary tea meeting and Cabinet meeting ahead of the Budget Session of the state legislature, Fadnavis said he had spoken to Union Home Min…
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Bengaluru, Feb 21 (IANS) A court in Karnataka on Saturday remanded BJP MLA Byrathi Basavaraj, representing Bengaluru’s KR Puram constituency, to judicial custody till February 26 in a murder case.Basavaraj was arrested in connection with the murder of a man and was questioned by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).The order was passed by the 42nd Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Court. Basavaraj will be shifted to the Bengaluru Central Prison located on the outskirts of the …
Gondia (Maharashtra), Feb 18 (IANS) The NCP working president and former civil aviation minister, Praful Patel, on Wednesday strongly defended the party’s demand for a CBI probe into the death of former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and national president Ajit Pawar in a plane crash at Baramati on January 28. “CBI is a reliable organisation. If the probe is conducted by the CBI, then some facts and aspects should be taken into account. CBI can do this work,” he said at a press conferen…
Bengaluru, Feb 12 (IANS) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Thursday night arrested senior BJP MLA and former minister Byrathi Basavaraj in connection with the murder of rowdy-sheeter Shivaprakash alias Biklu Shiva.The arrest came hours after the Supreme Court rejected Basavaraj’s bail plea earlier in the day. The MLA was taken into custody at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru by the Devanahalli police upon his arrival from Ahmedabad on IndiGo flight 6E683 and was later…
Bengaluru, Feb 11 (IANS) Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara on Wednesday said it would be better for BJP MLA Byrathi Basavaraj, an accused in the rowdy sheeter murder case, to surrender before the police. The Karnataka High Court had cancelled his interim bail on Tuesday.Speaking to reporters, Parameshwara, when asked why the police had not yet arrested Byrathi Basavaraj, said, “It is good for BJP MLA Byrathi Basavaraj to surrender before the police. The court passed its order on Tuesday….
Bengaluru, Feb 10 (IANS) BJP MLA from Bengaluru’s KR Puram, Byrathi Basavaraj, who is an accused in the murder case of rowdy-sheeter Shivaprakash alias Biklu Shiva, is facing imminent arrest after the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday rejected his anticipatory bail plea.A bench, headed by Justice Sunil Dutt Yadav, passed the order after vacating the interim protection from arrest granted earlier.Following the court’s decision, CID sleuths launched a search operation to trace the MLA. CID sources…
Patna, Feb 8 (IANS) Union MSME Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Sunday said that Purnea MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav was arrested, reportedly for actively raising the issue of the suspicious death of a NEET aspirant in Patna.Responding to a media query during a press conference in Gaya, Manjhi said he did not wish to make extensive comments on the matter, as it is sub judice.”I don’t want to say much about it, but it is being said that Pappu Yadav was arrested as he was raising the NEET aspira…
Guwahati, Feb 8 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday stated that the allegations concerning Pakistani national Ali Tauqeer Sheikh and Elizabeth Gogoi, who is the spouse of Congress MP and Deputy Leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha, Gaurav Gogoi, are of a very serious nature and should not be regarded as a trivial issue.Addressing reporters, CM Sarma said the involvement of a sitting Member of Parliament elevated the issue beyond the purview of a routine investigation.“Thes…
Hyderabad, Jan 31 (IANS) The ED filed a supplementary chargesheet in a Special PMLA Court in Visakhapatnam over cheating and diversion of crores of rupees invested by the Andhra Pradesh government in a skill development project involving a private company, an official said on Saturday.The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Hyderabad Zonal Office, filed the Supplementary Prosecution Complaint against Vikas Khanvelkar, Suman Bose, Mukul Chandra Agarwal, Suresh Goyal and others.The chargesheet also name…
Patna, Jan 31 (IANS) After the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Purnea Lok Sabha MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav has demanded that the CBI investigation into the suspicious death of a NEET aspirant be conducted under the supervision of a Supreme Court or High Court judge. Addressing a press conference in Purnea on Saturday, Pappu Yadav said that the transfer of the case to the CBI itself proves the failure and incompetence of the Bihar Police and CID.“With the recommendation of this case to t…