New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached immovable assets worth approximately Rs 944 crore linked to M/s Piyush Colonisers Limited, its former promoters, and associated entities, in connection with an ongoing money laundering probe, officials said on Monday.The action was carried out by the ED’s Gurugram Zonal Office under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.The attached assets include project land parcels, resident…
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New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court has held that mere use of abusive language such as the word “bastard” during a heated altercation would not amount to an offence of obscenity under Section 294(b) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).A bench of Justices Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Manoj Misra made the observation while partly allowing appeals filed by two accused persons challenging their conviction in a 2014 case arising out of a long-standing boundary dispute between close relatives in…
Mumbai, April 4 (IANS) A case has been registered at Chembur Police Station against a former municipal corporator for allegedly contesting elections using a fake caste certificate and defrauding the government as well as the public. Based on a complaint, Chembur Police have registered a case against former corporator Ramesh Kamble under IPC Sections 193, 199, 406, 420, 465, 466, 467, 468, 469, 470, and 471 for forgery, cheating, and criminal breach of trust. Further investigation is underway.Acc…
Damoh, April 3 (IANS) In a tragic road accident, two young cousins lost their lives after a speeding truck rammed into their motorcycle while they were returning with a cooking gas cylinder on the Damoh-Pathariya road. The victims have been identified as Jay Srivastava (son of Sandeep Srivastava), a resident of Teen Gulli, Damoh, and Prabal Srivastava (son of Pradeep Srivastava), a resident of Pathariya. Both were returning from collecting a gas cylinder when the accident occurred near Kho…
Raipur/Kondagaon, April 3 (IANS) In yet another tragic incident highlighting the growing danger of speeding trucks on national highways, a cyclist was killed on the spot, and a motorcyclist sustained serious injuries in a road accident on National Highway-30 early Friday morning.The accident occurred around 4 a.m. between Chichadi and Manjhi Athgaon under the jurisdiction of Farsagaon Police Station in Kondagaon district.According to police officials, a speeding truck first collided with a motor…
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has dismissed the bail application of a man accused in a dowry death case, observing that the gravity of the offence and material on record did not warrant his release at this stage. A single-judge Bench of Justice Girish Kathpalia rejected the regular bail plea filed by the accused, Md. Shahnawaz, in connection with an FIR registered at Nabi Karim police station under Sections 304B, 498A, 201, and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Subsequently, th…
Bhopal, April 3 (IANS) The membership of Congress MLA from Datia, Rajendra Bharti, has been cancelled from the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly following his conviction in a cooperative bank fraud case by a Delhi court.“As a consequence of his (Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti) conviction — resulting in a three-year term of imprisonment and a monetary fine of Rs 100,000 on April 2, 2026 — and in compliance with the order of the Supreme Court dated July 10, 2013, Rajendra Bhartiya stands disqu…
Bhopal, April 2 (IANS) The Opposition Congress in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday raised apprehensions over the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) intentions regarding the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections in the state, following the conviction of Datia MLA Rajendra Bharti in a cheating and forgery case.Leader of the Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly, Umang Singhar, reacting to the developments after Bharti’s conviction by a Special MP-MLA court in Delhi, said: “The BJP’s in…
Bhopal, April 2 (IANS) A 50-year-old man was killed and four of his family members were injured after an out-of-control dumper truck rammed into a roadside house on Thursday in Madhya Pradesh’s Narsinghpur district.The incident occurred in Kamti village under the Gadarwara police station area. The deceased has been identified as Bhojraj Kaurav (50).According to police, the heavily loaded dumper lost control, possibly due to brake failure or excessive speed, and ploughed straight into the house…
New Delhi/Itanagar, April 1 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday said it has filed a supplementary prosecution complaint (SPC) before a court in Arunachal Pradesh under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, in connection with a Rs 44.98 crore land acquisition compensation scam linked to the Trans-Arunachal Highway (TAH), involving the alleged fraudulent diversion of government funds.The Trans-Arunachal Highway is a major 2,407-km-long, two-lane highway project trav…