New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) A Special PMLA Court on Saturday granted pre-arrest bail to businessman Robert Vadra, husband of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, in a land deal-related money laundering case, disfavouring unnecessary curtailment of liberty of an accused who has cooperated with the investigation. Special Judge Sushant Changotra accepted Vadra’s bail bond and surety bonds in sum of Rs 50,000 and put up the matter for arguments on charge on July 10.While allowing pre-arrest bail to Vadra…
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Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday arrested Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas in connection with a criminal-linked syndicate case.The ED had been questioning Shantanu at the CGO Complex in Kolkata since Thursday morning after the police officer appeared before agency officials for interrogation.He was arrested after being questioned for more than 10-and-a-half hours and will be produced before a court on Friday.The ED had summoned Sinha Bis…
Mumbai, May 14 (IANS) The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Mumbai, has seized diamonds worth over Rs 5.7 crore at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International (CSMI) Airport and arrested two persons for allegedly attempting to smuggle them to Bangkok. According to the DRI, the accused were intercepted at the Mumbai airport based on specific Intelligence inputs. During examination and questioning, both passengers admitted that they had concealed two capsules each inside their bodies.The ca…
Washington, May 12 (IANS) The terror facilities in Pakistan, which had suffered a major damage during Operation Sindoor launched by the Indian military last year in the aftermath of the April 22, 2025 Pahalgam terror attack, are now undergoing large-scale clearing work, with construction materials and supplies visible across the sites, indicating rebuilding activity.Following Operation Sindoor, terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) shifted its key operational bases from Pakistan-occupied…
Chandigarh, May 12 (IANS) The ED arrested two former employees of IDFC First Bank in connection with an ongoing investigation into the embezzlement of Rs 645 crore from the bank accounts of the Haryana government, the Chandigarh Administration, and others, an official said on Tuesday. The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Chandigarh Zonal Office, arrested Ribhav Rishi and Abhay Kumar on Monday under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA),2002, the official said.After t…
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice on an Enforcement Directorate (ED) plea seeking cancellation of anticipatory bail granted to alleged coal smuggling kingpin Anup Majee alias “Lala” in a money laundering case linked to the multi-crore illegal coal mining racket in West Bengal. A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta sought Majee’s response on the ED’s challenge to the order of the Delhi High Court granting him anticipatory bail in proceedings a…
Chandigarh, May 12 (IANS) Arrested Punjab Industries Minister, Sanjeev Arora, on Tuesday moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court, saying his arrest on the face of it was “arbitrary, mechanical, without jurisdiction, and in violation of the mandatory safeguards guaranteed under Articles 14, 21 and 22 of the Constitution of India”. Sanjeev Arora was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) from his official residence here on May 9 under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act …
Chandigarh, May 11 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Monday demanded an Enforcement Directorate (ED) probe against Punjab Aam Aadmi Party legislator Ashok Kumar Pappi Prashar for alleged large scale corruption, including money laundering by using the account of his personal assistant. The SAD leader told the media here that Ludhiana (Central) MLA Prashar used his personal assistant Nikhil Sabharwal as a front man to collect Rs 1.10 crore from 87 people who were to …
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to former Jharkhand Rural Development Minister and Congress leader Alamgir Alam and his private secretary Sanjeev Lal in a money laundering case linked to the alleged tender commission scam being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).A Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and N. Kotiswar Singh ordered their conditional release after hearing special leave petitions (SLPs) challenging the Jharkhand High Court’s order refusing bail…
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) A Special PMLA court remanded three accused to ED custody till May 12 in connection with a Rs 284 crore money laundering and bank loan fraud by Sravanthi Group promoter D.V. Rao and his associates, an official said on Saturday. The Court accepted the ED’s plea to question the accused and observed that, given the gravity of the allegations and the accused’s role in money laundering, custodial interrogation is necessary, the official said in a statement.The ED’s mon…