New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) The Supreme Court has granted bail to an Uttar Pradesh government official accused in a corruption case, observing that the delay in granting sanction for prosecution cannot be used to curtail a citizen’s liberty.A Bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu set aside the Allahabad High Court’s order on the regular bail plea of Ravinder Mehta, an accused in an FIR registered under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act at Adarsh Mandi police station in Uttar …
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Indore, July 21 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta on Tuesday carried out simultaneous searches at nine locations in Indore, Dhar and Morena in connection with a disproportionate assets case against a senior finance officer of the Madhya Pradesh West Zone Electricity Distribution Company. Preliminary findings indicate that the officer allegedly possessed assets about 258 per cent higher than his known sources of income, officials said.According to information, the searches began early morning a…
Jaipur, July 20 (IANS) Acting on the directions of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Headquarters, the ACB unit in Rajsamand on Monday conducted a successful trap operation and arrested Pankaj Jain, a Junior Specialist (General Surgery) posted at R.K. Hospital, Rajsamand, while accepting a bribe of Rs 1,300. The ACB Rajsamand unit had received a complaint alleging that Jain was demanding Rs 2,000 to perform surgery for the removal of a cyst near the complainant’s son’s right eye at R.K. Gover…
Jaipur, July 17 (IANS) The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested a contractual worker of the Sojat Road Municipal Council in Pali district while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 25,000 in the name of municipal officials for issuing a lease of an ancestral plot. According to the ACB, the trap was laid by the Pali-II Unit following a complaint that Parmanand Sharma, a contractual worker associated with the Sojat Road Municipal Council, was demanding Rs 25,000 on behalf of the Accoun…
New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to interfere with the Madras High Court’s interim order staying the Look Out Circular (LOC) issued against former Tamil Nadu Highways Minister and DMK MLA, E.V. Velu and protecting him from coercive action in connection with a Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) case alleging a Rs 3.23-crore highway fraud.A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta dismissed the Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by the Tamil…
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) In a major development in its ongoing probe into large-scale homebuyer fraud, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed its 16th chargesheet against M/s Saha Infratech Pvt Ltd, its director, and officials of HDFC Bank Ltd and ICICI Bank Ltd for their alleged involvement in fraudulent activities linked to a housing project in Noida, according to an official statement issued on Tuesday.The chargesheet has been filed before the Special Judge for CBI Cases at the …
Mehsana, July 10 (IANS) A police constable posted at Kadi Police Station in Mehsana district has been arrested by the Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) after accepting a bribe of Rs 80,000 to settle a criminal complaint, officials said on Friday. According to the ACB, the accused has been identified as Amin Husain Manjur Husain Sheikh, an unarmed Police Constable (Class III) attached to Kadi Police Station.The trap was carried out on Thursday after a complainant approached the Gandhinagar ACB…
Jaipur, July 10 (IANS) The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday arrested two patwaris of the Land Settlement Department in Bharatpur after they were allegedly caught red-handed accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000. According to ACB Director General Govind Gupta, the ACB’s Bharatpur unit acted on a complaint alleging that patwaris Pradeep Singh and Digambar Singh were demanding Rs 50,000 from the complainant in return for demarcating agricultural land that had already been measured. The acc…
Bengaluru, July 9 (IANS) Four police officers, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP), have secured relief in the high-profile Bitcoin case after the Karnataka Home Department declined to grant prosecution sanction against them. This prompted the Criminal Investigation Department’s (CID) Special Investigation Team (SIT) to drop charges and file a ‘B’ report before the court, police confirmed on Thursday.The four officers are DySP Sridhar Pujar and Inspectors D.M. Prashanth Babu, Laks…
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, …