Chennai, March 3 (IAN ) The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday informed the Madras High Court that the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) is considering filing a review petition against the court’s February 20 order directing it to register a First Information Report (FIR) in the alleged cash-for-jobs scam linked to the Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department headed by Minister K.N. Nehru. Appearing before the division bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava…
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Patna, March 2 (IANS) The Special Vigilance Unit, Bihar (SVU), on Monday arrested Roshan Kumar, an Assistant Engineer posted with the District Education Project in Bettiah, for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh. According to officials, the engineer had allegedly demanded the bribe from a contractor in exchange for approving bills related to school repair and renovation works, including the installation of submersible pumps in various government schools.The action followed a formal complai…
Jaipur, Feb 28 (IANS) In a trap operation conducted by the Special Unit-2 of the Rajasthan’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), accused Uttam Pandey, a resident of Sarai Pandeypur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, was arrested red-handed on Saturday while accepting a bribe of Rs 13 lakh from the complainant in Sikar district. ACB Director General Govind Gupta said that the complainant had submitted a written complaint to ACB Jaipur on December 30, 2025. In his complaint, he alleged that he had been…
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) A Delhi court, on Friday, acquitted all the 23 accused, including the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Convenor Arvind Kejriwal and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in the excise policy case being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), saying that the prosecution failed to establish even a prima facie case or raise a “grave suspicion” warranting the framing of charges. In a detailed order running into more than 1,100 paragraphs, Special Judge (…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has placed the prosecution sanction order received from the competent authority against senior Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in connection with the alleged INX Media money laundering case before the Special Rose Avenue Court in New Delhi, according to an official statement issued by the central anti-money laundering agency on Thursday. The prosecution sanction order, which was obtained on February 10, 20…
Lucknow, Feb 25 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached immovable properties, including land, valued at more than Rs 598 crore in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, in connection with the case involving M/S Ansal Properties and Infrastructure Ltd. The ED launched its probe based on an FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation’s Anti-Corruption Branch in New Delhi on January 23, 2019. The FIR was filed under sections 1…
Jaipur, Feb 25 (IANS) Acting on the directions of the Anti-Corruption Bureau Headquarters, Jaipur, the Anti-Corruption Bureau Outpost in Dholpur has arrested Birendra Kumar Sharma, a Patwari of Patwar Halka Basai Samanta, Tehsil Basai Samanta, District Dholpur, while accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 from a complainant.Director General of Police, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Govind Gupta, informed that a complaint was received at the Anti-Corruption Bureau Outpost, Dholpur, alleging that the complainant…
Bhubaneswar, Feb 25 (IANS) In the highest-ever cash seizure by Odisha’s Vigilance Department, the anti corruption sleuths on Wednesday unearthed over Rs 4 crore in cash from the Bhubaneswar flat of Deputy Director of Mines, Cuttack Circle. The accused, identified as Debabrata Mohanty, was apprehended on Tuesday night for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000 from a licensed coal vendor for allowing smooth running of his coal depot and to grant permission to transport coal.Following his arrest…
Jaipur, Feb 24 (IANS) Acting on the instructions of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) headquarters, the Jaipur Nagar unit’s ACB, on Tuesday, arrested Jagdish Prasad Meena, Block Development Officer (BDO) of panchayat samiti Sawai Madhopur, who was also holding additional charge as District Project Manager, red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 1,00,000. ACB Director General of Police (DGP) Govind Gupta told that the ACB Jaipur Nagar Unit received a complaint alleging that Jagdish Prasad Meena was …
Bhubaneswar, Feb 25 (IANS) The Odisha Vigilance has arrested a senior government official for allegedly accepting a bribe from a licensed coal vendor in exchange for facilitating the complainant to run his business smoothly. According to the Vigilance sources on Tuesday, the accused officer Debabrata Mohanty, Cuttack Deputy Director of Mines, was apprehended by the Vigilance sleuths while he was taking a bribe of Rs 30,000 from the licenced coal vendor in exchange for allowing smooth running of …