Mumbai, Feb 13 (IANS) The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) caught red handed a clerk working in the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) while allegedly accepting a Rs 35,000 bribe at the state secretariat, Mantralaya. The ACB official confirmed this development on Friday.The Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee President Harshwardhan Sapkal claimed that the clerk Rajendra Dherange was arrested in a Cabinet minister’s office, and the incident highlighted what he called “rampant corrupt…
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Mumbai, Feb 11 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Mumbai, has provisionally attached assets worth approximately Rs 1.03 crore belonging to Hitesh Kumar Singla, a suspended officer of Bank of India, under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), an agency statement said on Wednesday.The attachment also includes bank balances held in mule accounts allegedly used to siphon off proceeds of crime. The Provisional Attachment Order (PAO) was issued on February 9.The ED …
Kollam (Kerala), Feb 10 (IANS) The Kerala High Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Tuesday strongly opposed the bail plea of jailed Sabarimala temple tantri Kantarar Rajeevar before the Kollam Vigilance Court, citing the accumulation of “huge and disproportionate wealth” and his alleged long-standing association with the prime accused in the Sabarimala gold heist case.Arguing that bail should not be granted “under any circumstances”, the SIT informed the court that the tantri had…
Jaipur, Feb 9 (IANS) Acting on the instructions of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) headquarters, Jaipur City’s ACB Outpost, on Monday, arrested one Rajesh Kumar Khandelwal, an Assistant Accounts Officer (AAO) posted with the Rajasthan government’s Pension Department at Lalkothi, red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000. The ACB Outpost in Jaipur received a complaint, saying that following the death of the complainant’s father, the complainant’s mother was not receiving her complete pensi…
Visakhapatnam, Feb 5 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED), on Thursday, provisionally attached movable and immovable properties valued at Rs 1.39 crore in connection with the case of a former Railway officer in disproportionate assets (DA) case. The ED’s Visakhapatnam Sub-Zonal Office has provisionally attached the properties under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.Alladaboina Satish allegedly acquired disproportionate assets in his name and in the name of his family members…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has upheld the conviction of a Delhi Police Sub-Inspector in a 30-year-old bribery case, holding that the prosecution had successfully established the demand and acceptance of illegal gratification.Dismissing the criminal appeal, a single-judge Bench of Justice Chandrasekharan Sudha refused to interfere with the 2003 judgment of the trial court, which had found Sub-Inspector Manoj Kumar guilty under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of t…
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to former Chhattisgarh Excise Minister and sitting Congress MLA Kawasi Lakhma in corruption and money laundering cases linked to the State’s multi-crore liquor scam.Noting his prolonged incarceration and the unlikelihood of an early conclusion of the trial, a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant granted the relief to Lakhma in cases registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act being probed by the …
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to three persons alleged to have conspired in swapping blood samples to shield minors involved in the high-profile Pune Porsche hit-and-run case. Observing that they had been incarcerated for nearly 20 months, a Bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan ordered the release of Ashish Satish Mittal, Aditya Avinash Sood, and Amar Santhosh Gaikwad, subject to conditions set by the trial court.The three are accused of having pl…
Jammu, Feb 1 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Sunday trapped a Junior Engineer (JE) in Reasi district while demanding and accepting a bribe.Rahul Gandotra, a JE posted as TA in BDO Office Gulabgarh Mahore, Reasi, was arrested for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 8,000, a statement issued by the ACB said.Three cases of corruption are already registered against him.”ACB Jammu registered a case FIR No. 03/2026 U/S 07 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 at PS A…
Guna, Jan 31 (IANS) In a significant move against corruption, the Madhya Pradesh government on Saturday suspended a treasury officer in connection with irregularities in the sale of stamps causing a loss of Rs 2.70 crore to the exchequer in Guna district. The development came nearly over a week after an FIR was registered against Keshav Verma, assistant grade-III cashier under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).According to information, a case against Verma wa…