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…
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Bhopal, Jan 31 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Saturday that it has attached properties valued at approximately Rs 9.79 crore belonging to former Madhya Pradesh health director Dr Amarnath Mittal and his wife, Dr Alka Mittal. The action was taken under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) 2002, following an investigation into a disproportionate assets case lodged against them in 2012.ED said that the investigation was initiated based on an FIR reg…
Tumakuru (Karnataka), Jan 31 (IANS) A Police Sub-Inspector, Chetan Kumar, attached to the Tumakuru Rural Police Station, was caught red-handed by Lokayukta officials while allegedly accepting a bribe to release a vehicle seized in a case, the Lokayukta said on Saturday.The vehicle belonged to a Bengaluru-based advocate, and the PSI had allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 5 lakh for its release. On Friday night, at around 11.30 pm, Chetan Kumar was trapped by Lokayukta officials while he was accepti…
Bhopal, Jan 30 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Friday that it has filed a charge sheet against former Madhya Pradesh government employee Santosh Kumar Sharma, and others under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Sharma, who previously served as in-charge principal in a government-run B.Ed College in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh, was booked under the charges of alleged corruption and disproportionate assets worth more than Rs 1.23 crore.The ce…
Bhopal/Raipur, Jan 30 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) Indore Sub Zonal Office, has filed a charge sheet against Ashok Sharma before the Special Court for PMLA cases in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore, ED officials said. The action stems from an investigation initiated on the basis of an FIR and subsequent charge sheet filed by Ujjain’s Lokayukta Police under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.Sharma, who served as the Divisional Deputy Director in the Nagriya Prashasan Evam Vikas Vibhag, i…
Bhopal/Indore, Jan 30 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) Indore Sub-Zonal Office has filed a charge sheet against Kamal Rathore and five other accused persons before the Special Judge under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore. The case centres on a major fraud involving the misappropriation of government funds amounting to Rs 20.47 crore from the Block Education Office in Katthiwada of Alirajpur district, ED said in a statement on Thursday.The fraudulent acti…
Bhopal, Jan 30 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate’s Bhopal Zonal Office, has filed a charge sheet against Mark Pius Karari and four others in connection with a money laundering case involving Manoj Parmar and his aides, ED officials said. The complaint was submitted before the Special Court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, in Bhopal on Wednesday, ED officials noted on Thursday.Following the filing, the court issued notices to the accused persons.The investigation was in…
Kolkata, Jan 29 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday raided multiple locations in south Kolkata in connection with a multi-crore financial fraud case. According to sources, officials of the central investigation agency first raided the home and office of a businessman on New Road in Alipore. After finding no one there, they then went to another house in Alipore. The search is ongoing at the moment. The search and raid began in the morning.According to CBI sources, the rai…
New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached assets worth Rs 1,885 crore of Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group, including immovable properties, bank balances, receivables and shareholding in unquoted investments, according to a statement issued by the agency on Wednesday. The attachments have been done in the Reliance Home Finance Ltd (RFHL), the Reliance Commercial Finance Ltd (RCFL), and the Yes Bank fraud case, as well as the Reliance Communication Ltd (RCOM)…
New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on a plea filed by Congress MP Karti P. Chidambaram challenging a trial court order framing charges against him in connection with the alleged Chinese visa scam case.After briefly hearing the matter, a single-judge Bench of Justice Manoj Jain issued a notice on Chidambaram’s criminal revision petition as well as on the application seeking a stay of the trial court’s proceedin…