Vijayawada, April 13 (IANS) A city court has sent a suspended Assistant Commissioner in the Endowments Department to police custody for two days in a disproportionate assets case. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court allowed questioning of Kalingiri Shanti on April 15 and 16.Shanti, arrested on April 7 after simultaneous raids at premises linked to her, is currently lodged in Vijayawada district jail. She filed a petition seeking permission to meet her two-and-a-half-year-old son. After …
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New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday declined to quash the CBI FIR and charge sheets against RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in connection with the alleged land-for-jobs scam. A bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and N. Kotiswar Singh, while disposing of Yadav’s plea challenging the Delhi High Court order refusing to quash the corruption case, granted him liberty to raise legal objections during trial and exempted him from personal appearance before the trial court.“After hearing …
Vijayawada, April 12 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh government has suspended an Assistant Commissioner in the Endowments Department following her arrest in a disproportionate assets case.The orders for Kalingiri Shanti’s suspension were issued by Commissioner K. Ramchandramohan, official sources said on Sunday.The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) had arrested Shanti on April 7 after simultaneous raids at premises linked to her. She was found to have amassed assets worth Rs 1.37 crore, disproportionate …
Jaipur, April 11 (IANS) The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Saturday recovered Rs 3.70 lakh in suspicious cash from an Assistant Engineer during a surprise check in Baran district. The cash was seized from Mahendra Singh, posted at the Municipality of Anta, during an operation carried out by the ACB’s Karauli unit following specific intelligence inputs, officials said.The operation was carried out by the ACB Karauli Unit following specific intelligence received by the Bureau Headquar…
New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday declined to grant bail to suspended Punjab Police Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Harcharan Singh Bhullar in a corruption case being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), but granted him liberty to renew his plea if the trial does not commence within two months. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant said, “While we are not inclined to entertain the prayer for bail at this stage, however, we grant liberty t…
Vijayawada, April 8 (IANS) A city court on Wednesday sent an Andhra Pradesh Endowments Department official to judicial custody in a disproportionate assets case.Kalingiri Shanti, Assistant Commissioner in the endowments department, was produced before the ACB court, which sent her to judicial custody till April 21. She was subsequently shifted to the Vijayawada district jail.The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Shanti after simultaneous raids at premises linked to her on Tuesday.The anti-gr…
Ranchi, April 8 (IANS) In a key development in the multi-crore tender commission and money laundering case linked to Jharkhand’s Rural Development Department, retired Engineer-in-Chief Rajiv Lochan and retired Executive Engineer Anil Kumar surrendered before the Special PMLA Court in Ranchi on Wednesday.The court subsequently granted them conditional bail upon furnishing personal bonds of Rs 1 lakh each. As part of the bail conditions, both accused have been directed to surrender their passpor…
New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Delhi Police, the Union Health Ministry and the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, seeking an Action Taken Report (ATR) within two weeks over allegations of harassment of whistleblowers in a case linked to an internal recruitment inquiry. Taking cognisance under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993, a Bench presided over by NHRC member Priyank Kanoongo observed that the allegations prim…
Jaipur, April 7 (IANS) A special CBI court here has sentenced former Western Central Railway employee Jalandhar Yogi, posted in Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur district, to five years of rigorous imprisonment in a bribery case, officials said on Tuesday.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on the accused, holding him guilty of demanding and accepting illegal gratification from a complainant in exchange for clearing a pending bill.According to the Central Bureau of Investigation, the case was …
Jaipur, April 2 (IANS) The Anti-Corruption Bureau, Rajasthan, on Thursday arrested Randhir Singh, Additional Secretary of the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC), Sikar, who was also holding additional charge as Secretary of APMC Neem-ka-Thana, for accepting a bribe of ₹40,000.Acting on directives from the Anti-Corruption Bureau Headquarters, the Sikar unit carried out a trap operation and caught the Additional Secretary of the Agricultural Produce Market Committee red-handed while ac…