Jabalpur, March 25 (IANS) The Lokayukta police of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday said it has arrested a woman RTO constable and one of her private male aides for allegedly taking bribes from a vehicle owner. The action came when the constable and her aide were caught red-handed while accepting Rs 4,500 bribe on the Jabalpur-Nagpur Highway under the pretext of facilitating the vehicle’s passage.A complaint regarding the demand for money was filed with the Lokayukta by Prashant Dattatray Jadh…
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New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea filed by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav seeking to quash the corruption case registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the alleged land-for-jobs scam. A single-judge Bench of Justice Ravinder Dudeja refused to interfere with the FIR, charge sheets, and the trial court’s cognisance orders, observing that the plea was devoid of merit.Lalu Prasad Yadav had approached th…
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) A special CBI court in Delhi has sentenced a former Sub-Inspector of the Delhi Traffic Police to three years of rigorous imprisonment in a bribery case, officials said on Monday.The court convicted Jagmal Singh Deshwal, who was posted as Sub-Inspector and Zonal Officer (ZO) at Nangloi Traffic Circle in the Delhi Traffic Police at the time of the incident. Along with the jail term, the court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the accused.According to the Central Bureau…
Chandigarh, March 22 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Partap Singh Bajwa, on Sunday joined the protest along with Congress workers, standing in solidarity with the family of Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, the District Manager of the Punjab State Warehousing Corporation, who ended his life and accused a minister of harassment and coercion. Bajwa reiterated that “this is not merely a fight for one family, but a larger battle for justice, accountability, and the protection o…
Bhubaneswar, March 18 (IANS) Odisha Vigilance on Wednesday arrested an official of a private bank for his alleged involvement in misappropriating over Rs 5.56 crore of government funds in connivance with his father, a retired teacher.According to Vigilance sources, the accused bank official, identified as Matruprasad Mohanty, was the Branch Head of Jana Small Finance Bank in Bhadrak.The fraud was carried out at the office of the Block Education Officer (BEO), Korei, in Jajpur district, resulting…
Ranchi, March 18 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has filed its fifth supplementary charge sheet in the Jharkhand Rural Works Department (RWD) money laundering case before the Special Court for PMLA cases in Ranchi, an agency statement said on Wednesday.The action was taken by Ranchi Zonal Office on March 17, under Sections 44 and 45 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The charge sheet names 14 engineers and officials from the Rural Works Department (RWD), Rural Developme…
Mumbai, March 18 (IANS) The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Mumbai has arrested an assistant police inspector (API) from Khar police station for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1.5 lakh in connection with a property dispute investigation. The accused officer, 40-year-old Tushar Kale, was caught red-handed by an ACB trap team while receiving the bribe amount from a complainant.Kale, posted at the Khar police station, had been directed by the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Bandra to cond…
Jammu, March 17 (IANS) The J&K Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday arrested a meter reader of the electric department while accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000 in Rajouri district. A spokesman for the ACB said the meter reader posted in PDD Rajouri was caught red‑handed while accepting a bribe from a complainant in exchange for reducing an inflated electricity bill.The spokesperson said the ACB registered a case against Arif Iqbal, posted as Meter Reader in PDD Rajouri, vide FIR No. 03/2026…
Chandigarh, March 12 (IANS) The investigation into the IDFC First Bank scam has revealed that the main accused created several shell companies and illegally transferred government funds to various accounts, Additional Director General of Police Charu Bali, who is posted with the State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau, said on Thursday. She said preliminary investigations have revealed that funds were transferred from government department accounts to these shell companies without authorizati…
Ranchi, March 12 (IANS) In yet another crackdown on corruption in Jharkhand, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday carried out trap operations in two districts, arresting a police sub-inspector in Koderma and a woman Panchayat secretary in Gumla for allegedly accepting bribes.In Koderma district, the ACB team from Hazaribagh arrested sub-inspector Pawan Kumar Ram, posted at Chandwara police station, after catching him red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000.According to officials,…