The requests of Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik and former minister Anil Deshmukh for a day’s release to vote in the Rajya Sabha elections on Friday were denied by a special court on Thursday. Senior NCP leaders Deshmukh and Malik are both in jail right now because of different money laundering cases that are being looked … Read more
At least 14 Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) leaders are being investigated by central agencies, including the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Income Tax (IT) department and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Two of these leaders were arrested by the ED. Most of the probes were initiated after the MVA formed the government in Maharashtra. Anil Deshmukh NCP. … Read more
NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi against the backdrop of central agencies intensifying investigation against leaders of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi. Pawar was closeted with Modi at the Prime Minister’s Office in Parliament for nearly 20 minutes. The meeting comes on a day when the CBI took custody of former … Read more
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday took former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh into custody from Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail in connection with corruption allegations raised against him by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh, an official said. Deshmukh was taken into custody by the CBI team from the Arthur Road Prison … Read more
The Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition government in Maharashtra is functioning like a “gang”, state BJP chief Chandrakant Patil said on Wednesday. He was commenting on reports about former state home minister Anil Deshmukh allegedly interfering in police transfers. “The functioning of the MVA government is like that of a gang. Even in the case of … Read more
Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh approached a special court here on Tuesday, seeking default bail in connection with a money laundering case registered against him by the Enforcement Directorate. Deshmukh was arrested by the ED on November 2, 2021 and is currently in judicial custody. In his plea filed through advocate Aniket Nikam, Deshmukh … Read more
Dismissed police officer Sachin Vaze has contradicted former Mumbai police commissioner Parambir Singh‘s allegation that Anil Deshmukh as home minister ordered police officers to raise ₹100 crore from bribes. Vaze said that he had no recollection of such a demand from Deshmukh. Appearing before the Justice Kailash Uttamchand Chandiwal Commission on Tuesday, Vaze said that … Read more
A special holiday court here on Saturday remanded former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh in 14-day judicial custody in connection with an alleged money laundering case. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the case, sought his remand for nine more days, but the court refused the probe agency’s plea and sent him to judicial custody. Deshmukh … Read more
NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday claimed that central agencies, including the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Enforcement Directorate and the Narcotics Control Bureau, were being misused to target the opposition parties in Maharashtra. Care is being taken to ensure political opponents are “defamed” using the central agencies, Pawar, whose party shares power with the … Read more
Abhishek Tiwari, a sub-inspector of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), who has been arrested in the corruption case against former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, received an iPhone 12 pro and other expensive gifts from Deshmukh’s Advocate Anand Daga as a bribe to pass investigation details of the case, said a copy of FIR accessed … Read more