Lokayukta police catch Mudigere BEO taking bribe from widow

Lokayukta police catch Mudigere BEO taking bribe from widow

The BEO and his assistant had demanded ₹15,000 to recommend her name for a job. | Photo Credit: Photo for representation only Karnataka Lokayukta Police caught Hemanth Raju, Block Education Officer of Mudigere, red-handed while taking a bribe of ₹10,000 from a woman to recommend her for a compensatory job following her husband’s death. Chikkamagaluru … Read more

Circle Inspector, constable in ACB net over ₹25,000 bribe

Circle Inspector, constable in ACB net over ₹25,000 bribe

The Anti-Corruption Bureau on Saturday night trapped Bukkarayasamudram Circle Inspector D. Ramu and a constable K. Kareem in Anantapur district when they were allegedly accepting a bribe of ₹25,000 from a man in exchange for not filing a petition seeking the cancellation of anticipatory bail. Kurnool ACB Deputy Superintendent of Police J. Siva Narayana Swamy, … Read more

CBI arrests senior railways official in Rs 1-crore bribery case, conducts searches

CBI arrests senior railways official in Rs 1-crore bribery case, conducts searches

New Delhi: The CBI on Sunday arrested a senior Indian Railways Engineering Service (IRES) official for allegedly accepting bribe of Rs 1 crore and carried out searches at 20 locations across the country, officials said. The agency took Mahender Singh Chauhan, a 1985-batch IRES official, into custody when he was allegedly receiving the bribe to … Read more

CBI books former PNB deputy manager for taking Rs 1 crore bribe from Mehul Choksi


CBI books former PNB deputy manager for taking Rs 1 crore bribe from Mehul Choksi


The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a fresh case against Gokulnath Shetty, former deputy manager of Punjab National Bank (PNB) for allegedly receiving Rs 1.08 crore as kickbacks for facilitating LoUs (Letter of Undertaking) to diamantaire Mehul Choksi’s Geetanjali Group of companies between 2014 and 2017. CBI has also named Debajyoti Datta, proprietor … Read more

Demanding money from prisoners on parole by police escorts amounts to bribery: HC

Demanding money from prisoners on parole by police escorts amounts to bribery: HC

Chennai: The Madras High Court has said that police officials (escorts) demanding or accepting money from prisoners on parole or their family members amounts to bribery punishable under the Prevention of Corruption Act. A Division Bench of Justice N Kirubakaran and Justice V M Velumani, on Thursday while granting parole of 10 days to a … Read more