The Kolkata High Court while staying the bail granted to four TMC leaders by the special CBI Court has remarked that “the manner in which pressure was sought to be put will not inspire confidence of the people in the rule of law”. The High Court took stock of CBI’s contention that Chief Minister Mamata … Read more
Telangana health minister Etela Rajender dared an enquiry by the central bureau of investigation (CBI) or a sitting judge into the allegations against him of encroaching assigned lands of landless poor for his poultry businesses. Within a couple of hours from the Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao ordering the chief secretary to initiate an inquiry … Read more
Anup Majhi alias Lala, the alleged kingpin of the multi-crore-rupee coal scam, appeared before CBI sleuths on Tuesday at the agency’s Nizam Palace office here to face interrogation. Sources in the CBI said Majhi, over the past four months, had been evading the agency’s notices and a look-out circular issued against him. The Central Bureau … Read more
Challenging Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar‘s contentions regarding state Anil Deshmukh, BJP Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday hit back alleging that the NCP chief is trying to protect the Maharashtra Home Minister and not speaking the truth. Refuting Pawar’s statements on Monday that Deshmukh was in home quarantime in Nagpur during the … Read more
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against Cadbury India Limited (now Mondolez Foods Pvt Ltd) and Central Excise tax officials for allegedly fraudulently obtaining a licence of chocolate factory in Himachal Pradesh in 2009-2010. It is alleged that the company in conspiracy with Excise officials availed area based (excise) exemption benefits … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday said it made a “mistake” by agreeing to examine pleas for probe by multiple agencies in the “franchise racket” in which a number of people were allegedly cheated of an estimated Rs 30 crore. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, which on November 2 last year … Read more
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
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has sought judicial custody of Rajiv Saxena, a co-accused in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP chopper scandal, claiming he actively tried to obtain citizenship of Dominica and Cyprus. The investigating agency has urged a special CBI court to cancel the bail granted to Saxena, saying he “intentionally” kept … Read more
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation faces a challenging task ahead after taking over the Hathras case on Sunday, four weeks after the alleged gang rape that left a 19-year-old girl dead. The CBI has re-registered the case with charges of gang-rape and murder. The probe will be headed by Seema Pahuja, a deputy … Read more
In a fresh development in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, the late actor’s girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik Chakraborty will be questioned by the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) for fourth consecutive day in a row. In the last three days, the model-turned-actress has already been questioned thrice by the central intelligence … Read more