New Delhi: In a huge relief to Home Minister P Chidambaram and to the UPA government, a Delhi court on Saturday threw out a plea to make him a co-accused in the 2G spectrum case. The Patiala House Court of Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Judge OP Saini held that Chidambaram did not indulge in any criminal conspiracy or derive any pecuniary advantage in the decisions taken with former...
09:28 PM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: All eyes will be on Special CBI Judge OP Saini on Saturday as he decides on Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's role in the 2G scam. Saini will decide if Chidambaram could be pronounced a co-accused in the scam. The 57-year-old was handpicked after the Supreme Court ordered that a special court be formed for the day-to-day hearing in the scam. Judge Saini started his career as a...
07:52 AM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Ministry of Civil Aviation has doggedly refused to grant sanction to the CBI to prosecute six people who were responsible for signing a deal with Airbus to procure 43 aircraft for Air India (AI) and cause a loss to the exchequer. The CBI completed its preliminary enquiry into the Airbus procurement deal in 2011 and sought permission from the Ministry of Civil Aviation to lodge an FIR...
06:38 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested Andhra Pradesh Principal Secretary (Home) BP Acharya in the Emaar properties case in which the company allegedly got land at nominal rate during late chief minister YS Rajashekhar Reddy government rule in return for favours. Sources said that the chargesheet is likely to be filed this week. They also added that the top executives of Emaar MGF could be...
03:38 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: Top executives of Essar and Loop Telecom accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam failed to appear before a Delhi court on Friday. The five executives - Essar Promoter Director Anshuman Ruia, Essar Vice Chairman Ravi Ruia, Essar Group Director (Strategy & Planning) Vikas Saraf, Loop Telecom's Kiran Khaitan and IP Khaitan - were issued summoned by the special Central Bureau of India (CBI) judge OP Saini in...
12:03 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: A day after a press conference by the Maharashtra ATS chief sparked off a controversy over a possible rift with the Delhi Police over the 13/7 Mumbai blasts probe, the Ministry of Home Affairs came out to bury the hatchet. Home Secretary RK Singh said on Tuesday that although the suspect arrested (Naqee Ahmed) may have been a Delhi Police informer, it did not rule out his involvement...
11:34 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Jaipur: Will Salman Rushdie make it to the Jaipur's Literature festival despite the raging controversy and threats of fierce protests? Amidst growing threats of protests, the organisers have taken the initially published schedule from their website, but they still maintain that his visit hasn't been called off as yet. "Every liberal person in India should stand up and be heard on this," said festival producer Sanjoy Roy. The controversy around...
09:39 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: In a major development in the Commonwealth Games scam, AM Films and Cars owner Ashish Patel has given a statement to the London police in the Queen's Baton Relay scam case alleging that Suresh Kalmadi gave inflated contracts to the company for cars. Patel's statement is key in nailing former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee president Kalmadi's role in the Baton Relay scam case. Patel's statement is important for...
04:20 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Jaipur/New Delhi: A CBI team scouring the Rajiv Gandhi link canal looked for the remains of the missing nurse from Rajasthan Bhanwari Devi. The water flow into this canal was stopped by the Rajasthan administration to help the CBI find material evidence. Sources said bones, a few bangles and iron rods were found by divers which will now be sent for forensic examination to check if they were of Bhanwari's....
08:36 PM, Jan 06, 2012
New Delhi: Sex, sleaze, ambition, betrayal - perfect plot for a Bollywood pot boiler? But if CBI investigations are to be believed, this is the story of Rajasthan's missing nurse Bhanwari Devi. CBI sources said Jat leader and former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna, Congress MLA Malkhan Singh and Bhanwari's husband Amarchand were all part of the conspiracy to abduct and eliminate Bhanwari. While Maderna wanted the sleaze CD featuring him...
09:12 PM, Jan 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday said it is unhappy with the Lokpal Bill saying that the autonomy of investigation is seriously compromised with. Voicing their reservations over the nature of the anti-corruption bill, CBI said that Lokpal alone should supervise cases it has referred and that the investigation agency must continue to have the power to take a final decision and file a police report...
08:26 PM, Dec 23, 2011
New Delhi: One of the most contentious issues that has kept the Lokpal debate alive has been the inclusion of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). While many feel political influence over the CBI is a major problem, other experts believe it doesn't end at that and that the CBI has many other issues to grapple with. Team Anna believes political control will never allow the CBI to fight big...
09:03 AM, Dec 22, 2011
New Delhi: The Government on Wednesday gave sanction to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to file chargesheet against nine persons including Lashkar-e-Toiba operative David Coleman Headley and two ISI officials in the November 2008 Mumbai terror attack case. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the chargesheet will be filed next week. Headley entered into plea bargain with the United States without taking India into confidence. Headley did a recce of the...
05:54 PM, Dec 21, 2011
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04:58 PM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: A Raja's former additional personal secretary Aseervatham Achary on Monday stood by his statements in a 2G court under Section 164 of the CrPC, which counts as admissible evidence in court. He told the 2G court that DMK MP Kanimozhi was a frequent visitor to Raja's office and residence when he was the IT minister. Achary also said that Unitech's Sanjay Chandra and DB Group's Shahid Balwa and...
02:44 PM, Dec 19, 2011
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