Rudrapur: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani launched a scathing attack on Congress President and United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday, alleging that not many in the country know her views on vital issues. Advani, who is on a nation-wide anti-corruption yatra which will end on November 20, said in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, that people across the country have not heard Sonia Gandhi for a long time. ...
05:16 PM, Nov 19, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court made it clear that there is no scientific proof of tampering with video or audio of the cash-for-votes scam while grating bail to six accused in the case on Wednesday. Justice ML Mehta also said that there is no prima facie evidence on record of demands and receipt of illegal gratification by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ashok Argal and its former MPs Fagan...
04:41 PM, Nov 16, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted bail to all the accused in the 2008 cash-for-votes scam. Former BJP MPs Fagan Singh Kulaste, Mahavir Singh Bhagora, political activist Suhail Hindustani, former aide of MP Amar Singh Sanjeev Saxena and Sudheendra Kulkarni were granted bail on Wednesday. BJP MP Ashok Argal was granted anticipatory bail in the scam and will participate in the investigation as and when called for....
02:47 PM, Nov 16, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted exemption to BJP MP Ashok Argal, co-accused in cash for votes scam, to not appear before the Tis Hazari court on November 3. His application for anticipatory bail will be taken up on November 14. The Delhi High Court had sought a response from the police on the bail pleas of the accused on Monday. The police have been asked to...
06:39 AM, Nov 01, 2011
New Delhi: BJP MP Ashok Argal has been chargesheeted in the second supplementary chargesheet filed by Delhi Police in the 2008 cash-for-votes scam. He has been asked to appear before the court on October 14. The Delhi police also submitted the Lok Sabha Speaker's sanction to prosecute Argal in the case, to the court on Monday. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar gave sanction to the Delhi Police to prosecute Argal...
04:43 PM, Oct 03, 2011
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has given sanction to Delhi Police to prosecute BJP MP Ashok Argal in the cash-for-votes scam. Argal was questioned earlier this year by the Delhi Police Crime Branch along with Samajwadi Party MP Rewati Raman Singh. It was Rewati who had allegedly made the offer to Argal to support the UPA during the trust vote in 2008 at a fixed price. Argal told...
06:55 PM, Sep 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi Police crime branch on Friday filed a supplementary chargesheet in connection with the 2008 cash-for-votes scam. While filing the chargesheet, the Delhi Police pointed that its probe in the case was yet to be completed. According to the Delhi Police, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar is yet to grant permission to prosecute Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ashok Argal. The police further said that the efforts...
03:45 PM, Sep 30, 2011
New Delhi: Tihar Jail sent a misleading report on Amar Singh's medical condition, claimed the Rajya Sabha MP's lawyer in the court on Tuesday during the hearing on his bail petition. "Most newspaper reports suggest his creatinine levels are high. His own doctor has said that his condition is life threatening. The court should ask Tihar authorities to inform the court about his medical condition immediately," Singh's lawyer told Special...
01:30 PM, Sep 13, 2011
New Delhi: The cash-for-votes scam rocked Parliament on Thursday and both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha had to be adjourned as the Bharatiya Jjanata Party (BJP) pressed for the suspension of the Question Hour and immediate discussion on the issue. While the Lok Sabha was adjourned till noon, the Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 12:30 PM after uproar over the scam. BJP MPs demanded that the scam and...
11:50 AM, Sep 08, 2011
When the UPA had to save its Government, it used all possible means to save it, said BJP MP and co-accused Ashok Argal. ...
06:10 PM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MP and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh has been sent to 13-day judicial custody in the cash-for-votes scam. Amar Singh and two other accused - Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Singh Bhagora - have been arrested and sent to judicial custody till September 19. The Tees Hazari court of Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal rejected Amar Singh's plea of ill-health and his interim bail application...
03:37 PM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: Delhi Police Crime Branch on Monday questioned Samajwadi Party MP Rewati Raman Singh and BJP's Ashok Argal in the cash-for-votes scam. It was Rewati who had allegedly made the offer to Argal to support the UPA during the trust vote in 2008 at a fixed price. Rewati Raman was questioned for little over an hour. He maintained the stand he had taken before the parliamentary committee, that it...
10:37 PM, Jul 25, 2011
New Delhi: The 2008 cash-for-votes scandal caught on camera by CNN-IBN has now saw a second arrest in the form of BJP worker Suhail Hindustani. He was arrested on Wednesday by the Delhi police for allegedly facilitating the cash transactions between Amar singh and BJP MPs. It is reported that the police is now set to question Amar Singh in connection with the case. "I have nothing to hide, Amar...
07:58 AM, Jul 21, 2011
New Delhi: Kishore Chandra Deo, the MP who headed the seven-member Lok Sabha committee that investigated the allegation levelled by three BJP MPs' that they were bribed to abstain during the July 22, 2008 trust vote, said on Thursday that an appropriate investigative agency should investigate the cash-for-votes case. "Based on the tapes I gave my report. My report is not complete. We need further investigation by an appropriate investigative...
03:42 PM, Mar 17, 2011
BJP is in no mood to either forgive or forget the errant MPs. ...
11:49 PM, Jul 24, 2008
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