New Delhi: Ten senior DMRC officials and 12 others, charge-sheeted for allegedly being negligent during construction of a metro pillar in Zamrudpur, which had collapsed killing eight people in 2009, were on Monday granted bail by a Delhi court. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Sharma said granted bail to all 22 persons "on personal bond of Rs 10,000 each with one surety of the like amount." The Delhi police had...
05:53 PM, Jul 23, 2012
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has made another arrest in the cash-for-bail scandal involving former Karnataka Minister Gali Janaradhan Reddy. Guduru Dasaratharami Reddy, a businessman who is one of the accused in the case pertaining to bribing of CBI judge Pattabhirama Rao to get bail for Janardhan Reddy in Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) scam, was arrested on Saturday night. Dasaratharami, a relative of mining baron Janaradhan Reddy, was produced...
06:51 PM, Jul 22, 2012
Hyderabad: In a stunning claim, an Andhra Pradesh lower court judge arrested in the cash-for-bail scam, has said that a whopping Rs 100 crore was offered by relatives of former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy to secure bail for him. In a confessional statement to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), K Lakshmi Narasimha Rao, Chief Judge of Small Causes Court, said Dasaradharami Reddy, a relative of Gali Janardhana...
10:28 PM, Jul 20, 2012
Guwahati: Gaurav Jyoti Neog, the TV journalist of News Live channel, who allegedly shot the video of the molestation of a girl in Guwahati on July 9, has been arrested. Neog had been accused by Team Anna member Akhil Gogoi of allegedly instigating the mob. The Gauhati High Court on Thursday rejected Neog's anticipatory bail petition. The police booked Neog after questioning him for allegedly concealing facts about the investigation....
07:34 PM, Jul 20, 2012
Guwahati: The Gauhati High Court has rejected the anticipatory bail petition of the reporter of a news channel who allegedly shot the video of the molestation of a girl here on July 9. Justice CR Sarma on Thursday rejected the petition of Gaurav Jyoti Neog of News Live channel and has been accused by Team Anna member Akhil Gogoi of orchestrating the incident. Neog was questioned by police. The bench...
05:50 PM, Jul 20, 2012
Hyderabad: A junior lawyer Aditya, allegedly facing charges of colluding with other accused in cash-for-bail case, on Thursday surrendered before a Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court in Hyderabad. Aditya, one of the accused in cash-for-bail case involving former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, surrendered in the court and was later sent to judicial remand till August 2. He was working with E Umamaheshwar Rao, the defence lawyer of mining baron Gali...
03:15 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Mumbai: Amidst the national outrage over the Guwahati mob molestation incident, BJP Mahila Morcha National President Smriti Irani had said India was a nation of headline chasers. "The outrage lasts only till the headlines last," she had said. Her outburst finds resonance with Valerian Santos, the father of Keenan who was murdered in October 2011 along with his friend Reuben as they tried to protect a female friend of theirs...
09:40 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Hyderabad: Two more judges - Justice D Prabhakar and Justice K Laxminarsimha Rao - have been suspended by the Andhra Pradesh High Court for their alleged involvement in granting bail to mining scam accused and former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister Gali Janardhan Reddy. Justice D Prabhakar and Justice K Laxminarsimha Rao and have also been arrested by the Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau. Earlier Justice Pattabhi Raman Rao had been...
11:41 AM, Jul 12, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday recalled its bailable warrant against former Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss after he appeared before it in connection with a medical college admission scam. The court had issued the warrant against Ramadoss for his failure to appear before it. Ramadoss is accused of allowing a medical college to go ahead with admissions without having sufficient resources. Besides Ramadoss, who was the Union Minister...
03:31 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: YSR Congress Party leader and Kadappa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday moved the Supreme Court for bail against the state high court order, which denied him the relief in the disproportionate assets case against him. Asserting that the CBI did not have a shred of evidence against him, Reddy argued that merely being wealthy or in public life does not deprive him of his right to...
01:59 AM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: The YSR Congress Party leader and Kadappa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday moved the Supreme Court for bail against the state High Court order, which denied him the relief in the disproportionate assets case against him. Asserting that the CBI did not have a shred of evidence against him, Reddy argued that merely being wealthy or in public life does not deprive him of his right...
08:06 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit matched steps with legendary cricketer Sanath Jayasuriya as they grooved together to popular Sri Lankan dance form Baila on the dance reality show 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa'. Last week, Madhuri requested Sanath to sing a Sri Lankan song for her, and this time around it was Madhuri's turn to return the favour. As the cricketer requested Madhuri to do some steps of Baila along with him,...
02:22 PM, Jun 30, 2012
New Delhi: Extradited gangster Abu Salem was on Tuesday granted bail in a 2002 extortion case by a Delhi Court, which also praised his "above board" conduct in jail. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav granted him bail on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh and a surety of like amount. Salem would, however, still be in jail as he is facing trial in seven other cases for which he...
04:24 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Araria: A local court on Tuesday reserved an order on the anticipatory bail plea filed by self-proclaimed godman Nirmal Baba in connection with a case of fraud and forgery. District Judge Sanjay Kumar reserved his order on the anticipatory bail application of Nirmal Baba after hearing arguments by his counsel Dev Narayan Sen and the Public Prosecutor (PP) Laxmi Narayan. Nirmal Baba had filed the anticipatory bail application in Araria...
04:11 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Bangalore: In a relief to beleaguered former chief minister BS Yeddurappa, the Karnataka High Court on Thursday granted him anticipatory bail in a corruption case related to the multi-crore-rupee mining scam being probed by the CBI on the direction of the Supreme Court. Justice Subash B. Adi, who pronounced the order, also granted anticipatory bail to Yeddyurappa's two sons -- BY Raghavendra and BY Vijayendra -- and his son-in-law R....
05:54 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Athens: Greece's conservatives and socialists edged towards a deal on a new government on Tuesday that would seek concessions from the country's lenders on its punishing austerity programme, and the euro zone signalled it was ready to negotiate. Both the conservative New Democracy party, which narrowly won elections on Sunday, and PASOK Socialists expressed hope that a government backing Greece's bailout agreement with the EU and IMF - albeit with...
03:24 AM, Jun 20, 2012
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh anti-Corruption bureau has arrested suspended Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge Justice Pattabhi Raman Rao in the cash-for-bail case. Rao allegedly accepted a bribe of Rs 6 crore to grant bail to former BJP minister Gali Janardhana Reddy in an illegal mining case. The arrest comes three days after Rao's residence was raided in connection with the case. This is the third arrest in the case....
09:30 AM, Jun 19, 2012
Bangalore: The CBI on Monday told the Karnataka High Court that there was a prima facie case against former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and his kin in the illegal mining case which required their custodial interrogation. Opposing the anticipatory bail application moved by Yeddyurappa and others, CBI counsel Ashok Bhan submitted a prima facie case had been made out with instances such as agreement between state-owned Mysore Minerals Limited and...
01:31 AM, Jun 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Karnataka High Court on Monday is set to hear the bail petitions filed by former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa and his family members. They were questioned by the CBI regarding their alleged involvement in the granting of mining licenses to private companies, land grabbing and illegal denotifications. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday questioned former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa's two sons and son-in-law in...
07:39 AM, Jun 18, 2012
The main contenders, the right-wing New Democracy and left-wing Syriza party, are at odds over whether to stick with the tough EU bailout deal. ...
10:16 PM, Jun 17, 2012
