Aurangabad: In an embarrassment for Maharashtra government, the Bombay High Court on Friday ordered interim stay on appointment of members to the newly-constituted board of Shri Saibaba Sansthan (trust), which governs the famous shrine of Saibaba at Shirdi. Hearing a petition which challenged the appointment of members of ruling parties - Congress and NCP - to the trust, the Aurangabad bench of Justices Bhushan Gawai and Sunil Deshmukh asked the...
05:17 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday directed telecom major Vodafone India to deposit with it an additional amount of Rs five crore before March 31, in connection with an over Rs 77-crore tax demand, while the Income Tax department decides on the company's rectification application. The division bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud was hearing the petition filed by Vodafone, challenging the March 21 notice by the Income Tax,...
12:43 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday directed telecom major Vodafone India to deposit with it an additional amount of Rs five crore before March 31, in connection with an over Rs 77-crore tax demand, while the Income Tax department decides on the company's rectification application. The division bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud was hearing the petition filed by Vodafone, challenging the March 21 notice by the Income Tax,...
08:19 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday rejected the application of filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar to stay the process against him in a Mumbai metropolitan court in the Preeti Jain rape case. "Justice R.C. Chavan today (Thursday) refused to stay the trial against Bhandarkar, stating that he will now have to face criminal trial," Jain's lawyer S. Kunjuraman told IANS. "Bhandarkar has tried his level best to buy time by approaching...
12:02 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has suspended two serving IAS officers Jairaj Pathak and Pradeep Vyas for their alleged involvement in the Adarsh Housing Society scam. In its status report submitted to the Bombay High Court, the Maharashtra government on Thursday said they will be under suspension till completion of the investigations. The Maharashtra government also told the High Court that a high level meeting of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Income...
12:54 PM, Mar 22, 2012
Mumbai: More than 14 months after registering an FIR in the Adarsh Housing Society scam, the CBI on Tuesday made the first arrests in the case. Former sub-divisional officer of Defence, RC Thakur, former senior bureaucrat, PV Deshmukh and retired Brigadier MM Wanchu were arrested for fraudulently securing clearances for Adarsh. Former MLC Kanhaiyalal Gidwani will also be arrested soon. The CBI's action comes just days after the Bombay High...
09:40 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Mumbai: The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has ordered the dismissal of the Saibaba Sansthan Trust, Shirdi. The court while passing the order on Tuesday instructed Shirdi collector to overlook the formation of a new committee within 15 days. The court's decision came on a PIL filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Shirdi president Rajendra Gondkar and social activist Sandip Kulkarni. Saibaba Sansthan Trust governed the Sai Baba...
01:42 PM, Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear Congress leader Kripashankar Singh's petition after he challenged a Bombay High Court judgement ordering his prosecution under the Prevention of Corruption Act and attachment of his property. Kripashankar is accused of amassing illegal assets worth Rs 320 crore. The Mumbai Police had registered an FIR against Kripashankar under anti-corruption law in connection with a disproportionate assets case after the Bombay High Court had...
08:14 AM, Mar 13, 2012
Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) submitted their status report on the Adarsh Society scam was filed in the Bombay High Court on Monday. The court asked the CBI, ED and I-T Department to have a high level meeting to share information so that investigation is quicker. Two former Maharashtra chief ministers Ashok Chavan and Vilasraso Dekshmukh have been accused of allotting flats meant for...
02:08 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday exempted the Director of Enforcement Directorate (ED) from personally appearing before it on March 12 and instead summoned the Special Director along with a status report mentioning the steps that have been taken in the scam-tainted Adarsh Housing Society probe. A division bench of Justices PB Majmudar and RD Dhanuka had on February 28, severely castigated the agency for "serious lapse" on its...
03:16 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: The 2002 Best Bakery case is set to come up for hearing before the Bombay High Court on Monday. The court will begin hearing the appeals filed by nine convicts who were awarded life terms in connection with the case. The court is expected to bring up the matter of Yasmeen Bano Shaikh today. She is one of the key witnesses in the case. In her petition, she...
07:57 AM, Mar 05, 2012
Mumbai: Former Mumbai Congress President Kripashankar Singh faces arrest after the SIT seized properties owned by him and his family. Reacting to reports saying he was untraceable, Kripashankar said he was not running away. Talking to CNN-IBN, Kripashankar said, "Law will takes its own course, I am not running away, I am innocent. I will fight my battle in court." He also apologised for his son Narendra Mohan's obscene gesture...
09:18 AM, Mar 03, 2012
New Delhi: Former Maharashtra Congress chief Kripashankar Singh on Thursday moved Supreme Court seeking a stay against Bombay High Court order for his prosecution and attachment of properties in the disproportionate assets case. Earlier, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has initiated an inquiry into Kripashankar Singh's disproportionate assets after Mumbai Police lodged an FIR against him on Bombay High Court's orders. CNN-IBN has accessed details of 22 bank accounts of Kripashankar's...
08:30 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate has initiated an inquiry into former Maharashtra Congress chief Kripashankar Singh's disproportionate assets after Mumbai Police lodged an FIR against him on Bombay High Court's orders. CNN-IBN has accessed details of 22 bank accounts of Kripashankar's family, which give details of his rise from rags to riches. The Samata Sahakari Bank account number 18966 belonging to his son Narendramohan Singh witnessed a turnover of Rs 60...
01:10 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Mumbai: Congress MLA Kripashankar Singh had to step down from the post of Mumbai Pradesh Congress chief after an indictment from the Bombay High Court in disproportionate assets case. But for someone who began his life in Mumbai in 1973 as a vegetable seller, it's perhaps an incredible rags to riches tale. Kripashankar Singh and his family, whose reported source of income is a salary of Rs 45,000, now owns...
07:22 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has criticised the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for inaction in the investigation into the Adarsh Housing Society scam. This came even as the CBI told the court on Tuesday that many of the flats in the society were benami. The CBI will file a detailed affidavit on the ownership of the flats on March 12. But the court said that the Enforcement Directorate Director should also...
02:04 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Mumbai Police is expected to lodge an FIR against the former Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh on Monday in connection with an alleged Rs 320 crore disproportionate assets case. Singh had stepped down after the High Court order against him. Earlier on February 24, terming the maze of transactions by Kripashankar Singh and his family members as 'dubious', the Bombay High Court had held that the leader's...
07:20 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Mumbai: Congress leader Kripashankar Singh resigned as the party's Mumbai president soon after the Bombay High Court directed the city police to file an FIR against him under the prevention of corruption act in a disproportionate assets case. While Singh claims he quit taking moral responsibility for the Congress' loss in the Mumbai civic elections, many feel he had it coming for a long time due to repeated allegations of...
06:41 AM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: In a double blow to the Congress in Mumbai after the bad show in the municipal polls, party chief Kripashankar Singh has been made accused in a corruption case by the High Court. The announcement of Singh's resignation came soon after the Bombay High Court directed his prosecution on corruption charges. Singh told CNN-IBN that his resignation had nothing to do with the charges against him. "There is...
02:01 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik to register an FIR against Mumbai Congress President Kripashankar Singh for criminal misconduct under the Prevention of Corruption Act and has asked the Commissioner to attach all immovable properties belonging to Singh and his family. Kripashankar Singh has resigned as Mumbai Congress chief following the court directive. The court has also asked the Commissioner to obtain sanction...
05:58 PM, Feb 22, 2012
