Ahmedabad: Gujarat Congress on Saturday demanded resignation of state Cabinet Minister Babu Bokhiria after a court in Porbandar sentenced him to three years imprisonment in the Rs 54 crore illegal limestone mining case of 2006. "We demand immediate resignation of the Gujarat Water Resources Minister who has been convicted by a court in Porbandar for three years in an illegal limestone mining case," Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Shankarsinh Vaghela told reporters in Ahmedabad.
"The ministers in the state government are corrupt and criminals," Vaghela alleged, adding that, one minister was behind bars (referring to Amit Shah) under Section 302 of the IPC and another (Parshottam Solanki) is facing corruption charges in a fisheries scam. "In Karnataka, Lokayukta exposed the role of former chief minister BS Yedyurappa in a case of illegal mining. He had to resign and BJP was ousted from power," he said. If there was a Lokayukta in Gujarat, not a single state government minister would have been spared, he said, adding that the state was not leading in development but in corruption.
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12:31 AM, Jun 16, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Water Resources Minister Babubhai B Bokhiriya was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in 2006 illegal mining case by Porbandar Sessions Court on Saturday. Bokhiriya was found guilty in the Rs 54 crore illegal mining case. The minister has been taken into custody and has seven days to appeal against the conviction in the High Court. The other three who have been sentenced to jail in the case...
01:23 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Bangalore: The CBI probing the alleged multi-crore iron ore scam on Monday filed its chargesheet against former minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy and six other accused in the case. The chargesheet running into 15,000 pages was filed before the CBI Special Court Judge Shreedshananda. Apart from Reddy, S Muthaiah, then Deputy Conservator of Bellary Forest; SP Raju, the then Deputy Director of Hospet Mines and Geology Department; Reddy's...
10:33 PM, May 27, 2013
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Thursday said the state would adopt zero tolerance towards corruption. "Anyone found involved in corruption, including government employees, would be dealt with strictly," the chief minister said while laying the foundation stone of a bridge on the Lander rivulet on the Sohari-Chaksarai road in Una district. The bridge will be constructed at a cost of Rs.3 crore. He said the government would...
05:10 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: In a huge relief for mining companies in Karnataka, the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed 118 legal mines to reopen in three districts after a gap of two years. It, however, also cancelled leases of all mine projects planned outside the sanctioned area of Karnataka's Bellary district. The illegal iron ore mining on Andhra-Karnataka border would remain suspended till demarcation of boundary between the two states is completed,...
11:16 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Bangalore: The Supreme Court will on Thursday decide on the fate of mines barred from mining iron ore in Karnataka's Bellary district. A three-member bench will deliver the judgement on a PIL filed three years ago seeking a ban on illegal mining and also a high level inquiry into the role of politicians. A Central Empowered Committee had also recommended a ban on mining. The PIL's petitioner had named top...
09:11 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Bellary: The Assembly elections in Karnataka are just three weeks away. In the mining hub of Bellary, the voters are livid. 126 mines in the district have been shut down by the Supreme Court leaving a crore people jobless. The question is whether the Congress will benefit from the Bharatiya Janata Party's failings. Bellary still witnesses the largest haul of money and liquor by poll officials. But after Janardhana Reddy...
10:23 AM, Apr 15, 2013
An RTI query by CNN-IBN has led to some dammning revelations against Mehr Ali, son of Jammu and Kashmir Forest and Environment Minister Main Altaf. He was given permission to blast a mountain zone to get raw material for his stone crushing business, which is in violation of a Supreme Court order. The concerned officials have promised a probe even as Altaf denied all allegations. ...
10:50 AM, Apr 02, 2013
An RTI query accessed by CNN-IBN shows the Jammu and Kashmir Forest and Environment Minister Mian Altaf Ahmad is flouting rules. His son was granted permission to mine for stone in a mountain zone and protected forest land in clear violation of a Supreme Court order. ...
09:44 AM, Apr 02, 2013
A Right to Information query that CNN-IBN has accessed shows that the son of a senior Jammu and Kashmir minister was given permission to blast into forest land in violation of a Supreme Court order. It is a blatant misuse of power and was to benefit Mian Mehr Ali, son of the state's Forest and Environment Minister Mian Altaf Ahmad. The minister has, however, denied the allegations. ...
03:33 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Violence swept a village in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district on Tuesday after a man died after he was allegedly beaten up and shot by police, while another person died in police firing later and at least six others were injured. A probe has been ordered, said officials. ...
01:50 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The Justice MB Shah commission, which is probing illegal mining, on Monday said it was unlikely to meet the July 16 deadline for submitting the final report to the central government. ...
01:26 AM, Mar 05, 2013
The Goa BJP refused to be part of a Sharad Pawar-led delegation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's office to resolve the state's mining crisis, the BJP state president said on Friday. ...
01:39 AM, Feb 16, 2013
A special CBI court on January 31 extended the judicial remand of YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy and other accused in connection with the case of alleged disproportionate assets involving him till February 14. ...
02:20 PM, Jan 31, 2013
Former Karnataka Minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy, lodged in Andhra Pradesh jail in connection with illegal mining case, is all set to contest the Assembly elections in Karnataka due in May next year on BSR (Congress) ticket. Janardhana Reddy was arrested in September last year by CBI in connection with the case. ...
04:28 PM, Dec 01, 2012
A special CBI court in Hyderabad on Monday dismissed the bail plea of mining baron and former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, an accused in the illegal mining case involving his Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC). This was the sixth bail petition of Gali Janardhan Reddy since his arrest in the OMC scam in September last year, which was again dismissed on Monday. ...
04:43 AM, Nov 27, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Two days after CNN-IBN exposed how recovery of fines amounting to thousands of crores are due from miners who did excess mining, pressure is building on the Naveen Patnaik government in Odisha. Union minister Srikant Jena is now demanding the Chief Minister's resignation. The Odisha government has been forced to admit that loss to the state due to excess mining amounts to Rs 67,900 crore. Of this the biggest...
07:42 AM, Nov 06, 2012
Bhubaneswar: A team of the Justice MB Shah Commission of enquiry will visit Odisha again on October 31 to further investigate the alleged mining illegalities in the state, official sources said on Sunday. The state government has been informed that the team of the Commission led by senior bureaucrat UV Singh will arrive in Bhubaneswar on October 31 and stay in the state to conduct the investigation until November 11,...
12:48 PM, Oct 21, 2012
New Delhi: CBI on Tuesday registered a case in connection with the sensational 2010 killing of RTI activist Amit Jethwa outside the Gujarat High Court in which a state BJP MP is a suspect. The agency started probe on the instructions of the High Court which had handed over the case to CBI and criticised the state police for their shoddy investigations in the murder in which BJP MP from...
05:45 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Panaji: Constant reportage on illegal mining in Goa in the national and internationl media would drive tourism to Malaysia and Thailand from the popular beach destination, a Congress MP said here on Monday. "Who will visit us if people try to project a wrong image of Goa to achieve political objectives? Tourists would prefer Kerala or Rajasthan and, outside India, places like Malaysia or Thailand," Goa's lone Rajya Sabha member...
03:35 PM, Oct 08, 2012
