Coal controller recommends de-allocation of Naveen Jindal's company. Former Goa CMs Digambar Kamat and Pratapsingh Rane face arrest. ...
11:50 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Hyderabad: Mining baron and former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, the prime accused in the illegal mining case involving Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), on Tuesday alleged he had been "booked illegally". Reddy, lodged in a jail in Bangalore in connection with another illegal mining case, was presented before a special CBI court in Hyderabad through video-conference following the expiry of his judicial custody in the case. After seeking permission from...
11:21 PM, Sep 11, 2012
The Goa government has stopped work at all 90 mines in the state till a complete review of the same is done. ...
11:10 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: Two former Congress chief ministers of Goa find themselves in the dock in the mining scam with the Justice Shah Commission indicting the Digambar Kamat government for blatant misuse of power. FIRs are likely to be registered against Digambar Kamat and Pratapsingh Rane. According to the Justice Shah Commission report, former chief minister Kamat indulged in abuse of power and was in the know of every illegality. The...
06:36 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Panaji: The Goa government has decided to stop work at all mines in the state till a complete review of the same is done. Following the decision, all the 90 mines in the state are slated to stop work till the completion of the review. This decision has come after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state decided to review their working after the decision to implement the...
08:46 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Panaji: A day after Shah Commission's report on Goa's illegal mining was tabled in Parliament, the state government has decided to file FIRs against two former chief ministers and scores of bureaucrats for their alleged involvement in the mining scam. State Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar told reporters on Saturday that FIRs would be filed against former chief ministers Pratap Singh Rane and Digambar Kamat, the then Directors of Mines, then...
11:51 PM, Sep 08, 2012
Madurai: The deputy director of the Department of Geology and Mining, Kanyakumari was on Sunday arrested for his alleged role in illegal mining operations carried out by granite major Olympus in Melur. The arrest of J Rajaram came hours after three Tamil Nadu Minerals Limited (TAMIN) officials were picked up on similar charges. Dhayanidhi Alagiri was a partner of Olympus Granites Private Limited till 2010. Though Rajaram is not a...
12:34 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Bangalore: Karnataka High Court on Friday adjourned to August 13 former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa petition seeking relaxation of one of the conditions of the anticipatory bail granted to him in connection with an illegal mining case. Justice Subhash B Adi adjourned the plea granting time to CBI to file its objections to the petition seeking relaxation of the condition according to which he should seek prior permission of the...
02:47 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Bangalore: Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa's petition seeking relaxation of one of the conditions of the anticipatory bail granted to him in connection with an illegal mining case being probed by the CBI, will come up before the High Court on Friday. The petition seeking relaxation of the condition according to which he should seek prior permission of the court if he has to travel out of Bangalore, will...
08:59 AM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: There is some relief for former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa from the Supreme Court. The apex court has dismissed the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) petition, which had sought the cancellation of the anticipatory bail granted to Yeddyurappa earlier. A bench of justices T S Thakur and Ibrahim Kalifulla dismissed the appeal filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging the anticipatory bail granted by the...
11:52 AM, Aug 06, 2012
Alwar: A journalist and his cameraman, who were working on a story on illegal mining in the region, were allegedly assaulted by goons of local mining mafia when they had gone for coverage at a village in Alwar. The duo, working with a local news channel, had gone for coverage in Nibhore village in Alwar on Friday night when the incident took place, SP Umesh Chand Dutta said, adding that...
02:38 PM, Aug 05, 2012
Bangalore: The CBI has requested the state Legislature to provide transcripts of answers made by the former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on illegal mining in the House. Confirming the CBIs request, sources in the Secretariat said that they would consider giving the transcripts after verifying whether there is any provision to share these transcripts. All transcripts become properties of the Legislature. We are not clear whether such information could be...
12:23 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Hyderabad: Former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy, currently in jail in illegal mining case, wanted to come out on bail at "any cost", revealed his relative Dasaradharami Reddy, who was arrested on Sunday in cash-for-bail scam. In his statement before the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), he said the mining baron was ready to offer any sum of money to bribe the judge for bail. Dasaradharami Reddy told the ACB officials that...
01:18 AM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday questioned former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa in the illegal mining case. The Supreme Court has ordered CBI probe into Yeddyurappa's involvement in illegal mining. The CBI will give final report to Supreme Court on August 3. ...
07:30 PM, Jul 07, 2012
Bangalore: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Monday summoned the wife of mining baron and former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy to appear before it on July 10 in an illegal mining case filed against them. CBI special court judge B M Angadi ordered the issue of summons to Aruna Lakshmi, the second accused in the illegal mining case filed against Reddy, already in judicial custody since his...
04:44 PM, Jul 02, 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
Bangalore: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday questioned former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa's two sons and son-in-law in connection with its probe into illegal mining. "Yeddyurappa's sons BY Raghavendra, a sitting MP, BY Vijendra and son-in-law RN Sohan Kumar were questioned by the CBI for well over three hours", CBI sources said. The three arrived separately at different time slots allotted to them by the CBI and...
07:57 AM, Jun 17, 2012
Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday carried out raids at the residence of suspended Judge Justice Pattabhi Raman Rao in connection with the cash-for-bail scam. Rao reportedly took Rs 6 crore from former BJP minister Gali Janardhan Reddy to grant him bail in the illegal mining scam involving the Obulapuram Mining Company. The judge was suspended after the CBI produced evidence of him taking the bribe from...
01:43 PM, Jun 16, 2012
