Shimla Tibetan religious head and the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje has been summoned by a Himachal Pradesh court in March over the seizure of foreign currency worth Rs.70 million (over $1.4 million) from his monastery in 2011, police said on Thursday.
Officials from the Karmapa's office based in Dharamsala said the Karmapa is out of station for over a fortnight to preside over the annual activities and therefore has not received the summons.
The chief judicial magistrate of Una has asked the Karmapa and nine others involved in the case to be personally present in the court March 6, Additional Director General of Police S.R. Mardi said.
The charge sheet was filed by police Dec 7, 2011....
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12:59 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: A chargesheet was filed against spiritual leader Karmapa Lama and nine others in the case pertaining of recovery of foreign currency from the Karmapa monastery. The monastery in Dharamshala was in news when police recovered foreign currency worth Rs 7 crore during a raid at Karmapa's office. Himachal Pradesh government has also attached the property of Gyuto monastery of the 17th Karmapa Lama, Ugyen Trinley Dorje, at Sidhbari....
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10:38 PM, Feb 16, 2011
New Delhi: Tibetan spiritual leader Karmapa Ugyen Trinely Dorji has been given a clean chit on accusation of being a China spy. A probe was initiated aginst the spiritual leader after huge amount of foreign currencies were recovered from his premises. Foreign currency belonging to 25 countries, including China, was recovered by the police from the premises of the Karmapa-backed trust and some of the trustees in the raids that...
08:27 PM, Feb 16, 2011
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh government on Tuesday initiated the move to attach the property of Gyuto monastery of the 17th Karmapa Lama, Ugyen Trinley Dorje, at Sidhbari. The Karmapa Lama has been accused of having links with China after foreign currency worth crores was recovered from the Gyuto monastery. Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal has already said that the Karmapa had not yet been giben a clean chit following...
01:46 PM, Feb 15, 2011
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12:19 AM, Feb 15, 2011
Dharamsala: Ming Chung Dorjee who is a Tibetan refugee is ineligible to own land in India, according to the law. But CNN-IBN has accessed documents to prove that he assumed the identity of an Indian to get land in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. He allegedly managed this by getting government papers by misrepresenting facts. Dorjee's moves, it seems has been adopted by some other Tibetans as well, like Lama Bagdor who...
07:37 AM, Feb 14, 2011
Dharamsala: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal on Saturday said Tibetan religious leader the Karmapa had not yet got a clean chit following the discovery of unaccounted money from him. Investigations are still on into the nearly Rs 70 million worth of foreign and Indian currency recovered from his monastery near here. Dhumal's remarks came a day after Chief Secretary Rajwant Sandhu gave the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje,...
01:18 PM, Feb 12, 2011
Dharamsala: The dignity and sanctity of the Gyuto Monastery should be maintained while conducting investigation into recovery of foreign currency worth over Rs 7.5 crore from the transit home of the Karmapa, Union Minister Virbhadra Singh today said. He also demanded a strict probe in other benami land cases of Tibetans and a thorough investigation in the benami land deals by outsiders in the state. Reacting to the Karmapa issue,...
04:34 PM, Feb 05, 2011
Shimla/Dharamsala: Bank accounts of a Trust backed by Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje and its trustees have been frozen in connection with the probe into the seizure of a huge amount of foreign currency from a transit home of the Tibetan spiritual leader. "It (freezing of bank accounts) is part of the investigation process as bank accounts were being thoroughly screened for money transactions," Inspector General of Police P L Thakur...
07:23 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Dharamsala: The recovery of unaccounted money worth nearly Rs 7 crore (Rs 70 million) from the monastery of Tibetan leader Karmapa Lama has renewed the succession controversy in the Karma Kagyu sect, with two rival monks claiming to be the 'real' Karmapa. An important institution in the Tibetan religious set-up, the Karmapa Lama is the spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu sect, one of the four sects of Tibetan Buddhism....
05:34 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Dharamsala: Himachal Pradesh Police on Thursday arrested a couple in New Delhi in connection with seizure of Rs 1 crore from two people that was meant as part-payment by the Karmapa's trust to buy land in Kangra district, police said. "The couple, Karma Thapa and his wife Rinzin, was charged with arranging money for the monastery. They were interrogated for the past three days and were arrested from Majnoo-Ka-Tila in...
10:51 AM, Feb 04, 2011
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04:02 PM, Feb 03, 2011
Himachal Pradesh Director General of Police DS Minhas says the Karmapa Lama Ugyen Trinley Dorje has Chinese links and his aides have a criminal past. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, Minhas says that Karmapa and his aides have been buying properties in India even though as Tibetans refugees they cannot do so legally. CNN-IBN: There are lot of controversies about the Karmapa and that he has links with China. he is...
01:24 PM, Feb 02, 2011
New Delhi: Tibetans across the country held protest rallies in support of their religious leader Karmapa Lama - a day after the Enforcement Directorate questioned him for almost seven hours. Thousands of followers and devotees of Karmapa gathered at monasteries on Tuesday across the country and carried out a candle light march against the police action at his residence. For the first time Karmapa Lama's aides have denied the charges...
06:53 AM, Feb 02, 2011
Dharamsala/Shimla: A high-level Enforcement Directorate (ED) team on Monday questioned aides of Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje who are managing the trust backed by him about foreign currency worth over Rs 7.5 crore seized during raids. Headed by Deputy Director (North) V Neerja, the ED team reached the Gyuto Monastery at Sidhbari just before noon and had a marathon question-answer session lasting four hours and 40 minutes. The ED officials asked...
08:34 PM, Feb 01, 2011
Dharamsala: The Enforcement Directorate questioned Karmapa Lama in Dharamsala in connection with the foreign currency recovered from his office. Enforcement Directorate officials reached Karmapa's monastery on Tuesday afternoon to question him. He was grilled for over five hours but reportedly insisted that he had no idea where the money recovered from his office came from. Foreign currency worth Rs 7 crore was recovered from Karmapa's office last week. Raids were...
01:25 PM, Feb 01, 2011
New Delhi: A cloud of suspicion may hang over the Karmapa Lama, but a day after he was questioned over unaccounted money, Buddhist monks and devotees, including foreigners, gathered in a show of support near Dhararmshala. His office even rejected China's statement that he was not a spy on the grounds that they did not an endorsement from the middle kingdom. "We don't need any endorsement from China. When there...
07:41 AM, Feb 01, 2011
New Delhi: Coming out in the defence of Karmapa Lama, the Dalai Lama on Sunday said the foreign currency recovered from the Karmapa's office were donations from Chinese followers. Dalai Lama told the reporters that Karmapa has Chinese followers and has received donations from them. Meanwhile, the 17th Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorjee continued to remain under the scanner for his alleged Chinese links. On Sunday, the Himachal Pradesh police questioned...
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