New Delhi: Rajya Sabha was on Friday adjourned twice during the pre-noon sitting as Opposition BJP stalled the proceedings over the alleged involvement of Gujarat Governor Kamla Devi Beniwal in a land grab case. BJP members led by Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi demanded suspension of the Question Hour to discuss the issue, which was not accepted by Chairman Hamid Ansari. Slogan shouting BJP members first forced adjournment of the House for...
12:20 PM, May 18, 2012
Mumbai: Twisting the power of attorney (PoA) made on a stamp paper of Rs 100 to his advantage, a builder allegedly grabbed government land measuring 1,35,502 sq m and traded a major portion back to the government for various projects. The land, worth over Rs 642 crore, originally belonged to a housing society. But no development took place there for half a century, and the members roped in the accused...
12:26 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Chennai: Adding to the woes of Sasikala and her family, the Chennai Police on Saturday arrested her husband, Natarajan in connection with a land grabbing case. The case was registered against him in Thanjavur. Sasikala was a close confidante of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for several years. However, in December 2011, she expelled her and her relatives from the AIADMK, which political observers say, was a result of unprecedented...
08:18 PM, Feb 18, 2012
Jaipur: A local court on Friday directed the police to register an FIR against former Chief Minister Vashundhara Raje and her MP son Dushyant Singh in a land allotment case. Metropolitan Magistrate Ravi Bala gave the direction after it was alleged that Raje misused her office to get a pasture land worth Rs 12 crore in Dholpur district transferred in the name of Singh when she was the Chief Minister....
09:22 AM, Dec 10, 2011
VILLUPURAM: Petitions accusing former minister K Ponmudy of grabbing temple land for Surya Educational Institution were submitted to district collector C T Manimekalai and anti-land grabbing cell on Monday. As per the petition filed by R Mallika, daughter of Ranganatha Battacharyar of Vikravandi, Ponmudy and directors of Surya Educational Institution forcibly acquired 1.58 cent land belonging to Varadharaja Perumal Temple at Keezhakondhai. The temples income is mainly based on revenue...
08:27 AM, Dec 06, 2011
CJ Bhavani gets back her land allegedly grabbed by the mafia in Chennai after she turned CJ in September 2011 ...
07:37 PM, Dec 03, 2011
Chennai: After arresting many DMK leaders and former ministers on charges of illegally appropriating prime property, Tamil Nadu Police are now zeroing in on party president M. Karunanidhi's son M.K. Stalin and grandson Udayanidhi Stalin. A case was registered against Stalin, Udayanidhi Stalin, builder Subba Reddy, Raja Shankar, Venugopal Reddy and Srinivas Thursday for threatening and coercing N. Seshadrikumar to sell his house here. The property, measuring around 6,000 sq...
04:47 PM, Dec 02, 2011
Chennai: DMK MP Ritheesh Kumar was on Wednesday morning arrested on charges of land grab in Tamil Nadu. The DMK MP was accused of usurping as much as 1.47 acre land near Sriperumpudur using forged documents. Actor-turned-politician Ritheesh is a Member of Parliament from Ramanathpuram. A few other prominent DMK leaders have been arrested on similar charges in Tamil Nadu since the partys loss in state elections when Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK...
09:01 AM, Nov 16, 2011
Surat: Another whistleblower was targeted for exposing a land grabbing case on Sunday. The Surat police found an RTI activist Santosh Makrande Tiwari badly injured and abandoned on the national highway. Tiwari, 42, claims he was kidnapped by the land grabbers he sought information on. "Vijay and Dilawar are land grabbers and are known to be close to former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan. The people who kidnapped me had phoned...
04:11 PM, Oct 16, 2011
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupender Singh Hooda is in the eye of another land storm. He has been accused of building a memorial for his father, Ranbir Hooda, on 42 acres of prime industrial land in a village in Rohtak. The land on which the memorial is being built was bought from villagers in Gadi Bohar on the promise that an industrial township would be set up. After the Haryana...
07:35 AM, Oct 05, 2011
Chennai: The Madras High Court has granted bail to DMK MLA J Anbazhagan, who apprehended arrest in connection with a complaint against him for alleged land grabbing. Granting bail for a three-week period, Justice T Sudanthiram on Thursday directed Anbazhagan, who represents Chepauk assembly segment in the city, to furnish a personal bond and appear before the police if required. The complaint against the legislator was lodged by one Dharmaraj....
10:21 PM, Aug 26, 2011
Chennai: Former DMK minister KN Nehru has been arrested on charges of land grab in Trichy on Thursday. He is accused of forcing a doctor to sell his 13000 sq ft plot of land. Nehru, known to be a loyalist of DMK Treasurer MK Stalin, becomes the third minister in the previous DMK regime to be taken into custody in the continuing crackdown by the AIADMK government on land grabbing....
10:07 AM, Aug 25, 2011
Chennai: Lottery kingpin Santiago Martin and his brother-in-law Benjamin have been arrested by the Salem city police in Tamil Nadu on charges of land grabbing. The Madras High Court had earlier ordered action against him in the case but the previous DMK government sat on the order. Martin is known to be close to Karunanidhi. The full extent of the land grabbing allegations against Alagiri's family was revealed by CNN-IBN...
01:18 PM, Aug 13, 2011
Chennai: Reiterating that his partymen were being jailed under false land grab cases, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Thursday expressed fears that the issue could be used as a tool against political parties and could prove handy for anti-social elements. "By saying so, one does not mean that complaints regarding land grab should be ignored. Proper scrutiny should be done and a particular political party should not be targeted. The...
06:33 PM, Aug 11, 2011
New Delhi: Union minister M K Alagiri's land grab scam has been exposed but it's not just MK Karunanidhi's son who is involved. CNN-IBN investigation reveals the involvement of other top DMK leaders in land scams. CNN-IBN has revealed the full extent of the land grabbing allegations against Alagiri's family with documentary evidence. CNN-IBN has accessed documents to show how Alagiri's wife bought temple land worth over Rs 20 crores...
07:32 AM, Aug 11, 2011
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