HYDERABAD: Feeling humiliated by the state government deliberately posting an officer above him, senior IPS officer D Boobathi Babu, who is heading the liquor syndicate probe, has proceeded on a long leave.Top sources said that after the government posted B Prasada Rao as Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) chief on Saturday, Boobathi Babu, who had been heading the bureau till then, is understood to have submitted a letter to chief secretary Pankaj...
10:11 AM, May 21, 2012
Hyderabad: Four people died on Friday after consuming illicit liquor in Vijayawada town of Andhra Pradesh, police said. According to police, two others are stated to be in critical conditions. The incident took place on Friday morning at Brahmanaveedhi in the old town of Vijayawada in Krishna district, about 300 km from here. A police officer said all the six were suspected to have purchased and consumed liquor from the...
02:09 PM, May 11, 2012
Patna: Left at the altar - alone and drunk. That was the fate of two grooms in normally patriarchal Bihar when their would-have-been brides and their families walked out on them because they were simply too sozzled. While one incident took place in Rohtas district's Khaira village, the other was in Aurangabad's Judahi village. Savita Kumari from Khaira called off the wedding when she found her groom sloshed to the...
11:31 AM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: The anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested a retired District Collector and 11 others in connection with the liquor scam in Andhra Pradesh. N Nageshwar Rao, former Collector and District Magistrate of Khammam and others have been accused of not initiating any action on the cancellation of licenses of 16 liquor shops in Khammam. On March 4, the ACB had arrested four officials of the Excise Department on charges...
06:20 AM, Apr 25, 2012
VIZIANAGARAM/HYDERABAD: The normally placid town of Vizianagaram teetered on the edge of chaos on Monday with TDP and Congress workers massing in the main street as part of the ongoing war of words between TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu and PCC chief Botcha Satyanarayana.Displaying a stop me if you can attitude, Naidu and his men marched on to the district collectorate, defying prohibitory orders and police barricades.Botcha preferred to stay put...
09:38 AM, Apr 24, 2012
HYDERABAD: Two months before liquor trade licences are to expire, PCC president Botcha Satyanarayana is learnt to have decided to counter the charges that he is involved in liquor syndicate operations. He is all set to meet chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and request him to cancel the liquor trade licences owned by white ration card holders in the state.Earlier, Satyanarayana had written to the chief minister demanding cancellation...
09:37 AM, Apr 19, 2012
HYDERABAD: With the ACB turning up the heat on them, the shadow players who used white ration card holders to corner liquor licences are sending them on urgent pilgrimages to prevent anticorruption personnel from asking them difficult questions. Faced with locked houses and absent below-povertyline liquor licence holders, the ACB is taking pains to assure them that its target is not the poor proxies but the puppeteers behind them.The agency...
08:58 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Hyderabad: CNN-IBN's report on the Andhra Pradesh liquor scam continues to have a ripple effect across the state with the High Court on Monday asking the state government to review the transfer of K Sreenivasa Reddy from the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to the Coastal Security Department. Reddy, who was the Additional Director of ACB, had busted a liquor scam allegedly involving some top Andhra Pradesh politicians. The orders of Reddy's...
03:31 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Hyderabad: Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy appears to be very determined to take the investigation into the illegal activities of the liquor syndicates to its logical end, despite pressure on him to go easy on it. Though he transferred ACB additional director K Srinivas Reddy, who was supervising the investigation, Kiran wants the probe to continue so that the culprits could be brought to book. In fact, the chief...
11:24 AM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: Protests erupted in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday after the officer heading the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) probe team into the liquor scam in the state was transferred. Sources say that Director General of the ACB D Bhoobati applied for a long leave in protest against the transfer of Additional Director K Srinivas Reddy. Online campaigns too have picked up in favour of Reddy. Support messages flooded social websites like...
11:28 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Hyderabad: The ACB officer heading the liqour scam probe in Andhra Pradesh has been transferred. Several top politicians in the state are under scrutiny in the liqour racket. Police sources have alleged political pressure to scuttle probe. CNN-IBN had first reported about the liquor scam. The Andhra Pradesh High Court has sent notices to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, state Congress chief B Satyanarayana, Excise Minister M Venkatramana...
01:31 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh government has transferred a senior police officer who was probing the liquor pay-offs scandal allegedly involving some top politicians. Additional Director of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) K Sreenivasa Reddy has been posted as chief of coastal security. The orders of his promotion as inspector general of police and new posting were issued on Tuesday night. The development came as a big surprise for many as the probe...
12:49 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Panaji: Liquor prices in Goa, which is known for low-cost booze, are set to go up marginally from April 2012, owing to a substantial rise in warehousing rates as proposed in the state budget. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar increased the Value Added Tax (VAT) on Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL) and foreign liquor, including beer, from existing 20 per cent to 22 per cent, which will translate into an increase...
03:24 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Hyderabad: Trouble seems to be brewing for the Kiran Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh over the liquor scam which CNN-IBN had reported first. The Andhra Pradesh High Court has sent notices to the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Reddy, state Congress chief B Satyanarayana, Excise Minister M Venkatramana and leader of Opposition Chandrababu Naidu. The notice comes after a PIL was filed seeking a court-monitored probe into the scam. The...
08:45 AM, Mar 23, 2012
KURNOOL/ADILABAD/ WARANGAL: After excise officials and representatives of liquor syndicates, it is now the turn of the police to come under the scanner of Anti- Corruption Bureau.More than 45 days after registering cases against liquor syndicates, ACB sleuths on Sunday acted against civil police whose names figured in the ACB report on liquor syndicates.The ACB sleuths arrested seven police officers" two officers on special duty, a deputy superintendent of police...
08:41 AM, Mar 12, 2012
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