New Delhi: Former BJP President Bangaru Laxman has moved the Delhi High Court challenging his conviction and the punishment awarded to him by a special CBI court in New Delhi for taking Rs one lakh as bribe in a fictitious defence deal case.
Eleven years after having been caught in a sting operation by a news portal, Laxman was convicted and sent to four years in jail on April 28 and imposed a fine of Rs one lakh.
After spending around ten days in Tihar jail, Laxman moved the High Court seeking quashing of the trial court's conviction and sentence awarded to him for taking the bribe from fake arms dealers to recommend to the Defence Ministry to award them a contract to supply thermal binoculars to the Army.
Laxman's cousel Atul Kumar said the petition is likely to be taken up by the High Court on Friday. ...
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07:02 PM, Apr 28, 2012
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05:14 PM, Apr 28, 2012
A Delhi court sentenced former BJP president Bangaru Laxman to four years in jail in the 2001 fake arms deal case. ...
04:54 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court sentenced former BJP president Bangaru Laxman to four years in jail in the 2001 fake arms deal case. Bangaru has also been imposed with a fine of Rs one lakh. Bangaru was convicted for taking a Rs one lakh bribe to push a defence deal in a sting operation 11 years ago. The court in its judgement said, "Time to shun sab chalta hai syndrome."...
02:48 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: When Bangaru Laxman was the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president, he was caught on camera allegedly taking bribe from fake arms dealers for facilitating a fictitious defence deal case. Bangaru was caught on camera accepting money in a 2001 sting operation conducted by newsportal Tehelka.com. The video CDs, which were released by the portal on March 13, 2001, had sparked a political storm following which Bangaru resigned as...
01:58 PM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court will pronounce its verdict on the 11-year-old Tehelka sting operation on Friday. The court will decide whether former BJP President Bangaru Laxman is guilty under the Prevention of Corruption Act for accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from two Tehelka reporters who were posing as middlemen, pitching a defence deal. He was forced to step down as BJP President following the sensational expose. Bangaru's...
06:56 AM, Apr 27, 2012
