New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the CBI on a plea of former director of Tehelka.com Anirudha Bahal challenging the charges framed against him by the trial court under the Official Secrets Act.
Justice AK Pathak, issuing notice to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), sought a response by Feb 12, 2013, on Bahal's plea asking the high court to set aside the trial court's order of Oct 16 on framing charges against him.
Bahal, who had exposed alleged corruption in defence deals during the NDA regime in 2001, is being prosecuted for illegally revealing the government's secret information on his news portal.
Bahal also asked the high court to suspend the proceedings in the special court....
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10:42 AM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the CBI on a plea of former director of Tehelka.com Anirudha Bahal challenging the charges framed against him by the trial court under the Official Secrets Act. Justice AK Pathak, issuing notice to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), sought a response by Feb 12, 2013, on Bahal's plea asking the high court to set aside the trial court's order of...
10:42 AM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress Party is on the attack in Gujarat. Quoting an investigation done by Tehelka magazine, the party has questioned why the Narendra Modi government gave 10 per cent equity in a gas field to a firm, GeoGlobal, that exists only on paper. The Tehelka write-up, which quotes extensively from the CAG report on the deal between GeoGlobal and the state government-owned Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC), says...
06:23 PM, Dec 03, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP President Bangaru Laxman will walk out of Tihar Jail on Friday evening after Delhi High Court granted him bail in the fake arms deal case on Thursday. Bangaru had been convicted and sentenced to four years in prison after he was caught on camera taking a bribe of Rs one lakh in April 2012. Bangaru was released on a Rs 50,000 bail bond. 72-year-old Bangaru was...
07:57 AM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP President Bangaru Laxman was granted bail on Thursday in high court in fictious arms deal case. Laxman, who is serving a four-year jail term, was caught on camera taking a bribe of Rs one lakh. Laxman was released on Thursday on a Rs 50,000 bail bond. Laxman will be released from Tihar Jail on Friday where he has been lodged since April 27. Earlier, Bangaru was...
12:42 PM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is likely to hear former BJP President Bangaru Laxman's bail plea in a bribery case. He is serving an 11-year jail term after he was caught taking a bribe on camera in a sting operation in 2001. Laxman's petition also seeks quashing of charges in the case. ...
10:36 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: A journalist, who took part in a sting operation conducted by 'Tehelka' to expose wrongdoings in arms deal, on Monday refused to testify as a witness in a court in Delhi against two former officials of the defence ministry facing trial for graft. Journalist Mathew Samuel said that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had not reimbursed his travel and other allowances. He added that he would not...
10:37 AM, May 15, 2012
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...
01:03 AM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman, who has been give a four-year jail term in fake arms sting case, resigned from the party's National Executive on Monday. A Delhi court had convicted Bangaru Laxman in the 2001 fake arms deal case conducted by newsportal tehelka.com. Bangaru was also fined Rs 1 lakh for taking a bribe of Rs 1 lakh to push a defence deal in a sting operation...
12:44 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Nagpur: Countering the Congress' jibes at the BJP in the wake of conviction of former BJP president Bangaru Laxman in the 2001 fake arms deal case, the party on Saturday said the Congress has no moral right "to lecture them on morality". "Congress should not lecture us on morality," party spokesman Prakash Javadekar told reporters in Nagpur on Saturday. Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman, who was found guilty of accepting...
11:34 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Eleven years after a sting operation showed him taking a bribe of RS 1 lakh, former BJP President Bangaru Laxman was fined Rs 1 lakh and sentenced to four years in prison. His lawyers said they would contest the verdict and in the meanwhile Laxman will continue to stay in Tihar Jail after his conviction on Friday. Bangaru Laxman's body language clearly indicated that he was dejected with...
09:23 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 came tough on corruption and said in its judgement, "Time to...
08:33 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. ...
07:02 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP President Bangaru Laxman who was sentenced on Saturday to four years imprisonment by a court in New Delhi said he would challenge his conviction before the Delhi High Court as the case against him was framed by some media persons. "We will challenge the decision in the high court. We will definitely appeal in the higher court," Laxman's counsel Ajay Digpaul told reporters after pronouncement of...
05:14 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Bangaru Laxman's lawyers termed the court's order as 'harsh punishment' and said the court should have considered factors like his medical status. ...
05:06 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 on Saturday 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. Bangaru's lawyer Ajay Digpal said outside the court, "Bangaru Laxman has...
03:26 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP minister Bangaru Laxman was sentenced to four years of jail term by a Delhi court on Saturday and imposed with an additional fine of Rs one lakh, in connection with an arms deal case. Bangaru was convicted for taking a Rs one lakh bribe to push a defence deal in a sting operation 11 years ago. Who is Bangaru Laxman - Bangaru Laxman was a minister...
03:03 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: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Bangaru Laxman has been convicted under the Prevention of Corruption Act in the 2001 Tehelka sting case relating to an alleged arms deal and sentenced to four years in jail. As Laxman goes to jail in the Tehelka sting case, IBNLive compiles a list of 10 most high-profile political convicts who recently went to jail in India: A Raja: Perhaps the most...
02:41 PM, Apr 28, 2012
