New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Four senior Income Tax officers in an alleged bribery case. Those arrested included Director (Investigations) Kunal Singh of the Indian Revenue Service who is currently posted as the Director (Investigations) in Kanpur. The agency arrested IRS officer Kunal Singh, Joint Director Investigations Ratan Singh, also an IRS officer, Assistant Commissioner Uma Kant and Income Tax inspector Harish Daundiyal, CBI sources...
03:09 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Bangalore: The Lokayukta Special court on Saturday convicted BJP MLA from Kolar Gold Fields Y Sampangi in a bribery case. Sampangi was sentenced to three and half years in jail and a fine of Rs 40,000 has been imposed on him. Sampangi was reportedly caught by the Lokayukta police while accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from a businessman. This is the first ever conviction of a legislator in...
01:47 PM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: Defence Minister A K Antony has directed Defence Secretary Sashikant Sharma to examine the petition sent to him by retd Lt Gen Tejinder Singh seeking action against outgoing Army Chief Gen V K Singh for issuing a "defamatory" Press release against him. Defence Ministry sources said the Minister had asked the Secretary to look into the petition sent by Tejinder Singh on Tuesday. After failing to get any...
10:41 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: In a new twist in the bribery row, Lt General Tejinder Singh on Tuesday filed a complaint against Army Chief General V K Singh and four other officers with Union Defence Minister A K Antony. The complaint has been filed over the publication of a press release dated March 5, which stated that Tejinder Singh had offered a bribe of Rs 14 crore to the Army Chief. Lt...
05:45 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday refused to accept the plea of Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh seeking an end to an inquiry and pronouncement of its order on issuing summons to Army chief General V K Singh in a defamation case. Metropolitan Magistrate Jay Thareja said that summons had already been issued to the Defence Ministry to submit a file regarding a press release quoting the army chief...
07:27 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: A move is afoot in the government to make corruption in private sector a penal offence with imprisonment up to seven years for the offenders. The government has proposed to make bribery in private sector - both giving and accepting it - a criminal offence by amending the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The draft Indian Penal Code (Amendments) Bill, 2011, circulated to States and Union Territories by the...
12:52 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: More than 17 years after being caught demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 100 from a patient at a government hospital, the Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of two employees under Prevention of Corruption Act. But since the incident was nearly two-decades-old and the duo - Mukut Bihari and Kalyan Mal - had undergone considerable trauma during the protracted litigation, the court reduced the punishment to...
08:47 AM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: Reacting to General VK Singh's assertion in an interview that he was offered a bribe in the Tatra-BEML deal, Lt General (retd) Tejinder Singh hit back, saying that the Chief of Army Staff had lost his mental balance. "No offer of bribe was made. Why did the Army Chief not make a complaint to the police?" Lt Gen Tejinder Singh asked. He added, "When bribe is offered, it's...
05:21 PM, May 26, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday said that it would hold an inquiry into the allegations levelled by Lt General (retd) Tejinder Singh in a criminal defamation case filed by him against General V K Singh before passing any order on summoning the Army Chief. The court also directed the Defence Ministry to place before it the file relating to the publication of the Army's March 5 press release...
07:19 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: Retired Lt General Tejinder Singh on Thursday withdrew his petition seeking CBI inquiry against Army Chief General VK Singh for levelling bribery allegation against him from the Supreme Court. Lt General (Retired) Tejinder Singh told the court that he had top-secret documents related to the case and if he pursued the case, the documents would come out in public domain, which he did not want. In his petition,...
11:13 AM, May 10, 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
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
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
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