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: 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: 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
Raipur: A Joint Commissioner of Income tax department has been arrested for allegedly accepting Rs 15 lakh bribe from local businessmen, the CBI said on Friday. The probe agency has also arrested three businessmen who had allegedly offered the bribe to him. Joint Commissioner PW Athalye along with his I-T team had carried out searches at the factory of Raipur-based Khetan group on April 16, agency sources said. The group...
09:02 PM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI on Tuesday sought legal advice from Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati on the Army Chief's letter about the bribe offer made to him for allegedly clearing the purchase of sub-standard all-terrain vehicles for the forces. Sources said that the top CBI officials have met the AG on Tuesday. The CBI sources said that the legal opinion is necessary to decide if evidence provided by General VK...
06:10 PM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi: Lieutenant General (Retd) Tejinder Singh is likely to record his statement in the criminal defamation case filed against Army Chief General VK Singh and 4 others in the bribery scandal on Tuesday. Lt Gen (Retd) Tejinder Singh filed the case after General Singh hinted that he had offered him a bribe to clear a deal for the purchase of sub-standard Tatra trucks. The General had hinted at Lt...
06:50 AM, Apr 10, 2012
The CBI is questioning vigilance and finance officials of the public sector BEML in connection with the Tatra truck deal. ...
05:27 PM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: Terming as "extremely alarming" the media report of two Army units moving towards Delhi without notifying the Government in January this year, BJP leader LK Advani on Friday said it shows that the Government-Army ties are at an all time low and highlights the "trust deficit" in establishment circles. "If one reads the April 4 report thoroughly, and the several follow-up stories published on April 5, one would...
12:41 PM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: Army Chief General VK Singh has written to the CBI, seeking more time to reply on the central probing agency's query into the bribery allegations. The CBI had written back to the Army Chief last week seeking more clarification on the bribery allegations. Earlier, the CBI on Monday questioned the owner of Britain-based Vectra group Ravi Rishi for four hours in connection with alleged irregularities in the supply...
01:30 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Tatra truck deal is at the heart of army chief General VK Singh's allegations that he was offered a bribe. The all terrain Tatra trucks, the army's lifeline, have been in use for over a decade, but the General is understood to have been opposed to the continuation of the deal. In addition to alleging they were substandard, the army chief has said he was offered a...
10:24 PM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: Former national security advisor Brajesh Mishra said on Saturday that General VK Singh who currently embroiled in a bribery scam is the worst Army Chief so far and that General Singh is a failure. Speaking with Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Mishra said the Army Chief has come across as weak. Here is the transcript of the interview: Karan Thapar:Hello and welcomes to Devil's Advocate. After a week...
08:52 PM, Apr 01, 2012
New Delhi: Days after his explosive media interviews, Army chief General VK Singh has named Lieutenant General (Retired) Tejinder Singh in his complaint to the CBI as the person who offered him a Rs 14 crore bribe to clear a tranche of nearly 600 "sub-standard" trucks. He has assured the agency of providing more material about the alleged bribe offer very soon, CBI sources said. Lieutenant General (Retired) Tejinder Singh,...
08:54 PM, Mar 31, 2012
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