New Delhi: A local court conducting the proceedings in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam case on Monday pulled up Delhi Police for the delay in supplying the transcript of the CD of the sting to the accused persons. Special judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal questioned the police for delay in handing over the copy of the transcript to the accused and directed them to supply it by May 8. The police, however,...
06:24 PM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday reserved for December 12 its order on a plea for lodging a case against Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh for his alleged role in kidnapping of a witness in 2008 cash-for-vote case hours before his deposition on the issue before a parliamentary panel. Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar reserved his order on the plea made by the alleged victim, Hashmat Ali, accusing Singh of...
02:02 PM, Dec 07, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday reserved for December 12 its order on a plea for lodging a case against Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh for his alleged role in kidnapping of a witness in 2008 cash-for-vote case hours before his deposition on the issue before a parliamentary panel. Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar reserved his order on the plea made by the alleged victim, Hashmat Ali, accusing Singh of...
02:02 PM, Dec 07, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will be hearing the bail applications of Sanjeev Saxena, Sudheendra Kulkarni and former BJP MPs Faggan Singh Khulaste and Mahavir Bhagora on Monday. All of them are accused in 2008 Cash-for-votes case. On October 25, the Tees Hazari court had dismissed the bail plea of Kulkarni and two others in connection with the cash-for-votes scam. The court had also dismissed the bail applications of...
07:53 AM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: Two days after being discharged from hospital, Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, an accused in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam case, has moved a Delhi court seeking its permission to go abroad for treatment of his kidney ailment. In an application to Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal, Singh said he had been undergoing treatment at Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital following his kidney transplant and he needed to go there...
06:30 PM, Nov 01, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday stayed a trial court order issuing summons to Samajwadi Party MP Rewati Raman Singh to appear as an accused in 2008 cash-for-vote scam case. "The proceedings before the trial court shall be stayed till the next date of hearing that is November 15," Justice Suresh Kait said while allowing Rewati Raman's plea that he must not be forced to appear as an...
06:53 PM, Oct 24, 2011
New Delhi: The Tees Hazari court on Friday dismissed the bail plea of former LK Advani aide Sudheendra Kulkarni and two others in connection with the cash-for-votes scam. The court also dismissed the bail applications of two former BJP MPs Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahabir Singh Bhagora in the case. On the July 22, 2008, three BJP MPs showed wads of currency notes in the Lok Sabha just ahead of...
03:41 PM, Oct 21, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi Police crime branch on Friday filed a supplementary chargesheet in connection with the 2008 cash-for-votes scam. While filing the chargesheet, the Delhi Police pointed that its probe in the case was yet to be completed. According to the Delhi Police, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar is yet to grant permission to prosecute Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ashok Argal. The police further said that the efforts...
03:45 PM, Sep 30, 2011
New Delhi: Former Samajwadi party leader Amar Singh's bail plea will come up for hearing on Thursday in the cash-for-votes scam. The Court on Tuesday asked for a full report on Singh's health from AIIMS and Tihar Jail following suggestions that the initial medical reports were misleading. Amar Singh is in special care at the hospital for Kidney related problems. Amar Singh needs psychiatry consultation for his "anxiety and restlessness",...
08:07 AM, Sep 15, 2011
Badaun: BJP leader Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday said jailed MP Amar Singh should reveal names of more persons involved in the cash-for-vote scam. "Now he (Amar Singh) is in jail...He can expose more people (involved in the scam)," she told reporters. Those who had benefited from the entire episode were still at large but innocent BJP leaders had been put in jail, Gandhi said. On Anna Hazare's demand of right...
07:51 PM, Sep 13, 2011
Commenting on LK Advani courting arrest on cash-for-vote scam, Information and broadcasting minister Ambika Soni said I didn't hear him express his desire to be arrested in the last 3 years. ...
07:57 PM, Sep 08, 2011
New Delhi: Reacting to reports of BJP leaders Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Singh Bhagora's arrest in the cash-for-votes scam, BJP leader Balbir Punj slammed the Delhi Police saying that the whistleblowers have been arrested. "I dont have any faith in Delhi police and this government. Delhi police took three years, they only worked when court forced them. Even blind man will know that government is entrapping the whistleblowers," said...
04:03 PM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: Former Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh and BJP leader L K Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni on Tuesday failed to personally appear before a Delhi court in response to its summons for their alleged role in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam. Amar Singh on Monday skipped the court appearance in the cash-for-votes scam citing health reasons. The court asked Amar Singh's counsel to submit all his medical reports...
10:12 AM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: Former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh has a date with a Delhi court on Tuesday after receiving summons in the cash-for-votes scam. The Delhi Police had recently chargesheeted him and five others. Eleven calls made by Sanjeev Saxena to Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh's residence is one of the key reasons why Delhi Police has suggested that Amar Singh played a key role in the cash-for-votes scam. The...
07:12 AM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Thursday told a city court that the probe in the the 2008 cash-for-vote scam was nearing completion and it would file the chargesheet before it on August 25. The crime branch of Delhi Police told Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal that the probe report, in pursuance of the direction of the Supreme Court, would be filed soon. Earlier, the apex court had slammed Delhi Police...
07:44 PM, Aug 18, 2011
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