Ranchi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has been carrying out raids in Ranchi in connection with the alleged cash-for-vote scam during the 2010 Rajya Sabha elections, continued its raids for the second day. CBI sources said houses of 11 MLAs have been raided and the investigative agency has seized important case-related material from their houses.
On Thursday, raids were carried out in the premises of five Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MLAs, three Congress MLAs, one Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) MLA and four other private persons, said a senior CBI official.
The agency is investigating into a media expose, where six MLAs were allegedly caught on tape expressing their willingness to vote in favour of a particular candidate in the Rajya Sabha elections, in return of monetary gains. An FIR was lodged against late Teklal Mahto and Simon Marandi (JMM), Rajiv Ranjan, Yogendra Sao and Sawana Lakda (Congress) and Umashankar Yadav Akela (BJP) in the scam, the official said.
The state government, which had entrusted the state vigilance bureau to investigate the scam, had handed over the case to the CBI. A senior CBI officer said the MLAs on whose premises the agency sleuths had conducted raids were - Annapurna Devi, Suresh Paswan, Janardhan Paswan, Sanjay Prasad Yadav, Sanjay Singh Yadav (all RJD MLAs), Sourav Narayan Singh, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Anath Prasad Deo (Congress) and Vishnu Bhayya (JMM)....
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02:32 PM, Apr 05, 2013
The Jharkhand High Court has ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe in the 2010 cash-for-votes scandal. It has also ordered the CBI to investigate the role of the Jharkhand Department of Cabinet (Vigilance). ...
04:57 PM, Jan 28, 2013
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: The Delhi High Court has modified the bail conditions of Rajya Sabha MP and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh, who has been facing trial in the cash-for-votes scam. Amar Singh will now not need the permission of the trial court to travel abroad, and he is no longer required to deposit his passport with the trial court. Amar Singh will just have to inform the trial court...
01:39 PM, Dec 13, 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: 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 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has all along maintained that its MPs were whistleblowers, will now felicitate the accused MPs and Sudheendra Kulkarni in a ceremony. But 3 years after the scandal, with the accused now out on bail, the question is as to where does the case stand. A defiant Sudheendra Kulkarni, a day after he walked out of Tihar jail on bail in the cash-for-votes...
08:25 PM, Nov 18, 2011
BJP President Nitin Gadkari claims that false FIRs were filed against BJP MPs in the cash-for-votes scam. ...
09:30 PM, Nov 17, 2011
New Delhi: All the accused in the cash-for-votes scam including former BJP MPs Fagan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Singh Bhagora and LK Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni walked out of the Tihar jail on Thursday, after they got bail on Wednesday. After walking out of the jail, Mahaveer Bhagora said, "We never had any kind of problem in the jail. We will decide the future course of action later." The...
07:24 PM, Nov 17, 2011
Sudheendra Kulkarni and former BJP MPs Fagan Kulaste and Mahavir Bhagora will walk out of Tihar jail on Thursday. ...
10:53 PM, Nov 16, 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: BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Monday visited Tihar jail to meet two former party MPs Fuggan Singh Kulaste, Mahavir Singh Bhagora and LK Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni. Gadkari met them after the Delhi High Court on Monday sought response from the police on their bail pleas. Kulkarni, who is in jail since September 27, has challenged the trial court's order which had rejected his bail plea saying...
08:02 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: BJP president Nitin Gadkari will meet two former BJP MPs Fuggan Singh Kulaste, Mahavir Singh Bhagora and LK Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni in Tihar Jail on Monday, sources said. He will meet them after the Delhi High Court on Monday sought response from the police on their bail pleas. Kulkarni, who is in jail since September 27, has challenged the trial court's order which had rejected his...
02:02 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will on Monday hear the bail plea of BJP leader LK Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni in connection with the cash-for-votes scam. 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 two former BJP MPs Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahabir Singh...
09:33 AM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: Six days after a Delhi court granted Former Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh bail on medical grounds in the cash-for-votes case, he headed straight to his Lodhi Road residence along with his friend and Rampur MP Jayaprada. Amar Singh, who was admitted to hospital due to a reported kidney problem, says he'll approach court seeking permission to go to Singapore for treatment. "I will...
09:11 PM, Oct 30, 2011
New Delhi: Former Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh was discharged from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Sunday. After being discharged, Amar Singh said that he will go to Singapore for treatment. He also said, "I do not want my name to be associated with the Samajwadi Party." Singh got bail in the cash-for-votes case a day before Diwali. But the Delhi High Court...
11:06 AM, Oct 30, 2011
New Delhi: Former Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh is expected to be discharged from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Sunday. Singh got bail in the cash-for-votes case a day before Diwali. But the Delhi High Court had restrained Amar Singh from travelling abroad and asked him to deposit his passport with the court. The court also asked Singh to furnish two sureties of...
09:09 AM, Oct 30, 2011
Sushma Swaraj reached Delhi's Tihar jail to meet Faggan Singh Kulaste, Mahavir Bhagora and former Advani aide Sudheendra Kulkarni, who were arrested in the cash-for-votes scam. ...
03:25 PM, Oct 25, 2011
New Delhi: With the BJP accusing the prosecution of targeting its whistle-blowers in the cash-for-vote scam, Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said the Opposition party should express its views in courts only. "Anything BJP feels, they should say it in courts, why should they say it outside the courts," he told reporters. Khurshid was asked to comment on a statement by BJP that actual whistle-blowers in the case are...
02:41 PM, Oct 25, 2011
