Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday hit out at the BJP, which has called the CBI case against its leader Gulabchand Kataria politically motivated, saying that the party has double standards.
"When CBI launches an investigation into a Congress leader they (the BJP) always demand their resignation, and if the agency tries to investigate a case against a BJP leader, they claim that it is being done at the behest of the Congress," said Gehlot while talking to media in Jaipur.
A Mumbai court on Tuesday had issued summons ordering Kataria, the leader of opposition and three others to appear before it June 4 in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh alleged stated shootout case.
Besides Kataria, the others summoned include Andhra Pradesh IPS officer N Balasubramaniam, police inspector Shrinivas Rao, and RK Marbles director Vimal Patni....
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05:12 AM, May 17, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Unhappy over the probe by Crime Branch of state police into the mysterious death of a lady doctor in Puri in 2012, the National Commission for Women (NCW) on Wednesday suggested Odisha government to recommend a CBI probe into the matter. "We do not feel the state police is undertaking investigation into the death case involving a lady doctor in right way. Therefore, we suggest Odisha government to recommend...
01:46 AM, May 16, 2013
Chakdah: Seeking to turn the tables on the Marxists for demanding CBI probe in the chit fund scam, Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy on Saturday night alleged that most of the chit funds came up during the Left front regime. "If the investigations start now, many CPI(M) leaders may come under net. The CPI(M) is demanding CBI inquiry to actually delay the probe process," the former union minister alleged at...
12:40 AM, May 12, 2013
Jaipur: Samajwadi Party in Rajasthan on Sunday alleged irregularities in a housing project for Central government employees and demanded a CBI probe into the matter. The company, which was given tender for the construction in 2007, committed a scam worth Rs 200 crore in connivance with the Central Government Employees Welfare Housing Organisation (CGEWHO) officials by inflating cost of the project, SP's state vice president Anil Shekhawat alleged. "The company...
02:43 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: An NGO on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking an SIT probe into alleged "blatant" interference by the Centre into the CBI probe of the coal block allocation scam. In its interim application, NGO Common Cause submitted that the alleged "blatant interference" by the government is not only unlawful and a criminal offence, it amounts to contempt of court and the same has to be probed by a...
05:31 PM, Apr 15, 2013
The tainted chopper deal worth Rs 3,600 crore with Italy's AgustaWestland has raised a lot of questions. On Wednesday, sources said that the government had decided put the deal on hold even as Opposition demanded that the deal be scrapped. ...
01:00 PM, Feb 14, 2013
The tainted chopper deal worth Rs 3600 crore with Italy's AgustaWestland has raised a lot of questions. On Wednesday, sources said that the government had decided put the deal on hold even as Opposition demanded that the deal be scrapped. ...
08:01 PM, Feb 13, 2013
The CBI suspects its own prosecutor AK Singh of aiding one of the accused in the 2G scam case. ...
09:48 PM, Feb 11, 2013
Patna: The Bihar government rejected the opposition demand for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged Rs 6,000 crore scam in the implementation of MNREGA in the state on Monday and questioned the 'political motive' behind the survey carried out by a Delhi-based NGO. "The state agencies are capable of probing any irregularity in the execution of MNREGA," state Rural Works Minister Nitish Mishra told reporters, adding,...
08:00 PM, Dec 03, 2012
Bangalore: A CBI court on Monday extended till December 14, the judicial custody of mining baron G Janardhana Reddy and four others, arrested in the illegal mining case involving Associated Mining Corporation owned by him. CBI court judge BM Angadi extended the judicial custody of the accused till December 14. Janardhana Reddy and his associate Mehfuz Ali Khan were produced before the court via video conferencing from Chanchalaguda jail in...
06:25 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Kozhikode: The state Cabinet will take a decision on initiating a CBI probe into the larger conspiracy behind the murder of RMP leader T P Chandrasekharan after verifying all legal aspects, Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan has said. Speaking to mediapersons after a meeting with K K Rema, wife of slain leader at their residence at Onchiyam on Monday, Thiruvanchoor said that the government will verify all legal aspects regarding the...
12:10 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Hyderabad: The gulf between chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and four of his cabinet colleagues - P.Sabita Indra Reddy, J Geetha Reddy, Kanna Lakshminarayana and Ponnala Lakshmaiah - seems to be widening with each passing day. The governments stance on the charges levelled against former minister Mopidevi Venkataramana Rao and roads and buildings minister Dharmana Prasada Rao in the CBIs chargesheet is keeping the four tensed up. It is...
12:07 PM, Sep 20, 2012
Kozhikode: Reiterating that the T P Chandrasekharan murder conspiracy was hatched and executed by the CPM top brass, Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) leaders have demanded a CBI probe into the larger conspiracy behind the murder. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, RMP Onchiyam Area Committee Secretary N Venu said, Only a CBI probe can expose all those involved in the murder. The murder conspiracy was hatched and executed by...
12:44 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Kozhikode: With all political parties finally giving a green signal for a CBI probe into the larger conspiracy behind the Marad carnage in 2003, the ball is now in the court of the state government.The CPM and the Congress, which have been vehemently opposing the Central Agency probe since the incidents, have flip-flopped and are now pressing for a CBI probe.Both parties mainly point out the recent observation of Kerala...
08:24 AM, Aug 24, 2012
New Delhi: The mahapanchayat of 200 villages that met on Monday to discuss the violence at Maruti's Manesar plant demanded a CBI probe into the incident. Fearing job losses, the mahapanchayat came out strongly in support of the Maruti management and against the workers who are accused of wreaking havoc at the plant. The mahapanchayat also suggested recruitment of more locals to avoid similar incidents in future. Meanwhile, the auto...
02:10 PM, Jul 23, 2012
BANGALORE: Abhimanyu only knew how to enter the Chakravyuha (labyrinth). But, I know how to enter and come out of it too, said former CM B S Yeddyurappa immediately after the Supreme Court ordered a CBI probe against him.But, he knows better than anybody that it is easier said than done. Even if one thinks that he would come out of the legal web unscathed, it will be too late...
08:32 AM, May 12, 2012
Karnataka Congress MLA Roshan Baig said on Tuesday that those who were found guilty in the scam, should be brought to book. ...
04:00 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Pradesh Congress President Pradip Bhattacharya Sunday demanded a CBI probe into the killing of a Congress worker and alleged that party activists were under attack from both the Marxists and the Trinamool Congress in the state. "A Congress worker was killed Saturday night. We condemn this. We demand CBI probe into the killing. The Congress workers are being attacked by both CPI-M and Trinamool in the state,"...
08:50 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government on Sunday blamed the Opposition Congress for the attacks on police officials and the murder of an IPS officer in the state over the past one week, saying that it was a conspiracy hatched by the Congress. IPS officer Narendra Kumar was allegedly crushed to death under a tractor that was loaded with illegally-mined stones in Morena, Madhya Pradesh on Thursday. Kumar had tried to...
07:15 AM, Mar 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea of former Congress leader YS Jagan Mohan Reddy against the Andhra Pradesh High Court's order asking the CBI to conduct a probe into his alleged disproportionate assets. "There is no need to interfere with the oder of the high court," a bench headed by Justice Dalveer Bhandari said. Reddy, son of late chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, had earlier moved...
04:05 PM, Aug 24, 2011
