New Delhi: The first meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) to ensure greater independence for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will take place on Thursday in the Finance Minister's office.
The government had set up the GoM after the Supreme Court had pulled it over the lack of functional autonomy to the CBI.
The Supreme Court in its order has asked the government to bring a law which gives the central agency a functional autonomy and also stops interference in its functioning.
The GoM will be chaired by Finance Minister P Chidambaram and will include V Narayanasamy, Kapil Sibal, Salman Khurshid and Manish Tewary....
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02:20 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: In fresh trouble for arms dealer Abhishek Verma, the CBI has initiated another probe into alleged possession of documents related to small arms deal with him which allegedly violated Official Secrets Act. CBI sources said the agency has registered a preliminary enquiry against unnamed officials after documents dispatched by estranged business associate of Verma, C Edmond Allen, were found to be genuine and confidential by the Defence Ministry....
07:59 AM, May 23, 2013
Ahmedabad: The CBI has sought the help of Gujarat Police to trace a top police officer, who is an accused in the fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others. "We received correspondence from the CBI to help them trace Additional Director General of Police, CID (Crime and Railways) PP Pandey and accordingly local police and CID were ordered to help the central probe agency in locating him," Director...
07:42 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday extended by five more days the CBI custody of SP Vivek Dutt, a key member of the coal allocation scam probe, and three others arrested for their alleged roles in a graft case. Special CBI judge GP Singh allowed the central probe agency's plea seeking extension of their custody by five days, saying that the case has "wide ramifications". "The case has wide...
12:58 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday granted CBI one more day's custody of its arrested SP Vivek Dutt, who was a key member of the Coalgate scam probe, and three others in connection with a corruption case lodged against them. The court extended the CBI custody by a day and pulled up the Investigating Officer (IO) for not producing the accused before it within time. Special CBI Judge GP...
07:28 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: Murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar's father Rajesh Talwar is being cross-examined in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case for the past two days. CNN-IBN has learned that Talwar has faced 411 questions already in two days. The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday rejected a plea filed by the Talwars' seeking to record the statements of 14 witnesses in the double murder case. The Supreme Court had earlier directed Rajesh and...
12:35 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday rejected a plea filed by the Talwars' seeking to record the statements of 14 witnesses in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case. The Supreme Court had earlier directed Rajesh and Nupur Talwar to move the Allahabad High Court. The Talwar couple had approached the apex court challenging the order of the special CBI court rejecting their plea for calling 14 other witnesses, including ADG...
11:43 AM, May 21, 2013
Bhopal: A local court here on Monday rejected an NGO's plea to raise the quantum of punishment given to the convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. The petition to raise the quantum of punishment in the case was filed by the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghthan convenor Abdul Jabbar and others. Rejecting the plea, District and Session Judge Sushma Khosla said that the NGO could at best assist...
10:30 AM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals on Monday suspended the tainted trio of Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan in the wake of the spot-fixing scandal on a day when investigations moved with a breakneck speed and resulted in the detention of one more cricketer, Baburao Yadav, a former Ranji Trophy player. Rajasthan Royals cricketers Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan were arrested on May 16 on charges that they spot-fixed certain...
09:38 PM, May 20, 2013
The Congress government in Andhra Pradesh is under pressure after two ministers named in the Jagan Reddy disproportionate assets case stepped down on Sunday night. Voices of dissent from within gained ground even as Jagan's wife Bharathi Reddy wrote to the Prime Minister, alleging the CBI probe is unfair and that her husband is being victimised. ...
08:44 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: CBI will tell the Supreme Court on Tuesday about the arrest of its Superintendent of Police Vivek Dutt who was the Chief Investigator of the coalgate scam. The apex court had in its last hearing on coalgate scam said no officer will be taken off of the case without informing the bench hearing the scam case. Dutt was arrested by CBI sleuths along with an Inspector Rajesh for...
07:58 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday allowed CBI to interrogate for two days Sushil Daga, one of the accused in the Rs 10-crore railway bribery case in which the then Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew is among those arrested. Daga, who was arrested on Sunday, was produced before the court and the agency sought his remand, saying it needs to confront him with documents and intercepted conversations of...
05:39 PM, May 20, 2013
Ghaziabad: Dentist Rajesh Talwar on Monday claimed in the court that he was asleep on the fateful night when his daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj were murdered and internet activity recorded from his room might not be correct. Talwar's statement is being recorded under section 313 of CrPC where the judge poses questions directly to the accused to explain his version of the circumstances. So far Special CBI Judge...
03:40 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: With Jaganmohan Reddy completing a year in jail after his arrest in a disproportionate assets case, his wife Bharathi on Monday attacked CBI, alleging it was controlled by partisan interests and had delayed probe to keep him in prison. Bharathi shot off a letter to CBI chief Ranjit Sinha alleging the investigation is being conducted in a "possibly politically motivated" manner and said that she had reasons to...
01:30 PM, May 20, 2013
Chandigarh: A group of BJP activists on Monday held a demonstration outside the Central Bureau of Investigation office in Chandigarh protesting against alleged involvement of CBI DIG Mahesh Agarwal in deliberately delaying the raid at Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla's residence. Balbir Singh, a CBI inspector had filed a complaint in the Central Administrative Tribunal that the CBI DIG delayed the raid at Singla's residence, giving him time to...
12:53 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is expected to file a petition in the Supreme Court on Monday against the investigating officer in the coal allocation scam, who was caught taking a bribe of Rs 15 lakh on Friday. The CBI Internal Intelligence Unit nabbed Vivek Dutt in an operation that was personally supervised by the agency's director Ranjit Sinha. However, CBI sources said the bribe was not...
10:56 AM, May 20, 2013
Guwahati: BJP will launch a week-long 'Jail Bharo' campaign protesting against alleged corrupt practices of the UPA government. The campaign would start on May 27 and continue till June 2 in all states, BJP vice president SS Ahluwalia told reporters in Guwahati on Sunday. The UPA government at the Centre had over the years been rocked by various scams losing the moral right to continue in office, he said. Various...
03:53 AM, May 20, 2013
Bhopal: Serious irregularities like non-submission of utilisation certificates and delay in payment of wages to beneficiaries among others have come to notice in an official report on the implementation of MGNREGA scheme in Madhya Pradesh. It was also found that the state government was not following necessary budgetary procedures while seeking grant from the Centre under the flagship programme. It was noticed during the inspection in eight districts that the...
03:15 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday sent Vivek Dutt, a CBI officer heading the probe into the allocation of coal blocks, to the custody of the probe agency till May 21 for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 7 lakh from a businessman for settling a land dispute. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge VK Gupta sent Dutt, inspector Rajesh Karnatak, alleged middleman Rajesh Pachisia and businessman Dinesh...
04:41 AM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: Senior CBI officer Vivek Dutt, who headed the Coalgate scam probe team, and three others were on Saturday sent to three days in the agency's custody by a Delhi court for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 15 lakh from a businessman to favour him in a land dispute case. Superintendent Dutt, CBI inspector Rajesh Chandra Karnatak, alleged middleman Rajesh Pachisia and businessman Dinesh Chand Gupta were produced...
06:25 PM, May 18, 2013
