New Delhi: Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala was on Tuesday granted interim bail for six weeks by the Delhi High Court for undergoing pacemaker implant surgery at a hospital. "In view of the facts and circumstances of the case and considering the medical report of the appellant/applicant, the applicant's sentence shall be suspended for a period of six weeks," Justice Siddharth Mridul said while granting the interim bail.
78-year-old Chautala, chief of Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), along with 54 others, is serving jail term in the 2000 teachers' recruitment scam. The court asked Chautala to furnish a personal bond of Rs five lakh along with two sureties of like amount before the trial court as a pre-condition for his release on bail.
It also asked the former Haryana Chief Minister to surrender his passport with the trial court, besides asking him not to leave the National Capital Region without prior permission of the court. It also asked Chautala to get himself admitted at Medanta Medicity within 24 hours of his release on bail for undergoing the surgery.
The high court, however, gave liberty to CBI to seek cancellation of his bail if any condition imposed is violated by Chautala. "It goes without saying that CBI will have the liberty to apply for cancellation of bail if any condition is being violated by the appellant/applicant," Justice Mridul said. The court, however, disallowed the submission of CBI that Chautala be restrained from addressing any press
04:59 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: The Corporate Affairs Ministry on Monday said it is examining the report of the government-appointed panel that probed Walmart's lobbying activities with US lawmakers to enter the Indian market. "We are examining the report," Corporate Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot said. The one-man committee, headed by former Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court Mukul Mudgal, had submitted the report to Pilot on May 18. The Ministry would...
10:19 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
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
Mumbai: The Congress party is debating holding a General Election in November, six months ahead of schedule, senior party leaders said, reflecting an internal discussion over whether to pull the plug on the shaky ruling coalition or have it serve a full term. Officially, the Congress party says the government - which has been battered by a series of corruption scandals and now governs as a minority after two allies...
11:45 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
Ghaziabad: A team of government officials, including two policemen, were brutally assaulted on Thursday by henchmen of a sand mafia in Uttar Pradesh, police said. They even tried to run them over with a tractor. The incident took place at Shamli, over 100 km from New Delhi, when a team of revenue officials and policemen went to question a sand mafia for alleged illegal mining of sand near the banks...
07:12 PM, May 16, 2013
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, while commenting on the IPL spot-fixing case, said he is really disappointed with S Sreeesanth. 'Really disappointed with Sreesanth, it's sheer stupidity and waste of talent. His ability to play for India in 70-80 matches, it's a sheer waste. But I am not surprised, I have always found him temperamental," said Ganguly. ...
06:02 PM, May 16, 2013
Nagpur: Police have booked Maharashtra's Director General of Police Sanjeev Dayal and senior officials of the government under a special Act following a complaint lodged against them by a top prison official for allegedly delaying his promotion. The officials were booked on Tuesday under the provisions of Prevention of Atrocities Act against Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes, police said on Wednesday. Deputy Inspector General of Prisons (Eastern Region), Shashikant Shinde,...
09:30 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: Rajasthan BJP leader Gulab Chand Kataria may have been chargesheeted by the CBI in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. But, as the BJP alleged, is Gujarat CM Narendra Modi the real target of the CBI? The CBI's move to chargesheet Kataria brought out the entire BJP brass against the CBI on Wednesday, with BJP president Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and even Kataria-baiter Vasundhara Raje putting up a strong...
08:13 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress has targetted Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan after CNN-IBN exposed how prime land in Bhopal was given to his relatives and party members. Digvijaya Singh claimed this is one of the many corruption charges against the Madhya Pradesh CM. "About 10 people in Chouhan's family were given membership and land. There is a provision that two members of a family cannot be given a...
09:40 AM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday landed in a controversy for her comments that a man had offered her money to get a ticket for assembly polls with BJP slamming her for not taking action against the person and terming the incident as reflection of "Congress culture". "It is an open secret that tickets are sold in Congress party. But this is the first time that a Chief...
10:20 PM, May 14, 2013
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit made the remark while elaborating on her comments that she was offered a bribe by a man hoping for a Congress ticket. ...
08:36 PM, May 14, 2013
Islamabad: A day after his resounding defeat in Pakistan's general election, former premier Raja Pervez Ashraf was on Monday barred from leaving the country over allegations of corruption in setting up power projects. The Federal Investigation Agency directed authorities in airports to prevent Ashraf and several others accused of wrongdoing in the rental power projects scam from leaving Pakistan. Earlier, the National Accountability Bureau Pakistan's main anti-corruption agency had decided...
12:16 AM, May 14, 2013
It is obvious to any dispassionate observer of Indian politics that PM Manmohan Singh has failed to keep his flock of ministers in check. From CWG to 2G, from coal block allocation scam to malpractices in the Railways, UPA-2 has been in the news more for the wrong reasons. In such a situation, is demand for his resignation justified? Ashutosh, managing editor, IBN7 joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on...
06:39 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: Over 6,400 railway employees are facing departmental proceedings for being allegedly involved in corruption during 2012. Departmental proceedings were initiated against 6,454 employees, including 195 gazetted officials, working in different zones and allied departments of the Railways between January and December 2013 for alleged corruption, according to a latest data. Of the total of defaulting officials, a highest of 1,637 were working in Northern Railway zone, 698 under...
05:10 PM, May 13, 2013
Nawaz Sharif may be a man accused of corruption charges or taking Pakistan on the track of conservatism but for many he is the man who understands what Pakistan needs at this moment of economic turmoil. Here's a look at who Nawaz Sharif really is! ...
03:10 PM, May 12, 2013
Chandigarh: Former IPS officer and social activist Kiran Bedi on Saturday alleged the growing interference of the Union government in the functioning of the CBI had turned the premier investigating agency into a "caged parrot". The Central government was also not enacting strong laws to enable the CBI function like an independent body, she told reporters in Chandigarh. "The CBI has turned into a caged parrot owing to growing interference...
02:52 AM, May 12, 2013
New Delhi: Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar were not the first from in the United Progressive Alliance-II to have resigned on corruption charges. The others who stepped down on corruption charges are: A Raja - The DMK leader held the portfolio of communication and information technology when an alleged scam in allocation of 2G spectrum took place. A report of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)...
04:40 AM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: The net is now closing in on Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal. His exit now looks highly likely as more reports about business links of his family and aides come out. In another revelation, a Chartered Accountant with links to companies owned by Pawan Bansal's wife and sons was appointed a director in the Canara Bank when Bansal was MoS Finance. Canara Bank gave loans worth crores to...
11:36 AM, May 10, 2013
