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 the accused.
Special CBI Judge Swarana Kanta Sharma allowed the CBI's plea and remanded Daga in the agency's custody till May 22. "Since accused (Daga) has been arrested yesterday itself, he needs to be confronted with documents and intercepted conversations. It is also to be ascertained as to from where the bribe amount had been arranged....I remand the accused to police custody for two days," the judge said.
The agency told the court that Daga, a regular railway contractor, had allegedly arranged part of the bribe amount which was paid to Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla for the posting of co-accused and then Member (Staff) of Railway Board Mahesh Kumar's posting as Member (Electrical) of Railway Board. It also said that one of the accused Vivek Kumar, who had allegedly carried the bribe amount to Chandigarh and was caught red handed while handing it over to Singla, was Daga's employee.
CBI said another accused Narain Rao Manjunath, Managing Director of GG Tronics India Pvt Ltd, was the manufacturer of equipments which were supplied to the railways and Daga
05:39 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday dismissed the bail plea of an accused in the Rs 10 crore railway bribery case in which ex-Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew was among those arrested. Special CBI Judge Swarana Kanta Sharma rejected the bail plea of Dharmender Kumar after CBI contended that his release could adversely affect probe which was in initial stages. Dharmedra along with co-accused Vivek Kumar had allegedly...
06:10 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Five accused including Railway Minister PK Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla were sent to judicial custody till May 20 by a Delhi court on Thursday. Vijay Singla, Ajay Garg, Manjunath, Sandeep Goyal were produced in CBI court. Meanwhile, the CBI questioned Bansal's Private Secretary in connection with the alleged Rs 10 crore bribery scandal involving Railway Board Member Mahesh Kumar and the minister's nephew V Singla. Rahul Bhandari, a...
03:38 PM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday arrested one more accused in the Railway bribery scandal involving nephew of Railway Minister PK Bansal and a Board member, taking the total number of arrests by the agency to seven. Rahul Yadav, one of the middlemen, named in the FIR, was arrested by the agency, CBI sources said. Earlier on Saturday, two courier boys, who allegedly delivered Rs 90 lakh cash as bribe...
01:40 AM, May 05, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress core group which met on Saturday evening to discuss Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's resignation in connection with a bribery scandal has not made any decision yet. Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla is accused of taking money from Mahesh Kumar to make him member of the Railway board's electrical arm. Sources said that Bansal explained his position to the Congress top brass. Bansal in his defence reportedly...
07:59 PM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has got a four-day custody of Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla and three others in connection with a bribery scandal. The investigative agency on Saturday told the court that they need to find out the source of Rs 90 lakh and who was the ultimate beneficiary. Vijay Singla, Bansal's nephew is accused of taking money from Mahesh Kumar to...
05:36 PM, May 04, 2013
TMC leader and former railway minister Dinesh Trivedi has said that there has to be a lot of transparency while running the Railway Minitry. He said the only job of a Railway Minister is to lay down the policies. In an interview with the CNN-IBN, Trivedi said that PM must step in, as railway is a huge infrastructure. The anti-corruption wing of the CBI had on Friday arrested Railway Minister ...
04:25 PM, May 04, 2013
BJP leader Ram Asrey Kushwaha said the PM and Sonia Gandhi should remove corrupt ministers from the government and Bansal must resign on moral grounds. ...
09:59 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Sources said on Saturday that the government might ask Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal to explain his role in the bribery case, in which his nephew Vijay Singla was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday. Bansal, however, has claimed that he had no knowledge about the matter. "I had no knowledge or clue about the matter at all. He or any other relative of...
09:14 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Warning that the proposed deal between Jet Airways and Gulf carrier Etihad to increase number of flights will lead to a "certain demise" of the national carrier Air India, former Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Saturday demanded that a fresh look be taken on it. Seeking "re-examination" of the process, Trivedi in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought his intervention, asking him to keep the talks...
10:34 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: Former Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi has said the whole system including Parliament is to be blamed for filthy catering services in the Indian Railways. "If you ask me you have to hold the entire Parliament guilty. This is absolutely pathetic. I must compliment Marya Shakil and CNN-IBN to have highlighted these points. This is in modern times highly unacceptable. But having said that let me tell you, you...
09:35 AM, Apr 13, 2013
New Delhi: Former MoS health minister Dinesh Trivedi has said that every year more than $30 billion is involved in the medical seats' scam. He also claimed that politicians were controlling 100-odd colleges which were putting their PG medical seats on sale. Trivedi was speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai. Former member of the Dental Council of India Dr Usha Mohandas was also a part of the debate. Following is...
08:34 AM, Apr 05, 2013
The Indian Railways hiked passenger fares across the board in all classes on Wednesday for the first time in 10 years. The decision came barely a month before the Budget Session of Parliament. With this the railways is expected to earn an extra revenue of Rs 6,600 crore. ...
09:13 AM, Jan 10, 2013
Railway Minister PK Bansal is likely to announce a hike in railway fares and sources said that the government won't wait for the Budget Session to announce it. This will be the first fare hike by Indian Railways in the last 10 years. ...
01:27 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Faced with mounting deficit of over Rs 20,000 crore in the passenger segment, Railways is keen on raising passenger fares between 5-10 paise per km in the coming months to generate the revenue of about Rs 4,000 crore. The hike could come close on the heels of Railways finalising the broader contours of the proposed Rail Tariff Authority (RTA), which would be placed before Cabinet in January. ...
12:45 PM, Dec 23, 2012
New Delhi: In the first major hint of a change, new Railways Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said that a hike in fares was a possibility. "Passenger fares can be hiked if needed. Primary concern is safety," Bansal said at a press conference. Bansal, the former Parliamentary Affairs Minister, was made the Railways Minister on Sunday during the mega Cabinet reshuffle effected by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ahead of the 2014...
01:35 PM, Oct 29, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Friday expressed hope that it would now be able to attend to the ailing railway ministry, freed of the Trinamool Congress' hold with the party quitting the Congress-led UPA. "Railways is a key infrastructure ministry vital for economic development of the country. There is a need to restore its fiscal health and technological strength. Safety of passengers is a prime and compelling need," said Minister...
07:00 PM, Sep 21, 2012
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress leader Dinesh Trivedi raised several eyebrows on Friday when he said that he will not be a part of the party delegation that will meet President Pranab Mukherjee in the evening to hand over their letters of withdrawal of support from the UPA government. "I will not be going to with other TMC MPs to meet President in withdrawing support to the UPA government," Trivedi told...
03:15 PM, Sep 21, 2012
New Delhi: With Mamata Banerjee's men leaving the Manmohan Singh team on Friday, six key positions will fall vacant. The most important among these is the Cabinet rank of Railway Minister. Sources say the Congress is likely to keep Railway after Mukul Roy quits. This means the Railway will soon have a new minister, the third in a year. Current Railway Minister Mukul Roy was appointed in March after Mamata...
08:43 AM, Sep 21, 2012
Kolkata: In a jibe at party leader Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool Congress MP and former railway minister Dinesh Trivedi on Saturday equated himself with ousted minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor, saying that in spite of working well, both of them were removed without any concrete reasons. "You know both Shashi and me have something in common. Both of us were playing (working) well and there was applause too...
01:10 AM, Aug 12, 2012
