New Delhi: "Was the government sleeping all these years on the issue of blackmoney," the Supreme Court said on Thursday while criticising the Centre's probe restricting to an individual and being evasive about the idea of an investigation by the Special Investigating Team. The apex court said the investigation into the issue of black money required complete and full-fledged involvement of government as the most important question was about the...
06:10 PM, Apr 21, 2011
Puducherry: A three-member Enforcement Directorate team was on Wednesday believed to have questioned Puducherry Lt Governor Iqbal Singh over his recommendation for issuing passport expeditiously to Hasan Ali Khan, facing money laundering and tax evasion charges. Official sources said the ED team from Chennai spent about an hour with the Lt Governor at the Rajnivas. However, a Rajnivas spokesman said the ED team was with Singh for 20 minutes and...
10:09 PM, Apr 20, 2011
New Delhi: Stepping up its probe into the dealings of suspected money launderer Hasan Ali Khan, the Enforcement Directorate has approached the Home Ministry to find out if he has any links with terror outfits. In a letter to the Home Ministry, the ED has conveyed that it was absolutely necessary to look into various aspects of the 53-year-old Pune-based stud farm owner's dealings and whether he was having any...
12:22 PM, Apr 20, 2011
New Delhi: Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Iqbal Singh can be questioned by the Enforcement Directorate over his alleged links with tax defaulter Hasan Ali Khan. The Prime Minister's Office gave its permission to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to question Singh. Sources said the clearance was given when the file seeking such permission reached the PMO. They said that governors enjoy immunity only in matters relating to discharge of their constitutional duties...
12:33 PM, Apr 19, 2011
Mumbai: Tax defaulter and Pune stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan's aide Kashinath Tapuriah, a Kolkata-based businessman, is being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at its Mumbai office. The ED is likely to grill Tapuriah and Bihar Congress leader Amlendu Pandey about their relation with Khan. Tapuriah will be questioned for two days. In fact, ED officials plan to jointly interrogate Tapuriah and Pandey. The Sessions Court in Mumbai...
12:21 PM, Apr 18, 2011
Puducherry: Lieutenant Governor Iqbal Singh has been accused of helping facilitate a fake passport for India's alleged tax evader Hasan Ali Khan, who's now in judicial custody. Singh has denied the allegations. He told CNN-IBN that he has no plans of resigning. Meanwhile, the state government has distanced itself from Iqbal Singh. Chief Minister V Vaithilingam has said the government had not allocated any land to the Lieutenant Governor to...
08:08 AM, Apr 18, 2011
New Delhi: Facing ED summons for his alleged links with suspected money launderer Hasan Ali Khan, Puducherry Lt Governor Iqbal Singh on Sunday said he is ready to resign from his post, if asked to, and also for any kind of inquiry by any authority. "I'm ready for any kind of inquiry by any authority. If I'm asked to, I'm ready to resign from my post. But so far there...
10:28 PM, Apr 17, 2011
Puducherry: The opposition AIADMK on Sunday demanded that the President recall Puducherry Lt Governor Iqbal Singh as he had been facing "several controversies" ever since his appointment to the post in 2009 including the one relating to the procurement of passport to Pune stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan. "The post of Lt Governor is a sacrosanct position in the Constitution. Any slur caused by its incumbent would be totally...
02:18 PM, Apr 17, 2011
New Delhi: Puducherry Lt Governor Iqbal Singh on Saturday met Home Minister P Chidambaram and dismissed allegations of his links with Hasan Ali. Iqbal Singh said that Congress MLA Amalendu Pandey approached him and he wanted passport for someone on health grounds. "The applicant claimed that his brother was critically ill," Iqbal Singh said. The ED had asked the Home Ministry for permission to question Iqbal Singh in connection with...
08:29 PM, Apr 16, 2011
New Delhi: The Mayawati government on Saturday removed Vijay Shankar Pandey from the position of the Principal Secretary after the Enforcement Directorate's move to question Pandey in connection with the Hasan Ali black money case. The UP state government denied any links with top tax evader Hasan Ali and said that if there is any proof, then it is in Pandey's personal capacity. The Enforcement Directorate will question Puducherry Lt...
06:42 PM, Apr 16, 2011
New Delhi: Puducherry Governor Lt Governor Iqbal Singh is the latest person to come under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Hasan Ali case. The ED has asked the Home Ministry for permission to question Puducherry Lt Governor Iqbal Singh in connection with the passport issued to Hasan Ali - suspected to be India's biggest tax defaulter. Iqbal Singh is alleged to have helped Hasan Ali get his...
01:03 PM, Apr 16, 2011
Mumbai: A court in Mumbai on Friday allowed the Enforcement Directorate to question Kashinath Tapuriah, the Kolkata-based businessman and a key aide of Pune based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, for two days. The Sessions Court in Mumbai permitted ED to take Tapuriah from Arthur Road jail to ED office in South Mumbai on April 18 and April 19. The court also extended the judicial custody of Tapuriah till...
03:19 PM, Apr 15, 2011
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday questioned Bihar politician Amalendu Pandey, who is a All India Congress Committee member, in Mumbai for allegedly helping tax defaulter Hasan Ali Khan procure a passport from Patna. Pandey is the first politician to be summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in the Hasan Ali Khan money laundering case. He is also considered to be a close associate of Ali's business associate Kashinath Tapuriah. His...
03:23 PM, Apr 14, 2011
Mumbai: Hasan Ali Khan, the Pune-based stud farm owner arrested on massive money laundering charges, is the second most secure inmate of the Arthur Road jail after Ajmal Kasab, lodged like the Pakistani gunman on death row in the high-security 'Anda cell'. Khan has been lodged in the egg-shaped cell as he claimed to be facing threat to his life from Kolkata businessman Kashinath Tapuria, a co-accused arrested in the...
06:42 PM, Apr 07, 2011
New Delhi: The Income Tax Department has slapped a penalty of Rs 20,000 crore on four associates, including businessman Kashinath Tapuriah, of Hasan Ali Khan who is accused of stashing huge amounts of black money in foreign banks. "A penalty of about Rs 20,000 crore has been slapped on associates of Hasan Ali Khan," Revenue department sources said. Besides Tapuriah, who is in Enforcement Directorate's custody, the Pune-based stud farm...
07:28 PM, Apr 05, 2011
Mumbai: Kashinath Tapuriah, an alleged close aide of Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan who is facing money laundering charges, was on Saturday sent to judicial custody after Enforcement Directorate told the local court that it did not need his custody, for now. Tapuriah was produced before Additional Principal Sessions Judge K P Purohit at latter's residence, as the court was closed on Saturday. Tapuriah was arrested on March...
07:19 PM, Apr 02, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed its displeasure over the way the investigation has been progressing into the black money case. The two-judge bench of Justice B Sudarshan Reddy and Justice SS Nijjar slammed the Central Government for not investigating specific sources of black money stashed in banks in foreign countries. The court said the Government has made no effort to track the sources of black money. The...
12:23 PM, Mar 29, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday came down heavily on the Enforcement Directorate (ED) asking if the department was sleeping since 2008 on the black money case. After seeing the ED status report on black money investigation, the two-judge bench of Justice B Sudarshan Reddy and Justice SS Nijjar observed: "It is difficult to stay calm on the way things are happening in this country." Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium...
01:26 PM, Mar 28, 2011
Mumbai: Rheema Khan, the wife of Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali, would be present in the Supreme Court on Monday when the Enforcement Directorate submits a status report of the probe into his alleged money-laundering activities. "Hasan Ali's wife would appear before the Supreme Court on Monday," said his lawyer, advocate I A Bagadia here. Bagadia also said she had faxed a letter to ED, saying she would appear...
07:05 AM, Mar 28, 2011
Mumbai: Rheema Khan, the wife of Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali, would be present in the Supreme Court on Monday when the Enforcement Directorate would submit a status report of the probe into his alleged money-laundering activities. "Hasan Ali's wife would appear before the Supreme Court tomorrow," said Khan's lawyer, advocate IA Bagadia in Mumbai. Bagadia also said she had faxed a letter to ED, saying she would appear...
10:05 AM, Mar 27, 2011
