New Delhi: The Central Empowered Committee is all set to file its report in the Karnataka illegal mining scam on Friday. Sources say that the Supreme Court appointed Committee has reportedly recommended that 45 lessees be allowed to resume their mining operations. The Congress had on Wednesday reiterated its demand for a CBI probe into the scam which caused a whopping Rs 17085 crore loss to the states exchequer, and...
09:50 AM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: A Supreme Court appointed committee on illegal mining in Karnataka has submitted its final report. The committee has come down heavily on mining companies and recommended that their licenses be cancelled. Most of the violators are C-category mines. The decision could have some political repercussions too, as many of the mines have links to politicians in Karnataka. Some of the mines are owned by the associates of the...
06:27 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: In a relief for External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, the Supreme Court has stayed criminal proceedings against him in the illegal mining case. An FIR was lodged against Krishna in the Lokayukta court in Karnataka. The former CM had approached the SC last week. He is accused of illegally de-reserving large forest areas for mining in Bellary when he was the chief minister between 1999 and 2004. Krishna...
03:26 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has moved the Supreme Court, seeking quashing of the criminal complaint against him in the illegal mining case in Karnataka. This came after the Karnataka High Court allowed the state police to probe charges against Krishna. Krishna has been accused of illegally de-reserving large forest areas for mining in Bellary when he was the chief minister between 1999 and 2004. Krishna is also...
06:34 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Bangalore: In a jolt to External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and a major embarrassment to the Congress, the Karnataka High Court on Friday allowed probe into charges that he had illegally de-reserved large forest areas for mining when he was chief minister during 1999-2004. Also facing embarrassment is former prime minister and Janata Dal-Secular president HD Deve Gowda as the court gave the nod to a probe into the role...
12:40 AM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash investigations in a probe against External Affairs Minister SM Krishna. The court said that the probe against Krishna will continue. Krishna had filed a petition challenging an investigation by the Lokayukta police into his role in allowing mining in lands earlier notified as forests. Krishna refused to comment on this and said, "Unless I see the full text of the...
03:46 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Bhopal: The opposition Congress in Madhya Pradesh on Monday claimed that a team of its legislators had found large-scale illegal sand mining in Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's assembly constituency Budhni. Chouhan denied knowledge of any such activity. "They (Congress) are making blind allegations and just trying to malign our image. Let them do so," he said. Leader of Opposition Ajay Singh told that a team of five Congress legislators...
01:29 AM, Jan 17, 2012
Hyderabad: A special CBI court on Thursday extended till January 25 the judicial custody of former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and three others accused in the "illegal" mining case involving Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC). Janardhan Reddy, lodged in Chanchalguda Jail in Hyderabad along with brother-in-law and OMC Managing Director BV Srinivasa Reddy since September last after being arrested by the CBI from Bellary in adjoining Karnataka, and another accused,...
02:49 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Hyderabad: The Obulapuram Mining Company Pvt Ltd (OMCPL), owned by former Karnataka minister G Janardhan Reddy, earned over Rs 4,300 crore from illegally selling iron ore, the CBI's chargesheet says. The central agency, probing into the allegations of illegal mining and irregularities committed in allotment of mining leases to OMCPL in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh, filed the chargesheet against OMCPL, Janardhan Reddy, his brother-in-law and the firm's Managing Director...
03:36 AM, Jan 06, 2012
Bangalore: A leading NGO on whose petition the apex court banned mining in Karnataka on Wednesday accused External Affairs Minister SM Krishna of abetting illegal mining in the state when he was chief minister from 1999-2004. Krishna failed to cancel the lease of a mining firm, which illegally extracted iron ore from the 20.7-acre mining area of the state-run National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) in Bellary district, ignoring the advice...
03:15 AM, Jan 05, 2012
Bangalore: The illegal mining report of the Karnataka Lokayukta (ombudsman) that forced B.S. Yeddyurappa to quit as the Bharatiya Janata Party's first chief minister in south India is becoming a hot potato for his successor D.V. Sadananda Gowda. The Gowda cabinet faces a tough task as a departmental probe says it has found no evidence to support the Lokayukta findings that 191 police officers had taken bribes to allow illegal...
12:31 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Goa: It's the 50th anniversary of Goa's liberation from the Portuguese rule. But there may be little reason to celebrate because of rampant corruption, in particular the big mining scam. On December 19, 1961, Goa woke up to the sounds of freedom. Operation Vijay that lasted less than 48 hours overthrew the last vestige of colonial power on the subcontinent. Half a century later, the Goan is doing what he...
09:04 AM, Dec 19, 2011
New Delhi: A special Lokayukta court in Bangalore on Thursday deferred the hearing against External Affairs Minister SM Krishna in an illegal mining case after the High Court stayed the proceedings against him for 4 weeks. The court said that the investigation by Lokayukta police will be stayed for 4 weeks. The case now will be heard again on January 6. Lokayukta special court had earlier directed police to probe...
03:40 PM, Dec 15, 2011
New Delhi: A special Lokayukta court in Bangalore will hear External Affairs Minister SM Krishna's petition on Thursday in an illegal mining case. Earlier, Krishna on December 9 petitioned the Karnataka High Court to quash the illegal mining case against him, a day after police launched a probe into his alleged role in illegal mining when he was chief minister during the period of 1999-2004. Krishna has contended in the...
07:30 AM, Dec 15, 2011
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court will on Thursday hear External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna's plea to dismiss an illegal mining case against him. Justice B.V. Pinto, who on Wednesday took up Krishna's petition, adjourned the hearing to Thursday as the former chief minister's lawyer sought time. Krishna filed the petition on Dec 9 after police registered a first information report (FIR) over his alleged role in allowing illegal mining when...
06:43 PM, Dec 14, 2011
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