New Delhi: Eleven years after a sting operation showed him taking a bribe of RS 1 lakh, former BJP President Bangaru Laxman was fined Rs 1 lakh and sentenced to four years in prison. His lawyers said they would contest the verdict and in the meanwhile Laxman will continue to stay in Tihar Jail after his conviction on Friday. Bangaru Laxman's body language clearly indicated that he was dejected with...
09:23 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court sentenced former BJP president Bangaru Laxman to four years in jail in the 2001 fake arms deal case. Bangaru has also been imposed with a fine of Rs one lakh. Bangaru was convicted for taking a Rs one lakh bribe to push a defence deal in a sting operation 11 years ago. The court came tough on corruption and said in its judgement, "Time to...
08:33 PM, Apr 28, 2012
A Delhi court sentenced former BJP president Bangaru Laxman to four years in jail in the 2001 fake arms deal case. ...
07:02 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP President Bangaru Laxman who was sentenced on Saturday to four years imprisonment by a court in New Delhi said he would challenge his conviction before the Delhi High Court as the case against him was framed by some media persons. "We will challenge the decision in the high court. We will definitely appeal in the higher court," Laxman's counsel Ajay Digpaul told reporters after pronouncement of...
05:14 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Bangaru Laxman's lawyers termed the court's order as 'harsh punishment' and said the court should have considered factors like his medical status. ...
05:06 PM, Apr 28, 2012
A Delhi court sentenced former BJP president Bangaru Laxman to four years in jail in the 2001 fake arms deal case. ...
04:54 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday sentenced former BJP president Bangaru Laxman to four years in jail in the 2001 fake arms deal case. Bangaru has also been imposed with a fine of Rs one lakh. Bangaru was convicted for taking a Rs one lakh bribe to push a defence deal in a sting operation 11 years ago. Bangaru's lawyer Ajay Digpal said outside the court, "Bangaru Laxman has...
03:26 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP minister Bangaru Laxman was sentenced to four years of jail term by a Delhi court on Saturday and imposed with an additional fine of Rs one lakh, in connection with an arms deal case. Bangaru was convicted for taking a Rs one lakh bribe to push a defence deal in a sting operation 11 years ago. Who is Bangaru Laxman - Bangaru Laxman was a minister...
03:03 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court sentenced former BJP president Bangaru Laxman to four years in jail in the 2001 fake arms deal case. Bangaru has also been imposed with a fine of Rs one lakh. Bangaru was convicted for taking a Rs one lakh bribe to push a defence deal in a sting operation 11 years ago. The court in its judgement said, "Time to shun sab chalta hai syndrome."...
02:48 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Bangaru Laxman has been convicted under the Prevention of Corruption Act in the 2001 Tehelka sting case relating to an alleged arms deal and sentenced to four years in jail. As Laxman goes to jail in the Tehelka sting case, IBNLive compiles a list of 10 most high-profile political convicts who recently went to jail in India: A Raja: Perhaps the most...
02:41 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP President Bangaru Laxman on Saturday asked for a minimum punishment in the fake arms deal case that he was convicted in on Friday. Bangaru, 72, sought leniency on health grounds, saying that he has undergone bypass surgery twice and is a first time offender. However, the CBI counsel pleaded for maximum punishment of five years for Laxman. Laxman was convicted by a Delhi court for taking...
11:21 AM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: The sting operation by Tehelka newsportal exposing corruption through fictitious defence deal involving former BJP chief Bangaru Laxman on Friday got kudos from a Delhi court which said they acted as "whistle blowers". Despite dubbing the method adopted by the portal as "objectionable", the court said the idea of sting operation was not such that the scribes involved in it would be made accused. "I am of the...
07:08 AM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman spent his first night in jail on Friday. The Supreme Court convicted Bangaru for taking a Rs one lakh bribe to push a defence deal in a sting operation 11 years ago. The court in its 155-page judgement on Thursday said Laxman received money to "influence the public servants". Bangaru's sentencing will be announced later on Saturday. "The accused Bangaru Laxman on January...
06:13 AM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Eleven years after it broke, the Tehelka sting operation has returned to haunt the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). A court on Friday convicted former party president Bangaru Laxman who was caught on camera taking Rs 1 lakh bribe. As the BJP distanced itself from him, the Congress was quick to point fingers. Bangaru Laxman has been convicted in the 2001 fictitious arms deal case under the Prevention of...
08:58 PM, Apr 27, 2012
The Tehelka scam has come back to haunt the BJP, with the court convicting former party president Bangaru Laxman for corruption. ...
07:07 PM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: Newsportal Tehelka.com's former journalist Aniruddha Bahal expressed happiness at the conviction of former BJP president Bangaru Laxman on Friday. Bahal was a part of the Tehelka.com team that carried out the sting operation in 2001. Recalling the sting operation by Tehelka in 2001, Bahal claimed that the people of the organisation were harassed after the sting operation. Talking to CNN-IBN, Bahal said, "There was a judicial commission put...
04:38 PM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Bangaru Laxman has been convicted under the Prevention of Corruption Act in the 2001 Tehelka sting case. A Delhi court convicted Bangaru on Thursday and announced that the sentencing would take place on Saturday. The court of special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge Kanwaljeet Arora sent Bangaru into judicial custody soon after convicting him. Bangaru broke down in the court after...
02:41 PM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: When Bangaru Laxman was the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president, he was caught on camera allegedly taking bribe from fake arms dealers for facilitating a fictitious defence deal case. Bangaru was caught on camera accepting money in a 2001 sting operation conducted by newsportal Tehelka.com. The video CDs, which were released by the portal on March 13, 2001, had sparked a political storm following which Bangaru resigned as...
01:58 PM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court will pronounce its verdict on the 11-year-old Tehelka sting operation on Friday. The court will decide whether former BJP President Bangaru Laxman is guilty under the Prevention of Corruption Act for accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from two Tehelka reporters who were posing as middlemen, pitching a defence deal. He was forced to step down as BJP President following the sensational expose. Bangaru's...
06:56 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Bangalore: The three tainted MLAs of Karnataka, in their reply to the Karnataka Vidhan Sabha Speaker in the obscene video case, on Thursday told Joint House Committee that they had no intention of watching obscene content on their mobile, and it opened up accidentally. Denying any intentional role, one of the three ministers even said he doesn't know how to send SMS and pictures on the mobile. Speaker KG Bopaiah...
09:33 PM, Feb 16, 2012
