Hyderabad: Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy appears to be very determined to take the investigation into the illegal activities of the liquor syndicates to its logical end, despite pressure on him to go easy on it. Though he transferred ACB additional director K Srinivas Reddy, who was supervising the investigation, Kiran wants the probe to continue so that the culprits could be brought to book. In fact, the chief...
11:24 AM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: Protests erupted in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday after the officer heading the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) probe team into the liquor scam in the state was transferred. Sources say that Director General of the ACB D Bhoobati applied for a long leave in protest against the transfer of Additional Director K Srinivas Reddy. Online campaigns too have picked up in favour of Reddy. Support messages flooded social websites like...
11:28 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Hyderabad: The ACB officer heading the liqour scam probe in Andhra Pradesh has been transferred. Several top politicians in the state are under scrutiny in the liqour racket. Police sources have alleged political pressure to scuttle probe. CNN-IBN had first reported about the liquor scam. The Andhra Pradesh High Court has sent notices to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, state Congress chief B Satyanarayana, Excise Minister M Venkatramana...
01:31 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh government has transferred a senior police officer who was probing the liquor pay-offs scandal allegedly involving some top politicians. Additional Director of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) K Sreenivasa Reddy has been posted as chief of coastal security. The orders of his promotion as inspector general of police and new posting were issued on Tuesday night. The development came as a big surprise for many as the probe...
12:49 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Panaji: Liquor prices in Goa, which is known for low-cost booze, are set to go up marginally from April 2012, owing to a substantial rise in warehousing rates as proposed in the state budget. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar increased the Value Added Tax (VAT) on Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL) and foreign liquor, including beer, from existing 20 per cent to 22 per cent, which will translate into an increase...
03:24 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Hyderabad: Trouble seems to be brewing for the Kiran Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh over the liquor scam which CNN-IBN had reported first. The Andhra Pradesh High Court has sent notices to the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Reddy, state Congress chief B Satyanarayana, Excise Minister M Venkatramana and leader of Opposition Chandrababu Naidu. The notice comes after a PIL was filed seeking a court-monitored probe into the scam. The...
08:45 AM, Mar 23, 2012
KURNOOL/ADILABAD/ WARANGAL: After excise officials and representatives of liquor syndicates, it is now the turn of the police to come under the scanner of Anti- Corruption Bureau.More than 45 days after registering cases against liquor syndicates, ACB sleuths on Sunday acted against civil police whose names figured in the ACB report on liquor syndicates.The ACB sleuths arrested seven police officers" two officers on special duty, a deputy superintendent of police...
08:41 AM, Mar 12, 2012
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh's liquor scandal claimed more casualties on Sunday with the arrests of top police officers in Warrangal, Khammam, Adeelabad and Kurnool districts. Sources say that around two additional SPs, two deputy SPs, four inspectors from Warrangal, Khammam, Adilabad, Kurnool districts were arrested for their alleged role in the illegal liquor syndicate. Earlier, some excise officials had come under scrutiny and had been arrested for their role in the...
01:29 PM, Mar 11, 2012
New Delhi: Slain IPS officer Narender Kumar's wife has demanded CBI probe into her husband's killing, saying it was a murder and not accident. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan had ordered a judicial probe into the incident. The probe into the incident that sparked an outrage was announced by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, a day after 30-year-old Narendra Kumar Singh was crushed under the wheels of a...
10:37 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Morena (MP): Leader of the Opposition in Madhya Pradesh Assembly Ajay Singh on Saturday charged the BJP-led state government with giving protection to the mining and liquor mafia. Asserting that a situation of anarchy was prevailing in Madhya Pradesh, Singh said to oppose this the Congress has given a call for a statewide bandh on March 13. Speaking to the media he claimed that the law and order situation in...
05:45 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Bhind: A young IPS officer was attacked allegedly by liquor barons, including supporters of former BJP MLA Narendra Singh, in Bhind district when he tried to check illegal sale of liquor on the day when another promising officer was crushed to death allegedly by the mining mafia. The alleged incident occurred on Thursday when some liquor shops located on the Etawah and Lahar Road were selling liquor illegally despite the...
07:33 PM, Mar 09, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh saw the maximum amount of cash being seized during restrictions imposed in the run up to the assembly elections in five states, while Punjab topped the seizures for drugs and illicit liquor. Rs 37.46 crore in cash was seized in Uttar Pradesh during polls, accounting for 72 per cent of the cash seizures. Huge quantities of drugs were seized in border state of Punjab which included...
07:40 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: Former ADG of Rajasthan Police AK Jain, wanted by the CBI for his alleged role in the fake encounter of a local liquor smuggler, was sent to one-day judicial custody on Monday. Jain earlier in the day surrendered before a special court in Rajasthan. 59-year-old Jain had gone absconding after the CBI filed a chargesheet against him in June 2011 accusing him of masterminding the fake encounter of...
05:52 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has asked for a status report on the probe into the liquor racket in the state to be submitted in three weeks from now. This has come after CNN-IBN reported that there was a nexus between the excise officials, the police and the accused in the racket. Meanwhile, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders met Governor ESL Narasimhan on Monday demanding resignation of all the...
04:03 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Patna: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today rejected Opposition's claim of "free flow" of liquor in Bihar and said that its consumption was less in the state in comparison to other parts of the country. At the same time, he said the collection of excise tax on liquor sale was a 'staggering' Rs 1500 crore in 2011-2012 which comes as a boost to the cash-strapped state to implement various welfare schemes...
10:48 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Hyderabad: CNN-IBN has accessed documents that expose the full extent of the liquor scam in Andhra Pradesh. Reportedly, not only have excise and police officials taken bribes to allow the illegal liquor business to flourish, they also loaned money to the tune of Rs 2 crore to the mafia to carry on the trade. The documents reveal that in Srikakulam district, between September 2010-December 2011, excise officials received bribes worth...
07:25 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Hyderabad: Top Congress leaders and government officials in Andhra Pradesh are being probed by the police in connection with the liquor racket in the state. According to sources, some top leaders of the ruling Congress may be involved in the racket. Andhra Pradesh Excise Minister M Venkata Ramana, four MLAs and several excise officials have already been named in case for receiving bribes. Sources have further said that state Congress...
01:49 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Cuttack: The toll in the hooch tragedy mounted to 30 on Wednesday with the death of 24 more ailing persons in different hospitals in Odisha. While 29 people died at the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack, one succumbed at the Capital hospital in Bhubaneswar, official sources said. As many as 51 others are battling for survival in SCB Medical College and Hospital, Emergency Officer BN Moharana said. The victims...
03:21 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Cuttack: At least 26 people have died and 25 are serious after consuming spurious liquor in Cuttack. Most of the victims were daily wage earners and worked in a brick kiln in Cuttack. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has ordered a judicial enquiry into the tragedy. Two people have already been arrested in the case. The labourers complained of chest and eye pain after consuming liquor on Monday night. Many...
10:58 AM, Feb 08, 2012
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has put the compensation for the families of the hooch tragedy victims on hold for eight weeks. This came after a PIL was filed challenging the compensation announced by the state government for the victims. The PIL challenged the rationale behind the payment of the compensation. The West Bengal government had announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the victims' families. More than 170...
05:10 PM, Feb 06, 2012
