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: The Income Tax department has been trying to establish links between liquor baron Ponty Chadha and Uttar Pradesh's Orai-based mining mafia head Sukhdev Singh. Recently, Rs 1.5 crore were recovered from Sukhdev's office in raids conducted by the IT department. The I-T department also raided liquor baron Ponty Chadha's premises across Delhi and UP. Jewellery worth Rs 4 crore and Rs 50 lakh cash was seized. I-T officials...
07:52 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Bellary: CBI court officials on Saturday visited the residence of former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy in connection with the chargesheet that has been filed against him in the illegal mining case involving his firm Obulapuram Mining Company. The five-member team examined the details of the properties and assets owned by the minister which have been mentioned in the chargesheet, CBI sources said. On December 3, CBI filed the chargesheet...
11:14 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Panaji: And suddenly illegal mining no longer seems to be a major poll issue in Goa! The mega illegal mining scam, which had rocked the state for over two years, has suddenly disappeared from political consciousness in Goa, which goes to the polls to elect a new government on March 3. Both the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which shrilly took up the scam mantra, and the ruling Congress, at...
01:33 PM, Jan 28, 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: A special CBI court in Hyderabad is likely to hear the Obulapuram illegal mining case against Gali Janardhana Reddy on Wednesday. The former Karnataka Minister and three others will be produced in court as their custody ends on Wednesday. The CBI earlier filed the chargesheet in the Bellary illegal mining case. Filing the chargesheet in the CBI special court, the apex investigation agency has charged Gali Janardhan Reddy,...
06:19 AM, Jan 25, 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
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Monday adjourned to January 12 applications of former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa and Housing Minister V Somanna and his wife for anticipatory and interim bail in an FIR against them alleging irregularities in denotification of land. When the applications came up for hearing, Justice Subhash B Adi adjourned the petitions after arguments in the matter remained inconclusive. Counsel for Yeddyurappa, Ashok Haranahally, said the...
10:23 PM, Jan 09, 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
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