Mumbai: The process of attaching ex-Maharashtra Congress chief Kripashankar Singh's 19 properties across the state began on Friday. Singh and his family allegedly own 1 bungalow, 7 flats and hundreds of acres of land in the state. The Bombay HC had last week asked the police to attach Kripashankar Singh's properties. Congress leader Rashid Alvi said that the law was taking its own course. On Friday morning, the Mumbai Police...
04:01 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Chennai: Vigilance officials on Friday raided premises of three personal security officers to former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi in Chennai in connection with a disproportionate assets case. Search is on in six premises, including properties of the officers - Pandian, Ganesan and Vinothan - and that of those who bought properties from them, Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption sources said. Several DMK leaders and former Ministers besides MLAs...
12:05 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Indore: The Lokayukta raided Indore Central Jail superintendent's son Kuvar's residence on Thursday. Rs 5 lakh in cash and details of large number of properties have been recovered from Kuvar's residence. More details were awaited in connection to the raid. ...
09:31 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Lucknow: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted more raids in Uttar Pradesh and filed four new FIRs in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam. Thirty teams of CBI raided health department officials and firms that supplied medicines and other material. CBI conducted search operations across 22 districts in UP in cities including Lucknow, Deoria, Basti, and Bahraich. CBI sources said agency teams swooped down on 30 locations, including...
12:01 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: A senior income tax officer, S S Rana, who led raids on the businesses of Uttar Pradesh liquor baron Gurpreet Chadha alias Ponty Chadha, was on Friday transferred. The transfer of the official has come after reports that information on the raid was leaked to Chadha. The Central Board for Direct Taxes had said that it would investigate how the information on the income tax departments raids on...
07:47 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Ghazipur: A CBI team on Wednesday conducted searches at the district hospital in Ghazipur in connection with the National Rural Health Mission scam. The two-member team checked documents and also took custody of some papers, official sources said. This is the third CBI raid in the district in the past 20 days. A week ago the agency had taken into its possession documents and bank statements relating to the sale-purchase...
05:36 PM, Feb 08, 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
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi has said that the use of black money during the Assembly elections was a major cause for concern and the EC was trying its best to deal with it. In an interview with CNN-IBN, Quraishi spoke about the use of money power, liquor and drugs during elections and the EC's efforts to crack it. Rajdeep Sardesai: Mr Quraishi, we are seeing the assets...
09:55 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Bhopal: "MP gajab hai'... You've heard that touristy catchphrase saying Madhya Pradesh is truly amazing! But the slogan acquires a new meaning in the light of startling revelations about corrupt government staffers who are turning out to have amassed unaccounted wealth worth crores of rupees. In 2011, the state anti-corruption wing unearthed assets running into crores from many government employees, from peons to clerks to engineers. The assets include cash,...
07:44 AM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: Scam-tainted former BSP leader Babu Singh Kushwaha is unlikely to be arrested by the CBI in connection with the National Rural Health Mission scam for now, claim sources. He's believed to be cooperating with investigators. Kushwaha was raided by the CBI on Wednesday. The central investigating agency will be interrogating two former Director Generals of Health who were detained on Wednesday. The CBI has raided a total of...
09:33 AM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP has clarified that sacked BSP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha will not get a poll ticket for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh elections after he was raided in connection with the NRHM scam. An embarrassed BJP claimed a Congress-BSP plot. "There is a deal between the BSP and the Congress. Rahul Gandhi and Digvijaya Singh are the leaders of the deal who are protecting the corrupt in the...
02:20 PM, Jan 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted raids at the premises of the TV channel Jan Sandesh in Lucknow in connection to the NRHM scam on Wednesday. Jan Sandesh is backed by the BSP. The raids were being conducted at 60 places in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in connection with the scam. Earlier on Wednesday, the CBI also raided the residence of sacked BSP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha....
12:59 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan wants new rules of engagement with the US and an assurance of "no Abbottabad-like unilateral action in future", Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said. The prime minister was referring to the May 2 killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US commandos who carried out the daring raid by swooping into Abbottabad town without informing Pakistan. Gilani on Wednesday said that Pakistan wanted new rules...
12:41 PM, Dec 22, 2011
New Delhi: A clerk in Madhya Pradesh has been accused of amassing assets disproportionate to his income. The police reportedly seized property papers worth Rs 40 crore from his residence. The clerk works at the regional transport office in Indore. Acting on a tip-off, EOW officials raided three residences of the clerk identified as Ramendra (Raman) Dhuldhoi and recovered details of properties worth over Rs 40 crore which is "hugely...
11:07 AM, Dec 19, 2011
Kabul: Voicing cautious optimism, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan said that he's seeing signs of a possible lifting of Pakistan's communications blackout imposed on the US-led coalition after NATO airstrikes killed two dozen Pakistani forces last month. Marine Gen John Allen revealed for the first time that he spoke on the phone on Monday with Pakistan army chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani their first conversation since just after the...
08:59 AM, Dec 14, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani security forces on Saturday took control of a strategically important airbase in the country's southwest after US military personnel vacated the facility in line with a demand from the Pakistan government. Pakistan had asked the US to vacate Shamsi airbase in Balochistan province after a cross-border NATO attack on two border posts killed 24 soldiers on November 26. The US had been using the airbase since late 2001...
09:21 PM, Dec 10, 2011
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Vigilance and Anti-Corruption unit on Friday carried out raids at the residences of members of the state public service commission. The raids by the unit were conducted at 14 places. Alleged irregularities in the recruitment to government offices were the reason for the raids on the officials of the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission. The Under Secretaries of the TNSPC are under the scanner. ...
09:38 AM, Nov 18, 2011
Lucknow: The CBI carried out raids against 10 NGOs across Uttar Pradesh as part of its investigations in irregularities in the National Blind Mission. Sources have said that so far the CBI has detected irregularities to the tune of Rs 50 lakh. The CBI is looking at the involvement of 20 more NGOs. According to sources, NGOs were supposed to carry out cataract operation for free in rural areas, but...
12:17 PM, Nov 07, 2011
Chennai: The CBI on Monday conducted raids at former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran's residence in connection with the 2G spectrum scam. An FIR was registered against the Maran brothers - Dayanidhi Maran, Kalanidhi Maran, Ralph Marshall and T Anandakrishnan on Sunday, under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The CBI conducted searches in Chennai, Hyderabad and Delhi. The CBI also conducted raids at Apollo Group's Sunita Reddy's residence. Reddy, who has...
08:04 AM, Oct 10, 2011
Chennai: The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption on Saturday conducted searches at the residence of DMK leader and former minister Suresh Rajan in Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari districts on charges of possessing disproportionate assets. Six places in Kanyakumari district and one in Tirunelveli came under the vigilance scanner this morning, sources said. Rajan, who held the Registration and Tourism portfolio, is the sixth former DMK minister against whom action has...
10:54 AM, Oct 08, 2011
