Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley has criticised the Centre after CBI raids at DMK party leader MK Stalin's residence in Chennai were stopped earlier on Thursday. Questioning the Prime Minister, who called the timing of the raids 'unfortunate' as they came days after DMK withdrew support from the coalition government, Jaitley asked what was the need to stop the raids if the agency was merely doing its work. The PM,...
05:56 PM, Mar 21, 2013
The UPA government, which continues to be in the line of fire after DMK's withdrawal, had to face yet another embarrassment on Thursday after the Central Bureau of Investigation raided DMK chief Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin's residence. What added to the embarrassment was that the bigwigs in the UPA disapproved of the raid, following which the raids were stopped. ...
01:31 PM, Mar 21, 2013
The government seems to have calmed DMK chief Karunanidhi, who gave a toned down reaction to the CBI raids at his son MK Stalin's residence on Thursday morning. Karunanidhi said the raids may or may not be political vendetta, and even indirectly went on to say that the raids may have been political vendetta by the Tamil Nadu government headed by Jayalalithaa and not the Centre. ...
11:49 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Sources say Stalin has not been named in the FIR and add that the agency was just looking for a car on the complaint of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence. ...
11:39 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said he disapproves of the CBI raids on DMK leader and Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin as it is bound to be misunderstood. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Chidambaram said, "I strongly disapprove of the action by the CBI. It will be misunderstood. I have spoken to the minister concerned." ...
10:03 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said he disapproves of the CBI raids on DMK leader and Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin as it is bound to be misunderstood. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Chidambaram said, "I strongly disapprove of the action by the CBI. It will be misunderstood. I have spoken to the minister concerned." ...
09:36 AM, Mar 21, 2013
MK chief M Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin's house is being searched by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Chennai in connection with alleged illegal import of cars worth Rs 20 crore. Calling it political vendetta, Stalin said, "I am being targeted. It is quiet clear, why I am being targeted. We will face the case legally. I am unaware of the reasons for the CBI raid." ...
09:18 AM, Mar 21, 2013
The CBI on Monday carried out searches in five cities after registering a fresh case against Jharkhand Ispat Private Limited for alleged irregularities in the allotment of coal blocks. CBI sources said that Jharkhand Ispat Private Limited, a company of RC Rungta Group, was allotted North Dhadu coal block on January 13, 2006 for its sponge iron plant. ...
03:46 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The Income Tax department conducted raids at the Leopold Cafe in Mumbai on Monday night. Tax sleuths started their inspection around 6 pm in the evening and continued through the night. ...
09:20 AM, Feb 19, 2013
Madhya Pradesh Chief Conservator of Forest and 1987 batch Indian Forest Service officer, Basant Kumar Singh, has been suspended by the state government after Lokayukta raids unearthed more than Rs 70 crore in disproportionate assets. ...
12:36 PM, Feb 08, 2013
When the Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta Police raided 1987 batch Indian Forest Service officer BK Singh's Bhopal residence on Wednesday morning, his wife refused to let them in at first, insisting that she must speak to her husband. And while Singh tried to vanish from the scene with his valuables in a suitcase, he was stopped in the nick of time by the Lokayukta team which recovered Rs seven lakh in...
08:29 PM, Feb 06, 2013
The Madhya Pradesh anti-corruption office (Lokayukta) got into action and carried out raids on Wednesday morning. The Lokayukta raided the Chief Conservator of Forest BK Singh's residence at Ujjain and Bhopal. ...
08:26 AM, Feb 06, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday conducted raids on Dental Council of India members at eight places across the country. The raids were conducted in Hyderabad, Chennai, Mangalore and Bangalore among other places. ...
02:41 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Troubled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday reacted to the Income Tax Department surveys on Purti group investors and accused the Centre of ordering I-T surveys to damage his presidential prospects. ...
04:46 PM, Jan 22, 2013
There seems to be fresh trouble for Nitin Gadkari who is set to be re-elected as the Bharatiya Janata Party President on Wednesday. The Mumbai I-T wing is surveying seven companies found to have been routing money into Gadkari's Purti Group after allegations against the companies surfaced in the Nagpur wing's probe. ...
01:13 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Shiv Sena on Sunday questioned the haste with which the controversial Assistant Commissioner of Police, Vasant Dhoble, was transferred after a hawker died during eviction drive in suburban Santacruz two days ago. Sena leader Diwakar Raote said today that Dhoble's style of functioning could be questionable, but his actions for implementing the rule of law should be supported. ...
01:58 AM, Jan 14, 2013
CBI on Sunday conducted a raid at the residence of a dentist here in connection with the case relating to alleged bribe taken by a dental council member for granting approval to a private dental college in Tamil Nadu to start a post-graduate course. ...
09:46 PM, Jan 13, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Deputy Director of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, a Superintendent of Customs and a representative of a Kolkata-based private firm in an alleged bribery case. The arrested accused persons were produced on Friday before the Special Judge for CBI Cases, Patiala House Courts, New Delhi and were remanded to five days police custody. ...
11:23 AM, Jan 12, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday raided top Customs and Directorate of revenue officials over bribery charges. CBI raids are on at 24 places in four states following the charges. ...
11:40 AM, Jan 09, 2013
New Delhi: The Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta police on Saturday raided the residence of a senior IPS officer and found cash and jewellery worth crores. The police reportedly recovered nearly Rs 25 crore worth of cash and jewellery from the Sagar and Bhopal residences of Umesh Gandhi, DIG, Prisons. Lokayukta inspector Naveen Avasthi said, "Around 25 crore worth wealth has been recovered. Various papers of the allotted land has been recovered....
01:33 PM, Nov 03, 2012
