Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police's Economic Offences Wing on Monday began its probe into the alleged financial irregularities in a trust run by Union Minister Salman Khurshid. It started collecting documents at various levels, "including state, divisional and district headquarters as a part of the investigation", Director General EOW, Subrat Tripathi told PTI. When asked about the details, Tripathi said it was neither a raid nor a search. "How can...
02:15 PM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday filed two fresh FIRs in the coal blocks allocations scam. Sources said that the agency was conducting searches at 16 locations, including in Delhi and Hyderabad. Two of the companies that were raided during the searches were Green Infra and Kamal Steel. The two companies are accused of misrepresenting their net worth. The agency, after registration of cases, launched search...
09:22 AM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Income Tax Department officials on Thursday raided the offices of GMR in multiple cities over suspected tax evasion by the infrastructure company. The search operations in the Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore offices of the company are being carried out by the I-T Department's investigation wing. GMR has confirmed the raids and a spokesperson said that the company was cooperating with authorities. GMR Group was among the companies that...
01:15 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Bangalore: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) carried out raids at at least 15 places across Karnataka in connection with illegal iron ore export. At least a dozen export companies have been accused of illegal export of seized iron ores from Belekeri port. The Reddy brothers of Bellary and Karnataka tourism minister Anand Singh are allegedly involved in the case. ...
02:25 PM, Sep 15, 2012
New Delhi: Social activist Arvind Kejriwal has sparked another controversy by claiming that the CBI had tipped off coal companies before carrying out raids on September 4 in connection with the alleged irregularities in coal blocks allocation. "Just recd (received) mail from an officer in one of raided cos. They were informed 2 days in advance abt (about) raids and were asked to remove all material," Kejriwal tweeted. Meanwhile, the...
11:58 AM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi: Welcoming the CBI raids on companies suspected to be involved in irregularities in allocation of coal blocks, BJP on Tuesday said the government should take a cue from this and cancel the allocation. "We welcome the CBI raids. It is a good development. Taking a cue from this, the government should also cancel the coal block allocations. It should also reply in Parliament as to why it is...
11:50 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: Three days before the end of the monsoon session of Parliament, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered cases against five private firms. These companies are Vinni Iron and Steel, Nav Bharat Steel, JLD Yavatmal, JAS infrastructure and power and AMR Iron and Steel. The CBI is also carrying out nationwide raids. CBI raids were on at 30 locations in ten cities including Kolkata, Patna, Hyderabad, Dhanbad,...
11:30 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed FIRs against five companies in connection with coal blocks allocation. The companies include Vinni Iron and Steel, Nav Bharat Steel, JLD Yavatmal, JAS Infrastructure and Power and AMR Iron and Steel. Cases have been registered under cheating, criminal conspiracy against the companies, owners of the companies and unknown officials of the Coal Ministry and state governments. The agency had questioned...
07:55 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Police raided ex-Haryana minister Gopal Kanda's Sirsa residence for the second time on Thursday hours after the Delhi High Court rejected his anticipatory bail plea. ...
11:43 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Sirsa: The Delhi Police on Thursday raided the residence of former Haryana minister and prime accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, Gopal Goyal Kanda, in Sirsa and several other properties of his in Delhi and the NCR. Kanda is believed to be absconding, while his colleague and MDLR Manager Aruna Chadha was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the case. Twenty-three-year-old Geetika Sharma committed suicide on Saturday night and...
08:37 AM, Aug 09, 2012
Mumbai: LeT operative Sayed Ansari alias Abu Jundal has told interrogators that four Indians were working for the banned terror outfit in Pakistan in 2006 and the raids conducted by the Army and Federal Investigation Agency on terror camps in that country after the 26/11 strike were an "eyewash". "Elaborating the structure and functioning of the LeT in Pakistan, Jundal stated that in 2006 he had met four Indian nationals...
02:50 AM, Aug 04, 2012
New Delhi: The former vice chancellor of the Indira Gandhi National Open University, VN Rajasekharan Pillai, was on Thursday charged with corruption by the CBI. Pillai is accused of favouring the Sikkim Manipal and the Punjab Technical universities without following due procedures. The CBI on Thursday conducted raids at his properties in Thiruvananthapuram and Kottayam in Kerala, following which a corruption case was registered against him. ...
09:40 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Washington: US military and intelligence officials are so frustrated with Pakistan's failure to stop local militant groups from attacking Americans in neighboring Afghanistan that they have considered launching secret joint US-Afghan commando raids into Pakistan to hunt them down, officials told The Associated Press. But the idea, which US officials say comes up every couple of months, has been consistently rejected because the White House believes the chance of successfully...
03:26 AM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday conducted raids at alleged suspect Abhishek Verma's premises across Delhi and NCR in connection with the Navy war room leak case. Sources say about 10 places belonging to the US-based businessman were raided. The raids came after an FIR was registered on Wednesday based on Abhishek Verma's former associate Edmond Allen's allegations. Allen alleges that Verma was involved in forgery,...
08:48 AM, Jun 07, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani cricketer Umar Gul's house in Peshawar was raided by the Pakistan Army commandos on Tuesday. Reports say his brother Meraj was arrested for allegedly providing shelter to his uncle Haji Daly, who is believed to be an active member of the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Islam. Two others were also arrested, said a report in The Express Tribune. Reports say Daly was injured in an operation in Bara and had...
12:23 PM, May 30, 2012
As a part of his crisis management arising due to the continuous flop show of his films, Megastar Mammootty has preponed the shoot of his new project with director Ranjith. The movie will be the first project as a producer from Mammootty's Manager George. Shankar Ramakrishnan of 'Urumi' fame will script this movie which will start its production activities by June, soon after the release of Ranjith's Mohanlal film Spirit....
02:36 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted raids at 39 places across Jharkhand and some places in Kolkata. The premises of over 12 MLAs from different parties were raided. The raids were conducted in connection with the recovery of over Rs 2 crore during the Rajya Sabha elections. ...
08:56 AM, May 18, 2012
Bangalore: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday conducted raids at eight premises belonging to former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, his sons B Y Raghavendra, B Y Vijayendra and son-in-law Sohan Kumar in Bangalore and Shimoga district. The raids by the investigating agency were carried out a day after registering of an FIR against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader. Meanwhile, CNN-IBN has accessed the details of...
05:36 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday carried out raids in Jammu, Srinagar, Patna and Delhi regarding a defence land scam in Srinagar. A new case was registered after a preliminary enquiry against a Defence Estates Officer (DEO) of 1997 batch, and others showed that a No Objection Certificate (NOC) was given to private persons to sell/build on defence land sprawling several acres. The CBI has named...
09:40 AM, May 11, 2012
Bhopal: A deputy forest officer was raided by the Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta on Tuesday. The raids were conducted at three places - Ratlam, Neemuch and Mandsaur. Sources say that the raids against Forest Officer SK Palaash revealed property worth Rs 30 to 35 crore. It included Rs 24 lakh in cash, Rs 30 lakh in jewellery and 4 luxury cars. Officials also found a plot of land and a gas...
09:23 AM, May 01, 2012
