bribery

Patna, March 25 – In a major operation under Bihar's anti-corruption drive, the Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB) from Patna conducted a raid in Hajipur and apprehended two employees of the Mining Department for accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000.The accused include Rahul Kumar Roshan, a Data...

Ranchi, March 25 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) apprehended the Chief Commercial Inspector (CCI) of South Eastern Railway in Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand, on Wednesday, in connection with a bribery case.The accused, identified as Himanshu Shekhar, allegedly demanded and...

Bengaluru, March 24 – Senior BJP leader and Leader of the Opposition, R. Ashoka, on Tuesday alleged widespread corruption in the implementation of the e-Khata system by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).Speaking in the Legislative Assembly, Ashoka alleged that a "scam" is operating...

New Delhi, March 23 The CBI has booked Sanjeev Hans, the then private secretary to former Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan, on suspicion of taking a Rs 1-crore bribe from a Mumbai-based realtor in 2019 for extending favours from the National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission (NCDRC)...

Srinagar, March 23 A court here on Monday sentenced a former government official to one year in prison in a 16-year-old corruption case.The Anti-Corruption Court in Srinagar, presided over by Special Judge Tasleem Arief Ganie, convicted Mohammad Akram Khan, a retired tehsildar, in a bribery...

New Delhi, March 23 – A special CBI court in Delhi has sentenced a former Sub-Inspector of the Delhi Traffic Police to three years of rigorous imprisonment in a bribery case, officials said on Monday.The court convicted Jagmal Singh Deshwal, who was posted as Sub-Inspector and Zonal Officer...

New Delhi, March 23 A court here on Monday sentenced a man to three years of rigorous imprisonment in a corruption case investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation after finding him guilty of demanding a bribe of Rs 24,000 from the complainant.Special Judge Jyoti Kler awarded the...

Ranchi, March 23 – The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested an employee of the Deputy Commissioner, Land Reforms' (DCLR) office and a middleman in Saraikela district, Jharkhand, on Monday, allegedly after they accepted a bribe of Rs 5 lakh, officials said.The accused have been identified as...

Mumbai, March 23 Former NCB Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede told the Bombay High Court on Monday that he never demanded or took a bribe from actor Shah Rukh Khan to spare his son Aryan Khan following the latter's arrest in a cruise drugs case.Wankhede's counsel, Aabad Ponda, was arguing...

Jaipur, March 22 The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested a station house officer and a constable in the Udaipur district for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 8 lakh, officials said on Sunday.According to ACB Director General Govind Gupta, SHO Nirmal Kumar Khatri and constable...

Bhopal, March 22 Four Madhya Pradesh police personnel have been suspended for allegedly accepting Rs 20 lakh as "bribe money" from a businessman based in Gujarat after discovering Rs 1 crore in his car, police said on Sunday.According to the police, the incident occurred on March 19 in the...

New Delhi, March 21 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an Assistant Engineer (AE) of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) in a bribery case, officials said on Saturday.The accused, identified as Hukam Singh Meena, was posted at the MCD’s Shahdara South Zone, QUC...

Patna, March 20 – In a major anti-corruption move, the Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB) has arrested a Panchayati Raj official in the Nalanda district while she was allegedly accepting a bribe.The accused, Anushka Kumari, who was posted as a Block Panchayati Raj Officer (BPRO) in the...

Chennai, March 19 The DMK approached the Madras High Court on Thursday, seeking a directive to the Enforcement Directorate to register money laundering cases against former AIADMK state ministers and initiate a thorough investigation.The ruling party's Rajya Sabha MP, R Girirajan, has filed...

Lucknow, March 19 The Allahabad High Court has rejected the bail plea of an IRS officer, who was posted as the CGST deputy commissioner in Jhansi, in connection with a Goods and Services Tax (GST) bribery case involving an amount of Rs 1.5 crore.The Lucknow bench of the court passed the order...

Nashik, March 19 An executive engineer and an accountant from the Zilla Parishad were arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau in Nashik for allegedly seeking and accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000, an official said on Thursday.Executive engineer Vaishali Thakare (42) and senior...

Colombo, March 19 Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa received a bribe of 60 million Sri Lankan rupees, Kapila Chandrasena, the main accused in the 2017 Airbus case, told a court in Sri Lanka on Thursday.Chandrasena, the former CEO of the national carrier from 2011-15, was produced in the...

Ranchi, March 19 – The Jharkhand Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) conducted a major operation in Barharwa, Sahibganj district, on Thursday, leading to the arrest of a Block Supply Officer, officials said.The action was carried out by the Dumka unit of the Anti-Corruption Bureau.The ACB team...

New Delhi, March 19 A Delhi court has rejected the pleas of former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi, seeking over 1,600 documents to prepare their defense in the land-for-jobs case trial, stating that they were intended to "obstruct the trial from the outset."Special...

New Delhi, March 18 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Wednesday that it has filed a fresh chargesheet against more than a dozen retired and serving Jharkhand government engineers and officials in a money-laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the state's rural development...