cbi (central bureau of investigation)

Patna, April 11 RJD national working president Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday claimed that JD(U) president Nitish Kumar was stepping down from the post of Bihar Chief Minister under "pressure" from his own party colleagues who had been "influenced or coaxed" by the BJP.Yadav, a former Deputy CM...

Ahmedabad/Surat, April 10 – A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Ahmedabad on Friday convicted and sentenced three retired officials of Punjab National Bank (PNB), along with five private individuals and a company, in a bank fraud case.The case involved the granting of...

Mumbai, April 9 NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar met Maharashtra Congress president Harshvardhan Sapkal on Thursday, urging the party to withdraw its candidate in the Baramati by-election to facilitate the unopposed election of his aunt, NCP president Sunetra Pawar.A day earlier, Sunetra Pawar had...

Lucknow, April 8 The Allahabad High Court granted interim relief to former Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. Anil Kumar Shukla by staying ongoing prosecution proceedings in three cases linked to the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).The cases are pending before a Special Judge...

Habra (WB), April 7 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday extended her full support to long-time political associate Jyotipriya Mallick, claiming he was targeted in a money laundering case due to a CPI(M) conspiracy.Mallick, who held the Food and Supplies portfolio in the...

New Delhi, April 6 Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appeared in person in the Delhi High Court on Monday, seeking Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma's recusal from hearing the CBI petition challenging the discharge of the AAP convenor and other accused in the liquor policy case.Justice...

New Delhi, April 6 The Supreme Court on Monday deferred to the first week of May the hearing on a petition filed by the CBI challenging the suspension of Kuldeep Singh Sengar's life imprisonment in the 2017 Unnao rape case.A bench comprising Chief Justice Sura Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi...

Thane, April 4 Cyber fraudsters, posing as CBI officers, allegedly cheated a 42-year-old man from Thane district in Maharashtra of Rs 71.1 lakh by threatening to implicate him in a false harassment case, police said on Saturday.According to the police, the victim, a resident of Dombivli...

Sagardighi (WB), Apr 2 Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday blamed the Election Commission for "failing to protect" judicial officers engaged in the SIR exercise in West Bengal's Malda district and demanded Union Home Minister's resignation over the large-scale transfer of officers in the...

New Delhi, March 28 – Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said on Saturday that Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal has once again resorted to the petty politics of playing the "victim card," this time over a judicial matter related to the excise policy.He said that in India...

New Delhi, March 26 The London High Court relied on the "quality of assurances" given by the Government of India in its note verbale while rejecting fugitive diamond dealer Nirav Modi's petition to reopen his case against extradition, officials said.Modi, who is wanted in India in connection...

Ahmedabad, March 24 – A special CBI court in Ahmedabad has convicted and sentenced four accused, including two former officials of UCO Bank, to five years of Rigorous Imprisonment along with fines in two separate bank fraud cases, officials said on Tuesday.The court on March 23 awarded the...

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...

New Delhi, March 20 The CBI questioned industrialist Anil Ambani for over six hours on Friday in connection with a Rs 2,929-crore fraud case, registered against Reliance Communications Ltd and him on a complaint by the State Bank of India, officials said.On the second consecutive day, Ambani...

New Delhi, March 19 The CBI questioned industrialist Anil Ambani for nearly eight hours on Thursday in connection with a Rs 2,929-crore fraud case, registered against Reliance Communications Ltd and him on a complaint by the State Bank of India, officials said.The industrialist, who is facing...

Mumbai, March 18 A special CBI court here on Wednesday sentenced two individuals to five years in prison, and two others to three years, in a 2012 case where the Bank of India suffered a loss of over Rs 3 crore due to a forged Letter of Credit.Harit Mehta, the owner of Infinity Transmission, a...

Mumbai, March 10 – The CBI arrested a senior Central Railway official and two others in an alleged bribery case involving Rs 40 lakh, and seized cash and jewellery worth Rs 1.47 crore during raids across Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, and Karjat, an official said on Tuesday.Ramesh Kumar Chauve, Chief...

New Delhi, March 10 – The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice on a plea filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) seeking to have certain adverse observations made against it by a trial court, which had discharged all accused, including AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia, in...

Chandigarh, March 7 The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Saturday acquitted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the 2002 murder case of a journalist, seven years after he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the case by a special CBI court.The 58-year-old Dera...

Chandigarh, March 7 The Punjab and Haryana High Court has acquitted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the 2002 murder case of a journalist, lawyer Jitender Khurana said on Saturday.The court acquitted the Dera chief more than seven years after he was convicted and sentenced to...