corruption investigation

Guwahati, March 24 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Guwahati Zonal Office, has provisionally attached assets worth ₹2.15 crore in a disproportionate assets case against Munindra Bhuyan, a former Senior Food Safety Officer in the Health and Family Welfare Department of the Assam government...

New Delhi, March 24 In a setback to Lalu Prasad Yadav, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to quash a CBI FIR in the land-for-jobs case involving him and his family, rejecting the RJD supremo's contention that it was unsustainable under Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, which...

Mumbai, March 24 – Maharashtra Information Technology Minister Ashish Shelar announced in the State Assembly on Tuesday that the state government would formulate a comprehensive policy or law regarding the regulation of social media usage by minors in the state. This policy would be based on the...

Hyderabad, March 24 The Telangana ACB has filed a chargesheet in a court here in the Formula E race case, in which BRS Working President K T Rama Rao is the prime accused.The chargesheet, filed on Monday, also names senior IAS officer Arvind Kumar, former Hyderabad Metropolitan Development...

Hyderabad, March 23 The Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau filed a charge sheet in a court here on Monday in the Formula E race case, in which BRS Working President K T Rama Rao is the prime accused.The charge sheet also names senior IAS officer Arvind Kumar, former Hyderabad Metropolitan...

Chandigarh, March 23 – Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia demanded on Monday that the post-mortem of Warehousing Corporation officer Gagandeep Singh Randhawa be conducted either at the PGIMER here or by a panel of AIIMS doctors to ensure complete fairness, even as he demanded...

New Delhi, March 23 The director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said at a global anti-corruption meet on Monday that asset recovery is not an afterthought, but the truest measure of enforcement success.At the same event in the national capital, the CBI director emphasized that corruption...

Shahjahanpur (UP), March 23 A team from the Uttar Pradesh Police's Anti-Corruption Organization arrested a Fisheries Inspector here on Monday, allegedly for accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000, a senior official said.According to police, the accused, Pooranlal, demanded a bribe in exchange for...

New Delhi, March 23 – The ED has recovered assets worth nearly $5.6 billion, including those related to corruption cases, with a significant portion achieved in the past couple of years, Rahul Navin, director of the ED, said on Monday.Delivering the welcome address at the 12th Steering...

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...

New Delhi, March 22 A parliamentary committee has sought details of what is being done to fully operationalize the inquiry and prosecution wings of the Lokpal, over a decade after a law governing it was enacted.The law governing the anti-corruption ombudsman – The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act...

Raipur, March 20 – On the final day of the Chhattisgarh Assembly budget session on Friday, the Vishnu Deo Sai-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government passed the Chhattisgarh Cess Amendment Bill 2026.The legislation abolishes the 12 per cent cess levied on land registrations across the...

Patna, March 20 The Bihar Police's Economic Offences Unit (EOU) has formed a dedicated team to monitor irregularities in the tender process across all government departments, a senior official said on Friday.The five-member team, headed by EOU SP Pankaj Kumar, includes a DSP and inspectors...

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...

Bhopal, March 19 – The Enforcement Directorate's Bhopal Zonal Office filed a charge sheet against Jagdish Prasad Sarwate, the former Deputy Director of Madhya Pradesh's Tribal Welfare Department, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, on Thursday.The charge sheet was filed before...

New Delhi, March 19 – A Delhi court has dismissed applications filed by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi, and other accused seeking the supply of unverified documents in the alleged "railways land-for-jobs" corruption case.Special Judge...

New Delhi, March 19 – The Delhi High Court on Thursday deferred a hearing on a plea filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) seeking to remove certain adverse observations made against it by a trial court while discharging all accused, including AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia...

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...

Bhubaneswar, March 18 – The Odisha Vigilance on Wednesday arrested an official of a private bank for his alleged involvement in misappropriating over Rs 5.56 crore of government funds in connivance with his father, a retired teacher.According to Vigilance sources, the accused bank official...

Ranchi, March 18 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed its fifth supplementary charge sheet in the Jharkhand Rural Works Department (RWD) money laundering case before the Special Court for PMLA cases in Ranchi, an agency statement said on Wednesday.The action was taken by the Ranchi...