corruption

Mumbai, March 24 – Congress Legislative Party leader Vijay Wadettiwar launched a fierce attack on the MahaYuti government during last week's motion debate, citing the breakdown of law and order, rising violence against women, the drug menace, and the spread of superstition.He expressed his...

Jammu, March 24 The Anti-Corruption Bureau of Jammu and Kashmir registered a case against a former tehsildar and others in the Department of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution in Reasi district on Tuesday, for alleged misappropriation of government rations and funds, an official said.The...

Chennai, March 24 AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami announced on Tuesday that his party would provide free refrigerators to all ration cardholders if it were voted to power in the 2026 Assembly election.He also promised to provide one kilogram of dal and one liter of cooking oil...

Chennai, March 24 – AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami announced on Tuesday that his party would provide free refrigerators to all ration cardholders if it were voted into power in the 2026 Assembly elections.He also pledged to provide one kilogram of dal and one liter of cooking...

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 the agency's action was legally unsustainable in the absence of prior sanction...

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...

Banda (UP), March 24 A head constable stationed at the police lines in the Lalitpur district, who was accused of harassing a female constable and being involved in corruption, was dismissed from service after the allegations were found to be true, an officer said on Tuesday.Additional...

Seoul, March 24 – South Korea approved two prosecution reform bills on Tuesday that would dismantle the current prosecution service later this year, separating its exclusive power to both initiate criminal investigations and indict suspects.Upon enactment, it would mark a sweeping overhaul of...

Kolkata, March 23 – Police in West Bengal announced on Monday that large sums of cash were recovered again ahead of the upcoming state Assembly elections.Police and members of the Static Surveillance Team (SST) recovered over Rs 3.7 lakh in cash from three vehicles during searches conducted at...

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)...

Chandigarh, March 23 Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Monday criticised the AAP government for taking two days to arrest former Punjab minister Laljit Singh Bhullar, who is accused of encouraging the suicide of an official of the state warehousing corporation.He...

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 – Central Bureau of Investigation Director Praveen Sood said on Monday that corruption today is transnational, sophisticated, and increasingly facilitated by technology, making international cooperation not a matter of choice but an absolute necessity.Delivering the keynote...

Ghaziabad, March 23 – A Special CBI Court in Ghaziabad on Monday sentenced a former railway official from Agra to four years in prison for demanding a bribe of Rs 30,000 from a contractor.The Special Court found Rafi Ahmad, then Chief Yard Master at Agra Cantt Railway Station, guilty under the...

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...

New Delhi, March 23 The Congress said on Monday that the government has failed to address the problems of rising unemployment, increasing food prices, and a declining rupee.Participating in discussions on the Appropriation Bill (2), 2026, in the Rajya Sabha, Congress member Niraj Dangi also...

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 – Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief, Raj Thackeray, expressed deep disgust on Monday over the "ghastly details" emerging from the case of Ashok Kharat, a self-proclaimed "royal astrologer," questioning the moral decay of a state once defined by the legacy of seers and social...

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...