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Chandigarh, April 3 – A trial court in Panchkula, Haryana, on Friday closed the Enforcement Directorate's complaint against Congress leader and two-time Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) regarding the re-allotment of a plot for institutional use at old rates...

New Delhi, April 1 A Delhi court issued a "notice of accusation" to BJP MLA Karnail Singh in a criminal defamation complaint filed by AAP leader Satyendar Jain, stating that there is no reason to believe that the accusation is baseless.Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Paras Dalal was...

New Delhi/Agartala, March 31 – In a major crackdown on drug and psychotropic substance smuggling and trafficking in Tripura, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) announced on Tuesday that it had filed three prosecution complaints against a total of 14 accused persons before a court, under the...

New Delhi, March 28 A Delhi court on Saturday granted bail to Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah in a money laundering case, observing that he had already been granted relief in the predicate NIA terror funding case.Special Judge Prashant Sharma said that Shah being granted bail by...

New Delhi, March 27 A Delhi court on Friday dismissed a plea by Al-Falah group chairman Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui seeking documents not relied upon by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in its chargesheet, noting that the case is still at the pre-cognisance stage and the investigation remains ongoing...

Mumbai, March 27 – The ED has attached immovable properties worth ₹19.12 crore under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, in connection with the ₹5,600 crore fraud perpetrated by the National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL), which impacted 13,000 investors, an...

New Delhi, March 26 The High Court of Justice in the United Kingdom rejected Nirav Modi's petition to reopen his case for extradition, relying on the "assurances" provided by the Indian government, which were deemed "comprehensive" enough to eliminate the risk of torture that might have...

Kozhikode (Kerala), March 25 Rahul Gandhi escalated the Congress campaign in poll-bound Kerala on Wednesday by intensifying allegations of "collusion" between the LDF and the BJP, pointing out the alleged lack of action by central agencies against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in various...

Panaji, March 25 – A 22-year-old man was arrested in Quepem, Goa, for the illegal possession of suspected ganja worth approximately Rs. 30,000, officials said on Wednesday.The Quepem Police have registered a case against the accused under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS)...

Mumbai, March 24 A special court in Mumbai has denied bail to Pune businessman Amit Thepade in a ₹117-crore money laundering case, ruling that economic offenses are "a serious threat to the financial health of the country."The court emphasized that statements recorded under the provisions of...

New Delhi, March 23 – In a new affidavit filed before the Supreme Court, industrialist Anil D. Ambani has proposed the formation of a lenders' committee to determine the actual outstanding debts owed by Reliance Communications (RCOM) and its group entities, along with a detailed plan for...

Kolkata, March 19 – A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday rejected the bail plea of Sheikh Shahjahan, the suspended Trinamool Congress leader from Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, and the principal accused in the case of the assault on Enforcement...

Chennai, March 18 – Rajya Sabha member R. Girirajan of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has filed nine separate writ petitions in the Madras High Court, seeking a directive to the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) to initiate investigations into money laundering against several senior leaders...

London, March 18 Nirav Modi, a fugitive diamond merchant, concluded his application hearing seeking permission to reopen his extradition appeal in the High Court in London, with claims that he faces a “real risk of torture” during interrogations by Indian investigating agencies.Lord Jeremy...

New Delhi, March 17: Special courts dealing with the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) have delivered judgments on the merits in connection with money laundering in 59 cases. Of these, conviction orders have been passed in 56 cases, convicting 124 accused in the cases filed by the...

New Delhi, March 15 – The Delhi High Court has rejected a request made by AAP National Convenor and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, seeking to transfer the CBI’s revision petition in the Delhi excise policy case from the bench of Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma.In a communication sent...

New Delhi, March 13 The Enforcement Directorate said on Friday that it had arrested two "absconding" accused in an alleged Rs 180 crore digital Ponzi scheme case from Bharuch district in Gujarat, where they were "hiding" after returning from Dubai via Nepal.Sudhir Dalsukhbhai Kotadiya and...

Ranchi, March 13 The Jharkhand CID has arrested three men from East Singhbhum for placing a person under "digital arrest" and extorting more than Rs 38.62 lakh, according to a statement released on Friday.The arrests were made following a complaint lodged at the CID's cybercrime police station...

Ahmedabad, March 12 A special court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) here on Thursday rejected the regular bail plea of IAS officer and former Surendranagar collector Rajendrakumar Patel, who was arrested in January by the Enforcement Directorate in a bribery-linked money...

New Delhi, March 11 – AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal has submitted a petition to the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, seeking the transfer of the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) revision petition in the Delhi excise policy case from the bench of Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma...