financial irregularities

Mumbai, April 4 The Maharashtra Congress said on Saturday that sensitive information related to the arrested self-proclaimed godman, Ashok Kharat, was being leaked, and asked if the Mahayuti government was using state machinery to settle personal scores.Kharat was arrested on March 18 for...

Sambalpur (Odisha), April 3 Two individuals have been arrested for their alleged involvement in embezzling a government fund of ₹3.67 crore from an excise office in Sambalpur, Odisha, an official said on Friday.The arrests were made in connection with a case registered on March 9, following a...

Bhubaneswar, April 3 – The Sambalpur police in Odisha have arrested two employees of the Excise Department, including a retired Excise Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), in connection with a case involving large-scale embezzlement of government funds worth over Rs 3.67 crore between 2022 and 2025...

Bhopal, April 3 – The Madhya Pradesh State Assembly has officially declared the Datia seat vacant following Rajendra Bharti's conviction for an offense, as established by a judgment issued by a court in Delhi on April 2.The verdict, issued by Special Judge Digvijay Singh (PC Act) of the Rouse...

Thane, April 2 A former CIDCO official and his wife have been booked in a case of disproportionate assets in Navi Mumbai, the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said on Thursday.ACB (Navi Mumbai) Deputy Superintendent of Police Dharmaraj Sonke identified the accused as Sagar Madanlalji...

New Delhi, April 2 The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the bail granted to businessman Satinder Singh Bhasin in connection with a multi-crore rupee alleged "Grand Venice Mall" scam in Greater Noida, and ordered him to surrender to the jail authorities within a week.A bench comprising...

Lucknow, April 2 Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav accused the BJP on Thursday of attempting to influence elections in various states in collusion with the Election Commission (EC) and asserted that his party is preparing to counter such "conspiracies" to establish a "PDA government" in...

Lucknow/Aligarh, April 1 A 2023-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre has sought a return to his parent Provincial Civil Services (PCS), citing a prolonged lack of work, even as his family in Aligarh made an emotional appeal on Wednesday for a "meaningful assignment" for him.Rinkoo...

New Delhi/Bhopal, April 1 – An MP-MLA court in New Delhi on Wednesday convicted sitting Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti in connection with a case dating back over 28 years, related to a Cooperative Rural Development Bank in the Datia district of Madhya Pradesh.After convicting Bharti, who is the...

Lucknow, April 1 – A special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Lucknow has sentenced five accused, including a senior bank official, to three years in prison along with a total fine of Rs 3.4 lakh in a bank fraud case linked to Kanpur, officials said on Wednesday.The...

Lucknow, April 1 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Sameer Joshi, a proclaimed offender, in connection with a financial fraud case linked to the Life Insurance Corporation of India, officials said on Wednesday.According to officials, the CBI had registered the case on...

New Delhi, March 31 Six states have taken significant action by imposing penalties in cases of financial irregularities and poor-quality work under the Centre's Jal Jeevan Mission since 2021, the government informed the Rajya Sabha.These states are Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Gujarat, Assam...

Mumbai, March 31 The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has highlighted "systemic deficiencies" in the governance of Maharashtra, identifying potential financial irregularities amounting to ₹891 crore across more than 10,000 audit queries that various departments had ignored despite...

New Delhi, March 30 A total of 18,790 complaints have been received under the Centre’s Jal Jeevan Mission, aimed at providing potable tap water to every rural household, with the highest number of complaints reported from Uttar Pradesh, followed by Assam, the government said in the Rajya Sabha...

Ranchi, March 30 – The Enforcement Directorate's (ED) Ranchi Zonal Office has filed a Prosecution Complaint (PC) before the special PMLA court against Santosh Kumar, his wife Lalita Sinha, and a shell firm, M/s Rockdrill Constructions (OPC) Private Limited, under the Prevention of Money...

Kurukshetra, March 28 A physical verification at a rice mill here allegedly revealed a shortage of government paddy worth Rs 11 crore, officials said on Saturday.Police have booked four people, including two partners of the rice mill in Kurukshetra and two guarantors, after over 38,000...

Srinagar, March 28 – The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) apprehended an Executive Engineer from the Public Health Engineering (PHE) department on Saturday for accepting a bribe in the Pulwama district, an official said on Saturday.An ACB spokesperson said that the agency...

Chandigarh, March 28 – State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Working President Ashwani Sharma on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Punjab government, alleging that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has remained silent on a series of serious scams and irregularities...

Chennai, March 27 – A special CBI court in Chennai on Friday convicted and sentenced seven individuals, including a former senior tax assistant of the Income Tax Department, to four years of rigorous imprisonment along with a total fine of Rs 2.4 lakh in a tax refund fraud case, officials said...

Mumbai, March 27 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached office units worth ₹3.46 crore in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, in connection with alleged financial irregularities and money-laundering involving Dnyanradha Multistate Co-operative Credit Society Ltd (DMCCSL) and others, an official said...