prevention of corruption act

Bhubaneswar, March 29 Odisha Vigilance officials arrested a revenue inspector on Sunday for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 13,000 from a person for the conversion of his land.Revenue Inspector Rajuram Bandra allegedly demanded the bribe from the landowner in exchange for submitting a...

Lucknow, March 28 – A Special CBI Court in Lucknow on Saturday sentenced a former CRPF official and two personnel to three years of rigorous imprisonment with a total fine of Rs 1.2 lakh in a corruption case related to the recruitment of constables in the paramilitary force.The CBI Court...

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...

Thane, March 28 Two officials from the irrigation department in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district have been arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2 lakh from a contractor to release pending payment for work carried out on a dam, an official said on Saturday.The Anti-Corruption Bureau...

Khargone, March 27 A police assistant sub-inspector was caught accepting a bribe of Rs 7,000 in Khargone district, Madhya Pradesh, on Friday, officials of the Lokayukta said.The accused, Ravindra Kumar Guru, is stationed at the Kasrawad police station, about 40 km from the district...

Bhubaneswar, March 27 Odisha Vigilance officers arrested an irrigation department engineer on Friday, a day after uncovering assets allegedly disproportionate to his known sources of income, officials said.Acting on a tip-off, vigilance officers conducted simultaneous raids at five locations...

Mumbai, March 26 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against Reliance Telecom Ltd., its then Directors Satish Seth and Gautam B. Doshi, along with unknown public servants and others, in connection with an alleged bank fraud case involving the State Bank of India...

Jaipur, March 26 – The Anti-Corruption Bureau, Rajasthan, arrested a police constable and a private individual on Thursday for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 at the Kathumar Police Station in the Alwar district.The action was taken following instructions from the Anti-Corruption...

Chandigarh, March 26 – The Haryana State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau has made its first arrest in connection with alleged discrepancies in fixed deposit receipts amounting to nearly Rs 150 crore held by the Panchkula Municipal Corporation at a Kotak Mahindra Bank branch.According to...

Jabalpur, March 25 – The Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta police announced on Wednesday that they had arrested a female RTO constable and one of her private male associates for allegedly accepting bribes from a vehicle owner.The arrest came after the constable and her associate were caught red-handed...

Srinagar, March 25 – The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) apprehended and arrested a "Naib Tehsildar" (executive magistrate) in the Anantnag district on Wednesday for accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000, officials said.A statement from the J&K ACB said that it had apprehended...

Chandigarh, March 25 – An FIR has been filed in connection with alleged discrepancies related to Fixed Deposit Receipts (FDRs) involving nearly ₹150 crore from the Panchkula Municipal Corporation, involving Kotak Mahindra Bank's branch.The Haryana State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau...

Chandigarh, March 25 An FIR has been filed in connection with alleged discrepancies in fixed deposit receipts (FDRs) held by the Panchkula Municipal Corporation at a Kotak Mahindra Bank branch, amounting to nearly Rs 150 crore.The Haryana State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (SVACB)...

Hyderabad, March 25 BRS leader KT Rama Rao attacked the Telangana government on Wednesday, demanding to know if the government intended to portray the Rs 49 crore bank-to-bank fund transfer, used to bring Hyderabad onto the World Formula E racing map, as a "scam".Telangana's Anti-Corruption...

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

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...

New Delhi, March 24 – The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea filed by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav seeking to quash the corruption case registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the alleged land-for-jobs scam.A single-judge bench...

New Delhi, March 24 Ten requests from central investigating agencies to prosecute officials are pending with the Union Home Ministry for more than three months, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.In a written reply, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai also said that since 2014, the...

New Delhi, March 24 In a setback to RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to quash the FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the land-for-jobs case involving him and his family.Justice Ravinder Dudeja dismissed Yadav's petition, a former...