prevention of corruption act

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Chandigarh, March 22 – Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Partap Singh Bajwa, joined the protest on Sunday along with Congress workers, standing in solidarity with the family of Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, the District Manager of the Punjab State Warehousing Corporation, who...

Nashik, March 19 An executive engineer and an accountant from the Zilla Parishad were arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau in Nashik for allegedly seeking and accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000, an official said on Thursday.Executive engineer Vaishali Thakare (42) and senior...

Kannur (Kerala), March 19 Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who is seeking a third term, announced his assets – both movable and immovable – worth over Rs 1 crore in his nomination papers filed from the Dharmadom assembly constituency here on Thursday.In the affidavit, Vijayan also...

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...

Barwani (MP), March 18 The Lokayukta police in the Barwani district of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday apprehended a government employee allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 to release funds for the repair of a girls' toilet at a school, an official said.Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP)...