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Mumbai, March 6 The Deputy Commissioner of State Tax (GST) and a private individual were arrested on Friday for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 20 lakh in Nashik, a Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau official said.He identified the arrested individuals as Deputy Commissioner of...

Ahmedabad, March 6 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint against city-based Anil Nutrients Ltd, its director Amol Shripal Sheth, and six others in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged fraud of Rs 47.88 crore involving Bank of India, officials...

Ahmedabad, March 6 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint against M/s Anil Nutrients Ltd, its director Amol Sheth, and six other accused persons in connection with an alleged money laundering case arising from a Rs 47.88 crore bank fraud involving Bank of India...

Gurugram, March 5 A Gurugram court has sentenced an executive engineer and a computer operator from the irrigation department to four years of imprisonment each in a corruption case registered by the Anti-Corruption Bureau in December 2022.Additional District and Sessions Judge Sunil Chauhan...

Thane, March 3 The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested two jail staff members in Thane district, Maharashtra, for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1,500 to allow a man to visit an undertrial prisoner, an official said on Tuesday.The ACB apprehended Satish Tanaji Bhosale (55), a prison...

Patna, March 2 – The Special Vigilance Unit, Bihar (SVU), arrested Roshan Kumar, an Assistant Engineer working with the District Education Project in Bettiah, on Monday, allegedly for accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh.According to officials, the engineer allegedly demanded the bribe from a...

Jaipur, February 28 – In an operation carried out by the Special Unit-2 of the Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), accused Uttam Pandey, a resident of Sarai Pandeypur village in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, was arrested on Saturday while accepting a bribe of Rs 13 lakh from the complainant in the...

Jaipur, February 28 The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested a man for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 13 lakh, claiming to provide relief in a case related to the Enforcement Directorate (ED), officials said on Saturday.The ACB's Special Unit-II in Rajasthan carried out an...

Kozhikode (Kerala), February 28 A court here sentenced a former intelligence officer of the commercial taxes department to four years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh in a bribery case.Kozhikode Vigilance Court Judge Shibu Thomas on Friday sentenced K Mohanan of...

Chandigarh, February 28 A Punjab Police sub-inspector was arrested on Saturday for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000, the state vigilance bureau said.The accused, Mewa Singh, was stationed at the cyber cell in Sangrur. A resident of Kothe Maha Singh Wala village in Bathinda had filed a...

Thane, February 27 A 46-year-old supervisor with the Security Guard Board for Mumbai and Thane was arrested on Friday for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe, a senior Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) official said.Security supervisor Nilesh Tukaram Badhe was caught red-handed while...

New Delhi, February 27 – A Delhi court has acquitted all 23 accused, including Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Convenor Arvind Kejriwal and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in the excise policy case being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The court stated that...

Jaipur, February 27 The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested a land records inspector stationed in the Jaipur West circle on Thursday after he was allegedly caught accepting a bribe of Rs 3.80 lakh, officials said.ACB Director General Govind Gupta said a complaint was received alleging that...

Kottayam (Kerala), February 27 A court here on Friday sentenced the former Ernakulam Additional District Magistrate (ADM) to seven years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs five lakh in a 2015 bribery case.Kottayam Vigilance Court Judge K V Rajanish sentenced B Ramachandran, a...

Bilaspur, February 26 The Anti-Corruption Bureau/Economic Offence Wing (ACB/EOW) of Chhattisgarh arrested a suspended official of the State Bank of India on Thursday for allegedly embezzling over Rs 2 crore.Tejvath Theerapathamma, who was working as a cashier at the bank's Bilha branch in...

New Delhi, February 26 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted searches at the residences of industrialist Anil Ambani and the offices of Reliance Communications (RCom) after registering a second case against the company based on a complaint filed by the Bank of Baroda on February...

Kochi, February 26 The Kerala High Court on Thursday sought the Centre's response to a public interest litigation opposing the Padma Bhushan award being conferred on SNDP Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan.A bench of Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Syam Kumar V M also issued...

Chandigarh, February 26 – The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed the criminal charges against former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Associated Journals Limited in connection with the re-allotment of a plot in Panchkula.A bench of Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya overturned...

Vijayawada, February 26 – Muppidi Avinash Reddy, an accused in the Andhra Pradesh liquor scam case, surrendered to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) here on Thursday.This came two days after the Supreme Court refused to grant him anticipatory bail and directed him to surrender to the police...

Bhubaneswar, February 25 – Vigilance officials arrested a wealthy mining officer on Wednesday after recovering a record sum of over Rs 4.27 crore from his rented accommodation during simultaneous searches at multiple locations linked to the official.The accused, Debabrata Mohanty, Deputy...