prevention of corruption act

Mumbai, March 10 A person acquires proceeds of crime if he takes a bribe, the Bombay High Court has said while refusing relief to a former senior official of the Vasai Virar City Municipal Corporation arrested by the ED last year in a money laundering case.A bench of Chief Justice Shree...

Jammu, March 9 – The Anti-Corruption Bureau in Jammu and Kashmir arrested a police officer on Monday for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 from a person in the Reasi district, an official said.Head Constable Parvaiz Ahmad Bhati, a resident of Mandhar, was apprehended following a...

Jaipur, March 9 – Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma on Monday approved strict action against several public servants for negligence, indiscipline, and corruption.In a major review, the Chief Minister disposed of over 50 cases related to prosecution sanction, matters under Section 17-A...

Chennai, March 9 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has made serious allegations against the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), claiming that the party has resorted to large-scale financial inducements to secure electoral alliances and influence voters in the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly...

Bhubaneswar, March 8 The Odisha Vigilance arrested a government engineer on Sunday for allegedly amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, officials said.Pramod Kumar Ray, assistant executive engineer (AEE) in the Derabish irrigation sub-division under the Kendrapara...

Jammu, March 8 Lt Governor Manoj Sinha said on Sunday that Jammu and Kashmir is no longer settling for mediocrity and is now daring to dream big.Lt. Governor Sinha inaugurated the headquarters of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) at Sidhra in Jammu city.He said at the inaugural function...

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...