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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...

Chandigarh, February 25 – Haryana’s State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested four individuals, including those allegedly behind the Rs 590-crore IDFC First Bank fraud, with a private firm owned by the wife of a former employee at the center of the financial irregularities.Two of...

Nashik, February 25 The sarpanch of a village in Nashik district and her husband have been arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000 in exchange for not approving a motion of no-confidence against the deputy sarpanch, officials said on Wednesday.The accused, Manda Bendkule and...

Chandigarh, February 25 The Haryana State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested four people, including those behind the Rs 590-crore IDFC First Bank fraud, officials said on Wednesday.Of the four arrested, two are former IDFC First Bank employees and two are private individuals who...

Bhubaneswar, February 25 Stacks of notes amounting to over Rs 4.27 crore were allegedly recovered from the house of an Odisha Mines Department officer, who was arrested in a corruption case, officials said on Wednesday.The cash was seized from the Bhubaneswar flat of Deputy Director of Mines...

Jaipur, February 25 – Acting on the directions of the Anti-Corruption Bureau Headquarters in Jaipur, the Anti-Corruption Bureau outpost in Dholpur has arrested Birendra Kumar Sharma, a Patwari of Patwar Halka Basai Samanta, Tehsil Basai Samanta, District Dholpur, while accepting a bribe of Rs...

Bhubaneswar, February 25 – In the largest-ever cash seizure by Odisha's Vigilance Department, anti-corruption officials on Wednesday recovered over ₹4 crore in cash from the flat of the Deputy Director of Mines, Cuttack Circle, in Bhubaneswar.The accused, identified as Debabrata Mohanty, was...

Bhubaneswar, February 25 Stacks of cash, packed in trolley bags, were allegedly recovered from the house of an Odisha Mines Department officer, who was arrested in a corruption case, officials said on Wednesday.A total of Rs 4 crore in cash was seized from an apartment in Bhubaneswar owned by...

Bhubaneswar, February 25 Stacks of notes packed in trolley bags were allegedly recovered from the house of an Odisha Mines Department official, who was arrested in a corruption case, officials said on Wednesday.A total of ₹4 crore in cash was seized from an apartment in Bhubaneswar owned by...

Bhubaneswar, February 24 – The Odisha Vigilance arrested a senior government official on Tuesday for allegedly accepting a bribe from a licensed coal vendor in exchange for facilitating the complainant's smooth business operations.According to Vigilance sources, the accused, Debabrata Mohanty...

Jaipur, February 24 – Acting on instructions from the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) headquarters, the Jaipur Nagar unit of the ACB arrested Jagdish Prasad Meena, Block Development Officer (BDO) of the Sawai Madhopur Panchayat Samiti, on Tuesday. He was also holding the additional charge as...

Jaipur, February 24 The Anti-Corruption Bureau of Rajasthan on Tuesday arrested a block development officer from Sawai Madhopur while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh, officials said.The accused, Jagdish Prasad Meena, was posted as Block Development Officer (BDO) in Panchayat Samiti...

Chandigarh, February 24 – Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini informed the Assembly on Tuesday that the entire amount involved in the fraud involving state government accounts at the IDFC First Bank branch in Chandigarh has been returned to the government's accounts."A total of Rs 556...

Chandigarh, February 24 – The Haryana Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau has registered an FIR in connection with a ₹590-crore fraud involving accounts of the Haryana government at the IDFC First Bank and AU Small Finance Bank branch in Chandigarh, a government official said on Tuesday.The...

Gadag (Karnataka), February 21 BJP MLA Chandru Lamani was allegedly caught accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh here for the execution of Minor Irrigation department works, the Lokayukta police said on Saturday.The trap was laid by the Gadag Lokayukta police based on a complaint filed by a...