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Pratapgarh (UP), April 8 A block programme manager working at a community health center here was arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 in exchange for facilitating a job, officials said on Wednesday.The accused, identified as Amit Mishra, was caught red-handed by a team of the...

Jammu, April 5 A junior engineer in the Power Development Department was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in the Gandhi Nagar area here on Sunday for accepting a bribe of Rs 75,000, officials said.Anirudh Sharma, who was posted as a Junior Engineer in the Sub-Division of the Jammu...

Indore, April 3 Three members of a "honey trap" gang, including two women, were arrested in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, for allegedly extorting money from a former soldier after threatening to file a rape case against him, a police official said on Friday.One of the women contacted the complainant...

Thane, April 2 A former CIDCO official and his wife have been booked in a case of disproportionate assets in Navi Mumbai, the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said on Thursday.ACB (Navi Mumbai) Deputy Superintendent of Police Dharmaraj Sonke identified the accused as Sagar Madanlalji...

Srinagar, April 1 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested two public servants, including a senior officer of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), in Srinagar on Wednesday, officials said, in connection with a bribery case.The arrested individuals are Vinay Kumar, who...

Thane, March 31 A special CBI court in Thane has sentenced a former Income Tax officer to six months of rigorous imprisonment (RI) in a 19-year-old case involving accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a person to finalize a tax assessment.Special Judge (CBI) D S Deshmukh also imposed a fine of...

Bhopal, March 28 – The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bhopal Zonal Office, has intensified its crackdown on corruption by filing a chargesheet against Dr. Amarnath Mittal, former Director of Health Services, Government of Madhya Pradesh, and others under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act...

Kannauj (UP), March 27 A day after Uttar Pradesh minister Asim Arun raised concerns about mismanagement and delays at a government event in Kannauj, BJP workers staged a protest on Friday, chanting slogans against district officials and briefly disrupting traffic.In a letter to District...

Thane, March 27 A court in Thane has sentenced a 36-year-old woman to one year in simple imprisonment for assaulting an official of the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) following a dispute over a power bill.In his judgment of March 20, a copy of which was...

New Delhi, March 21 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an Assistant Engineer (AE) of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) in a bribery case, officials said on Saturday.The accused, identified as Hukam Singh Meena, was posted at the MCD’s Shahdara South Zone, QUC...

Thane, March 19 Police have arrested a man and are trying to locate his two associates for allegedly setting off firecrackers outside a district jail in Thane, Maharashtra, and assaulting an on-duty constable there after he tried to stop them, an official said.The incident took place outside...

Ranchi, March 17 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a junior engineer of the South Eastern Railway for allegedly accepting a bribe from a private company representative in exchange for facilitating an electrical connection at a site office in Jharkhand, officials said on...

Lucknow, March 16 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a medical officer stationed at the Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) and an executive from a private hospital in connection with an alleged bribery case involving undue favours to a hospital in Uttar...

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...

New Delhi, February 27 A Delhi court on Friday recommended a departmental inquiry against a CBI investigating officer (IO) for including a public servant as an accused, while discharging former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and 22 others in the excise-policy case.Special Judge Jitendra Singh...

Balrampur (UP), February 26 The local correspondent of a Lucknow-based daily newspaper was arrested and sent to jail for publishing misleading reports against the chief medical officer and other staff of a hospital here, officials said on Thursday.According to police, the action was taken...

Dehradun, February 21 A scuffle broke out on Saturday at the Directorate of Elementary Education here between its director and supporters of BJP MLA Umesh Sharma alias 'Kau' over the renaming of a school, leaving the official injured.A video of the purported incident has also surfaced on the...

Jammu, February 21 A man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer who was on duty in the Trikuta Nagar area here, an official said on Saturday.The action followed a viral video of the incident and a written complaint, prompting immediate legal proceedings and investigation...

Gadag (Karnataka), February 21 The Lokayukta police said on Saturday that they had caught BJP MLA Chandru Lamani allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh.The trap was laid by the Gadag Lokayukta police based on a complaint filed by a contractor."Today, the Gadag Lokayukta police station...

Vice President C P Radhakrishnan paid tribute to the late External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on her birth anniversary. In a social media post, the Vice President described Swaraj as an exceptional leader and a compassionate public servant.Mr. Radhakrishnan stated that her dedication to...