NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has seized an AgustaWestland helicopter from a hanger owned by arrested businessman Avinash Bhosale in Pune in the Rs 34,615-crore bank fraud involving DHFL, officials said on Saturday. The agency discovered the helicopter during searches at Bhosale’s premises, a senior CBI official said, adding it has […]
NEW DELHI: Congress on Saturday demanded that top BJP leaders apologise to the nation over alleged involvement of party functionaries in crimes against women in Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh. Addressing a press conference here, Congress spokesperson Ajoy Kumar said, “You (BJP) asked for an apology from Sonia Gandhi but I ask you to apologise to […]
NEW DELHI: India’s financial probe agency, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), has attached properties worth nearly Rs 4 crores of former Odisha MLA Pravat Ranjan Biswal and a firm named Media Guru Consultants in a ponzi scam. The case relates to fraudulent collection of funds from the public on pretext of issuing preferential shares by enrolling […]
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached assets worth Rs 110 crores belonging to Karvy Stock Broking Ltd (KSBL) and its Chairman Comandur Parthasarathy in a money laundering case. The properties are in the form of land, buildings, share holdings, cash, foreign currency and jewellery under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, […]
NEW DELHI: Assets worth Rs 2.39 crores of a former general manager (finance) of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and others have been attached by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) over charges of embezzlement of Rs 18.75 crores of the state-run defence major. Movable and immovable properties of former HAL GM (finance) Bhaben Maitra, Bipra Charana Maharana, […]
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday convicted former Coal Secretary HC Gupta, former Joint Secretary KS Kropha, Nagpur-based firm Grace Industries Limited and its director Mukesh Gupta after finding irregularities in the allocation of a Lohara East Coal block in Maharashtra. The Court of a special judge Arun Bhardwaj convicted HC Gupta and others […]
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday took cognizance of the charge sheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against arrested Delhi Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Satyendar Jain, his wife and eight others including four firms in connection with the hawala transactions money laundering case. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday filed […]
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested another accused allegedly involved in revival of CPI-Maoist in the Son-Ganga Bindh region. A NIA spokesperson said that the anti-terror probe agency has arrested Rajesh Gupta, a resident of Bihar’s Rohtas district, in connection with its case related to conspiracy by CPI-Maoist cadres involving Central Committee […]
NEW DELHI: Amid the furore over his Rashtrapatni remarks, Congress Lok Sabha MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Friday tendered an apology to President Draupadi Murmu saying it was a “slip of the tongue”. In a letter addressed to the President, he wrote: “I am writing to express my regret for having mistakenly used an incorrect […]
NEW DELHI: A Dhanbad court in Jharkhand on Thursday convicted two people in connection with the murder of Additional District and Sessions Judge Uttam Anand. CBI in a statement said that the Special Judge, CBI Cases in Dhanbad has on Thursday convicted Lakhan Kumar Verma and Rahul Kumar Verma under section 302 (Punishment for murder […]