NEW DELHI: Within weeks of the Madras high court validating the Enforcement Directorate’s money laundering probe against India’s biggest political donor Santiago Martin, better known as ‘lottery king’, the agency on Thursday carried out searches at 20 premises of the accused and his associates across Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Haryana and Punjab. Martin and his…
CHENNAI: Twelve years after a trial court had allowed the closure of a corruption case against former Tamil Nadu chief minister and expelled AIADMK functionary O Panneerselvam, Madras high court reversed the order on Tuesday, thereby reviving the case.Justice N Anand Venkatesh, who had initiated suo motu revision proceedings against the closure, passed an order…
NEW DELHI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday granted bail to dismissed police officer Sachin Waze in a corruption case involving former Maharashtra home minister and Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader Anil Deshmukh.He had alleged that the NCP (SP) leader had pressurised him to do several illegal activities by claiming that instructions had come…
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: After hearing for a whole day, Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order on Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s bail plea in the corruption case of the Delhi excise policy scam. Kejriwal told the court that he was not a flight risk, not a hardened criminal or…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to AAP leader and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in corruption and money laundering cases related to the alleged scam in the now-scrapped Delhi liquor policy.However, the Supreme Court directed the AAP leader to surrender his passport and not to influence witnesses after being…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder and jailed former prime minister Imran Khan on Wednesday alleged that Army chief General Asim Munir was directly responsible for the imprisonment of his wife Bushra Bibi. Bushra Bibi, 49, was convicted in a corruption case as well as in the case of illegal marriage with Khan, 71, and is currently…
NEW DELHI: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Ltd and eight officials of ministry of steel over alleged corruption of Rs 315 crores in the execution of the NISP project.The officers booked are from the NMDC Iron and Steel Plant.Hyderabad-based Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Ltd (MEIL) is…
