Hyderabad, 19 September (IANS) Hyderabad Police has arrested seven more persons from Telangana Chief Minister Relief Fund (CMRF) for misuse of Rs 8.71 lakh. According to the police, the accused were fake beneficiaries who presented as real and cheated the government, as well as the real beneficiaries were entitled to relief. The accused fraudulently deposited … Read more
Officials said Kolkata, 17 September (IANS) Kolkata Police on Wednesday discovered a fake international call center racket and arrested ten persons, including the prominent accused, the officials said. The police recovered more than Rs 10 lakh cash, several mobile phones and two cars from the accused, and started an investigation along with the racket along … Read more
Ranchi, Sep 16 (IANS) A special Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of suspended IAS officer Vinay Kumar Chaubey, who is facing trial in connection with a multi-crore land scam in the district. Chaubey, a 1999-batch IAS officer of the Jharkhand cadre, is already an accused in the … Read more
Bengaluru, Sep 15 (IANS) In a major development, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has conducted raids on Monday at 16 locations in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in connection with sensational tribal welfare board scam in which former minister B. Nagendra was jailed. An official statement CBI stated: “The raids were conducted at premises of … Read more
Kolkata, Sep 15 (IANS) The process of framing of charges against former West Bengal Education Minister and Trinamool Congress Secretary General Partha Chatterjee and other accused in the third Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) case in connection with the multi-crore cash-for-school job case concluded at a special court in Kolkata on Monday. The process of … Read more
Kolkata, Sep 13 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sources have revealed that frequent transfers and reshuffling of officials within the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) formed a key part of former State Education Minister and Trinamool Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee’s strategy to facilitate large-scale irregularities in teacher recruitment. The WBSSC is … Read more
Mohali, Sep 12 (IANS) The ED filed a chargesheet against 16 accused in a Special PMLA Court, Mohali, in connection with the multi-crore rupee scam that involved wrongful collection of compensation for land acquired by the Punjab government, an official said on Friday. The chargesheet was filed on Thursday by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Jalandhar … Read more
Kolkata, Sep 12 (IANS) The process of framing charges against a total of 28 accused individuals in a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)-registered cases in the alleged multi-crore West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) scam was completed at a special CBI court here on Friday. The case in which the charge-framing process was completed on … Read more
Kolkata, Sep 12 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing the multi-crore sand smuggling case in West Bengal has unearthed a unique modus operandi in the illegal business, where the kingpins committed sophisticated forgery in e-challans to hoodwink the system. These e-challans were issued at various check-posts to the trucks carrying sand from river beds by different … Read more
Kolkata, Sep 12 (IANS) Former West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee is the main culprit in all cases related to the alleged West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) scam, and the CBI will maintain its stand during the trial process, sources in the investigative agency said. Already, the process of charge framing has been completed … Read more
Bengaluru, Sep 11 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Bengaluru Zonal Office, has provisionally attached immovable property to the extent of Rs 75 lakh of Velohar Infra Private Limited, under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, in a case related to misappropriating government funds from the accounts of Karnataka State Handicraft Development … Read more
Kolkata, Sep 11 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the multi-crore sand smuggling case in West Bengal, has unearthed a common “hawala” link between two kingpins identified by the investigative agency. The common link between the alleged sand mining scam kingpins Sheikh Zahirul Ali and Sourav Roy, is Sanjeev Boyd, an Insurance Regulatory Development Authority … Read more