A major bureaucratic reform is in the offing. Government has proposed that IAS officers with 30 years in service should be eligible for empanelment as a Union Secretary. Likewise, an IPS officer with 30 years service can become a DG in central police forces. Currently, it takes 33-34 years for[Read More…]
Tag: CBI
Govt’s aim is to silence my voice : P Chidambaram
The CBI conducted raids in at least 14 locations in Chennai on Tuesday morning. The residence of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram was also investigated by the department. The investigation comes in connection to foreign investments received by INX Media, formerly owned by Peter Mukherjea. The former Union minister has[Read More…]
Supreme Court orders separate trial against Lalu Prasad Yadav in fodder scam case
In a major setback for Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, Supreme Court on Monday ruled that he and other accused will have to face a separate trial in Rs 900 crore fodder scam. The Supreme Court pronounced its order after a plea was filed by the CBI opposing the[Read More…]
Bilkis Bano case: No death penalty for convicts, rules Bombay HC
The Bombay High Court (HC) on Thursday has ruled that no death penalty will be awarded to three out of 11 convicts for gang raping Bilkis Bano, a 19-year-old pregnant woman, and brutally murdering 14 of her family members, including her three-year-old daughter. The appeal was filed by the Central Bureau[Read More…]
CBI Court reserves verdict in 2G spectrum
Coal scam: FIR against former CBI director
Delhi HC issues notice to CBI on plea against Chidambaram’s relative
Babri more serious than Gandhiji killing: Owaisi
Gujarat HC turns down CBI probe into Una incident
CBI registers inquiry against Satyendra Jain
Madras HC stays probe into rape and murder of Dalit girl
Babri Masjid demolition: LK Advani, 12 others part of larger conspiracy, says CBI to SC
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told the Supreme Court on Thursday that senior BJP leader LK Advani and 12 others were part of a larger conspiracy to demolish the disputed Babri Masjid. The CBI argued for charges to be revived against these politicians. The CBI demands the trial to[Read More…]
Supreme Court to hear Babri Masjid demolition case
In regards to the infamous 1992 Babri demolition case, the Apex Court on Thursday is to hear on whether to revive the conspiracy charges against senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leaders, Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti, Kalyan Singh and several others of the party. Earlier in the week,[Read More…]
Chhattisgarh: ED attaches Rs 36 crore assets of suspended principal secretary
Assets worth Rs 36 crore of suspended Chhattisgarh IAS official BL Agrawal was attached by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday. Agrawal was earlier detained by the CBI. “ED has attached assets worth Rs 36.09 crore under PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act),” an official from the agency said as[Read More…]
Himachal Pradesh CM Virbhadra charge sheeted in DA case, HC removes stay on arrest
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and his wife were on Friday charge-sheeted by the CBI in a special court in a disproportionate assets case, hours after the Delhi High Court denied him any relief and removed the interim stay on his interrogation or arrest. The charge sheet was filed[Read More…]
Frauds impersonate CBI officials, agency files FIR
The CBI is the latest prey to the impersonators who have been pretending to be CBI officers to trick innocent people. The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a FIR against the people who are imitating CBI officials and using their resources. These frauds are using fake e-mail IDs in[Read More…]
CBI books two SBI officers for illegal currency conversion
SC says Narada sting will be probed by CBI
Rationalists’ murder: Bombay HC asks CBI, CID to work in co-ordination
The Bombay High Court on Friday asked the CBI and the Maharashtra CID to make “sincere and joint efforts” to trace the alleged absconding killers of Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare. The Dhabolkar case is being investigated by the CBI and a special team of CID investigates the Pansare murder[Read More…]
HC directs CBI to probe ‘Narada’ sting operation
Two arrested in chit fund case in Kolkata
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday arrested a father-son duo in connection with the chit fund case. Basudev Bagchi, former CMD of a chit-fund company — Prayag Group of Companies — in Kolkata, and his son and MD Avik Bagchi were booked under sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 420[Read More…]
Harish Salve to represent Pinarayi Vijayan in Lavalin case
CBI to inquire fraud in Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme
Erstwhile policy allowed FIPB to clear Aircel-Maxis case
On February 10, the Supreme Court asked BJP leader Subramanian Swamy to put forward “concrete” evidence to prove that former Finance Minister P Chidambaram had directly given FIPB clearance to the Aircel-Maxis deal in 2006, bypassing the Cabinet Committee for Economic Affairs (CCEA). Foreign ministry officials however say that it[Read More…]
CBI books ex-chief AP Singh for favouring meat exporter Moin Qureshi
The CBI on Monday carried out searches at the residence of its former chief Amar Pratap Singh after registering an FIR against him for allegedly favouring controversial meat exporter Moin Qureshi. CBI sources said a case has been registered against Singh, Qureshi, his employee Aditya Sharma, owner of Trimax group[Read More…]