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Aircel-Maxis: CBI names Chidambaram, Karti in fresh chargesheet
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday filed a fresh chargesheet in the Aircel-Maxis case in a Delhi Court against 18 accused, including former finance minister P Chidambaram, his son, Karti, and select government officials (serving and retired).In its new chargesheet, the CBI said that two sets of money trails were discovered regarding Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance.The investigative agency has accused Chidambaram of misusing power, alleging that he flouted norms to grant FIPB clearance to M/S Global Communication Holding Services Ltd.The Patiala House Court will take cognisance of the matter on July 31.On July 10, the Enforcement Directorate had filed a detailed reply in the Aircel-Maxis money laundering case and opposed Chidambaram's anticipatory bail.In its statement, the ED said that they have come to a bonafide conclusion that under anticipatory bail, it will not be possible to reach the truth.Earlier, the Patiala House Court had extended ...
Haryana to launch scheme for quick disposal of heinous crimes
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has given approval for the launch of a scheme to identify and take appropriate measures in expeditiously disposing heinous crimes, an official spokesperson said today. Under the Identified Crime Scheme, state and district-level committees will be constituted, which will be headed by the additional chief secretary and deputy commissioners respectively, the spokesperson said. "The Haryana government is making strenuous efforts to rein in heinous and sensational crimes like dacoity, murder, terrorist activities, rape, gang rape, rape of small girls, kidnapping etc," he said. The district-level committees will meet on the first Tuesday of every month, identify heinous and sensational crimes during the month, if any, and submit recommendations to the state-level committee, which would decide on its inclusion in 'Identified Crimes', the official said. The state-level committee would review the progress made in various cases and take corrective ...
CBI files charge sheet against Chidambaram, son in Aircel-Maxis case
The CBI today filed a supplementary charge sheet against former finance minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti, naming them accused in the Aircel Maxis deal case. The charge sheet was filed before special CBI judge O P Saini who has fixed July 31 for considering the document. The senior Congress leader's role had come under the scanner of investigating agencies in the Aircel-Maxis deal of Rs 3,500 crore and INX Media case involving Rs 305 crore. It was during his tenure as the finance minister in the UPA-I government that clearance from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) was granted to the two ventures in which alleged irregularities have been found.
Gandhi family has nothing to do with AgustaWestland case: Antony
Former Defence Minister AK Antony on Thursday said that it was the Congress party which initiated a probe into the AgustaWestland case and that the Gandhi family is not even remotely related with case.Antony, a Congress Working Committee member, also accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of spreading false propaganda in the case.Addressing the media, Antyony said, "In AgustaWestland case, we took the decision to probe. The probe was our initiative, this case has nothing to do with the Gandhi family. This is a false propaganda by BJP."The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday filed a fresh chargesheet in a the Delhi court accusing former AgustaWestland and Finmeccanica directors Giuseppe Orsi and Bruno Spagnolini and ex-IAF chief SP Tyagi of money laundering in the VVIP chopper bribery scam case.The chargesheet, filed before special judge Arvind Kumar in the Patiala House Court will be taken up for consideration on July 20.The investigation conducted and various documents ...
Former Arunachal MLA's death case handed to CBI
The Arunachal Pradesh government has handed over the probe into the death of former MLA Ngurang Pinch eight months ago to the CBI, official sources said today. The government's decision to hand over the case to the central investigating agency was communicated to the CBI director by state Home Commissioner A C Verma yesterday, the sources said. The letter termed the case as "serious and sensitive" and said despite handing it over the case to crime branchs special investigating team (SIT) nothing conclusive emerged from the probe even after seven months since the case was transferred to it. "Further, there are representations from public to transfer the case to CBI," the letter read. The body of Pinch, who was the chairman of Arunachal Pradesh Agriculture Marketing Board, was found floating in a river in Papum Pare district on November 18 last year. He was on a rafting expedition along with eight others the previous day and had stayed on the river bank near the ...
Maryam meets Nawaz today for first time since arrest
Pakistan former prime minister Nawaz Sharif met his daughter Maryam Nawaz today for the first time after being arrested last week in the Avenfield reference case, said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Senator Pervaiz Rasheed.Rasheed, while addressing the media outside Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, where the Sharifs are locked said that he and other party leaders also met Nawaz, Maryam and Capt (retd) Safdar today, reported Geo News.He stated that the father-daughter duo met for the first time- a fact which he termed was against jail norms.On July 13, a team of National Accountability Bureau arrested the father-daughter duo after they returned from London.Sharif and Maryam were convicted in the Avenfield reference case by the Accountability Court on on July 6.While Sharif was given ten years of imprisonment and slapped with a fine of eight million pounds, Maryam was awarded eight years in jail and fined two million pounds. Also, Nawaz's son-in-law Captain (retd) Muhammad Safdar
Monsoon session of bicameral legislature in Bihar to begin
The monsoon session of both houses of the legislature in Bihar, scheduled to begin tomorrow, is likely to be stormy with the opposition poised to corner the state government on the issues of law and order and alleged faulty implementation of prohibition law. The brief session, which will end on July 26, will have a total of five working days during which the Nitish Kumar government is scheduled to table amendments to its excise and prohibition law. The amendments cleared by the state cabinet recently are likely to do away with stringent provisions like compulsory imprisonment for even a first-time offender and punishment to the owner of a property or vehicle where liquor is found to have been stored. The first supplementary budget for the current financial year is also on the list of businesses scheduled to be taken up during the monsoon session. Other issues likely to be raised in the legislative assembly as well legislative council during the monsoon session are the ..
Audi CEO Stadler presses for release from German custody
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Audi's suspended Chief Executive Rupert Stadler has appealed to a court to be released from custody after spending the past month in jail, the Munich prosecutor's office said on Thursday.
Man thrashed over suspcion of being child lifter
A man, who had come to meet his son in Karnataka's Mandya district was thrashed by a mob over suspicion of being a child lifter.The victim, who was a divorcee, had come to meet his son and asked him to come with him.As his child refused to come with him, the people mistook the man for a child lifter and assaulted him.Earlier on July 13, a man was lynched to death and two got severely injured after a mob attacked them on suspicion of being child-traffickers in Karnataka's Bidar district.Earlier today, Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Lok Sabha termed mob lynching incidents "unfortunate" and underscored that social media is being misused to spread fake news."These are unfortunate incidents. We had issued an advisory on this recently, and one in 2016 also. Social media being used to spread fake news and rumours is also a reason. We have asked social sites for regulation," Singh said.
Probe call details of Lalu: JD-U
The ruling JD-U in Bihar has demanded a probe into phone call details of RJD chief Lalu Prasad a day after BJP's Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi sought cancellation of the provisional bail granted by Jharkhand High Court to the RJD chief for "violating the bail conditions."
Religious teacher rapes minor in Darbhanga
In another case of sexual assault, a 65-year-old religious teacher was arrested on Wednesday for alleged rape of an eight-year-old girl in a village in Darbhanga district.The police officer Anuj Kumar who is handling the case told ANI, "The victim suffered serious injuries to her private parts. We have arrested Mohammad Mozib-ur Rahman and has initiated an investigation into the matter."The victim was rushed to the Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) where her condition is said to be still critical. The gruesome incident occurred in a village under the jurisdiction of the Hayaghat police station on July 17.The accused apparently used to visit the victim's house around 9 pm every day to give tuition on religious texts. On the fateful day also he had gone to her house. Finding her alone in the room, the teacher allegedly sexually assaulted the minor girl.
FIR against two Cong leaders for revealing molestation
A case has been filed against Goa Congress' women's wing chief, her deputy and three other persons for allegedly revealing the identity of a molestation victim, the police said today. Shiv Sena's Goa unit vice president Rakhi Prabhudesai Naik had filed a complaint against them last week for revealing the identity of a 17-year-old girl, who was allegedly molested by a man at Netravali village in South Goa district. The Goa Women Police Station today filed an FIR against state Congress' women's wing president Pratima Coutinho, its vice president Savitri Kavlekar, Netravali village panchayat's deputy sarpanch Abhijit Desai and panch members Vitthal Gaonkar and Prakash Bhagat. A copy of the FIR is with PTI. The five persons have been booked under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Juvenile Justice Act, according to the FIR. Coutinho, who along with others visited the victim at her home in South Goa ...
Philips wins patent battle in Delhi HC
Dutch electronic major Philips has won a major legal battle here with the Delhi High Court ruling that it has a patent right over a channel decoding technology used for DVD video playback function in a DVD player which was infringed upon by two domestic manufacturers. The high court decreed the two lawsuits filed by Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV against the Delhi-based firms which claimed that they were engaged in manufacture, assembly and sale of DVD video players under various brands. Philips, which was represented by advocate Pravin Anand, claimed that it was the registered proprietor of IN-184753 which concerns channel modulation' which involves a coding step that is performed directly before the storage of the data. This coding ensures that the data to be stored on the disc has a particularly suitable structure for storage. Justice Mukta Gupta said that Rajesh Bansal and K K Bansal, owners of Manglam Technology and Bhagirathi Electronics respectively, have been infringing ...
British fraud office seeks retrial of ex-Barclays trio
LONDON (Reuters) - The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is seeking a retrial of three former Barclays traders accused of plotting to rig global interest rates after a jury was unable to reach a verdict last week.
Parents kill newborn fearing mockery by family members
Fear of ridicule from family members allegedly prompted a daily wage labourer and his wife to kill their newborn baby, their sixth offspring, in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, a police officer said. The parents with three daughters, two sons and several grandchildren, have killed the girl child for the fear of being taunted by their children and grandchildren, Inspector-in-Charge of Maynaguri police station, Nandakumar Dutta said. The 47-year-old man told the police that he and his wife had come to his cousin's house at Saptibari village under Maynaguri police station, where his wife delivered the baby on Saturday. The police said that the couple strangulated their baby and threw the body in a pond near their relative's house on Sunday. Locals informed the gram panchayat after finding the body of a child floating in the pond. After the newborn was identified by their relative, the gram panchayat lodged an FIR with the police on the basis of which which the man and ..
Junior clerk arrested by vigilance
A junior clerk of SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack was arrested by Vigilance for allegedly accepting Rs 5,000 bribe from a man to prepare his grand mother's pay arrear bill. Dillip Kumar Rout, a junior clerk in the Office of Superintendent of SCB Medical College and Hospital, was arrested yesterday after being caught red-handed by Vigilance officers while accepting illegal gratification of Rs 5,000 from the complainant, a vigilance release said. Rout had demanded bribe from Rohit Kumar Nayak of Mangalabag area of Cuttack to prepare arrear bill of 7th Pay Commission of Sagar Dei, his grand mother, a retired employee of SCB Medical College, it said. Vigilance sleuths who had laid a trap recovered the bribe money of Rs 5,000 from the pant pocket of Rout and seized the amount in presence of witnesses, the release said. While Rout was arrested his residential house at CDA, Cuttack and government quarter at SCB Medical Compound were searched, the release added.
IOCL asks CBI to investigate gangster's link with petrol pumps
The Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) has sought a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into alleged irregularities in allotment of two retail outlets in Odisha to the family of a gangster, who is now behind bars. The IOCL had been asked to send a report on the issue after the matter regarding allotment of the retail outlets to the family of history-sheeter Syed Usman Ali alias Tito came to the notice of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, an official said today One petrol pump is located in Kendrapada while the other one is located at Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district. On inquiry, the IOCL found that the retail outlet in the name of Ms Sayed Brothers Filling Station, Badahat in Kendrapara town in Kendrapara district and ad-hoc dealership of COCO (Company Owned Company Operated retail outlet) at Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district were commissioned in violation of guidelines, an IOCL statement said. "In view of several irregularities and ...
Orthodox Church case: Bail plea of 2 accused rejected
A Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Thiruvalla on Thursday rejected the bail applications of two priests accused of sexually assaulting a woman in June.The Crime Branch in June registered a case against four priests of Kerala's Malankara Orthodox Church for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in Kottayam.Father Job Mathew and Father Johnson V Mathew are now likely to move the Kerala High Court regarding their bail petitions in the coming days.Earlier on July 11, the Kerala High Court had rejected the bail plea of Father Varghese, one of the four accused in the case.The Malankara Orthodox Church had suspended all the four priests after the complaint was filed in the matter.Of the four accused priests, one surrendered on July 12.
Lekhi demands dissolution of SC-appointed committee on sealing
Expressing concern over the sealing drive in the national capital, BJP member Meenakshi Lekhi today demanded dissolution of the Supreme Court- appointed monitoring committee. Accusing the committee of tyrannical behaviour, she said it was not working according to the law and even ignoring orders of the court. She charged that people were not being given an opportunity to represent their case. "I seek dissolution of this committee," she added. The sealing drive -- shutting of illegal establishments -- started last year on the directions of the monitoring committee. The issue was raised during the Zero Hour. Raising another matter, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor demanded proper attention of rail services in Kerala. He said several projects in the Southern Railway are pending for long, because of which people are suffering.
Russian officials to meet suspected spy jailed in US
Russian Embassy officials are to meet with a Siberian gun rights activist jailed in Washington on charges of spying on the United States. The Embassy said in a Facebook post that consular officials will meet with Maria Butina tomorrow for the first time since her Sunday arrest, and will provide her "all necessary help". Butina, 29, denies wrongdoing, and the Russian government has lashed out at the arrest as driven by US domestic politics and "anti-Russian hysteria". Federal prosecutors accuse Butina of being a covert Russian agent, having contacts with the KGB successor agency FSB, and using sex and deception to forge influential US connections. One of her former teachers told The Associated Press that just before her arrest she was considering a job in Silicon Valley.