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Assets worth Rs 2.25 crore of govt official detected: ACB
: Assets worth Rs 2.25 crore allegedly belonging to an official working in the transport office have been unearthed, anti-corruption bureau sleuths said Thursday. On Wednesday, A Praveen Kumar was caught in his office in Vikarabad district of Telangana, when he demanded and accepted a bribe of Rs 10,000, the sleuths said. The money was accepted through his two private agents from the complainant for doing an official favour and the trio was arrested, they said. On information, a case of disproportionate assets was registered. The sleuths had conducted a search at Kumar's house and cash to the tune of Rs 45 lakh, gold ornaments weighing 310 gm besides documents of immovable properties, all worth about Rs 2.25 crore, were unearthed, a senior official of the bureau, they said.
Egypt frees Al-Jazeera journalist detained since 2016
An Egyptian court has ordered the release of Al-Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein, detained since 2016 on allegations of spreading false news and defaming Egypt's reputation. Hussein, an Egyptian journalist working for the Qatar-based satellite network, was detained at the Cairo airport in December 2016, when he arrived on a family vacation from Doha. No official charges were ever raised against him and Hussein didn't stand trial. The Doha-based Al-Jazeera reported the news on its website Thursday, saying Hussein "was arrested without formal charges and kept in prison for 881 days." His daughter, Az-Zahra Hussein, said on Facebook that her father will be released "with precautionary measures" likely meaning he'll have to report regularly to police and that he's soon to be transferred from prison to a police station.
Saradha scam: SC agrees to hear ex-Kolkata top cop's plea
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar's plea seeking extension of protection from arrest in the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam.
Austria: 3 women found dead in Vienna apparently starved
Austrian police say that a woman and her two daughters who were found dead at their Vienna apartment earlier this week appear to have starved to death. The bodies of the 45-year-old mother and her daughters, both aged 18, were found in municipal housing in the Austrian capital's Floridsdorf district on Tuesday. Authorities ordered an autopsy. Police said Thursday it suggested that the three starved to death and that they died at the end of March or the beginning of April. They said there were no signs that the women were poisoned. Investigators earlier said that the apartment door was locked and that there was no sign of a break-in or of other violence.
INX Media case: Court reserves order on granting pardon to Indrani Mukerjea
A Delhi court will pronounce its order on May 29 on whether to grant pardon to Indrani Mukerjea, an accused in the INX Media corruption case in which former Union minister P Chidambaram is also an accused. Mukerjea was produced before Special Judge Anurag Sain on Thursday after being brought from Mumbai's Byculla Jail, where she is lodged for the alleged murder of her daughter, Sheena Bora. The court reserved the order after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) submitted that it was in support of Mukerjea's plea to be made an approver as her statement would consolidate the evidence in the case. During the hearing, the court asked Mukerjea if there was any pressure on her, which she denied. "I am voluntarily willing to turn approver," she told the court. Besides Mukerjea and Chidambaram, the name of the former finance minister's son, Karti, has also cropped up in the case involving an amount of Rs 305 crore, which relates to a Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval ...
CBI court reserves order on Indrani Mukerjee's plea to turn approver in INX media case
A special CBI court on Thursday reserved its order over a plea filed by Indrani Mukerjee seeking permission to turn approver in the INX media case in which former finance minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram are facing probe.Special CBI Judge Anurag Sain is likely to pass the order on May 29 over the plea filed by Mukerjee. She is currently lodged in the Byculla jail in Mumbai in connection with the murder case of her daughter Sheena Bora.During the course of hearing, the CBI submitted before the court that it has come across evidence in the form of conversations which only Indrani Mukerjee is privy to and will help consolidate the case.The Enforcement Directorate (ED) and CBI are probing how Karti managed to obtain clearance to the tune of Rs 305 crore from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) in 2007 when his father was the Finance Minister.The ED had registered a Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) case based on an FIR registered by the CBI and ...
Wendy Williams' son arrested for punching his dad
American TV host Wendy Williams' son Kevin Hunter Jr. has been arrested over an alleged physical fight with his father Kevin Hunter.
Court reserves order on Indrani's plea to become approver
A court here on Thursday reserved order on the plea of former INX Media director Indrani Mukerjea seeking to become approver in the INX Media case.
Former Nissan chairman Ghosn appears in Tokyo court
Nissan's former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, appeared in a Japanese courtroom Thursday for a hearing ahead of his trial on accusations of financial misconduct. It was the first of a series of hearings to iron out logistics for Ghosn's actual trial. The trial date has not been set, and experts say it could be months away. Ghosn, who led the Japanese automaker for two decades, was arrested in November and charged with underreporting his income and breach of trust. He was released on bail in March, rearrested in April on fresh accusations and then released again on bail on April 25. Ghosn insists he is innocent and says he was targeted in a "conspiracy" by others at Nissan Motor Co. Nissan, which is allied with Renault SA of France, has seen profits nose-dive amid the fallout from Ghosn's arrest. Ghosn has hired a strong legal team as he fights to clear his name. One of his top lawyers, Junichiro Hironaka, was seen walking into the courtroom Thursday with Ghosn. One of the conditions of ...
Germany fines Bosch over 'dieselgate' role
German prosecutors said Thursday they had fined car parts supplier Bosch 90 million euros (USD 100 million) over its role supplying components in the "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal. Stuttgart investigators "levied a fine against Robert Bosch GmbH for negligently infringing its quality control obligations," they said in a statement, adding that the German company had agreed not to contest the fine. The 90 million-euro sum is made up of a penalty of two million, while the remaining 88 million covers the estimated economic benefit Bosch gained from the crimes. Beginning in 2008, Bosch "delivered around 17 million motor control and mixture control devices to various domestic and foreign manufacturers, some of whose software contained illegal strategies," the prosecutors found. "Cars fitted with the devices emitted more nitrogen oxides than allowed under regulations." Volkswagen admitted in 2015 to fitting 11 million cars worldwide with such technology, and the fallout has so far .
Rajasthan police constable held for demanding bribe
A Rajasthan police head constable was Thursday arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 5,000, officials said. Head Constable Bala Ram, posted with Merta Road police station in Nagaur district, had demanded the bribe from one Ramkishore to submit a favourable final report in a case lodged against him and his friends, an ACB official said. "He was arrested from outside the vote counting centre in Nagaur where he was on duty. He has been arrested under the Prevention of Corruption Act," the official said.
SC to hear on Friday former Kolkata top cop's plea for extension of protection
The Supreme Court will on Friday hear the plea filed by former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar seeking an extension of the seven-day period granted to him to approach a competent court after his protection from arrest in connection with Saradha chit fund scam, which ends tomorrow.Kumar's counsel Sunil Fernandes mentioned the matter before the vacation bench of the apex court presided by Justices Arun Mishra and M R Shah, which slated the matter for hearing tomorrow.Kumar had approached the Supreme Court seeking protection from arrest claiming that he is not able to access the legal remedies in West Bengal as the courts in the state are undergoing a strike."In view of the resolutions passed by the Bar Council of West Bengal the entire working of the courts has come to a standstill in the state, and in such circumstances the petitioner is unable to avail any legal remedies against the arbitrary actions of the Respondent/CBI herein, and because of the withdrawal of the interim ..
Wendy Williams' son arrested for allegedly assaulting his father
Television host Wendy Williams' son Kevin Hunter Jr. was arrested after allegedly getting into a fight with his father and TV producer Kevin Hunter.A spokeswoman for the Ethics County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey told People on Wednesday that the incident took place at 9:50 p.m. on Tuesday night in West Orange.According to the spokeswoman, he was charged with simple assault following the fight in West Orange. He was processed and later released by West Orange Police Department the same evening and was not taken to county jail.On Wednesday, TMZ had reported that Williams' husband and their son got into a physical altercation that resulted in the cops being called."I love my son very much and I will not be pursuing this matter legally. Things are not always how they appear," Hunter said in a statement to TMZ.According to TMZ, Williams dropped her 18-year-old son off at her house, not knowing Hunter was there. Although she planned to return shortly, Kevin Jr. and Hunter made a quick
Will definitely win, says Pragya Thakur as trends show her leading
Pragya Singh Thakur, the Malegaon blast accused and Bhopal BJP candidate, expressed confidence about winning the Lok Sabha elections as trends showed her beating senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh."I will definitely win. My victory will be a victory of dharma. Adharma (evil) will be wiped out," Thakur said.According to the figures on the Election Commission of India (ECI) website, Thakur was ahead of Singh with a margin of 370696 votes.Expressing thanks to the people of the constituency, she said, "I express my gratitude to the people of Bhopal," she said.Thakur faced a lot of flak during her canvassing for calling Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse a 'true patriot'. The BJP condemned the remark, following which she apologised.On another occasion, Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case said that former Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) Hemant Karkare lost his life because she had cursed him.Karkare was killed along with two other senior police officers while ...
Saradha scam: SC agrees to hear Friday ex-Kolkata CP's plea seeking extension of protection
The Supreme Court Thursday agreed to hear the fresh plea of former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar seeking extension of protection from arrest in the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam. The former police commissioner was granted protection from arrest for a seven-day period which ends on May 24. The fresh plea for protection from arrest has been filed in view of the continuing state-wide lawyers' strike in West Bengal. "All mentioning (of petitions for urgent hearing) are allowed. The petitions would be listed tomorrow," a vacation bench comprising justices Arun Mishra and M R Shah told lawyers standing in a queue to mention their matters for urgent listing. Kumar, in his fresh plea, has said the protection from arrest which expires Friday, be extended till the lawyers' stir in the state ends. On May 17, a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi had withdrawn the protection from arrest granted to Kumar by its February 5 order. However, the court had said his ...
Woman gang-raped in Jaipur
A woman in her 20's was allegedly tortured and raped by five persons including a doctor and a suspended police constable in the city, police said Thursday. The accused left the woman in a semi-naked position on the Agra road here on Wednesday, they said. The woman alleged that she was tortured and gang-raped on Tuesday night, they added. "A case has been registered against five persons -- Kapil Sharma, Deepesh Chaturvedi, Dr Anurag and two others who are unidentified," DCP (East) Rahul Jain said. The DCP said the case is being probed from all angles. The woman had lodged a case of rape against Sharma, who was then a police constable, at Jyoti Nagar Police Station in 2018. She alleged that Chaturvedi, who posed as an official of the state human rights commission (SHRC), assured her of getting Sharma arrested. However, when she did not find any official in the SHRC by this name, she reached Chaturvedi's residence where she was allegedly raped and tortured on Tuesday. An FIR was lodged ..
50 children saved after police bust paedophile website: Interpol
International police group Interpol said Thursday that nine people had been arrested in Thailand, Australia and the US and 50 children had been rescued after investigators took down an online paedophilia ring. More arrests were expected as police in nearly 60 countries pursue investigations stemming from an Interpol operation launched two years ago into a hidden "dark web" site with 63,000 users worldwide. Fifty children were rescued following the arrests. Police are trying to identify an additional 100 in images that had been shared on the internet's uncharted corners. Interpol said its Operation Blackwrist began after it found material that was traced back to a subscription-based site on the dark web, where people can use encrypted software to hide behind layers of secrecy. Dark web sites can't be found through search engines, and users need to have the specific URL address to land on a site. Interpol enlisted help from national agencies worldwide, with the US Homeland Security ...
Ex-Nissan chief Ghosn attends pre-trial talks
Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn took part in the first pre-trial process at the Tokyo District Court on Thursday for allegedly transferring private investment losses to the carmaker.
Saradha scam: SC agrees to hear tomorrow ex-Kolkata CP's plea seeking extension of protection
The Supreme Court Thursday agreed to hear the fresh plea of former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar seeking extension of protection from arrest in the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam. The former police commissioner was granted protection from arrest for a seven-day period which is expiring on May 24. The fresh plea for protection from arrest has been filed in view of the continuing state-wide lawyers' strike in West Bengal. "All mentioning (of petitions for urgent hearing) are allowed. The petitions would be listed tomorrow," a vacation bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra and M R Shah told lawyers standing in a queue to mention their matters for urgent listing. Kumar, in his fresh plea, has said the protection from arrest which was expiring tomorrow, be extended till the lawyers' stir in the state ends. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi had on May 17 vacated its earlier order granting protection from arrest to Kumar.
Indian among 18 people arrested in Nigeria for illegal bunkering
An Indian national is among 18 sailors arrested in Nigeria for allegedly attempting to illegally export stolen crude oil to Ghana, according to media reports. The arrested sailors were planning to move stolen crude oil from Nigeria with two foreign vessels, MT Apecus and MT Invictus, believed to be owned by Petrogress Incorporation, which has offices in Nigeria, Greece and the US, the Nigerian Navy said. Capt Adegoke Ebo, Executive Officer Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder Port Harcourt, Capt. Adegoke Ebo made this disclosure on Wednesday while handing over the suspects and vessels to the police at the naval base in Port Harcourt. According to him, the suspects were on the verge of moving the crude oil to Ghana before they were arrested by naval forces. Among those arrested was the Managing Director of Petrogress Incorporation in Nigeria, Osimili Adah, Nigerian media reported. "Our findings revealed that Adah has been actively involved in sourcing crude oil from Nigerian creeks and .