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Dayanidhi denies CBI claim of pressurising telecom promoter

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Former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran today refuted before a special court CBI’s claim that he had pressurised a Chennai-based telecom promoter to sell his stakes in Aircel to a Malaysian firm Maxis Group in 2006. While arguing on framing of charges against him in the Aircel-Maxis case, the former union minister claimed that during the […]

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SC asks CBI to conclude in 3 months probe in scibe murder case

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Supreme Court today asked the CBI to conclude its investigation in the journalist Rajdev Ranjan murder case in Bihar within three months. A bench comprising justices Dipak Misra and Amitava Roy made it clear that no accused in the murder case shall seek bail on the statutory ground that charge sheets have not been filed […]

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Order on bail for suspended judge’s hubby reserved

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A special court today reserved its order on the bail plea of the husband of a judicial officer, arrested in a graft case in which she was allegedly caught by CBI while accepting bribe. Special CBI Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal fixed the matter for October 17 to pronounce the order on the bail application of accused […]

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Suspended judge’s husband moves court for bail in graft case

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The husband of a judicial officer, arrested in a graft case in which she was allegedly caught by CBI while accepting bribe, has moved a special court seeking bail. The bail plea of accused Alok Lakhanpal, the husband of Rachna Tiwari Lakhanpal who was a senior civil judge at the Tis Hazari Court here, would […]

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Calcutta HC declines making Mitra’s bail terms more stringent

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The Calcutta High Court today declined making bail conditions of Trinamool Congress leader Madan Mitra more stringent, while adjourning hearing of CBI’s application for cancellation of bail to the former West Bengal minister till November three. A division bench comprising Justices Nishita Mhatre and Tapas Mukherjee also rejected CBI’s plea to keep Mitra, an accused […]

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Bombay HC asks CBI to further probe Adarsh society’s benami flats

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The Bombay High Court today directed CBI to conduct further probe into the ‘benami’ flats in the scam-tainted Adarsh building even as the agency said it has already completed investigation and submitted its charge sheet two years back. A division bench of Justices A S Oka and A A Sayed was hearing a public interest […]

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Coalscam: Court asks CBI to verify death of accused

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A special court today directed CBI to verify the death of an accused in a coal scam case involving Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal, ex -Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao and others. Special Judge Bharat Parashar passed the directions after he was informed by a counsel that Radha Krishna Saraf, an […]

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CBI files closure report in British woman’s death case in Goa

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Six years after a 35-year-old British woman was found dead near Anjuna beach in Goa, the CBI has filed a closure report in the case as no evidence of assault or homicide has been found. The 50-page closure report in the death case of Denyse Sweeney was filed yesterday by a special team of CBI […]

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CBI challenges Madan Mitra’s bail in High Court

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The CBI today filed a petition before the Calcutta High Court seeking cancellation of the bail granted to former West Bengal transport minister Madan Mitra, an accused in the multi-crore Saradha scam, by a city court. The Alipore Sessions Court had, on September 9, granted bail to Mitra, after he spent over 21 months in […]

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Coal scam case against Jindal: CBI files probe report

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CBI today filed a report on its further probe in a coal scam case involving Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal, ex-Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao, ex-Coal Secretary H C Gupta and others. The report filed before Special Judge Bharat Parashar in a sealed cover included statements of certain persons recorded during […]

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Ex-DG of Mines Safety convicted in graft case

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After two decades of probe and trial, a special CBI court has convicted former Director General of Mines Safety Captain Brij Nandan Singh for amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. The court has sentenced him to undergo five years of rigorous imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs 2 lakh on him, […]

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