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Coal case agst Jindal:Interim bail of 5 fresh accused extended

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A Delhi court today extended till May 25 the interim bail of five fresh accused named by the CBI in its supplementary charge sheet in a coal scam case against Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal and others. Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar extended the relief to accused- Jindal Steel’s adviser Anand Goel, Gurgaon-based Green […]

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Former Cong MLA sentenced to 4-year jail

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Former Congress MLA Ram Kishan Gurjar and two others were today sentenced to four years imprisonment by a local court in the 2009 suicide case of a journalist. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjeev Arya imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each on Gurjar and co-accused Vijay and Ajit and also asked them to pay a compensation […]

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84 riots: Witness gives conditional consent for polygraph test

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Arms dealer Abhishek Verma today said he was ready for a lie-detector test in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case if Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, given a clean chit by CBI for his alleged role, also agreed to it. Verma, who apprehends threat to his life and to his family, told a city court that he […]

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Swamy files list of witnesses in National Herald case

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BJP MP Subramanian Swamy today submitted a list of witnesses and other evidences before a Delhi court in the National Herald case filed by him against Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders. The counsel for Swamy filed the documents before Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen, who had on December 26 last year given him the […]

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Court grants time to CBI to file final report in proper format

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A special court today granted time to CBI for filing the final report in a coal block allocation scam case against Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal, ex-Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao and others, in a proper format. Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar allowed the investigating officer’s plea seeking time on the […]

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Court rejects Swamy’s plea for papers in National Herald case

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In a relief to Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, a Delhi court today rejected “as fishing inquiry” a plea of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy seeking a direction to Congress party and Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) to produce certain records related to the National Herald case. The court said that Swamy “seemed to enlarge the scope of […]

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Foreign funding: BJP, Congress withdraw appeals from SC

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BJP and Congress today withdrew their respective appeals from the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi High Court verdict holding them prima facie guilty of violating the law on foreign funding. The counsel representing the political parties informed the apex court that in view of the 2010 amendment made in the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), […]

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Foreign funding: Cong to clarify on FCRA amendment

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Congress, which has challenged a Delhi High Court verdict holding it and BJP prima facie guilty of violating the law on foreign funding, today sought time from the Supreme Court to clarify the effect of the amendment brought this year to the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 2010 in their matter. “The counsel for petitioner (Congress […]

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Court acquits ex-MCD councillor, hubby in graft case

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A former Congress MCD councillor and her husband have been acquitted by a special court of the alleged charge of demanding a bribe of over Rs 50,000 from a person to allow him construct a house here. Special CBI Judge Sanjay Garg-I absolved Veena Saini, ex-councillor from East Nangloi constituency, and her husband Naresh Saini, […]

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Rebel Cong MLA moves U’khand HC a’nst unseating

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One of the nine disqualified Congress MLAs today filed an application before the Uttarakhand High Court seeking urgent hearing of his petition on the ground that he will “suffer irreparable loss and injury” if it is not heard immediately. Rebel Congress MLA Umesh Sharma Kau, in his application moved before Justice U C Dhyani, has […]

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Kerala HC declines to stay vigilance case against ex-Ker Min

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In a setback to Kerala Congress (M) leader and former state finance minister K M Mani ahead of Assembly polls, the Kerala High Court today refused to stay the proceedings against him in the bar bribery case pending in the Vigilance Court in Thiruvananthapuram. Justice P D Rajan rejected the prayer of 82-year-old Mani seeking […]

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Herald case: Cong leaders challenge trial court order

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Congress leaders today challenged in Delhi High Court the trial courts decision summoning the 2010-11 balance sheet of Indian National Congress (INC) in connection with the National Herald case, saying such an order was not “desirable” in the present matter. “Neither notice was issued to us, nor we were summoned to contest the present application […]

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