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  • CBI conducts searches at Gujarat IAS officer’s premises in bribery case, arrests his aide

    Through PTI

    AHMEDABAD: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) performed searches on the place of abode and different premises of Gujarat cadre IAS officer Okay Rajesh in reference to the allegations of bribery towards him, the company mentioned on Friday.

    The searches had been performed past due Thursday night time on the bureaucrat’s place of abode in Gandhinagar and a few different premises in Surat in addition to at his local position in Andhra Pradesh, the CBI mentioned in a remark.

    Mohammed Rafiq Memon, who acted because the IAS officer’s intermediary and who used to gather bribe cash for him, has been arrested from Surat, it mentioned.

    Rajesh, a 2011-batch IAS officer, these days serves because the joint secretary within the Normal Management Division of the Gujarat govt in Gandhinagar.

    Not too long ago, the CBI had gained a grievance that once he used to be the collector of Surendranagar district, Rajesh had allegedly taken bribe in land offers and in sanctioning weapon licenses to ineligible individuals, the central company added.

    The bribe cash used to achieve him by the use of his intermediary Memon, a service provider primarily based in Surat, the CBI mentioned.

  • Nithari killings: Particular CBI court docket awards loss of life sentence to accused Surinder Koli

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    GHAZIABAD: A distinct CBI court docket right here has awarded loss of life sentence to the high accused within the Nithari murders Surinder Koli for raping and murdering a lady.

    Pass judgement on Rakesh Tripathi awarded seven years imprisonment to Koli’s employer — businessman Moninder Singh Pandher — within the case.

    The court docket imposed a high-quality of Rs 62 thousand on Koli and Rs 4 thousand on Pandher.

    Particular CBI public prosecutor Darshan Lal mentioned the company has produced 83 witnesses sooner than the court docket and their statements were recorded.

    At the foundation of proof, Koli was once held to blame of killing, raping, hatching a conspiracy and destroying evidence of crime whilst Pandher was once accused of immoral trafficking on Tuesday.

    The court docket had reserved its order on sentencing for Thursday Previous to this, the court docket had awarded loss of life sentence to Koli in 13 instances whilst he was once acquitted in 3.

    Pandher too was once sentenced to loss of life in 3 instances.

    Lal mentioned the court docket seen that the offense which Koli dedicated falls within the “rarest class” of crimes because it displays his cruelty against the sufferer who was once strangled to loss of life after being raped.

    Her frame was once sliced into items and the portions have been crammed in polythene luggage and dumped in a drain at the back of Pandher’s space in Nithari.

    In the meantime, Pandher recommended the court docket to lower his punishment as he’s ill and present process remedy within the prison health facility.

    The sensational killings got here to mild with the invention of 8 skeletal stays of youngsters from the drain at the back of Pandher’s space on December 29, 2006.

    Pandher and Koli have been therefore arrested by way of the Noida Police.

    With additional digging and looking of drains and the realm round Pandher’s space, extra skeletal stays have been discovered.

    These types of stays proved to be that of deficient youngsters and younger ladies who had long gone lacking from the realm.

    Inside 10 days, the CBI took over case and its seek resulted within the restoration of extra bones.

    Throughout the interrogation, Koli had accredited rape, homicide and cannibalism, in line with the CBI.

    A complete 19 instances have been lodged however in 3 instances the CBI had filed closure reviews because of loss of proof, he mentioned.

  • SSC recruitment rip-off: After Bengal minister’s interrogation, petitioner transfer HC

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    KOLKATA: In a while after CBI interrogated Trinamool Congress’s secretary common and previous schooling minister Partha Chatterjee for 4 hours in reference to the alleged irregularities in recruitment of academics and non-teaching staffs within the state-run faculties in the course of the College Provider Fee (SSC), the Kolkata Top Court docket on Wednesday made up our minds to open a overdue evening consultation after petitioners sought coverage of evidences through the CRPF which they imagine to be a very powerful.

    The petitioners stated the evidences are necessary because it satisfied the prime court docket to interact the CBI to habits a probe giving liberty the central company to interrogate the TMC heavyweight. In addition they stated of their petition that the evidences will have to be safe through the CRPF as there may well be makes an attempt to tamper it.

    Chatterjee became up on the CBI place of job in a while after the department bench upheld the single-bench pass judgement on’s order asking CBI to probe into the irregularities.

    Despite the fact that Chatterjee moved a department bench on Wednesday afternoon however his petition used to be no longer entertained.

    4 participants of the advice committee, which used to be shaped through Chatterjee to facilitate the alleged irregularities.

    On April 12 this yr, Justice Gangopadhyay had ordered Chatterjee to stand the CBI probe at the similar day however a department bench had put a keep on it.

    “The one bench discussed in its order gave liberty to the CBI to arrest Chatterjee, if wanted,” stated suggest Sudipta Sengupta.

    Upholding the former order, wherein a CBI probe used to be ordered within the elleged recruitment rip-off, the department bench comprising Justice Subrata Talukdar and Ananda Kumar Mukherjee stated on Wednesday that there used to be no infirmity within the orders of the one bench. The department bench stated in its order that the rip-off and the cash path concerned can be investigated consistent with the orders of the one bench.

    Previous the prime court docket had arrange a committee headed through retired HC justice Ranjit Kumar Bag to probe into the alleged irregularities. The committee discovered large discrepancies and beneficial felony court cases along side disciplinary court cases some former officers of the SSC.

    The committee beneficial felony court cases towards 4 former SSC officers and the incumbent president of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Schooling. It additionally sought disciplinary court cases towards six different former senior SSC officers. 

    Welcoming the court docket’s order, BJP’s state president Sukanta Majumdar alleged the federal government and its ministers are shameless. ‘’We all know there was massive corruption. If the CBI begins investigation, all the unlawful dealer floor,’’ he stated.

    “It is a court docket topic and the problem is subjudice. If somebody did the rest unsuitable, the birthday celebration is not going to take accountability,” stated TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh.

    Kolkata Top Court docket ordered nobody can be allowed to go into SSC place of job until 1 pm because the CRPF will guard the established order.The order based on petition to offer protection to paperwork associated with irregularities in recruitment in faculties via SSC.

  • HC directs CBI to interrogate Bengal minister over appointment of daughter as instructor

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: The Calcutta Top Courtroom on Tuesday directed West Bengal Minister of State for Training Paresh Chandra Adhikari to seem earlier than the CBI right here over alleged appointment of his daughter as a instructor in a state government-aided college in Cooch Behar district.

    The order used to be handed on a petition through a candidate who claimed that she used to be disadvantaged of the process in spite of having secured upper marks than the minister’s daughter within the recruitment exam for academics.

    Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay directed the minister to seem earlier than the CBI government in Kolkata through Tuesday night.

    Adhikari, who used to be in Cooch Behar, instructed newshounds that he has left for Kolkata in conjunction with his daughter following the top court docket order.

    The minister is an MLA from Mekhliganj constituency in Cooch Behar.

    The court docket directed the CBI to document a record at the subject on Might 7, when it’ll be taken up for listening to once more.

    The petitioner’s attorney Firdous Shamim claimed that she had secured 77 marks within the exam whilst the minister’s daughter were given 61, and that her identify didn’t determine within the advantage record, however were given appointment as a instructor depriving the petitioner Babita Sarkar.

    Justice Gangopadhyay had previous on 4 events ordered CBI inquiry in reference to alleged irregularities in appointments of training and non-teaching personnel in state government-aided faculties.

  • CBI to probe paper leak of police constables’ recruitment take a look at: Himachal Pradesh CM Jai Ram Thakur

    Through PTI

    SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh executive on Tuesday determined handy over to the CBI a case of the leakage of query papers of the recruitment take a look at for constables. In a hurriedly referred to as press convention at his respectable place of abode Oakover right here, Leader Minister Jai Ram Thakur mentioned the state executive has determined handy over the probe into the case to the CBI.

    The primary reason why for entrusting the duty to the central investigative company is to verify equity and impartiality within the probe, he mentioned. The case used to be recently being investigated by means of a unique investigating crew of the state police which itself used to be undertaking the written take a look at for the recruitment of constables, he added.

  • CBI books Karti Chidambaram for facilitating visa of Chinese language nationals for unlawful gratification

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: The CBI has filed a recent case towards Lok Sabha MP Karti Chidambaram, son of former finance minister P Chidambaram, for allegedly facilitating visas of 250 Chinese language nationals after receiving unlawful gratification of Rs 50 lakh, officers stated on Tuesday.

    The CBI on Tuesday morning began coordinated seek operations at 9 places in more than one towns within the nation, together with Karti Chidambaram’s flats in Chennai and Delhi, they stated.

    The searches are being performed at 3 places in Chennai, 3 in Mumbai, and one each and every in Karnataka, Punjab and Odisha, they added.

    A CBI crew additionally visited the legit place of abode of Karti Chidambaram and senior Congress chief and Rajya Sabha MP P Chidambaram at Lodhi Property right here, the officers stated.

    “I’ve misplaced depend, how time and again has it been? Should be a report,” Karti tweeted with out specifying.

    Within the new case which is an offshoot of an ongoing probe, the CBI has alleged that Karti Chidambaram had gained Rs 50 lakh alleged bribe to facilitate the visa of 250 Chinese language nationals all through the UPA regime for an influence challenge, the officers stated.

    The CBI were given the whiff of the case all through its ongoing investigation associated with the INX media case wherein Karti is already underneath probe in getting Overseas Funding Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance for INX media, they stated.

    Following the scrutiny of the transaction, the CBI had detected the bills value Rs 50 lakh that are purported to be unlawful gratification for facilitating the visa of Chinese language staff who had been meant to paintings on the plant, the officers stated.

  • ‘0 tolerance to wrong behaviour’: CBI repatriates officer over brawl with police officers, guards

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: The CBI Monday repatriated considered one of its officials, who had joined the company just lately on deputation from the GST and Customs, to his mother or father carrier allegedly after he entered in a brawl with safety guards and police body of workers close to his Faridabad place of abode, officers mentioned.

    They mentioned the punitive motion in opposition to Asish Solanki used to be taken straight away after his “wrong behaviour” used to be dropped at the awareness of the CBI most sensible brass, pronouncing it is a part of the company’s 0 tolerance coverage in opposition to its officers’ misbehaviour.

    Solanki had joined the CBI as an inspector in April on deputation from the administrative center of Leader Commissioner GST and Customs, Guwahati.

    He used to be allocated the Financial institution Securities and Frauds Department of the central company just lately, they mentioned.

    It emerged he used to be dwelling in Faridabad the place he used to be allegedly partying Sunday evening when safety guards requested him to forestall the noise, they mentioned.

    It’s alleged that Solanki now not handiest traded blows with the safety body of workers but additionally with the native police, they mentioned.

    The Faridabad Police arrested him within the morning, they mentioned.

    When the subject used to be dropped at the awareness of most sensible brass of the CBI within the afternoon, orders have been issued straight away to repatriate him to his mother or father carrier Leader Commissioner of GST and Customs, Guwahati, they mentioned.

    The central company additionally really useful disciplinary motion in opposition to him for “wrong behaviour”.

  • CBI searches 8 places in J-Ok, Mumbai in J&Ok Financial institution development acquire irregularities case

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The CBI on Tuesday performed searches on the premises of former J&Ok Financial institution chairman Haseeb Drabu and a few different former best officers in reference to the acquisition of the financial institution’s place of work development in Mumbai in 2010, and claimed to have recovered “incriminating paperwork”.

    The searches have been performed at 8 places in Mumbai, Srinagar and Jammu after the company registered an FIR within the acquire of the Akruti Gold Development for round Rs 180 crore via the financial institution for its built-in place of work in Mumbai on November 11 remaining 12 months, officers mentioned.

    The FIR used to be registered following a reference from the Jammu and Kashmir govt, they mentioned.

    The premises of then financial institution administrators M I Shahdad and Vikrant Kuthiala, and previous govt director A Ok Mehta have been additionally searched on Tuesday, the officers mentioned. That is the second one seek on this connection. The 4 have been additionally participants of the property committee of the financial institution, they mentioned.

    “The Central Bureau of Investigation is nowadays engaging in searches at 8 places together with at Jammu, Srinagar and Mumbai on the premises of then participants of Property Committee of the Board of Administrators together with then chairman of J&Ok Financial institution, then administrators, then govt director. Incriminating paperwork, articles and digital evidences, a number of checking account main points and financial institution locker keys were recovered right through searches,” CBI spokesperson RC Joshi mentioned.

    The CBI has alleged that the financial institution had entered right into a deal for its department place of work on the Bandra Kurla Complicated (BKC) with Akruti Gold at a far upper price than introduced via different shortlisted developers inflicting a lack of over Rs 100 crore to the financial institution.

    The case used to be previous probed via the Anti-corruption Department of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, which had registered an FIR following a initial inquiry.

    The inquiry record, now a part of the FIR, had mentioned an commercial used to be issued via the J&Ok Financial institution on November 6, 2008, inviting provides for outright sale of built-in place of work premises at Bandra Kurla, Mumbai, requiring 20,000 sqft area.

    Twenty-five developers had spoke back to the commercial which have been opened via the committee shaped for the aim and out of the provides won, 8 houses Ashapura Developers (Hallmark Trade Plaza), Topaz Akruti, Crescenzo (BKC), Platin BKC, Naman Centre, Golden Fatherland companies (Wockhardt), Windsor and KRC Towers have been shortlisted.

    Of those 8, the charges introduced via Ashapura Developers have been the bottom at Rs 25,000 in step with sqft, Ashapura Developers on July 28, 2009, made an be offering for its development’s 3rd flooring of 30,000 sqft constructed up house at Rs 22,500 in step with sqft chargeable house.

    “The applying used to be processed and submitted to then chairman to take a call however no determination used to be taken referring to finalisation of contract with Ashapura Developers’ house owners. A committee used to be constituted with approval of the chairman to take a view with reference to the be offering won. The committee so constituted has achieved not anything in admire of provides won,” the FIR had alleged.

    The financial institution at the directions of its company headquarters revealed any other commercial on January 14, 2010, searching for place of work area 25,000-30,000 sqft and home apartments in or round Andheri (15 unmarried BHK 600-800 sqft and 10 double BHK 1000-1200 sqft) it mentioned.

    The be offering used to be spoke back to via 23 developers. “Ashapura Developers once more quoted the bottom price Rs 25,000 in step with sqft It’s been discovered that no heed as soon as once more used to be paid to the bottom price,” the FIR alleged.

    It’s been discovered that within the board of administrators assembly hung on february 25, 2010, the director property committee briefed board participants about website online inspections of the shortlisted houses performed via the property committee, it alleged.

    “The participants have been knowledgeable that among the fast indexed houses, Akruti Goki BKC meets necessities of the financial institution. He additional knowledgeable the participants that overall chargeable house of all of the development used to be round 42,000 sqft at Rs 26,000 in step with sqft which kind of works out to Rs 109 crore for all of the development and Rs 73 crore for the proposed six flooring,” the FIR alleged.

    It mentioned the board participants allegedly gave approval to the proposal and made up our minds that the financial institution must input into negotiations with the developers for buying all of the development.

    “Negotiations have been held with Akruti Gold BKC and in spite of everything the speed used to be finalised at Rs 26,000 in step with sqft for 9 flooring having overall chargeable house of 63,776 sqft. A letter of intent used to be signed with the builder and a token cash of Rs 25 crore used to be paid to developer Vishal Techno Trade Restricted,” it alleged.

    The FIR mentioned there used to be enough area to be had with J&Ok Financial institution for functioning of its department at Bandra Kurla, Zonal Place of job and Treasury and as such there used to be no requirement of buying any further lodging.

    “The Zonal Place of job Mumbai, Department Bandra Kurla and Treasury have been already functioning within the financial institution’s personal structures. The commercials issued have been for 20,000 sqft and 20,000-30,000 sqft respectively according to which, the charges introduced via Ashapura Developers have been Rs 25,000 and Rs 22,000 a sqft,” it alleged.

    The CBI alleged that as a part of a “felony conspiracy hatched a number of the officials/officers of J&Ok Financial institution and the house owners of Akruti Gold BKC”, officials of J&Ok Financial institution authorized acquire of 65,065 sqft at Rs 26,000 in step with sqft on extremely exorbitant attention of Rs 180.57 crore “in blatant overlook to the tendering procedure with consequent loss to the financial institution exchequer.” Their movements allegedly led to a tentative lack of greater than Rs 100 crore to the financial institution exchequer, it mentioned.

  • BJP, TMC in blame sport on Tagore’s start anniversary over robbery of his Nobel medallion

    By means of Specific Information Provider

    KOLKATA: The Nobel medallion robbery that shook the country 18 years in the past was once dragged into West Bengal’s politics on Monday when the state celebrated the 161st start anniversary of the Bengali icon Rabindranath Tagore as Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee lamented that the CBI’s failure to recuperate this is a ‘giant insult’ to the folk of the state, whilst BJP chief Rahul Sinha connected the ruling celebration to the incident.

    “The CBI could not recuperate the stolen medallion on account of non-cooperation from the state govt. Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee had confident that she would to find Tagore’s Nobel if the CBI fails. Now it’s her task to convey again Bengal’s delight. The TMC was once concerned within the robbery,” Sinha stated at the instance of the Nobel laureate’s start anniversary on the celebration headquarters in north Kolkata.

    In a while after Sinha’s allegation, the Bengal CM hit out on the CBI, which probed the robbery, at the identical factor at an tournament organised through the state govt. “This was once the primary Nobel that we had gained and somebody snatched it clear of us. It pains me to suppose that the Nobel may just now not be traced even after such a lot of years. This came about all the way through the Left Entrance regime. I have no idea if any proof nonetheless exists. The failure at the a part of CBI is a large insult to the folk of Bengal,” Mamata stated in her deal with expressing her apprehension that the central company would possibly have closed the probe through now.

    TMC’s normal secretary and spokesperson Kunal Ghosh rubbished Sinha’s allegation. “It’s baseless. When the robbery happened, the Left Entrance govt was once in Bengal. How can the TMC be connected with the incident?” he requested.

  • CBI information earlier than Calcutta HC probe development experiences in Birbhum killings, TMC chief’s homicide

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA: The CBI on Monday submitted earlier than the Calcutta Top Courtroom probe development experiences within the Birbhum arson case, which left 10 folks useless, and the homicide of TMC panchayat deputy leader Bhadu Sheikh that allegedly resulted in the killings.

    A department bench comprising Leader Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice R Bharadwaj, which ordered a CBI probe into the 2 incidents, had directed the company to record the development experiences at the investigations on Might 2.

    The bench had on March 25 ordered that the probe into the March 21 violence at Bogtui in Birbhum district be passed over to CBI from the West Bengal government-appointed particular investigation workforce.

    It had due to this fact on April 8 ordered that the investigation within the homicide of Bhadu Sheikh be additionally passed over to the CBI from the state police, watching that the second one incident prima facie appears to be the autumn out of the homicide of Sheikh.

    Ten folks, together with ladies and kids, died after miscreants set fireplace to homes in Bogtui village on March 21.

    The bloodbath came about in a while after Sheikh used to be killed.