Tag: Criminal Investigation Department

  • Bengal CID summons Assam businessman in Jharkhand MLAs’ money seizure case

    By means of PTI

    GUWAHATI: West Bengal Police has summoned Assam-based businessman Ashok Kumar Dhanuka in reference to its investigation into the Jharkhand MLAs’ money seizure case.

    In keeping with assets, the Prison Investigation Division (CID) of West Bengal pasted a understand at the gate of Dhanuka’s place of dwelling right here, asking him to seem ahead of its investigators in Kolkata on Monday.

    The businessman may just now not be reached for remark as his cellphones had been switched off.

    3 Congress MLAs from Jharkhand – Irfan Ansari, Rajesh Kachchap and Naman Bixal Kongari – had been arrested by means of West Bengal Police on July 31 after Rs 49 lakh in money was once seized from a automobile by which they had been travelling.

    The West Bengal CID took over the investigation from the Howrah Rural Police.

    It isn’t straight away recognized when sleuths of the neighbouring state pasted the attention at the gate of Dhanuka’s place of dwelling.

    Alternatively, on August 3, a four-member crew of the West Bengal CID had visited the BJP-ruled Assam as a part of the investigation within the money seizure case.

    The crew sought after to gather CCTV pictures of the Guwahati airport because it was once alleged that the 3 Jharkhand MLAs had reached the Assam capital on July 29 and left the town the next day to come.

    The Congress, which is part of the JMM-led executive in Jharkhand, alleged that the BJP was once looking to topple the Hemant Soren executive by means of providing Rs 10 crore each and every and a ministerial berth to MLAs.

    The celebration has additionally dragged within the identify of the Assam Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma within the alleged conspiracy, however those allegations had been rubbished by means of the BJP, which claimed that the grand previous celebration was once looking to disguise its personal corruption after the money was once discovered.

    GUWAHATI: West Bengal Police has summoned Assam-based businessman Ashok Kumar Dhanuka in reference to its investigation into the Jharkhand MLAs’ money seizure case.

    In keeping with assets, the Prison Investigation Division (CID) of West Bengal pasted a understand at the gate of Dhanuka’s place of dwelling right here, asking him to seem ahead of its investigators in Kolkata on Monday.

    The businessman may just now not be reached for remark as his cellphones had been switched off.

    3 Congress MLAs from Jharkhand – Irfan Ansari, Rajesh Kachchap and Naman Bixal Kongari – had been arrested by means of West Bengal Police on July 31 after Rs 49 lakh in money was once seized from a automobile by which they had been travelling.

    The West Bengal CID took over the investigation from the Howrah Rural Police.

    It isn’t straight away recognized when sleuths of the neighbouring state pasted the attention at the gate of Dhanuka’s place of dwelling.

    Alternatively, on August 3, a four-member crew of the West Bengal CID had visited the BJP-ruled Assam as a part of the investigation within the money seizure case.

    The crew sought after to gather CCTV pictures of the Guwahati airport because it was once alleged that the 3 Jharkhand MLAs had reached the Assam capital on July 29 and left the town the next day to come.

    The Congress, which is part of the JMM-led executive in Jharkhand, alleged that the BJP was once looking to topple the Hemant Soren executive by means of providing Rs 10 crore each and every and a ministerial berth to MLAs.

    The celebration has additionally dragged within the identify of the Assam Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma within the alleged conspiracy, however those allegations had been rubbished by means of the BJP, which claimed that the grand previous celebration was once looking to disguise its personal corruption after the money was once discovered.

  • HC asks Maharashtra CID for file on growth in Govind Pansare killing probe

    By way of PTI

    MUMBAI: The Bombay Prime Courtroom on Thursday directed the Maharashtra police’s Legal Investigation Division (CID) to put up a file detailing the growth constituted of 2020 until date in its probe into the killing of activist Govind Pansare in 2015.

    A bench led via Justice Revati Mohite-Dere directed the CID to put up the file inside of 4 weeks.

    The CID ultimate submitted a standing file within the case in 2020.

    The HC’s route got here after Abhay Nevagi, the recommend for Pansare’s members of the family, instructed the courtroom that the state police have been but to make any headway within the case even after seven years of the killing.

    The prime courtroom has been presiding over two petitions and a number of other packages filed via the members of the family of Pansare and slain rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, searching for that the courtroom observe the probe into the 2 killings.

    Whilst the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is probing Dabholkar’s homicide, a different investigation workforce (SIT) of the Maharashtra police’s CID is accomplishing a probe into Pansare’s killing.

    On Thursday, the bench additionally authorized the state govt to alleviate Further SP Tirupati Kakade, the present investigating officer (IO) within the Pansare case.

    Kakade is due for a switch after heading the explore for over four-and-a-half years.

    Since, a prior route of the Bombay Prime Courtroom mandated that not one of the officials probing the 2 circumstances be modified with out the courtroom’s permission, the state govt approached the HC on Thursday.

    The bench led via Justice Mohite-Dere allowed the state’s request for “relieving” Kakade, pronouncing a brand new IO will have to be appointed inside of 4 weeks and most effective then Kakade can take price of his new posting.

    The state knowledgeable the courtroom that there have been 15 officials within the SIT probing the case, of whom two retired lately and one had died of COVID-19.

    Nevagi additionally filed an software, claiming the killings of Dabholkar, Pansare, and slain Kannada activist and educational MM Kalburgi have been all “related”.

    He sought a route from the HC to the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) to probe who was once the mastermind at the back of the 3 killings.

    The prime courtroom is but to go any route at the software.

    “Allow them to (state CID) first give the standing file from 2020 to 2022 (within the Pansare case),” the HC mentioned.

    Dhabolkar was once shot lifeless on August 20, 2013 in Pune whilst he was once on a morning stroll.

    Pansare was once shot at on February 16, 2015 in Kolhapur and succumbed to his accidents a couple of days in a while February 20.

    Kalburgi was once shot to dying in Dharwad, Karnataka, on August 30, 2015.

    The companies probing the 3 killings mentioned in courtroom on earlier events that the circumstances had some commonplace hyperlinks and accused individuals.

    The Bombay HC has been listening to petitions filed via the family of Dhabolkar and Pansare, searching for that the courtroom observe the probe into each the circumstances.