The businessman was summoned at the ED's office and was asked questions about the purported links of the alleged main accused of the case Amit Bhardwaj with his businesses.
The kingpin of the racket, Joseph, an unemployed techie hailing from Virudunagar in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu, was nabbed from a cyber cafe in Mahadevapura near Whitefield by the police on November 29. Six of his associates have also been nabbed. The police tracked the accused by tracing the IP address of the PC from where the accounts were hacked.
The seized explosive materials include 38,700 electric detonators, 1,950 gelatin sticks and 50 kg ammonium nitrate.
The Chief Judicial Magistrate, taking cognizance of the chargesheets, fixed July 7 as the next date of hearing.
A sessions court in Mumbai sentenced fake stamp paper scam kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi to seven years rigorous imprisonment on Friday for the murder of his driver Christopher Bhate. The prosecution alleged that Telgi, along with four of his associates, killed Bale because the latter had some information about the confidential business dealings of Telgi's stamp paper scam.
The court had denied bail to her twice last month.
Amit Kumar, the alleged kingpin of the multi-crore kidney transplant racket, on Thursday denied the charges framed by the Central Bureau of Investigation against him."I have not removed the kidney of any person on gun point. The kidneys were transplanted with the mutual consent of the donors and the beneficiaries", he told reporters.He alleged that the CBI had falsely implicated him in the case and now it was freezing his bank account in Canada without any justification.
Malayalam film Nellikka lacks bite, feels Paresh C Palicha.
Former Bangalore police commissioner H T Sangliana and BJP MP from Bangalore defied the party whip and voted for the UPA's trust motion. He speaks on why he did so, as well as his plans for the future.
With many foreign patients being his clients, Kumar has been accused of stashing a part of his earnings abroad and the Enforcement Directorate is assessing if a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act could be slapped against him and his associates.
The CBI team searched the room of Linda, a Manipuri woman arrested by the Haryana police on January 31 and took away some documents related to the case before sealing it, official sources said. Linda had come in contact with Kumar during her initial years in the nursing profession. Though she was working in RML Hospital as a staff nurse, she had been providing part-time services to Amit Kumar, the sources said.
A Nepalese minister indicated that it may take weeks or months for the tainted doctor to be sent to India.
The process of bringing Kumar back to India is going to take some time because of formalities involved in the process, official sources in New Delhi said.
Amid speculation about the Samajwadi Party and the Congress joining hands to bail out UPA government in its stand-off with the Left on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the BJP on Monday put up a brave face, saying this would ultimately benefit it. "If the SP and the Congress come together, that will mark the death knell of the so-called Third Front as the SP is kingpin of this front. This would lead to the Congress versus anti-Congress politics which would benefit the BJP," a sen
A SIT has begun process to freeze bank accounts of arrested accused in the Bihar toppers scam. M I Khan/Rediff.com reports from Patna.
A woman and a teenage boy on Saturday blew themselves up in Dhaka when Bangladesh police's elite counter-terrorism unit raided a three-storey building where heavily-armed militants, belonging to an Islamist group blamed for the deadly cafe attack, were hiding.
All the sentences will run concurrently. On Saturday last, Angadi had convicted Telgi and four others in four transactions involving fake stamp paper sale of about Rs 4.90 lakh to a private firm Deccan Structural System during 1999.
The vigilance officials submitted the chargesheet in the court of special vigilance judge Ramnivas Prasad, bureau's Additional Director-General Neelmani said.
Forty-year-old Kumar, who was arrested from a jungle resort in Chitwan in southern Nepal on Thursday, was handed over to a two-member CBI team on Saturday evening.
Pawar stated that there was no need to take any congnizance of what a criminal has said.
Telgi has already been sentenced to 13 years RI by a Pune court in connection with the fake stamp paper scam. Today's sentence will run concurrently along with the Pune court order.
Meanwhile, Yerawada Central Jail Superintendent Rajendra Dhamne said that some 53 accused have gone on indefinite hunger strike from Tuesday afternoon.
With the fall of Congress, Chidambaram's political graph too started moving southwards.
The CBI's probe into the fake stamp paper scam received a shot in the arm on Wednesday with a court in Delhi accepting an application by an associate of kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi in which he voluntarily pleaded guilty.
It had all the makings of a movie thriller. Students who paid a few lakh rupees were supplied with vanishing ink. Answer papers were intercepted on the way and corrected. No one would have been wiser had the perpetrators of the exam scam not gotten greedy.
The arrest of two armymen on the charge of spying for Pakistan has set off an alarm in the government with Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee saying on Monday that the Inter-Services Intelligence is trying to infiltrate and subvert the armed forces.
Roger Binny, the former Karnataka and India cricketer talks about India's lack of genuine allrounders, India's poor fielding, India's chances in the Twenty20 World Cup.
Telgi has said in a letter read out by his lawyers that he is disturbed by the reports.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday said all the leads emerging from narco-analysis test of fake stamp paper kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi were pursued and a chargesheet was filed only after further corroboratory evidence.
CBI officials waited outside the studio, where he surfaced, before they arrested him.
The Delhi police unearthed a multi-crore corporate fraud and arrested the kingpin of the racket, a hotelier who allegedly cheated as many as six major banks in Delhi by extracting loans furnishing forged documents.
Haji Baz was one of eight individuals designated by President Bush for sanctions pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act.\n
A total of 89 items including 56 stone idols, 22 pillars and 12 metal statues were recovered from the house.
DIG A P Muhammad Ali, Assistant Commissioner of Police Shankar and LIC's administrative official Ramaswamy were among those arrested.
The police say they have enough incriminating evidence against the former Patna district magistrate.
The charge sheet was filed three days before the lapse of the mandatory 90 days, failing which the accused would have stood a chance to get bail.\n\n
Turning on the heat on former Patna district magistrate Gautam Goswami and two other alleged kingpins of the multi-crore flood relief scam, the Bihar Vigilance Bureau on Monday alerted airports across the country to prevent their possible escape.
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