The CBI has filed cases against former Samata Party chief Jaya Jaitley and former Bharatiya Janata Party president Bangaru Laxman in connection with the Tehelka defence expose.
She is understood to have told the agency that she vaguely remembered someone approaching her for party donations, CBI sources said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered fresh cases against two retired army officials and the former treasurer of Samata Party, R K Jain, in connection with the Tehelka expose.
Metropolitan Magistrate Gulshan Kumar dismissed the complaint on the ground of "non-prosecution" as neither Jaitly nor her lawyers appeared for hearing in the court.\n\n
Police searched expelled Samata Party MLA Sunil Pandey's official residence on Patna's Bailey Road and his ancestral home in Rohtas district.
The IMA has called off its indefinite strike in view of the rescue.
The order was passed in view of the 'serious doubts' raised over their authenticity.
Jha arrived at the RJD headquarters in Patna in a procession and joined the party in Yadav's presence.
Along with the opposition, key BJP allies Shiv Sena and Samata Party also slammed Divestment Minister Arun Shourie for going ahead with the strategic sale of the equity of the two public sector oil giants.
Along with the opposition, key BJP allies Shiv Sena and Samata Party also slammed Divestment Minister Arun Shourie for going ahead with the strategic sale of the equity of the two public sector oil giants.
Kushwaha said Kumar remarks that the JD-U would not join the Modi cabinet reminded him of 'sour grapes'.
'The merger is undemocratic. Leaders have flouted the party (JD-U) constitution,' says Devendra Prasad Yadav, a JD-U member of Parliament.
"In my opinion, there is nothing to indicate the tapes supplied to me by the Commission are not the camera originals made at the time of the incidents depicted," said London-based expert Mathew James Cass.
Bihar being in the grip of a Dusshera festival mood, leaders of rival political groups including Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on Tuesday used examples of slaying of Ravana to attack each other.
The Samata Party general secretary made a scathing attack on party president and Defence Minister George Fernandes dubbing him 'the most unapologetic and vocal supporter of divisive forces'.
Their leader and assembly speaker has convened the House on Monday.
Metropolitan Magistrate Gulshan Kumar fixed April 14 for further hearing.
Bandh suppertors set two buses ablaze and smashed the windscreens of nearly a dozen vehicles.
"All your queries would be answered at an appropriate time," he told journalists.
Basistha Narain Singh has been appointed interim convenor of a committee to oversee the organisational elections in Bihar due in another two months.
Bihar assembly elections which are to be announced shortly are expected to be five-phased and around 50,000 paramilitary personnel will be deployed in each phase to ensure peaceful polling.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to contest 160 of the 243 assembly seats in the upcoming polls, leaving 83 other seats to its three allies.
Jaitly flayed the Nobel laureate for expressing disappointment on Tehelkas treatment and said he should not play politics on behalf of the website.
The RJD will give one seat to the CPI-ML from its quota and former JD-U president Sharad Yadav will contest on RJD symbol.
The RJD is yet to complete its seat-sharing talks with smaller allies and the Left parties.
While the assembly elections are being seen as largely a contest between the NDA and the Grand Alliance, the state has been witness to mushrooming of "morchas" (fronts) which may queer the pitch for the lead players in a tight contest.
The notification will be issued on January 20, while January 27 will be the last date of filing nominations.
Rashtriya Lok Samata Party MLA Lallan Paswan has stirred a controversy by purportedly asking objectionable questions to girls of a residential Dalit school in Bihar's Vaishali district where he had gone in connection with death of a Class X girl allegedly after being raped.
Bitter rivals in Bihar politics Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad will be neighbours now after the Janata Dal-United top leader abdicated power as chief minister in the face of severe drubbing in the recent Lok Sabha election.
Else, warns rebel party MLA, the RJD will split.
A day after Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi hinted at the next Bihar assembly polls being held in September-October, most of the political parties including ruling Janata Dal-United and Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party claimed they were fully ready for it.
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