Gupta was demanding that a fact-finding committee report on an alleged water tanker scam during Sheila Dikshit's tenure be made public and a calling attention motion on the matter. Speaker Ram Niwas Goel rejected the demand.
Demanding that the Central Bureau of Investigation be brought under the purview of Lokpal, Team Anna on Friday said that the role of the ombudsman will be reduced to a post office receiving and forwarding complaints if it does not have control over the anti-corruption wing of the probe agency.
The verdict of the Pakistan Supreme Court, which struck down the constitutional amnesty granted to senior leaders over corruption charges against them on Wednesday, has reportedly plunged the country into political chaos.Scrapping of the controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance has sent several top politicians of the country scurrying for cover, as the National Accountability Bureau geared up to reopen hundreds of corruption cases against top figures.
The anti-corruption branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation, which is currently investigating the 2G spectrum case, is also looking into allegations about the involvement of Textile Minister Dayanidhi Maran in the multi-crore scam, CBI Director Amar Pratap said. "A lot of information is coming in for this particular case and we will have to sift through the allegations and try to find out whether he (Maran) favoured any particular company or not," Singh quipped.
The anti-corruption branch of the Central Bureau Investigation has given a clean chit to Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata in the 2G spectrum scam.
M Nageswar Rao, who took over the duties and functions of CBI director late on Tuesday night, appointed Satish Dagar as superintendent of police to probe the case, they said.
In a major setback for the Pakistan People's Party-led civilian government, the Lahore high court on Monday dismissed an appeal filed by Interior Minister Rehman Malik against his conviction and sentencing in two corruption cases by another court.The anti-corruption court, acting on references by the National Accountability Bureau, had awarded Malik a three-year prison term. The court pronounced the sentences after the minister failed to turn up for the trial.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will have to face several old corruption cases when he loses his immunity from prosecution at the end of his five-year term next month, a government official said on Monday.
The petitions challenging the NRO had said the law violated fundamental rights as no government has the right to quash corruption cases. The petitioners also contended that the ordinance was contrary to the constitution and asked for it to be scrapped.
A special court of the Anti-Corruption Bureau in Hyderabad directed the Bureau on Friday to register a case against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, Irrigation Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah and nine others in an alleged corruption case relating to a controversial irrigation project.
The party said that the Delhi cricket body had become a den of corruption during Jaitley's 13-year rule.
TV footage showed Zardari coming out of his house and embracing his younger daughter Aseefa before getting into a black Landcruiser.
Pakistan's controversial anti-corruption watchdog on Monday filed an application in a court seeking resumption of a trial against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz on graft charges, in what would be seen as a politically motivated move.
Singh, who was also assisting in the recent case involving former Uttar Pradesh chief secretary Akhand Pratap Singh, was described as a brilliant investigating officer by his seniors
'In the course of my interactions with him, Modi insisted that he does not believe charisma alone can sustain people's trust for long.' 'That is why Modi consistently refers to Mahatma Gandhi to contextualise his politics.' 'He believes in taking his ideas to the masses and getting their acceptance as an index of approval.'
A revealing excerpt from Ajay Singh's The Architect of the New BJP: How Narendra Modi Transformed the Party.
A fresh political war of words erupted on Tuesday over the Rafale issue as the Bharatiya Janata Party accused the Congress leadership of corruption citing claims of a French media report on 'commissions' being paid during the United Progressive Alliance rule and said the Indian National Congress should be renamed 'I Need Commission' party.
It is alleged that Singh has assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
The officials were connected to an excise rebate scam in 2004.
Modi lashed out at the Siddaramaiah government over alleged corruption, saying there is not a single minister who is not facing allegations of financial wrongdoing.
Mayawati was questioned by sleuths of the Anti-Corruption unit of the agency at her official residence in New Delhi, CBI sources said.
To bring the perspective of the Central Vigilance Commission order recommending the divesting of powers of Verma and Asthana, Joint Director M Nageshwar Rao has been given the charge to look after the duties and functions of the Director as an interim arrangement, a CBI spokesperson said.
A total of 194 people were booked after raids on some 249 places all over the country.
'And who sold this belief?' 'Public-spirited individuals' like Subramanian Swamy.' 'Independent public servants' like Vinod Rai. 'Anti-corruption activists' like Kiran Bedi. And 'outspoken television anchors' like Arnab Goswami,' says Mihir S Sharma.
Besides the cash, the anti-corruption wing of the agency also seized several bank accounts from the residence of Om Praksh Vimal.
The Delhi Cabinet on Monday cleared the draft of the much talked-about Jan Lokpal bill which provides for covering all public servants -- from chief minister to Group D employees -- and seeks life term as maximum punishment for those found guilty of corruption.
If suitable action is not taken in corruption cases, it becomes normalised in society, the prime minister said. When a generation sees that a corrupt person in the family is let off without or very little punishment, their courage to indulge in corrupt activities grows manifolds, he said.
The sacked water minister said that when he asked the Delhi CM about the cash, he was told 'said few things in politics cannot be explained'.
Modi's irrigation push in the Budget is aimed at scoring on the political front along with achieving growth targets
The Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday approved setting up of three special Central Bureau of Investigation courts in the state to clear long pending cases.
'The CBI should be bifurcated and the CBI's charter should be restricted to anti-corruption cases.'
'The investigation of major criminal cases having national and international implications, and national crimes spread over more than one state may be entrusted to a new national crime bureau,' recommends Dr Madhav Godbole, the former home secretary.
Somnath Bharti, the law minister in Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's cabinet, was once indicted for tampering with evidence by a court in Patiala.
Central Bureau of Investigation has written to the law minister expressing reservations over the new provisions introduced through Lokpal where the agency will have to take the nod of Central Vigilance Commission before filing charge sheets in cases referred by the anti-corruption watchdog.
Anil Kumar Sinha, a 1979-batch Indian Police Service officer, on Wednesday took over the reins of the Central Bureau of Investigation at a time when the agency is facing criticism from courts over its handling of probe in coal allocation and 2G scams.
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