CBI officials in Delhi said the agency will take up the probe. The agency is likely to re-register the FIR filed by Bihar police under Indian Penal Code sections related to abetment to suicide, criminal conspiracy, cheating among other charges on a complaint from the family of the deceased actor against his rumoured girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty and her family members.
Eighteen months after quashing a disproportionate assets case against Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on a technical ground, the Supreme Court on Friday asked why the Central Bureau of Investigation did not file a fresh first information report in the case.
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday evening formally decided to hand over the Shopian rape and murder case to the Central Bureau of Investigation.The CBI will probe the mysterious deaths of Neelofar Jan, 22, and her sister-in-law Aasiya Jan, 17, whose bodies were found on May 30. The government's decision comes a day after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah made his first public appearance in Shopian and assured the people of the town that the culprits would be punished.
"Now why is the state government averse? We don't have any words. Why should the state government do this?" Justice S S Shinde asked Maharashtra's senior counsel Rafiq Dada.
A day after Central Bureau of Investigation searches, former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayana Rao, who has been accused of alleged cheating and graft by the probe agency in its fresh FIR in the coal scam, alleged that it was a 'planned' action against him.
Congress Member of Parliament Naveen Jindal and former minister of state for coal Dasari Narayan Rao have been named as accused in the fresh FIR filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the coal allocation scam. Congress Member of Parliament Naveen Jindal and former minister of state for coal Dasari Narayan Rao have been named as accused in the fresh FIR filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the coal allocation scam.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday filed a chargesheet before the special court in the murder of Kunda DSP Zia-ul Haq without naming former minister Raja Bhaiya, who was an accused in the FIR filed by the officer's wife.
CBI sources said 44-year old Raja Bhaiya, who is prime accused in the FIR registered by Kunda DSP Zia-ul-Haq's wife Parveen Azar, has been summoned by the agency for questioning in connection with the larger conspiracy related to the murder of Balipur village head Nanhe Yadav.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has recorded statements of the then ministers of state in the coal ministry Santosh Bagrodia and Dasari Narayan Rao in connection with the coal block allocation scam.
The tenures of three more officers -- Joint Director Arun Kumar Sharma, Deputy Inspector General Manish Kumar Sinha and Superintendent of Police Jayant J Naiknavare -- have also been curtailed, it said.
Agency sources said in New Delhi on Tuesday that "certain bank accounts of all the Indian accused" named in the FIR have been frozen by CBI.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to submit its investigation report and other related documents against MTNL's chairman and managing director R S P Sinha.
The government on Friday said the probe into bulletproof jackets scam, in which a home ministry officer has been arrested, is on and it was trying to find out whether any other official was involved in it.
The PIL said the independent expert committee should be asked to submit its report within four weeks and direction be issued for action against state agencies for dereliction of duty.
The Central Bureau of Investigation carried out searches at the residences of five Members of Legislative Assembly of Jharkhand after registering a case into the alleged cash-for-vote scam during 2010 Rajya Sabha elections.
The crime branch has so far arrested 12 persons, including Republic TV's distribution head and owners of two other channels, in connection with the case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has named 10 non-government organisations, including the US-based Omidyar, as accused in the case of allegedly conspiring to illegally facilitate the registration and renewal of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act licences.
The CBI, in its FIR, alleged that Mayaram, the UK-based company De La Rue International Ltd and unidentified officials of the finance ministry and RBI hatched a criminal conspiracy to extend undue favour to the firm.
The Delhi high court on Friday declined to stay the proceedings with regard to confirming the provisional attachment of bank accounts of NGO Amnesty International, but said that any final order passed in the matter would not be implemented without leave of the court.
A vacation bench of Justice Madhav Jamdar was hearing an application filed by the ED, challenging the special court's order of November 6 remanding Deshmukh to 14-day judicial custody, on the ground that it was bad in law and against the principles of natural justice.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday initiated a formal probe into allegation by Army Chief General V K Singh that he was offered a Rs 14-crore bribe by a retired officer to clear a tranche of 'sub-standard' vehicles.
District and Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma held that the objections of the complainant party read like an engrossing thrilling story but were based on mere surmises and conjectures.
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to go ahead with its outgoing Director A P Singh's view on the prosecution of telecom companies, their officials and public servants on the allocation of excess 2G spectrum during the National Democratic Alliance regime when late Pramod Mahajan was the telecom minister.
A Delhi court on Monday sent to 14-day judicial custody the former managing director and chief executive officer of National Stock Exchange Chitra Ramkrishna in connection with the co-location scam case.
"The Punjab government is running just like the Modi government. Doing headline management to hide its failure. After winning on the slogan of bringing change, it is doing politics of revenge," he also said in a tweet.
The whereabouts of former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh were not known, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday told the Bombay high court.
Monish Malhotra, the superintendent, and Manas Patra, the alleged middleman, were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday, an official said.
The AAP claimed that Sisodia would be arrested on Monday and alleged the move was initiated in view of the forthcoming assembly elections in Gujarat where it is in a direct contest with the BJP.
Two years after the Gopalgarh riots rocked Rajasthan, the violent episode has again hit headlines after the Central Bureau of Investigation, which is probing the case, closed 14 of the 19 First Information Reports filed in connection with the riots.
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday launched fresh raids in connection with its money laundering investigation into alleged irregularities in the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy, official sources said.
Wankhede filed a petition and sought an urgent hearing, saying he feared arrest by police over allegations of extortion against him in the case related to alleged drug bust on a cruise ship involving actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan khan.
Justice Dangre said she would not be able to hear the plea due to "personal reasons".
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday registered a fresh case in connection with alleged irregularities in construction of indoor courts at Sri Fort sports complex for Commonwealth Games and carried out searches in Delhi and Mumbai.
Adarsh Society's members have approached the defence ministry and the Central Bureau of Investigation, seeking quashing of the FIR filed in the alleged multi-crore scam in the housing society, in the wake of a judicial probe of the Maharashtra government which had stated that the land belonged to the state and not the defence forces.
The special Central Bureau of Investigation court hearing the Adarsh scam on Tuesday received applications from former deputy secretary P V Deshmukh, an accused in the case, and family of another accused former civic body chief Jairaj Phatak seeking to defreeze their bank accounts.
The court directed Tihar authorities to provide Chidambaram with medicines, western toilet, security and separate cell.
Vectra chairman Ravinder Rishi was on Monday questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with alleged irregularities in the supply Tatra all-terrain trucks as it prepares to quiz the BEML Chairman V R S Natarajan on Tuesday.
The CBI had registered a preliminary enquiry in 2016 which was later converted into a regular case, they added.
The court has sought a status report on the FIR lodged at Gosaiganj police station on the complaint of doctor Sachan's wife Malti Sachan. It has also sought a status report of the judicial inquiry into Sachan's death being conducted by Chief Judicial Magistrate Rajesh Upadhyaya and report on information given by the jail authorities to Gosaiganj police station on the night when the medical officer was found dead.
The senior Shiv Sena leader also claimed that the Supreme Court had not found any fault with the investigation conducted by the Mumbai police so far.