As the trial of right to information activist Shehla Masood murder case is underway, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday sought permission from the special court here to examine the main accused Zahida Parvez and co-accused Saba Farooqui in the judicial custody.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Saturday sent Saba Farooqui, a close friend of architect Zahida Parvez who is alleged to be the mastermind of Right To Information activist Shehla Masood's murder, to the agency's custody till March six. She was produced before the special CBI judge Subhra Singh, who sent her to three-day custody of the central agency, which is probing the case.
"I have to be associated in a formal way with the CBI's case. I will be happy to assist them. The court should give me a formal status and I do not think CBI would have any problem in this," Swamy told Special CBI Judge O P Saini.
They were arrested with the 'cooperation of district authorities of Satara on the strength of Non-bailable Warrant of Arrest issued by the Court of Special Judge, CBI Cases, City Sessions Court, Mumbai', CBI spokesperson R K Gaur said in New Delhi.
He joined the BJP at its headquarters in the presence of Union ministers Manohar Lal Khattar and Harsh Malhotra, Delhi unit president Virendra Sachdeva and national media head Anil Baluni among others.
The four, including the wife of the main accused, were taken 'outside the state' by a special flight, Singh said.
A special CBI judge from Andhra Pradesh, who had a couple of weeks granted bail to mining baron, Gali Janardhan Reddy, has been suspended by the chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court following allegations of corruption.
A Delhi court on Tuesday extended the judicial custody of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Bharat Rashtra Samiti leader K Kavitha in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise scam till May 7.
Former Commonwealth Games organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi's close aide Shekhar Deorukhkar was on Saturday remanded by a court here to five days of CBI custody in a multi-crore rupee overlays scam in connection with last year's mega sporting event.
There is no dearth of political will today to act against corruption and officers should take action against the corrupt, however powerful, without any hesitation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday grilled Intelligence Bureau Special Director Rajinder Kumar regarding his alleged role in the conspiracy to carry out the fake encounter in which Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed nine years ago.
After her husband Anil Ambani, Tina Ambani appeared in a Delhi court as a witness in the 2G spectrum case and CBI claimed that she was "deliberately withholding facts" which the judge found was "adverse" to the prosecution.
The CBI has alleged that Gorantla's role in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 caused 'wrongful gain' to Hyderabad-based wholesale and retail licensees and their beneficial owners.
The Supreme Court on Friday set up a five-member independent SIT to probe the allegations of animal fat used in preparing Tirupati laddus to "assuage the feelings of crores of people" while making clear that the court cannot be used as a "political battleground".
In a significant development, a key witness in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter on Thursday told a court that he was "threatened" by the CBI into making false statements in the case.
A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed the the Zee News Ltd's plea for direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation to lodge an FIR against Congress Member of Parliament Naveen Jindal for allegedly trying to influence the hearing before the News Broadcasting Standards Authority in connection with the alleged extortion bid case.
Sisodia went to his party office in the morning from where he proceeded to Rajghat. A large number of his supporters gathered outside his residence ahead of his questioning.
Claiming to have foiled a conspiracy to bribe public servants for diluting charges in the multi-crore Adarsh Housing Society scam, the Central Bureau of I on Wednesday arrested its own lawyer and a former Congress MLC, who is already an accused in the scam.
The CBI has charged the accused under Indian Penal Code Section 304 part II (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), Section 34 read with 201 (common cause read with destruction of evidence) and 153 of the Railways Act.
Special judge MK Nagpal will also hear arguments on Arora's plea to grant him pardon in the matter and allow him to become a witness in the matter.
We could not find out anybody's name, CBI lawyer said to the judge.
Congress president M Mallikarjun Kharge, meanwhile, came to Siddaramaiah's defence, stating that the party is standing with him and will support him.
A special court in Mumbai on Saturday remanded ICICI Bank's former CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar in the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) till December 26 in connection with alleged cheating and irregularities in loans sanctioned by the bank to Videocon Group companies. The Kochhars were arrested by the probe agency on Friday night after a brief questioning session. The CBI has alleged that they were evasive in their response and did not cooperate in the investigation.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is said to have been examined by Central Bureau of Investigation in the coal block allocation case relating to Hindalco but neither he nor the agency was willing to confirm it.
Four persons, including two sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation, have been acquitted in a bribery case by a Delhi court which said the probe by the agency into the matter was done in a "mindless, disoriented and half-hearted" manner.
The CBI, probing the 2004 fake encounter case of Isharat Jahan and three others, on Tuesday arrested suspended IPS officer D G Vanzara from Sabarmati Central Jail.
Businessman Abhishek Verma and his Romanian wife, arrested for allegedly receiving money from a Swiss arms firm for keeping it out of the Indian government's blacklist, were sent by a Delhi court to the Central Bureau of Investigation custody for seven days.
In a relief to former Aam Aadmi Party communication in-charge Vijay Nair, the Supreme Court on Monday granted him bail after nearly 23 months of incarceration in a money laundering case stemming from the alleged Delhi excise policy scam, observing that liberty is 'sacrosanct' and needs to be respected in cases involving even stringent laws.
Mondal, currently in judicial remand, is lodged in Asansol correctional home.
On May 11, Shyamvar Rai had sought to turn approver, saying he wants to "disclose all truths" as he had taken part in Sheena's killing by strangulation and was present at the time of the murder in 2012.
Though this is the second charge-sheet filed by the CBI in the case before a special court here, it is the first time that Tejashwi Yadav has been named as an accused.
Mulinja Narayanan, who headed the probe against Gurmeet Ram Rahim, recalled the pressures he faced while investigating the crime and how his subordinates pleaded he stop the probe.
CBI's Additional Director K Saleem Ali was promoted as posted as the special director of the agency.
The court has also slapped a fine of Rs 35,000 on Koli and Rs 25,000 on Pandher, CBI spokesperson said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has decided to question K Kanimozhi, daughter of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Karunanidhi and Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament, in connection with the 2G scam. The decision to summon Kanimozhi was taken soon after a special CBI court sent former telecom minister A Raja to Tihar Jail for 14 days in judicial custody.Sources in CBI confirmed that Kanimozhi would be asked to appear before the agency before March 1.
The Central Bureau of Investigation filed an application in an Ahmedabad court to interrogate former Gujarat Minister Amit Shah, accused in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, in jail on Monday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, probing the 2004 fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others, has filed an application in the special court in Ahmedabad to declare absconding accused IPS officer P P Pandey as a 'proclaimed offender'.
The duo were produced before special CBI Judge Sapna Misra, who sent them to 14 days remand for the murder of Nanda Devi, Pandher's maid servant.
The Karnataka CM is facing allegations of illegalities in the allotment of 14 sites to his wife Parvathi B M by the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA).
Parents of murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar filed a protest petition in court against the Central Bureau of Investigations closure report in the case, alleging that there were "deliberate lapses" in the investigation besides noticeable non-mentioning of material pieces of evidence.
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