Alamgir Alam had distanced himself from the activities of Lal while speaking to reporters after the ED raids, pointing out that he had earlier served with other ministers of the state government too.
The Enforcement Directorate, which has been investigating the Mahadev app-linked money laundering case for more than a year, alleged in the past that its probe has shown involvement of various high-ranking politicians and bureaucrats from Chhattisgarh, where the two main promoters of the app hail from.
Allowing an appeal filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the high court had remanded the matter back to the trial court to conduct a fresh hearing on the question of framing of charge against all the four accused persons including Gogoi.
A Delhi court on Tuesday sent to 10-day judicial custody NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and human resources department head Amit Chakravarty, arrested in a case lodged under anti-terror law UAPA over allegations that the news portal received money to spread pro-China propaganda.
NewsClick on Wednesday alleged in the Delhi high court that investigating agencies were abusing the process of law to subject it to criminal prosecution to create a "chilling effect".
Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said the instances of people running away and evading the legal process was increasing and this needed to be stopped, as the current laws do not allow fully dealing with the severity of the problem.
The top court had come down heavily on the ED and said it is not expected to be "vindictive" in its conduct and must act with utmost probity and fairness.
He was discharged for want of sanction for his prosecution.
In the swiftest action against erring personnel, the Central Bureau of Investigation has dismissed its four officers under a stringent constitutional provision and arrested them after they were allegedly found involved in staging a raid on a company in Chandigarh to extort money, officials said Thursday.
n February 2009, the CBI took over the investigation.
The court directed Raju, the prime accused in Satyam scam, and others to furnish personal bond of Rs 20,000 each and sureties of the like amount on or before December 22 and posted the matter to the same date.
Confiscation of the tycoon's properties will start from February 5.
NewsClick said that none of these investigations led to any chargesheets or complaints over the last three years."
A court in New Delhi on Tuesday sent Bharat Rashtra Samiti leader K Kavitha to judicial custody till April 9 on a plea made by the Enforcement Directorate that the 'highly influential' arrestee, if released, was likely to influence witnesses and tamper with evidence.
The tax authorities have been piling pressure for a long time against Mallya and on Kingfisher Airlines to cough up the dues.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Tuesday dismissed plea of YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy seeking exemption from personal appearance during the hearings in a case of alleged quid-pro-quo investments involving his companies, in which he is the prime accused.
Currently, confiscation can be done through multiple laws, but it is a complicated process.
The ED carried out searches against two former auditor firms of IL&FS -- BSR and Associates and Deloitte Haskins and Sells -- on Wednesday in connection with its money-laundering probe into alleged financial irregularities at the infrastructure development and finance company, official sources said. The premises linked to the two auditors in Mumbai were searched under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they added. The action came a week after the Supreme Court set aside a Bombay High Court verdict that quashed an SFIO probe against the two companies, both former auditors of IL&FS Financial Services, paving the way for action against them under the Companies Act and allowing the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to take forward its enquiry against them.
In a breather to social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband, the Bombay high court on Friday granted the duo 17-day interim relief from arrest in a Central Bureau of Investigation case alleging that her company received Rs 1.8 crore from abroad without mandatory approval from Centre.
Raju and nine others accused, including his two brothers, are currently on bail in a case related to fudging of Satyam accounts in 2009.
The Andhra Pradesh high court will give its verdict on Saturday on the Central Bureau of Investigation's petition seeking the custody of YSR Congress president Jagan Mohan Reddy. The court will also pass its judgement on a quash petition challenging Jagan's arrest on charges of corruption and other economic offences.
The agency also alleged that Deshmukh exercised undue influence to pass favourable transfers and postings of the police officials.
A local court here has issued a nonbailable warrant against Karnataka Forest Minister C P Yogeshwar after he failed to appear before it in connection with Mega City Scam cases filed against him.
Akhil Gogoi, member of the legislative assembly from Sivasagar in Assam, is likely to be released from jail on Thursday as a special NIA court cleared him and his three associates of all charges under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for their alleged role in the violent anti-Citizenship Amendment Act stir in Assam in December 2019.
The PMLA court in Mumbai has sought their appearance on September 25 (Nirav Modi) and 26 (Mehul Choksi) respectively under the fugitive economic offender law.
Delhi police spokesperson Suman Nalwa said that Irani, a resident of Mumbai, has joined the investigation at the economic offence wing office.
Legal experts are not sure if threat of confiscation of property will be deterrent enough for fleeing offenders
A senior IDBI Bank official allegedly conspired with businessman Vijay Mallya for sanction and disbursement of loan to the latter's Kingfisher Airlines, the Central Bureau of Investigation said in its supplementary chargesheet filed in a Mumbai court. Mallya is an accused in the alleged Rs 900-crore IDBI Bank-Kingfisher Airlines loan fraud case, which is being probed by the CBI. The Central agency had recently filed a supplementary chargesheet before a special CBI court.
The Special Court on Monday has sentenced erstwhile Satyam chairman B Ramalinga Raju and his brother Rama Raju to six months imprisonment for violating provision of the Companies Act.
A bench of Justices V Ramasubramanian and Pankaj Mithal, which extended the protection from arrest to Gogoi till March 3, said it would hear the matter on Friday.
Setting aside the Delhi high court's September 30 verdict denying bail to Chidambaram, the apex court said he is neither a "flight risk" nor there is a possibility of "his abscondence from the trial". Chidambaram had moved the apex court challenging the high court verdict.
Grant of anticipatory bail to Chidambaram at this stage will hamper investigation, it said.
'It would be reasonable to assume that Modi 3.0 would be more focused on projects and schemes which do not require any legislative change or which have the support of its coalition partners,' asserts A K Bhattacharya.
The 61-year-old MLA from Islampur seat of Maharashtra has been asked to depose before the federal agency in Mumbai on Friday, they said. Patil, a former minister of home and finance, is also the Maharashtra president of the NCP and is a seven-term legislator.
The National Human Rights Commission, in its report, also observed that the "pervasive fear of reprisal, coupled with the power dynamics at play, acted as a formidable barrier", preventing individuals from voicing their grievances.
Broker Hiten Dalal and Canara Bank Mutual Fund's former General Manager B R Acharya have been sentence to one year imprisonment.
Modi also reiterated that he cannot return to India due to safety concerns and also because his case has been politicised.
Singh had gone underground after resigning from the board two weeks ago ever since his name figured in the Class 12 toppers' scam.
The Madras high court has come down heavily on the elite Central Crime Branch police, stating that the special department of the state police delayed filing FIRs and accepted bribes from both the accused and the complainant. Dismissing an anticipatory bail petition in an economic offences case on Wednesday, Justice R Regupathi questioned the CCB's inability to quickly file cases against the suspects and conduct an investigation.
The Delhi police on Tuesday arrested two persons including NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha in connection with a probe in the portal's foreign funding, officials said.
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