Dharmapuri district Child Welfare Officer J Raja Meenakshi has filed a complaint with the Chennai city police alleging that the minister demanded Rs 20 lakh to transfer her to Chennai.
Transparency International, a global anti-corruption group, has just released the Bribe Payers 2011 Index.
"Remember, the IT Department and the ED implement the Pradhan Mantri Hafta Vasuli Yojana. The State Bank of India implements the #ElectoralBondScam. And at the end of the day, all of these institutions report to the same person: the Finance Minister," Ramesh alleged.
The Enforcement Directorate has issued two summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to appear for questioning on March 18 and 21, official sources said Sunday.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is expected to press money laundering charges against its two officers and some private individuals who were recently booked by the CBI in a bribery case linked to an accused arrested in the alleged Delhi liquor policy scam, official sources said Tuesday.
Arora was arrested under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act after a long session of questioning.
Is the unusually and unbearably scorching Sun and the general laxity, bordering on laziness, among voters, responsible, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, asking him to appear before it on February 26 for questioning in the excise policy linked money laundering case, official sources said Thursday.
Under pressure from his party over his 'anti-judiciary' remark, Congress Member of Parliament K Sudhakaran has retracted his earlier statement about witnessing a Supreme Court judge being bribed in a bar licence case years ago. In a surprising u-turn, Sudhakaran told a television channel that he didn't actually see the judge taking the bribe, but had definite information that the money was given to a judge by bar owners to get a favourable decision in the bar licence case.
'Netflix is very happy with me. Mamla Legal Hai has opened the big bazaar in the heartland for them.'
Breaking her silence on the 'cash-for-query' allegation against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, party chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said that plans were in the works to expel her from Parliament but any such action would help the lawmaker from Krishnanagar ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
A former executive committee member of soccer's global governing body FIFA told a US judge in November 2013 that he and other officials took bribes in connection with the 1998 and 2010 World Cups.
The AAP said that the ED should wait for the court's decision instead of repeatedly sending summonses to Kejriwal.
'Proud to go down in parliamentary history as 1st person to be unethically expelled by Ethics Comm whose mandate doesn't include expulsion'
D'Souza's anticipatory bail plea was rejected by special CBI judge S M Menjonge.
Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil has ordered the suspension of 32 policemen after an activist caught them on camera while allegedly accepting bribes to turn a blind eye to an illegal structure. The policemen are from the Nehru Nagar police station in suburban Kurla.
Nine persons, including the suspended deputy commissioner of Thane Municipal Corporation, arrested in connection with the building collapse in Thane district, were on Sunday remanded to police custody till April 20.
A young police officer heading the Agra police has come up with a novel idea to curb corruption among cops, with whom bribery is the order of the day.
Reddy faced the biggest challenge of his political life in 2015 when he was allegedly caught on camera trying to bribe a nominated MLA to vote in favour of the TDP in a legislative council election.
The poll body also termed as "scurrilous" the AAP leader's claim that the Commission is encouraging bribery by restraining him from uttering such statements.
This is the first time parliamentarians are caught on camera accepting bribes to raise questions.
Bharat Rashtra Samiti leader K Kavitha is expected to be produced before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court by the Enforcement Directorate in New Delhi on Saturday for obtaining her remand for custodial interrogation in the money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the scrapped Delhi excise policy 2021-22, officials said.
Businessman Eric Ding Si Yang has been charged with three counts of corruption relating to the sexual bribes case involving three Lebanese soccer match officials, Singapore's Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau said on Monday.
The Bharatiya Janata Party also slammed Kejriwal's continuation as the chief minister of Delhi despite being under arrest, saying it is the most unfortunate moment in the country's political journey and the worst kind of politics.
In a huge embarrassment to the Bharatiya Janata Party, its former president Bangaru Laxman was on Friday convicted for the offence of accepting Rs one lakh as bribe from a fake arms dealer in a fictitious deal 11 years ago.
Govt said that it will take "suitable action" against Finmeccanica.
The ED said Das stated that his first statement given to the agency on November 3 last year in which he cited Baghel's name was "true and correct".
"We can disagree, fight or be disappointed with each other... I know Arvind for 12 years and I can say that I cannot imagine him taking a bribe or being corrupt... even his enemies cannot imagine this," he told reporters.
The three frenetic weeks of the Parliament's Winter session saw a security breach in the Lok Sabha, suspension of 146 MPs and the expulsion of Trinamool Congress member Mahua Moitra in the "bribe-for-query" case.
A Delhi court on Friday dismissed the bail application of Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh in a money laundering case related to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam.
The Mumbai police on Monday nabbed suspected bookie Anil Jaisinghani from Gujarat, days after his daughter Aniksha Jaisinghani was arrested for allegedly trying to blackmail and bribe the wife of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, an officia
A New Jersey-based construction management firm has been charged with bribing Indian officials several crores of rupees to win two major water developmental projects in Goa and in Guwahati.
Huma Qureshi's Rani Bharti was the ace in the pack, but everything that she does in this season smacks more of script conveniences than careful plotting, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Amid an uproar over corruption in Parliament, leading industrialist Rahul Bajaj on Tuesday hit out at large corporate houses that pay bribes to get jobs done and claimed he never did it.
The Enforcement Directorate said it has no objection if the AAP leader Sanjay Singh is given bail in the case.
The special Anti-Corruption Bureau court has acquitted two security consultants, allegedly caught red-handed while taking bribe in the name of former Anti-Terrorism Squad chief and the slain Indian Police Service officer Hemant Karare.
The federal agency started its operation in the morning, with around 100 officers mobilised to swoop down at the 30 locations in multiple cities of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan, besides Delhi and Mumbai, the officials said.
Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Friday described the electoral bonds scheme as a 'very big scam' and demanded that a special investigation team (SIT) be set up with court-appointed officials to probe the alleged quid pro quo and wrongdoings under it.
It all started right across the main gates of the police station on Parliament Street. A group of not more than 30 people had gathered wearing 'I am Anna' caps, their hands held the Indian national flag tightly. The mission was to get the police officers at the police station sign an undertaking that read 'I will not accept bribe from any citizen of India nor will I allow anyone of my colleagues to accept bribes from anyone.'
A former senior Central Bureau of Investigation official was on Monday sentenced to one-year imprisonment by a Delhi court for demanding and accepting bribe for not invoking TADA against the Jain brothers in the controversial 1991 Jain hawala case.
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