Vijay Sai Reddy is facing serious charges, which include cheating and money laundering. Mohammed Siddique reports.
A special court trying the disproportionate assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Wednesday adjourned to January 18, the proceedings against her former close aide and co-accused Sasikala Natarajan concerning the translation process.
A special court trying the disproportionate assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday granted a six week stay on proceedings against her close aide and co-accused Sasikala Natarajan, concerning the translation process.
The Supreme Court on Monday granted eight weeks to the Special Investigating Team to complete its probe into the alleged amassing of disproportionate assets by former Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh and his family members.
Former Union Communications Minister Sukhram was on Wednesday sentenced to three years imprisonment by a Delhi court for amassing disproportionate assets worth Rs 4.25 crore during his tenure in the P V Narasimha Rao government. The verdict was delivered in a packed courtroom in New Delhi in the presence of the octogenarian politician, from whose official house in Delhi Rs 2.45 crore in cash were recovered 13 years ago by a CBI team.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a chargesheet against former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. The chargesheet against Chautala was filed in a Delhi court on March 26 for allegedly possessing assets to the tune of Rs 60 Crore disproportionate to his income between 1993 and 2006, CBI spokesperson said in a release on Monday.
Jailed YSR Congress leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Monday moved a special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Hyderabad with a plea to take up framing of charges and trial of all the chargesheets filed in connection with the disproportionate assets case against him together.
Andhra Pradesh Home Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy has been named in the charge-sheet of the Central Bureau of Investigation's chargesheet against Jagan Mohan Reddy in the disproportionate assets case against the YSR Congress chief.
Andhra Pradesh Roads and Buildings Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao resigned late on Tuesday night, a day after CBI named him as an accused in the disproportionate assets case against YSR Congress leader Jaganmohan Reddy.
Citing inordinate delay in the trial of the disproportionate asset against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, former Advocate General B V Acharya on Tuesday resigned as special public prosecutor in the case.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa was on Tuesday directed by a special court in Bengaluru to appear before it on November 22 for completing recording of her deposition in the Rs 66 crore disproportionate asset case against her.
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the alleged disproportionate assets owned by Andhra Pradesh's former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa arrived in Bengaluru on Thursday morning to appear in a special court in connection with the disproportionate assets case against her.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa will make her first appearance before the special court in Bengaluru on Thursday which is trying the disproportionate assets case against her.
Telugu Desam Party suspended member of Legislative Assembly Kodali Srivenkateswara Rao alias Nani from the party after he met YSR Congress honorary president Y S Vijaya in Hyderabad on Monday.
The Supreme Court had issued notices in March to the four ministers, along with two other ministers in the case wherein it was alleged that 26 Government Orders (during the YS Rajasekhara Reddy rule) were issued against public interest and which helped Jagan amass wealth.
Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday said the Supreme Court order quashing the disproportionate assets case against Bahujan Samaja Party leader Mayawati has nothing to do with politics.
Welcoming the Supreme Court order quashing the disproportionate assets case against her, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Friday thanked party workers for standing behind her for the past nine years without getting perturbed by opposition forces.
A day after the Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta recommended his dismissal on charges of owning disproportionate assets, Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday sacked Secondary Education Minister Rangnath Misra and Labour Minister Badshah Singh, who too is under the scanner of the anti-graft ombudsmen. Cracking the whip, the chief minister has also ordered a vigilance inquiry against the two ministers. Both the ministers have been asked to fight the graft cases in court.
Police sub-inspector and encounter specialist Daya Nayak, who was under suspension for nearly six-and-a-half years in a disproportionate assets case, was on Saturday reinstated and posted in a local arms wing of the department, police said.
Police sub-inspector and encounter specialist Daya Nayak, who was under suspension for nearly six-and-a-half years in a disproportionate assets case, was on Saturday reinstated and posted in a local arms wing of the department, police said.
The Board Of Control For Cricket In India chief and managing director of India Cements, N Srinivasan, has said that he has done nothing illegal. Srinivasan has been summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation for questioning in connection with the Jagan Mohan Reddy disproportionate assets case.
YSR Congress Chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has moved the Andhra Pradesh High Court seeking direction to the state government and jail authorities to allow him to communicate his statements through media in view of the forthcoming by-elections on June 12.
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar's secretary A P Pathak was on Friday removed from his post shortly after the Central Bureau of Investigtion searched his premises in an alleged disproportionate assets case during which the agency claimed to have recovered documents of properties worth crores of rupees.
After its national leaders' statements on Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy's arrest apparently sent wrong signals, Andhra Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party president G Kishan Reddy on Tuesday said his party did not oppose the arrest.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday sought 14-day custody of Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy, saying it needed to further question him in the disproportionate assets case.
The Andhra Pradesh high court on Thursday dismissed the regular bail petition of YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in connection with an alleged disproportionate assets case involving him. The AP high court had on December 24 dismissed the statutory bail plea of Jagan.
The arrest of the Andhra Pradesh Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkatramanna by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the disproportionate assets case involving YSR Congress president YS Jaganohan Reddy has the potential to plunge the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh in to a deep crisis.
An arrest in this case is imminent, but it may not take place immediately, says Vicky Nanjappa
Sasikala had contracted coronavirus on January 20 and was later admitted to the Bowring Hospital.
YSR Congress president Jagan Mohan Reddy will legally oppose the move by the Central Bureau of Investigation to freeze various accounts connected to him, including those of Sakshi TV, Janani infra and Jagathi publications. CBI, which is probing a case of disproportionate assets against Jagan Mohan Reddy, has frozen the accounts of the above mentioned companies as it believes that money procured illegally is parked in these three companies.
In fresh trouble for YSR Congress chief and Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy, the Central Bureau of Investigation is freezing the accounts of three companies owned by him, including the Sakshi TV.
On a day when the Central Bureau of Investigation filed a third chargesheet in the disproportionate assets case against YS Jaganmohan Reddy, the CBI special court in Hyderabad issued a summons to the Kadapa Member of Parliament to appear before it on May 28.
The Andhra Pradesh high court on Monday dismissed the bail petition of YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in connection with the case of alleged disproportionate assets involving him.
Congress leader Kripashankar Singh, accused of amassing disproportionate assets, has been booked under the Arms Act for allegedly possessing bullets beyond permissible limits, and declared as a wanted accused, police sources said on Saturday.
The refusal of the apex court to concede an appeal by Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and his clan for reprieve in the disproportionate assets case has left the entire family high and dry.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the alleged disproportionate assets of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, would continue.
Call it the Aam Aadmi Party effect, as Bihar has decided to dismiss 91 corrupt public servants (officers) from service within one month with more on their way out in the coming months.
The CBI is looking for an approver in the disproportionate assets case against the YSR Congress chief to make the case stronger. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Normally, it is required by the CBI to complete an investigation within one year of registration of a case.