The CVC has submitted its opinion to the Supreme Court on whether or not former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati be prosecuted in the multi-crore Taj Heritage Corridor scam case on the basis of evidence gathered by Centr
Mayawati was questioned by sleuths of the Anti-Corruption unit of the agency at her official residence in New Delhi, CBI sources said.
If Kejriwal is arrested, it will take very little for Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena to summon a meeting of the assembly, direct it to elect a new leader of the House, and, if it doesn't, dissolve it and impose President's Rule, predicts Aditi Phadnis.
The special court in Bangalore on Saturday issued the order for release of All India Anna Dravida Munetra Kazhagam supremo J Jayalalithaa from jail here in accordance with the Supreme Court order granting her bail in the disproportionate assets case.
The high court informed the government that it has completed the work on translating documents running into 17,000 pages from Tamil to English.
The State government had appealed against the Central Bureau of Investigation's court verdict after the CBI, which investigated the case, decided not to challenge the acquittal.
The Karnataka government on Tuesday said the court alone can decide on the shifting of All India Dravida Munetra Kazhagam supremo J Jayalalithaa to Tamil Nadu from a prison here where she is lodged after being convicted by a Special Court in the disproportionate assets case.
Lawyers for jailed All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo J Jayalalithaa will move the Karnataka high court on Monday for bail for her while they were also finalising a strategy for seeking a stay on her conviction and sentence in the disproportionate assets case.
Anti-Corruption Bureau sleuths took encounter specialist Nayak.
The Bombay high court will deliver its verdict Wednesday on the anticipatory bail plea of suspended Sub-Inspector of police Daya Nayak, his wife Komal and associate Rajendra Padte who are fearing arrest in a disproportionate assets case.
However, the court of special CBI Judge S W Lepcha immediately granted bail to Bhandari after he furnished a personal bond of Rs 25,000.
Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi were acquitted of all charges in a 7-year-old disproportionate assets case by Special CBI Judge Muni Lal Paswan.
The December 1996 raid came following a complaint by BJP's Subramaniam Swamy naming late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
CBI have registered a disproportionate assets case against Meena, an IRS officer of 1977 batch, and claimed to have recovered so far cash of Rs 16 lakh from his possession, sources said.
Singh was booked under IPC sections 124-A (sedition) and 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc) of the IPC at Raipur's City Kotwali police station late on Thursday night, Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ajay Yadav said.
The RJD and the family were tense about the verdict.
It asked the Karnataka high court to constitute a special court and appoint a public prosecutor for conducting the trial.
A bench of Justices S K Kaul and M M Sundresh referred to the affidavit filed by the CBI Director in pursuance to the top court's earlier direction asking to apprise it about the steps to be taken to strengthen their prosecution unit, the bottlenecks, and also about conviction rate in matters probed by the agency.
As per the Supreme Court order, the verdict on the petition had to be delivered before the court closes for the summer vacation from May 21.
Railway minister has no objection to Justice Alam being part of bench that will hear his petition challenging sanction for his prosecution in a disproportionate assets case.
This relates to the disproportionate assets case.
Nayak has been asked by the court to report to the investigating officers as and when required.
A bench comprising Justice N Santosh Hegde and Justice P P Naolekar issued notices to the state government and Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.
P K Ajwani was wanted in connection with a disproportionate assets case.
The Local Arms branch of the Mumbai Police Wednesday obtained permission from a sessions court in Mumbai to question Daya Nayak regarding the use of bullets assigned to him while he was in service.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Thursday ordered a CBI probe against tainted Noida official Yadav Singh, whose disproportionate assets were exposed in a raid by the Income Tax department several months ago.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh was on Friday questioned for the second consecutive day in connection with an alleged disproportionate assets case against him.
A day after the Special Court issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against him, T T V Dinakaran, one of the accused in the Rs 66.65 crore disproportionate assets case filed against Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa and others, on Wednesday surrendered.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday told the Delhi high court that withdrawal of Rs 2000 notes is not demonetisation but a statutory exercise, and the decision to enable their exchange was taken for operational convenience.
The warrant was issued following Dinakaran's failure to appear before the court in compliance with the July 2 summons.
A Patiala court rejected their bail pleas in the disproportionate assets case.
The petition also seeks quashing of the first information report against her by the CBI.
"We totally agree with the contention of Lalu," said a Bench comprising Justice S N Variava, Justice AR Lakshmanan and Justice S H Kapadia,
Judge A S Pachhapure adjourned the hearing after the counsel for the accused filed an application requesting the court to exempt Jayalalithaa, Sashikala Natarajan, Elavarsi and T T V Dinakaran from personnel appearance.
The trial in the Rs 66 crore disproportionate assets case was stayed on a petition accusing the prosecution of being under the influence of the Tamil Nadu government headed by J Jayalalithaa.
Daya Nayak is accused of amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
The Tamil Nadu chief minister's petition requests for the transfer of two disproportionate assets from a Bangalore special court to Pondicherry on the ground that a strong anti-Tamil sentiment prevailing in Karnataka.