The members were arrested on Monday for threatening people and obstructing the land demarcation process in Thoubal district.
Under attack from opposition, the Bihar government has initiated process to take action against a senior Indian Police Service officer, for allegedly demanding Rs 10 crore as extortion from a liquor mafia, an official on Saturday said.
She charged the government with profiteering at the expense of the people, saying its duty was to help them in times of crisis and not make profits out of their hard-earned money.
ULFA has asked an RBI official to pay up.
Singh is being probed in an alleged extortion case and three men, allegedly his aides, have been already arrested for extortion.
Two senior journalists of Zee news channel were arrested in New Delhi on Tuesday on charges of trying to extort Rs 100 crore from Congress MP Naveen Jindal's group for not doing news reports on coal scam linking his firm.
Vikas Yadav, a former Indian government official charged by the United States authorities for his alleged role in a foiled plot to assassinate Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil, was arrested by Delhi Police in December last year in an unrelated extortion and kidnapping case, police sources said.
The don was renamed as Prakashanand Giri by the seers who introduced themselves as being associated with the Panch Dashnam Juna Akhara, headquartered in Haridwar and has its ashrams in the Kumaon region.
The CBI arrested an NIA deputy superintendent of police posted in Patna and two middlemen on Thursday for allegedly accepting a Rs 20 lakh bribe to extend favours to a person in an ongoing probe, officials said.
A low-intensity blast occurred near a multiplex in Delhi's Rohini on Thursday, injuring one person and sparking panic. The explosion took place near a park in the same area where a previous blast occurred in October. Delhi Chief Minister Atishi accused the BJP-led central government of failing to maintain law and order in the national capital.
Maruti Suzuki's royalty payments to its Japanese parent Suzuki are "extortive" and the amount paid has increased over six times per car sold over the past 15 years, according to a report.
Gandhi said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the "champion of corruption".
A militant belonging to the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland led by Sangbijit or NDFB(S) was lynched and another seriously injured by a mob at Singimari in western Assam's Goalpara district on Tuesday.
In his letter to Sitharaman, Venugopal said media reports have exposed the alleged "quid-pro-quo between BJP and several firms, which in a strange coincidence donated to it, after the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Income Tax Department (IT) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and others, raided or searched those enterprises".
It was alleged that Salem had demanded Rs 5 crore as protection money from businessman Ashok Gupta, a resident of Greater Kailash in south Delhi, in 2002.
Senior advocate Nitya Ramakrishnan, appearing for Navlakha, contested the figure of Rs 1.64 crore saying the agency's calculation of the amount payable was wrong and contrary to the relevant rules.
The agency raided several locations in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh and busted the nefarious nexus, officials said, adding that Manish Rawat, the neurosurgeon, was arrested in the early hours of Thursday.
Admitting to presence of 'rogue' elements at toll plazas in the state, Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil on Wednesday said such unauthorised workers will be booked for 'extortion' if they continue fleecing commuters.
Homegrown terror outfits are using money from petty crimes such as robberies, and extortion to fund its activities making it difficult for investigators to track their financial trail. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday alleged that former Gujarat minister Amit Shah was heading an extortion syndicate culminating in the fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh.
The review pleas filed by advocate Mathews J Nedumpara and others contended that the matter related to the scheme falls in the exclusive domain of legislative and executive policy.
The Naxalites are reportedly extorting a 'levy' of about Rs 140 crore annually from a variety of sources, Government said on Wednesday.
A first information report (FIR) has been filed against four people in connection with the suicide of a 34-year-old deputy general manager of a private firm, Atul Subhash, who died by suicide, accusing his wife, her family members, and a judge of harassment, extortion, and corruption.
Naxals are possibly receiving foreign funds but the chunk of their money comes from extortion of corporate houses and 'levy' imposed by them on mining, the government said on Wednesday.
A local court on Monday granted bail to Iqbal Kaskar, the brother of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim, in an extortion case in which he had been arrested a week ago.
Industrialist Sunjay Kapur, embroiled in a legal battle with estranged wife and actress Karisma Kapoor, has complained to the Delhi police that he has received an extortion threat.\n\n
One of the attackers threatened the victims with a pistol, while the others were armed with sticks, the official said.
Salem, who was brought to the capital from Bhopal amid tight security arrangements, was produced before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja who framed criminal charges against the extradited gangster.
Salem, who was an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case, was brought to the capital last week in pursuance of the production warrant issued by the Delhi court against him on April 17.
Senior police officials said they began recording the statement of Haseena on Friday and will begin questioning her soon.
In a reprieve to extradited gangster Abu Salem, a court here has dismissed the plea of Delhi police seeking to invoke harsher penal provision against him and granted him bail in an extortion case lodged in 1998.
Sitting MLAs from various political parties in Assam have received extortion demand from the anti-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom.
Delhi Police Sub-Inspector Sanjay Gupta was the investigating officer in the CBSE Pre-Medical Test question paper leak case.
Spiritual Guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living Foundation in Bengaluru is back in the news over an extortion call. Art of Living spokesperson Gireem Govind told rediff.com that the ashram had got calls demanding Rs 42 crore, failing which the organisation would be defamed.
While controversial activities of some Samajwadi Party leaders including a few ministers were already raising many questions about the credibility of the one-year old Akhilesh Yadav government, it seems it was now the turn of Uttar Pradesh cops to give the Yadav regime a bad name.
Superintendent of Police (Traffic) Kalpana Saxena, who is in hospital with a fractured hand and injuries on her head, said she had received information from an Army jawan on Thursday evening that some traffic constables were demanding bribes from truckers near the Jat regimental centre in Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh.
Zee Group Chairman Subhash Chandra on Saturday appeared before the police for questioning in connection with the alleged Rs 100 crore extortion bid by two Zee editors from Congress MP Naveen Jindal's company for not airing news damaging to it.
Two men were arrested on Thursday for the attack on two Army officers and alleged rape of one of their women friends during a picnic in Mhow town of Madhya Pradesh's Indore district, police said.
Ranaut had filed a complaint against Akhtar for alleged "extortion and criminal intimidation".
After spending 20 days in jail, two Zee group editors were granted bail on Monday by a Delhi court in the case of alleged Rs 100 crore extortion bid from Congress MP Naveen Jindal's firm.
