The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren for "suppressing facts" regarding filing of regular bail plea in trial court in a money laundering case, prompting the JMM leader to withdraw his petition challenging arrest by the Enforcement Directorate.
The scam came to light when a Sharjah resident filed a complaint.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren will travel to New Delhi on Saturday to attend the dinner hosted by President Droupadi Murmu for the G20 summit, which meant that he would miss appearing before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in a money laundering case.
Terming Faheem Ansari as a co-conspirator in the 26/11 attacks, government counsel Ujjwal Nikam told the Bombay High Court that he had cheated the Pakistani government by procuring a passport in a fictitious name.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday allowed Chinese smartphone maker Vivo to operate its various bank accounts frozen by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money-laundering probe subject to furnishing of a bank guarantee of Rs 950 crore within a week with the agency. Justice Yashwant Varma also directed the company to give details to ED about its remittances and issued notice to the investigating agency on Vivo's plea seeking quashing of the order freezing its various bank accounts. ED contended that presently the proceeds of crime have been quantified to Rs 1200 crore.
The properties include Goawala compound and a commercial unit in Mumbai's suburban Kurla (West) 147.79-acre agricultural land located in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra and three flats in Kurla (West).
Adding to the troubles of former Goa minister Fransisco Pacheco, booked in connection with the death of his close friend, CBI has registered a case against him for allegedly acquiring US visas on forged documents.
The CBI suspects that Yadav had played a crucial role in facilitating the jobs and later, the transfer of land to Prasad's family.
"Why do we have to bother ourselves and correct somebody else's mistakes?" Putin asked during an interview.
The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the Bombay high court verdict cancelling the caste certificate of Amravati MP and BJP leader Navneet Kaur Rana.
A court in Chandigarh on Thursday will pronounce its verdict on former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore''s plea challenging his conviction in Ruchika molestation case.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday levelled fresh allegations of corruption against the Aam Aadmi Party, saying a former Delhi Jal Board chief engineer had 'transferred' Rs 2 crore of bribe money to his colleagues in the department and the ruling party in Delhi as election funds.
Crucial reforms in Muslim personal law, especially laws related to inheritance and adoption, need to be initiated forthwith; historically speaking, without the State's backing, hardly has any reform taken place or allowed to prevail, asserts Mohammad Sajjad.
Withdrawal of over Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million) on forged documents has been detected from different accounts of customers of the State Bank of India, Mandi branch in Uttar Pradesh, officials said.
Spurious drugs in large quantities from China are finding their way into India setting off alarm bells in the government which has decided to crackdown on importers who were using forged documents and other means to sneak them in.
Serious concern was raised in the Rajya Sabha on Monday over airline pilots procuring fake flying licences through forged documents, with members saying this would put at risk the life of passengers.
Chumble last week had alleged that Pawar had submitted false documents while filing his nomination papers for the polls.
Forged documents in the name of a New Delhi gym trainer were used by an unknown man to procure a SIM card from which "malicious" and "threatening" messages were sent to Union Minister Shashi Tharoor and others.
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Quoting the FIR registered on the basis of a complaint, the Economic Offences Wing of Mumbai said accused Nailesh Mehta of Dev Developers in Andheri pretended himself as the partner of Zoomi Construction Company by preparing fake documents and acquired the latter's rightful TDR from the Slum Rehabilitation Authority.
The men belonged to a group that made fake identification documents, which were sent to Pakistan to be used in attacks, media reported.
With an FIR filed against it and its stock taking a beating amidst allegations that its account books were manipulated by its promoters, Educomp seems to be in trouble. Managing Director Shantanu Prakash explains the company's stand.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will not restrain the trial court from dealing with a plea seeking police custody of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister and TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu as it announced a new bench will hear his petition for quashing the FIR in the alleged Rs 371 crore scam in the state's Skill Development Corporation on October 3.
Congress leader Jagdish Tytler and jailed arms dealer Abhishek Verma have been chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation for allegedly forging letterhead of then Minister of State for Home Ajay Maken in 2009.
Two men, suspected to have helped an alleged Pakistani spy in procuring passport and driving licence using forged documents, were arrested on Tuesday by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of Uttar Pradesh police in Lucknow.
Former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar's lawyer on Tuesday withdrew the bail application after the Aam Aadmi Party leader was sent to police custody remand for four days.
Lt Governor Najeeb Jung has appointed a special public prosecutor to represent Delhi police in the alleged fake degree case involving former law minister and AAP leader Jitender Singh Tomar, a court in New Dehli was told on Thursday.
AAP leader Ashutosh said Modi's name does not match in the BA marksheet and that of the MA degree and even claimed that there were discrepancies in the year of passing as well.
A magistrate court here has summoned the CEO of HSBC India and others to appear before it after finding that the MNC bank had "forged" documents to wriggle out of a case relating to termination of an employee.
However, the Maldives government has no intention of removing the doctors from India at Senahiya, a media report said.
Charges were also framed against former chief minister Jagannath Mishra.
The UIDAI emphasised that these notices have "nothing to do with citizenship and cancellation of Aadhaar number is in no way related to the nationality of any resident".
Sadiq, Gopal and Nanjappa were arrested for helping terrorist Mohammed Ali Hussain get a ration card.
The Allahabad high court on Tuesday granted interim bail to Samajwadi Party legislator Azam Khan in a case related to alleged grabbing of enemy property for his Jauhar University project.
The Portugal supreme court told a trial court to resume extradition proceedings of the companion of underworld don Abu Salem to India.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday chargesheeted Chattisgarh Chief Minsiter Ajit Jogi for allegedly forging\n\ndocuments to claim that the Intelligence Bureau has launched an operation to tarnish his image.
The Delhi police unearthed a multi-crore corporate fraud and arrested the kingpin of the racket, a hotelier who allegedly cheated as many as six major banks in Delhi by extracting loans furnishing forged documents.
Underworld don Abu Salem's companion Monica Bedi, who was acquitted in a fake passpart case in Bhopal, was escorted to Hyderabad by train on Wednesday, official sources said.
Underworld don Abu Salem's girlfriend has written to the PMO requesting the charges against her be dropped.
Salim Damji, who five years ago had pleaded guilty to cheating a large number of investors to the tune of about $78 million, was this week charged with fraud and forgery.
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