Rajiv Saxena, an accused in AgustaWestland chopper deal scam, was extradited from Dubai, UAE, to India .
It's not a failure, but purposeful cheating. Thereby, it is a criminal breach of trust, which can attract punishment under the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Satyam's founder chairman B Ramalinga Raju, who was on Tuesday chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the accounting fraud case involving thousands of crores of rupees, may face life imprisonment if convicted under Section 467 of the IPC.
In an effort to check forgeries and misuse of passports, the government is rolling out e-passports that will carry biometric information in a chip.
Describing the scam as 'unique', a CBI spokesman said the case has been registered against Raju, the company's erstwhile directors and its auditor under various sections of the Indian Penal Code relating to forgery and cheating. CBI has constituted a Multi-disciplinary Investigation Team headed by deputy inspector general V V Lakshmi Narayana which will be headquartered in Hyderabad to undertake a thorough probe, the spokesman said.
In more trouble for Indian Premier League chief Lalit Modi, a case of cheating was on Sunday lodged against him for alleged failure to deposit money he publicly promised for the Jaipur blast victims in the Chief Minister's Relief Fund.
Police have registered a case of forgery and corruption against Anand Rao, builder and son-in-law of late Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan, and two former Chief Executive Officers of Maharashtra's Slum Rehabilitation Authority.
Upaid chairman and CEO Simon Simon Joyce told Business Standard, "Yes, Satyam has withdrawn the disparagement case and they have done so unilaterally. But I do not think that this will impact the primary case of fraud and forgery.
Scores of placard-bearing protesters gathered in front of the Congress headquarters on 24, Akbar Road.
The Andhra Pradesh police, which arrested Raju and his brother Rama Raju on different charges including forgery and cheating on Friday night, said that the Sebi team would have to file a request with the Economic Offences Court to interrogate the two.
The hearing of the forgery case filed by British mobile solution firm Upaid against Satyam Computer Services is not scheduled for hearing during this week. This means no Satyam official -- neither B Ramalinga Raju who stepped down as its chairman after admitting to a financial fraud nor any other top executive -- is in the US for the case. When contacted, a Satyam spokesperson confirmed the development and added that Raju was 'very much' in Hyderabad.
To send a notice under money laundering law.
Tyagi said his party will contest on four to five "traditional" seats in Gujarat.
Upaid has filed for damages exceeding $1 billion on charges of forgery, fraud and breach of contracts. The cases have been filed in a federal court and a state court in Texas, USA. The legal teams of UK-based Upaid and Satyam Computer Services are holding talks for an out-of-court settlement of a case filed by the UK-based mobile payment services firm. The hearing of the case is on June 1.
Nirmal Kotecha is a self-confessed admirer of Harshad Mehta and a faithful follower of his technique.
A city court on Monday granted bail to an alleged caretaker of a flat in south Delhi area where two suspected terrorists, allegedly responsible for the recent serial blasts, were killed in a police encounter last month.
A journalist has been arrested for allegedly sharing an objectionable post against Uttar Pradesh chief minister on social media.
Upaid, which is already fighting a forgery case against Satyam in a US court, had last week filed a motion against Satyam Computer Services with the state court, saying that they are looking for a testimony from Ramalinga Raju, CFO Srinivas Vadlamani, and the company's head of corporate governance Jayraman after the abortive Maytas deal.
The financial fraud, one of the biggest in the state as per records, was being investigated by the different departments of Himachal Pradesh for the past over four years.
Pyramid Saimira Theatre, the Chennai-based entertainment firm, was in the limelight on Tuesday after it announced it was the victim of a forgery and the stock was frozen at circuit filer of 10 per cent on the Bombay and National Stock Exchanges for the second day in a row.In an early morning statement, the company confirmed it had received a letter from the stock market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India, asking its chairman PS Saminathan to make an open offer.
The matter was mentioned before a bench of Delhi high court's acting chief justice Gita Mittal and kustice C Hari Shankar by Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta. The court allowed it to be listed for hearing on Wednesday.
Ramani was taken to Goa for investigations.
Senior police officials said they began recording the statement of Haseena on Friday and will begin questioning her soon.
Jaitley, who headed the DDCA between 1999 and 2013, has been under opposition attack even though he has maintained his innocence.
The warrants have been made out for the arrest of Parkar, her bodyguard Mohammed Shamim Khan, driver Salim Ahmed Sayyed, and builders Arshad Shafi Shaikh and Maqsud Fakir Mohammed Ansari.
Monica first paid obeisance at the sanctum sanctorum where the Guru Granth Sahib is kept
Salem and his companion Bedi, a former Bollywood starlet, had allegedly procured passports from Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh under fictitious names.
The judge said that permission for prior sanction to prosecute Asthana was not required considering the facts of the case.
A special court, which convicted 35 people in a fodder scam case, on Wednesday sentenced 22 of them to prison terms ranging from three to six years and slapped fines ranging from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 1.2 crore on the 22 convicted, all suppliers. Of the convicted, Md Tohid got the maximum imprisonment of five years and a fine of Rs 1.2 crore.
Telgi was convicted on Friday of trading in fake stamp papers.
Former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar's wife, Preeti, on Tuesday said that the fake degree case initiated against him was a political conspiracy.
The pix was allegedly shot by a hidden camera when she was lodged in a Bhopal jail.
The Supreme Court on Monday relaxed the bail conditions that she should surrender her passport to facilitate her release on bail.
The Kerala high court on Friday upheld a lower court order allowing police to conduct a DNA test on Alwar rape convict Bitti Mohanty, who jumped parole and was arrested after five years from Kannur district.
The officer said Haseena has accepted to have been in contact over phone with only two of the Kaskar siblings -- Mushtaqim and Humayun -- the only ones not wanted by the Mumbai police.
Haseena has an extortion case filed against her and others by estate agent Vinod Avlani.
The high-profile Lok Sabha member from Gopalganj, brother-in-law of Railway Minister and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, surrendered before the in-charge Vigilance Judge Munilal Paswan in the case, an off-shoot of the multi-crore flood relief scam.
The ED, it is understood, wants to grill Vadra about the operations of a firm -- Ms Skylight Hospitality Private Limited -- allegedly linked to him, which had purchased land in the area.
Katara allegedly tried to take a woman to Canada on his wife's passport.
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