Monday's verdict in the fodder scam, sending former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav to jail, for which he could be disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha - which could jeopardize the UPA government's already wafer-thin majority, is all over the news but how much do you know about it? Check out our primer.
'Out of 45 deaths so far about eight are very suspicious. Every case should be re-investigated.'
Emraan Hashmi will finally venture out of the Bhatt camp, and essay a role he has never played before an upcoming don.
Official sources said a team of sleuths from the agency searched the flat located in Greater Kailash area yesterday in connection with their money laundering probe in the multi-crore chitfund scam.
The Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday arrested a person, alleged to be the kingpin of stone-pelters in Kashmir valley, and claimed to have found documents which suggest this had fast turned into a lucrative 'business' for unemployed youths offering their 'service' for a price.
Sinha was not occupying any party position in the party and since membership drive was on, it had been decided that her membership would not be renewed, he said.
They said the kingpin -- through his agents in Gujarat, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and other places -- brought children under the age of 10 years and paired them with the couples in Bengaluru who acted as family.
Three persons with alleged "ideological leaning" towards the banned JeM were arrested in New Delhi for planning terror strikes in different parts of the national capital.
A Mumbai court granted bail on Monday to alleged kingpin of the kidney transplant racket Amit Kumar and his brother Jeevan Kumar after the police failed to file the chargesheet in the stipulated time of 90 days.
Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen reported that according to intelligence sources, Ibrahim is a CIA asset, both as a veteran of the mujahedeen war and in a continuing connection with his casino and drug trade operations in Kathmandu.
20 of the 32 people are government employees and 12 others include four fake toppers
The court accepted the plea of Enforcement Directorate for issuance of Letters Rogatory to authorities in the two countries as investigations allegedly revealed that Dr Amit, a quack, had made offshore investments in properties and banks.
Three terrorists were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Anantnag.
Investors and EOW waded through a maze of legal obstacles to get their hands on the 'kingpin'.
Interpol issued international warrants on Friday for the arrest of two key accused in the multi-crore kidney transplant racket in Haryana as they are suspected to have escaped from the country shortly before the police conducted raids. The 'red corner' notices against alleged kingpin Amit Kumar and his brother Jeevan were issued following request from the Central Bureau of Investigation after Haryana Police discovered an illegal hospital at a house in Gurgaon.
With the arrest of seven Indians, American authorities have claimed to have busted an immigration racket run by an infotech company owner who charged tens of thousands of dollars from expatriates by fraudulently sponsoring their H-1B work visas.
They will be produced in the court of metropolitan magistrate in Mumbai on Monday. The police team procured production warrants of the accused for taking them to Mumbai. However, it may not be possible for the police to produce the two in the Mumbai court on Monday.
Pawar thanked the Shiv Sena and the Congress for backing him on the ED action issue.
Rejecting CBI's request to close the case against Telgi and three others, Additional Sessions Judge Dinesh Dayal said: "It appears that CBI had proceeded to file the closure report merely because the person who should have been an accused refused that he had accepted the money." No investigation has been made to establish whether money was received by him (Jeyaseelan - as part of his alleged collusion with the accused)," the court said.
Jose Ramirez Barreto scored both goals as Mohun Bagan notched a hard-fought 2-1 win over plucky Air-India in a 13th round I-League match at the Cooperage in Mumbai on Sunday.
The CBI has sent Letters Rogatory to three countries, including Canada, to gather more information about business and stashing of money by Amit Kumar, alleged kingpin of the multi-crore rupee kidney transplant racket. "We have sent the Letters Rogatory to Canada, Greece and Turkey to get more information about the accused," CBI's special director M L Sharma said.
Sources in the Directorate said on Wednesday that a notice will be served to Kumar after a decision was taken to lodge a complaint under Foreign Exchange Management Act against him after the CBI handed over some documents showing investments made by the doctor abroad, especially Canada.
A Delhi court on Tuesday framed charges against multi-crore scam kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi and over 20 of his alleged associates for selling fake stamps in the Capital, but absolved them of the stricter offence of printing the counterfeits.
A technician, who worked for kidney thugs involved in the multi-crore organ transplant racket, on Monday recorded his statement before a Delhi court following the CBI's claim that he wanted to admit his guilt in the case.
During his interrogation, CBI sources claimed that Kumar told the investigators that he used to have patients coming from a number of countries, prompting the agency to seek overseas help in establishing whether the racket had any international ramification. The medical degree of Kumar is under scanner as he had told the CBI sleuths that he used to conduct the operations himself. The investigation agency has sought the help of medical professionals.
Following the order, Raju and others are likely to move the high court.
The kingpin of the racket, Joseph, an unemployed techie hailing from Virudunagar in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu, was nabbed from a cyber cafe in Mahadevapura near Whitefield by the police on November 29. Six of his associates have also been nabbed. The police tracked the accused by tracing the IP address of the PC from where the accounts were hacked.
The seized explosive materials include 38,700 electric detonators, 1,950 gelatin sticks and 50 kg ammonium nitrate.
The Chief Judicial Magistrate, taking cognizance of the chargesheets, fixed July 7 as the next date of hearing.
A sessions court in Mumbai sentenced fake stamp paper scam kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi to seven years rigorous imprisonment on Friday for the murder of his driver Christopher Bhate. The prosecution alleged that Telgi, along with four of his associates, killed Bale because the latter had some information about the confidential business dealings of Telgi's stamp paper scam.
The court had denied bail to her twice last month.
Amit Kumar, the alleged kingpin of the multi-crore kidney transplant racket, on Thursday denied the charges framed by the Central Bureau of Investigation against him."I have not removed the kidney of any person on gun point. The kidneys were transplanted with the mutual consent of the donors and the beneficiaries", he told reporters.He alleged that the CBI had falsely implicated him in the case and now it was freezing his bank account in Canada without any justification.
The businessman was summoned at the ED's office and was asked questions about the purported links of the alleged main accused of the case Amit Bhardwaj with his businesses.
Why has Mumbai's cyber police taken no action against these WhatsApp groups who everyday, commit offences under the Indian Penal Code? The police cannot be unaware of their existence, observes Shruthi Marathe.
Former Bangalore police commissioner H T Sangliana and BJP MP from Bangalore defied the party whip and voted for the UPA's trust motion. He speaks on why he did so, as well as his plans for the future.
Malayalam film Nellikka lacks bite, feels Paresh C Palicha.
With many foreign patients being his clients, Kumar has been accused of stashing a part of his earnings abroad and the Enforcement Directorate is assessing if a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act could be slapped against him and his associates.
The CBI team searched the room of Linda, a Manipuri woman arrested by the Haryana police on January 31 and took away some documents related to the case before sealing it, official sources said. Linda had come in contact with Kumar during her initial years in the nursing profession. Though she was working in RML Hospital as a staff nurse, she had been providing part-time services to Amit Kumar, the sources said.
A Nepalese minister indicated that it may take weeks or months for the tainted doctor to be sent to India.
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