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A local court in Hyderabad on Thursday extended the police custody of disgraced former chairman of Satyam Computer B Ramalinga Raju by one more day. The 6th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ramakrishna also extended the police custody of former chief financial officer Vadlamani Srinivas by one more day.
The Enforcement Directorate in October last year had filed the complaint against Raju and 212 others, including 166 companies, before the XXI Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court cum Special Sessions Judge here for allegedly laundering funds under a 'corporate veil' to perpetrate the accounting scam that rocked the business world in 2009.
A Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) team probing a financial fraud in Satyam Computer on Friday reached founder Ramaling Raju's house here, but returned as the premises was locked.
It took the man from Bhimavaram over two decades to become the posterboy of India's Information Technology industry and less than two weeks to turn into the rogue who personifies all that is defective with the country's outsourcing industry. The former entrepreneur icon's plans started falling apart when he tried to acquire two companies promoted by his family for $1.6 billion.
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Ramalinga Raju's lawyer S Bharat Kumar told the media after his meeting with the Sebi officials that he had sought three day's time for Raju's appearance but they granted time only till tomorrow
The team first went to Raju's house for an inspection, but returned on finding it locked. It had earlier issued summons for him to appear before the team.
The application moved by the Securities and Exchange Board of India to record the statements of Ramalinga Raju was also deferred to January 16 by the court.
"Why are our jails overcrowded? Why is the the policy of remission being applied selectively?"
As a 'C' class prisoner Raju would be eligible for 650 grams of rice thrice a day and 250 grams of vegetable curry and 125 grams of dal.
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Charges against Raju and others include criminal conspiracy and forgery.
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A court in New Delhi on Thursday extended the Enforcement Directorate custody of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal till April 1, saying the agency provided 'sufficient reasons', such as the need for him to be confronted with material collected and statements recorded, to permit his further custodial interrogation.
Praising Ravichandran Ashwin for becoming the No. 1 Test bowler in the ICC rankings, former spinner Venkatapathi Raju says his wicket-taking ability is amazing and he does not have to do anything different to remain a match-winner. "He (Ashwin) has got fantastic variations and he adopts himself in three formats of the game which is difficult. I think, in between he tried something which did not click and he came back to his own bowling.
A bench comprising Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Justice Amitava Roy, while allowing the plea of the Pooja Pal, wife of slain leader, asked the probe agency to conclude the probe in the case preferably within six months.
The probe agency has challenged the high court decision contending that Raju, who was the Chairman of the company, may influence the witnesses majority of whom are his former employees.
He had moved an application in this regard on account of bad health and ongoing family settlement.
B Ramalinga Raju, the founder of Satyam computers and main accused in the Satyam accounting fraud case, appeared before a local court for the second time on Thursday after being granted bail by the Andhra Pradesh High Court.
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M M Pallam Raju, who has been allocated the human resources and development portfolio, on Sunday said he will carry forward the "good work" initiated by his predecessor Kapil Sibal, who set in motion several reforms during his tenure.
Three security personnel suffered injuries in the fierce gun-battle and a large quantity of weapons was also recovered from the spot, the state police said.
B Ramalinga Raju, the prime accused in the Satyam multi-crore accounting scam, is likely to surrender before a local court on November 10, the deadline set for him by the Supreme Court, after it cancelled his bail.
Terming the Armed Forces Special Powers Act as an 'essential instrument,' Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju on Tuesday said the army was being 'demonised' and made a 'scapegoat' in Jammu and Kashmir affairs which are mainly linked to the peoples' 'aspirations.'
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Ramalinga Raju, former chairman of Satyam Computers, who last year confessed to have inflated his company's assets by over $1 billion, was declared a pauper by a New York court exempting him from paying court costs.
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The 55-year-old prime accused in the multi-crore scam is suffering from Hepatitis-C and is undergoing treatment at the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad.
The CBI counsel argued that if Raju and Srinivas were permitted to operate laptops they could get access through wireless internet to anybody and destroy the evidence of prosecution.
Disgraced Satyam Computers founder B Ramalinga Raju, the prime accused in the multi-crore financial fraud in the IT firm, on Thursday moved the Supreme Court pleading that he be released on bail.
A Hyderabad court on Friday ordered the initiation of proceedings against the former directors of Satyam Computers in a case filed by Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) after separating the trials against B Ramalinga Raju and Ram Mynampati.
Raju, the only Indian on the list dominated by Americans, owes his place on the list to his disclosure in January about committing the country's biggest ever corporate fraud.
The XIV additional chief metropolitan magistrate extended the remand of Satyam founder Ramalinga Raju, his brother Rama Raju, ex-CFO Vadlamani Srinivas, former auditors of Price Waterhouse S Gopapalakrishnan and Talluri Srinivas, and three former employees of the firm till August 5. The accused, who have been lodged in the Chanchalguda jail, were produced before the magistrate.
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