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Opposition accused the Democratic Front government of shielding the gutkha barons by allowing them to escape from the country and not naming them in the charge sheet in the case.
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Joshi, the owner of Goa brand gutka, is likely to undergo the polygraph test along with the brain mapping and brain finger printing tests, while Dhariwal will be subjected to the lie-detector test.
The agency on Saturday also claimed it had evidence of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's involvement in the gutkha case.
Former Karnataka Lokayukta Justice (retd) Santosh Hegde on Sunday opposed granting financial assistance to people affected by closure of mining in Goa and expressed doubts over the state government's willingness to implement recommendations of Justice M B Shah Commission.
Former Mumbai Police Commissioner M N Singh on Tuesday expressed disappointment at the Home Ministry's "embarrassing" stand on the whereabouts of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and said the response was a "big mistake" on part of the government.
The latest admission appears to be a u-turn by the government, which in the past, has maintained that the underworld don lives in Pakistan.
Seeking to wriggle out of the FATF's grey list, Pakistan has imposed tough financial sanctions on 88 banned terror groups and their leaders, including Hafiz Saeed, Masood Azhar and Dawood Ibrahim, by ordering the seizure of all of their properties and freezing of bank accounts, a media report said.
Gawli, who is attending the assembly session for the first time, had asked the speaker to direct the government to provide him police protection.
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Fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is still allegedly laundering blood money through the Bank of Baroda's branch in the tax havens in Nassau, Bahamas.
The row over former Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde's insinuation that illegal mining was akin to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's dealings escalated on Tuesday with Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar calling it 'baseless and unwarranted' and also far from reality.
The invoking of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act in the spot-fixing case has taken it a step closer to terrorism, reports Vicky Nanjappa
Suspended cricketer S Sreesanth on Tuesday moved fresh bail application before a Delhi court after the police invoked stringent MCOCA against him and others in the IPL spot-fixing scandal.
The court extended the judicial custody of pacer S Sreesanth and 22 others in the IPL spot fixing case till June 18 after Delhi Police informed it has invoked MCOCA provisions against them.
Tariq Parveen is wanted in connection with the Sara Sahara illegal shopping complex case in south Mumbai involving underworld gangster Dawood Ibrahim's younger brother Iqbal Kaskar.
According to the order, India could try Salem only for offences like forging passports, smuggling arms into Mumbai and not for heinous crimes like causing activities leading to death of civilians as in the case of the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts.
He has been asked to appear in court on December 15 to reply to allegations of obtaining funds from the underworld to construct a school in his native place of Karnataka.
Rajasthan Royals captain Rahul Dravid and team owners Raj Kundra and Shilpa Shetty are likely to be questioned by the Delhi police in connection with the IPL spot-fixing sacndal on May 21.
Even though Dawood Ibrahim is under the protection of Pakistan's ISI, the Indian government can bring the underworld don back to India using diplomacy and back channels, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
Sawant said that the party never supported Gaikwad's actions but always demanded a proper investigation into the matter.
The agency says that it is exempted from the Right to Information Act.
"All allegations levelled against me are baseless. I have received or made no international call from my mobile in the past one year, which my service provider 'Idea' has given me in writing," the minister told ANI.
Maintaining that their son is innocent, the parents of S Sreesanth, who is under arrest in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, on Wednesday declined to comment on the Delhi police invoking the stringent MCOCA provisions on their son.
The Mumbai police have provided security at the office of industrialist Nusli Wadia following threat calls from fugitive underworld don Ravi Pujari, police said on Thursday.
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Accepting National Investigation Agency's plea seeking custody of Tahir Merchant, a close ally of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, for thorough interrogation in a fake currency case, a special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Friday remanded the accused to agency's custody till November 16.
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