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JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Monday trapped and arrested a Postal Assistant in Bandipora district while demanding and allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 6500. "A complaint was received by Anti Corruption from a resident of Bandipora against Mudasir Ahmad, Postal Assistant posted at Sub Post Office Bandipora for demanding bribe. It was alleged by complainant that he had obtained financial assistance under PMEGP scheme through KVIC for the activity Mobile and Electronic ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 14 (PTI) A special CBI court on Monday framed charges against RG Kar Medical College and Hospital's former principal Sandip Ghosh and four others in a financial irregularities case. Ghosh was the principal of the medical college when an on-duty doctor was raped and murdered on the campus on August 9. He was arrested by the CBI in the financial irregularities case amid the protests over the rape and murder. The special court ordered framing of charges under various sections of the ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 14 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed its Second Supplementary Prosecution Complaint (SPC) before the Special Court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on July 10. The complaint has been filed against Ramesh Chandra and others, including several companies, namely M/s Shivalik Ventures Private Limited, M/s Auram Asset Management Private Limited, M/s Unitech Build Tech Limited, M/s Unitech Golf Resorts Limited, and M/s Ranchero Services Limit ...Read More >
JAMMU, July 12: The Government today ordered transfer, posting and adjustment of IAS officers. Dr. Ashish Chandra Verma, awaiting orders of posting in the General Administration Department has been posted as Financial Commissioner (Additional Chief Secretary), Tourism Department. He shall also hold the charge of the post of Administrative Secretary, Planning, Development and Monitoring Department, in addition to his own duties, till further orders. Follow the Daily Excelsior channel on WhatsAp ...Read More >
BUDGAM, July 12: The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has trapped and arrested a Patwari posted at Humchipora Halqa in Budgam district while accepting a bribe of Rs 2,000 from a complainant. Follow the Daily Excelsior channel on WhatsApp As per an ACB official, the accused, identified as Tahir Jan Malla, a resident of Sebdan Budgam, was caught red-handed while demanding and receiving the bribe amount for processing mutation of land at Alamnaag Khag through the online system. Acc ...Read More >
MUMBAI : Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Friday posted a video on X purportedly showing the state's social justice minister Sanjay Shirsat of the Shiv Sena sitting in a room along with a partially opened bag containing what look like bundles of currency notes. Shirsat, however, rubbished the claim, saying the bag only contained clothes.The allegation came a day after it emerged that Shirsat had received a notice from the income tax department seeking an explanation for increase in his financia ...Read More >
Srinagar: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday said it has trapped and arrested a Lineman-II of PDD Sub Division Pattan, Baramulla for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 5000. It said that ACB received a written complaint alleging therein that Manzoor Ahmad Bhat, Lineman-II (designated as Meter Reader Panzinara) in the Power Development Department (PDD), Sub Division Pattan Baramulla demanded a bribe of Rs 5,000 from the complainant for processing fresh electricity connection to a new ...Read More >
JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday trapped and arrested Manzoor Ahmad Bhat, Lineman-II of PDD Sub Division Pattan, Baramulla for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 5000. "ACB received a written complaint alleging therein that Manzoor Ahmad Bhat, Lineman-II (designated as Meter Reader Panzinara) in the Power Development Department (PDD), Sub Division Pattan Baramulla demanded a bribe of Rs 5,000 from the complainant for processing fresh electricity connection to a n ...Read More >
Panaji: The high court will continue to hear on Thursday the petition filed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), challenging the order of a lower court to register an FIR in the case of ex-minister and BJP leader Pandurang Madkaikar's bribery remark.The ACB has informed the HC that the sessions court, designated as a special court under the Prevention of Corruption Act, lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the application seeking direction to a police officer to register an FIR.The application w ...Read More >
Chhattisgarh's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) and Anti-Corruption Bureau have filed a fourth supplementary charge sheet against 29 people in a special court in Raipur in connection with the alleged illegal sale of unaccounted and duty-evaded liquor through state-run outlets. The liquor is alleged to have been sold under the protection and coordination of officials, including assistant district excise officers, deputy commissioners. In a statement on Monday, the EOW said that the fresh charge she ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 6 (PTI) A court in Punjab's Mohali district on Sunday sent Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia to judicial custody for two weeks in a disproportionate assets case. Amid tight security arrangements, Majithia was produced before the court. Speaking to reporters after the court hearing, public prosecutors Ferry Sofat and Preet Inderpal Singh said Majithia has been sent to judicial custody for two-weeks and will be lodged in New Nabha Jail. Earlier on July 2, a court h ...Read More >
Bhopal, July 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ravi Shankar Maharaj, at the centre of a medical education scam involving bribes for granting accreditation to sub-standard medical colleges, may have thrived all these years with help from influential followers, including politicians and bureaucrats, and his efforts to painstakingly nurture a network spanning religion, education and politics across central India. The CBI's first information report (FIR) naming the self-styled spiritual leader is the self-styled ...Read More >
New Delhi/Bhopal/Raipur, July 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a sweeping action exposing deep-rooted corruption in medical college regulation and accreditation, the CBI arrested six people, including three doctors, and busted a racket involving self-styled godman Rawatpura Sarkar, former UGC Chairman D.P. Singh and a network of officials and middlemen, an official said on Saturday. The muli-state corruption racket forced the CBI to raided more than 40 locations in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached immovable properties worth Rs 34.12 crore in connection with a case of transnational gold smuggling and money laundering in a case linked to actress Harshavardini Ranya, alias Ranya Rao and her associates. https://x.com/ANI/status/1941152259410170126 As per the ED, the attached assets include properties located in the Bengaluru and Tumkur districts of Karnataka. The action was taken under the provisions of the Preve ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached immovable properties worth Rs 34.12 crore in connection with a case of transnational gold smuggling and money laundering in a case linked to actress Harshavardini Ranya, alias Ranya Rao and her associates. https://x.com/ANI/status/1941152259410170126 As per the ED, the attached assets include properties located in the Bengaluru and Tumkur districts of Karnataka. The action was taken under the provisions of the Preve ...Read More >
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], July 4 (ANI): Amidst the ongoing Marathi-non-Marathi row, a group of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers allegedly stormed a man's residence in the Vanaz area of the city on Thursday and threatened to assault him over an objectionable social media post targeting MNS chief Raj Thackeray. The man, identified as Kedar Soman, had reportedly posted a comment on Facebook that MNS workers found offensive and disrespectful to their leader. Enraged by the post, a group o ...Read More >
ACB has arrested the accused, Mohammad Shaban Chopan, a member of the Srinagar District Development Council. An alleged tout working for him has also been arrested. The Anti-Corruption Bureau in Jammu and Kashmir said Tuesday it had arrested an elected member of the District Development Council (DDC) for allegedly demanding a Rs 5 lakh bribe from a Srinagar-based businessman who also runs a boarding school in Harwan. In a statement, the ACB identified the accused as Mohammad Shaban Chopan, a m ...Read More >
Jaipur: Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) filed a chargesheet Wednesday against Jaikrishn Patel, who represents the Bagidora constituency in Banswara district, and three others. They were arrested on May 4 in a first-of-its-kind 'cash-for-no-query' scandal in the state. ACB has kept the investigation pending against Rohitash Meena, the personal assistant of the MLA, as he is on the run since the trap in which the legislator was allegedly caught accepting a bribe of Rs 20 lakh in the parking ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 3 (PTI) The Punjab and Haryana High Court will hear on Friday Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia's plea against his arrest and subsequent remand in a disproportionate assets case registered against him by the Vigilance Bureau. The matter came up before the bench of Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya, who adjourned the hearing for a day to allow Majithia's counsel to place a fresh remand order of the former Akali minister issued in the case. Majithia's counsel Arshdeep Singh ...Read More >
SRINAGAR, Jul 1: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Srinagar has registered a formal case against sitting District Development Council (DDC) Member and his associate Ghulam Mohammad Khathana for allegedly demanding a bribe of ₹5 lakh in exchange for arranging official NOCs for a local school. In a statement, ACB, Srinagar has registered a case FIR No. 12/2025 under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (as amended 2018), section 61(2) BNS against a sitting District Development Counc ...Read More >
Srinagar, July 01: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Srinagar has registered a formal case against sitting District Development Council (DDC) Member and his associate Ghulam Mohammad Khathana for allegedly demanding a bribe of ₹5 lakh in exchange for arranging official NOCs for a local school. In a statement, ACB, Srinagar has registered a case FIR No. 12/2025 under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (as amended 2018), section 61(2) BNS against a sitting District Development Cou ...Read More >
The Delhi government's anti-corruption branch (ACB) has arrested a suspended executive engineer and a private contractor for defrauding the Irrigation and Flood Control (I&FC) Department of Rs 4.6 crore fraud, an official said on Monday. The two accused allegedly facilitated fraudulent payments worth over Rs 4.6 crore for civil works that were never executed. The irregularities relate to drainage and road projects in a north Delhi village, Siraspur, which were found to exist only on paper. "T ...Read More >
Srinagar- Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday inaugurated a buyer-seller meet here to empower local artisans and boost the economy. "The Chief Minister inaugurated the Buyer-Seller Meet at SKICC today. The initiative aims to empower artisans and strengthen the local economy by creating direct market linkages and promoting local products. The meet is hosting 15 international and 30 national buyers," Omar posted on his official X handle. Talking to reporters later, Omar said the effectiveness ...Read More >
Jammu, June 30: Anti-Corruption Bureau has trapped and arrested Liaquat Ali, Patwari, Halqa Thuthay Chak, Hiranagar, District Kathua, for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 30,000. Officials revealed that ACB received a complaint alleging therein that a public servant namely Liaquat Ali, Patwari, Patwar Halqa Thuthay Chak Tehsil Hiranagar, District Kathua, demanded illegal gratification from the complainant for attestation of mutation. The accused had demanded a bribe of ₹1,00,000 from the com ...Read More >
JAMMU: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Monday trapped and arrested a Patwari of Halqa Thuthay Chak, Hiranagar, Kathua for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000. "Anti-Corruption Bureau received a complaint alleging therein that public servant namely Liaquat Ali, Patwari, Patwar Halqa Thuthay Chak, Tehsil Hiranagar, District Kathua, demanded illegal gratification from the complainant for attestation of mutation. The accused had demanded a bribe of Rs 1,00,000 from the complainant for ente ...Read More >
Former Punjab director general of police (DGP) Siddharth Chattopadhyay on Friday met the vigilance bureau (VB) team investigating the disproportionate assets case against Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia. During the meeting, Chattopadhyay claimed that Majithia had "100% links with drug smugglers" and stressed that there was ample evidence against him. Chattopadhyay, who served as acting DGP in December 2021 under the Charanjit Singh Channi-led government, stated that he ha ...Read More >
Kolhapur: While the NCP (SP) has declared support to the July 5 protest march against the "imposition of Hindi," the party's chief Sharad Pawar on Friday said celebrities such as cricketer Sachin Tendulkar should not be insisted upon to express their views on making Hindi a must in the Maharashtra school curriculum. "Ask Sachin about cricket; don't force him to take a stand on Hindi imposition," he said.Pawar was responding to Raj Thackeray's statement on Thursday that he wanted to see who -- es ...Read More >
Panaji: The high court has issued a notice to power department executive engineer Kashinath Shetye and others over a petition challenging a lower court's order to file an FIR after an ex-minister alleged corruption in govt.The challenge has been filed by the Ant-Corruption Bureau (ACB).The lower court had directed the ACB and the vigilance department to register an FIR based on the statements about corruption made by Pandurang Madkaikar, a former minister and BJP member.Madkaikar said he paid Rs ...Read More >
SRINAGAR, Jun 27: The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday filed a chargesheet before the Court of Additional Judge Anti-Corruption, Kashmir, against two persons in a bribery case involving a ₹9,000 demand for land record processing. "Jammu and Kashmir Anti Corruption Bureau has filed a charge- sheet under Section 173 Cr.P.C. before the Hon'ble Court of Addl. Judge Anti-Corruption, Kashmir in Case FIR No. 15/2022, against the following accused persons: Jamil Hussain Khan, th ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) has registered a case against former Delhi health ministers Saurabh Bhardwaj and Satyendar Jain over alleged corruption in health infrastructure projects under the Delhi government. The FIR, filed under Section 13(1) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, along with IPC Sections 409 (Criminal breach of trust by public servant or by banker, merchant or agent), 420 (Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) and 120-B Punishment of criminal c ...Read More >
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