Prevention of Corruption Act News

The court said that there is also nothing apparent on record to infer or show that Sisodia`s arrest, in this case, was illegal or violative of any directions of the Supreme Court or the High Courts and rather, the material placed before this court by the CBI justifies the arrest of the applicant in the case.

CBI and the Income Tax Department are conducting raids at the house of former NBCC officer D.K. Mittal in connection with the Prevention of Corruption Act.

The CBI and I-T department conducted raids at the former NBCC officer D.K. Mittal's home The CBI team reached the house on Friday night and have been searching the house since then

Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta police on Wednesday arrested a district treasury officer here while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1,000 for disposing of a pension case.

As per preliminary probe, the agency had valued the "disproportionate assets" at over Rs 4.78 crore excluding the "unexplained amount" of Rs 5.50 crore.

Investigation into allegations against officers under suspension or about to retire should be given the highest priority, as per the fresh set of guidelines on vigilance matters.

College principal Dr PK Singh said, "On August 31, 16 children died, while on September 1, 19 others died in the NICU, general and encephalitis wards of the hospital."

Tyagi, who had retired in 2007, his cousin Sanjeev and Khaitan were arrested on December 9 last year by CBI in the case. These accused are currently on bail.  

 A Delhi court on Thursday ordered framing of charges against 11 former parliamentarians in connection with the 2005 cash-for-query case.

A court on Monday ordered that charges be framed against six former Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee members.

This comes a month after an FIR was lodged at the Gomti Nagar police station against eight engineers of the Uttar Pradesh Irrigation Department in connection with alleged financial anomalies in the project.

The Congress on Monday wrote to Delhi Lt. Governor Anil Baijal to demand the prosecution of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers on the basis of the Shunglu committee report.

The ED has registered a money laundering case in the Narada 'sting' where a number of Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders, including MPs and ministers, were allegedly seen on camera taking money.

Virbhadra Singh and his wife have claimed that there was no order, direction or judgment by any court that had authorised the CBI to inquire cases and exercise jurisdiction in Himachal Pradesh.

Stating that an erroneous commercial decision of a public servant cannot always be seen as corrupt, Finance minister Arun Jaitley today said the amendments to the anti-graft law would protect the honest bureaucrats.

An average of one in four newly elected MLAs in Uttar Pradesh is named in a serious criminal case like murder or rape, while eight out of 10 is a crorepati, a study showed today.

A CBI court here on Friday dismissed the bail petitions of sand mining baron J Shekar Reddy and four others who were arrested in connection with an alleged seizure of over Rs 170 crore, including new currency notes, from their premises.

In complaint case filed against a public servant when there was no previous sanction the magistrate cannot order investigation by invoking section 156(3) of the CrPC. 

The Anti-Corruption Bureau on Saturday filed a chargesheet in a court here against six former officials for alleged fraud and corruption in Vidarbha's Gosikhurd inter-district irrigation project.

In a fresh trouble for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former CM Sheila Dikshit, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Monday filed a First Information Report (FIR) in the Rs 400 crores water tanker scam.