Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court has recently acquitted nine accused, including one company, business and bank officials, in a corruption case after nine years, citing the casual manner of an investigation by the agency.
The corruption case of Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation came to light after an official of the Corporation died by suicide and left a note containing an allegation of multi-crore corruption in the corporation.
This case pertains to fraudulently allotting DDA plots meant for JJ Dwellers to other non existing persons on the basis of forged documents in the area of Delhi and swelling the same in the open market.
The Siddaramaiah-led Karnataka government on Friday issued an order for handing over the corruption case of Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation to a Special Investigation Team (SIT).
A two-member bench, comprising IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, had reserved the verdict on Tuesday after the National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) prosecution team and Imran Khan's lawyer, Sardar Latif Khan Khosa, concluded their arguments.
"I believe Arvind Kejriwal, who has this kind of corruption case against him when he comes out of jail can tamper with the evidence in the case. But whatever will be the order of the court, we will follow it. We do not want any innocent but only the accused to be punished. We fight for it an
A bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Dipankar Datta passed the order while hearing Congress MLA Moquim's appeal. The bench also issued notice to the state government on Moquim's appeal against the Odisha High Court's decision.
In the second most prominent alleged corruption case in West Bengal, involving the PDS Ration Scam, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Kolkata has attached 48 immovable properties worth over Rs 150 crores belonging to the then state Minister Jyoti Priya Mallick and other accused.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has closed an alleged corruption case involving Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar faction) leader Praful Patel, registered in 2017.
Union Minister G Kishan Reddy stated that the case against Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K Kavitha was not politically motivated and was a case of corruption after she alleged that the case against her was not a money laundering case but one of "political laundering".
Responding to the criticism made by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal regarding the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo's outburst stemmed from his party's alleged exposure in corruption cases and said if he is