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Former minister Mahesh Joshi held in Rs 900 crore JJM scam

Former minister Mahesh Joshi held in Rs 900 crore JJM scam

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Rajasthan’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday arrested former minister Mahesh Joshi from his Jaipur residence in connection with the alleged Rs 900-crore Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) scam. The arrest was made a month after retired IAS officer Subodh Agarwal was arrested.  Joshi, who was the Public Health Engineering Department minister during the former Congress government, was produced before a court and remanded to police custody till May 11.  He is accused of misusing his position as the PHED minister and accepting bribes in exchange for tenders. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

Rajasthan ACB intensifies search for retd IAS officer in ₹900 crore Jal Jeevan ‘scam’

Rajasthan ACB intensifies search for retd IAS officer in ₹900 crore Jal Jeevan ‘scam’

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Jaipur, Rajasthan’s Anti-Corruption Bureau has intensified its search for retired IAS officer Subodh Agarwal and other accused involved in alleged irregularities amounting to ₹900 crore in the tender process for the Jal Jeevan Mission , officials said on Wednesday. Rajasthan ACB intensifies search for retd IAS officer in ₹900 crore Jal Jeevan ‘scam’ An ACB official stated that 40 teams have been engaged in the operation over the past 16 days. The official further informed that search teams have conducted raids at over 100 locations across nearly 21 cities, including Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Barmer, Kota, Nagaur, New Delhi, Chandigarh, Faridabad, Noida, Meerut, Prayagraj, Bulandshahr and Mumbai. The premises searched include New Moti Bagh and Defence Colony in New Delhi, Sector-39 in Faridabad, residential locations in Noida, a farmhouse in Sohna, and properties in Malabar Hill and Juhu in Mumbai. In Jaipur, searches were carried out in C-Scheme, Nirman Nagar, Bajaj Nagar Extension and nearby farmhouse locations in Sewar, Bagru and Bindayaka. So far, around 50 individuals, including relatives, friends, drivers, and suspected associates, have been …

ACB conducts surprise raid at Dundigal Municipal Commissioner’s office, flags irregularities

ACB conducts surprise raid at Dundigal Municipal Commissioner’s office, flags irregularities

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The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) conducted a surprise check at the office of the Municipal Commissioner in Dundigal, Gandimaisamma mandal, Medchal–Malkajgiri district, on February 18, and unearthed several irregularities in administrative and financial functioning. According to the ACB, the operation was carried out by the City Range-I unit based on credible information. The team was assisted by officials from audit and technical departments to verify administrative records, financial transactions, attendance registers, statutory registers, pending applications and the overall functioning of the municipal office. During the searches, officials found evidence of bribery through WhatsApp chats involving a Town Planning supervisor. The ACB stated that unauthorised financial transactions were routed to a firm belonging to the supervisor’s husband. Bank statements of the concerned officials are to be verified to examine the source of credits and ascertain any link to the alleged irregularities. The ACB also found that one Assistant Municipal Commissioner and five outsourced staff members were absent without authorisation. Manipulation of attendance records of sanitary workers by sanitary field assistants was also detected. Further scrutiny revealed …

Kerala vigilance recommends CBI probe against LoP Satheesan over FCRA violation| India News

Kerala vigilance recommends CBI probe against LoP Satheesan over FCRA violation| India News

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The Kerala Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB), in a report to the state government, has recommended transferring the case of illegal diversion of funds sourced from foreign entities for a housing rehabilitation project in Ernakulam district involving Leader of Opposition VD Satheesan to the Central Bureau of investigation (CBI), a development that has sparked a political row ahead of the Assembly elections this year. The VACB, which had investigated the case for more than five years, had found that the funds were routed to the Foundation’s FCRA account through a UK-based NGO. (PTI) Congress’s Satheesan, a five-time MLA who took over as the LoP in the assembly following the UDF’s defeat in the 2021 assembly elections, has emerged as one of the strongest voices against the LDF government and an adept election manager under whom the UDF has won a string of bypolls and, most recently, the local body polls. The Punarjani project was launched by Satheesan in his assembly constituency of North Paravur in the backdrop of the 2018 floods with the aim of …

Bhupesh Baghel’s son got ₹250-crore share from liquor fraud case: Charge sheet

Bhupesh Baghel’s son got ₹250-crore share from liquor fraud case: Charge sheet

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Chaitanya, son of former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, received ₹200 crore to ₹250 crore as his share from an alleged liquor scam in the state, the Anti- Corruption Bureau/Economic Offence Wing (ACB/EOW) claimed in its chargesheet. Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel addresses a press conference, in Patna.(PTI) The state police’s ACB/EOW, in its seventh supplementary chargesheet in the multi-crore liquor scam filed before a special court here on Monday, claimed Chaitanya Baghel played a key role in establishing, coordinating, and protecting extortion racket (syndicate) within the excise department (during the previous Congress government which was in office from 2018-23). The document, which runs into around 3,800 pages, has named Chaitnaya Baghel as an accused in the alleged scam pegged at more than ₹3,000 crore, an ACB/EOW statement said. With this, a total of eight chargesheets have been filed in the case so far. The latest chargesheet details the current status of probe against the accused already arrested, along with digital evidence reports pertaining to all those in custody. The statement quoting the chargesheet said Chaitanya …

Ex-GST assistant commissioner gets 5-year jail term for bribery

Ex-GST assistant commissioner gets 5-year jail term for bribery

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Mumbai, Nov 27 A court here on Thursday sentenced a former Assistant Commissioner of GST to five years in jail in a bribery case, saying his “act does not deserve any leniency”. Ex-GST assistant commissioner gets 5-year jail term for bribery The special judge for Anti Corruption Bureau cases, A V Kharkar, held Ashok Nayak guilty of offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act, and also for criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal Code. The court also imposed a fine of ₹1 lakh on Nayak. The case was registered in May 2017 against Nayak, then assistant commissioner, Central Excise, based on a complaint filed by a businessman who runs a bar and restaurant in the city. As per the complaint, Nayak demanded ₹12 crore from him for settling a matter pending with the Enforcement Directorate . He also asked for 25 to 30 per cent of the bribe to be paid within a day or two to avoid being arrested by the ED, the businessman claimed. Nayak told him he could settle the matter by …

Jharkhand IAS officer Vinay Kumar Choubey arrested in excise scam, sent to judicial custody | Latest News India

Jharkhand IAS officer Vinay Kumar Choubey arrested in excise scam, sent to judicial custody | Latest News India

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Ranchi, The Anti-Corruption Bureau on Tuesday arrested senior Jharkhand IAS officer Vinay Kumar Choubey in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise scam in the state, an official said. Jharkhand IAS officer Vinay Kumar Choubey arrested in excise scam, sent to judicial custody Choubey was taken to Birsa Munda Central Jail at Hotwar here after a special court remanded him to judicial custody till June 3. He was arrested after hours of interrogation by the ACB, which has been inquiring into the allegation of irregularities in excise policy during his tenure as secretary of the excise department. The excise department’s joint commissioner Gajendra Singh was also arrested and sent to jail in the same case. Choubey, a 1999-batch IAS officer, had held several key posts, including Secretary to the CM. He is currently posted as Principal Secretary, Department of Panchayati Raj. The state government earlier gave permission to register an FIR against Choubey. An ACB team reached Choubey’s residence in the morning and took him to the agency’s headquarters here for interrogation. He …

Rajasthan bribery case: Another ACB inspector, 50 govt employees under scanner

Rajasthan bribery case: Another ACB inspector, 50 govt employees under scanner

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A day after assistant superintendent of police (ASP) in the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Surendra Sharma, was detained by the agency for allegedly taking bribe from mining mafias, ACB officials have put another inspector from the agency under scanner along with around 50 other government employees. For representational purposes only. (HT File Photo) “An inspector from the Sawai Madhopur ACB unit is also under our radar. He had also been threatening other department officials and taking bribes along with Sharma to protect the illegal mines operations in the area. However, we are yet to gather more evidence against him,” a senior official familiar with the matter said. He further said, “Around 50 other department officials from Sawai Madhopur are also under our radar who have colluded with these ACB officers and paid them bribes.” Sharma was among three people who were detained by the ACB on Monday night, along with two of his middlemen, for allegedly taking bribe from mining mafias in Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur, officials said. “The action was taken based on a tip-off received …

Rajasthan MLA Jaikrishn Patel Arrested For Taking Rs 20 Lakh Bribe For Dropping Questions In Assembly

Rajasthan MLA Jaikrishn Patel Arrested For Taking Rs 20 Lakh Bribe For Dropping Questions In Assembly

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The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Rajasthan on Sunday arrested Bharat Adivasi Party MLA Jaikrishn Patel for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 20 lakh for dropping three questions in the state Assembly, a senior ACB official said. Director General of ACB, Ravi Prakash Meharda, said this is the first time in the history of the Rajasthan ACB that an MLA has been arrested in a graft case. Patel, 38, is a first-time MLA from Banswara district’s Bagidora assembly constituency (ST). He was elected in the bypolls held along with the Lok Sabha elections last year. “Patel allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 10 crore from the complainant to drop questions related to mines. The deal was settled for Rs 2.5 crore. The complainant gave him Rs 1 lakh in Banswara at the time of verification. Today, he was trapped on the MLA quarters premises while taking Rs 20 lakh,” Meharda said. He claimed that the MLA handed over the bag of cash to a man who managed to escape with it. The ACB officials are …

Stock Market ‘Fraud’: Court Orders FIR Against Ex-Sebi Chief Madhabi Puri Buch, 5 Others

Stock Market ‘Fraud’: Court Orders FIR Against Ex-Sebi Chief Madhabi Puri Buch, 5 Others

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Last Updated:March 02, 2025, 16:46 IST A special court here has directed the AntiCorruption Bureau (ACB) to register an FIR against former Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and five other officials in connection with alleged stock market fraud and regulatory violations. Ex-SEBI chief Madhabi Puri Buch A special court here has directed the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to register an FIR against former Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and five other officials in connection with alleged stock market fraud and regulatory violations. “There is prima facie evidence of regulatory lapses and collusion, requiring a fair and impartial probe,” the special ACB court judge, Shashikant Eknathrao Bangar, said in the order passed on Saturday. The court said it will monitor the probe, and sought a status report (of the case) within 30 days. The court order also noted that the allegations disclose a cognisable offence, necessitating an investigation. The inaction by law enforcement (agencies) and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) necessitates judicial intervention under the provisions of the CrPC (Criminal Procedure Code), it added. …