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Delhi election: LG VK Saxena orders probe into AAP’s poaching charge, ACB sleuths at Kejriwal’s home | Latest News India

Delhi election: LG VK Saxena orders probe into AAP’s poaching charge, ACB sleuths at Kejriwal’s home | Latest News India

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A team of Delhi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials arrived at Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal’s residence after lieutenant governor Vinai Kumar Saxena ordered a probe into the ex-CM’s poaching charges against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). ACB officials reached Kejriwal’s residence on Friday. (ANI/X) On Thursday, Kejriwal accused the BJP of trying to poach 16 party candidates. He alleged that the AAP candidates received offers from the BJP, which promised ministerial positions and ₹15 crore each if they switched sides. Also read | Delhi election result live updates Senior party leaders, including Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, have echoed Kejriwal’s allegations. Reacting to the development, the ruling party’s legal cell president Sanjeev Nasiar, questioned the ACB’s authority and alleged a “conspiracy” by the BJP. “They (ACB officials) have no authorisation to conduct to take action. They are talking to someone over the phone. They don’t have any documents. They are unaware that Sanjay Singh is already there at the ACB office to file a complaint. All this is a conspiracy by the BJP …

‘Embezzled ₹48 crore’: Parvesh Verma files ACB complaint against Arvind Kejriwal | Latest News India

‘Embezzled ₹48 crore’: Parvesh Verma files ACB complaint against Arvind Kejriwal | Latest News India

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Jan 31, 2025 10:56 PM IST The Delhi assembly election will be held on February 5. The results will be declared on February 8. Parvesh Verma, the BJP’s candidate in the New Delhi assembly constituency, filed a complaint with the anti-corruption bureau against Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of being involved in alleged corruption linked to the Delhi Sports University. BJP leader Parvesh Verma Verma, the former BJP MP, will take on Arvind Kejriwal in the constituency. In his complaint, he alleged “corrupt misappropriation of public funds” through “the abuse of official positions to gain wrongful benefits”. Parvesh Verma‘s lawyer Vivek Garg told ANI that AAP and Kejriwal carried out “a huge fraud” with the students of the national capital and a complaint had been filed with the ACB on behalf of the BJP candidate. He claimed Kejriwal and his ministers had embezzled ₹48 crore. “This is a huge fraud where Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers have embezzled ₹48 crore on paper for which our team of lawyers have filed a complaint …

KT Rama Rao detained under house arrest with six other top BRS leaders: Report | Latest News India

KT Rama Rao detained under house arrest with six other top BRS leaders: Report | Latest News India

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Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader KT Rama Rao or KTR and six other top party leaders, including Harish Rao and RS Praveen Kumar, have been placed under house arrest, news agency ANI reported on Tuesday, citing party sources. BRS Working President and MLA K T Rama Rao interacts with the media before leaving for the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) office, in Hyderabad, Telangana, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. Rao, also known as KTR, was summoned by the ACB for questioning in the case related to the alleged “unauthorised” payments to conduct Formula E race. (File)(PTI) Heavy police deployment was reported outside KTR’s residence on Tuesday following the arrest of party MLA Padi Koushik Reddy yesterday. KTR, who has been under investigation by the state Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) over financial irregularities over the conduct of Formula E car race, has denied the allegations as “frivolous” and “abuse of law process”. KTR, a former minister and the son of ex-Telangana CM Chandrashekar Rao, claimed that the officials grilled him for seven hours with the same questions despite the lack …

Jammikunta tahsildar Rajani booked in disproportionate assets case

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The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials on Wednesday registered a disproportionate assets case against Jammikunta mandal Tahsildar and Joint Sub-Registrar, Markala Rajani, as she allegedly acquired assets by indulging in ‘corrupt practices’ and ‘dubious means’ during her service, ACB sources said. Preliminary searches were carried out by the sleuths of the ACB at her house and five other houses belonging to her relatives, associates and ‘benamis’, an ACB press release said. During the searches, property documents of 22 open plots and 7 acres of agricultural lands, documents of advance payment agreements for purchase of three properties in her name and in the name of her family members were found. Furthermore, net cash of ₹ 1,51,540, bank balance amount of ₹ 25,73,525, gold ornaments weighing 1462.5 grams, household articles worth ₹ 9.39 lakh, vehicles worth ₹ 31,06,000 were also found, the release added. The total assets are estimated to be a little over ₹ 3.20 crore. Further verification of additional assets is underway. The case is under investigation. Source link

Probe ordered into “irregularities” in sheep, fish distribution schemes of BRS govt.

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Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has directed the officials to conduct a comprehensive inquiry into the alleged irregularities in the distribution of goats, sheep and fish during the previous Bharat Rashtra Samiti government. The Chief Minister wanted the probe to cover all aspects including the selection of beneficiaries, the purchase of goats/sheep and the modalities adopted for the distribution among the beneficiaries. Steps should be taken to hand over the inquiry to the Anti-Corruption Bureau if the vigilance reports point to lapses in the implementation of the schemes. He gave the instructions during a review meeting with senior officials on the functioning of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries department on Tuesday. The meeting assumes significance in light of the irregularities flagged by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in its report tabled in the Assembly recently. Referring to the observations made in the CAG report, Mr. Revanth Reddy recalled that an inquiry by the ACB too revealed that some employees diverted the funds meant for the distribution of sheep to their accounts and asked why …

Mundra bribe: Gold biscuit, Rs 8.97 lakh in cash seized from bank lockers of accused | Ahmedabad News

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The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Saturday seized Rs 8.97 lakh in cash and a gold biscuit worth Rs 6.42 lakh from the bank lockers of one of the accused in a bribe case from Mundra. Shailesh Gangdev, the accused, was recently arrested in the case. Gangdev was a superintendent of the Customs Department, (Class-02) Mundra. Along with him, two more men — Alok Dubey, a superintendent of the Customs Department (Preventive Division), Mundra, and middleman Ramesh Gadhvi, prajajan at Mundra port in Kutch — were arrested by the ACB on Monday. The case involves a businessman who imported handbags but the three accused allegedly asked for a bribe of Rs 1 lakh to “not raise too many queries that would have delayed the consignment’s release” from the Mundra port. The businessmen he reached out to the ACB, after which a trap was laid and officers caught red-handed while accepting the bribe. Source link

Discom Assistant Engineer caught ‘accepting bribe’

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The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials of the Guntur Range on February 21 (Wednesday) caught red-handed Andhra Pradesh Central Power Distribution Company Limited (APCPDCL) Assistant Engineer (Operations) Rupavath Prakasha Rao Naik when the latter was taking ₹55,000 allegedly as a bribe for issuing a meter for an agricultural power connection. In response to a complaint received on the ACB Call Centre (14400) helpline that Prakasha Rao Naik demanded ₹70,000 for fixing a meter to an agricultural connection, the ACB officials caught him while accepting money at his office in Palnadu district, said a release. The accused official would be produced in the ACB Special Court, along with the seized amount, the ACB officials said. Source link

An Odisha official found to have amassed ₹10 crore disproportionate assets

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A joint manager in State-run Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL), who started with a meagre salary of ₹1,300 per month was found in possession of disproportionate assets (DA) worth more than ₹10 crore. Gaya Santara, who was searched by Vigilance Department on allegation of amassing disproportionate assets during past three days, was arrested on December 22. Mr. Santara is joint manager with IDCOL’s Ampa Valli Lime Stone Mines, Simagoda, in Koraput district. The anti-corruption bureau sleuths seized cash of 1,06,44,500 and ₹4.44 crore from 16 different bank accounts. The officer has a three-storeyed building located at Mancheswar Industrial Estate and four-storeyed building (under construction) situated in Jaydev Vihar in downtown of Bhubaneswar. Moreover, 13 pieces of land records including seven in prime localities of Bhubaneswar, five in Jajpur and one plot in Nayagarh belonging to Mr. Santara and family members were detected. The Vigilance Department also seized 1.096KG of gold and 7.5KG of silver from him. Two four-wheelers and four two-wheelers were used by him and his family members. “We have found huge expenditure made …