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Rajasthan BJP issues show cause notice to minister Kirodi Lal Meena over his phone-tapping allegation – India TV

Rajasthan BJP issues show cause notice to minister Kirodi Lal Meena over his phone-tapping allegation – India TV

Image Source : PTI/FILE Rajasthan Cabinet Minister Kirodi Lal Meena The BJP Rajasthan unit president Madan Rathore has sent a show cause to state minister Kirodi Lal Meena for “tarnishing” the government’s reputation by alleging that his phone was being tapped, party leaders said on Monday. However, Meena claimed ignorance about it and asserted that he was the party’s “disciplined soldier” and would send his reply within the stipulated time once he received the notice. Meena made the statement during a public meeting after which the opposition Congress had raised the issue in the Rajasthan Assembly, causing embarrassment to the BJP government. Raking the issue, Congress had demanded Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma’s resignation. Leader of the Opposition Tika Ram Jully did not even give a speech on the Governor’s address in protest. Congress MLAs kept raising slogans during the chief minister’s speech. In the show cause notice, the BJP said Meena’s statement tarnished the government’s reputation. “You are a member of the BJP and have been elected MLA from Sawai Madhopur region on the party ticket. You …

Karnataka HC stays Bengaluru police probe against Nirmala Sitharaman, others in electoral bonds extortion FIR | Bangalore News

A single-judge bench of the Karnataka High Court Monday stayed proceedings against Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, former Karnataka BJP chief Nalin Kumar Kateel, and unnamed ED officials in the ‘electoral bonds extortion case’ registered by the Bengaluru police. Kateel had approached the Karnataka High Court for a stay on the investigation and further proceedings in the case. In the petition moved by Kateel, senior advocate K G Raghavan argued that no case of extortion was made out in the complaint. Prashant Bhushan, the senior counsel for the private complainant, argued that the electoral bonds scheme involved a classic case of extortion, where the ED had generated fear among some companies to buy electoral bonds. “Section 383 mandates that any informant who approaches the concerned Court or the jurisdictional police should have been put into fear and due to such fear, he should have delivered some property to the accused,” the HC observed. “It is only then that extortion may be established prima facie, against that accused qua the victim. It is settled principle of …

FIR against Nirmala Sitharaman, others over ‘extortion’ linked to electoral bonds scheme | Bangalore News

The Bengaluru police on Saturday registered a case against Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials, and a few BJP leaders in connection with a complaint relating to the now-scrapped electoral bonds scheme. The FIR was registered under sections 384 (punishment for extortion) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) on the directions of a special court in the city. The complaint, lodged by Adarsh R Iyer, Co-President of ‘Janaadhikaara Sangharsha Parishath’ (JSP), also names Karnataka BJP chief and B S Yediyurappa’s son B Y Vijayendra and party leader Nalinkumar Kateel among others. The complainant has alleged that the accused “committed extortion under the guise and garb of electoral bonds and benefitted to the tune of 8,000 and more crore of rupees,” news agency PTI reported. He further alleged that Sitharaman, through the clandestine aid and support of ED officials, facilitated extortion of thousands of crores of rupees for the benefit of others both at the state and national levels. “The entire extortion racket under the garb of electoral bonds has been orchestrated hand in glove …