-Express News Service The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a chargesheet on Thursday in the Patiala House courts against seven persons, including four MCD officials, in a case relating to corruption in the installation of street lights before the Commonwealth Games. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) had floated a tender for street lighting in the city in 2008, in which, according to the CBI, the seven persons named and a...
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Who will watch the watchmen? by Minhaz Merchant
The audited balance sheets of the six largest political parties in India are hard to get and harder to decipher: they hide more than they reveal but are nonetheless worth close examination. Between them, the Congress, BJP, BSP, SP, NCP and CPM reported total income of Rs 1,046.76 crore for the year ending March 31, 2009. That was the year in which most of the funds for the 2009 Lok...
More »CIC raps CBI for not giving info on Ambanis
-The Economic Times The Central Information Commission (CIC) has summoned CBI officials for failure to give reasons on why the Ambani brothers were not chargesheeted in the call re-routing case. The CBI had last year filed a chargesheet against five Reliance Industries' executives in a case related to passing off of international calls as local calls and causing revenue loss to the government. Information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi has asked the CBI public...
More »4 pvt firms helped Kalaignar TV repay Swan's Rs 200 cr: CBI by Neeraj Chauhan
Probing the trail of Rs 200 crore, which was paid to Kalaignar TV by Swan Telecom in the 2G spectrum scam, the CBI has now reached at the doors of four private companies including UB Group and India Cements. While the names of the other two companies could not be ascertained, CBI officials said the four had facilitated payments to Kalaignar TV to help it repay Rs 200 crore to Swan. "We...
More »CBI exempted from RTI Act by Neeraj Chauhan
In a decision which might irk RTI activists, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been exempted from giving information under Right to Information Act. The decision was taken by the Cabinet on Thursday following repeated requests by the agency on the grounds that it probed sensitive cases, and in doing so, it "becomes difficult for it to share information and also in accessing the information'. The Cabinet took note of CBI's...
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