“The Right to Information (RTI) Act is a very powerful tool to fight the cancer of corruption, which is eating away at the vitals of the country,” stated former judge PM Dhakephalkar. He was speaking at a discussion on ‘Corruption ridden India’, organised by Community Aid and Sponsorship Programme (Casp) Prabodhan Mandal at SP College on Sunday. Apart from Dhakephalkar, resident editor of Pune edition of DNA, Abhay Vaidya, former director general...
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Court seeks status of probe into CWG-linked graft cases
A Delhi court has asked the CBI and the Delhi police to file a detailed report on the action taken by them so far on the complaints about alleged corruption in the Commonmwealth Games-related casess. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Bansal, on a petition filed by RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal, Swami Agnivesh, former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and others, has directed the CBI''s Anti-Corruption Branch and the...
More »Second chargesheet filed in Amit Jethava murder case
The city crime branch on Friday filed a voluminous supplementary chargesheet in the RTI activist Amit Jethava murder case. The report was filed after the arrest of the sixth accused Shailesh Pandya, who is a sharpshooter. One Bahadursinh Rathod, who is believed to have helped the accused persons in carrying out illegal mining activities in the prohibited Gir sanctuary, has been shown as an absconder in the chargesheet. The investigating agency...
More »Netai double blow to CID in court
Calcutta High Court today came down on the CID for its failure to track down all the accused in the Netai killings. Nine persons were killed when alleged CPM activists fired on villagers from an armed party camp in Netai in West Midnapore on January 7. Today, a division bench of Chief Justice J.N. Patel and Justice A.K. Roy criticised the state for not paying enough attention to the case. The court...
More »2 CPM workers held for Netai killings
The CID, on Monday, arrested two CPM activists wanted in connection with the Netai killings near Lalgarh which took place on January 7. Acting on a tip-off , the detectives picked up the duo -- Aswini Chalak and Abani Bhusan Singh --from a house in Midnapore town. A senior CID official said on Monday that both the arrested persons were local CPM leaders in Lalgarh and had been absconding since January...
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