-PTI Taxmen have seized black money to the tune of a whopping Rs 30,000 crore in the country in the past two years, said the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) which is set to get investigative powers to boost its drive against wrong-doers. The CBDT is in the process of creating a Directorate of Criminal Investigation after getting approval from finance minister Pranab Mukherjee last week. CBDT chairman Sudhir Chandra said...
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Fighting Corruption by SL Rao
Tihar jail today has the largest collection of charged or convicted top officials, a powerful ex-minister, sundry politicians and officials. Maharashtra had a teflon-coated chief minister who was ‘sacked’ to a cabinet post in Delhi after being long untouched by many scandals. Another just exited. A former Jharkhand chief minister is in jail on charges of looting his state treasury and accumulating funds abroad. The powerful founder of the Nationalist...
More »I-T dept urges CBI action against tainted babus of MP & Chhattisgarh
The Income Tax department has recommended CBI action against four senior IAS officers of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh who had been raided by the department last year and assets worth hundreds of crores recovered from them. Arvind Joshi and his wife Tinoo Joshi, both 1979 batch IAS officers; M A Khan, a retired IAS officer; Babulal Agarwal, a 1988 batch IAS officer and two executive engineers were raided by the I-T...
More »Prashant denies bid to ‘gag' Amar Singh by Gargi Parsai
Lawyer and civil society member on the Lokpal Bill joint drafting panel Prashant Bhushan on Thursday denied that he had spoken at all to the former Samajwadi Party member, Amar Singh, or to anyone else from his office or home. “Not at all,'' he said when asked by The Hindu if he had spoken to Mr. Singh on Thursday and tried to “gag'' him as claimed by the latter at a...
More »Centre informs Supreme Court of the high level committee to probe black money cases by J Venkatesan
The Centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court that it had constituted a high level committee comprising the heads of various probe agencies and specialised departments under the aegis of the Department of Revenue to monitor the investigation of all aspects relating to black money. Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam told a Bench of Justice B. Sudershan Reddy and Justice S.S. Nijjar that the 10-member committee, headed by the Revenue Secretary, would...
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