According to the Income Tax department's final assessment report, the total wealth amassed by the tainted IAS couple Arvind Joshi and Tinu Joshi is pegged at Rs 240.38 crore. The report took over a year after the initial appraisal that assessed the amount at around Rs 360 crore in December 2010, ten months after IT sleuths raided the official residence of the Joshis here, officials said. The final assessment report running into...
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Street lighting case: City court to frame charges against six by Jayant Sriram
A Delhi court will frame charges on March 1 against six persons, including four MCD officials, for their alleged role in the Commonwealth Games (CWG) street lighting scam. One of the 10 Games-related scams being probed by the CBI, it caused a loss of about Rs 1.5 crore to the government. In an order issued on Friday, Special CBI Judge Pradeep Chadha said that prima facie, a case was made out...
More »‘Book cops for Ramdev crackdown’ by Krishnadas Rajagopal
The Supreme Court today described the midnight crackdown on Baba Ramdev’s supporters at Ramlila Maidan last summer as a glaring example of the “trust deficit” between the government and the people, and blamed both the police and the Baba for neglecting the common man caught in the brick-batting between them. The people who were “rudely” woken up at the maidan became the “ultimate sufferers” of the showdown in the dark between...
More »Govt takes on BJP: Home ministry puts saffron terror under lens
-The Times of India Days after the arrest of RSS worker Kamal Chouhan in connection with the Samjhauta Express blast case, the home ministry on Thursday said "more arrests will be made leading to the solving" of a number of terror cases including Malegaon, Modassa and Ajmer Shariff blasts. The ministry said six terror cases were being reinvestigated and one of them (Modassa in Gujarat) was on the verge of being solved....
More »New norms to nab retired corrupt babus
-PTI The Centre has issued a new set of guidelines to seize properties or money of corrupt government officials even after their retirement. The norms, made in consultation with the ministry of law and justice, says a competent authority in the department concerned can give sanction to the Centre for such attachment. The guidelines assume significance as most departments and investigating agencies like the CBI have in the past expressed difficulty in...
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