-IANS LUCKNOW: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday conducted raids in Uttar Pradesh as well as Gujarat in connection with the probe into embezzling of funds from the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). Raids were conducted in Ghaziabad, Lucknow and Agra as well as in Vaapi, Gujarat, CBI sources said. The action, seen as knee-jerk, comes after a severe rap by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Wednesday...
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2G case: Supreme Court gives clean chit to Chidambaram -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India The Supreme Court on Friday gave absolute clean chit to finance minister P Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The apex court said that there was absolutely no evidence to link him to any conspiracy in the 2G spectrum scam. The SC said there is no evidence presented to infer that Chidambaram had a role in under pricing of spectrum. The apex court said mere meeting of Chidambaram with...
More »IGNOU scam runs deeper, pvt firms to offer degrees -Charu Sudan Kasturi
-The Hindustan Times Indira Gandhi National Open University, India’s largest distance learning varsity, allowed over a dozen private firms to offer its degrees and diplomas, violating rules and costing the public exchequer over Rs. 300 crores. The CBI is set to probe a series of MoUs signed by IGNOU under its former Vice Chancellor VN Rajasekharan Pillai with private firms that earned crores offering IGNOU degrees between 2006 and 2011, agency sources said. Pillai,...
More »PM to check refusal of government sanction to probe top babus-Subodh Ghildiyal
-The Times of India The prime minister will personally see every government decision to refuse permission for probe against an officer of the rank of joint secretary and above. The decision to involve the PM to oversee a veto of CBI request for probe against top officers appears an attempt to neutralize allegations that the cover of government sanction was being misused. Section 6A of the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act makes it...
More »15 CBI sleuths to probe Assam riots-Pankaj Sarma
-The Telegraph Guwahati: A 15-member CBI team, led by deputy inspectors-general of police Anurag Garg and Arun Bothra, will probe the Assam violence. Besides Garg, DIG from CBI special crime zone (I), and Bothra, DIG from the CBI special crime zone (II), the team has two superintendents of police and 11 officers of subordinate ranks. An official source today said the CBI team had set up office at the Bongaigaon Refinery & Petrochemicals...
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