Hours before the highly important Supreme Court hearing on the allegation that government tried to influence the CBI's investigation into the coal scam, Additional Solicitor General Harin Raval has written an accusatory letter to Attorney General GE Vahanvati.
Hours before the highly important Supreme Court hearing on the allegation that government tried to influence the CBI's investigation into the coal scam, Additional Solicitor General Harin Raval has written an accusatory letter to Attorney General GE Vahanvati.
Serious Fraud Investigation Office enquiry was ordered on Saradha Group chit fund scam after an emergency corporate affairs meeting, that took place this morning. The meeting was convened by corporate affairs minister Sachin Pilot. After SEBI, SFIO is the seco...
The Aarushi-Hemraj murder case gets a new lease of life when an official from the Gujarat Forensic Science University testifies in the CBI court that the murder was committed with a golf club and a surgical knife. He also added that Hemraj was killed in the sa...
In the Kunda triple murder case, SP leader, Raja Bhaiya receives a notice from the CBI. The CBI has ordered the leader to surrender in front of the authorities for questioning. Slain DSP Zia-ul-Haq's wife has named Raja Bhaiya in her FIR.
Sources say that the CBI is likely to send a notice to Raja Bhaiya to question him in connection with their investigations into the Kunda triple murder case.
In a statement to the media, MK Stalin says that the CBI raid was purely a matter of revenge. He also added that he had no idea why the raid was conducted. The CBI raided Stalin's Chennai residence just two days after DMK withdrew support from UPA government a...
The Finance Minister, P Chidambaram, strongly condemns the CBI raid at DMK chief's son, MK Stalin's house today. He said that he has conveyed his feelings about the raid to the concerned ministry and also added that the timing of the raid was bad as the people...
Once again Congress has been accused of using CBI for its personal gains. CBI has been nicknamed as 'Congress Bachao Institute' as the raids at DMK leader MK Stalin's house is being viewed as a move made in revenge. Stalin has also accused the Congress of usin...
Finance Minister Chidambaram expresses his displeasure at the CBI raid at DMK leader MK Stalin's residence in Chennai. He says that he normally doesn't interfere with the working of other ministries but this time around he spoke to the concerned minister and e...
The CBI conducts a raid at DMK chief Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin’s residence in Chennai. Stalin is currently being questioned by the CBI officials. He has been accused of evading import duty on foreign-make cars. Stalin has accused the Congress of being behi...
The CBI is questioning the DMK chief's son, MK Stalin in connection with the illegal cars which he imported from abroad. The DMK workers are alleging that Congress is behind this surprise raid, as it comes just a day after DMK withdrew their support from the U...
CBI conducts a surprise raid at MK Stalin's house in Chennai. DMK workers have gathered outside the house and they allege foul play behind the surprise raid. They allege that Congress is behind the raid as DMK withdrew its support at the Centre.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducts a surprise raid at DMK chief Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin’s house in Chennai. Stalin is currently being questioned by the CBI officials. The raid has been conducted in connection with the illegal import of ca...
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi reaches Deoria for a day long visit. According to sources, Rahul will meet Parveen Azad, the widow of Deputy Superintendent of Police Zia ul-Haque, who was murdered a week ago. Sources say that Rahul assured swift action ag...
The CBI team has reached Kunda in Uttar Pradesh, to investigate the murder of DSP Zia-ul-Haq in Ballipur Village. The place from where the bodies were found have been marked off for the CBI team. The CBI and police are yet to recover Zia-ul-Haq's service revol...
A team from the CBI has reached Kunda district in Uttar Pradesh to begin their investigation into the murder of DSP Zia-ul-Haq. The CBI said that it needs to collect enough evidence to arrest Raja Bhaiya. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said that C...
The CBI team will arrive in Kunda today to investigate the murder of DSP Zia-ul-Haq. According to sources, CBI might arrest Raja Bhaiya, the prime accused in the case and question him. The DSP's widow Praveen Azad had alleged foul play in her husband's death a...
The CBI team will reach Kunda for further investigations into the murder of DSP Zia-ul-Haq. The CBI will be accompanied by the local police authorities as well. The CBI will question the doctors who conducted the autopsy on the DSP, as his wife had raised ques...
Prime accused in the DSP Zia-ul-Haq murder case, Raja Bhaiya will be presented in front of the CBI and questioned regarding his role in the murder and the various FIRs registered against him by DSP's widow.
A team from the CBI has reached Kunda district in Uttar Pradesh to begin their investigation into the murder of DSP Zia-ul-Haq. The DSP's widow Praveen Azad had accused the government and Raja Bhaiya for murdering her husband and she demanded a CBI inquiry int...
The Navy has issued a clarification and has said that there is no deal on large calibre gun yet and that a single vendor situation will not be allowed. It has been revealed that Haschke could have been pitching for a range of OTO Melara products and that OTO M...
Sources claim that the CBI will be questioning the suspects who were mentioned in the preliminary enquiry of the AgustaWestland deal. The FIR will be registered only if the CBI gets evidence of the bribe money trial.
AgustaWestland has responded to the show cause notice that was issued by the Indian Ministry of Defence. It has expressed its inability to provide effective response, denied any breach of integrity pact and has said that the allegations made by the MoD are 'ge...
The CBI has now registered a preliminary enquiry in the AgustaWestland deal. It is just the first step in the investigation, registered prior to the FIR. The CBI would be conducting a thorough investigation and then decide whether an FIR is necessary or not. T...
The CBI team along with the Defence Ministry representatives left to Italy for further investigation into the Rs 3,700 crore VVIP AgustaWestland helicopter scam. But sadly, the Italian officials have said that they wouldn’t be able to share details regarding...
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said that a CBI team has been sent to Italy to investigate the chopper scam and India is now waiting for a response from the team.
The Prime Minister's Office is upset and angry with the Defence Minister, AK Antony as he cancelled the VVIP AgustaWestland helicopter deal with Italy without informing the office. The CBI team is all set to leave to Italy for further investigations into the s...
India's investigative agency, Central Bureau of Investigation, will arrive in Italy later in the day. The CBI team will be accompanied by officials from the Defence and Foreign Ministry. The group will meet the Italian court officials to garner more informatio...
The CBI will leave to Italy for further investigations into the AgustaWestland helicopter scam. The team will consist of two CBI officials and one member each from the Defence and Foreign Ministry. The team will meet the Italian court officials to gather more ...
What could only mean to be a huge setback to the CBI investigation into the allegations of kickbacks paid for the AgustaWestland helicopter scam, Italian court refuses to share documents related to the deal. The court refuses the Indian probe team access to It...
Guiseppe Orsi, the CEO of Italian aerospace giant Finmeccanica, will be interrogated on Monday. Orsi was arrested recently in Milan on the charges of paying bribes and kickbacks in various defence deals. Orsi's arrest also threw up allegations of kickbacks rec...
The Bharatiya Janata Party says that the Central Bureau of Investigation's probe into the VVIP helicopter procurement scam is not enough and wants the government to order a Special Investigation Team, monitored by Supreme Court of India, to investigated the sc...
Samajwadi Party hits out at the Union government and says the party will raise the issue of AgustaWestland helicopter procurement scam in the upcoming Budget session. SP leader Ram Arsey Kushwaha says that his party has always remained against all sorts of cor...
The Bharatiya Janata Party says that the Central Bureau of Investigation's probe into the VVIP helicopter procurement scam is not enough and wants the government to order an investigation monitored by Supreme Court of India. According to BJP leader Mukhtar Abb...
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti speaks up on the VVIP chopper procurement scam and assures that his government will take action and ensure that whole truth in AgustaWestland helicopter deal is uncovered. The CEO of the Italian aerospace and defence giant Fi...
The allegations of kickbacks in the AgustaWestland helicopter deal with India has cast a shadow on the November 2000 deal to obtain 10 Mirage 2000 fighter jets. According to sources, Christian Michel, one of the middlemen paid off in the VVIP helicopter deal, ...
The Ministry of Defence has releases a seven-page white paper on the infamous VVIP chopper deal today. This is clearly being seen as a desperate face-saver move by the government before the Budget session in the Parliament. Sources claim that the CBI is seekin...
The Ministry of Defence has written to AgustaWestland to ask the company if bribes were paid in the VVIP chopper deal. The ministry has also issued a seven-page white paper today. This is clearly being seen as a desperate face-saver move by the government befo...
Delhi-based lawyer Gautam Khaitan, whose name has come up in the ongoing investigation into the allegations of kickbacks in the AgustaWestland helicopter deal with India, claims he has nothing to do with the deal. Khaitan, who was one of the directors of Aerom...
The confessional statement of the Swiss national and middleman in the alleged kickbacks in the AgustaWestland helicopter deal implicates former IAF chief SP Tyagi. According to Haschke's confession, he met Tyagi while he was the IAF chief and not after his ret...
Sources say that the Central Bureau of Investigation will seek more documents pertaining to the internal communication within the defence ministry on the AgustaWestland helicopter deal. The investigative agency also seeks the ministry's cooperation in the prob...
According to the report of the Italian investigators, Indian link to the kickbacks in Agusta Westland helicopter deals include Chandigarh-based Aeromatrix Solutions Pvt Ltd. However, the firm's owner Pravin Bakshi denies any such links to the middlemen who orc...
Baba Ramdev addressed the media regarding his missing guru Shankardev. He said that since he was outside the country at the time it happened he can not comment on the issue. But he said that all the while he kept requesting the officials in Uttrakhand to launc...
Shankar Dev, Baba Ramdev's guru, has been missing since July 14, 2007. The Uttarkhand police, who were investigating the case, have handed over the case to CBI. Baba Ramdev expresses happiness over this development and said that the government was taking the c...
Baba Ramdev's guru Shankar Dev has been missing since 2007. The case was earlier handled by the Uttrakhand police. But since the police were unable to deliver any satisfactory answers, the case has been handed over to the CBI special team. This case has been s...
The Defence Minister AK Antony promises action against those who are behind the defence deal scam. He said that once the CBI inquiry about the defence deals for Arjun tanks gets over, the culprits will face the law. The CBI is looking into the alleged irregula...
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) questions Shanavaz, former managing director of Steel and Industrial Forgings Ltd (SIFL), in connection with the ongoing probe into the alleged manipulation of transactions between the State government undertaking and ...
Denying the reports by the State committee’s deliberations on VS seeking Nandakumar's help to influence Supreme Court judges to implicate Pinarayi Vijayan in SNC Lavalin case, VS Achuthanandan said the people would reject such reports with contempt. He also ...
Ministry of Defence (MoD) has filed a suit in the Mumbai High Court, claiming Adarsh land as its own. But this move by the MoD will not affect the CBI case as the agency is probing if there was criminal conspiracy in the way the land was allotted to the Adarsh...
The former CBI Director has claimed the the CBI works under the pressure of the government. BJP leader Ravishankar says that the BJP has been alleging so for a long time and and Misra has only confirmed it, so it is ideal for the government to make it an indep...
Does the Central Bureau of Investigation work under the pressure of the government? Former CBI Director US Misra says that the CBI works under the pressure of the government when the matter is concerned with a political leader. He has requested the government ...
The Supreme Court has ordered the CBI to conduct an investigation against Samajwadi Party leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav in the disproportionate assets case. Mulayam's other son Prateek Singh Yadav would also be investigated in the matter but h...
Despite no relief from the Supreme Court in disproportionate assets case investigation, Mulayam Singh Yadav has welcomed the order saying the apex court has always sided with justice. Meanwhile, the counsel for Mulayam and sons has said this is a politically m...
Supreme Court denies relief to Mulayalam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh in the disproportionate assets case as the apex court refuses to quash the cases against the two. The CBI investigation into alleged corruption by the Samajwadi party chief and his sons ...
The Supreme Court has ordered the CBI to conduct an investigation against Samajwadi Party leaders Mulayam and Akhilesh Yadav in the disproportionate assets case. Mulayam's other son Prateek Singh Yadav would also be investigated in the matter.
One more name has been added to the list of people from Andhra Pradesh who were involved in the scam to leak the question paper for the PGI Chandigarh PG Entrance Exams. And this name turns out to be that of a co-producer of a Telugu movie. Kota Gangadhara Red...
Congress leader and a Minister of State Manish Tewari has criticized the Comptroller and the Auditor General Vinod Rai for the comments he made at he World Economic Forum. The CAG had hit out at the Central government for the rampant corruption and brazen deci...
Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai, on Wednesday said key government bodies such as Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) and the proposed Lokpal should be given constitutional backing to enable them function inde...
The CBI is conducting raids across 16 locations in six cities in relation to the Coalgate scam. The raids relate to allotments made during the period 2006 to 2009. These companies have allegedly misrepresented facts about their business.
Centrestage | Is the CBI once being used to score some political gains by the UPA government at the Centre. This time it has said nobody has killed the deputy CMO Dr Yogendra Singh Sachan in the Uttar Pradesh's health department. The death of Dr Sachan, arrest...
Referring to the CBI's closure report in the Dr YS Sachan death case saying forensic evidence pointed to suicide, YS Sachan's brother alleges that the CBI has failed to conduct proper investigation. The DMO's family says that it is planning to challenge the CB...
Sachchidanand Gupta, who filed the PIL seeking a CBI probe into the Dr YS Sachan death case, says he will challenge the CBI closure report submitted on September 28, which says forensic evidence pointed to suicide.
Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid says the CBI's closure report in the Dr YS Sachan death case saying forensic evidence pointed to suicide, should be accepted. In the mean time, the Law MInister also says that the alleged misappropriation of NRHM funds issue ...
Reacting to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filing its closure report in the Dr YS Sachan death case saying forensic evidence pointed to suicide, BJP slams CBI saying the agency is acting on congress instructions. The CBI has filed the closure report...
The CBI now registers a preliminary inquiry into the coalgate scam since 1993 to 2004. The agency has already incorporated the names of 25 private companies in the probe. According to sources in the CBI, BJP MP Ajay Sancheti's company is also under the scanne...
The Chief Vigilance Commissioner writes to the CBI asking the agency to investigate all coal block allocations from the year 1993 onwards. This would cover the reign of the NDA governments as well.
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has ordered the immediate suspension of six senior Airports Authority of India (AAI) officials following irregularities in awarding airports' ground handling contracts. The CBI, which was ordered to probe into the alleged gra...
KK Rama, wife of murdered RMP leader TP Chandrasekharan continues to demand CBI probe into the murder. She has said that she failed to understand the context in which Union Minister Mullappally Ramachandran said that the investigation by the Special Investigat...
Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan has remarked the decision on CBI investigation into the murder of RMP leader TP Chandrasekharan will be taken at the cabinet meet. He has said that the government will take no decision that would affect the investigati...
Ruling out the possibility of CBI probe into the murder of RMP leader TP Chandrasekharan, Union Minister Mullappally Ramachandran has said that the Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the murder, is moving in the right direction. Further on, he has said ...
Thiruvananthapuram CBI Court is set to hear the petition seeking further investigation in the Sister Abhaya case. The petition demands inclusion of people who destroyed evidences before further probing into the case.
Opposition leader VS Achuthanandan has said that he sticks to his demand for CBI investigation into the murder of Marxist Party (RMP) leader TP Chandrasekharan even if the CPM does not agree to such a demand.
The Maharashtra Education Minister Rajendra Darda is likely to resign. The state Minister was named in one of the five FIRs filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the irregularities in the coal block allocation. Rajendra Darda and his high-profile b...
Congress has began feeling the direct heat of coal scam after Congress MP Vijay Darda and Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal's kin have been named in the CBI chargesheet. Darda has been charged with deliberately misreporting financial and technical capabil...
In the first of the Coalgate shockwaves, the CBI raided the firms who were allotted coal blocks. Congress MP Vijay Darda is among others named in the CBI's latest FIR into the coal allocation scam. Vijay Darda, Devendra Darda, Rajendra Darda and Manoj Jayaswal...
Congress MP Vijay Darda has denied allegations of wrong doing and has said that he will cooperate with the CBI investigations. The Congress MP, who has been named in a CBI FIR in connection with the massive coal allocation scam, is confident that he will come ...
Congress MP Vijay Darda is among others named in the CBI's latest FIR into the coal allocation scam. Vijay Darda, Devendra Darda, Rajendra Darda and Manoj Jayaswal have been named in the investigating agency's latest FIR. In its previous FIR, the CBI had named...
Fresh documents into the Coalgate scam now link a Congress MP Vijay Darda to the massive coal allocation scam. More than two documents prove that the Congress MP is a stakeholder in the tainted company Yavatmal Energy Limited, which is under the CBI scanner. T...
CBI has filed FIR against five companies which allegedly have fudged facts and have charged them with criminal conspiracy and violation of norms. Sleuths from the agency have conducted raids in 30 locations across Delhi, Chhattisgrah and Jharkhand. The CBI had...
The CBI is likely to file ten more FIRs in connection with the coal allocation scam. Five companies and 20 accused have been named in the FIRs that have been filed today. After three months of internal probe, the CBI conducted raids on 30 places across the nat...
The Central Bureau of Investigation conducts raids across India, as the investigations into the massive coal allocation scam kicks off. After three months of internal probe, the CBI registered FIRs against five companies on Monday. The investigating agency als...
The CBI which has been given the task of finding out the antecedents of the companies who were allotted the coal blocks and for their subsequent failure to adhere to the conditions laid down in the allotment order, has registered five FIRS. It also conducted r...
The Uttar Pradesh government has given the nod to prosecute 34 doctors and officers who are allegedly involved in the massive NRHM scam. This is a step forward in the investigations, which Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav had admitted were going slow. The CBI had...
The Central Bureau of Investigation may chargesheet 14 companies for providing forged documents for coal blocks. Three of the companies that were not eligible were allocated coal based on the Power Ministry's recommendation. The Power Ministry's role in Coal...
The BJP has hit out at CBI for excluding the name of Suresh Kalmadi in the AM Films scam chargesheet. The party has said that the CBI has failed to conduct a fair investigation into the scam as it is trying to protect Kalmadi.
All of Kalmadi's key aides have been named in CBI's chargesheet in the Queen's baton relay scam, but the investigating agency has conspicuously left the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman's name out of the list of accused. The CBI claims that it ...
Suresh Kalmadi is being shielded again as the CBI omits his name from a fresh chargesheet on the Queen's Baton Relay case. The investigating agency claims that there is no evidence to prove Kalmadi's links, directly or indirectly, to the financial irregulariti...
The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed its chargesheet on the financial irregularities in the Queen's Baton Relay, but has omitted Suresh Kalmadi's name from the list of accused. The investigating agency claims that it does not have enough evidence to p...
CBI files chargesheet against four people and two companies in the Queen's Baton Relay case. Former chairman of the Organising Committee, Suresh Kalmadi's name does not appear in the chargesheet. CBI says it does not have enough evidence.
All of Kalmadi's key aides have been named in CBI's chargesheet in the Queen's baton relay scam, but the investigating agency has conspicuously left the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman's name out of the list of accused. The CBI claims that it ...
Prime accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, Gopal Kanda has been arrested in New Delhi. The former Haryana Minister surrendered at the Ashok Vihar police station after absconding for eleven days. The MDLR Chief has been accused of abeting the suicide of ...
The Central Bureau of Investigation team that is assessing the violence in Assam is also evaluating the conspiracy angle in the case. 309 cases of violence have been filed in various parts of the state. The CBI cannot investigate all 309 cases, and must thus c...
A CBI team reaches Assam to investigate the fresh bout of violence in Kokhrajar that has threatened the peace in the state yet again. 309 cases of violence have been filed in various parts of the state. The CBI cannot investigate all 309 cases, and must thus c...
The Delhi police are interrogating the chief of Co-ordination of the MDLR Group, Aruna Chadha. Geetika Sharma, the former air-hostess who comitted suicide, had named Gopal Kanda and Aruna Chadha as responsible for her suicide. Her bother Ankit Sharma did agree...
Have you heard of a top police officer himself being the target of spying by jealous officers? This episode of 30 Minutes deals with precisely this situation that is happening with a police officer in Andhra Pradesh. He is police officer who is at the centre ...
UP Chief Minister is let off the hook in the disproportionate assets case, as the Supreme Court exonerates her and quashes the CBI's FIR in the case. Political leaders from different quarters slam the CBI for stooping to the level of a political tool. The Supr...
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati speaks to the people for the first time after the Supreme Court passes its verdict exonerating her in the disproportionate assets case. Claiming the verdict to be a massive win for the BSP, Mayawati says that the qu...
Massive relief for Mayawati in the disproportionate assets case, as the Supreme Court exonerates her and quashes the CBI's FIR in the case. Sharp political reactions pour in, as leaders from different quarters slam the CBI for being used as a political tool. A...