An internal inquiry will be conducted by the CBI to probe how the report of the raid conducted on railway board member Mahesh Kumar's residence was leaked out. As a result of this information leak, sources say that Kumar managed to move his assets and document...
Even as the government is under fire to sack Union railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal over the bribery scandal, the CBI says fresh evidence of Bansal-Singhla links have emerged. Even though the investigating agency say there is no direct evidence against the ...
After the Supreme Court's scathing observation on the conduct of the law minister as well as the officials in Prime Minister's office over the coal scam probe, the Opposition and the Left have united in their demand for the resignation of Ashwani Kumar. Now, t...
The UPA tried to get its food security bill passed in the Lok Sabha, but the BJP is in no mood to relent. According to the BJP, it will not allow any bill to be passed, unless Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar resign over the b...
In the wake of the coal scam probe report scandal, the Congress-led central government has been facing the flak as the Opposition demands nothing less than the resignation of the Prime Minister, the law minister and also senior law officials, saying that Ashwa...
In a major embarrassment to the UPA government, the CBI filed its second affidavit in the Supreme Court, which gives details of the alterations that were made on the insistence of the Prime Minister's Office, the Law Minister and senior legal officers.
In its second affidavit, the CBI has claimed that its probe report was vetted by Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and the Prime Minister's Office, among others. The, Centre, however has maintained a stoic silence on the issue as the fate of its Minister hangs in the...
The BJP has rejected Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran's arguments after he came out in the media, trying to distance the government from Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, clearly passing the buck to the CBI in coal scam cover-up.
Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, who is under intense pressure after the Supreme Court's observations on Centre's vetting of CBI report on coalgate, has kept mum over whether he will resign from the post.
Senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan addresses the media on SC observations on the coalgate scam. The Supreme Court slammed the government saying that vetting CBI's report on coal block allocation was a massive breach of trust.
An ugly war of words has broken out between two of country's top legal officials. Additional Solicitor General Harin Rawal has written an angry letter to Attorney General GE Vahanvati for making him a 'scapegoat' in the coal allocation issue. He has accused Va...
Union Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanaswamy denies any interference in the CBI probe into Coalgate. CBI has submitted an affidavit on the coal block allocation in the Supreme Court today.
Ponzi scheme mastermind and Saradha group promoter Sudipta Sen is telling everything in custody. Sen, who was arrested along with two others in Sonemarg yesterday, claims of blackmail by Trinamool Congress MPs. In an 18-page confession letter to the CBI, Sen h...
Investigating officer and Superintendent of CBI, AG Kaul, has testified in a Ghaziabad court and said that no one could have killed Aarushi Talwar and Hemraj, implicating Aarushi's parents, Nupur and Rajesh Talwar. The CBI officer was deposing in the special c...
In the wake of the allegations that Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar interfered with the CBI report into coal scam, Opposition has questioned the autonomy of CBI and has demanded an SIT probe. Meanwhile, reports reveal that CBI is gearing up to file an affidav...
There is fresh controversy in the coal block allocation scam as a media report has brought fresh embarrassment for the UPA government. A media report shows that the law ministry, under the UPA government, vetted the coal scam probe status report before its sub...
The UPA government is facing major embarrassment over the allegations that the law minister and officials in the Prime Minister's Office had reviewed and altered the probe status report submitted by the CBI to the Supreme Court, about the coal block allocation...
The law ministry is now in a huddle after reports came out how law minister Ashwani Kumar forced the CBI director Ranjit Sinha to water down the coal scam probe report. Attorney General GE Vahanvati meets with the law minister, who refuses to respond to any me...
Hitting back at BJP's accusations about the government trying to influence the CBI, Congress leader Rashid Alvi says that the investigating agency has always functioned independently and there has been no outside influence by the central government. Alvi was r...
Congress leader Rashid Alvi, speaking out about the latest revelation that the UPA government had vetted the coal scam investigation status report before it was submitted in the Supreme Court, says the CBI has always functioned independently and there has been...
Training his guns on the UPA government, BJP's leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley says that the government is trying to save Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. According to a media report, the UPA government had vetted the coal scam investig...
The BJP has hit out at former union minister Jagdish Tytler who was involved in the 1984 Sikh riots, as the Congress leader questioned the credibility of eyewitnesses. BJP says that the CBI has been repeatedly misused and no cases were filed against Congress l...
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.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has rejected the demand for a CBI probe on SFI activist Sudipta Gupta's death and has given a clean chit to her state's police. She confidently says that even the postmortem report will recognise that Sudipta's death was an accid...
Uttar Pradesh government accepts CBI's request to transfer five policemen from Pratapgarh, in connection with the bureau's investigation into the Kunda triple murder case. The CBI team had felt that the police officers were not cooperating with the investigati...
A petition demanding a CBI probe, has been filed in the Deepak Bhardwaj murder case, in the Delhi High Court. The realty tycoon and BSP leader was murdered by unidentified men in his farmhouse last week. The police are questioning the kin to obtain clues regar...
Rajasthan's Kishore Jogi had gone to the police to lodge a complaint on a missing tractor, was taken into custody, and 48 hours later was found dead. The family has accused the cops of torture and have been on a dharna for five days.
Defence Minister AK Antony confirms that there has been discrepancies in the AgustaWestland deal. He promises to initiate strict action against those who will be found guilty after the CBI probe into the scam.
The CBI has filed an FIR in the choppergate scam. Sources claim that the FIR mentions cash trail, linking the Tyagis. Sources also claim that the Tyagi cousins were paid Rs 2.28 crore in two remittances for the chopper deal. The first instalment of Rs 1,26,000...
A case has been filed against former Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi and 12 others in the VVIP chopper scam. The CBI has registered the case after carrying out searches in Delhi, NCR and Chandigarh. The case has been registered under Sec 120 and 420 of the Indian P...
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...
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.
The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav, has ordered a CBI probe into the killing of deputy SP, Zia Ul Haq. According to sources, Akhilesh Yadav made this announcement under pressure and also after sensing the public resentment towards his governme...
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.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, probing the controversial VVIP chopper deal, names former Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi as one of the suspects in the scam. The CBI has named ten persons including three relatives of SP Tyagi, in a preliminary investigation re...
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 Ministry of Defence has withdrawn the delegation from Italy, which had been sent to investigate the chopper scam. The CBI team will be returning to India tomorrow. Finmeccanica is likely to reply to the show-cause notice, that was sent by the defence minis...
The CBI has engaged two law firms in Italy for legal assistance over the VVIP chopper scam. The CBI team is already in Milan and had gone to the Indian High Commissioner yesterday. Sources say that the law firms would be helping the CBI officials in coordinati...
The CBI team, probing the AgustaWestland chopper scam in Italy, reportedly has met the lawyer who is assisting the team in Milan and has termed the meeting 'fruitful'. The team has refused to divulge further details about the meet and it appears the team has f...
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 Opposition is gearing up to corner the government in the Parliament during the Budget session over the VVIP chopper scam. There is also a growing demand for SIT probe into the scam. BJP, which appears to be dissatisfied with the CBI probe which has been or...
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...
Centrestage | The government claims that it has got all the integrity clauses in place, which essentially means that foreign firms will not engage middlemen, but this rule is not working. The Congress and the BJP debate on who should probe the choppergate, as ...
The Ministry of Defence team today came to the CBI to explain the AgustaWestland procurement process. BJP leader Kirit Somaiya has written to the CBI director about the alleged involvement of the Indian company Emaar MGF. He has also raised questions on Rahul ...
The BJP drags Rahul Gandhi's close aide, Kanishka Singh, in the chopper deal. Kanishka has links with arms agents in the scam and the main agent Hachke was the director of the company owned by Kanishka's relatives. The BJP alleged that he played a key role in ...
CPI leader Brinda Karat says that the report issued by the CBI on the chopper scam cannot be trusted and therefore the Supreme Court should monitor the probe and that the contract with AgustaWestland should be immediately terminated.
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...
According the Italian investigation against Guiseppe Orsi, the CEO of Finmeccanica who was arrested recently, he met with several Indian Defence officials and public administrators, to raise the commission amount from 40 million Euros to 51 million Euros. The ...
More revelations come about the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland helicopters deal. According to the Italian probe report, an Indian brigadier too was involved. The report says that the brigadier offered to eliminate competition to swing the deal in favour of the ...
Former Union minister during the NDA regime Jaswant Singh speaks up on the chopper deal scam. According to him, media should not indulge in wild speculations but wait for the probe report to come out. He says that the investigators should first find the money ...
Government, it appears, is totally unconcerned about the CBI probe into the VVIP chopper scam. Although CBI had requested the government to provide it with relevant documents, all that the investigating agency has so far received is newspaper clippings of the ...
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...
A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court in connection with the Agusta Westland helicopter deal, seeking probe by a Special Investigation Team or a Central Vigilance Commission probe. The Defence Minister AK Antony has already ordered a CBI probe in the matte...
The CBI probe and fresh revelations of the VVIP chopper scam will scrap another deal to procure 197 light helicopters for the IAF and Army. The Ministry of Defence scrapped the acquisition and delayed the process as a result of deviations in the deal. The new ...
In a strongly worded message, Defence Minister AK Antony says that strong action will be taken against those found guilty by the CBI probe into the alleged kickbacks in the VVIP chopper deal. He says that the entire company will be blacklisted if the allegatio...
Sources say that the Central Bureau of Investigation will hold a high-level meeting to discussion the plan of action for the probe into VVIP helicopter deal. The meeting is likely to take place at the CBI headquarters.
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...
Rubbishing the Bharatiya Janata Party's claim of a cover-up, the Congress defends the AgustaWestland helicopter deal. According to Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh, the process of a contract was initiated during the NDA regime and the helicopter thems...
Defence Minister AK Antony speaks to the media and says that action will only be taken after CBI submits its investigation report into the VVIP helicopter deal kickbacks allegations. According Antony, if the allegations are proved, then while the guilty will b...
Italian investigators allege that the Italian aero giant Finmeccanica bribed former IAF chief SP Tyagi to get the 12 Agusta Westland choppers deal. Italian investigators' primilinary reports allege that Tyagi manipulated requirements to favour Agust Westland.
In the priliminary investigation into the alleged kickbacks in VVIP Agust Westland chopper deal, former IAF chief SP Tyagi has been named a principal beneficiary. Reports allege that Tyagi manipulated requirements to favour Agust Westland. Tyagi, however, deni...
Defence Minister AK Antony is under scanner after the CEO of Italian firm Finmeccanica was arrested from Milan for alleged bribery in Agusta Westland VVIP chopper deal with India. According to sources, the allegations about kickbacks surfaced in February 2012,...
After the CEO of Italian aerospace giant Finmeccanica Guiseppe Orsi was arrested in Milan, the Indian government has sprung into action and ordered a CBI probe into the deal with the company that got India 12 swank new AW-101 helicopters. There are serious all...
Newshour | Should the government open up the Rs 3,700 crore deal and name those who received the bribe? Defence expert Major General Mrinal Suman, consultant of Pak project IDSA Sushant Sareen, Air Commodore Prashant Dikshit, editor of Salute KC Singh, former ...
News Night | In a massive embarrassment for the UPA government, top Italian defence company Finmeccanica's CEO has been arrested in connection with a Rs 3700 crore chopper deal. India's defence ministry has ordered for a CBI probe with the sale of helicopters ...
Former business partner of Abhishek Verma, Edmund Allen, says that the arms dealer had a connection with the VVIP chopper deal of the Italian firm Agusta Westland. Edmond Allen says that Verma wanted a commission from the chopper deal. Verma has been in jail s...
India is investigating the payment of kickbacks linked to the purchase of a dozen helicopters from the Italian state-controlled defence group Finmeccanica. An Indian defence official said that Italy has failed to provide full details on the chopper deal. Earli...
The CEO of the Italian defence company Finmeccanica has been arrested for an alleged bribery in a Rs 3700 crore VVIP chopper deal with India. India's defence ministry has ordered for a CBI probe in connection with the sale of helicopters to the Indian governme...
Top Italian defence company Finmeccanica's CEO has been arrested in connection to an investigation into a Rs 3700 crore chopper deal. Earlier last year, an offer of 8-10% commission to the agents was reported. Anglo-Italian multinational helicopter design and ...
After an alleged collusion between the CBI prosecutor AK Singh and one of the accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam came to light through an audio tape, the investigative agency has sent the tape to CSIL for forensic examination. On the tape, Singh is he...
The BJP demands a CBI probe into the farm loan waiver scam. The Centre had brought out the scheme for farmers in 2008. According to CAG's findings, gross irregularities took place in the scheme in which loans worth 60,000 crore were waived.
BJP appears to be in a desperate need to corner the government in the upcoming Budget session of the Parliament as the newly elected party chief Rajnath Singh has alleged massive irregularities in the farm loan waiver scheme and demanded a CBI probe into it. R...
Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers MK Alagiri overlooked a series of controversial decisions taken by his ministry, leading to a huge loss to the exchequer due to the gross misuse of central subsidy. The DMK has come in defence of its minister putting the o...
The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and BSNL regarding a petition against former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran over misuse of power. According to the petition, Maran had set up a BSNL exchange in Chennai and r...
A Delhi court is likely to frame charges against the former Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi today. Kalmadi, who is out on bail currently will face charges that include cheating, conspiracy, abuse of his official position and ...
The court has withdrawn the vigilance case against K Sudhakaran MP over a controversial statement that he made against the Supreme Court Judge. Court has accepted the plea that the vigilance probe against Sudhakaran be dismissed as the CBI is already probing a...
Former director of CBI, US Mishra has revealed that political influence is regular occurrance in cases of high-profile investigation. Mishra said he faced pressure from the government while investigating Mayawati in the disproportionate assets case. He said th...
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 ...
Former Chief Minister of Gujarat Keshubai Patel addresses the media after casting his vote in Rajkot. The Saurashtra region in Gujarat has been pitched as the deciding factor that could seals Narendra Modi's fate. The Patel vote-bank is expected to dent Modi's...
The Saurashtra region in Gujarat has been pitched as the deciding factor that could seals Narendra Modi's fate. Former Chief Minister Keshubai Patel casts his vote in Rajkot. The Patel vote-bank is expected to dent Modi's chances of returning to power.
Forensic teams from the CBI and the Delhi Police Crime Branch are at Ponty Chadha's south Delhi farmhouse. The investigators there are attempting to recreate the crime scene there. Liquor barons Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep Chadha were killed in an all...
Lalchand Kataria, Minister of State for Rural Development, is accused of shielding murder accused. Even as Kataria has chosen to stay silent on the accusation made against him, the victim's family has come out, demanding CBI probe. The victim's family has also...
Himachal Pradesh chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal demands answers from Virbhadra Singh over the controversy of unaccounted cash entries in his revised I-T returns. He says the former steel minister should answer questions as to how agricultural income grew 30 ...
BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitaraman hits out at Congress and its leadership in the Virbhadra Singh controversy. She says that this should be treated as a cash of corruption and be dealt with accordingly. She says that the former steel ministers should come clea...
Former steel minister Virbhadra Singh faces fresh questions about unaccounted cash entries emerging from his Income Tax returns and affidavit. According to the revised returns of assets, which were filed for nomination to the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assem...
Saying that the situation at Madhubani was handled ineffectively, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar called for a CBI investigation into the incident. The Opposition had called for a Bihar bandh on Monday protesting the Madhubani incident where police open fire and two stu...
CBI registers two fresh cases against for allegedly forging and cheating in connection with the coal block allocation scam. The two companies, Green Infra and Kamal Steel, were raided today and are accused of misrepresenting their net worth.