July 24, 2011 |
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party MP Rewati Raman Singh will be quizzed tomorrow by Delhi Police in connection with the cash-for-vote scam even as investigators are trying to trace the money trail in the alleged bribing of BJP MPs ahead of the July 2008 trust vote. Investigators are also preparing to question BJP MP Ashok Argal , who was allegedly given the bribe money, and BJP leader L K Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni this week before police submit its status report to Supreme Court this Friday.
July 20, 2011 |
LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron will be grilled by Parliament today about a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the British establishment. Cameron cut short his visit to Africa on Tuesday to join parliamentarians in debating the phone-hacking issue and answer lawmakers' scrutiny over his links to Rupert Murdoch's media empire in a special session of House of Commons. The scandal has forced the resignations of senior executives at News Corp and two of Britain's top policemen as well as fuelling opposition attacks on Cameron.
July 13, 2011 |
NEW DELHI: CBI today sought clarifications from Standard Chartered Bank officials in connection with its probe into former Aircel chief C Sivasankaran's allegations that the then Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran forced him to sell his company to Malaysia-based Maxis group in 2006. The agency has registered a preliminary enquiry into sale of telecom spectrum during 2001-07. Sources in the agency said Standard Chartered was the banker in the deal in which Maxis bought 74 per cent stake in Aircel.
July 6, 2011 |
NEW DELHI: The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam will start questioning former telecom secretaries including Siddharth Behura who is currently lodged in Tihar Jail, and ex-chiefs of TRAI from Thursday. Behura will be produced before the committee on July 12 after the special CBI court dealing with the 2G spectrum allocation scam case agreed for the same. He is in jail since February facing charges of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy in the 2G scam.
July 4, 2011 |
NEW DELHI: Taking the government to task, the Supreme Court today asked why it has not probed high profile politicians and corporate houses named by Hassan Ali Khan to be allegedly involved in stashing black money in foreign banks. "During the continuing interrogation of Hassan Ali Khan and the Tapurias, undertaken for the first time at the behest of this Court, many names of important persons, including leaders of some corporate giants, politically powerful people, and international arms dealers have cropped up. So far, no significant attempt has been made to investigate and verify the same," the court said.
July 2, 2011 |
NEW DELHI: BJP leader Sudhanshu Mittal was on Friday interrogated for the second time in three days by the CBI about his role in prevailing upon the CWG organising committee to award the contract for supplying overlays — pre-fabricated furnishings and equipment — to the company floated by his nephew. Mittal, who had been grilled for about nine hours on Wednesday, was summoned by the CBI again two day later. He arrived in the agency's headquarters at around 3 pm, and was allowed to go back at 7.30 pm. He was reportedly asked about the price quoted by Deepali Designs and Exhibits, the company promoted by his nephew Vinay Mittal.
June 24, 2011 |
TIRUCHIRAPPALLI: Relatives of jailed former Union minister A Raja including his wife and brother were today questioned by the Income Tax department. Raja's wife Parameswari and his brother A Ramachandran besides two other relatives were quizzed at the regional I-T office for about three hours. Officials were, however, tight-lipped about today's enquiry. The CBI , which is probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam and the money trail, had already carried out searches at the premises of Raja's relatives in neighbouring Perambalur, his native district, during its course of investigations.
May 17, 2011
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has questioned Chennaibased chartered accountant Ratnam and businessman S Sarvanan — said to be close to DMK leader Kanimozhi — for their alleged involvement in a land deal. The duo was said to be the main intermediaries in the sale of a prized piece of land on Chennai's Anna Salai Marg . The 53,000 square feet property, linked to the 2G spectrum allocation scam, was sold in 2009 to Malaysia-based businessman Shanmuganathan for Rs 25 crore, when the prevailing market price was Rs 200 crore.
May 12, 2011
CHENNAI: M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi was on Thursday questioned by Income Tax authorities for about 90 minutes over the Rs 200 crore transaction from Shahid Balwa-owned DB Realty to Kalaignar TV, in which she holds a minority stake. The 43-year-old MP appeared after summons were issued by the department, as a Delhi court probing the 2G spectrum allocation exempted her from personal experience. IT officials said on condition of anonymity that today's enquiry focused on the Rs 200 crore transaction from DB Realty, whose proprietor Balwa is a co-accused in the 2G spectrum case, to Kalaignar TV. They said they may question her again if required.
April 25, 2011 |
NEW DELHI: Pune Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi is likely to be quizzed by the CBI here on Monday in connection with the irregularities detected by the probe agency in the awarding of the contract for the installation of timing, scoring, result (TSR) system at various venues during the Commonwealth Games held here last year. Summons to the sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman were issued by the CBI on Thursday. The Congress MP, who is in Pune, was expected to reach the Capital on Sunday night to be able to present himself before agency's headquarters on Monday.