Bribery case: Kotfatta has been arrested, a top official of the bureau told media. The MLA was nabbed from Rajpura on Wednesday (February 22) and has now been arrested, said the officer. He will be produced in a court on Thursday to seek his remand, the official added.
Searches were conducted at around 19 locations including Assam, Imphal, Delhi, Bihar and Haryana at the premises of the accused and others which led to the recovery of approximately Rs. 1.02 crore.
The former J&K governor Satya Pal Malik had claimed that he was offered a Rs 300 crore bribe for clearing two files during his tenure as the governor of Jammu and Kashmir between August 23, 2018 and October 30, 2019.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Padam Singh, Plant Protection Officer of the ministry posted at Visakhapatnam, along with Athi Bulli Reddiya alias Murali, regional manager, Exim Logistics Private Limited, in a bribery case of Rs 6,000.
According to the reports, the seized cash amount was allegedly kept in different envelopes, some of the bundles marked/written with names of the parties, dates and amounts.
According to CBI sources, the central probe agency had initiated a preliminary enquiry for corruption against Lalu Prasad and the real estate developer DLF group in Jan 2018.
The agency took Mahender Singh Chauhan, a 1985-batch IRES official, into custody on Sunday when he was allegedly receiving the bribe to extend favours in granting contracts of projects of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), headquartered in Assam's Malegaon.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday arrested a senior Indian Railways Engineering Service (IRES) official and two others for allegedly accepting bribe of Rs 1 crore. The probe agency is carrying out searches at 20 locations across the country, it said.
The court passed the order while disposing of a plea by the CBI seeking extension of time to complete the probe in the case by six months.
It is alleged that Kumar received a bribe of Rs five crore from the IMA group, which had allegedly duped investors by offering them high returns on their investments.
The CBI on Monday arrested seven persons, including public servants, for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 25 lakh for processing and passing of bills pertaining to the contracts awarded by National Projects Construction Corporation (NPCC) Limited.
The CBI on Thursday arrested two senior employees of Central Goods and Service Tax (CGST) based in Patna for demanding and receiving a bribe of Rs 2.5 lakh.
Justice Mukta Gupta allowed the CBI's plea seeking extension of time to complete its investigation in the case lodged against Asthana, DSP Devender Kumar and middleman Manoj Prasad.
Dinakaran had floated Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam party after being expelled from the AIADMK. He was arrested in April 2017 in Delhi and was later granted bail.
Delivering the order rejecting the bail application of Sinha, Special CBI judge Santhosh Snehi Mann said that it was not a fit stage to grant him relief.
According to officials, some CBI officials the CVC on Tuesday had examined some CBI officials probing crucial cases which figured in Asthana's complaint of corruption against the CBI chief Alok Verma.
The investigation conducted by him revealed that the act of demanding and accepting illegal gratification primarily pertained to two distinct periods - December 2017 and October 2018, Bassi said.
The court asked the CBI to file its reply to Kumar's application which will be heard Wednesday.
M Nageshwar Rao is a 1986 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Orissa cadre. He hails from Telangana's Warangal district.
The CBI has also sought the court's permission to add some more sections in the present FIR against accused, including Kumar.
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