Arms Deal Sting

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  'Shameful': Nirmala Sitharaman Rebuts Congress Charge On Rafale Deal

  A day after Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa rebutted accusations that the Modi government had negotiated an overpriced deal to buy Rafale fighter jets, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today delivered a stinging rejoinder to the Congress, calling the allegations leveled by the opposition "shameful" and a "disservice" to the armed ...

• Bangaru Laxman's conviction in bribery case: A timeline

  It took eleven years for the court to convict the former BJP president Bangaru Laxman, after he was filmed accepting a bribe in a fictitious arms deal that was part of a sting operation conducted by Tehelka.com, a news organisation. Following is the timeline of events in the case in which he was awarded four-year jail term:

• Bribery case: Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman gets four years in jail

  Eleven years after he was filmed accepting a bribe in a fictitious arms deal, former BJP president Bangaru Laxman was today sentenced to four years in jail by a Delhi court. He was also slapped with a fine of Rs one lakh.

• Bribery case: Bangaru Laxman gets four years in jail, fined Rs one lakh

  Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman, who was found guilty of accepting a bribe by a Delhi court on Friday, has been sentenced to four years in jail and fined Rs one lakh.

• In arms deal sting, Bangaru Laxman sentenced to 4 years

  After being found guilty of accepting a bribe, the sentencing for former BJP president Bangaru Laxman will be announced later today. In court Mr Laxman personally argued that his health was in a bad state and he had never faced such allegations in his political career. "It is the first time I have been in such a situation," he appealed to the judg...