Bangaru Laxman

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  Sonia Gandhi Stepped In to Save Tehelka Financiers, Says Book: 10 Points

  Congress president Sonia Gandhi stepped in to shield Tehelka from an investigation into its dealings and finances after its 2001 sting on corruption in defence deals, politician Jaya Jaitly has alleged in her autobiography. She claims that Mrs Gandhi wrote to then Finance Minister P Chidambaram and asked him to ensure that Tehelka's financiers were...

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  Trinamool Congress Hits Back At PM Modi, Reminds Him Of Tehelka Expose

  Trinamool Congress today hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his comments on Narada sting operation and reminded him of the Tehelka expose of 2001 which saw the exit of the then BJP president Bangaru Laxman.

• Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman dies in Hyderabad

  Former BJP president and former Union minister Bangaru Laxman died in Hyderabad today. He was 74.

• Narendra Modi arrives in Hyderabad, meets BJP leaders, ex-bureaucrats

  Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu, former party president Bangaru Laxman and several retired bureaucrats were among those who met Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who is slated to address a public meeting in Hyderabad today at 4:30 pm.

• Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman gets bail in graft case

  Former BJP President Bangaru Laxman was today granted bail by the Delhi High court in a case against him for taking bribe in a fictitious defence deal.

• Bangaru Laxman moves High Court challenging trial court jail term

  Former BJP President Bangaru Laxman has moved the Delhi High Court challenging his conviction and the punishment awarded to him by a special CBI court here for taking Rs one lakh as bribe in a fictitious defence deal case. Eleven years a sting operation by a news portal, Laxman was convicted and sent to four years in jail on April 28 and imposed a ...

• 'BJP dropped Bangaru Laxman like a hot potato, but what about Yeddyurappa?' asks JD(U)

  Senior leader of Janata Dal (United), Shivanand Tiwari, has said the party's ally BJP dropped its former party President Bangaru Laxman like a hot potato after his conviction in the Tehelka sting case and yet they did not apply the same rule to former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa.

• 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...

• Delhi court to sentence former BJP president Bangaru Laxman in bribery case today

  Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman has been found guilty of accepting a bribe by a Delhi court. He has been convicted under the Prevention of Corruption Act for misusing his office and for attempting to influence another public official. He has been arrested and will be sentenced today. Mr Laxman faces a maximum of seven years in jail.

• News portal acted as 'whistle blowers' in Bangaru case: court

  The sting operation by Tehelka news portal exposing corruption through fictitious defence deal involving former BJP chief Bangaru Laxman on Friday got kudos from a Delhi court which said they acted as "whistle blowers".

• Former BJP chief Bangaru Laxman found guilty of corruption, arrested

  Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman has been found guilty of accepting a bribe by a Delhi court. He has been convicted under the Prevention of Corruption Act.