Irrigation Scam

The Karnataka government dismissed the allegation of disgruntled BJP leader AH Vishwanath, a member of the state legislative council, that the Irrigation Department had readied a Rs 21,473.67 crore tender in a hurry and without financial approval.

One more FIR, naming five Maharashtra government officials, was registered on Wednesday by the Nagpur unit of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in the multi-crore irrigation scam.

The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Wednesday said it would hear on February 13 a plea seeking judicial inquiry in the Vidarbha irrigation scam and against Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, even as the NCP leader opposed the application.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has filed an affidavit in the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court in reply to petitions against him in the multi-crore irrigation scam, terming the allegations as "mala fide".

Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar has been given a clean chit by the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in an alleged scam in awarding contracts involving 12 Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation projects.

Reacting to the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau's (ACB) clean chit to party leader Ajit Pawar in the irrigation scam, the NCP said on Saturday that it had always maintained that he was innocent.

Maharashtra's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has given a clean chit to NCP leader and former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar in the multi-crore Vidarbha irrigation scam.

The Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress have challenged in the Supreme Court the closing of nine corruption cases in the irrigation scam allegedly involving NCP's Ajit Pawar, who switched sides and became Deputy Chief Minister in the Devendra Fadnavis-led Maharashtra government on Saturday. The three parties have also asked the...

Three days after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar's switch helped the BJP's Devendra Fadnavis pull off a stunning comeback to power in Maharashtra, investigation has been closed into some cases linked to the irrigation scam in which he is an accused.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar, repeatedly criticised by the BJP for alleged corruption, helped the party retain power in Maharashtra and was sworn in as deputy to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in a quiet oath ceremony on Saturdaymorning.

The Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has informed the Bombay High Court that its probe into the alleged multi-crore irrigation scam has revealed major lapses on part of the state's former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and other government officials.

Congress MLA Parsotam Sabariya was Sunday arrested for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe from persons accused in an irrigation scam in Morbi district, over 60 kilometres from Rajkot, a senior official said.

As a cabinet minister from his party has alleged corruption in the Jalyukt Shivar Yojna, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray today asked how is it different from irrigation scams during the previous Congress-NCP regime.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau today filed a charge sheet in a court here against six former officials for alleged fraud and corruption in Vidarbha's Gosikhurd inter-district irrigation project.

BJP lawmaker Kirit Somaiya on Friday claimed that the fate of NCP leaders Ajit Pawar and Sunil Tatkare in the irrigation scam would be sealed in the next two to three months.

The Karnataka government dismissed the allegation of disgruntled BJP leader AH Vishwanath, a member of the state legislative council, that the Irrigation Department had readied a Rs 21,473.67 crore tender in a hurry and without financial approval.

One more FIR, naming five Maharashtra government officials, was registered on Wednesday by the Nagpur unit of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in the multi-crore irrigation scam.

The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Wednesday said it would hear on February 13 a plea seeking judicial inquiry in the Vidarbha irrigation scam and against Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, even as the NCP leader opposed the application.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has filed an affidavit in the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court in reply to petitions against him in the multi-crore irrigation scam, terming the allegations as "mala fide".

Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar has been given a clean chit by the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in an alleged scam in awarding contracts involving 12 Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation projects.

Reacting to the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau's (ACB) clean chit to party leader Ajit Pawar in the irrigation scam, the NCP said on Saturday that it had always maintained that he was innocent.

Maharashtra's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has given a clean chit to NCP leader and former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar in the multi-crore Vidarbha irrigation scam.

The Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress have challenged in the Supreme Court the closing of nine corruption cases in the irrigation scam allegedly involving NCP's Ajit Pawar, who switched sides and became Deputy Chief Minister in the Devendra Fadnavis-led Maharashtra government on Saturday. The three parties have also asked the...

Three days after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar's switch helped the BJP's Devendra Fadnavis pull off a stunning comeback to power in Maharashtra, investigation has been closed into some cases linked to the irrigation scam in which he is an accused.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar, repeatedly criticised by the BJP for alleged corruption, helped the party retain power in Maharashtra and was sworn in as deputy to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in a quiet oath ceremony on Saturdaymorning.

The Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has informed the Bombay High Court that its probe into the alleged multi-crore irrigation scam has revealed major lapses on part of the state's former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and other government officials.

Congress MLA Parsotam Sabariya was Sunday arrested for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe from persons accused in an irrigation scam in Morbi district, over 60 kilometres from Rajkot, a senior official said.

As a cabinet minister from his party has alleged corruption in the Jalyukt Shivar Yojna, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray today asked how is it different from irrigation scams during the previous Congress-NCP regime.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau today filed a charge sheet in a court here against six former officials for alleged fraud and corruption in Vidarbha's Gosikhurd inter-district irrigation project.

BJP lawmaker Kirit Somaiya on Friday claimed that the fate of NCP leaders Ajit Pawar and Sunil Tatkare in the irrigation scam would be sealed in the next two to three months.