Land Allocation Case

The CBI on Sunday conducted searches at the premises of prominent businessman Showkat Chaudhary in Srinagar after registering a case against him and others over the Roshni land allocation scam, officials said.

The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday said it has attached over 354 acres of land worth more than Rs 445 crore of a company in connection with its money laundering probe in the alleged irregularities in the coal blocks allocation case.

The five acres of land to be allocated for building a mosque under the Supreme Court verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute should be within the 67 acres of acquired land in Ayodhya, Iqbal Ansari, a main litigant in the case, and several other local Muslim leaders have demanded.

A special Enforcement Directorate court in Panchkula granted regular bail to Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Congress leader Motilal Vora in the Associated Journals Limited (AJL) land allotment case on Wednesday.

In a move that could lead to Congress bosses Rahul and Sonia Gandhi being questioned by the CBI, the agency has filed a case alleging that land for a publishing company controlled by them was illicitly allocated in Haryana when the state was governed by their party.

The CBI has shared details with the Supreme Court about its controversial case against industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and the government's former coal secretary PC Parakh. The agency has said the men conspired to ensure "undue favour" to Mr Birla's firm, Hindalco, which landed two coal blocks in Odisha in 2005. The allocation has been defended...

The Andhra Pradesh High Court today exempted Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah from appearing in person before an anti-corruption court in Hyderabad on August 2 for an alleged land allocation scam. This was in response to a petition filed by Governor Rosaiah. The summons were issued on the 18th of June.

The Supreme Court Friday issued notice to the Maharashtra government, film maker Subhash Ghai and PIL petitioner Rajendra Lakshman Sontakke on a plea by union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh challenging the adverse remarks passed against him by the Bombay High Court in a land allocation case.

In the 2G spectrum allocation case, as he argues his innocence in court, A Raja has developed somewhat of a penchant for pointing fingers at the Prime Minister and P Chidambaram. Mr Raja, who has been accused of designing and delivering India's biggest scam when he was Telecom Minister, says Dr Manmohan Singh and Mr Chidambaram, who was Finance Mi...

Neera Yadav, the former Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, has been sentenced to four years in prison after a court found her guilty of corruption in what's referred to as the Noida land scam.Yadav broke down after hearing the verdict against her.Yadav was convicted of violating the rules to help a company named Flex Industries get an industrial plo...

The CBI on Sunday conducted searches at the premises of prominent businessman Showkat Chaudhary in Srinagar after registering a case against him and others over the Roshni land allocation scam, officials said.

The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday said it has attached over 354 acres of land worth more than Rs 445 crore of a company in connection with its money laundering probe in the alleged irregularities in the coal blocks allocation case.

The five acres of land to be allocated for building a mosque under the Supreme Court verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute should be within the 67 acres of acquired land in Ayodhya, Iqbal Ansari, a main litigant in the case, and several other local Muslim leaders have demanded.

A special Enforcement Directorate court in Panchkula granted regular bail to Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Congress leader Motilal Vora in the Associated Journals Limited (AJL) land allotment case on Wednesday.

In a move that could lead to Congress bosses Rahul and Sonia Gandhi being questioned by the CBI, the agency has filed a case alleging that land for a publishing company controlled by them was illicitly allocated in Haryana when the state was governed by their party.

The CBI has shared details with the Supreme Court about its controversial case against industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and the government's former coal secretary PC Parakh. The agency has said the men conspired to ensure "undue favour" to Mr Birla's firm, Hindalco, which landed two coal blocks in Odisha in 2005. The allocation has been defended...

The Andhra Pradesh High Court today exempted Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah from appearing in person before an anti-corruption court in Hyderabad on August 2 for an alleged land allocation scam. This was in response to a petition filed by Governor Rosaiah. The summons were issued on the 18th of June.

The Supreme Court Friday issued notice to the Maharashtra government, film maker Subhash Ghai and PIL petitioner Rajendra Lakshman Sontakke on a plea by union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh challenging the adverse remarks passed against him by the Bombay High Court in a land allocation case.

In the 2G spectrum allocation case, as he argues his innocence in court, A Raja has developed somewhat of a penchant for pointing fingers at the Prime Minister and P Chidambaram. Mr Raja, who has been accused of designing and delivering India's biggest scam when he was Telecom Minister, says Dr Manmohan Singh and Mr Chidambaram, who was Finance Mi...

Neera Yadav, the former Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, has been sentenced to four years in prison after a court found her guilty of corruption in what's referred to as the Noida land scam.Yadav broke down after hearing the verdict against her.Yadav was convicted of violating the rules to help a company named Flex Industries get an industrial plo...