Oil Mafia

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  Supreme Court Gives Life Term to Killers of S. Manjunath, IOC Manager Who Exposed Corruption

  The Supreme Court on Wednesday confirmed the life sentence of six people convicted of killing S Manjunath, an IIM-Lucknow graduate who took on the oil mafia in Uttar Pradesh.

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  Biopic of Murdered IIT Graduate Manjunath Shanmugham Releases on May 9

  A biopic on Manjunath Shanmugham, an IIM-Lucknow graduate who was killed for taking over oil mafia, is set to release on May 9.

• Mob tries to set govt official on fire in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun; 2 arrested

  In Akhilesh Yadav's Uttar Pradesh, a mob, allegedly part of the oil mafia, tried to set a government official in Badaun on fire yesterday. The district supply officer, Neeraj Singh, was raiding a ration shop to check on alleged kerosene hoarding when he was attacked.

• Sand mafia allegedly set on fire Maharashtra tehsildar's vehicle

  A tehsildar escaped unhurt while his driver was injured today after unidentified persons, suspected to be sand mafia members, allegedly set on fire his official vehicle in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra, police said.

• At $178 billion, mafia is Italy's biggest business

  The mafia in Italy -- that made around 140 billion euro (around $178 billion) in 2010 through money lending, extortion and robbery -- generated far greater money than Eni, the country's oil giant, according to a new report.

• JFK's wife's secret tapes to be made public

  A series of secret audio tapes made by Jacqueline Kennedy, that may expose the truth behind JFK's assassination, are to be made public.

• Yashwant Sonawane's killers to be booked under MCOCA

  The killers of Yashwant Sonawane, Additional Collector of Nashik who was burnt alive by the oil adulteration mafia, will be booked under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).The police moved a Nashik court citing that Sonawane's murder was a conspiracy and a syndicate crime.Under MCOCA, statements recorded in front of an...

• BJP demands CBI probe into Sonawane killing

  Maharashtra BJP today demanded that a CBI probe should be ordered into the murder of additional collector Yashwant Sonawane by oil adulteration mafia.     A delegation of BJP leaders led by Eknath Khadse met the Governor K Sankaranarayanan today and put forward the demand.     Khadse also demanded a white pap...

• Nagpur: Oil mafia attacks policemen with axes

  Barely a week after the fatal attack on Yashwant Sonawane, an additional collector at Manmad in Nashik district, there was an attack on policemen at Umred in Nagpur. Deputy Superintendent of Police Sudhakar Palandurkar and four of his men were raiding kerosene dens in rural Nagpur when a mob of nearly a 100 people attacked them.The incident clearly...

• Yashwant Sonawane had filed report against Popat Shinde five months ago

  Days after the brutal killing of Yashwant Sonawane, evidence has now surfaced to show that the Malegaon Additional Collector was building a case against Popat Shinde, the prime accused in his murder.A report prepared by Sonawane in August 2010, a copy of which is with NDTV, documents that his office seized 4000 litres of kerosene and 3000 litres of...

• No action was taken on Sonawane's report against Popat Shinde, his alleged killer

  Days after the brutal killing of Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane, more evidence has surfaced to show that no action was taken against Popat Shinde, the prime accused in his murder, despite a detailed report given by Sonawane.The report, prepared by Sonawane in August 2010, said the police should take action against Shinde under Essential Ser...

• Thackeray on Collector Sonawane's murder by oil mafia

  Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Friday criticised the Maharashtra government over the killing of Additional District Collector Yashwant Sonawane, saying the murder has "ruined the state's image"."If a Collector-level officer is not safe in the state then the Chief Minister and Home Minister should explain who is safe here. Corrupt and unethical pr...

• Raids on oil mafia continue in Maharashtra

  The raids on the oil mafia in Maharashtra, triggered by the murder of Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane, continued through the night. In fact the raids are still on in the Kurla area of Mumbai and in Akola district.Nearly 200 people have been taken into custody so far and close to 1250 litres of oil has been seized.The government launched a cr...

• After Sonawane's death, Govt launches crackdown on oil mafia

  As government employees went on a mass protest against the burning alive of Manmad Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane, the government launched a crackdown on adulteration dens around kerosene depots across Maharashtra."We have already arrested more than 150 people," Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil said.The crackdown came on a day the Union O...

• Jaipal Reddy on oil mafia crackdown

  After the brazen killing of Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane, who was set on fire by the oil mafia in Manmad in Maharashtra, the government has decided to rehaul the sector to reduce opportunities for adulteration. Sonawane's driver has confirmed the police theory that Sonawane was burnt alive because he tried to film kerosene being stolen fr...