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The legal battle surrounding the high-profile cruise drugs case took a fresh turn on Monday, with former Sameer Wankhede telling the Bombay High Court that he neither demanded nor accepted any bribe from Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan to spare his son Aryan Khan. The legal battle surrounding the high-profile cruise drugs case took a…
Ahmedabad: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday laid a trap and arrested an in-charge assistant municipal commissioner and tax collector of Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh, adding to the tally of senior officials caught in graft cases. Officials said 13 Class-I officers were booked by the ACB across…
GADAG:Lokayukta police in Karnataka caught Chandru Lamani, BJP MLA from Shirahatti in Gadag district, allegedly taking a Rs 5 lakh bribe from a contractor, during a raid at his Balaji Hospital in Laxmeshwar on Saturday. Lamani, a medical practitioner, was taluk health officer in Laxmeshwar, and resigned from service to contest the 2023 assembly election.A…
CHENNAI: A Madras high court judge recused himself from hearing a criminal case following an allegation that a senior advocate took 50 lakh from a client for a favourable order. The judge also referred the issue to the vigilance cell.The issue pertained to a criminal revision petition and a criminal original petition moved by N…
Farmer to babus: No cash for ‘bribe’, take my radish BENGALURU: A farmer’s protest using freshly harvested radish to allege bribery demand by revenue officials turned heads outside the Madhugiri taluk office in Tumakuru district Thursday, spotlighting delays in implementing civic works at the grassroots level.Prasanna Kumar, a farmer from Dodderi Jakkenahalli, staged the protest…
BENGALURU: A day after a police inspector was allegedly caught accepting a Rs 4 lakh bribe, a video of him screaming while being held by Lokayukta officials surfaced on social media on Friday.The footage shows inspector Govindaraju, in uniform, shouting continuously and trying to resist arrest as Lokayukta personnel restrain him.According to Lokayukta police, Govindaraju…
After a tense first meeting in the Oval Office, the atmosphere was noticeably lighter during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s latest meeting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, where the US President shared a humorous exchange with reporters as dignitaries gathered for lunch. In a moment captured on video, Trump jokingly ordered the Mar-a-Lago kitchen to serve…
PILIBHIT: Days after a 14-day-old child’s parents alleged that he was deliberately dropped on the floor by staff at district women’s hospital in Pilibhit for not paying a bribe of Rs 5,000 for post-delivery procedure, the body was exhumed on Friday following the district magistrate’s (DM) orders of a “proper autopsy to ascertain the exact…
Bhubaneswar: Two men from Balangir district were arrested by CBI on Monday in Jaipur, Rajasthan, for their alleged roles in a high-profile impersonation and bribery case, the central agency said on Tuesday. The accused were identified as Ajit Kumar Patra, 51, and Minku Lal Jain, 46.CBI officers said that Patra and Jain were allegedly involved…
Lucknow SI’s ‘act of graft’ inside police stn goes viral LUCKNOW: Two days after a police sub-inspector posted at the Paper Mill Colony outpost was caught accepting Rs 2 lakh bribe inside Mahanagar police station premises, a video of his entire ‘act of graft’ has gone viral on social media. The video was part of…
