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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday observed, “there is something wrong going on in the high court,” as it rejected the Tamil Nadu government’s plea to modify its earlier order suspending a one-man inquiry commission and the SIT probe into the Karur stampede, which claimed 41 lives. The bench of Justices JK Maheswari and…
Myanmar and neighbouring regions are emerging as major hubs for “digital arrest” cyber-fraud networks that coerce trafficked Indians into running call-centre style operations, the CBI has said in a chargesheet filed against 13 accused, PTI reported.The agency’s findings stem from a suo motu case investigating 10 major incidents of digital-arrest scams. Technical analysis of nearly…
2 Chinese nationals, 28 others in CBI’s Rs 1k cr crypto scam chargesheet NEW DELHI: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against 30 accused, including two Chinese, Wan Jun and Li Anming, in a Rs 1,000-crore crypto-investment scam.The accused, through two Delhi-based companies and their directors, allegedly misled the public into investing…
CBI has registered an FIR against Jai Anmol Ambani in a Rs 228 crore bank fraud case linked to Reliance Housing Finance. Searches were conducted at his residence. The agency is investigating allegations of cheating and criminal conspiracy causing wrongful loss to Union Bank of India. A second FIR targets RCFL and its officials for…
BHUBANESWAR: Central Bureau Of Investigation Friday arrested Biranchi Kumar Nayak (43), the alleged key middleman in the Odisha sub-inspector recruitment scam. This is the first arrest in the case.Nayak, a resident of Kalarahanga area near Patia in Bhubaneswar, allegedly approached several candidates and promised them questions for the Combined Police Service Examination 2024 in exchange…
Shafat Ahmed Shangloo (PTI photo) JAMMU: While rejecting CBI’s plea for Shangloo to be remanded in judicial custody, the court also cancelled warrants issued against seven other suspects on the ground that none of these names was listed in the 1991 chargesheet as “absconding accused”.CBI’s remand plea argued that Shangloo, who allegedly conspired with Yasin…
(AI-generated image used for representation purposes) NEW DELHI: Supreme Court order for pan-India CBI probe into ‘digital arrest’ cases, while signifying the threat from digital scamsters, is important also because the opposition-governed states had withdrawn “general consent” to CBI to probe crimes in their territories.Keeping two other forms of cyber-crime – investment scams and part-time…
SRINAGAR: CBI announced on Monday the arrest of a suspect wanted for 35 years for his alleged role in the 1989 abduction of former home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s daughter Dr Rubaiya Sayeed by the banned JKLF, whose jailed chief Yasin Malik is standing trial in the case.The central agency, which took over the case…
CBI arrests Assistant Professor in UKSSSC paper leak case The investigation into the Uttarakhand Subordinate Service Selection Commission (UKSSSC) graduate-level recruitment exam has taken a major turn with the arrest of Assistant Professor Suman Chauhan by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), according to an official announcement made by the agency. Chauhan, posted at a…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Wednesday criticised CBI’s “friendly and cool” approach in probing serious irregularities in financial transactions of Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (IHFL), now Sammaan Capital Ltd, and questioned corporate affairs ministry’s decisions to close corporate governance illegalities flagged by market regulator Sebi and ED.Clarifying it has neither expressed opinion on merits of the…
