Tag: scam

Excise policy scam: CBI arrests Delhi Dy CM Manish Sisodia

[ad_1]
AAP senior politician and Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after nine hours of questioning in connection with the excise policy scam case on Sunday.
Earlier in the day, Sisodia had said that he was ready to go to jail for 7-8 months.
“I have the love of lakhs of children and crores of countrymen with me. Even if I have to go to jail for a few months, I do not care. We are followers of Bhagat Singh. Bhagat Singh died for the country. If I have to go to jail over such false allegations, it is a small thing,” he said before leaving to the CBI office.
As per sources, he was asked about kickbacks that were allegedly received to campaign in the Goa elections.
He was also confronted with the statement of accused Dinesh Arora who has now turned approver.
Sisodia was also asked about Hyderabad-based chartered accountant Butchibabu Gorantla, Telangana MLC and BRS leader K Kavitha, the daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR). Gorantla was arrested by the CBI earlier this month.
The CBI has filed a charge sheet in the matter and will also file the first supplementary charge sheet soon.
It is alleged that the Delhi government’s policy to grant licenses to liquor traders favoured certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a charge strongly refuted by the AAP.

Lending support, AAP chief and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted that his deputy need not worry about his family as the party will look after them.
“God is with you Manish. The blessings of lakhs of children and their parents are with you. When you go to jail for the country and the society, it is not a curse but a matter of pride. I pray to god that you return from jail soon. Delhi’s children, their parents and all of us will wait for you,” Kejriwal said in a tweet in Hindi.
(With IANS inputs)
[ad_2]
#Excise #policy #scam #CBI #arrests #Delhi #Manish #Sisodia
( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 26, 2023
Jail superintendent fined for giving special treatment to coal scam accused

[ad_1]
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday imposed a financial penalty on the Superintendent of Presidency Special Correctional Home in south Kolkata for giving special treatment to Vikas Mishra, one of the prime accused in the multi-crore coal smuggling scam .
A division bench of Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Ajay Kumar Gupta directed the correction home Superintendent Debashish Chakraborty to either deposit Rs 10,000 with the office of the Registrar General of the Calcutta High Court within the next 48 hours or face seven days imprisonment.
“You are in charge of one of the prime correction homes of the state. If such things happen, then I must say that there is a definite attempt to influence the process of the probe. It is evident that you have done everything in your senses and intentionally. Even after the court ordered Vikas Mishra to be jailed, you have sent him to hospital. You are a government servant and you should have performed your duties according to law. This is not expected for a government servant like you,” Justice Bagchi observed.
Although Chakraborty apologised to the court on this count, the division bench imposed the financial penalty on him.
In September last year, the same division bench issued a contempt of notice against Chakraborty for violating the court’s order for periodical medical examination of Mishra.
Mishra, the first person to be arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the coal smuggling scam in April 2021, was then housed at the Presidency Special Correctional Home.
After the CBI informed the court at that point of time that Mishra had been frequently avoiding interrogation on medical grounds, the division bench ordered that a medical officer designated by the CBI should visit the correctional home at an interval of 48 hours to medically examine Mishra.
Thereafter the CBI again informed the court that despite being found medically fit by the agency designated medical officer, the correctional home Superintendent had been regularly allowing Mishra to get admitted at the correctional home hospital which hampered the interrogation process.

[ad_2]
#Jail #superintendent #fined #giving #special #treatment #coal #scam #accused
( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 23, 2023
ED summons Kejriwal’s PA in excise policy scam

[ad_1]
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday summoned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s personal assistant Bibhav K P in connection with the excise policy scam.
On February 11, the ED had arrested YSR Congress MP Magunta Srinivas Reddy’s son Raghav Magunta.
Before Magunta, the ED had arrested Punjab-based businessman Gautam Malhotra and one Rajesh Joshi, an aide of AAP’s social media in-charge Vijay Nair.
Earlier, the CBI had sent another summon to Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia to join the probe on February 26.
As of now, the ED has filed two prosecution complaints, a chargesheet and a supplementary chargesheet. It is all set to file the third chargesheet (second supplementary) in the matter.
Subscribe us on
[ad_2]
#summons #Kejriwals #excise #policy #scam

( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 23, 2023
Teachers’ scam: Now Calcutta HC judge will play role of investigator

[ad_1]
Kolkata: Now a Calcutta High Court judge will play the role of an investigator in the multi-crore teachers’ recruitment irregularities scam in West Bengal.
Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, whose verdict last year prompted central agencies like Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) to probe, will directly question the panel of interviewers in the recruitment of teachers by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC).
His decision on the count has been taken following the complaints by many candidates that the interview process, especially as regards to aptitude test which carries separate marks, was a farce. They alleged that there was no practical test which is an essential part of the aptitude test and many alleged they were relieved of the interview process by the interviews by just asking their and their parents’ names.
In the first phase, Justice Gangopadhyay will interrogate 40 such interviewers in four districts, where such complaints had been maximum. Calcutta High Court sources said that the interrogation process by Justice Gangopadhyay will be very soon and probably during the current month.
The interrogation will be closed-door and the entire proceedings on this count will be in-camera, where none other than the judge, the interviewers and their counsel will be allowed to stay.
Senior High Court counsel Kaushik Gupta said that this is something really unprecedented where a high court judge is playing the role of an investigator. “I have been practicing in the same court for 26 years. I have never heard of such an incident,” he said.
Subscribe us on

[ad_2]
#Teachers #scam #Calcutta #judge #play #role #investigator
( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 20, 2023
Teachers’ recruitment scam: CBI makes two more arrests

[ad_1]
Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing the teachers’ recruitment scam in West Bengal, on Sunday arrested Trinamool Congress legislator Manik Bhattacharya’s close aide and the president of All Bengal Teachers’ Training Achievers’ Association, Tapas Mandal, for his alleged involvement in the scam.
Niladri Ghosh, an ‘agent’ in the scam, was also arrested by the CBI on Sunday.
In fact, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is conducting a parallel probe into the matter, had arrested the secretary of the Trinamool Congress youth wing in West Bengal — Kuntal Ghosh, on the basis of Tapas Mandal’s statements.
Also Read
Teachers’ scam: Third arrested middleman reveals rates fixed for teaching jobs
Manik Bhattacharya, who is the former president of (West Bengal Board of Primary Education WBBPE) is already in judicial custody in connection with the scam.
It was learnt that Mondal was summoned to CBI’s Nizam police station in central Kolkata on Sunday. After questioning him for three hours, he was arrested.
Interacting with the media persons while the CBI sleuths were taking him to a hospital for a medical check-up, Mondal said he did not find any reason behind his arrest.

“I was thoroughly cooperating with both the CBI and ED in the course of the investigation. Still, I have been arrested,” he said.
Get the latest updates in Hyderabad City News, Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Politics and Top Stories on WhatsApp & Telegram by subscribing to our channels. You can also download our app for Android and iOS.
[ad_2]
#Teachers #recruitment #scam #CBI #arrests
( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 19, 2023
Teachers’ scam: Third arrested middleman reveals rates fixed for teaching jobs

[ad_1]
Kolkata: Chandan Mondal aka Ranjan, the third middleman arrested in connection with the multi-crore teachers’ recruitment scam in West Bengal on Friday, has reportedly given to CBI sleuths a break-up of rates fixed for giving appointments as teachers of different grades in state-run schools.
Sources said that the rates varied between Rs 5,00,000 and went up to the level ranging from Rs 25 lakh to Rs 30 lakh. The lowest range for the payments started with the primary level and gradually progressed in the next three levels of upper primary, secondary and higher secondary.
Explaining the rationale for the different rates for different levels of teachers, a headmaster of a state-run school in West Bengal told IANS on condition of anonymity that since the scale-pay for these four levels are higher according to higher levels, naturally the under-the-table rates for appointments for different levels also vary.
“A primary teacher in a state-run school at the entry level gets somewhat between Rs 26,000 to Rs 27,000 a month, which goes to the bracket of Rs 33,000 to Rs 34,000 in the upper primary level, Rs 37,000 to Rs 38,000 in the secondary level and finally to Rs 42,000 to Rs 43,000 in the higher secondary level. This is the entry-level pay I am speaking of,” he said.
“Now in case of increment, there is a fixed annual increment of three per cent for all the four levels. But naturally the levels drawing high pay-scale will attract more in hand as incremental sum than the levels in lower pay-scales. This makes the higher secondary level naturally more attractive than the other three levels. Rest is up to your understanding and conclusion,” he added.
“Similarly, Mondal admitted that there are different rates for appointments as non-teaching staff in Group C and Group D categories. However, he has claimed ignorance about the rates prevailing in the non-teaching category since he used to deal mainly with illegal appointments in the teaching category,” a CBI source said.
[ad_2]
#Teachers #scam #arrested #middleman #reveals #rates #fixed #teaching #jobs

( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 18, 2023
No liquor scam in Delhi, excise policy case result of political vendetta: Kejriwal

[ad_1]
New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has asserted that there was no “liquor scam” in Delhi and that the case over his government’s excise policy was created as a result of “political vendetta and conspiracy” ahead of his deputy Manish Sisodia’s questioning by the CBI slated for Sunday.
Reacting to Kejriwal’s assertion, Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva wondered why did the AAP government scrap the excise policy if there was no scam in it.
The Excise Policy 2021-22 was withdrawn by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government last year after a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe was recommended by Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) VK Saxena into “violation of norms and lapses”.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Kejriwal said his government will fully cooperate with the CBI’s investigation into the alleged irregularities in the implementation of the now-scrapped Excise Policy 2021-22.
“First of all, there is no such thing as a liquor scam. We formulated the best and most transparent policy in the country,” he said when asked about the CBI summoning Sisodia.
The same policy implemented in Punjab has led to a 48-per cent rise in revenues, the chief minister said.
“In Delhi, they have framed the case as a result of political vendetta and conspiracy. Manish will go there and we will fully cooperate. Finally, the truth will prevail,” he said.
At another press conference, Sachdeva posed questions to Kejriwal, asking why a court denied bail to one of the accused in the case on four different occasions and whether Sisodia had any contact with the other accused.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader also wondered why did the deputy chief minister frequently change his mobile phones.
Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri alleged that the liquor “scam” involved an amount of Rs 6,000 crore and asserted that the truth will come out after the CBI probe.
BJP MP Parvesh Verma said the “liquor scam” of the AAP government has been “exposed” before people and Kejriwal is now defending Sisodia.
The CBI has called Sisodia for questioning in connection with the excise policy case nearly three months after filing the chargesheet.
Sisodia has not been named as an accused in the chargesheet as the probe against him and other suspects is still going on, officials said.
The deputy chief minister, who also held the charge of the excise department, was first questioned by the federal agency on October 17 last year and his house as well as bank lockers were also searched in connection with the case.
In a tweet in Hindi, Sisodia said nothing incriminating was found against him during the searches and he would continue to cooperate in the investigation.
“The CBI has called me again tomorrow. They have used the full power of the CBI, the ED against me, raided my house, searched bank lockers, but nothing was found against me,” he said.
In an apparent reference to the BJP-led Centre, the deputy chief minister said the CBI has been made to go after him because “they” want to stop his “good work” in the education sector for the children of Delhi.
The CBI is now focused on the alleged influence of a “south lobby” of businessmen and politicians on the formulation and implementation of the liquor policy to swing it in their favour, using middlemen, liquor traders and public servants, officials said.
It is alleged that the Delhi government’s policy to grant licences to liquor traders favoured certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for those, a charge strongly refuted by the AAP.
[ad_2]
#liquor #scam #Delhi #excise #policy #case #result #political #vendetta #Kejriwal
( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 18, 2023
Teachers’ recruitment scam: CBI arrests third middleman

[ad_1]
Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the multi-crore teachers’ recruitment irregularities scam in West Bengal arrested another middleman — Chandan Mondal aka Ranjan — in connection with the scam on Friday.
Mondal is the third middleman who has been arrested by the CBI after it started probing the matter in 2022, the other two being Prasanna Kumar Roy and Pradeep Singh.
Roy is the husband of the niece of former West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee, who is currently in judicial custody for his alleged involvement in the scam.
Sources said Mondal came to CBI’s Nizam Palace office in Kolkata on Friday after being summoned by the agency for questioning.
After hours of questioning, sources said, the CBI officials decided to take him into custody after he refused to cooperate in revealing information.
He was presented at a special CBI court in Kolkata on Friday afternoon, which remanded him to four-day CBI custody.
Mondal’s name surfaced for the first time when ex-state minister Upen Biswas, who is also a former joint director of the CBI, revealed his name through a video message posted on social media.
In his message, Biswas said that Mondal was responsible for offering several teaching and non-teaching jobs in state-run schools against payment of money.

Since then, Mondal was questioned by the CBI from time to time, but he was not taken into custody.
Meanwhile, after receiving the information of Mondal’s arrest, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the Calcutta High Court, whose order prompted the CBI to launch its probe into the teachers’ recruitment scam, described it as a “very late step” by the CBI.
“What will happen with his arrest now? Nothing will happen. The investigation has been going on for the last seven to eight months. What result will his arrest now yield,” Justice Gangopadhyay asked.
[ad_2]
#Teachers #recruitment #scam #CBI #arrests #middleman
( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 17, 2023
Cattle scam: CBI traces 346 fake bank accounts used to divert crime proceeds

[ad_1]
Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the multi-crore cattle smuggling scam in West Bengal has traced as many as 346 fake bank accounts opened in the name of third parties with a district cooperative bank in Birbhum for the purpose of diversion of the scam proceeds to different channels.
Sources said that during the course of investigation, it has also been revealed that these accounts were opened in the names of individuals coming from marginalised families in the districts whose identity proofs like Aadhaar card were collected assuring them of getting enrolled for different welfare schemes of the state government.
The CBI officers personally went to the residences of these individuals in whose names these accounts were opened and all of them informed the central agency that they had no knowledge of the existence of such bank accounts in their names.
These 346 accounts were detected by the CBI in three phases in the last few months. The CBI detected 177 such accounts in the first phase, followed by 54 in the second phase and 115 accounts in the third phase.
The manager of the district cooperative bank where such accounts were held was also questioned by the CBI, who admitted that he was forced to allow opening of such accounts following instructions from the higher authorities.
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress strongman and the party’s Birbhum district President, Anubrata Mondal, will be presented before a special CBI court in Asansol on Friday, where the central agency’s counsel is expected to present the details in this matter to the court.
Mondal is in custody as the prime accused in the cattle smuggling scam.
On Thursday, a CBI team went to the Asansol Special Correctional Home where Mondal is housed and questioned him in the matter. However, sources said that as usual, the accused did not cooperate with the agency and denied having any knowledge of such bank accounts.

[ad_2]
#Cattle #scam #CBI #traces #fake #bank #accounts #divert #crime #proceeds
( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 16, 2023
CBI questions Satyendar Jain in Tihar Jail in excise scam

[ad_1]
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday interrogated Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain in the Tihar Jail in connection with the Delhi excise policy scam.
The CBI on Friday moved the Rouse Avenue District Courts seeking permission to interrogate him in the matter, and the court allowed its plea.
The CBI interrogated Jain about scam accused Vijay Nair and other related things.
The CBI has already filed a charge sheet in the matter, and sources said that they are in process of filing a supplementary charge sheet in the matter and hence they wanted to collect more evidence to make the case water-proof.
Subscribe us on
[ad_2]
#CBI #questions #Satyendar #Jain #Tihar #Jail #excise #scam
( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 15, 2023