The Supreme Court Monday permitted newly-appointed CBI Director Anil Sinha to take over the probe into 2G cases. A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu passed the order on an application by the probe agency seeking clarification on its earlier order removing then Central Bureau of Investigation (C...

A special court hearing the coal block case involving industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and others here Tuesday asked CBI to record the statement of former prime minister Manmohan Singh who was then holding coal ministry portfolio. Special Judge Bharat Parashar asked Central Bureau of Investigation...

Supreme Court advocate KV Dhananjay argues that former CBI director Ranjit Sinha’s clandestine meetings with 2G and Coal scam accused were prima facie illegal.

A Delhi court yesterday fixed 28 November for considering the charge-sheet filed against OP Khaitan & Co managing partner Gautam Khaitan and others, including two Italians, in connection with its money laundering case related to the AgustaWestland VIP chopper deal. Central Bureau of Investigati...

Members of the Odisha High Court Bar Association launched a two-day cease-work agitation Wednesday to protest the arrest of former state advocate general Ashok Mohanty by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over his alleged involvement in the chit fund scam. “The CBI did not follow the procedu...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested the managing partner of OP Khaitan & Co, Gautam Khaitan, in its money laundering probe relating to the tainted Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland helicopter deal, according to PTI and a number of press reports. The PTI reported yesterday that two of Khai...

The NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), represented by advocate Prashant Bhushan, today declined to name the whistleblower who disclosed the alleged interference by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Ranjit Sinha in the 2G investigation and prosecution after meeting the acc...

CBI judge JT Utpat, who was presiding in a Mumbai hearing into 2006’s alleged fake encounter of Tulsiram Prajapati, had told off BJP general secretary Amit Shah’s lawyers on 20 June because their client for wanted to be exempted from appearing in court and had skipped a hearing in the case on 6 June...

Gopinath Pillai’s lawyer, Shamshad Pathan, was fined for not turning up in court, despite having been scheduled for arguments against the CBI court’s decision that it did not have sufficient evidence to prosecute BJP general secretary Amit Shah. Pathan was fined Rs 500 after he didn’t turn up for th...

Swatanter wins media blackout : The Delhi HC has provided former SC judge Swatanter Kumar interim relief in the defamation suit he had filed against three media houses. The HC prohibited the media from publishing anything beyond the court’s orders in his ex-intern’s sexual harassment PIL against him...

SC probes PwC accounts, FDI, FEMA fudging A Chief-headed bench will examine an NGO’s allegations of financial and accounting irregularities at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and its locally allied auditing firms. PwC and others “are apparently indulging in activities in violation of various statutes a...

The US NRI widower who won a Rs 6 crore medical negligence in October, yesterday won in a special CBI court that convicted two ex-Supreme Court registry officials of corruption.

The SC stayed the Gauhati HC’s order that the CBI is unconstitutional , three days after the 6 November order, in an urgent hearing at the Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam’s residence on Saturday, reported Firstpost . Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati had filed a special leave petition on behalf ...

The Gauhati high court on Wednesday struck down the 1963 resolution setting up the Central Bureau of Investigation – the government’s primary investigating agency – and declared it unconstitutional, saying it should be stripped of its powers to probe, file first information reports, arrest suspects ...

Death row worthiness: SC justices AK Patnaik and Gyan Sudha Mishra rendered a 33-page judgment ruling on the principle that courts should record “special” reasons while awarding death penalty and “must” take into account the crime and the character of the criminal which should reflect “extreme depra...