Ram Rahim get life imprisonment for journalist's murder 16 years ago

The Dera Sacha Sauda chief and the three others convicted last Friday in the case appeared before the court through video conferencing.

Latest News: A special CBI court in Panchkula Thursday sentenced self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and three others to life imprisonment for the murder of a journalist over 16 years ago.

The Dera Sacha Sauda chief and the three others convicted last Friday in the case appeared before the court through video conferencing.

On January 11, special CBI Court judge Jagdeep Singh had convicted the four men for the murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati in 2002.

All the four were convicted under section 302 (murder) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code. Ram Rahim appeared through video conferencing from Sunaria jail in Rohtak, where he is already serving a 20-year-sentence in a rape case.

The three others - Nirmal Singh, Kuldeep Singh and Krishan Lal - appeared from Ambala jail.

The journalist was killed in Haryana's Sirsa in October 2002 after his newspaper published an anonymous letter alleging sexual exploitation of women by the godman at the Dera headquarters in the same town.

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United Kingdom authorities confirm Nirav Modi's presence, CBI seeks extradition

On July 2, the Interpol had issued a Red Corner Notice (RCN) against Nirav Modi under money laundering charges levelled by the Enforcement Directorate

 

Latest News: Fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi, wanted in the Rs 135 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud, is in the United Kingdom, the Interpol has confirmed, prompting the CBI to seek his extradition, officials said on Monday.

According to a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official, the UK authorities confirmed Nirav Modi's presence in the country on Sunday through a mail on the basis of the diffusion notice issued against him by the probe agency to the Interpol.

The official also said the CBI sent an extradition request to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday.

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"The Home Ministry has also been requested to move its extradition request to the Ministry of External Affairs and through the MEA to the UK authority."

Earlier on August 2, Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh informed Parliament that the government had sent a request to the UK for extraditing Nirav Modi.

On July 2, the Interpol had issued a Red Corner Notice (RCN) against Nirav Modi under money laundering charges levelled by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

Nirav Modi along with his uncle Mehul Choksi of the Gitanjali group is being probed in the fraud case by the CBI and the ED.
The ED had, on May 24 and May 26, filed prosecution complaints or chargesheets against Choksi and...continue reading

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I-T raids on houses, offices of Sasikala and Dhinakaran across 160 places

Offices of Namadhu MGR, Jaya TV and Jazz Cinemas, residence of Sasikala’s husband Natarajan also raided

 

Income-tax officials have been raiding homes and companies belonging to the jailed All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) leader VK Sasikala and her relatives, including TTV Dhinakaran.

Both Sasikala and Dhinakaran are rivals to the ruling AIADMK faction.

The raid started at 6 am this morning across 160 places in Tamil Nadu, besides Bengaluru, Puducherry and Delhi.

These places included former Jayalalithaa’s house at Poes Garden, Dhinakran’s house at Adyar and residence of other leaders, their relatives and party functionaries, in addition to the offices of Jaya TV as well as Jaya TV’s top official and management houses.

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Among the companies being raided are the AIADMK mouthpiece Namadhu MGR, Jaya TV and Jazz Cinemas.

Dhinakaran’s faction alleged that this is a personal revenge against him. They also alleged that ruling faction is trying to take control of Jaya TV and Namadhe MGR.

The residence of Sasikala’s husband Natarajan in Thanjavur was also raided.

At the offices of Namadhu MGR and Jaya TV, very few staff members were present when the I-T officials raided. I-T officials also visited the residence of Dhinakaran in Adyar.

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Death of a family man

B K Bansal is dead. With him, his 25-year-old son also gave himself to the rope. The twin-suicides that rocked the capital last week came on the back of the similar suicides of the corporate affairs ministry official's wife and daughter. Bansal was accused of taking bribes from executives of Elder Pharmaceuticals to prevent a possible reference to the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) of allegations of irregularities in the company. Bansal was reportedly caught red-handed by the sleuths of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The action was demonstrative of the Narendra Modi government's efforts to root out corruption at all levels. There can be no two opinions about the need to eradicate this social evil.

However, the methods followed have come under criticism following the detailed suicide notes mailed to media organisations by the Bansals. Some commentators have said that CBI is an 'uncaged vulture' and not a caged parrot, as described by the Supreme Court once. Political rivals such as Arvind Kejriwal have opportunistically latched on to a reference to Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Shah in the note.

A more useful line of probe would be to find out which are the serious fraud cases that Bansal referred to the SFIO and those he did not during his tenure in this position. Preferably, this should be a time-bound judicial probe as the CBI cannot be the judge of its own case and the credibility of a local police would always be under cloud.

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