Ex-CBI DIG held guilty of bribery

A former senior CBI official was convicted Tuesday by a court for accepting bribe for not invoking TADA against the Jain brothers in the 1991 Jain hawala case.

I hold that prosecution in present case has been fully successful in making out case against accused O P Sharma that he accepted bribe of Rs 10 lakh from L K Kaul (complainant) in connection with case which was being supervised by him pertaining to hawala transactions involving senior politicians and government servants, special CBI judge Pradeep Chaddah said.

In 1991,a CBI team raided industrialist Surendra Jain and his employee Jainendra Jain and allegedly seized huge amount of cash. Sharma said this was meant to be passed on to terrorists and started threatening them.

Tigress dies in Ranthambhore

A six-year-old tigress T-37 also known as Mira was found dead in the Ranthambhore National Park on Monday night. The cause of death is yet to be ascertained but initial reports state that the tigress had a swollen stomach. Locals said that T-37 was often spotted in zone 9 along with a male tiger T-42 and could have been pregnant. The final autopsy report is yet to be made public. The death is likely to hit tourism in this part of the park,locals said.

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‘NDA’s cracks visible, Nitish Kumar a burden’: Kharge hits out at BJP in Patna

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Congress President Kharge slammed the BJP-led NDA government in Bihar for causing internal conflicts and religious division. He predicted the 2025 Assembly elections will end the Modi government's corrupt rule. The party strategized to attack the BJP over "vote chori" and criticized the Election Commission's handling of electoral rolls. Kharge also accused PM Modi of being diplomatic.

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