Deeptiman Tiwary

The polls in Chhattisgarh are scheduled to be held in two phases, on November 12 and November 20. The security establishment fears there would be more attacks till the polls are over.

The bus they had taken along with four civilians was blown up by Maoists in Bacheli while they were returning from a nearby market where CISF men had gone to buy supplies for their camp.

Rahul Gandhi and Chandrababu Naidu are also learnt to have discussed their proposed alliance in Telangana for the upcoming Assembly polls and the issues that the two parties will support each other on.

In CBI vs CBI, businessman Sathish Babu Sana to be quizzed under CVC act.

With the country’s premier investigation agency witnessing an unprecedented battle between Director Alok Verma and Special Director Rakesh Asthana, The Sunday Express charts the journey of the two officers — one who climbed the ranks unnoticed, the other flamboyant and high-profile — until their paths crossed at the CBI.

Under Karnal Singh, the first IPS officer to get the director’s post after four decades, the ED had caught an unprecedented pace and was often called the “new CBI”.

CBI Joint Director Arun Kumar Sharma’s son and daughter are on the board of directors of at least four companies where their partners range from a person mentioned in the list of undesirable contact men to the relative of a caterer recently raided by the CBI.

Chidambaram said: “If and when summons is issued by the Honourable Court, the cases will be contested. I will not make any other public comment.”

Sharma headed the key Anti Corruption III unit (AC III). Verma had entrusted it with key cases taking them away from Asthana’s team. Almost the entire unit has been disbanded as part of the transfers.

Union Minister Arun Jaitley said that in this “unique” and “unfortunate” situation, the “requirements of fairness and fair play have to be there”.

At CBI, Nageshwar Rao was No. 3 in the pecking order and handling the Chandigarh branch along with certain branches in South India.

While the CBI and ED are investigating the Sterling Biotech case, this is the first time a chargesheet has been filed against the Sandesaras, who are suspected to be hiding in Nigeria.

The investigations also connect Rakesh Asthana to Chetan Sandesara, a fugitive in the Rs 5,000-crore loan default case being probed by CBI. However, at the time of the wedding, Sandesara was not facing any probe by the agency.

Deputy SP probing Moin Qureshi case held for ‘falsification of records’.

Who are the principal actors in the extraordinary drama that has seen the premier investigating agency file an FIR against one of its own senior officers? Where do these officers stand vis-à-vis each other?

Sources in the ED said the cases were based on four CBI FIRs lodged last year and have been registered under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

On October 12 , I-T had conducted searches at the premises of the company in Hyderabad and Ramesh’s residence in Kadapa.

Choksi had recently written to the Interpol, asking to be officially provided a copy of the cases and allegations against him in India.

The Khulafa-e-Rashideen masjid at Uttawar village in Palwal was searched by NIA officers on October 3, days after the agency arrested three men, including the Imam of the masjid, Mohammed Salman, in New Delhi in an alleged terror-funding case.