New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs 2.14 crore belonging to Deputy General Manager, Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL), Niranjan Gupta and his wife Priti Gupta, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in a case pertaining to disproportionate assets.

Chennai Jan 20 PTI Vigilance raids were conducted on Thursday in different parts of Tamil Nadu and in Telangana at the premises of AIADMK leader and former Minister K P Anbalagan in connection with a disproportionate assets caseAnbalagan was the Higher Education Minister in the previous AIADMK governmentThe Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption DVAC Dharmapuri registered a disproportionate assets case against the former Minister and four of his close family members even as sleuths simultaneously raided 58 premises linked to him in Dharmapuri Salem and Chennai districts besides in TelanganaDuring the searches the authorities seized material objects and incriminating documents pertaining to the case In addition to an amount of Rs 28798650 gold ornaments weighing about 6637 Kilograms about 1385 Kilograms of silver and unaccounted cash of Rs 26531650 and bank locker key were seized Further investigation is onAnbalagan is the sixth former AIADMK Minister to come under the scanner of the DVACThe FIR registered by the Deputy Superintendent of Police DVAC under various sections of Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 named Anbalagan and accused him of being involved in corrupt activities and intentionally enriching himself illicitly and acquiring properties and pecuniary resources on his name and on the names of his family members disproportionate to his known source of income The case pertains to his acquisition during his term in office as Minister between 2016 and 2021Anbalagan aged 62 is accused of illicitly enriching himself to the tune of Rs 1132 95755 on his name and that of his family members and others disproportionate to their known sources of income His assets should not have exceeded Rs 101039663 during the check period the DVAC saidAlso named in the FIR were Anbalagans wife A Maliga sons A Sasi Mohan and A Chandra Mohan and S Vaishnavee his daughter-in-lawThe affidavits filed by him during the 2016 and 2021 Assembly elections and information received from credible sources were taken into account for arriving at the quantum of disproportionate assets the FIR saidA petition had been filed by N Krishnamoorthy in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the DVAC to take up investigation with regard to his petition sent to the department in which he alleged that Anbalagan had amassed wealth disproportionate to his incomeAnbalagan representing the Palacode Assembly Constituency Dharmapuri district is the sixth former minister from the main opposition party to come under the vigilance net over alleged disproportionate assets with the others being MR Vijayabhaskar SP Velumani K C Veeramani C Vijayabaskar and P Thangamani PTI JSP ROH ROH

New Delhi [India], December 23 (ANI): A Delhi Court has directed CBI to further investigate the role of former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in connection with an alleged corruption case for leaking information of a separate case.

Patna (Bihar) [India], November 23 (ANI): A Special Vigilance Unit (SVU) is carrying out searches at the residential premises of Child Development Project Officer (CDPO) Jyoti Kumari in connection with a disproportionate asset case against her, informed officials.

New Delhi Nov 18 PTI The CBI has closed a case against former Air India CMD Arvind Jadhav and others over alleged corruption in the appointments of General Managers after the central government refused to grant its sanction to prosecute him officials said The agency had booked Jadhav then General Manager L P Nakhwa now retired and then Additional General Managers A Kathpalia Amitabh Singh and Rohit Bhasin after a year-long preliminary enquiry they said It was alleged that Jadhav had constituted illegalirregular promotion panel to recommend suitable candidates for promotion to the post of General Manager Operations they said The CBI had approached the Civil Aviation Ministry on February 6 2019 seeking sanction to prosecute Jadhav and Nakhwa in the case which was denied by the then Chairman cum Managing Director CMD of Air India on April 16 2019 The Department of Personnel and Training had asked the CBI to send a fresh proposal for seeking sanction against Jadhav which was sent to it on December 19 2019 officials said The DoPT conveyed to the CBI on June 9 2021 that the Civil Aviation Ministry has denied the sanction saying there seems to be a irregularityadministrative lapse in the constitution of selection committee but that itself does not amount to offence under Sections of IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 Further there was no violation of rules in granting of vigilance clearance in respect of three candidates who were selected as GM Operations as vigilance clearance could not have been denied to them as per extant rules it said while denying the sanction The CBI in its final report recommended the alleged offence cannot be investigated in bits and pieces because the accused in the FIR allegedly played their individual roles The agency said in the absence of permission to prosecute Jadhav and others it would not be possible to link the chain of evidence in fragmented manner by excluding the criminal act of the main executors Jadhav and Nakhwa The CBI said it will not be justifiable to carry out the investigation in the instant matter against the remaining three accused PTI ABS SMN