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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicBribery

Topic: bribery

No proof of demand, ‘stock witness’: How bribery case against DDA junior engineers fell apart in HC

Finding the complainant unreliable and the evidence incomplete, HC ruled that chain of demand, acceptance and recovery in the Rs 2,500, three-decade-old bribery case was never established.

‘Rs 8 lakh + monthly sewa-paani’: CBI’s bribery case against Punjab DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar

Harcharan Singh Bhullar was posted in the Rupnagar range. Bhullar joined as an officer of the Punjab police and was promoted to IPS in 2016.

Singham with a twist in Delhi: Influencer woman cop, a businessman’s abduction, 5 arrests

Sub-inspector Neetu Bisht, along with 2 constables, head constable & ‘middleman’, were held Sunday. SI is said to be the mastermind of the operation carried out in west Delhi.

‘Corruption follows those in power like shadow’—HC rejects IAS officer’s anticipatory bail in bribery case

Orissa HC says unhindered & unimpeded probe required, agreeing with CBI that IAS Bishnupada Sethi's anticipatory bail will make his interrogation 'a fruitless exercise'.

Colombian ex-president Uribe held guilty of abuse of process, bribery of public official

A Colombian judge on Monday convicted Alvaro Uribe in a long-running witness tampering case, making him the country’s first ex-president to ever be found guilty at trial.

ChatGPT (The Old Testament version) & pirates of the Mediterranean

The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print, online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately. Also Read: Indian atheists fight...

CBI arrests junior engineer in North Central Railways, for accepting bribe worth 4.5 lakh

The CBI laid a trap and caught the accused red-handed Thursday while accepting a bribe to clear pending his bills. He was arrested and produced before the Special Judge, Mumbai, on Friday.

CBI recovers 3.5 kg gold, 2 kg silver, Rs 1 cr cash in bribery case involving senior IRS officer, his aide

In a statement, CBI says it conducted raids across Delhi, Punjab & Mumbai. IRS officer arrested held had ‘personal enmity’ with the complainant, his ex-business partner, complaint says.

CBI raids IRS officer, Amit Kumar Singal’s home, seizes Rs 1 cr in cash, 3.5-kg gold

Singal was arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 25 lakh from a pizza-chain owner. The CBI conducted searches at the premises of Singal, & Harsh Kotak, following a trap operation.

CBI to arrest ED officer who ‘demanded’ Rs 5 cr bribe to settle a case, negotiated amount via FaceTime

CBI registered a case of corruption in the matter and confirmed the involvement of Chintan Raghuvanshi, a deputy director-rank ED officer. Process to arrest him is underway.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.