The CBI in its supplementary charge sheet said Choksi had prior knowledge of impending criminal proceedings in 2017 and hence fled India in January 2018.
The arrest of a journalist covering CBI last week blew the cover of a suspected abduction-extortion racket that saw around a dozen businessmen kidnapped.
Avishek Sengupta, who covered CBI for Republic Bangla, and 4 of his accomplices allegedly abducted businessman Ajit Roy & extorted Rs 15 lakh to release him. He is now absconding.
CBI had challenged 2 Calcutta High Court orders in Supreme Court, one of which directed that the 4 TMC leaders accused in the Narada scam case be kept under house arrest.
The division bench judges disagreed over vacating a stay given by them on bail granted by a special CBI court to Subrata Mukherjee, Firhad Hakim, Madan Mitra and Sovan Chatterjee.
A division bench is hearing a CBI application to transfer the jailed TMC leaders' bail applications from the Special CBI Court to the High Court citing unprecedented mob pressures.
The people of conflict-torn Manipur will have every right to feel betrayed if the new government doesn’t break its silence and show its commitment to addressing the state's issues.
Move to bring down differences in commodity prices with neighbouring states, says government. Oppn, dealers blame it on welfare, Congress's guarantees.
Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.
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