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Ludhiana agent ‘settled’ 100 visa cases but bank shows no payouts—ED protests Punjab cops’ probe

After most FIRs against a Ludhiana-based agent were quashed on compromise, ED questioned how complainants were paid when no matching transactions appeared in his accounts. 

No relief for Vikram Bhatt in Rs 30 cr cheating case. What court said

Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday refused bail to Vikram Bhatt and wife in a fraud case, saying the matter involves misappropriation and requires further probe.

Rs 1,100 salary to business empire, and then a ‘halal investment fraud’—Al-Falah founder’s murky past

In 2014, Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui set up Al-Falah University, which is now in eye of a storm with 3 of its teaching staff being linked to terror module allegedly behind Red Fort blast.

Compromise can’t obliterate criminal liability in cheating case when public interest is involved—HC

Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed anticipatory bail plea of a person accused of cheating complainant by defrauding him of Rs 4.5 lakh on promise of getting him a govt job.

Held for Rs 232 cr ‘embezzlement’ at Dehradun airport, AAI manager booked for similar ‘fraud’ in Jaipur

CBI had arrested the accused 2 weeks back in Dehradun airport case. At Jaipur airport, where he was last posted, he allegedly siphoned off Rs 18.12 cr in similar fashion.

‘Mere negligence not a criminal offence’: Charges dropped against PNB ex-director in Nirav Modi case

Was 'humanly impossible' for ex-PNB boss to monitor each of the 7,000 branches, no criminal intent or gratification & negligence can't be equated with criminal intent, court said.

‘Strikes at core of informed consent’: Marriage voidable if marital history concealed, says Delhi HC

Four kinds of marriages are considered voidable under Hindu Marriage Act: voidable due to impotency, legal defects, defect of consent due to fraud, or pre-existing pregnancy by another spouse.

Why HC quashed CBI case against TN minister’s family firm that sought bank loan through ‘deception’

Case pertained to alleged fraud relating to Rs 30 cr bank loan obtained by Truedome EPC India, a group company of minister KN Nehru’s family firm.

Fugitive businesswoman accused in 2002 import-export fraud case extradited from US after 2 decades

Monika Kapoor is accused of committing fraud of Rs 1.44 cr in 1998. CBI team is returning with her to India, where she will face trial. Her brothers, also accused, were convicted in 2017.

Indian cricketer Deepti Sharma accuses teammate Arushi Goel of Rs 25 lakh fraud, theft

An FIR has been lodged against Goel & her parents at Sadar Police Station in Agra based on complaint by Sharma's brother. The 2 cricketers have played together in the domestic circuit.

On Camera

Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.