ED also seeks case against Vijayan’s son-in-law Md Riyas. It claims that Vijayan received a “bribe amounting to Rs 3.28 cr from CMRL through Veena”. Money was allegedly routed through her firm.
Maharashtra govt formed SIT to probe all FIRs against Maharashtra 'godman' Ashok Kharat. Taking cognisance of these FIRs, ED opened a money laundering probe & arrested Kharat in May.
M/s Richa Industries Limited is a Haryana-based company that made textiles & pre-engineered buildings. The company’s bank accounts were declared fraudulent. ED launched probe in 2021.
Section 45 of PMLA sets a famously high bar for bail—courts must be satisfied there are reasonable grounds to believe the accused is not guilty & unlikely to offend again while on bail.
Complaint before PMLA court alleges feats like shipments moved from central Delhi to airport in 11 minutes; Arora charged with generating over Rs 100 cr through ‘sham’ transactions.
The PMLA, as enacted, bristles with arbitrariness bordering on absurdity. It can punish a money-laudering sex worker but cannot touch a billion-dollar hawala operator.
Taking note of Sateesh Seth’s medical condition, court directs ED to ensure the diet prescribed by his doctor is followed. He must be examined medically every six hours, it adds.
Jharkhand CM out on bail, but special court says material on record discloses more than mere suspicion, raises prima facie case; reliability of witnesses to be judged during trial.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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