In Tehelka’s 2001 sting operation, 'Operation West End', Major General M.S. Ahluwalia, then serving in the Army HQ, was alleged to be a corrupt officer.
In an interview to Tehelka in 2009, advocate Prashant Bhushan had made allegations against former CJIs. Hearing on the matter will commence on 17 August.
The operation claimed the jobs of India’s then defence minister George Fernandes, senior members of the ruling coalition, and high-ranking members of the armed forces.
Rai has been arrested by CBI over alleged dubious transactions worth Rs 100 crore, and suspicion that he used false information to gain access to airports.
DMK govt accuses Centre of withholding funds, tightening borrowing, unilateral deductions from state accounts. Says Centre's accounting & funding decisions have 'artificially inflated' debt burden.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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