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New Delhi: For over a decade, Ashutosh Pandit lived as invisibly as a ghost.After allegedly orchestrating a Rs 17-crore fraud against Indian Overseas Bank in Pune in 2013, the director of House of Laptops, a private company, vanished into the ether.By the time CBI took over the case from the economic offences wing of Mumbai Police, the trail had gone cold. In April 2018, a court officially declared...

Goa nightclub owners Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra have been detained in Thailand for illegal stay and are being deported to India NEW DELHI: The Indian Embassy in Bangkok is in close coordination with Thai authorities following the detention of Goa nightclub owners Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav Luthra in Phuket, sources said to news agency ANI. The duo, owners of the now-charred nightclub Birch by Romeo Lane...

2 Chinese nationals, 28 others in CBI’s Rs 1k cr crypto scam chargesheet NEW DELHI: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against 30 accused, including two Chinese, Wan Jun and Li Anming, in a Rs 1,000-crore crypto-investment scam.The accused, through two Delhi-based companies and their directors, allegedly misled the public into investing heavily in non-existent...

NEW DELHI: The CBI has filed an FIR and began investigations into the procurement of bulk SIM cards by a Delhi-based firm and their alleged use in SIM Box-enabled cyber crimes and digital arrests.The core allegation is the firm obtained more than 20,000 bulk SIM cards and sold them in breach of Department of Telecommunications guidelines. The connections were allegedly diverted for use in organised...

NEW DELHI: Four officials of the Regional Passport Office in Kolkata were arrested by the CBI in connection with a racket in which passports were issued to Nepalese citizens based on forged documents, officials said. The arrested officials were identified as senior passport assistants Uttam Kumar, Debasis Bhattacharjee and Nishit Baran Saha and stenographer Manish Kumar Gupta.They were presented before...

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Friday said it was "appalled" to learn that Mahua Moitra's counsel contacted lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai and tried to persuade him to withdraw his complaint against the TMC MP."I am really appalled. You are a person who is expected to maintain the highest professional standard. You have been in contact with defendant No.2 (advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai)," Justice Sachin...

MUMBAI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday conducted searches at four premises, including in Mumbai, after registering a corruption case against unknown officials of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) and three private individuals.Watch: Tamil actor Vishal's explosive bribery claims against CBFC rock film industry; former chief backs VishalRecently, Tamil actor Vishal had...

IMPHAL: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested four people and detained two juveniles, following an investigation into the alleged abduction and killing of two students---- Phijam Hemanjit (20) and Hijam Linthoingambi (17) who were last seen together on a motorbike on July 6.The accused persons arrested by CBI are - Paominlun Haokip, S Malsawn Haokip, Lhingneichong Baite and...

NEW DELHI: Launching a criminal investigation into the allegations of corruption in the construction of a new residential building for chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, the CBI is learned to have registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) to probe the alleged “irregularities and misconduct” by yet-to-be identified public servants of the Delhi government.The probe agency has asked PWD of the Delhi...

KOLKATA: The CBI on Sunday registered an FIR in an alleged fraud at the “cooperative body” at Alipurduar in West Bengal following an order from the Calcutta high court in August this year. The court had transferred the case from CID to the CBI and ED after it expressed unhappiness over the progress of the case.In the petition filed with the court, the petitioners alleged that several members of the...