Thiruvananthapuram: As part of Operation Toofan: The Narco Hunt, a statewide special drive launched by state police to curb drug trafficking and abuse, 368 persons were arrested and large quantities of narcotic substances were seized during raids conducted across the state.Police subjected suspected drug peddlers and individuals involved in narcotics distribution to extensive inspections and…
Ritika Singh Sisodiya | TNNLucknow: A Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court on Tuesday declined to entertain a PIL seeking probe into alleged anti-national activities and the use of social media platforms in making Cockroach Janta Party to incite youth, after the petitioner sought to withdraw the plea following questions over the court’s territorial jurisdiction.A…
MUMBAI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches at 20 locations across Mumbai, Surat, Ankleshwar and Rajkot in connection with a transnational narcotics trafficking syndicate allegedly operated by Salim Ismail Dola, a close aide of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim.The operation followed Dola’s extradition from Turkey last month and targeted suppliers of precursor chemicals, traffickers, hawala operators…
The Enforcement Directorate has attached assets with a market value exceeding Rs 1,000 crore in the alleged Chhattisgarh liquor scam, including a luxury hotel in Goa, land parcels and financial investments, in what is being seen as one of the agency’s biggest actions in the case so far. The attachments were carried out through three…
MUMBAI: Satyabrata Kumar, a 2004-batch Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Indirect Taxes) officer who spent more than a decade handling some of the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) most high-profile investigations, has taken voluntary retirement from service after a career marked by major financial crime probes, international extradition efforts and asset restitution initiatives. Ex-ED officer Satyabrata Kumar…
Bengaluru: When Doddalahalli Kempegowda (DK) Shivakumar walked out of Delhi’s Tihar Jail on the rain-soaked night of Oct 23, 2019, Congress workers waiting outside were visibly surprised. The Kanakapura strongman, known for his spotless white attire and clean-shaven appearance, stepped into the dim streetlights wearing something entirely unfamiliar — a thick salt-and-pepper beard.After 50 days…
Gandhinagar: Union home minister Amit Shah, who chaired a security review meeting in Bhuj on Friday, has directed district magistrates of border districts to strictly monitor and report on demographic changes.An official statement said on Saturday that Shah also asked district administrations of border districts to chalk out SOPs to ensure identification of infiltrators and…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has granted bail to an activist of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) in a case of money laundering, rejecting the Enforcement Directorate‘s demand to deny bail. That the activist, Wahidur Rahman, participated in protests by PFI and its political affiliate Social Democratic Party of India can’t be…
Kolkata: The Calcutta HC on Friday directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to file a report on its probe in connection with former minister Sujit Bose’s arrest, reports Srishti Lakhotia.Bose had moved the vacation bench of Justice Shampa Dutt (Paul) to challenge his arrest by the ED in a municipality recruitment corruption case. He was arrested…
Kerala chief minister V D Satheesan T’puram: Chief minister V D Satheesan said that the state govt did not have any role in the raids conducted by the enforcement directorate (ED) at leader of opposition Pinarayi Vijayan’s house and other places as it is in connection with a money laundering case being investigated by the…
