vigilance

The government suspended the SDM, Naib Tehsildar, revenue inspector, Lekhpal and Peshkar in the case and directed the district magistrate to file an FIR against the accused, besides initiating departmental action against them.At the same time, the Vigilance department of the state government...

Bhubaneshwar (Odisha) [India], Khandapada Tehsildar Dhobei Nayak, a senior administrative officer of Odisha (OAS), was arrested by vigilance sleuths on Tuesday for accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 for releasing a vehicle laden with murram.One of his associates was also arrested while he was...

New Delhi: The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has asked all government departments, including public sector banks and insurance companies, to send online investigation reports on corruption complaints sent to them.Complaints received in the Probity Watchdog from various sources are being...

Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Tuesday directed the police to exercise maximum vigilance and take strict action if people are found taking the law into their own hands, according to a senior official.The decision was taken in the context of several incidents of collective violence that...

New Delhi: Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has approved a proposal for a CVC probe into a massive cost escalation of Rs 670 crore in the construction of a new block of the Delhi government's Lok Nayak Hospital, officials at the Delhi government's office said on Tuesday. LG, prompting Health...

Special Judge Satyaprakash Shukla found retired engineer Surendra Nath Verma (76), resident of Patna, guilty and sentenced him to four years in jail besides imposing a fine of Rs 10,000.The scam came to light in 1986-87 during the repair of Triveni Canal under Ramnagar subdivision of East...

Dehradun, Uttarakhand Vigilance department arrested Shashikant Dubey, assistant commissioner of the state GST department, red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 75,000 from a restaurant owner in exchange for covering up alleged discrepancy in bills and vouchers.Uttarakhand Vigilance Director...

Ernakulam (Kerala) [India], The Kerala High Court has issued a notice to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on a plea by Congress MLA Mathew Kuzhaladan that the court should directly investigate the alleged illegal financial transactions of CMRL-Xlogic.Kujhalandan had demanded that the receipt...

On Tuesday, the Director General of Prosecution raised questions on the petition, but after hearing both the sides, the court directed to send notices to both CM Vijayan and Veena and postponed the hearing of the case to July 2.Speaking to the media, Mathew Kuzhalandan said, "This is a normal...

Kochi, The Kerala High Court on Tuesday sought Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's response on a plea seeking investigation against the CM over alleged financial transactions between the daughter of Congress MLA Mathew Kuzhalandan's now-defunct IT company and a private mining company.Apart from...

Agartala (Tripura) [India], A one day workshop aimed at combating child trafficking was organized at the Conference Room of the District Magistrate at Sipahijala, Tripura.Strategies to prevent child trafficking were discussed in detail during the session. The participants stressed the...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday urged people not to fall into the trap of fraudsters who dupe youth on the pretext of offering them government jobs in return for money or any favour.He said that the Vigilance Bureau has arrested two policemen, who duped 102 people of...

Western Railway chief spokesperson Sumit Thakur said that following a tip-off, vigilance officials secretly monitored the suspects for more than a month before taking action.Ultimately, on June 8, the Vigilance team raided and caught two alleged bootleggers from the sleeper coach (S-3) of...

Mumbai: Two people were arrested with 260 bottles of illicit liquor on board an express train here, a Western Railway official said on Sunday.The official said that the vigilance team of Western Railway made this seizure from Jammu Tawi Vivek Express at Bandra Terminus on Saturday.He said...

The High Court will hear the petition on Monday.Kuzhaladan had approached the vigilance court and sought a probe by the vigilance and anti-corruption department into allegations that Veena Vijayan's IT firm was receiving monthly payments from Kochi-based mining firm, Cochin Minerals and...

New Delhi, Delhi Lieutenant Governor V.K. In the fire, officials said.Reacting to the development, Bhardwaj alleged that the LG was targeting advisors, consultants and others appointed by the AAP government to "vacate offices" and paralyze the functioning of departments.Das said he did not...

New Delhi [India], The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken strict action against its own officers involved in a bribery case. This action underlines the agency's zero tolerance policy towards corruption and misconduct. The CBI's internal vigilance investigation unearthed a conspiracy...

Jaipur: Chief Vigilance Officer of Hindustan Copper Limited, Upendra Kumar Pandey, died after a lift fell in a mine at Neem Ka police station in Rajasthan on Wednesday, police said.Fourteen other people trapped in the mine were rescued and sent to a hospital in Jaipur for treatment, he said...

Neem Ka Thana (Rajasthan) [India] A senior Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL) official, trapped inside a copper mine in Neem Ka Thana district of Rajasthan, died on Wednesday when disaster rescue workers rescued him. All 15 people were taken out. The lift used to transport personnel inside the mine...

Fifteen employees, including vigilance officers and workers of Hindustan Koppe Limited, were trapped at a height of 1,875 feet in a mine at Kolihan near Khetri in the district after the lift broke down.Superintendent of Police (SP) Praveen Nayak confirmed, "Fourteen of the 15 employees...