MUMBAI: A Mumbai sessions court Tuesday extended till May 7 the judicial custody of alleged money launderer and tax evader Hasan Ali Khan. Principal Sessions Judge Sapna Joshi extended his custody while rejecting his bail plea. Khan was taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 17 after the Supreme Court cancelled the [...]
Taking over the reins of the Confederation of Indian Industry, B Muthuraman today supported an amnesty scheme for unearthing black money in his first press conference as the chamber’s president. Muthuraman, also the vice-chairman of Tata Steel, said, “There is a need for an amnesty scheme … If somebody does not declare (black money) you [...]
The recent revelations about multi-billion scams perpetrated by India’s top politicians and administrators have managed to jolt the nation’s populace out of its usual apathy towards corruption. Dr Subhash C Kashyap, former secretary-general of the Lok Sabha and a well-known expert on parliamentary affairs, has been involved in fighting corruption for years. The former member [...]
Minister For Housing Gautam Dev, who has been consistently making allegations of Trinamool Congress using black money to meet election expenses, handed over some documents in a sealed envelope to Chief Electoral Officer Sunil Kumar Gupta in Kolkata on Tuesday. Dev, who met the CEO on the latter’s directive, said the documents were the proof [...]
NEW DELHI: With WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claiming in a TV interview that Indians had more money in Swiss banks than people from any other country, the BJP again asked the government to make public the names of tax evaders and bring back the money stashed away abroad. The party also alleged that the government [...]
Bowing to relentless pressure from the Supreme Court for months, the central government today announced it had set up a multi-disciplinary committee with top officers to probe the issue of black money parked in foreign tax havens. The government told a bench consisting of Justice B Sudarshan Reddy and Justice S S Nijjar the panel [...]
A day after the Directorate of Income Tax, Investigation launched its search and seizure operation, two city groups have reportedly confessed to having Rs30 crore black money. Both groups are engaged in real estate. The operation indicates that the sector has become the hotbed of black money. Sidhi Developers and Sky Elegance, which are owned [...]
Vadodara, Apr 28 (PTI) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today criticised Congress for launching state-wide agitation against the new ‘Jantri’ Rates which he argued were targeted at curbing black money. Jantri rates act as benchmark for deciding stamp duty rates for registering property deals. Under the system, the government declares real estate prices in a [...]
Jamshedpur, Apr 29 (PTI) BJP would take strong action against “huge” black money deposited in Swiss banks, party National President Nitin Gadkari today said. The issues of black money and series of scams including 2G spectrum, CWG etc had created an atmosphere in favour of BJP, “which will take a strong action against the defaulters, [...]
HYDERABAD: BJP parliamentary party chairman LK Advani on Thursday demanded that the Centre give a point-by-point response to the six issues raised by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on the issue of black money stashed abroad by Indians. Speaking to the media at Begumpet airport, Advani said all the issues raised by the WikiLeaks founder amounted [...]