Benami Properties Case

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has taken possession of 15 immovable "benami" properties, worth about Rs 55 crore, alleged to be belonging to DMK MP A Raja as part of a money laundering probe against the former Union telecom minister.

After Income Tax Department recorded his statement in connection with Benami property case, Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, on Monday said that "he has nothing to hide" and the "truth will prevail."

Income Tax officials have reached the office of businessman Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, regarding a property case. The team, which has reached Mr Vadra's office in east Delhi's Sukhdev Vihar, will record his statement, sources said.

Businessman Robert Vadra, husband of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, has been called by the Enforcement Directorate, to appear before it tomorrow, as part of investigation into alleged illegal property deals. The case involves the purchase of properties in London, Dubai, Rajasthan and the National Capital Region. This is the ninth time time ...

Actor Shah Rukh Khan has been dismissed of the charge of being a beneficiary of a benami property in the scenic beach town of Alibaug in Maharashtra as an appellate Authority under the law has "revoked" the attachment order of the I-T Department, calling it baseless and coloured.

The court is seized of a batch of petitions filed by home buyers who are seeking possession of around 42,000 flats booked in projects of the Amrapali Group.

A magistrate's court Tuesday issued a bailable arrest warrant against diamond trader Nirav Modi in connection with a case of alleged tax evasion in purchase of a property which turned out to be "benami", an Income Tax department official said.

More than 200 fake companies and assets under fake names are being investigated in connection with the Rs 11,300 crore fraud at the Punjab National Bank, linked to celebrity diamond jeweller Nirav Modi, that was detected last week.

On a day a three-acre plot in an upscale Patna locality owned by the Lalu Yadav family was attached for a second time today, the Bihar politician Lalu Yadav's' son Tejashwi put up a brave face, called the move an attempt to scare the family and dared the Central Bureau of Investigation to file charges against him in a court.

It wasn't exactly "Bond, James Bond." When seated across the table from four investigators, the 28-year-old who brought down the Bihar government in July said, "Mera naam Tejashwi Yadav hai, main ninth pass hoon" (I am Tejashwi Yadav, schooled till Class 9).

A day after the income tax department started attaching properties suspected to have been owned by family members of Bihar politician Lalu Yadav, his daughter Misa Bharti on Wednesday finally turned up at the tax department office in the national capital to face questioning by the officials.

The Income Tax Department has provisionally attached a plot of land and a house in connection with its probe in the Rs 1,000-crore benami land deals and tax evasion case allegedly involving family members of Bihar politician Lalu Yadav.

Though the Benami Transaction (Prohibition) Act, 1988 has been on the statue book for more than 28 years, the same could not be made operational because of certain inherent defects.

The Income Tax department has provisionally attached 'benami assets' allegedly linked to Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain in a case of illegal routing of undisclosed funds of over Rs 13 crore, a charge strongly denied by him.

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has taken possession of 15 immovable "benami" properties, worth about Rs 55 crore, alleged to be belonging to DMK MP A Raja as part of a money laundering probe against the former Union telecom minister.

After Income Tax Department recorded his statement in connection with Benami property case, Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, on Monday said that "he has nothing to hide" and the "truth will prevail."

Income Tax officials have reached the office of businessman Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, regarding a property case. The team, which has reached Mr Vadra's office in east Delhi's Sukhdev Vihar, will record his statement, sources said.

Businessman Robert Vadra, husband of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, has been called by the Enforcement Directorate, to appear before it tomorrow, as part of investigation into alleged illegal property deals. The case involves the purchase of properties in London, Dubai, Rajasthan and the National Capital Region. This is the ninth time time ...

Actor Shah Rukh Khan has been dismissed of the charge of being a beneficiary of a benami property in the scenic beach town of Alibaug in Maharashtra as an appellate Authority under the law has "revoked" the attachment order of the I-T Department, calling it baseless and coloured.

The court is seized of a batch of petitions filed by home buyers who are seeking possession of around 42,000 flats booked in projects of the Amrapali Group.

A magistrate's court Tuesday issued a bailable arrest warrant against diamond trader Nirav Modi in connection with a case of alleged tax evasion in purchase of a property which turned out to be "benami", an Income Tax department official said.

More than 200 fake companies and assets under fake names are being investigated in connection with the Rs 11,300 crore fraud at the Punjab National Bank, linked to celebrity diamond jeweller Nirav Modi, that was detected last week.

On a day a three-acre plot in an upscale Patna locality owned by the Lalu Yadav family was attached for a second time today, the Bihar politician Lalu Yadav's' son Tejashwi put up a brave face, called the move an attempt to scare the family and dared the Central Bureau of Investigation to file charges against him in a court.

It wasn't exactly "Bond, James Bond." When seated across the table from four investigators, the 28-year-old who brought down the Bihar government in July said, "Mera naam Tejashwi Yadav hai, main ninth pass hoon" (I am Tejashwi Yadav, schooled till Class 9).

A day after the income tax department started attaching properties suspected to have been owned by family members of Bihar politician Lalu Yadav, his daughter Misa Bharti on Wednesday finally turned up at the tax department office in the national capital to face questioning by the officials.

The Income Tax Department has provisionally attached a plot of land and a house in connection with its probe in the Rs 1,000-crore benami land deals and tax evasion case allegedly involving family members of Bihar politician Lalu Yadav.

Though the Benami Transaction (Prohibition) Act, 1988 has been on the statue book for more than 28 years, the same could not be made operational because of certain inherent defects.

The Income Tax department has provisionally attached 'benami assets' allegedly linked to Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain in a case of illegal routing of undisclosed funds of over Rs 13 crore, a charge strongly denied by him.