Cbi Raids In Chennai

Former Chennai Police Commissioner S George on Friday said he has not received any money from any gutkha manufacturer.

Tamil Nadu's health minister and the state police chief are among the people raided by the CBI today in the gutka scam involving bribes given at the top to skirt a ban on chewing tobacco. CBI teams started searches around 7 am at nearly 40 places in Chennai, among them the homes of state Health Minister C Vijaya Baskar and the Director General of P...

Former environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan has been charged with corruption in a case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation which raided her home in Chennai on Saturday. She has been accused of abusing her powers to divert forest land for a mining project in 2012 when she was the environment minister in the previous Congress-led coalitio...

P Chidambaram, former Finance Minister, said today that the dawn raids at his home in Chennai are reprisal for his criticism of the government through his weekly newspaper column.

The CBI today raided the home of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram in Chennai as part of its investigation into suspected criminal misconduct in foreign investment approvals. The agency alleges that Karti Chidambaram facilitated the approvals when his father was minister and used his "influence in the finance minis...

The home in Chennai of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram was raided by the CBI yesterday as part of an investigation into suspected "criminal misconduct" in foreign investment approvals to a company linked to jailed media tycoon Peter Mukerjea and his wife Indrani. The country's top investigating agency alleges tha...

The home of former union minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram in Chennai is among more than a dozen places raided by the CBI or Central Bureau of Investigation this morning.

CBI has recovered 16 more luxury vehicles imported by a Hyderabad-based businessman in alleged violation of customs laws which have been sold to various influential persons even as the SUV registered in the name of DMK leader M K Stalin's son remained untraceable.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that his government is "very upset" about the CBI raids on DMK leader MK Stalin's house in Chennai today. Dr Singh said, "The timing of the raid is unfortunate. The government didn't do it. We will find out who is responsible."

After several senior Cabinet ministers said they "strongly disapproved" the CBI's raids against DMK leader MK Stalin, the investigating agency defended its action and said the searches were conducted in accordance with procedure and were not intended to target any particular individual.

Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said that he was "dismayed" by the CBI's raids at DMK leader MK Stalin's residence in Chennai this morning. He also added that he "strongly disapproved" the CBI's action as it is "bound to be misunderstood."

As the government claimed it had no role to play in the CBI raids at DMK leader MK Stalin's house this morning, the politician's father and DMK party chief M Karunanidhi said that his party "is often falsely implicated. It may be or may not be political vendetta."

Unaccounted cash of Rs 16 lakh and two kg of gold jewellery have been seized in the raids.

Former Chennai Police Commissioner S George on Friday said he has not received any money from any gutkha manufacturer.

Tamil Nadu's health minister and the state police chief are among the people raided by the CBI today in the gutka scam involving bribes given at the top to skirt a ban on chewing tobacco. CBI teams started searches around 7 am at nearly 40 places in Chennai, among them the homes of state Health Minister C Vijaya Baskar and the Director General of P...

Former environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan has been charged with corruption in a case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation which raided her home in Chennai on Saturday. She has been accused of abusing her powers to divert forest land for a mining project in 2012 when she was the environment minister in the previous Congress-led coalitio...

P Chidambaram, former Finance Minister, said today that the dawn raids at his home in Chennai are reprisal for his criticism of the government through his weekly newspaper column.

The CBI today raided the home of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram in Chennai as part of its investigation into suspected criminal misconduct in foreign investment approvals. The agency alleges that Karti Chidambaram facilitated the approvals when his father was minister and used his "influence in the finance minis...

The home in Chennai of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram was raided by the CBI yesterday as part of an investigation into suspected "criminal misconduct" in foreign investment approvals to a company linked to jailed media tycoon Peter Mukerjea and his wife Indrani. The country's top investigating agency alleges tha...

The home of former union minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram in Chennai is among more than a dozen places raided by the CBI or Central Bureau of Investigation this morning.

CBI has recovered 16 more luxury vehicles imported by a Hyderabad-based businessman in alleged violation of customs laws which have been sold to various influential persons even as the SUV registered in the name of DMK leader M K Stalin's son remained untraceable.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that his government is "very upset" about the CBI raids on DMK leader MK Stalin's house in Chennai today. Dr Singh said, "The timing of the raid is unfortunate. The government didn't do it. We will find out who is responsible."

After several senior Cabinet ministers said they "strongly disapproved" the CBI's raids against DMK leader MK Stalin, the investigating agency defended its action and said the searches were conducted in accordance with procedure and were not intended to target any particular individual.

Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said that he was "dismayed" by the CBI's raids at DMK leader MK Stalin's residence in Chennai this morning. He also added that he "strongly disapproved" the CBI's action as it is "bound to be misunderstood."

As the government claimed it had no role to play in the CBI raids at DMK leader MK Stalin's house this morning, the politician's father and DMK party chief M Karunanidhi said that his party "is often falsely implicated. It may be or may not be political vendetta."

Unaccounted cash of Rs 16 lakh and two kg of gold jewellery have been seized in the raids.