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Abhishek Singhvi should be "hanged if found guilty": Anna Hazare
Anna Hazare said on Friday that Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi should be hanged if found "guilty" in connection with the controversial CD purportedly showing him in a compromising position with a woman.
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Congress' Abhishek Manu Singhvi quits party, Parliament posts
Abhishek Manu Singhvi has quit as the head of parliamentary standing committee on law and justice. Mr Singhvi has also resigned as the senior spokesperson for the Congress party. His resignation comes after his name came up in a CD controversy. Mr Singhvi says the CD is doctored.
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Controversial Bhushan CD is genuine, says Delhi Police
The Delhi Police has said that a controversial CD of purported conversations between lawyer-activist Shanti Bhushan and politicians Amar Singh and Mulayam Singh Yadav was not doctored. The CD was sent anonymously to media offices in April, this year. The CD allegedly has Mr Bhushan in conversation with Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh and Amar ...
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Bhushans will not resign: Civil activists
Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi - who have been among those fronting the India against Corruption campaign - have said there is no question of Shanti or Prashant Bhushan resigning from the committee that's drafting India's new law against corruption. "This is a malicious campaign and nobody will resign," said Mr Kejriwal at a press conference in Del...
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Bhushan CD: Labs differ on whether it's doctored
Did Shanti Bhushan state in a phone call that a judge could be bribed for four crores? Different forensic labs offer contradicting findings based on a CD that contains that phone conversation.Shanti Bhushan, who has served as Law Minister earlier, has been nominated the co-chairman of a new committee that's working on an anti-corruption law. A CD w...
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Amar Singh files police complaint against Bhushans
Amar Singh today hit back at the father-son duo of Shanti and Prashant Bhushan on the alleged fake CD episode and lodged a police complaint against them for distributing discs containing "tampered" conversations despite a Supreme Court stay.He accused the Bhushans of implicating him in the controversial CD case. (Read: Shanti Bhushan takes Amar Sin...
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Shanti Bhushan files contempt case against Amar Singh
Former Law minister and co-chairman of the Lokpal Committee Shanti Bhushan today moved Supreme Court seeking criminal contempt action against Amar Singh.Bhushan wants the Supreme Court to order a probe to find out those involved in the fabrication of a CD which allegedly says Amar Singh had a conversation with him about fixing a judge.In his petiti...
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Anna Hazare writes to Sonia Gandhi about Sibal, Digvijaya
Social activist Anna Hazare, who successfully led a people's campaign against corruption this month, has written a strong letter to Sonia Gandhi severely criticising top Congress leaders Digvijaya Singh and Kapil Sibal and suggesting that she advice them "not to derail the process (of drafting a Jan Lok Pal Bill to address the issue of corruption)....
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Doctored CD backed by powerful people, says Prashant Bhushan
With his father under scrutiny, Prashant Bhushan, a member of the Lokpal Bill Drafting Committee, went public today. He claims the CD which allegedly has Shanti Bhushan sitting with Amar Singh and talking to Mulayam Singh over the phone, is fabricated. Addressing the media this evening, Prashant Bhushan claimed that the CD controversy is a conspira...
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New Lokpal Bill draft reduces differences
After initial differences that threatened to mar proceedings, the first meeting today of the Joint Drafting Committee of the Jan Lokpal Bill, comprising representatives from the government and the civil society, seemed to have passed off smoothly. (Read: What is Jan Lokpal Bill?) Both parties on the panel emerged to hold a joint briefing a...
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Shanti Bhushan seeks probe into circulation of 'fabricated' CD
Former Law Minister Shanti Bhushan has approached the Delhi Police seeking investigation into circulation of a CD purportedly having his conversations with political leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh, alleging they were fabricated.Bhushan, who is the co-chairman of the joint drafting committee on Lokpal Bill, alleged that a journalist appr...
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Lokpal Co-Chair in CD controversy
Shanti Bhushan, picked by civil society representatives to co-chair a new committee in charge of drafting a law on corruption, is now the epicenter of a new controversy.A CD - sent anonymously to media houses - purportedly has a conversation between politicians Amar Singh, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Shanti Bhushan. The vo...
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Did Himachal CM order phone tapping?
A compact disc could cause a political storm in Himachal Pradesh. The audio CD has a conversation between two people, allegedly Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and the state's Director General of Vigilance D S Manhas.
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Abhishek Singhvi should be "hanged if found guilty": Anna Hazare
Anna Hazare said on Friday that Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi should be hanged if found "guilty" in connection with the controversial CD purportedly showing him in a compromising position with a woman.
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Congress' Abhishek Manu Singhvi quits party, Parliament posts
Abhishek Manu Singhvi has quit as the head of parliamentary standing committee on law and justice. Mr Singhvi has also resigned as the senior spokesperson for the Congress party. His resignation comes after his name came up in a CD controversy. Mr Singhvi says the CD is doctored.
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Controversial Bhushan CD is genuine, says Delhi Police
The Delhi Police has said that a controversial CD of purported conversations between lawyer-activist Shanti Bhushan and politicians Amar Singh and Mulayam Singh Yadav was not doctored. The CD was sent anonymously to media offices in April, this year. The CD allegedly has Mr Bhushan in conversation with Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh and Amar ...
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Bhushans will not resign: Civil activists
Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi - who have been among those fronting the India against Corruption campaign - have said there is no question of Shanti or Prashant Bhushan resigning from the committee that's drafting India's new law against corruption. "This is a malicious campaign and nobody will resign," said Mr Kejriwal at a press conference in Del...
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Bhushan CD: Labs differ on whether it's doctored
Did Shanti Bhushan state in a phone call that a judge could be bribed for four crores? Different forensic labs offer contradicting findings based on a CD that contains that phone conversation.Shanti Bhushan, who has served as Law Minister earlier, has been nominated the co-chairman of a new committee that's working on an anti-corruption law. A CD w...
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Amar Singh files police complaint against Bhushans
Amar Singh today hit back at the father-son duo of Shanti and Prashant Bhushan on the alleged fake CD episode and lodged a police complaint against them for distributing discs containing "tampered" conversations despite a Supreme Court stay.He accused the Bhushans of implicating him in the controversial CD case. (Read: Shanti Bhushan takes Amar Sin...
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Shanti Bhushan files contempt case against Amar Singh
Former Law minister and co-chairman of the Lokpal Committee Shanti Bhushan today moved Supreme Court seeking criminal contempt action against Amar Singh.Bhushan wants the Supreme Court to order a probe to find out those involved in the fabrication of a CD which allegedly says Amar Singh had a conversation with him about fixing a judge.In his petiti...
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Anna Hazare writes to Sonia Gandhi about Sibal, Digvijaya
Social activist Anna Hazare, who successfully led a people's campaign against corruption this month, has written a strong letter to Sonia Gandhi severely criticising top Congress leaders Digvijaya Singh and Kapil Sibal and suggesting that she advice them "not to derail the process (of drafting a Jan Lok Pal Bill to address the issue of corruption)....
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Doctored CD backed by powerful people, says Prashant Bhushan
With his father under scrutiny, Prashant Bhushan, a member of the Lokpal Bill Drafting Committee, went public today. He claims the CD which allegedly has Shanti Bhushan sitting with Amar Singh and talking to Mulayam Singh over the phone, is fabricated. Addressing the media this evening, Prashant Bhushan claimed that the CD controversy is a conspira...
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New Lokpal Bill draft reduces differences
After initial differences that threatened to mar proceedings, the first meeting today of the Joint Drafting Committee of the Jan Lokpal Bill, comprising representatives from the government and the civil society, seemed to have passed off smoothly. (Read: What is Jan Lokpal Bill?) Both parties on the panel emerged to hold a joint briefing a...
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Shanti Bhushan seeks probe into circulation of 'fabricated' CD
Former Law Minister Shanti Bhushan has approached the Delhi Police seeking investigation into circulation of a CD purportedly having his conversations with political leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh, alleging they were fabricated.Bhushan, who is the co-chairman of the joint drafting committee on Lokpal Bill, alleged that a journalist appr...
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Lokpal Co-Chair in CD controversy
Shanti Bhushan, picked by civil society representatives to co-chair a new committee in charge of drafting a law on corruption, is now the epicenter of a new controversy.A CD - sent anonymously to media houses - purportedly has a conversation between politicians Amar Singh, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Shanti Bhushan. The vo...
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Did Himachal CM order phone tapping?
A compact disc could cause a political storm in Himachal Pradesh. The audio CD has a conversation between two people, allegedly Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and the state's Director General of Vigilance D S Manhas.
