Land Grab Scam

Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday filed a 6000-page chargesheet against Pune businessman Avinash Bhosale's son Amit Bhosale of ARA properties based in Maharashtra's Pune and two others in connection with the Pune land grab scam.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has given a detailed presentation of what she alleged was a big land scam in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya, around the site of the Ram temple. The Uttar Pradesh government has already ordered an investigation.

The first day of the Assam Assembly's winter session saw uproar - protests, adjournments and a walkout - over an alleged land grab scam involving a real estate company linked to Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's family.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah has strongly denied administration's claims that his residence in Jammu stands on illegally grabbed land. "I have purchased every inch of land where my house was built in 1998. Falsehood is being unleashed to defame me," Mr Abdullah told NDTV after a list from the administration naming encroac...

Union minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday called the Roshni land scheme the "biggest land scam of India", and questioned NC leader Farooq Abdullah and others as to what necessitated them to 'grab' government lands even after ruling Jammu and Kashmir for three generations.

Former member of parliament and NCP leader Ganesh Dudhgaonkar was arrested by Parbhani police in Maharashtra on Monday in a case of alleged land grabbing and cheatin

Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has come out in support of Sameer Bhujbal, nephew of party leader Chhagan Bhujbal, who was arrested yesterday in a money laundering case.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case arising out of a land grab case in Bikaner in Rajasthan involving a firm allegedly linked to Robert Vadra.

In the middle of the heat and dust of election season, Kerala Chief Minister Oomen Chandy has been severely reprimanded by the state's High Court. "The alleged involvement of the members of the personal staff of the Chief Minister's Office in criminal acts in multiple instances" has been brought to their attention, the judges said. They added that...

Outrage grows over the explosive CAG report on land grab in Maharashtra with BJP leaders demanding, the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) ministers named in the report to be sacked.

In an unnerving parallel to the Adarsh Society Scam in Mumbai another land scam surfaced from Pune involving high ranking Army officers, police personnel and civil servants.While reports claimed that the high profile crowd grabbed houses in the Pune housing society coming up in the name of Kargil war heroes, promoters of the residential scheme now ...

A special committee probe has found that 30 acres of forest land worth Rs 1000 crore in Pune was sold to a private builder for mere Rs 2 crore. The probe report also claims that bureaucrats and politicians colluded with the builder to grab the land. The case is now in the Supreme Court.The investigation started after an NGO, Nagrik Chetna Manch, fi...

Seems like A Raja is the new controversy's child. Even as the heat over the 2G spectrum scam refuses to die, down South in Tamil Nadu's Perambalur, Raja has landed in some more trouble. Villagers of from his hometown are accusing Raja and his aides of land grabbing and threatening them.It is for a new factory by MRF, Green House promoters, in which...

Defending allotment of land to a firm, in which his two sons are partners, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today denied committing acts of "nepotism or favouritism" and ruled out stepping down.Under attack from the opposition, Yeddyurappa said he was ready to order a judicial probe by a retired Supreme Court judge into denotification and a...

One of the chief promoters of the controversial Adarsh society and former Congress MLC, Kanhaiyalal Gidwani today said the society was formed as per rules and there was nothing illegal about it."The society was formed as per the due process and there was nothing illegal. We are ready for any kind of enquiry," Gidwani told reporters.The former MLC s...

Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday filed a 6000-page chargesheet against Pune businessman Avinash Bhosale's son Amit Bhosale of ARA properties based in Maharashtra's Pune and two others in connection with the Pune land grab scam.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has given a detailed presentation of what she alleged was a big land scam in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya, around the site of the Ram temple. The Uttar Pradesh government has already ordered an investigation.

The first day of the Assam Assembly's winter session saw uproar - protests, adjournments and a walkout - over an alleged land grab scam involving a real estate company linked to Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's family.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah has strongly denied administration's claims that his residence in Jammu stands on illegally grabbed land. "I have purchased every inch of land where my house was built in 1998. Falsehood is being unleashed to defame me," Mr Abdullah told NDTV after a list from the administration naming encroac...

Union minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday called the Roshni land scheme the "biggest land scam of India", and questioned NC leader Farooq Abdullah and others as to what necessitated them to 'grab' government lands even after ruling Jammu and Kashmir for three generations.

Former member of parliament and NCP leader Ganesh Dudhgaonkar was arrested by Parbhani police in Maharashtra on Monday in a case of alleged land grabbing and cheatin

Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has come out in support of Sameer Bhujbal, nephew of party leader Chhagan Bhujbal, who was arrested yesterday in a money laundering case.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case arising out of a land grab case in Bikaner in Rajasthan involving a firm allegedly linked to Robert Vadra.

In the middle of the heat and dust of election season, Kerala Chief Minister Oomen Chandy has been severely reprimanded by the state's High Court. "The alleged involvement of the members of the personal staff of the Chief Minister's Office in criminal acts in multiple instances" has been brought to their attention, the judges said. They added that...

Outrage grows over the explosive CAG report on land grab in Maharashtra with BJP leaders demanding, the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) ministers named in the report to be sacked.

In an unnerving parallel to the Adarsh Society Scam in Mumbai another land scam surfaced from Pune involving high ranking Army officers, police personnel and civil servants.While reports claimed that the high profile crowd grabbed houses in the Pune housing society coming up in the name of Kargil war heroes, promoters of the residential scheme now ...

A special committee probe has found that 30 acres of forest land worth Rs 1000 crore in Pune was sold to a private builder for mere Rs 2 crore. The probe report also claims that bureaucrats and politicians colluded with the builder to grab the land. The case is now in the Supreme Court.The investigation started after an NGO, Nagrik Chetna Manch, fi...

Seems like A Raja is the new controversy's child. Even as the heat over the 2G spectrum scam refuses to die, down South in Tamil Nadu's Perambalur, Raja has landed in some more trouble. Villagers of from his hometown are accusing Raja and his aides of land grabbing and threatening them.It is for a new factory by MRF, Green House promoters, in which...

Defending allotment of land to a firm, in which his two sons are partners, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today denied committing acts of "nepotism or favouritism" and ruled out stepping down.Under attack from the opposition, Yeddyurappa said he was ready to order a judicial probe by a retired Supreme Court judge into denotification and a...

One of the chief promoters of the controversial Adarsh society and former Congress MLC, Kanhaiyalal Gidwani today said the society was formed as per rules and there was nothing illegal about it."The society was formed as per the due process and there was nothing illegal. We are ready for any kind of enquiry," Gidwani told reporters.The former MLC s...