Archive for January 8th, 2009

Delhi man held in DDA scam not guilty?

There are questions being raised on the arrest of Deepak Kumar, a financer who blew the lid off the multi-crore DDA housing scam. While the Delhi Police is firm on its belief that Deepak is the real culprit, others are sceptical and say that he is being made the scapegoat. “Deepak was involved in the [...]

Court sends DDA scam arrested to police custody

New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) A Delhi court Saturday remanded to eight days police custody a former State Bank of India employee who was arrested in connection with the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) housing draw scam.Metropolitan Magistrate Vishal Singh granted the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police custody of Laxmi Narayan Meena till Jan [...]

DDA scam: Ex-bank official held

A former bank official was on Friday arrested for allegedly applying for DDA flats in the name of another person by using forged documents, the police said.
Laxmi Narayan Meena, a former SBI employee, was arrested by the Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police, a senior police official said.
He was arrested after a person who was [...]

Police begins inquiry into DDA scam; CA quizzed

NEW DELHI: A day after TOI reported irregularities and the possibility of a scam in the allotment of 5,010 houses in the recent DDA mega-housing
scheme, the Delhi Police swung into action on Saturday, with sources claiming the role of specific property dealers had hit their radar with the investigators also looking into the possible involvement [...]

DDA Flats Scandal

In a major breakdown , News channels revealed the Scandal in the 5000 DDA flats alloted in the month of Decemeber 2008. There were around 5 Lakh applications for these 5000 flats and when results were declared, they raised some eyebrows. Majority of the allotees were the ones who did not applied for the application [...]

Stamp Paper Scam or Ghotala India

Looking at its progress till now, i doubt there will be any prosecution or a judgement comes any near future.
ACROSS 72 towns and 18 States and over a period of 10 years, the counterfeit stamp paper scam has dealt the Indian economy a shattering Rs.32,000-crore blow. The figure is official. Apprehensions are that it could [...]

The Hawala scandal or hawala scam / Ghotala

The Hawala scandal or hawala scam was an Indian political scandal involving payments allegedly received by politicians through hawala brokers, the Jain brothers. It was a US$18 million dollar bribery scandal that implicated some of the country’s leading politicians. There were also alleged connections with payments being channelled to Hizbul Mujahideen militants in Kashmir.
Those accused [...]

Ramalinga Raju, chairman of Satyam Computer Services admits scandal

Ramalinga Raju, chairman of Satyam Computer Services of Hyderabad, admitted Wednesday that he had cooked the books at the back-office giant, and resigned, citing the “tremendous burden that I am carrying on my conscience.”
Head of Indian outsourcing giant admits $1bn fraud. In a letter to the board, Raju said he inflated the company’s balance sheet [...]