SCAMSTERS INC.

"Yeddyurappa as Deputy Chief Minister in my JD(S)-BJP coalition government threw all norms to the winds in the procurement of bicycles for distribution among girl students studying in government schools", Kumaraswamy, former Chief Minister, told a press meet in Bangalore.

The JD(S) leader, who has been attacking his former deputy, with whose party support he became the Chief Minister also charged that Yeddyurappa displayed "undue" interest in releasing funds to an insurance company for the Bhagyalakshmi insurance scheme though the programme did not come under the departments held by him earlier.

Yeddyurappa had earlier claimed that the insurance scheme was his brainchild and had taken lot of initiative to implement it.

The BJP government highlighted "three scams" of the JD(S)-BJP government — allotment of 12,000 acres of land to a SEZ promoted by Skill infrastructure limited, Rs 87 crore Ring Road project of Hassan and recruitment of engineers and linemen by then PWD and Energy Minister and Kumaraswamy's brother H D Revanna.

Source: The Hindu

Two of them - Arvind V (25) and Praveen Kumar (24) - were arrested from the outlet, while the other two fled in a stolen car, police said. Those escaped were identified as Aslam and Suresh. All four were from Hyderabad.

According to Ashoknagar police, the accused handed over a credit card from HSBC to the cashier after picking up clothes and accessories from the Lifestyle outlet on Richmond road. On swiping, the cashier found the card was provided by Axis Bank and informed the police. The accused had picked up the goods in just two hours, police said.

The arrested duo, who was on a tour of the city, admitted they had used magnetic strips from other credit cards to make purchases. They used software to change the name on the credit card, police said.

Arvind, an MCA graduate, knew skimming - a term used to refer to the theft of credit card information. Police said he was the leader of the gang. Police were looking for the car, which had a fake number plate.

Shiv Sainiks barged into the official residence of evanand Pawar on Sunday and allegedly thrashed him for he had issued a release mentioning the involvement of BJP and Sena Leaders' relatives in cow scheme scam, police said.

The Shiv Sena local leaders have clarified that Devanand Pawar had personally invited them to his house to explain his position with regard to the alleged press release.

Source: The New Indian Express

The panel consisting of Allahabad High Court's Justice Hemant Laxman Gokhale, Jammu and Kashmir High Court's Justice K S Radhakrishnan and Delhi High Court's Justice Madan B Lokur was set up by the CJI on August 26 this year.

However, Justice Gokhale who heads the committee refused to reply to a volley of questions by mediapersons in connection with the case saying, "Please leave us alone."

The Chandigarh administration had last month referred the Rs 15 lakh cash-at-judge's door scandal to the CBI on the ground that it may have inter-state ramifications.

The scandal jolted the judicial fraternity as it "involved" Haryana's former Additional Advocate General (AAG) Sanjeev Bansal and four others.

While the prime accused a Delhi-based businessman Ravinder Singh Bhasin is in CBI custody till September 30 in this case, four others including Bansal, property dealer Rajeev Gupta, Bansal's clerk Parkash Ram and a homeguard jawan Nirmal Singh are in judicial lock up.

Both the CBI probe and the inquiry by the judge's panel will run simultaneously.

The cash-at-judge's door scam is related to the alleged delivery of Rs 15 lakh at the house of Justice Nirmaljit Kaur of the Punjab and Haryana high court.

Source: The Hindu