The Anti-Corruption Bure-au has begun an inquiry into allegations against water resources and irrigation minister Sunil Tatk-are. BJP leader Kirit Soma-iya and one Rajendra Pha-nse had filed a complaint with the ACB on July 2 this year for alleged corrupt practices, money laundering and benami (proxy) money transactions.
“A preliminary inquiry has been initiated into the complaint involving Tatk-are,” ACB director-general Raj Khilnani said.
Mr Tatkare is known to be close to Ajit Pawar and the probe against Mr Tatkare comes at a time when Mr Pawar has resi-gned as deputy chief minister over allegations of his involvement in a multi-crore scam. In his complaint, Mr Somaiyya has alleged that various government agencies had aided Mr Tatkare and his kin in land grabbing and money laundering. Later, Mr Somaiyya also filed a PIL against the NCP minister in the Bombay high court, which recently asked the state government to spell out its stand on the matter. The PIL has prayed for constitution of a special investigation team (SIT) under the supervision of the HC to probe the matter in a specified time frame.
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Akalis with nda over retail fdi: Sukhbir badal
Tanveer Thakur
Chandigarh, Sept. 27
Shiromani Akali Dal president Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal reiterated on Thursday that all stakeholders including trader, farmers, unemployed youth and Opposition parties should have been taken into confidence by before taking crucial decisions like FDI in retail.
However, backing the NDA on FDI issue Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal and deputy CM Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal clarified that they are solidly behind the NDA in its opposition to opening up of the retail sector to FDI and said that there was no difference between two alliance partners on this.