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Sinha also detailed the on one platform to topple the Secretary PK Sinha, Law pressure he faced in arresting * BJP in the next year’s Lok Secretary Suresh Chandra, Manoj Prasad, who is co- " Sabha polls. CVC KV Chowdary and accused with Asthana for * % % ' After the meeting, Mamata RAW’s Dubai Officer Samant allegedly accepting bribe from * said everyone would be the face Kumar Goel and Minister for businessman Sana Satish Babu, ( 3 of a “mahagathbandhan” and State Haribhai Parthibahi associate of controversial meat they would fight together Chowdhary for trying to save exporter Moin Qureshi. 0 267896:'3 against the BJP to save the CBI Special Director Rakesh “On the morning of % * ' 3 0 nation. Asthana from corruption October 16, 2018, accused % 2 %1 '*30 / Naidu said the proposed charges. Manoj Prasad was intercepted ( 4 0 * November 22 meeting of anti- In his affidavit, the CBI at Delhi Airport on his arrival 4 5 -& & BJP parties in Delhi had been DIG accused Doval of inter- from Dubai and brought to the * postponed and it will now be fering in the bribery investiga- CBI Headquarters. During the held sometime before the tion against Asthana and pre- first few hours of his arrival on and anger as to how the CBI Winter Session of Parliament venting searches on the premis- CBI Headquarters, Manoj was could pick him up despite his beginning December 11. es of suspects. Sinha, who was garrulous and arrogant, both at close links with NSA Doval,” “We wanted to meet on transferred while probing bribe the same time and in equal said the CBI DIG’s affidavit. November 22 (but) because of charges against Asthana, also measure. “He started bragging and elections we want to make it claimed that a Union Minister He was interviewed by the claimed that his brother before Parliament (Winter) of State took “a few crores” to applicant (DIG MK Sinha) and Somesh is very close to an offi- Session,” said Naidu, adding help a businessman under others. He tried his best to ward cer in Dubai (name withheld) "-.'-/(0 Verma, who was asked by those who were opposing the investigation. off the investigation by drop- and to Samant Goel, presently the SC to file his response to BJP will join and discuss (the Challenging his transfer ping names of ‘high and RAW Special Secretary, and he enched Central Bureau of the Central Vigilance future plans). to Nagpur, Sinha said he pos- mighty’ and mentioning his can get us finished off/kicked BInvestigation (CBI) Commission’s (CVC) report “We will chalk out a pro- sessed “documents that will ‘top contacts’ to create fear in out. Manoj taunted us that Director Alok Kumar Verma in a sealed cover by Monday 1 gramme to move forward and % & & ' ( shock the court”. However, our mind. you people have no standing on Monday filed his response pm, sought some more time take this momentum further ) ) ) ) #$ rejecting his request for an “As per Manoj Prasad, whatsoever and therefore to the findings of the CVC’s from the SC for filing his reply. on the agenda to protect the urgent hearing on Tuesday, Dineshwar Prasad, father of should stay in limits and let preliminary probe report on However the Bench, head- nation,” he said. and Income Tax Department to Chief Minister Chief Justice of India Ranjan Manoj and Somesh, who him free. He claimed that corruption charges against him ed by Chief Justice Ranjan Incidentally Mamata had harass and malign them. HD Kumaraswamy, NCP chief Gogoi shot back, “Nothing retired as RAW Joint Secretary, recently his brother Somesh in a sealed cover in the Gogoi and comprising justices been among the earliest lead- In fact these premier insti- Sharad Pawar, National shocks us.” has close acquaintance with the and Samant Goel helped the Supreme Court. SK Kaul and KM Joseph, told ers to call for an Opposition tutions, including the Conference’s Farooq Sinha claimed after the National Security Adviser Ajit NSA on an important person- Verma’s reply came after Verma’s lawyer Gopal unity through Federal Front Reserve Bank of India and Abdullah, DMK chief MK Government sent Verma and Doval. This was one of the first al matter. He further claimed the SC told him to do so “as Sankaranarayanan, “We are not against the BJP in which she CAG, were under “severe pres- Stalin and others. Asthana on “forced” leave and things Manoj claimed on being that India opted out of a con- quickly as possible” as the shifting the date (of hearing). floated the “one against one” sure” from the Government to Meanwhile, the Bengal BJP transferred the entire team brought to the CBI HQ as he test from INTERPOL.” said scheduled Tuesday hearing You file it as quickly as possi- theory according to which she serve its interests, he said. on Monday staged road block- investigating charges against expressed complete surprise the affidavit filed by Sinha. would not be deferred. ble as we will have to read it.” said, “the parties that are The two leaders, who met ades in Kolkata and district strong in a particular place in Kolkata for about an hour headquarters protesting alleged should fight the BJP and the and a half, said majority anti- attacks on State BJP president remaining parties should sup- BJP parties have expressed Dilip Ghosh and senior leader $# % " ! port them.” their opinions to unite for the Joy Banerjee. The two leaders Talking to the reporters single-most important cause of were attacked allegedly by after the meeting, the TDP ousting the BJP from power. Trinamool workers in Hooghly chief said the BJP Government Both leaders are in touch district while they were return- had crossed all the limits of with their Opposition parties’ ing from a meeting. # “intolerance towards the counterpart like Congress pres- Blockades were staged at Opposition parties and the ident Rahul Gandhi, former Midnapore, various places in ! "-.'-/(0 minorities” and was using the Prime Minister HD Deve Kolkata, Hooghly, Asansol and Central agencies like CBI, ED Gowda, his son and Karnataka elsewhere, sources said. +,+ ,% our people, including two Fwomen, were charred to rime Minister Narendra death after they were trapped PModi on Monday inaugu- inside a narrow cloth launder- $ ! rated at Sultanpur village in ing unit in Beedanpura area of Gurugram the long pending Central Delhi on Monday. The 83-kilometre stretch between tragedy struck when “solvent”, Manesar and Kundli of the a chemical used for ironing Kundli-Manesar-Palwal clothes made of cotton, spilled (KMP), also known as Western on to the floor and caught fire. Peripheral Expressway (WPE). Delhi Fire Services Chief The PM also inaugurated Fire Officer Atul Garg said fire- &' 580 crore 3.2 km-long fighters received a call at 12.23 Ballabhgarh-Mujesar Metro pm regarding the fire in a Mumbai: Signalling a tempo- rail link project, which would house at street number-3 in rary truce, the Reserve Bank of facilitate travel for people of Beadonpura following which India (RBI) and the ! " Delhi and Faridabad, and laid " #$ two fire tenders were rushed to Government on Monday the foundation stone of the the spot and fire was brought agreed to refer to an expert Shri Vishwakarma Skill ering in Sultanpur later, Modi “Work was going on this under control by 12.50 pm. committee the contentious University, which will come up said with the inauguration of (KMP) Expressway for 12 However by then the four had issue of appropriate size of L at Dudhola in Palwal district. the KMP project, Ballabhgarh- years. You should have got this died in the blaze. reserves that the RBI must “The Board decided to M Ballabhgarh becomes the Mujesar rail link and the foun- expressway 8-9 years back. It “The owner of the illegal hold, while restructuring of constitute an expert committee fourth city in Haryana to get dation stone of the skill varsi- was to be used during the unit Ajay Khurana (45) has stressed loans of small busi- to examine the ECF, the mem- Metro connectivity after ty being laid, Haryana has (2010) New Delhi been arrested. The bodies have nesses would be considered by bership and terms of reference Gurugram, Faridabad and taken one more step towards Commonwealth Games. This been handed over to the fam- the Central bank. of which will be jointly deter- Bahadurgarh. all-round development. shows the work culture of the ilies concerned after post- The setting up of the com- mined by the Government of "#!% & ' With the inauguration of Inaugurating the express- previous Government which mortem. A case under Section mittee, whose members will be India and the RBI,” the Central the Kundli-Manesar section of way, Modi said, “It is a signif- encouraged delays and 304 of Indian Penal Code has decided by the Government bank said in a statement.

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