Why use the term Iceberg?
What is reported in the press will be miniscule. What is going on is many many times that is reported in the press as arrests by Anticorruption burearus or CBI.
Many who are undertaking corrupt activities are very confident that no body will be able to prove them. It is their experience as they are mentored by many successful bureaurucrats and politicians.
4.3.2024
The following news item regarding arrest of 2 senior NHAI officials and recovery of Rs. 1.1 crore prompted me to compile this collection of news items regarding corruption and bribes.
2 NHAI officials among 6 held by CBI bribery case, Rs 1 crore found
Mar 4, 2024,
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/108186664.cms
https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/cbi-arrests-2-nhai-officials-in-bribery-case-rs-11-crore-cash-recovered20240304065112/
https://www.business-standard.com/pti-stories/national/nagpur-outer-ring-road-corruption-cbi-arrests-nhai-gm-dgm-in-rs-20-lakh-bribery-case-124030300665_1.html
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/cbi-nhai-general-manager-20-lakh-bribe-9193803/
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Elections and Corruption Analysis by Voters
Election season: Is public examining the track record and behaviour of each candidate? Is it examining the track record of each political party? Is any NGO providing data, analysis and information on the same. Is any media publication providing relevant information in a neutral and objective basis.
PM Narendra Modi said in an election rally - Parivarvad parties are involved in jhoot and loot. Corruption is an issue in elections and is being emphasized by PM himself.
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News Regarding Corruption in Press
Electoral Bonds Scheme and Corruption
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Electoral bonds: A look at top buyers, other key numbers
16 March 2024 Read more at:
Constitutionality of the Electoral Bond Scheme
Association for Democratic Reforms v Union of India
Citation: 2024 INSC 113
The Supreme Court held that the Electoral Bond Scheme was unconstitutional for violating the right to information of voters.
CASE DETAILS
Case Number:
Writ Petition (Civil) No.880/2017
Last Updated: March 15, 2024
https://www.scobserver.in/cases/association-for-democratic-reforms-electoral-bonds-case-background/
Electoral Bonds: The Safeguards of Indian Democracy Are Crumbling
MILAN VAISHNAV
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
HUFFPOST INDIA
Summary: India’s electoral bonds have only legitimized opacity. The government has promised reform, while doubling down on nefarious old habits, and this new instrument has intensified the crisis confronting India’s much-vaunted apex institutions.
Explained: SC Judgment on Sita Soren Case
The Leaflet | 05 Mar 2024
Politics
India
The Bench held that corruption and bribery by members of the legislatures erode probity in public life.
https://main.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2014/10177/10177_2014_1_1501_51211_Judgement_04-Mar-2024.pdf
MLA Bribery: Special Leave Petition Summary (Sita Soren)
Gauri Kashyap | 8th Jun 2021
The petitioner, Sita Soren was accused of taking a bribe for a vote casted in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. A complaint was filed to the Chief Election Commissioner of India. A CBI investigation concluded that Sita Soren had received the bribe.
The petitioner was charged with criminal conspiracy under Section 120B and bribery under Section 171E of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; and for criminal misconduct by a public servant under Section 13(1)(d) of The Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
The Jharkhand High Court in its order noted that the petitioner did not cast her vote for the person for which she was bribed. Since the exact act for which she received the bribe did not take place, and a direct nexus between voting and the bribe did not exist, the immunity did not apply.
In 2014, Ms. Sita Soren filed an appeal against this order in the Supreme Court.
https://www.scobserver.in/reports/sita-soren-union-india-mla-bribery-special-leave-petition-summary/
Ms. Sita Soren now in BJP
JMM legislator Sita Soren, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday (19.3.2024).
https://www.rediff.com/news/report/shibu-sorens-daughter-in-law-quits-jmm/20240319.htm
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Apoorva Jayachandran
Tirupati,UPDATED: Feb 19, 2024 09:56 IST
Edited By: Karishma Saurabh Kalita
CBI arrests four Railway officials
In Short
CBI arrests four Railway officials in bribery cases.
Two officials caught red-handed while accepting bribes.
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CBI arrests EPFO officers in bribery case in Lucknow
"Searches are being conducted at four locations in Lucknow on the official and residential premises of the accused," a CBI spokesperson said in a statement.
January 31, 2024 03:25 pm | Updated 03:25 pm IST - New Delhi
2023
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19 October 2023
More than 118 case pending sanction to prosecute public officials for corruption.
CBI registers five corruption cases against Military Engineering Services officers
According the central agency, former Garrison Engineer awarded 59 contracts to private firms between 2020 and 2023 and amount was paid to the contractors, but work was never executed.
July 22, 2023
IIM-Rohtak director appointment
13-01-2022
CBI ARRESTS SENIOR MANAGER DSIIDC, DELHI AND A PRIVATE PERSON IN A BRIBERY CASE OF Rs. 1.70 LAKH
PRESS RELEASE
Dated 13.01.2022
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Senior Manager, Delhi State lndustrial and lnfrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. (DSllDC), Delhi and a private person for demanding & accepting bribe of Rs.1,70,000/- from the complainant.
https://cbi.gov.in/press-detail/NDY0Nw==
09-09-2021
CBI ARRESTS AN ADDITIONAL COMMISSIONER AND A SUPERINTENDENT, CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT IN BRIBERY CASE
Press Release
Dated: 09.09.2021
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested an Additional Commissioner and a Superintendent, Customs Department in a bribery case of Rs.1.30 Lakh.
- Updated Mar 27, 2019, 1:42 PM IST
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