Sonu had alleged that the accused got an advertisement published in a local newspaper on October 8, 2010, which gave some contact numbers for sale and purchase of kidneys. When he called on the number, the person who took the call demanded Rs 5 lakh for a kidney.
Maheshwari immediately sent written complaints to then Health minister Laxmi Kanta Chawla, the Punjab DGP and other senior officials. However, no action was taken. “I sent more complaints in April 2011, but still no action was taken. Then I knocked on the doors of Punjab and Haryana high court. When police did not act despite HC directions, the court reprimanded Patiala Police on January 31, asking it to take action within a week. Finally, an FIR has been registered,” he said.
Alleging that the police were trying to hush up the matter, Maheshwari added, “Karnail had told me that two kidneys of A and B blood groups were available, but police inquiry report states that both the organs were of Sunita, a woman from Patiala. How can a woman have kidneys of different blood groups?”
“We have arrested Karnail and taken him into one-day police remand. We have started investigations and expect to make more arrests in coming some days,” said investigations officer Bhupinder Singh.
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They fell in love while shooting for their first film Tujhe Meri Kasam in 2003. And on February 3, 2012, they had a ‘happily ever after’ ending to their love story. Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza tied the knot in full blown Maharashtrian style at a suburban five star on Friday afternoon.
The baraat left Riteish’s juhu residence at 11 am. Genelia’s parents and brothers waited at the venue to receive them. The wedding began at 12.48 pm, according to the pre-decided mahurat.
While Genelia looked lovely in a Neeta Lulla saree, Riteish wore the quintessential sherwani. The actor also tweeted his own wedding picture right after the ceremony was over.
Spotted at the wedding were Bollywood celebrities Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn, Kajol, Suniel Shetty, Ashutosh Gowariker, Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar, Shahid Kapoor, Asin, Sajid Khan, Sajid Nadiadwala, Abhishek Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Ken Ghosh, Rahul Dev, Indra Kumar, Maria Goretti, Subhash Ghai and more. Top politicians, friends opf Riteish’s father Vilasrao Deshmukh were also spotted at the do.
After the Maharashtrian wedding, the couple will also have a church ceremony today.
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NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet in a Mumbai court against Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and four retired employees of National Insurance Company Limited (NICL), including a former CMD, under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act for criminal conspiracy and other charges. The CBI has also sought prosecution sanction against five serving NICL employees, according to a status report from the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC).
Acting on a reference from CVC in March, 2005, the CBI started probing the conspiracy that led to the filing of the chargesheet on December 9, 2011. The 2005 complaint had alleged irregularities in issuance of insurance policies – for coverage of default payments – by NICL to RIL.
When contacted, RIL did not have any immediate comments to offer.
“Some NICL officials had entered into a criminal conspiracy with a few private telecom provider employees between 2002 and 2004. Subsequently, two MoUs were signed between the private telecom provider and the NICL, where terms deviating from the standard policy and favourable to the party were incorporated,” the CVC said.
On the basis of the MoUs, NICL issued two Special Contingency Policies (SCPs) from its Kalyan office. CVC said officials of NICL’s regional office in Mumbai and Kalyan branch committed “serious illegalities in connivance with officials of telecom provider which resulted into a wrongful loss of Rs 273.12 crore.”
CBI found
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MUNICH: India will have to walk a fine line between continuing to source oil imports from Iran and escalating pressure from the US and Europe to adhere to tighter sanctions against the Islamic republic designed to prevent it from weaponizing its nuclear programme.
New Delhi may be staunchly opposed to Tehran acquiring nuclear weapons, but is caught in a bind since it cannot afford to substantially cut back energy imports from Iran, which as India’s second largest supplier after Saudi Arabia meets 12% of its total oil requirements.
Tighter Western sanctions will make it harder for India to pay for the oil it sources from Iran, especially since Washington has declared it will ban from the American market all financial institutions that transact petroleum business with Tehran’s Central Bank from March 1 onwards.
At the ongoing Munich Security Conference here, attended by about 70 countries but negligible Indian presence, several Western speakers talked about the more stringent sanctions in the pipeline against Iran, beyond the ongoing oil embargo, if it did not give up its nuclear weapons’ programme.
“We are focusing on a full range of embargoes and thinking about a deadline which starts in July,” said German defence minister Thomas de Maiziere. US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, while calling for stepped-up American-European efforts to isolate tyrannies like the Assad regime in Syria, also welcomed the tough sanctions being placed against Iran, which “continues to defy its obligations”, by the EU and others.
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JALANDHAR: Two years after announcing the founding of Ravidassia religion by Dera Ballan, the Asi-Dharmi community has finally installed Amrit Bani Granth at the Guru Ravidass dham – the biggest and most opulent upcoming shrine of the community – in Buta Mandi area of Jalandhar.
Dera Ballan had announced to found the new religion on January 30, 2010, on the occasion of birth anniversary of Guru Ravidass after the killing of its deputy head Sant Ramanand in May 2009 at a temple in Vienna by some Sikh radicals.
Earlier, the dera gave prime place to Sikh holy book Guru Granth Sahib and every religious ceremony was performed around it. Guru Ravidass Dham is managed by Sri Guru Ravidass Education and Charitable Trust, which is headed by Seth Satpal Mall, a close confidant of Dera Ballan management, who was an aspirant of Congress ticket in the assembly election but could not get it.
The management had been avoiding installing the Amrit Bani Granth while replacing Bir of Guru Granth Sahib for the last two years even as there was strong demand from a sizeable chunk of the population in Buta Mandi, a stronghold of the community, and radical elements of the community had even been castigating the management.
Ravidass Dham has a grand structure and work on it has been going on for the last few years. Around a year back there has been a vertical divide in the management over its control and also over
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