Teachers’ job scam: CBI tells court of nexus
The CBI today submitted in Calcutta High court that the teachers’ recruitment scam at the primary level was a fallout of an unholy nexus between Tapas Mandol and Kuntal Ghosh
A Blue Corner notice was issued on Wednesday against billionaire diamond jeweller Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi of Gitanjali Group in connection with the Rs 12,600-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case, an official said.
An Income Tax department official said the Blue Corner notice — to locate, identify or obtain information on a person of interest in a criminal investigation — was issued by the Bureau of Immigration against the two which will be valid for a year starting February 22 at all ports of embarkation.
In other developments, diamond merchant Nirav Modi has refused to participate in the CBI probe in the PNB fraud case against him and Choksi.
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In an e-mail sent to Nirav Modi’s official account, the CBI had asked him to join the probe as it was of paramount importance.
In response, Modi said he had to take care of businesses abroad so cannot join the investigation. After which, CBI again wrote a mail to Modi asking him to contact the High Commission of the concerned country so that the investigative agency could arrange his travel.
Meanwhile, the IT official have informed that it has attached four more properties of the Nirav Modi group which include his farm house in Alibaug of Maharashtra worth Rs 13 crore and a 5.24MW solar power plant over 135 acres of land in the same state’s Ahmednagar worth Rs 70 crore, as per the books.
Modi has been accused, along with Choksi, of defrauding the PNB of Rs 12,600 crore, with Rs 1,300 being added to the fraud bag on Monday night.
(With IANS inputs)
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