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The case in RC 3(S)/2013 was registered on 18-04-2013 on the orders dated 15-03-2013 of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India by re-registering the case in CR No.1031/2010 of JP Nagar Police Station, Bangalore relating to murder of deceased Smt Payal Surekha. After thorough investigation of the case, Charge Sheet was filed before 17th ACMM Court, Bangalore against the accused James Kumar Ray for the offences punishable under section 302, 404 and 201 of IPC. The case was committed for trial to 32nd Spl Judge for CBI Cases, Bangalore. The charges levelled against the accused James Kumar Ray by the prosecution were that on 17-12-2010, the accused murdered the deceased Payal Surekha at about 10.30 am at her flat in Bangalore when she was alone in her house. The accused was convicted for the offence punishable u/s 302 of IPC, to undergo imprisonment for life and to pay sum of Rs.1 Lakh and ordered that Ananta Narayana Mishra, husband of the deceased is entitled for the said fine amount as compensation. The Hon’ble Court has appreciated the evidence both oral and documentary placed before the Court.
On the fateful day of 30/10/2008, nine high intensity serial bomb blasts occurred in four Districts of Assam, namely, Kamrup(M) i.e. Guwahati, Barpeta, Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon, which rocked the entire state of Assam, killing 88 people and injuring 540 people and also caused large scale damage of properties. Initially 9 FIRs were registered in respect of each blasts by Assam Police but keeping in view the gravity of offence and magnitude of violence as well as involvement of larger conspiracy, the cases were transferred to CBI.
CBI, after thorough and painstaking investigation filed a consolidated Charge sheet in respect of all the 9 FIRs and later on also filed 2 more Supplementary Charge sheets for commission of the offences punishable under Sections 120-B, 121, 121-A, 122, 123, 302, 324, 326,307,427 of the Indian Penal Code r/w Sections 3 / 4 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908 and Sections 10,13,16,18 and 20 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, in the court of the Learned Special Judicial Magistrate, Assam, Guwahati . The trial of the case involved 871 cited Prosecution Witnesses and more than 800 cited documents. The trial which commenced in the year 2011 continued uptill December,2017 in the Sessions Court, Kamrup(M),Assam and thereafter a Special. Court was constituted to conduct the trial expeditiously. CBI, in total examined 650 witnesses to prove its case. The Judgement of the case was delivered on 30/01/2019 resulting in conviction of 14 accused and they were sentenced and the maximum sentence awarded in the case was life imprisonment.
On the fateful night of 15/16 December 2016, a student of engineering was raped, murdered and burnt at Ranchi. The case was handed over to CBI for investigation by the Government of Jharkhand. Accordingly, CBI registered a case in March 2018 and started investigation. CBI painstakingly and systematically investigated the case and identified the accused person as Rahul Kumar. Chargesheet was submitted on 13.09.2019 against Rahul Kumar u/s 302, 376, 449 and 201 of IPC. Trial started from 08.11.2019 by the Hon'ble CBI court, Ranchi. In only sixteen working days 29 prosecution witnesses had been examined and trial concluded in a record time on 18.12.2019. On 20.12.2019 the Hon'ble court convicted the accused Rahul Kumar u/s 302, 376, 449 and 201 of lPC and on 21.12.2019 the Hon'ble CBI court, Ranchi awarded death penalty to the accused.
CBI had registered case against accused Shri. Ram Prasad Meena, Senior Auditor, Principal Controller Defence Account ,PCDA ( R&D) R. K. Puram , New Delhi, u/s 7 of PC Act, 1988 on 05.04.2019 in pursuance of a complaint dated 04.04.2019 submitted by Col. Navrattan Singh (Retd), the Proprietor of a security firm M/s Navratan Singh Security Service. It was alleged in the complaint that Shri. Ram Prasad Meena, had demanded an illegal gratification @ 0.5% of 05 bills i.e. Rs.35,000/- from the complainant in lieu of payments of his pending bills. Later, the bribe amount was reduced to Rs. 20,000/- and Shri. Ram Prasad Meena, Senior. Auditor while demanding the bribe amount had instructed the complainant to deposit the amount of illegal gratification in his bank account maintained at State Bank of India, R.K. Puram Branch, New Delhi, in lieu of passing of his bills. The complainant, on the demand and further instructions of accused Ram Prasad Meena, deposited the bribe amount of Rs.20,000/- at State Bank of India, Vasant Vihar PBB Branch, Dehradun.
After completion of investigation, CBI filed charge sheet before the court. After trial proceedings the Court of Special Judge, CBI, Dehradun vide its judgement and order dated 24.10.2019 held accused person Shri. Ram Prasad Meena guilty of commission of the offences for which charge sheet was filed and awarded 7 years imprisonment and fine of Rs 50,000/- and in default of payment further six months additional simple imprisonment.a
The complainant and the accused never met each other and the bribe amount was demanded by the accused through Whatsapp by sending a image describing his bank account number and Branch name and IFSC code. This is an unique case in which the accused public servant accepted bribe in his bank account and maximum sentence was awarded by the court. The case was registered on 05.04.2019 and the judgement was pronounced on 24.10.2019.
In judgement dated 24.10.2019, Hon’ble Court of Special Judge, CBI, Dehradun, also explained that this trap case is different from other trap cases, the distance did not matter in communication, although the complainant and the accused public servant were physically far from each other but due to the technology they are connected with each other
Information Report u/s 120-B IPC r/w 13(1) (d) of PC Act, 1988 and sec 420, 468, 471 IPC. The allegation was that certain employees of National Insurance Co. Ltd. (NIC), and in conspiracy with others had cheated NIC by submitting false Motor Accident claims in the name of fictitious persons by producing forged documents like medical prescriptions, injury certificates, discharge certificates, hospital bills etc. Thereafter, in pretext of out-of-Court settlements in respect of such false claims, obtained compensation award cheques form MAC Tribunal. CBI filed chargesheet against for the offences U/s 120 B r/w 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d) of PC Act, 420, 468 & 471 IPC.
Shri K.S. Aniyan (A1), Assistant Administrative Officer, NICL; Shri P Premkumar (A3), Advocate, Representing petitioners in MACT, Ernakulam; Shri Jude Antony (A4), Private Person and Shri Rosary Prem(A5), Advocate, representing petitioners in MACT, Ernakulam, accused in RC 19(A)/2000 of CBI, ACB, Cochin had been convicted by the Hon’ble Court of Special Judge-II, CBI, Ernakulam vide judgement dated 04.12.2010.
A-1 has been sentenced to undergo SI for 6 years and to pay a fine of Rs. 3,10,000/- A-3 has been sentenced to undergo SI for 6 years and to pay a fine of Rs. 2,10,000/- A4 has been sentenced to undergo SI for 6 years and to pay a fine of Rs. 2,10,000/- A-5 has been sentenced to undergo SI for 6 years and to pay a fine of Rs. 2,10,000/- In para 120 of the judgement the Hon'ble Court observed that:
This case has turned out to be typical case in which prosecution has brought on record every probable items of evidence, be it oral or documentary, direct or indirect including circumstantial in proof of conduct of accused constituting acts of commission and omission and has thus proved the ingredients of all the offences alleged against all the accused except A2 to the hilt also classically highlighting how prosecution involving offences of this nature can be handled and conducted and by what evidence the offence can be brought home
In para 281 (page 281) of the judgement the Hon'ble court observed that:he case files in this case shall be preserved for the purpose of imparting training to the police force on the subject, subject to approval by the Hon'ble High Court
The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India has sentenced Shri. Sebastian V. Caeiro, then Police Inspector and Shri. Sanvlo Naik, Police Constable, Margao Town Police Station, Goa Police to undergo ten years Rigorous Imprisonment in Custodial Death case of Abdul Gafar Khan, who died in the mid night of 16/17 May 1994 in the Margao Town police station.
The Government of Goa had entrusted the case to CBI vide Notification dated 23.09.1994. The case was registered u/s 302 & 34 IPC. CBI had filed charge sheet before Hon’ble Sessions Court, Margao. The Session Court Convicted four accused and acquitted two accused on 16.01.2002. In appeal filed by above accused, the Hon’ble High Court, Bench at Goa set aside conviction of above both accused (PI Sebastian V. Caeiro and PC Sanvlo Naik) CBI filed SLP in Hon’ble Supreme Court in 2007. The Hon’ble Supreme Court appreciated the prosecution case. The Hon’ble Court convicted both the accused to 10 years RI in this case.
CBI filed SLP in Hon’ble Supreme Court in 2007. The Hon’ble Supreme Court appreciated the prosecution case. The Hon’ble Court convicted both the accused to 10 years RI in this case.
This case was taken up by CBI in compliance to the orders of Hon’ble Supreme Court of India transferring the case crime No. 25/2014 of PS Bhaurakala, Distt. Muzaffarnagar (U.P) pertaining to the incident of attack and firing which took place in the residential premises of the complainant Shri Suresh Pal on 10.3.2014 morning at village Mundvar, PS Bhaurakala Distt. Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh in which Miss Riya, daughter of the complainant was killed and the complainant and two others were injured. During investigation, apart from conventional investigation methods, scientific/forensic as well as technical evidence were collected and analysed. After completion of the investigation, CBI filed chargesheet against 03 accused namely Sunil, Rohtas & Lalit @ Lilu u/s 302,307,449,323,325 r/w 34 IPC & u/s 25 & 27 Arms Act, on 30.11.2015. After completion of trial Learned ADJ-I, Distt. Muzaffarnagar convicted all the three aforementioned accused persons on 12.6.2019 with Life imprisonment and fine.
Crime No. 2/2009 which was initially registered on 9-1-2009 by CID P.S., Hyderabad on the basis of a complaint lodged by Mrs. Leena Mangat against Shri B.Ramalinga Raju (A-1), B.Rama Raju (A-2) and other Directors, Auditors and others, that the complainant has invested her retirement benefits in purchasing the shares of M/s Satyam Computer Services Ltd (M/s SCSL) on seeing the performance of the company represented in and reflected through the balance sheet and with the belief that the representations made by the Chairman, the Managing Director and other Directors of M/s SCSL to be true, the complainant had invested her hard earned money and purchased 100 shares of M/s SCSL about four years back for a total sum of Rs.19,000/-. The complainant alleged that the value of the share of the company was at 'around Rs. 5001 in the market. That due to the fudging of the company accounts and manipulation of records showing incorrect inflated balance sheets by the chairman, MD and other Directors of the company which were certified by the auditors, the value of the shares of the company suddenly dropped causing huge financial loss to the complainant and other share holders. The depreciation in the value of the shares is due to dishonest and fraudulent acts committed by the aforesaid functionaries who are managing the affairs of the company and are associated with its day today affairs.
Hon'ble XXI ACMM Court has pronounced Judgement on 09.04.15 and convicted all the 10 accused persons including Shri B.Ramaringa Raju(A-1), the then Chairman, M/s, SCSL, Hyderabad; B.Rama Raju(A-2), the then Managing Director, Vadlamani srinivas(A-3), S.Goparakrishnan(A-4), Tailuri srinivas(A-5), B. Suryanarayana Raju(A-6), G. Ramakrishna(A 7), D. Venkatapati Raju(A-8), Ch. Srisairam(A-9), V.S.P. Gupta (A-.10).
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Shri L.N. Mishra, the Union Railway Minister of India was killed in a bomb blast on 2nd January, 1975 at Samastipur, Bihar where he had gone to inaugurate the Samastipur-Muzaffarpur broad gauge Railway line. He was a popular leader and a dynamic Minister. People saw a deep-laid conspiracy in his murder. The case was first investigated by the local Police, but was then handed over to the CBI. The CBI handled the case with every care. Suspects were arrested. The court found the accused guilty and convicted them.
Harshad Mehta was a stockbroker on the Bombay Stock Exchange in 1990s. He and his associates siphoned off funds by interbank transactions and did a heavy buying of shares at a big premium across many segments, triggering a rise in the BSE Sensex. He was called a successful 'Big Bull'. But soon the 'Big Bull' had a fall, when his 'dark business' came to light. His case was, at this stage, handed over to CBI. The CBI team investigated the case, tied all its loose ends and took it to the court that found Harshad and his cronies guilty on several counts. Harshad died in 2002. He was charged with 72 criminal offences and more than 600 civil action suits were filed against him.
The Sant Harchand Singh Longowal Murder Case, 1985 On 20th August, 1985, Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, President, Shiromani Akali Dal had gone to Gurudwara Akal Prakash, Sherpur in District Sangrur, Punjab for attending a conference. After delivering the speech there, while he was thanking the audience, three youths fired at him, as a result of which he fell down and later succumbed to injuries. This murder came as a shock to all peace loving people of India as Sant Harchand Singh Longowal was instrumental in the agreement reached between the Central Government and the Akali Dal in July, 1985 for betterment of Punjab, which is popularly known as the ‘Punjab Accord’. The Investigators of CBI unravelled the truth behind the murder and found that Punjab Accord had not been liked by the extremist groups of Punjab and, therefore, they decided to take their revenge on Sant Longowal for the same. In this case, the prime accused Gian Singh, who had fired on Sant Longowal was sentenced to death penalty.
The General Vaidya Murder Case, 1986 th On 10 August, 1986, at about 11:45 am, while General Arun Kumar Vaidya, retired Chief of the Indian Army, was returning to his residence in his car after shopping along with his wife Smt. Bhanumati Vaidya and Police Guard Shri RamChander Babu Kshirsagar, he was murdered at Pune, Maharashtra, which was the result of a criminal conspiracy to eliminate the General on the grounds that he had ordered 'Operation Blue Star' that had caused damage to th the Golden Temple Complex, Amritsar on 5 June, 1984. The case was registered at Bund Garden Police Station of Pune and was th entrusted to CBI for investigation on 15 August, 1986. The CBI unearthed the criminal conspiracy amongst the accused persons to assassinate General Vaidya for taking revenge of Army action on Golden Temple, Amritsar, Punjab during Operation Blue Star in 1984, when General Vaidya was the Chief of the Army Staff. In order to execute their plan, the accused gave up their traditional turban and also became clean shaven to conceal their identity. They acquired hotel and residential accommodation at various places around Pune and resided there on various assumed names, during which they also collected arms and ammunition from various sources for carrying out their operation. The case was handled very professionally by the CBI. Each arrest made by it was proved to the hilt in the Designated Court, against the main culprits Harjinder Singh alias Jinda and Sukhdev Singh alias Sukha, Pune under Section 302 and 307 IPC. The court awarded them death sentence. The Hon'ble Supreme Court of
A sword of Tipu Sultan, the legendary ruler of the Princely State of Mysore, and some other valuable antiquities – a gold necklace studded with precious stones, a silver ring fitted with priceless 'neelam' (blue stone), a cigar holder in the form of a musical piece with a lady having wings, etc. – were stolen from Mysore Palace and Government Museum, Mysore in 1985. CBI got specific information that some persons were trying to sell these antiquities to interested buyers. A CBI team posed as prospective buyers, negotiated with the sellers and succeeded in trapping the sellers along with the antiquities at Mysore. As a result, the precious Sword was recovered from the Nagalingaswamy Mathy in Mysore (December 1985). Other artefacts were gathered from some other places. Four separate charge-sheets were filed against the accused persons. In one case, the accused died during the trial and in other cases, ended in conviction of the accused persons. Other artefacts were gathered from some other places. All these priceless artefacts are now with the National Museum, New Delhi.
On the night of 17 -18 December, 1995, a huge consignment of sophisticated arms and ammunition were air- dropped over some villages in Purulia District of West Bengal by an AN-26 Aircraft with call sign YLLDB, which deviated from its assigned flight path - Varanasi in India to Phuket in Thailand. The crime, perhaps first of its kind inthe history of our country, was a direct onslaught on the safety and security of the country. Therefore, its investigation was entrusted to the CBI. Without losing a moment, the CBI constituted a special team to solve the case. The efforts of the team bore fruits sooner than expected. A sinister story unfolded. It was revealed that the aircraft was force- landed at Bombay Airport on 22 December, 1995 and six crew members, which included one British and five Latvians were taken into custody. During the rummaging of their aircraft, some arms, ammunition, night vision equipments, a laptop computer, global positioning system device, etc. were recovered. Investigation revealed that arms and ammunition were meant for a section of Anand Margis in India. Chargesheet was submittedagainst the accused persons in 1996 and all the accused persons, who faced trial, were convicted. There are some absconders in the case against whom Red Corner Notices and Look Out Notices have been issued. The CBI brought almost all the accused persons to book. A trial in the courts led to their conviction – all of them got Life Imprisonment
Secretary General, INTERPOL Jürgen Stock, called on Hon'ble Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah on 31-08-2019. The Secretary General thanked the Home Minister for the commitment shown and cooperation extended and assured the best support of INTERPOL for the fight against terror.
Shri S.K Jaiswal, Director, CBI receiving the INTERPOL flag during the closing ceremony of 89th INTERPOL General Assembly held on 25th November, 2021 in Istanbul, Turkey. The 90th INTERPOL General Assembly will be held in India in 2022.
“Globalization of organized crime poses a major threat to economies throughout the world. It is a well-known fact that dirty money drives out good money. Organized crime can hamper investment and economic growth.” Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India. Speaking at 6th Global Focal Point Conference on Asset Recovery & Annual Conference of CBI & ACBx, 2015
Shri P.C. Sharma, Director, CBI with Mr. Robert S. Mueller III, FBI Director at an interactive session in New Delhi in 2001.
The Third INTERPOL Liais on Officer’s Meeting at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi (2009)
Shri K.M. Chandrasekhar, Cabinet Secretary, Government of India Shri Ashwani Kumar, Director, CBI with and others during an event organized by the CBI and Council of Europe on International Police Cooperation Against Cyber Crime.
A view of the 7th International Conference on Cyber Crime at New Delhi in 2007.
Shri Y.B. Chavan, Hon’ble Union Minister at the 13 Asia Regional ICPO in the year 1994.
Shri I.K. Gujral, Prime Minister of India and Shri Joginder Singh, Director, CBI with the delegates of 66 General Assembly Session of ICPO on 15 October, 1997.
The Ivory model of ‘Geetopadesh’ presented by Shri F.V. Arul, Director, CBI to Mr. Jean Nepote, Secretary-General, Interpol and Mr. Paul Dickopf, President, Interpol.
Shri R.C. Sharma, Director, CBI with Mr. Toshinovi Kanemoto, President ICPO-Interpol and Mr. Raymond E. Kendall, Secretary General, Interpol at 66 General Assembly Session at Vigyan Bhavan,New Delhi on 17 October, 1997
World has become a 'a global village' – although our forebears had reduced it to a still smaller and finer entity – family (kutumbha) thousands of years ago.
Mr. Ronald K. Noble, Secretary-General, Interpol at Interpol, New Delhi in 2004.
Secretary General of INTERPOL Mr Jürgen Stock at CBI Headquarters (2019)
Shri S.K Jaiswal, Director, CBI with Mr Emmanuel Ugirashebuja, Hon’ble Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Rwanda during 89th INTERPOL General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey ( 23rd-25th November, 2021).
Shri S.K Jaiswal, Director, CBI with Mr Shinichiro Handa, Head of INTERPOL NCB Tokyo, Japan during 89th INTERPOL General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey ( 23rd-25th November, 2021).
Shri S.K Jaiswal, Director, CBI with Mr Abdulmlk Alsogiah, Head of INTERPOL NCB Riyadh, Saudi Arabia during 89th INTERPOL General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey ( 23rd-25th November, 2021).
Shri S.K Jaiswal, Director, CBI with Mr Jamal Al Qureshi , Director General, Criminal Investigation Department, Oman during 89th INTERPOL General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey ( 23rd-25th November, 2021).
Shri S.K Jaiswal, Director, CBI with Mr Michael Hughes, Director , Head of INTERPOL NCB Washington, USA during 89th INTERPOL General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey ( 23rd-25th November, 2021).
Shri S.K Jaiswal, Director, CBI with Mr Jorge Vargas Valencia, Director General de la Policia, National de Colombia during 89th INTERPOL General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey ( 23rd-25th November, 2021).
Shri S.K Jaiswal, Director, CBI with Mr Gatot Pramono, Commissioner General, Indonesia during 89th INTERPOL General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey ( 23rd-25th November, 2021).
Shri S.K Jaiswal, Director, CBI with Mr Edward Mbugua, Deputy Inspector General, Kenya Police Service during 89th INTERPOL General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey ( 23rd-25th November, 2021).
Shri S.K Jaiswal, Director, CBI with Mr Shailesh Thapa Kshetri, IGP, Nepal during 89th INTERPOL General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey (23rd-25th November, 2021).
Shri S.K Jaiswal, Director, CBI with Mr Stephen Rodhouse, DG Operations, UK National Crime Agency during 89th INTERPOL General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey ( 23rd-25th November, 2021).
Shri S.K Jaiswal, Director, CBI with Mr Mohamed Hameed, Commissioner of Police, Maldives during 89th INTERPOL General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey ( 23rd-25th November, 2021).
Shri S.K Jaiswal, Director, CBI with Mr Tandabantu Matanga, Commissioner General, Zimbabwe during 89th INTERPOL General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey ( 23rd-25th November, 2021).
Secretary General of INTERPOL Mr. Jurgen Stock calling on Hon'ble Prime. Minister of India in New Delhi on 18th Nov, 2015.
Stone sculpture of dancing Ganesha, which belongs to 15th CENTURY AD was recovered by CBI.
Rare artifact consisting of a male head with curly hair in stone (18th CENTURY), recovered by CBI.
Paintings of Raja Ravi Verma depicting 'Nand Gopal - Krishna', recovered by CBI (presently exhibited at National Gallery of Modern Art).
Mohini on swing :Painting of Raja Ravi Verma recovered by CBI (presently exhibited at National Gallery of Modern Art).
A rare ancient statue recovered from antique thieves by CBI.
Painting of Raja Ravi Verma depicting Lord Krishna and Rukmani. It was also recovered by CBI (presently exhibited at National Gallery of Modern Art).
Lord Dattatreya - a painting by Raja Ravi Verma, recovered by CBI.
An antique object depicting a knap with human face standing on an elephant platform (19th CENTURY), recovered by CBI.
A stone sculpture, which is a fragmentary medallion with a flying stone, was seized by CBI.
Antiquity showing depicting 'Kal Bhairav' recovered by CBI.
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