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WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court for years has been making it more challenging for prosecutors to bring corruption cases against public officials, guided by the belief that some of the dealmaking and fundraising in the political realm is unseemly but not illegal. A new batch of cases making their way through the courts shows that where to draw the line remains in flux. In New York, a U.S.

New York state prosecutors accuse him of falsifying records to cover up a $130,000 payment in the waning days of the 2016 presidential campaign to buy the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels about a 2006 sexual encounter she has said they had. Trump has denied any such relationship.

Donald Trump becomes the first former U.S. president to face a criminal trial on Monday in a case involving hush money paid to a porn star that could keep him tied up in court for weeks and complicate his bid to win back the White House. Trump, 77, is required to attend the trial in Manhattan, which is expected to last through May. Jury selection is expected to take about a week, followed by witness testimony.

Narendra Modi has accused the opposition parties of «spreading lies» over the electoral bonds scheme, which has been struck down by the Supreme Court, and said «everyone will regret it when there is an honest reflection». In an interview with ANI, PM Modi said the electoral bonds scheme was aimed at curbing black money in elections and said the opposition wants to run away after making allegations. He said of the 16 companies who gave donations after action by probe agencies, only 37 per cent of the amount went to the BJP and 63 per cent to opposition parties opposed to the BJP.

Enforcement Directorate has arrested Chanpreet Singh, who allegedly «managed» AAP funds for the Goa assembly elections, in the Delhi excise policy-linked money laundering case, official sources said Monday. He was taken into custody under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said. This is the 17th arrest in the case by the ED. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested last month and he is currently lodged in Tihar jail under judicial custody. Chanpreet Singh was earlier arrested by the CBI too in the same case. The money laundering case stems from the Central Bureau of Investigation FIR.

Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking voting facilities for around 18,000 people displaced internally due to the ethnic strife in Manipur for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The polling for the two Lok Sabha seats of Manipur will be held in two phases on April 19 and 26. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said interference of this court, particularly at this belated stage, would cause substantial impediments in the conduct of the ensuing general elections of the Lok Sabha for Manipur. «You have come at the last minute. At this stage, what can be virtually done? We cannot interfere at this stage,» the bench said.

Sebi on Monday said it will auction 22 properties of Rose Valley Group of companies on May 20 at a reserve price totalling Rs 8.6 crore in a bid to recover money raised by the firm from the public through illicit schemes. The properties to go under the hammer include flats and office spaces located in West Bengal, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said in a notice. The e-auction will be conducted on May 20 between 11 am and 1 pm. The total reserve price of these properties is pegged at Rs 8.6 crore, it added.

Has ECI taken the colour off India’s poll campaigns? The Delhi High Court had upheld the arrest of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader on April 9, arguing that the investigative agency was with "little option" after he skipped repeated summonses and refused to join the investigation. Kejriwal while approaching the Supreme Court on April 11, contended in the appeal that his arrest was "motivated by extraneous considerations." The High Court had said that Kejriwal's absence from nine ED summons over six months undermined any claims of special privilege as Chief Minister, suggesting his arrest was an inevitable consequence of his non-cooperation.

The Nigerian government has traced the whereabouts of Nadeem Anjarwalla, a high-ranking executive of Binance, to Kenya. 

Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the medical bail plea of Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick founder and Editor-in-Chief, lodged in Tihar jail under anti-terror law, for April 22. A bench of Justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta adjourned to next Monday the plea of Purkayashta, seeking bail on medical ground, as senior advocate Kapil Sibal representing him was unavailable. Earlier, the apex court had directed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to set up a medical board to examine the health condition of Purkayastha.

CBI) that BRS Leader K Kavitha, during custody, did not cooperate with the investigation and deliberately gave evasive replies contrary to the evidence on record. «In the light of aforesaid facts and circumstances, her further custodial interrogation is not required at this stage. As already submitted in the foregoing paras she is deliberately and intentionally evading the just and relevant questions related to the case,» said the CBI. The CBI further stated that during the confrontation, she could not give a proper explanation for the transfer of Rs 14 crore from the company of Sharath Chandra Reddy in the guise of a land deal, her meetings with the accused Vijay Nair, her meeting with Magunta Sreenivasalu Reddy, the transfer of money to her by the accused Butchibabu Gorantla and other facts related to the criminal conspiracy in the formulation and implementation of the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22.

Enforcement Directorate after arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal moved the apex court seeking relief in the ongoing money laundering probe in the excise policy case. SC bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta served ED the notice in his plea challengin the Delhi High Court's decision upholding his arrest in the matter. The ED has been asked to file a reply to Kejriwal's plea by April 24. The plea has been posted for hearing in the week commencing April 29.

Supreme Court seeking review of its February 15 verdict, which had scrapped the Modi government's electoral bonds scheme of anonymous political funding. The review plea filed by advocate Mathews J. Nedumpara submitted that this Court entertained the petition (against the scheme) and struck down the law and the scheme without noticing that in doing so it is acting as an appellate authority over Parliament, substituting its wisdom on a matter which falls in the exclusive province of legislative and executive policy. «The court failed to notice that even assuming the issue is justiciable, the petitioners therein having not claimed any specific legal injury exclusive to them, their petition could not have been decided as if a private litigation for the enforcement of rights which are specific and exclusive to them,» Nedumpara submitted in his plea. He said the Court failed to notice that the public opinion could be sharply divided and the majority of the people of this country could probably be in support of the scheme, brought into existence by their elected representatives and that they too have a right to be heard, as much as the PIL/writ petitioners.

recycled." A «sustainable» airline ticket. More and more, big brands are using taglines like these to cater to their green-minded customers. And more and more, they are under fire from courts and regulators for making climate promises they can't keep. Researchers at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment last year identified «an explosion of 'climate-washing' cases,» using existing national laws and regulations. Between 2020 and 2022, the most recent year for which statistics are available, the number of cases challenging the «truthfulness of corporate climate commitments» more than doubled, their tally found.

Supreme Court and high courts penned a letter to the Chief Justice of India, expressing deep concerns over what they perceive as mounting efforts to erode the credibility and independence of the judiciary. In their missive, the retired justices address the «escalating attempts by certain factions to undermine the judiciary through calculated pressure, misinformation, and public disparagement,» highlighting the gravity of the situation at hand. «These critics are motivated by narrow political interests and personal gains and are striving to erode public confidence in the judicial system,» they said. Though the retired judges, including four from the Supreme Court, did not specify the incidents which prompted them to write to the CJI, their letter came amid a war of words between the ruling BJP and opposition parties over the actions against some opposition leaders in corruption cases.

BRS) leader K Kavitha's CBI custody till April 23 in the alleged Delhi excise policy scam. The CBI produced the accused before the court on the expiry of her three-day police custody granted earlier by a judge. Kavitha, 46, was arrested from Tihar Jail, where she was lodged after her arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

Top Events of The Day: PM Modi is scheduled to visit Kerala. Ramdevbaba Solvent IPO price band has been set at the price of ₹80 to ₹85 apiece with a face value of ₹10 each. SC will hear Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's plea challenging ED arrest and remand on April 15.

seeks to return land to Indigenous people. The Cheyenne River Youth Project announced in an April 11 statement that it purchased the tract of land adjacent to Bear Butte State Park in western South Dakota. “One of the most sacred places for the Lakota Nation is Mato Paha, now part of Bear Butte State Park," the statement said.

resolution professional (RP) for the KSK Mahanadi Power has set April 26 as the date for fresh expressions of interest (EoI) to take over the 1800 MW power plant in a second round of bidding after plans by creditors Power Finance Corp (PFC) and Rural Electrification Corp (REC) to take over the company did not receive government approval. In a regulatory Form G which sets out the timeline for resolution, RP Suresh Binani has set June 18 as the final date for bidders to give a plan. The company owes creditors ₹32,240 crore out of which more than ₹29,000 crore is owed to financial creditors according to the latest list of creditors updated earlier this month. The Chhattisgarh-based power producer is a rare operational plant of its size available for a takeover in the country. As a result a half a dozen asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) have accumulated the debt from banks in the hope of finding good value from buyers. Out of the six units of 600 MW coal-based plant planned, three units of 600 MW are operational totalling 1800 MW.

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New Delhi: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K T Rama Rao on Sunday met his sister K Kavitha, who is in the CBI custody in a case linked to the alleged Delhi excise scam, at the agency office. Kavitha, 46, was arrested on April 11 by the CBI in Tihar jail, where she was lodged after her arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case linked to the alleged scam. A special court sent her to the CBI custody till April 15. Sources said with court's permission, K T Rama Rao met his sister for half an hour at the CBI headquarters. Kavitha, a member of the Telangana Legislative Council and daughter of former state chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, was lodged in Tihar jail under judicial custody after the ED arrested her in Hyderabad on March 15.