Is Shalini Darbari, Director at CVC, the wife of TS Darbari? If yes, then the agency probing the charges, is headed by the wife of the guilty!

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The issue of alleged large-scale corruption in the Commonwealth Games (CWG) projects on Friday rocked Lok Sabha with the entire Opposition uniting to attack the government and accusing it of allowing “loot” of public money.
Members of the BJP, JD(U), Left parties and Samajwadi Party targetted the government on the issue, with the Left demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe charges of corruption in the games projects.
Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy was not allowed to respond to the charges by an angry Opposition, which wanted the reply only …

The good news, says Alexandra Wrage, a specialist in combating corruption, is that the pattern of Indian graft is pyramid-shaped: It chiefly comprises of vast numbers of small payments changing hands at the lowest levels but there is (some) aversion to bribe-taking among government officials higher up the chain. Some, though by no means all, officials “grow out of” corruption as they climb the bureaucracy.
Ms. Wrage, the founder and president of Trace International, a U.S. nonprofit that provides compliance advice and training for companies, was in New Delhi last week …

CBI Arrests Manjit Singh Bali For Allegedly Accepting Bribe Of Rs 2 Crore

Mumbai: In a rare instance of a top bureaucrat being arrested for corruption, CBI nabbed Maharashtra and Goa chief postmaster general Manjit Singh Bali late on Wednesday night for allegedly accepting bribe of Rs 2 crore for granting a builder a no objection certificate to develop a plot, a portion of which was reserved for a post office in Thane.
Bali and two arrested middlemen — a father-son duo, Arun Dalmiya and Harsh — were remanded in police custody …

The Central Vigilance Commission is reportedly checking all construction works related to the Commonwealth Games 2010, to be held in the national capital in October this year, following complaints of large-scale corruption in the procurement process.
According to sources, the Central Vigilance Commission has asked its vigilance officials posted with the agencies concerned to double-check the procedures involved in the procurement process and other aspects of the projects.
Sources said that the commission had received certain complaints regarding alleged corruption in Commonwealth Games projects.
As a preventive measure, the commission has directed its …

Commonwealth Games (CWG) organizing committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi has terminated the services of a financial expert appointed by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). The move, according to a person familiar with the developments but who did not want to be identified, came after the officer, an appointment approved by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, declined to clear certain financial transactions which he believed were irregular. Sanjeev Mittal, a 1984 Indian Defence Accounts Service official, was served the letter of termination by the CWG organizing committee on 19 February and …

Becoming a private secretary to a chief minister seems to have become an easy route to riches in Jharkhand in the last four years. This week’s raids on current Chief Minister Shibu Soren’s aide M.L. Pal, which reportedly unearthed undisclosed assets worth Rs.65 crore, is just the latest in a long series.
Pal continues in his post as the chief minister’s personal secretary. Vivek, another ex-personal secretary of Soren, still moves around with the chief minister carrying files, though he does not have any official post.
Last year, the Central Bureau of …