CBI raids senior railway official’s house, office

October 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian Railways Wednesday said it would transport for free relief material to flood ravaged places in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The railway minister (Mamata Banerjee) has taken this major humanitarian gesture as a special case with a view to facilitate movement of relief material to flood affected areas for the benefit of millions of people marooned by the recent floods in these two states, the Indian Railways said in a statement.

October 2nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Rail traffic was disrupted on the busy Mumbai-Varanasi route after a goods train derailed in Uttar Pradesh, officials said Friday. "The accident occurred this (Friday) morning near the Cantt railway station in the Varanasi city.

September 22nd, 2009 LA-area street gang targeted by massive raidsLOS ANGELES — More than 1,000 federal and local law enforcement officials are carrying out raids around the Los Angeles area Tuesday, targeting a street gang accused of everything from drug dealing to murder. About 1,300 officers and agents began going door to door before dawn.

September 16th, 2009 PATNA - Four people were arrested for molesting NCC girl cadets in a train in Bihar and four Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel, who failed to ensure their safety, were suspended, police said Wednesday. A dozen NCC girl cadets travelling in the Maurya Express on the Hajipur-Muzaffarpur section of the East Central Railway were molested by a group of young men Monday.

September 11th, 2009 AGRA - The body of the chief of Bhopal Development Authority M.G. Rusia was found by villagers on the railway tracks near Agra.

August 4th, 2009 KOLKATA - A ticketless passenger accused a woman ticket checker of stripping her, leading to a mob fury at the bustling Sealdah station here. But an official inquiry found she had disrobed herself to draw sympathy from fellow commuters, a railway official said Tuesday.

August 3rd, 2009 RANCHI - Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials Monday raided the houses of senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officials who had served as aides to former Jharkhand governor Syed Sibte Razi. According to CBI sources, the raids were conducted simultaneously at houses of Avinash Kumar, who was officer on special duty (OSD) to Razi after president's rule was imposed in the state January 2009; and Rajesh Thakur, who was Razi's personal secretary since he took over as governor in 2004.

August 3rd, 2009 RANCHI - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday filed graft cases against senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) official who had served as an aide to former Jharkhand governor Syed Sibte Razi. Two cases of disproportionate assets were lodged against Avinash Kumar, officer on special duty (OSD) of Razi, said a CBI official.

July 30th, 2009 Indo-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE LUCKNOW - Officials conducting raids to recover spurious liquor in Uttar Pradesh had to leave the exercise midway when some women involved in the illegal business reportedly stripped off in front of them, officials said Thursday. Acting on a tip-off that several illicit liquor manufacturing units were running in Devidas village of Muzaffarnagar district, a 25 member team of the excise department went there to conduct raids Wednesday evening.

July 29th, 2009 AGARTALA - A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has conducted raids at the Tripura University, a central institute, here following complaints of financial irregularities, an official said Wednesday. "A CBI team led by deputy superintendent of police Biswajit Das conducted raids and interrogated university officials Tuesday and Wednesday following complaints of financial irregularities," a university official told reporters on condition of anonymity.

July 22nd, 2009 AMRITSAR - Two air-conditioned coaches of the Golden Temple express train were badly damaged Wednesday after they caught fire, railway officials said here. The coaches, which did not have any passengers, were at the Amritsar railway station when the incident took place.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday conducted raids at the residences of top officials of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) here, a statement said. CBI had registered a case Thursday against the chairman, advisor, deputy director, and regional officer of the AICTE.

July 14th, 2009 RANCHI - Unidentified criminals shot dead a railway contractor in Jharkhand's Bokaro city Tuesday morning, police said. Pankaj Singh was shot dead when he stepped out of his house in Cooperative Colony for a morning walk.

June 11th, 2009 Italian police arrest 6 in anti-terror raidsROME — Italian police arrested six people Thursday in raids on a group of suspected radical leftists who were allegedly planning a terror attack, authorities said. The Interior Ministry said the group was preparing an attack in La Maddalena, an island off Sardinia that had originally been selected to host the Group of Eight summit next month.

May 25th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Angered commuters in Ghaziabad Monday disrupted traffic on the eastern railway track after two people in a running train were killed when they hit a signal pole, allegedly installed wrongly. Services could be resumed only after senior railway officials assured the pole would be removed.