The CBI has arrested five people, including its own deputy superintendent of police and two officials of the Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL), in Madhya Pradesh's Singrauli in an alleged corruption and bribery case.

A Delhi court recently dismissed the default bail petition filed by K. Kavitha, a prominent leader from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS). This decision came after Kavitha withdrew her plea seeking default bail in the Delhi Excise Policy case. The court's ruling, delivered by Special Judge Kaveri Baweja at the Rouse Avenue court, was straightforward—the plea was dismissed as it was officially withdrawn by Kavitha’s counsel.

The TMC said that while elections were going on at Darjeeling, Raiganj and Balurghat Lok Sabha constituencies on Friday, the central agency carried out an "unscrupulous" raid at an empty location at Sandeshkhali.

Central probe agencies and West Bengal police conduct raid in Sandeshkhali on Friday.

ED, reportedly, conducted raids on a brick kiln belonging to Sheikh Shahjahan in Sandeshkhali in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district. The raids are being conducted in connection with a land grab case filed against Sheikh Shahjahan.

During the hearing, the bench posed several questions to senior advocate Jaideep Gupta, representing the West Bengal police, as to why suspended TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh was not promptly arrested after the January 5 attack and why was there a delay in the investigation of the case.

The ED team came under attack on January 5 while attempting to arrest Adhya, the former chairman of the Bongaon Municipality, in connection with an alleged ration scam. 

In a significant move towards seeking justice, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into the tragic death of J S Sidharthan, a second-year veterinary student.

The operation was part of the ongoing probe into an attack on an Enforcement Directorate (ED) team in the area.

In a significant development, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued summons to Arup Biswas, a prominent leader of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Sports Minister of West Bengal. The summons come in connection with a high-profile money laundering case involving the Alchemist Group, amounting to a staggering Rs 1,900 crore. Biswas has been directed to appear before ED officers at their city office on Thursday morning to address inquiries related to the case.

In a significant development, Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav has been summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as a witness in an illegal mining case scheduled for Thursday. The summons issued under Section 160 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) requires Yadav's appearance before the federal agency in Delhi for questioning regarding alleged illegal mining activities in Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur district between 2012 and 2016.

The federal agency started its operation in the morning, with around 100 officers mobilised to swoop down at the 30 locations in Jammu, Srinagar, Delhi, Gurugram, Mumbai, Baghpat, Noida, Patna, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Barmer, Nagaur and Chandigarh, the officials said.