The 72-year-old Shehbaz Sharif, along with Fawad and Cheema, was arrested in 2018 after accusations levied by Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau. In May, the anti-graft body cleared the former PM of any wrongdoing in the case.
A sessions court in Maharashtra's Dhule district on Saturday sentenced former state ministers Suresh Jain and Gulabrao Deokar along with 46 others to varying jail terms between three and seven years after convicting them in the multi-crore ''Gharkul'' housing scam.
Special Judge Srushti Neelkanth directed police that all the 48 accused, who are currently out on bail and present in the court, be taken into custody immediately. The court will pronounce their sentence later in the day.
Action has been taken against 836 officers for their alleged involvement in corruption under various housing schemes in Odisha in last two years, said a minister on Tuesday.
The buyers need to pay only Rs 2.5 lakh, said the woman head of NGO and collected Rs 30,000 as advance from several people in the village. However, even six months after collecting the advance, the construction work was not started.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had taken Shahbaz Sharif, Opposition Leader in the National Assembly and younger brother of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, into custody on October 5 in the Rs 14 billion Ashiana-i-Iqbal housing project scam.
Mumbai, Mar 21: Cracking down on the accused in the Adarsh Housing Society scam, a senior IAS officer in the Maharashtra government and two former Major Generals of the Army were arrested by the CBI
Mumbai, Mar 12: The arrest of former Maharashtra minister and Jalgaon MLA Suresh Jain in connection with the 2006 multi-crore Gharkul Housing scheme scam, has brought to fore the differences between leaders of the Shiv
Jalgaon (Maharashtra), Mar 11: Local Shiv Sena MLA and former minister Suresh Jain was arrested late Saturday night in connection with the 2006 Gharkul Housing scheme scam, police said.Jain, Shiv Sena MLA from Jalgaon, was
New Delhi, Aug 9: Slamming military authorities for misappropriating prime defence land for the Adarsh housing society, the CAG has said rules were bent to benefit relatives of politicians, public servants and senior Service officers
Mumbai: A day after Mumbai police registered a case in connection with the theft of key documents in the Adarsh Housing Society scam, the case has now been transferred to the Crime Branch due to
Mumbai, Nov 25: After the arrest of one of its General Mangers in the multi-crore housing scam, Bank of India today said it has initiated an internal enquiry into the matter and that its exposure
New Delhi, Nov 10 (PTI) Congress today sought to put BJP in the dock in the Mumbai Housing Society scam alleging that one of its beneficiaries is "very very close" to Nitin Gadkari, triggering strong
New Delhi, Nov 10 (PTI) Senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh today opposed a CBI investigation into the housing society scam in Mumbai, in which some of the topmost army officials are embroiled, saying it would
New Delhi/Mumbai, Nov 1 : Congress today appeared to be in no hurry to decide the fate of Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, under fire over the Mumbai housing scam, even as he faced a
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