CBI books its former chief AP Singh for favouring meat exporter Moin Qureshi

February 21, 2017

New Delhi, Feb 21: In a first, the CBI on Monday conducted searches at the residence of its former chief Amar Pratap Singh after registering a case against him for allegedly favouring controversial meat exporter Moin Qureshi.

Agency sources said a Regular Case (RC) equivalent to FIR in police parlance has been registered against Singh, Qureshi, his employee Aditya Sharma besides owner of Trimax group of companies Pradeep Koneru and other unknown persons.

The CBI conducted searches in the premises of the four accused persons in four cities--New Delhi, Ghaziabad, Chennai and Hyderabad. Besides Singh’s residence, the other premises searched included those of Sharma, Qureshi’s company and that of Pradeep Koneru in Hyderabad. Koneru is also being probed by the CBI in connection with the disproportionate assets case against YSR Congress leader Jagan Mohan Reddy.

The four accused persons have been booked under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.

“Qureshi was obtaining money from various persons for getting favours from public servants. The RC will probe the nexus between Qureshi and the public servants including Singh,” a CBI official said, adding the FIR was registered on a complaint from the Enforcement Directorate.

Singh, a 1974-batch IPS officer, headed the agency between November 30, 2010 and November 30, 2012 during which a number of high profile cases like the 2G scam and coal scam were being probed.

The CBI has based its RC on the complaint forwarded by the Director, ED Karnal Singh, who alleged that in the course of investigation in a Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) case against AMQ Group of companies owned by Qureshi, it transpired that the businessman was acting as a middleman for some public servants.

In his letter, the ED chief attached records of Blackberry chat messages exchanged between Singh and Qureshi to allege that cognizable offences were committed by the two in collusion with each other.

ED Assistant Director Arun Kumar, whose complaint was also attached with Singh's letter, alleged that Qureshi took "huge money" from different persons for obtaining undue favours from public servants and politicians holding high offices.

The ED has appended 22 BBM messages which were exchanged between Singh and Qureshi even after the retirement of the former CBI Director. In its complaint to the CBI, the ED has also attached 18 BBM messages allegedly exchanged between Moin and Raghini Brar, daughter of Singh.

"The data record including BBM messages obtained from Income Tax contains various nefarious transactions indicating therein that Qureshi has been liaisoning and obtaining illegal money from various public persons for getting their work done, through public servants. Besides, these public servants have also obtained illegal gratification/pecuniary gain either themselves or by their relatives," the ED complaint alleged.

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IndiGo offers full waiver on cancellations, reschedule requests for bookings between Dec 5 and 15

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December 6,2025

With IndiGo flight disruptions impacting thousands of passengers, the airline on Saturday said that it will offer full waiver on all cancellations/reschedule requests for travel bookings between December 5, 2025 and December 15, 2025.

Earlier in the day, the civil aviation ministry had directed the airline to complete the ticket refund process for the cancelled flights by Sunday evening, as well as ensure baggage separated from the travellers are delivered in the next two days.

In a post on X, titled 'No questions asked', IndiGo wrote, "In response to recent events, all refunds for your cancellations will be processed automatically to your original mode of payment."

"We are deeply sorry for the hardships caused," it further added.

Several passengers, however, complained of not getting full refund as promised by the airline.

Netizens have shared screenchots of getting charged for airline cancellation fee and convenience fee.

"Please tell me why u have did this airline cancellation charges when u say full amount will be refunded (sic)," a user wrote sharing a screenshot of the refund page.

"Well, but you have still debited the convenience charges," wrote another.

Passengers have also raised concerns about the "cancel" option being disabled on the IndiGo app. "First enable the 'Cancel' button on your App & offer full refund on tickets cancelled by customers between the said dates," wrote a user.

A day after the country's largest airline, IndiGo, cancelled more than 1,000 flights and caused disruptions for the fifth day on Saturday, the ministry said that any delay or non-compliance in refund processing will invite immediate regulatory action.

The refund process for all cancelled or disrupted flights must be completed by 8 pm on Sunday, the ministry said in a statement.

"Airlines have also been instructed not to levy any rescheduling charges for passengers whose travel plans were affected by cancellations," it said.

On Saturday, more than 400 flights were cancelled at various airports.

IndiGo has also been instructed to set up dedicated passenger support and refund facilitation cells.

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