In what can only be bad news for politicians and others who were allegedly paid huge sums of money by Madhu Koda and his aides Binod Sinha and Sanjay Choudhary.

Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda will be arrested the moment he is discharged from a hospital in Ranchi, the officer probing the politician’s alleged involvement in a Rs 4,000-crore scam.

An undercover investigation by the BBC has exposed evidence of the theft of credit card details by workers at an Indian call centre used by security giant Symantec.A BBC reporter posing as a fraudster bought allegedly stolen but valid UK card details from a Delhi-based man, who denies any wrongdoing. Three of the victims of the scam had bought software renewals from a call centre which handles Symantec software licences.