News in pictures: Amar Singh in fraud net, Saifeena, cricket & more

A file picture of Amar Singh with the Bachchan family. An FIR was lodged against SP general secretary Amar Singh and his wife Pankaja Kumari Singh in Kanpur for alleged financial fraud amounting to Rs 500 crore, according to a senior police officer. The case was lodged at Babupurwa police station, charging the leader with amalgamating companies for converting black money into white, Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Brij Lal said. Shiv Kant Tiwari, in his 14-page complaint, alleged that between 2003-2008 the couple amalgamated their companies with other holdings and had amassed nearly Rs 500 crore in the process, DIG (Kanpur) Neera Rawat said. REUTERS