NEW DELHI: A week after filing an FIR against its own officials in a bribery scandal, the CBI on Wednesday arrested one of its DySPs and an inspector on charges of accepting illegal gratification and passing on probe details in return. The accused officers, deputy superintendent R K Rishi and inspector Kapil Dhankad, are accused of allegedly providing relief and classified information to companies which were being investigated by CBI for bank fraud.
The CBI has also arrested an advocate named Manohar Malik who was allegedly acting as a middleman. Earlier in the day, the CBI also carried out fresh searches at native places of DSP Rishi in Deoband (UP) and Roorkee (Uttarakhand). The CBI’s investigation into the alleged wrongdoings by its own officials may have larger implications as the agency is learnt to be in the process of reviewing every case which the accused officers have been a part of in the last few years.
The CBI had earlier suspended the accused inspector and a steno and had approached the ministry of personnel for action against two DySPs. The CBI’s FIR in this case names nine people, including Mandeep Kaur Dhillon, an additional director at company named Shree Shyam Pulp & Board Mills and Sujay Desai and Uday Desai, the directors of a company named Frost International.