A special court has extended the CBI custody of an Assistant Director posted with a central security agency and a Delhi Police Inspector and two middlemen by three days in a case of bribery for bagging choice postings.
Special Judge Virender Kumar Goyal allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to interrogate Assistant Director Kameshwar and Delhi Police inspector Banay Singh Meena further after the central probe agency said that their custodial interrogation was required to probe the larger conspiracy and unearth the entire racket.
The court also extended the CBI custody of two alleged middlemen — Rajan Kumar and Arun Tiwari — after the CBI said that all the four accused were required to be confronted with each other in the case.
While Kameshwar and Meena were arrested on August 11, the two middlemen were nabbed on August 9. The case was registered on August 9 against the four for alleged criminal conspiracy, illegal gratification and commission of offence of abetment by public servant.
“During course of investigation, the CBI had intercepted the accused persons and recovered the alleged gratification amount of Rs 10 lakh (approx) from the private persons,” the agency has said.
It had said it had carried out searches at various premises of the accused in Delhi.
“During the search at the premises of Kumar here, cash amounting to Rs 1.6 crore (approx), certain rubber stamps of various ministries/departments of Government of India and forged letter head of various senior government officers and incriminating documents were recovered,” it had said.
It is alleged that Meena had given Rs 10 lakh to Kumar, who was living in a Government accommodation allotted to Kameshwar in RK Puram area, and Tiwari, seeking favourable posting. Source said Tiwari is a vital cog of this illicit transfer and posting of inspectors in Delhi Police and is involved in wangling favourable postings to scores of inspectors. His interrogation is likely to open Pandora’s Box, sources added.