Yesterday, the investigating agency had filed an FIR against Kumar and three others, including agency's second-in-command Asthana.
The CBI has registered a regular case against Asthana and a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) in CBI’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) and others under sections pertaining to Prevention of Corruption Act amongst others.
As per information shared by SS Gurm, Superintendent of Police, New Delhi’s CBI AC III unit, ‘a regular case was registered against Rakesh Asthana, special director, CBI and Devender Kumar, DSP, CBI, SIT as well as against private persons Manoj Prasad, Somesh Prasad and other unknown public servants and private persons.’
The case against Asthana was registered by the investigating agency on October 15 on the basis of a complaint from Satish Sana, facing probe in the 2017 case allegedly involving meat exporter Moin Qureshi, alleging the officer had allegedly helped him to get a clean chit.
The CBI has also arrested Prasad, believed to be a middleman, when he returned from Dubai on October 16.
Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Asthana, who is heading the Special Investigating Team handling crucial cases such as AgustaWestland chopper scam and loan fraud by business tycoon Vijay Mallya. The team is also probing the Moin Qureshi case.
Asthana in an exhaustive letter to the Cabinet Secretary on August 24 had given a list of 10 instances of alleged corruption by Verma in which it was alleged that Sana paid the CBI chief Rs 2 crore to get a clean chit in the case, government sources said.
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