New Delhi, May 12
Adopting a “pro-active” approach against corruption within, the CBI arrested yet another agency official on charges of bribery taking the total number of such cases to five.
Deputy Legal Advisor D. K. Srivastava, who is the fifth CBI official nabbed by the CBI ever since Vijay Shanker took over as the Director of the agency, was arrested late last night while he was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 4 lakh from an employee of Indraprashta Gas Limited to give an opinion in his favour, the CBI alleged.
The IGL employee, who was a subject matter of an Preliminary Enquiry registered by the CBI, informed the agency who laid a trap and allegedly caught Srivastava, working for the agency since the past 10 years, while accepting the bribe from him. Srivastava was produced before a designated court.
He is the second DLA who was arrested by the CBI.
Earlier, on March 14 this year, the CBI sleuths had arrested a DLA, R. P. Dwivedi, along with a constable, B. S. Prabhu, in Mumbai following allegation that they had been indulging in corrupt practices.
The CBI registered a case under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act against Srivastava and conducted searches at his residence during which a cash recovery of Rs 1.5 lakh and other incriminating documents were recovered, a CBI spokesman said in a release.
Following the arrest of the DLA yesterday, Shanker again addressed all the officers in Delhi and other Metros and reiterated the result to ensure professionalism and objectivity of CBI.
— PTI
