The CBI on Thursday conducted searches at 14 locations including Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida, Gurgaon, Meerut and Kanpur on the premises of four of its own officials, including two Deputy Superintendents of Police, an Inspector and a Steno besides private persons, including advocates, on allegations of compromising the investigation of certain cases on “extraneous pecuniary considerations”. 

In Ghaziabad, the searches were conducted at the CBI’s premier training academy.

The four CBI personnel, including two DSPs were booked for allegedly receiving bribes to compromise investigation against companies accused of bank fraud.

While the agency did not give out much details about the case in which its own personnel are under probe, sources said the accused personnel are being investigated for allegedly taking huge amounts of bribe from the accused companies in bank fraud cases being probed by the CBI.

The CBI officials booked by the agency are DSPs R K Rishi and R K Sangwan, Inspector Kapil Dhankad and Steno Samir Kumar Singh, they said.

The searches led to an embarrassing situation for the agency as it had to even search the premises of Rishi, who is posted in the CBI Academy, Ghaziabad where the Central anti-corruption agency trains and prepares its officers for future roles in the organisation. In addition to CBI officers, cadets from foreign countries are also trained at the state-of-the-art academy in Ghaziabad.

Meanwhile, in a separate development the CBI conducted searches in an ongoing investigation of two separate cases which led to recovery of incriminating documents including alleged fake/forged ST certificates. 

It was alleged in the first case that the accused Ramesh Chand Meena, son of Chiranji Lal obtained job for the post of Lower Division Clerk in Employees Provident Fund Organisation on July 24, 1985 at the strength of alleged fake/forged ST certificate purportedly issued by Sub Divisional Magistrate, Hindaun, Sawai Madhopur. However, the accused was allegedly hailing from Mathura (UP). It was further alleged that he was promoted to the post of Account Officer/Enforcement Officer after his joining by using benefits of the said ST certificate, the agency saud.

In the second case, it was alleged that the accused Ramesh Chand Meena, son of Govind Ram got a job with MTNL under ST quota on the basis of an alleged forged/fake certificate purportedly issued by Sub Divisional Magistrate, Deeg (Rajasthan). However, he was allegedly a native of Hathras (UP).

It was further alleged that the accused joined MTNL and was appointed as Junior Telecom Officer (JTO) through departmental examination under ST Category.  He retired as Senior Manager (Telephone) on July 31, 2018 from MTNL, New Delhi. It was also alleged that the accused had managed to get allotment of a DDA Flat under the benefits of ST quota in the year 1987.

Investigation in both the cases is continuing, it added.