Overview
- CBI officers laid a trap in Noida and say they caught KAPL managing director Anurag Danayak accepting ₹5 lakh on July 15 as part payment of a ₹15 lakh demand.
- The agency alleges the cash was sought to approve a service‑agent agreement, assign additional government institutions to the firm, and take a share of the firm’s commission on medicine sales.
- Searches at Danayak’s homes and offices in Noida, Bengaluru and Jabalpur recovered about ₹75 lakh in cash, foreign currency worth around ₹4 lakh, roughly 697 grams of gold valued at about ₹86 lakh, and property documents.
- Some reports identify the supplier involved as Bhopal‑based M/S Pharma Care and say the firm filed a complaint on July 10 alleging repeated demands and threats; that identification is reported by some outlets and is part of the probe.
- Danayak is in CBI custody and will be produced before a court as investigators continue to trace payments and establish whether a wider bribery network affected KAPL’s annual service‑agent renewals and medicine distribution.