Overview
- The CBI arrested 2012‑batch Haryana‑cadre IPS officer Deepak Gahlawat on July 1 in a case that alleges he sought Rs 3 crore to secure relief in the agency’s probe of a counterfeit‑medicine racket.
- The FIR and CBI say an upfront payment of about Rs 1 crore was routed by the prime accused through hawala channels and partially handed off to intermediaries during a June trap that recovered Rs 25 lakh as trap money and roughly Rs 90 lakh in further cash seizures.
- A Delhi court granted the CBI one day of custodial interrogation and then on July 2 sent Gahlawat to 14 days’ judicial custody after sharply questioning the investigating officer about gaps in the probe.
- Searches at premises linked to Gahlawat have yielded digital devices, hard disks and documents as investigators try to trace the hawala transfers and identify other intermediaries or officials who may have been approached.
- The bribery allegation grew out of a larger Puducherry counterfeit‑drugs investigation that the CBI is probing for scale and public‑health risk, and the case now raises fresh questions about investigative control, money channels and trust in law‑enforcement oversight.