Overview
- Lieutenant Colonel Deepak Kumar Sharma and Vinod Kumar were produced before a Special CBI Court and remanded to CBI custody until December 23.
- Searches recovered ₹2.23 crore from Sharma’s Delhi residence and ₹10 lakh from his wife’s home in Sri Ganganagar, with his New Delhi office and sites in Bengaluru and Jammu also searched.
- The agency alleges Vinod Kumar delivered ₹3 lakh on December 18 on behalf of a Bengaluru-linked network involving Rajiv Yadav and Ravjit Singh tied to DP World.
- Sharma’s wife, Colonel Kajal Bali, is named as a co-accused, with offences booked under criminal conspiracy and anti-corruption provisions following the December 19 case registration.
- Investigators say the scheme began in October with efforts to obtain MEA clearance for a DP World shipment, and seized documents and communications are being examined under a stated government zero-tolerance policy on graft.