Overview
- The CBI, which laid a sting Monday night in a Chandigarh hotel, recovered Rs 13 lakh and a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 promised as part of the payoff.
- Investigators arrested middlemen Vikas “Vicky” Goyal and his son Raghav after a chase to the Punjab–Haryana border, and they also caught associate Ankit Wadhwa during the trap.
- A special CBI court sent the Goyals to three days’ custody and Wadhwa to judicial custody, while issuing a non-bailable warrant for OP Rana, the Vigilance chief’s reader who remains absconding.
- Teams searched the Vigilance Bureau headquarters in Mohali and homes linked to the accused, seizing Rs 9 lakh and documents as they probe suspected leaks of pending case information to private actors.
- The CBI says the private accused had official Punjab Police gunmen carrying AK-47s, a claim now under review that has drawn sharp opposition attacks and a pledge of cooperation from the bureau.