Overview
- The CBI registered a fresh FIR on June 8 that accuses a 2012-batch Haryana‑cadre IPS officer serving as a DGCA regional director of offering to use his connections in return for a Rs 3 crore bribe.
- Investigators say the alleged scheme links N Raja, the prime accused in a Rs 5,000‑crore Puducherry counterfeit‑medicine racket, to a hawala payment chain and intermediaries who moved at least an advance payment of Rs 1 crore.
- In a June 8 trap the agency arrested Delhi Police inspector Pradeep Kumar Singh and intermediary Rajkumar and recovered about Rs 24.70 lakh in cash while seizing mobile phones and other electronic devices now being forensically examined.
- A court on June 9 granted custodial interrogation of the two suspects to probe a wider conspiracy, identify other public servants named in the FIR, and trace the full money trail recorded in recovery memos.
- CBI investigators are now tracing hawala transfers, examining digital evidence and questioning the summoned DGCA officer to determine who received payments and whether CBI officials were improperly targeted by the alleged influence‑peddling.