CBI arrest vice president of company which tried to bribe agency DIG

The CBI on Friday arrested the vice-president of Soma Enterprises, P R Rao, for allegedly trying to offer a Rs 2-crore bribe to its DIG-ranked officer to clear a pending probe against the company, officials said.

Rao was taken into custody following the arrest of MHA official Dheeraj Singh and a private person, Dinesh Chand Gupta. Singh and Gupta were arrested on Thursday morning, they said.

It is alleged that Singh, posted in the Police-I Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs, had called CBI Deputy Inspector General Asra Garg for a meeting where he offered Rs 2 crore as bribe to settle the matter against Soma Enterprises. The offer was made on behalf of Rao, officials said.

Garg, a Tamil Nadu-cadre IPS officer, apprised his seniors and filed a complaint regarding the offer, they said.

In his complaint dated September 11, 2019, Garg, the DIG of the anti-corruption branch of CBI, alleged that Singh, whom he knew, contacted him to say he wants him to meet a person.

Garg said Singh ...