New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is expected to file a petition in the Supreme Court on Monday against the investigating officer in the coal allocation scam, who was caught taking a bribe of Rs 15 lakh on Friday.
The CBI Internal Intelligence Unit nabbed Vivek Dutt in an operation that was personally supervised by the agency's director Ranjit Sinha. However, CBI sources said the bribe was not related to the coal scam. Rs 15 lakh cash has been recovered from Dutt.
The CBI is set to inform the Supreme Court about the case since the apex court had ruled that no official associated with the probe into the scam will be transferred without informing it.
Dutt and three others were on May 18 sent to three days in the CBI's custody by a Delhi court for allegedly taking a bribe from a businessman to favour him in a land dispute case.
Dutt, CBI inspector Rajesh Chandra Karnatak, alleged middleman Rajesh Pachisia and businessman Dinesh Chand Gupta were produced before the court where CBI sought seven days police custody of the four accused.
CBI said Dinesh Gupta had a land dispute and a cheating case was registered against him at Amar Colony police station in New Delhi and Dutt used to pressurise the Delhi Police officials, who were investigating the cheating case, to quash the FIR and for this he had demanded Rs 15 lakh from Gupta.
Dutt, however, claimed innocence and alleged a conspiracy has been hatched to keep him out of the Supreme Court-monitored Coalgate probe team.
With Additional Inputs From PTI
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