CBI arrests debt recovery officer in Mumbai for accepting Rs 7 lakh bribe

Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a recovery officer attached with the Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) in Mumbai, after he accepted a bribe of rs 7 lakh from a person, who lodged a complaint with the agency. The arrested officer was identified as BS Sane, who accepted the cheque at the hands of a private person.

The CBI raided Sane’s residence and recovered several property documents along with Fixed Deposits to the tune of Rs 65 lakh and Kisan Vikas Patras’ (KVP) worth Rs 9 lakh. The investigators are now probing his income and if he owns assets disproportionate to his official income.

The complainant, who identity has been withheld, approached the CBI and complained that Sane instructed him to hand over the bribe in the form of a cheque to a private person (the middle man who accepted the cheque) for releasing payment in favour of complainant's client.

The complainant also claimed that Sane also introduced the middleman to him and on his instructions, the cheque of Rs 7 lakh was issued and handed over to the private person. Ahead of the handing over of cheque he approached the CBI and registered a complaint against Sane.

“We are scanning through the property documents that have been seized from Sane’s residence to ascertain his investments. The money trail will also be probed into to find the source of money that was used to invest in them. The FDs and KVPs are also being probed further,” said a CBI officer. A case has been registered against Sane and the private person and the officer’s antecedents are also being verified.