CBI conducts searches at Gujarat IAS officer’s premises in bribery case, arrests his aide

Through PTI

AHMEDABAD: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) performed searches on the place of abode and different premises of Gujarat cadre IAS officer Okay Rajesh in reference to the allegations of bribery towards him, the company mentioned on Friday.

The searches had been performed past due Thursday night time on the bureaucrat’s place of abode in Gandhinagar and a few different premises in Surat in addition to at his local position in Andhra Pradesh, the CBI mentioned in a remark.

Mohammed Rafiq Memon, who acted because the IAS officer’s intermediary and who used to gather bribe cash for him, has been arrested from Surat, it mentioned.

Rajesh, a 2011-batch IAS officer, these days serves because the joint secretary within the Normal Management Division of the Gujarat govt in Gandhinagar.

Not too long ago, the CBI had gained a grievance that once he used to be the collector of Surendranagar district, Rajesh had allegedly taken bribe in land offers and in sanctioning weapon licenses to ineligible individuals, the central company added.

The bribe cash used to achieve him by the use of his intermediary Memon, a service provider primarily based in Surat, the CBI mentioned.