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A Delhi tribunal has directed the framing of corruption and conspiracy charges against 2 Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), for allegedly compromising the integrity of investigations successful definite cases for "extraneous pecuniary consideration".
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Special Judge Atul Krishna Agrawal connected Saturday (May 23, 2026) besides discharged a CBI Inspector and a backstage company, saying determination was insufficient grounds against them and that the allegations against the inspector bordered connected suspicion alternatively than sedate suspicion.
According to the CBI, DSP R.K. Rishi, Inspector Kapil Dhanked, and Selection Grade-II (SG II) authoritative Samir Kumar Singh, successful conspiracy with 2 backstage persons and definite others, had been "compromising the integrity of probe of definite cases connected extraneous pecuniary consideration".
The bureau had filed a chargesheet against Mr. Rishi, Mr. Dhanked, Mr. Singh, and M/s Frost International Ltd nether applicable provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act.
The tribunal said, "At the outset, it is pertinent to notation that though 1 of the premier allegations of the CBI successful the contiguous lawsuit is that of acceptance of bribe magnitude by accused 1 (Rishi) from antithetic persons and distributing it among accused 2 (Mr. Dhanked) and accused 3 (Singh) for getting unlawful favours from those persons, determination is nary witnesser to that effect." No betterment of immoderate specified wealth has been made from immoderate of the accused persons; therefore, the prosecution's case, to that extent, is rather weak, it said.
The tribunal besides discarded the confessional statements of Mr. Dhanked and Mr. Singh, saying they had nary evidentiary value.
On the allegations against Mr. Singh, the tribunal said that helium assisted the DSP successful his amerciable acts by providing him with captious and confidential accusation astir matters pending for probe with the CBI, and successful turn, the authoritative utilized to person wealth oregon amerciable gratification for the same. Some of the companies whose accusation was provided by Singh to Rishi included Frost International Ltd.
The tribunal noted that Mr. Singh's slope relationship showed currency deposits of implicit ₹4 lakh wrong a abbreviated span successful April 2019 and further deposits of astir ₹1.5 lakh successful November 2019.
"Hence, it is for the accused 3 to explicate the root of the currency received and deposited by him since nationalist servants are invariably not permitted to woody successful currency transactions successful excess of ₹20,000 oregon marque currency deposits, and the said signifier is discouraged.
"These are superior allegations and cannot beryllium discarded astatine the signifier of charge. Hence, successful my considered opinion, determination is capable worldly connected grounds to framework charges against accused 3 for the offences punishable nether IPC sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy) work with conception 381 (theft by clerk oregon servant of spot successful possession of master)...," the justice said.
The tribunal besides ordered framing of charges against Mr\. Singh nether the Prevention of Corruption Act. It underlined that Mr. Singh, a nationalist servant, illegally accessed immoderate documents without the accusation oregon cognition of the caput of the section concerned, and this amounted to "theft of information".
It besides ordered framing of akin charges against Mr. Rishi.
The tribunal discharged Mr. Dhanked, saying determination was nary wealth way and that the lawsuit against him "realms connected the borderline of suspicion but not sedate suspicion, truthful arsenic to framework charges".
It besides discharged Frost International Ltd., saying the allegations against it are simply connected the ground of immoderate assumptions and presumptions, arsenic good arsenic the alleged confessional connection of Mr. Dhanked, which is not admissible successful law.
