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The Haryana authorities has fixed a greenish awesome to the CBI to analyse the alleged relation of 5 IAS officers successful the ₹590-crore IDFC First Bank fraud case.
The support has been granted nether conception 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA), according to which nary constabulary serviceman shall behaviour immoderate enquiry oregon probe into immoderate offence alleged to person been committed by a nationalist servant, without the erstwhile support of the competent authority.
With the government's go-ahead, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) tin present telephone the officers for questioning, sources said.
They said the CBI had moved a petition to proceed against the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers based connected the disclosure statements of the accused and the investigators mightiness look into assorted administrative approvals that allowed the depositing of authorities funds successful backstage banks.
The CBI conducted searches astatine aggregate locations successful Chandigarh and Panchkula connected Thursday (May 14, 2026) successful transportation with the bank-scam lawsuit and seized fiscal records and integer grounds linked to the alleged fraud.
Certain officials of the IDFC First Bank and the AU Small Finance Bank, successful connivance with nationalist servants from assorted Haryana authorities departments, had allegedly misappropriated authorities funds done fraudulent means, an authoritative connection said connected Friday (May 15, 2026).
Sixteen accused person truthful acold been arrested successful the case.
In a statement, a Haryana authorities spokesperson had precocious said "an enquiry committee constituted successful February 2026 by the Director, Development and Panchayats Department, had uncovered irregularities and discrepancies successful accounts operated successful IDFC First Bank and AU Small Finance Bank. Based connected the committee's study and supporting documents, the lawsuit was referred to the State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (SV&ACB) for transgression investigation".
Subsequently, connected February 23, an FIR was lodged astatine the SV&ACB constabulary presumption successful Panchkula nether assorted sections of the PCA and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
The substance was subsequently handed implicit to the CBI.
