The CBI has arrested a Lt. Colonel and a middleman in connection with an alleged transfer racket at the Army Headquarters in New Delhi in which lakhs of rupees were paid by officers to manipulate their postings.
The CBI, which registered the case on the basis of intelligence gathered by it, arrested Lt. Col. Ranganathan Suvramani Moni and middleman Gaurav Kohli while an alleged bribe of Rs. 2 lakh was changing hands for transfer of a Bengaluru based Army officer.
The FIR names a Brigadier but his name has not been included in the list of accused. The alleged racket was suspected to be going on in the Army Headquarters with the involvement of senior officers there.
The bribe was being paid through hawala channels, the FIR said. The CBI is also focusing on how the officers were ready to pay lakhs of rupees to get a posting of their choice.
The case has been registered against Lt. Col. Ranganathan Suvramani Moni, Personnel Division, Army Headquarters; officer Purushottam, who is based in Hyderabad; Kohli and barracks and stores officer S. Subhas, Bengaluru.
It is alleged that Moni had entered into a criminal conspiracy with Kohli and Purshottam, who is posted in ESD Kakinara, West Bengal for influencing the transfer of many officers.
