‘Rs 37 lakh cash, gold, silver seized’: CBI arrests DGCA deputy director general in bribery case

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation connected Sunday arrested a elder authoritative of DGCA and a typical of a backstage institution successful a bribery lawsuit of Rs 2.5 lakhs.According to an authoritative statement, the authoritative was the lawman manager wide astatine the airworthiness directorate successful directorate wide of civilian aviation office successful New Delhi."The CBI registered the instant lawsuit connected 18.04.2026 against an authoritative of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on with typical of a backstage institution based successful New Delhi connected allegation that the accused nationalist servant of DGCA demanded undue vantage from the backstage persons successful lieu of issuing approvals and permissions of applications pending with DGCA," the probing bureau saidLater, the cardinal bureau besides conducted searches astatine the premises linked to the accused and different backstage persons astatine 4 locations."Consequently, searches were conducted by CBI astatine premises of the accused nationalist servant and different backstage persons astatine 04 locations successful Delhi resulting successful seizure of currency worthy Rs 37 lakhs, golden and metallic coins and aggregate integer devices," the connection reads.According to the statement, the searches resulted successful seizure of currency worthy Rs 37 Lakhs, golden and metallic coins and aggregate integer devices.