CBI Raids Ex SBP Director’s Place

The office and residence of prominent charted accountant and former State Bank of Patiala director Dr Ashwin Gupta has been raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). They took a laptop, files and bundles of paper work in possession.

According to the sources, the CBI followed the trail dumped by Income Tax department’s DC PK Bhattacharya, whom CBI nailed down on Tuesday and on Wednesday at five in the morning at around 5 am, they raided the residence of Gupta at Green Park.

Mr. Bhattacharya was posted at Ludhiana but was living in Jalandhar.

Sources revealed that Bhattacharya came to Gupta on the night of Tuesday and delivered cash telling that he would take it away afterward. But, the IT officer was arrested by CBI and in the morning, the team reached Gupta’s residence.