A close associate of former Maharashtra Minister Anil Deshmukh allegedly attempted to track the location of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers investigating a bribery case against the Minister, the agency has alleged in its charge sheet in a case linked to the leak of its confidential report giving him a purported clean chit.
The draft report of the agency giving a purported clean chit to Anil Deshmukh, who was facing large-scale bribery allegations, was leaked to the media on August 29, 2021. Following this, the CBI arrested Anil Deshmukh's lawyer Anand Daga and the agency's Sub-Inspector Abhishek Tiwari. The two were charge-sheeted later that year.
In its supplementary charge sheet filed in August this year, the CBI has alleged that Anand Daga had shared mobile numbers of the CBI investigating officer and supervisory officers probing the bribery case against Anil Deshmukh with his distant relative Vikrant Deshmukh on June 7, 2021.
