KANPUR: A six-member team of CBI’s anti-corruption wing raided the house of a contractor, Puneet Agarwal, in the posh Chaugurji area of Etawah on Monday morning allegedly with regard to Lucknow’s Gomti riverfront scam.
The search operation went around for four hours and the team returned with some crucial documents and files.
The anti-corruption wing of CBI, Lucknow has registered a case after preliminary investigation in the scam.
After this, the process of raids has started at the residences, offices and establishments of the people associated with the scam across the state.
In this sequence, on Monday morning, the team reached the house of Agarwal.
The six-member CBI team also had a woman member and reached the city in an SUV.
After conducting a search operation for nearly four hours at Agarwal’s Chaugurji residence, the team left with important documents and files. The CBI team had also gone to Agarwal’s Awas Vikas home, but on finding it locked, sealed the house.
The team members did not interact with the media all throughout the operation.
SSP Etawah Brijesh Kumar Singh told reporters that the CBI team had informed the police about its arrival and later while departing from the city.
