Top Delhi I-T official booked by CBI is Punjab & Haryana HC judge’s husband

The CBI, which searched 17 locations in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Khammam, said residential and official premises of I-T officials as well as those of a chartered accountant, Sanjay Bhandari, were searched during the operation.

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Sources said the CBI recovered documents related to properties worth Rs 2.6 crore, Rs 16 lakh in cash, 4.25 kg of gold jewellery and 13 kg of silver articles while searching the premises of one of the officials.

The judge’s brother said: “Yes. S K Mittal is the judge’s husband. This is a case regarding travel bookings for which he (Mittal) had made all payments from his bank accounts. But nobody asked us anything till date.”

He said the charges relate to Mittal’s trips between Chennai and Delhi in 2013-2014 when was posted at Chennai.

“This case is not of disproportionate assets but relates to chartered accountants making travel booking. In all, it would be around 5-6 trips by air and by train amounting to around Rs 30,000. We have made payments through bank accounts and we have records. The CBI raided his premises in Delhi and did not find a single incriminating paper,” the judge’s brother said.

Mittal was in Chandigarh until Wednesday morning. He had come from Delhi earlier for treatment at PGIMER, he said.