A team of CBI officials from Delhi arrested Vinod Sharma, DIG of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), from his Gomtinagar residence here on Wednesday. Though the CBI officials were tight-lipped about the operation, police sources said the DIG had been nabbed in connection with a recruitment scam.

The CBI team had nabbed a CBI constable Brij Bhushan in the same case shortly after arriving here on Tuesday. Sources said Rs1.5 lakh was recovered from the constable's house. Soon, the CBI team raided the DIG's house on the CRPF campus here. Sources said a number of incriminating documents and unaccounted for cash was recovered from the DIG's house. Vinod Sharma was present during the search operation. He was detained but not taken into custody.

The CBI team arrested him on Wednesday afternoon after vetting the seized documents and establishing prima facie misuse of authority in the CRPF recruitment.

Sharma will be produced before the court for remand on Thursday.

Deepak Gidwani/ DNA-Daily News & Analysis Source: 3D Syndication