NEW DELHI: The arrested Central Board of Film Certification CEO Rakesh Kumar had ignored several agents in different states to himself pocket more and more money, which ultimately sealed his fate and led to his arrest.
CBI sources say that an authorized agent, who used to work for CBFC was ignored by Rakesh Kumar as he had his own favorite agents who would work for him and collect money on his behalf.
This agent approached the CBI after which Rakesh Kumar was arrested and his web of corruption unearthed. This authorized agent for censor certification had approached CBI alleging that Shripati Mishra (another agent) had been demanding Rs 70,000 on behalf of Kumar for issuing the censor certificate for a regional language film from Chhattisgarh "Mor Dauki Ke Bihav".
Mishra was arrested along with advisory panel member of the Censor Board Sarvesh Jaiswal last week.
CBI has so far recovered papers of at least six properties from Rakesh Kumar, said sources. On Thursday, CBI recovered more than 1 kg of gold from two bank lockers owned by Rakesh Kumar's wife. Earlier, the agency had reportedly recovered 2 kg of gold and diamond jewellery from him.
CBI is presently questioning several agents in the scandal to know more about Rakesh Kumar's dealings and films which were in pipeline and for which he had already taken money.
It is suspected that Rakesh Kumar may have invested in some properties in the name of other persons as well.
When asked whether more arrests could be made in the scandal and big names from Bollywood could be examined, CBI officials said that they need to collect solid evidence before laying hands on somebody who has already paid the bribes.
An Indian Railways Personnel Officer, Kumar joined as CEO of CBFC in January this year.
