The CBI on Sunday arrested GAIL’s Director, Marketing, E.S. Ranganathan in a case of alleged bribery. He was later sent to the agency’s custody for one day.On Saturday, the CBI had arrested five persons in this connection. They were identified as Pawan Gaur, Ramakrishnan Nair, Rajesh Kumar, Saurabh Gupta, and Aditya Bansal.”GAIL official, E.S. Ranganathan, the Director, Marketing, has been arrested by us for allegedly taking bribes from businessmen for issuing discount orders on purchasing of petro products. Five persons were arrested yesterday.””We have got custodial remand of all of them. The court granted six days police custody to Gaur, Nair, and Rajesh Kumar and one day police custody of Ranganathan, Gupta, and Bansal,” said a senior CBI official.The CBI had on Saturday conducted raids at the residence of Ranganathan and several NCR-based locations in connection with an alleged bribe case.
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