New Delhi, January 27: CBI sources on Sunday defended the decision to transfer Sudhanshu Dhar Mishra, the investigating officer in the ICICI bank fraud case, saying that the officer is suspected of leaking information about the case. ICICI Bank-Videocon Scam: CBI in Fix After it Transfers Officer Who Booked Chanda Kochhar and Others.

Notably, Sudhanshu Dhar Mishra was one of the officers transferred by interim CBI Director M Nageswara Rao when Rao took over as the CBI Director. ICICI Bank-Videocon Scam: CBI Raids Offices of Deepak Kochhar And Venugopal Dhoot in Mumbai in Chanda Kochhar Case.

Superintendent of Police Sudhanshu Dhar Mishra was transferred to Ranchi, a day after filing the FIR in the case against former ICICI CEO Chanda Kochhar, her husband Deepak and Videocon group MD Venugopal Dhoot on January 22, said CBI sources.

"ICICI case is one of the very important cases that has been pending without progress. The preliminary enquiry was registered earlier in this case and was later converted into registered case.

Hence he (Sudhanshu Dhar Mishra) has been transferred out. A detailed inquiry into the matter is pending. Searches were under the supervision of Mohit Gupta, SP (CBI). Role of Sudhanshu Dhar Mishra in keeping the case pending and other persons if any is also been looked into", news agency ANI quoted CBI sources.

The CBI also said that on January 22, 2019, a case was registered and immediately after that, searches were proposed to be conducted. However, possibility of info about searches being leaked was suspected. Therefore discreet inquiry was conducted and role of SP Sudhanshu Dhar Mishra was strongly suspected."

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