NEW DELHI, Mar 15: The CBI has booked five Lieutenant Colonel-ranked officers, 12 other personnel and six civilians for alleged corruption in recruitment in the Army through Service Selection Board centres, officials said today.
The agency carried out searches at 30 locations spread across 13 cities, including the Base Hospital in Delhi Cantonment, today in connection with the case, they said.
The search operation was spread across Kapurthala, Bhatinda, Delhi, Kaithal, Palwal, Lucknow, Bareilly, Gorakhpur, Visakhapatnam, Jaipur, Guwahati, Jorhat and Chirangon.
Lt Col MCSNA Bhagwan of the Army Air Defence Corps, the alleged mastermind of the recruitment racket, is among those booked, they said.