Title - CBI to probe leak of Kumar’s arrest news

The CBI has started an internal probe into the leak of the news of the arrest of Railway Board member Mahesh Kumar, whose wife moved valuables and property records from her house with the help of a Railway Protection Force inspector, anticipating a search by the agency.

The role of a senior officer of the RPF has also come under CBI lens who had instructed the inspector to collect the bag given by Kumar's wife and hid it at safe place, CBI sources said.

They said the CBI has questioned an RPF inspector who told the agency that he had acted on the instructions of a senior officer.

The source said the agency is carrying out an internal probe into the news leakage of Kumar's arrest from the Mumbai airport by the agency to his wife and instructed her to transfer valuables and documents from her house anticipating an imminent search operation by the CBI.