CBI's interim chief M Nageshwar Rao's wife gave Rs 1.14 crore to Kolkata based firm, claims Registrar of Companies

Amidst the Central Bureau of Investigation infighting amongst its top two officers, which has led the case to the doors of Supreme Court, the government appointed interim director M Nageshwar Rao’s wife had given Rs 1.14 crore to a Kolkata based firm between 2011 and 2014 as per the Registrar of Companies.

The records of the Registrar of Companies show that, M Sandhya, wife of M Nageshwar Rao had borrowed Rs 25 lakh from the Angela Mercantiles Private Ltd. In March 2011. The records show that in between 2012 and 2014 financial years, Sandhya had given loans of Rs 1.14 crore to the AMPL.

Praween Agarwal, a Kolkata based man, who is said to be the director of AMPL as per the RoC records told The Indian Express, that “She (Sandhya) is the wife of our dear family friend (Rao). I know him (Rao) for a long time, when he was an officer in Odisha. They are like our family. What is wrong if you give loans or accept some investment from a person you know as your family friend?”

Nageshwar Rao was earlier posted in the Central Reserve Police Forces between 2008 and 2011. He then returned to Odisha in 2012 before getting posted as the Joint Director in the CBI in April 2016. Rao, is an Odisha cadre IPS officer, who had taken the charge of the interim director of the premier investigation agency after, a governments order which had sent the infighting chiefs, Alok Verma and Rakesh Asthana on leave.

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