New Delhi:
The officers who led probe in the AgustaWestland helicopter scam, Adarsh Housing scam and CPM leader Ajit Sarkar's murder case are among 20 CBI officials who have won police medals for meritorious service on the occasion of Independence day.
Mahipal Yadav, DIG Anti-Corruption, who is supervising probe in AgustaWestland helicopter bribery scam involving the then Indian Air Force chief, and Abhin D Modak, DIG Special Crime Mumbai, who probed Adarsh Housing scam have been awarded police medals.
President Police Medals for distinguished services have been given to Tapan Jyoti Ghosh, Additional SP, Economic Offences Wing Kolkata and Kadayam Subramanian Nageswaran, Inspector, with Multi-disciplinary Monitoring agency probing the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
A 1997-batch Kerala cadre officer, Mr Yadav is leading probe in the recent railway bribery scandal involving former Railway Minister Pawan Bansal's nephew and disproportionate assets inquiry against Mulayam Singh.
Mr Modak, 1997-batch Tamil Nadu cadre officer, has also cracked the case of an impersonator who posed as CBI officer and fooled some Bollywood personalities and MTNL fraud case in which some senior officers of the state-run telecom firm were arrested for making a dent of crores in the state exchequer.
SP PL Meena, awarded Police Medal for meritorious service, is handling Special Crime Unit in CBI Headquarters. He had probed sensational Sarkar murder case who was killed in 1998 at Subhash Nagar in Bihar's Purnia district in which names of some influential politicians had surfaced and also the infamous murder of DFO Sanjay Singh in Bihar.
Other medal winners include Additional SP Jai Prakash Mishra, DSPs R VS Lohomor, KS Lochab, Prabhat Singh Jamwal, Sarala Das Mishra, Inspectors Praveen Kumar Tyagi, Vivek Dhir Shahnaz Khan, Sub Inspector Rama Prasad Sarkar, ASI Ishwar Singh and Head Constables RC Katoch, K Premajan, Bansidhar Bijarnia and Vazir Singh.