The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is expected to question representatives of NGOs whose names have cropped up during its probe against a Home Ministry official Anand Joshi, who was allegedly issuing notices of foreign remittances violations to voluntary groups in an arbitrary manner.
CBI sources said the agency visited FCRA wing of the Home Ministry to look for records related to the case on Tuesday. The agency has alleged that the files of organisations such as Care India, Snehalya Charitable Trust, Indian HIV/AIDS Alliance and All India Primary Teachers Federation were recovered from Joshi.
The sources said the role of other officials of the Home Ministry is also under scanner, but any action would depend on the questioning of Joshi, an Under Secretary, and scrutiny of records.
The CBI claims that representatives of some of these organisations were called and Joshi demanded and obtained illegal gratification. The sources said Joshi would be confronted with the records seized by the agency from the Home Ministry.
Joshi, who had disappeared on the morning of May 11 from his home in Ghaziabad, was picked up from Tilak Nagar area of West Delhi on Sunday and taken to the CBI headquarters for questioning. He was arrested after he allegedly gave unconvincing answers to the questions posed by a team of Special Crime division of the CBI.