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Top officials booked for corruption
February 03, 2005

Cases were registered against several top officials including the Airport Authority director in Hyderabad, the Hindustan Shipyard Limited general manager and the senior commercial manager of Railways after Central Bureau of Investigation's anti-corruption raids.

A total of 194 people were booked after CBI conducted raids on some 249 premises all over the country.

At least 126 of those against whom cases are registered are public servants, including top officials of the income tax department and the Delhi Development Authority.

Raids were also conducted against former director general of the meteorological department, S K Srivastava.

Cash to the tune of Rs 1.11 crore was recovered and movable and immovable properties worth Rs 10.5 crore detected, CBI director U S Misra told reporters in Delhi on Wednesday.

The raids will continue, Misra said.

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