CBI arrests Wadhawans in Yes Bank case

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 26

The CBI today arrested DHFL promoter Kapil Wadhawan and RKW Developers promoter Dheeraj Wadhawan, accused of bribing former Yes Bank CEO Rana Kapoor for getting loan, from a Mahabaleshwar-based quarantine facility in Satara district of Maharashtra.

Confirming the arrest of the Wadhawan brothers, CBI officials said they would now be produced before a special local court in Mumbai. The Wadhawan brothers are named as accused in the CBI FIR pertaining to swindling of money by Kapoor and others, the officials said.

The two were absconding since the case was registered against them on March 7, the agency had alleged in one of its earlier official statements in which it had intimated the Satara district administration not to release them from the quarantine facility without a no objection certificate (NOC) from it.

The two accused were held by the Satara police earlier this month while violating prohibitory orders related to the lockdown when cars carrying Wadhawan family members were stopped at Panchgani in Maharashtra. They were kept at a quarantine facility in Mahabaleshwar by the district administration, the officials said.