In a development related to the bribery case against former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh, a charge sheet by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has revealed that a confidant of Deshmukh attempted to track the location of CBI officers involved in the investigation. The charge sheet also implicates Anil Deshmukh's lawyer and a CBI Sub-Inspector in the conspiracy to leak a confidential report that purportedly cleared Deshmukh of bribery allegations.

The draft report of the agency giving a purported clean chit to Anil Deshmukh, who was facing large-scale bribery allegations, was leaked to the media on August 29, 2021. Following this, the CBI arrested Anil Deshmukh's lawyer Anand Daga and the agency's Sub-Inspector Abhishek Tiwari. The two were charge-sheeted later that year, news wire PTI reported.