Seven officials from Central Railway (CR), including its Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) Atul Rane, are being probed by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for their alleged involvement in a canteens-and-stalls scam. The special CBI court directed the agency’s Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) to carry out an inquiry against the officials. The court also directed the sleuths to book the CR employees, if found guilty, under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Bone of contention: A railway canteen at CST. Officials have been accused of accepting money from stall owners to allow them to operate without renewing their licences, or paying revenue to CR; (inset) Ajay Bose. Pics/Bipin Kokate, Pradeep Dhivar