Overview
- The CBI arrested Satyendra Kumar at Lucknow railway station on Friday after tracing his movements from Nepal and acting on intelligence about his train from Guna to Lucknow.
- Kumar was named in a CBI charge sheet filed in 2001, went underground soon after, and had a permanent arrest warrant issued when he repeatedly failed to appear for trial.
- Investigators said the capture followed more than 25 years of sustained physical and technical surveillance combined with human intelligence that located him in Nepal and detected his recent return to India.
- A dedicated CBI team intercepted Kumar around midnight and he is being brought to Ranchi on transit remand for production before the court while the agency has not specified his precise role in the original charges.
- The arrest may speed progress in the long-running fodder scam, a set of 55 cases alleging about ₹950 crore in fraudulent withdrawals from the undivided Bihar treasury that has already produced convictions of senior figures and remains politically and legally sensitive.