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Updated: May 07, 2019 00:16 IST

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has conducted a lie-detector test on the complainant, Hyderabad-based businessman Sana Sathish Babu, and an accused, Somesh Prasad, in the corruption case it filed against the agency’s former special director, Rakesh Asthana, in October last year.

The test on Babu was aimed at ascertaining his claim of paying around Rs 3 crore bribe to Dubai- based brothers, Manoj Prasad and Somesh Prasad, who, he has alleged, claimed to be acting on behalf of Asthana, a CBI officer familiar with the development said on condition of anonymity.

Babu is facing a probe in a case of tax evasion and money laundering involving meat exporter Moin Qureshi. According to Babu, he had sought protection when the agency initiated a probe in 2016 against Qureshi, according to the CBI’s FIR registered on his complaint. Manoj Prasad, whom the CBI arrested in October and is now out on bail, refused to take a lie-detector test. The CVC too, has recorded Babu’s statement in which he deviated from some of the claims he had made. It has asked the CBI to verify them, said a second CBI officer