Two Senior Supreme Court Advocates arrested

CBI has arrested two senior advocates of the Supreme Court ,for allegedly accepting bribe, for granting affiliation to a Ghaziabad-based Law College. Both Mr Rajendra Singh Rana and Mr.Manish Tyagi are senior lawyers at the Supreme Court, have been arrested from Pitampura in North Delhi yesterday, informed CBI sources said. CBI had monitoring the telephone calls of Rana and swooped at his residence in Pitampura late in the evening ,when ,Tyagi had arrived with the file of the law college. Claimed CBI ,to ,have recovered over Rs one lakh from his residence before arresting them. Simultaneous searches were also carried out at seven places in and around Delhi including the law college in Ghaziabad, CBI sources said. Rana alleged that the agency was deliberately trying to trap him. While he claimed that both of them had been brought to the CBI headquarters for questioning and were only detained, agency sources maintained, that they had been arrested, and a case of bribery registered against them. A law college has to get affiliated to the Bar Council of India to become functional. Rana was first elected to the state Bar Council of Delhi in 1998 where he became Vice Chairman in 2000. In 2010, he was elected to the Bar Council of India. Tyagi is on the advisory board of Global College of Law.