India, Sept. 22 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken into its custody a Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) additional commissioner who is accused in a Rs.40 lakh bribery case, and who was untraceable since last Wednesday, when the Bombay High Court quashed the bail granted by a Thane court to him and two other accused.

The high court had remanded the additional commissioner posted in Raigad, Vinay Kumar Kantheti, and two other accused - CGST superintendent Rakesh Sinha and private person Narinder Rajput - to the CBI's custody for two days. While the CBI took custody of Sinha and Rajput for two days pursuant to the high court order and the duo was later remanded in judicial custody for 14 days, Kantheti, an Indian Rev...