India, April 27 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered an FIR in connection with alleged corruption involving a now-deceased man, said to be a close relative of former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, in a Government contract for constructing a drain, officials said on Sunday.

The case was earlier probed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Delhi Government and was transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by the Ministry of Home Affairs in September last year.

It is alleged that the accused contractor, Surender Kumar Bansal, had got the contract in 2015-16 in the name of various companies and took the payment, but the work was never executed. One such company was Kamal Singh, according to the FI...