India, May 17 -- CBI examines alleged network within capital's policing structure.

The arrest of Delhi Police Inspector Subhash Yadav by the Central Bureau of Investigation in an alleged bribery and corruption case has triggered a wider probe into what investigators suspect may have been a deeply entrenched protection and financial network operating within sections of the capital's policing structure.

Sources told The Sunday Guardian that preliminary findings in the investigation have revealed unusually close links between the arrested inspector and certain senior police officers, relationships that investigators believe may have extended beyond official professional interaction.

The CBI is examining whether some officers indirectly be...