Chandigarh, June 7 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has carried out searches at multiple locations linked to senior Haryana cadre officers and a private consultancy firm as part of its ongoing investigation into the alleged diversion of Rs 661 crore in government funds parked in bank accounts of several Haryana government departments and departments under the Chandigarh administration.

Official sources said the agency conducted simultaneous searches at six locations across Chandigarh, Panchkula, Delhi-NCR and Noida. The raids were carried out at premises linked to IAS officers Pankaj Agarwal, Mohammad Shayin and Pradeep Kumar, IFS officer Navneet Kumar Srivastava, as well as Noida-based Vipam Consultancy Private Limited and its...