MHA officer held in bulletproof jacket scam

The multi-crore bulletproof jacket procurement deal got murkier on Wednesday when the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a senior ministry of home affairs (MHA) official for granting undue favours to some suppliers.

The officer, RKSharma, holding the rank of a director, was head of a special cell called Modernisation & Provisioning of Central Police Forces and was looking after allocation of weaponry to such paramilitary forces.Preliminary investigations by the CBI revealed th…