The agency has also named in the charge sheet Rafiq Memon, owner of a private firm who was an alleged accomplice of Rajesh, a former collector of Surendranagar district in Gujarat.
The agency carried out searches at 30 locations spread across 13 cities, including the Base Hospital in Delhi Cantonment, on Monday in connection with the case
Asthana was booked on the allegations of criminal conspiracy, corruption and criminal misconduct under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The case pertains to the alleged demand of Rs 1.50 lakh -- at the rate of Rs 50,000 per month for January, February and March -- in bribe to release pending bills of a company, officials said.
The CBI has made Indrani Mukerjea, who is currently in jail in Mumbai, approver in the case.
The bench listed the matter for further hearing on March 7.
Of the two arrested, one is a relative of the deputy director general at the directorate general of mines safety who was allegedly receiving Rs 35 lakh.
Newly-appointed CBI Chief Rishi Kumar Shukla takes charge over the probe agency on Monday.
The government is understood to have put forth a few names of probable contenders who could be considered for appointment as the next CBI director.
The meeting, which was held at the prime minister's official residence, was attended by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha...
Rakesh Asthana, who had a bitter fight with ousted agency chief Alok Verma, was on Friday appointed as the new Director General of the Bureau of Civil Aviation...
He also demanded that the government come clean on the issues and make public the CVC report, Justice A K Patnaik's report and minutes of the January 10...
The news of Justice AK Sikri being given a plum posting broke days after he along with PM Narendra Modi voted to remove Alok Verma as the chief of the Central...
The government is understood to have recommended Justice Sikri's name for the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal (CSAT) late last year.
The move comes a day after Verma resigned from his position.
The move comes a day after Verma was removed from his post by a high powered committee.
Justice Najmi Waziri also refused to quash the FIR lodged against CBI Deputy Superintendent Devender Kumar and alleged middleman Manoj Prasad.
Alok Verma, CBI Director's transfer has been taken barely 48 hours after the Supreme Court reinstated the officer, who was on leave following a public spat...
The high-powered committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi met for over two hours on Thursday to decide fate of Verma, reinstated by a Supreme Court...
Alok Verma resumed office a day after the Supreme Court reinstated him as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director with limited powers on Wednesday.
Rahul Gandhi remarks come after the Supreme Court reinstated CBI Director Verma, setting aside the Centre's decision on October 23 to divest him of his powers.
The Supreme Court reinstated Alok Verma, setting aside the Centre's decision to divest him of his powers, but restrained him from taking any major policy...
The secretaries– Ram Naresh Tripathi, Om Prakash Kashyap and Santosh Awasthi– were booked under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act in Hazratganj...
Sana had claimed that he was seeking relief from the repeated summons issued by the CBI team probing corruption case against meat exporter Moin Qureshi which...
Justice Najmi Waziri asked Verma to go to CVC's office on Thursday after his counsel said that there are allegations of mala fide against him in Asthana's...
