Chandigarh, Feb. 13 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has lodged an FIR against seven cops of Chandigarh Police's Crime Branch, Sector 11, for the alleged abduction of a dentist from the District Courts Complex in 2022.

In August 2024, the Supreme Court had tasked the CBI with an independent probe into allegations made by dentist Mohit Dhawan that he was abducted by Chandigarh police personnel from the court complex in Sector 43 on January 7, 2022, when he went to mark his presence before a magistrate's court in connection with a cheating case against him.

Dhawan was booked after a Nairobi national accused him of cheating her when she came to India in 2017-18 to get dental implants from his clinic.

Through preliminary inquir...