India, March 12 -- The Mumbai unit of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked the proprietor and an employee of a corporate advisory and legal services firm in a corruption case. The accused allegedly accepted a bribe of Rs.20 lakh from a businessman to influence the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Mumbai, to secure a favourable order for the businessman's firm in an NCLT proceeding.

The accused are A Khetan, the proprietor of the advisory firm, and an employee, M Bhat, according to the CBI's First information Report (FIR). On Monday, the CBI also carried out searches at the premises of a former a senior NCLT officer, apart from earlier searches after its anti-corruption branch registered the case on receipt of a compl...