India arrests officials of aviation regulator, Reliance in drone bribery probe
Published on: April 20, 2026, 12:37 p.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
In a statement late on Sunday, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said it had acted following a tip-off that the Reliance executive and the government official had settled on an amount of 1.5 million rupees ($16,000) to process three applications related to drone imports by Asteria Aerospace. The CBI named the two men as Mudavath Devula, a deputy director general at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), and Bharat Mathur, a senior vice president from Reliance.
