PTI
 
New Delhi, Apr 14: Senior Indian Foreign Service officer Rakesh Kumar, named by the CBI in a human trafficking case, arrived in New Delhi on Friday morning after prolonging his hospitalisation in a German city for nearly a fortnight.

Kumar, a 1972 batch IFS officer, at present posted as the Special Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs, arrived at the IGI Airport in a Lufthansa flight from Munich.

Incidentally, Kumar arrived a day after CBI served a notice to the MEA under Section 160 of Criminal Procedure Code asking it to direct the officer to make himself available before the agency for questioning.

The investigating agency had registered a preliminary enquiry into the case during which it found prima facie evidence against Kumar during his tenure as the director general of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and named him in the FIR with three others.

Besides Kumar, programme officer of ICCR Kehkeshan Tyagi and two others - Har Gulab Singh and Shiv Kumar Sharma – were named by the CBI in its FIR filed in a designated CBI court after which raids were conducted on the residential and official premises of all the accused on March 29. The remand of Sharma, who was arrested by the CBI, will end on Friday.