Agarwal, co-founder of Micromax Technologies Pvt Ltd, his associate Manish Tuli, four North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) engineers Rajesh Wadhwa, MK Gupta, Satish Kumar and Naresh Kumar, and Delhi Development Authority's (DDA) junior engineer Rajesh Gupta were sent to CBI custody.
Special CBI judge Poonam Bamba, however, remanded NDMC's engineer Sanjay Kumar and private person Ashok Lamba, who were also arrested in the case, in judicial custody till August 27.
Seven accused were produced before the court from CBI custody, which was granted on August 8.
NDMC's superintendent engineer Rajesh Wadhwa and assistant engineer MK Gupta, both of whom were arrested yesterday from a hotel in Jaipur where they were allegedly hiding, were also produced before the court.
During the hearing, CBI told the court that they need sustained custodial interrogation of the accused to complete its probe as there was a possibility that some higher officials may also be involved in this entire conspiracy.
"Some persons are evading arrest and they are not joining the investigation. Some higher officials may be involved in this case. Transcripts of the telephonic conversations clearly reflects that some higher officials may also be involved. We need remand to unearth the larger conspiracy," the CBI said.
Agarwal, who has stepped down as the managing director of Micromax mobiles following his arrest, Tuli and other accused were arrested on August 7 when they were allegedly giving a bribe of Rs 30 lakh to NDMC officials for regularisation of an unauthorised property.
During the hearing, CBI also told the court that since two of the accused were arrested on Tuesday, they need to confront other accused with them and for that, custodial interrogation was necessary.
It also said some new facts have emerged during the probe and the accused are also required to be confronted with the telephonic conversations.
The defence lawyers, who appeared for the accused, opposed the CBI's plea for custodial interrogation saying the agency has not given any ground for it.
Senior advocate Vikas Pahwa countered the CBI's arguments saying the plea that accused were to be confronted with each other was not a valid ground to seek custody and the agency has not explained as to what they have done earlier during the custodial interrogation of the seven accused.
"CBI is trying to hide some material facts from the court. Kindly see the case diary as to what they have done during the seven days of police custody," Pahwa said.
CBI had earlier told the court that Agarwal and Tuli were arrested while allegedly giving Rs 30 lakh as bribe to NDMC engineers to regularize the unauthorized construction of a banquet hall owned by Tuli. It also alleged that DDA official was acting as a middleman.
The accused have been booked for the offences of criminal conspiracy under the IPC and various provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, including public servant taking illegal gratification and misusing official position.
CBI had said that FIR was registered on a source information that Agarwal and Tuli had entered into a deal with engineers of the civic body to get clearance for construction of the banquet hall in Wazirpur area in exchange of bribe of Rs 50 lakh.
The CBI had told the court that during the probe and raids, Rs 1.1 crore had been recovered from the accused.
Agarwal had stepped down as the MD of the company which, in a statement, had clarified that Tuli has no association with the firm.
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