South Tripura's DFO Gaurav Wagh has not been arrested, questioned, or even formally suspended. His Mumbai-based maternal uncle was caught at Agartala railway station with Rs 59.94 lakh in cash, allegedly packed at the DFO's official residence the night before — while a forest guard watched — and then driven to the station in a vehicle registered to the DFO, by the DFO's own forest guard. The uncle had flown in. He chose to leave by train, reportedly to avoid scrutiny.
On April 24, the Tripura Police Special Branch and Government Railway Police intercepted Rajendra Chintaman Kaklij — maternal uncle of South Tripura DFO Gaurav Ravindra Wagh — at Agartala railway station with Rs 59,94,500 in unaccounted cash. By the police's own paper trail, the cash was allegedly packed under suspicious circumstances at the DFO's official residence the previous night, with a forest guard present; Kaklij, who had arrived from Mumbai by flight, opted to leave by train and was driven to the station in a vehicle registered to the DFO, accompanied by that same forest guard and a driver. A court has remanded Kaklij to police custody until April 29 under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The DFO has been 'attached to the state headquarters' — the Indian forest service's polite term for waiting somewhere quieter — and remains neither arrested, questioned, nor formally suspended; the SDFO Sabroom is holding charge in addition to his own.