New Delhi: Government has ordered a detailed probe into the "activities" including "links" of senior scientist C K Jain of Central Forensic and Scientific Laboratory (CFSL), who was arrested by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence in March 2003 along with foreign and Indian currency worth Rs 65 lakh.

Official sources said the government has asked Central probing agencies to carry out a detailed probe as to how Jain managed to visit foreign countries on as many as 161 occasions without informing any competent authority.

Role of some Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers was also likely to come under scanner, as Jain's conduct was an immediate responsibility of CBI as CFSL comes under it, the sources said.

The said that Jain had visited several foreign countries Including Dubai at 161 occasion whereas he had informed his superiors only twice that he was going outside the country.

The security agencies have been directed to find out as to how Jain could go out of the country on as many as 159 occasions without informing and that too in an organisation like the CBI and under direct control of sensitive Home Ministry, the sources said.

Jain, head of Physics division of CFSL, was arrested by the DRI on March 7, 2003 while he was about do board a flight to Dubai.

The seized currencies included Dollars, Pounds, and Canadian Dollars besides Indian Rupees, they added.

PTI