Bhagalpur: The CBI has summoned Barun Kumar Thakur, chief recovery manager of Bank of Baroda in Purnea on May 7 after filing charge-sheet against him and many others for their involvement in Srijan government fund-transfer scam that erupted in Bhagalpur in August last year.

Sources said that during the tenure of Thakur, a cheque amounting to over Rs 265 crore was transferred from the bank's Bhagalpur branch to Srijan's account.

The then chief manager of the bank, A.K. Singh, has already been arrested by SIT and is currently in jail.

The CBI has already filed a charge-sheet against Singh, and is said to be getting ready to charge-sheet against many others whose involvement in the scam have been established during the probe.

Thakur would have to appear before the CBI's designated court in Patna on May 7 and procure bail.

The source disclosed that the CBI team camping in Bhagalpur to probe the scam had earlier asked the Bhagalpur district administration to submit a list of all district land acquisition officers who were posted there, 2003 onwards. The CBI already suspects their involvement in embezzlement of government funds along with the Srijan NGO and has charge-sheeted them.

A former land acquisition officer, Rajiv Ranjan Singh, absconding since September after the SIT, and later the CBI, sounded a high alert on him, has also been charge-sheeted along with other officials whose involvement was established.

"The officials who are on the CBI's radar were charge-sheeted. They would soon be summoned by the CBI court," the source said.

Singh was posted as additional divisional manager, Bhagalpur.

He had retired from service but was absconding. He failed to furnish formalities for taking his claims like pension PF, gratuities etc. The source revealed Rs 67 lakh was released by the state government for Singh's service claims Rs 35 lakh as pension and Rs 32 from GPF).

He claimed the amount could be seized by the CBI to compensate for losses incurred because of government money embezzled by Srijan earlier.

The CBI has also filed a charge-sheet against Singh along with former nazir of land acquisition department, Bhagalpur, Rakesh Jha who arrested earlier by SIT in Srijan scam case.