AgustaWestland: Ex-Air Force Chief SP Tyagi Sent to 4-day CBI Custody

New Delhi: Former Air Force chief SP Tyagi was sent to four-day CBI custody on Saturday, a day after he was arrested for alleged corruption in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case.

Tyagi, his cousin Sanjiv alias Julie Tyagi and lawyer Gautam Khaitan, who were also arrested on Friday, will now be produced in court on December 14.

His advocate N Hariharan also claimed that the decision to procure 12 VVIP choppers from AgustaWestland was a "collective" one and the PMO was also a part of it. "It was a collective decision and not his (Tyagi's) individual one. It was a collective decision of which PMO was also a part," he told the court.

(With agency inputs)