Tightening its grip on checking corruption in government departments, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday carried out countrywide searches on premises of civil servants and other officials.

The raids, the third countrywide search this year, began in the wee hours of the day and was targetted at officials of several government, bank and public sector undertakings for alleged bungling and corrupt practices, CBI sources said.

The raids were carried out simultaneously in major cities as part of the agency's drive to check corruption among government officials, a CBI spokesman told PTI.

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More than two dozen cases had been registered during the searches, which were carried out at over 50 places across the country. Among others, a passport clerk in Hyderabad was arrested for allegedly accepting bunches of passport forms along with bribe.

The premises of Additional Commissioner of Municipal Corporation of Delhi R M Singh and the medical superintendent of the Rao Tula Ram Hospital were also raided.

The CBI had carried out a similar raid on June 25 during which it recovered unaccounted wealth to the tune of crores of rupees.

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