NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has initiated a probe into the alleged supply of Chinese parts, which were being camouflaged as ‘Made in Germany’, for manufacturing the 155mm Dhanush guns, an indigenous version of Boforsgun.

Acting on a source information that fake and cheap Chinese parts were reaching the production line of indigenised Bofors guns, the agency has booked a Delhi-based firm Sidh Sales Syndicate and unknown officers of Guns Carriage Factory (GCF), Jabalpur for criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery.Bofors artillery guns were used by army during the Kargil war in 1999.