CBI Arrests Non-public Company Director For Paying Rs 1 Crore Bribe To Railway Authentic
The arrested accused shall be produced sooner than the designated courtroom in Delhi on Friday
New Delhi:
The CBI has arrested the director of ABCI Infrastructure Ltd, Pawan Baid, who allegedly paid a bribe of Rs 1 crore to the executive administrative officer of Northeast Frontier Railways for buying contracts and were on run since January 17, officers stated on Friday.
The bribe was once allegedly paid to a relative of CAO/Development-II Northeast Frontier Railways Mahender Singh Chauhan who was once arrested on January 17, they stated.
“The accused (Baid) was once absconding since January 17, 2021 and was once no longer becoming a member of the investigation. Due to this fact, a Non-Bailable Warrant was once issued on January 23, 2021 in opposition to the stated accused via the Particular Pass judgement on CBI Circumstances, New Delhi,” CBI spokesperson RC Joshi stated.
“More than a few puts of hiding of accused located in Guwahati, Araria (Bihar), Siliguri, New Delhi, and so on. have been known, searched and he was once apprehended from Delhi,” he stated.
The arrested accused shall be produced sooner than the designated courtroom in Delhi on Friday, he stated.
Chauhan, a 1985-batch officer of Indian Railways Provider of Engineer, was once arrested from Maligaon, Guwahati, whilst two others — Bhupendra Rawat, an worker of ABCI Infrastructures Pvt Ltd and one Indra Singh — have been apprehended from Uttarakhand’s Dehradun the place the alleged bribe was once being exchanged on his directions on January 17, the officers stated.
But even so the arrested accused and the corporate, the CBI has additionally booked two railway officers — Deputy Leader Engineer Hem Chand Borah and Assistant Govt Engineer Laxmi Kant Verma.
It’s alleged that 58-year-old Chauhan had demanded the bribe to favour the accused corporate in awarding contracts for quite a lot of initiatives in Northeast Frontier Railways, the officers stated.
“The contractors have been allegedly being facilitated in awarding the contracts, processing of next expenses, free up of bills, and so on. via the general public functionaries in lieu of unlawful gratification,” Mr Joshi had stated in a commentary after the FIR was once filed.
The CBI has alleged that the stated director of the non-public corporate was once in touch with the stated CAO in quite a lot of ongoing initiatives within the Northeast Frontier Area.
“It was once additionally alleged that on his call for, the stated director, via his worker, were given delivered a bribe of Rs one crore to the relative (personal individual) of stated CAO at his place of abode in Dehradun,” the commentary had stated.
