CBI files corruption case against officials of Delhi Jal Board, construction body NBCC
India Today
The CBI has filed a corruption case against the officials of Delhi Jal Board and National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) Limited.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a corruption case against officials of Delhi Jal Board and National Buildings Construction Corporation Limited (NBCC) on Saturday. The federal agency alleged that the accused had entered into a conspiracy to provide undue favour to an ineligible private company to make it technically eligible.
It was alleged that the accused had entered into a conspiracy to provide undue favor to said private company and had made it technically eligible (which was otherwise not allegedly eligible). It was further alleged that a tender was issued in December 2017 for SITC of electromagnetic flow meters and corresponding O and M operations for five years of Delhi Jal Board.
The CBI in a statement said, "It was also alleged that due to conspiracy of the accused with a said private company and false certificates & fabricated deviation statement issued by NBCC, the said private company qualified and bagged tender worth Rs 38.02 crore."
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Searches were conducted at 10 locations in Delhi/NCR on the premises of the accused, which led to the recovery of incriminating documents and digital evidence. The officials recovered cash worth Rs 1.5 crores, jewellery worth about Rs 1.2 crore(approx), Fixed deposits worth Rs 69 lakh and various property documents were also found from the residence of then General Manager, NBCC.
The agency has booked former Delhi Jal Board (DJB) officials Chief Engineer Jagdish Kumar Arora, Superintendent Engineer P K Gupta, Executive Engineer Sushil Kumar Goel, Assistant Engineer Ashok Sharma, AAO Ranjit Kumar, then General Manager NBCC DK Mittal, and Project Executive Sadhan Kumar besides private company NKG Infrastructure Limited.
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