CBI Arrests Senior Railway Official, 2 Others In Rs.1 Crore Bribery Case
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Mahender Singh Chauhan, a 1985-batch Indian Railways Service of Engineer (IRSE) officer, was arrested from Maligaon in Assam's Guwahati, while two others -- Bhupendra Rawat, an employee of accused company ABCI Infrastructures Private Limited, and Indra Singh -- were apprehended from Uttarakhand's Dehradun, where the bribe amount was allegedly delivered on Chauhan's instructions, they said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has seized ₹ 2.14 crore in cash -- ₹ one crore from Dehradun, ₹ 54 lakh during searches and ₹ 60 lakh paid as bribe previously -- the officials said.
Besides the arrested accused and the company, the agency has booked railway officials Hem Chand Borah (deputy chief engineer), Laxmi Kant Verma (assistant executive engineer) and director of ABCI Infrastructures Private Limited Pawan Baid.
It is alleged that Chauhan (58) had demanded the bribe to show favours to the accused company in awarding contracts for various projects in the Northeast Frontier Railways, the officials said.
"The contractors were allegedly being facilitated in awarding the contracts, processing of subsequent bills, release of payments etc. by the public functionaries in lieu of illegal gratifications," CBI Spokesperson Joshi said in a statement.
The agency has alleged that Baid, the director of the private company, was in contact with Chauhan in connection with various ongoing projects in the Northeast Frontier region.
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