NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday said that it registered a case against former officials of the Delhi Jal Board and NBCC and carried out searches at several locations and recovered Rs 1.5 crores from the premises of the then General Manager of the NBCC.
CBI spokesperson RC Joshi said that the agency registered a case against Jagdish Kumar Arora, the then Chief Engineer (WW), Delhi Jal Board, PK Gupta, the then SE (WW)-II, Delhi Jal Board, Sushil Kumar Goel, the then Executive Engineer (E&M), Delhi Jal Board, Ashok Sharma, the then AE (E&M), Delhi Jal Board, Ranjit Kumar, the then AAO, Delhi Jal Board, DK Mittal, the then General Manager, NBCC (India) Limited, Sadhan Kumar, Project Executive, NBCC (India) Limited, NKG Infrastructure Limited through its Director, unknown public servants and private persons.
Joshi said that the agency carried out searches at 10 locations in Delhi-NCR at the premises of the accused which led to the recovery of incriminating documents and digital evidence.
He said, “Cash of Rs 1.5 crores, jewellery worth about Rs 1.2 crores, fixed deposits worth Rs 69 lakhs and various property documents were also found from the residence of Mittal.”
The CBI had registered a preliminary enquiry and it was alleged that the accused had entered into a conspiracy to provide undue favour to said private company and had made it technically eligible, which was otherwise not allegedly eligible.
It was further alleged that a tender NIT 22 was issued in December 2017 for the supply, installation, testing and commissioning (SITC) of Electromagnetic Flow Meters and corresponding O&M operations for five years of Delhi Jal Board.
He said that it was also alleged that due to conspiracy of the accused with a said private company and false certificates and fabricated deviation statement issued by NBCC, the said private company qualified and bagged a tender worth Rs 38.02 crores.