NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested 5 folks, together with two Indian Railway Stores Service (IRSS) officers of Indian Railways in two separate instances of bribery, officers mentioned on Friday. The arrested accused have been recognized as H Narayanan, a 2000 batch officer of IRSS, Deputy Chief Material Manager, Material Management Department of Central Railway (HQ), Mumbai; Samir Dave and Deepak Jain, each representatives of Anest Iwata Motherson Private Ltd, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
In the primary case, it was alleged {that a} consultant of a Greater Noida (Uttar Pradesh)-based non-public firm was frequently bribing senior railway officers of Western Railways for the favour of awarding tenders to the events being represented by him. It was additional alleged that the Deputy Chief Material Manager, Material Management Department, Central Railway, Mumbai has demanded unlawful gratification from mentioned non-public firm primarily based at Greater Noida (UP) by means of the non-public individual (who was appearing because the conduit between officers of Central Railway, Mumbai and numerous non-public firms) for awarding tenders to the mentioned firm for procurement or provide of fabric.
CBI mentioned that within the second case, the arrested accused have been recognized as Atul Sharma, a 2010 batch officer of the IRSS, Deputy Chief Material Manager, Material Management Department, Western Railway (HQ) and HD Parmar, Senior Material Manager, Western Railway, Mumbai. The different accused who’ve been named within the case have been Nimai Guin, the then Marketing Manager, Industrial Forge and Engineering Company, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand; Amit Kumar, Marketing Manager, Industrial Forge and Engineering Company; Samir Dave, a non-public individual; Joydeep Hazra, consultant of Midlands and Company, Kolkata (West Bengal).
(*2*) CBI mentioned. It was additional alleged that the Deputy Chief Material Manager, Material Management Department, Western Railway (HQ) has demanded unlawful gratification from the non-public firm primarily based at Jamshedpur, (Jharkhand) by means of mentioned non-public individual (who was appearing because the conduit between officers of Western Railway, Mumbai and numerous non-public firms), for awarding tenders to the corporate for procurement/provide of fabric.
“A trap was laid. The Deputy Chief Material Manager (Electrical) of Central Railway, Deputy Chief Material Manager (Coaching) and Senior Material Manager of Western Railway were apprehended while accepting a bribe of around Rs. 70,500. The Private Persons (Bribe givers) were also apprehended,” CBI mentioned.
CBI mentioned that the searches have been performed at round 12 places, together with Mumbai, Kolkata, Greater Noida, Jamshedpur, Ahmedabad and Vadodara, on the premises of the accused, which led to the restoration of money, papers referring to properties, funding and jewelry, amongst different incriminating paperwork and articles.
All the arrested accused have been produced earlier than the competent court docket. Further investigation is underway.
