Senior Railways Official Booked

  • 18-Jan-2021
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday booked a senior officer of the Railways engineering services for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 crore to favour a company in connection with a contract of the North Eastern Frontier Railway (NFR).

The accused, Mahendra Singh Chauhan, is a chief administrative officer with NFR and is posted at Maligaon in Assam. Sources in the CBI said searches were conducted at 21 locations across five states— Assam, Tripura, West Bengal, Uttarakhand and Delhi — in connection with the case. A relative of Chauhan, Indra Singh, who was accepting the bribe amount on behalf of the officer, was caught red-handed and has been arrested in Dehradun. Chauhan too has been detained and will be arrested in due course, a CBI official said.

 

According to the agency, Chauhan was accepting the bribe to favour ABCI Infrastructure Ltd. The company has been booked by the CBI for alleged corruption and its employee, Bhupendra Rawat, who was handing over the bribe amount, has also been arrested.

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