New Delhi: The CBI arrested two senior Railway officials Monday for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 10 lakh from a contractor for clearing his bills.
Neeraj Puri Goswami, senior divisional signal and telecom engineer (Sr. DSTE), and PK Singh, divisional signal and telecom engineer (DSTE), both posted in North Central Railway, Allahabad, have been arrested on a complaint from a contractor, a CBI official said Tuesday. It is alleged that they demanded a bribe of Rs 5,00,000 lakh each for a Rs 1.43-crore tender allotted to his firm in March 2017. “A case has been registered against the accused on the basis of a complaint,” a CBI spokesperson said.
The duo allegedly threatened to terminate the tender on the count of slow progress of work, if the contractor did not put his signature on the measurement book, a periodical record of work done.
“The CBI laid a trap and caught the accused while demanding and accepting an alleged bribe of Rs. 10 lakh from the complainant,” the spokesperson informed.
The agency carried out searches at the residence of the officers during which incriminating documents were seized. “Rs. 63.06 lakh in cash, gold jewellery, fixed deposits and other investment papers were recovered from the premises of both the accused,” the spokesperson added.
PTI
