New Delhi, June 13
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has apprehended a senior officer of NHAI from Chhatarpur in Madhya Pradesh while accepting bribe of Rs.10 lakhs from accused employees of a private company for showing undue favour to the said company.
The accused is General Manager & Project Director, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) who was arrested with 6 other accused including an NHAI Consultant and his Resident Engineer, four employees of the private company.
A case was registered by CBI in June against 10 accused including 7 arrested accused and private company and its two Directors on allegations that two Directors of the said private company in conspiracy with its accused employees have been obtaining undue favours by paying undue advantages to accused NHAI officers for obtaining final handing over as well as issuance of no objection certificate and processing of the final bill in respect of Jhansi-Khajuraho Project awarded to the said private company by NHAI.
The agency then laid a trap and caught the accused, a General Manager and Project Director, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh, red-handed while accepting bribe of Rs10 lakh from employees of private company.
The searches were conducted at premises of the accused persons at various locations, Chhattarpur M. P.), Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra and Gurugram and incriminating documents, including the digital devices have been recovered, officials added.
