New Delhi, September 11
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has apprehended a senior Environmental Engineer of Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) and a private person while exchanging the bribe amount of Rs. 91,500 while a huge haul of cash of Rs. 2.39 crores was recovered from the premises of the official during raids.
The CBI has booked the Senior Environmental Engineer, Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), Delhi and four private persons (a middleman, son of the middleman, proprietor of Delhi based private firm and a private person of another Delhi based firm) and other unknown persons.
It has been alleged in the FIR that accused Senior Environmental Engineer has been indulging in corrupt practices and obtaining bribes from the representatives of private firms for showing undue favours in renewal of DPCC consent for their firms, in conspiracy with an accused (private person) who acts as a middleman and consultant for the firms in DPCC related matters. The said middleman, allegedly gets the bribe money collected from the firms on the direction of above said public servant and delivers the same to him on regular interval.
The CBI then laid a trap and caught accused officials and son of the middleman (private person) red-handed while exchanging the bribe amount of Rs. 91,500/-.
The agency then conducted searches at the residential and official premises of the accused which led to recovery of cash of Rs. 2.39 crores alongwith other documents.
