Sunday | Mar 30 2025 | 02:28:07 AM
New Delhi, March 26
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested four accused including a General Manager of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and three private persons including a General Manager of a private company after immediately exchange bribe of Rs.15 lakh, given as illegal gratification for extending undue favours in processing and passing of the bills related to the contracts/works of the NHAI.
The agency's searches conducted in this regard have led to recovery of Rs. 1.18 crore cash, CBI said.
The CBI informed that a case was registered by CBI against 12 accused including six public servants of the rank of Chief General Manager/General Manager (GM)/other senior ranks of NHAI, one private company, four senior representatives of the private company including its two GMs besides one other private contractor and unknown other public servants and private persons. It was alleged that the accused public servants of National Highways Authority of India, while acting in connivance with accused representatives of the private company, were facilitating and extending undue advantage in processing and passing of the bills related to the contracts/works of National Highways Authority of India awarded to the accused private company in lieu of illegal gratification. It was also alleged that after arranging the bribe money, an accused representative of the private company decided to meet accused public servant at a fixed place at Patna (near his residence) for delivery of the bribe amount in March.
CBI laid a trap and caught accused representative of the private company and accused General Manager (bribe receiver) of National Highways and accused GM (bribe giver) of private company red-handed after delivery of bribe of Rs.15 lakh. The accused public servant who accepted the bribe and accused private representative of the company who delivered the bribe have been arrested along with two other representatives of the private company who facilitated delivery of the said bribe amount.
The agency then conducted searches at the residential and official premises of the accused at Patna, Muzaffarpur, Samastipur, Begusarai, Purnia, Ranchi and Varanasi which led to recovery of more than Rs.1.18 crores cashand several incriminating documents and digital devices.
