CBI registers bribery case against DG of DGMS and private persons in Dhanbad
New Delhi, April 22
The Central Bureau of Investigation busted a racket alleging involvement of public servant of Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS) in collusion of private persons, who manipulated and influenced the members of the interview board for ensuring qualification of certain candidates in oral examination in lieu of huge amount of alleged gratification.
CBI has registered a case against Deputy Director General (Central Zone), DGMS, head office, Dhanbad, two private persons and other unknown persons on the allegations that the Deputy Director General (Central Zone) along with said private persons and others had entered into conspiracy for showing undue favours to some of the candidates appearing for the oral examination after qualifying computer based examinations for manager’s certificate of competency (Restricted & Unrestricted), conducted by Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS).
The officials added that it was also alleged that the accused were manipulating and influencing members of interview board for qualifying such candidates in lieu of huge amount of illegal gratification. It was also alleged that the said Oral Examination was conducted by Directorate General of Mines Safety between March 8 to March 20.
The CBI officials added that the Deputy Director General (Central Zone) had got 48 candidates qualified in the said interview who were referred to him by said private person. For each such candidate, the said Public Servant allegedly agreed to accept an amount of Rs. 1.5 Lakh, totaling to Rs. 72 Lakh. It was alleged that the said amount was to be delivered in two installments to another private person (relative of public servant) at Lakhisarai (Bihar).
The CBI laid a trap and caught the accused persons while exchanging the first installment of alleged bribe amount of Rs. 35 lakh.
The CBI is conducting searches at 12 locations including Lakhisarai, Dhanbad, Ranchi, Nagpur, Udaipur, Shahdol, Hyderabad, Bilaspur which led to recovery of incriminating documents, articles etc.
The case is being further investigated.
