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Railgate: Bansal named as witness

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New Delhi: Former Union Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal has been named as one of the key witnesses in the Rs 10 crore cash-for-post railway bribery case in which CBI said his nephew Vijay Singla is the “main person” whose influence was to be used for getting a Railway Board Member appointed to a post seen as “lucrative”.

Bansal has been named as the 39th prosecution witness in the case in which Singla, the then Member (Staff) of Railway Board Mahesh Kumar and eight others have been chargesheeted for the offence of criminal conspiracy under the IPC and relevant provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

The judge also extended till July 11 the judicial custody of the eight arrested accused. (PTI)

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