Guwahati, Feb 7: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a deputy chief engineer and a senior section engineer (SSE) of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) in a bribery case.
The investigation agency has also arrested a contractor of a private company based here in connection with the case.
Notably, CBI had registered a case against four officials of Northeast Frontier Railway and others, including a contractor of a private company and employees of the private company.
“It was alleged that the public servants along with private persons entered into a conspiracy for showing undue favours to the private contractors in award of the contract agreement, preparation of measurement book, processing of running account bills, early release of payment against manipulated and inflated bills for the ongoing work of construction in NF Railway as well as for early release of security deposit and bank guarantees,” an official statement said.
A trap was laid by a CBI team to catch senior section engineer (NFR, Jiribam, Silchar) Santosh Kumar accepting a bribe of about Rs 8 lakh from the employee of a private company.
Moreover, searches were conducted at 19 locations including Assam, Imphal, Delhi, Bihar and Haryana, besides the premises of the accused and others, which led to recovery of about Rs 1.02 crore.
All the arrested accused persons were produced before the competent court.
The deputy chief engineer (construction), NFR and the contractor were remanded to five days police custody while the SSE is on three days’ transit remand.
It may be recalled that the investigation agency had last month arrested an additional divisional railway manager posted here, and six others, including private contractors and hawala operators in a Rs 50 lakh bribery case.