The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has apprehended a senior officer of NHAI who is General Manager & Project Director, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh while accepting bribe of Rs.10 Lakhs from accused employees of a private company for showing undue favour to the said company.
The CBI also arrested 6 other accused including an NHAI Consultant and his Resident Engineer, four employees of the private company, in the said case of bribery.
Names of accused in FIR :
Yogesh Jain and T R Rao, Directors of M/s PNC Infratech Limited, Satyanarayana Anguluri, Brijesh Mishra, Anil Jain and Shubham Jain employees of the private company(all four arrested), Purushottam Lal Choudhary General Manager & Project Director, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh (arrested), Sharad Verma Consultant NHAI Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh (arrested), Prem Kumar Sinha, Resident Engineer (RE) of NHAI Consultant (arrested), M/s PNC Infratech Limited.
A case was registered by CBI on 08.06.2024 against 10 accused including 7 arrested accused and private company & its two Directors on allegations that two Directors of the said private company in conspiracy with its accused employees have been obtaining undue favours by paying undue advantages to accused NHAI officers for obtaining final handing over as well as issuance of no objection certificate and processing of the final bill in respect of Jhansi-Khajuraho Project awarded to the said private company by NHAI.
CBI laid a trap and caught the accused, a General Manager & Project Director, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh, red-handed while accepting bribe of Rs10 lakh from employees of private company.
Searches are being conducted at premises of the accused persons at various locations, viz. Chhattarpur(M. P.), Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra and Gurugram and incriminating documents, including the digital devices have been recovered.
Arrested accused will be produced before the Ld. jurisdictional court in Bhopal.
Investigation is continuing.
