The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested 07 accused including 5 Public Servants namely Divisional Railway Manager(DRM), Sr. Divisional Finance Manager (Sr. DFM), then Sr. Divisional Engineer (Sr. DEN) Coordination, Office Superintendent, Account Assistant of South Central Railways, Guntakal Division (Andhra Pradesh) and two private persons namely Director of a Bangalore based firm (Private Person) & another private person in a case of bribery of Rs11 lakh & jewellery taken/ given for showing favours in railway tenders etc.
Name of the arrested FIR accused –
- Vineet Singh, Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), South Central Railways, Guntakal Division (Arrested)
- Kunda Pradeep Babu, Sr. Divisional Finance Manager (Sr. DFM), South Central Railways, Guntakal Division (Arrested)
- U. Akki Reddy, Sr. Divisional Engineer (Sr. DEN) Co-ordination, South Central Railways, Guntakal Division (now transferred as DyCEN Track, South Central Railways Secunderabad) (Arrested)
- M Balaji, Office Superintendent, South Central Railways, Guntakal Division (Arrested)
- D Laksmi Pathi Raju, Account Assistant, South Central Railways, Guntakal Division (not named in FIR Arrested)
- Kuppam Rameshkumar Reddy, Director, M/s C N R Projects India Private Limited, Bangalore (Private Person) (Arrested)
- N. Rahamathulla, Hyderabad(Private Person) (Arrested)
- M. Bhima Shankar of M/s M V V Satyanarayana, Bengaluru (Private Person)
- Challa Suresh Naidu of M/s Suresh Constructions, Guntakal (Private Person)
- Shri Rama Subba Reddy of M/s Shakti Engineering, Miyapur, Hyderabad (Private Person)
- B Siva Reddy of M/s S. R. Constructions, Anantapur (Private Person)
- B Srinivasulu of Nellore (Private Person)
- M/s CNR Projects India Private Limited, Bangalore
- BLV Prasad, Account Assistant, South Central Railways, Guntakal Division
- Unknown Public Servants and Private Persons
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a case against 13 accused including said five public servants namely Divisional Railway Manager(DRM), said Sr. Divisional Finance Manager (Sr. DFM), said then Sr. Divisional Engineer ( now transferred as Dy CEN Track, South Central Railways Secunderbad), said Office Superintendent and another Account Assistant of South Central Railways, Guntakal Division(Andhra Pradesh). Persons/firm named as accused in FIR include Director of a Bangalore based company & his company, representative of a Guntakal based firm, two representatives of two other Bangalore based firms, a representative of a Hyderabad based firm and two private persons, besides Unknown Public Servants and Private Persons.
It was alleged that accused contractors, individually or jointly have undertaken various tenders in Guntakal Division of South Central Railways and have been obtaining undue benefits in award of various tenders, in execution of the awarded works and in expeditious processing of the bills by paying huge bribes to the public servants of South-Central Railways, Guntakal Division.
It was also alleged that accused public servants have been indulging in corrupt practices in awarding of various tenders under their jurisdiction and clearing the inflated bills of the contractors, thus causing wrongful gain to themselves and wrongful loss to the government exchequer.
It was further alleged that accused DRM demanded illegal gratification, at the rate of 0.5% of the total tender amount, in the form of gold jewellery.
It was also alleged that Rs. 20 lakhs was demanded by said then Sr. DEN Co-ordination. The accused private person planned to pay Rs. 10 lakhs each to accused Sr. DFM and ADRM of Guntakal Division after the General Election.
Further accused Director of private company asked accused representative of a Bangalore based firm to deliver at least Rs. 10 lakhs to accused then Sr. DEN who allegedly was threatening to create hindrances in their work otherwise.
It was also alleged that FIR named accused Account Assistant informed said Director of Bangalore based company that accused Sr. DFM urgently requested payment of the demanded bribe for tender related to LC 125.
Accused representative of Hyderabad firm allegedly enquired about the bribe amount to be delivered for tender related to LC 125 to Sr. DFM, while said Director of Bangalore based company requested Rs. 10 lakhs for Sr DFM and one lakh for accused Office Superintendent.
CBI laid a trap and amount of Rs 10 lakh delivered to Sr. DFM and Rs 50,000/- each to Office Superintendent and another Accounts Assistant, were recovered. Jewellery taken as bribe was recovered during search operation from the residence of said Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), South Central Railway, Guntakal Division.
Public servants who accepted bribe and accused private persons who delivered bribe amount and jewellery i.e. said Director of Bangalore based company and a Hyderbad based accused private person were caught.
CBI conducted searches at Guntakal, Ananatapur, Nellore, Tirupati, Hyderbad, Secundarabad and Bangalore which led to recovery several incriminating documents and digital devices.
Investigation is continuing.
