The CBI on Wednesday examined a junior officer, posted at the office of Rajendra Kumar, principal secretary to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, in connection with its probe against Mr Kumar.
The CBI on Wednesday examined a junior officer, posted at the office of Rajendra Kumar, principal secretary to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, in connection with its probe against Mr Kumar.
The agency recently registered a case against Mr Kumar and others on allegations that he abused his official position by favouring a particular firm, allegedly floated by him, in the last few years in getting tenders from Delhi government departments.
Apart from Mr Kumar, the agency named A.K. Duggal and G.K. Nanda, former MDs of Intelligent Communication System India Limited (ICSIL), R.S. Kaushik, MD of ICSIL, Sandeep Kumar and Dinesh K. Gupta, directors of MS Endeavour Systems Private Limited and the said firm as accused in their FIR filed under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the IPC.
The CBI alleged that Mr Kumar had prior association with Sandeep Kumar and D.K. Gupta, both directors of Endeavour, and he allegedly facilitated award of five contracts of worth Rs 9.5 crore to the company between 2007-14. The allegations against the bureaucrat were that he favoured private companies by same set of persons during his stints in various departments of the Delhi government. As chairman of Delhi Transco in 2009, he allegedly facilitated contract worth Rs 40.5 lakh for development of comprehensive management information system to Endeavour without inviting tenders, the CBI alleged. As secretary of health and family welfare, he allegedly facilitated award of manpower project worth Rs 2.43 crore to Endeavour through ICSIL in November 2010 without inviting any tenders. As commissioner of trade and taxes, he allegedly facilitated award of a project for development of Software Application for Rs 3.66 crore for the department of trade and taxes to Endeavour through ICSIL in May 2012.
Though the trade and taxes contract were awarded through tender, conditions were tailor made to suit the company, the CBI alleged.
