The CBI on Tuesday filed its first chargesheet against suspended chief engineer of Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway authority Yadav Singh, his wife and 12 others, including three companies,
The CBI on Tuesday filed its first chargesheet against suspended chief engineer of Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway authority Yadav Singh, his wife and 12 others, including three companies, in a case pertaining to the alleged corruption in awarding projects worth several crores.
According to sources, the agency in its chargesheet named Mr Singh, his wife, project engineer (PE) Ramendra Singh, assistant PEs Devi Ram Arya, Jaipal Singh, JEs Rajeev Kumar, R.D. Sharma, Om Pal Singh, private firm Tirupati Constructions and its managing partner V.K. Goel, JSP Construction and its partner Pankaj Jain, NKG Infrastructure and its managing director Pradeep Garg. Mr Singh was arrested by the CBI on February 3 after detailed questioning. Ramendra was arrested on December 19, 2015.
Keeping its probe open, the CBI said investigations into several other contracts, amounting to Rs 959 crore, is still going on. Sources said the chargesheet was filed in connection with the alleged corruption in the laying of underground electric cable at two placed in Udyog Marg and MP-1 Marg in Noida.
The agency has alleged that the contract to JSP Infrastructure was awarded on December 8, 2011. However, by the time contract was officially given to private firms in December that year, they had already completed 60 per cent of the work. The tenders were issued in March 2011, and bids were opened in late November 2011. Sources said that the illegal remittances were received in the name of Kusumlata, wife of Mr Singh, in the form of various investments and layered transactions. She was not named in the FIR and her name is included after her active role allegedly emerged during the investigation, they alleged. They claimed the investigation has shown a well oiled machinery working in the Noida office in which bribes percolated from top to bottom even as contracts were being given in violation of the laid down norm.
