Different teams of CBI searched the records related to contracts in NCL office. – Symbolic picture.
Highlights
CBI’s investigation in corruption case continues in Singrauli. Investigation at another contractor’s residence on Tuesday. NCL CVO Ravindra Prasad’s house also searched.
Naiduniya representative, Jabalpur. CBI continued its investigation into the corruption case in Northern Coldfield Limited (NCL) on Tuesday as well. Raids were conducted at the residence and office of a contractor Vinod Singh in Bina of Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh. Vinod is also said to be a supplier in NCL. Meanwhile, NCL’s Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) Ravindra Prasad, who was found missing from his house during the raid on Monday, appeared on Tuesday. He was questioned for a long time. Many more officers and contractors are still under suspicion.
inspection of records relating to contracts
On Tuesday, different teams of CBI searched the records related to contracts in NCL office. Several officials were questioned separately in Singrauli. The houses of Dhananjay Kumar Singh, Project Engineer of Nigahi Project, and Kundan Chaudhary, Deputy Manager of Nigahi CHP were searched.
Nearby officers and employees were also questioned
Some officers and employees close to the arrested CMD’s PA Subedar Singh and Chief Security Officer Colonel Basant Kumar Singh have also been questioned. During the interrogation, many serious information has also been obtained about M/s Sangam Engineering’s director Ravi Shankar Singh.
Search for CVO’s house, contractor returned from Delhi
NCL CVO Ravindra Prasad, who was not found at home during the raid on Monday, returned to Singrauli on Tuesday. The CBI has searched the CVO’s house. During interrogation, the CVO has said that he had gone home on the occasion of Rakshabandhan. Uday Narayan Singh alias Guddu, director of a security agency, who was not found at home during investigation on Monday, also appeared before the CBI on Tuesday. The contractor had informed that he was in Delhi. The CBI has interrogated both of them for a long time on Tuesday.
Two former CMDs are also on target
Two former CMDs of NCL are on the target of CBI. Records related to the process of contracts done during their tenure are being investigated. The investigation team has reached the residence of former CMD Bhola Singh in Noida and former CMD PK Sinha in Ranchi. More information related to both the officers is not yet known.
Till now FIR has been filed against six people
DSP Jai Joseph Damle, who was investigating the irregularities in purchases in NCL, had demanded bribe to save the officers who were under scrutiny. The mediator in this was Ravi Shankar Singh, a big supplier in NCL. He had taken five lakh rupees from the officers and had come to Jabalpur to pay the DSP. Till now, an FIR has been registered against six accused including two NCL officers in this case. A case has also been registered against some unknown accused.
