Last Updated on 19/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
CBI arrests Northern Coalfields Limited officials, seizes nearly Rs 4 crore in cash from them Ensuring zero tolerance towards corruption, the CBI arrested Subedar Ojha, manager (secretariat) of Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) and personal secretary to the CMD, after Rs 3.85 crore in cash was recovered from his residence during a search conducted on August 17.
This amount was allegedly collected in his favour from several contractors and officials for his operations at Singrauli-based NCL. The CBI has also arrested Ravi Shankar Singh, middleman and owner of M/s Sangam Engineering, Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh, who was allegedly acting as a middleman between various contractors/traders and several officials of Northern Coalfields Limited. He is alleged to have been facilitating and delivering bribes to these officials of Northern Coalfields Limited.
Divesh Singh, an associate of Ravishankar Singh of M/s Sangam Engineering, Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh, was also arrested red-handed while giving a bribe of Rs 5 lakh to Joy Joseph Damle, Superintendent of Police, ACB, CBI, in lieu of getting a favourable report in the cases of complaints pending against them in the CBI. Ravishankar Singh and his associates were acting as middlemen between NCL (Northern Coalfields Limited) officials and JJ Damle, and have also been arrested.
It is alleged that on August 16, on the instructions of Ravi Shankar Singh, Ravi Singh’s employee Ajay Verma received the above-mentioned undue advantage of Rs 5 lakh from Chief Manager (Administration), NCL, Lt. Col. Basant Kumar Singh (Retd), Singrauli. The bribe amount was allegedly sent by Subedar Ojha and on August 17, Ravi Shankar Singh directed Divesh Singh to deliver the amount to Deputy SP JJ Damle of ACB Jabalpur, CBI.
Earlier, a regular case under Sections 7, 7A, 8 of the PC Act (as amended in 2018) read with Section 61(2) of the Indian Justice Code was registered against Ravi Shankar Singh, Lieutenant Colonel Basant Kumar Singh, Subedar Ojha, Divesh Singh and Joy Joseph Damle, other officers and unknown others.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)