Delhi Lieutenant  Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has accorded permission to the Anti-Corruption Branch for registration of a case against an executive engineer of the city government’s PWD for allegedly misusing his official position, Raj Niwas officials said on Friday.

The LG has accorded approval under Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (as amended in 2018) for registration of case against the executive engineer for allegedly causing undue loss to the government exchequer in the work of strengthening of road at the Guru Harkishan Marg from Britannia Chowk of the Outer Ring Road at West Enclave.

The LG had earlier granted permission to register case against four other officers of the Public Works Department (PWD) in the same matter.   The LG had earlier granted permission to register case against four other officers of the PWD in the same matter.

A complaint filed on 19.05.2017 alleged that the payments were made to the contractor Mohd Iqbal, owner of M/s MHA Construction Pvt Ltd without proper verification of work at the site, as no work was undertaken, rather it has been just a paper exercise.

It was also alleged that the work of strengthening of Road No 43 Guru Har Kishan Marg was awarded for Rs 11,59,66,020/- which was 24.31 per cent below the estimated cost of Rs 15,32,11,811/- to the contractor and was to be executed between 20.12.2013 and 09.07.2014.  However, the work was never carried out and was fraudulently shown to be completed on 10.04.2015.

In the same matter, the ACB had after conducting the preliminary enquiry, registered a complaint against other PWD officers - Ajay Kumar, Amar Singh (both Assistant Engineers), Sunit Singh and Narender Kumar (Both Junior Engineers) - against whom the LG had earlier accorded permission for registration of case u/s 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act.