The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Madhya Pradesh has registered a case against former Secretary of State Electricity Board PK Vaishy and his son Ravi and others for providing illegal benefits to a firm owned by the latter.
Sources said that in his capacity as the Secretary of the Board, Vaishy had amended conditions of tenders in a bid to make his son's firm Pragya Enterprises, eligible for the tendering process, by flouting the rules. As per rules of State Electricity Board, none of its employees or his relatives is eligible to take part in the tendering process for awarding contracts and those filing tenders have to give a 'declaration' in this regard while submitting tenders.
Vaishy amended the above condition only for those tenders in which his son's firm took part while it (condition) remained unchanged for other tenders. The supply receipt for 17 transformers too was found to be fake and the repairing and re-conditioning work carried out by the firm too was found sub-standard causing huge losses (in lakhs) to the Board. EOW has registered a case against Vaishya, his son, three retired chief engineers DA Bende, CB Patel and SB Dube and other officials under sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120B of the IPC and sections 13 (1) D and 13 (2) of the Anti-Corruption Act, 1988.