Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) Executive Director (Works) BP Verma was on Monday arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for allegedly receiving bribe.
The CBI arrested Verma on the charge of taking bribe of `1 lakh to pass a tender in favour of Vesuvius India ltd, reports said.
The CBI also arrested the person from Bokaro who had allegedly given the bribe to Verma. He has been identified as Binay Kumar Singh, representative of Vesuvius India, a company which supplies refractory items to the RSP, sources said.
Notably, a 12-member team of the CBI had on Sunday raided the house and office of Verma at Sector-19 here and reportedly seized `21 lakh in denomination of `2000 and some important documents during the search.
According to sources, the CBI has also traced `38 lakh from his bank account in Rourkela snd sealed his account and locker. The CBI is now scrutinising the bank account and locker.
Verma was grilled by the CBI officials for around six hours before his arrest, the sources added. After arresting Verma, CBI officials took him to Bhubaneswar to produce him in the Special CBI Court there.
Verma had joined as Executive Director in the RSP about ten months ago and had been transferred to the Bokaro Steel limited as ED I/C (Works & Projects) three days ago. He was supposed leave for Bokaro on Monday to join there.