The CBI has registered a case against then Chief Engineer, former Superintending Engineer, then Executive Engineer, Assistant Engineer and Accounts and Audit Officer of Delhi Jal Board besides former General Manager and Project Executive of National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) Limited and recovered cash to the tune of Rs 1.5 crore, fixed deposits worth Rs 69 lakh and jewellery worth Rs 1.2 crore during searches.
Earlier, a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) was conducted. It was alleged that the accused had entered into a conspiracy to provide undue favour to an accused private company and had made it technically eligible (which was otherwise not allegedly eligible), the CBI said in a statement.
It was further alleged that a tender was issued in December, 2017 for Supply, Installation, Testing and Commissioning (SITC) of Electromagnetic Flow Meters and corresponding Operations and Maintenance (O&M) for five years of Delhi Jal Board, it said. It was also alleged that due to conspiracy of the accused with said private company and false certificates and fabricated deviation statement issued by NBCC, the private company qualified and bagged a tender worth Rs. 38,02,33,080, it further said.
Searches were conducted at 10 locations in Delhi/NCR at the premises of the accused which led to recovery of incriminating documents and digital evidence.
Cash totaling Rs1.5 crore, huge jewellery worth about Rs 1.2 crore, fixed deposits worth Rs 69 lakh and various property documents were also found from the residence of then General Manager, NBCC, DK Mittal.
Besides Mittal, then Project Executive, NBCC, Sadhan Kumar and private firm NKG Infrastructure Limited. (through its Director) as also unknown public servants and private persons have been named as accused in the case.
The then Chief Engineer, Jagdish Kumar Arora, the then Superintending Engineer PK Gupta, the then Executive Engineer Sushil Kumar Goel the then Assistant Engineer Ashok Sharma, the then Audit and Accounts Officer Ranjit Kumar, all of Delhi Jal Board have been named as accused in the case.