The CBI on Sunday said it has arrested a resident engineer of a Gurugram-based private company and three others in an alleged bribery of Rs 15 lakh and recovered Rs 1.56 crore during searches at their premises.
A case was registered against Resident Engineer Anil Kumar Singh, Voyants Solutions Private Limited, Gurugram (Haryana) and others including two Directors and an employee of private company based at Mathura and unknown public servants on the allegations that the said Resident Engineer of the private company (the Consultant appointed by NHAI to monitor the progress of a project awarded to Mathura-based private company on Sitarganj-Bareilly Section of NH74) had demanded bribe from the officials of the latter firm for passing their bills under the project, the CBI said.
The accused Resident Engineer and the employee of a Mathura-based firm were intercepted and trapped by the CBI while exchanging a bribe amount of Rs 15 lakh. Two other accused (named in FIR) were also caught, the CBI said in a statement.
Searches were conducted at eight locations belonging to the accused including at Pilibhit, Gurugram, Mathura and Noida which resulted in the recovery of huge cash of Rs 1.56 crore, incriminating documents pertaining to the transactions and the project, and digital devices, including mobiles, it said, adding, all the four arrested accused will be produced before the Competent Court.
Besides Singh, the three others named as accused in the FIR are Directors of SRSC Infra Private Limited, Mathura-—Bedram Sharma and Parsuram Sharma and Anand Mohan Sharma, an employee of the company.