The CBI has arrested an Assistant Commissioner, Food & Supply Department, Delhi and a contractual employee for accepting a bribe of `1Lakh from the complainant.
A case was registered against the accused Assistant Commissioner, Food & Supply Department, Delhi, Jitender Singh Rathi.
“It was alleged that the said public servant demanded an amount of Rs 1.5 lakh as illegal gratification for revoking suspension of license of fair price shop of the complainant. The CBI laid a trap and caught the accused along with a contractual employee of the Food and Supply Department, Delhi while accepting a bribe of Rs One lakh from the complainant,” the agency said in a statement.
Searches are being conducted today at the premises of the accused including at Delhi and both the arrested accused will be produced before the designated court on Friday.
Meanwhile, the CBI on Thursday conducted searches at 25 places including Guntur District and Hyderabad at the premises of former MLA of Gurazala Constituency (Andhra Pradesh) and others including private persons in an ongoing investigation of a case.
During searches, several incriminating documents, mobile phones, material objects and cash have been recovered, it said.
In pursuance of the Notification issued by the Government of Andhra Pradesh and further Notification issued by DoPT, the CBI had taken over 17 cases of illegal limestone mining from CBCID, Andhra Pradesh and registered a case on August 26 against 17 accused.
It was alleged that the accused had fraudulently conducted illegal and unauthorized mining, quarrying and transportation of limestone in Konanki village of Piduguralla Mandal, Kesanupalli and Nadikudi
villages of Dachepalli Mandal, Guntur district for several years and thereby caused revenue loss to the Government and other licensed lease holders, and also exploited the natural resources, it said.
“It was further alleged that illegal mining of several lakh tonnes of limestone was conducted by the accused during the period from 2014 to 2018, as a result of which, natural resources worth several crore of rupees have been plundered, ‘’ the CBI said in a statement.
In order to ascertain the quantum of unauthorized and illegal mining, CBI is also conducting volumetric analysis by using satellite imagery.