The CBI has registered a case against a Senior Operative (T&RM Department) of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), Rourkela, private company based at Gottivalasa, Garugubulli (Andhra Pradesh) and unknown others and conducted searches at the premises of the accused persons at three places in Rourkela and Rairangpur in Odisha.
It was alleged that the private company Dinesh Das & Sons Mines & Steels Pvt. Ltd., Gottivalasa, Garugubulli, Andhra Pradesh, represented by its Directors Dinesh Chandra Das, Tarak Nath Das and Tanmay Nath Das, during the period from April, 2015 to April, 2018 entered into a conspiracy with the Senior Operative of RSP, Languli Charan Behera besides unknown others and cheated the RSP to the tune of Rs 99,47,121, the CBI said.
“It was further alleged that the accused supplier had submitted bills pertaining to raw material supplied to RSP enclosing forged/fabricated weighment sheets purportedly issued by South Eastern Railway (SER) by inflating the weight of raw material (Quartzite) supplied and claimed higher payments through the bills thereon,” it said.
It was also alleged that, in furtherance of the said conspiracy, the Senior
Operative of RSP accepted and processed the bills submitted by the supplier along with forged weighment sheets and accordingly, excess payment of Rs 99,47,121 was made to the supplier, causing loss to Rourkela Steel Plant, it added.