The CBI on Wednesday filed a chargesheet before the designated court at Lucknow against the then Executive Engineer, Lucknow Division, Sharda Canal (LDSC), Lucknow and others in connection with a case relating to alleged corruption in the Gomti River Front Project.
Besides the then Executive Engineer, LDSC, Lucknow, Roop Singh Yadav (also the then In-charge Superintending Engineer, XII Circle, Irrigation Works, Lucknow), others named in the chargesheet are the then Junior Assistant, Irrigation Works, Lucknow, Raj Kumar Yadav, Directors of KK Spun Pipe Pvt. Ltd., Himanshu Gupta and Kavish Gupta, Senior Advisor, Brand Eagles Longjian JV, Badri Shrestha and the firm KK Spun Pipe Pvt. Ltd.
The case relates to an alleged irregular award of work of Intercepting Trunk Drain in the case related to Gomti River Front Project.
The CBI had registered a case on November 30, 2017 on the request of Uttar Pradesh Government and further notification from the Centre and took over the investigation of the case, earlier registered vide FIR No. 831/2017 at Police Station, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow.
It was alleged that irregularities were committed in implementation of “Gomti River Channelization Project”’ and “Gomti River Front Development” by the Irrigation Department, Government of UP.
It was further alleged that the accused awarded the work for Intercepting Trunk Drain to an ineligible private firm and the date of tender was twice extended to accommodate the said firm.
It was also alleged that forged documents of another bidder/private party were also arranged by the accused to complete the quorum of three participants in the tender. The agreement for the work was allegedly executed by the accused without obtaining the approval and allotment of funds. The bank guarantee of the L-2 firm was allegedly prepared from the bank account of the L-1 company, the CBI said.
During investigation, both the public servants were arrested on November 19, 2020 and are presently in judicial custody.
Further investigation is continuing to look into the role of other accused/suspect persons, it added.