The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an Airport Director, Airport Authorty of India (AAI) at Aurangabad in Maharashtra for allegedly demanding and accepting a part bribe of `10,000 from a private company for facilitating ground handling work for non-scheduled flights.
Having registered a case under section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act against Aurangabad-based AAI’s airport director based on a complaint received from a private company based at Malad (West) in north Mumbai, the CBI sleuths arrested the accused official and conducted searches at his official & residential premises of accused in Aurangabad and Varanasi(UP).
The searches resulted in the recovery of incriminating documents including papers relating to purchase of his two residential flats at Noida in Uttar Pradesh and Gurgaon in Haryana and various other investments.
The complainant had alleged that the accused AAI official, who used handle details of the non-scheduled flights, had demanded bribe per flight from the ground handling private companies at Aurangabad Airport.
“The complainant told us that the AAI officer demanded bribe of `50,000 for allowing workers of his company to carry out the work of ground handling for non-scheduled flights at Aurangabad Airport. Based on the complaint, we laid trap and caught the Airport Director concerned red-handed while demanding and accepting bribe of `10,000 which was the first installment of total bribe amount sought by him,” a CBI spokesperson said.
The CBI has meanwhile taken into custody of the accused AAI official after obtaining his formal remand from a competent court at Aurangabad.