The CBI has filed a fresh case against a suspended Additional Divisional Railway Manager (ADRM) for allegedly amassing disproportionate assets worth about Rs 2.30 crore in the last six years of his service.
The agency had arrested 1997-batch Indian Railways Services Officer Jitender Pal Singh, who was posted at Maligaon in Guwahati, on January 14 in an alleged bribery case of Rs 1.5 crore. The fresh FIR has accused Singh of allegedly accumulating about Rs 2.30 crore worth of illicit assets during his six-year tenure as ADRM in Maligaon, Guwahati, according to the FIR. The agency had arrested him on January 14 while he was allegedly receiving Rs 50 lakh as part of the total bribe amount. The CBI investigation revealed that Singh had allegedly received illegal gratifications totalling to Rs 1.5 crore, which were found to be parked with a contractor named Bishnu Gupta.
Gupta had allegedly documented some figures related to the bribe amount in a diary. During the searches at Singh’s premises and those of his associates, the agency discovered various documents detailing his income, expenditures and assets acquired, along with a significant amount of cash.
Further scrutiny of the documents and investigation led to the allegation that Singh possessed illicit assets that were approximately twice (197 per cent) the amount of his known income sources, according to the contents of the FIR. The agency alleged that he intentionally accumulated the illicit assets from January 1, 2017 to January 14, 2023. Apart from Singh and his wife, Bishnu Gupta, the contractor, has also been named in the fresh FIR by the agency.