At least 20 officials were sacked in connection with the 2007-08 recruitment scam of Bokaro Steel limited — a subsidiary of Steel Authority of India limited — the termination letters were handed over to all of them on Saturday, officials said.
The officials who were sacked are: Syed Md Razi (son of Syed Sibtey Razi ex- governor of Jharkhand), Raj Kumar Jatia (son of Satyanarayan Jatia, a senior BJP leader of MP), Ritesh Kumar Singh (son of ex MD Bokaro BK Singh) Yogesh Chandra Patnayak (son of ex-DGP) posted at Ranchi, New Delhi, Mumbai and Bhopal along with SS Vora, R Kumar, MK Singh, MS Rajak, MK Gope, AK Paswan, SK MIshra, HS Kumar, AK Srivastava, lN Singh, S Kumar, B Sahani, P Kumar, R Kumar posted at Bokaro Steel Plant, Bokaro.
All were ineligible candidates and selected for the posts of middle and junior management levels in BSl under political pressure having their VVIP links. On the complaint of a Patna based scribe Akhilesh Kumar the first case was registered against then managing director VK Shrivastava and 14 officials, both working and retired, at BSl while the second case is against then executive director and seven other working and retired officials of SAIl and the plant alleging favouring candidates having VVIP connections. While chief of communication Sanjay Tewary declined to comments.
On 28 January 36 teams of CBI sleuths had conducted extensive raids across the country including Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Mumbai and Delhi to unearth the scam.
Investigations revealed that several people related to politicians, judges and even one governor were favoured for jobs by the officers. Few including former executive director Jivesh Mishra, former general manager (personnel and administration) RK Narula and deputy general manager AK Hembrom including others are still under scanner; “Our investigations are on”, said an official.