Close on the heels of CBI arresting now suspended Principal Secretary to the Delhi Chief Minister Rajendra Kumar in a bribery case, the agency on Saturday nabbed a serving and former MDs of a PSU for allegedly favouring a private company in award of tenders.
Both RS Kaushik and his predecessor GK Nanda, present and former Managing Directors of Intelligent Communication Systems India ltd (ICSIl), a Delhi Government undertaking, which is a joint venture of Telecommunication Consultants India ltd (TCIl) and Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation, were arrested.
The duo has been arrested as both remained evasive during their questioning. They will be produced before a competent court on Sunday.
With these fresh arrests, the number of persons nabbed by the CBI has gone up to six. Besides Kumar, Deputy Secretary in Kejriwal’s officer Tarun Sharma and two owners of Endeavour Systems Pvt ltd — Sandeep Kumar and Dinesh Gupta — have been arrested by the agency.
All of them have been named in the FIR by the CBI for allegedly abusing official position by “favouring a particular firm in the last few years in getting tenders from Delhi Government departments”.
The case has been registered under 120-B of IPC (criminal conspiracy), and 13(2), 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act (Criminal conspiracy, criminal misconduct etc) for allegedly favouring a private company in five contracts worth `9.5 crore during 2007-14.
The CBI had also conducted searches at six premises in Delhi, Noida and Agra —including office of Kumar’s Chartered Accountant (CA) in the national capital — during which they claimed to have recovered `27 lakh in cash.
The CBI claimed that investigation so far show that the money from the accounts of ESPl was routed to a Noida-based firm and a real-estate company and a publication house in Agra.
The four other arrested persons, including Kumar, are presently undergoing police custody.