CBI Arrests an Assistant Garrison Engineer and Superintendent of Customs in Separate Cases of Bribery
| Press Release New Delhi, 12.04.2017 |
| The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested an Assistant Garrison Engineer, working in the Office of GE (East), Agra(Uttar Pradesh) for demanding & accepting a bribe of Rs. 50,000/- from the complainant.
A case was registered against Assistant Garrison Engineer on a complaint alleging that he was demanding a bribe of Rs. 50,000/- from the complainant for clearing his pending bills. CBI laid a trap and the accused was caught red handed while demanding & accepting a bribe of Rs. 50,000/- from the complainant. The accused is being produced today in the Designated Court. The arrested accused are being produced today before the CMM, Patiala House Courts, New Delhi. In other case, CBI has arrested Superintendent of Customs, ICD, Patli, District, Gurgaon (Haryana) and a private person while demanding & accepting bribe of Rs. 25,000/-. A case was registered on a complaint that the Superintendent of Customs demanded a bribe of Rs.2000/- per consignment and threatened the complainant(a Custom Clearing Agent dealing with export consignments from ICD Patli, Gurgaon) that in case of non-payment of bribe, the consignments would be delayed. The bribe amount was negotiated to Rs.1000/- per consignment. CBI laid a trap wherein the accused were caught red handed while demanding & accepting bribe of Rs. 25000/-. During the house search of Superintendent at Sector-21, Gurgaon, FDs amounting to Rs. 52 lakh (approx); cash of Rs.Two Lakh; papers pertaining to three immovable properties; Gold ornaments; bank locker key and bank account papers were found. The arrested accused was produced in the court of Special Judge, CBI Cases, Panchkula and remanded to Judicial Custody. http://cbi.nic.in/pressreleases/pr_2017-04-12-2.php |
| CBI REGISTERS TWO SEPARATE CASES RELATING TO DEMONETIZATION AND CONDUCTS SEARCHES |
| Press Release New Delhi, 13.04.2017 |
| The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case U/s 120-B, r/w 420 of IPC and Section 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d) of the PC Act, 1988 against then Senior Manager/Branch Manager, Bank of Maharashtra, Ambawadi Branch, Ahmedabad; a private person; four Proprietors of separate private firms and unknown others alleging therein that huge cash deposits in Specified Bank Notes (SBNs) were made during the demonetization period in various newly opened Benami Accounts in Bank of Maharashtra and the money was rotated between the said accounts as well as to other entities and finally transferred to another account through RTGS with Bank of Maharashtra,Ambawadi Branch, Ahmedabad. All these accounts were non-KYC compliant. The amount involved in this case was around Rs.28.87 crore(approx).
Searches were conducted at 8 places including office & residential premises of the accused which led to recovery of incriminating documents. The other case was registered U/s 120-B, 417, 420 of IPC and Section 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d) of the PC Act, 1988 against then Manager & Assistant Branch Head of UCO Bank, St. Xavier’s Branch, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad; Proprietor of Ahmedabad based private firm and unknown others on the allegations that the Bank official in conspiracy with a private firm/Shell Company and other unknown persons deposited huge Specified Bank Notes (SBNs) amounting to around Rs.1.40 Crore(approx) in Current Account of a Proprietor of the Shell Company with UCO Bank during demonetisation period and thereby cheated the Government. Searches were conducted at 3 places including office & residential premises of the accused which led to recovery of incriminating documents. Further investigation in both cases is continuing. http://cbi.nic.in/pressreleases/pr_2017-04-13-1.php |
