The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has nabbed a senior railway engineering service officer of 1985 batch along with two others in an alleged bribery case of Rs 1 crore, officials said on Sunday.
A CBI officer said, “The arrested railway officer has been identified as Mahendra Singh Chauhan and the amount has also been recovered.”
The official said that the CBI busted a racket on the allegations that some senior public functionaries of North Eastern Frontier Railways were involved in corrupt practices with private contractors for the on-going projects in the North Eastern Frontier Railways.
He said that the contractors were allegedly being facilitated in awarding the contracts processing of subsequent bills and release of payments by the public functionaries in lieu of illegal gratifications.
CBI has registered a case against Chauhan, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO)/Construction-II, North East Frontier Railways, Maligaon, Hem Chand Borah, Deputy Chief…