Hyderabad:The arrest of a fake vendor, who was awarded a number of works of BSNL’s electrical wing across districts in Telangana, after submitting forged documents of a registered firm, exposed the tendering scam in the major central public sector undertaking.
The issue highlights the alleged involvement of BSNL staff in awarding contracts and puts a question mark over the agency’s claims of having a transparent e-procurement and competitive tendering systems.
The accused vendor created forged partnership stamps of an already registered agency which has been executing works of BSNL for nearly a decade.
The accused Vanjari Sangameshwar created fake GST invoices of the original firm and submitted them to BSNL. He also gave declarations in the prescribed B and C proformas and attached all the required documents, albeit forged ones, and managed to get works in four districts.
The proprietor of the original firm, Srinivas, shocked to find penalties in his GST account, rushed to the BSNL…