CBI arrests 3 Senior Railway Officers in Bribery Racket

CBI arrests 3 Senior Railway Officers in Bribery Racket The Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) has arrested a Chief Freight Transport Manager, (CFTM, IRTS-1996), East Central Railway, ECR HQ, Hajipur (Bihar); a Senior DOM (IRTS-2011), Samastipur, ECR; another Senior DOM (IRTS-2011), Sonpur, ECR; Director of a private company based at Kolkata & a private person in a bribery case. On July 31, 2022, a case was filed against a Chief Freight Transport Manager (IRTS-1996), East Central Railway, (ECR), Hajipur, and two Senior DOMs, Samastipur and Sonpur, both of EC Railway; Director of a private company; other private person; and unknown others on the grounds that the defendants were habitually collecting illegal gratification from the vendors of East Central Railway (ECR) in exchange for preferential allocation of railway racks for loading goods. In addition, it was claimed that a director of a private company with headquarters in Kolkata engaged in a close-knit conspiracy with East Central Railway employees to obtain out-of-turn and priority allotments of railway rack services, extra stacking time for his company, and other unfair advantages in return for the payment of sizable bribes to those employees on a monthly basis. The same private firm director was also accused of ordering his brother, a private individual, to send around Rs. 23.5 lakh for delivery to other ECR officers. The CBI set a trap, and the CFTM (public employee) was apprehended while taking the Rs. 6 lakh bribe. Also apprehended was the bribe taker. Three more defendants were later apprehended. The results of searches at 16 different locations, including Patna, Sonpur, Hajipur, Samastipur, and Kolkata, included the recovery of numerous incriminating documents and around 46.50 lakh rupees, including approximately 29 lakh rupees from a businessman in Kolkata. Six envelopes holding the cash that was to be given to several ECR officials were found inside one SUV automobile, which was also found. The arrested accused are being produced before the Competent Court.