A huge scam of Rs 90 crore of the Northeast Frontier Railway has come up into the light. The scam has been executed on a number of NF Railway projects on the Silchar-Sairang (Mizoram) line.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had registered a case in October 2020 (no RC 0202020A0006) against four railway officials and contractors in connection with the scam at its Anti-Corruption Branch in Shillong under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act, 1988. The case was registered after taking approval from the Railway Board under section 17A of the PC Act.
According to the FIR, the Northeast Frontier Railway allegedly paid surplus amount to the contractors in respect to five major works, including the construction of single tunnels, embankment and bridges between Bairabi- Sairang.
The FIR filed by the Superintendent of Police, Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB), Shillong, Vivek Dutt has also mentioned that the suspected offences are criminal conspiracy, forgery and cheating. The scam took place between 2013 to 2018.
The scam took place by tampering and inflating bills against various works by manipulating and adding figures at the left end of the figure marking.
The accused have been identified as SP Deshmukh, Pradip Kumar Sharma, Tapeswar Rabha, Bimal Dey, Ananta Charan Nayak, Biswajit Nayak and a few others.
SP Vivek Dutt had a telephonic conversation with Headline8 on this regard and he said, “An investigation is going on in this matter. Our team is looking after the matter. No one has been arrested as of now.”
