CBI raids Delhi finance commissioner's house
Apr 24, 2007 - 8:53:37 PM
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The CBI said that Kataria's firm was favoured in several ways as it was awarded the contract for 'trenchless renovation of the water mains' on much higher rates than the rates for laying of new pipelines of same dimensions.
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By IANS,
[RxPG] New Delhi, April 24 - The Central Bureau of Investigation - Tuesday raided Delhi government's Finance Commissioner Rakesh Mohan's residence and office to ascertain his role in a corruption case involving award of a contract for repairing certain stretches of water pipelines in the capital.
The CBI raided Mohan's residence after registering a corruption case against him for misusing his official position as the chief executive officer of the Delhi Jal Board - in 2004 in awarding the contract.
A case was also registered against the owner of a well-known infrastructure company, Vijay Kataria of M/s Kaveri Infrastructures India Ltd, dealing with the laying and repairing of water pipelines.
As part of its probe into the corruption case, the CBI Tuesday raided a total of 13 residential and official premises of various accused in the case, including the 1978-batch IAS officer Mohan and Kataria.
The First Information Report - lodged by the investigative agency alleges that Mohan adopted an innovative method to receive the bribe from Kataria to award the lucrative contract worth Rs.360 million to his firm.
When the DJB was processing the bid to award the contract in 2005, Kataria purchased a house in the US in 2005 and executed a special power of attorney in favour of Rakesh Mohan's son-in-law residing there.
On the basis of that power of attorney, Mohan's son-in-law took a loan of Rs.30 million from an American bank two days before the contract was awarded to Kataria, the CBI said.
Detailing the case, the CBI FIR said the DJB had invited a tender in November 2004 for renovation of old water pipelines from Janakpuri A-2 block park to Janak Cinema in west Delhi and from Bara Hindu Rao to Jhandewalan reservoir in north Delhi, using a fancy technology known as 'trenchless renovation of the water mains'.
In response to the tender notice, the DJB received six offers of which a consortium of three companies, including Keveri Infrastructures, was chosen for award of the contract.
Later, it transpired that the other two firms in the consortium were non-serious firms and were indirectly related to Kataria's firm.
The CBI said that Kataria's firm was favoured in several ways as it was awarded the contract for 'trenchless renovation of the water mains' on much higher rates than the rates for laying of new pipelines of same dimensions.
The DJB later even changed the scope of work for the firm. Instead of repairing pipelines in west and north Delhi, it was asked to renovate pipelines in south Delhi.
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