2 NHAI officials charged with graft
TNN, May 26, 2010, 01.51am IST
NEW DELHI: At a time when awarding of national highway projects is back on track, corruption charges against two top NHAI officials has come as a big blow to the authority's claim of following transparent norms in the bidding process.
On Tuesday, CBI registered a case of criminal conspiracy and corruption against two senior NHAI officials — a chief general manager and a general manager. The agency also slapped similar charges on two senior executives of a Delhi-based road construction company.
The CBI raids on Tuesday came only a few days after the ministry managed to convince a construction major to withdraw cases against NHAI in Delhi High Court, in which it had alleged that the authority had rejected its bids on frivolous grounds in four cases. The next date of hearing in this case was June 26. The CBI said the modus operandi of NHAI officials was to eliminate all potential contenders on one pretext or the other and favour the accused company ensuring huge financial gains to it.
Sources said the two NHAI officials — S K Nirmal and Nitin Jain — conspired with the managing director of Oriental Structural Engineers Pvt Ltd, K S Bakshi, and another senior executive S K Dixit and awarded the contract of four-laning of Nagpur-Betul section of NH-69. Sources said the investigation could even involve a top-ranking NHAI official, who could be the mentor of the two accused.
The 120-km stretch falls in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Investigators said NHAI had received 13 bids for this project of which four were rejected by officials on 'frivolous grounds' at the qualification stage. Four more bidders were eliminated in the next stage of bidding by making stipulations pertaining to submission of original documents in gross violation of the conditions of the tender.
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