Bhubaneswar: General manager of a star hotel deposed before CBI officers here on Sunday in connection with the recent bribery allegation involving Chanchal Mukherjee, a high-ranking official of Bridge and Roof Co. (India) Ltd, a central PSU.
“The hotel’s general manager was asked to join the investigation as Mukherjee held a meeting with a private company’s director, Santosh Moharana, and another middleman, Devadutta Mahapatra, in the hotel on Dec 7,” a CBI source said. Minutes after the meeting, CBI rounded up the trio outside the hotel in the evening while Mukherjee was allegedly accepting a Rs 10 lakh bribe from Moharana for giving undue favour in tender allotments.
Senior IAS officer Bishnupada Sethi, who was earlier sent a notice to turn up for questioning, reportedly sought more time to comply with the CBI’s instruction. Sethi came under the CBI scanner as the agency believes he was acquainted with some important and relevant circumstances of the bribery case. Three of the bureaucrat’s drivers were questioned at the CBI office on Saturday.
Sethi, who is secretary of social security and empowerment of persons with disabilities, ST and SC development and Odia language departments, did not respond to calls and messages. ST and SC development department recently assigned projects for the upgrade of Ashram schools to high schools and high schools to higher secondary schools and others to some PSUs, including Bridge and Roof Co.
On Sunday, CBI again searched the premises of the PSU’s office here and questioned some of the employees.
Bhubaneswar: General manager of a star hotel deposed before CBI officers here on Sunday in connection with the recent bribery allegation involving Chanchal Mukherjee, a high-ranking official of Bridge and Roof Co. (India) Ltd, a central PSU.
“The hotel’s general manager was asked to join the investigation as Mukherjee held a meeting with a private company’s director, Santosh Moharana, and another middleman, Devadutta Mahapatra, in the hotel on Dec 7,” a CBI source said. Minutes after the meeting, CBI rounded up the trio outside the hotel in the evening while Mukherjee was allegedly accepting a Rs 10 lakh bribe from Moharana for giving undue favour in tender allotments.
Senior IAS officer Bishnupada Sethi, who was earlier sent a notice to turn up for questioning, reportedly sought more time to comply with the CBI’s instruction. Sethi came under the CBI scanner as the agency believes he was acquainted with some important and relevant circumstances of the bribery case. Three of the bureaucrat’s drivers were questioned at the CBI office on Saturday.
Sethi, who is secretary of social security and empowerment of persons with disabilities, ST and SC development and Odia language departments, did not respond to calls and messages. ST and SC development department recently assigned projects for the upgrade of Ashram schools to high schools and high schools to higher secondary schools and others to some PSUs, including Bridge and Roof Co.
On Sunday, CBI again searched the premises of the PSU’s office here and questioned some of the employees.