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4 East Coast Railway Officials Among 6 Booked By CBI For Tender Scam In Odisha Project

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OB Bureau

Bhubaneswar: CBI has lodged an FIR against four officials of the East Coast Railway (ECoR) and two others for allegedly accepting bribes for passing a in the favour of an accused firm for a project in Odisha.

Sources said a tender was floated in 2015 for the execution of signalling and telecommunication works and supply of critical materials in connection with the railway electrification work in the Angul-Sambalpur section in Sambalpur division of EcoR in Odisha.

The tender was given to a Jaipur-based firm — Kiran Infra Engineers limited — which quoted a value of Rs 7,10,87,7901.

Kishore Sharma, Director of Kiran lnfra, then authorised Sorabh Dhanuka, a resident of Visakhapatnam, for the execution of tender work.

Dhanuka and his father Raj Kumar Dhanuka were partners in the firm B K Enterprise, they said.

It was also learnt that Raj Kumar ran another firm, Raj Kumar & Co., having its office at the same office address as that of B K Enterprise.

Four officials of EcoR – Subhas Chandra Das, Jalasutra Sumurtti, Sanjib Kumar Sahoo and Gopabandhu Bhoi – obtained undue pecuniary advantage to the tune of Rs 13,32,0001 from B K Enterprise and Raj Kumar & Co through banking transactions in their names as well as in the names of their family members, without consideration from the concerned person (Sorabh Dhanuka), with whom they had official transaction, CBI was quoted by news agency IANS as saying.

The CBI has lodged the FIR under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Prevention of Corruption Act against the accused persons.

The ECoR officials named in the CBI case were not immediately available for comment.

OB Bureau

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