Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has launched an investigation against three senior Western Railway (WR) officials and a private person for allegedly collecting money from candidates who appear in railway departmental examinations by promising them positive selection outcomes.
According to the CBI sources, it was reliably learnt that A Wasan, divisional personnel officer, Vadodara; SK Tiwari, senior divisional operations manager, Churchgate, (previously posted as deputy operations manager Vadodara); N Sinha, station superintendent and a private person M Meena from Anand, Gujarat and other officials of WR, Vadodara are involved in corrupt and illegal activities.
The said officials, possibly aided and abetted by others, are collecting money from candidates who appear in railway departmental examinations by promising them positive selection outcomes, the information had revealed.
“On February 2, Wasan directed Tiwari to compile a list of at least ten candidates who would be willing to pay bribes for selection in an upcoming limited department examination to be organised by WR. Wasan also instructed Tiwari to contact Meena to gain an idea of how many such candidates were available. Tiwari inquired with Meena and he informed that he has already collected bribes from five such candidates. They agreed that the collected bribe would be handed over to Tiwari directly by Meena in person, without involving an intermediary,” the CBI stated in its FIR.
“Wasan directed Tiwari to collect the illicit cash from Meena at Anand. It was also learnt that on February 13, Sinha informed Tiwari that he had arranged four candidates willing to pay for selection. However, the money from only three candidates had been collected thus far and the remaining candidate was expected to deliver the agreed upon amount on February 14. Later, Tiwari met Meena in Anand and collected cash from him as a motive to fraudulently arrange the selection of five candidates whom Meena was representing,” the FIR added.
A case has been registered by the CBI on charges of criminal conspiracy, public servant being bribed with the intention to perform public duty improperly and dishonestly and bribing of a public servant under the relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Prevention of Corruption Act.
