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The Sunday Express has learnt that these 17 private firms were given tenders despite being blacklisted by the DJBs vigilance department. In July 2018, the department had received complaints of a number of spurious tenders being given from 2016 to 2018.
The Delhi government’s anti-corruption branch (ACB) has booked 17 private firms and DJB engineers after payment worth around Rs 5 crore was allegedly released to the companies despite them failing to deliver equipment and services.
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The Sunday Express has learnt that these 17 private firms were given tenders despite being blacklisted by the DJB’s vigilance department. In July 2018, the department had received complaints of a number of spurious tenders being given from 2016 to 2018.
ACB chief Arvind Deep confirmed that three separate FIRs have been registered under Sections 7 and 8 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, and Sections 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC. “We have registered FIRs after we received complaints from DJB’s vigilance wing. We are probing the role of the accused,” he said.
Officials said that a few days ago, the ACB received a complaint, filed by the head of the vigilance wing, alleging that they received information from a “source” about irregularities being committed by engineers and payments being made without receipt of materials and non-execution of work. |
