New Delhi [India], August 27 (ANI): The Rouse Avenue Court issued manufacturing warrants for Udit Prakash Rai, former CEO of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), and Nagendra Yadav. They will probably be produced earlier than the court docket on August 29. They are at present in judicial custody.
They have been arrested by the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) within the alleged DJB STP tender rip-off case. Former Delhi Minister Satyender Jain has additionally been arrested on this case.
Duty Judge Neha Paliwal Sharma issued warrants for the manufacturing of Udit Prakash Rai and Nagendra Yadav after listening to the applying of the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) within the DJB STP tender rip-off case.
Meanwhile, Pankaj Verma has been remanded to judicial custody by the court docket till September 3. He was produced earlier than the court docket after two days of police custody.
Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) Manish Rawat appeared for the ACB and moved purposes for the issuance of a manufacturing warrant and judicial custody.
On August 25, the court docket remanded Pankaj Verma to 2 days of Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) custody for interrogation. He has been arrested within the alleged Delhi Jal Board (DJB) STP tender rip-off case. Verma is the proprietor of the agency Srijanhar Enterprises.
While granting police custody, the court docket had said that his police custody was certainly mandatory for a good investigation; his custodial interrogation can also be essential to unearth different facets of the conspiracy, together with different individuals concerned.
The current FIR originated from a vigilance reference of May 10, 2024, from the Directorate of Vigilance, GNCTD, alleging a corruption rip-off involving lots of of crores of rupees within the Delhi Jal Board (DJB).
The allegations pertain to the tendering course of and the next award of contracts for the augmentation and upgradation of ten (10) Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) throughout Delhi. Those 10 STPs have been divided into 4 blocks/packages, with a complete tendered worth of roughly Rs 1,943 crores.
It is alleged that public servants from the DJB have been in league with personal contractors, know-how suppliers, and intermediaries, manipulating tender situations, inflating price estimates, and diluting environmental requirements to make sure that the contracts have been awarded to a choose cartel, leading to wrongful loss to the general public exchequer and wrongful features to the personal entities.
While searching for two days of custody for accused Pankaj Verma, Public Prosecutor Manish Rawat submitted that his detailed interrogation is required to establish the aim of the incorporation of M/s Srijanhar Enterprises; to look at the settlement between his proprietorship concern and Eurotech as to which merchandise have been to be bought and marketed; and to make clear and confirm the facet of the declare of a mortgage by Srijanhar to Dhanvine Engineering.
It was additionally submitted that Verma’s custody is required to establish the utilisation of Rs 1.22 crores acquired by M/s Dhanvine, which have been really acquired by Srijanhar from Eurotech; the aim of the switch of Rs 81 lakhs to Vinod Chauhan; and the aim of the switch of Rs 43 lakhs from Dhanvine to the agency of Nagendra Yadav.
The ACB additionally mentioned that custodial interrogation is required to establish the precise quantum of loss precipitated to the federal government, which officers have been concerned within the offence, and to establish and acquire the main points of the services claimed to be equipped by Srijanhar.
The custody remand utility was opposed by the defence counsel on the bottom that accused Pankaj Verma was not named as a person within the unique FIR of the current case, and his agency was not named both.
It was contended that his agency, Srijanhar Enterprises, entered into a legitimate written supervision providers settlement with Eurotech, and that he personally undertook on-site technical supervision on the STP websites the place the work was carried out.
The defence counsel asserted that documented enterprise outflows like salaries, labour funds, and so on., exceed the quantity alleged to have been dissipated, and that the switch of Rs 1.22 crores to Dhanvine was a official, interest-free, unsecured director’s mortgage superior for peculiar enterprise functions, which was additionally disclosed in Dhanvine’s monetary statements. (ANI)