CBI arrests Oil India official, private company executive for bribery

The CBI has arrested a deputy normal supervisor of Oil India Limited posted in Assam’s Duliajan and a private company executive for alleged bribery of Rs 7 lakh, officers stated on Monday. Prayas Chakravorty, a deputy normal supervisor (DGM) of Oil India Limited (OIL), had allegedly demanded the bribe from Jyoti Kumar Singh, the DGM of Noida-based United Drilling Tools Limited, for the award of sure contract in favour of the private company, they stated.
Both had been arrested and produced earlier than a CBI particular court docket in Ghaziabad on Monday.
“It was also alleged that accused public servant (Chakravorty) demanded 70 grams of gold ornaments for himself as well as for some other unknown public servant from accused DGM (Singh) of said private company in lieu of award of certain contract in favour of him,” a CBI spokesperson stated in a press release.
Singh informed the accused official that he couldn’t organize the gold jewelry and would pay in money, the officers stated.
United Drilling Tools MD Kunal Gupta, additionally an accused within the FIR, organized Rs 7 lakh to be delivered to Chakravorty, in accordance with the assertion.
On receiving the money, Chakravorty allegedly bought gold cash price greater than Rs 3.70 lakh from a store in Noida and took house the remaining money quantity on the identical day.
“The CBI laid a trap immediately thereafter and caught the accused public servant red-handed with Rs 3.34 lakh cash (approx) and documents related to the purchase of gold from the possession of accused public servant,” the spokesperson stated within the assertion.
“Searches were conducted at residential and official premises of the accused at various places in Delhi, Noida, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia which led to the recovery of gold jewellery (obtained as bribe), over Rs 30 lakh cash (from private persons), mobile devices and several incriminating documents,” in accordance with the assertion.