New Delhi:
The CBI has suspended its Inspector Kapil Dhankad and Stenographer Sameer Kumar Singh for allegedly getting bribes to give away probe-connected info and compromise on investigation into two instances of bank fraud totalling Rs 4,300 crore, days immediately after it booked them and two officers.
Officials mentioned on Saturday that the agency has advised to the Department of Personnel and Training to initiate administrative action against the two officers — deputy superintendents of police RK Rishi and RK Sangwan.
The CBI has accused Dhankad, a State Bank of India manager who joined the agency on deputation as Inspector, for allegedly getting bribes of at least Rs 25 lakh to compromise on investigation into a quantity of instances and passing on critical info to the accused DSPs who had been understood to have been working on behalf of Shree Shyam Pulp and Board Mills and Frost International.
Shree Shyam Pulp and Board Mills is accused in a Rs 700-crore bank fraud case, though Frost International is accused in a Rs 3,600-crore bank fraud case.
“The CBI has a zero tolerance policy towards corruption, be it other departments or within the organisation. The case is a result of strict vigil and action on any input which indicates involvement of our officials in corrupt practice,” an official mentioned.
The agency has alleged that Dhankad posted in the banking, securities and fraud unit of the agency, in collusion with the DSPs, was getting kickbacks to pass on critical info and compromise on investigation, they mentioned.
According to the charges levelled in the eight-web page FIR, produced public on Friday immediately after the completion of a search operation by the agency, Inspector Dhankad received at least Rs 10 lakh each and every from Sangwan and Rishi, who had been soliciting favours for Shree Shyam Pulp and Board Mills and Frost International.
The embarrassing tale of corruption in the FIR says Sangwan, Rishi, Dhankad and Stenographer Singh, in conspiracy with advocates Arvind Kumar Gupta and Manohar Malik and particular other accused, “have been compromising the integrity of investigation of certain cases on extraneous pecuniary considerations”.
The CBI immediately after registering the case had carried out searches on Thursday in its headquarters exactly where some accused officers are posted, its academy exactly where Rishi is posted and 12 other areas across the nation, officials mentioned.
DSP Rishi received Rs 30 lakh in two equal instalments by way of two advocates obtaining their workplace in Defence Colony right here — Manohar Malik and Arvind Gupta — to extend favours to a Chandigarh-primarily based business against which a corruption case was becoming investigated by the CBI, the FIR alleged.
It alleged Dhankad twice received Rs 2.5 lakh from Gupta for obtaining brokered the deal by way of Rishi.
“It has also been reliably learnt that the details of the investigation of many other cases including confidential notes and directions have been communicated by Sameer Kumar Singh to Sangwan and Rishi on pecuniary considerations to protect interests of the accused,” the FIR alleged.