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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a charge sheet against a former Railway Board Member (Staff), former Railway Minister Pawan Bansal’s nephew Vijay Singla and 9 others in reference to a bribery case.
Among these named are N. Manjunath, Sandeep Goyal, Ajay Garg, Rahul Yadav, Sameer Sandhir, Sushil Daga, C.V. Venugopal, M.V. Murali Krishna and Venkateshwara Rail Nirman Private Limited. The ED has additionally requested the confiscation of the belongings connected in the cash laundering case, which relies on an FIR registered by the CBI.
The CBI had filed a charge sheet against a number of accused individuals beneath the Prevention of Corruption Act.
“At the relevant time, Mr. Pawan Bansal was the Railway Minister and his nephew Vijay Singla was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of ₹89.68 lakh for the favourable appointment and posting of Mr. Kumar, a 1975-batch officer of Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers, as Member (Electrical), Railway Board,” mentioned the company.
The ED probe revealed that Mr. Manjunath, on behalf of Mr. Kumar, ‘persuaded various Railway vendors, manufactures and contractors to arrange the bribe amount. In lieu of the funds, they were assured favours’.
The first instalment of the bribe quantity was organized by Mr. Manjunath, Mr. Krishna, Mr. Daga and Venkateshwara Rail Nirman, as alleged. The cash was routed by way of the accounts of assorted corporations and people, with the assistance of “hawala” brokers, and allegedly delivered to Mr. Singla at his workplace in (*11*).
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