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Ranchi, Nov 7 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) official in Jharkhand while accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 from a person seeking a job on compassionate grounds. An official gave this information on Friday.
Deepak Giri, Manager, Personnel-HR, Central Coalfields Limited (CCL), Dakra Project Office, had demanded bribe from a job seeker who had applied under the provisions for granting employment on compassionate grounds, the official said in a statement.
The CBI on Thursday registered a case against Giri after receiving a complaint alleging that he demanded a bribe of Rs 1.5 lakh from the complainant for processing a request for appointment on compassionate grounds.
The CBI said the accused later agreed to accept the undue benefit of Rs 50,000 as the first instalment.
The investigating agency laid a trap and caught the accused red-handed while demanding and accepting the first installment of bribe of Rs 50,000 from the complainant.
Earlier, in a separate case in Uttar Pradesh, a special CBI court (West) in Lucknow had convicted two retired officials of State Bank of India and a Lucknow-based infrastructure firm in a 15-year-old Rs 5.7 crore fraud.
Retired deputy manager Subhash Chandra Agarwal and former desk officer Joy Chakraborty, both posted at the main branch and local head office of SBI, were sentenced to three years of rigorous imprisonment each and fined Rs 30,000.
The third convict, Adyapolo Projects Pvt Ltd, faced a corporate fine of Rs 10 lakh. Company director Kranti Kumar Singh, who masterminded the scam, died during the trial.
The conspiracy began in 2009 when Singh, in a bid to make easy money for his cash-strapped company, created fake invoices and balance sheets to create three fake supplier entities: Zsoda Global Marketing, RK Traders and Sambhav Enterprises.
With these papers, he allegedly convinced Aggarwal and Chakraborty to sanction a loan of Rs 5.7 crore for the purchase of machinery.
Once the funds arrived, Singh quietly transferred the money to his personal accounts.
–IANS
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