The Enforcement Directorate has arrested a retired chief engineer and a contractor in connection with its money laundering probe into alleged irregularities in the tendering process of the Delhi JAL Board, official sources said on Thursday. Sources said retired chief engineer Jagdish Kumar Arora and contractor Anil Kumar Aggarwal have been charged under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) In custody.

Federal agencies conducted a raid on the case last July. The ED is probing two irregularities in the DJB tendering process in a criminal case stemming from an FIR of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) of the Delhi government.

The CBI FIR accuses DJB officials of awarding a tender for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of electromagnetic flowmeters to NKG Infrastructure Ltd in connivance with officials of NBCC (India) Ltd and providing “undue advantage” to the company. The second allegation relates to an ACB complaint in November 2022, which alleged that DJB won a tender to set up motor bill payment machines (kiosks) at its various offices to facilitate consumer payments.

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