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I am happy to be here with you this afternoon after a gap
of two months. We last met on February 2, 2005. In the meanwhile,
CBI has continued its drive against corruption.
Before I come to today's Special Drive, I would like to remind
you of some of the important cases registered by CBI in this
year. We registered cases against the former D G Meteorological
Department, the Ex.Chief Secretary, Uttar Pradesh and a senior
IPS officer for possession disproportionate assets. Besides
this, CBI has registered cases in connection with corruption
in erection of Retro-Reflective signboard by MCD, fraudulent
payments of pension worth crores of rupees in the Northern
Railways and illegal passport racket. Besides registering
two more cases in connection with the Tehelka tapes, CBI registered
the Gutka case after taking over from the Mumbai police.
During the period from Ist January to 31st March, 2005, 45
corrupt officials have been trapped by the CBI while accepting
bribes . These include a General Manger of Airport Authority
of India, an RPF official, a Regional Passport Officer, Income
Tax officials, a Drug Inspector, an Assistant Garrison Engineer,
a Deputy Collector of Dadar & Nagar Haveli, a District
Infomatics Officer of NIC, an Asstt. Registrar of Companies,
Kanpur and a Joint Director General, DGFT. Disproportionate
asset cases were registered against 28 public servants upto
31.3.05
During this period, CBI’s Interpol Wing has done excellent
work in successful deportation of an Indian Bank scam accused
from UAE. He was wanted in 13 cases involving a fraud of around
Rs. 300 crores. A Singaporean national, who was kidnapped
in Chennai was rescued by the Chennai police at the initiative
of Interpol Wing. Similarly, another fugitive, a US national,
wanted by American authorities for defrauding financial institutions
to the tune of several million dollars has been detained and
legal proceedings to extradite him to USA are in progress.
The CBI during this period has filed 147 charge sheets. 5
charge sheets have been filed in connection with the DDA scam
of 2003. Senior IAS officers including the former Vice Chairman
and a former High Court Judge have been charge sheeted. In
the fake stamp paper cases, CBI has been able to file 37 charge
sheets. More important is the conduct of trial in these cases
where one accused has to face trial in several courts at different
places. This problem has been overcome by use of technology.
The courts have been requested to conduct trials through video
conferencing. Necessary arrangements have been made and the
trial proceedings have started.
CBI has also secured conviction in 58 important cases. Death
sentence has been awarded to one Anthony alias Antappan, the
accused in the murder of six members of a family in a case
of Kerala of 2002. Life sentence has been given to an accused
for kidnapping an NRI businessman for ransom in Delhi and
three accused given ten years jail term in the Shivani Jadeja
acid throwing case of Jaipur. In the trial of fake stamp cases
the Ist conviction has been secured today against 3 accused
viz. S. Krishnamurthy, P. Mariamuttu and A. Raja, all private
persons by a CBI court of Bangalore for selling fake stamps
worth Rs. 56 lacs. During March 2005 our conviction rate has
reached 70%.
During the Ist Special Drive held on February 2, 2005 moveable
/ immovable properties, cash, jewellry and other valuables
etc worth Rs.21.50 crore were detected including Rs.1.50 crore
cash.
During the IInd Special Drive held today i.e. on 6.4.2005
the main focus of our attention has been detection of disproportionate
assets cases against corruption public servants. So far we
have registered 45 cases against 85 persons including 53 public
servants. Cases have been registered under Section 13(1) (e)
of Prevention of Corruption Act 1988, Indian Penel Code 1860,
Indian Telegraph / Wireless Act etc. These cases involve officers
from the departments of Customs and Central Excise , BSNL,
Controller of Explosives, TRIFED, Coal India Ltd, Posts and
Telegraph, Air India, Airport Authority of India, FCI, MCD,
United India Insurance Company, Union Bank of India, S.B.I
and Banks of Baroda
CBI has conducted searches at 144 places through out the
country today. These places include Kolkata (16) Mumbai (13),
Delhi (12), Chennai (2) Varanasi (6), Hyderabad (5) Bangalore
(5), Kandla (5),Shimla (5) Port Blair (3), Patna (3), Dhanbad
(3) and Allahabad, Ghaziabad, Tirupati, Cochin, Alleppey,
Mangalore, Ahemadabd, Pune, Guwahati, Vizag, Ghazipur etc.
In these cases searches are still continuing and as per information
received so far moveable / immovable properties, cash, jewllery
and valuables worth Rs. 11.16 crores have been detected.
In today’s Special Drive 30 cases have been registered
against 30 public servants for amassing assets disproportionate
to their known sources of income.
Notable cases against public servants and others registered
today are mentioned below. Searches and checking is still
continuing. More details are expected in the next one or two
days :
w A DGM (Sports) of Air India Mumbai. During the searches
so far cash Rs. 5 lacs has been detected alongwith documents
of properties worth Rs. 75 lacs consisting of 2 lavishly furnished
flats in Bandra Mumbai, 2 flats in upmarket locality in Pune
besides landed property at Munnar valued at Rs.30 lacs. A
Mercedes Car worth Rs. 41 lac and a Santro car was found at
the premises of the concerned officer.
w A Project Officer of BCCL Dhanbad amassed assets worth
Rs. 20 lacs and a Santro Car, jwellery and other valuables
are being assessed
w Executive Engineer, BSNL, Ranchi is alleged to own a 3
stories house in Patna worth Rs. 75 lacs, Bank balances worth
Rs. 10,35, 883, hard cash Rs. 2.44 lac and various other immovable
assets are being assessed.
w Divisional Engineer, Telecom of BSNL Dhumka is alleged
to own a hotel situated at Station Road, Deoghar worth Rs.1,28,97,000/-
, Cheques worth Rs.24.60 lacs have been recovered from the
premises.
w A Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax, Hydrabad has immovable
assets worth Rs.28 lacs and movable assets which includes
investment, jwellery bank balance etc. worth Rs.39 lacs.
w A Joint Commr. of Income Tax, Mumbai, IRS-1993 Batch officer
has been booked for possession of disproportionate assets
of worth Rs. 1.27 crores in the name of his wife and minor
son. Searches have been conducted at 5 places in Delhi, 2
in Mumbai and at Kurukshetra, Rohtak and Karnal in Haryana.
w A Deputy Manager of FCI, Ferozpur, Punjab has been booked
for acquiring assets to the tune of Rs. 23,67,145/- during
a period of 4 years between 2000-2004 by corrupt and illegal
means. This officer was arrested earlier while demanding and
accepting a bribe of Rs. 20,000/- from a complainant. During
the investigation searches of his house and locker revealed
Rs.18,33,500/- and a flat at Noida worth Rs. 13 lacs.
w A General Manger of MTNL, Mumbai (Joint Secretary level)
has been booked for acquisition of assets to the tune of Rs.43.38
lacs. This officer is alleged to own flats in Noida and Lucknow,
Plot and agricultural land in Etah and Balero maruti car etc.,
w A Executive Engr. of MCD New Delhi is alleged to have acquired
assets worth Rs. 97.48 lacs. He owns a house in GK Part-II,
and industrial plot with 3 storey shed in Okhla, a flat in
South Extn. Part-I, a house in East of Kailash, 9 commercial
flats, a plot in Gurgaon and land in Faridabad. He has deposited
Rs. 7, 24, 567 in his PPF account. This officer was earlier
booked by CBI in case relating to installation of substandard
Retro-Reflective signboards in Delhi.
w A case has been registered against former CMD of CCL Ranchi
and presently CMD SECL Bilaspur and two other officials of
CCL Ranchi for entering into a criminal conspiracy , cheating
and abuse of official positions for favouring a private party
and causing wrongful loss of Rs.27.78 lacs to the CCL. Searches
have resulted in discovery of assets of more than Rs.29,69,025/-.
Jwellery, motor vehicles and lockers are yet to be searched
/ assessed.
w In the above case a Director of CCL, Ranchi, and CGM, CCL
Ranchi (both retired now) are also involved. Preliminary searches
have revealed disproportionate assets of Rs.37,09,095/- with
the above accused.
w In a unique case registered by EOW Delhi, 9 public servants
of Post and Telegraph Department of Allahabad have been found
to have misappropriated NSCs / KVPs worth Rs.2,79,41,000/-
during the period May, 2003 to December 2004. Searches at
6 places in Varanasi and 2 places in Ghazipur (UP) are continuing.
w A case has been registered against 7 private persons and
officials of the Postal Deptt. at Mumbai wherein it has been
alleged that they have swindled money of morethan a few crores
by fraudelently tampering with the franking machines and repairing
falls documents causing wrongful gain to the private persons
/ firms who have obtained franking machine facilities from
the Postal Deptt.
w EOW Mumbai and Chennai branches have registered 4 cases
relating to fraud in the postal department, duty drawback
and during the joint surprise checks with officials of DOT
and MTNL illegal diversion of international calls has been
detected by use of Voice over Internet Protocol Technology.
The technical equipment like Routers, Phones, PCs etc have
been seized. The checking is still continuing.
w As a follow up of the trap laid against Deputy Collector
of Daman in the last week, further investigation has revealed
that this officer, having only 3 years of service, has amassed
assets valuing Rs.15 lacs. A scorpio vehicle worth Rs.4.16
lacs has been detected from the accused officer.
w A Senior Manager of Union Bank of India was earlier booked
by CBI EOW Branch Mumbai has been now booked again for disproportionate
assets of Rs.91 lacs including Rs.18.76 lacs recovered from
the possession of the acccused officer.
w A case has been registered in Special Crime Branch Delhi
against at private person for cheating by impersonation and
supplying fake forged CBI identity cards and CBI seals etc.,.
This person has been arrested and further investigations are
in progress.
w A case has been registered against Divisional Manager,
United India Insurance Company Ltd, Shimla and 4 others including
a private agent for causing a wrongful loss of Rs.12,38,657/-
to the Govt. of India while insuring 1.5 lacs employees of
Himachal Pradesh Govt. As per a scheme the Govt of HP insured
1.5 lac employees for a total sum of Rs. 3000 crores for the
year 2005 @ Rs.2 lacs per employee. Against this insurance
policy, Govt. of HP paid a sum of Rs. 1,36,50,000/- to the
United Indian Insurance Company as first premium. As per rules
5% rebate was allotted to the govt., however, the accused
paid agents commission at 10% of the Ist premium to the private
agent. 5 places have been searched in Shimla.
w A case has been registered in EOW Kolkata against 5 private
persons Directors / Managers of a private company for evasion
of customs duty totalling Rs.29,03,00,460/- to the govt. of
India by submitting falls and fabricated exports documents.
w In a case against Executive Director of North Eastern Electric
Power Corporation, Guwahati registered for possession of disproportionate
assets liquid assets worth Rs. 18 lacs institutional deposit
worth Rs. 19 lacs have been detected during the searches.
w One Sub Division Engineer of BSNL Kolkata have been booked
for possession of disproportionate. During the searches liquid
assets worth Rs. 33 lacs have been detected.
w A DCP of Delhi Police have been booked for having assets
Rs. 82 .55 lacs and disproportionate assets of Rs. 61.55 lacs.
w One Director Finance, Ministry of Urban Development have
been booked for possession of disproportionate assets. During
the searches, movable and immovable assets worth Rs.47.68
lacs have been detected.
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