Kautilya Singh | TNN | Jul 9, 2016
DEHRADUN: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested an Army officer, Lt Colonel Bharat Joshi, posted in Instruments Research and Development Establishment’s (IRDE) military engineering services unit in Dehradun for accepting bribe of Rs 10,000 to issue a completion certificate. After being produced in the court of a duty magistrate on Saturday, the officer was sent to Dehradun jail till Monday.
According to the complaint, contractor Harendra Singh was given a contract for constructing two-storey residential buildings in the IRDE campus at Raipur’s Udhyan Vihar area. Singh was to collect Rs 16 lakh after completion of the work and he needed a completion certificate for the same, which had to be issued by Joshi.
Singh said that the officer demanded Rs 38,000 to issue the certificate. On July 4, Singh reportedly handed over Rs 10,000 as initial amount to Joshi. However, within a few days Joshi asked for another Rs 10,000 which was to be paid in his office. The remaining amount was to be given after Singh received his payment.
However, rather than handing over the amount, this time Singh approached CBI with his complaint. “After verifying the allegations we laid a trap to arrest the accused,” said a CBI official. As Singh was handing over the amount to Joshi, the CBI team arrested the officer.
Soon after this, senior CBI officers, including SP Sujit Kumar and deputy SP Akhil Kaushik, arrived at IRDE and questioned the accused. The team also conducted a search at Joshi’s office and his residence. The team also collected some documents and are scrutinizing them. A case under the relevant section of the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against the accused.
Meanwhile, sources said that another officer of the IRDE is also under CBI scanner as the agency has found some initial clues which linked him to the incident.
CAG please wakeup and clean DRDO…Do Something for nation…
Respected Prabhu sir,
CBI is sleeping, they are catching only army professionals. What about traitors like raja babu, who is the kingpin of corruption. He has done corruption at SPIC to the tune of Rs 1000 Cr. When he was in AD, Hyerdabad, he used to promote SEC industries, where he used to purchase container and in turn he used to get big commission. If CAG does the enquiry at Hyeradabad, one will be stunned to see the corruption done by raja babu.
As a gesture, he was directly appointed as Scientist G in SPIC (First time in history of SPIC, DRDO). How an incompetent fellow can join directly as scientist G. He is looting in the name of nation. I am giving you one instance of corruption done by raja babu.
Raja babu played a bigger role for procuring the NBC shelters . NBC shelter are nothing but consisting of racks and network equipment for providing the communication. Let us say, we want to send messaage to another location, like in our telephone services, phone lines are there, In this SPIC uses fiber and satellite communication. They are just nothing only it provides the medium for voice and data. SPIC maintains multiple backup, hence different types of medium like fiber optics line, satellite communication and other medium are recommended for passing the data. Now for passing the data, you need network equipment like modem, router and switches are used. Raja babu with other corrupt scientists recommends these types of solution.If one sees, router, switch and modem are products available in the market. They are commerically available. Raja babu puts the order of shelter that is consisting of routers, modem and switch. If one purchase directly from these vendor in open market (Sir PM’s policy), the cost comes to Rs 105 Cr. Sir, if you want, I can send you shelter and equipment details. You also can verify from the vedor. SPIC has paid Rs 328 Cr for these shelters. The loss is Rs 223 Cr to Govt. In this Rs 223 Cr, Rs 73 Cr are absorbed by raja babu and rest money (bribe) is taken by promoter of raja babu M/s Dass Hitachi & associates. These mobseters of traitors does not stop here. Sir, the equipment that have been used in M/s Dass Hitachi & associate shelter were never purchased. Raja babu with help of SPIC scientists stole these equipments from SPIC and gave free of cost to M/s Dass Hitachi & associate and wrong billing was provided to govt of india. Sandeep Sharma shown these as critical equipment and our honorable NSA Sh Ajit Doval was shown wrong information and in good faith, NSA sir cleared this.
Sir, to fulfil PM dream of corruption free india and corruption free DRDO, what tendering process has been followed and on what basis tender has been awarded to the tender to M/s Dass Hitachi & associate. This is the violation of CVC guidliness. There are more than 20 companies that provide better shelter than M/s Dass Hitachi & associate, why SPIC has choosen M/s Dass Hitachi & associate.
Please ask for the details from SPIC (Raja babu), how much purchasing of communicaton equipment has been done in last 5 years and how much is being acutally used and consumption certificate.
How it is possible, for one shelter / equipment ISRO is paying Rs 30 Lakhs,whereas SPIC (Raja babu ) are paying Rs 1.5 Cr.
Humbily request to form a committee consisting of Service officers, scientists from ISRO,Scientists from DRDO (with clean record) members from IB, CBI and ED to initiate an enquiry into Project S21 and above mentioned points. I ensure you, it will give you good results and help to fulfill your dream of corruption free India and corruption free DRDO.
The bribe earned by Raja babu through M/s Dass Hitachi & associate has been used by raja babu to bribe the senior management of DRDO
Sir, if you want more details, I can provide you all the details.