New Delhi, Sep 7: The CBI has booked the then Deputy General Manager of Ordnance Factory Ambajhari , Nagpur, for allegedly favouring a private firm owned by his cousin in awarding tenders in 2022.
The CBI has also booked the private firm, Automation Engineering and Industrial Services, Nagpur and its proprietor in connection with the case.
CBI has conducted searches at four locations at the residential premises of the accused.
It was alleged that Officer during his tenure at DGM, OFAJ, Nagpur, had established Automation Engineering and Industrial Services in July 2022 showing his cousin as its proprietor.
Within four months of operations, the company got the tender for the whole job for machining of forged steel components in shell machine worth Rs 1.71 crore.
During this period, DGM was assigned the portfolio of Shell Machine in addition to the Shell Forge Section, and he had also prepared the technical specifications of the said tender.
It is further alleged that the accused Dy. GM entered into multiple to-and-fro financial and banking transactions with the private firm through bank accounts of himself and his family members.
The complaint, now part of the FIR, alleged that all the orders had gone to Automation and DGM who, along with all senior officers, misappropriated government funds.
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