Fraudulent funds made by manipulating data, payments for undelivered consignments, work awarded to new contractor earlier than completion of the present contractor’s legal responsibility interval – these are amongst CBI’s key findings over which it not too long ago booked 11 engineers and a contractor of the Delhi Authorities’s Public Works Division (PWD).
The PWD’s vigilance unit discovered that fee was made to the contractor towards false or faux measurements by the division’s officers to cease the vibration and noise brought on by the flyovers at Outer Ring Highway, Ber Sarai, Munirka and Vasant Vihar.
The criticism was filed by V Ok Parashar, the Chief Vigilance Officer within the Central Public Works Division (CPWD), Nirman Bhawan on August 6, 2021, towards three government engineers, 4 junior engineers and 4 assistant engineers posted with South West Highway-I Division of the PWD and a registered contractor.
“…An everyday case of legal conspiracy, dishonest and a number of other sections of Prevention of Corruption was registered towards them on November 12 final 12 months (2024),” the FIR by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) stated.
Parashar stated the CPWD’s Vigilance Unit obtained a criticism from the deputy secretary (vigilance) PWD on November 18, 2020 alleging that the contractor was paid towards false/faux measurements by the PWD officers from 2012 to 2019.
“Throughout preliminary investigation, it was discovered that the work…was executed by the contractor for a tendered quantity of Rs 3.98 crore. The ultimate invoice amounting to Rs 5.09 crore was paid…on September 11, 2015,” he alleged within the criticism, which is part of the FIR.
Based on the FIR, studies submitted by the manager engineer of South West Highway-I, PWD, “rabbit wire mesh with nails over highway floor was not supplied at website of labor, however was paid to the contractor beneath numerous payments… Fraudulent fee of Rs 40.5 lakh appears to have been made by the alleged PWD officers towards faux/false measurements of Munirka, Ber Sarai flyover, Masoodpur flyover.”
The vigilance unit’s probe additionally discovered that one of many accused engineers revised the measurement within the settlement and made an overpayment for wire mesh amounting to Rs 5.2 lakh.
The investigation additionally revealed that the date of completion of the work to cease vibration and noise brought on by the flyovers at Outer Ring Highway, Ber Sarai, Munirka, Masoodpur and Vasant Vihar was Could 28, 2015.
As per the settlement, “the defect legal responsibility interval for upkeep of mastic work shall be 5 years calculated from the completion of building work” and that “the mastic (asphalt) work was to be maintained by the alleged contractor as much as Could 27, 2020…,” the complainant stated.
A preliminary estimate for changing this mastic work on Masoodpur flyover was allegedly initiated by two engineers.
“This preliminary estimate amounting to Rs 29 lakh was processed and sanctioned on August 27, 2018 by one of many alleged government engineers with out verifying the main points. Within the historical past sheet of this preliminary estimate, it was talked about that the work of mastic was carried out on Masoodpur flyover 5 years in the past. The work towards this sanction was executed by one other contractor for an quantity of Rs 21 lakh,” the complainant alleged.
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