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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

No one, however big, will be spared in Railgate: CBI chief

 

10th Arrest, Many More May Land In Dock

Neeraj Chauhan TNN

New Delhi: In the line of fire over politically-sensitive cases, CBI chief Ranjit Sinha on Tuesday said the agency would not spare any one involved in Railgate, irrespective of their position and influence.
   Sinha's assertion came on a day when the 10th accused was arrested in the bribery case that
has seen railway minister Pawan Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla being held for accepting a Rs 90 lakh bribe as part payment for a Railway Board appointment.
   The agency, meanwhile, is pursuing leads that suggest that Singla was in touch with four-five senior officers for more transfer-posting deals and that the scandal may go to the top of the ministry. It is analyzing evidence based on phone intercepts recorded prior to the arrests and has not ruled out Bansal's role in the case. "The bribe was meant for some top authority in the ministry," a CBI source said.
   As the CBI prepares to question officials in Bansal's office, Ajay Garg, an aide of Sandeep Goyal, a railway supplier and middleman in the bribery case, surrendered at a Delhi court on Tuesday.

Action sought against Vahanvati

T he SC Bar Association has received over 250 signatures from its members seeking action against attorney general G E Vahanvati for his "role" in Coalgate. P 14

Coal report tweaked to firewall PM?

T he changes in the CBI's Coalgate status report, it appears, were made to tone down PM Manmohan Singh's culpability and to put the government on a par with past dispensations. The PM was in charge of coal when the scam happened. The need to tweak that segment of the report dealing with his stint perhaps influenced the need for "outside" inspection. PMO and coal ministry officials did away with the embarrassing conclusion that there was no system of evaluating competing applications for coal blocks under Singh and added a comment saying things were no different during the NDA days. But it did not say if the NDA-era process suffered from similar infirmities. P 14

TRAIN OF COMMAND


   Railway minister Pawan Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla was in touch with several senior officials in the ministry over other transfers & appointments, say CBI sources
   Singla aide Ajay Garg surrenders in Delhi. Garg, owner of multicrore firm supplying electrical goods to railways, was alleged middleman in deal with Mahesh Kumar
Bribe of 90L that Singla took from Kumar to appoint him Railway Board member
"meant for some top authority in the ministry", say sources
CBI director says "will not leave anybody involved at any level"

CBI to quiz senior rly officials


   Ajay Garg is a key link in the case that saw railway official Mahesh Kumar agreeing to pay a bribe of Rs 10 crore for being appointed member (electrical) on the Railway Board. Kumar was appointed member (staff) and the bribe amount was reduced to Rs 2 crore, with the rest of the sum to follow later since the post of his choice wasn't vacant.
   Garg, who appeared in the court "after coming to know through media reports that the CBI is searching for him in the alleged bribery case", was remanded in CBI custody till May 9 by special CBI judge Swarna Kanta Sharma.
   The Panchkula resident who is well known to Singla said, "I am voluntarily surrendering myself in court to cooperate with the CBI in the ongoing investigation".
   The court also remanded Singla, Manjunath and Goyal in CBI custody till May 9. Other accused—Vivek Kumar, Dharmendra Kumar, businessmen Samir Sandhir and Rahul Yadav—were, however, sent to a 14-day judicial custody after the agency said their further custodial interrogation was not required.
   The agency will begin questioning some top railway ministry officials, including a few Board members and general managers in a day or two to get a clearer picture about the phone calls made by Singla and the other accused.
   The CBI officials said they were aware of the repercussions of pursuing senior officials and political figures and werre prepared to take on the powerful. Also, after three days of interrogation of Singla, Mahesh Kumar and Bengalore-based railway supplier Manjunath who mobilized the Rs 90 lakh, the CBI is planning to conduct lie-detector tests to sort out conflicting versions.

Singla aide Garg kept a low profile    

Ajay Garg, a close aide to Union railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla and an alleged middleman in the Rs 10-crore bribery case, always kept himself away from the media even though he controlled a business empire of around Rs 200 crore.

   Sources said Garg, who lives in a palatial bungalow at Sector 6 of Panchkula in Haryana, owns a multi-crore company, IEC Gensets Ltd, which supplies electrical goods to Indian Railways. He also has an agency of the famous conglomerate Kirloskar Generator in Chandigarh with an office at posh Sector 26. TNN



Ajay Garg surrenders before a court in New Delhi on Tuesday

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