CBI today carried out searches in the premises of former top officials of MTNL and Noida-based HCL Infosystems for allegedly inflating the cost of setting up a broadcast network for the Commonwealth Games by nearly Rs400 crore.
CBI today carried out searches in the premises of former top officials of MTNL and Noida-based HCL Infosystems for allegedly inflating the cost of setting up a broadcast network for the Commonwealth Games by nearly Rs400 crore.
Soon after registering a new case, sleuths of the agency swooped down on the residential premises of MTNL's the then CMD RSP Sinha, executive director SM Talwar, GM (Corporate Sales) NK Jain and DGM Jitendra Garg in Delhi, Noida, Jaipur and Patna, CBI sources said.
"During searches conducted so far, documents relating to immovable and movable property belonging to accused persons and other incriminating documents have been recovered," CBI spokesperson Dharini Mishra said in a statement, adding searches were on at these places till late evening.
When contacted, Sinha said he was in office till January 9, 2010 during which only Letter of Intent was issued but there was no approval during his tenure. He said he was out of Delhi.
"Everything was approved by the department of telecommunication and MTNL Board after I left. Somebody wants to drag my name," Sinha told PTI.
The agency has registered the case for against officers of MTNL and HCL Infosystem dealing in Optical Fibre Transmission for criminal conspiracy and provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act.
"It is alleged that MTNL awarded the work of broadcast network based on IP/MPLS Technology at an exorbitant price of approximately Rs570.12 crores by manipulating specifications in such a manner as to make them tailor made for the said bidder to the said private company (HCL)," Mishra said.
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