Senior Home Ministry official sent to two days CBI custody

A Delhi court today remanded to two days CBI custody to a senior Home Ministry official and two others for allegedly accepting bribe in the purchase of bullet-proof jackets for Central Police Forces.
     
Additional sessions judge OP Saini sent Radhey Shyam Sharma, a Indian Railway and Engineering Officer of 1984 batch, and two others RK Gupta and his wife Laveena Gupta to CBI custody till May one.
     
Sharma allegedly developed a "nexus" with some private firms, including that owned by the Gupta duo involved in the supply of 59,000 bullet-proof jackets for paramilitary forces.
    
CBI has registered the case against the official for allegedly accepting bribe in the procurement of bullet-proof jackets from the Guptas, the directors of a private company M/s Anjani Technoclass Ltd.

He has also been accused of favouring certain other private firms supplying security equipment such as armoured panels, bullet-proof jackets, helmets shields etc.

The official established an "unauthorised" contact withthe private firm and had been demanding and accepting illegal gratification in return for favours shown, the CBI alleged.