BHOPAL: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday raided the premises of at least two officials of the Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) and a prominent contractor in Madhya Pradesh’s Singrauli district.
While around Rs 4 crore unaccounted cash has been seized by the CBI teams from the raided premises, incriminating documents pointing towards possibility of massive corruption in machines/spares supplies at the Singrauli-headquartered public sector coal major have also been recovered and taken back by the premier investigation agency’s sleuths.
Several people have been taken into custody from Singrauli and possibly Jabalpur since Saturday night, when the operations by the CBI started in the matter. According to sources, the CBI team, reportedly from Jabalpur, arrived in Singrauli early on Sunday with at least two men, who had been possibly taken into custody in Jabalpur only in a matter few hours before the raid began.
The CBI raided the premises of S Ojha the Manager (Assistant) of the NCL CMD, residential premises of another NCL official who is posted in the security wing and the prominent contractor/supplier Ravi Singh, who supplies machines/spares to the public sector coal major.
At the end of the day, the CBI team is said to have taken five-six people and returned with them for questioning. Unconfirmed sources claimed that one of those in CBI’s custody may actually be its own cadre, who was trapped while negotiating some kind of deal with the concerned NCL officials and aides in the entire matter on Saturday night.