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New Delhi, June 14 : The Special Judge for CBI Cases, Karkardooma Courts, Delhi has convicted 11 accused including one Executive Engineer; three Assistant Engineers; four Junior Engineers, all of Municipal Corporation of Delhi and three Contractors(private persons) for causing loss of Rs.7.70 lakhs(approx) to MCD. The Court sentenced Shri Brij Pal Singh, the then Executive Engineer to undergo three years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.1.25 lakh; Shri Anil Kumar, the then Assistant Engineer to undergo three years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.1.25 lakh; Shri P.K.Sharma, the then Assistant Engineer to undergo three years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.75,000/-; Shri S.S.Arya, the then Assistant Engineer to undergo three years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.75,0000/-; Shri G.P.Sharma, the then Junior Engineer to undergo three years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.1.25 lakh; Shri Rakesh Meena, the then Junior Engineer to undergo three years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.50,000/-; Shri Arun Kumar Sharma, the then Junior Engineer to undergo three years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.75,000/-; Shri A.K.Jain, the then Junior Engineer to undergo three years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.75,000/-; Shri Deepak Goel, the then private person to undergo three years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.50,000/-; Shri Subhash Chand, the then private person to undergo three years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.75,000/-; Shri Ajay Verma, private person to undergo three years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.75,000/-
CBI had registered a case on 01.02.2005 against Shri Brij Pal Singh, Executive Engineer, MCD.
and others U/s 120-B, 420, 468, 471 IPC and 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d) of PC Act, 1988 on the allegations that Shri Brij Pal Singh, while working as Executive Engineer for Division-XXII, MCD, Delhi and others entered into criminal conspiracy with unknown contractors of MCD and awarded tenders to some unknown contractors during the year 2003-04 for providing & fixing inferior/substandard quality retro-reflective signboards falling in the municipal jurisdiction limits of Division-XXII, Delhi. In this way, fraudulent payments worth Rs.7.70,016/-(approx) were made to the contractors.
After investigation, chargesheet was filed on 16.12.2005 in the Court of Special Judge for CBI Cases, Karkardooma, Delhi. Charges were framed on 17.12.2008.
The Trial Court found 11 accused persons guilty and convicted them.
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