New Delhi, May 4 (PTI) The CBI has registered a corruption case against the former chairman-cum-managing director of Water and Power Consultancy Services (WAPCOS), Rajni Kant Agrawal, officials said Monday.
The agency acted after a complaint from the Ministry of Jal Shakti, under which WAPCOS operates, alleging that Agrawal took monetary favours from contractors in return for covering the fee, travel, and other expenses of his son, who studied at Vellore Institute of Technology between 2018 and 2022, officials said.
The ministry had forwarded a factual report received from the chief vigilance officer of WAPCOS, alleging “financial irregularities”.
The report alleged that payments of over Rs 11.26 lakh was made through project managers of various WAPCOS Ltd., and NPCC offices, and other individuals, between 2018 and 2022, towards his son’s fees, apart from the airfare for travel from Delhi to Chennai during holidays, festivals and other expenses.
“It is alleged that an amount of Rs. 2.50 Lakhs was paid to Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) as tuition/hostel and advance fee payment…through DD No. 070712 dated 11.05.2018. The said DD was issued by Hari Chand Arora, the then Expert, MLE, Project Office, WAPCOS, Chandigarh, from his Saving Bank Account…,” the FIR alleged.
Arora was engaged with WAPCOS as an Expert (MLE) at Chandigarh Project Office from June, 2011 to April, 2022. PTI ABS KSI KSI
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