Dec 14, 2024 05:13 PM IST
The CBI sought senior IAS officer Bishnupada Sethi’s attendance at its Bhubaneswar workplace on December 11. Nevertheless, Sethi didn’t seem earlier than the company
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned senior IAS officer and principal secretary within the SC/ST welfare and Odisha language division, Bishnupada Sethi, in reference to a corruption case.
The CBI additionally summoned the official drivers of Bishnupada Sethi on Saturday and interrogated them. (Representational picture)
The company issued the discover to Sethi underneath Part 179 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita on December 10, searching for his attendance on the CBI’s Bhubaneswar workplace on December 11. Nevertheless, Sethi didn’t seem earlier than the company.
On Sunday, the CBI officers had arrested Chanchal Mukherjee, group normal supervisor of Kolkata-based Bridge and Roof Firm, a central public sector enterprises underneath the ministry of heavy industries that does engineering and development work, on fees of taking ₹10 lakh bribe from an actual property firm promising them work orders. Mukherjee was caught red-handed with the bribe cash in entrance of Mayfair Resort in Bhubaneswar on Saturday night whereas the money was being given to him by the proprietor of an actual property agency. Other than Mukherjee, three others had been arrested.
CBI officers mentioned they’d summoned Sethi as his title got here up as an alleged beneficiary within the bribery case. “It is learnt that you are acquainted with some important and relevant facts and circumstances of the instant CBI case, which are required to be ascertained from you,” the CBI mentioned in its letter.
The CBI additionally summoned three official drivers of Sethi on Saturday and interrogated them. The Odisha authorities just lately assigned tasks underneath the ST&SC Growth division for upgradation of Ashram Faculties to Excessive Faculties and Excessive Faculties to Larger Secondary Faculties and others to some PSUs together with Bridge and Roof Ltd.
The IAS officer didn’t take calls or messages searching for his response to the CBI summons.
Reacting to the summon issued to Sethi, regulation minister Prithiviraj Harichandan mentioned, “No corruption will be allowed. The policy of our government is zero tolerance against corruption. No matter how powerful a person is, strict action will be taken against whoever is involved in corruption- be it a minister or an officer. If there is any link, there will be an inquiry. Whoever is guilty after the investigation will be punished.”