Toilet scam: MC officials, Selvel Media directors booked

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 10

Almost eight months after registering a preliminary inquiry, the CBI has registered an FIR against eight persons in the alleged undue benefits given to the Selvel Media Services Pvt Ltd in maintenance of public toilets and advertising.

The CBI has booked former chief engineer SK Bansal, former superintending engineer SR Aggarwal and RC Diwan, the then XEN who is presently Superintending Engineer (SE), Public Health, along with the directors and employees of the company.

Sources said the case has been registered for allegedly giving undue benefit to the company in bagging a tender for operation and maintenance of 86 public toilets and displaying advertisements on them between 2007 and 2012.

The tender was allegedly manipulated and the advertisement fee was waived, the sources said. Selvel initially bagged the tender to maintain 86 toilets in 2007 at a cost of around Rs 8,000 per toilet with an enhancement of 10 per cent every year for five years.

Sources said other senior MC officials, who were holding office between 2007 and 2012, would also be questioned during the investigations in the case.