Graft: CBI nabs FCI manager, firm owner

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 19

The CBI today said it had arrested an FCI manager and the owner of a private firm in a bribery case. The investigating agency today said the FCI manager, Gagan Negi, posted at the regional office of Punjab in Chandigarh, and Ravinder Singh, alias Bunty, were arrested in a bribery case of Rs2 lakh. CBI officials said a case was registered against them and unidentified persons.

“It was alleged that the private person (proprietor of a private firm), a resident of Amritsar and doing business of sale/purchase of rice, in connivance with the manager, was obtaining undue business from the FCI by manipulating the process of procurement and e-auction of food grains,” said a senior CBI official.

The CBI laid a trap and caught Ravinder Singh paying a bribe of Rs2 lakh to the FCI manager, the official said, adding that searches were conducted on the premises of the accused at Chandigarh, Zirakpur and Amritsar.

“The accused were produced in the competent court in Chandigarh. After the expiry of two days of police custody, they were produced in the court of Special Judge, CBI cases, Chandigarh, and were remanded in 14-day judicial custody,” the agency said.