CBI conducts multiple searches against Rly officials

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday conducted multiple searches in over a dozen locations in the country in connection with two corruption cases registered by it against senior Railway officials based in Madhya Pradesh.

Searches were conducted in at least six cities of MP – Bhopal, Jabalpur, Katni, Satna, Itarsi and Chhindwara, apart from Delhi, Jaipur, Jind (Haryana) and Allahabad, Agra, Mathura and Muzaffarnagar in UP in connection with a case registered to probe the alleged connivance of officials with a Delhi-based contractor to cheat the exchequer in a government work related to the construction of foundations of electric poles, CBI sources said. 

The agency has filed two FIRs in this regard in December last year pertaining to the said work being done between Maikpur-Satna and between Satna and Jabalpur.