CBI seeks govt’s nod to prosecute former NDMC chairman Parimal Rai
12 Jun 2013 11:51 PM GMT
The Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) has forwarded a letter to ministry of home affairs and central vigilance commission seeking prosecution permission for former New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC ) chairman Parimal Rai.
CBI which has registered over a dozen FIRs in cases related to the CWG scam probed Rai for the Shivaji stadium project and contracts awarded to build the NDMC Convention Centre.
CBI sources said that during the probe it was found out that the former chairman agreed to a legal advisor’s wrong opinion on awarding of contract to a Chinese firm in 2008 July for the CWG. ‘A Chinese firm: China Railways was awarded the contract despite it being ineligible. Besides this Chinese had delegated its duty to another Kolkata firm Simplex which had already been rejected once,’ the report prepared by the CBI alleges.
The sources added that besides Rai two other former NDMC officials have also been named in the report. They are: the then executive engineer PK Gulati who is now retired and the then superintendent engineer RS Thakur.
CBI sources said that they have written to MHA to ask whether they want to give a go ahead for Rai’s prosecution. ‘We first examined the NDMC budgetary allocations after which tender process was scrutinized. After our probe we came to these findings which we sent to concerned ministries and agencies,’ the sources stated.
Rai is an IAS officer who is posted as Secretary Health and Family Welfare in Goa. He was the chairman of the New Delhi Municipal Council between 2007 and 2011.
CBI which has registered over a dozen FIRs in cases related to the CWG scam probed Rai for the Shivaji stadium project and contracts awarded to build the NDMC Convention Centre.
CBI sources said that during the probe it was found out that the former chairman agreed to a legal advisor’s wrong opinion on awarding of contract to a Chinese firm in 2008 July for the CWG. ‘A Chinese firm: China Railways was awarded the contract despite it being ineligible. Besides this Chinese had delegated its duty to another Kolkata firm Simplex which had already been rejected once,’ the report prepared by the CBI alleges.
The sources added that besides Rai two other former NDMC officials have also been named in the report. They are: the then executive engineer PK Gulati who is now retired and the then superintendent engineer RS Thakur.
CBI sources said that they have written to MHA to ask whether they want to give a go ahead for Rai’s prosecution. ‘We first examined the NDMC budgetary allocations after which tender process was scrutinized. After our probe we came to these findings which we sent to concerned ministries and agencies,’ the sources stated.
Rai is an IAS officer who is posted as Secretary Health and Family Welfare in Goa. He was the chairman of the New Delhi Municipal Council between 2007 and 2011.
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