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Two Pondy govt engrs among 3 arrested by CBI for taking bribe

Chennai, Mar 23 (UNI) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested
three accused, including Puducherry Government Public Works Department
(PWD) Chief Engineer and Executive Engineer, and a private contractor with
PWD, while exchanging the partial bribe amount of Rs. two lakh.
An amount of Rs 73 lakh cash was recovered during searches conducted a
day after registering a case against them, a CBI release said here on Sunday.
Those arrested were Dr. M. Dhinadhayalan, Chief Engineer, R. Chidambaranathan,
Executive Engineer, Buildings and Roads Division, Karaikal, and N Elamurugan,
(PWD Contractor - Private person) and the trio were sent to jail by a court.
A case was registered by CBI on Saturday against these accused and unknown
others on the allegations that accused Executive Engineer, under whose jurisdiction,
the contractor, who had undertaken a PWD road contract works in Karaikal, demanded
a bribe of Rs. six lakh, i.e. one per cent commission(approx) of the total estimated
tender amount of Rs.7,44,59,009/- for the Chief Engineer, in order to get the future
site clearance/payment approval from PWD without causing any delay.
CBI laid a trap and caught the three accused red handed when the Executive Engineer
accepted the partial bribe of Rs.two lakh from the contractor, in the presence of the
Chief Engineer.
An amount of Rs. two lakhs was recovered from the possession of Executive Engineer.
Further, an amount of Rs.50,000/- was also recovered from the vehicle of the PWD
Contractor. All the three accused were arrested.
Subsequently, searches were conducted by the CBI at residential and official premises
of the accused at Puducherry and Karaikal which led to recovery of Rs 73 lakh which
included Rs 65 lakh cash from the residence of the Chief Engineer and Rs 8 lakhs from
the residence of the Executive Engineer, besides some incriminating documents, etc.
The arrested accused were produced before the Judicial Magistrate-I Karaikal on
Sunday and were remanded in Judicial custody.
Investigation is continuing.
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