FCI corruption matter: CBI searches at 30 areas in Punjab
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NEW DELHI: The CBI on Tuesday launched searches at 30 areas in Punjab as a part of its probe into allegations of corruption in opposition to Food Corporation of India (FCI) officers who procured inferior grains to learn retailers and rice millers, officers mentioned.
The CBI groups began coordinated raids on the premises of grain retailers, rice mill house owners, and serving and retired officers of the FCI in a number of districts of Punjab, together with Sirhind, Fatehpur Sahib and Monga, as a part of ‘Operation Kanak 2’, they mentioned.
This is second spherical of searches within the FIR pertaining to an organised syndicate of officers on the FCI, who allegedly charged bribes of Rs 1000-4000 per truck unloaded on the FCI godowns from non-public millers per crop season for masking up decrease high quality grains provided by them and different favours.
The bribes had been allegedly circulated to officers at each degree reaching as much as headquarters in a effectively outlined share of cuts at every degree, it alleged.
The FIR gave particulars of such bribe assortment in lots of FCI depots throughout Punjab.
Officials starting from technical assistants to government administrators had been allegedly a part of a syndicate receiving bribes from non-public millers, they mentioned.
“The bribe amount is collected at the depot level by FCI officials on a per truck basis being unloaded at the FCI depot during storage of grains. Thereafter this bribe amount is distributed to the different ranks of FCI,” the CBI has alleged.
NEW DELHI: The CBI on Tuesday launched searches at 30 areas in Punjab as a part of its probe into allegations of corruption in opposition to Food Corporation of India (FCI) officers who procured inferior grains to learn retailers and rice millers, officers mentioned.
The CBI groups began coordinated raids on the premises of grain retailers, rice mill house owners, and serving and retired officers of the FCI in a number of districts of Punjab, together with Sirhind, Fatehpur Sahib and Monga, as a part of ‘Operation Kanak 2’, they mentioned.
This is second spherical of searches within the FIR pertaining to an organised syndicate of officers on the FCI, who allegedly charged bribes of Rs 1000-4000 per truck unloaded on the FCI godowns from non-public millers per crop season for masking up decrease high quality grains provided by them and different favours.
The bribes had been allegedly circulated to officers at each degree reaching as much as headquarters in a effectively outlined share of cuts at every degree, it alleged.
The FIR gave particulars of such bribe assortment in lots of FCI depots throughout Punjab.
Officials starting from technical assistants to government administrators had been allegedly a part of a syndicate receiving bribes from non-public millers, they mentioned.
“The bribe amount is collected at the depot level by FCI officials on a per truck basis being unloaded at the FCI depot during storage of grains. Thereafter this bribe amount is distributed to the different ranks of FCI,” the CBI has alleged.
