New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has found assets (including cash) value slightly over Rs 2 crore from the residential and official premises of AICTE Chairman R A Yadav and advisor H C Rai.
This was revealed to mediapersons here now by CBI even as it registered a case against Yadav, Rai, Deputy Director Robinder Randhawa and regional detective Om Dalal on alleged bribery charges.
The investigation agency also arrested member secretary K Narayan Rao and S B Subba Rao, a middleman, for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 5,00,000 from an title-holder of engineering college in Andhra Pradesh. They were caught red-handed after the middleman had allegedly questioned him for a bribe of Rs 20 lakh on behalf of the member secretary for inspection and approval of his college and had agreed to accept Rs 500,000 as the first instalment.
CBI seized Rs 1.7 crore value cash, fixed deposits and investments from Yadav besides a 250 square yard plot in Gurgaon. “We raided different places and found cash and deposits value Rs 1.7 crore from H C Rai’s house besides various plots in Greater Noida, Ghaziabad and Rohini,” the CBI spokesperson said. AICTE officials remained unavailable for comment despite repeated attempts.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), meanwhile, is waiting for a formal report from CBI and may place on hold K Narayan Rao for allegedly accepting the bribe, according to a source close to the development.
The agency also conducted surprise raids on the offices and residences of the regional detective of AICTE’s Bhopal and Chennai where some files were recovered.
In a correlated incident, the Bhopal branch of CBI has registered a case of abuse of official position by regional detective Sanjay Sharma in facilitating the approval of chain of engineering colleges at Bhopal of Radha Raman Group of Institutes.