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July 27, 2009

CBI finds assets worth Rs 1.7 cr with AICTE chairman

Filed under: AICTE, Corruption, Persons — Tags: AICTE, cbi, chairman, Corruption — ugcaicte @ 5:24 am

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.

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CBI Asks Public to Submit Complaints Against AICTE – CBI Phone numbers

Filed under: AICTE, Corruption — Tags: AICTE, cbi, Corruption, phone nos — ugcaicte @ 4:56 am

In an unusual step, the CBI now questioned the public to contact the agency if they faced corruption in the AICTE, which recently came under scanner after the agency arrested one of its top officials and filed suitcases against other, including the chairman.

The CBI in a statement said it has has registered three suitcases regarding corruption in AICTE.

“If you have any specific complaint regarding demand of money by AICTE officials or giving approval to any college without having the required infrastructure due to corrupt practices by the expert committee members or AICTE officials, please contact Ravi Kant, Superintendent CBI on Telephone Number 011 – 2464 9299 or Bhupinder Kumar, SP CBI on 011 – 2464 9322,” the agency said.

The agency, which claims to have unearthed more evidence of huge investments in property, bank accounts and lockers by AICTE chairman R A Yadav, Advisor H C Rai and Regional Detective Sriom Dalal has also made a link on its website, where one can catalog his complaint.

A CBI spokesperson said, “The search of locker in the name of chairman’s wife at a bank in Ashok Vihar, New Delhi has led to recovery of jewellery value Rs 32 lakh and seizure of Rs 4.7 lakh. Nine accounts in six banks in the name of Chairman and his family members having a total balance of over Rs 2.89 lakh have also been freezed.”

Yadav, when contacted by PTI had denied the CBI charges, saying “My wife had received Rs 56 lakh in 2005 by way of compensation for ancestral property from Delhi regime”.

“Rs 46 lakh were toward the voluntary retirement which included gratuity and other repayment. They were reinvested and that clarifies the claims of the CBI. I have informed them (CBI) and they can get it verified from the bank,” he said adding “My son is working for the last 11 years, and he too has got the savings.”

The CBI official alleged that the then Regional Detective had bought properties under the benami name of Lead Enterprises.

“The documents relating to a two storey freehold house in Delhi bought in 2007 for Rs 34 lakh and another flat bought during same year for Rs 2.25 lakh were also recovered. The present market value of both these properties is nearly Rs 1.75 crore,” he said.

The official said the search of locker of Advisor at a bank in the national capital has led to recovery of jewellery value Rs 3.74 lakh.

“Twenty seven accounts with 10 Banks in the name of Advisor and his family members having balance of over Rs 24.5 lakh have also been frozen,” the official said.

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