CBI books 3 senior railway officials for seeking bribe of Rs 4-5 lakh from candidates to ‘help clear recruitment exams’
Among the accused, the CBI FIR has also named Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS) officer Ankush Wasan who is currently posted with the Western Railway in Vadodara.
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The FIR alleged that on February 13, Sinha informed Tiwari that he had arranged four candidates who were willing to pay for the selection. (Express File Photo)The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked three senior railway officials, including a 2018-batch Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS) officer, for allegedly seeking bribes of around Rs 4-5 lakh from ten candidates by “promising them positive selection outcomes” in railway departmental examinations. Besides, a private person and other railway officials have also been named as accused in the case.
In its FIR registered on February 18 on source-based information, the CBI has named divisional personnel officer Ankush Wasan (IRPS) who is currently posted with Western Railway (Vadodara); senior divisional operations manager Sanjay Kumar Tiwari, currently posted in Churchgate, Mumbai, who was earlier the deputy operations manager (Vadodara); deputy station superintendent Neeraj Sinha; Mukesh Meena, a private person; and other officials of Western Railway, Vadodara.
Stating that the accused were collecting money from candidates, the First Information Report (FIR) said, “It has been reliably learnt that on February 13 Wasan had directed Tiwari to compile a list of at least ten candidates who would be willing to pay bribes for selection in an upcoming ‘Limited Department Examination’ to be organised by Western Railway.”
“Wasan also instructed Tiwari to contact Meena to gain an idea of how many such candidates were available and to collect bribes from them,” the FIR added.
It stated, “Tiwari enquired with Meena about interested candidates and he (Meena) informed him that he has already collected bribes from five such candidates. They agreed that the collected bribe would be handed over to Tiwari directly by him without involving an intermediary. Immediately afterwards a discussion was held between Wasan and Tiwari, in which Wasan directed him to collect the illicit cash from Meena on February 17.”
The FIR alleged that on February 13, Sinha informed Tiwari that he had arranged four candidates who were willing to pay for the selection. “However, the money from only three candidates had been collected and the remaining candidate was expected to deliver the agreed upon amount on February 14. Meena informed Tiwari that certain other individuals were also promising to assist the candidates with their selection and the charges being quoted for selection, including medical examination, were around Rs four-five lakh,” it added.
According to the report, on February 17, following a meeting between Wasan and Tiwari at the latter’s residence, Tiwari had contacted a Vadodara-based jeweller, asking him to purchase around 400 grams of gold in lieu of cash, without generating an invoice. “On February 18, Tiwari met Meena in Anand, Gujarat and collected cash from him as a motive to fraudulently arrange the selection of five candidates whom Meena was representing,” the FIR said.
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